The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

srarr OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review observes that the prediction that the electoral contest in France would really lie betvieen different sections of the Opposition has been signally verified. The Government will again command an immense majority in the Corps L6gislatif ; it is in the composition of the minority that the revolution effected by the elec tions will be chiefly seen. It is impossible to mistake the significance of the changes in the representation of Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles. The great cities desire revolution, not reform. Indeed, to judge from the defeats sustained by almost all the leading members of the Moderate Oppo sition, the wish for reform as such can scarcely be said to exist in the constituencies. The supporters of the Govern ment in the press declare themselves thoroughly satisfied with the turn that affairs have taken. They argue that the issue between the Empire and revolution has now been plainly stated, and they that the alarm which will thus be excited will greatly strengthen the hold of the Government on the Conservative feeling of the country. That there is considerable truth in this view of the situation is undeniable. There is no longer any sub stantial grievance weighing on the French peasant from which he can hope to escape by a general overturn. It must not be forgotten, however, that this is only one side of the picture. The other side is, that the Empire is at length face to face with a foe with whom it is impossible to compromise, and that this foe has gained a great acces sion of strength within the last year or two. That Paris is hopelessly hostile can never be a pleasant reflection to a ruler of France, and there is too much reason to fear that the day when concession can be of much avail has passed away. The Emperor has refused to conciliate the Constitu tional Opposition when it was in his power to do so, and things seem now to have come to a pass at which any step he may take in this direction will be no longer worth the sacrifice it would involve. He would be forced to quarrel with his own friends in order to gain the support of a party which the elections have shewn to be practically powerless in France. The satisfaction of the Imperialist writers at the result of the elections may perhaps be attributed to their perception of this fact. To them no revolution could be more disastrous than a reconciliation of their master with the Parliamentary Liberals. With the concession of a responsible Ministry their occupation would be gone, and in the withdrawal of the principal inducement to such an experiment they may see a legiti mate cause for rejoicing. It does not follow that the Emperor has equal reason to congratulate himself on the work of the week. The Spectator says that France has begun to weary of the government of Napoleon. That is, stated broadly, the result of the elections. The Opposition, which recently numbered but five members, and even last year scarcely exceeded twenty-five, will, there is reason to believe, this year approach, perhaps exceed, ninety, or nearly a clear third of the legislative body, and this after counting every official candidate as devoted to the Empire. The intelli gence of France, the brain which, fevered as it may be, is still nobler than the body, has condemned the Empire, condemned it furiously, condemned it with needless words of shrill insult. To the Emperor himself the stroke must give almost unendurable pain. His is no peasant intelli gence, no mind which can reckon only material results, no temperament content with daily food. He wants to represent these very men who scorn him, to be their accepted chief, their pride, their leader even, not merely their master, resting on bayonets, like any monarch of the old world. He has watched Paris, courted Paris, flattered Paris, and Paris at every election, in higher and sharper tones, responds only with the cry, "Ad leones!" It is to the lions, to the men who would devour him, to the " irreconcileables," who would despise heaven if he ruled there, that his capital has striven to throw the Emperor, No ruler with a brain better than that of a tortoise could listen to such a cry unmoved ; and there is little consola tion to be found as he looks abroad. The great cities respond to the summons of the greatest, and though the little cities do not, they also swell the ranks of the less fervid opponents of the Empire; while, if our view of the result of the second ballot is correct, the Emperor has lost a fourth of the representatives for the departments, and nearly a half of the total electorate. The Emperor may divert all France from politics by plunging into the great war, by fighting out the postponed duel with Germany, with Belgium for the stake. The military party wish that, and it is useless to deny that much of the unpopularity of the Empire is due to Sadowa, to the foreign policy which has ended in diminishing the preponderance of France upon the Continent. This is for England the most unpleasing of the solutions ; but Napoleon has to think of an opinion other than ours. The stakes are terrible, France does not wish them played, there may be other plans in that many-counselling brain ; but still victory there, is victory once for all. The con queror of the Rhine might grant liberty, and yet sit upon an easy throne. There is a week for thought, the second ballot before ; but if it results as we believe it will result, the chances of European war will be terribly increased. The Economist says that the French elections teach us very plainly that France has not yet ceased to be the centre of political unrest in Europe. The intermittent fever, which has periodically beset France ever since 1789, taught the French people the greatness of their own power and the instability of any principle of authority which fails to meet with their favour, shews great signs of vitality. The Emperor, indeed, retains what he has never ceased to keep—the favour of the rural pea santry—and will command a vast majority even in the new Chamber. Even if the most sanguine hopes of the Opposition are fulfilled, their parliamentary force will not be swelled much beyond ninety votes ; and it is hardly probable that the seeond ballot which takes place a fortnight hence will give them so many. Even that, however, would be an enormous increase of power over the knot of twenty-three which made up the Opposition of the last Parliament. And even this does not appa rently represent the real force of the Opposition in the country. If the French papers can be trusted, the Oppo sition have polled 3,248,885 votes, against only 4,053,056 for the Government. If this were really an increase in the power of the Constitutional Opposition, if it meant that the party of progress had gained thus much on the party of Imperial absolutism in the country—if it meant what a similar increase in the strength of English libe ralism would have meant some forty years ago - we should have no ground for any feeling but congratulation. But it has become clear to everyone that this is not its meaning— that the remarkable successes against the Government have all been gained by the party which does not so much wish to improve the Government as to revolutionise it. In France political feeling, when it rises at all, becomes too keen and personal, too much saturated with the passions of individual and social life, to admit of restraint within the bounds of political principle. There is a hectic flush about the character of French elections in times like these, which plainly expresses that the nation is not so much avowing its political creed, as giving vent to its almost hysterical feeling. This is the real cause of the little progress which Constitutionalism makes in France. The people when they get disgusted with the ruling power feel quite as much disgust for any party which purposes only to modify, and not to sweep away, the object of their disgust, and consequently throw those who would be favourable to modification on to the side of the Government as the only alternative except revolution. If self-government, as we understand the phrase in Eng. land, be a good thing, we cannot see cause for satisfaction, we can see only cause for anxiety and regret, in the recent French elections. The John Bull declares that it is preposterous to allege that the House of Lords should admit the principle of the Irish Church Bill by reading it a second time. How can it be logically contended that there should be repeated divisions on principle in. the House of Commons, where we merely expose our weakness ; and that in the House of Lords we are to ignominiously cave in ? But we are convinced that such a craven policy will not prevail. The independent Conservative Peers will not tamely sur render the citadel and sign their own death warrant ; for if the House is to be a mere court of record, it is difficult to see its utility. The Peers are surely too far-sighted to listen to the voice of the charmer who would fain persuade them that if they allowed the bill to pass a second reading the House of Commons would submit to any amendments. The country would be just as angry if the bill was rejected on the third reading as on the second, and principle would have been abandoned for an imaginary expediency. The Liberal papers, though it is their cue just now to be civil to the House of Lords, have amidst the proper phrases as to their confidence in its judgment, inadvertently let slip the expression of their belief that if the Lords can be got over the hedge of the second reading, the ditch of the committee will prove a very minor obstacle. Honesty in in this case, as in every ether, is the best policy. Their lordships believe the bill to be a dangerous and revolu tionary one. Their duty is plain—viz., to give the coun try time for reflection. The Government, they may be sure, will neither resign, dissolve, nor swamp the House of Lords. But if all these things were to happen, their course of policy would be none the less clear. The coun try is sick of mockery and unreality. It will rally round the House of Lords in a way they little dream of if they see principles boldly asserted, and false expediency scouted. "There will he a division on the second reading." We little envy those Conservatives who by their lukewarnanes's diminish the majority of last year. THE INCORPORATED CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY. —The annual meeting of the Incorporated Church Building Society was held on Friday, the Bishop of London in the chair. The Bishops of Ely and Llandaff, Lord Lyttelton, :Ir. Bie..ey, M.P., and Canon Gregory were amongst the spcal‘ers who advocated the claims of the organisation to thumagtit .AlShristian PAWIS. • - - THE RIGHTS OF DISSENTING MINISTERS, Vice-Chancellor Stuart had before him on Fridriy the case of Cooper v. Gordon. This bill was filed by the 'trustees of the Independent Chapel, Broad-street, Reading, for the purpose of restraining the Rev. Samuel Clarke Gordon from preaching or officiating in that chapel, and from acting or attempting to act as pastor thereof, and als'i from receiving or collecting rents payable for pews or rAfttings in the said chapel, under the following circumstances. For many years previous to 1865 the Rev. William Legg was pastor of the congregation of Independent or Congrega tionalist Dissenters, to whom the chapel belonged. In that year it was considered advisable by the congre gation that he should have assistance, and the defend. ant, Mr. Gordon, was appointed as co-pastor with Mr. Legg. After some time, however, dis putes arose, and in the result, as it was alleged, the majority of the congregation passed a formal resolution (with the assent of Mr. Legg) deposing Mr. Gordon from the office of co-pastor. The bill filed by the trustees stated that, according to the fundamental principles of the Congregationalists, every church or congregation had an inherent right to elect and dismiss their pastor at any time, unless there was a special agreement or established usage to the contrary, which it was said there was not in the present case. It was stated by counsel for the plaintiffs that there was no imputation whatever upon the charac ter of the defendant, but the majority of the congrega tion did not choose tohave him. The defendant confended that he had a life interest in his appointment of co pastor. In every case in which the court had interfered in the manner suggested by this bill there had been either misconduct or neglect of duty on the part of the Dissent ing minister, against whom an injunction was sought, but in the present case neither misbehaviour nor neglect of duty was alleged. It would be unjust to leave a Dissent. ing minister to the mercy of the majority of a congrega tion. The evidence shewed that the majority of the per sons whonow attended Broad-street Chapelwere in favour of the defendant. The Vice• Chancellor said the evidence shewed that a great number of the persons who used to attend this chapel had left it because Mr. Gordon continued to act as minister there, and the majority of those who ought to be regarded as the congregation were clearly against M.r. Gordon. The court was of opinion that the majority of a Dissenting congregation were entitled to dismiss their pastor. A recusant minority might form themselves into another congregation, and thus peace could be maintained. It was better that a contentious and recusant minority should do so than that the peace of a congregation should be disturbed by feeling and passion, which ought not to prevail among persons who met together for public worship. The argument that a minister of a Dissenting congrega tion had a vested interest in his appointment was unten able. There must be a decree that the defendant was not entitled to officiate or preach in the chapel in question against the will of the majority of the trustees and of the congregation, and an injunction must be granted against him in the terms asked by the bill. LAW AND POLICE. L APITTE AND Co.—ln the Court of Chancery, on Friday, an appeal by the official liquidator of Lafitte and Co. (Limited), from an order of the Master of the Rolls, refusing an application to fix the Chevalier Francis de Rosaz on the list of contributories for 500 shares, was heard by the Lords Justices of Appeal. Their lordships were of opinion that there was sufficient proof that Hillet, the agent of De Rosaz, had notice that an allotment had been made to him of 500 shares. He must, therefore, be on the list of contributories for 500 shares, and must pay the costs of the application at the Rolls. There would be no costs of the appeal, except those of the official liquidator. CRUELTY TO A DOG.—Edward Whelan, of Clapham, was charged on Friday, at Lambeth Police-court, with cruelty to a dog, at Camberwell New-road Railway Station. The dog barked at his horse, upon which he seized it and dashed it against the wall of the station, finally stamping on it and killing it. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, but released on bail, notice of appeal being given. ROBBERY By Boys.—At Clerkenwell, two lads, named Stephens and Harvey, were charged with stealing from a counting-house in the Caledonian-road, money, cheques, and stamps, to the value of £153. They were remanded. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A day or two since a baker and his wife, named Davey, were charged at Norfolk with attempting to poison the brother of the man, with the object of getting his money. They were remanded. The prisoners are both young, and were only married at Christmas. THE CONFESSION OF MURDER AT BIRMINGHAJI.-At the Public Office, Birmingham, on Friday, before Mr. Kynnersley, stipendiary, William Rayner, the old man who three weeks ago made a confession of the murder of George Tullett in July last, was again brought up. Mr. Godson, of the Oxford Circuit, prose cuted. It was stated that the police had made every inquiry in regard to the purchase of prussic acid at the time of the suspected murder, but with- out success. There was no evidence beyond that of the confession of the prisoner ; on that ground alone a com mittal was asked for. Dr. Savage, physician to the Queen's Hospital, who made the post-2nortent examination, stated that the poison must have been taken undiluted, and not, as was the theory of the prosecution, in an alco holic drink. The magistrate refused to commit the prisoner, and ordered him to be discharged. THE YOUGHAL ELECTION.—A petition is, it is said, about to be presented against the return of Mr. Guest for the borough of Youghal. We are requested by Earl Grosvenor to contra diet the statement which has appeared in most of the daily papers that he has purchased Clivedon House, near Maidenhead. — Chester Chronicle. MEETING OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN DUBLIN.—A correspondent, writing from Dublin on Friday evening, says :—" A meeting of Protestant Dis senters was held this evening, at the Metropolitan Hall, to express disapproval of the Church Bill. The hall was filled, but not crowded. Dr. Duncan presided. The speakers were Mr. M'Comas, the Rev. Dr. Bryson, Dr. W. Boyd, Rev. J. Kerr, Rev. J. Morrison, and Mr. Jones, representing the Presbyterians and Methodists. The resolutions condemned the bill as subversive of the Constitution, a violation of the Act of Union, and calculated to establish the ascendancy of a foreign hierarchy." RAILWAY COLLISION.—An accident befel the 11.20 passenger train from Victoria Station, Manchester, to Blackburn, on Friday morning, almost at the com mencement of the journey. At the Salford Station, before the driver could reverse his engine, it came in contact with a goods train which was standing on the same line of rails. The engine buffers were broken, and the van of the goods train was much damaged. The shock was so severe that six of the passengers had to leave the train and go home in cabs. The train had to be brought back to the Victoria Station and replaced by another, in consequence of the break apparatus being thrown out of gear. Ater this transfer had been effected, the passengers were able to proceed on their journey. AN ANTIQUE BELL.—A bell of the twelfth or thirteenth century has been found amongst the ruins of Croxden Abbey. A number of letters of the form peculiar to the period mentioned are stamped round it. No local person has been enabled to make out their intention, but they were supposed to comprise some legend in contracted monkish Latin. Those who understand the form of ancient characters, however, well know that if some of them are reversed they stand for other letters--E becomes B, and C is transformed into D, and so on with many of the other letters of the alphabet. The letters on the bell are as follows :—AECC. AECG. EFTHII. EFTHIK. Mr. Redfern has received a com munication from the secretary to the Society of Anti. quaries, who consider the bell to be of very great interest, and are decidedly of opinion that many of the letters are stamped wrong side up, and when viewed as they ought to be are neither more nor less than an alphabet, as here : ABCD. LMNOP. ABCD. EFGHIK. EFGHIK. Mr. Redfern has suggested whether they may not have been intended for a peal on bells, which the repetition of letters might seem to corroborate. There is also a cross or mark of the founder, on the body of the bell.—Builder. THE RUNAWAY BALLOON.—The proprietors of the "captive" balloon, which, after knocking down the policeman on duty, escaped from Ashburnham Park on Tuesday, have great reason to be thankful for its recap ture ; still more reason have they to he thankful that it did net take it into its head to escape the other day when a 'select party were allowed the privilege of eating luncheon in its car, the feast being enlivened by a cold north-east wind and an eloquent speech from Lord Dufferin. It is the merest chance, says a contemporary, that we were spared the grief of teeing an amiable and gifted nobleman carried up to heaven against his will with a quantity of luncheon plates and champagne bottles. Let us hope that now the wild machine is in bonds again it will be carefully secured, not only for its own, but also for the sake of the public. Who can view without alarm the prospect of an unmanageable balloon, possibly containing a peer, careering through the sky with long rope trailing on this unfortunate planet, to the imminent risk of the conservatories and skylights of those who, however zealous for the advancement of aeronautical science, aro hardly prepared to see their property destroyed by captiy9 1?8,11oclis which decline to a keptia THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 29, L 69. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. to fulfil it properly. They haVe now accompnsnea it in something under half a year, and they have their reward by being enabled to keep holiday for the other half, unless any peti tions arising out of fresh elections should arise in the meanwhile. In all probability the judges in the three courts next in seniority to the above mentioned will be chosen at Michaelmas Term. These will be Justice Mellor, Justice Byles, and Baron Bramwell. They are likely to enjoy still more largely the reward of obedience, for as it is not at all probable that there will be a general election within the next year, and as it is quite optional for the election judges to sit in Westminster Hall, they may, if they please, do almost nothing. Probably they will not take advantage of that opportunity, but will place their services at the disposal of their country, which is too good a paymaster to be treated shabbily. Tribune a second letter was published from the London correspondent giving the text of two davits sworn before Captain Britton at Southainp ton, in compliance with an order from the State Department through Mr. Adams. The one was from Henry James, Mr. Thomson's clerk, who the Consul had sent to the hotel on the 29th April,lB6l, to:deliver a letter to Messrs. Yancey and Rost, and to aid in any way he could, as well as to engage a special carriage for them to London. On read ing the letter Mr. Yancey told him that Mr. Thomson therein mentioned that he was there to render assis tance, and he was employed to see to their baggage, and on applying for the special carriage Mr. Bos worth said he had already received instructions from Mr. Thomson himself. The second affidavit is from this Mr. Bosworth, who affirms that on that date he received a verbal order from Mr. Thom son for the special carriage, and that the com missioners came to the station with Air. Thom son's clerk, and that they with some ladies pro ceeded therein to London. Mr. Smalley, remark ing on the fact that the affidavits were sworn before Captain Britton, alludes to the feeling then existing in Southampton that time against the United States being such that no insgistrate could be found to take the affidavits, and therefore they were sworn before the Consul. Now, we wish the people of Southampton to understand that the date of these affidavits is 28th September, 1861. The preceding " note " was written before we had seen these affi davits, in the face of which Mr. Thomson's card appears, to say the least, unsatisfactory. Secretary Boutwell availed himself of the fall in the United States Bonds and the rise in the price of gold to increase the Treasury gold sales from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 a week. Although this action must doubtless have checked the rapid rise, it did not wholly prevent it, for gold touched 145, and there must have been something very like a panic in the NeW York Stock Exchange. This seems to be subsiding. for the fal is marked, gold having gone below 140, and 5-20's are steadily ris ing on the Landon Stock Exchange. There has been much discussion as to the best method of establish ing a sinking fund, and the course to be pursued with the bonds purchased. Ic has, we believe, been decided that they are to be cancelled, being so stamped that they cannot again be issued. The Union and the Central Pacific graded the roads for 53 miles, side by side, pursuing the track marked by the surveyors. At times they would branch away and occasionally actually cross. They proceeded in this senseless course shoutins and screaming at each other, tearing down embank - ments, and ripping up rails, and had it not been that the struggle also progressing at Washington ended in a compromise, the friendly meeting of the East and West would have been with pistols and dag gers. It was not the fear of this, however, which brought about a settlement, but the enormous and useless expense thus incurred. The agreement wasN that the Union Pacific received the bonds for the extra work completed, but they were required to sell it to the Central Pacific, and Ogden, 50 to 60 miles to the East,becotnes the junction, although the lines met considerably to the West at Promon tory Point. The passenger fare from Omaha to San Francisco is fixed at $125. This is over seven cents a mile, but it will drop to five cents or about $BO. It is as far from Boston to Omaha as from Omaha to San Francisco, while the fare is but $3O. General George B. M'Clellan arrived at Wash ington May 12, and saw the President in refere►►ce to the completion .of the Stevens' battery. Dariog the interview the news was communicated to General Grant, forwarded from London on the 11th to the Nov York Tribune, to the effect that England, France, and Spain had taken the first steps for an alliance against the United States on the plea of the rejection of the Alabama treaty, the tone of Mr. Sumner's speech, the alleged filibuster ing tendencies of General Grant's Administration, and the reported connivance at expeditions from the United States against Cuba. Of course, this highly sensational intelligence threw Washington into a ferment, and people ran in shoals to the Pre sident to learn what he knew about the matter, but as he knew nothing he had nothing to tell, and seemed to care nothing, for he went on talking with General M'Clellan, scarcely stopping the con versation to read it. A similar report was pub lished during the Adininistratior of President Pierce, when signs were shown of demanding the annexation of Cuba, which, although untrue, led to a Proclamation of Neutrality. The Seeretat yof State laughed at the rumour, although lie said it might appear plausible enough to the people who got their ideas of the Foreign Policy of the Govern ment from newspaper statements. The Tribune availed itself of its own canard to read a little homily on Protection, isolation, and the advisability of Americans shutting themselves up on their own Continent, and feuding off all the barbarous, un profitable things sent them by Europe, a policy, however excellent, still but a servile copy of that a thousand years have shown the Chinese to be wrong. ' . It is astonishing when a great work has arrived at completion and success, how many persons spring forward to claim the conception as their's. Start ing from George Francis Train before the investi gator got to General Sherman, he would have waded through a confusing crowd. General Sherman is moved to sentiment in his despatch to General G. M. Dodge, received by that gentleman when corn - pleting the Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, in reply to the "mystic taps" of the telegraphic battery, announcing the nailing of the last spike. General Sherman's proverbial modesty prevents him from declaring himself to be the genuine projector; he only claims to be a part of the scheme, as in 1854 he was vice-president of a San Francis° Company, which offered to commence the work under the contract of Robinson, Seymour, and Co. The Ge neral awards the honour of the work to Dodge, Durant, Jack and Dan Casement, and other brave fellows who carried it to a succ 355 in spite of all dif ficulties. We never knew till now why George Wilkes's Spirit was always for blowing up England, for putting barrels of gunpowder under the white cliffs of the Channel, and hurling Great Britain upside down. In the Spirit of the Times, of 15th May, an article headed "Personal," explains this. It appears the animus arose from a contention between him and a Mr. Whitney, who endeavoured to rob him of the honour of projecting the Pacific Rail road; he triumphed after a hard fight, and Whitney, covered with mortification, took refuge iu the office of the Chicago Tribune, where he spread the horrible report that Mr. Wilkes was ayoung Eng lishman, residing in New York. To do away with the false and damaging impression this created, he had to show the most ultra pronounced Americanism ; hence, we presume, the series of fiery articles, which side by side read .very curiously with courteous challenges to Oxford and Cambridge, y ac hti ng matches a i t Cowes, performances of Eng'ish and American horses and international billiard matches. We believe these fiery articles must have helped to lead the public into the error; for it is not the native, but the naturalized Americans from whom the loud and furious war-cries proceed. It is. not a little instructive to mark the gratitude which the best friends of a cause receive from the Irish rank and file when they dare to Pssert an opinion or pursue a course opposed to the majority. The Mayor of Cork furnishes a fair instance in Ireland, who went to such an extent as actually to call for special legislation in Parliament, but failed to adhere to the view of his supporters at the crisis of the trial. The very men who but yesterday were cheering, glorifying, and crowning him with laurels are at present cursing, hissing, and throwing rotten eggs at him. Ex-Mayor Hoffman, now Governor of New York, is another example. The duties of hii high office have enforced circumspection, and in his effort to administer it honestly he could not help running against Tammany and its Irish sup porters, with what result was shown at the public reception at New York of Warren and Costello, on May 14. Mr. Griffin, the chairman, attempted to read a letter from Governor Hoffman, announcing his intention to be present, but was hissed down, and for a while all was confusion. O❑ Mr. Leddy alluding to the regret he felt that Governor Hoff man was not present the meeting shouted " Devil bit," and the speak r remarked that the people were there in all their might, and higher and stronger than any public servant. The cases are legion which prove that Irish leaders are, in truth, but slaves ; that the despotism of these loud-mouthed professors of liberty is among the most grinding known ; that a man must learn and repeat all his claptrap phrases and must adhere to the stereotyped course or be branded as a traitor and treated as such. One of these set phrases was uttered by Mr. Leddy, " There were two powers in the world, God and the Devil, the good and the bad, and Eng land was the latter." It appeared, however, from the next speaker that America could scarcely be the good ; " he," Peter M'Corry " was not a citizen of this country, and did not wish to be, until it could protect the rights of its citizens." The assemblage fairly screamed itself hoarse at this and other asser tions much more violect. The speaker said he "was glad to see his auditors so enthusiastic, but what reason had they to be jubilant; had England done anything for them ? (Cries of 'No !') had Ame rica? (' No !')" He then turned towards the Stars and Stripes, which were draped at the back of the platform, and said : "Tear down that flaunting lie.' It does not shelter those who claim its pro tection." (Great confusion.) So a continent is to be involved in war, and the destiny perhaps of the Republic changed, because a paltry European island raises some inhabitants better qualified to agitate on a platform than to assert their rights in the field, and having failed themselves, desire, as is natural, if selfish and unreasonable, to thrust that duty on a country a vast proportion of whose citizens are the direct descendants of the people they denounce. The funniest part of that funny meeting, the whole affair being Irish throughout, was that these most conspicuous for their absence were Warren and Costello, the suffering patriots it was assembled to honour. A red flag waved in the eyes of a bull may create irritation for an indefinite period, but there is some limit to the enthusiasm raised by a green flag waving over the Irish Republic in New York. The patriots do not excite the considera tion they had every cause to anticipate, and the paltry attempt of a Griffin to get up a public re ception did not accord with the demonstration such martyrs expected on returning from the scene of their glory and sufferings. Nothing less than the State and City authorities could accord a suffi ciently dignified welcome to such as they, and only when these dignataries, united with their fellow citizens, tendered an invitation and signifier' it to them by a proper notification would the patriots condescend to co-operate. Many of those appointed Consuls, after receiving their instructions, threw up the posts on finding that they were prohibited from travelling about wherever they pleased. They intended a foreign tour, but Uncle SA3I means business. So general has been this misapprehension that the Secretary believes that half the Consulates lately filled will be vacated in six months. The appointment of General John Meredith Read, as Consul-General at Paris, has been • well received at Albany by everyone, as he is a general favourite, and his qualifications ac knowledged by all parties of those among whom he has re:lied for some years, having been president of the county Republican organisation for two electioneer ing campaigns. Mr. Montgomery Gibbs has been appointed a❑ officer of the Treasury Department to serve in Europe. Ex-Governor Kirk, Minister to the Argentine Republic and Uruguay, received his instructions on the 15th May, and was to sail from New York for his destination on the 22d inst. The Washington Chronicle says that powerful influ ences are at work to induce Minister Washburne to resign the French mission, which, if successful, will substitute William Cullen Bryant. The Baltimore American announces the President's determination 'to recall Mr. Morris from the Turkish mission. The reason it gives would be worth noting, if reliable, as indicative of the policy of the Secretary of State. We therefore give it entire for our readers to take it for what it is worth, premising that it has been contradicted on the authority, it is said, of no less a person than the Secretary himself : " The manner in which Mr. Morris bt ought influence to bear upon the President, as well as oa the Sate Depart ment, to have himself retained at Constantinople, vexed both President Grant and Secretary Fish very much. He had a petition drawn up and signed by a large number of Greek and Russian merchants and bankers of Constanti nople, who are not at all friendly to the Turkish Govera meut, praying for his retention. This was addressed to the Secretary of State, but sent to S'era,tor Sumner to. be delivered to the Secretary, with the request that it be laid before the President. Secretary Fish declined to do this, and seemed highly displeased that Mr. Morris had found it necessary to get foreigaers to ask for his retention. Baron Stoecicl, the Russian Minister, also asked that Mr. Morris be kept in Turkey, probably because he sympa thised with Russians against Turkey; but this only served to strengthen the President's conviction that it was for the interest of the Government to make a new appoint ment for this mission." There is no State of the Union whose credit equals that of Massachusetts. Not a shade of a taint of repudiation has ever stained her escutcheon, and a long period of scrupulous honesty has produced its certain result—that of establishing the State's credit on a strong foundation. Having determined to ne gotiate a gold loan Massachusetts naturally applies to the cheapest market, and Mr. George Walker, a leading Boston banker, accompanies Mr. Motley in the Cuba, and will probably arrive in London in a dayor so to propose this loan. The amount of scrip to beissued underexistin g laws isupwards of $5,000,000, but a million or two of this will suffice. Mr. Walker was appointed by the Governer and Council with the authority of a special agent. If the time be un propitious it results from the feeling raised by the speech of his distinguished townsman, Senator Sum ner. It is an ill-wind that blows nobody good, and if English capitalists can obtain the bonds of the loan at a price less than they could otherwise have got them, it follows that Massachusetts will be the first State to pay directly for her Senator's speech ; and ►he best of the joke then is, that the very oli garchy denounced by Mr. Sumner will be the persons who gain. It will certainly he strange if this should prove to be the case, for one of the first payments made on the Alabama difficulty will in that event be by Senator Sumner's own State, and to EngliSh capitalists ! "Men are the sport of circumstances, when Circumstances seem the sport of men." The Messrs. Laird of Birkenhead have addressed a sensible letter, marked by moderation, to the daily papers, explanatory of their part in the Ala- Kama affair. 11 hat they say adds but little to the general stock of knowledge about that most idiotic of English WB, the despatch of the Alabama on a cruise against American commerce. It tends to fix more clearly the liability and culpability of the Government and the inefficiency of the English Neutrality Laws. From beginning to end the Ala bama was shown to be a ship of . war intended for the Confederates, that ample opportunity was offered to stop her, of which the Government did not avail itself. Though all this was known it was not generally known that the Lairds only received an ordinary price, lower than the cost of similar vessels in her Majesty's service, and that therefore they were not temple], as reported, to do an illegal act by an extravagant gain. Mr. J. Laird, ALP. for Birkenhead, had ceased to have an interest in the firm before the Alabama was built, and it was later still that he was returned to Parliament; but he knew who had ordered the vessel. Why did he make the statement in Parliament that he would rather be the builder of the Alabama than the deliverer of John Bright's speeches? Is it that in those days people thought very differently about No. 290 than they think now? 'and he assumed then a merit with which he can now afford to dispense. The firm assert that in 1861 they declined an order for a large ironclad from the Confederate Government, although a condition of the contract was the deli very only on the conclusion of the war, while the price was to be so paid by instalments that the firm was secured against loss. Therein the Lairds sacrificed their private gain rather than aggravate existing differences between England and America, although there war nothing either in the muni cipal or international law that prevented them from taking the contract. Sir Francis Head has written a third letter to show what occurred in Upper Canada during the rebellion and to explain the case of the Caroline, to which Mr. Sumner alluded in his celebrated speech. She was a small steamer, and had been brought to Fort Schlosser, opposite Navy Wand, on th 9 Arne- , -- --~Y....r s---~ rican side, avowedly to convey the insurgents and their ammunition to the island. Sir Allan M'Nab, with the sanction of Sir Francis, directed her to be destroyed, and she was set on fire and sent in flames down the Falls of Niagara. This violation of neu tral territory aroused great indignation, but it oc curred only in presence of an overwhelming neces sity, acknowledged even by President Van Buren, who denounced in no measured terms the unlawful interference of Americans in the contest. The case against Governor Marcy for connivance at the re peated invwions of Canada by American fillibusterS is very strong, and forms, with the acts themselves, no creditable chapter of American history ; but as the English Cabinet held that the Federal Govern ment were not to blame, these acts did not consti tute a breach of iteernatioual duties, and were never pressed as such. The Times thus comments on the letters and the evidence. lately furnished by its vari ous correspondents :—" On every side the refutation of Mr. Stunner's unworthy diatribe is complete. its logical inconsistency has been well exposed in the American press; its perversions of facts will become more conspicuous the more it is tested by the evi• deuce of history." TILE POLITICAL CRISIS. Deputations from the Irish Church Conference, the Irish Presbyterians, and the Church Defence Asso ciation are to have an interview with " the Peers" (what peers is not stated), at the Duke of Abercorn's residence, Chesterfield House, Mayfair, at 12.30 to-day. Committee-rooms for the use of the deputations have been engaged at the Westminster Palace Hotel. We presume that Lord Cairns, who lately went over to Dublin to confer with Archbishop Trench and Sir Joseph Napier, will be present. To shew the uncertainty which still prevails with regard to the intentions of the Conservative peers, we find two journals which profess to be honoured with special intelligence publishing very varied infor mation. The Conservative-Orange _Dublin Mail eays that the leaders of the Opposition have deter mined not to throw out the Church Bill, but to repeat the tactics of 1860, in the hope that they may return to power, when they will propose a scheme of concurrent endowment. The Irish Times, the organ of Major Knox and the High Tory Protestants, says "it is the belief of well-informed parties that there will be no diestablish inent nor disendowment of the Irish Church in the it present session." Th e S co t sman con siders is generally admitted that there is no prospect of the House of Lords throwing out the bill. The statements of the Scotch Liberal and the two Irish Conservative papers are not absolutely irre concileable. It is possible, for instance, that the Lords will so alter the bill in committee that the Commons will refuse to accept their measure in its new shape, and that the matter will then be postponed to another session. But if there be any truth in the report which attributes to Mr. Disraeli and Lord Cairns the intention of renewing the levelling-up proposal, it is difficult to see how they can obtain any support from the fanatical ultra-Protestants like Mr. Johnson and Lord Roden in Ireland, Mr. Newdegate and Lord Redesdale in England, and Mr. Aytoun in Scotland. From Ireland alone is there any compact mass of opinion in favour of the Irish Church Bill being thrown out by the Upper House of Parliament. In Ulster, it must be admitted, there is a strong party which would desire that any thing should take place rather than the disestablishment of the Irish Church should be accomplished. But Mr. Disraeli is the leader of an opposition to the Government, and he would probably like that the bill should pass in its entirety rather than that the number of his supporters in the Commons should further dwindle. The Orange faction are appealing from party to principle, are now denouncing Mr. Gladstone, then Lord Cairns; they care nothing for the organisation of the House of Commons; they look no farther than to the present bill. But with threatenings of land reforms and other Ministerial measures, with the knowledge that the rejection of the bill by the Lords would only delay, not avert, the passage of the measure, the leaders of the Tory party should be, from their own point of view, very slow indeed to counsel that the agitation in the country should be renewed. LAYABD AND PUBLIC BILLS. There are two members of the Government who do not hesitate to declare their differences in public. Mr. Lowe puts down as a popular weakness the love for ornamented or fine buildings, and ever and anon he grumbles at the expense which this weakness causes. Mr. Layard, on th e o th er h a nd, is an enthusiast in calling for the education of the public taste. In an address delivered on Thursday, at the London Artisans' Club and Institute, he said there was nothing in his opinion more calculated to raise taste in this country, or to create a high intellectual and moral feeling, than the internal adornment of public buildings. If it pleased the gentlemen in the House of Commons to allow him to retain the position he held, he hoped to be able to do something to shew the people of this country . there was some thing in internal decoration. This country be con sidered almost entirely ignorant of whatinternal decoration really was. THE METROPOLITAN GUARDIANS. The metropolitan guardians do not take kindly to 11r. Hardy 's Poor Law Amendment Act. They do not like to admit the nominees of the Poor-law Board, and they are taking every possible means to oust them. The central office has as yet, however, been one too many for them. The St. Pancras guardians are the most determined in their opposition. They are requested or commanded by the Board to meet at ten in the morning. At this time the City men who have been appointed can attend the meetings, while at three they cannot. But the guardians insist upon meeting at three, and one week refused to sign the relief cheques for the week—a kind of strike, which, while it brought no inconvenience to strikers, and was hardly a pressure upon the Poor-law Board, was very hard indeed to the persons requiring relief. The contest is still proceeding. The Poor-law Board refuses to alter the hour of meeting ; the guardians have determined to meet at three o'clock. THE PERMISSIVE BILL. The Alliance Weekly .News states that upwards of 3,700 petitions in behalf of the Permissive Bill, .bearing nearly half a million signatures, have been presented to the House of Commons this session. The same paper states, by way of shewing the clirec cion which public opinion is taking, that the guar dians of St. Marylebone have agreed to petition Parliament to close places of amusements and refreshment at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and at twelve on other nights. Mr. Verey, a pub lican, is said to have made "an able and argumen tative speech "in moving the resolution. " Ile fully believed the working classes were fore most in desiring a change." Mr. Tucker, C. 8., seconded the motion on general grounds, as he felt sure that nine-tenths of pauperism and crime were produced by drink. Sir J. Hamilton, Bart., said he would be glad to assist in any way in his power in carrying out the object desired; and though one member of the board heroically fell back on the objection . of "not wishing any infringement on the liberty of the well-conducted part of the community, because of the follies and wickedness of another portion," he was left in a minority of one when the resolution was put. THE 'WORKSHOP REGULATIONS ACT. The Factories Act proved such an undoubted success that there was little opposition to the passing of an Act regulating the workshops in the same way. But this measure, intended principally to relieve the overworked sewing -women in the metropolis, does not in all cases work so satisfactorily. A letter appears in the Telegraph from " A Mantle Maker." It appears from this that not the employers only . are displeased with it, but those whom it is intended to benefit find it rather add to their privations. The employers evade it ; the employed and not their mistresses have to suffer for the change. If less hours are to be worked in, less wages are given. If a holiday from the work room is provided on Saturdays, it must be spent by the seamstress working at home. In the work shop the fire and the light and the refreshment are provided by the employer, but at home the expense of these falls en the worker. Parliament can hardly , alter this. It has provided against collective oppres sion in the workshop ; it cannot follow the woman to her home, and protect her there against herself. Nor can it regulate the rate of wages. It can only set up the Factory Act as the standard whereby those who will do well may learn how to do it. It can but hope that the education may be speedy. MR. FORSTER'S SPEECH AT BRADFORD. A correspondent of the Telegraph, who describes himself as " An English Eye-Witness of the Ameri can War," is pained at the manner in which Mr. Forster has spoken of the English sympathisers with the South. He claims credit for a honest convic tion that the great point at issue between North and South was not slavery, but Southern independence. Most of the Sontherns disliked immediate emancipation, but some of the warmest opponents of the principle of slavery were among the Southern officers. This writer recalls a conversation held in 1862 by Stonewall Jackson's staff. One officer from Alabama urged the re-opening of the African slave-trade, when General Jackson struck in with the remark, " Then the first sword that will be drawn against you will be mine." The "English Eye-Witness" has often heard General Lee repudiate the allegation that he was fighting f or slavery. Mr. Forster would be naturally indignant if any doubt were thrown on the sincerity of his Northern friends. Why then should he be doubt ful of the sincerity of such men as Lee and Jackson ? The unfortunate assertion of Vice-President Stephens thati r. se htetcenapls o'e edifice," l y e slavery haswaslit ttsgto given we n correspondentec i o g r h n te riser i s n t t o o n t ehmoe asserts tfi confederationct h h the m n ti e hs aa r tp p pi‘ o rl l sheetGovernmentrae le te o Benjamin, o n f fer p e a n for which he did little and suffered less. chee a ra t da a tto p se q pat l rra i e c sbp i iyt n do e enn et t i ir ng theiraftercLa.dcsoc, said the thatinehcis inocineri‘sira. Seward, bearing at its herd omlnini th ssa the words " Southern Independence," leaving Mr. Lincoln to fill in what terms he would. No terms were offered. The writer concludes by expressing the anxiety with which he regards the present aspect of affairs in America, and the angry feeling which exists among the Irish-Americans against this country. THE REWARD OF OBEDIENCE. The judges, as all the world knows, had a very strong repugnance to the duty of trying election petitions, and expressed that repugnance in very forcible inguage. But when the House of Com mons insisted upon their undertaking that duty they acknowledged that it was their duty, and the three senior Lane s, Juatice,l3l4.46urn, Justice Willes, and Bar . forth 81 tliaiLeuelsiaa in order THE SCOTCH CHURCHES. While sportsmen were keeping the Derby Day on the Epsom Downs, and advanced High Churchmen were keeping Corpus Christi Day in St. Alban's and kindred churches, Scotch theologians were hard at work in Edinburgh. The " General Assembly of the Church of Scotland " met at eleven o'clock on Wed nesday morning, and after a brief interval of rest, rose at a quarter to two o'clock on Thursday morning. This is as bad as the House of Commons itself. During the whole of those hours one subject was under discussion, and that discussion was renewed on Thursday. The subject of so much con troversy and debate was the Right of Patronage. The committee appointed by the Assembly last year gave in a report recommending that the right to nominate ministers should be transferred from the present patrons to a board in each parish, composed of heritors, elders of the parish, and male com municants ; and that in any enactment giving effect to that recommendation provision should be made for giving reasonable compensation to patrons. The Assembly considered, in connection with the committee's report, certain overtures against any immediate application to Parliament for a modifica tion of the law of patronage. Dr. Pirie moved a resolution approving of the diligence of the commit tee, and adopting the report generally, in so far as it recommends that the nomination of ministers should bevestedinheritors,elders, ancl commuificants, leaving details to be arranged. Dr. Pearson moved a resolu tion declaring that, in respect of the greatdiversity of opinion in the Church upon the subject, there did not exist any reasonable prospect for a speedy or more satisfactory settlement of the question, and that the combined agitation of it in these circum stances was unwise and inexpedient. Mr. Camp bell Swinton moved that the matter be referred back to the committee, with instructions to make further inquiries. The vote was first taken between Dr. Pearson's and Mr. Campbell Swinton's motions. For Dr. Pearson's motion there voted 61 members, and for Mr. Campb e ll S w i n t on ' s mo tion 57. The atter was therefore lost. A final vote was then taken between the m o ti ons o f D r . Pi r i e and Dr. Pearson. The number of vo t es f or D r . Pixie's motion was 193, and for D r . P earson ' s 88. Dr. Pixie's motion, therefore, became th e d ec i s i on of the House. During the' debate a speech, which seems, from the incessant laughter that it evoked, to have been very funny, although it reads tamely enough, was delivered by Dr. Pearson. In the course of it he made the remarkable declaration that there was more hope of union between the Established Churches of England and Scotland than between the three Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. He did not absolutely despair of a reunion; but he felt sure that it was not to be obtained by any such democratic movement as th e resolution with regard to patro nage would involve. At present, he said, there is virtually " one Church for the great, and another for the lowly —one for Dives, and another for Laza rus—one for the centurion, another for his servant. That desirable consummation will not be obtained by sanctioning and abetting a democratic move ment and severing the sole remaining bond of union. Let us have back the upper ten thousand and th en wou ld follow the severed million, and Scotland would be Scotland' again." While the ~ Established Church was holding its general assembly, the Free Church was also holding its. The chief object of discussion was not patronage; that was settled 'by the secession of twenty-six years ago, but the d oc t r i n e o f the Atonement, which, of course, Dr. Candlish was prompt to expound. The different tone adopted by the two assemblies with regard to the Irish Church Bill is worthy of note. Dr. Pearson, as a member of a Church that is still established, saw in the measure a policy " which, while it has failed to conciliate and propitiate the Roman Catholic, has disaffected and flisloyalised the Protestant." The Fred Church having practical experience of the voluntary and free system, and knowing perfectly well that it will work, looked upon the bill with the utmost equanimity. Mr. Killen, for instance, said he had no fear that Protestantism would suffer if Mr. Gladstone's measure passed. He had faith in the vitality of Protestantism; and, despite the present difficulties, he had good hope that turbulence and murder would give place to peace and love, and that Ireland would become once more the isle of saints. TIM MILL CONVENT CASE. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath (Dr. Nulty) encloses a list of subscriptions (amounting to £020) to Sir John Gray, toward the fund for the defence of the nuns of the Hull convent. In doing so he calls attention to a question which ought certainly to be noticed by subscribers. The Hull Convent is now threatened with disorganisation. The Bishop thinks it would be criminal folly to convey a large sum of money to a community over which impends a law suit that threatens it with extinction, and while there is a possibility of its passing into the hands of the plaintiffs in the action. He, therefore, provides that it shall be distinctly understood that the nuns are entitled to the money only on certain conditions, and that if these are found to be impracticable the money reverts to the donors. THE LONDON COMPANIES. The City companies of London, with their im mense wealth in so many cases lying nearly idle, have just been told how they may, w ith advantage to the country, lay out their money. At a prize distribu tion to the evening scholars at King's College, London, Dr. Barry, the principal, invited the Lord. Mayor, who distributed the prized, to use his influence in obtaining the funds of these companies for for warding the work of technical education, which the college was about to commence. The Lord Mayor Dromised to do so. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The labour agitation in the United States con tinues and increases. The decision of the Attorney- General on the Eight Hour Law is met by vigor ous opposition from those it affects ; and in their interests members of both Houses have brought strong pressure to bear on the President. General Banks is among these, and he asserts that Congress meant the law to be interpreted as the workmen interpret it, and not as Judge Hoar interprets it ; and that when Congress meets, any defect will be remedied so as to make the intention clear. The President is pressed to issue an order on the subject, which he very properly declines to do, and so does the Navy Department, replying to the arguments of General Banks that they have no business with the intentions of Congress, they have simply to execute the laws, and for the interpretation of those laws they have to apply to the Attorney-General. Strikes are on the increase ; one on a grand scale having begun in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Thou sands of miners simultaneously stopped work, while acting in a way so orderly as to be thought to show an extensive organization, and it is feared the de termination of both sides will embarass the country ere the dispute is settled. Mr. Thomson the recently appointed Consul at Southampton has answered Mr. Smalley's charges as requested by the Secretary of State. He says he never met Messrs. Rost and Yancey, the rebel Commissioners, and therefore could not, as alleged, have hired a special train to convey them to Lon don. But we do not (perhaps being obtuse) see the sequence as it is seen by Mr. 'Thomson and ac cepted byMr. Fish, for the act, may be independent of a personal acquaintance. Indeed we doubt if Mr. Thomson ever made such a statement, though he distinctly denies the truth of the report. In a card to the Tribune he writes :—" The head and front of my offending was to hand a sealed letter to Mr. Rost, at the request of Robert B. Camp bell, our Consul at London. I never knew or spoke to Mr. Yancey, or paid either of them any atten tion whatever." Nor did he apply for a post from the Southern Confederacy, or utter a word or per form an act favourable to the rebellion. These charges had been made against him before, and al ways disproved. First, on his removal by Presi dent Lincoln in 1862, when he satisfied Mr. Seward they were unfounded ; main before the Senate Gan mittee on Commerce, when, after a thorough inves tigation, he was confirmed in a former appointment; and now by the London correspondent of the Tri bune, whereon his explanations have, he asserts, sa tisfied Mr. Fish. Ile ascribes the charges to a quar rel he had hadwith Mr. Moran, now Charge d'Affaires, and he insinuates that Captain Britton, the present Consul at Southampton, has resuscitated them, not withstanding Mr. Smalley's disavowal. Mr. Thom son was to leave for his post in England at the end of the month. s. kday or two after Mr, Thomson's card to the I.IYIPERIAL PARLIAMENT IWUSE OF CO ANIONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPRAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. FRA.UDS ON GAS COMPANIES. On the further consideration of the Imperial Gas Cool' pani's Bill, a clause was inserted directing that in case of loss from frauds of companies servants the sums should be deducted from the dividends payable to the shareholders• METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CANADA. Mr. MONSELL, in reply to Mr. S. AYTOUN, said that no correspondence had taken place between the Colonial Department and the Legislature of Canada with respect to the appropriation of the Inter-Colonial Railway loan' but he had, among other documents, received two or three weeks ago, amongst them being a statement relative to the extension of certain engagements bearing high inte rest, and for that purpose a portion of the loan was in tended to be used, but in order that the wants of the rag" way might be met immediately upon being required , two sums had,beon set aside for that purpose. There WO nothing illegal in the transaction referred to, but it Was occupying the serious attention of the Governmen t copies of the papers were quite at the service of the lon' gentleman if he reqnired them. THE CASE OF LAVELLE V. PROUDFOOT. Mr. CHARLEY called the attention of the house to th e case of Lavelle v. Proudfoot, which was an action f c ' e libel tried before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald at the late Ga Spring Assizes. It was tried at some length, and it arose out of the "stripping" of certain land for the arrant ing for the payment of certain parochial duet , and the expulsion of certain persons ft°, the chapel over which Father Lavelle preside , ' The exclusion of cert a i n a tt en d an t s f rom th e c h ape l, and the refusal of extreme auction to a dying person becaus e he bad sent his child to one of the certified schools, 516° formed a portion of the charges against Father Lavelle. The jury gave nominal damages,and under all the circumstanc e : he should like to know wh e th er th e G overnment i n tended to talc.) steps to protect peaceful Roman Catholics fr° l3l similar treatment. Mr. MOORE defended Father Lavelle from the charge° brought against him, and said he was proud of 00 friendship of Father Lavelle, and in all he h ad done he had only taken the steps he was CO ta ; polled to adapt in order to stop the proselytizing that 10' been most energetically carried on in his parish. Fatb e ; Lavelle and his parishioners understood one another, an" he could assure the hon. member that his interference `rag not at all required. Mr. GLAD: TONE did not think there was ani failure of justice, and therefo re h e did no t see there need of any steps being taken. The hon. gentleman op posite Lad, as he thought, inappropriately connected th e subject with the Irish Church Bill, and the honour able gentleman wanted to know whether t he Government intended to take steps to conciliate t he Church of Rome, and also whetber they intended to with draw the National school system from Ireland. 1 3 0 ° , 1 : . answering the latter q ues ti on h e mi g ht °"' servo with respect to the conciliation of t h : Church of Rome, that whether it was the Chnr a 7 of Rome or any other church all the Government wish ed to do was to act towtrds it with justice, and nothing les& (Hear.) It was not the intention of the Government t° withdraw the National School system from Ireland. respect to the case of Lavelle and Proudfoot, he thong:b. it was one that was not a proper subject for discussion ° the House of Commons. THE PATENT LAWS. Mr. MAGPIE called the attention of the house to 016 present p)sition of the patent laws, and moved the 01- lowing resolution : —That in the opinion of the b° ll#3 the time had arrived when the interests of trade and 0 m.wce, and the progress of the arts and science in t , h r coitutry would be pro :no t e d by th e a b o liti on o f patents 1° iuveutijns. m i d Sir R. PAL MER seermdA the motion, aid said he -- te long been of opinion that the time had arrived when pste ° should be altogether and entirely abolished. After a short discussion, the motion was withdrawn' ~ 0 The house then went into committee of supplY r Anna, and at once resumed. The report on the Irish Church (Stamp Duties) i'r° considered and agreed t . The Irish Church Bill was recommitted for the pniVif of inserting a clause imposing a stamp duty on any o f " 1 of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ire l ":1 operating as a conveyance or morgage of property, 0111 w was agreed to. Mr. GOSCHEN moved the second reading of the he tropolitan Poor Act (1867) Amendment Bill, and nt on instance of Mr. TORRENS, who had an amendme llt ,; s the paper, the debate was adj urned till Friday nest on t er understanding that.it should not be proceeded with aft an advanced hour. The remaining orders were disposed of, and the b °1196 adjourned. LONDON GAZETTE-LA T EVENING WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 28. y. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Henri Brooke to be Captain. be 6th Dragoon Guards —MoutonAnt Charles Davy Captain, Cornet Walter Macmillan-Scott to be ble -131: nant, Cornet Frederick Shafto to be Lieutenant, Kane M'Clintock-Bunbury to be Cornet. 3d Hussars—Captain Edward Gore to be Major, „ r ge tenant Albert Hallifax to be Captain, Lieutenant Ge,"be Hunter to be Captain, 'Cornet Robert Dickson " ° ao t, Lieutenant, Cornet John Hilton to be Lieuts o t , Ralph Hicks to be Cornet, George Rogers to be Cortio, 9th Lancers—Lieutenant h 341‘Calmont to bo Cornet Richard Moore to be Lieutenant. 6th Foot— Lieutenant William L own d es t o be 00 „ g ts tt; Ensign Henry Thomas to h e Li eutenant, Atig"" Green, to be Ensign. 7th Foot—Ensign H ug h B arton to be Lieutenant, -1: de rick Tottenham to be Ensign. f 12th Foot—Lieutenant Herbert Cooper to be Instru ct° Musketry. t. 27th Foot—Li eu t enan t F ranc i s Coffey to b e Adjutan t. 33d Foot—Francis Day to be Ensign. 35th Foot—William Russell to be Ensign. 51st Foot— Lie u t enan t J o h n N ugen t t o be Captain; Ea sign George White to be Lieutonant. 53d Foot—Ensign Henry Westby to be Lieutenant. f i e w 60th Foot— Captain Robert Robertson to be Major ; 4;0.418 tenant Ellis Ward to be Captain; Ensign Franci s to bs Lieutenant ; Ensign Ernest. Thnrlow to be tenant ; -Ensignl to be Ensign. to 66th Foot William Mackinnon to be Lieu - to be and Ensign James Lysaught, from 85th Foot, Ensign. 0 4 85th Foot—Ensign John Atkin to be Lieutensa i l ' William Edden to be Ensign. ve 3d West India Regiment—Ensign Edward Lover ° ,isc• Lieutenant, and William Simpson Dwyer to be [ ADvEnnsEmENT. - Holloway's Ointment.--Ali • of ulcerations, sores, wounds, and eruptions can be cure d by Tbe diligent use of this cooling, soothing, and healing unguent' offer old and often failing fashion of strapping edges of ulcers tc'gnole with plaster has entirely given way before the more re ae° o treatment of Holloway's ointment, which builds tiP f ro . dies ° bottom of the wound with sound and healthy granulations' eon, gradually grow till they reach the level of the surface, ti le ; tract, harden, and i_nmediately become covered with a l ie diali" wholesome skin. The proper applicatio n o f thi s ointrue n i to t to niches the inflammation, causes the unhealthy discharg es fin d grow thick, and then to cease, wh en th e swe lli ng disapp ears the natural shape is restored. Ch ribtr BIRTH. lIENE AGE —On the 27th inst., at Beacon Lodge, chur:ll, the wife of Major Heneage, V.C., of a £On fa Of YULE—On the 22d inst., at Harehead, Selkirk, the wi Sir George Yule, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Cot. Church, Richard H. LEY- SHELLING— E 2 s 7 ci th ., o i t ns A t. to o f Emily P • ° C li o l l t l l 3 l y e , ass, only child of Thomas Skelding,osq" Bridgnorth, Salop. lin ou r, TEEDE—Don—On the 27th inst., at Brockbam, Jo-,-,-;bour, son of John Teede, Esq., of Bishopsgate-stre et-v6,, ;r0a .- to Alar:lia, only daughter of Henry pod, Bscp, P ham, Surrey. lust., ragaill DEATIIS. ,f Drtice F ULLAGAR —On the 27th inst., John Fullag ar, ° CoLtage, Tottenham, aged 54. orti BOUNBELL—On the 25th inst., at Bridge House, Pride John How:well, Esq., aged 77 Georg e WALBRAN—On the 20th inst.,. a t Brentford, lifi. " Walbran, aged 70. ~,, n ow London: Printed and Published by WILLIA3I AN' str oad , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Mee, in tr.e Precinct of the Savoy, in the ~ .otultY °I 3i Saturday, May 29, 1469. N 0.11% Icl4l 00..4 f i r INAHAIS This eelobraiet prize Medal. Pure, Mild, Sold in Bottles, he Agents in the 8, GREAT Observe the Re, , stt's LL Whisky. I E A T I] relieves t Ii t T . EATII Importan tio \'.—Sold in Ils each. EATING London lITUAL 14, RIIS§-F.-1,1, ADVANCIES TTn hold or teasehol 3.1)1e weekly, mol Tr.: , rrze free on re R OY AL IMMENSE fir ITARRY RI Ttr FRED. COY Mr LTSIc. RD, 1 Mr GEORG L MiS3 A NIE AT Miss KAT E BE MACLAGAN, T r,ll A DAM F Bake - -sin (of Norwich) ha mission, la.; Oh the morning not ARGYLL The extraordi of the Shadow 1 the electric ligh fe in it, corn DLlusic Selections have had the gi most extensiveb celebrated Orch; chef. Signor Lul Positions of nil assigned to the W. Graves. L. Si Thomas Pitts. THE Am I Luncheon for deviling Leg, ORIGINAL Al ASHLE V ery Fine Pale, Old Crushed Po Shipping), Vl] Sparkling Cban lery, Qualite E Sample eases bottles Sherry. 111 B. HA • next tl Consignee for celebrated n A T, Bordeaux \V Whiskies, f••ont also be seen at number of Hot< of others wantei SCIIENTIFI nitNAME \-- 1 and Din aortment of V licks, Inkstanc etc., in Italian. shirA Spar, &c TENNANT, W.C., London Mr. 'Pennan MINERALS, of Lye Ws Elet tate the int( GEOLOGY, goingNas each. Pit NoT to) MINERALO( li9, Strand. THE Li Oifices-1, The Invest Fire Revenue The moderate Bonus for tin value as SP render them leave is grant, thirty days of VA'CION Richmo under the natr, Whereby a ho' Girls of all ago the kingdom. The obje:Aol ash education, and laundry, t WIRe Provided suitable situati The Commit 84*(4-meta Orace, 121, P AJP RITIE Ala,cken Patron— For the g destitute orpl and of all e prosperous c One hundr atitution ; am Increased endowed, ani assistance. übscrii,ez Institution, ite peculiar c The last B Secretary. Offices, 73, Bankers— lane ; and 11 HEALTH RE Ik IT BAT and Ii eaves fifty ti Perfect diges refreshing sl most disord effectually ii SUmption, b rangoments, nervousness Catarrhs, Co rheumatism, ralgia, kr' heartburn, wises and I fits, bronchi the pit of tl the most dig for invalids IMPORTAS and more ti MY, Baron ilencefori Du Barry's and Infante has already been deeme tees the Po by it after t We quote Iloly Pattie other rem& arryos Be late at beneficial e praise this Cure No. Years' liver n!iss, irritat digestion, c nervous agi Cure No. Stuart de D Ford :— ,4 I I f ° o ( l .—STu Waterford.' Curo No from dyspei flatulency, of Lynn, Cure No. riPrvousnes voila fancie Cure No. Years diarrl The Food Ib., 4s . Gd, anisters, c 13 3.rry s R e . tka canister oupa at 68., about caa free of cart ba.ttßy D Mae at. Graeochm, ist Ncrtk /Incur GAR: