The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, 'The Saturday Review remarks that Archdeacon Denison is reported to have said the other day, in a charge deli vered to his clergy, that he wished newspapers were written without leading articles, as they only saved people the trouble of thinking. The Saturday Review feels sure that the-overwhelming majority of mankind, even in this enlightened age—say, ninety out of every hundred to keep within moderate limits— do not dream of really thinking for themselves at all, and would not do so any the more if they never saw a leading article from one year's end to the other. Every man in the upper or middle classes is expected to have some opinion on the leading questions of the day—social, political, or religious—and to be ready on occasion to express it. And consequently most men do, with more or less ardour and consistency, profess some opinion on these topics, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that these opinions are, in nine cases out of ten. their own in any other sense than that in which their coats and boots are their own. They have procured and put them on, and perhaps learnt to wear them gracefully, but they no more made them for themsel: es than they made the arti cles their tailor and bootmaker have supplied them with. Is it desirable, as the Archdeacon seems to imply, that every one should be left to his own unassisted thinking? There are of course many matters of personal conduct on which a man ought to form the beet judgment be can for his own guidance, but these are not points on which news papers are likely to obtrude their advice. Few men com paratively, even among the educated classes, have leisure to give more than a passing notice to questions, however interesting and important, that have no direct bearing on their ordinary vocations ; and many of those who have leisure are wholly destitute of the judicial faculty requi site for pronouncing a really impartial judgment on the evidence when it is befoie them. Doubt, which paralyses action, is of the essence of thought. The rough work, whether of the world or the Church, has to be done by men of strong convictions, and strong conviction are much oftener accepted than reasoned out. At all events the reasoning must be over before the conclusion can be acted upon. And it is more important that the conclusion should be right than that the agent should have dis covered it for himself. The Spectator says that some one should ask a question in Parliament about the war which has evidently been declared against the betting men. A contemporary attri butes the new zeal of the police to the new Chief Com missioner, but Colonel Henderson does not reign in Man chester, and the crusade is being waged there even more vigorously than in London. The police, too, are striking higher and higher till they may reach Tattersall's at last ; and it is difficult to doubt that they have received orders, and that Mr. Austin Bruce has seriously set himself to put down a great and growing social evil. There is no doubt whatever of its magnitude. As we pointed out months ago, clever "book - makers," confident in the thirst of mankind for gambling, and the national desire to take interest in horses, have combined both pleasures in a new kind of lottery which has rapidly increased in popu larity till Englishmen are becoming gamblers en masse. But, nevertheless, we should have greatly preferred a preliminary discussion in Parliament, based, if necessary, upon a proposal for a yet stronger law. A social reform to be useful should have the approval at least of the best among those whom it affects; and it is by no means clear that the public is as yet certain that betting-offices ought to be put down. If it were, we should not see advertise ments of agencies in half the papers in the kingdom, or magistrates so reluctant, as some of them clearly are, to carry out the law effectually ; or hear so much of the injustice of reviving a half-obsolete law without warning, or find every case contested as men only contest when they think they are suffering wrong. A good many causes con tribute, it must be remembered, to make the less reflective section of the public very doubtful of the fairness of the crusade. The bias of public opinion, weighted by various influences, is still uncertain, and to make the crusade effective, the uncertainty should be removed. If Mr. Austin Brace is in earnest, he will, we are convinced, do better to consult Parliament, bring in a short bill enabling the public, as well as the police, to indict the agents, and prohibiting the circulation of their advertisements ; and then put the law in force without fear or favour, with the support of a people at length convinced that their repre sentatives intend betting lotteries to be put down. At present, the popular notion seems to be that the police are interfering with public amusements on the strength of a nearly obsolete law, never applied to restrain similar amusements among their betters. The John Bull declares that the question now arises— What course shall we Conservative Churchmen, looked askance at alike by High Church Radicals and mere Protes tant members of our own party, pursue? We answer unhesi tatingly, such a course as will if possible defeat the bill when it returns from the Commons ; or, if that is im possible, such a course as will secure the best terms for the Church of Ireland. Attaching the importance we do to the question of establishment, we may yet with perfect consistency, now that we have fought for that, make the best practicable terms for a free Church. To allow money considerations the first place is detestable. To give the free Church, under fearful local disadvantages, every pos sible pecuniary assistance, is the bounden duty of all who believe that the Church of Ireland has, for the gratifica tion of personal ambition and party ends, been shame fully deserted and despoiled. Under these circumstances, we learn with pleasure that a scheme is under consideration for avoiding the evils of concurrent endowment, while set ting aside of the surplus, as a religious fund, which might be made generally useful to the Irish people. The greatest moral evil of the bill, next to disowning the Divine authority of the sovereign's rule, is the secularisation of ecclesiastical revenues. To meet this objection, and at the same time to deal fairly with all religions, it has been sug gested that the surplus funds of the Irish Church should be paid into the hands of commissioners, who might, on the principle of Queen Anne's Bounty, lend money for the building and repairing of churches, for glebes, schools, &c. To Roman Catholics and Presbyterians these com missioners might, of course, apply ; but it would be a very different thing to handing money to the control of the Roman Catholic communion. At the present crisis it would be unwise to say more, but our readers may he satisfied that the Conservative party are acting thoroughly in unison. The Saturday Bevieuisays th at readers of the debates in the House of Lords last week were not more astonished a t the eloquence of the speeches than at the uproariousness of the derrionstrations of the audience. We are surprised and shocked at this disturbance of the gravity, and we had almost said the dulness, which the House habitually main tains, and we cannot express the amazement with which we learn that " a very distinguished and eminent member of the Church of England," who was apparently not a member of the House, placed himself on the steps of the Throne, and cheered or groaned as he liked or disliked the speeches. There surely must be something contagious in the subject under discussion which seems to 'possess sober Englishmen with more than Irish excitability. It is to be hoped that there will not be many more debates upon this question, either in Parliament or elsewhere ; for, if there are, it will be necessary to provide funds for the enlarge. ment of lunatic asylums, not only in Ireland, but in England. The House of Lords during the debate on the Irish Church appears to have resembled a bear-garden rather than a deliberative assembly, and one cannot help wondering that a body which is supposed to be aristocratic and exclusive should be more tolerant of popular effervescence than another body which directly represents the people. We should like to see a " very distinguished and eminent member of the Church of England" being permitted to be present at a debate in the House of Commons, and,taking upon himself to cheer and groan at passages in the speeches. Talking in courts of law is a great nuisance, but the growing custom of applauding verdicts will become, if it is not checked, an intolerable abuse. Yet there have been judges who seemed to play to the galleries in their summing-up, and whose threat of committing the first person who was caught in the act of cheering did not sound very for midable.. These demonstrations ought to be firmly restrained alike in Parliament and the courts. It is doubtless pleasant to be cheered, but those who cheer one speaker will boot another, and thus the beginning would be made in England of a practice which in France was carried so far that at last the galleries became more potent than the body of the House. It is true that our House of Peers is inaccessible to those classes whom Lord Taunton describes as " fishwomen and others," and " a very dis tinguished and eminent member of the Church," who is frantic with horror at disestablishment, can hardly be designated as a revolutionist. But nevertheless we can not help expressing Danton's wish for decency. There is always likely in our Parliament to be a sufficient quantity of prose. The Spectator asks whether a movement which brings the whole population within the influence of journalism is in itself desirable, so desirable that m e ni!,ers may, for example, with safe consciences, worry Lord liartiogton about parcel postage? Up , ul the whole, sub ject to some doubts which we entertain as to the general influence of newspaper reading, we think it is. There is no reason whatever to believe that halfpenny papers, if they succeed, will be bad papers. ',Ube per manent tendency of a very cheap press, a tendency over looked by its old opponents, is to become good. cost of the literary work on such papers is, as compared with the cost of printing, and, above all, of paper, so Mil:li tesimal that it Is tie pr , prietor's interest to buy aide writing, and able writers are nearly sure to " range the:o Delves," to keep within tue limits the culivated class's consider right. The wily really bad result we expect :non halfpenny newspapers is a dec,•easo in the dif:ushn of par liamentaryspeeches, which instrm.t the country more than newspapers, but for which t hese little sheets have no room. Parliament will have to look to that for itself by and by, and would be wise to look to it at once, issuing a full daily report of its own proceeding's in the shape of a penny paper, exempt, like official letters, from postage. The Gurneys could find an editor, we do not doubt, and the gain to the political information of the country would be enormous. For the rest, the halfpenny papers may becom, when they succeed as..uood as any others. '" THE ACTION FOR LIBEL BY THE HON. F. W. CADOGAN, M.P. The case of "Cadogan v. Piper "in the Bail Court, drew to its close on Thursday. Mr. Justice Hannen,how ever, declined to sum up until Friday. He now gave two hours to a consideration of the evidence. In the course of his remarks he referred to the evidence of Evans. He reviewed the circumstances under which the witness had written a letter to the Times, which contained in substance the libel under consideration. The jury were not (said the learned judge) to be influenced by the trial at the Central Criminal Court. He thought they might rely upon Evans's evidence, in which, admit ting that he wrote the letter to the leading journal, he declared that he did not authorise its being sent to Mr. Cadogan, either for the purpose of extorting money, or for any other purpose. Thorne, it was evident, carried the letter on his own responsibility to the plaintiff in this action. The charges against Evans made by Mr. Cadogan fell to the ground. But, on the other hand, it did not appear at all clear to him that the other matters referred to in that letter at all proved that Mr. Cadogan had been acting in his position of director of the telegraph company for his own personal advantages. It was true that there was a telegram from the Austrian Lloyds which Mr. Cadogan took up and read, and that telegram went astray afterwards, and a remonstrance was sent from the Times, for whom the telegram was intended. As to the charge against Mr. Cadogan of having given precedence to a telegraphic message to Baron Rothschild, the important point was what the character of the information in that telegram was. 'Unfor tunately that was the very point which they had been unable to get conclusively or satisfactorily made out. Evans had said at his trial that he wrote a note in red ink upon the message, but Mr. Cadogan said there was no message with such a note upon it among those produced in court, and which he believed to be the whole of the messages of Baron Rothschild. It would -be a subject for the jury to well consider as to what amount of credence should be given to Mr. Cadogan's evidence on this point, as it bore upon the implication against him of having abstracted the message in question. Mr. Cadogan, it must be remembered, went to the office on a Sunday to look for the message. The nextimportaht point was that relating to the telegram from Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe. to Lord Clarendon on the 13th of December, in consequence of which, it was stated, there was a fall of one-half per cent., but the evidence was by no means conclusive that Mr. Cadogan had on that day sold out £40,000 immediately after having seen that telegram on its arrival. It was, neverthe less, a circumstance to be borne in mind. Thy next point in the alleged libel was that relating to Mr. Cadogan's position as in office under the Commis sioners of the Great Exhibition, through which he used his influence in obtaining the contract for M. Veillard. Now it was not true that Mr. Cadogan held an office in connection with the Exhibition Commisaioners. The evidence given by Earl Granville bad conclusively proved that Mr. Cadogan held no such office. The other words in the article which proved the libel asserting that Mr. Cadogan was not deserving of the trust of commercial men, and should shut him out from the society of all gentlemen or honourable men, and that the presence of such a man in Parliament would be a degradation and disgrace to that honourable assembly, was the part of the case tl which the jury would have to devote their most serious attention. The jury then retired to consider their verdict. They returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £2O. The judge then asked whether the justifi cation of the libel was proved wholly or in part. The jury had not agreed. His lordship sent them back to con sider. They returned into court with a verdict that the justification was not proved in any part. Their verdict was for the plaintiff on all counts. LAW AND POLICE,. THE AWARD or AN .ARLITRATOR.—In the Court cf Queen's Bench, on Friday, in the case of " Cummings v. Heard," the question was raised how far the award of at arbitrator is binding upon the parties to a reference as regards the amounts awarded independently of the payment or non •payment of that amount. The declaration claimed £4OO, , and, the plea was that disputes had arisen as to the amount due, and that the arbitrator had awarded 214513 x. id. to be the amount clue. The court gave judgment for the defendant, on the ground that the award was final as to the amount. ABERGELE ACCIDENT.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, an action was brought by the adminis trator of the valet of the late Lord Farnham, who was killed with his master in the Abergele accident. The object of the action was to recover compensation for his death for the benefit of his mother. The railway com pany did not dispute their liability, but the case was brought into court for the jury to fix tho amount. A verdict was found for £3OO, of which .£75 was the estimated value of the personal effects destroyed, and 225 the amount fixed for the mother. THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND AND HIS CREDITORS. — In Judges' Chambers, on Friday, an interpleader application, on the part of the Sheriff of Northamptonshire, was heard, in reference to an execution levied on the Earl of Westmoreland's pro perty at Apethorpe Hall. The property was claimed by the Dowager Countess. Messrs. Beyfus were the execu tion creditors for £ll,OOO. Mr. Baron Pigott granted an issue to try the right to the property ; the sheriff, after selling the property not claimed, to withdraw as to the other property. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND HIS CREDITORS.—in Judges' Chambers, on Friday, the case of the Duke of Newcastle's creditors came again before Baron Pigott. Mr. Norrult, solicitor for Messrs. Peters, coachbuilders, asked for the proceedings to be stayed until Mr. Padwick had answered certain interrogatories. Mr. Baron Pigott directed the interrogatories to be answered forthwith, and the cause not to be entered till Thursday. THE DISHONEST DETECTIVE.—At the Lambeth Police. court, on Friday, Thomas Richards, who was formerly in the Metropolitan police, and lately a detective in the employ of the Brighton Railway Company, was, with two other men, committed for trial on the charge of being con cerned in a burglary near London Bridge. Richards was also charged with trying to bribe two other detectives. Bail was refused. THE TRADES' OF DISESTABLISHMENT AND DIS ENDOWMENT.—A respectable tradesman of Bristol, who resides at no great distance from Bedcliff Church, and is a strong partisan in the Liberal interest, received, a few days ago, a business letter, bearing the Wellington post. mark, addressed "Mr. —, disestablisher and disendower of the Irish Protestant Church, —." REFORM IN MANNERS.—The Society of Arts has issued the following announcement :—" The vulgar habit, common throughout Europe, of mobbing dis tinguished persons on their visits to public places needs reform. The Council of the Society of Arts appeal with confidence to the members to assist in preventing the mobbing and following any royal and distinguished persons who may attend the conrersazione of the society on the let of July, and request them to assist in enabling such visitors to enjoy the privilege of walking about unmolested, and seeing the objects of art, like any private person." STIMULANTS.—Dr. Paris, in his " Pharmaco logic," relates some curious facts relating to stimulants. Hobbes drank cold watei'when he was desirous of making a great intellectual. effort. Newton smoked. Bonaparte took snuff, Pope strong coffee, Byron gin and water. Wedderburne, the first Lord Ashburton, always placed a blister on his chest when he had to make a great speech. The great Lord Erskine took large doses of opium. On the trial of Queen Caroline, Erskine, anxious to make a great speech, took an overdose of his favourite drug. The effect was striking ; he dropped into the arms of Lord Stanhope, who sat next to him.—Medical Times and Gazette. THE CONDITION OF THE LABOITEING CLASSES.— The annual meeting of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes was held on Friday, at Willis's Rooms. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., t oo k the chair, and there were present the lion. A. Kinnaird, M.P., the Rev. J. B. Owen, Mr. George Godwin,and afew clergymen. Mr. Charles Payne read the annual report. There have been received from all sources during the year £5,659, and the expenses have been such as to leave a balance of 81.4 to the credit of the treasurer. The society seeks to improve the condition of the labouring classes, first, by arranging and executing plans, as models, for the improvement of the dwellings of the labouring classes both in the metropolis and in the manufacturing and agricultural districts ; secondly, by the issue of publications calculated to promote and facilitate the construction of such dwellin - ;s ; thirdly, by correspondence with landed proprietors, clergymen, and others desirous of improving the condition of the labouring classes in their own neighbourhood. From Mr. Payne's statement, it appears that the society h a s ! zone on steadily riaintaining its own ground. At f;rst the pr,anoters I:ad to encounter much prejudice ; but this has dis:lppearol, and the movement is now regarded with general fatour. The report was adoptA and speeches advocating the society's objects were made by the Rev. .T. B. Owen, Mr. G. Godwin, the Rev. J. W. Thorold, the Bev. W. Mitchell, Mr. W. Long, Sir G. Osborne, and the chairman. One or two gentlemen seemed to think that the year's profit was hardly enough, but it was explained that for a pioneer society the finan cial position was an extremely healthy one. The hen. chairman strongly urged the society to be unceasing in its efforts to bring within its operations the very lower ttratuna of the labouring classes. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE SUN, LONDON, SAT DAY EVENING, JUNE. 26, 1869, LEVELLING rp. The Times maintains a remarkable silence witl regard to the proposed scheme of levelling up. The Daily Telegraph repeats its condemnation of that scheme, declaring that it is too late, and wit assuredly prove a failure. Both silence and out spokenness are extremely significant. The Times is credited with being inspired by Lord Granville the Telegraph with being inspired by Mr Gladstone. It is not the policy of the Government at the present moment to express any decided opinion in. the Upper -House upor Lord Russell's plan, but rather to ascertain what the popular feeling is upon the matter. In that respect the Telegraph is a true spokesman, and there is nc doubt that before many hours are passed we shall have a declaration from the leading journal against the principle which so many of the Lords favour. In its article the _Telegraph says that three courses are open. First, the Peers may, by adopting Lord Russell's amendments, so alter the bill as to make it a new measure. In that case the bill would be " peremptorily rejected" by the Commons and the nation, the session would be wound up, there would be an autumn session, and the bill would be reintro duced in the Lower House, carried rapidly through all its stages, and sent back to the Lords backed by overwhelming majorities and a nation impatient of further delay. Amendments in committee by the Lords would then be impossible. The second possibility is, that there will be such a variety and conflict of amendments that the opponents of the hill will be split up, and the measure will be carried triumphantly through all its stages, and receive the Royal assent " all of a sudden." The third course is for the Lords to make only such amendments as the Commons can reasonably be expected to accept. In that case there might be weeks of delay, and the session will be longer than in either of the two other contingencies. But, in the end, it would be the shortest way of completing the task. The Morning Post strangely overlooks the amend ments, which have been published in its own columns, and says that Lord Russell's proposal consists only of granting parsonage houses and glebe lands to the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian clergy, whereas he expressly mentions the building of Roman Catholic churches and Presbyterian chapels. But even of the minor proposal the Post thinks unfavour ably, believing that the nation will be opposed to it, and that Mr. Gladstone, knowing this, did not ven ture to propose it. The Morning Advertiser has no fear but that the nation will resist the attempt to "cram Popery down its throat." The Star and the Daily News are strangely silent on the matter. The Standard and the Herald are equally mute—all four journals apparently waiting to follow, instead of seeking to guide, public opinion. The Pall Mall Gazette has no doubt that the experiment will fail, because, though the Lords and the philosophers favour it, there is ranged against it whatever is zealous and determined on every side ; Irish Orange men, English Low Churchmen and Dissenters, and even Roman Catholics themselves. The Roman Catholic Tablet declares that the only practical level ling up would be that, supposing the Protestants to retain their glebes, glebes and houses should be pro vided for the Roman Catholics ; that the Roman Catholics be allowed their titles and placed on an equality as to precedence, and that some at least of the ancient churches should be handed over to their original owners. NEW AMENDMENTS. Meanwhile a number of new amendments nave been entered on the notice-paper, which are not noticed in the morning papers. Some are very important. Lord Russell proposes, in addition to his other amendments, to allow any payer of tithe rent charge to charge his land with it in perpetuity, and to devote it either to the payment of the clergy man, the Roman Catholic priest, or the Presbyterian clergyman of the parish, or to all of them in propor tion. The Archbishop of Canterbury proposes to defer the operation of tae Act until 1872, and to substitute 1560 for 1660 as the date at which private endowments shall be respected. The Archbishop of York proposes to . allow the commutation of life interests, so that the capital may be paid in one sum. The Archbishop of Dublin proposes to increase the compensation paid to curates, and to allow any clergyman to dissent from any alteration :which the new Church representative body may make in the articles, doctrines, or rites of the Church. The Duke of Cleveland proposes to give Roman Catholic priests. and Presbyterian clergymen ten acres of glebe (instead of Lord Russell's thirty). Lord Clancarty proposes that the present bishops shall have the right to sit in the House of Lords. Lord Cairns's amendments are numerous, but do not seriously affect the principles of the bill, except in one instance, and that involves the abolition of the law of Mortmain, so far as the Irish Church is con cernmd. THE APPROACHING ORANGE FESTIVAL. The approaching anniversaries of the Orange organisations in the north of Ireland give ground for the most serious apprehension. Orangemen are represented to be exasperated by the second reading of the Irish Church Bill by the Peers. Never very friendly to the Roman Catholics, it is not too much to say that they hate them now more than ever. Always too ready to resort to violence, the r.cent counsels of some of their leaders to join the cry for repeal has made nein more extreme than before. It is hoped Cult the Roman Catholics may be prevailed upon to repress all party signs during the dangerous days of July, but nothing can be depended upon with a people given, as the Irish are to extravagant expres sion of feeling. The Government will have much difficulty in acting. Military are, it is said, to be concentrated in the most important centres, and the police are, in some cases, to be reinforced. The tone of some of the Conservative papers about these measures to preserve the peace does not decrease the danger. They represent the action of the Govern ment as an attempt to provoke Orangemen to indis cretion, which may be used against them when occasion requires. If the festival-keepers only get this idea into their heads, if they begin to look upon the soldiery as being challenges thrown out to them, a collision is almost inevitable. • IRISH CHURCH MEETING. Still another Irish Church Bill meeting. The National Protestant. Union calls the attention of noblemen and gentlemen to the fact that a " great " demonstration against the Irish Church Bill will be held on the 3rd of July (a Saturday) on Blackheath Common. - Whether the meeting will be in favour of concurrent endowment or against it there is no evi dence to shew. TIIE IRISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Somo importance has been attached on this side of St. George's Channel to p rocee di ngs o f th e I r i s h National Association. But if th e D u bli n E ven i ng Mail is to be believed, this importance is hardly deserved. According to our contemporary, the National Association has never had a public meeting, has closed its doors against reporters, has suppli e d its own version of its proceedings to the Press, and has never had at any of its so - called meetings twenty persons present. THE PURCHASE OF IRISH RAILWAYS. Another attempt is about to be made, it is stated, to obtain the purchase by the State of the Irish railways. The Peers and Commons' Committee find that the Government is not disposed to aid them this session at least ; and the well-known views of many members of the Cabinet render it unlikely that the Ministry will take the matter up hereafter. An 'appeal is, therefore, to be made to Parliament itself. Mr. Gregory—the member for the county of Galway, we presume—is to take charge of a motion on the subject in the House of Commons. MR. lIORSMAN ON TIIE lIOITSE OF LORDS. The Fishmongers hail another banquet on Thurs day evening, at which there were present the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Scarsdale, Lord Hyde, Lord Teign mouth, Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Major- General Freeman Murray, Mr. Horsman, M.P., Mr. Charley, M.P., Rear-Admiral W. King Hall, Colonel Stepney, M.P., Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., Mr. J. Stapleton, M.P., Mr. A. Brogden, M.P., Mr. Morrison, M.P., &c. Much talk followed the , toasts, of the average post-prandial type. The most important speech, however, was made , by H " Mr. orsman, who replied to the toast of The House of Commons." .The popular House, he re marked, had lately been competed with. The House of Lords had, in a manner without precedent, i some what insidious, but altogether successful, entered into a contest with the Lower Chamber. The peers had been the victors at Wimbledon ; aided by Royalty, they had been the victors on a more recent occasion ; and now more recently they had be come triumphant through a discussion in their own House. The country had been entranced by the unexpected display of oratory, the great statesmanship, and the powerful arguments adduced. He must say that there was no part of the country to which these things were more gratify ing than to the House of Commons. The House of Lords had its sympathies, na ti ona l i n i ts apprecia tion of public dirties. In oth er coun ` T i es re f orms were put off until unforced by revolution ; but in England the effect of e7ery change was to brine all classes closer iogelier and into more complet,.; harmony and tranquillity. CATHOLIC CHILDREN. A public meeting has been held at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, under the presidency of Archbishop Manning, in aid of the - Westminster Diocesin Fund for the Education of Catholic Children. The Arch bishop, after giving a favourable account of the work done by the aid of the fund during the last three years, referred to the detention of Catholic children in parish schools by guardians. He had tried to induce the guardians of his own parish of Maryle bone to give up the Catholic children in their schools. Thor at first womised to . do_so, but after- Igkr.cts evacea.tueis-pramiee, anctwere-now acting -in defiance of an order of the Poor:law Board. It had been determined to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench to test the law of the matter in this case, which would govern all the rest. Dr. Manning ex pressed a hope that eventually the 1,500 pauper Catholic children now detained in workhouse schools might be restored to the religion of their fathers. PATENT LAW RIFORM. A conference of the members and friends of the Inventors' Institute has been held at their office, to consider the proposed abolition of patent rights. The chairman, Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., opened the discussion, and said the members were of opinion that it was not desirable to abolish the existing patent laws, though they were willing - to y admit amendments. They had, therefore, resolved to oppose the plan for the aboli tion of patent rights. Four resolutions in support of these views were submitted to the conference and carried unanimously. Several gentlemen interested in the subject spoke during the evening, and the meeting, which was largely attended, concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. TECHNICAL ED OCATION. A conference on Technical Education has taken place at the School of Mines, Jermyn-street. Among those present were several working men. Lord Elcho presided, and declared that it was necessary for something to be done in the way of technical education. Foreign countries were running us very hard in machinery and other products in which we had hitherto been unrivalled. He thought that our Government might make some provision for the requirements of our artisans and manufacturers. Papers were read on the question of technical educa tion, and several propositions were made, one being that the great employers of labour should be informed 'of the necessity of providing some technical educa tion for their workmen and apprentices. TUB HON. RICHARD METIIELL., The family affairs of Loni Westbury have again given employment to the lawyers, this time under a very painful form. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday, the Hon. Slingsby Bethell was sued by a bill discounter on a bill of exchange for 2400 drawn upon him by his elder brother, Mr. Richard Bethell. The defence was that the acceptance was a forgery, Mr. Slingsby Bethell stating that he had taken up four previous bills of a similar character, upon his brother's assurance that there would be no more. On behalf of the plaintiff, it was argued that as four bills in precisely the same form had been taken up by the defendant, and no notice had been given ; there was evidence of authority by adoption. A somewhat animated discussion ensued on the technical point of law, both sides speaking very highly of the conduct of Mr. Slingsby B e thell, who had endeavoured to save his brother at his own cost. The jury found for the defendant w ith ou t h es itation, the Chief Justice giving the plaintiffs counsel leave to move to enter the verdict for hi m in c ase the court should be of opinion that his lordship should on the point of law raised have directed the jury to find for th plaintiff. PP.OPOSED CHANNEL TUNNLL. On Thursday Mr. Bright received a deputation from the promoters of the submarine tunnel from Dover to the French coast. Lord R. Grosvenor introduced the deputation and explained its object. The French Government had appointed a commis sion to inquire into the matter, which had reported favourably of it. The promoters hoped that some material support might be given by the G overnments of both countries. The French waited to see what our authorities would do. Mr. Bright promised t ! o take an early opportunity of laying the subject before the Cabinet. AN INTERESTING BREAKFAST. Some fourteen workmen are going out to help build Cornell University, in the United States. They met at a breakfast party on Thursday. Lord Houghton presided over the meeting. Lord Fitz maurice, Mr. Hodgson Pratt, the Hon. F. Brodrick, Mr. Howell, Mr. Cremer, and Mr. Mundella were among the speiers. Lord Houghton told the men that they were going to a colony in which labour and high education would be combined. He hoped they would appreciate the privileges presented. CIIESITUNT COLLEGE ANNIVERSARY. Mr. 11. Richard, M.P. for Merthyr, presided on Thursday at the 101st anniversary of Cheshunt College. In the course of a speech at the luncheon, he emphasised the fact that the Nonconformists of this country were eminently loyal. Notwithstanding penal codes, disabilities, and persecutions, notwith standing the ascendancy of a rival church, the favouritism bestoNiecl upon it, and the protection afforded to it, the Dissenters did not—as others were doing now, on the withdrawal of State favours— break out into practical menaces or threats. BETTING-HOUSE PROSECUTIONS. It is pointed out that the policemen have in each of the betting prosecutions made a bet with the pri soner. The following 'clause in ".Tervis's Act " is commended by " a friend" to betting men :—" Any person who shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure another to commit an offence which is punishable by fine upon summary conviction shall be liable to bL: proceeded against, either with the party so ofTendinL; or before or after his conviction." POLITE BRIGANDAGE. The Duke and Duchess of Saxony have been captured by brigands whilst driving out in the neighbourhood of Sorrento. They fell into the bands of the most able and, it appears, the most polished of Italian robbers—Fuoco, the Neapolitan. As soon as this great personage learned who his prisoners were, he at once took off his hat, politely handed them to their carriage, and, giving a five franc piece to the coachman, said, with a final bow, " Will your Highness deign to excuse the audacity and insolence of my men, and carry away with you a favour able recollection of the poor Neapolitan Fuoco?" The Duke sent the robber a watch and chain valued at £l6O. This looks a good deal like encouraging roguery ; but then the Italian Government cannot put down brigandage, and strangers therefore have some interest in teaching the robbers the value of good breeding. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Mr. Reverdy Johnson has returned to the prac tice of the law, and is already at work on the gold contract case of Messrs. Abell and Co. against the Chesipeake Bank, involving a claim for a special gold deposit of $3,000, made in 1861. This case has been to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and is now on trial for the second time at the Supreme Court of Baltimore City. On appearing for the plaintiffs he was cordially welcomed by the Court and members of the bar, and he is to dine with the city authorities. Mr. Johnson was promptly "interviewed" on landing by a correspondent of the New York Times, who intercepted him at his house, near Baltimore, and represented his face as wreathing into smiles, and his eyes twinkling at the recollection of the jolly English dinners which he so heartily enjoyed. " They dine at eight," he said, " and they are grand affairs." Of England he spoke in the warmest terms, as the outspoken, courageous, sincere person he is; terming his recep tion there an ovation. " They are a proud and powerful people, and are not to be frightened into any concession they do not believe to be just." He considers Mr. Sumner's speech preposterous, and asserts the Senator wrote to England last January that had the protocol sent by him (Reverdy Johnson) been concluded three weeks earlier it would have been unanimously approved. He is going to show that he strictly obeyed his instructions, of which Mr. Sumner himself approved. Ile spoke disparagingly of the London correspondent of the Tribune, as the man Smalley ; but he considers it will all come right in the end, and that there will be a reaction in his favour. Nor is this prediction without grounds, for already the Tribune is protesting against the continued abuse of a lawyer to whom the Union is indebted for substantial services, who eminently adorns his profession, and who lost his seat in the Senate because of his manly Anti- Slavery vote. Many persons carelessly assume that civilization must progress of its own impetus, that it cannot re trogade, and are therefore the less impressed with the necessity of throwing their small individual efforts into the scale. Though at a time wheia the world did not possess the press and rapid locomotion, yet we have seen in many instances a direct re lapse of mankind into barbarism, and we know that it is with the utmost difficulty, and only by a sus tained effort, that Christianized savages can be kept from falling back into idolatry. At the Presbyte riam General Assembly, at Mobile, it was asserted that many blacks since emancipation, had lapsed into heathenism, and that obi-worship was reviving among them was shown by the testimony of several clergymen. If this is to be the end of .emancipa tion, the North might as well have accepted the Domestic Institution of the South, and preserved the Union without the disastrous war. In the face of the influx of Chinese heathenism, and the diffi culty of Christianising that race, it would be awk ward if the negro relapsed into the idolatrous prac tices of his African progenitor. There is a league in Nova Scotia now agitating for the annexation of the province to the United States. Supposing that the Repeal League Convention suc ceeded in securing the votes of the majority for separation, not only from the Canadian Dominion, but from the British Empire, and annexation to the United States, what right would they have to give effect to such a decision against the wishes of the majority of the New Dominion in particular and of the British Empire in general? Supposing that the United States desired to avail itself of the resolution of the majority in Nova Scotia, by what arguments could they show that Nova Scotia had any more right to secede from the British Empire without the sanction of that Empire than South Carolina bad from the Union against the consent of the Union ? We desire to see the subject of annexation discussed as a whole, not piecemeal, by fractional parts, which can only raise bad blood. The action of the Union against secession as re gards itself, bars its advocacy of secession as regards its neighbour, the New Dominion. _ . The wheat crop of California is likely to be this year the largest that State ever knew, as the weather has been all that could be desired during the most critical period. It is probable that the quantity for export will equal 20,000,000 bushels. In the face of this and a falling grain market the anxiety of the Californians is, "What will they do with it?" Australia would be surfeited even by a small portion of that quantity ; the harvest in Europe is likely to be good, and large in the Eastern States of America. The decrease in the average yield of the Prairie States is a marked feature in American agricultural statistics. The average yield in Illinois and lowa is now not over 12 bushels per acre, and 10 in Ohio and New York ; this is the result of wasteful farm ing, which mercilessly uses up the land. The States at present standing highest in their average yield are California and Minnesota, which give fully 20 bushels per acre. We may here observe, as regards the latter, that most satisfactdif accounts have been received at Bartholomew House by the Secretary of the Minnesota Land Association of the emigrants recently despatched. It is a singular fact that at present California can send grain to Liverpool cheaper than any State of the Mississippi Valley. We cannot understand why such should be the case while the " Father of Waters" tenders his mighty flood gratis to the carrier ; but it is said to be so, although St. Louis is working vigorously to make itself the principal emporium, and the Mississippi the channel. St. Louis and Chicago are the great rivals, but, backed by the Mississippi, the former, it is said, will eventually beat the latter. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met last Wednesday and nominated John W. Geary for Governor. This meeting was looked for with interest in England, as indicating the Repub lican platform in the autumn elections—whether the threatened Alabama plank would be inserted or not. The Irish Republican Association of Phila delphia issued an address, in view of energetic ac tion being taken on the Alabama question, urging all Irishmen to join the Republican party, and officers of other Irish associations issued similar ,addresses. This insane attempt to make political capital out of a question of international right failed, as we all along said it would, for the common sense of the nation was sure to run counter to it. If it were not for that sense of right and equity im planted in what is sometimes called, often with a sneer, the " great heart" of the people, the politi cians would do some queer things; but that " great heart" often violently jerks them from their erratic course into the right road, and their never was a finer instance of this than what they got for the attempt to make political capital out of repudiation. The politicians, seeing that they were on the wrong track, but only after the defeat of a hostile movement— "Resolved, that we have confidence•that tho general Administration will wisely and firmly protect the interests and the dignity of the nation in respect to Our just claims against Great Britain, and we endorse the action of the Senate in rejecting the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty known as the Alabama Claims Treaty." General Rutherford B. Hayes was re-nominated Governor of Ohio on the same day by the Republi can Convention of that State, without the Alabama question being touched on further than to endorse the President's foreign and domestic policy. Writing to the 7 ivies from Toronto, a Canadian thus alludes to the wasteful cultivation on the Prairie States :—" Every year the production of wheat is being pushed farther and farther to the West. The moment the virgin soil is exhausted the farmers move still farther westward. The ai vantage of Upper Canada is that we are c 1033 to a manufacturing country, whose population is rapidly increasing, while its power of agricultural produc- tion is largely declining." Slowness may, there fore, occasionally tell in favour of a country, and Virginia, even in a greater degree than Canada, could assert that it possessed the advantages of a rich unoccupied agricultural country in proximity to a manufacturing community rapidly increasing. Mr. Rose, the Finance Minister, considers that the injury done by abrogating the Reciprocity Treaty was much exaggerated in Canada. Trade since then had improved ; in lumber 44 per cent.,with a prospect of a much greater increase, as all the States south of Maryland must depend for future supplies on the forests of Canada. Western lumber too, goes west, to the country openedby the Pacific Railroad which will add some of the Eastern States as customersof Canada. The revenue of 1867-8, the first year of Confedera tion, was $13,835,460 ; expenditure, $12,973,211. For the ten months of 1868-9 the revenue was $13,744,656 ; and the expenditure, $13,470,635. The Governor-General's salary is to be maintained at $50,000, the motion to reduce it to $32,000 hav ing been defeated by a large majority. The neces sity of immediately opening up the Red River was dwelt on in connection with the acquisition of the Hudson's Bay Territory, as the State of Minnesota was pushing forward a new railway, and it was asserted that a Government road had been opened already, one-third the distance from Lake Superior. The bargain with the Hudson's Bay Company gives great satisfaction, and the liberal tendency of the Imperial Government towards the colony has much gratified the Canadians. The feeling the writer considers to be against independence, though there is some talk on the subject. Nova Scotia has been discussing annexation to the United States, but with little effect on the public mind ; the local Government gradually gives way, and will soon see, the writer observes, that Confederation is the best thing for that province. The assimilation of the currency is delayed till the coin be fixed as a standard by the commercial na tions of the world. The emigrants recently arrived are described as fully employed and well satisfied. Last Tuesday Sir John Young prorogued the Par liament, in a speech expressive of satisfaction at the progress of consolidation and retrenchment. Prince Arthur was to sail for Canada to join the Royal Engineers on the 14th August in the Inman steamer, the City of Paris, and would remain in Canada for nearly a year. Senator Sprague continues to deliver himself of dreary forebodings on the future of the Republic. That young man claims to have made a great dis covery, but it is hard for his fellow-citizens to dis cover in what the discovery consists : whether the dismals be due to a want of balance or to a want of money at a low rate of interest. The Senator, in his recent speech near Newark, Rhode Island, said— I have discovered that in consequence of the want of this balance of power in the interests of the people, Spain has been compelled to occupy a snbordinate and inferior position for centuries, and :when I see that Mexico, in consequence of this want of balance, has been stricken to the dust, I know that such will be the fate of the Ame rican people—you, here assembled!—unless you rise in your m , ght and demand a different condition of things— demand that the inequality which has existed between us and France, England, and Germany, the nations with which we are obliged to compote, shall exist no longer ; and demand of those who manage our affairs an intelli gent administration of them, or we will not sanction the Government itself. . . . Your industries are destroyed from your inability to protect and strengthen them. My idea is, that neither in tariffs nor in free trade can v"" protect your industry. IL can only be done by measures for producing and procuring money as easily as it can be produced and procured in other countries. Capital costs in our production seven to eight times what is paid by the producer on the Continent. The cause of this is, capital is massed. Capital is the essential element in all our pro ductions. By the operation of Treasury surplus and sur plus receipts on the general market, the massing of capital w'll be done away with, speculation will cease to be pro fitable, and capital will seek natural and productive invest meats. Stability to the market and to society will follow." In consequence of America's weak and unsubstan tial position foreign nations have imposed on her, and cheated her out of her just rights. We can I assure Mr. Sprague that foreign nations on hearing this remark will open their eyes very wide in sur prise. He thus concluded:— " I do not desire to mass capital, but 1 desire it for the uses of the people. I desire that it may be used upon a more secure and safe foundation, and that it may become the servant of the people, and be protected as such." The accounts received at New York from Rio Janeiro are by no means propitious for the opera tions of the Allies in Paraguay. The war there is said to be assuming a hazardous and more danger ous character than ever. Lopez appears to have erected works of great strength throughout the Cor dilleras since the fall of Angostura, to carry which must separate the Brazilian army from its fleet, to which it has hitherto owed no small share of its success. There are reports doubtless untrue that the Allies had been defeated, but unquestionably they have a hard task before them, as Lopez is said to have 10,000 men in the entrenchments, with 80 or 90 pieces of artillery. The America Legation in Paris is informed by General M‘Mahon, the United States Minister to Paraguay, under date May 2, that he was at the headquarters of Lopez, with whom he was on friendly terms. A rumour, to which little cre dence is given, is current at Buenos Ayres, that peace, through his intervention, had been concluded with the Allies on the basis that Lopez should leave the country. The latest advices from Paraguay were to May 15, at which date the army was in readiness to march, and nothing was said about de feats except those of a few small foraging parties. From Washington, on Tuesday, it was announced that " the State Department does not sustain the course adopted by Mr. Webb, the United States Minister at Rio, in the embroglio with Brazil." Mr. Webb has arrived in New York from Rio, and had an interview with the Secretary of State. He con demns the course of the Brazilian Ministry in the conduct of the negotiations which induced him to demand his passports. That Ministry had, how= ever, receded from their objectionable position through the intervention of the English Minister before Mr. Webb withdrew, and in consequence the notes that afterwards passed had been with drawn. Georgia has been the scene of considerable ex citement, as a struggle has been progressing in Warren county between the Kuk-lux and the civil authorities, aided by the military. A judicial in junction was obtained by the former for making further arrests, after two companies of soldiers had been ordered to Warrenton, Georgia, by General Terry, to aid in the discovery of the murderers of State Senator Adkins. Some of the difficulties in the South now assume more of a revenue fraud type, the people having taken to business and given up politics. Numbers of illicit btills have been seized in Tennessee and other States, and General Sherman has directed military officers in the South to aid the revenue officers, whenever resisted in the performance of their duties, or unable through other causes to collect the revenue. The latest intelligence received at New York from Cuba was unfavourable to the Spaniards. The insurrection, which bad almost died out, had revived by the successful landing of fillibusters, of whom it was calculated there were 5,000 in the Cuban army, and that 30,000 stand of arms had been got on shore. The forcible deposition of Dulce by the volunteers probably tended to strengthen the revolt. Great activity existed in New York about the time the mail steamer left ; two or three expedi tions having sailed, leaving others organizing. The President, according to later news by cable, has put his foot down upon these proceedings; Colonel Ryan and other Americans, with several Cubans, having been arrested on the 17th, but though they were released next day on bonds of $5,000 each to appear for trial, and half that sum to keep the peace towards Spain, yet six others of the Junta were arrested on Monday night, and the recruiting sta tion brok en up. Colonel Ryan, however, escaped from the custody of the United States Marshal on Wednesday night, and was reported to have sailed with an expedition to Cuba. The New York Herald denounced this action against the Junta as arising front timidity and vascillation, and as inspired by the Spanish Minister without the knowledge of Secretary Fish ; but it is clear the Herald is wrong, and that the Administration is acting vigorously to stop this open and audacious infraction of the I.►w, after submitting the case to the Attorney-General, and the Spanish Minister has been assured by the State Department that the neutrality laws shall be promptly enforced. These arrests extended to Baltimore and Richmond. Mean while the Spanish steamer Fernando captured the American schooner La Lave, laden with war mate rials, and after sending her to Havannah she was despatched to Jamaica for adjudication. Why to Jamaica ? General Grant left Washington on the 9th inst., by the night train to New York. After the two first passenger cars came the sleeping cars and the President's car, wherein were his wife, two children, his brother-in-law and wife, and Secretary Boutwell. Near Annapolis junction, in Maryland, 21 miles from - Washington, the engine knocked down a cow that hadstrayed on theline; the legs of the poor beast got under the wheels of the baggage-car, throwing it and the two first passenger cars from the rails by which they were overturned. The couplings broke, and the first car was so whirled round as to block up the road; the front of the second car was driven in by the collision, and so violently cap sized as to be dashed to pieces ; and the third, a sleeping car, though shattered in front, was less forcibly brought up, the others having acted as its buffer. Fortunately, for the President and party, they were in the last car, and therefore felt the shock in a modified degree. The foremost wheels of the one before theirs were thrown from the track, but that in which the President's party were re mained on the line. It was quite dark, and in a part of ,the road , passing through a cutting 20 feet high. The train was going at the usual st eed, and such an accident could scarcely have happened caus ing less injury. Those hurt were almost wholly con fined to the first car. Mr C. W. Wield, of At lanta; Georgia, emigrant agent of the State, and then on his way to Europe, had his face and head badly hurt, and will probably lose an eye. Ile is still at the junction, it not being considered safe to remove him. Mr. C. W. Wells, of Albany, N. Y., was somewhat injured, but was able to pursue his way home. Mr. Evans, of Alexandria, was brought back to Washington and sent to his home in Alexandria. The train also carried into Wash ington, next morning, one man from Georgetown, slightly injured, one coloured woman, whose head was badly cut, and three coloured men, bruised. Mr. G. W. Clapp, of Washington, received a scalp wound. Mr. R. J. Piggott, Internal Revenue officer of'New York, was slightly wounded in the head, M'Cunn, abrakesman, had his left leg broken, Mr. H. A. Hall, of Washington, received a slight scalp wound, and Mrs. Esmer of Washington received a wound in her shoulder. The President lit his cigar and calmly surveyed the scene, but his narrow escape is said to have affected him, and has doubt less caused a sensation throughout the country. Many hours elapsed before the road was cleared, and, although General Grant was urged to stop at Philadelphia he preferred to pass on to New York, reaching West Point before he halted. If Washington is the city of magnificent dis ' tances, it is also the city of sensational inventions. The last rumour is that the present British Minis ter is to be superseded, by a representative of the highest rank, who through a liberal hospitality, a regular series of English dinners like those that cost Mr. Reverdy Johnson so much, is to feel the pulses of the Senate before reopening the Alabama ques tion. The Senators' dignity will admit of nothing less than a Duke as host, and they are desirous wereesiro to personally testing what the seduction which an old Senator like Reverdy Johnson suc cumbed. While condemning the insidious poison they arc curious to ascertain what it tastes en st s esli a k t e e , but this can only be accomplished by the ad journing to London to corn p I et thee p A e s , a great number of Senators are at t present and Buckingham Palace will be vacant when the Pasha leaves in a few days, we suggest that no time be lost in taking advantage of so good an opportunity royally to house these dignataries and after a series of grand entertainments, and a " fine time generally," to settle the matter off hand. If England could get all the Senators to wreath their faces in smiles at the recollection 3f her dinners, like her old friend Reverdy Johnson, even a Chandler would be soothed, and as Mr. Motley may act on our suggestion, we here distinctly claim and record the idea as our own. Mr. Thornton will, it is said, be " promoted" to Madrid. The notion that this change will be'promotion is almost too good, and furnishes an instance of the speed at which England moves. A European Ambassador might naturally prefer a post in Europe, but there is some thing preposterous, regarding Ministerial rank, in placing Washington under Madrid. The paper mill in Pennsylvania has turned out a new and improved greenback paper, known as the French silk variety, through the fibres of which red and blue threads run. All the present greenback and fractional currency, now in a horrid state of dirt and dilapidation, is to be called in, and the new issue will be ready on the Ist July. One of the ad vantages of the new currency is that it cannot be counterfeited, which is extensively done with the old, at least in its present state. The Government ought to have gained largely by lost and destroyed notes, but counterfeiting may have deprived the na tion of this gain. The Comptroller of the Currency has issued the following instructions and explana tion of the law relating to the publication of reports of National Banks : "Banks are required to publish their reports as soon as possible after they are made to the Comptroller, and such publications must be an exact copy of the original reports, omitting only schedules, classifications of loans, and dis counts, the affidavit of the cashier or president, attesta tion of directors, and such of the printed items and of re sources and liabilities as remain blank in the reports fur nished to the Comptroller." The number of letters last year passing out of and into the United States by sea was over eleven millions ; those despatched being 5,900,000 ; and received 5,228,000. Of these Great Britain got the lion's share, being little short of half—two and a half millions being despatched to, and two and a quarter millions received from Great Britain. France only ranks for half a million each way; the quantity to and from Germany being three times as great, one and a half millions. The proportion must be mainly influenced by emigration, and it will be found that the mail bags to Germany increase more rapidly than to any other country. Over a million of letters was the addition in one year. Of the gross number, the Cunard steamers carried nearly three millions ; the Inman about two millions ; the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg and Ame rican together over four millions. LYIPERIAL PARLI A HEN HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR tOOk his seat on the wool LW at five o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The Holyhead Docks and Warehouses, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Brighton Aquarium, and the Great Eastern Railway Bills were read a third time an d passed. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. Lord REDESDALE gave notice that, in committee on this bill, an amendmmnt, would be moved respecting the Irish bishops. Ile had considered the clauses of the bill relating to the seats of the Irish bishops, and considering them a breach of the privileges of the house, he should move that the Irish bishops do retain their seats in their lordships' house for life. RELIGIOUS, &c., SOCIETIES BILL. Lord ROMILLY moved that the house go into commit' tee on this bill, the object of which was to improve the ad ministration of religious and educational societies, by ing them powers, under certain restrictions, of incorpera tion. The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the bill as i t went too far, and would allow designing persons to Pa" rade themselves befGre the public as incorporated 13 Y act of Parliamant. After a few words from Lord CAIRNS, the bill was with drawn. COMMITTEES. The Ecclesiastical Delapidations Bill, the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, and the Inam Lands Bull passed through committee. DIPLOMATIO SALARIES BILL. On the motion of the Earl of. CLARENDON this bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF C 011 NIO NS.—LAsT EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock. THE REVIEW AT WINDSOR. Colonel FRENCH asked what arrangement bad bee n made for the accommodation of the members of the Rouge of Commons at the review which was to take place to' morrow before her Majesty and his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt at Windsor. • Mr. AYRTON, in the absence of the Commissioner of Works, said the authority of the commissioner did Do t extend to the Great Park at Windsor, which was the pro' party of her Majesty, and was under the care of the rang er ', and the arrangements therefore would be taken charge 47 ' by the Commissioner of Woods:and Forests. THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. The house then went into committee on the BankruPt c l Bill, and proceeded with the amendments to the re*si tl " ing clauses, which occupied the remainder of the sitting• On resuming at nine o'clock, On the motion for going into committee on the politan Poor Act (1867) Amendment Bill. Mr. TORRENS protested against forcing this measure forward. Mr. J. LOCKE joined in the protest, and moved that the house do not go into committee. Hon. members divided, and the motion was rejected 131 137 to 29. --- The house then went into committee pro forma, and Pr °- gress was at once reported. The remaining business was disposed of, and the 11015• adjourned. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.—The following ca l " didate has passed the recent D.Sc. examination :—Bra ee l% XIV., Geology—The Rev. George Deane, 8.A., Cheslinn College. [ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment and Many persons neglect to take the commonest precaut ion ° against illness, whereby they are exposed to future suffer ing, or probably danger. Cold; coughs, and oppres s° 1,1 1 '13g at the chest should be removed without delay by rn l k i t i this cooling, derivative unguent twice a day upon the 0 covering the chest, and its sanatory action should be t u g; mented by the use of Holloway's Pills as propounden„ u l• their accompanying. directions. The same means c gently o f breath, c carried lp o i u ta t t w io i n ll , d re a l n ieve a i l n m fl o u s e t erynezva,astho r ntrzshortes re utorg• complaint. Be the cause of the malady known or , 13/1 , 1 ; known matters not. H o ll owa y' s remedies are comp e t; to expel all corruption s f rom t h e sys t em, t o regu late ordered functions, and to restore nervong tone. on [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Constip ad Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach , a le, liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and acoe-, 0 rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by b 9 "„ Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as prove . 0 thousands of cases which cad bean considered hopeless, such r. —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complain': flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, dipbtllo, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rh.ett matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia , irri b t6.. , bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, heads° debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, eveu,.. s o pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightn, of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between.lt; shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restorea..,3 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 18 664 t, health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aband%, ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely tO, Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P„,laita ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benenc' t 1, effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this exolBo food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. 1 - I N, No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frh'l.Wr Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Lord StuTi de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyeP e rio„ No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyeP a y:vi; nervousness, asthma. cough, constipation, flatulency, aPa ° _, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Cautit l : o o Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitat lo to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most an"' ciously attached. In tins, at Is 11d; Ilb 2s 9d: 21bs 4s 6d 5 lbs 11s 12 1 1382 % 21 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABNA cgocoLA POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 150 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 65, fo r 488 c ups at 30 s, for 5 7 6 cups a. „t —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are s e . free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order. 4 BAR. , Y Dti BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; 611 all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. BOUCICATJLT—On tho 23d inst., at Langham-place, 3111 Dion Boucicault, of a son. RANKING-0u the 25th inst., atWandsworth-common ,tl'e wife of A. Ranking, Esq , of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Glamorganshire, Richard Gunter, GUNTER —MATT HEWS —O n th e 24th i ns t., at St. Fagan' Carshalton, S urrey , t o M arv , elder daughter of Be i * Matthews, Esq., of Glan Ely, Landaff. Esq., of The LO d g e, TOMBS —STIRLING —On the 24th inst., at St. James's, Pr , cadilly, Major-General Sir Henry Tombs. V. 0., 1 " : • ° ' it R.A., to G eorg i na J an et, youngest daughter of the la Admiral Sir James Stirling. DEATHS. GORE —0 n the 23d inst., at Red-hill, near Worcester, Lieut.-General Arthur Gore, aged 86. LANGSTON—On the 25th inst., at 29, Prince's-gar deno, very suddenly, Lady Julia Langston. WILLIAMS—On the 23d inst., at Stoke, Devonport, Cora" mender R. N. Williams, R.N. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS; of No. 112, otrand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Si n in the Precinct of the Sayoy, in the County of Middlefield" Saturday, June 26, 18E9. I