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Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL.. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. (1. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tuis EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLID AY. Followed by A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TIIIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon! CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALIiAMBI2A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. 18. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -path, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, IL; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. v rit 1 4 ' A ;U 4,1 (4'411,4 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1869 tical mountebank. Whether the American Ambas sador, at the Court of St. James's, be Mr. REVELDY JoHNSON, the eminently jocose and complimentary diner-out, or Mr. MOTLEY, the Historian of the Dutch Republic—whether the seals of the Foreign office be entrusted to the safe keeping of Lord STANLEY or of Lord CLARENDON—We may very confidently rely upon this, that outrageously extravagant claims like those set forth by Mr. SUMNER will never be seriously debated between the British Government and the Govern ment at Washington. That England prizes very dearly the maintenance of peace with the United States is undeniable. But there is one thing she prizes immeasurably mere, and that is her honour. It was in no braggart spirit, but quite calmly, and quite resolutely, that the Earl of CLARENDON re marked last evening, amidst the cheers of the House of Lords, that however much we desire .I peace, and however much we valued our relations with the United States, wa valued still more our national honour, which was a sacrifice we would not submit to. And, what is more, the conservation of our honour was as safe in the bands of Lord STANLEY as it is now in those of his successor, Lord CLARENDON. About that there never has been for a single moment atity doubt whatever. And the keen-witted people of the United States know this quite as well as we know it ourselves. Bunkum—tall-talking—high falutin may be all very well in their place, that is, outside the walls of a legislative chamber, as specimens of low comedy or broad humour among the professional or amateur buffoons indulging in the absurdities of burlesque or extravaganza. But among rational adults, among politicians and statesmen either, ground or lofty tumbling might just as reasonably be indulged in. It would be quite as dignified a pro ceeding for a Minister of State or fora Republican Senator to dance a break-down, or, employing a happy phrase of BON GAULTIER, to turn " Clouds of summersaults," as to mouth such braggart words as those articulated by Mr. SUMNER. The speech delivered by him extravagant and absurd," as it was justly described to have been by no less a person age than the Great Eltchi, Lord STATFORD DE RED CLIFF, has long since come to be regarded with dis dain by England, while it has long since, we are equally certain, come to be repudiated at heart alike by the American people and the American Govern ment. The official papers relating to the Alabama Claims had already been some time in our hands before Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE formally moved last evening for their production. It was well, how ever, that the matter referred to in them was brought thus distinctly under the consiieration of the House of Peers by that noble Viscount, if only b2cause of its having elicited from her MAJESTY'S principal Secretary of State for Foraign Affairs assurances so full on the one hand of conciliation to the United States, while upon the other so befitting in their diuity and firmness the character of the British Government. The subject under discussion, namely, that matter of the Alabama Claims, has yet, of course, to be arranged, but of the certainty of its satisfactory settlement, eventually, we are perfectly well assured. THE Reform of the house of Lords which is now on hand reminds us forcibly of the reform of another body which was on hand a few months ago. When it was first proposed to popularise the House of Commons the ideas of those who originated the pro posal were very modest. The question was then simply between £6 and £7, between rental and rating. At first public attention was not aroused, and the interest felt in the matter was so languid, that nothing was done. But after several abortive measures and repeated Ministerial crises, the nation got angry, determined to get rid of this troublesome matter, and then instead of considerinz the safety of the Constitution dependent upon the sovereign (the coin, not the person), instead of haggling any longer about twenty shillings, a revolutionary measure was passed under the auspices of a " Constitutional " Ministry. The result of that revolution is that the house of Commons has become the chief power in the State, and that the House of Lords is so alarmed at the ever-increasing and overshadow ing authority of the other Assembly that it is seriously thinking of reforming itself, in the hope of regaining a portion of its influence. But as yet the movement has not become national. It is ab infra only, not ab extra. The consequence is that the proposed change is so small as to be absolutely ludicrous. At the same time it involves the certainty of the most sweeping changes. The Lord JOHN RUSSELL of 185:2, in propounding the necessity of a reduction of the franchise, surrendered the "finality" principle, which had been an article of the Whig creed for twenty years, and prepared the way for the household suffrage of 1867. So the Earl RUSSELL of 1809, in proposing to admit four life peers a year, abandons the main principle upon i m: e h r i e ch dit t a h r e y }I C o h t a is m e of Lords beran is founded, dadmitsthec t o h u a n t it is an ter prin ciple (which prevails everywhere but in England) of a nominated Chamber. The difference between these two principles is l i i immense. The introduction of the second is simply the greatest revolution that has been brought about even in this age of household suffrage and disesta blished Churches. It means that henceforth the Upper House is to be made more or less an assembly of statesmen, instead of an assembly of landowners. Of course there are statesmen in the House of Lords now ; but they are there, not in their capacity of statesmen, but in their capacity of hereditary peers. Henceforth this qualification is to cease, so far as its exclusiveness is concerned. Men are to be admitted into that body who do not hold an acre, whose yearly income is equal to only one day's revenues of the Marquis of WESTMINSTER or Lord OVERSTONE. They are to be admitted, because of their abilities, into an assembly for which ability hitherto has been no test. It is impossible to overrate the importance of this fundamental change. At the same time it is impossible not to laugh at the restricted way in which it is proposed to carry it out. Lord RUSSELL would have confined the number of life peers to four a year. But the Con servative peers, having swallowed the great camel of a life peerage, have strained at the little gnat of an arithmetical factor. Four was revolutionary, two is constitutional ; and so, in order to save his bill, Lord RUSSELL had to be content with knocking off half his proposed number. It is exactly the old story of the franchise over again—Mr. GLADSTONE'S £7, condemned by the Conservatives in accents of horror and alarm, Lord STANLEY'S £B, proposed as an ark of deliverance against the flood of demo cracy. Was it really worth while to move in the matter at all for such a miserable result ? Is it possible to open the door to so vast a ch lor a d n s g h e i p , s a nd wa t e t p t o I keep e t e h p e i ajar yt really W ? me l: n a t t i s o i t that popularise their body, to bring it more into harmony with the sentiments of the nation, do they think that the admission of Mr. MILNER GIBSON and Mr. STUART MILL in 1869, and of Mr. GROTE and Mr. LEeRY in 1870, will effect their object ? A t the same time it is quite possible that the Commons will not care to alter the bill. They may pass it with something very like contempt, but not without secret satisfaction. The bulk of the Liberal party do not c ire to increase the influence of the Lords. The Commons will not therefore quarrel with these for throwing away the present oppor tunity of strengthening themselves. Those of us who really wish to see the Upper House continue a legislative body, not merely in name but in fact, will feel sincere regret, and will be glad if hereafter the parallel, which we mentioned at the outset, is ,com pleted by the substitution of a far more sweeping L ‘ ineasure than that ridiculously inadequate bill which has just been sanctioned by the Peers as a " compromise." It is only by a sweeping measure that the Peers can maintain their position in the State. IT is not only the Peers who wish to be brought more into sympathy with the spirit of the age. The Bishops have the same desire. The influential depu tation of clerics and laymen which waited upon the PREMIER on Thursday, urged very strongly that the English Church needed more overseers than she had at present. All the old arguments were used with great force. In addition to an increase in the Episcopate by the appointment of suffragan bishops, a prayer was made for an increase in the sees by a subdivision of certain unwieldy ones, notably Exeter and Lincoln. Mr. GLADSTONE was able to congratulate the deputation upon the fact that the two Houses of Parliament are now in accordance upon the principle that there should be an increase of bishops, granting that the means for providing this increase could be found. But beyond that he had only what was discouraging to say. In the first place, there was the powerful adverse argument offered by certain bishops themselves—that as they retain their posts when they are unable to discharge their duties, it is impos sible to convince the public mind that epis copal work is of such a severe character as to need an augmentation of episcopal officers. The Bishop of ELY declared that Cornwall was "in a state of ecclesiastical anarchy." To this the obvious reply was, though Mr. GLADSTONE was too polite to make it, " Why, then, does not the bishop who five years ago found his infirmities so great that he asked for the appointment of a suffragan, but who, while the Cabinet were considering that application, withdrew it—why does not this, the most aged and infirm bishop, who at the same time has charge of the most over grown diocese, in England, retire from the post, whose duties even the most energetic man would find impossible to fulfil satisfactorily ? There is the more reason for putting the question because resigna tion in this case would not involve a serious sacri fice of revenue. The present income from the bishopric of Exeter is small, while the income from the golden canonry in Durham Cathedral is large, and the Bishop might continue to hold the latter emolument because it is connected with no duties. There was another objection raised by Mr. GLAD STONE, whose force we scarcely see. lle pointed to the daily increasing scandal of Colonial Bishops coming home in the prime of life and full of vigour, settling down in some comfortable English living, and undertaking episcopal duties in behalf of their diocesan ; and he expressed his repugnance against doing anything to aggravate this evil. But the appointment of suffragans would hardly do this ; rather it would tend to diminish the evil because it would diminish one of the chief attractions which draws colonial bishops back from their sees. However, the question is likely to be brought to a practical issue very shortly. The last appointed of the bishops has made a demand similar to that made by the Bishop of EXETER in 1864. Bishop WonnswonTir has for mally requested the Government to put in force the provisions of the Act 26 of lIENRY VIII., cap. 9, and provide him with a suffragan out of two priests, whom he will nominate for selection. It will be interesting to watch the result of this resuscitation of an Act 330 years old. ~),itt . 4. M Y _., , 1 , -:„ .. C.itulLs. ...,--- HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 3. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, walked out yesterday morn ing. ller Majesty drove out in the aftenoon with the Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Christian, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Liun of Dee. LATEST INTELLLGENCE (I:EU "Elt'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, June 4. The North German Lloyd steamship Ohio ar rived out at Baltimore at 9 a.m. to day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1388; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1388 ; the lowest, 1374. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 44 tt 1885 llB k-44 " 1867 ll9l. 10-40 41 Illinois l44k. Erie 29g. Cotton—Mil upland 3olc. Petroleum—Standard White 3lkc. Flour, extra state, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, $9.6c. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 4. Daoud Pacha has left for Paris with the ratifica tion by the Porte of the Roumelian railway con tracts, which have been slightly modified. GREECE. ATHENS, June 4. The King is expected here next week to open the Chamber of Deputies. A GHOST IN IIfAACIIESTEI?: For several nights past (s aga e Manchester Examiner) immense crowds have been collected in and about the Feathers Hotel, attracted by the report that a ghost has chosen one of the busiest centres in Manchester, imme diately opposite the London-road Station, for its nocturnal appearances. The story is that for five weekspast the inmates of the hotel have been disturbed at all hours of the night by strange and unaccountable noises. When the weary waiters have gone to sleep their dreams have been dis turbel by the unwelcome tinkle of first one, then of two or more, and sometimes of all the bells in the house —fourteen in number—clanging together. A strict watch !Jas on several occasions been kept, and when this has been done, the watchers have seen and heard nothing unusual, but so surely as the lights in the inn have been extin guished and quiet has been maintained the strange noises have commenced. About a week ago bellhangers were got in the house, who rearranged the wires and muffled the bells, and by this means it was supposed that the perturbed spirit had been laid at last to rest, an idea which was confirmed by the fact that for six nights thereafter the "ghost" made no manifestation. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, however, the sound of bells again broke forth with undiminished violence, and in defiance of bellhangers and special de tectives. An indescribable presence is said to have made itself manifest on the stairs of the hotel, dressed in most unghostly habiliments of black, to a couple of boys and a policeman, who were so much frightened by the sight that they are unable to give any account of the spirit's appearance. Of all the inmates of the house the cook has been most affected by the spiritual influence, and on Wednesday resigned her comfortable situation, with all its perquisites, and, we believe, has taken to bed seriously ill. Meanwhile the house is nightly crowded by hundreds of visitors, who, excited by curiosity, thirst of knowledge, or other desire, have been exorbitant in their demand for spirits, to the no small profit of the landlord. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULIA 5. The 0 ificial Vienna Gazelle of this morning pub lishes the law sanctioned by the Emperor intro ducing reforms in the levy of the land tax. The Tagblatt publishes the War Budget for 1870, which amounted t 07,496,600 of florins, or five mil lions more than in 1869. The same paper asserts that the Minister of War will have to move for an extraordinary credit of five to six millions of florins. The war budget for 1870 is calculated on the basis of a strength of 800,000 men. The Neue Frenidenblatt announces that the Em peror accepted under certain reservations the invi tation of the Viceroy of Egypt to be present at the inauguration of the Suez Canal seat autumn. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 4.—Three o'clock—Thai market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... -- It&F.an Fives 57 30 3 per Cent End of mouth 7l 471 Mexican Loan ... 25 Credit Mobilier End of mouth... '255 Spanish Threes Credit Fonder ...1622 Dome Debt ._. End of month... Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans , .... 9171 Northern 10931 •••• ...... 4. Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 941. Southern..... 6l7* Western Eastern • ........................ -- Sardinian Austrian Lombard. 495 North of Spain .. Saragossa Roman. ............ 73 64 THE REPRESENTATION OF STAFFORD.—At a great meeting of Liberal electors held last night, Professor Fawcett, 341. P., advocated the claims of Mr. Odger as a. , candidate for Stafford. Ho said that no one could repre sent the working classes in Parliament with greater ability and faithfulness. He added that if Mr. Odger were not returned he had no hope of seeing the day when a working man would go to Parliament. AFFAIRS IN NEW ZEALAND. At the opening of the Wellington Provincial Council, on March 18, the Superintendent, Dr. Featherston, made a speech on the native rebellion. He expressed the opinion that never before had the colony been placed in such a critical position. " Without discussing the wisdom of ttse policy of confiscation adopted in 1863, or whether it would not have been infinitely more prudent to have substituted for it the principle of cession, it will be admitted that confiscation necessarily implied the power to hold and occupy the lands. IHas the colony ever had, or has it now, this power ? No sooner had it adopted a policy which could only be carried out and maintained by force, and long before the confiscated lands were fully occupied and settled, than it insists upon the Imperial Government withdrawing all its troops by whom these lands had been conquered without making any provision to supply their place, or rather in the full knowledge that the troops could not and would not be replaced by any adequate local force. The colony challenges a large portion of the native race, almost invites them into rebellion, and at the same time disarms itself— strips itself of all means of defence—places itself at the mercy of a half civilised people, keenly smarting under the loss of their lands. The course thus pursued appears still more unin telligible when it is remembered that the colony might have retained for an indefinite period three or four thousand troops, whose very presence would in all probability have pre vented any fresh outbreak, at an infinitelyless expense than the present colonial force costs. My own opinion is, that if this island is to be rescued from almost utter destruction, there must be an almost entire reversal of the past policy, and an immediate application for the Imperial troops on the terms offered by the Imperial authorities. The retention by them of the 18th Regiment in the colony is a sufficient proof that such an appeal would not be made in vain," Mr. J. Cowen, M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, writes to say that the statement of a local journal that he intends to resign his seat is incorrect. Mr. Cowen says, "I have no intention whatever of resigning my seat." Pending the discussion on the new Bankruptcy Bill, and in compliance with the request of the Liverpool Law Society, the Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Registrar Thring to succeed the late Mr. Commissioner Perry. THE CLOSE OF THE HORSE SHOW. —The Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, has been brought to a close. The success of the exhibition has been of a very marked character, about 80,000 persons having been admitted to the show THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL.—Le Nord states that, in order to make known most widely the benefits of the Suez Canal, the Viceroy of Egypt intends to address invitations, to be present at the inauguration, to the principal French, English, German, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, &c., journals, and to provide for the conveyance, lodging, and all the expenses of their repre sentatives. After the fetes they will make a journey into Upper Egypt ; and Le Nord estimates the expenses of two hundred journalists thus exployed at more than £40,000, the sum which his Highness destines to this purpose. STATE PURCHASE OF THE TELEGRAPHS. — Me uncertainty concerning the intentions of the Govern ment as to the carrying out of the arrangement effected by the bill of last session for the acquisition by the State of the telegraphs of this country, is likely soon to be set at rest, as Mr. Ward Hunt intends on Monday next to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer "what progress has been made in settling with the various telegraph and railway companies for the purchase of their interests in telegraphic lines, and whether he intends to introduce a bill this session to provide ways and means for carrying out the measure of last session upon the subject." THE AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON. The directors of this spacious hall have let the whole of the area for the summer season, for the purpose of velocipe dian practice. The hall will be newly floored, expressly for the occasion. The promoters have fixed the entrance fee at a low rate, and velocipedes can be hired at a reason able charge. Among the advantages to persons who are limited as to spare time will be that, whatever the weather, they will always be under cover, and that the Hall will be open as early as seven o'clock in the morning. The promoters intend to devote certain days during the summer to athletic contests and feats of physical endurance. SHOEBURYNESS EXPERIMENTs.—Various experi ments were made on Friday at Shoeburyness. The first series upon an iron and asphalte concrete backing for iron shields, proposed by Colonel Inglis, the results obtained not being adequate to an accurate determination of its value. A new Firth's steel shell, of the same exter nal form as the service 9-inch Palliser chilled shell, but carrying a very much larger bursting charge, and hardened only in the head, for penetration of armour, the body of the shell being of more tenacious metal, so as to permit of its passing unbroken completely through the target before bursting. The hit took place near the joint of the armour face plates ; but the result, so far as can be stated under this circumstance, appeared to be highly sa ti s f ac tory. The effect of the burst was exceedingly severe ; it took place as designed, completely in the rear. The large -amour - plate, 12ft. by Bft., designed to cover entire the face of an iron shield —the rolling of which t Sir J. Brown and Co.'s works at Sheffield we recorded some mouths ago—WAD flied at -with t] 7 ;....3. .-iciva gun for proof. The plate was perforated with a 91b. charge ; the passage of the projectile, according to this ordinary test for 5-inch thick plates, should have been restrained by the plate. The shot-hole was perfectly round, and there was no starring or cracks of any kind. CAPTURING WHALES BY ELECTRICITY.—A g ood deal used to be talked about applying explosive bombs in the whale fishery, but actual trials have shewn the plan to be a failure. The explosion of a bomb, if attached to the harpoon, simply destroys the flesh in its neighbourhood, and hence also the hold on the fish, which is often thus lost and uselessly killed. From various causes, amongst which are, no doubt, the general use of gas for lighting and the discovery of petroleum, the whale fishery has rath er languished of late years, an d it probably requires a stimulus such as would be afforded by diminishing its well-known dangers. Whether this object w ould be obtaine d by a curious pro. posal submitted to the Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, by Mr. 11. J. Rogers , only actual trial could shew ; but we understand that the project is partly with r two insulated wires a s powerful b ro ught forward by practical whale fishers. A gal vanic battery is placed in the whaling boat furt n i l na ls inductiono f the c battery oil incommunication. p tl o iete p a ss as conductors, through a line of the size size ordinarily used to the harpoon, which is made le with two heads, separated from each other, each insulated wire passing through the harpoon to the pointswhere they terminate. 'the handle of the harpoon is of course insulated. In this harpoon the circuit would complete when it struck the whale. to another plan, one insulated wire t erminal through the rope to the end Passes from one having one point only, the other insulatedof a harpoon wire hanging in the water, and acting as a means for the return 1 current. The experiments have been tried on eels and other small fish without perforating the skin. The two ,! wires from the poles of the battery being simply directed I:j close proximity to each other towards the fish, or one mire at the head and the other at the tail, and the effect in been to produce rigidity and complete temporary largvsis, the eel and other fish appearing perfectly life va do ring, and even after, the period of contact,—The THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. At the recent dinner of the North Staffordshire Consti tutional Association, the Earl of Shrewsbury, in responding to the toast of " The House of Lords," said that House ought to be recognised more by the Liberal papers as - a part of the Constitution. The Queen was recognised as one part, the House of Commons as another, but as to the House of Lords, the Times coolly advised that that assembly should sit down, and do as they were bid by the House of Commons. It would be wrong for the House of Lords to put itself in strong, determined, and repeated opposition to the opinion of the country; but he maintained that on the question of the Irish Church the opinion of the country had not been sufficiently expressed. The divisions on the ques tion in the House of Commons had not shewn that a majority of English members were in favour of the bill, but they bad shewn that the Irish and Welsh members were opposed to that Church. He held that the bill was a different article to wLat it was represented to the country that it would be. He thought that it was the duty of members of the Upper House. to deal carefully with the bill. FATHER IGNATIUS" ON LIBERTY. "Father Ignatius" delivered a lecture on Friday eve- ning, in Barnsbury Hall, Upper-street, Islington, on the subject of " Liberty." The charge for admittance was ls. ; reserved seats, 2s. The Han, capable of seating about 200 persons, was not more than half full. There were scarcely half-a-dozen men present. The proceedings opened with a somewhat lengthy extem- pore prayer, offered up by Mr. Lyne, with his back to the audience. There was a crucifix on the table. The lecturer chose for the foundation of his lecture the words of St. John—" The truth shall make you free ; if the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Mr. LYNE, in his opening remarks, said that Europe had been in convulsion for the last century, all for liberty; but for the most part, amongst the mob, the cry was, not for true liberty,but for robbery, license, and desecration. The speaker took France for example. Whilst the loudest cry was being made in France for liberty, there was blood flowing in torrents round the guillotine. The cry for liberty in Spain and Italy ought to be a warning to Eng land. For 200 years England had been spared this, and he (Mr. Lyne) hoped God would prevent this cry. being raised in this country. There was one sad cry being raised, " Down with the rich ! " " Down with the aristo cracy !" which only meant " Down with parents ! " and "Down with masters ! " as though riches in themselves was sin. The Sunday League placarded the walls with bills respecting the desecration of the Sabbath. This was one kind of liberty, sheaving that this liberty meant nothing but going against God. But of all places, Isling ton—the most Protestant place —needed liberty to be preached to it. Referring to the sparseness of the audience, the speaker said one would have thought people would have come either out of curiosity or otherwise, for in all other places there were full audiences ; but had prejudice kept people away in Islington ? This reign of Protestant tyranny was on its last legs. Still, keeping in his eye France as an example, the lecturer said of liberty what the French Lad said, that Chris tianity was a thing of the past, and the Church must be bundled out of the country. This was the liberty of the mob—this was their fraternity and equality. But when they had carried out all they wished—when they had sent off the King—then the president of their own making changed his presidential chair into that of a despotic throne ; the dead old Church, as they called it, sprang forth into fresh life. And (continued the speaker) let them try their game in Italy and Spain—let them kill their monks and nuns—then, after a few years, back must come the monks and nuns, and back will come the Catholic Church. The Church of France never knew better times than during the last century, when persecution did its worst. "Liberty and the Monks !" was the cry of one of the best writers in France. Let things be as they would— yet as it in the beginning so it would be again. PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE. 'The Parliamentary and Municipal Elections Committee, under the presidency of the Marquis of Hartington, pro ceeded to take evidence on Friday in reference to the manner in which elections were conducted in Wales in the years 1857, 1865, and 1868. The Rev. Mr. Jones, a Dissenting minister, and President of the Theological College at Bala, Merionethshire, did not hesitate to say that the agricultural labourers in the district were compelled to vote against their convictions as their landlords wished. The majority of the labouring classes in Wales were Dissenters and Liberals, and it had happened that in one instance a con gregation in Montgomeryshire had notice to quit their chapel, and in another instance with which he was familar the chapel had been sold. So great was the Tory influence that a year ago a meeting of Dissenting ministers and deacons had been held, and a petition praying for the adoption of the Ballot prepared for presentation to Par liament. Pressed closely by the Conservative members on the committee, the witness admitted that it was not an uncommon thing in Wales for chapels to be used for poli tical purposes, but he did not know that Dissenting ministers were in the habit of making political allusions in their sermons. It had been told to tenants who had been evicted that it was because they had voted against their Tory landlords. The report that a minister had said in one of his sermons that the Tory candidate for Denbighshire ought to be crucified, was not precisely correct. The speaker was a "raw " student, and the occasion was an address. From Wales the committee passed on to Ireland, Mr. Spate, a magistrate, of Limerick, detailing that in the years 1852 and 1858 great violence prevailed at the elections. In 1859 and 1865 the witness was himself a par liamentary candidate in the Conservative interest, but was defeated, owing to priestly influence and to intimida tion. At the last election in Limerick the landlords did not actively interfere. At every election at which he had assisted it was the opinion of the wit ness that the Conservative voters went to the poll in bodily fear, and returned in a condition even worse. The windows of his own house had always to be closed during elections, and his family had to live entirely in the back rooms. The priests not only organised mobs, but made a practice of distributing orders for drink. Several of these orders, signed by a priest, put in circula tion at the election in 1865, were produced by witness. They authorised certain publicans to supply to the per. sons named in them drink to the amount of £5, which drink was eventually received by the mobs of idle persons who were got together. The Roman Catholic Bishop was very active at the last election. The description given by the witness of Limerick elections was exceedingly lively. On some occasions houses were entered and the furniture thrown into the streets pell-mell. Once a doctor's surgery was ;entirely emptied of its drugs, which were pitched into the Shannon—a fact which Mr. Bright thought might be taken as accounting for the unhealthy condition of the fish in that stream. When the witness was a candidate, his friends, who had secured a gallery of the Court-house to themselves were pelted with bottles, stones, and pieces of furniture by the Liberal party below, the Inia2;loa heincr with interest by the Conservatives above. Voters tb. tv L. 10.0,, Er lit ;nt,, 1-I,p city under large armed escorts. A thousand pounds were sometimes spent in whisky, and the elections generally were simply a "mischievous farce." A woman, named Mary Oldfield, 79 years of age, has just died at Lower Hall, near Huddersfield. A sum of .£lO5 ls. lid. in silver and copper has been found in her house; yet the old woman had for several years been in receipt of 4s. per week parish relief. There is no other spoken language so cheap and expressive by telegraph as the English. The same amount of information can be transmitted in fewer English words than French, German, Italian, or any other European language. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Among the wills and bequests in the Illustrated News this week are those of Lord Strangford, Sir Edward Cunard, and Mr. Samuel Scott, the banker. Lord Strang ford's personalty in England was sworn under £3,000. Sir Edward Cunard's personalty was sworn under £300,000. He has made a liberal provision for his daughters, and leaves the residue of his property between his three sons, leaving to his eldest son, now Sir Bache Cunard, Bart., a moiety, and to his other sons, Edward and Gordon, the remainder equally between them. Mr. Scott's personalty was sworn under £1,400,000. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF A. CONVICT AT CHATHAM.—The other evening, shortly before the time fur the convicts employed on the extension works at Chatham Dockyard leaving their work, one of the number, a convict named Peter Crane, under sentence of seven years' penal servitude, succeeded in effecting his escape. The convict was employed in a gang with several other convicts, and seizing his opportunity he succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the keepers, and making his escape. On the circumstance being reported at the prison a number of convict warders and others were tlespatched to search the neighbourhood, in order to effect his cap. ture. After a minute search over the extension works, the prisoner was ultimately discovered concealed in a disused sawpit by police-constable Collins, and conveyed back to the convict prison, St. Mary's, where he will re ceive the punishment awarded to convicts attempting their escape. SPIRIT OF THE pußLin JOITRNA.L% The Saturday Review thinks that Mr. Disraeli enlivete ci ' or at least marked, the debate of last Monday by finding something new to say on the Irish Church. He must be . tired, and he may well be disgusted, with a discussion 111. which be knows he can win no credit, and 1 11 which he must feel he is taking the wrong side. I le sought, therefore, to escape from the twinges of his own intellectual judgment or conscience, and from the fanaticism and platitudes of his supporters, by takis,g refuge iu a new set of paradoxes on Irish history. 11 , 111 last theory is that the Irish Church has been wanto ol sacrificed to the ignorance of a Ministry who did 11(4 understand the true character of the Fenian rebellion, The rebellion, he thinks, was of purely American origin? and failed because no Irishman would have anything t ° do with it. Unfortunately, the Ministry, in their brio & ness, chose to treat it as a symptom of reallrish discontent' and, not knowing what other bone to throw to the dog' flung the persecuted Irish Church in its way. The dog will of course eat its bone, and the Irish Catholi eh although thoroughly happy before, will permit then • selves to be represented as likely to be made still hags ° , by having the Protestant Church humiliated and robb ed ' This is the startling paradox on which Mr. Disraeli 05 chosen to rely in order to conceal, if possible, from hi ° self and others the position in which he really stai n Ireland not only has no grievance, but does not thin k : has any. It is only a foolish Liberal Ministry tb i/ : whispers to Eve in Erin that there is something she wig s : properly long for. The theory worked out by Mr. Disr *o only such a short time ago has been discarded, and he I/° longer admits the melancholy of the Irish, and accoll% 1 " for it by that proximity to the ocean on all sides 14 1 :: they share with so many inhabitants of small islands.. P. would not now allow they are melancholy. On the ' ll° T. trary, they are well off, and they know it. Not a si ngle person of either party could have failed to remember ths' Mr. Disraeli's Premiership was ushered in by T- 414 , Stanley's declaration that the Irish question was the (1 11° _,' . tion of the day, and that the first thing Mr. Disraeli did /1 1 1 to:announce that the Cabinet had an Irish policy which M P ' Mayo was commissioned to reveal. Mr. Disraeli did not 111/1 , the risk, but faced the cer t a i n t y th a t hi s para d ox wo uld is' away, like a ghost at cock-crowing, directly Gladstone dwelt on a few facts of indisputable notoris ti : But he nevertheless thought the paradox worth start It enabled him to throw a vast amount of vague gen e ': blame on the Ministry, and to assume an attitude of O P. scions superiority towards them, while it saved him h .°112 all necessity of explaining to his party whether he 11 1 really prepared to ask the House of Lords to miler r° ll/1 the Altar and the Throne and the Orange flag. The Spectator says that Lord Derby's letter to 0 ' ) Joseph Hawley, which was read at the meeting of t il ° Jockey Club last Saturday, and was printed in the P S ' of Monday, may be looked at in two lights. It is a t olr t a plea for young horses and for young peers. trt lde the present system, we are told that two-year-olds " crippled " and "stumped," while the great race 04 , is generally followed by a widely-spread report that ilo lll , young lord has gone to the deviL As we write, P t entire lacing studs of two young dukes are ol )°11 feir l f to be sold at Tattersall's, and we may ascribe such a crash to the influence of s ° 7, of those speculators mentioned by Lord De rv,/ In our judgment, public opinion is still unformed uPpd this subject. There is, no doubt, some feeling exol whenever a great scandal arises, and the ruin of each ° ' . o l victim leads men to ask whether our liberty is n if degenerating into license. But after all, people ssY' be this marquis or that earl had not beggared himself 00 .0 Turf, he would have found some other way of parting °, his money. If the public is called upon to reprobate 110 0 11 0 sharp practice on the Turf, it regards it as nothing p e d than a competition between those who steer close to w ej wind and those who don't care where the wind cos ° I from. Lord Derby will say that such a view is inconsis t , ejl j with the respect which ought to be paid to the Turf, s", which was paid to it in its palmy days. We Wies li ?f could see something more definite than the mere Wa nt 'c respect for an institution which, whether it be aristo cts or popular, does and must do an incalculable aul° 1111 : mischief. Any race may be made into an instrumen;iof gambling, and it has been said that of late years the 1 0 t , and healthy excitement produced by the University race has been prostituted in this way. But the gi`of horse-races notoriously exist for the sole purP° s° e gambling. Every thought, every interest, e/ t ie speculation is centred not in the race, but i n ees e winner ; not in the horses, but in the odds upon tu, e , People think there is nothing wrong in thisbecause body does it, and the same reason which takes thew bee of London to the Derby finds a public for the spoeto; papers and for the tips of their prophets. There rosi t o nothing objectionable here, just as the lottery O a ., 0 , rouge-et-noir tables may be right and proper. But 11 why does the law prohibit wagers, why are there 1 0 t0 fines on games of hazard, why are lotteries declared,a be public nuisances, and why does playirbee or bet e b with any instrument of wagering i n any place to "'b l ed public have access make a man li a bl e to be in: 1 1 )14° , 11 0 e as a rogue and vagabond? There must be some here between our theory and our practice, and it LI pe portant to know which of them is right. Otherwise'y shall be driven to the conclusion that though C bti l if farthing is not only a sin, but a misdemeanour wh en played by a ragged boy in the streets, there is no rby whatever in chuck thousand, so long as it is plaYe cl n p marquis, under the auspices of the Jockey dlo b ' within the Ring at Epsom. enlti The John Bull thinks that the House of Lords s ° : 1 „ - 0 9. bear in mind two premises, and arrive at two concl us %4 o The first premise is that the extension of the frall_,6 ° 'd renders it more than ever requisite that the S e `: Chamber should exercise a real veto; for, eve n , Republic, there is some security in the provision G yV majority of two-thirds is necessary. Secondly—a -4 0 is a most important consideration—that a bill all e c ia the Church is one on which the House of Lords is sP e fit to judge. If it be admitted that on matters of and commerce the Lower House is the better aut ht)ri loth it surely may be admitted that, with a Church (ftl es d i an assembly composed of Churchmen is more c oin deal than one in which Roman Catholics and S °/I b iog formists form so large a proportion. The House, wel r j.4 well these circumstances in connection with the s ; dr bill before them, should resolve to exercise its 0 .01) - c os' pendent judgment without the least regard t° 4 o l sequences. If, as we contend, the most in 3 P ° O llY principles are at stake, the House of Lords is ra : o eo bound, be the consequences what they may, t° them. But this is not all their duty. It is imPer a ,,o binding on their lordships to educate the COttee It is useless to amend the bill in 001410 The Times and other Liberal papers are quite rig"' declaring that it is impossible. The principle of °de% admitted, it is, in our opinion, childish quarrelling t O details, agreeing as we do with the Marquis of 1 19 ,00 that disestablishment is far worse than disseuclostwo- We rejoice to know that such is Mr. Disraeli's oPillill c ;t10 well as of the Earl of Derby' s , an d th e disavowal o f treacherous article in th e St an d ar d w ill h av e ths, ge so Affect on the party. Throwing aside, then, as a _Liol ignisfatuus the att em pt t o concea l t h e po li c y of riw" away under grandiloquent phrases as to araendi fls - 0 1 1 bill in committee, the House of Lords may either ab:: their functions, as suggested by the Standard, or e r e ;11 1 we have always recommended, assert calmly an d their own authority, and remit to tne people the fus hi eS consideration of a question the mighty issues a they have not fully realised. Justice to themselves, Justioa to England, justice to the Church, demands this ° r id and we have little doubt that it is, the one wh ich, afte deliberation, will commend itself to their lordships' tip oS The Economist observes that Lord Stanley touebeciiiieo the true reason for the abolition of the Patent Law ° pre he referred to the injury of third parties whi ch Cited 0 sent law occasions, by reason of patents being gr° °0 Gto only one out of half-a-dozen persons who come 11 E 4 AV, same inventions, or to one of a series of invest ° ;o l ; improve upon each other's work, and by reaso n sleeosiv, general interference with manufacturing. Wh at we " f 0 1 ' have liked to see fully stated was the peculiarity °Oa! present circumstances of the country in which these,e, are true. The statements, in fact, amount to Ou s t , 17 there is a large number of inventions which te :Veil not required to encourage ; that these are madePa ° incidents of business ; that invention, improve l % o f mec h an ical and chemical processes, is itself a P lif fo eti P ', man ufacturing business ; and that in this way the g'i,tioPi o f patents only impedesmanufacturers to whom illveeg would naturally come. The full force of these faet,ssis be felt unless we recognise that a change in the i fer of invention has taken pl a c e . The Patent 143 1# 1°I ; intended to apply to di ff ere nt manufacturing e a eP ° .; stances from those whi c h n ow e x ist, and were b e ' se , o 0,1 different notions about invention ; the objecti on is that they eith er are or a re becoming out ° f 0 , 1 1 We come, th e n, t o th e conc l us ion that it is for the 5 a tV oi interest that patent laws should be abolished , P ' 13 1 ,0,,, their abolition will d o no great harm to anyone-, il)gi all to the great mass of inventors or improvers. we may point out that if the circumstances 11.0.01 described, this country has a special interest i n 313° je j t ) such laws. As the leading manufacturing eou ntr).,. world, a patent here is likely to be worth In° r° o of r holder than anywhere else. Consequently, our 01 .riter il turers are more exposed than any others to the 1 t otl l tion and worry of patents. It may well be tna fi iA countries which are less tempting to patentees v05r,,,1 the balance of competition weighted in their 1 0 1. 0 V o fl consequence. Looked at another way, the 111 0e 113 invention falls into the hands of great capitalisPa c O ° o , likely is it to strengthen the ma nufacturing n' „dit ,e , 1 4 which is already most powerful. The norn3al c ° ; t liiPs things is all in our favour, and we Should do I thwart it. M 0 N COINI3IE Consols arc ditto, for AI duced, 924 chequer Bills and 1500, ent., ; India Stccl ditto 5 per Ct Cent., Oct., per Cent., Little bush gener a l tone o is lower, at 'worst), at GG to 8143; and unaltered, at at 7943 to 79 New Three pc Cent., 674 to i English Its heavy. Metr to ,95 ; Metro Northern (A) lower, being 75 respective Great Eastern Lancashire an Chatham, ani North-Westei 115 i. Bank Share without move! In Mimelli Telegraph slim Telegraph Ei 9; to 31. Ge A further si into the Bank The direct( Company pro] the Ist July. 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