The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

k E Y E MBERI WE WAIT SUP P R tot ! OR YOU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail BAN'S LL WHISKY v: COGNAC BRANDY. 4114pelebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest Its li RANDY, 4148 thBolo.. 734 ?ttle s , 3 8. Bd., Mellow, Delicious, and very Who lesome. at the Retail Houses in Lond on ; b y • e Principal towns In England ; or wholesale • G b „ Obser;"iAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. . 41411 4 , 8 LL tile Red Seal ! Pink Label, and Cork branded Whis ky , le TIME, CARPETS, BEDDING, and the kf , lO RCLOTH CARRIAG E-FREE to any house in f 3 os il—nlll , re adl f unt or distance. First • class at r ess o. amo i i . 4 Zyin en ''''on -class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to di,„, and Gentlemen. An immense stock to lect 'very ai y„ aYed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of gr ou n d. m e;,e h ge warranted 18 11 - ' I.3I EN and GENTI.F.MF.N ABOUT TO FUR to are r are es Peetfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Tillilishing an entirely New Edition of their un -able e O n USE.FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo Z.ravinve of every description of Furniture za.t ree with prices attached. A copy sent gi atisan d '" 4l Plete on aPplication. This costly work also contains eve estimates for furnishing on the following revised A R Ix-r o o m e d P arsonage £74 3 0 11 Iti ght-roomed ditto .. Ten -roomed ditto ........ 1 , & T welve-roomed ditto oz e s h _ 'l9l 11. 0 0 1,47,r with a Brice List of purified Bedding, and a mass Nri:lei:^4 i nforrnationto all requiring househ3id furniture, f .ratti an,dor bedding References kindly permitted to Clergy miici, and bedding, I n o r near Great iiiaivern. Southampton, Wor s ester, B ury. „, c , uly, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde. Plymouth, raiN• e O ziord. 13 r I gilt on , Gainsborough, Ilarg - ate. Kidder- L t . A t : ,: Wellington Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, re ih:n 8 . Worcester Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, ' ,, t . ' lll, and abov e 500 other places in all parts of Great b e°3 iirl , " 4 Ze, , - T and CO.. General Rouse Furnishers. Deptford ---...,-,onfinu, E, S W SEA VALE AND NEATH AND q ini , BRECON JUNCTION RAILWAY. o„''NER - PIS HEREBY GIVEN. th-t the ORDINARY grnn a „ - -- ,, HALF YEA.RLY MEETING of the above "einr b- held at •heir Offici•s. 27. DUke-street, tuter, on FRIDAY. th- 3d February next, ,t One vreCloely, for the transaction ofgene al busi.ess. W. L BANKS, Ch-Hyman. 27 , b D HOWELL MORGAN, ary. u ke-st • r,et, 18th Jan., 1865. h, --.... V IE PALL-MALL GAZETTE. t t , An Evening Newspaper and Review. PAT is difficult to des rihe the plan 01 an enterprise like the 44,,‘IALL GAZETTE without seeming to boast, or to odh"),:.ue Worts o• others But we are unwill ng to tb lo o ~t tu b- t "iia g ,,e of a few word; of ap anation, and we ;e' . f the o o r . ' , or rnc . . candour of the reader fora just interpretation t I v .m 4.. OIALLMALLLL GAZ K TTEwill_ to v,i..,,t0 an E ven i ng j ourna l But,acree the all the news addressed as paper it w tw i i i l l o lb o e t be elated men and women, the space d Villichn't 4- d by trifling chronicles, nor by_ o h e a w t e a x pa ce p s e s r o r t e w co o r r d d s s , * line tdo nothing to the interest t Literary considerations it 1 0,,, t destroys their sinificance. l' iii . , 1,1 d determine us to have our thereinNes t ß be ep f o a r o t t s t w ba ri t t t te b n e 'eati 1 , - ,,' fmglish ; but beyond these l 'ool ci Et f',, ', O be found in many an accidentt w hir ieb an tb l e if y e a o re r e ekke i li tY are lost in the turgid language itven'-'1 narrated. r m ing Papers ay be di5,e114,,-',B ,e114,, - ', 8 Madn by ,elit i" ) ; la the PALL- NIALthLe L ipo he y WI 1 not be reported anew. Trustworthy advices G 3 A e ZETTE' of the m same day, .4, - -e Money Market will be included in the News of the h e tip t or res t of the paper (by far the greater part) will be made the t o ° rt, ginal articles, upon the many things which engage kani ci 'ghts, or employ the energies, or amuse the leisure of i ntiti,,„". Public Affairs, Liter:4nm the Arts and all the tll " e " Which streng.then or dissipate ."qiclety, will be dis linZed bY me:whose independence and authority are equally 41e- esiionaMe, and who are accustomed to regard the public 1 4. ' 4,1 0u of opinion as a serious 1 hing. This is . the chef ioitr„(4,.the PALL-MALL GAZETTE :to bring daily uo,..``aitgm that full measure of thought and culture which is mi tt en t p h e e d: ,r found only in Revie n am tic e powerful, as well 6 too o t r i ZLZ:b s i ti no means intend to make the will lose pleasant, to be let tthe design • in e ve which . bone of the aov a t Out of our is too be said better • Pigrain, but it will be said in verse. a n g e es th °Lor n as p i r o o n s a e l , tri fl i n V._ If a thing can bcot,!_eadsiiy.. admitted into its columns ; aniii not spite_ often a illustrative as burlesque, but not vs since a joke is i ulgarity—will 1- come too. It viill an argument, good jokes will be we im , :a I be understo,d that this advertisement is rathg o a . the pirmation of idea and of effort than of promise. ablei t Z iter oaclration is not made bef. , re a large number of the effort.eve themselves to °face of the accepted the idea, and pledged "Pall -Mall Gazette," lir. _ 11, S alisbury -stre e t Strand, W.C. RO , YAL FREE .------ ..--- HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, v. ratro NI Terms 44 t !le i mmediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail inuB9 King's-cross. leipi n , 11—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. -.Lro li • reside —His Royal Highness the Prince of E _ WALES,_ K.G This .„. dent —His Grace the Duke of BUCCL UCH K.G.ti 4 thello!pital, foundei in the year 1828, the first to ' estab the dela Prin ci without Ve of free admission to the sick pOOr, 0 _ y Pend ent ..hdditlo4:r4lB a. or and difficulty of Governors' orders, is n wh l 11 argilde uport on voluntary contributions a d gacies. ief to a large number of in-patie t , and, in ib ' 4 l : oo t h o is, the average number of attendanc e of the ~00p an e d sielt h w as e f e o k r ly a.co n iderable period averaged between 4 Coli tti t t r Co. K u si ti on! are received by the Treasuren n E n dW s tt ar an d d Co. ; itntramont(i,b;nlNalholas - . lane; also by ri vi err es_ rs `-' i s es ind Co. ; Ransom liar e i e ' ) .,; ; Prescok;GGrOte a: n (l 4 Co. Co.; ' - ii l e c ,nd Co. ; W ilian;s, DeacoOverend, d Gur • Smith, Payne, and Co.; Co'' Lb, '°.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-streetßarne and erP001; and at tle Hospital. frcim 10 till 5. STAN FORD -MIT I-1, secretary. 2:---------... u ,„ ll , ‘ S' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and AE, Hamustead. OfUe-. 77, Cornhill. I'ATRON- The QUEEN. b " ,, th e D. TRU: , ,TEES. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon I hamptitys I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS Ilug 1, - , Bevan, I Robert Hanbury, Esq. tttat vi ustitution is designed to supoly a ereat national ItoN.?,an asylum for the orpha. , daughters of ~ a ilors iu se‘ t .Vo . t - h‘ e ' a vY and Merchants service and of Marines. maintains and educates them for domestic I."'ate and nrovides a' home f ree ex ne e for former `Nptal,hil out might ituati ns thus shielding them from the . " 8 they ' ° litzlitt otherwise be exposcd to. re- S ee earnestly APPEAL tor CNTRIBIT e,;eIat et " meet the in reset g applications through the nns and loss f life at sea, and to enable them 2 , cesm ti Y to obtain premises more commensurate w th th ro e Zilo r , R es of tills great maritime countty, which loses 2 , 0 00 .11° hY casurtlties alone, without including twee p'Sab Ei j i Pe . rish by war ar ehty Rtions th inktully received by the bankerr . , Messrs. tte t t l evalt, and Co , Lombard-street, and by the Seere ue Offices, N0:77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, Hon. Soo. CHARLES NASH, Sec. -....,_ r i t RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another %an po k rne to thA 12 now in operation. Last yea . r no fewer tweitelint sooty:Gl% s fr a i n en d d r l oo esa m , , young females were rejected rom e g:4 tb e en t 'May i n fly eye ar s ll . lak H in ere ga a th re t brief details o h t o a h t a e v w p. „.,nriost r ecent cases li . A ., Vefi t I A, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. , aged ;3, homeles. both parents dead. t• to l3 . , ,_a c , , ,;re a d 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. C ' ~... a„ed 15, fallen, mother dead. A .. 1,, aged 15, fallen, mother dead, T r `9,.., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. ....."` 6 ., aged 14, hprneless, deserted by her parents .1.. L, aged 17, fallen both parents dead. reeandt. s dead. e. 11. aged 17, laden,' bot A. G.' aged 18, fallen, lathei? a d 17,. li,', aged 18, fallen,' both parent d ad •8. B. aged 17, f.,llen, both Parana : d:ad.' IL A. Nv. aged 17, fallen. bo ultenta dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen both The new home the Commi tteewisteild rm w ould be for N ming girls, almost children, from the ° ege t° w- t - 0 - 15 who have been led astray from the path of virtue of 8 -- - ' w • ~,,Co_ntributions will be received gratefully by the Secretor'', ,alr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street, Cheapside ; or by M e ssrs ...arclay and Co.. Lombard -street. IiOME for LITTLE BOYS , Tottenh, N" o u for th e Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of tiniest and De s tit ute Boys, and those verging on crime, 10 years of ag e . tin iest President—ROßEßT HANB VICE-PRESID ENTS.URY, Esq., M.F, ttePhen Cave, Esq. , M'P' I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart.. M.P. - ""eurY E. Gurney„ Esq. I Abel Smith, Esq ALP. ~,,,[l'arrinel Morley, EN' I ~ 4reasurer—W. H. Willem°, Esq. , 78, Basi nghall-street, E.C. R. M'Sorley. kr Alex. Anderson. R ev.MITTEE. , 1 :: B. H. Burrows. "31 Mr. W. J. Maxwell. IV' A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred short. -- r. E. P. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. r i r. G eor Itoel , Francis ge Lyc Mooett. ee. I Ur i.. . R.l:Fraubrrnt h . ono Prancis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. TurubulL Y Secretary —Mr. A. 0. Charles, £6, Suff olk - street, II a. al Pall-Mall East, S . ters— S V. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C, lead for those who cant o committee feel constraincd to p thn ontn sta. e 8 plead for themselves ; and, referring to the dr ztek.n es of so d her family paupers for me who hay . e been already admitted, they lh e ba it right to make a widow an _ wilduse one of them (the naughty boy of the tam ly) runs teii 1 , 41 the streets and is beyond her contro er r yon will not 1? Is it kind to 11(.1 , b^cause she has so large a family. for the ail D pa h i er to Put one of them into a Home, but th a tha y t the. must litir e - int o "the house ?" Is it doing the b st we can use. Is it dot,,Aestitute orphan to sand him to the work the,: liot!!thers sit we would they should do unt o II • o s that when the at _ ,1 8 ones have unnatural parents ) tarn them into not, ( 7ete, or force them by ill..reatrnent to " lun away." k a kindly Nro, ( l . t ` 11 R abo u dbe found to :are for them, them I o il ° th eln. to befriend them, to house and clothe oth er We, le to speak k ( eper;;;le, or else exclaiming ave them still on the doorstep, ()easing by on th s e 14 e tam. Am I my brother are recer pe,;p,i,i:, let. !iv eat a dmission to the Flouse is twofold, _ the of (he subscribers. '-oys thus admitted °. arevi:ae, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till tb,, ~rre o' age Rift!" the ( ,- ;!`ew lo s- , cti . re the election of the most deserving ~hllaildtil-enlynditte have from the first discouraged can_vas . you., 0 not pint any addresses of the sub.cribers. , 111 , • un.aners contain a description of each case, as care ti(4 investi,ated h , Committee, and with t his informa lhoseV sqloscribersar e (able to judge for themselves as to 24..t05t e:le tor free admission. ade quarterly in advance. Ali shit iron ofweek, m-- ' . at tho time of Mo l t, n'en must be under 10 yar d s of lig . ti ll , : on. Those received on payment are admitted at any ittrciernqiiitein.9,. , tle e b a i o ' n ° o B n o as approved by the Commit t ee, ..1 take place as f children to be admitted fr ee w il l as the increase in the annua l subscriptions will eau," Lill the Home is full ; they will then be held period 1 , at th e -Di 'Ai aPPlication for the admission of chiidren may be rir.L., - Lome, and of the Honoraty Secret , _ - r - ',„p,,, T-11: IMPROVED MECHANICAL , lotni ii - . ,—.,,Tl STRY.—Professi onal abilities and of Apl,T.,,been most successfully combined in the pro e pr The real Valu e '1.. 1 v [ CIA I, TN:ET It upon a new principl ibe expert great a u rt e i t s i t o i i c i er, eeci et , the perfection ot the art of Dentistry wil tta t ii, ta,, ,, Y all wishing to avail themselves of professional atre et : - I.e, by consulting Mr. ALBERT , 34, Great Russell efket .."monisbury, whose experience has enabled him !° deans,°itch admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial and which are so perfectly efficient. T°,,,, PERSONS SEEKING- LAN D E D PitpvsTATEs, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, PRO',,,tIOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND I , r-ER LIES GENERALLY— thr: nE lIAI3 GRATis, at the principal Railway Bookstalls N o. Ig'hout the kingdom, or at and Estate Office!, ~1,,,t, chancery-lae, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley of ;',t PRoPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection theianded and house properties now in the market, from cottnobleman's mansion, a ge with it s few acres.wi OWN its mano r i a l d oma i n, to the brace OFPROPERT IES wishing to S e ll or L et can em to e the oppoi tanity th at the medium of this Register iietate !i rds, by sending th e particular s o f t h eir properties to the Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London as the Messrs. ,inaley can in most cases introduce Immediate customers nem the property is of an eligible °tiara' ter, thereby avoid tti.'-: the disadv images of' delay and its attenuant incon yetielie". ' s ' ..jUtut Is No CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur .ll ser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley 's Agency, and then onlythe usual moderate commission. 4110 t 1 94 AU LW Ca" 071 Chancery-lane, London. ala i ,er of ii4 l l i "lid'''. 55+ cat movi liov" 40„g ,0- 14 ,:t1 ° ,0 NU. 22,646 07 1? ... ~•, ,, i'st,; , _ i.,."5.A . t . t.- - - . 0 , ,-•-- ---.-. ...--- . ..,... • . -.: .... -.-• ,-. --5 k -•f ''\ 'V 10 ",' -SV, I - • COT ' lirl ,„ a l 1 "47 - i f •-•-. ..... 7 - : - ' --... . v, 1- 2 ''-,, ~...! -'- 7 - 1L(.441-011/' 6i4Zl—*Xll" j • , :., _,,.. , 1 ~, ..,. ,ti 4 ' - ' , • 16 - '4 \, (460 A4M ~....,---- ---- ---...,- ' • •-- - - v .,. ~,,, ~1 . v . „ ... , , Op, # •,,, , ,„ 0 ,v w ~..., , ca _...,,i Ph 4 , 2 ,„,, ,,,, t4 di ,Ao, .e,,,,d, "DR01T ,..:1;t7i," DI E iAI , v ,„_,,,. .08 , , w ,30 , - .. , .. 41a-- _. - // / ~/L /r 13 PRICE STAMPED sd. ~. The Atlantic TelegraflTS'77 7-7 -77::; , \ A P„. Yesterday the somewhat tedi us, process w" — \ 7-- V4-4 commenced of shipping a portion o 'Sp ?marine cable . -,;t11,2", which has been made for this '"- 4inclertaking %4',=3'' g_ from the wo r k s at G reenw i c h on card the liulk- Iris, for transference to the Medwaitlandlinala stowage in the tanks of the Great Eastern. The shipment was began early in the morning, and will continue without intermission now until nearly the . end of May, by which time it is hoped all will be coiled away snugly on board the great steamship. The total quantity of rope required to connect • Valentia with Bull's Bay, Newfoundland, allowiztg for the " slack" which must run out to prevent too great a strain on the cable, is about 2,300 nautical, or nearly 2,700 statute miles. With this length a liberal margin is given of nearly 600 statute miles of rope for slack caused by currents, possible rough weather, and the avoidance of anything like un usual strain on the cable in the deepest water. Over one part of the route the depth is as great as from 2,000 to 2,500 fathoms, or nearly three s tatute miles—a depth, however, which is only considered of moment in case of rough weather in p a ying out, the mere strength of the cable being sufficient to bear its own weight in 11 miles of still water. In this respect, as, indeed, in all others, the new cable his power, -not because he was against shortening the hours of labour, for he was an advocate for shorten- ing them, but because it allowed Parliament, which was composed of persons bitterly hostile to all classes of manufactures and commerce, to interfere with the free action of labour in 'the trade of the coun try. 'ln the year 1846 that act was a political triumph over the Liberal and manufacturing party. The shortening of the hours of labour had taken place by virtue of that act, and he was bound to say that amongst the working classes of Lancashire it was prized very highly. The spinneerlas which ndma enufalecy turers had not found from had expected, and he did not believe that there was any great disposition in Lancashire to have it re pealed or altered. (Hear, hear.) But in a place like Birmingham the circumstances of trade and employment was very different. (Hear.) Nothing could be more clear than that legislation affecting so many persons and interests should be preceded by an impartial and honest investigation. (Cheers.) Unless that was done through action on the Home Office it would not be done at all. The principle of interference had been admitted by Parliament, and carried from one step to another. No one would propose that the principle should be abandoned, and in all probability something further would be done. Instead of opposing the whole measure, he thought it would be wise to ask for a fair investi gation, and be content to abide by the result. (Hear, hear.) He did not know how far the pro posed interference might go. It had not yet reached the children of the agricultural labourer, but if a proposition should be made that little boys em ployed to keep off the birds should not be so em ployed under a certain age, and that they should go to school for a certain period, he was by no means sure that the country gentlemen would be so enthu siastic on behalf the bill as they were at present. (Cheers and laughter.) With respect to the patent laws and the Patent Law Commission, it seemed to him that that commission, after sitting for a long period, had hatched nothing. The recommendations of the commission appeared to be almost confined to the appointment of a judge to hear patent cases and that nobody should have a patent for less than 14 years. After hearing lawyers and scientific men, and other clever fellows who lived on the services they were able to render patentees, and those who opposed patents, no strong opposition was likely to be given to the system of patents. (Hear, hear.) He considered that gieat harm was caused by the granting of patents for inventions of a trifling nature. If we had never had any patents, and it was proposed to give a lump sum to the inventor, or a monopoly in the shape of a patent, it would be said if a man claims such a monopoly over the whole country, the invention would be one of that magnitude which would confer great benefit on the country or on some particular trade. In that case it might be proper to give him some £5,000, or a patent for seven years. But now monopolies were given for the most unim portant and trifling inventions, and in any trade persons were always in peril of litigation on very trivial matters. (Hear, hear.) He regarded the granting of patents indiscriminately, and the•grant ing of a monopoly by the Crown, to be detrimental and contrary to public interests. (Cheers.) Suppose a man in Birmingham to invent a machine that very day, and register it ; and suppose a man down at Newcastle to discover something bearing some re semblance to it, involving in some degree the same principle, and intended to bring about the same result. He should object to the first man having his patent, which would not only give him the monopoly of his own invention, but absorb the invention of another man many miles away. (Cheers.) He did not mean to say that that was a conclusive argument against patents, but it was a reason to induce Par liament to pause before giving further monopolies. (Cheers.) So far as he was concerned, he should never support such a scheme. The specifications on which the patents were based were of the most vague and complicated character, and it was impossible for any number of scientific men or any judge to define clearly what was meant by many of those specifica tions. It was quite impossible to do justice between the parties, and to ascertain, whether from ignorance or dishonesty, if something was included in the spe cification which the patentee did not invent. (Hear.) The public had a great interest in the question, and if a patentee took out a patent including things to which he had no right—if the patent should prove bad in law, the man ought not to be allowed to dis claim and repudiate the things which he had mono polised, and by legal processes worry out those who were carrying on the same trade. (Cheers.) If the power of disclaimer were altogether abolished, and a man would not guard his own interests at once, he ought to suffer from the loss caused by his igno rance, bad management, or dishonesty, and the public should be free from the monopoly which he h a d endeavoured to gain. (Cheers.) The state of the law on this subject with regard to costs was perfectly frightful. The costs recoverable by the winning party were a miserable percentage of the costs actually incurred. The whole system was one of great and grievous oppression, and the report of the commissioners merely touched the subject, with out probing the grievances which exist and attempt ing to remedy them. (Cheers.) The utility of these chambers of commerce appeared to him to be grow ing every day. He believed that the chambers of Manchester and Liverpool had not yet joined the associated body. They might have some good reasons for not doing so ; but if they had honest and open objects on behalf of the great principles of commerce which affected all trades, it was a great pity that they had not joined the associated chambers in order to render their operations more beneficial. (Cheers.) Every sagacious man in the Government was coming to a discovery which they had been very long in making—that a statesmanship which attends to the material interests of the country not less than its great political inte rests, is a statesmanship which the country re quires. (Cheers.) Of late years the statesmen who had done most for the country were those who had filled the office or attended to the duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—Sir Robert Peel, and after him Mr. Gladstone. (Cheers.) It was an unfortuate circumstance, but historically true, as he had once stated in the House of Commons, that the Whigs had never produced a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and many of the leading Whigs ad mitted the truth of this statement, merely putting in a plea for Sir Robert Walpole. (Laughter and cheers.) This system of policy had been of late the path to influence, and honour, and usefulness. That opinion was now spreading among efficient men of all classes, who were every day becoming more and more anxious to meet the views of the commercial classes throughout the country. (Cheers.) If the chambers of commerce were united, and disclaimed all protection and petty and rival interests, al were open and generous enough to look at all those great questions which affected the whole nation, and if they would go to Downing-street and to Parlia ment with that magnanimous feeling, t h e y would t meet, both in Downing-street and in Parliamnento,, far greater attention than would have would able to them at any former period , and woui theircountry (Cheers.) great and lasting benefits upon 1110 (Cheers.) Parli am ent had now no in terest in doing wrong in what it called minor matters. The House of Lords did not se t itself against propositions of . 0.. that nature. On t he Conserva tive side of the Hous e of Commons t he y had got o ver the fear of cha nge on these subje c , an d there was an openness in their ts minds whic h could be appealed to. (Hear, hear.) g reat pleasure in thinking that the great aline had d growing i n fluence of the chamber s o f co mmerce was a tt r ibutable to a considerable extent to th e course w hich the Birmingham C oun cil had taken ; and he sho uld be most happy to assist his hon. col league in furthering the objects of such institutions, which were worthy o f pursuit by the great com mercial and trading interests of the kingdom. (Loud cheers.), has an enormous superiority over the old and ill used rope which was first laid, and which, to the amazement of all those who knew its real condition, nevertheless remained in fair working order for a few days. If such unexpected results were obtained from the old cable, which the advancement of elec trical sc i ence s i nce th en s ho ws t o h av e been thoroughly ill-adapted for its purpose, it is not over sanguine to expect a far more favourable conclusion to the present enterprise, every 'step in the conduct of which has been marked with the most jealous care, not only to guard against the dangers known to exist, bnt against other emergencies which ex perience shows may arise, but which five years ago were unknown. In size, in strength, in better condition, better insulation, and better outer covering the new rope is never less than three times as good as the old one, while in many cases, and these the most important, its superiority is four or five ti m es greater. Though a much larger cable, its weight in water per mile is less than half that of its unfortunate predecessor, its breaking strain is 71 tons, against 31 tons, the maximum strength of the old rope. The method of joining up the two-mile lengths in which it is constructed is also a great im provement upon the soldered joints in the wires of the first cable, while the standards for insulation and " conductivity" are as high as those devised for the Persian Gulf cable, and the tests are continuous in every portion of the manufacture. Nearly 900 miles of the cable have already been made, and are beau tifully coiled away in the large tanks in the Tele graph Construction Company's works, lately those of Messrs. Glass and Elliot. Fifteen hundred nau tical miles have yet to be manufactured to complete the tale, exclusive of the shore ends, which will be most massive, and in length some 30 miles. The factory now turns out 14 miles a day of completed rope, which in four months' time will give 1,350 mileS, at the present rate of working—though, of course, as the days grow longer so in proportion will the hours of labour. It is considered, therefore, that the work would be well advanced if 2,000 miles had to be completed instead of 1,500. Two hulks have been placed at the disposal of the company by the Admiralty—the Iris and the Amethyst. As soon as the Iris, now off the works, is filled with her quantum of 250 miles, she will be towed down to the Great Eastern, and the Amethyst will take her place, and in this manner, for the next four months, the shipment of cable will be continuous. The cable is wound on board these hulks at the rate of little over two miles an hour, and, as the days are short and there is little night work, the rate of shipment is not much ahead of the rate of manufacture. During this winding on , board the hulks, as during every other process, the tests for insulation and " conductivity" are continued with the same scrupulous care. The interior of the Great Eastern is undergoing important alterations to fit her for her duties as a cable-ship. The great object with such ships is to get as few coils of cable as possible—in fact, if pos sible, to have it all in one. Large, however, as the Great Eastern is, she could never hold the Atlantic cable in one coil, for, apart from its weight, which is 5,000 tons, its bulk in one mass would be gigantic —a coil of 58ft. in diameter and nearly 60ft. high, enough to fill Astley's Theatre from the ground of the circus almost to the roof. It is disposed there fore in three circular tanks—one aft, one amidships, and on forward. Each of these tanks is of solid wrought iron, water-tight, built on what is called the 30-foot deck, and with some minute differences which are not worth mentioning, are all as nearly as possible alike in size—namely, 58ft. diameter and 20ft. high. The forward tank is from the shape of the ship smaller in diameter than those amidships and aft, but the lengths of all are alike. This tank is entirely finished, and will be filled with water to-day, in readiness for the reception of the first portion of the cable. The after tank is about three parts complete, but no commencement has yet been made with that which will occupy the midship por tion of the vessel further than the removal of the cabins, decks, and indeed the entire interior portion of the ship. In order to sustain the enormous additional weight which will be placed on the decks when the whole of the tanks are on board, the deck on which the tanks are erected is being strengthened by a system of knees and deck-beams, while the lateral pressure of the cable against the sides of the tanks will be overcome by an arrange ments of beams and supports, with the object of confining the dead weight of the cable to the centre of the ship, and preventing or rather overcoming the outward pressure of the enormous mass when the vessel is rolling—as the Great Eastern does roll—at sea, This, not the least im portant portion of the work, is being executed by Mr. Canning, the company's engineer, to whom is also confided the general superintendence of the equipment of the vessel, the experience that gentle man gained in assisting to lay the former Atlantic telegraph cable being of great advantage in mak ing the necessary preparations for the present un dertaking. The three tanks will hold respectively 817, 803, and 633 miles of cable, giving a total length of 2,253 miles. No final arrangements have yet been made as to the rules to be followed in laying the cable, but it will, of course, be com menced from this side of the Atlantic and carried across to Newfoundland, to get the benefit of the westerly winds which generally blow in summer. Steaming against a head wind, the Great Eastern is as steady as a rock. The rate of steaming across will never exceed seven knots an hour, and at this rate the great object of the expedition ought to be accomplished in from 10 to 11 days. All will, how.. ever, depend on fine weather, which, fick le en ough by the last expedition ainst this misfortune, how. s ufficiently proved. Ag everywhere, is trebly so in the North Atlantic, as the terrific gale encounter ed ever, no care or skill on the part of th e com pany can gu ard, and at p resent this see ms the only cloud over the prospects of the New Atlantic nd Telegraph. , passage from Every Da; pCaopoePr:llb.;—ThAndreelvfoHllaolliwciainyg, London, 1864, ii. 257, ex plains the origin of this mixture of stout and porter : “Some brewers, who are jealous for the reputation of their beer, employ a traveller, who visits the houses periodically, and tastes the various beers, to see that they are not reduced too much. This functionary is called the Broad Cooper. When the Broad Cooper looks in upon Mr. Noggins, and wants to taste the porter, and the porter is below the mark, Mr. Noggins slyly draws a dash of stout into it. And this trick is so common and so well known, that a mixture of stout and porter has come to be known to the public and asked for by the name of " Cooper."—Notes and Queries. 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He said he moved this resolution with feelings of great pain, because he felt impelled by a sense of public duty to take a course which he had reason to believe was opposed to the views of a large body of the clergy of the diocese, for whose character and ability he had the highest respect, and whose motives he warmly appreciated. The question before them, as he viewed it, was this—ln those localities where only one national school could be established and in that school the doctrines of the Church of England and no other were to be taught, the question arose what was to be the position of the dissenting minority. Were the Dissenters to feel that they were protected by a Cohscience Clause—that they who contributed their share to the revenue, from which grants are made to those schools,were to have the advantage of their teaching, and that they were at liberty to call on the manager of the school to relieve their children from being taught doctrines to which they (the parents) ob jected, the parents taking the responsibility of that to which they objected? Was that, he asked, to be their position, or were they to be a proscribed class, not standing on an equality with their neighbours, and not receiving a fair share of the benefit of the grants which were made from the revenues to which they contributed ? (Hear, hear.) Was it to be considered that the education of the children of Dis- senters was a matter, not of right and justice, but of favour on the part of the clergymen of the parish in which the school was ? And above all, were the Dissenters to feel that a different measure was dealt out in different parishes, in one parish the clergyman by grace and favour admitting the dissenting child to the school, while in the adjoining ono perhaps he was excluded ? That was the definition which he made of the question ; and he thought they could not hesitate as to which of the alternatives they should choose. His'(Sir John's) conscience told him that as a matter of charity, as a matter of justice, as a matter of policy in reference to the interests of the country, they were bound to take the side which he had chosen. He had been asked why he, as a member of the Established Church, appeared as champion of those who differed from him in religion, and his answer was an easy and simple one. Irre spective of the grounds of abstract Justice and right, by which the conduct of every public man ought to be regu- .• _____ _ lated, he had two main grounds for taking the course he had done. First, he was convinced that it was for the interests of the Church to take the liberal and just course ; and, secondly, he would say that he as a public man for many years had done all that lay within his poor power to aid in bringing about a state of things in England by which the blessings of education should be brought to every door, however humble or remote, and he:was con vinced that whatever they did to this end their labour would be vain unless they could find some solution to the religious differences which up to the present time had been the great impediment to the progress of education. (Hear, hear.) Sir John went on to explain that the question now mooted by him was not the same as that on which a vote was taken at the last meeting of the board,and reviewed the arguments which he had then employed in discussing the motion at that rime before it. At that time he heard a good deal of apprehension expressed which he could not feel, and of theory in which-he could not concur, and he met those ap prehensions and that theory by facts which, he ventured to say, were much stronger than theories. He had heard an argument advanced by the Rev. Mr. Seymour to which it would be impossible for him not to attach great weight, were that argument well founded. Mr. Seymour argued that the admission of the Conscience Clause was opposed to ordination vows. He, as a layman, would not pretend to argue that question with a clergyman, but when he heard the Bishop of the diocess express his concurrence with the Conscience Clause, and say that any such argament about the ordina tion vow was exaggerated and fantastic—(hear) —then he dismissed the argument altogether. (Hear,hear.) The argu ments which he (Sir John) made use of were these. He told them of a parish within his own personal knowledge where the clergyman was bound, as he thought, by the terms of his union with the National Society to admit to his school none but members of the Church of England. In that parish were three families of Dissenters who would not send their children to the school to be taught Church doctrines, and the children of those three families were consequently un taught. How could they doubt, that such exclusion must have inspired a feeling of hostility to the Church in the minds of these three families ? He should like to say to those who opposed his resolution, ivhat they would say, as Church people, if those three families were to be called upon either to violate their religious feelings or have their children brought up in ignorance ? He ventured to say that one such Con science Clause was introduced, instead of hostility being fact as this outweighed a thousand theories. Where the ex cited a feeling of harmony and goodwill would be promoted, and in numerous 'instances the children of Dissenters be came communicants of the Church. (Hear.) The question now before the Board was whether if any of the schools in the archdeaconry of Worcester accepted the Conscience Clause, they were to punish them for hav in g taken this little step in a liberal direction by depriving • it of any grant from this board? That question had actually a risen. The school of Barbourne in the archdeacon* . h avin g accepted the clause, a grant had been made to it by this board, and he had been told that it was an illegal grant, not authorised by our position with the National Society. Sir John then produced the correspondence on this subject laid on the table of the House of Commons last session, and quoted the opinion of Sir J. H. Coleridge as to the inconsistency of the terms of union with the National Society in opposition to the opinions of the National Society itself. He considered the National Society had involved itself in a most difficult position, and he moved—" That in the opinion of this meeting the rules of the board ought to be revised so as to enable all Church schools within the archdeaconry which ' are in need of assistance to benefit by its grants, whether they have or have not accepted the Conscience Clause." The Rev. M. LEA seconded the resolution. He thought he might take the Conscience Clause as the law of the land. (No, no.) He did not think the present Government would disturb it, and the head of the Educational Depart ment under Lord Derby's Government was a supporter, if not the promoter of it. Lord LYTTELTON said he felt bound to consider this ques tion on the merits of the Conscience Clause itself. He did not think they could simply content themselves by saying that they could see no objection to the provision of this Conscience Clause, he thought they should do more than this. With reference to the Barbourne school which had been alluded to, he much doubted whether the school had unwillingly accepted the Conscience Clause. In replying to the arguments of Sir John Pakington he would proceed to consider what this Conscience Clause, as it was called, really was, and he had to apologise for introducing in his remarks subjects of pure theology. His views on this subject had been before the public for some time in a pamphlet, which, perhaps, however, few of his present hearers had read, and he should have to repeat in substance much that had been advanced in that pamphlet. He would assume that the clause must be considered strictly as mean ing neither more nor less than what it said, and that it was worked bona fide. The Conscience Clause permitted that children orDissenters attending Church schools should not more nor less than of this. thi a Letwo world t d he andm be required to atten d Church, and th at they s h o uld not be toc school, with a Church teacher, a taught the doctrines of the Church in certain specific formu laries. nothingh h be good citizens take,in lt gChurchup therefore, p manager, your meant children a a clergyman at the head of it. What cur and was taught in the school? The Bible was taught in it. He hoped he should not hear in that place that the Bible, of all books, was to be read in the school, but that not one word of note or comment was to be offered on the text. (Hear, hear.) The Bible was to be read and tau g ht as the y read and taught history a nd geography ; in neither of these were the managers r estricted. The master of t he schools, t h ere f o re, were to read and explain the 'Bible and every part of it ; and in wha t s e nse, he asked, could they teach it e xcept in the sense of the Church of England? (Hear , h ear. ) What did they get the children of their schools to sc hool for ? The man ager said to the par en ts, " I ask you to send your children to me in order that I may be a fellow-worker with you, that we may be fellow-workers in God in train of the next." And suppose he had a bad child in his school, what was he to do with him ? He could not point out his duty in the words of the Catechism, and could only talk to him about the evil consequences in this world of his con duct. But that was not teaching in the sense in which children should In taught, The Conscience clan would include Roman Catholics, but they would not accept it, and Baptists and Quakers, who excluded the doctrine of sacra ments, and Unitarians. The Conscience Clause was only part of a system—an insertion of the thin end of the wedge. He should say " No " to the resolution. The resolution was supported by Archdeacon Sanford. the Rev. D. MELVILLE, and others, and opposed by the Rev. H. A. WCODGATE, the Hon. F. LIGON, and Lord REDESDALE, who replied to Sir J. Pakington's re marks generally. The Liberation Society, his lordship re marked, did not take any action in the matter. They were very well content with the way in which the present Go vernment were aiding them, and they wisely kept quiet. If a manager of a school felt that he could accept the Con science Clause, and that he got more from the Government grant than he would from the local board, let him accept it, but let him bear in mind that he was imposing a burden on his successor which he might object to. After a reply from Sir J. PAXIEGTON, a show of hands was taken, when 16 were held up for the motion, and 49 against it. The discussion lasted fivehours, and the audience thinned rapidly towards its close. Mr, Bright, X P , and Mr. Scholefield, M,P., on Commercial Matters. BIRMINGHAM, Thursday. The half-yearly meeting of the Chamber of Com merce was held this afternoon in the New Exchange, and was very numerously attended. The chair was taken by Mr. Scholefield, M.P. (who has succeeded the late Mr. Spooner, M.P., in the presidency of the body), and amongst the members of the Chamber present were Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. J. S. Wright, Mr. Alderman Thomas Lloyd, Mr. Sturge, &c. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, in opening the proceedings, referred to the i ecent visit of -Mrs Herries (the Sec retary of Legation at Turin), and Mr. Ward (her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg), and ob served that it was a new feature in the proceedings of the Government to send their officers down to visit public bodies for the purpose of inquiring into and redressing their grievances, and the commercial world were greatly indebted to Mr. Forster (the hon. member for Bradford) for the change which had taken place in this respect both in the Board of Trade and the Foreign Office ; and a friend of his had recently assured him that now, on any matter relating to the commerce of the country, he had ready access to both these departments, which were always prepared to listen to any representations that were legitimately made. He would not enter into any discussion on the subject of the patent law, be cause it would most probably come under discussion in the next session on the report of the commission. With respect to the extension of Government manu facturing establishments he thought it impossible to view their increase without uneasiness. (Hear.) He was not opposed to all Government establishments of that description, but contended that the Govern ment ought not to establish any manufactory for goods which they could obtain from the public at large, except as a check on the manufacturer's prices. (Hear.) Nothing could be more unfair than to use public money for the purpose of competing with the private trader ; but beyond that there was another objection, and that was the opening which such a system afforded for the digtribution of patronage. The country owed a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Cob den for the manner in which he had brought the subject before Parliament during the last session, and he hoped that in the course of the next session his hon. friend would again introduce the matter with a view of putting an end to the Government manufacturing establishments, which were not only hostile to the manufacturer, but deeply hazardous to our finances. (Cheers.) With regard to the Partnership Law Ainendment Bill, he would only say, that after carrying forward the measure as far as he could in the last session, he had a consultation with some of the influential members of her Ma jesty's Government, the result of which was that Mr. Milner Gibson promised to introduce a bill on the subject. That bill, which had been prepared, was simple and short, and he (Mr. Scholefield) pre ferred it to his own, and hoped it would be carried to a successful issue. (Cheers.) With respect to the law of bankruptcy he thought the less the Go vernthent and the lawyers had to do with the dis tribution of assets of bankrupts the better. (Cheers.) That matter ought to remain mainly in the hands of the creditors, and the Government ought, under no circumstances to interfere, except where the cre ditors abandoned all attempts to recover the assets, or where fraud existed. (Hear.) There was only one other point on which he wished to make a re mark. We were now making great progress in com mercial prosperity, mainly through the efforts of his hon. colleague and Mr. Cobden to remove the sion of trade. (Cheers.) The country was from day to day becoming richer and richer. He wished impediments which formerly prevented the exten he could say that our commercial morality grew with equal rapidity, but regretted to say that was not the case. (Hear.) He did not mean to assert that chambers of commerce could do much to en courage commercial morality, but it was their bounden duty to recommend to the commercial community a more complete adherence than they had hitherto manifested to honesty and good faith. (Cheers.) He did not mean to say that there were not men as perfect in commercial morality as in former days, but unfortunately there had crept in amongst them a desire to achieve wealth by means not consistent with honesty. Had it not been for this the protection of trade marks would never have been required. (Cheers.) The report which was taken as read, was on the motion of Mr. J. S. Wright (the vice-president), and Mr, Wiggins (the mayor), received and adopted. Mr. BRIGHT apprehended that the subjects for discussion would be a little monotonous. Happily they were not only various but important, and on one or two of them he wished to offer a few remarks. He concurred with his hon. colleague as to the change in the course of the proceedings of the Foreign Office as indicated by the visit of the two gentlemen connected with that department to whom reference had been made, but he warned all present not to be too confident in that matter. It took a great deal to eradicate evil principles from the human heart, and evil principles and practices from a Government department. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He derived some little consolation from what occurred respecting foreign affairs, during the last session. We might hope that they would be come less complicated than they had been heretofore, and that the statesman who in future should preside at the Foreign Office would impress on the ambas sadors, ministers, charges d'affaires, and the whole host of those gentlemen w ho enjoyed good salaries abroad, that they should consider the trade of this country and the trade of the world as very impor tant, and that it was necessary for them to under stand something respecting it, and not look upon any question of commerce that was submitted to their notice as if it were an unwelcome thing, with which they would rather not soil their hands. (Cheers and laughter.) The old Foreign Office had been pulled down, and he had suggested that all its traditions should be buried in its ruins. Lord Palmerston had caused a new building to be erected, and he hoped that as the exterior of the office had been changed its interior principles and policy would be changed also. (Cheers.) 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