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Om , d05, ..„0 A 6.3... • wow: IP • • . • LONDON; TIIU RBD - 1 - ' ll7 l MARCH 8, 1866. ---•---_____ z: a ex n ed Church rates have long b een _ question, and each successive session h as made for their abolition, and new effort !: attempts suggested for a compromise , both resulting i n , i all ures. • action if the • It would be a great satisfaction question were settled definitively, or at all events in such a manner that it need not be made the subject of controversy for some time to come. Religious dis cussions are always to be deprecated, and more than any other they generally excite ill-will and angry feelings, and then leave people no further advanced than they were at the commencement of the argument. The very tedious settlement of this matter may be attributed to faults on both sides. The one party has set itself decidedly against all arrangements which have for their object anything short of a complete and unconditional surrender ; and the other has, in an equally deter mined manner, re6iiited all encroachments on the existing state of things. Lately, indeed, there has often been proposals made for some medium course, but the abolitionizlts have vt4emently opposed it. Mr. GLADSTONE , i n his s p eech of yesterday, to meet the difficulty in a very successful manner, and it is much to be regretted that his suggestions were not attended to. The right hon. gentleman said that he did not speak as a member of her MAJESTY'S Government, but as a private member, because the Government did not deem it necessatl to make a proposition on the subject to the 1% - ase, since there was no reasonable prospect of suc cess in doing so. There was great truth, in what Mr. GLADSTONE observed concerning the time that this question had been in abeyance ; and it is I doubtful if any other public question would have been left so long unsettled. It is a pity that the agitators of this matter and their more vehement opponents do not dwell more upon the facts of the case, as so ably put forward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. " I think, however," he said, "it hardly creditable to this country--that it is hardly creditable to the Legislature or to our good sense, and that it is not in conformity with the mode in which practical questions are usually, dealt with by the natives of this kingdom—that the subject should continue from year to year to be bat tered about and tossed backward and forward without our arriving at any practical result." The truth is that, instead of being settled as it ought to have been some time ago, this question of the church rates has unhappily merged into a standing subject of discussion, and its continuance in this form cannot but prove injurious to the interests of the Church. It is a proof that the controversy on the subject is kept up as much for the sake of a dispute about religious topics as anything else, for when any one desires to meet them half-way, the opponents of the rates always turn round and say to agree to any compromise would be to sacrifice principle. This is quite absurd, because the basis of opposi tion rests upon the injustice of compelling Dissenters to support the Church of England, and if this compulsion be done away with in what lies the lack of principle that they seem afraid of There is no greater difficulty than in getting some people to agree to their own proposals some times, and we find this conspicuously the case with this question of the church rates. If it be decided that no Dissenter can be called upon to pay, and that all " compulsory collections" be abolished, we can not see on what grounds of consistency or good sense hon. members can go on making this a causes Belli, and declaring that they are waging war against intolerance and injustice. It must be seen that the chief, if not the only, obstacles to a settlement lie with the abolitionists, because lately the Opposition, and those on the Ministerial side who are against a total abolition, have shown themselves ready and willing to come to terms. Another source of great confusion has arisen from the mistaken and misguided efforts of those who have mixed up many questions in one, and sought to interpolate the views of the Liberation Society into those proposed for the abolition of church rates. Mr. HARD CASTLE would have done more wisely had he not pressed his motion to a division, for we are now no further advanced than we were before, and an appearance of success is of no use without a reality. The Committee of the House of Lords have to a great extent sanctioned the adoption of a compromise, so that what long remained an insuperable obstacle to the settlement of the question has been removed. Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposal seems to possess advan tages under whichever aspect of the case we con sider it ; but no doubt he spoke out too strongly to meet the views of some, and perhaps offended their prejudices, when he said that those who refused to pay the rate had no right to interfere in the managemen of the affairs of the Church. It is, at any rato, a great satisfaction that one in so distinguished a position, and possessed of so much ability as the right hon. gentleman, should come forward in so prominent a manner as he did yesterday to request a compromise, and we concur with Mr. HOPE that we may thus see daylight breaking on this vexed and cloudy question. It is to be hoped that Mr. GLAD STONE will at some future time make a proposition to the House which shall embody the substance of his remarks of yesterday. Mr. HOPE made some very wise observations on the subject, and stated his meaning in plain terms. lie desired to see a settlement, he would not call it a compromise, but rather a fair treaty "between two equal belligerent parties, each of whom was con scious of the strength of their cause, and was willing in the course of that settlement to assume that the other side had an equally good case." This will be the only true way of settling the case, for, while angry and irritated feelings are kept up, it will be impos sible to do so either effectually or satisfactorily. Mr. HOPE objects to the system of pew-rents on very reasonable grounds, and declares that their being now levied in parishes where they had not been for some years would only add to the con fusion and vexation of the question. " The in stincts of the House revolted against pew-rents, which appeared to have been instituted for the purpose of making the Church an easy place of worship for the genteel middle tlasses, to the ex clusion of the poor." We agree with Mr. HorE that the church rate question has now reached a point at which only the conduct of the extreme section of either party can frustrate a fair and just settlement of it. It would be a good inauguration of this first session of a new Parliament for this long-debated matter to be brought to a conclusion of some kind or other. It has too long, for the dignity of the Church, too long for the interests of the community, too long for the reputa- tion of the House, been suffered to remain a fruitful source of religious dispute, and a ready handle for the use of agitators in their attacks on existing in stitutions. As Mr. GLADSTONE put it yesterday to the House, abolishing the compulsory power of col lecting church rates, and making provision for ne cessary repairs by obtaining the amount from those willing to give it, involves, on the part of the Church, little beyond a sacrifice of the enjoyment of a power which is at once vexatious and ineffective, while it promises great practical good. The arrival of the Moravian from New York, with news to the 24th ult., informs us that the excitement attending the political situation in the States has by no means diminished. President JOHNSON has openly declared war against the lead ing Radicals, denouncing them by name as enemies to their country and threateningly hostile to him self. With the boldness and decision which charac terises him, he has not shrunk from proclaiming openly to the people his conviction of the dangerous d evices of the ultra-Radicals, or from giving the names of the leaders of the party as the chief enemies of the State. Ilaving waited qui e tly, it would seem with the intentio n of allowing the Radicals to show themselves in their true colours, Mr. JOHNSON has not followed up his first attack with vigour and determination. At the meet ing of Congress considerable uncertainty was felt as to the course which he intended to pursue. There was a good deal of speculation relative to the matter, since the Radical party possessed it was well known an strimistakeable majority in the Lower House, laesie.tes a great deal of influence in the Senate. Tb ,eir leaders were known to be bold and unscrupu la us, their plans to be carefully and ingeniously ni , aturecl, and their hostility to the South as bitter as id vindictive as their professions of goodwill to the negro were loud and pretentious. The opening of the political campaign gave the i i - Radicals a decided success. By an ingenious manceuvre, and by the willing assistance of the Clerk of the House, who was one:of their own set, the names of the representatives of the Southern States were omitted from the roll of members. The opposite party, taken by surprise, were completely at fault. Some faint attempts at expostulation were made, but they were arrogantly silenced by Mr. TIIADDEUS STEVENS, and the first few days of the Congressional assembly left the Radicals apparently masters of the field. Flushed with success, they proceeded still more boldly. Bill after bill was introduced by Mr. SUMNER, Mr. STEVENS and others, all having for their professed object the benefit and civilisa tion of the negro ; for their real design, the spolia tion and degradation of the Southern white. The Committee of Fifteen, reminding one of the old des potic Council of Ten, the Negro Suffrage Bill, the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, are few among many efforts of the kind made since the meeting of Congress. If a boldness and uncompromising policy were of itself a legitimate object of admiration, regardless of its aims and intentions, the American Radicals might certainly claim credit for their wholesale intolerance and reckless assertion of their theories. It is diffi cult, however, to forgive them for advocating humanity while they are really encouraging that bitter and hostile feeling between white and black, North and South, which has already caused so much bloodshed and misery throughout the States , for making the great ends of public policy subservient to the prosecution of their party pur poses; for refusing to recognise the application to themselves of those constitutional principles which they so loudly applaud when others are judged by their standard. Throughout all their policy this session there has been the same ruling principle, and its result would inevitably be the establishment of a military despotism in the South, which would heavily increase the burdens of the Northern tax payer, while it would drain the country of men, and leave it, with internal disunion and the necessity of keeping so many troops in particular States, at the mercy of foreign invaders. Such a source of weakness at home would completely neutralise the power and influence of America abroad. Her statesmen might boast and bluster, but with 8,000,000 of:disaffected people, and the garrisons necessary to keep them in chock, the youngest diplomatist could afford to smile at threats which were formerly alarming. How the enemies of reconstruction reconcile theoretically the inconsistency of keeping out re presentatives of States, which they once declared could never leave the Union, and of taxing people whom they allow no share in the government, and how they intend practically to pursue such a hopeless cause, as keeping such vast States under military control, it is not easy to see. It is less surprising that a man of President JOHNSON'S capa city should at once recognise the injustice and suicidal nature of their policy than that any man of intelligence and political experience should be found to recommend it. Of the PRESIDENT'S opinions there can now be no doubt. As we have said, he preserved a degree of reticence during the earlier weeks of the session which some mistook for timidity, others for vacil lation. But be was only waiting his opportunity, and he has now spoken out in a manner which has surprised and discomfited. his enemies not a little. The Radicals, furious at the failure of their bill through the veto of the PRESIDENT, did not scruple to denounce him in the most unmeasured terms—still under the pretext of humanity and patriotism. They were not prepared for an open denunciation of their leaders from the White House. The occasion selected was WASHINGTON'S birthday, when meetings were held throughout the country in support of the Presidential policy. The Washington meeting, after passing several resolutions, adjourned to the White House. Here the PRESIDENT addressed them in the speech we have referred to. He declared that he was resolved, as he always had been, to maintain the Union and the Constitution against enemies, North and South. The South, he said, en- deavoured to destroy the Government, but no sooner is the war over than the country finds itself in the midst of another rebellion. " The Executive military power and public judgment have decided that no State has power or the right to go out of the Union, and you turn round and assume that they are out and shall not come in. lam not prepared to take any such position. I have found treason at the South, and now I turn to the other end of the line I find men still oppos ing the restoration of the Union." In answer to repeated calls for names, he boldly gave the names of THADDEUS STEVENS, CHARLES SUMNER, and WENDELL PHILLIPS, as prime movers in the affair, and openly charged them with inciting to his assassination. The Presidential obstacle must, they say, be got rid of. For himself, Mr. JOIINSON declared he was willing enough to be made a martyr for his country, but that he did not intend " to be overawed by friends or bullied by enemies." The only usurpation of which he had been guilty was in standing between the people and the encroachments of power, and the centralisation of authority and influence in the hands of a few, was, he believed, as fatal to the Constitution as the open secession of the South. This bold and decided conduct on the part of Mr. JoHNsoN carried all before it. The result was summed up iu a telegram - which Mr. SEWARD sent ;o New York on February 23—" It is all right. The Uuion is restored—the country is safe. The PRESIDENT'S speech is triumphant, and th© country will be happy." Mr. SEWARD himself has made a spoech arguing very sensibly on behalf of the PRE. SIDENT'S policy, and pointing out to the people thai the present Freedmen's Bureau Bill will remain in force for a year after the_termination of the rebel lion, so that any alteration at this time is un- necessary. The general temper of the public meetings was strongly in favour of the PRESIDENT. At the Cooper Institute a densely thronged assembly, in cluding all classes of politicians, supported resolutions approving the Veto, and urging the admission of loyal representatives of the Southern States. At New York a committee of influential citizens have resolved to proceed to Washington to confer with the PRESIDENT on the best means of sustaining his Administration. More noticeable still, at a Radi cal Republican caucus, held in Washington, mode rate counsels prevailed, and a resolution admitting Tennessee into the Union was offered and favour ably received. The fact is that the Radicals feel that the tide has turned, that the public feeling is against them, and that the power has slipped from their hands, being grasped by one more fitted to use it. At the Chelmsford Assizes, yesterday, a child only eight years of age was put upon his trial for arson. Tho Lord Chief Baron, however, expressed a strong opinion that tho child ought not to 100 tried, and ho was formally acquitted. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The discussion in the Corps Legislatif yesterday was very long. Much of it turned upon local matters, and I do not see anything in the report which would interest English readers. The condi tion of the French colonies occupied a considerable portion of the sitting ; and the discussion upon colonial matters is closed, at least so far as Algeria is concerned. Attacks were incidentally made upon the Government and magistrates in reference to the last elections. The Minister energetically and suc cessfully repudiated them. He said that no proof whatever had been given of alleged illegal acts on the part of the magistrates. It was painful to see them made the objects of such articles, and he call upon the Chamber to support honourable men who had served the public interest. I informed you a day or two ago that at the last reception at the Tuileries the Emperor chatted very familiarly with some of the members of the Chain. ber, and particularly with the Opposition members. It is related that his Majesty was very gracious to M. de Boissy, who, in spite of his hostility to Eng land and everything else, is in private life a very amiable and courteous man. The Emperor per ceiving M. de Boissy went up to him, and, offering his hand with a smile, said, " Oh, you are there, you terrible child !" " Terrible," replied the mar quis, " but devoted, and I wish your Majesty had many like me. "No," said the Emperor, " I prefer unity." M. Pierre Louis Parisis, Bishop of Arras, Bou logne, and St. Omar, whose death I was able to announce yesterday, was born at Orleans on the 12th of August, 1795. Vicar of St. Laurent, then of St. Paul at Paris, curate of Gien, he was trans lated to the Bishopric of Arras in 1851. He was a member of the Constituent Body in 1848, and of the Legislative Assembly. He was an officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Sepulcre, and was decorated with the Palliuna. The pallium is the cloak which the Pope sends to the Archbishops as the investiture of their dignity, and sometimes he grants it as a peculiar favour to Bishops. The wool of which it is manufactured is taken from the two lambs offered to Rome by the Religieuses of the convent of St. Agnes at the fête of that Saint. M. Parisis was the author of several theological and political works of repute. It appears from the Russian papers received in Paris that Russia will oppose the election of any foreign Prince as successor to Prince Couza. The Gazette de Moscow, referring to the Danubian Principalities, says that Russia will never consent to the election of a Prince belonging to a reigning family, even should he be the D uke de Leuchtenberg. Russia is, in fact, determined to conform rigorously to the terms of tho Treaty of Paris of 1856. The preparatory arrangements for the Great international Exhibition of Paris proceed with great regularity and celerity. Switzerland, it appears, will occupy a fair share of attention. The names of no less than 1,254 exhibitors have already been in scribed on the list. In fact no more space can be afforded for the exhibition of the products of Switzerland, the limits being now exceeded. On the other hand, Denmark haying demanded a credit of 27,000 rix dollars for the purpose, which demand was refused, it is now supposed in Paris that no Danish products will be exhibited. Two murders have been committed by a prisoner in the prison at Riom, By some neglect he man aged to conceal a knife, with which he pierced the heart of the head gaoler, M. Laureat, who died al most instantly. He then attacked a fellow-prisoner in the same way, and murdered him also. The bodies of both the unfortunate men were interred at the same time, and as a, mark of sympathy the Mayor of the town, the Procureur-Imperial, and many of the inhabitants attended the funeral. It is supposed that the murderer is insane. In addition to the persons already mentioned, many other scientific men have proceeded to the Island of Santorin to take notes of the volcanic phenomena in that locality. According to the latest official reports, a violent tempest had prevented the scientific commission from approaching Santorin, but it appears, from the accounts of some sailors, that the island was rising gradually every day. There was an exceedingly violent storm of wind at Paris last night, accompanied with much rain. To-day the storm has again prevailed, and from spring the weather has again receded to the depth of winter. The official meteorological observations betoken more rough and stormy weather. In the French Almanac a day is marked as Quatre Temps, or fair weather. Yesterday was precisely a day of that description. At twelve in the day it was summer, after a frosty morning early, and towards five in the afternoon the wind became cold and piercing; and all night the g , pitiless pelting of the storm" was heard. Easter Monday Volunteer Review at Brighton. Yesterday afternoon the commanding officers of the various volunteer corps held a meeting at the rooms of the National Rifle Association, Pall-mall East, to receive and consider a report of the com mittee of commanding officers appointed to visit Brighton and report to their colleagues as to the ad visability of holding the Easter Monday Volunteer Review on the same ground as last year. Lord Ranelagh occupied the chair, and there were also present Lieuts.-Col. Lord Grosvenor, Marquis of Donegall, Lord Fitzgerald, Cole, Whitehead, Somerset, Cochrane, Durnford, Sir John Shelley, Thomson, Labrow, Bigge, A. B. Richards, Grey, and Lawes. The CHAIRMAN reported on behalf of the com mittee of commanding officers appointed to visit Brighton that they had communicated with the mayor and corporation, and that a subscription was being entered into by the inhabitants of Brighton to defray incidental expenses, and to compensate landowners and farmers for damages to crops, &c. They had also been in .communication with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com pany, who had agreed to make an extra concession by conveying the adjutants' horses free of expense. Lord GROSVENOR called the attention of the meeting to the necessity of taking steps to insure the attendance of commanding officers with their battalions up to the time of their regiments being sent off by railway, and it was resolved that the attention of brigadiers be called to this subject. The following letter was then read from the Mayor of Brighton : " Town Hall, Brighton, March 5. " Volunteer Review. "My Lord—l have much pleasure in informing you that, at a public meeting this day, the appropriate resolu tions were adopted for carrying out the review effectually. The committee have already settled terms with nearly all the owners and occupiers of ground, and you may consider the matter is substantially settled. Subscriptions, in cluding the railway company's and the race-course com mittee's, amounting to £350, were announced at the meet ing.—l have the honour to be, &c., l(Signed) " To the Hon. Viscount Ranelagh." Some conversation took place upon this letter, when it was unanimously resolved that the Easter Monday Volunteer Review shall tako place at Brighton, and that the secretary intimate the same to the mayor. lIENRY MAitliX. The question of making the Volunteer Review day the day for general inspection for corps present was discussed, but no decision was come to. of Lord tr o G p l o i E N v o o ß l u t n h t e e n o r m s o b v o e dh, eld n h a t H t y h ( e i o r epv ark on erk on some afternoon during the summer, by permis sion of his Royal Highness, the Ranger, and that, with the sanction of the Inspector-General of Volun teers, it shall be optional with all and any of the corps attending such reviews to have their annual inspection take place at the same tune, and that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales be requested to review." _ Captain TEMPLER seconded the resolution, which was put and carried. Tho meeting then terminated. In the course of the proceedings it was announced that the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail way Company have contributed £lOO towards the Brighton town's subscription to meet the necessary expenses Of compensating landowners, providing horses for artillery, prizes, &c. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, MARCH 7, Evening. . _ The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have appointed the Bojars Boraresco, Tepuriano, Casta foro, and Stege as commissioners with the great powers. Rumours are current here that great agitation prevails in Jassy in reference to the revocation of the union between Moldavia and Wallachia, and the election of a native prince as Hospodar of Wallachia, and that reinforcements have been de spatched to Jassy. These rumours have been officially denied, and it is announced that Moldavia and Wallachia have entirely concurred in the events which have taken taken place at Bucharest. AUSTRALIA. DEAL, MARCH 7. Messrs. Green's ship Roxburgh Castle, Captain Dinsdale, from Melbourne, on the 4th December, arrived here to-day with 14,287 ounces of gold, 1,850 bales of wool, and a cargo of copper, molasses, &c. On the 28th ult. she passed the Queen of Nations homeward bound. SPAIN. MADRID, MAncll 7 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the Congress, Senor Fignerola asked the Minister of War to communi cate to the Chamber the report of the court-martial held at Alcala to try four sergeants, Captain Spinosa, and one citizen, all of whom were sen tenced to death and shot. Senor Fignerola stated that it was necessary to be in possession of the documents relating to this trial before asking the Government any questions respecting the continuation of martial law. FRANCE. Boum, March 7, Three o'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 4-} por Cents 97 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 GO Do. end month 69 671 Credit Mobilier 700 Do. end month Bank Shares 3650 Crodit Foncier — Italian Loan 62 60 Do. end month 62 60 ILAIL Roman — Ottoman Fives — Mexican Loan 47 Do. Bonds 3OG 25 Russian — Austrian Spanish Throes Home Debt Deferred 'AYE. Cash. Acct. ... 885 50 1132 50 - 910 - - ... 557 50 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman - - ... 546 25 - - ... 142 50 - - ... 410 ---- - - ... 417 .50 - - ... 176 25 - - ... 240 - -- ... 100 - 15 Royal General Theatrical Fund. The annual general meeting of the members of the Royal General Theatrical Fund took place yester day in the saloon of the Royal Lyceum Theatre ; Mr. Buckstone in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. Cullenford) read the finan cial statement for the last year, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Buckstone having been unanimously re elected treasurer, The CHAIRMAN said although he felt flattered by their re-electing him to the office of hon. trea • surer, he should only accept it conditionally. He had been their treasurer for 25 years, and during that time had attended 20 of the 21 dinners, and though a holiday would sometimes have been acceptable, he might say that he never had been away from the public for more than one night dur ing 20 years. He had never " been out of an en gagement." (Laughter.) Ile felt he required more rest than he used to care for. He would accept the office for another year conditionally, and the condi tions were, that next year it was possible he would send in his resignation. It depended greatly on his health ; and if he did, they must be prepared to find another person to fill the duties of honorary trea surer. lie thanked them for the confidence they had reposed in him. The other officers having been re-elected, and thanks paid to Mr. Arnold for the use of the com mittee room, and to Mr. Fechter for the use of the saloon of the theatre in which they held their meet ings. Mr. LACY put it to the meeting whether it would not be advisable to increase the annuities in Class B, which is £3O a year, to £35, as it was not enough to support in anything like comfort persons over 60 years of age. The SECRETARY said that however good the pro position might be it was illegal, and would be an infringement of their charter. Considerable discussion arose on this, which re sulted in a requisition being signed convening a meeting, and that the solicitor should be consulted on the matter. A vote of thanks having been proposed to the chairman, The CHAIRMAN rose and said—Ladies and gen tlemen, I have four causes of congratulation —one the success of our funds, and also the increase of our "ways and means." I have also one pleasing thing to announce to you, that at our next anniversary festival the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor will occupy the chair, and my friend Mr. Ch ar l es Di ckens will also be present. I have also another cause of con gratulation, the re-election of our worthy secretary, Mr. Cullenford—(hear, hear)—who is always ready to prove that his figures are strictly correct, and like an old Conservative —(laughter)--- as I know he is —he is at all times ready to resist any innovation as to our rules. lam sorry to see so few ladies pre sent. I should like to see as many as there are gen tlemen, and that when the business was concluded we could then " pair off "—(laughter)—and might very well finish the proceedings by dancing " Sir Roger de Coverley." (Great laughter and cheers.) A vote of thanks to the press brought the meeting to a close. We are credibly informed that Sir Thomas Fre mantle has refused per m i ss ion (declined to sanction, in official phraseology) to the clerks of the inspec tor-General of Imports and Exports to state their case and their claims in a respectfully worded peti tion to the Lord s o f the Treasury ; and although received on the best authority, we should have de clined giving credence to so monstrous a stretch of power if in the notices given for this evening a cor roboration had not appeared in a question to be put by Mr. Miller to the Secretary of the Treasury rela tive thereto. In bureaucratic Prussia we have no doubt such a thing is possible, but we trust that the day is far distant when such official tyranny will be tolerated here. We only hope that the snub direct will be administered to the Board of Customs in such a manner as to save us from the repetition of such a scandal, for such we esteem this attempt to gag a respectable body of gentlemen whose claims upon the public have only been too long neglected. There was rather a strange incident in the Mid dlesex Sessions Court-house yesterday. A man named llarmsworth, who had been several times convicted, was found guilty of attempting to pick pockets, and was sentenced to 7 years' penal servitude. On his way to the coil ho contrived to get near the prosecutor, and struck him a violent blow. Tho Assistant-Judge ordered the prisoner to bo brought back, and altered his sentence to 10 years' penal servitude. A PARRICIDE SENTENCED TO DEATIL—At the Wexford Assizes, where Dr. Ball, Q.C., is acting as judge, instead of Mr. Justice Hayes, who is ill, a young man, 21 years of age, was found guilty of the murder of his father, near Newtonbarry, in October last. Ho was sentenced to be hanged on the 4th of April. When sentence was pronounced the prisoner fell back in the dock perfectly insensible. THE SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1866. IRE LAND. DUBLIN, March 7. Yesterday, at 2 p.m. the United States' war steamer Canandaigna, Captain Stambal, comman der, got up steam and left Kingston harbour, it was stated for Belfast. During the stay of this vessel considerable friendly intercourse took place between the officers and the residents of Kingstown. On more than one occasion in conversation the American visitors expressed their opinion that the Irish people who had taken up with Fenianism had been rarely humbugged. I have just learnt a fact, on undoubted authority, which shows to what a daring extent the Fenian leaders are carrying the imposture. A number of bonds have ar rived in the City of Waterford from New York, beautifully executed in the form of bank-notes, signed by O'Mahony and two others. They arc for sums varying from £2O to £5O, bearing 8 per cent. interest, to be paid when the Irish Re public is established, with this remarkable pecu liarity they are bonds on the Curraghmore estate. It is calculated, no doubt, that some of Lord Waterford's tenants will cash these bonds, believing that they will thereby secure their farms and the farms of their neighbours rent-free in perpetuity. There is reason to believe that similar bonds upon Irish estates have arrived in other parts of the country. Yesterday evening, about 8 o'clock, the police, in consequence of information received, arrested 27 persons at the publichouse, 7, Cork-hill, not seven perches from Dublin Castle, and not double that distance from the Head Police-office. The officers engaged in effecting the capture are—Acting-In spectors Smollen, Smith, Clifford, Magee, Clarke, Wolfe, Mathews, Cullen, Ennis, and Kelly, of the detective force, accompanied by Superintendent Campbell, and a body of police of the B division. Among those on the premises at the time, and who were taken into custody, were John Slattery and Thomas Slattery, the proprietors of the establish ment, and William Slattery, their brother. Several of those arrested were in the tap-room at the time of the entrance of the police, and were engaged playing cards, while others were in front of the shop counter. Some resistance, or rather an attempt to escape, was made on the part of one or two of the prisoners, but without success. The majority of the prisoners are permanent residents of the city, but a number of them are stated to have arrived here re cently from Manchester. There is one soldier among the number, belonging to the 2d battalion of the 60th Rifles. His name is Samuel M'Cann, a native of Manchester. James Murphy, alias M'Cabe, another of the prisoners, is stated to be a deserter from the 10th Hussars. The others are nearly all labourers and artisans employed in various parts of the city. The following are • the names of those arrelte I :--John Slat- tery, licensed vintner, 7, Cork-hill, aged 23 ; Thomas Slattery, partner with the above, aged 22, William Slattery, aged 20 ; Michael Hanlon, 13, Michael's-lane, brassfounder, aged 24 ; John Joseph Lynch, 11, New-row South, labourer, aged 22 ; Patrick llogarth, labourer, 5, Upper Bridge street, aged 20 ; Edward Gorman, 6, Swift's-row, aged 24 ; James Ryan, 159, Townsend-street, aged 26 ; James Murray, shoemaker, 24, Great Ship street, aged 31 ; Francis M'Cluskey, shoemaker, 8, Peter-street, aged 30 ; John Stapleton, sawyer, 4, Nicholas-street, aged 56 ; George Darker, a newspaper folder, 31, Castle-street, aged 16 ; W. Darker, machinist, 31, Castle-street, aged 20 ; W. Murphy, alias M'Cabe, 16, South Great George's street, shoemaker, aged 26 ; Thos. Taafe, 9, Rut land-avenue, Dolphin-barn, machine printer, aged 19 ; Thomas Doyle, newsvendor, 7, Golden-lane, aged 17 ; S. Wade, 6i, Little Strand-street, aged 21 ; Frederick Farrell, trunkmaker, Fishamble street, aged 22 ; William Sandy, shoemaker, 12, Francis -street, aged 20 ; Thomas Joyce, tailor, 4, Cuffe-street, aged 22 ; S. M'Cann, Ship-street Bar racks, 2d battalion 60th Rifles : John Walsh, 6, Great Jervis-street, aged 23 ; W. Darey, Jones's road, aged 33 ; T. Kelly, waiter at Mr. Slattery's ; Jas. Keogh, 149, Thomas-street, tobacco-spinner, aged 55 ; Timothy Murphy, shoemaker, 29, Castle street, aged 87. The prisoners were taken to Chancery-lane station. Corporal Win. Campbell, of the sth Dragoon Guards, who was arrested in Belfast last Wednes day, on a charge of Fenianism, and brought to Dub lin for trial by court-martial, has been discharged from custody. The circumstances of the case having been investigated, Col. the Hon. G. S. Calthorpe, commanding the sth Dragoon Guards, directed that the prisoner should be discharged, and extended his furlough beyond the limit originally designated. At Boyle, on Saturday night, a party under the direction of Sub-Inspector Lynch proceeded to the dwelling of a man named Travers, about one mile front the town, and found snugly concealed in the back of a ditch the following warlike articles, in excellent order—viz., five pistols, a like number of powder flasks, full of fine powder, a large quantity of bullets, and also of detonating caps, together with two shot pouches. Travers was instantly arrested, and, after information duly sworn, fully committed for trial at the present assizes. It appears from the assizes reports that there is very little ordinary crime in the country. Mr. Justice O'Hagan, in addressing the grand jury on Monday, congratulated them on the lightness of the calendar, and made the following reference to Fenianism :—" Some arrests have been made of persons charged with complicity in the insane and mischievous conspiracy which had been formed in the country by the friends of revolution, and the only effects of which had been to check their advanc- ing prosperity, to drive away energy and capital, and to excite apprehension and alarm. The execu- tive had determined not to bring any persons to trial at the present assizes on charges connected with the Fenian conspiracy, and the cases to be put before the grand jury were, therefore, of an ordinary character ; and, whether he looked to their number or nature, both in the discovery of crime an d the working of the law, he saw nothing but what was creditable to the magistrates and the police." Donegal, which formerly gave so much trouble by its propensity to agrarianism, seems now completely pacific, and it is quite free from Fenianism. But in the neighbouring county of Leitrim the case is different. It is one of those proclaimed, and Mr. Justice Christian told the grand jury that while things remained as they were in that county judicial congratulations must be reserved to a future time. The Tamar troopship arrived alongside the Car lisle Pier at Kingstown at 10 a.m. yesterday morn ing, having do board the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regi ment, from Gosport, Portsmouth, and Weymouth, for Dublin, in command of Colonel E. P. Gordon. She left Portsmouth on Friday last at 10.30 a.m., touching at Portland on Saturday at ..11 a.m., and at Plymouth on Sunday, whence she sailed for Kingstown at noon on that day, having repaired some damage in her rigging, consequent on fouling an iron frigate on leaving Portsmouth. The Augu harad, transport, is expected shortly at Kingstown from IVoolwich Arsenal with 130 tons of war mate rial for Dublin ; 90 tons of gunpowder, a quantity of wooden targets, and a large amount of other similar stores being among those shipped. The ship Planet, with army stores, is also expected, having left Woolwich on Saturday for Kingstown or Dublin. THE RETURN OF SIR HENRY STORKS TO MALTA.-- Our Malta correspondent, writing on the 3rd, says : —" Letters were received hero last week from Jamaica, stating that Sir Henry Storks hoped to complete the in quiry about the middle of the present month, and that his excellency would be back in Malta about the beginning of May next. The return of Sir Henry is looked forward to with great anxiety by the inhabitants, as in his absenso all affairs are at a stand-still. A meeting of council was held on Monday last, but the proceedings were of course barren of any great interest. One of the members asked the Go vernment whether they intended taking any precautionary measures to prevent the active carriers of cholera, the pil grims, from having any communication with theso islands. The Chief Secretary replied that everything would be done to prevent any injurious consequences ensuing during the next summer months by the expected arrival of the Haggi in Malta on their way home from Mecca. The council is adjourned until the 21st inst. ; but before the return of Sir Henry Storks no business of any groat public interest can be expected tv tie transacted." is fit+ . 6 ):A filltt _Ciro' br. may _ HER MAJESTY• WINDSOR CASTLE, March 7. The Queen, with Princess Louise, walked in t he grounds yesterday afternoon, and out this morning' accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princ e° Helena, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburglic' Princess Louise also went out driving. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Lieut. Haig, went to London to be present at th e levee held at St. James's Palace. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompalli ed by Prince Alfred, rode on horseback yesterdal afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses dined with the Duel° of Cambridge at St. James's Palace in the evening' The Queen's Levee. By command of the Queen, a Levee was held Yes' terday at St. James's Palace by his Royal Highne o the Prince of Wales on behalf of her Majesty. Presentations to his royal highness a t this Court are, by the Queen's pleasure, considered as equ o ° lent to presentations to her Majesty. The Prince of Wales, escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards, and attended by his gentleme n in waiting, arrived at the Palace from Marlboroug h House about two o'clock, and was received by th e great officers of State of the Queen's household. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived, at' tended by Lieut. Haig. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived, attended by Col. Tyrwhitt. His Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe wa s present at the Levee. Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Hon. Corps ° I Gentlemen at Arms was on duty in the Sta te saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant. The Royal Bodyguard of the Yeomen of th e Guard were on duty, under the command of Cal )t ' Rickford, the Exon in Waiting. New Basis for an Administration. From the Free Press for the current month , March, 1866 (No. 3 of Vol. XIV.), we extract th e following remarkable and striking article : Whilst Lord Palmerston lived he ruled. Tha t only was done or l e ft un d one w hi c h h e desired t 0 accomplish or prevent. The word s b e l ong ing .t° 3 prior order lingered indeed f or a ti me, an d , 4 44 internal poli c y, ,, Tory policy," (4 Whig policy , distinctions between " internal and " external ple a ; sures" still continu e d t o g i ve fl uency to a l ea d e r an an apparent meaning to a phrase in a debate. Sc' ls l at last, it is known that thi ngs were d one because It was his will to do them ; an d th a t th oug h these things pertained nominally t o th e domain °ci " Foreign Affairs," they constituted the sum An d substance of our internal and domestic policy al i existence, either by reaction on our c on dition or ° u our minds. Either expenditure was imposed by " foreign policy," or the attention of the nation was so e ll ; gaged in " foreign policy," that it h a d non e left fo r domestic measures. To such a degree was this reaction exerted, as reverse the effects of the great measures passed during the period—the R e f orm Bill an d th e repea l of the corn laws ; ou t o f th e fi rs t th ere h av i n g be e f worked interventio n an d expen di ture, an d out of the second an increase of the price of grain. But this man was a system. The system 313 : not perceived at the ti me . N ever th e l ess , it was : system. It was met by a counter-system disr"' garded at the time, but now a t l as t perceived to if 7. a system. The first syst em did no t c onsist In maxims to be propounded for acceptance, and then carried into effect by bill or o th erw i se , but in net 4s ' The character was, therefore, active. The coun ter ' system was consequently passive. It proposed itself to stop Lord Pal mers t on i n w h a t h e w as abon , It said—." You know not where you stand or what you are about ; your agent is playing ink': —stop him." It emphatically used the words In anticipation of the Crimean war : Manse' your Government" (1853). The position is eon veyed in the words of Kossuth in 1855: "fo ur policy is a negative poli c y ;, it i s a persona l poli cy; Give us something specific; tell us what to do. There was nothing to be done save to go on shoal' ing that each ac t was i n j ur i ous, in order to arrive that Parliamentary inquiry which might end In overthrowing the domination of an individual. 6 On the death of L or d P a l merston th e scene changes. Relief and b rea thi ng t i me i s a ff or ded not to England only, but t o th e wor ld . The collates system can come forth with "something specifill'e,„ and tell the Gover nmen t an d th e peop l e w h a t 4 may and ought to do." The proposition has been made to them through the columns of th e F ree P ress, an d cons i s t s in t he recovery of England's external power, placed ~1 0 abeyance and je o p ar di se d b y th e suspens i on of 11 ' 4 law of nations ; an d th e recovery o f t h e i n te r nal and constitutional law, by - which the prerogative o v t the Crown may b e exerc i se d l ega ll y and with°oo danger. This p o li c y i s expresse d i n the wer (ls o f often repeated in these columns. " Ab ro gation be the Declaration of Paris," " Reconst ruc tion of t Privy Council." These propositions Mr. Urquhart, during tli t ° , past month, has had the o pp or t un it y ora lly of P li _ t ting to the test i n th ree o f th e most i m ports 7, counties—Lancashire, Yorkshir e , an d Northumb r e ho land. It has not b een b e f ore l arge assem bli es . (1 to Foreign Affairs Committ ees i nv it e d th e i r f r iends meetings on these subjects, and the result has be en ' in all, confirmat or y reso l u ti on ', or pe ti t i ons to Pl c, liament, or memorials to the Queen. At Neweas $ indeed, a nume r o us p u bli c mee ti ng c l ose d witih t o resolution to petition Parliament in favour of claims of the United States. But the same tea when put by M r . U rqu h ar t i n hi s s p eec h, show, the same result,—the hearty acceptance of the Pr o , posal to rescind the great measure of Lord Pali° ston's life, and to re-establish th a t con t ro l over" Minister by the absence of which hi s lif e h as broug' such a calamity on the human race. The restoration of the Privy Council, up to O i l hour so offensive to all classes of politicians 511 0 f writers, has now emerged from under the ban a repression, and has been treated in a masterly a' s unanswerable manner in a series of a paper Liverpool journal, the re p r i n t o f which 1 , 9 11° 0 1. within reach of the committees, h av i ng been find lected for their use. In this pamphlet they will confirmati on o f th e i r f a i t h , an d an arsena l o f vi es pons to use against the deluded, the perverse/ 3 —worst of all—the indifferent. On the other subject ik ect v s ss iOf , the Declaration of s , ir , Mr. Urquha r t' s v i s it has opportunely preceded e Gregory's motion in the House of Commons• b l e b give in extenso two lette r s to th a t ge n tleman, s v „ of leave us little to say as to the debate itself, 0nv,,, 0 r these letters having been written before, the 01 '" after, the motion. gag In these cognate and conjoint propositions 11 , 4 is raised, and a symbol is given. Here is somet;" . ; p d of the kind agreeable to the " spirit of the age' oil flattering to the self-love, which is the interpret% io of that spirit. Here is something to do. ll er ,.oe at once a theme for the philosophe r an d a cry it De hustings. It can be discussed in journals, it eal' h i, argued in Parliament. It affo r d s a field for O t to ' 5 tion as well as logic ; it may ser v e to institLitra party, and afford the lever to upturn an tion. Were there in high station high qualifies, d by these matters would not remain to be handie, bo ir us, and such thoughts wou ld b e se i ze d on for - , 0 value and their use ; above allfo r the relief they °taro afford to Ministers without a "policy," to u se men without chart or compass. It is only be tll4 such clear and high intelligence is wanting that can come into vulgar and forensic debate. THE PEABODY FUND.—A S LTG GE S Peabody s. b jity trusteesof makingr e full l their y quarter know, 0f a i to th rt e i r i a d realise at least 5 per c e n t., an d a res t ; and if they suceceof in this, some £lO,OOO per annum will in the course) 0 11 ' years be at their command to carry out still further 1110 truly charitable purpose of the noble American. ler° t a working-classes themselves as fully alive to the la-worts/J:0 of this matter as they ought to be, they possess the 1 11e3 _,t and the organisation for co-operating in this most itnport.sox;t of social schemes for promoting their own domestic corailla and happiness. Surely the power which can organise 5 1A spend thousands of pounds on strikes might for onc e tb i turned in the direction we have in d i cated. Wi ll the o°Bl and industrial classes of the metropolis allow Mr. Pet 4 and a few others to monopolise the,.bonour and the 10,1%.,,, of promoting ono of the greatest social necessities ? should like to see our bankers and merchant princos'so, two hundred and fifty of them—each put down h is 11.. ~ to sand pounds, and present this fresh quarter of roi 1b0 ; of the trustees of the Peabody gift, as a memorial at orle; his munificence and their own heartfelt pract i ca l intere s ' or , a scheme so homely and unostentatious, yet so nec essiL f° r as that of providing docent and comfortable dw elling the people of this QM-ZrOlYlimetropolie.—lnquircr,