The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-08 00:00:00

H THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.O BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, f)r all ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SUN'S. • OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom pauyirg their Sons there is a separate de r:urine:A for BoSs ' Clothing, and it is fur niAied with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-►neasure introduced by E. os ES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless tit. Any ariiclo not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will no returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats Ind Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un aqualled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Completo Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON, Ready - made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitter for all Classes. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATF.. .NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. ETE R MAJESTY'S DRAWING ROOM to be held at Buckingham Palace, on WEDNES DAY, March 9th, 1870. REGUL.A.TIONS TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTIONS. PERSONS HAVING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE -- ENTREE. SETTING DOWN. —The Carriages of Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, and other persons having the Entrde, may proceed by Grosvenor-place and Buckingham Palace road, or through the Horse Guards and St. James's Park, and set down at the Buckingham Gate Entrance to the Palace. The Carriages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves may proceed by Con stitution Hill or Marlborough Gate, and set down at the Eiuerrie3' Entrance in the Fore Court of the Palace. WAITING AND TAKING UP.--1 he Carriages of Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, and Cabinet Ministers having a Red Ticket from the Lord Steward, may wait in Bird Cage Walk. The Carriages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves, having a Green Ticket from the Lord Steward, may wait in the Fore Court of the Palace. The Carriages of other persons, having a White Tic' et from the Lord Steward, may wait in Bird Cage Walk, as directed by the Police. All, except the Carriages of the Great Officers of State and White Staves, take up at the Buckingham Gate Entrance. PERSONS NOT HAVING THE PRIVILEGE OF THE ENTREE. SETTING DOWN.—The Carriages of persons not having the entrée may proceed by Marlborough Gate or by Buckingham Gate into St. James's Park, and set down at the principal Entrance in the Quadrangle of the Palace. WAITING AND TAKING UP.—The Carriages are to wait in the Mall in St. James's Park, as directed by the Police, take tip the reverse way to setting down, and go away 9ither by Marlborough Gate or Buckingham Gate. The public traffic through St. James's Park and Bird Cage Walk will be stopped at 2 p.m. until the Drawing Room is over. Carriages will be stopped by the Police at any place, when necessary, to prevent obstructions. No Hack ney Carriage is to be admitted within the Gates of Buck ingbam Palace. Servants waiting are to remain where directed by the Police. E. Y. W. FIEND ERS ON, The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police Office, 4, Whitehall place, March 7, 1870. THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST, PATRICK. Instituted in the year 1784. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal highness the Prince of WALES, The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES TIVAL of this Society will to celcbrated at Willie's Roo.ns, King-str. , t, S. James's, on ST. PA TRICK'S DAY, the 17th Match. Ib7o, His Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, K.G., in the Ch..ir, VICE- PItfi,IDENTS. The Marquis of Lansdowne. 'rite Marquis of Headfort, K.P. The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egmont. The Earl of Clonmell. The Earl Vane. The Viscount Bective, M.P. The Viscount Harbertoo. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. The Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P. The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P. The Lord Dunsany. The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. STEWARDS. The Right lion. William Cowper-Temple, M.P. The Right Hon. Francis Plunkett Dunne. Colonel the Hon. Dudley Fitzgerald de Rots. The Hon. Robert Harris Temple. Lieut.-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.5.1., C.B. Sir George Frederick Harvey, Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, R.N. Sir Edward Coop. John F. Corscaden, Esq. James Courtenay, Esq. Alexander Findlater, Esq. Montague Guest, Esq., M.P. Thomas Greg, Esq. lon Trant Hamilton, Esq., M.P. Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Hemans. • Robert 31•Calmont, Esq. Morgan John O'Connell, Esq. Joseph Radcliff, Esq. Captain Hugh de Grey Seymour, M.P. The Musical Arrangements will be under the direction of Mr. Land, of the London Glee and Madrigal Union. Dinner on table at Seven o'clock punctually. As this Festival affords to Irishmen in London the opportunity of uniting in the celebration of the national anniversary, the committee earnestly hope for a numerous an l influential meeting. Tickets, 21s. each, to be had at Willis's Rooms, and at the Schools, in Stamford -street, Blackfriars-road. The Children Dine, as uusal, on St. Patrick's Day, at the Schools, at One o'clock. THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun., Secretary. FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), In Certificates of £lOO each, bearing 5 per cent. [lnterest. To be issued at £BO. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Westbury. Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. Geo. Wodehouse Currie, E-q. G. M. W. Sandford, Esq. Philip 'Rose, Esq. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. The success of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an extension of this mode of investment. In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has been determined t o open a su b scr i ption for a second issue not exceeding £600,000, in Certificates of XICO, to bear 5 per cent. interest, to be issued at £BO. The object, which is now well understood, is to give to the Investor of moderato means the same advantages as the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by spreading the investment over a number of different Stocks, and reserving a portion of the extra interest and the amounts received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub s7.riber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion in these different Stocks, which will remain when the return of the original capital has by these means been accom ,d. ,e Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five , at the expiration of which time it is estimated that ;e proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi lave been paid off, and that a large proportion of the s will still remain for distribution as a reversion; singly the Trust will be wound up as soon as all the ccates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks then sold, and any Certificates nut previously drawn first p off, after which the balance will form the ion to be distribute:l pro rata. each £BO of thu - total amount subscribed will be a etltiticate of 10) wi h.(!oupons attached, bearing cent. int,rest, iliyalAr, at the Banking-house of Glyn, Mills, Currie, nod ''n. half yearly, on the 7 January land the 15th of July, the first Coupon for portion of the half year falling duo on the 13th xt. ldition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repro ; the share ace, wing to the Certificate -holde r in the eversion, will bo attached to each Certificate. of Reversion wit be retained by the holder when rtificate is drawn, and entitle him to a pro rata divi ' the ultimate reversion. advantages of the investment may be summed up Ws: uterest at .ffls. bs. per cent. on the amount sub tqn ibcd. bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment of capi tal at par. reversion, eventually divisible among the holders of ho Coupons of Reversion. ication to be made in the annexed Form, accom by a deposit of £lO per cent. tents to be made as follows; 'On application £lo b 0 On allotment 7O, 0 0 .fBO 0 0 a and Fortni of Application may be ob- JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY Toon' PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Rod Bull Wharf, 93, Upper T hames- street, London. plishec Tho Tj t. ,:la a r r s g , e ht neks "ord. •- rs, t -ig f .• . or ted F of proi Eh , it ad sug • "VO tpon tier on of Alto a idiot - • 1. 1 esc• of 'Pr; pnglS o siTi( 4 10 It . he d tainod of W. B. nose, Esq., Secretary, anti of 11 , ..tgrs. Baster, Rose, Norton, and Co., Solicitors, at the snort' address ; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must b 3 paid. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE). To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, London). !laving paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of the Foreign and Uolouial Government Trust (Second Issue), the sum of £ , as a Deposit on Cer tificates of .£l.O each in the said Trust, I request you to allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to pay the further Instalment of £7O per Certificate upon that or any lesser number that you may allot to in at the time named in the letter of allotment, in default of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name Ad , ircs3 Description Signature p OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—Ti.e ANNUAL GENE RAL 3 EET iNG or this Institution will be he,tl at the /N DON TAVERN, Bishopk:gatc-street, on TUESDAY, the :sth instant, at Two o'e Gel: precisely. Bic Grace the Duke of NOterHUMB P. R LAN D, President of the Institution, in the Chair. RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphi, March 5. rIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. L. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PHOBITS FIX: the Yokes Family. After which, at 7.4 , PEEP 0' DAY: Messrs J. B. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Barrett, J. Neville, F. Charles, C. Moore Kintyre, W. F. Yokes, and F'. Vokes ; Mesdames Edith Stuart, Barrett, Michelle, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosina Yokes rHEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS F VENING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION. I After which, at 20 minutes to 8, t JUR AMERICAN COUSIN ; Characters by Mr Sotheru, Mr Buckst.ne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr ti ogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with DE kF AS A POST: Mr Compton and Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. Box-office open daily front Ten till Five. f'.IIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING. at Seven O ; elOck, BLOW FOR BLOW: Mr Henry J. Byron ; Messrs J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson• Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, Miss Eliza Johnstone, and Miss M. Harris. To be followed by, at Nine, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr. H. J. 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Herve : Mes dames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir 14 LOYAL STRAND THEATRE. fi, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7. THE AT LAW: liesrs. S. Clarke, D. Jame+, Crouch; Mesdames Burton and Claire. Followed by THE TODD LES: Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Messrs Thome. James, Fenton, Turner Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. THE LATE EDITION of "THI SUN " at J. SMITHS, 39, Bow-atreet, Covent-garden. THE"SUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. R. Cb...ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road, ielivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as published. IM LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to T 1 - be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOOICS. tt.itannia, Mensal New-town. SPORTING. —JOHN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub- Bath-streAt. City-road. 17 0. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" a JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-etree S rand. 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Including brush. Red Trull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames 3treet London. E.O. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PHOBUS' FIX: the Vokes Family. At 7.45, PEEP 0' ()AY: Messrs. J. P. Howard, Lewis Nanton, Bar rett, J. ' eville, F. Charles, C. Moore, M'lntyre, W. F. yokes, and Fred. Voices; Mesdames E. Stnart. Barrett, 't ichells, Amy Roselle, Hastings, Harper, and Rosins Yokes THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'nits EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION. After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; 3leesrs Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale fie.; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENTING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. After which, PAUL LAFARGE; Messr3 W. Vignola. G. Be!more, Voltaire; MPsdimes It. Leelereq and Lethiere. Followed by A DARK NIGH S WORK: Messrs Rignold, Belmore, Crellin ; Miss Roso Lecaereq and Miss Barnett THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tats EvoriNG, at Seven o'clock, BLOW FOR BLOW Mr Ifenry 3. Byron, J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, Miss Furtado. Lavie, Miss Eliza John stone, &c. At 9, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr Henry J. Byron LYCEUM THEATRE. TIM EVENING, at 7.10, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER And CHILPERIC: M. Marine, G Vincent, Odell, A. Cook, Lnpierre, and M. Herve; Mesdames Dobiro, Fitz- Inman, Roinanelli, Nellie Nesbit, an:l Miss Emily Muir. 110 AL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessen awl 31 anagnnIss,Mrs.Swanborough. rns EvENT:m. at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mr Clarke. Mr .lames, Miss Bufton, &c. With TILE TOODLES. Concluding with INO. WOODIN'S CARPET • 11.1(1. AND SKETCH BOOT: Egyptian !Tall, Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) a 3; Saturday Motnings at 3. Admission, Is, 2a, 3e. CHRISTY MTNSTRELS. St. James's Ilan, Every Night, at S WednesdAys and :Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. Z)OLOGICAL GMIDENS, Regent's-pall. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adullesion, ls.; on Alendays. 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL AL TT AMB It A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-offiee open from 11 to 4. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening TT:MAY 40 min past 5 54 min past 5 WEDNESDAY 10 min past 6 20 min past 6 THURSDAY 50 min past 6 10 min past 7 FRIDAY,. ......... ,„86 min past 7, 5 min past 8 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1870. itt/jv LONDO.N, TUESDAY, 11.IARC11 8, 1870. THE exertions of Canon Girdlestone and others have been the means of causing the condition of the agricultural labourer to become a prominent matter of debate on most occasions of discussion, and to occupy a certain amount of attention on the part of all personsinterested in the various national questions of the present generation. Of all that has been said and written on this subject much, no doubt, has been the result of actual experience and observation. On the other hand, the occupations of business men, and the difficulty attending a non-professional search into a social mystery as old as the British Con stitution, have forced many persons to accept state ments and ideas, the correctness or incorrectness of which they had no means of ascertaining. It is a matter of congratulation that there are such things as Royal Commissions in the land. As a rule abstract theories and dogmas founded upon prejudices, and sometimes even upon -imaginary ideas fade into insignificance when confronted by plain practical evidence. The second report, is now published of the Assistant Commissioners appointed to inquire into the employment of children, young persons, and women, in agriculture. Like its predecessor, it em bodies a vast amount of the evidence 'we have been in' search of—evidence from the mouths of both fliployers and employed. Taking as a basis of nquiry the question as to whether or not legis ation is required to fix the age below _which no child shall be allowed to work, we find that on this point a variety of opinion is expressed. ).11 classes of persons have been interrogated, or have volunteered statements, from the peer of the realm to the wretched little "bird-keeping" boy of seven years old. In some parts of the country the condition of our agricultural labourers in general, and of the boys, women, and children in particular, is re2re sented as deplorable. In other parts men of sound practical sense and great experience deckle that the outcry for legislation has no sufficient grounds to stand upon. Probably both descriptions are correct when applied to the particular localities they refer to. Thus, a meeting of Hampshire farmers, presided over by Lord Northbrook, had no objection to a limit of ten years being fixed as the earliest ago at which children should be allowed to go to work, which resolution may be accounted for by the fact that there happens to be a plentiful supply of labour in the district from which the meeting drew its opinions, and a wish on the part of parents to send their children to school. But in the same county the New Forest Board of Guardians thought the best limit would be eight years, inas much as if boys were not allowed to work till they were ten years of OA they would hereafter be bad labourers. More than once throughout the evidence is this opinion expressed and the doctrine laid down that the best agriculturists are those who begin work at a very early age. A Cheshire clergyman, expres sing the opinions of his farmer acquaintances on this point, complains that Government school inspectors can't or won't understand that agricultural is technical education. Taking an individual opinion on the question amongst others of whether any work is injurious to the women and children engaged it, we visit North Wilts, where we find that Mr. Edward Little, of Lanhill, near Chippenham, states positively, after thirtyyears experience of farming, that he knows of no employment which he considers injurious to women and children. He can recollect no such cases in his neighbourhood. There would not be enough boys for the work in this district, if the age was restricted to ten years. Of the boys in his employment, the best is one who began work at six years of age. He can now read and write. Mr. Little believes that boys who can do the three R.'s fairly make the best labourers, and he adds that the schools of the neighbourhood are attended by children as regularly as can be desired. Passing from one ex tremity of Wiltshire to another, Mr. Geo. Mannings, of Downton, informs the Assistant Commissioner that he thinks a boy can be well spared on a farm till he is ten years old. The wages they earn under that age are of little service to the parents. Here, how ever, we are told that the parents don't care any thing at all about education. They formerly considered it of value, but they do not now. Very different is the feeling of a labourer in the North of England, who told Yr. Tre menheere—the gentleman appointed to explore that part of the country in search of facts—that, labourer as he was,." he knew that scholarship was the only chance for children getting on in the world ; and the thought of not being able to give it to his children often made him unhappy." The rate of wages , paid to small boys throughout the country seems somewhat inadequate to make up for the want of schooling, which is necessitated by their employment. On the score of low wages, or even of no wages, the village of Halberton, in Devon shire, bears away the palm. The Hon. E. Portman elicited from two urchins of eight and nine years of age the histories of their little lives. One told him that he had been out bird-scaring at 3d. a week, wet and dry, from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. The other received his victuals instead of wages for the same service, wet or dry, from four a.m. to eight p.m. In most parts, when a boy is promoted from the noble occupation of bird-scaring to that of pig-keeping, his daily pay increases, and when he attains to the honour of the plough, the cart, or the sheepfold (as assistant to the shepherd) he usually receives upwards of 4s. a week, which increases by degrees until he earns the wages of a full-grown man. Prominent amongst districts Where education is considered in preference to the scanty earnings of, child, is the greater part of the county of Kent. The average ago at which children here leave school. IEIIO or 11. Until then they aro not needed b - y the farmers, and not employed. In Cheshire vtry few English women ever engage in farm labour, and the number of these is rapidly diminishing. Numbers of Irish women, however, are employed in the potato fields. Tho gang system, having been dealt with by law, is become nearly obsolete in many parts of the country. A system prevails, however, of sending six. or twelve women out weeding under the superintendence of an old man. Cottage accommodation is A prominent matter of comment throughout the evide ace. Besides the excessive crowding, injurious to h eal ,h and morals, which is the burden of all the rerta; ks, Mr. Stan hope found that in Dorsetshiro the. 2ingle upstairs window was very frequently not made to open ! Ono noble earl is setting the example to landlords by building his cottages with film rooms above and three below. This policy does. not suit many of the private speculators—often the.'village , " statesmen " who build or purchase cottages for the poor. In Berkshire Mr. Cully obtained f !enuine answers from the very men who could be: rt satisfy him by truthful replies. One cottager told I Lim he shared a bedroom with a son, a daughter, and . two nephews; while another, after describing a similar state of things, aptly added, "most like r sir." A third sail: "My boy can't real nor write y no more can't I, no more can't his mother. T avi3ll we could." Altogether, the answers with w tich the Connuis sioner's cirealars have been filled liffer widely in their sentiments on most poin. A ; great majority, however, agree in w lug .hat the present system of out-door labour by women ani l children are are not injurious to their health, o cept in cases of turnip-pulling in wet weathorpstrftinint •of the body by carrying too heavy milk-pails, ant:. ex ; optional work of descriptions which no rigl.c,-;nin, led employer would permit. The tendency to immo. •ality caused by a too indiscr:'_.inate mixture of the 'erns, both when at work all in the cc ttagos, is generally acknowledged. So also in most cases is the c 'rawback primary education receives by t' early gointAforth to the fields of young child ren . .., We may notice one gore._ r at tliati half been adducted. A table has been prepared, showing the percentage of marriages at which marks were substituted for signatures in the year 1805. In Kent, which appears to be the best educated county, twenty per • cent. of the men, and an equal number of the women, wore unable to write their names; while in Stafford the number of marks instead of signatures amounts to no less than fifty-six per cent. of the men, and forty-seven per cent. of the women. From this piece of evidence, then, it may be pretty safely said that if no legislation is required to restrain little children from labour on account of the physical effect on their bodies, it cer tainly is required for the purpose of enabling the existing generation of the country to ,affix their names to the marriage register, and to otherwise reap in their future lives the advantages of reading, writing, and arithmetic. There is no evi dence, however diverse, without a balance on one side or other. And, despite assertions to the contrary, there cannot be the slightest doubt that in many dis tricts the labourer is deplorably underpaid, wretchedly housed, and his children ill-educated, because their future is sacrificed to the wants of a needy present. the debate which opened last night on the second reading of the Irish Land Bill cannot fail to prove interesting and instructive. It is the first time during a long period that this great question has been made the subject of formal discussion in Parliament; and the leading statesmen on the Opposition benches are as yet unpledged. We have heard that they oppose and dislike divers remedies; but whilst they have admitted that some settlement of the tenure problem is necessary, they have displayed remarkable ingenuity in concealing the terms which they would deem satisfactory. The nation will be curi ous to learn what length the Conservative party is prepared to go. It is not intended, however, that this great debate should have any serious termi nation. Notwithstanding the laudable efforts of Mr. Bryan to produce an explosion, these pleasing and useful oratorical fireworks are to go off quietly. No party or organised opposition to the second reading is announced. And, judging by appearances, it would seem that the triumph of the Government, in the Lower House at least, will be short and easy. A variety of amendments are threatened in committee, but none of them is at present supported by a force likely to•make an impression on the serried ranks of the Ministerial host. Indeed the arrangements forthe improvement or mutilation of the bill are remarkably clumsy and confused. Between the Conservative party and its chief organ, the Standard, there is at present no sympathy ; for whilst the leaders make no opposition to the second reading, the Standard furiously fulminates against the Government measure as ono of confiscation—just as it denounced the Ministerial policy on the emigration question, though scarcely any Conservative members supported Mr. Torrens's motion. Still more remarkable is the case of the Irish mem bers. These requested Mr. Gladstone to extend the Ulster tenant right to the whole of Ireland— a very reasonable proposition, though it would now involve a large reconstruction of the bill ; but at the same time they gave to the Utster custom a definition which does not, and never did, belong to it. Their demand was plainly the right of con tinuous occupancy, which is only another name for the very fixity of tenure which Mr. Gladstone, in bringing in the bill, de clared the Government could not countenance. Unable to persuade the Premier that black could be made white by a mere definition, the Irish members, with the utmost calmness and gravity, have devised, and mean to recommend, a scheme which differs from the Government proposals mainly in being applied as a uniform rule to the whole country. Surely, if the Irish mem bers stand upon fixity of tenure, they are sacrificing their principles by resting satisfied with this new alternative ; and if their last proposal repre sents their opinions, their remarkable "Ulster tenant-right " manoeuvre looks very much like the itinerant auctioneer's expedient of setting upon an article three or four times the price he is prepared to take. The Government can have but little to apprehend from opposition conducted ou these principles. effn b. l ot ' C I D Iliscnbr SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE IRISH LAND DILL, It seemed on Monday night, says the Times, as if the demand for an Irish Parliament had at length been con ceded by common consent. Mr. Gladstone formally moved the second reading of the Land Bill at five in the after noon, and for many hours afterwards nothing was heard but the voices of Irish members. When at length the re,presentative of an English constituency ventured to take part in the debate, he proved to be a member of an Irish family, intimately bound up with the history of the island for more than a century past. The debate was, in truth, Irish in every respect save o n e—it was dull. Mr. Bryan, who moved the rejection o f th e secon d rea di ng, had only the fluency of an average Englishman. Captain White's rhetoric was of a different stamp, and showed marks of training which are rarely found in a maiden speech ; while in Mr. O'Reilly Dease the House enjoyed eloquence of a typical Milesian character. But the tone of the evening was laboriously solemn. It may be gathered that the substantial result of the first night's debate on the Irish Land Bill was not great. So far as criticism went we may observe that the clause professing to legalisethe - Ulster custom w as d enou nee d us inadequate. Sir Hervey Bruce and Sir Frederick Hey gate, as Ulster members, roundly declared that it was impossible to define the custom of the province. Mr. Bryan's declaration that the bill as it stands allows the landlord to appropriate the value of the holder's Tenant Right was confirmed in several quarters, and very feebly met by the Chief Secretary. The practical result of the discussion was to ivove that the work now to to be done is to perfect the bill in committee. Its prin ciples are accepted as affor..ling the prospect of a just and sufficient solution of the Irish Laud question, and the labours of the House of Commons must be directed to a careful examination of the reveral amendments of its details that have been or may bo catered on the Notice Book. The Daily News observes that the beginning of the de bate was curious. The opposition to the bill proceeded from the Liberal side. One Irish member moved, and another seconded, the rejection of the measure which had been heralded months and almost years in advance as the panacea for all the wrongs of Ireland, and as the instrument of its regeneration. The first night of the Irish Land debate is chiefly memorable as having elicited the sentiments of Irish members on both sides of the House, and for an able speech by Mr. Chichester Fortescue, in which he reviewed the course of legisla tion from the time of Mr. Sharman Crawford, and defended the equity and policy of the bill in its dealings with the several customs and localities of Ireland. The opinion of the Irish members is not, of course, decisive, but it must form one of the features in the ultimate solution. They will do well, however, to remember that the best may sometimes be the worst enemy of the good. If they be taken as fair ex ponents of the wishes of the Irish people, the Government, on the other hand, as Mr. Fortescue's speech showed, can jndge with more accuracy of the conditions under which alone effect can be given to those wishes. If the bill in its present form should not prove a settlement of the land question, its passage into law would be at least a step towards a settlement. The goal, if not absolutely won, would be nearly approached. DEBATE ON NEW ZEALAND. The Standard declares that in the debate on New Zea land the substance of Lord Granville's apology for himself was in fact that his predecessors, and Lord Carnarvon especially, had done precisely the same as ho had done. The Colonial Minister laboured to prove that there was not a single foolish act or intemperate expression of his which had not a warrant in the dispatches of his noble friends opposite. As a party rejoinder, this may be considered, p er h aps, perfectly fa i r and becoming. But is it possible to conceive anything more paltry in a statesman giving an account to the nation of his policy? What has the country to do with the fact that some of Lord Granville's predecessors were almost as foolish and as wrong as himself ? The pre sent colonial policy is no less "miserable and shabby," as Lord Carnarvon styled it, because it goes but a little fur ther than other men's policies. What wo want to know is why such a policy is necessary. What is the reason for the immediate withdrawal of the Queen's troops from New Zealand ? Lord Granville was unable to give any de cent one on Monday night. The country will learn that rather than yield a jot of his arbitrary decree Lord Granville is willing to run the risk of the loss of New Zealand. By his own showing he has no better reason for carrying out his policy than that it has been sanctioned by the tradi tions of Dow - ning-street. He will exact his paltry bond at any cost, and prefers his consistency to the integrity oi: the empire. Let only the spirit of the New Zealanders be equal to ours in this miserable business, and we may reckon on the loss of New Zealand as the first fruit of the Liberal colonial policy. THE MISSING STEAMSHIP. No news of the City of Boston steamer has yet been received. The nominal premium is now seventy guineas, but no business has lneu done. The Helvetia steamship, just arrived at Liverpool, reports great quantities of field and berg ice, which is six weeks earlier than usual. The most sanguine are now beginning to feel hopeless as to her safety. A NEW APPOINTMENT. Mr. Kernan, Q.C., of the Irish bar, has been ap pointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Madras. The salary is £4,000 per annum. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCITE- QUER'S SURPLUS. A petition has been forwarded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Manchester Home-trade Association, asking the right hon. gentleman, if he had any surplus, to consider the claims of sugar and coffee for a further reduction of duty. THE STATE OF IRELAND. The Government, it is confidently stated, have decided to at once ask Parliament to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. The Grand Jury of Westmeath have recommended the adoption of the following suggestions :—The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the proclaimed districts, and the formation of a detective force independent of, but connected with, the police; the power of local taxation for outrages against property, to be ex tended to outrages against the person ; and a change of the incidence of taxation from land to residence. LORD STRATLINAIRN'S RETIREMENT. Lord Strathnairn's approaching retirement was discussed in the Dublin Corporation yesterday. Sir W. Carroll eulogised him, and Councillor Sullivan, a Nationalist, uttered bitter invective against him, saying that he who had blown Sepoys from his guns in India was selected on that account by the Government to play the part of military satrap in Ireland. SIR SAMUEL BAKER'S EXPEDITION. News from Sir Samuel Baker's expedition is fur nished in a letter from Cairo. The arrival of Sir Samuel and party at Kartouw, the capital of Soudan, has been previously announced, and they awaited there the arrival of Mr. Higginbotham, the engineer deputed by Sir Samuel to superintend the engineering department of the expedition. He had under his charge the bulk of the heavy baggage, including the river steamers built by Messrs. Samuda, 'of London, and expedited by them in piecemeal. Sir Samuel and the whole of his forces, including Mr. Higginbotham and the train of baggage, have felt Kartouin en route for Gondokoro. Sir Samuel dwells at length in his official report on the general efficiency of the ex pedition in all its departments. The commissarkt arrangements, to which his Excellency Sherif Pasha devoted so much time and care throughout the in terminable summer months of last year, surpassed Sir Samuel's most sanguine expectations. lie felt elated at the satisfactory commencement of the expedition and the hope of arriving at Gondokoro before the setting in of the rainy season in April. Mr. Bright Lopes to go to Llandudno in thl courso of a week or ten days. Fenianism has at length been held a disqualifica tion for keeping a publichouse. At St. Helen's yesterday a man applied for the transfer of a beorhouso licence. The police objected, on the ground that the man harboured Fenians in his house, and a policeman stated that ho had many times seen Fenians in the house, and had repeatedly seen the "head centre" in the house. The magistrates declined to grant the licence. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 7. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went out. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELL LUENCE (lIEC'"ER'S TELEGIZAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, March 8. In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body, General Lebauef, the Minister of War, in reply to an interpellation of Count Sabon, made the follow ing announcement in reference to the Algerian Administration : " Until a new order of things shall be established, all military affairs will remain subject to the excep tional measures of the present day ; but as regards civil affairs the authority of the General in com mand will be limited as in France. " The Prefects will be dependent only on the Governor-General of the Colony, and will no longer be subordinate to the military commanders." BOURSE, March 7.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : II per Cent. per Cent End of month 74 571 Credit Mobilier ~ 245 Transatlantic 217 50 Credit Fancier 1330 Paris Gas 1770 Suez Canal 346 25 RAILIVAI Orleans Bank Shares 2890 Ital'an rives 55 80 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 332 50 Do. Debt 46 25 Spanish Threes ~„ 26i Homo Debt — Deferred ...... '6, Cash ... 100.8-} Western ~ Northern., ,-. -... 6464 I•••• 1170 Strasburg • • 6lO Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 625 Sardinian Austrian Lombard. 7974 5064 North of Spain Saragossa Roman SPAIN. MADRID, March 7. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes, the Minister of the Colonies brought forward the Cuba and Por to Rico Budget. BAVARIA. MUNICH, March 8. The resignation of Prince Hohenlohe was ac cepted by the King yesterday, and Count Bray has been appointed as his successor. Prince Hohenlohe has been appointed Councillor of State, and Capitulaty of the Royal Order of St. Hubert. AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 7. The Guion steamship Colorado arrived here yesterday. The steamship India (of the Anchor line) ar rived out to-day. The Cunard steamer Palmyra arrived out at 1 a.m. yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at. 1121 ; the highest quotation dur ingithe day was 113 D the lowest, 1121. Sterling Exchange on London loBk. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 lllf. " 1885 llof. " 1867 llOl. 10.40 Illinois 136. Erie Clotton—Mitl. upla❑d 22lc. Petroleum—Standard White 2Be. Flour, extra state, $4.90c. to $5.50e. Corn, old [nixed, sl.2e. PORTLAND, March 7. The Allan steamship Hibernian arrived out to- day. QUEENSTOWN, March 8. The Tnman Royal Mail steamer City of Brooklyn, from New York, arrived here at 5.30 a.m. to-day, and, having landed passengers, proceeded imme diately for Liverpool. All well. The City of Brooklyn brings New York advices three days later than the Minnesota, which arrived here with the United States mails. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, March 7. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria leaves at one this afternoon for Southampton. All well. She may be looked for on Saturday morning, the 12th inst. 711 E UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. CAMBRIDGE, Monday. The towing path was crowded with spectators to a greater extent than we have seen this year, and abundant interest was manifested in the events to be witnessed on the Cam. First in interest was the University boat, which Mr. Morrison took for an other long row of about twelve miles into the Fens. They started off at a fair pace, and after the race for the amateur championship of the Cam, they went down the Long Reach with a good long stroke of 36 per minute. At Baitsbite loch:they had an easy, and Spencer, who had been rowing No. 2, gave place to Close, the champion. The crew then went down to Bottisham and back to the Railway-bridge. They were gone about an hour and a quarter, and they came round Ditton, rowing a lively stroke of 38 or 39 a minute ; but, on getting fairly in the L)ng Reach, they came up to the railway-bridge at the same pace they started—viz., 36 per minute When they pulled up they seemed to be none the worse for their long spin. The crew will take to their eight ship some time this week. We are au thorised to contradict a rumour which has been cir culated in one of our contemporaries, to the effect that Mr. Mac Michael is ill. As he is in most per fect health, and as the reserve four has not been out for the last few days, he has kept in practice rowing 7 of his college eight. OXFORD, Monday Evening. The crew again limited their practice to the short course this afternoon—Mr. T. H. A. Houblon acting as stroke on the two occasions of their row ing to Iffley and back, Mr. Thine coaching from horseback, and Mr. W. H. Longridge, Corpus, steering on an emergency for Mr. Hall, who was prevented from attending the river side. The questions of stroke and fixture are, it appears, still unsettled, as it is not yet definitely arranged who is to have the distinguished honour of occupying. the chief seat in the boat, while the day of the race has not been officially settled, although it is gene rally understood that it will take place in the middle of the week, probably Tuesday,. April 5, when the tide will serve better than on the follow ing day. The alteration from Saturday, the 9th, coupled with the unsettled state of the Oxford boat, is calculated to interfere with the prospects of the "dark blue," which really do not look so " rosy" as we were led to expect at the commence ment of practice. We understand great exertions are being made to induce Messrs. Tinne and Yar borough to row again, in which case confidence would be fully restored. MB. VOYSEY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that Mr. Voysey . has written a letter to his solicitors expressing . his determina tion to abide the result of his appeal to the Privy Council, instead of, as has been suggested to him, compromising the matter by the resignation of his benefice. Into the reasons which ho gives for taking this step it is unneces sary here to enter; we have only to congratulate ourselves on the conclusion at which ho has arrived. Mr. Voysey's line of defence in the court below raised a question of the utmost importance to 'religious freedom in the Church of England, and it would bo serious misfortune to lose this opportunity of having it definitively settled. That question was, it will be remem bered, whether a particular interpretation of certain doc trines enforced by the Articles and Formularies is of necessity to be adopted by all members of the Church, however popular and widespread that interpretation may be. in the case of the doctrines at present in issue, a vast majority is opposed to the latitude of interpretation claimed by Mr. Voysey and his party, and the doctrineg themselves are on both sides admitted to be vital. A decision, therefore, either refusing or confirming the liberty claimed by the minority must deeply affect one way or the other the interests of the Church. THE LICENSING SYSTEM. The Telegraph, in anticipating the debate on the licen• sing system, considers that so far as the metropolis is con cerned, and probably the statement is true also of the largest provincial town; the existing machinery of licen sing magistrates has lost the public confidence. Rightly or wrongly, it is supposed that they can be influenced in many ways ; and, at any rate, they have to answer for the present highly objectionable state of things. We admit that the cases of the metropolis, of the largest provincial towns, and of the rural districts, are different. So essentially different, indeed, are they as to impress us at first with the idea that two bills might have been needed to regulate the whole matter. Our own suggestion for London was, that the power of regulating th e public house traffic should be lodged with the twenty-three stipen diary magistrates of the metropolis, whose decision s h ou ld 1)3 without appeal. From their aily administration of the criminal law, they must know better than any on e else the dangerous points in their respective districts. The clninkard, the rioter, the disorderly woman, the thief, are constantly brought before them; who, then, can better know the usual haunts of crime and vice? Finally,. they are men who cannot be influenced. We - had spoken of London alone ; but, con sidering that the great provincial towns have not helped us to a better suggestion in their own cases, why not make an uniform regulation ? In large towns such as Manchester and Liverpool, why should not the same authority be lodged with the stipendiary magistrate which we may think it right to confer on his professional brother in the metropolis ? Let Mr. Bruce at any rate, try, in the first instance, the effect of placing the licensing of public-houses under the police magistrates. If this should not turn out so satisfactorily as we believe it will, we shall have time enough to advance further in the way of repression. SAD DE:! TR OF A BOY CRIMINAL.—A boy of 15, who had just n cl ergone a month's imprisonment in Belfast Gaol, was t u rwarded, on Thursday last, in charge of a warder of the pr;:91 1 , to Glencree Reformatory, County Wicklow, and died from expoz,uro to the cold while crossing- the " Feather Led " Mountain. It transpired at the inquest that, "in accordance with the regulations," he had been denuded of the warm prison clothing, and his own clothing, described as "miserable rags," substituted. The day was bitterly cold, snow was falling, and in some places was three feet in depth, and the journey was made on an outside car. The horse was unable to drag the car beyond the top of the ynountain, and the youth was placad on the horse's back. with a rug thrown over him. He was unable to retain ;js seat, and was then carried a portion of the journey on the back of the warder, but eventually succumbed to the cold. The jury, in recording their verdict, strongly caisured the prison authorities.--Dublin. E.evress. We have reason to believe (says the Western Morning News), that the Liberal party in East Devon do not not intend to oppose the election of Mr. Kennaway to fill the seat at present nominally occupied by Lord Courtenay, but which will be vacated whenever that gentleman forms a true estimate of what his political friends in Devonshire think of his dog-in-the manger conduct. - • 1V e understand that on satchiday ifie'.;ZZ, instant, at one o'clock, the Postmast6r-General will recoive a deputation of Liberal members of Parliament and others in terested in the proposed reduction of thn rate of inland postage on printed matter to id. for two ounces. The following gentlemen have, we believe, already consented to take part in the deputation :—Sir Thomas Maley, Bart., M.P., Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr. David Chadwick, M.P., Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. John bourns, M.P., Mr. Thbttuts Hughes, M.P., Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P., Mr. A. J. Mundella, M.P., Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, M.P., Mr. William Rathbone, M.P., Mr. Peter Rylands, M.P., Mr. R. Sbaw, M.P., Mr. W. T. M. Torrens, M.P.. and Mr. Watkin Williams, M.P. inure are very Irony atori4,-,3 guzng new workings of tho Publics Works Department. There is a capital account of a certain castor which was lost off an arm-chair, and which entailed requisitions, correspondence, inspections, visits, &c., day after day till a van with two horses and three men came to take off the arm-chair in triumph--..and the castor came off the day after the chair was returned ! Gre it preparations arc to be commenced immedi ately at Belfast for the reception of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales about Easter. Through out the north of Ireland the visit is looked upon as vn event of groat inktest It is rumoured that their 'loyal High nesses will honour the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely avAlt a visit to Ely Lodge, on ono of the islands of Lough —•••••• Mr. Patrick O'Brien, member of the Local Board of Health, Ventnor, has been committed for trial charged with publishing a reflecting on Mr. Fletcher Moor, ati6thotibember of the same board. The silloged libel was printed as an advertisement iu the Isle of Wiyht Me; eury, and contained the words "ill-bred, vu:gar, and brawling braggalt," applied to Mr. Moor. Mr. O'Brien has been a twitted to bail. A retort of Mr. Bright's has been going the rounds. Some little time ago the President of the Board of Trade was dining with a well-known citizen of Cotton opolis' and the conversation turned on the subject of the growth and development Of America. "I should like," said the host, w ho is ari enthusiastic adruirerof the Great Republic, " to come back fifty Sears after my death to see what a tine country America had become." "I believe you would be glad of any excuse to come b.Lck," said Mr. Bright. The London correspondent of the Dublin Mail says:—"l Lave authority from Lord Claud J. Hamilton to say that nothing shall prevent the Madden case from being brought ou, except a previous debate on Irish subjects, raising a general discussion on the whole state of Ireland, and the failure of Government to maintain the peace. Such a debate would necessarily embrace the grave questions raised by Mr. 31adden's letter, and the point whether the Govemnent were justified in distorting its plain meaning, and vindictively removing him from the commission of the VOYSEY ON HIS PRESENT SITIYATIOS, A letter is published from Mr. Voyscy, vicar of go' laugh, who is under prosecution for teaching Unitarianisu l and other heresies in the Church of England. It is ad" dressed from Healaugh Vicarage, under date February 2 3, to Mr. Shaen, the rev. gentleman's solicitor. From this communication, it appears that Mr. Voysey has had his resignation under consideration. Some of hi friends have pressed it on him, and .he 1155 evidently consulted his solicitor on the subject. To Mr. Shaen's reply, he says he has given the most care ful consideration, and also to a commun ication to t he ~ effect that his resignation would not b e ac cepted unless It were accompanied by a personal undertaking on 11 . f. Voysey's part not to accept any other preferment in ti Church of England, and also by a substantial payment a ll account of the costs which have been incurred by prose,: clitors. " I hav e t a k en counse l (Mr. Voysey says) with some o those friends on my committee and m y d e fence fund hs! who, in my opinion, are best able to advise me. It is true that most of them were in favour of my resigning my b ene. flee, provided only that the contest in which I have been engaged engaged were to issue unmistakably in a " drawn ganles, and .that the arrangements bet ween myself and prosecutors should involve no triumph on either In e: The advantage of my thus retiring from the contest might have been very great, beca use it wou ld have le'„ quite undecided those questions of law which! have be e : .n . raised, and this would have prevented the remotest 11 0 s;1 1 ,.. bility of fresh restrictions being put on the liberties of UV' clergy." But Mr. Voysey yet decides not to, re sign. "Since your fi rs t i n t erv i ew w ith Mr. -be e ' events have occurred—more particularly in Convocatiou -- which have materially altered my own view, a nd the view of seine of m friends of what would be - , the probable result on the minds of the Liberal party in Church were I to re s i gn m y living and withclrawmy aPP e : There is somethin g i n th e ver y a t mosp h ere o f the Bed e siastical world which seems to me stifling and paralysiag to all feeling of manly independence. Everywhere, indications a mutual distrust and of a timidity waf makes men, who are otherwise hi g h-p r i nc ipl e d and nob!) adopt a course better suited to render their own path plasant than to uphold, at all cost, the interests of tr uth and liberty, which are vital alike to individual and socia l integrity. I believe that my resignation, however quaa,; fled and explained it might be, wou ld b e rega rded — justly regarded —as another instance of the desertion of a cause, and the abandonment of a principle, far Inal injurious to th e wor ld a t large than any rupture whie, might be inflicted on th e Ch urc h by th e p oss ibl e failure a' my appeal. One determined protest against the Pre vailing cowardice would do more good in the end both to Church and State than any compromise or capitulation; and I cannot ov ercome th e f ee li ng th a t my res ignation would be an attempt to secure my own safety from Ju cial condemnation by the sacrifice of self-respect, and to the detriment of the whole body to which I belong. It is tree, indeed, that I have said all along—and I now repeat—tha t . I have no wish to stay in a Ch urc h w hi c h en f orc es on th e clergy and people the doctrines which I have denounced' But there is only one way in which the Church can no': must first an opinion as to those doctrines. My appeal :as.", first be heard by the Judicial C o mmitt ee of the Privy Council, and no other voice in England is authorised to decide this momentous : question. I will keep and yet adhere to my original terms. What of will not do is either to accept the opinion. „ individuals in place of that judicial deefst e : which I have challenged, or to become my own itlaft; by retiring voluntarily from the Church of England' Mr. Voysey goes on to express the pain he feels at beil prohibited from_ preaching, and then continues :—" wl p s not run away—l will not try to avert the consequen e vi. of my conduct, which I believe to have been right boti,i, in law and morals, by withdrawing the challenge whic h I have thrown down. It is my firm conviction that the my word time has come, or is very near at hand, for a gre amount of daylight and fresh air to be poured in upon t' Articles of our Church ; and then it will be seen not on 1 3r how much at variance with them, as legal documents, 8 1° the sermons of this man or that man, but how universa ll y impossible it is for the clergy to preach or to teach all; wise than in contradiction to some statement o r statemel l , i , contained in the Creeds or Articles. These are legally bin d big, no doubt, but in practice they do not bind a single bishq,.; priest or deacon among us all. Some day it will be se e " how unfair is the attack which has been made upon rl and posterity will only exc use the i n j us ti ce on the score, ( _' ‘ , ignorance and prejudice. No ; I will not go out of ta;° Church. I must first be judicially condemned before : 3 MATE one step beyond the pale of my orders. On t e e Church, throu g h it s hi g h es t cour t, l e t th ere fall th deserved odium of narrowing, in this •age above all oth er `' the limits of f ree th oug ht , and of damming up the exPr e3. sion of honest conviction." ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN. RAILWAY. A serious accident happened on the Great W o ° lll Railway on Saturday evening-, about midway between t' , ,! Stourbridge and Kidderminster stations. B e t wee n the" two places there are sir WI stations at Hagley and Churchill, and the line from the former to the latter is a hes:cl, incline. A coal train of thirty-five waggons was runT l3 ,,i' down this incline at ten minutes after five in the evenl% at the rate of forty miles an hour, when the axle of truck next the engine snapped, and the wheel flew ° hi This instantly threw the train into confusion, and on ten of the waggons remained on the metals. Seventeen or eighteen were smashed and flung about like ton the wheels, grease•boxes, and iron-work were wrenche,„ off, and one or two iron-sided trucks were ripped pieces as though m erel y ma d e o f p aper . O ne -half 0 f the foremost truck wa s carr i e d on a b ou t a quar ter ° a a mile by the engi ne b e f ore th e d r i ver cou ld Pi l „, up, and the fragment was th en j er k e d partly %- the other line of metals. The train was 200 or 300 Yarr from the passenger st a ti on w h en th e w h ee l fl ew o ff tu c l first truck, and a great p ar t o f th e wrec k was d epo sited between the two platfo rms . S even b ro k en waggons of large size were throw n crossways on th e t wo se ts c' t metals ; another stood on en d b e hi n d th em , an d nel to this was another, which had been broken throng d by the momentum behind. Th ese waggon s fer,ln_ e th a complete wedge between the platforms, of which were damaged and pushed outwartr4 ) much DA to need reconstructing for a length of twell or thirty yards. A little further along was a seco n d bl.w kade. A coal truck had been tossed in the air an „ falien top downwards on the opposite side of the line , 'a truck loaded with iron bars rested partly on this &D or partly against another inverted truck,. and eleven .. twelve dislocated wheels lay underneath it. Some of tf . l7 , trucks were pitched over into a siding s and crushed n % pieces ; and altogether the amount of damage d ° was vary great, and seem to surprise even rail-watt?. officials who have had some little experience of rail", casualties. A pair of wheels and other equally ( 13 , 11 8 gerous missiles w e re hurl e d aga i ns t th e b oo ki ng - o ffice, t"j exterior of which was slightly damaged. Coal was jerk% about in all di rec ti ons . The only person near at the tint was a junior port er , w h o was engage d near th e end °f the platform. S ee i ng th e waggons mov i ng a b ou t he 1 1 .) ' t away • from the line as fast as he could, and no cl°% s escaped inju r y, if no t d ea th , b y so d o i ng, f or pies s of iron and coal were whirled over the 61 % . % where he h a d b een. One o f the breaksmen w,,`"„ severely shak en , b ut no one else was hurt. Neither t.t efrgine nor break-van left the metals. A fast passe P g train on the same line was due shortly after the accido,',l and but for this portion of the line being worked on t he block system, it would probably have come on 11 ,,5 -- checked, and been exposed to serious peril, as it r 11 : 4 through Churchhill at 30 or 35 miles an hour . Messag', - . Were sent off to Worcester, Wolverhampton and oth er stations for assistance, and several hundred 'men wed brought to the spot in special trains. Fires were light"i; along the line for them to work by, but the manner i¢ which the trucks were jammed tocrether, es pecis% between the platforms, m a d e it a slow task to clear' t ' - line. It took eleven ho urs t o c l ear one line and the go ocig trains, which had acc umu l a t e d d ur i ng the night, were the sent on, Silt ALMANDIat MILNE.—We have reason 0 believe (says the Pall Mall Gazette) that, after due cones deration, it has been resolved that on promotion to th: rank of Admiral, Sir Alexander Milne will have to s'o' c the command of the Mediterranean fleet, but will b e cow' pensated for the loss he sustains in consequence PI being nominated to the first home port that may becoo lw vacant. • ----- • RAILWAYS IN JAPAN.—The Japan Gazette te l l us that the loan that has been effected t o the Governine,,o 1 M ' by r. Lay for the construction of rail ways i s so f a r accomplished fact that the first d raug h t, to the amount (it half a million dollars, has been actually paid to them. is understood that engineers to superintend the works be shortly on the spot, and that the necessary surv9 3 3; levelling, &c., will b e commenced at once. Between A' V a s and Asaca some difficulties will have to be eccountered , there is at least o ne mounta i n range to b e crossed an d map large rivers. The Japan Gazette does not think the Pr t. sent loan of £1,000,000 sterling will be nearly suffide ll ii However, it is good beginning, and if the work is proper carried on European capitalists will no doubt take it .11 ,bl " Once under the eye of the moneyed interests, Japan s ' l , o become altogether of more importance in the world ; °L a will almost be obliged by the simple force of ciroutegs to develope ae resources." -Inc opin ll zon h e r vaticale announces tbat the reel Lion of M. Reese to.the Chair of Hebrew, at the College o France, is decided upon, and his n om i na ti on o n ly awaits , Ministerial ratification. The Leeds Mercury states that a movement/ d i shortly be commenced to secure th e di v i s i on of the e. Riding for Parliamentary p urposes, an d to secure two rer*r sentaves for each division. A suit for st•paration a mensa et thoro is announce , between the Count Girgenti and his wife, the Infanta lda Bella, daughter of the ex-Queen of Spain. The wife n,e;i o plains of the ex t ravaganc i os o f th e h us b and, who i s said have squandered all her dowry. • Admiral the Hon. Sir F. Grey, G.C.8., and Re ar Admiral Admiral Sir John H a y, no t h av i ng been afloat for ten rt.. will shortly be placed on th e re ti re d li s t, an d w ill, i n cot!. quence, be debarred from joini ng a ny f u t ure B oar d o f A`" -- ralty except in the capacity of secretary or civil lord. Discharges at the dockyards continue. Anot h _.f batch has left Pembroke. Fifty m ore men were t u rned 0 .. 1. ' 4 at Chatham. The "hired hands," who h a ve be e n diswisle without gratuity or travelling expenses when they 11 ' 1 .4 come from a distance to work, loudly complain of ll' treatment. The grand jury of the county of Cavan 115 4 resolved that in their opinion the course adopted Government of, permitting large maKes of peopl e • o g march in procession, wearing scarves and ca rrY c i es banners, has been attended with disa s t rous conse quen . o f and is calculated permanently to endanger the pe ke the county. The tenor of the addressee from till agricultur3l districts respecting the growing crops is still favouravilitei The young wheat plant continue] to be regarded _ l .k, satisfaction, and the great progress made during the % ";i O O owing to the milder weather, is taken as a sure indic 3 „,'„ e d of its vigorous constitution. Farmers are busilyenglre in field labour, and ploughing and sowing operations being rapidly pushed forward. 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