The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENiNG. The LOUD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PETITION. Lord DERBY said that he had a petition to present which was rather ambiguous, and he doubted whether it could be placed before their lordships' house. It was irregularly signed, and had a piece of paper pasted over it. It purported to be signed by the minister of a Baptist Chapel, in Arthur-street, Battersea. THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE BARRACKS. Lord REDESD ALE said, in asking a question relative to the removal of the Knightsbridge Barracks, he had read in the papers that they were to be pulled down, and the quartering of the troops taken elsewhere, but he should like to mention that he considered that they were the best situated in the metropolis, and quite central if any outbreak should occur. The re moval of these barracks was principally asked for by per sons who had property in the district, they considering that barracks were most objectionable, inasmuch as they were an obstruction. From what he could hear from the poisons who had lived in that barracks they were admirably suited to purposes they were now devoted to, and he considered that it would be most unfair to remove those barracks. The wish fur such a removal only ema nated from those who had property in the neighbour hood. The Earl of LUCAN said that he was glad of having the opportunity of expressing his opinion that these bar racks at Knightsbridge were the most admirably adapted for cavalry barracks in the kingdom. He had long known these barracks, and he could safely say that he had never known any occasion when there was a general sick ness therm He would ask the noble earl opposite who so condemned these barracks if the Chelsea bar ra.eks—a a infantry barracks—had cost the country £200,000 ? He could not believe that it was intended to pull down these buildings, and put the country to an expense of £339,000. Ho believed that the Knights bridge :barracks was as healthy a barracks as possible, although be admitted that every one of them might bo improved. There was no utility or purpose or order in removing these barracks. Any other houses that might be put there would be quite as objectionable. Lord LONGFORD said that there was no intention to remove the barracks at all. He had seen the memorial alluded to by the noble earl, and he thought he had dis posed of the objection that it contained. The fact was that the barracks were to be removed only if no expense was incurred, and a more convenient site ctluld be found, but as this was not possible the matter must fall to the ground. Lori DE ROS quite concurred in what had been said with respect to the barracks. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE was not aware that his noble friend (the Earl do Grey and Ripon) had ever said that the barracks were in a bad state at all, but thought it interfered with the prospect in tho park. He had been over the barrack, and found it good and effi cient enough, but the objection was that it was an inartistic portion of the park, and it was no doubt very desirable that soma improvements should be made with regard to it, and he believed that it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to .nake the best improvements they could there. He agreed with the noble earl that it was one of the most healthy barracks in Lon don, and that it would be a great disadvantage to re move it. He did not quite agree with him that sanitary improvements were not necessary. Earl DE GREY and RIPON said that he must deny that he ever said what was imputed to him by the noble earl (Lucan) relative to their being the very worst bar racks in London, but he must say that their sanitary arrange ments were very faulty, and the removal was thought advisable by Sir G. Lewis and himself. Whether they were removed or not, ho hoped that they would be put into a thorough sanitary state. The subject then dropped. THE BUNHILL BURIAL GROUNDS BILL. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the second read• ing of the bill. lie said that the people of all denomina• tions in that district had made over to the Ecclesiastica' Commissioners the Dunhill Burial Grounds, on the con dition that it should remain an open space, and that all tho monuments should be preserved. Ha thought that it was most important, considering the influential _ _ bodies who desired that it should remain an open space, that this bill should be Allowed to pass. The bodies of some of the most eminent Englishmen lay there, amongst the rust John Bunyan and Horne Tooke. The bill was read a second time. Upon the report of the Increase of the Episcopate Bill, a discussion arose upon clause 2, referring to the salaries of the now bishops, which Lord Lyttelton proposed to omit, and to which Lord Derby assented, but upon a division the clause was retained by 48 votes against 36. The clause relating to -,ho appointment of suffragan bishops provoked considerable discussion, Lord Ellen borough objecting to the creation of an unlimited number of temporary bishops, and Lord •Shaftcsbnry doubting whether the provision would not tend to the growth of free churches ; while the Bishop of Carlisle took cxc •ption to the clause as giving encouragement to a plan of creating numerous minor sees. Lords Lyttelton and Cran worth thought the words of the clause were sufficient to prevent the suggested evil. 3, as the consent of her Majesty was re quisite fur the appoiuttnent of suffragan bishops. Upon a division, the clause was rejected by 23 to 20 votes. The sitting was closed at a quarter to 8 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER, took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills wore road a third time and passed : —...Drayton Junction Railway, Dublin Port, Great North of Scotland Railway, Huyton and Roby Gas, and North British Railway (Carlisle Deviation.) THE SHIP NOILTH. Mr. KNATCaBULL-HUGESSEN asked the Vice- President of the Board of Trade whether the report of the commissioner appointed to inquire into the case of the ship North had yet been eceivad by the Board of Tr.tde ; and, if so, whether he would communicate such report to the house ? Mr. CAVE said the roport had not yet been received, RITUALISM. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the Secretary of State f)r the 110M1 Department whether since the appointment of names which are avowedly identified with the encourage ment of ritualistic practices upon the commission to in quire into the conduct of Church services would tend to discredit the moral force of its decisions in the mind of the public, it would not bo desirable-, in order to secure the grea.cst possible confidence in the constitution of that commission, to communicate the names intended to- com pose it to Parliament previous to their final appoint ment ? Mr. ILIRDY said he did not think it would be for the good of the public service that the names should be pub li.hed before the commissioners were appoiuted. TIIE ARMY ESTIMATES. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he should move the regular army estimates on Thursday next, and that he should take votes 12, 13, and 14 first, as it was important that these ♦otes should be settled as early as possible. FLOGGING CADETS. In reply to Mr. BASS, Mr. CORRY said there had been no revival of corporal punishment on board the flag-ship Britannia, but the punishment of birching was still in force. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Mr. AKROYD asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the negotiation of a treaty of commerce with the Portuguese Government was still pending ; and if he had received any further communication from that Government since the 26th March, when h 3 replied to a similar ques tion ; if he had any objection to lay u; on the table the cor re3pondence upon the subject, and the condiVens insisted upon by the Portuguese Government, which, according to the statement of the noble lord, would amount to the total abolition of the alcoholic test as applied to wines ; and whether he was aware that a treaty of commerce had recently been concluded between the Portuguese and French Governments, admitting French goods on more favourable terms than heretofore, and thus to the competi tive disadvantage of the British manufacturer ? Lord ,STANLEY said that negotiations leading to a treaty of commerce between this country and Portugal were still pending. He had ou a former occasion stated that the negotiations had fallen through, but they had been renewed at the request of Portugal. He was aware that a treaty of commerce had been concluded between France and Portugal, and it had been done in return for certain special concessions to Portugal from France. THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. In reply to an HoN. MEMBEIL, Lord STANLEY said he had received no official infor mation on the subject ; in fact, all he knew was from that what had appeared in the nowsp 'pers. Owing to the state of the country he presumed that the despatches directed to the Foreign-office lktd either been intercepted, or that owing to a danger of their arriving safe at their destination they had not been forwarded. THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT. Mr. NEW DEGATE asked tho right hon. g,eutlernan Chancellor of the Exchequer to use his influence with the hon. member fur Meath to withdraw his motion for the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability of repealing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no influence over the hon. member for Meath. It had been intimated to him that it would be of importance that a member of the Government should serve on the com mittee, and his bon. friend the member for Cambridge University, with the Judge Advocate, had been placed on the committee. He could not think of asking the hon. member for Meath to withdraw a motion which he thought was for the public advantage, and to which the Government had given its assent. THE WAR IN CRETE. Mr. GREGORY asked whether it was true that tho Government of England had joined with the other European powers in a joint note to Turkey to endeavour to bring the devastating war in Crete to a close..; Lord STANLEY said he had not taken any part in such a proceeding. REPRESENTATION OP THE PEOPLE BILL. The - house then went into committee on this bill. Sergeant GASELEE said, as the house had accepted one portion of his plan—(loud laughter)—ho would now proceed to lay the other part, or, he should say, the com mencement of his proposition, before the committee. Owing to the anxiety of the hon. member who introduced his proposal to the committee, he had now only the duty of introducing the remainder of it for consideration. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) In doing that he should have to place the cart before the horse, but that was by no fault of his own. (Laughter.) He therefore moved that after Mr. Laing's amendment to add the following words—viz. : "And every borough which had a less population than five thousand at the said census shall cease to return any member to serve in Parliament." It was quite time, in his opinion, that the great anomaly that bad so long existed, that 10 boroughs, with a population of 3.9,70 , 1 and only 2,700 electors, should be precluded fr,en sending no less than fifteen mem bers to Parliament. no hon. and learned member then read the names of the boroughs, in m troy of which the number of registered electors did not exceed 200, and said he had now performed his disgraceful, he should say his disagreeable, task—(laughter)—and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer adopted his motion it would leave 10 more seats at his disposal. If he did he would bo able to satisfy Chelsea and Kensington, neither of which were satisfied with the proposal of the Government. He could also in some degree satisfy Accrington, Doncaster, Harrogate, Keighley, Bingley, Gosport, Leeds, Liverpool, Merthyr, Salford, Birkenhead, Paddington, Birmingham, Bristol, Finsbury, Manchester, Marylebone, Sheffield, and South wark, many of which had as much right to division into two parts or an additional member as Glasgow and the Tower Hamlets. Mr. J. GOLDSMID said ho hoped the house would pause before they adopted the motion of the honour able and learned member, because it was, in effect, converting the country into electoral districts. He thought it unwise to do away with the small boroughs, because it was well known that some o the greatest men who had ever sat in that house had been re turned to Parliament by such boroughs as the hon. and learned gentleman sought to abolish. With respect to Paddington not b,:•ing represented, he had to tell the hon. and learned member that that place was in Marylebone, and that Kensington and Chelsea would be, in consequence of the lowering of the franchise, represented in Middlesex for the future. Mr. SCHREIBER moved an amendment to that moved by the hon. and learned member for Portsmouth, the effect of which would be to spare the five boroughs with 500 population, but tha remaining five, ho was afraid, must be left to their inevitable fate. _ _ Sir L. PALK said he did not think it would be advisable to abolish all small boroughs. Arundel returned the only English Roman Catholic, and ho did not think that that large body should be grudged a single repre sentative. With respect to Ashburton, Lord Lyndhurst first obtained his seat in Parliament for that place. Mr. CARDWELL said he should support the proposal of the hon. member for Portsmouth in preference to the amendment that had been made to it. (Hear, hear.) If they wanted to keep up the agitation for electoral districts they would reject the amendment of the hon. member for Portsmouth, but if they wished to keep the agitation down they would adopt it. The use and value of small boroughs were enforced by Sir L. Palk (North Devon), Mr. J. Hardy (Dartmouth), Mr. R. Neville-Grenville (West Somerset), Captain Hayter (Wells), ani Mr. Harvey (Thetford). Mr. SMOLLETT supported the amendment, in the hope that it would to the recasting of the whole scheme of re distribution, and in a caustic speech recommended a large reduction of the numbers of the Mouse, with tho view of getting rid of the " talking potatoes," who wore the real cause of its deliberative inefficiency. Mr. LAING pointed out that as 55 seats at least would be needed for the adequate representation of the counties and the unrepresented towns and for the addition of the Scotch representation, and 45 only had been obtained by his amendment, it was a choice between grouping and the total disfranchisement of these ten boroughs, and pressed the Government for some explanation of their views. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said— Whatever difficulties may arise from this question of the redistribution of seats, there is one point which the house has reason to congratulate itself upon, and this is that we can consider and discuss the subject without exciting the party passions which it formerly aroused. This is a result with which we may be well satisfied. I think I may claim some share of the credit of this condition of affairs for the Government, on account of their practical and temperate proposal. This proposal, which was intended to do justice to the counties and to certain large towns, was ono which entailed a groat sacrifice upon our colleagues, for the groat majority of the seats to be obtained by partial disfranchise ment would be taken from our own party. We were pressed very much to extend that proposition, but we could net do so without d .parting from the line wo had laid down, and if we had advanced as far as the hon. memb.q for Wick had successfully gone on Friday night we should be asking a sacrifice, in a great majority of instances, from our political opponents. (Laughter.) That was our re luctance. (Renewed laughter.) The hon. member for Wick seems to be disappointed because I did not come down to the house with the plan which the Government were prepared to recommend. It appears to me that would have been premature upon our part— (hear)—because, in the first place, the opinions of the committee were not ex hausted upon the subject, as this very motion shows ; and, secondly, because we should not be doing our duty in submitting a plan which was not matured in its . details. It is necessary to bear in mind, when determining the rela tive representation of the counties and boroughs, that some 81 boroughs indirectly represent various landed interests, and thus make up for the otherwise inadequate county re presentation. But by adopting the proposal of Friday, and still more if we adopt that now before us, we will diminish those boroughs. Therefore, if you go in for a large scheme of redistribution, the committee must consider the justice of giving a moro adequate representation to the county population. (Clear, hear.) It is matter for congratulation that we are able to deal with the subject under very favourable circumstances. We have established the county franchise upon a broad and popular basis, and with this advantage I trust shall arrive at au arrangement which will satisfy the hon. member for Wick. When we first introduced our bill, the principle we went upon was, that there should be no total disfranchisement. (Hear, hear.) I very much doubt whether any other principle would have been tolerated at the time ; but after the vote of Fri day, I think we shall be able to agree upon such a distri bution of seats as will satisfy the country. But as regards the present motion, it falls under another head. It will be for the committee to consider whether the constituencies' of those ancient centres of ppulation cannot be increased by giving them a larger area, or by the system of grouping recommended by the hon. member for Wick. My own opinion is, that the carrying out of the motion will not be satisfactory, and it is also opposed to the principle upon which our scheme was first brought forward. I think it is unwise that we should destroy any centre of representa tion. I cannot assent to any course of this (kind unless the opinion of the house is given as unmistakably as in the case of the motion of the hon. member for Wick (Mr. Laing.) I myself am of opinion that the House of Com mons does not desire entirely to disfranchise any place, but that its opinion is in accordance with the policy of the Government, and therefore I shall oppose the motion. Mr. GLADSTONE—I wish to thank the right hon. gentleman for having eliminated from this debate so far as it depends on him—and much depends on him—every ele ment of party consideration. (Hear, hear.) We have before us a plain and simple question, and the right lion. gentle man says, on the part of Government, he does not think it desirable to totally extinguish any centre of representa tion. The vote the committee is called upon to give would not absolutely rule that question in a sense adverse to the views of the right hon. gentleman, because it would still remain open to him on the part of the Government and to the committee, after carrying the motion of the hon. and learned member for Portsmouth, whether boroughs de prived by the motion of the right of solo representation might not be admitted to share the privileges of borough representation in some other form. (Hear, hear.) I take it we are going to assert, by this vote, a principle of which I so strongly feel the force that I am ready to accept it, though it may entail the extinction of some ancient centres of representation, that we have no chance of securing permanence in the system we are constructing, if we leave the right of individual parliamentary representation in the hands of committees so small that those whom they send to Parliament cannot be felt to represent any sensible i owhohf reference public tothat opinionof principleth e tthat country. wo l 0 ( o H k e (Hear, g h i e v a e r a ) p lt ort is n solidity to the basis of representation, and we think that p sph r o i cr n ht c s i mm p l eo e aus c tu a h n r. e n e al t st b t satee rhuastt oo i s nf fi tthh d aet iv ha i otshno. welltn d t :sl o e oaanrdnooeptdthi membere o r u of s grounds, fnoer the committee will be disposed to proceed to a vote, which, after all, I think the ri g ht h on . gent l eman must feel is no more than a natural, if not a necessary, supplement to the vote at which we arrived on Friday night. Mr. NEWDEGATE announced his intention amid loud cries of "Divil.," to support the motion ; and after a few words from Mr. HARVEY, who Was inaudible, Mr. SCHREIBER withdrew his amendment. The committee then divided. For the motion ... Against it ... ... 217 ... 269 ... -52 Majority ... The amendment V7:18- therefore lost. Captain fIAYTER roso to move in clause 9, after Mr Laing's amendment, add " And every borough enume rated in Schedule A of this bill shall be so enlarged, either by the addition of neighbouring boroughs or towns, or by an extension of its present boundaries, as to include a population of not less than ten thousand persons." The hon. member contended that such boroughs as he wished to enlarge represented, not the people, but each of them generally one man. Ito desired to take a district-borough as the centre of the representation, and enlarge it, either by the aggregation of the neighbouring population, or by adding the surrounding district, to the extent of, say 19,000 people. These boroughs w,ll uct stand future THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1867. agitation, unless the area is enlarged. Only twelve or thirteen towns will be affected by the proposal. It will prevent the taking away of members from certain boroughs, as in the case of Hertford. One member is taken from Hertford ; but if Ware bo taken into the borough, the member need not be taken away. He dwelt at length upon the over-representation of Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Sussex. He urged that the house should seek to convince the country that they were in earnest in this work of reform, and not to throw away representation on small places, for their existence will be the first cause of complaint to the new constituencies. (Hear, hear.) He implored the Chancellor of the Exche quer to accept this proposition. Mr. AYIITTON said they would make little progress with the bill if the house discusses abstract resolutions such as this. It is impossible to regard it as a serious amendment, for it does not contain anything like legisla tion. It states a number of alternative propositions, but does not suggest how they may be carried out. He hoped Chancellor of the Exchequer would reject a proposi- tion which is neither just, reasonable, nor practicable. Mr. YORKE approved of that part of the amendment which proposes to inclule portions of the county within certain borough boundaries. This proposition is a legiti mate corollary to the motion of the hon. member for Wick (Mr. Laing), which the house has already approved; and it is an improvement on the scheme for grouping pro posed by the right hon. member for South Lancashire last year. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DIMSDALE spoke of the importance of the ques- tion of redistribution, quoted a speech of the hon. mem ber for Birmingham (Mr. Bright) in support of his view, and said lie doubted whether the small measure of redis tribution conceded by the Government will be satisfac tory. (Hear, hear.) He regretted that the scheme should be based on the principle of population, and urged that as the franchise was to be dependent on the payment of . rates, the right of representation should depend on the proportion of revenue contributed by a town. He admit ted that in respect of population the metropolis was en titled to a larger share of representation ; but complained that of the several bills proposed of late years the present measure gave the smallest amount of representation- to the counties. With respect to the small boroughs, the only means by which they could be preserved was by adopting the proposition of the hon. and gallant member for Wells, and he should, therefore, vote for it. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—We aro now upon the 9th clause, which refers to boroughs that return one member only, and I. wish to explain the position the Government find themselves in upon arriving at the 10th clause, providing for the appropriation of seats, after the vote of Friday night. The vote of Friday night has also added fifteen seats to the number proposed by the Government, and with the general concurrence of the House the suggestion of the hon. member for Wick was adopted, that the scheme of distribution of those seats should be entrusted to the preparation of the Government. It was not until to-night that the Government were in possession of the definitive resolution of the committee. The subject is one of vast importance, and requires great consideration, and, in consequence of the increased area for collective seats, it will also be necessary to reconsider the previous scheme. We have to consider the whole 45 seats. That will of course require considerable attention, for the scheme cannot bo placed upon the table without the schedules being prepared, and in a finished state befit ting its importance.' Therefore, what I propose, if the committee will pass the 9th clause, is this, that we should report progress, and. I will not ask the committee to be again opened until we meet again after the ...Whitsuntide holidays. With regard to the amendment of the hon. and gallant member opposite, I must say that, although his:epeech was very interesting, it had very little bearing upon the clause, as it was rather a project for a new Re form Bill and distribution of seats. I think the commit tee will hesitate before it adopts tho amendment which, if carried into effect, would change the character of the county representation by adding rural areas to several small towns without any corresponding advantage. A short conversation followed, in the course of which Sir F. Crossley urged that seats taken from boroughs ought to be distributed among boroughs. • Colonel Dyott recom mended that the Boundary Commissioners should be in structed, not only to enlarge boundaries, bat to contract them, like Tamwortb, for instance; in cases where they had been extended into the surrounding country to suit a particular purpose ; and Lord Galway vindicated this policy by the example cf his own borough (East Rotford); Mr. M‘Laren advocated the claims of Scotland to a still further addition under the altered circumstances; Sir R. Palmer hoped that if the principle of grouping were adopted it would be applied equally to all boroughs iden tically situated, but Mr. Hardy guarded the Government against any presumption that they were committed to the principle of grouping. Ultimately Captain Hayter, acting on the advice of Mr. Laing and Mr. Kinglake, intimated his wish to withdraw his amendment, but this course was objected to, and it was negatived without a division. Clause 9 was then agreed to, after a protest from Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen against the inadequacy of the scheme, which he insisted ought to deal with 80 or 90 seats at least, and the committee was formally adj,,tirnod until Thursday week, but on the understanding that no busi ness would be taken in it until Monday week. Some further progress was made with the Irish Court of Chancery Bill. Several orders were forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned at 10 minutes past 2 o'clock. English Workmen at the Paris Exhibition. On the 26th May a deputation, representing the working men of some large manufacturing towns in England, was received by NAPOLEON at the Tuileries, Lord RANELAGH delivered the address in behalf of this body, which his Majesty graciously received. The object the deputation had in view was to obtain an extension to England of pri vileges enjoyed by the labouring classes of France, granting facilities in visiting the Paris Exhibition. It was evident from the EMPEROR'S manner that he favoured the views expressed by the deputation, and his reply was no mere complimentary phrases. NAPOLEON is not only broad in his views, but in the highest degree practical in his measures. There are certain principles of his policy from which he never departs ; and although he adapts his means to the changing features of the times, his ends are grounded on a solid and changeless basis. Two of these principles entered into the cor cessions sought. The end of my politics, said the EMPEROR, has been to cultivate a cordial alliance between our two countries. NAPOLEON might have added, the basis of my power rests on the masses. To erect his dynasty on the solid frame-work of the people has ever been the object of his family. The first NAPOLEON, who saw more clearly than any man of his generation, adopted this principle, when it was not only dangerous in practice, but held to be a delusion. If time has shown the great warrior to have been right in anything, it was emphatically in this policy. He had the mis fortune to have England for his bitter enemy, and, though his combined opponents overthrew him in the long run, yet the Third NAPOLEON stepped to the Throne from the solid platform erected by his uncle. The House of BONAPARTE has proved more than any other that those who rely on the people do not build on a foundation of sand. It is, then, no fancy of the moment that leads NAPOLEON to consider attentively, and to favour, any project which professes to benefit the working classes. He was ready to remove any barrier, that impeded the free flow of English workmen to Paris. He is aware that nothing tends more to remove prejudice than travel, and that nothing could be better cal culated to impress favourably English mechanics with his own grandeur and power than the view in its concentrated magnificence his capital affords. We believe that he would prefer to make this im ownns.the No o ead d s o u t b b t a , t he we w ar oul p d ap w er ish caps o do both, and it is probab l e that the oppor pthraesnsion cro oppor tunities to do both will be contemporaneous. The workmen will return to talk for the rest of their lives of what they saw at Paris, imbued with the danger and folly of a rupture between their own country and one possessing such vast strength. NAPOLEON knows that English power tends more and more towards the masses. Each nation must exercise on the other a controlling influence for good or evil, and it is of no small moment to him and to France that the masses who henceforth in England will exercise so weighty a control, should hold a strong conviction that it is for the best inte rests of all that they should be closely allied. France at this moment possesses a glorious opportu nity for effecting this object. Newspaper reporters, lec.urers, awl books can comparatively have but little effect. To see is too believe, the more so when the man who sees is so well qualified to form an opinion as an intelligent English mechanic. Nothing will more impress a tradesman than the de partment of the Exhibition which displays the pro gress of his own branch. There can be no keener and truer judge than he. He will not only detect the points in which a neighbouring nation excels, but quickly ascertain whether the superiority is due to the work, to the material, to an advantage of climate, or other cause. English mechanics will be surprised at the progress made within late years among their Continental competitors, and to see this will do them good, for it will act as a spur. A glance at their own productions placed by the side of those from other nations will in minutes speak volumes ; they will learn to respect nme who ap proach, if they do not excel, them in the handicraft which they have been trained to regard as their pride. Under such a process prejudices dissolve like a GOMPERTZ ghost, and in the same place admira tion takes the form where an ignorant contempt had before been so distinctly visible. They also see in what their country truly shines ; they learn the value of settled and steady labour—of capital freely expended, and they begin to get an insight of what is due to nature and what to art in their own dis tricts. Nu city is better adapted than Paris to open the eyes of the ignorant—no scene than the Exhi - bition. Here, then, is the opportunity ; but what has to be done is not only to transport the masses, but to giyß. them the means of living at a rate they can afford to pay. Now, this is the difficulty, for certain causes invariably produce certain effects, and if Paris be over -crowded prices must of necessity rise. The deputation to which we have alluded was organised by the Universal Tourist Company, which was itself created from the fertile brain of ' Monsieur 2-,LF. D. DE LAVIGERIE. This gentleman has long and hitherto vainly been striving to carry into effect a well-matured scheme, to transport in thousands people of all classes to any part of the world, but more especially to Paris during the Ex hibition. He has as yet found it impossible, owing to the discredit into which joint-stock undertakings have fallen to form a company, which, by means of interpreters, guides, and an elaborate machinery, may guarantee to take people up at a given spot, to show them the things best worth seeing in Paris, and to bring them back to the same spot, for a cer tain fixed sum. People dread to trust themselves in a city which is daily becoming more, in the way of accommodation, like an English town during a racing week. To get to Paris may be very easy, but when there most have a shrewd idea that they are in the hands of the Philistines, and no decree of the EMPEROR will save them from a perpetual wrangle against over-charges, which will embitter the period they have devoted to pleasure, and re turn them to their provinces pigeons well plucked. If the Universal Tourist Company can carry out its programme, which the delegates feel now as sured of, Monsieur DE LAVIGERIE will have done good service to both countries. No time, however, sto be lost. The EMPEROR has approved of the plan, and his Ministers have favoured it all the more readily, that the working will be in the hands of a Frenchman whom they can personally make responsible that the laws of the Empire are care fully observed.—Anglo-American Times. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company's old lines, 662 miles in length, for the week ending the 20th of May, amounted for passenger traffic to £28,100 and for goods to 5.39,211—t0tal £67,311 ; and for the corresponding week last year on the same mileage to £58,902, showing an increase of £8,409, or 14.27 per cent. The receipts on the company's new lines, 208 miles in' length, amounted for passengers to £2,866, and for goods to £2,032 —total £4,899, and for the corresponding week in 1866, on 126 miles, to £3,455, showing an increase of 82 miles and of £1,444 in the receipts. The aggregate re ceipts on both lines from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £1,266,081 against £1,203,981 for the same period last week, showing an increase of £62,100. SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN:) The traffic manager of this company, in his re port dated Santos, May 5, stated that the traffic receipts of the line were still rapidly increasing, and that in spite of the Easter week there was an almost entire cessation of business, the receipts for the month of April amounted to 30 per cent. more than the preceding month of March, there being for March £9,811, and £12,780 fur April, or at the average rate of £34 per mile per week. EAST INDIA IRRIGATION. The half yearly meeting of this company was hell on Thursday, at the offices, near Southwark bridge i Mr. J. Thomson in the chair. The report, au abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that during the past six months there bad been a vast improvement in the prospects of beginning the nineg company to show their ap preciation the company. At the date of their last advices from India they ha d a sufficient supply of water at their disposal to irrig ate 140,000 acres of land, and the capacity of the works admi tted of a revenue beingi earned equal to £ BO,OOO a year, provided the i rr i ga ti o n was fully taken up. And he saw no reason why it should n ot be taken up as promptly as circ umstances woul d permit. Al ready the works .we by taking a larger quantity o f water than th ey had originally agreed for. Ile ha d no doubt th at when they ha I er more experience of its benefits they would avail themselves more extensively of the means of irriga tion afforded them, and the shareholders might then look forward to a satisfactory return on their invest ment. (Elear.) The Government had advanced them money on liberal terms to complete the works, and for which the shareholders had every reason to feel grateful to the Government for their assistance. Since the money was received the works had been pushed forward with as much vigour as possible, and the progress made had been highly satisfactory. The great difficulty they had to contend with was the scarcity of labour, owing to the destructive effects of the famine. Ile hoped, however, this difficulty would be surmounted. A r l e . p P o . 4, and after a seconded the motionT h The for Hon. th Mr. d op IC ti l o N n N f e w observations it was unanimously adopted. ea A o f ru t p h , e The directors were authorised to borrow money from the Secretary of State for India upon the terms agreed upon, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. RAIL WAY BILLS. Yesterday, in Lord Redesdale's Committee, the Rathkeale and New3astle Junction Bill was passed, with amendments, and the Great Northern Bill was adjourned until next Monday. In the House of Commons' Conimittee, Group 12, the London, Chatham, and Dover Bill was ad journed, the London, Chatham, and Dover Bill (No. 3) was proceeded with and adjourned, the London, Chatham, and Dover Bill (No. 2) was ad journed, as was also the London, Chatham, and Dover Bill (No. 4). The report of the superintendent of the New York and New Haven Railroad for the past year shows the entire receipts for transportation to have been $2,068,260, $1,612,628 from passengers, and $333,381 from f re i g h t, an d the expenses $ 1 , 364 , 243 . Deducting $129,120 as interest o n bonds and $30,705 for l oss i n opera ti n g the Canal road, the net profits are $544,191. The company has paid two 5 per cent, di v id en d s during the year, one on a capital of five, an d th e o ther of six millions. Last year 1,885,898 passengers were c arried over the road, and in th e p as t e l even years 14,350,706,with 0ut' an accident resulting in loss of life or limb. The present Legislature will charter the Ridge field and New York Railroad Company, with au thority to construct a road from Ridgefield to the New York state line, intersecting with the New York and New Haven road, and providing railway facilities for the western portion of Fairfield county. Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, died of paralysis at his residence at Hartford, Friday evening, May 17th, aged 57. He had been president of the road for 25 years. . . Bangor voted, Wednesday May 15, 957 to 27, to take $200,000 stock in the Bangor and Piscataquis Railway. The Piscataquis town will probably take $150,000 more and Bangor will loan her credit for $500,000. The New York Association for the Advancement of Science and Art are endeavouring to send another party to Brazil. Dr. Brown and Professor Hart want to go, Professors Verrill and Agassiz think it will be well that they should, and the only difficulties are financial ones. CAPTAIN BLAKELY. -4.- It is not surprising that Captain BLAKELY should feel aggrieved by our article of the 18th May. We willingly publish his letter, together with one in answer to Mr. CHAMLEY. Judging by the docu ments forwarded with these we have little doubt that Mr. DENT realised and carried to China a large sum, obtained on bills, bonds, and shares of the company. Our remarks were based on Captain BLAKELY'S letter to the 7irnes. Had any one else written it, we would have passediche assertions unnoticed. But we were struck with the example thus given, and by the singular tale so naively told. We have no doubt that Captain BLAKELY was the great sufferer; and it is clear that in involving others in the misfortune he acted in good faith and unconscious of evil. From his boyish days, when he entered the academy of Wool wich to the period when he had worked out the patent for the gun that has made him celebrated, he had mixed among men to whom trade was unknown with all its demoralising influences. Probably absorbed in the scientific and mechanical details of his manufactory he had given little heed to the rest, and was perhaps unqualified to bring out a company on a solid and sure basis. At any rate, from the moment that he sanctioned the design which turned the firm into a limited liability company, the proceedings form a chapter , of errors. He asks if we or any of our readers could seriously entertain the notion that he could have consented to do a very foolish thing. We do not presume to answer for our readers, but fOr our selves we reply—certainly. For Captain BLAKELY must be a singular exception to a very general rule if he is incapable of acting against reason and common sense. The working of the law of limited liability has dissipated some delusions on this subject. Men are not now so much surprised at each other's, as at their own folly. Let Captain BLAKELY trace back in his mind the successive acts by which he turned a most profitable business into a most ruinous loss, and say if he can detect no insane doings. He always terms this failure a misfortune—and so it was ; but that style of misfortune by which a man breaks his neck, who precipitates himself from a height. Is it conceiv able, he further asks, that Mr. JOHN DENT would have left such a weight on him if he had known the hollowness of the company before he left England ? We again answer—certainly ; he would have left twice the weight if he could have got the money to save his house, for in doing that, he would have thought, he was saving all. Such a manu factory as the BLAKELY ordnance ought to have commanded a ready sale for the shares. When the applications are numerous, the directors find no difficulty in allotting them so as to place them in the hands of bona fide holders. If not numerous, the company ought not to be formed. The proprietor must Have neglected to exercise the autho rity unquestionably his, if he had not an all-potent voice in this matter. The greatest surprise to us is that so profitable a manufacture, should be suffered to sink into this hopeless ruin. Money is cheap and plentiful ; the shareholders who will not pay calls may forfeit tbeir shares and others be substituted ; or the manufactory might, one would think, return to the hands of the patentee. Defence committees are generally the last device for extracting the last crumbs for the harpies generated under this fatal Act. Captain BLAKELY interprets what we said, as selecting his company, as one of the worst formed under the new statute. This was not our intention ; we repeat we knew nothing of his company except from the facts published by himself. There are companies whose histories we do know, and which some day we may tell, and our remark was in allusion to them. But in this instance we took his own letter as our text, and told the simple story, which, though painful to a gallant offi cer, is truthful, we believe, in the main. It appears that the credit of joint-stock companies had fallen to so low an ebb, that the advances on orders for the expensive castings were denied to the limited company which had been freely made to the private firm ; and to this cause, and not to the failure of DENT'S house, the bankruptcy of the joint stock undertaking is attributed. But here the ques tion arises, Whence came the liabilities? Simply, we believe, from the large advances obtained by Mr. DENT from the sale of his share of the property. Had Mr. DENT been able to take up the disho- noured paper of the limited concern, the foundery would have reverted to its original proprietors. Captain BLAKELY' naturally shrinks from having his name associated with so disastrous a failure, more especially in America, where he has many friends. We.are aware that he has been by far the greatest sufferer, and that he occupies a very different posi tion to those who have profited by the ruin of others who reposed trust in them. If we have done him any injustice, our columns will be freely opened for an explanation, and we trust we will ever be anxious to acknowledge frankly where we have been led into error, actuated, as we are, by the wish to divulge the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.—Anglo-American Times. • REBELS. The South justly complains of the opprobrious term commonly used in the North, when anything Southern is discussed,. The people are rebels ; the States are rebels ; the judges, governors, generals, are all rebels ; till, at last, the word has become a common prefix for anything beyond the Potomac. It often happens that annoying expressions precede and sometimes originate a quarrel. Generally the fight spills much of the bad blood, leaving those who have been most hotly engaged, the first to acknow ledge the folly of an appeal to such a tribunal. It has, however, the advantage of dissipating much of the ill-feeling; the victor gains his point, the vanquished bows his head, and unless the fight is between a vicious type of old women;there is no return to a wordy warfare. In manhood the victor should be generous, the vanquished enduring, and if a burst of passion be allowed, it is to the de feated ; for it is more natural, and therefore less unbecoming, that the South should curse, than that the North should scold. If the word rebel be thus indiscriminately used in the United States, it will soon change. its meaning. That it is undergoing this process may be seen from the unconscious manner in which any American girl may apply the term even to herself. "I'm a good rebel !" is a constant expression. Thus the word, intended for reproach, is accepted by those to whom it is applied, and in the end becomes among them a title of pride. This is worse than childish, and is merely prostituting our mother tongue. Rebels are banded and armed citizens at war with their Government. A. rebel is a person using illegal means to obtain an illegal end. Nothing justifies rebellion but tyranny and usurpation. Nothing sanctions re bellion but success. The stake played for in this game is the greatest that man can risk. The suc cessful rebel passes from a traitor to a patriot, while the rebellion changes to a revolution and eventually beeomes a holy and righteous war. Of the two great American revolutions the one assumed the shape of the renowned War of Indepen dence,—the other the stigmatised rising of a Slave Oligarchy. Yet the latter was fought on a grander scale, and even more gallantly than the former. While WASHINGTON'S name is a household word and the god of an American's idolatry, that of DAvls who upheld a falling cruse with as dauntless a front and as noble a tenacity is a byword and reproach. With sunken eye and furrowed cheek the beggared and emaciated exile, from the cells of his long imprisonment, sinking beneath the curse of a weight of ruin, seeks in a foreign country a home denied him in his own. The difference between success and failure is the main difference between IVASHINGTON and DAVIS. The very institution it was the hard fate of the Southern chief to endeavour to uphold was but an inheri tance from the greatest leader in the cause of free dom that the world has yet known. Between a ; rebel and a patriot there may be but fine shades of difference, perhaps darkened by the clouds of ad versity, or lightened by the sunshine of success. It is time this endless taunt should cease, for, as now applied, it is a word without a meaning, which, if persisted in, may convey to it a significance that may associate rebellion in many minds with the highest duties of man. It is for the well-being of society which is intimately con. nected with the security of Governments that this word should signify, as it is intended, the perpetra tion of a great crime. Although under certain circumstances it may be the bounden duty of men to revolt, those circum stances are rare in the highest degree, and where they are not all combined to justify the movement, it becomes a wicked and insane act of folly, drenching the land with wasted blood, giving the reins to the vilest passions of the most wicked natures, and in volving ruin, suffering, and death to the innocent. The interests of the North in reconstruction are second only to those of the South. Americans want a strong and united America. Why, then, continue to bicker and snarl at each other, keeping up dis union by words, more even than by acts.' Let the North in silence enjoy her triumph, and if such an ebullition of temper is necessary before the hot blood of their gallant opponents can be suffi ciently cooled without further words to accept their crushing defeat, let the South rave. They are too manly long to indulge in such childish play, and it is but a poor privilege that the North would con cede to so much suffering, in granting to the South, a right to growl.—Anglo-American Times. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There is a salutary pause in the Reform labours of the House of Commons. Last night the business of the committee was resumed, but nothing was done beyond the rejection of two proposals. The amendment of Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, for dis franchising absolutely all boroughs having a popu- lation under 5,000, was defeated by a decisive ma jority, and Captain Hayter's suggestion that all toro - nghs now having less than 10,000 inhabitants should be enlarged so as to contain at least so many persons was rejected without a division. When so _ much had been done, the committee reported pro- greys, with the understandin i ,a that nothing furthe r should be attempted until after Whitsuntide. There were several reasons for this course. The amend- went which Mr. Laing carried last week has placed many more seats at the disposal of the Government than they ventured to ask for, and it is, no doubt, desirable that the Ministry should have time to de termine how those seats shall be allotted. A better and a more genuine reason for postponement is, however, to be found in the fact that the House of Commons is conscious that it is as yet too little in formed upon the principles which should direct it in the future redistribution of seats. The great lights usually regarded yield little help; the trumpets commonly blown so lustily give an uncertain k)und. As Mr. Smollett truly said last night, the remodel ling of the House is by far the most important part of Reform, and it has never been discussed from the beginning of the Session up to the present hour. The work of the committee last night was one of negation ; but few will regret the decisions upon either of the amendments. • The fate of Mr. Sergeant Gaselee's scheme will certainly meet with little commiseration. It was proper to allow him to exhibit his powers as an advocate, es pecially after the loud complaints he made on Friday night that Mr. Laing had appropriated a part of his plan of redistribution. The exhibition must, however, have convinced every one that, in the interests of reform, Mr. Laing's offence, even if it had been committed, deserved instant abiolution If Mr. Sergeant Gaselee alone had advocated the proposal he claimed as his own no one can tell what would have happened. When Mr. Laing proposed that the process of depriving boroughs now return ing two members of one of their representatives should be applied to all boroughs of less than 10,000 inhabitants he submitted a clear and definite scheme of redistributing the seats thus obtained, and his success must be partially attributed to the evident superiority of his plan over that of the Government. Mr. Sergeant Gaselee simply desired to place a few more seats at the disposal of the Government, broaching no plan of his own, and suggesting no goal towards which the committee should phape its efforts. The committee exercised a wise discre tion in refusing to entertain such a crude sugges tion. It is true that his amendment received the support of Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Gladstone, but the speeches of these leaders of the Opposition were scarcely equal to their reputation. They showed a feeble and uncertain grasp of the principles of redistribution which will, we hope, be strengthened before the house reassembles after Whitsuntide. The rejection of Captain Ilayter's suggestion for the extension of small boroughs by ealarging their boundaries or by grouping them with neigh bouring unrepresented towns was almost inevi table from the very form in which it was ex pressed. Independently, however, of the form of the amendment, the force of argument was against its principle. Its effect would have been simply to disguise the meagre amount of town life really contained in rural constituencies bearing the inappropriate name of boroughs. Colonel Dyott complained yesterday that in consequence of the enlargement of Tam worth in 1832 Tamworth, re tained its two members now, while Lichfield, which he himself represented, lost one, although the city of Lichfield is as important and prosperous as the borough of Tamworth. There is no reason why an unreal importance and a different character should be given to the small boroughs retained in our Par liamentary system. Their existence must be de fended on the ground of their uses, and it is certain that they should not preserve their privileges any longer because of the partial enlargement recom mended. Least of all is it possible to discover how the complaint expressed by Captain Hayter, and not unfamiliar to those who have attended to the subject, that the South of England is over repre sented, would be met by enlarging the boundaries of boroughs while retaining their present amount of representation. The House of Commons has de ferred the further consideration of the Redistribu tion Clauses until Monday week, and fortunately the progress made in the past ten days has been sufficiently rapid to allow the delay to take place without imperilling the fate of the bill. The Go vernment want time to reconstruct their scheme, so as to distribute the 45 se a t s th ey h ave acqu i re d by the grace of Mr. Laing, instead of the 30 they modestly sought. But more than a mere formal re construction is necessary. The subject of redistribu tion, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said last night, is one of vast importance,:and requiring grave consideration. The House of Commons wants en lightenment upon it, and is conscious of its want. The question of redistribution, however, is not new to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The elaborate speech he delivered on the Redistri bution bill of last year showed bow deeply he bad studied it, but his speech in explain ing the Ministerial scheme of 1859 proved that he was then master of the question. Challeng ing the notion that with our present system of voting a representative assembly could be obtained by distributing members in proportion to population, Mr. Disraeli pointed out that if such a rule were followed the metropolis must receive 60. members, and the statesman whose too early death we com memorated on Saturday told a Wiltshire audience soon -afterwards that a 4 , sympathetic shudder" ran through the House of Commons at the sugges tion. The metropolitan members are of a different composition now from what they were in 1859, but it is still manifest that an accession of metropolitan members in proportion to the population of the metropolis would seriously damage the representa tive character of the House of Commons. The in stance is, in fact, a crucial test of the theory that a representative body can be obtained by cutting up an area into electoral districts, and allowing the absolute majority in each district to elect a certain number of delegates. It would be impossible to construct a House of Commons in such a manner, and the inevitable inference is that such a method of election is radically erroneous. All the condi tions of the problem would, however, be changed if the electors within metropolitan constituencies were free to accumulate their votes upon the candidates they favoured, and the constituencies were so ar ranged that a sufficient number of candidates should be elected in each to allow of the represen tation of all the electors by free combinations among themselves. In such a case we should see great statesmen and great lawyerssitting for metropolitan constituencies instead of seeking a refuge in such pocket boroughs as Tiverton or Richmond. It rests with the House of Commons to decide by investi gation and deliberation during the ensuing week whether it will seize the present opportunity of in troducing a better system of election into our repre sentative machinery, and thus preserve the good results of our present distribution of electoral power, while relinquishing its indefensible form. Small boroughs are already condemned to be shorn of some of their privileges, 'and their future destiny is uncertain. Will the House of Commons preserve or even improve the uses they have served, or will it blindly adhere to an established order simply be cause it is established, and so put the representative character of the House of Commons itself in jeopardy? We believe the courage it has manifested in dealing with the enfranchising clauses of the Reform Bill will not desert it when the redistribution part of the scheme is under consideration ; and the Ministry, which has been consistently supported in its bold resolution to place the franchise on a broad and per manent basis, will be similarly supported if it mani fest a similar courage and a similar respect .to per manent and conservative legislation is reconstruct ing the clauses affecting re-distribution. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL MANNERS.—The Pall Mall Gazette recently reproduced a part of Mr, Ruskin's cor- 1. .." respondence with an artizan of the north of Eng land, in which Mr. Carlyle was made to complain of the insults to which he was subjected by the common people of his neighbourhood, whose con duct he compared with the invariable civility and respect he experienced from even the peasants of Italy and France. That Mr. Carlyle's complaints are well founded no inhabitant of London can doubt. The Pall Mall Gazette itself, i n a subse quent article, acknowledges that the want of good breeding among the body of the English people is an irritating and humiliating fact, and pays' at the same time, a handsome compliment to the courtesies and civilities which a moderately well behaved English traveller never fails to meet with amongst all classes wherever he journeys in France or Italy. A Protestant Englishman, however, with his freezing exclusivism and his contemptuous pit.Y for the benighted ltomanists amongst whom he 15 travelling, is hardly likely to bring out all the sym pathies and good qualities of his hosts abroad. Even though he could, as the Pall Mall Gazette presupposes, divest himself of his John Bullism, h e allows his other prejudices as to religion and like, matters to appear so conspicuously that little g oou feeling is likely to manifest itself between thew, and the natural kindliness of the continental charac ter is apt to be nipped in the bud. But the Pro testant abroad cannot divest himself of those odi ous characteristics which have rendered the llam a of an Englishman hateful to all continental peoplde with whom he has ever come in contact. In no English Catholic can ever have encountered 11 ' 8 countrymen upon a continental tour without having had cause to blush for his nationality. In fact the same hauteur and selfish exclusivism are as plainly marked, though, perhaps, not quite so offensively displayed, at home as abroad. Any one in the, habit of travelling much by our own railways must have noticed with what defiance the average Brit on entrenches himself behind his Times, or novel, a t the greatest distance from his fellow passenger, and generally stiffly resents as undue -familiarity any approach towards conversation. Compare this with the affability and universal good nature of foreigners to each other, and even to people of a different nation when thrown together under th ese or any other circumstances, and our national pecu liarity requires no further demonstration. B ut while this characteristic of Englishmen has been widely acknowledged by the country at large, its cause never seems to have been recognized. 1 1 °, 1( is it that the English alone of civilized peop le should manifest so great a distrust—for it is 110 less—of their neighbours ? Much has been bot said and written in solution of the problem , an u the general conclusion is that it is due to our ill; sular seclusion from contact and intercourse wi other nations, which has almost brought us to t hink that we are the only people on the earth —or at least the only people for whose benefit the earv; exists. Something, no doubt, is due to this cans, with regard to our treatment of foreigners, thou P_ it can hardlaccount for our conduct to each o the t —for that want of charity and consideration O.' the feelings of others which is so painfully manw fest in the dealings of Englishmen. This, is the more remarkable, as no people are rae, r e ready to put their hands in their pockets for tool alleviation of distress, particularly of a nation . character, than the inhabitants of these isla n "to and their benevolence is by. no means restricted 4 home calamities, but has found its way in the in% generous manner to every part of the globe Never, misfortune has been sudden and appalling. ,„ a l. theless, in spite of this most excellent nat'?:l o , characteristic there is certainly a marked wall", t the intercourse of Englishmen in general, of th i n spirit of charity divinely recommended to a l i t , their dealings with each other. It is from the evil ence ence of this great virtue, so powerfully incul cal ; abroad by the doctrines and example of the Cat bel e f Church, that springs the remarkable differenc e re manners and good breeding which is ever-PO:lea, to be found in Catholic countries. The Chugr teaches and requires that the highest in the 1 ' l i la shall respect, as well as help, the very lowes t, o f treat them all as the members of one flock—a", lo whom are equal in her sight. This is the 5`:33 cause which, abroad, banishes the supercilions l3 _ c i, and contempt of one class for the other so p r Tie , nent in this country, and induces even the nol-!iti, men of the land to treat the very tradesmen Is 1, the same courtesy as they would men of their tit social position. This explanation is simple , b l L n g is true. It maybe, as asserted, that there are sit:tit of a better feeling springing up around its ; if so, it can only advance parallel with the is fiuence of the Catholic Church, which alone capable of breaking down the barriers that 00 effectully separate all classes in England. • COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—JUNE 1. crt Oa This market was very sparely supplied with whe a ,',' ad there was a thin attendance. In some cases is per is vance was readily made for good samples. Beans wo,`°coy better supply, but scarcely disposed of at last Week's P" Peas were scarce, and quite as dear. ,„ 3 .6 Wheat, whiZe 60s 748 Bean', M a zaqan....•• , , L; 48 4 red: 11-14 efia Middle and saiall—i, 40 Barley.... its 433 Peas, white .......... .or . 40 Oat* ...—a a grey ......... .••3°' CHELMSFO T rade s:iiilinl piling ... .a .. n .. ,1 3 : lb: RD—MAY 31. 's prices were barely realise', ns remains firm. B re ca a n s, ol3 l: W a h r t i t r e i cif e . ....... : .. 3 4 0 : !li Dun.... ..... .386 "„ . ..`i ditto, new• • • • ••" --8 45 9 Tick, 01d......406 3, new. • .. 39 "40 6 Harrow ticks 4' 3 ' •-, 4 30new.... 4 96 li aaa gan. ..... A small supply of wheat. little business done last week' Spring corn of all dcscriptio: Wheat, old white 52s 67a new b3s 718 old red sts 618 new ..538 631 Barley.... 26s 33s 1 , 8 s:is Urind•ng '6B 32s Malt 66s 74 Chevalier 68s 761 Oats ... 2os 268 AB 31. gs don e, At our market to-day there wa M s AY a quiet busine- ,vere with a thin attendance. Prices for all kinds Of g rain ' on a par with those of last week. White wheat 58s Od to 63s OD 62 1 b iii bushelßed wheat 50s Od to 58s Od.) . bt l. Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Odi- 401 b 1 1 bit s Common oats 26s 6d to 27s Od Bere 35s 6d to 36s 6d t 53tb li Wh et Oatmeal 35s 6d to 36s Gd ol/5. 20s 6(1 to 21s 6d j 11 boll 0f . 2 80'. Flour, fine 52s Od to 5 1 s Od V sac— k of 2 KIRKCALDY-JUNE 1. 0 06 Small supplies of oats and barley, good of whea t. Gd per qr dearer. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 59s Od ' 34s vd I 29s 6d . econd 5118 Od I 36s Od 30s 6d Third 62s Od 37s Od 31s 6d COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. 4. 0. s. cl. Walls End Hetton ... 19 0 Wylam ............ ; I s .! Hetton Lyons ........ 17 3 Cassop .................... :5 6 Walls End Gosforth 17 3 Tees ..................... is Original llartlepool .. 19 0 Hastings Hartley ••"" 0 0 6 r t a r i t IC 8 ; 1 o 1 ... .• . 1 1 8 8 0 3 s E o a u st th ll i ti e f Pittington. l6 9 le l I va e hr u aa g t h o ccii. Hall ff.. 6. . ... .. . ... ... .. . .. . ... ... ... .. . . .. . . 11 sil ' Russell's Hetton... ... 17 9 Eden Main ............ is Frantwellgate l7 0 South Hetton ....... .. Ships at market, 56—sold, 53. ___ • 1, rob tlt At the request of the pastor of a Dutch cu t ' cor New Holstein, Wisconsin, President Johnson 1.135 by of 6 sented to become sponsor for the seventh IPY 13 , 0 0 3° German woman. This is in keeping with an o ld u scs DiS custom that the sovereign ruler of the country nl l( : o se t 1' name to be entered on the baptismal register as sio to the seventh boy, born in uninterrupted succ ess the same family. rillS: o . LADVERTISEMENT.]-110110Way'S Ointment P.o oi d des T e o Hope for All.— Whatever their ailments none ne, e ;mo ble_ n o , of being cured till they have tried these inee" - A er h ie, medies, whether the disease be internal or exter%oss':or taneous, or the result of violence. If a cure b e ~r,e c itYo eo Holloway's medicaments will effect it. Th e l'ag ee: ls l duration of the malady is no bar to the successfn'l 0, exerted by these flue medicaments, wh i c h clean s% 0 a o c oiv and invigorate every solid and fluid in the bodhf o r org o o pletely renovate the digestion. They render 0 /1 0 dis e „ o a of secretion healthy. These admirable antidotes b o ¢ 0a act immediately on the absorbent system, 1104 81 ton e ' circulation, whereby they invariably give energil vigour to all the natural functions of life. 3o ,le Births. of C°l° f BoGER—On the lot inst., at Ryde, the w ife o Henry T. Boger, R.N., of a son. 1, the Wife G O ODENOUGH—On the 2d inst., at Portsmout h so n. of Captain J. G. Goodenough, Royal Navy, ( I '2 t. o f 0 HART—On the 2d inFt„ the wife of Edward - 11 a, r ,.' e ct, " Highbury New park, and .57, Moorg atos" daughter. o' s f Marriages. i rcba i o- BEATTIE—JACOMB—On the Ist inst., at S ilo P• ,;P' Church, Stamford-hill, the Rev. John Egham, Surrey, to Lucy, daughter of tih3rl3te'l°ll .11,. Jacomb, Esq , of Upper Clapton, Middlesoc• ish c bl l ; ve , rococx—WurrE —On the Ist inst., at the P i e r o, / b ite/ Thatcham, John W. Pocock, Esq., of I "Sorg 0> , 5.- ley, to Elizabeth Jane, elder daughter of' L,ao), j3o Esq., barrister-at-law, of Ilenwick, 'nate' vshi re' Deaths. , sh rOb ANSTICE—On the 31st ult., at Made le y wee'', John Anstice, Esq., aged 57 . COling wo.4l39 CIIILLINGWORTH—On the 81st, ult., SW m• urn , - d 64. ,c(Of Esq., of Radnor House, Twickenham, age ~.0 , c , , IP MILKER—On the 3d inst. at Canterbury Lo 13' 0 Norwood, Thomas W. M ilner, aged 67. gb, Tholo ihorou MERRIMAN-0n the Ist inst., at Mar.uge4s6 Merriman, Esq., aged 64.. wll5 o ion ' Onwn - yx—On the 31st ult.; Frederick On `° av 3 oid. b lue, son of Joseph Onwhyn, Catherine-streeL r.gisio $ 3 SA B INE—On the 2d inst., at Finchley,_l" Esq., formerly of Dalston-rise, aged 7U ,virB, -----------; raVvi IVO! 02, London: Printed and Published by WI , ---_ . „ co , •D`;'., Of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEIS Su' 'i ll° COIN Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, la i laidclleaez.—T u esday, June 4,1667. _