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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open dally(except Sundays). Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children nnder twelve. ad. 4 17 (mil k Suit LONDON, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1870. The overwhelming preponderance, numerically, of the Government supporters, over the members of the Opposition, has been often enough before now pretty • plainly indicated. All through last session, on the occasion of great party divisions, whenever there was a grand muster upon both sides of the House, the net majority was always considerably over a hundred. During the month which has already elapsed of this present session, it has only been necessary upon field nights, with out taking the trouble to count noses, as the absurd phrase is, to take the instant testimony of one's eyesight—in order to recognise, at the merest glance, the hopeless minority into which the great Conservative party has lapsed in the existing Par liament. If the House of Commons be only looked upon as one of the pleasantest Clubs in London, it must certainly be admitted at once that a vat upon the left-hand side of Mr. SPEAKER is far* preferable to one on the benches directly fronting that nominal moiety of the popular representatives. For there, and there only, on those fields is anything to be found like elbow room. The squires of Eng land and their ass - c•ates can sit during the most crowded nights with personal comfort on the green benches of the Opposition. While opposite them are wedged togeth r in close contiguity the densely packed ranks of the supporters of her MAJESTY'S Government. The habitué of the House knows all this perfectly well. The contrasting aspect of the two sides is a sight fami iar to him. Whenever a great party division is called for, the strength of the Administration is only proved all over aga;n quite easily and quite unanswerably. Knowing all th's, thoroughly, as we all of us do, not only we Londoners, who have the facts here alluded to immediately under our observation, but all the electors of the United Kingdom, whe ther IVhig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, i certainly does strike one as rather prerosterols when— by a lu , ky stroke, that a billiard player would once call a fluke, upon a matter as far re- moved from a great party que3tion as the motion submitted to the house last night by the sepulchral member for North Warwickshire, the division scales just barely tip by a hair's brealth towards the side of the Opposition, the morning organ of the Conservatives should forthwith blow a flourish of trumpe's over th 3 defeat of Alibisters— announcing a faint little majority of two (it con scarcely have been smaller) as—what ? crushing defeat" of the Government ! The as sertion is simply preposterous. The " tremendons cheers" with which the announcement by the tellers was received last night by the members of the Opposition, only emphasis. s in a rather odd and whimsical way the acknowledgment thereby blurted out of the really hopeless minority in which they now stand upon all ,he great questions of the day, when contrasted with he formidable and Eeried ranks of the Liberals at Le back of her MAJESTY'S Government. LORD URANVILLE, we all know, has abundance of sweetness. But what we want from him just now is more light. We want to know what he is doing with our colonies. We every now and then get glimpses through the darkness, and what we see renders us very uneasy. For instance, within the last few days there have been three inci dents which seem to have a close affinity, and if they have, they mean that the Secretary of State for the Colonies is bent upon abolishing his office and breaking up our colonial empire. First of all there was the reply of the New Zealand Govern ment to Lord Granville's too famous New Zealand despatch ; and in this reply our fellow-subjects state with great regret their opinion that " The tone and purport of the despatch are scarcely susceptible of any other explanation than a desire to abandon this country and to sever its connection with the empire." Then we have news from Cape Town, stating that an address to the Crown was being prepared, in which the colonists declined to assume responsible G.vernnient, declared their wish to remain an integral portion of the British Empire, and dreaded lest throngh the adoption of responsible government, the Cape would cease to be either actually or virtually a British colony. But the most remarkable incident of all refers to a much more im portant colony than either the cape or even New Zealand. It concerns that great country which we thought we had just consolidated by forming the various states of which it is composed into one great confederation—the "Dominion" of Canada. The facts have. already been alluded to by our London correspondent, and may be very briefly stated. Sir Alexander Galt is one of the ablest statesmen in Canada. Ho has held the post of Finance Minister in many Ministries, but is now out of office. In September last ho was offered his old post by the Cartier Ministry; he declined the oar on the ground that he held decided opinions with respect to the independenc e o f th e D om i n i on: never- tbeless he gave the Government a general support. Recently he has gone Over to the Opposition, and that step has led to fu r th er correspon d ence i u which he not only re -asserted his opin:on with respect to independence, but statal that when he was off[3rel kniglithoollast year he would not accept it until he had made known his - views to the Home Govern ment, and received the assurance that he would not compromise them by acceptance. More than this, according to Sir Alexander Galt, the independence Of the Dowinion is the wish of the British ADELPIIL—At Seven, My Prec'ous Betsy, 11 hitebai. at Greenwich. EIAYMARKEL—At Seven. An Alarming Sacrifice. At 7.40, Our American Cousin. And Shocking Events. LYCEUM—At 7 30, Sampson's iVedding. Le Compositeur Toque At 8 3 ~ niipetiE OLYMPIC—At Seven, Little Emily. The Princess q, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1870 cost in those same years, £1,595 and £59,126 res pectively, and for troops £171,654 and £806,247. The total cost of the defences of that colony increased more than three-quarters of a million sterling in ten years. Besides these there were military and mari time stations pure and simple, which are nothing if they are not fortifications, and of these Gibraltar cost us about 50 per cent, more in 1867-8 than it did in 1858-9. These figures chew how, in spite of the com mittee which was appointed about eight years ago, on the motion of Mr. Arthur Mills, formerly Conservative M.P. for Taunton, the military expenditure in our colonies has continued to increase. This increase seems to have culminated during the late Conservative Administration, and it was not surprising therefore that one of the first acts of a reforming and economical Government was to cut down this ex- penditure by recalling the troops and leaving the colonies to defend themselves. But this step is one thing. Severance of the colonies from the mother country is another. The first we know to be wise, the wisdom of the second has yet, to be proved. What we complain of is . that 'Lord Granville is taking the second step without the knowledge and the assent of the nation., and is doing it, as in the case of New Zealand, with exceeding harshness, and regardless of very serious results. The policy of turning our colonies adrift may be wise, may be statesmanlike, but it is one that has never yet been discussed, and. upon which the Government ought to take the nation into its con- fidence. Nevertheless, it seems as if we were called upon to take this great leap into a darkness so dense that the obscurity into which Lord Derby compelled his followers to plunge is sunlight itself. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WE ask the attention of Mr. Newdegate and Mr. - Whalley to the following statement. There is a certain country in Europe where, unfortunately, the Roman Catholic is the prevailing religion, and where also, unfortunately, a large number of the criminals are Protestants. The Government of the country is so tyrannical and so bigoted, that for many years it would not allow these prisoners to be taught by min isters of their own religion, but forced them toreceive the ministrations of Popish priests whom the said prisoners believed to be idolators. Of late there has been some little improvement. Protestant clergymen have been permitted to visit the prisoners of their own faith. Yet even now they are forbidden in most of the prisons to hold a service, and are refused all payment. The Popish priest, who has often very little to do, and may gather all his co-religionists into a chapel and address them at one time, receives £4OO a year; the Protestant clergyman is compelled to visit each prisoner singly, so that his work is multiplied a hundredfold, and at the same' time he is refused all remuneration. Now here is a clear case of hardship, of spiritual despotism much harder than any of those wild stories with which the members for. North Warwickshire and Peterborough are wont to regale the House of Commons. We counsel them to hire Exeter Hall for an indignation meeting. We advise them to "coach up " Mr. Murphy thoroughly in the history and mystery of this iniquitous arrangement. W e exhort them:to sound the tocsin in this our Protestant Zion, to leave no stone unturned (they will pardon the confusion of metaphors, for they are used to it) until they have put an end to this scandal, and made the many-headed dragon on the seven hills disgorge its ill-gotten gains. We ask the hon. member's pardon. We find that we have made a slight mistake. The main facts are true; only it is not a Roman Catholic, bnt a Protes tant country in which this state of things prevails, and it is not Protestant prisoners who have to submit to Popish ministrations, nor Protestant clergymen who are treated with insult, and kept without pay ment, but Popish prisoners and Popish priests who are treated thus. Here are the facts as given in evi dence before a select committee of the House of Com mons on Monday. Mr. White was formerly a Homan Catholic priest visiting the Westminster House of Correction. There were on an average about 180 of his co-religionists among the- prisoners. But up to the close of 1867 ho was compelled to visit the prisoners singly, and his request • to see them collectively was refused. Afterwards this request was granted.; Protestant right-of-private-judgment being at last convinced, we suppose, that it was not quite consistent to do otherwise. Nevertheless Mr. White must be taught to know his place. He was only tolerated. lle had no locus eandi. So when he asked to have the assistance of a woman to teach the female prisoners the first elements of Christianity he was refused; and. when a lady of rank offered to play the harmonium at the service, she was snubbed, fur whoever heard of ladies of rank undertaking such a task as . that? Protestant ladies of rank know better. To allow Popish prisoners to worship at all was enough. and here Uovernment. This very important statement maae by a man of the greatest influence and the highest position in British AmeriCa caught the eye of a mem ber of Parliament. Unfortunately, that member was Mr. Whalley, and any question which he might put respecting the matter was not one that the Govern ment would feel bound to consider as weighty. So when asked if Sir A lexander Galt's assertion that the British Government desired the independence of the Dominion was made with the authority of the Government, Mr. MonEell replied that Sir Alexander had no such authority. Ca va sans dire. Ministers of the Crown are not in the habit of authorising no::- official persons to make official communications on great questions of State. But though_ Sir Alexander Galt may have had no " authority " to make his statement, he may have had very good ground for it. He may have come to know IN hat the wishes of our Government are, and being in opposition he may have felt himself at liberty to make use of that knoivledge for the benefit of his fellow countrymen. Just at this juncture there has been presented to the Legislature a Parliamentary return which has not yet received half the attention it deserves. It is entitled " A return of the annual cost of the several colonies of the British Empire at the expense of the British Exchequer." The return was . moved for by Colonel Sykes, and though a mass of figures it is a most significant document to those who have eyes to see. Our colonies cost us in the first year of the decade to which this return refers, in 1853-9, £2,920,251, and in the last, 1867-8, £3,967,926; an increase, in round figures, of a million sterling. But for the last three of those years the lonian Islands dropped out of the account, and taking these at the average cost of the preceding seven years, we find a saving of about £160,000, so that but for our aban donment of this military station the increased charge would have been just the £200,000. If we examine still further we shall find that it some stations there has been a considerable decrease: notably at the Cape, which costs us £150,000 less than it used to cost. Nevertheless, there is a net increase, as we have said, of (reckoning the lonian Islands) £1,200,000. The • expenditure is divided under various heads ; and by taking out the four which concern the military defences of the colonies, we find an increase of from £2,400,000 to £3,600,000, just 50 per cent. In fact, the net in crease and the increase in military expenditure come to the same amount. A study of these rqturna soon shews how this increase has arisen. It occurs chiefly under the head of Fortifications, Barracks, and regular troops. Bermuda, for- instance, which in 1859-60 cost under the head of fortifications £95, cost in 1867-8 £46,382. Canada (the old colony not the. present " Dominion") tney, were asiting for more. They must be taken down - a bit. •So the priest,, instead of getting £4OO a year, as the Protestant chaplain . did, received nothing, and was told, moreover, to find his awn appliances, which he did_ at a cost of £l5O. This was his reward for giving 2 hours a day towards the work of reclaiming for the benefit of the State those who had broken its laws. And all this was done under the very shadow of the Houses of Parliament. More than that, Mr. White was at last forbidden to continue even his voluntary and unpaid labours. because ho had been guilty ofthe high crime and misdemeanour of publishing, in one of -- the newspapers, the Correspondence between himself and the visiting justices; who, in their reverence for " a free and open Bible," declared that " the labourer is. not worthy of his . hire." Is not this story enough to make those of us Vvho are proudest of our Protestantism blush for it? Let 11ie2srs. Whalley and Newdegate take this mattei up, and we promise them that they will then do fal more for Protestantism than they have hitherto done by all their maunderings about "the Romish arehy," THE BALLOT. It is reported that a strong effort is now being made to induce Mr. Gladstone to being in a bill during the present session embodying the principle of vote by ballot ; and a memorial to this effect, signed by many members of. Parliament, is, it is said, now hi course of signature. It is known that the expediency of making certain changes in the existing system has been under official consideration. TALE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT. It is stated to be the intention of the Government to send an expedition, comprising a steel battery with a thousand men, to the Red River Settlement, in the event of the insurgents continuing opposition to the incorporation of the territory in the Dominion of Canada. CHANGES AT THE ADMIRALTY. Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, Bart., K.C.8., has signified his intention to the Admiralty to retire, after a very distinguished career. Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacrt.s,.K.C.B., the First Sea Lord at the Admiralty, wi►l become the junior admiral, in consequence of the retiremenls from the list of full admirals. liart buithrr SA - v a _HER MAJESTY. CLAREMONT, March 29. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ❑ess Princess Lou's and attended by Lady Churchill, drove out this morning. Her Majesty again drove out in the afternoon. Princess Louise and Prince Leopold rode out. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. ROME, March 29 It is stated that the General Congregation have to-day voted the Schema de Fide, which up to the present time bad been under discussion, and that to-morrow other schemata will come on for debate. FRANCE. PARIS, March 29, Evening. M. Ledru Rollin has arrived in France, and is staying at Fontenay, ne, r Paris. BOURSE, March 29.—Three o'clock—The marks t closed as follows : per Cent. 3 per Cents 73 97 End of mouth 74 171 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 202 50 13redit Foncier 307 50 Paris Gas 1785 Suez Canal 337 50 RAIL WA Bank Shares 2BlO Italan wives 55 70 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 46 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans Western Northern ... 11771 Strasburg .. 6l3i Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 626} Sardinian Austrian Bl2l Lombard 505 North of Spain 7O Saragossa Roman 5O SPAIN. MADRID, March 29. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the Government denied that any Lostile engagement had taken place id Cuba, adding that such could not occur, because the only body of troops at present traversing the island was a band of 500 men, under the command of a Colonel. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, March 29. It is asserted that a French firm at Marseilles have purchased, for commercial purposes, from the native chiefs, a tract of land situate on the Arabian coast, opposite Pirim, and extending for six miles inland. The traffic through the Suez Canal is increa'ing steadily. AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 29. The Guion steamship Minnesota arrived here at 1 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 11.11 ; the highest quotation during the day was 112 ; the lowest, 1114. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1382 1885 1867 106 1401 Erie .................................... . Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old mixer+, $1 sc. 0-40 nois According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report he receipts of cotton at all ports, for the last four• days, have been 30,000 bales. Shipments to England, 14,000 bales; to France, 4,000 bales; and to the Continent, 10,000 bales. 3liddling Upland, 10 7-16 d., cost and freight per steamer. PORTLAND, March 29. The Allan steamship Nestorian arrived out to day. 'The Queen returns to Windsor Castle to-day from Claremont. General Grey was this morning, we regret to say, in a hopeleso condition. The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his levees on the evenings. of Saturday, April 2, and of Wednesday, April 6, at tei: o'clock. Full dress. - Lord Courtelay, who purposes to resign his scat for East Devon, has made the necessary application to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. A fire broke out in the vaults of the Custom ouse at Boulogne yesterday. A portion of the cargo e Indiaman Allahabad, which was stranded on h at Andresselles, and other good, were con- sumed LITERATURE. Northward to Babylon. A Femi•Satirical Poem. 12m0., pp. 39. Charlton Tucker. A charming little pocket volume, beautifully printed aad daintily bound, here introduces very modestly to our notice a sort of poetic Siamese Twins. Separate and yet mystically united, " North ward" and " Babylon"—the two Poems, into which the tiny booklet or volumette is sub-di vided—appears on' the title-page as a single production, that is to say, as " Northward to Babylon." The writer, whoever he may be (a contemporary wouti, we observe, rather have said here, whoever she may be), has evidently but a very small amount of self-assalion. Insomuch that the Preface and Dedication," all in one, is subscribed, with exc,ssive humility, "The Scribbler." A humility so excessive that we are fain to demon strate the fact of its being so by one or two (as they seem to us) charming quotations. Describing, in a mere footnote, at p. 12, the eastern Silver Rose, the Scribbler (soi-disant) can yet %rite of it thus de licately : " Gul Chadne3 (Rose Silver), an exquisite flower, On a large bush of dark glossy green it is set, Like silver white tissue, a fit fairy bower, All daintily crumpled into a rosette." Again—being in Elfland, and yet turning whimsi cally a glance towards Platform-land (on t'other side of the Atlantic), the author pens wittily a couplet of rather comprehensive application, where he writes— "But planks in Platform-land will split— A fault in grain the cause of it." A couplet, by the way, having about it a quite Hu dibrastic flavour or twang A sleeper on the verge of waking is at p. 29 thus described— " Closed are the eyes, tho lips apart, Half smiled, as if about to start From some blest dream !' A thunderstorm, on turning the leaf (p. 30) is thus touched into recognition at a glance : "A dazzling line zigzags the cloud, Anon the thunder crackles loud, As if the vault above had split And heaven all glorious gleamed through it ! " While again, but a little further on (p. 34), one comes on this delicately-indicated wintry land- nape— " Snow, ever snow! incessant fall Those feath'ry flakes enshrouding all, Each speck so soft, so light, s 9 weak, Yet, massed, resistlessly they break All in their path, with sullen craunch, As thunders down th• avalanche Snow, ever snow ! daylight delayed Scarce struggles through the falling shade." As for the drift of the double poem, that we shall not spoil by indicating —commending those who have appreciated the graceful morrea►ix we have here g'ven by way of extract, to turn to the dainty little book itself, there to read the tale, as it has been told to us, for themselves. LAW AND POLICE. THE BANKRUPTCY LAW OF 186 1.—Lord -Justice Giffard has decided the case of Major Wieland, who was adjudged bankrupt in the Lewes County Court. It was argued that the proceedings at Lewes having been instituted under the law of 1861, the Chief Judge had no power to transfer them to London. On the other side it was argued that the adjudication at Lewes was a fraudulent proceeding, by which the creditors would be materially affected. It had only been necessary for the bankrupt to give a bill of sale divesting himself of all his property, when, by collusion with a friendly creditor, he was arrested, and the subsequent proceedings were of a very easy kind. The Lord Justice decided in favour of the jurisdiction of the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, and dis missed the appeal. THE WATFORD BOARD OF HEALTH.—An application has been made to Vice-Chancellor Malins for an injunc tion to restrain the Watford Board of Health from pol luting the river Colne with sewage. The injunction was granted, time beine , allowed by the Vice-Chaneellor for the completion of drainage works now in course of erection. " UNCLE DICK'S DARLING " IN CHANCERY. —Mr. Jessel, Q.C., made an application in the Rolls Court be fo7e Lord Romilly, for an injunction restraining Mr. Knowles, lessee of the Theatre Royal, Manchester, from performing, for the benefit of the local charities, Mr. H. J. Byron's new drama, " Uncle Dick's Darling," the play having been assigned by the author t o M r . J. L. Toole, the well known actor. It transpires that Messrs. Toole and Byron had a joint interest in the piece, and it was alleged that the performance of it in places other than those sanctioned by the author would be pecuniarily disadvan tageous to him, inasmuch as it would destroy the novelty of plot. His lordship granted the injunction, subject to a permission to Mr. Knowles, to apply in the course of the present week for its dissolution, THE HIGHGATE JUVENILE THIEVES.—Six youths, of ages varying from 13 to 17, all living at 'Highgate, have been charged with robbing a boy in Highgate Woods. They are members of the Highgate juvenile gang of thieves, the captain of whom is 17 years of age. Seven of them were committed a year ago. The prisoners were remanded. CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLIC COMPANY.—At the Man sion House, the Great Oceanic Telegraph Company (Limited) has been summoned before the Lord Mayor for not having its office open for the inspection of its register during two hours each day from the 18th to the 23rd of March, whereby the complainant, Mr. Francis Perry, 172, Fenchurch-street, was refused an inspection of the register. The complainant having seen the prospectus of the company, applied for one hundred shares, on which he paid the sum of £25, but from what he subsequently heard, he wrote a letter cancelling the appli cation, and requesting a return of the money, but he was informed that his application could not be cancelled. Afterwards Mr. Perry and his clerk called on several occasions at the office of the company, but found it closed. En cross-examination the complainant said he wrote several letters, asking a return of his money, but in none of them did he ask to see the register. Mr. Hare said a great many of the directors and clerks had resigned, and also the secretary. The remaining directors were in negociation• with some Manchester people with the view of raising funds to carry on. the company, and pending these negotiations the office has been shut up in order to save expense. Under these•cir cumstances he thought that a very small penalty would meet the case. The Lord Mayor said the Act was a very salutary one and he was inclined to carry it out and to its fullest extent. Mr. Hare said in that event he should repuire strict proof, and contended that no demand had been made for the register, and that it had . not been proved that the office had not been open two hours each day. Further evidence having been given, the Lord Mayor said he should be very happy to punish any evasion of the law passed for the protection of the public, but he must do it according to law, and in this case he did not think there was such a palpable act of refusal as would justify him in inflicting the penalty. The summons was then dismissed. HEARTLESSNESS PUNISHED.—Damages in a breach of promise of marriage case have been assessed at Leeds by. Mr. Wheelhouse, M.P., and a jury. The plaintiff was the daughter of an upholsterer at Bradford, and the de fendant a partner in a cotton mill at Shipley. They were engaged in the summer or autumn of 1868, and the de fendant wrote the plaintiff many. " spoony " letters, which were read in court. In one letter he said that a parting from here would be bitter grief, and in such a case "brandy and billiards would be his wife for the future." The wedding-day was fixed, but it was post poned, and in the meanwhile the defendant seduced the plaintiff on the plea that he was virtually her husband, and then endeavoured to shuffle out of his engagement. A verdict for the plaintiff was returned, with £750 damages. FALSE WITNESSES.-At the Liverpool Assizes a beer seller has been convicted of having suborned a number of poor persons to commit perjury, upon the occasion of his being summoned for selling beer durinr , illegal hours. On that occasion he was fined £3, and subsequently tried for perjury, the jury disagreeing. Justice Wiles sentenced the psisoner, who had been six months in custody, to six months with hard labour, remarking that unless the base practice now prevalent of flooding the courts with false testimony in small cases were checked, the foundations of justice would be sapped. A TRAP TO CATCH A BURGLAR.—A strange case of burglary has been tried at the • assizes at Leeds. A pro fessional tluef attempted to tamper with the assistant of Mr. Greenwood, a pawnbroker at Dewsbury. The assistant told his master, and it was arranged that he should give the burglar and his companions the means of entering the premises. This was done, and the thieves thus caught in a trap were arrested on the spot. Five persons were apprehended for this affair, but two were acquitted. Of the remainder, one named Hartley, was sentenced to five years, and another named Lee, to seven years' penal servitude, and a third prisoner, named Sims to 18 months' hard labour. The Pope has written an autograph letter to Madame Montalembert, expressing his sympathy for the irreparable loss she has sustained. The charge of the buildings at South Kensington las been transferred from the Privy Council Department to that of the Board of Works. O'Keefe, one of the liberated Fenian convicts, has issued a violent address to the Irish in America respecting the Peace Preservation Bill. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. ThEgbAf. T was deluded into Making in a-Lein - 66h Call upon the Peers yesterday, expecting that they would have some' thing to say worth hearing. I found spare Lord Hatherley on the woolsack, a score or two of lay peers in every-day dress, of course; and four or five bishops equally of course in their robes, for the Church is the most con servative of institutions, and still retains the full dress for its members in the Upper House as a relic of the old time when all the peers wore that costume. Perhaps, too, the l3ishops wish to disguise the precarious nature of their tenure by the imposing character of their appearance. But how is this? A bishop is speaking. What can he have to say about the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill ? There are no Irish bishops in the House nos' I ask what it all means, and I am told that the Bill has been introduced only in the most formal manner, hal been read a first time sub silentio, and that all discussion is reserved for to-night. I find my way through the various windings of Sir Charles Barry's building (cony pared with which the labyrinth that led to Fair Row mond's bower was a straight road), to the House of Con" mons, and find there a. very different 'scene from that in the Lords. No gorgeous paintings, no full robed members, no glitter of gold and glare of crimson, no inaudible con versations, but a business-like assembly numerously attended, and evidently intent upon serious work. And yet there are one or two things which would strike a stranger who visited this scene for the first time. He would ask first of all, Who are those young gentlemen in the gal lery in white ties and black gowns ? Are they sucking politicians serving their apprenticeship ? The guess i 5 not a bad one. They are Westminster scholars, who, by virtue of their school-ship, have the entrée to that gallery, which is otherwise reserved for peers and princes of the blood. They do not generally use their privilege for long together—an hour or two is usually enough for them—and yesterday - they speedily beat a retreat. Then the stranger would ask who is that most grotesque of persons standing at the door with one arm in a sling and holding his head on one side in the oddest fashion, like a parrot asking to have his poll scratched. That, he would be told, is Mr. Beresford Hope, member for that learned constituency, the Univer sity of Cambridge, proprietor of the Saturday Review, one of the wealthiest Commoners, one of the Highest Church men in England, an authority in all matters of art, brother-in-law of a most distinguished Marquis; as regards his leader, " neither kinned nor kind," and immortalised by him for his " Batavian grace." But curiosity would soon cease with respect to all these matters, for some one is speaking. "Speaking," did I say ? He is raving, and were it not that this is but the second hour of the sitting, I should assert that the hon. member had been dining, not wisely, but too well. He is very red in the face, very hoarse in the voice (no wonder), and he holds a roll of papers in his hands, which he shakes in the faces of the Government. ' Who is he ? What is it all about ? He is Mr. Knight, representative for the Malvern Hills 'and adjacent district. He is talking about the Irish poor-law, and he wants to put off the Land Bill for one week, in order apparently to frame and pass through both Houses of Parliament, a bill for amending said poor law. Rather a feat that, even in these rapid days. Dawn comes after the longest night, and Mr. Knight 'at last has come to an end of his tilt against the Government, and sits down with a scream like a locomotive as it tears into a tunnel. By force of contrast the silence that follows is profound and almost appalling. But hark ! is there not a voice, deep, un fathomably deep, coming not from the mouth, not from the throat even, but from the stomach It is the voice of Newdegate. "I heard him complain," as the poet says. You don't hear a word. You know only that the House has gone into mourning, and that the hon. member for North Warwick shire is pronouncing its funeral oration. If you can fancy what the feelings of a dead man would be on listening to his own funeral sermon, you can imagine how we all felt last night when Mr. Newdegate was speaking. He has altogether mistaken his vocation. He ought to be a mute (if only he would be mute), or barring that, a cemetery chaplain. By degrees he becomes audible. Just as when you have been gazing at the sun the brightest spot on earth looks dark, but afterwards is seen clearly. ; so after listening to that son of thunder, Mr. Knight, all seems silent at first, even the bass-est of voices, but after a period of rest for the auditory nerves, that voice becomes distinct. And thus it was that we came at last to distinguish what Mr. Newde gate said. This is what we heard—" The ROMISH HIER. &WHY. " I did not flee. I have applied for the Victoria Cross. At'last, after a time that seemed ages—a whole reign of terror—he sat down. There was no reason why he should have sat down, not the smallest reason why he should not be speaking now. When you get from Ulster tenant right to " The ROMISH HIERARCHY," there is nothing to prevent you going on to any other subject that ever has turned up, from the day that Adam first talked to Eve, or that ever will turn up, until the day of doom. But the funny part • of it was that Mr. Knight's fierce lightning, and Mr. Newdegate's 4 , deep thunder produced not the smallest impression. I suppose the amendment to postpone committee for a week was put and negatived, but no one seemed to notice it, and Lord Charles Russell left his chair, walked up the floor of the House, made his bow to the Speaker, removed the mace; while the Speaker, on his part,left the chair,and the House was in committee, and Mr. Dodson lord of all he surveyed. Now_your readers know that when the House goes into committee niembers may talk as often as they please, it being understood that they don't make long speeches. It is not generally known that a good many persons talk at once, that while one speech is being delivered to hon. members, hon. members are doing a good deal of speaking on their own account. In other words, they are gossiping. Sometimes the gossip is so fast and furious that it is almost impossible to hear the set speech. Such a state of things would be impossible while the Speaker is in the chair ; but Mr. Dodson is not such a strict disciplinarian as Mr. Denison, and it is only when the talking becomes very tumultuous that the chair man of committees calls " order." Hon. members don't take much notice even • then. Why should they ? Mr. Dodson does not sit under a canopy, is clad in trousers, and does not wear a wig. It is simply impossible for a man who wears his own hair to command the respect of 657 men who are just as good as he ; and When the Radicals have deprived the Speaker of his head dress, or when horses' tails run short, that day—that very day—England's sun is set for ever. Mr. Pim, the Quaker, M.P. for Dublin, is the author of the first of that formidable list of amendments which occupies thirty-five printed folio papers. He is a pleasant looking gentleman with white hair, and he clearly does not mean anything serious. He proposes to postpone the first clause—the Ulster Tenant-right Clause—but he lets it be understood that he is not going to press the matter. He capitulates, in fact, like an elderly maiden who accepts a suitor before he has had time to propose. Mr. Chichester Fortescue makes short work of Mr. Pim, as short as his name, the whole matter is disposed of in a little more than five minutes. " A glorious beginning," we all say, " Never mind, though there are 400 amendments, we shall soon get through them at this rate, and shall eat our hot cross buns in comfort." Rash b )asters ! Mr. Headlam is up. He is a noticeable man, with an abundance of silver hair, almost too good to be true, and coal black, eyebrows. He is not like Mr. Pim, a merchant ;heis a lawyer, and therefore can talk, and he does talk for forty minutes, and though sitting on the bench immediately behind Ministers, puts sufficient vinegar into his speech to make Mr. Gladstone think that perhaps it might have been as well to have found a place on the Treasury bench for the aforetime Judge-Advocate. Then follow a crowd-of members, of whom I will notice the Marquis of Hamilton, eldest son of the Duke of Abercorn, who escaped, " so as by fire," from the Abergele holocaust. He is not quite so fluent and so self-confident as his younger brother, Lord George, the member for Middlesex ; but he speaks to the point, and he defended the Ulster custom against the criticisms of hon. members on the Ministerial side of the House. The House cheers and as the Marquis is heir to very large estates in Ulster, and should therefore know something about what is good for landlords and tenants, his words, though occupying only two or three minutes, seem to make considerably more impression than the English lawyer's speech, long as it was. The end of all the palaver was that after a few words from the "learned and jocose" Solicitor-General, as Mr. Dowse is called, Mr. Headlarri's amendment was put and lost. For though when Mr. Dodson said "the ayes have it," the member for Newcastle gave the flat contradiction which usually precedes a division, there was such a general cry of "Agreed, agreed," that he did not go to a division, but did far better—he went to dinner. I will not describe the other amendments. The thing went on in the same style for three mortal hours more, with the diversion of two ex cursions into the lobby where Ministers were as trium phant as usual. When the House resumed Ministers had the satisfs,cticui of feeling that they had got through the first paragraph. of the first clause. Rather a bad look out, ty r thy licoliciays aln thinking,