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THE great meeting of the Education Union at St. James's Hall is the most formidable of the many antagonistic declarations which the demands of the Secularists have called forth. It for a long time seemed as if the Union were sleeping, whilst the League was up and doing. The latter body did, indeed, display signal activity in the pro mulgation of its curious theory that the doctrine of religious liberty demanded the complete proscription of all religion in schools for the education of the poor. But the spirit of opposition called forth have at length assumed decisive proportions. The religious bodies, with few exceptions, have pronounced in favour of religious teaching. The Government have embodied the principle in their measure, and refuse to depart from it. And they have secured abundant support from men of all creeds and political parties, who on this question take common ground. It is no ordinary object which can unite such men as Lord Salisbury, Lord Shaftesbury, and Mr. Thomas Hughes. Yet on this great subject the Conservative chief, the Low Church peer, and the advocate of the working classes, arrive at the same con. - 1;Fon by pretty much the same means. Lord Shaftesbury supports the Government measure h)cause it pro vides facilities for religious teaching as an essential of the school course, and not asan extra. If the Bible b 3 taught at all, it is idle to relegate it to odds and ends of time, thus stamping religious instruc -1•:on as a matter of secondary inwortance, and leavinir CAUTION. MOSES and S 0 N E• beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The Standard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that henceforward every saddle of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attached to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. 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WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Picca dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at 5; Saturday 3101 n ings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till %30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, is.; extra rooms, Gd. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily (except Sundays). Adatission. Is.• on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. ed. 4 , a, se , 44jk Tye .4111 L , LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1870. ERIDAY night's sitting of the House of Commons was like many an English summer day. The early hours were dull and close, and there was a thorough stagnation of the atmosphere. But as evening wore on clouds began to lour in the horizon ; a little later they had covered the heavens, and soon after midnight there was a tremendous storm, with angry flashes and deafening peals. Nothing could have been more depressing than the proceedings from 9 o'clock on Friday night until a quarter to one on Saturday morning. Cattle mar kets and military education had occupied the whole of those weary four hours, and one of them had been engrossed by the not very eloquent Mr. Samuda, who discussed the rival claims of Deptford, Milwall, and the Isle of Dogs. Even Sir John Lubbock's maiden speech, able as it was, did not arouse mem bers. Heaviness reigned supreme. The Attor ney-General was the first to break the drowsy spell. It was a very simple proposal that he had to make ; merely in fact that leave should be given to bring in a bill for disfranchising Beverley and Bridgwater. But it aroused Colonel Stuart Knox, who, as a Tory of the Tories, was bound to believe that that which was sin unpardonable in the latter borough was a harmless custom in the former. There must be two separate tills for these boroughs, he said. Vain was the explanation that the two boroughs would be dealt with in dif ferent. clauses. Vain was the reminder that the late Lord Derby had disfranchised four boroughs en Me. Vain was the advice given by members sitting on his own side of the House not to oppose Sir Robert Collier's motion. The honour of Beverley and Mr. Wreghitt and Sir Henry Edwards (Colonel Knox's fellow Orangeman) must be main tained at all costs. So the House went to a division on the question, and the obstinate militaire found himself soundly beaten. All this was but the first faint rumble of the storm that was about to burst. At half-past one Mr. Newdegate moved for the appointment of his committee to enquire into conventual and monastic institutions amid angry exclamations and interjec tions. There was cause for that anger. The mem ber for North Warwickshire had promised the other side that he would not bring his motion on at an unreasonable hour, and when asked to define the time more closely had said first half-past eleven, and then moved it on to half-past twelve. Yet here it was an hour past that time, and members who had been sitting (with only one interval of two hours) since two in the afternoon were called upon to enter upon a most vexed question at that untimely hour. Worse still, a large number of M.P.'s, relying upon Mr. Newdogate's assurance, had gone home. Not so Mr. Cogan. He seems to have distrusted the member who is for ever accusing a large body of Christians as habitual liars. Mr. Newdegate declares that a "Papist" holds ho may resort to any stratagem for the advan tage of his Church, and it was, therefore, not surpris ing that "Papists," acting on the motto of Honi soit qui mal y pease, were suspicious of the hon. member. So Mr. Cogan was ready wtth his speech, which was, however, courteous, and free from irritating matter to a degree that was wonderful under the circumstances. Our London correspondent has des cribed the scene which followe'. When Mr. Matthews, sitting just before Mr. Newdegate, turned round upon him, and in vehement words taunted him with false accusations, which he would never venture to make good, it seemed as though the force of excite ment could no farther go. Yet that was but a zephyr compared with the tempest that arose when Mr. Ay t oun arose close upon three o'clock. Only those who have had the misfortune to be an unpopular candidate at an election, can form any idea of the howls and yells with which he was greeted. A division was taken, and Mr. Newdegate was again triumphant. That triumph exasperated the Irish phalanx past all restraint, and Mr. Synan's shout, as he accused Mr. Newdegate of treachery must have astonished the cabmen who were waiting wearily in Palace-yard to take hon. members home to bed. More than one member attempted to act the part of moderator, and to allay the storm. At length something like n compromise was come to. The House was not to ad journ, for then Mr. Newdegate's motion would have become a lapsed motion, which he could not bring on again during the session ; but the debate was adjourned, and the whole question will be fought over again, this time without any surprises. The result will be that the House will be deprived of the pleasure so eagerly anticipated by some members of seeing nuns dragged from their cloisters in order that they may bo examined by number of curious 31.P:e. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1870. r the rising generation to infer that the highest con sideration of all is a mere trifle, which may or may not receive attention, just as inclination may direct. Mr. Hughes stood up to deny what is very commonly supposed to be the raison d'etre of the League. The majority of that body, he said, were not advocates of secular training. Nothing could be more mischievous, in the opinion of Mr. Hughes, than to separate religion from school work. All of which is perfectly sound; but with regard to the League and its principles, Mr. Hughes only demon strates that there are two Leagues ; for that a considerable body of eminent men have alarmed the country by a cry for the entire banishment of religious teaching from schools, is unquestionable. Mr. Mill has just been at special pains to declare that his ideal of a national system of education is one from which the Bible and every species of reli gious instruction shall be rigidly excluded. This is the common danger, which, as the Marquis of Salisbury put it, had brought together men of such widely divergent faith. They felt there was no neutrality in the matter. Religion must be either taught or opposed. " After school hours" means indifferentism and neglect. This is simply the position, and it recommends itself so forcibly to the bulk of the nation that the danger would be almost nil, were it not that in an evil hour certain sections of Nonconformists have allied themselves with the philosophers against reli gious teaching. These sections are not the most numerous nor the most influential ; it is pro bable, in fact, that the fear of weakness under the denominational system has led them to join the Secularists; but however this maybe, it is certain that these accessions have given the anti-denominational movement a character which does not really belong to it. It is made to look like a struggle on behalf of religious equality and liberty—albeit the reductio ad absurdum of a religious equality which can be attained only by proscribing all reli gion is palpable. But such is the nature of the alliance which has produced that League which Mr. Hughes does not belong; and it is this alliance which calls for special watchfulness and activity on the part of the majority who uphold the opposite doctrine. HEALTH OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The statements respecting the health of the Emperor are very various. It is certain that the Bourse was severely frightened, but some of the semi-official papers denied that his Majesty was indisposed. The story was that in the afternoon of Friday ho had had a fainting fit ; by ten o'clock he had broken his leg, and an hour later the rumour was that he could not survive the night. The telegraph offices were inundated with senders of dispatches. There was talk of death rattles, syncope and other alarming and final events. From private sources the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette learns that his Majesty sprained himself while trying to mount his horse, and felt so faint afterwards that the review he was about to hold had to be counter manded. The review was held on Friday, and the Em peror was present, looking as if nothing had happened, and afterwards went to the horse and dog show in the Champs Elyges. ta' kti i(V ) tr rt DER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 10. hier Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service in the private chapel. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. TIIE SUEZ CANAL. M. de Lesseps has presented his report to the Suez Canal Shareholders, at Paris. It shews that about £320,000 will be required this year to complete or improve the works. The total number of vessels that passed through the canal from the day of its opening to the 15th March was, it appears, 209, representing 146,631 tons. Of these 56,052 tons were English vessels, 34,390 French, 17,666 Egyptian, 14,625 Austrian, 7,386 Italian, 4,178 Russian, 4,000 Norwegian, 3,200 Dutch, 880 German, 528 Spanish, 3,015 Prussian, 369 Portuguese, and 342 Turkish. Of the 209 vessels, 200 were steamers, the others were sail ing vessels. The tolls collected were from 79 vessels, of 54,644 tons (130 vessels being exempt, having passed through at the opening of the Canal), realising £247,254, and the amount from small vessels as transit dues, £ 8,410. En gland has respect to England, the report says :—" ngland has from the first day been able to utilise •the canal largely. You have seen what an imposing commer cial fleet she has sent to it, and that fleet augments every day. Building-yards work literally night and day in the United Kingdom in transforming or building vessels. We could cite to you a single company which, in its calcula tions, has put down an annual payment of £lOO,OOO fot the canal.' THE WATERFORD MAGISTRACY. The Waterford Mail says that it is rumoured that owing to the influence of Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Lewis Byrne, of Clonmel, has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate, and Captain Brennan, an active supporter of Mr. Osborne, the gentleman who was knocked down by the mob and had some of his ribs broken, has been appointed a borough raz.....israte, though he does not reside in the city. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the junior members of the Royal family, will leave the palace at Windsor on Wednesday next at two o'clock, and, travelling in a special train on the Great Western Railway, will pro ceed to Basingstoke, where they will change carriages for the South-Western line of Railway, and will thence proceed direct to the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport. Here the Royal party will embark on board the Royal yacht Alberta, Staff-Commander David N. Welch, and proceed to the Trinity Pier, East Cowes, where carriages will be in readiness to convey them to Osborne. The stay at the marine residence will, it is expected, extend to about the end of May. Mr. John Bright, M.P., arrived at Llanduduo on Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Bright. It is stated the right hon. gentleman appears much improved in health. The marriage of the Hon. Arthur Cadogan, second son of the Earl of Cadogan, and. Miss Arabin, took place on Saturday last, at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the pre sence of a large circle of friends. In the afternoon, the newly-married couple left town for the Continent. Mr. Disraeli will not be present at the Perth banquet to Sir William Maxwell, the state of the right hon. gentleman's health being such that he stands in need of total relaxation from public speaking during the Easter recess. The Government, it is stated, will not oppose Mr. Denison's motion for a select committee to inquire into the law and administration of the law of compensation for acci dents as applied to railway companies. The Select Committees on the Burials Bill and the Felony Bill held sittings this morning, but the proceed ings were private. The Diplomatic Committee also takes further evidence this afternoon, and the Tramways Com mittee meet to consider their report. A circular bas been received at Sheerness dockyard from the Lords of the Admiralty, giving the conditions under which discharged dockyard hands will be conveyed to Quebec in her Majesty's troopships proceeding to Canada, about the end of May or beginning of June next. The sum to be paid by each emigrant is £2 for each adult, and £1 for each child under 12 years of age. On their arrival at Quebec these people will be in exactly the same position as ordinary emigrants, which means that they will have to look out for themselves on getting ashore. More than 30,000 votes were recorded at the elec tion of guardians in St. Pancras last week, and the scrutiny was completed on Saturday. Of 18 candidates started by the Ratepayers' Association in opposition to the members of the late board twelve were successful. Phillips, the American Government clerk, charged with embezzling United States bonds, was further remanded by the Queenstown magistrates on Saturday, the American depositions not having arrived. The Court Ci"-cu/ar understands that the marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings will be celebrated in June. The Court, according; to the most recent arrange ments, will leave Windsor Castle for Osborne on Wednes. day next. The Treasury has sanctioned the pension of .£l,lOO a-year to Mr. Brown, 0.13., late Accountant- General, War Office. Mr. G. Bryan, M.P. for the county of Kilkenny, has been obli g ed to leave London and return home, owinv t , a severe attack of Sir V. Crixs.ty, besides the (,;rifts already enulne u-ted, has given £lO,OOO as the basis of r ftnitl for the widows of Congregational ministers. Earl Spencer, if we may credit the Rib/in Ma!l w:11 resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland after Easter, and it is not improbable Mr. Chichester Fortescue will succeed with an English peerage. Large majorit:es of both houses of the Cape Colony Legislature are against the introduction of party Government and against the Imperial Government's policy of withdrawal of the troops. Mr. Spurgeon is famed for his quaintness. Ho described Mr. Macgregor, of the " Rob Roy," the other evening, as " one who can serve his God," and at the same time " paddle hip own canoe." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, April 10, 11 40 p.m. Buffet and Darn have resigned. Their successors will not be appointed till after the Plebiscite. Parieu and Olivier will take charge of the Minis tri, sad interim. The other Ministers are expected to remain for the present. M. de Banneville left to-night for Rome with a Note to the Council, but its presentation will pro bably be deferred. PARIS, April 11. It is asserted in offic!al quarters that M. Mangani is certain to be elected at Lyons, in opposition to M. Ulric de Fonvielle. The rumours of the ill health of the Emperor are wholly unfounded. During the past week his Majesty has hold several reviews on horseback, and has actively and regularly transacted the business of the State. Count Daru, up to the present time, has not withirawn his resignation. LYONS, April 11. M. Mangini, the Conservative candidate, has been elected by 15,348 votes, M. Ulric de Fonvielle poll. iog 7,827. BOURSE, April 9.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 11 per Cent. per Cents 73 50 Erd of month 73 85 '.)redit Mobilier 268 7.5 Transatlantic 2OO Bank Shares 2817 50 Ital'an wives 55 40 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 334 50 Do. Debt 47 55 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Orodit Foncier 1270 Paris Gas 1717 50 Suez Canal 272 50 RAM WA Orleans Western Cash 970 60 Northern. Strasburg .. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 655; Sardinian 79£1 _ 465 Austrian . Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, April 9. The North German Lloyd steamer BLltimore ar rived out at Boston to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1131 ; the highest quotation during the day was 113; ; the lowest, 1121. , Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 If 1867 10-40 „ Illinois Erie - 251 Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra Stato, $t 40c. to $5 Oc. Corn—Old tnixei, $t 9e PLY3IOUTfi, April 11. The Hamburg and Americal Company's t arn er Saxonia, from New York, has arrived hen; Hi h 89 passengers, 89 sacks of mails, and $1,200 in specie Four passengcri , , 58 sacks of mails, al:d specie were landed here, and the Sasonia proceeded for Cher bourg. The mails were forwarded by special train at 8.30 a.m. The Saxonia, experienced heavy easterly gales and high seas from New York to lat. 37 west, then light westerly and variable winds. On April 1 she passed the Norwegian steamer Columbia, bound west ; on the 3,1 an Inman steamer, and on the 10th a North German Lloyd steamer, both steering wes t. NEW YORK, April 10. The Guion steamship Nevada arrived here at one p.m. to-day. REPRIEVE OF THE CONVICT RUTTERFORD. With reference to the case of James Rutterford, now under sentencd of death in the prison at Bury St. Ed .nunds, the Pall Mall Gazette is authorised to state that Mr. Bruce, not having the power to give effect to the sentence by any but the ordinary means, and finding by the following report from a board of medical gentlemen, that the risk of a very revolting spectacle was imminent, had no alternative but to reprieve the convict. " County Gaol, Bury St. Edmunds, April 8, 1870. " We, the undersigned, John Kilner and Thomas Coe, two duly qualified medical practitioners, being duly ap pointed by James Johnstone Bevan, Esquire, visiting justice of the said gaol, in pursuance of a letter from Mr. Secretary Bruce, bearing date the 7th day of April instant, have, together with Dr. MacNab L the surgeen to the gaol, proceeded to examine James Rutterford, a prisoner now lying under sentence of death, and the cicatrix which he has in his neck, do hereby report that in our opinion he cannot be hanged by the ordinary means, for to secure against the risk of failure and a prolongation of suffering, it will be neces sary to use a very considerable and unusual amount of constricting force before the rope can be adjusted in such a manner as to sustain the weight of the prisoner's body. (Signed) " JOHN KILMER, F. R. C. S. Eng. , &c. "THOMAS Cos F.R.C.S., Eng., &c. "ROBERT M`NAB, M. D. , F,R. C. S. , Edin., &c. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. ►SATURDAY. Are we never to have a half-holiday again ? Surely we have all deserved it, from the Speaker down to the door keeper. We never worked harder; we never had drier work. Yet we have not once had a count out, though the session is two months old. Certainly, if we did not got it last night, I don't see when we are to expect it. The House was nearly all green leather, and Mr. Samuda was talking about cattle markets. Surely Ministers would think themselves at liberty to stay at home for once. Nothing of the sort. True the front Opposition benches were empty, but Mr. Bruce, Mr. Forster, and Capt. Vivian kept guard on the Treasury bench, thereby let ting it be understood that they meant business, and that if necessary they would tell the whips to do their duty. Moreover, Mr. Charley was present, and as a divinely commissioned Attila he was equal to at least forty ordi nary members, and so a count out was hopeless. He, I am sure, lives on the piemises. Not Mr. Denison or Mr. Dodson, not Lord Charles Russell or Colonel Forester, is so constant an attendant as this messenger of divine ven geance against the People's William. The truth is the Government dare not suffer a count out. They have robbed private members of one night after another, until the barest remnant is left, and if they did not make a House and keep a House during the few hours that they have left to M. P.'s, let them never again expect the House to cheer the Ministers. This I can understand. What I cannot understand is that anyone not on duty should have cared to be present during the earlier portion of tho night. Yet the strangers' and the Speaker's galleries were as full as though it were Budget night. The Peers have too much of dulness in their own house to make them voluntarily endure the dulness of ours. At first there was not a single peer present, for the only occu dant of their benches—the only peer—was not a peer. Pardon the bull. Is this not an Irish Session ? More over I speak of an Irishman. Sitting alone in his capacious apron and gaiters was the Bishop of Derry. I may be forgiven some confusion about him. He was a peer, but he has been disestablished, and is no longer a member of the Legislature. That fact may account for his presence here last night. Blessings brighten as they take their flight, and Bishop Alexander, remembering last session's eloquence, last session's orators, quorum pars magna fuit, last night haunted the House of Commons, and sat patiently while the member for the Tower Hamlets talked for nearly one mortal hour in the forlorn hope of inducing an economical Government to spend a hundred thousand or two in purchasing the property of some of his constituents. Before the honourable shipbuilder bad finished, a little party entered the Peers' Gallery, and the Bishop was no longer alone. One was a . noticeable - looking man, with abundance of dark hair, and semi olive complexion. Clearly not an Englishman, and quite a different race from those who accompanied him. He was an American clergyman, I was told, and his friends were introducing him to the first Legislative Assembly in the world, " bar one," of course. The talk about cattle had been going on for five dreary quarters of an hour, when two members entered the House to see how things were going on, and what chance there was for them. One of these was Mr. Newdegate, who has been doomed to the fate of Tantalus, has gained a notable victory ; but is denied the en joyment of its fruits ; has persuaded a majo rity of two to • sanction the appointment of a select oommttee to inquire into the condition of convents—l beg Mr. Newdegate's pardon, " Monastic and Conventual Institutions," but cannot get his committee nominated. Prior to this Mr. Whalley had taken up his position, one which he greatly affects, a full length on one of the seats in the member's gallery, where he sleeps, haunted by visions of the Romish hierarchy, and dreaming that he is a Jesuit in disguise without knowing it. The other member to whom I referred is Sir George Jenkinson, who was down for another tilt against the Home Secretary. The prospect before them at this time was anything but cheerful. Alter Mr. Samuda came Sir Selwyn Ibbetson ; after the Essex baronet, Mr. Forster ; after the Vice-President of the Council, Mr. Locke, who raised the first laugh of the evening—a somewhat melancholy one—by calling Mr. Samuda the member for Whitechapel. Then Mr. Card well looked in to see if he was wanted to reply to Sir John Lubbock, who was down with a motion upon mili tary education. But cattle still stopped the way, and the Bishop of Derry, fearing to degene rate involuntarily from a bishop into a beefeater took his departure, leaving us, I fear, anything but his blessing. Pardon me for saying no more on this subject, the more so as it lcd to no result, and collapsed of utter dulness after a hundred minutes, the climax having been reached by Mr. Andrew Johnston who called the Commercial-road a noble avenue ! At twenty minutes to eleven the recently-elected young M.P. for Maidstone—banker, saran, and politician—arose amid a friendly " Hear, hear," to claim the privileges of a new member, and to make his maiden speech. There was no need for maidenly bashfulness. Sir John was something more than fluent. He was rar6d, and as the subject—military education—was not particularly ex citing, I fear the clever young baronet was not at first listened to with that attention which he might have expected that his reputation would obtain for him. Several times did the Speaker call " Order, order," but for a time hon. members went on gossiping all the same, lowering their tone for a moment, but soon raising it again. At length, however, they began to listen, for the speaker's arguments were cogent, and then they began to cheer, and before he had finished, the House, though still thin, was populous compared with the waste of green leather which had prevailed for the first hour and three quarters of the sitting. The first real hearty laugh of the evening came from the Conservative benches, as Sir John Lubbock read the list of subjects required from young gentlemen matriculating at the London University. It seemed to include not only the knowledge of all plants, "from the cedar of the forest to the hyssop on the wall," but all sciences and learning which Solomon never knew. Sir John spoke for 35 minutes, and was followed by Dr. Lyon Playfair, who had been sitting next him during his speech. Dr. Playfair never wearies the House, and he did not occupy more than twelve minutes in discussing with much force the comparative value of classical and scientific education, whereas Mr. Samuda had taken 55 minutes in recommending a suitable site for a cattle market. Dr. Playfair was followed by a speaker of not quite equal calibre, Lord Eustace Cecil, who does not share the gift of eloquence possessed by his brother, the Marquis of Salisbury. Lord Eustace was greatly troubled in mind on one point. How was he to describe the last speaker? He first called him " learned," but then that implied that Dr. Playfair was a lawyer, for by common Parliamentary consensus the lawyers alone possess any learning. So Lord Eustace described his predecessor in the debate as " honourable." But then is not Dr. Playfair a professor? How then could he be "honour able "? It was an exceedingly nice question, and at one time it seemed as if the Speaker's intervention would have to be asked and permission demanded to call the professor by his patronymic. But those who know what fearful results follow when a member is " named " will be relieved to hear that that catastrophe was avoided. Lord Eustace got out of his difficulty by calling Dr. Playfair "honourable and learned," with an apology for the latter adjective, which the Professor graciously accepted. Lord Eustace was followed by Captain Beaumont, a very distinguished officer, who came out on the side of the anti-classicists. Major Dickson, who was at the storming of the Redan and fought against the Sepoys at Meerut, and by the side of the solicitor to the Bank of England, at Dover, was very scornful at the idea of soldiers learning political economy, and proclaimed his wish that the time was at hand when that great sham, competitive examinations, would be put down. He was succeeded by Mr. Charles Stuart Parker, who after triumphs at Eton and triumphs at Oxford, and after serving as public examiner in his university, private secretary to Mr. Cardwell, and special commissioner, under the Public Schools Act, crowned his triumphs by beating Sir Wm. Stirling Maxwell, chief of the Scotch Conservatives, in his owa county at the general election. Mr. Parker spoke well, but the House was getting weary, and hinted to him that it was not a time for multiplication of words, but for a divi sion of members. At last he took thehint and sat down, aur there were cries of " Cardwell." There was not a little dis gust when General Herbert got up to prolong the debate, but l►e spoke less than five minutes, and then at last the Secretary of State for War arose, at half- PAs t midnight. He commenced by adding his compliment to all those which had been paid to Sir John Lubbock for his maiden speech, and then delivered himself of much emphatic language, enforced by apostolic blows and knocks upon the buhl decorated box. He succeeded in satisfying Sir John Lubbock by the promises of what he meant to do, and so another two hours' debate came to an end, and we had the satisfaction of feeling that had Mr. Cardwell spoken first instead of last, this alcleVidgas tQQa liccd gl9t LAYO tOrAzi It had this one effect, however, it induced Sir George Jenkinson to defer his attack upon the Home Secretary, and he announced a postpone ment. But what do those groans and shouts mean ? Some one is talking, and if you glance down at him you will think that Don Quixote has sent one of his windmills into the House, and set it going, so rapid are the revolutions of the speaker's arms. It is Mr. Whalley, and he has awakened from his troubled sleep, and is now plead ing the cause of a peculiarly atrocious murderer. There is a storm of discordant cries, but the Whalley heeded them not ; he said his say, and sat down amid a chorus of ohs ! Up got a gentleman among the back Con servative benches and gave a history of Mr. Whalley's p;•otegJ. The historian was Mr. Greene, M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds ; the protege was about the very worst villain that ever disgraced the name of man. Mr. Bruce there upon rose, and, amid general "hear, hears," said that this discussion shewed what extreme inconvenience was caused by bringing forward subjects of this kind. At the same time, it was so extremely inconvenient to have Sir George Jenkinson's motion constantly postponed that he hoped that hon. baronet would proceed with it. "No, no," shouted the Opposition, and they were equally vociferous In their negative when Mr. Bruce offered to make a statement. So the subject fell through. Then Mr. Stansfeld moved that a vote for the Civil Service be granted on account, and gave the cheerful information that there was little chance of these estimates being discussed before July. Mr. Dillwyn didn't like it. He thinks that no Ministry, however economical, is to be trusted farther than you can see it, and so he made a rather feeble protest, which, after a few words from Mr. Sclater-Booth, was with drawn. Next Mr. Moore appealed once more on behalf of the Fenian convict Burke. Then the Attorney-General, returned from his not verybrilliant victories over the bribers in Bridgwater and Norwich, asked for leave tobring in abill to disfranchise Beverley and Bridgwater. The House was prepared to give leave, as a matter of course. Not so Colonel Stuart Knox, who declared that the cases of the two boroughs were very different, and insisted upon having two different committees. In vain did the Attorney- General point out that the gallant officer's purpose would be fully met by putting the boroughs in different clauses. In vain did Mr. Staveley Hill, a staunch Conservative, advise Colonel Knox not to press his motion to adjourn. In vain did members shout " Oh !" at the idea of a division, and cry " Agreed, agreed." Colonel Knox was firm, obstinate rather, and when the Speaker asked who seconded the motion, up jumped a white haired man, and, taking off his hat with a bow, said, " I do, sir." It was Mr. Moore, the advocate of Fenians all and sundry. The House was cleared, and Colonel Knox had the satisfaction of finding a few minutes later that just seventeen members thought as he did. Sir Robert Collier then obtained the necessary leave, and as it was now half-past one, we all thought that the night's work was over. Not if Mr. Newdegate knows it. Amid a tumult of interjections, he got up, and, in a sepulchral voice moved that his committee on conventual and monastic institutions be appointed. Mr. Charley seconded the motion, fortunately without a speech. The motion was met by Mr. Cogan, who made a good speech but cruelly long at that hour, when the House had been sitting the clock round. At last after half-an-hour the cries of "move, move," became loud and long, and at three minutes past two Mr.' Cogan sat down. Sir John Simeon, a brown-haired long-bearded man, the only Roman Catholic member for an English constituency, seconded the amendment. He spoke for eleven minutes with much fervour, and as he sat down, horror of horrors ! up rose Mr. Newdegate, dark and louring. Fortunately the Speaker did not or would not, see him, and the word was given to Lord Elcho. But the evil was only postponed—some one, Mr. Dodds I think, proposed an adjournment, but it was not approved, and at seventeen minutes past two the member for North Warwickshire, whom Albert Diirer might have taken as a study for his " Melancolia," began to speak. He let us off in nine minutes, and he was answered by a member on his Own side, Mr. Matthews, who though avowedly a Liberal, sits with the Conservatives. He made a most spirited speech, reminding Mr. Newdegate of his famous cock and bull story of the nun " put away" in the underground cellar of a convent, story without a name, without a date, and which the teller thereof would not attempt to prove. Mr. Bruce appealed to Mr. Newdegate's humanity to allow the House to adjourn, but was met with shouts of " No," They were but a whisper compared with the frightful clamour that resounded wnen Mr. Ay - toun, of Tea-room and 'Tiler celebrity, rose to speak. He protested against the acljorumment, and then there was such a scene as I have rarely witnessed—members popping up all over the Muse, and 'greeted with yells, which became something fiendish when Mr. Newdegate rose . again, and once more attempted to speak At last, at a quarter to three, a division did take place on the adjournment. There was a shout of joy from the Conservative side when the paper was given to Mr. Newdegate and it was seen that he had won. Of ,courseithe Roman Catholic members did not me a n to Admit themselves beaten, and so immediately the adjourn' ment was moved again. Mr. Newdegate was this time willing to assent to it if the Government would give some indication of its wishes. Mr. Bruce declined to dictate to the Roman Catholic members, though he thought it better to adjourn. Up got Mr. Synan; his words still ring in my ears. I know • •no word in the language which will convey any idea of his stentorian tones. He was in a white-heat passion. He declared that Mr. Newdegate had • promised not to bring on his motion after half-past twelve• This, he said, was the reason why many Roman Catholic members left the House. This statement was corroborated by other members. Heated tempers cooled down a bit as Mr. Arthur Kinnaird made a speech full of jokes that had a fine flavour of port. Mr. Maguire suggested a solution of the difficulty by moving the adjournment of the debate. Mr. Newdegate accepted it, and the Speaker put the question that the House be now adjourned. This was negatived, and then the motion that the debate be adjourned was put. There were more speeches, but ati last members took the matter into their own hands, °r legs rather, and walked out of the House, as they well might do at half-past three in the morning. THE NEW CAB COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir.,—ln your paper of Friday last appears the following paragraph, under the head of " Metro politan Gossip Another attempt is to be made to supply us unfortunate Londoners with new cabs* A joint-stock company is anno unce d , w i t h Lord William Lennox and Colonel Dickson, of Refors procession and Tower .Hamlets' fame, among the direc tors. They call their association the Victoria, lien" som, and Brougham Company." You have been, wrongly informed on the subject. The chairman of the " Victoria, Hansom, and Brougham Company , of which I am a director, is Lieut.-Colonel AuchroutY Dickson, late 13th Hussars, and late M.P. f or Limerick. He is a staunch Conservativ e, and was never connected with any Reform demonstrations or the Tower Hamlets. Unde r these circumstances, I shall feel much obliged by your inserting this letter. Our object is to furnis h 44 unfortunate Londoners" with Hansoms, Victorian' and Broughams of first-rate quality, and impro v° the cab system, which is notoriously the worst 1g Europe. As the articles of association show that It is a bona fide scheme, unfettered by any dead weig ht e of promotion money, we confidently look for O r support of the presi and the public.—l remain, yo obedient servant, WILLIAM P. LENNoS• 8, Prince of Wale:s-terrace, Kensington Palace, April 11. THE FRENCH FUNDS. According to Rerrer's telegrdnis the Fre Reutcs to-Jay were quoted 731. 10c. , c teu The very extensive Distillery now Messis. DUNVILLE & Co., being er c or at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the inanufact. oe d a world-wide celebrity for their line old I r i s h whist:}', iy •'The Royal Irish ' • istillery." Irish whisky, by called w ho have, g a to l be MR. 'STIGGINS IN DIFFICULTIES. A fellow with various aliases, whose proper name should have been Stiggins, has been committed by the Bilston magistrates for robbing a widow of a sovereign. The man is 50 years of age, and appeared in the dock, wearing dark coloured clothing and a white neck tquth. Like his antetype, described by Charles Dickens, Mr. Stiggins had a particular prediliction for that c l ass of humanity of which Mr. Weller, sen., had so terrible a dread. Owing to the fact, perhaps, that the local Mr. Welters were somewhat numerous about Bilston and advised their Samuels never to marry a " vidder," Mr. Sti , , e __Tins had a rather extensive field for his opera tions. With the exception of the pine-apple rum, the rev. gentleman seems to have taken a leaf out of the earlier Stiggins book. His habit was to get some know ledge of the history and domestic relations of needy widows ; and then to represent himself at one time as a Methodist preacher, and at others as a man of wealth who believed it to be " his mission as a well -to- do Christian to promote the well-being of widows" to visit them at their houses, read the Scriptures to them and their children, and pray with them. After such preludes he usually found little diffi culty. in obtaining refreshm en t, an d b y - an -b y i n i n d uc i ng his victims to believe that he was in earnest when he pro tested his intention of marrying them right away, and placing them and their families beyond all farther want in this life. This, in its turn, secured him bed as well as board. In one instance the conduct of the fellow was still more disgraceful. He seduced a widow under promise of marrying her the fol lowing morning, instead of which he made off with a sove roign— all the money she was possessed of. He was apprehended, and as the police have a long list of cases a;ainst him, there is a chance of his acquaintance with " vidder3" circumscribed for some time to come. THE DISTURBANCES IN SPAIN. A special telegram of the Standard says that constant attempts are being made to raise barricades in Barcelona which are as constantly resisted by the troops, who were expecting reinforcements before the general attack. Prim has despatched General Baldrick from Madrid to direct the attack. The rebels are burning the railway bridges. The insurrection is continuing in Sans Sabadell, Andres, Gracia, and Clot. 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