The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-22 00:00:00

THIS EVENING'S NEWS. AMERICAN FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. It is believed in Washington that Mr. Schenok's f unding bill will not pass into law this session. Mr. Garfield's bill for an additional issue of national bank-notes has been reported against by the Financial Committee of the Senate, and a conference be tween the two Houses has been ordered, the bill having been passed by the House of Representatives. Mr. Whittemore, the re-elected member for South Carolina, has been refused admission to the House of Representatives. THE FASTING GIRL INQUIRY. The costs of the inquiry relating to the death of Sarah Jacob, " the Welsh Fasting Girl," has been laid before Parliament. The counsel's fees amount to £l6O ; of which Mr. C. E. Coleridge gets £127. The solicitors' charges amount to £284, but will be probably reduced on revision. The sums paid or due to witnesses make a total of £378. THE REVISION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. One of the " Companies" for the revision of the Bible commences to-day, the first being assembled at the Jeru salem Chamber. There are two " Companies," one for the revision of the Old Testament, and the other for the New, and it is 'the latter which begins its work. The committee will direct their attention, in the first Instance, to a revision of the Synoptical Gospels. The Old Testament " Company " will meet for the first time on Thursday, the 30th inst. The Bishop of Llandaff will preside. • THE LATE BISHOP GRANT. The body of Dr. Grant, late Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, arrived at the Cathedral last night, where hundreds of persons, who had intimation of the intelli gence,were congregated, both in and outside the building. The Requiem, will lre sung to-morrow at 11.30 a.m., and the body of the deceased bishop will be conveyed to the Norwood Orphanage Cemetery for interment. The fune ral will be strictly private. FATAL ACCIDENT.-TWO DEATHS. A. lamentable accident has occurred at Month Whit tington, near Sheffield. A boy descended by means of a rope to the bottom of a coal shaft, in order to recover a lost cricket ball. He was unable to get back to the surface, and his uncle went down to assist him, but both were overcome by choke-damp, and lost their lives. An inquest Was opened last night, but was adjourned to enable the Government inspector to be present. KENT VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION. The anual Prize Meeting of the Rent Volunteer Asso ciation is taking place to-day at the Government ranges, Milton by Gravesend. The prizes which are to be awarded will be presented to the successful competitors by Viscount Sydney, the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, prior to the review at Woolwich, which is fixed for the 2nd of July. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. A. fatal and destructive explosion happened last night at the Lanesfield Ironworks, Spring Vale, near Wolver hampton, belonging to Messrs. H. De Simencourt and Co. A boiler burst whilst the workpeople were changin g turns. The body of John Shorthouse, the fire man, was dug out of the ruins; and Enoch Elwell, a shearer, remains there, and his corpse is being searched for. A considerable number of other workpeople are in iured—some, it is feared, fatally ; and the works are damaged, but can resume in a week. The boiler was under official inspection, but was not assured. TUE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND MR. -PADWICK. The case of Bubb v. Yelverton was to-day before Mr. Church, the Chief Clerk, at the Rolls Chambers. It is a suit to administer the estate of the late Marquis of Hastings. Creditors have sought to prove their debts, and it is expected that the claims will be satisfied. An appli cation was made on summons for the production of docu 'Dents by Mr. Padwick, who claimed to be a creditor. The chief clerk made the required order. ACTION AGAINST A MARQUIS. Mr. Baron Bramwell and a special jury to-day heard, in the Court of Exchequer, an action against the Marquis ownshend for breaking and entering the premises of the Plaintiff, Miss T. Gladstone, who kept a servants' home in the neighbourhood of Portland-place, and taking away a Child. It was intimated to the learned judge that if time were allowed the parties an arrangement might be made. After some consultation had taken place, Mr. Sergeant Parry said he was happy to state that the Mar ;Nis Townshend admitted he had violated the law, and had consented to a verdict being entered for the plaintiff for 40s. damages, and to all certificates being given for Costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAT. THE POLICE AT FAULT.—Benjamin Hill and John Purber, two young men, were charged at Westminster Police-court with loitering for an unlawful purpose. Ludbrook, a detective of the B division, said at half-past one this morning he was on duty in Westbourne-street, and watched the two prisoners into Newland-street. They remained there a little time and then went to Coleshill street. Witness stopped them and asked what they Were doing there, and Hill said they had been to Cremorne to look after their living, and were going home. As he was not satisfied with their account of themselves he took them into custody. Mr. Arnold asked if anything was known of them ? The con stable replied in the negative. Mr. Arnold asked whether they had given any address? Ludbrook said they had, but he had not been there. Mr. Arnold said their conduct was to some extent suspicious, but the police had had ample opportunity to inquire whether their addresses were Correct, and as they had not done that he should discharge t he Prisoners. UNPROVOKED ASSAULTS ON FEMALES.—Edward Thor burn was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Westmin ster Police -court, with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner, and also with assaulting two young 'women named Kate Burton and Catherine Wright. Kate Burton said that she was talking to some friends in Leices ter -square last night, when the prisonercame up and rudely asked her where she was going. She told him to mind his "ill business, upon which he struck her twice on the head, making use of very bad language at the time. The evidence of the complainant was fully corroborated by a Young woman named Elizabeth Mason. The prisoner's defence was that he thought he knew the young women. I le was committed for two months with hard labour. A- FORGIVING WIFE AND A BRUTAL HUSBAND.— william Cutting, a middle-aged man, was brought before Mr- Lushington at the Thames Police-court charged with , v ° ll nding his wife Elizabeth with intent to do her grievous oodily harm. The wife said she had been married 23 years the prisoner, who was a most violent man while in li quor, but a good husband when sober. She did ( 't wish to prosecute him. He would not have done ' t if he had been sober. They had a few Nv° r'zis about a lodger leaving owing to her husband's te mper, and he took up an earthenware teapot and hurled it at her with great violence. It struck her on the back. She hoped the magistrate would let him off. Way, a 1 . ) ? l ice-constable, No. 22 K, said the prisoner often turned 18 wife out of doors and compelled her to wander about the streets all night. He asked her how the wound was luilieted, and she said with a teapot. The magistrate had souse doubts about the wound being inflicted with a tea pot. He ordered the prisoner to fin d two sureties to kee p,.. the peace for two months, and in default committed 'aro to prison. Clintond is stated that Mr. Peile, as well as Lord Arthur a .„ i both of whom were implicated in the Bonlton --`" Park scandal, has died since the prosecution. T hou n'h Lord Chief Justice Giffard still continues very weak state of health, his lordship anticipates able to resume his sittings early next week, the of tress from which he has recently been suffering not being a serious character. w.lu consequence of the Queen's State breakfast at I,.oindsor C ast l e on Fr i day next i t i s un d ers t oo d that the a use ' of Lo r d s , on it s r i s i ng t o - morrow even i n g, will be lourned till seven o'clock on that day. NATIONAL ORPIIAN HomE.--Her Royal Highness the b r rincess Mary of T ec k pr es id es t o -day at the distri- Is ution. of Prizes to the former inmates of this home, which sit uate at H am - common , Smrey. There is to' be a bu," ne ge, Is t o preside.r after the distribution, at which the Duke of Cam •A THE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. Consols are quiet and without change. In railways very little business is doing. Great Northern and North Eastern are rather firmer. Foreign Bonds are steady. Consols are now 921 to 921; ditto Account, 921 to 921; New 3 per per Cent. Reduced, 921 to 921 ; Bank Stock, 234 to 236 ; Exchequer Bills, par to 5 prem.. India Five per Cents., 110 k to 1111; ditto Four per Cents., 102 to 1021 ; and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. In the Foreign Market Italian 1861 are 59 to 591 ; Spanish 1867 Loan, 31 to 32 ; do. 1869, 31 to 311 ; Peruvian, 911 to 92; Portuguese, 33 to 331 ; Brazilian, 86 to 861; Egyptian, 1868, 821 to 82 ; New Peruvian, 1 to 1 prem. ; Quicksilver, 2 to 2f prem. ; Turkish, 1869, 631 to 631. In the Railway Market Caledonians are 77+ to 771; Great Eastern, 401 to 401; Great Northern, 1231 to 1241; Great Western, 711 to 72 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1331 to 134 ; Brighton, 431 to 44 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 151 to 16 ; London and North Western, 1291 ito 1291; London and South Western, 91 to 92 ; Metropolitan, 70} to 701 ; Midland, 1301 to 1301. The Scrip of the New Buenos Ayres State Loan is I to 11 prem. The new Honduras Railway Loan is 21 to 21 prem. _ _ . . Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 814 to 801; British India, 7 to 61 ; China, 24 to 24 dis. ; Falmouth, 91 to 91. In Bank Shares Alliance are quoted 144 to 154 ; Anglo- Austrian, 15 to 17 prem. ; .Chartered Mercantile, 30 to 31 ; Consolidated, 41 to 5 ; Imperial Ottoman, 44 to 4 ; London . , and County, 50 to 51; London and Westmin ster, 621 to 631'; London Joint Stock, 344 t0:351 ; and Union of London, 394 to 404. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 904 to 901 ; Ten- Forty Bonds, 874 to 88 ; Erie shares, 191 to 194 ; Illinois, 113 to 114 ; and Atlantic and Great Western Bonds, 28 to 29. Canada Five per Cents. are quoted 984 to 991 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 104 to 1041 ; New Zealand Five per Cents., 994 to 994 ; Queensland Six per Cent., 112 to 113 ; Victoria Five per Cents (1891), 103 to 1044 ; ditto Six per Cent., 111 to 112. In Miscellaneous Shares, General Credit are quoted 1 1 prem. ; International Financial, 14 1 die. ; Hudson's Ziay, 124 134 ; National Discount, 114 12. A statement of the number of persons left houseless by the late fire at Constantinople, and sheltered by Govern ment in tents, on the Armenian Cemetery, the Place d'Artillerie, and near the Artillery Barracks of the Taxim, gives the following classification :—Armenians, 6,447 ; Greeks, 1,722 ; Latins, 449 ; Italians, 285 ; Frenchmen, 47 ; Austrians, 40 ; Englishmen, 25 ; Russians, 13 ; Turks, 6, making a total of 9,034. The number who have been burnt out, and are provided with provisions by the Go vernment at the Taxim, is 15,000, making an aggregate of 24,034. The advices from Paris state that the reports about the failure of the harvest in France have been exaggerated. The crops are lost in some parts, but in many they are hardly affected. The whole yield of cereals is expected to be scarcely one-third short of an average. It is officially notified from Paris that the selling price of Peruvian guano has been advanced 10s. per ton to £l3 10s. per ton, which at the present rate of consumption would increase the Government revenues by over £250,000 per annum. _ . , . A dividend of 4 per cent., free of income tax, for the half-year ending the 30th inst., is announced by the direc tors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China. An interim dividend of 2i per cent. on the paid-up capital has been declared by the directors of the British Land Company. _ The agents of the proposed Magdeburg Lausitzer Rail way Company have notified that the usual decree has been issued by the Prussian Government, and that the company are now in a position to take all necessary steps for the completion of the undertaking. The Lisbon papers mention that the King of Portugal has conferred the title of Viscount upon Mr. Francis Cook, the senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Cook, Sons, and Co., of St. Paul's Church-yard. Telegraphic communication has been resumed with the Scilly Islands. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states :—" The failure is announced of Christie and Co., of Glasgow, in the sugar trade, with liabilities of between £B,OOO and £lO,OOO. The failure is also announced of the cotton broking firm of Graham, Gray, and Co., New York, and of Mr. J. D. Nairn, of the same city, in the dry goods trade. In the latter case the realisation of the estate will, it is believed, prove unfavourable." Messrs. Alexander Collie and Co. send the following telegram from Manchester :—" There is, if anything, an improved tone in our market to-day, and the downward tendency is checked for the present. Only a trifling busi ness is doing." MARKETS.-THIS DAY. MARK-LANE. The grain trade at Mark Lane this morning has been rather quiet. The receipts of English produce have been limited, of foreign moderate. The few samples of English wheat on sale have changed hands quietly at about late rates. As regards foreign qualities the demand has been less active, nevertheless, prices have been maintained. The supply of barley has been moderate. The trade has been firm at the recent improvements. Malt has been quiet, on former terms. Oats have been in moderate supply and healthy request, at fully previous currencies. Beans and peas have been steady and quite as dear. For flour the demand has been inactive, at the rates previously current. THIS MORNING'S NEWS. THE stmr, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1870. tint tried to tinci the nancue or tne door, or wnicn the top had been staved in, in order to get out. The bottom part of the door still remained, but the handle was clean cut off. I made the best of my way out from the doorway of the next compartment, the door here having been com pletely carried away. On getting down, I saw at the tail end of our train the trucks which had passed us piled one on another, and some of them tippled off the low embank ment into a pond. Everybody was hastening to get out of the carriages, and the scene towards the front was, as far as I could discern in the dim light, something terrible —carriages piled one on another, and many of them smashed literally to shivers. The heavy engine had been toppled right over on to its back, and lay inclined, with the wheels partly in the air, and some of the first car riages hac, of course, gone past it. From this front part of the trains, where the carriages had been so com pletely destroyed, piteous cries and moans were proceed ing. Those who had been slightly injured in the Brad ford, Halifax, and York carriages lost no time in ascer taining the extent of their hurts, but moved at once to the front to see of what service they could be The efforts of many of the passengers to relieve their unfortunate companions were most praiseworthy, and amongst these was a lady, whose name we do not know, who displayed great activity and zeal, encouraging the men, and rallying them to fresh exertions. The dying and badly injured soon began to be removed into au adjoining field, the hedge of which had been broken through. A little baby, six months old, was got from among the debris, with its arm torn from wrist to shoulder; the mother was at the time lying apparently dead among the debris. The child was taken to the railway station, and it was there stated that both the father and mother were dead. About four o'clock, however, the mother was got out alive, though it is not yet known whether she will survive. Many of the dead and injured were fast among the wreck for hours, and in their efforts to relieve them by trying to lift up one portion of the superincumbent (debris, the workers found that they were either pressing it on the other parts of the sufferers' bodies, or upon some other victim of the catastrophe. Ultimately, after the lapse of some hours, a special engine brought up a heavy crane, by which the wreck was being rapidly and safely removed . In reference to the cause of the accident, I could not learn anything definite or satisfactory, but it was stated, I believe on the authority of the guard of the luggage train, that very shortly before the collision an axtle-tree on his train, which was running on the up line, had broken, and thrown some of the carriages quite across our line. Our engine was thrown to the left and the tender to the right. It was said that the officials in charge of the luggage train had tot the time, even if they had had the opportunity, to signal the trip-train. This, however, must be subject to the correction of fuller and more accu rate information. FOREIGN NEWS. CHURCH AND STATE IN SWITZERLAND. In the Council of Neufchatel a vote in favour of a separation between Church and State was passed by a majority of one. EXECUTION OF GREEK BRIGANDS. On the 20th June, five of the Greek brigands concerned in the massacre at Marathon were executed. SMALLPDX IN PARIS. The smallpox has made more progress in Paris. The return for last week shows 238 deaths from that disease alone. The indifference of the people to vaccination is supposed to have occasioned the increase. HOME NEWS. FRIGHTFUL DISASTER. Yesterday an inquest was held at Liverpool on the body of a man named Thomas M`Kenna, who was em ployed in Messrs. Walker's Distillery in that town. He was cleaning a corn shoot there when he fell into an immense mash-tub filled with boiling liquid, and was so frightfully scalded that he died shortly after his removal from the building. FALL OF AN INSURANCE OFFICE Yesterday morning the premises of the Royal Insurance Office, Park-row, besides which excavations for a new building were being made, suddenly collapsed and became a heap of ruins. Fortunately the clerks were warned a few seconds before the accident, and they rushed out and escaped ; thus no lives were lost and no injuries sustained. FIRE NEAR BOLTON. A great fire occurred yesterday, at a cotton mill belonging to Messrs. Joseph Whittam and Sons, situated at New Bury, near Bolton. The mill contained 28,000 spindles, giving employment to 130 pairs of hands. The damage, which is estimated at £25,000, is nearly all covered by insurance in six offices. The four men in the custody of the Manchester police for an attempt at incendiarism in a timber yard, were dismissed this morning. LONDON GAZETTE.—LAST EVENING. FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 21, 1870, The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas H. Pearce as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, and of Mr. Oscar Malmross as Consul at Pictou, for the United States of America. WHITEHALL, JUNE 18. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John, Earl of Stair, K.T., to be Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of the Shire of Ayr, in the room of Archibald, Marquess of Ailsa, deceased. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Colin Macdonald to the church and parish of Knock, in the presbytery and Island of Lewis, vacant by the transpor tation of the Rev. Ewen Campbell to the church and parish of Lochs. THE TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT NEWARK. The following are the detailed particulars respecting the terrible accident which happened yesterday on the Great Northern Railway between Newark and Claypole Stations, and about 100 miles from London: — OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the latest official announcement re specting this great disaster :—" An up goods train from Doncaster passed through Newark at its appointed time without stopping at 1.24 a.m. When about half a mile south of Newark, an axle of a waggon belonging to another company, loaded with potatoes, broke off close to the inside of the wheel. This threw the waggons which followed off the rails on to the down line. At the moment the engine driver of the up goods train felt the jerk caused by the breakage of the axle, a down excursion train which was returning from London to Yorkshire passed him. This train was timed through Newark without stopping, and when the accident hap pened it was running at from twenty to twenty-five miles per hour, and to its regular time. The engine of this train ran into the waggons which bad been thrown across the down line of rails, was truned round, and thrown completely clear of both lines, bringing the ex cursion train to an immediate stop. Six of the front carriages were thrown off the rails, three of them being piled up near the engine, and almost destroyed. The passengers of these carriages suffered very severely from the shock and the subsequent breakage of the - carriages. The engine driver, Hurst, of Doncaster, and several passengers, were killed on the spot ; the fire man and some other passengers were so seriously injured that they died shortly afterwards. The total number of deaths up to the present time, including the driver and fir; man, is 16, and about 20 morn are injured, and remain at Newark. _R;S: ANOTHER EYE-WITNESS. Some further details are given by another witness of the calamity. He says : " The goods waggons were smashed into fragments, and, from the effects of the broken axle and subsequent concussion, scattered about the up line, upon the hedge, and into the fields beyond. The passenger cars next the engine were by the momentum driven one over the other, and piled in masses of mere firewood, high in the air. Every carriage of the train had the windows and doors broken—not one of the twenty-two escaped. At the time your correspondent left, 12 orl4 persons were found dead or in a critical condition, while from 100 to 200 of the passengers were injured. The groans of the wounded and dying rang through the air, and in 'the dim light of morning the passengers ran to and fro, some bleeding and bruised, as if distracted by the awful transactions of the last few minutes. Scores were wandering about, some of whom had been driven violently against the car riages, others cut with flying fragments of glass or splin ters of broken doors and car sides. Under the frag ments near the engine several lay dead, while one lady, whom it is understood was only slightly hurt, was fixed among the wreck of a carriage which had mounted above two others. The driver was killed, one side of his head being literally smashed in. The fireman lay against the firebox, his leg being torn off. One woman pleaded piteously with the surgeons that they would amputate her legs, which were transfixed by the broken timbers. One sight might have moved the stoutest to tears. A baby, about six months old, was picked up from among the wreck, its arm and face lacerated, its mother was buried beneath the carriages. Great praise is due to the officials of the Great Northern Railway, who with the greatest promptitude, aided by willing helpers, did all they could to alleviateat. e miseries of the poor unfortunates." The effect of the collision was very destructive. The engine, driven by an old servant of the company, named Thomas Hurst, with the tender, was completely over turned, the six succeeding carriages being thrown in a heap and terribly crushed. The passengers in three of them suffered very severely. The engine-driver wa killed on the spot, and bis stoker had both his legs cut off, and died shortly aft erwards. Assistance from the Newark Station was speedily at band, and all the medical men resident in the neighbourhood were soon on the spot, endering what aid they could to the sufferers, of whom the following list of those identified up to the latest moment. It will be observed they are chiefly resident in Leeds and the sur rounding district, the Leeds carriages being the first in the PASSENGERS KILLED. Mr. Thomas Philpott, 72, Nile-street, North-street, train ; -- Leeds. Mr. Frederick Philpott (son of the above). Mr. Kershaw Hirst, tobacconist, Leeds. Mrs. Helton, wife of Mr. Helton, Chapeltovvn-road, Leeds. Mrs. Robin3on, wife of Mr. Robinson, scenic artist, Bees- ton-road, Leeds. Hannah Haddock, Lands-lane, Leeds. And the bodies of eight others not yet sutheiently identi fied to justify a publication of names. RAILWAY SERVANTS KILLED. Thomas Hurst, engine-driver, of Doncaster. Joseph Watson, stoker, of Doncaster. PASSENGERS INJURED. Mr. Marshall, Kirkstall, Leeds. Miss Emily Groves, Meadow-road, Leeds. Anne Burnett, Park-street, Kirkstall, Leed, John Cook, Meadow-lane, L eeds. T. Shuttleworth, Ilkley, Leeds. Jane Brown, Meadow-lane, Leeds. Anne Dutton, Fallowfielterrace, Leeds. Mr. Had lock, Land's-lane, Leeds. Charles A. Wilson, 17, Albion-street, Leeds. Mrs. Greenwood, Faircroft-terrace, Leeds. William Pitts, Beeston Hall, Leeds. J. W. Booth, Crown-street, Halifax. Mr. Toff, 14, Ellison-street, Middlesex-street, London. Miss Smithson, 37, Bond-street, Leeds. Mr. Joseph Miller, 6, Caroline-street, Leeds. Mr Henry Friend, 1, Cross Templar-street, Leeds, Mr W. Holland, Chapel Jovin-road, Leeds. Mrs. Richardson, Aldgate, London. Mr. Gray, Castleford, Yorkshire. RAILWAY SERVANT INJURED. Thos. Hulford, guard, Albert-terrace, Leeds. Intelligence of the accident reached London at an early hour yesterday morning, and before noon Mr. Oakley, Secretary of the Great Northern Railway, left town for Newark, accompanied by Col. Packe, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Mr. Faber, one of his colleagues. Tlie inquest was opened yesterday afternoon ; but, pending the more perfect identification of the bodies, it has been adjourned until Friday next. Information has been forwarded to the Board of Trade, and Colonel Tyler is instructed to attend the judicial inquiry. The Cabinet Council appointed to be held to day is postponed till to-morrow. A fire broke out in a hat manufactory in Leeds yesterday morning, in which two women, employed on the premises, were burnt to death. We understand that Mr. Effingham Wilson, pub lisher, of the Royal Exchange, is about to issue a drama, in a prologue and four acts, entitled " Oliver Cromwell," dedicated by permission to T. Carlyle. This effort has received the flattering approbation of that great writer, who has pronounced his opinion that full justice has been done to the essential character of Cromwell. Other com petent critics live declared that the drama is eminently suited for stage representation, and it is to be hoped that the author will give it a fair chance of being acted before it is published. We should like to hear that Mr. Phelps is about to make his reappearance on the stage in such a character as Oliver Cromwell. This is by no means the first time that the well-known publishing house of the Royal Exchange has given its imprint to a work so totally disconnected from its usual style of sub jects. 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IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--TUESDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord O'Hagan took the oaths and his seat as a peer of the realm. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. Lord CAIRNS moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which is to give, further protection to the property of married women. It sought to protect the earnings of the industrious woman from being seized and dissipated by an idle and dissolute husband. It gave the wife power to sue and be sued as if she were a femme sole, and it would also enable her to dispose of property in which she had a right, irrespective of the wishes of her husband. Lord PENZANCE said the evil which the bill proposed to remove was admitted, and that was to prevent an idle, worthless husband seizing the wages that an industrious wife had worked for, but according to his view of the pro visions of the bill now before them, it went too far. If it merely protected the earnings of the wife he should not object to it, but it went far beyond the necessities of the case. The bill gave the married woman all the rights of a single person, and he feared that if it was carried out in all its entirety it would lead to a greater discord than at present existed. He doubted much if a man would be desirous of taking a wife just as he would take a partner in business, as that would be the case in reality if the bill passed. A man would always desire to be master in his own house, but the enactment of the bill would pre vent that. He thought an extension of the present power of protection would effect all that was required. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said the present matter was not only a legal but a social one, and it was absolutely necessary that a bill to amend the present state of things should be passed even if their doing so violated that which had hitherto been regarded as legal principles. The present bill, however, went too far, and would establish something far more than equality in favour of the wife, who would have all the power of a femme sole. She would be enabled to accept presents of jewellery and money from persons towards whom her husband felt an aversion, she would be able to enter into all sorts of speculations, and in the end the husband would be called upon to bear the liabilities of such conduct. He quite admitted that it was necessary to further protect the property of the lower and middle classes, because the present protecting order was wholly insufficient. He thought that a law enacting the earnings of the wife to be her own instead of the hus band's would be found sufficient. The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the second reading of the bill, but he hoped, after it had passed that stage, it would be referred to a select committee. The law and practice with respect to settlements might easily be improved, and as regarded the less wealthy classes a vast amount of hardship existed, which showed the necessity for immediate legislation. It was most objectio 'able that it should remain in the power of an idle, good-for-nothing husband to come down and sweep off the whole of the property of the wife when she was endeavouring to keep herself and children from beggary, which his conduct had almost brought them to. He thought if they extended the provisions of the 10th clause, all that was required might be accomplished during the present session without attempting that which the bill really did, namely, to make a married woman a man by act •of Parliament. The bill was ultimately read a second time, and referred to a select committee. Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—T UESDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at ten minutes past two o'clock. THE EDUCATION BILL. The debate on the amendment of Mr. Richard on the order for going into committee on the Elementary Edu- cation Bill, was resumed by Mr. MIALL, who commenced by a reference to the tem perate manner in which the member for Merthyr Tydvil had introdueed his proposition, and expressing his deep sense of the gravity of the subject of education. He said that the educational question was undoubtedly in a critical condition. The measure which had been submitted to lem would require all the help that the House could give it in order to get it through, supposing that the House determined that it should proceed with it. He would not left a finger against the passage of the bill unless he were fully convinced that it was not adapted to meet the wants of the country in that reg trd. He protested against the position in which his right hon. 'riend had placed those who had refused and might refuse to accept the religious clauses of the bill as finally settled by the Government, and throwing upon them the responsibility of defeating the measure. He saw considerable efforts made to adapt the bill to the supposed wants and tastes of the public mind, but no sooner was it introduced than it raised a storm of excitement. The Bill had been amended and re-amended and he asked whether, after it should pass, it was likely to effect a permanent settlement of the education ques tion. He did not suppose that there were many members who thought that the measure could work for fifty years without disturbance. Describing the measure in a very words, it prop'osed a system of denominationalschools, sup- plemented by rate schools, and he asked whether denomi nationalism was the basis upon which to found a system which would last, or adapt itself to the wants and wishes of the country in future years. He argued that the de- nominational schools had failed to supply the wants of the country. He did not believe that they ought to teach Christianity as they taught geography. The House might depend upon it, and so long as they put a blind before the eyes of society, leading it to be supposed that they were teaching religion by means of the schoolmaster, to those poor little miserable creatures who probably did not understand a word of the subject, they would interpose between the religious bodies and that which was their proper mission. If the State would only undertake the teaching which the State could teach, and leave religious instruction to be undertaken by those who in his judgment were competent to give it, then the work would be tolerably well done between them. Sir CHARLES ADDERLET denied that the denominational schools had been proved a failure, and said they were asked by the amendment to accept a scheme which was wholly problematical, and hampered with a great religious difficulty. Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said the Government Bill was pure and undiluted sectarian denominational education, whilst the amendmens of the hon. member for Merthyr- Tydvilwa in favour of secular education. He had nohesita tion in saying that he could adopt neitherone nor the other, awl he wanted to know whether there was not an alternate course. He believed that the reli gious feeling of this country was in the direction of unsectarianism, and in his opinion the tendency of modern civilisation was to remove the differences which separated the various communities of mankind. He asked why they could not give general instructions to the school boards and schoolmasters as to the spirit in which they wished religious teaching to be given. He contended that the proposition of the hon. member for South Hampshire did not solve the religious difficulty but if anything aggravated it. He condemned the proposal to increase the grants to what he called denominational teaching and said that the vote would occasion an annual battle. He objected to denominational education on two grounds— first that it was deleterious to civil society, and the cause of religion and truth, and secondly that it multiplied small schools instead of forming large schools which were the best for the education of the people. Mr. COWPER TEMPLE defended the amendment which he had proposed, and which had been accepted by the Government. It provided that in schools which were to be paid for by all classes of the community, controversy should not be taught. The State could not define what was sectarian, but it might impose a condition that no religious controversy should be taught. The House was then adjourned until nine o'clock. On the reassembling of the House at nine o'clock, the attendance of members was very thin, and it looked as if a " count out " would take place. The members, how ever, came straggling in, and when the Clerk reported that, in consequence of having to go to Oxford, the Speaker would not resume the chair, the benches looked comparatively speaking, occupied. Mr. Dodson took the chair and cast his eye about the House for Mr. Charley, who had a motion on the notice paper in reference to illegal lotteries. The hon. member, however, was not to be seen, and after a brief period of expectancy his col league rose and explained that illness of a rather serious character prevented his being in his place to introduce the subject. SPIRITUAL LORDS IN PARLIAMENT. In such a House as described Mr. SOMERSET BEAUMONT moved for leave to bring in a bill to relieve lords spiritual hereafter consecrated) from attendance in Parliament. Considering the interest and importance of the subject the emptiness of the Conservative benches was phenomenal. Not one of their recognised leaders was in his place at the commencement, and it was evident that if the House pro , ceeded to a division, and the Government and its immedi- ate supporters sanctioned the proposition, they would be in a very insignificant minority. The member for Wakefield did not trespass much upon tip:attention of the House in urging his motion upon their ab:cePtance, and if his speech was not brilliant, it possessed the o. l eYit of being clear and to the point. He expressed a ver;''' firm conviction that the spiritual lords did not either benefit the State or the Church by !being permitted to Participate in the deliberations of Parliament, and Mr. Locke King, who seconded the amendment, declared that a debating bishop was " a bishop out of place." Great laughter accompanied this declaration, while Sir Wilfred Lawson received something like a cheer, at any rate he evoked considerable enthusiasm, when he gave expression to his regret that the hon. member for Wakefield had not gone the extreme length of relieving those already consecrated of their responsibilities and functions se imperial legislators. If politics, he insisted, n ere too vile for women they were eoually so for " those holy and reverend men." The hon. baronet said that their intentions were good, but their legislation had always been mischievous. Mr. Gladstone, before stating the reasons which he thought justified the Government in not acceding to the proposition before the House, could not resist a good-humoured allusion to the absence of the Opposition chiefs, and created amusement by talking about the "union of the two front benches." The Prime Minister, in the course of his speech, emphatically contradicted the statement that the dioceses suffered through the bishops residing so long in London. Any one conversant with the habits of the prelates of the Church knew that they had ceased to reside in London during the session, and whatever might be said about their seats in the House of Lords, it could not be said that the duties attached to those seats were allowed sensibly to interfere with their diocesan duties. " Dismiss the bishops from the House of Lords," said the Premier, " and you greatly weaken the influence of the State over the Church." The right hon. gentleman said the English bishops might have had 'their faults like other bodies, but as an historical fact they had been eminently distinguished by independ ence and regard for character. He went on to say that the main and governing reason for resisting the motion was the character'which it bore in the view of the Government to the proportion of the House of Lords. If there was to be, as there ever had been, a House of Lords in this coun try, it was well that it should be as strong as possible, and if they were to remove the bishops it would not strengthen thatichamber. It must be remembered that the bishops had contributed to the intellectual force of discussion in the House of Lords in a proportion infinitely transcending the numbers of the body. The House divided and the result was—Ayes, 102 ; noes, 158. There was great cheering on the declaration of the voting being made by the occupants of the benches below the gangway. MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE IN IRELAND. Mr. W. JOHNSTON obtained leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the law relating to the municipal fran chise in Ireland reserving his statement until the second reading. LATE SITTINGS. Two motions were submitted to the,House for considera tion, having inview the curtailment of the period of sitting. Mr. GILPIN, who was very eloquent on the pernicious effects which protracted business had upon public men, proposed that business should not be taken after 12 o'clock, and Mr. CoLLINs, by way of amendment, moved that one be substituted for two o'clock. Mr. GLADSTONE, during the discussion, said he was more sensible of the difficulty than of any method of solution, but Mr. GREENE seemed to find an easy solution. He suggested that shorter speeches should be made, that some reduction should be put upon legislation, and that it should be real and not sham. It seemed to him that nothing that is is right. On a division Mr. Gilpin's motion was lost. Although Mr. Gladstone had stated, in the course of the discussion, that he would endeavour not to proceed with any proposal which might meet with opposition, Mr. Collins persisted in going to a division, when he was defeated. Several orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at twenty-five minutes past one o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM) The accident near Newark on the Great N orthers Railway yesterday morning occurred in the following manner :—An axle of an up goods train broke the disen gaged wheel, ran under the following truck, lifting it off the rails, and the remainder of the train, consisting of about six waggons, ran on to the up line. At the same moment the excursion train, consisting of about 25 carriages, came along on the down line at the rate, it is supposed, of about twenty-five miles an hour. The effect of the collision was to turn the en gine completely round, and it now lies facing the tender instead of looking north, the direction in which it was running. The sides of the carriages next to the goods waggons were stripped off the whole length of the train, not one carriage escaping. The first five or six car riages were crushed into one another ; in some cases the tops had been stripped off and thrown into the adjoining field. The engine of the goods train, the carriage that caused the mischief, and all in front of that carriage, and the van and the trucks at the tail of the goods train, were heaped one upon another, and both lines were blocked. In a moment the neighbourhood was strewn with the dead, dying, and wounded, in all directions. In most cases death was instantaneous. The driver of the passenger train was found completely doubled-up, with his head nearly severed from his body. The stoker was also killed on the spot. The fifteen dead bodies were taken to the Newark Hospital, and are now lying in one of the wards ; ten persons who were severely injured were also removed to the same building, one of whom has since died, and three others are not expected to recover. Four injured passengers are also lying at the Ram Hotel, and one at the Clinton Hotel. No sooner was the accident known than the ladies of Newark visited the wounded, and provided them with every comfort except that repose which is so necessary for the invalid. This it was impossible to obtain, as all through yesterday sorrowful visitors were arriving to seek their missing friends, and it was impossible to deny them admittance. If a battle had been fought in the neighbourhood the town could not have been more occu pied in its attention to the wounded, and hardly more excited by the event. Several of the injured passengers were sent to Retford by yesterday's morning's train. The number of persons se riously injured is about 20, and of these five are in a dangerous state. The most prompt and energetic mea sures were adopted by the railway authorities both to provide as far as possible for the wants of the passengers, and also to get the line cleared. The morning sun of the Longest day in the year rose upon a scene which will never be forgotten by those who had the misfortune to witness it. Large fires had been lighted, the broken parts of the carriages supplying the fuel, and the mingled light and the sun fell upon 15 bruised and ghastly corpses, and a larger number of persons who, though alive, were writh ing and groaning with pain. In a remarkably short time the dead and several of the wounded were removed, It was not an easy matter for the bruised and shaken passengers to dispose of them selves, but all of them after a time found accommodation in the hotel, at Newark, which were readily prepared for their reception. The inquest was opened yesterday afternoon, but the jury men, after viewing the bodies and the scene of the disas ter, adjourned until this morning. To the above account it should be added that the accident occurred just as the down train was reaching a bridge ; against this some of the carriages struck, thus adding to the complication. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) At the time of the accident (L 25 a,m.) three men were on duty at the Newark Station—the noise of the collision did not reach them, but their attentionwas first awakened by the cries of the wounded. In an incredibly short time the whole population of Newark was aroused, and crowds of persons assembled at the scene of the disaster, many of them able and willing to render assistance. The com pany's servants, many of whom live at Newark, were prompt in their attendance, and worked withthat judgment and energy for which a good training had prepared them. It was, however, more than two hours before the wounded were liberated from the broken carriages. During this terrible period the sufferers generally bore their fate with fortitude. It was a tedious one. A husband, crushed under one of the carriages, lay for an hour and a half by the side of his wife, who was killed on the spot. A woman with both of her legs broken was a still longer time in the midst of the debris, with her dead husband and injured baby ; after her removal she died, and the baby was left an orphan. But few of the passengers escaped entirely unhurt. I was answered by a byestander " that there were not ten out of the whole lot who did not bear the marks of the accident." This is probably an exaggeration, but as every carriage was more or less shattered, and the train was brought to a sudden stop, the passengers had but little chance of escape. It is not often that hatters' shops are besieged with clamorous applicants at three or four o'clock in the morning, but this was the case at Newark yesterday, for there was scarcely a passenger wearing a hat at the time of the accident who could put it on after wards. One of the lady passengers, her bonnet lost, her face severely cut, and her dress abundantly torn, was assidaous in her attention to the wounded. For two hours her ministrations continued, she was in and out, creeping under carriages, or kneeling in the mud, to ad minister a spoonful of brandy to a fainting person. She was evidently an experienced nurse. One of the last per sons to be rescued was a man lying in the moisture, occasioned by a small stream running alongside the line. Helwas buried under the the carriages apparently unconscious, and supposed to be dead. As he was about to be removed, he raised his head and said, " T am not much hurt," got up, and walked away. I will not give the details of my visit to the hospitals where the dead and wounded are lying. It is a satisfac tion to know that all who are not past hope are receiving avery attention which can alleviate their sufferings. E ren fruit and flowers were forwarded in abundance by the kind ladies of Newark. The last patient I saw was a poor German unable to speak English, but he was carefully attended by a lady who had come to him, because she could speak his language. STATEMENT OF A PASSENGER. Apassenger in the excursion train writing to the Brad. ford Observer says :—" The collision oot,urred at exactl 25 uoinutes past one, near a place called Clay Bridge-lane, about a mile on the London side of Newark. There is no stati.on or siding at the spot, and at the time the majority of the passengers would probably be asleep. No intimation was given to the passengers before there was a tremendous jerk and crush so, violent that the whole of the train was at once thrown off the line. It should be here explained that the train consisted of carriages from four towns. Those from Leeds were first, next came the Bradford train, then those from Halifax, and lastly those from York. I was in one of the Bradford carriages, and therefore at some considerable distance from the front, where, of cours , , the collision occurred. The first shock, though it threw the carriages off the line, did not upset any of them. The collision was, however, instantly followed by a train of luggage vans running down the length of the trip train, against it, taking off the doors, smashing the handles, breaking all the glass, and driving in the sides of the carriages. I was sitting near the door, with my face to the engine, and the door, with the glass window, was driven in upon me just as I was moving my head to ward the window to see what was the matter, when the luggage waggons thus came down. The carriages of the trip train were all shaved on this side as by machinery, I WINDSOR RACES,-TIIESDAY. The Rays Handicap of 5 soya each. About three-quar ters of a mile, straight.Mr H. Goater's Rockery, by King John—Lady Clare, 3 yrs, 6st slb Mr Hodgman's Cheddington, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Wilson) 2 Mr Buckenham's Cruiskeen, 3 yrs, 7st 3 Won by a head. The Royal Stakes of 100 sous. About five furlongs, straight. Mr Johnstone's fby Saunterer—Harebell, Bst 81b (Morris) 1 Mr Merry's Perth, 9st 51b (inc 71b extra) ...(Grimshaw) 2 Mr Chaplin's Orangeman, by Knight of St- Patrick— Seville, Bst 121 b Won by a head. The Thames Handicap of 160 sovs. About half a mile, straight. • Mr Garforth's Lady Macbeth, 3 yrs, 6st 81b (F Webb) 1 Mr Robert's Flash, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Butler) 2 Mr H. Chaplin's Countryman, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Jeffery) 3 The Skipper, Perambulator, Bliss, Forget-me-Not, Thundercloud, Burdett, Theodore, Constantine also ran. The Eton Handicap of 100 sous. About one mile. Mr W. S. Crawfurd's Blue Bell, by Thormanby—Tightfit, 3 yrs, sst 71b Mr H. G. Goatees Tom Tom, 3 yrs, sst 71b (car. sst 101 b) (Jewitt) 2 Mr Hodgman's Vestminster, 4 yrs, 7st llb ... (Wilson) 3 President Lincoln, Vulcan, Bay Roland, and Playmate also ran. Won cleverly by two lengths. The Nursery Handicap of 100 sovs. About half a mile, straight. Mr T. Jennings's Repose, by Cambuscan—Sweet Home, 6st 111 b _ (Jewitt)_l Mr H. Chaplin's f by Newminster—Bonny Bell, Bst 21b (Jeffery) 2 Mr Ray's Grandee, 7st 61b......... Moula, La Favorita, Anton, Botheration, Defamation, Eugenie, and Perquisite also ran. Won in a canter by two lengths. - A Welter Handicap of 10 sovs each. M. Bevill's Semolina •" (Mr Bevill Mr Sherwood's Bismarck _._.,e yin) 1 (Marsh) 2 t) Mr A Lawson's Sarcolite Candour and Contempt also ran. \Von in a canter by four lengths. The Two Year-old Plate of 50 sovs. About half a mile. Mr. Mortimer's Constantine, Bst 121 b (Jeffery) 1 Mr. J. Smith's The Minstrel Mr. C. Knight's Conscript (Crawley) 3 Appeal and Bill of Fare also ran. Won by a length. Handicap Plate. About five furlongs, straight. Lord Rosebery l e Panopticon, 3 yrs, 7st 71b... ...(Jeffery) 1 Mr Hodgman's Visage, 3 yrs, 7st (Wilson 2 Tartuffe, Lady Louise, Billy Peddor, Gong c, and Sweet meat also ran. NEWCASTLE RACES.-TUF.SDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each. Seven furlongs. New MUM Mr. Dawson's Morphia, by Macaroni—Wensleydale, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (£2OO) (Hudson) 1 Mr. G. Masterman's Brigand Chief, 2 yrs, sst 131 b (.(.200) (Alcock) 2 Mr. W. Sanderson's The Sea, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (X 200) (Griffiths) 3 Won easily by three parts of a length. The Members' Plate (Handicap) of 100 sovs, New Course. Nearly one mile. _ _ Mr. G. Boynton's Honesty, by . Young Dutchman—All's Well, aged, Bst 121 b (Cameron) 1 Mr. Kensington's Algerie, 3 yrs, 6st 61b Mr. G. Silverside's Produce, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (Darrety) 3 The following also ran :—Tabouret, Lady Zetland, and Callipeeditv. Won easily by a length. The First Year of the Fifth Stephenson Biennial Stakes of 16 sovs each. New T.Y.C. Mr Johnstone's Lady Studley, by Adventurer—Lady Ripon, Bst 61b (Osborne) 1 Mr W. Cowen's Lady Langden, Bst 41b... (Hudson) 2 Mr A. S. Briggs's Mount Blair, Bst 41b ...(T. Chaloner) 3 Sheik and Penelope also ran. Won cleverly by half a length. North Derby of 10 soya each. One mile and a half. Lord Zetland's Falkland, by Voltigeur—Lady Di 9st lib Mr Launde's Agility, Bst 131 b (in 71b ex) (Osborne 2 Mr Johnstone's Stanley, 9st 31b (in 71b ex) (Hudson 3 Jarnac and Fabricus also ran. Won by a neck. The Tyne Selling Stakes. About six furlongs. Mr. Hunter's Atreus, 5 yrs, 9st 71b (£4O) Snowden) 1 Cateress, Mary Bell, and Jealousy also ran. Her Majesty's Plate. Two miles. Mr W Hudson's Torreador, 3 yrs, Bst (Platt) 1 Lord Zetland's Brennus, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Snowden) 2 LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. sto 2 agst Kennington (taken and offered) 130 to 30 agst Lord Hawthorn (taken) sto 1 agst Kidderminster (taken) 6to 1 agst Myosotis (taken) ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. Lord Hawthorn, Kennington, Orator, Fusilier, Blucher, Filou, Lady Temple, Prior, Poinsettia, Dal k Cloud, Hector Calypso, Exciseman, Bro. to Hugo, King of the Faries, Fa bricius, Symmetry c, Silverband, King of the Forest, Bo nita, and Fleete. SCRATCHINGS. Northumberland Plate —The Bobby and Irregularity. Jaruac at 4.30 yesterday (Tuesday). Knight Templar and Lady Mortimer out of all engage ments at Newcastle. Trojan and Last Word our of all engagements in Mr. Singleton's name. Italian Gipsy out of Newcastle engagements. DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r =mended by the medical profession iu preference to French brand . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co. Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast; or at their London Qfdees, 4, bottufort Buildiugti Strand, V.E.