The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-19 00:00:00

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Q For further particulars see Bills. . W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, March, 1870. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the etamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price la. 6d. — Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. . . A GUA AMARELLA restores the Ilumagjiatr 1 - A to its pristine hue, no matter st what age. J NO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with,the aid of one of the most eminent t hemists, succeetlea in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a over price. Bold in bottles, :is. each; also Is., 7s. C., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 91, Upper Thames-street, Lon d.)n, E.C. TIIEA RO YAL, DRURY-LANE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, PHOBITS FIX: the Voles Family. 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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till F. 30 p.m., and from 7 dill.° p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. ZOOLOGiCAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(except Sundays). Admission. ls.• on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d t i. 91 Suit In a word, the provisions of the measure, so tar as re gards these districts, amount to a suspension of the- Habeas Corpus Act with this one important excep. tion, persons apprehended may not be imprisoned indefinitely at the discretion of the executive. So far as the debate on Thursday night gave any indication, the only one of these provisions which is likely to be seriously opposed is that which confers power upon the magistrates to sen!ence summarily to six months' imprisonment, upon mere suspicion. Remembering how much political and religious partizanship there is among the Irish magistracy, we are not surprised that this provision should be viewed unfavourably by Sir John Gray and his friends; and Mr. Gladstone will do well to reconsider it, with a view to securing it from abuse. IT fortunately happens that the report of the committee on Parliamentary and municipal elections appears at the precise moment when we aro best able to appreciate its merits. If it be true that the Ballot is un-English, even Lord Palmerston himself would scarcely venture to say that it was un-Irish. There are many reasons which lead to the conclusion that we need the Ballot in this country; but the necessity for some institution of the kind in Ireland has become so unquestionable that even if secret voting realised the objections urged against it, the nation would be none the less prepared to try the experiment. For no disadvantages which the wildest Tory dream have been able to conceive can weigh aught in thd balance against the scandal, disgrace, and injury which attend the practice of open voting in the " sister " isle. If an Irish election now ends in the triumph of the candidate who really commands the majority of - votes, it is only because the order-loving portion of the constituency is so numerous that . the resolute spirits, who will not be put down by blackguardism, are strong enough to wiu without the help of their more timid brethren. It is truly a creditable feature of Irish politics that Fenianism and Nationalism make so little headway at the polls, notwithstanding the violence that is exercised in their favour. It is a distinctly favourable item in the dark Hibernian account that so many voters should encounter danger to life to return such an Englishman as Mr. Bernal Osborne in preference to such a nationalist as Mr. Smith, or a landlord like Mr. G reville-Nugent rather than such a champion of Irish rights as his opponent. But so many elec tors are kept away through fear, and so great is the danger to those who come to the poll, that an Irish contest is little better than a lottery. Violence triumphed on one occasion, and on two others it missed its mark by only some half-dozen votes. There is not a vestige of evidence in favour of the conclusion that the scenes lately enacted at Waterlord and in Tipperary whuld be equally possi ble or probable with secret voting. The least that can be said in favour of the experiment of a change is that it would not be possible to make matters worse. It is impossible, however, that such a measure as the adoption of the Ballot can bo of partial application. It must be applied to the whole country; and in sooth, the superiority of English constituencies over those of Ireland is by no means so great as to warrant the plea that the remedy so urgently needed in the one case would be superfluous in the other. if we cannot rise to the sublime beauties of. Waterford, we have some fair exhibitions of rowdyism, which secresy would do well iii checking, and some furious displays of partisanship which ignorance of the state of the poll could not fail to keep down. It is undoubtedly true that election riots in nearly all cases are caused by statements of the competitors' relative positions. As the Ballot, by its nature, conceals the progress of the voting during its continuance, this alone is a powerful, if not a suffi cient, argument in its favour. The same plea may be urged in respect of bribery. It is not everywhere that the science of corruption is so thoroughly appre ciated as at Beverley. It is not everywhere that bribery is a regular system. Men commence a contest with a fixed determination to act honestly; but in the heat of battle these virtuous sentiments have less weight. Human nature gives way to temptation ; and when one side sees the other but half a dozen votes ahead, and an ample supply of voters "standing in the market "—as they literally did at Norwich—. waiting to be bought, it is not surprising that bribery is often committed where none was intended. It is not pretended that the Ballot will make bribery impossible. But it will do much if it dimi nish the inducement to corruption ; and if the Australian trick of voters bringing their tickets out of the booth and selling them be prevented —as it may be—it is difficult to imagine that agents will readily buy men who may with perfect impunity break their contract. The report of the committee is hopeful of the Ballot as a remedy also against intimidation. This evil exists extensively, both in counties and boroughs, and the committee state that the fear of intimidation is more prevalent and injurious than intimidation itself. The late extension of the suffrage has not diminished the exercise of this unjust influence. There are many who believe that it can never be restricted ; 'At most plain people agree that the power of a landlord who knows how his tenant votes is likely to be much less than the power of one who has no means of determining whether his " just influence " has been acknowledged in a proper spirit. Still more forcibly does this distinction apply to the frequent mob intimidations„ at the polling booths. Nor is this argument merely -theoretical. The Ballot is part of the electoral 'machinery of almost every. country . except Great Britain, and wher ever it is fairly applied, it renders intimilftt tion out of the question. The C9rqmitil. - recommend the Ballot. The major* believe that it will diminish rioting, bribery, and intimidation ; and against these advantages there appears to be nothing of a counterbalancing charac ter. People nowadays are not so terribly afraid of things that are un-English ; and the time is past when the average-Englishman can be deluded by the impudent plea that a vote is a public trust, whilst voters are being carted oil wholesale to exercise that trust at the bidding.osome one in power over them. Of the other regimaniendations of the coin mitteeit is sufficient to say that they are good as far as they go, but do not go far enough. Certainly, Mr. Fawcett's proposal to throw the expenses of elections .on the constituencies might have been advanta geously adopted. It wad ; lost only by the casting vote of the chairman: TOWN TALK (From the Western Mail o:this Morning.) LONDON, Friday-Evening.' Although Ireland still holds her own in public view as the theme of paramount consideration, atten tion has been drawn of late in the opposite direction, namely, towards the European continent, by two recent and both of them calamitous occur:euces. There is that duel near Madrid, in which another Prince has appeared in the character of a homicide There is that announcement from Paris of the death of another of the really great men of our genera tion—a man, great Loth as a writer and as an orator, but (greater than in either of those capacities) great also Millis own individual character—Charles, Count de Montalembert. In remembrance of the bitter sufferings he was fated to undergo during these last five years, excruciating agonies, produced by the dread disease of cancer, one could hardly - wish to have had the existence of Montalembert prolonged— an existence otherwise so precious to all who had the happiness of knowing him. lie had the spirit of a Knight-errant of Catholicism. lie was at the same time one of the most liberal-minclei and enlightened statesmen of our generation. Himself the descen dant of one of the old crusading houses of the ancient noblesse of France, the Count de Mont alembert was born, as it happened,' in London, and politically in many of his sympathies was more than half an Eng lishman. Dear to his heart were two other nations— besides his own country, France, and his birthplace, England—Poland and Ireland. Another grand mas terpiece in literature has, by his lamented death, been left unfinished, "The Monks of the West," which he had designed to bring down tofte days of St. Bernard. Five volumes have already been pub lished, both in French and in a very admirable English translation. One or two other•volumes, in continuation of the narrative, the noble author, in the intervals between his frequent and often pro longed paroxysms of pain, was, until very recently, prep .ring for publication. Knowing Lim, as I did, to my great happiness, will you rermit me to say that I can only think of him, and can, therefore, only write of him, with mingled affection, respect, and admiration. Among my most recent regrets was miising him just before his last return to Paris, as 1 stool in the inner porch of thitt well-known house of his, in the Rue du Bac; di appointed in find ing him not yet arrived from his chateau, but con soled by the glad tidings of an imirovement in his health, that was, alas ! only too illusory. By his de mise one of the brightest names is struck off the roll of the French Academy. As for the death of the Prince Henri de Bourbon, shot down, with all pos sible deliberation iu a duel,' by the hand of the Due de Montpensier, the inenent just caps the climax of the whole of that miserable Orleans story of the Spa- ni h marriages. From Wednesday's debate upon- the ballot you must have seen that :Mr. Bernal Oiborne's rheumatic attack, consequent upon his sousing in the tank at Waterford (that lamentably appropriate borough last returning him), while it in no way precluded him from entering the House in the midst of the heartiest " hear, hears," of welcome, has not proved very much of a dathrer to the hon. member's exhilarating and most vivacious manner as a parl;amentary hutnourist. Sorely we wanted him ; for, as a rule, the dis cussions until now have dragged on very drearily. 'I here are: two: or three members the House laughs at, but hardly one. the House laughs with, besides the right hon. gentleman, the leader of the Opposition. As for-the leader of the House, he is by temperament, if not as grave as a mustard-pot, as seriously and deliberately in earnest—always--as a great political chief well could be. One longed, therefore, for tha return to the discussions of the House of Commons of Bernal Osborne, as the very salt of debate ! Or, shall I call him the yeast with wh . ch the hither to heavy and indigestible batch of &ugh may Loon be quickened and marie to rise, and to I: ecorne light and palatable. R,cently, there has been held the final meeting of the Leigh hunt Memorial Committee. At that final rneeCng tl:er3 was handed to Mr. Jcseph Dar h on, A.lt.A., an additional Eum of £29, so that, in point of fact, the architect has received in all £179 for what he or'ginally agreed to do for one hundred guineas. Mr. Durham, voluutecring to give his artisic services gratuitously (erecting the work for the committee at cost price), has obtained over and above his original offer to raise the memorial for £lO5, this supplementary £74, not altogether very agreeably ! Thanks to the energetic l,bours of Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer, the subscriptions, after lan guishing in a hopeless way for two or three years, poured in upon his hands, as the honorary treasurer, EO abundantly tbat the committee, long ago, adopted two rea)lution's. They increased the original award to Mr. Durham of 100 guineas (the sum he had him s if named as Eufficient) to the award of £l5O, and they closed the subscription list. The architect was present when both these resolutions were passed ; Mr. Robert Browning, the poet, being in the chair on that 'occasion. Yet, lo ! and behold, months afterwards, the A.R,.A. brings in his bill for £i over and above the £l5O granted to him by the committee. llence the supplementary ap . - peal made sub rosy to several among the original sutscriberl. That appeal, pretested against all through by Mr. Mayer, the honorary treasurer, .and a'so by the members of Leigh Hunt's family, as any4hiu4 but satisfactory to themselves, and as spoi,lirrg,.the whole4lffegt of this otherwise charming memorial, resulted in. £l5 14s. which, with the trivial balance still lying at the bank, ware handed n 1 13 , ov as a final quittance to Mr. Durham, 3; the de c. nof a majority present at this final meeting of ire e;gh Hunt Committee. A poignantly expressed a exquisitely logical amendment, condemnatory 'lf e whole proceeding, was moved by Mr. To wns hend Mayer, but fell through for want of a'seconder. 4ember of the committe , , who was hfrnself one of the original, and also one of the supplementary -subscribers, would, I know fur certain, have se conded that amendment, had he fully realised the de claration afterwards formally announced by the hono rary treasurer, that the whole of the £l5 14s. thus swept into Mr. Durham's pocket from the committee table will be immediately paid back to the Siipple mentary subsObcrs by the members of L e i g h H un t' s family, as their tbrmal and emphatic protest against the who're transaction. " Write me as one who loved his fellow men" is the golden* line inscribed over the memorial. Pity it is that, by a final blow struck by his ,mallet and chisel, the artist, whose skilled genius has otherwise been 'BO well applied in the prcductioitif the.morrument, should have thus (for a demanded £4l, and an'accepted £29) inflicted an incredible and damning flaw upon that same beautiful memorial and inscription. A melancholy incident recently followed upon two very joyful ones, in the midst of the home circle r-f the late revered author of " The Christian Year " fervid considering the insignificance cf the opposition to which it was addresicd. Once, as though a Blon din bad tottered in the midst of E's' ground-and ' lofty tumbling, Mr. Gladstone almost 'came to grief with a jumbled metaphor, having reference to the much-abused lions a Sir Edwin LandFeer in Trafal gar-square. At his fi:st mention of them, there was a titter ; for an instant or two the master rhetorician hesitated—it seemed all but touch and go whether he w; ul.l fall on the side of the sublime or of the ridi eulcu3—when, in another instant, the great orator had cleverly righted himself, like the Platonian " balanced man " that he is. The extrication, how ever, was as by a hair's breadth. It was ai pain ful, and almost r.s ludicrous, as Mrs. Gamp's remini scence of Poll Sweediepipe's agitation, when, nearly shaving the nose off the face of the father off as fine family as ever was, " he Eee'd it a-goin' in the glass, and dodged the r r ijor !" Very brief but very impressive was the announce ment made by the Premier on Monday evening, in a crowded house, and under the scrutiny of a densely crowded strangerS' gallery, as to the trending of the policy of the Government in vindication of law and order in Ireland. I have seldom heard a heartier cheer in the Ileuse of Commons than the one that roared applause - to the intimation that measures in vindicotion of order would have reference to the in- surgent press. • At the irivate view of the New British Institution, in Old Bond-street, No.. 39—(though that, by the way, is small clue for country cousins hi search of the Gallery, for there are three Nos. 39- thereabouts) —I was particularly struck by the coincidence of the extraordinary chequer-work of light and shade, of sun and shadow, scattered here and there all about the landscapes. It reminded me of that memor able Friday morning in May, 1 - 13 W a good many years ago, when the private view of the Royal Aca demy for that season showed, as one may say, the choral response of the artists to the casual sugges tion thrown out a few months previously by Mr. Ruskin, that they should some of them .try their kill in the delineation of apple blosopms. ?hen, the walls of the Old Royal Academy Gallery were like a very orchard in siring time—a blaze and glory of delicious apple blossoms. .Now, the walls of the New British Institution Gallery arc alive with the mingled sunshine and shadows of April. The landscapes- thus characterised are many of them charming. Let me iostanc no more than two of them—No. 46, W. Linnell's " Study in the Fields," with a lovely vista of a meadow path by the side of a hedgerow, and No. 50, W. ll&yoake's wcodlaud rendering of an iccident in the Lord of Buileigb, of Alfred Tennyson. Commend me also to No. 58, A. Gilbert's" Mermaid's Cave by moonlight," and to No. 92, 11. Wallis's mea'?ow stretch, all sheening over with "Blue Bells." Charles Dickens's farewell reading on Tuesd-iy night; in the St. James's-hall, Piccadilly, was the occasion for what in classic slang is called an ovation. Mr. Dickens never read more superbly, and was never more_ applauded to the very echo. His few words cf farewell were just exactly what they ought to have been. They were manly and affectionate. They were spoken and listened to with very great emotion ; and, at the close of them, the audience gave forth a very ro,.r of acclamations. Even when Mr. Dickens had gone, the cheering was so loud and lou,gei continue 1 that he had to return, and, kissing his band in alien, give Lis last bow of farewell. One of the gr eat novelist's younger sons, Mr. Henry Dickens, now a student at Tiinity Hall, Cambridge, and of the Inner Temple,. Loudon, on the very morning of that day of the farcAll Tut sd ry, the 15th inA., had won the prize essay this year of his college, the subject of the essay b..iug "Simon de Mon. fort." A few days previous'Y-the young ess yist had very successfully made h's debut as a debater at the famous Union of Cambridge, the subject there being " Compulsory Education.' Ilia Liberal cave on Educator), by the way - , is rtp . dly, I be'ieve, Lecoming more form:d.,ble. ForemoA among very recent literary exploits I am fain to mention with unstinted pra'se Mr. Law rence Oli i ,hant's bizarre but brilliant book, entitled " Piccadilly." For de:icate and radiant persiflage I know nothing like it for a long while past. It has a flavour of wit throughout, and of wit the most auda cious. It originally appeared a few months Lack in ' instalments in Blackwood's Magazine, but has now been issued from the press by the publishers of Maga, in the form of a handsome volume, admirably illustrated by that long hidden but always most welcome and delightful artist, Richard Doyle, the -Doyle of " Ye manners and ye customes of ye Eng lizhe," but better still of "Brown, Jones, and Robin son." As the embel'isher of the conceits of " Piccadilly," the son of H.B. is, indeed, redivivus. Part I. of a new weekly called The Christian has just reached me ; and also a specimen number (and No. I.) of a new bi-monthly journal called The Music Master. The great continental venture in journalism, the European News, a daily, admirably well done throughout, threatens to banish to the limbo of forgotten successes our old friend Galignant's Mes senger. Let me give you, as the last tip from the Tar sities in ref,rence to the great boat race—news that I believe will gladden all England, that the exceed ing probability is that, at last,. Cambridge will again have her turn and come in the winner. LONDON, SA7URD4Y, MARCH 19, 1870. THE debate on the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill opened in a manner worthy of the country to which it refers. Nothing could have been more ludicrously incongruous than the sedate solemnity of the House of Commons as Mr. Chichester Fortescue rose to introduce his measure, and the opening sen tence of his speech. For a Minister to say that h!s object is the "preservation of life, and above all of property" sounds very like a bull, and perhaps it did riot convey the Chief Secretary's meaning. At the same. time, was it wholly inappropriate ? If agrarian crime is any test of the estimation in which life and property are held in Ireland, it must be con fussed that the second . is valued much more highly than the first. "Rory of the Hill " wants a bit of potato ground, and he " tumbles a landlord" in - order to get it; or be wants to keep down the price of eggs, and he massacres an unfortunate egg dealer, who had been buying rather more largely than Rory approvcs; or he has a dislike to paying his rent, and he puts an ounce of lead into the brain of the bailiff who ventures to ask him for payment. Life is the thing which is held most cheaply in Ireland, and Mr. Fortescue shewed that he had yielded to the prevailing sentiment when he described the bill which he introduced on Monday night. Perhaps it was the same circumstance which led him to defer the introduction of the measure until now. Lives have been lost before this ; assassinations have not been unfrequent ; but it is only within the last week or two that Rory has taken to burning farms ,and homesteads. This was the last ounce which broke down the patience of a. much-enduring Government, and thus ft came to pass that Ministers aro offering a measure "for the pre servation of life, - and above all, of property in Ireland." • - - But - a truce to jest. Let us consider this measure seriously. In the first place, has it been too long delayed ; in the second place, is it likely to be efficient ? In reply to the first question, we would point out that it is easy to be wise after the event. It is quite true that certain politicians predicted. that the messages of peace to Ireland which the Government was sending in the shape of a Church Bill and a Land Bill would utterly fail to effect peace, and the result proves that they pro phesied truly. But Ministers hoped otherwise. They hoped that after the provisions of their Land Bill had become known, and , that tenants saw they would henceforth be protected against capricious eviction, there would be a cessation of that agrarian crime which originated, so far as the present outbreak is concerned, in that most unfortunate and cen surable eviction at Ballycohey in August 1868. The event proves that they were too sanguine. But believing as they did they were bound to act as they did. It would have been illogical, and more than illogical, it would hiiVe been unjustifiable, if they had attempted pehal legislation when they believed they had had a good prospect of attaining their end by reme dial legislation. Moreover, it must be remembered that the penal legislation is to be temporary, the remedial is to be permanent; and that it would have been ex ceedingly unwise to imperil the success of the more important measures by arousing such hostility against them as would have been aroused if penal legislation had had precedence. A far more important question than this respecting the opportuneness of the present measure is that respecting its effectiveness. Is it sufficiently stringent ? Is it too stringent ? It must be ad mitted at once that some of the provisions are very stringent. It is a serious thing, for instance, that persons merely suspected of being ne'er-do-wells should be liable to imprisonment for six months unless they can give a good account of . themselves; or that magistrates should have power to sentence t 6 a similar term summarily, that is without allowing the prisoner the benefit of a trial by jury. But then, it must be remembered that these very severe regulations will be in force only under very special circumstances. Ireland will, in fact, be divisible under this Act into three districts—lreland in a normal condition ; Ireland in a condition requir ing precautions with regard to the possession of arms and proclaimed for that object by the Lord Lieu tenant; and Ireland- in a state of terrorism, (such as we suppose the Government would consider Mayo to be at the present time), and which would be specially proclaimed. So far as the first division is concerned, it will be provided that every sale of arms and ammunition must be registered, that com pensation shall be levied on any district in which an outrage occurs, and that newspapers which publish treason or sedition shall be seized and suppressed, the proprietor having a right of appeal and a claim to substantial damages if the Crown cannot prove that sedition or treason has been published. In the second division—the proclaimed districts—a game license will no longer exempt the possessor from the necessity of obtaining also a license to carry arms ; a special license will be required for the possession of a revolver; power will be given to search for arms by night as well as by day, and also to search for documents connected with threatening letters; magistrates will also have power to examine persons on oath, and to commit them for refusing to give evidence, even where no one is accused of any offence, and they will have d:scret:oti to refits° bail.. Then as regards the specially proclaimed districts, persons found out at night under suspicious circumstances may be taken before a magistrate, and if unable to give a satisfactory ac count of themselves, may be committed for s:-Z months; strangers may be dealt with in a s:milar manner and committed to gaol until they find security fur good behaviour; the executive may close public-houses (the nurseries and hot-beds of agrarian crime) after sunset; and.,itmay change the venue for any trial prising in one tof These proclaimed districts, THE CLERKS AT THE WAR OFFICE. The authorities at the War Office have called upon all clerks in their department who are willing to retire, to send in their papers on or before the 15th of April. Full r ay will be continued until the end of December. THE ARMY I:I4:TIREMENT SCHEME The time has been extended foi; officer; to make their return wile ey eke. to remain on the o!ti or the new - schemes of rain in-,31t, and-bal-pay. This is owing to a 1 ressu: c - of returns in.. office, as re•ards the taking out of officers' time. A Cabinet Coune;l was hEld to.d.ty at the °fah'? residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. SHEERNESS DOCKYARD. tie Rev. John Keble—at .Bisley Rectory. Within Len days from the marriage of a niece of that beloved ecclesiastic to the only son of the popular novelist, Mrs. Gor3on SmythicS, an elder married sister of the young bride, who had travelled an immense distance in order to 1 c present at the nuptial cerernoly, was doomed to breathe her last prm.aturely iu childbed. The infant survives ; tye mother being int:Tred in Ole early cloys of her young bride-sister'. honcytnoon.. So that in ten days a lair : It, a death, a inar..ia;e, and a " ` , ll.wral cli quertcl the home-h's'ory of the Bisley Itectry. he division li Rill was not inaptly howled reading, of the Irish Lam a . _ ota the 1116 row cf the second in The :'en"l he eleven'agains!:. a". " h ' 114 ‘ 1. ' 111" Disraeli never delivered a more humorous tban that with which he enlivened the debate on the _ last evening.. As for the Premier's peroration it was a world.- galled" The Royal .. very finely impassioned—being, perhars, only too gLeeell The rumoured closin-ofgheerness Dockyard has led to much excitement. There is no immediate inten tion of closing Sheerness:and the eventual abandon ment of that yard depends upon the completion of arrangements in progress and in contemplation at Chatham. The Queen of the Netherlands will remain about ten days longer in this country. H.R.H. the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief held alevee to-day at one o'clock. The number of officers to attend was limited to 150. MR. WOODIN.—The hundredth representation of this gentleman's entertainment at the Egyptian 1411, Picea dilly, took place yesterday evening. • THE BEVERLEY ELECTION.—The case of Regina v. Sir Henry Edivards-,-for-aileged bribery at the Beverley election, has been postponed. The trial has been set down for Monday. It is probable that the greater portion of the building in Pall Mall, where the business of the War Office is carried on, will be vacated, and that the Board of Trade wll be removed from Whitehall-gardens to these premises. It is stated that Captain Berkeley, the eldest son of the late member for Wisiol, has been invited by the In dependent Liberals to become a candidate for that city. Captain Belieley i 3 described as a Churchman and a - mode rate Liberal. DFATII OF it. ROWDEN.—We have to announce the death of Edward Wetherell Bowden, D.0.L., Registrar of the University of Oxford, which took place, after an ill ness of about a month's duration, yesterday evening, at his residence, lb, St. Giles's, Oxford. It is stated that marriages are on the lapis between Lord Henley and Miss Jett()11; between Mr. Tracey, eldest 'son of Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., and Miss Mary .DO3 Voeux , the Rev. Malcolm WOoll and Miss Octavio Drake ; and Mr. Wemnau AtOA - ey Wykcham, and Miss Jane Giey, third d.,u , 2hter of Admiral the Hon. George Grey. i:EAL CHARITY. The Commi tee of the Metropo litan Free llospital have just received the loco nificet t donation of one thousand muds from an unknown friend, under the initials E. G.; and tat guineas from the Wcr shipful Company of Vintl.ers. 'Re very extensive Distillery now being erected at Beifeist, with. all recent improvem3nts for the manufacture of TPish whisky, by Messig. DUNVIi•,LE & Co., who have gain3ti Celebrity for their fine old le:sb. Whisky, is to be "r• 4.11. Distillery." 1&2 a.m. 11 SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. FRIDAY. The fulness of the house, and ilio'lmPO-riance of tho occasion are no measure of the interest of a debate. A very trivial matter will often give rise to a lively scerie. On the other hand a very grave subject will sometimes lead to a very dull and dreary evening. Yesterday after' noon the House of Commons was very full at ca techising time. Not only the floor of the house but the member s' gallery also was filled. The Peers' gallery had more occupants than I have seen all the session. I noticed Lold Salisbury, the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis a Clanricarde, the Earl of Lucan, Lord Houghton, Lord Monson, and over thirty others. But though there was every sign of a grand field night, the proceedings were very dull. This was greatly owing to the list of qaestions, which was unusually uninviting. There was, in fact, ne, relief to the wearisome monotony of Tiestion and answer until Mr. Whalley got up. lie b ad to ask a question respecting the Red River Settlement. It did not seem possible that even the • member for Peterborough would be able to reach Rome by that road. But trust Mr, Whalley. I n the course of a minute he had travelled from far Western America to the capital of Italy (according to Garibaldi), and at the sound of the well-known words, "Romish clergy," there was a joyful shout of "Yale , yah !" from lion. members glad to welcome their old friend. This outburst of vivacity soon died away, and we returned to our phi dulness until Mr. Gladstone put the question that the orderi of the day be suspended, in order that the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill might be introduced. Mr. G. H. Moore, .the advocate of O'Donovan Rossa, and who, for some unintelligible reason, sits on the Conservative benches, was not prepared to assent to that proposition. He had something to say on behalf of his constituents, the inmates of sundry of her Majesty's gaols, and in an excited " stand-and deliver " style he put a series of questions to the First Minister of the Crown. Mr. Gladstone, more suo, divided his reply under three heads. He reiterated his assertion that the hon. Fenians were very comfortable on the whole, but added that as the assertion of the Government did not seem to satisfy the friends of those gentlemen, he was prepared to grant an inquiry into their condition. `He admitted that two Fenian prisoners had become insane, and that a third was of unsound pled, but he was not pripared to admit that insanity was a ground for release. •:-For insane convicts there was the Broadmoor Asylum. "The House cheered the sentiment, and I dare -say it is all right; only I am not quite sure that if a similar answer had -been given a dozen years ago by the Neapolitan Government hon. members would have applauded quite as lustily. Nor am I sure that Mr. Gladstone would not have been the first, and the most elo quently vehement to denounce the cruelty of the Govern ` meat. Mr. Gladstone's third " head " was an unconditional refusal to extend last year's amnesty to the Fenians still in prison. Amid loud "hear, hears," he referred to tiro condition of Ireland, and to the bill which was to be in troduced that evening as all-sufficient reasons for 11(A acceding to Mr. Moore's request. ----Then there was a pause and a general hush ; the Speaker put the question that the orderS of the day be postponed, and lip rose Mr. Chichester Fortescue to address the House. 77 lt'was in its gravel and most subdued mood; yet soddenly there rang out great burst of laughter, loud, uproarious, universal. What had happened? Well, the Chief Secretary for Ireband, rising with a soleinnity worthy of the occasion, in his very first sentence tumbled headlong. into the depths of unfathomable bathos. If° said that he had to propose, with the greatest regret but without the smallest . sesitation, a bill for the protection of life, and, above all, of property, in Ireland. This anti climax was irresistibly ludicrous. Liberals no less than ConserVatives, Irishmen as well as Englishmen, roared vocitusly, and it Was not for a time that must have seen 4 ,c 1 ages to the right hon. blunderer that he was able to explain that he had macic a mistake. Fortunately for Mr• Chichester Fortescue, he is no orator, or he would have lost his presence of mind, and have hashed his exordium and peroration together, so that his finest passages would havo bien irretrievably spoilt. But he makes no pretension to eloquence. . He is, moreover, hesitating and monotonous, and it must be confessed that listening to his 97 minutes' -speech was a trial of patience. If I found it so, sleeping between whiles the sleep of the innocent, what must the • Irish members have thoughtit ? It was " St. Patrick's day in the morning," or evening rather; and that evening had been fixed for a great banquet of Irishmen at Willis's Rooms. Judr , e, therefore, of the feelings of Hibernian M.P.'s divided by their desire to make a speech, and their wish to partake in the flow of soul going on hard by St. Jamba's Square, as they watched the minute-hand make a complete revolution of the clock ; and then half a revolu tion, and the hour-hand ',pass the figure seven (the dinner hour) before the Chief Secretary for Ireland sat down. There was a loud buzz of conversation when he had detailed all the measures which he proposed to introduce, and the Speaker was obliged to call out " order," so that the right hon. gentleman's peroration, s uc h as it was, might be heard. So soon as he had finished, Peers from the gallery above, and Commoners from . the floor below rushed out to dine, and it was a very thin House which Sir Frederick Hey"- gate addressed. He made (for him), a wonderfully short speech, in the main supporting the Government. Then Dr. Brady got up, and there seemed every prospect of a regular debate. Sir George Grey deprecated it at that early stage of the bill, — and so did Colonel Patton on the Opposition side of the House. But Irish members were not to be put down. Mr. Chichester Fortescue had kept them from their dinner, and it was but fair that they should keep him from his. So Sir Patrick O'Brien, ono of last week's "Eleven against all England, Scotland, and Ireland," had his sa y, an d th a t say was a prett y strong denunciation of Irish magistrates, and of the Lord* Lieutenants of Counties for their favouritism in appointing an undue majority of Protestants. Two M.P.'s arose together, and stood for some time repeating " Mr. Speaker," " Mr. Speaker" one against the other, as though they had been laying a bet. The House called " Callan," but the Speaker call e d " Ch ar l ey, " an d the gentleman who considers himself a second Attila, charged to execute divine vengeance upon Mr. Gladstone, at last attained the object for which he has been rising up early and late taking rest, and eating the bread of careful ness all the sessi on . Th at i s to say, the hon. and learned gentleman, instead of going away to dinner like other members, has contented himself with a sandwich, being loath to leave the House even during feeding time, lest he should lose the opportunity of making the speech that he had been preparing all the session—not to ea y all the long vacation. I confess I have rather a sneaking affection for Mr. Charley. He is a very different man from Mr. Newdegat e , for instance. The North W arw i c k s hi re country squire talks as if he were laying hon. members out for their coffins, and the effect is depressing. But the Irish barrister who sits for Salford is lively and fluent enough, and you really can't help listening to him. He has so many points, all ludicrously blunt, no doubt, but still they are points; and he is so bold in his impeachment of Mr. Gladstone for high treason and such like little offences; and he is so gloriously illogical, so deliciously absurd, that you and the few hon. members who remain find yourselves listening with amused contempt, and an o ccas i ona l "Yah, 3ro,h" in* voluntarily escaping from yon, Mr. Charley's chief point on Thursday night was this. The Tory party had been accused of penal legislation in Ireland—was not this bill a piece of penal legislation? Of course it is most sapient of Irish barristers; only th ere i s some little difference between punishing Irishmen because they are Boman Catholics, and punishing them because they are murderers, is there not? We have "penal legislation" in England, I fancy, for the latter class. But it is not fair to argue with Mr, Charley. lie is not a logician, he is a poet. With true irate fervour he denounced Mr. Gallstone for havkng diSestablished. the Irish OhnrAh, and defttel that sle had torn the fairest jewel in the Crown from its sfteket, Phatl thrown it to Fenian swine, and they had turned again, and were rending somebody,l am not sure who. Moreover I am ashamed to say that this highly imaginstiye passage instead, of thrilling the gouse made hen, membera laugh. To our surprise, no sooner had our poetic barrister sat down than up rose Mr. Gladstone. Was the Premier going to answer Mr. Charley ? /Phis was surely a ease of an elephant picking up a pin, of a steam-hammer cracking a nut. Neve r th e l ess, i n his best style of banter, and with the utmost c our t esy, M r. Gl a d stone rep li e d to his Attila ; and having sufficiently chaffed him, went on to anawev some of the objections which had been taken by less poetic ani , more practical men. The Premier, too, indulged in a simile. Deprecating resort to the Suspension of the Habeas Oorpus Act, he said that such a measu r e w a s like re so r ting to , alcoholic stimulants ; it led to a pleasant glow of satisfac-, tion at the time, but it laid the seeds of lasting diseas.i. He deprecated a discussion on that stage of the bill, and sat down after a quarter of an hour's speech, delivered, bi a very thin hduse. But the Irish members would not take the hint. If they could not honour their saint by drinking his health they would do so by show ing up the wrongs his adopted country, so young Mr. Callan declared of that the 1 bill " M M'C rptclopec was "an abrogation of all law; a y Downing followed up Sir Patrick O'Brien's remarks about the party spirit shown in appointing magistrates ; a n d Si r J o h n Gray, as a newspaper proprietor, denounced the proposed measures against the Press. The Solicitor-General for Ireland was put up to answer the Irish phalanx below the gangway. Turning his hack upon the "Bpeolcer, and supporting his portly frame against the tab!e, he delivered himself of a short speech, but uttered with such extraordinary rapidity that I will back Mr. Dowse against all the world for gettir ' , out the greatest number of words in the shortest ti me . It was a very good speech moreover, and seemed to satisfy Sir John Gray and his friends ; for immediately it was over the bill was read a first time, and th e Sp ea k er re ti re d - for hig chop. Itove fortmAte than he your cor respondent did not feel himself bOund to veturn after: wards or to list en t o th e nava l M.P.' s dis - Cus§ing the capacities of octogenarian Admirals to command our f1e5. 4 43. it'is an important question no doubt,lut then Lord Henry Lenuoig is not quite the man that one willingly hears Trigo4. 049 has tree Choi% 43 'ien a 1 ).) O qiiia ~~x~~., I 'l l ll e n 1.01 Provi, Acc was it ill the A hito t o dis A 01,01 Ar geil 411 4tii 13 r&zil 3 3 . D o . 1 )o. 1)o. 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