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The Right Honourable the Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT. VICE-PRESIDENTS. THOMAS CARLYLE, Esq. Sir RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Bart., K.C.8., F.R.S. Mr. Eyre baying been committed to take his trial, the Committee of this Fund earnestly IN VITE SUBSCRIP TIONS to defray the great expenses to which he will thereby be subjected, and as a protest against the proceed ings of the so-called Jamaica Committee. Civil proceed ings are also pending in the Court of Queen's Bench, en tailing very heavy expenditure. With reference to Mr. Charles Burton's letter to The Times of the 25th inst., stating that " it is notorious that sums vastly beyond all possible costs are at his disposal," in other words, that pecuniary assistance is not needed on account of the vast sums subscribed for the defence, the Committee desire to state that there is not a shadow of foundation for such an assertion. It is a well-known matter of fact that it would have been absolutely impos sible for Mr. Eyre in any way to have met the expenses of the civil and criminal prosecutions that have been carried on so persistently against him for the last two years but for the generous aid of the public. Subscriptions to be paid to the credit of " The Eyre De fence and Aid Fund," with the United Service Company (Limited), Bankers, and Army and Navy Agents, 9, Water loo-place, Pall-mall, London ; or Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, 1, Lombard-street, E.G. All communications to be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, No. 9, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. -- • - HAMILTON HUME, Hon. Secretary. ' llF t SIM LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1868. The long-pending trial at Washington may at last be considered to have fairly come to an end, and such an end as the best friends of the American people and of American freedom were sincerely de sirous _to see. An acquittal of the PRESIDENT on the second and third counts of the indictment and an adjournment of the Senate Court sine die is tan tamount to the conclusion of the whole caso in favour of the accused. The eleventh Article of impeachment, upon which it will be remembered the first vote was taken, included in fact none of the charges brought against Mr. JOHNSON, and if it had been possible for the Managers to obtain a sufficient majority on any of the Articles it would most likely have been secured upon i 4. But it was not impos sible that the interval between the two votes might be turned to account by the Radical party, and that the extreme pressure put upon those Senators who had dared to break through the trammels of party, and act independently in what they thought the right and just course, might prove in some cases effectual, and that a majority, however narrow, might thus be secured for Impeachment. Happily, this has not proved to be the case. In spite of threats, blandishments, and entreaties ; in spite of appeals at least to withhold their votes, if adverse to the conviction ; in spite of that interference from their respective States which no American Senator can afford altogether to despise, the little band of Republicans, not Radicals, stood firm, and their firmness has saved not only Mr. JOHNSON, but the country at large, from consequences too serious to foresee. We may judge from the details of an earlier date brought by the mail steamers how diffi cult it has been for any of the Republican Senators to act with independence at Philadelphia, St. Louis, and other cities. Radical meetings have been held since the first great division was taken in favour of the impeachment of Mr. JOHNSON, and strongly denouncing the action of those Republican Senators who opposed his conviction. It is stated that the Impeachment Managers, who are not, as we know, particular about trifles, are endeavouring to get up an investigation with the object of prov ing that certain Senators had been bribed to vote for the acquittal. Such an inquiry would be likely to be still less favourable to the Managers than the Impeachment itself, and the subject of undue influ ence is one that they had better let alone if they are wise. Senator HENDERSON, of Missouri, addressed a letter to the Missouri delegation in the Lower House who had appealed tohim to withhold his vote in a man - ner which does him honour. He would neither, he said, resign nor shrink from the obligation of his oath to do impartial justice. A Democrat in the Repre sentatives brought forward a resolution calling for an investigation into the conduct of the delegation, iu endeavouring to influence Mr. HENDERSON' s vote. As a matter of course this resolution was not received by the House, since the Radicals take very good care to maintain their ascendancy by silencing all remonstrance, argument, or opposition of any kind. It is only surprising that a sufficient number of Republicans have been able to withstand the strong pressure put upon them when we remember what it is to break off from a political party in America. Mr. JOHNSON himself is a notable instance of the implacable hostility which such conduct provokes. His real offence has been that he has broken off party ties and has dared to act, think, and speak for himself in a position that he should have turned to account for his party. Chief Justice CHASE himself had great difficulty in withstanding the Radical endeavour to turn the Senate Court into a mere party gathering assembled to condemn a man who bad given offence to his quondam allies. Mr. CHASE'S firmness in withstanding this endea vour drew down upon hint the unmeasured wrath of the extreme R tdicals, and it was forthwith an nounced that he would have little chance for the Presidency. When such a system is at work with the highest and most influential politicians we neel not wonder that lesser men are influenced by it , and we must rank the integrity, courage, and inde pendence of the Republican Senators whose votes have turned the scale very highly. The numbers on these last two divisions were precisely the same as on the former one----thirty-five pro nouncing the PRESIDENT guilty of the offences charged against him, and nineteen not guilty. It would seem as if the immobility of the numbers had disheartened the Radicals, and convinced them that further effort was useless, for without voting upon the other Articles the Court adjourned sine die. The second and third Articles upon which the votes were taken referred to the vexed question of the War-office, and charged the PRESIDENT with appointing General THOMAS Secretary ad interim, the Senate being in session, in violating the Tenure of-Office Act, there being no vacancy in the office of Secretary of War. The second Article states this at length, and the third Article merely reiterates the charge, and declares the act to have been done without authority of law, with the intention of violating the Constitution. Mr. Jormsort's answer to this charge, it will be remem bered, was that he disputed the constitutionality of the Tenure-of-Office Bill, and wished to test its legality an assertion which his enemies may dis pute, but cannot disprove. That point would have been easily settled before a legal tribunal in proper constitutional form, v%itliout resorting to the despe rate expedient of a State trial. Happily the result has shown that, in spite of the excesses of liticians, America has yet men who put the public interests before their private gains. Although there is always something painful about the execution of criminals, still those best qualified to form an opinion have long recognised the importance of the extreme penalty of the law being sometimes put in furce, and if ever a crime merited this punishment surely it was that of MICHAEL BARRETT, who yesterday passed from this world to aceowat for his sins at a higher tribunal. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1868. The dreadful circumstances of the Clerkenwell ex plosion are still fresh in the minds of all, and long may it be before a similar catastrophe affects the peace of society, and produces such loss and suffering. It is true that an attempt was made to obtain another trial for BAR RETT, but this was not taken up at all readily, and the general feeling of the public will be that he deserved his fate, and that his exe cution was a painful but necessary duty on the part of the authorities. In the present day we are, happily, far removed from the revengeful and bitter feelings of the days of old. Let our criminals do what they may they always receive humane and considerate treatment at the hands of the law, but justice must take its course, and it would have been a failure if no one had been con victed, when it was well known that the dreadful o•.utrage must have occupied the attention of ninny for a long time, and formed the subject of so many cogitations and plans. It is worthy of notice that those who yesterday went to see the cause of justice vindicated were present at what will in all probabi lity be the last public execution that will take place in this country. Certainly no man could have suffered for a more notable offence than he who thus figured in the last scene of these executions. It is satisfactory to know that the greatest possible care has been taken to determine the guilt of this prisoner, and it was not until after the most search ing investigation had been made during the time of the second trial that the sentence of the law was put into effect. On every future occasion it is well that public executions should cease, and even those who at first objected when it was proposed to have the executions take place within the prison walls will in time become con verts to the desirability of the new scheme, when they reflect upon the disgraceful scenes that take place on these occasions. It is true that the crowd which assembled yesterday was very orderly ; but the spectacle was not one which it is at all desirable to witness in a Christian country, and it is well that it should be among the things that have been. All that remains to be said now is that we hope and trust that this will also prove to have been the last Fenian execution that has taken place, and that the misguided conspirators will see and recognise that it is vain for them to fight against insuperable obstacles. The Fenians have prosecuted their plans with so much perseverance and cunning that only the most stringent measures could possi bly avail to put them down. Let us hope that BARRETT may at least have done this good by his death that he may prevent others from following on his track, and that the recollection of Fenianism with its horrors and its crimes may pass from our immediate notice, only to be recalled to mind when circumstances arise to recal to recollection the most barbarous attempt and ruthless conduct that this generation has witnessed. To-day the House of Commons has a holiday, which is more deserved than this time last week it seemed likely to be, and it is to be hoped that the spirit which influenced hon. members on Monday will continue to inspire them, and that the progress made will be both rapid, and effectual. In reply to a question put to him, Mr. DISRAELI stated that the Government had for some time p.st been con templating the propriety of bringing in a bill which would diminish the interval that must elapse before a general election. Some difficulties had arisen, however, but it was hoped that they might be over come. If this could be accomplished it would be a good thing, and would doubtless tend to the advantage of public business. Mr. DISRAELI also announced to the house that it had deemed it ex pedient that the vote of thanks to Sir R. NAPIER should be delayed until after the despatches of the Commander-in-Chief had been received. When next Friday was fixed it was supposed that these despatches had been lost, but it has been since as certained that in a few days' time more they may arrive. Mr. GLADSTONE requested that a select committee should be appointed to consider the question of shortening the time that must elapse be fore the general election takes place. Time is ac tually of value; and, as Mr. GLADSTONE says, this is a practical matter, so that perhaps his method of solving the mystery may be the best. The hon. gentleman is as generally right when he looks at a question in a calm and business-like manner as he is wrong when he gets into one of his attitudes and refuses to hear reason or remonstrance. If the general election could be speedily brought about it must tend to the general advantage, and the more we consider the thing the more important does it seem. Surely, with a little time and care, means may be found to attain the desideratum so much sought after, and it is certain that the public will heartily rejoice to see the way cleared, and the opportunity before them of testing the merits of the new Reform Bill. Some remarks were made by Mr. LABOUCHERE on tha expenses of the Diplomatic Service being provided in an indiscriminate manner, part of them being voted by Parliament, and part taken from a sum charged on the Consolidated Fund. The bon. member argued that Parliament should have the complete control over them. Lord STANLEY did not agree to this, however, because he said that the Foreign Office was the only civil department which had reduced its cost, and that all the complaints lately made bad been among those parts of expenditure which the House of Commons bad already supervised. The noble lord, of course, fully agreed as to the propriety of the House of Commons controlling the expenditure of the Foreign-office, but this arrangement was the best that could be made under the circumstances. Mr. GREENE subsequently brought the subject of the accidents in lead mines before the House, and read some extracts which showed the necessity for some thing being done in the matter ; but the House being counted out no decision was come to as to the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the subject. The American publishers, Messrs. Appleton, it is said, offered Dickens $20,000 for a novel about the size of " Our Mutual Friend," but the offer was declined, as Mr. Dickens does not intend writing another long story. The Archbishop of Canterbury is warmly com plaining of a schism which has sprung up under the very shadow of Addington Palace. His Grace has accepted Mr. Morse, lately a beneficed clergy man in the diocese of Manchester, to take sole charge of the district of Addiscombe, which is part of the parish of Croydon ; but it appears that a clergyman of the Church of England has already been settled down there for a long time past—the Rev. Maxwell Ben Oliel, of St. Aidans College, Birkenhead, formerly curate of Christ Church, Pentonville—who has attached to himself a large proportion of the Church people of the place. The members of the congregation have from time to time entreated the Archbishop to license Mr. lien Oliel, so that he may be placed in a proper eccle siastical position; but the Archbishop refuses, and not only so, but absolutely inhibits Mr. Ben Oliel from officiating. The Archbishop alleges no reasons for refusing the appeal of the congregation, but accepts Mr. Morse, so that the Church people of Addiscombe will have a choice between two clergy men of the same Church —one holding the Arch bishop's licence and the other absolutely disregard ing his Grace's formidable inhibition. LATEST INTELL LGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) WASHINGTON, May 26. To-day the Senate Court acquitted President Johnson on the second and third Articles of Im peachment. The second Article charges that the President, without authority of law, on the 21st of February, 1868, issued a letter of authority to Lorenzo Thomas to act as Secretary of War ad interim, the Senate being in Session, in violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act, and with the intent to violate it and the Con stitution, there being no vacancy in the office of Secretary of War. The third Article alleges the same act as done without authority of law, and alleges intent to vio late the Constitution. On both Articles 35 votes pronounced the Pre sident Guilty and 19 Not Guilty. The Court, without voting upon the other Articles, adjourned sine die. NEW YORK, May 26. The Allan Company's steamer Germany arrived out to-day. The Cunard steamer Tripoli has arrived at Bos ton, and not at Halifax as previously announced. LIVERPOOL, May 27. The Inman steamer City of Paris, which left New York on the 23d inst. for this port, brings $1,250,000 in specie. TURKEY. CONSTANTiIsTOPLE, May 26 (Evening). The Porte has received an official notification that Prince Napoleon purposes visiting Constan tinople early next month. The Viceroy of Egypt and his family are ex pected to arrive here shortly, and proceed to Broussa for the benefit of the mineral baths. The Cheik-ul-Islam, with the Christian patriarchs and Israelite rabbis, have attended at the Imperial Palace to present an address to the Sultan, express ing their thanks for the speech delivered by his Majesty at the opening of the State Council, pro mising to observe justice and equality among all classes of his subjects. COUNT MONTALEMBERT ON IHE IRISH CHURCH. The Correspondant of Tuesday contains an article by M. de Montalembert, entitled " L'lrlande et L'Autriche." It is, however, a first part, and turns exclusively on the pending question of the disestab - lishment of the Church in Ireland. The question of the connection of the Church from the State is one which M. de Montalembert is quite competent to treat. The night of the 31 of April last, when Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions were taken into considera tion, deserves, he says, to be henceforth counted among the remarkable dates of history. It recalls the memory of that other night, more memorable still, now 80 years ago, when a mortal blow :vas given to the slave trade, which he declares to be hardly less iniquitous than the Establishment in Ireland. He says : " It is not that I pretend to place Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe, those two eloquent adversaries who are reconciled by a common enmity on the same line with William Pitt, nor to assimilate the sufferings of the Irish Catholics to those of negroes chained and sold, but the contest is substantially the same as well as the stake. Then, as now, the cause of justice and humanity was at issue; then, as now, it is gained ; and then, as now, it was the spirit of Christianity that conquered. It was, indeed, a pure and glori ous victory, all the honour of which is owing to the free institutions which have been the instruments of it ; to the English people, who were the authors of it ; to the 19th century, which has been the wit ness and the theatre of it. Let us, in the first place, do homage to that all-powerful force of liberty, that fruitful vitality of Liberal institutions, that imperious and salutary power of discussion, publi- • city, and permanent struggle which prepares and, facilitates all necessary solutions, which substi tutes reform for revolutions, progress for dis asters ; which is the exclusive appanage of a free people ; which teaches them wisdom, foresight, generosity ; which makes light penetrate into every class, every rank ; which leads them in due time to the triumph of public conscience ; which is at the same time the triumph of justice and reason ; and. which costs not a drop of blood, not a tear, to man kind, so long perverted and speculated upon by the triumph of lies and evil." If it be alleged that it is the Fenians who, after all, have been the real authors of this reform, M. de Montalembert does not object to admit the fact. No doubt, the sympathies and the menaces coming from America count for something, perhaps for much, in the Resolution which England has adopted, though the Fenian insurrection miserably failed. But it is to the honour of nations which have their destinies in their own hands that they not only comprehend the danger, but know where to find the remedy, and to the honour of free institu tions to furnish to high-minded and high-hearted men the right and the means of enlightening their fellow-citizens, and of leading them through the most numerous and diverse perils to safety : " Let us pay homage, then, to the great English people, so great and so powerful, so intelligent and so conscientious, in spite of their errors and their weaknesses, who know, often after long resistance and cruel delays, how to recognize the truth, and who, when they do recognize it, proclaim it and serve it ; who march to their object step by step, without shock and without revolution ; without ever being the prey of a surprise or of a panic, but yield to the gradual pressure of reasoning and events so as to be always ready when the decisive hour comes ; and who, when once their decision is formed, never retrace their steps. It cost twenty years of continual efforts to put down the slave trade ; twenty years more for the abolition of colonial slavery ; half a century for the emancipa tion of the Catholics ; and thirty years to make a breach in the fortress of Anglican bigotry in Ireland, and thus efface the stamp of conquest. I may be told it is long. Yes, it is long and slow, but it is sure. What a •difference between the transformations thus effected after long discussions on all sides, after all right minds and all honest hearts have been enlightened, and those other reforms, good and salutary in themselves--sfree trade, for instance—but struck off during a revo lutionary ferment, or by the secret and sudden decision of a single will. The former remain for ever engraved on the heart of the nation and in history ; and who has ever thought of undoing Catholic Emancipation, or the Corn Law Repeal ? The second, submitted to reluctantly, and rudely imposed on a people torpid or heedless, excite re sistance, -complaint, and secret discontent ; and ten years, twenty years afterwards, all that has been done is sought to be undone. The English people are not easy to move ; they are slow to be con vinced ; but once they are moved, once they are convinced, it is for good and all. Once the battle is gained it is gained for ever. Once the torch is Heisted its light is never put out. They confess their iniquity ; they disavow it ; they resolve to repair it, and they will repair it ; and, what is more, they will never again commit it. No ; England will not belie herself, nor disavow herself. Those humiliating recantations, those sudden changes which follow premature convulsions, she knows nothing of. It is not England that makes a revolution in three days, or in three hours, and three years later rushes terrified into the abyss of a Dictatorship ; and under the influence of fear, or in thd hope of gain, gives up her rights, her ideas, and her very passions. England is not the country that allows a handful of revolutionists to dispose of her destinies, either by an insurrection or by a coup d'etat." M. de Montalembert seems disposed to consider the declaration of Mr. Disraeli in his letter to the Rev. Mr. Baker, that the dissolution of the bonds which unite Church and State will be a permanent cause of revolution more grave still than a foreign conquest, and that their separation in Ireland would be immediately followed by the disestablish meat of the Church of England, as little more than one of those chimerical• menaces which party men an d political orators have the art of introducing into discussions as a crowning argument, and which rarely fail to produce an effect. After relating the origin and progress of this great question, and the phases and incidents it has passed through in England, he alludes to the declaration of the Irish Catholic Bishops on a State endow ment for their Church. He says : " N o doubt, it is noble, grand, and even useful to see the Catholic Church, in the nineteenth century, subsist, resist, and grow great by the voluntary, spontaneous, permanent offerings which bring back the primitive Church to our memory. There is in this interchange of services and duties between the priest and the faithful an admirable and consoling lesson, and I would not, on any ac count, have it disappear. But there is also a serious advantage in giving to the system of volun tary offerings a solid basis, less liable to be effected by vicissitudes, agitations, and popular caprice even in countries most impregnated, like Ireland, with the faith of our fathers. Nevertheless it is not the question of principle that I now consider. I have a solicitude of a more personal nature, and, I would willingly say, more patriotic. It is im possible not to take into account the influence, more contagious in our times than before, for evil or for good, of the example which people give each other ; and therefore it is impossible for me not to feel some alarm as to the present and future of what I will call the Catholic Establishment in France. Were I only to consult my amour propre, I should, perhaps, feel satisfied at seeing our theories and our repugnance of other times sanctioned and proclaimed energetically by so imposing an au thority. As the sole survivor of the • group of persons who, after the revolution of 1830, and by the eloquent pen of Lamennais and Lacordaire, urged upon the French Catholics the suppression of the Budget of Public Worship, I might enjoy that homage indirectly and involuntarily paid to an attempt which then appeared to be more rash than generous. But of what use would be the experience of life, and the more careful study of men and facts, if it did not show us that, with the best intentions in the world, we may be de ceived as to both? I do not at this moment, any more than in 1830, feel unqualified admira tion for the present relations between, Church and State in France. I do not feel the slightest en thusiasm for the Concordat, especially since the disclosures of Cardinal Gonsalvi and M. de Hau gouville have thrown such light on the monstrous pride, the gross selfishness, and the inexpressible frauds of its principal author. I have too often opposed in the Chambers and in the press the organic articles annexed to the Concordat by an act of signal bad faith to point out once more all that is impotent and oppressive in them. But, such as it is, the relative situation of the Church and State, as produced by the Concordat, is sup portable. It has not prevented the religious life of France from expanding in a way that history will record with astonishment. The influence of public liberties and the force of things made an oppressive legality fall, at least temporarily and partially, into desuetude. had Parliamen tary Government endured, beyond all doubt, that precarious and insufficient progress would have been transformed into a durable and complete well-being, by a small number of simple and easy reforms, but especially by the gradual and logical development of liberty. lam not, then, the man who would prematurely disturb a state of things which requires no great subversion to be improved, and which, such as it is, satisfies more or less the actual conditions of our time and our country. But the question is not what we could do or what we wish. The question is as to what is preparing and as to what will be done. I will not lose my time in discussions with those who believe in the in definite duration of the existing regime ; or with those who do not understand that the fifteen years' interregnum which our most essential liberties have undergone is preparing a revolution in com parison with which the crises of 1830 and 1848 will appear mere child's play. A thousand symp toms more clear than the day show that this future of revolution will have for its motd'ordre an explosion of irreligion which will present the most striking contrast to the principles and conduct of the Re public of 1848 during the earlier days of its exist ence. The stifling of political life has produced in certain classes of French society a development of sensualism, of materialism, and even of atheism, of which the 18th century itself does not afford an example. To believe that this disposition of mind will not powerfully react on social order, and con sequently on religious order, is to be regardless of common sense and the natural logic of things. We may remind those who are not disposed to admit that a new revolution is near or possible that under the Imperial regime a simple change of reign, or of system, may produce, as regards the Church, the same effect as a revolution." M. de Montalembert replies to those who allege the example of the Catholic . Church in Ireland existing on voluntary offerings, and who affirm that in France the Church could also dispense with State support, that there is little similarity between the two countries. The habits of muni ficence Eo different from those in France, and so general in Ireland and in England, are as per manent as they are universal ; and he instances the magnificent gift of £lOO,OOO by a manu facturer, Mr. Whitworth, in favoui of thirty working men distinguished by their scientific or artistic capacity. No instance of anything like this can be shown in France. But this is another consideration which should not be lost sight of. The English and Irish Catholics, whose spiritual leaders refuse all pecuniary assistance from the State, live in a society where civil liberty is still more flourishing, more respected, and even more complete than poli tical liberty. In Ireland, as in England, dioceses and parishes, religious communities, male and female, not only may constitute and govern them selves in absolute independence of the Govern ment, but create and administer, at their pleasure, their collective property by means of trusteeships, which are the Palladium of the civil rights of the Anglo-Saxons, and the universal and daily condi tion of their domestic existence, as of their social organization. M. de Montalembert concludes by declaring that the time is come when it is necessary to form a clear and precise notion of men and things, which will permit of the clergy maintaining the equili brium, and assuming a calm and dignified atti tude in presence of the convulsions which menace them : "To leave to events the right of deciding our fate ; to leave to the clergy alone the care of study ing and the painful responsibility of resolving questions in which we are not less interested than they are, is .to disregard the most elementary notions of common sense. It is to condemn us beforehand to go about blessing trees of liberty, and proclaiming, with Mgr. de Salinis, the divine sense of the people of February ; or to compare, with Father Ventura, the resurrection of the Em pire to the resurrection of our Lord. It is to re sign ourselves to occupy the saddest and the lowest place in the vicissitudes of our time and our coun try. We have the right to know what it is pro - - posed to do with us. We are bound to concern ourselves with the fate that awaits us ; to prepare ourselves for it ; to try to make it more worthy of us and of the holy cause of which we are the re presentatives. That right cannot be exercised, and that duty cannot be accomplished, but by a serious and practical study of the facts of modern society, of the laws which are evolved from it, of the great currents of contemporary life, from which we are condemned, whether we will or not, to draw our force and our lights for the combats and perils of the future." Sir Stafford Northcote, Secretary of State for India, has sent £l,OOO as a personal contribution to be distributed among certain charitable and educational institutions in India. Benedict's opera, "The Lily of Killarney," under its German title of the " Rose von Erin," has been reproduced at Hamburg, and several times repeated with great success. For some time past a litter of foxes have been weekly found in possession of the ancient church of Wharram Percy, which stands alone in a se cluded valley of the Yorkshire Wolds. An air drain for ventilation from the outside has been used as an " earth," and by this means access has been gained to the pulpit, beneath which an old fox and several very fine cubs are, except when un earthed during divine service, comfortably domi ciled. A very friendly feeling is manifested towards the "little strangers." _ _ _ At the Mansion house on Monday night the Earl of Dunraven was selected to return thanks for " the House of Lords." There was, therefore, ' a something indescribably delicate in the allusions made by the Lord Mayor, while proposing that toast, to the " fatal measure" of disestablishment, and the " duty " of the House of Lords to throw it out. Lord Dunraven was one of the first Ca tholic peers who signed the " declaration of the Irish Catholic laity " of last year in favour of that same measure of disestablishment. To complete the appropriateness of Mr. Allen's remarks, it should be mentioned that another of his lordship's guests, the Lord justice Wood, was the first English member of Parliament by whom the dis establishment in question was proposed, upon a gradual scheme of operation. This proposal was made in 1849. The Dublin Evening Post, discussing the negotia tion for a charter for the Catholic University, which has failed, says, " It is our complete persuasion, as it .is that of the public, that the Government wrought from the beginning for the end which has been attained, and never manoeuvred more skil fully for the acceptance by Parliament of a measure which it had at heart than for the rejec tion by the Irish Prelacy of the Catholic Uni versity Charter." Eight persons committed suicide in London the week before last ; three died from delirium tremens ; three were burned to death ; three were run over and killed in the streets ; and one died from sheer starvation. The " Ladies of Antrim," to the number of 1,000, have petitioned the Qieen against the sub version of true religion and the imperilling of Pro testantism in Ireland. One of the clerical agents advertises the fact that his private list for May contains the unprecedented number of 100 church livings for sale at prices from i£2so to £25,000. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, May 27. The negotiations for a new regulation of postal traffic between the North German Confederation and the Netherlands were closed yesterday. The draft of the treaty has been drawn up. A satisfactory conclusion to the negotiations with Belgium as to the transmission of small packages by letter post has also been attained. The treaty will be signed shortly. HUNGARY. PESTII, May 27. At yesterday's sitting of the Lower House the Ministry brought in a bill settling the condition of State citizenship. The bills respecting the North Eastern railways were passed. _ _ Negotiations are in progress with Prussia for the establishment of the Prussian Consulate at Pesth. Prince Napoleon is expected at Buda shortly. PORTUGAL. LISBON, May 27. The official Diario of this morning publishes the details of the plans submitted by the ➢Zinister of Finance to the Chamber of Deputies on the 23d. He calculates upon 1,000 contos reis of increased receipts from new imports, proposes to pay the floating debt by the sale and conversion into bonds of Church and corporate property, and by the sale of a portion of the Crown forests. The Minister also proposes to increase the duties on tobacco, sugar, rice, coffee, tea, butter, and other articles, and to impose a tax of 10 per cent, upon the divi dends of public companies. The Minister promises in time to extinguish the deficit. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MESSINA, May 27. The Nyanza passed Messina at 9.30 a.m. to-day, en route for Marseilles. All well. FRANCE. The Emperor is not to make a speech, so we are informed, at Rouen, where next Sunday he will be received at the cathedral of the archbishop, and thence proceed to the Agricultural Show; but it is asserted that he will deliver a political speech after the banquet which will be given to him by the Havre Chamber of Commerce during the Interna tional Exhibition. BOURSE, May 26.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 4f per Cont. End of month - 3 por Cent End of month 69 55 Credit Mobilier End of month 279 75 Credit Foneier l4BO End of month — - RAILWAY Bank Shares It Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 37 25 Home Debt — Deferred — s. Cash ... 870 Orleans Northern 1202} Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... sB6f Western Eastern • • — Sardinian .., 431 Austrian ' 555 Lombard 371; North of Spain 6B Saragossa Roman 43 THE IRISH CHURCH. An address to the Queen is in course of signature among the nobility and gentry of the county of Oxford. The Marquis of Abingdon having been invited to subscribe his name to the same, has re plied in the following terms : " I think the proposal so wrong and so much at variance with the principles of the Constitution that I must not only decline to sign it, but I must publicly protest against it. It implies, in its lan guage, that those who think no alarm need be felt at the measures to which it refers, and who honestly believe them to be of national advantage, are animated neither by loyalty to the Throne nor attachment to the institutions of the country, but that a monopoly of those virtues is enjoyed by those, who, like your self, are active partisans of the Conservative party in the county, which is untrue in fact, and offen sive in the imputation it conveys. You propose to ask her Majesty, irrespectively of her responsible advisers, to ' withstand' such changes as you con ceive to be fraught with dangers to the institu tions of the country ; but the opinions you enunciate, as to the effect of the changes proposed, have been repeatedly urged before against most of the legislative improvements of the last forty years, and have invariably proved to be groundless. But to propose, as you do, to drag the Queen's name, influence, and authority into the political con troversies of the day exhibits, to my mind, an utter ignorance of the constitution of the country, and tends either to endanger that main security for public liberty, which consists in the responsibility of Minis ters, or to place the Crown itself in a false and un constitutional, and therefore a dangerous, position. Let me add that you appear totally blind to the para mount necessity of pacifying Ireland by a great act of national justice, and so preserving the Empire from constant difficulties and dangers. I cannot close this without expressing my surprise that you should have made use of the Clerk of the Peace's office, for the purpose of sending out political cir culars enclosed in covers stamped with the County hall seal, and that you should have selected that officer, holding, as he also does, the office of Under- Sheriff for the county, to subscribe names if autho rised' to a document of such a nature." f D FN elinuar. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 24. This day is the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday. The Queen, the Prince of Wales, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold at tenclei Divine service in the parish church, Crathie. The Duchess of Athole and Colon3l Ponsonby were in attendance. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, ac companied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. 11ER MAJESTY'S IIIEATRE.—IIer Royal Highnesi the Ptincess of Wales, accompanied by his Royal highness the Crown Prince of Doum•u•k and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, General Sir W. Knollys, Lord Harris, and Lord Castlerosso honoured the perform ances at Ifor Majesty's Opera yesterday evening with her presence. Amongst the noble and distinguished persons also present in the theatre were the Marquis and Marchio ness of Auglesea, the Earl of Beauchamp, the Earl and Countess of Harrington and the Ladies Stanhope, his Ex cellency the Persian Ambassador and suite, Lord Paget, Miss Burdett Cuutts, Mrs. Brown and party, Lord Lang ford, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, the Earl of Cloumel, the Viscount Exmouth, Lady W. Grey, Lord and Lady Bsgot, the Viscount Lascelles, Lord and Lady Proby, Lady Sherburne, Major and Mrs. Swinton, Mr. Langfo - d Brooke, Sir George Armytage, Bart., the Hon. Otway Toler, &c. LITERATURE• History of the Stanleys of Knowsley. By William Pollard. One vol., pp. 232. Edward Howell, Liverpool. A handsome octavo volume, embellished with an excellent photographic likeness of the ex-Premier, by way of appropriate frontispiece, here relates, in a dozin readable chapters—very well worthy of preservation upon our bookshelves afterwards, as a historical and reliable record of one of flit, noblest families in the Peerage of England—all that is entitled to particular notice in the History of " The Stanleys of Knowsley." The starting point, as a matter of course, is the advent to this country of William the Conqueror. There are three distinct branches, however, of the genealogical tree representing the race or house of Stanley. There js the oldest branch of all, the main trunk, perhaps, we should rather say, of the Stanleys of Hooton, in Cheshire. Then, again, there is that other branch of the Stanleys of Alderley, also in Cheshire, the head of which is the present Lord of that title, whose original ancestor was Sir John Stanley, the youngest son of Thomas, first Baron Stanley, father of Thomas, first Earl of Derby. It is with the Stanleys of Knowsley, however, as the title of the work intimates, that Mr. Pollard, the compiler of this interesting memorial narrative, has mainly or rather exclusively to do. In it due mentio n is made of the several occasions on which the Stanleys have been directly connected by mar riage with royalty—the blood of the Plantagenets as well as of other illustrious families flo wing in their veins : they themselves having possessed royal power for a considerable period in the Isle of Man. Their history in effect shines conspicuously forth, here and there, in the history of the country, in the annals of tha nation, in the reigns of our most famous sovereigns. It was Sir Edward Stanley who took so conspicuous a part in the Battle of Flodden. It was Sir William Stanley who, after fighting side by side with his kinsman, Lord Stanley, on the field of Bosworth, at the close of that desperate struggle, placed the crown, torn from the helmet of Richard 111., on the head of Henry VII., till then Earl of Richmond. It was James, the seventh Earl of Derby, commonly called The Great Stanley," who, by reason of his loyal adherence to the fortunes of King Charles 1., died the death on the scaffold under the axe of the executioner. The principal interest of the narrative dates, naturally enough, from the creation of Thomas, first Earl of Derby, in the year 1485, and culm mates, it may be said, when the writer comes to the record, in his eighth chapter, of the life and career of the present Earl, of Edward George Geoffrey, Fourteenth Earl of Derby, who, in point of fact, is the real hero of the buok. An other, of course briefer, chapter is devoted to the ex-Preinier's heir, the Right lion. Lord Stanley, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of Stat.!. for Fo reign Affairs—the three concluding chapters of the volume, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, re lating respectively to the Family Mansion and Park at Knowsley, to the Family Arms with the motto Sans Changer, and to the circumstances which necessitated amid general regret the with drawal of the noble Earl a few months since front his high position as First Lord of the Treasury. To Lord Derby himself the main interest attaching to the volume is, we repeat, directly traceable. And the account here given of him as a statesman, as a scholar, as an administrator, as a Party Chief, as three times Prime Minister of England, as for upwards of forty years one of the most gifted orators and debaters within the walls of Parliament, is one in a great measure really worthy of the theme, and will certainly be read with the highest satisfaction by all those—whether Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Radical or Constitu tionalist—who may take the volume in band, for no matter how cursory an examination. At that portion of the narrative in which the author of the book comes to the consideration of Lord Derby's extraordinary powers as an orator and as A debater, he adduces, in the following order, the opinions already expressed upon that subject by Mr. Rochester, by Lord Macau lay, by Sir Edward l3ulwer Lytton (now Lord Lytton), by Sir Archibald Alison, and by the Times newspaper. And certainly the high eulogiums pronounced by those writers will be borne out by the present generation, by thousands of Lord Derby's own immediate contemporaries, who have hung delighted upon "- the pure Saxon of that silver style." Before closing our remarks upon Mr. Pollard's very interesting volume, we would suggest the advisability, in the probable event of its running soon into a second edition, the exceeding advisability, of its un dergoing at his hands a very considerable amount of revision or emendation. For example, on opening the volume at pages 178 and 179, we note ou those two confronting pages no less than five errors of the press or of the pen. Thus—the second line of the first poetical quotation should run— " Bert) Stanley meets—how Lnot here] Stanley scorns the glance !" While the first line of the second quotation should run— " Yet who not listens with delighted smile," not " delightful smile," which would be absurd• Obviously, again, the passage, later on, should read "ho had listened with awe to the :rolling thunders of Burke, ho had witnessed the brilliant but harmless lightnings [not " thunders" again !] of Sheridan" and so forth—for Whitebread reading of course Whitbread—slips, all these, admitting of easy rectification. By one of these casual over sights of the press, LDrd M icaulay is made to say that the Earl " male himself, upon the instant, 0. 4 it were, master of his art, instead of affecting this [read, rather, effecting this] slowly, ' at the expense of an audience.'" The book is worth emending, thug, because it is really and eminently worthy of preser vation. It is understood that the too vacant commis" sionvrships of Irish National Education are to be filled up by the appointment of Mr. Justice Morris in place of the late Lord Bellew and °I the Rev. Charles Morrell in room of the Rev' John Hall, the former as a Catholic and the latter as a Presbyterian representative ou the board. The Gentleman's Magazine appears in a new for noW and under new management. Its place among the shilling monthlies. at Mdlle. Artot seems to have made a furo re Moscow. 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