The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The result of the debate on the Irish Church is, the Times declares, by this time well ascertained. We all know that the amendment in Lord Stanley's name, if put to the vote, must be rejected by a decisive majority, and it is as plain that Mr. Gladstone's first resolution must be accepted by a majority which, if not so numerous, must also be decisive. But the Irish debate has not therefore ceased to be valuable. It is an occasion of trial. It affords an opportunity, always useful, and never more useful than in thase terms of transition, for testing the men who are prominent in parliamentary discussions, and determining what each is worth. It is in days of diffi culty that intelligence and energy come . by their own. Many a man of fair intentions, of candour, and even of shrewdness, who may be able to take a decent position in prosperous seasons, is shewn to be wanting in depth, in courage, in statesmanship, when the times are adverse and crises of agitation and perplexity arise. Again, the Times calls attention to what Mr. Lowe called the " zig-zag " nature of the Ministerial resources. One Cabinet Minister answers another, and no supporter of the Government can pluck up courage to deny the charge challenged to the utterance. These tactics of the Ministry have now received fresh illustration. After Mr. Lefroy had told the House that the Emperor of the French would be distressed at the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and Mr. Osboine, reminding the Commons how often he had led a forlorn hope to the attack, had indicated a way of saving some wreck of endowment for Irish incumbents, Sir Stafford Northcote rose to represent the Ministry. His ambition appeared to be to supply the missing link in the Cabinet, but he threw his weight, on the whole, towards the right in support of Lord Stanley. The present Parliament, he urged, had not been elected with this question before them, and could not dispose of it, which is doubtless true ; but, then, no one proposes that the present Parlia ment shall dispose of it. Mr. Gladstone's resolutions were rash and immature, and Lord Stanley's amendment met them upon this ground. If, however, the House should reject the amendment, discussion must then arise on the resolutions themselves, and this discussion, which would turn mainly upon such arguments as Mr. Hardy had used, mist trench upon the Easter holidays. There were a thousand points to explain and debate, and they must not be "huddled up" in an abstract resolution. We venture to think that, if the previous tactics of the Ministry have found little favour with the House or the country, this suggestion of Sir Stafford Northcote's of an adjourned battle on a new field will not improve their position. There are details, and intricate details, to be considered and provided for when Parliament legislates for the disendowment of the Irish Church. The bill to be introduced into the new House of Commons on the subject will neither be short nor easy of comprehension. But the question before the present House is simple and clear. Shall the Irish Esta blishment in principle be maintained or abolished? This is the issue, and upon that issue there can be but one result—an unhesitating and overwhelming reply that the Establishment shall cease to exist. The task of the Opposition is, the Post remarks, so easy that the result is a one-sided debate. Mr. T.owe's statistics and arguments would have told better if there had been even a distant chance of their ref, Cation. The absurdity of the Irish Church Establishment is so gross that no credit can be gained by any one in demonstrating it. The objection taken to the action of the Opposition as premature, pending the result of a commission issued at the instance of Earl Russell, was, as Mr. Bernal Osborne justly observed, without foundation. The com mission moved for by Earl Russell was very different from that to which the House of Peers assented. Ito proposed that the commissioners should report on the best mode of dealing with the Church in the in terests of the Irish people ; whereas, at the instance of the Conservative party, these functions were confined to re commendltions for the better administration of the Church itself. It is therefore incorrect to say that the commission was issued in compliance with the wishes of the Liberal party, or that their hands are tied until its labours are concluded. The question of disestablishment and dis endowment is not before the commissioners, but this is the question which is now definitively and solemnly submitted for the consideration of the House of Commons. The suicidal inconsistency of the Government in pro posing with one hand to maintain Protestant ascendency, and with the other, by the foundation of a Roman Catholic University, to put the education of the youth of Ireland into the hands of the Roman Catholic bishops, pledged to hostility to that Establishment, has been, the Daily News exclaims, mercilessly exposed. The wit of Mr. Osborne, which was never more felicitously exercised, reinforced the logic of Mr. Lowe. The washy platitudes with which Sir Stafford Northcote wound up the debate shewed that the Government is not only without a case, but was for the evening without an advocate. Sir Staf ford considers that the future application of the revenues of the Irish Church must be decided before disendowment is effected. He might as well say that a man ought to decline a legacy until he has made up his mind how he will spend it. When the debate had dwindled into fallacies of this order, it has evidently worn itself out. 'l'he discussion, which must conclude to-night, might fitly have ended yesterday, if only effective combatants had been put forward. Dealing with Mr. Lowe's speech, the Herald observes that, if he cannot understand Mr. Disraeli's letter to Lord Dartmouth or Lord Stanley's amendment, and refuses to interpret them by the confessedly explicit statements of Mr. Hardy, we do not suppose that any explanations of ours will assure or enlighten him. Nor do we care to reconcile contradictions which, when reduced to their sub stance, amount to nothing more than the use by Lord Stanley of the word status where Mr. Hardy would have used " condit'on" us " organisation "—a slender founda tion indeed on which to build the charge that the first is pledged to overthrow what the latter, in solemn and explicit language, bound himself to main tain. Taunts of this kind may impose on outsiders who have no conception of the nature of Ministerial relations, or may gratify the temper or indulge the humour of unscrupulous opponents. But they cannot do more than this. Every man in the House of Commons knows that the definite, positive, unmistakeable assertions of the Home Secretary, not the accidental form of words employed by his colleague', expresses the purpose of the Government ; and no one who has been long enough in that assembly to know the character of its leaders can be at a loss to understand why the language of Lord Stanley should be snore reserved than that of Mr. Gathorne Hardy ; or why the line of Ministerial defence should be more distinct and vigorous and decided when once the Cabinet has had time to apprehend and to meet the exact character of the assault with which it has to deal. The Standard is in ecstacies with the speeches of Mr. tlenley and General Peel. The member for Oxfordshire tore away, with his resolute good sense, the flimsy pre texts by which the leader of the Opposition advocated his resolutions. He shewed that the abolition of the Irish Church would not content the disaffected in Ireland, whilst it would do a great wrong to the loyal ,• and he in sisted that the question raised is not merely one of the Irish Church, but of all Establishments. Mr. Bright, said the right honourable gentleman, tells us that the day is remote when the English Church will be attacked, but Mr. Gladstone three years ago declared the day of danger to the Irish Church was remote. Of what value, there fore, are these assurances ? And Mr. Henley well summed up the merits of the discussion. We should be playing, lie said, by adopting these resolutions, into the hands of those who wish not only to dissolve the union between Church and State, but between England and Ireland. " I *should feel myself," said the right honourable gentleman, "if I were to vote for these resolutions, a traitor to my country, my sovereign, and my God." There is, the Telegraph observes, no need for mum rurther talk to secure the final judgment ; the case is clear. Justice and real religious interests are on one side ; fear, pride, and Episcopal Christianity on the other. Europe watches to see whether the Legislative Assembly which boasts to be the freest and most enlightened in the .world has love of freedom enough to abolish a monument of tyranny, and confidence enough in right to abolish a palpable wrong. Somebody has brought into the House a petition against this necessary measure, and proudly described it as being " 225 feet long." The grievance is as many years old and more, and leagues of timid names could not save it now from happy extirpation. "As an Establishment it must cease to exist" : the mover of the amendment owned as much by the speech in which he chilled his party with cold truth and common sense. The abandonment will not entail the slightest loss to the power of England or to the true in terests of religion. Nothing has been more distinctly brought out in this debate than the fact, that, in spite of party intrigue or the dissent of a sectarian minority, Ireland will be more than conciliated—will be overborne with gratitude by an act of pure justice which has been deferred for centuries ; and in the nobler influences thus newly established among the fervid and sensitive race, religion itself must share the conquest newly achieved for the Crown of England in the name of Christian right. Once for all, exclaims the Star , Mr. Gladstone is not, and never was, a Whig. Once for all, Mr. Gladstone never nodded in office, and is the last man any one would expect to do so. His fault—if it is a fault—is precisely in the opposite direction. He was turned out of office by rebels in his own party because he would not nod ; and a sou of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland affectingly images the shade of Lord Palmerston looking down in sorrow and in anger at his successor, because be is too restless and will le not let things sep. Every one with the smallest acqnaint pnce with public life or the smallest discrimination of character, knew's that an inactive Gladstone Ministry is a contradiction of terms, and an utterly incon ceivable contingency. During Lord Pa!merstou's life Mr. Gladstone was engroesiegly occupied in herculean labours, which male him almostthe darling of the House of Commons, and which withheld him almost absolutely from general politics. It is really ehil«lish to hold him Answerabte•for silence in those years on subjects which he took the earliest opportunities of independent leadership to force npou the attentiondbf Parliament. B u t it i s no t Wouderfu that Mr. Gladstone should be misrepresented to his detriment when so clear-sighted a man as Mr. Osborne can say, with th e Dartmouth letter in full v i ew . that Mr. Disraeli has " never uttered an illiberal sentin ent, or committed' himself to the big of any party." The truth is, there is no bigotry to Which Mr. Disraeli would not cling for power ; and there is no evil which Mr. Glad stone would denounce in opposition that he would not work night and day in office to destroy. LAW AND POLICE. THE VALUE OF A WIFE.—At the Gloucester Assizes the court was engaged in trying a case where Mr. Chandler, a draper, residing at Swindon, brought an action for damages against the Great Western Railway Company on account of the loss of his wife, who, he alleged, had been killed through the negligence of the defendants. It appeared that on the evening of the 9th of Ntober, the plaintiff's wife travelled from Woot 'on Basset to Swindon by the defendant's line. The evening was wet and dark, and on arriving at the station Mrs. Chandler went over a level crossing by which the public were allowed to go from the station in order to meet the omnibus, when she was knocked on to the rails by a milk van, and run over by a train that had been " kicked off " so as to run by itself into the shed. The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for L'7so damages, £5OO of that sum to go to the plaintiff, and £25 each to his ten children. DARING ROBBERY.—At the Clerkenwell Police-court, Thomas Jones, a young man, was charged with an audacious robbery. The complainant, Mr. S. Wilson, said that on the previous night he was passing along the Essex-road, when the prisoner asked him if he knew a person named Tyler, and before there was time for an answer the prisoner made a snatch at Mr. Wilson's chain, broke it, and ran away with his watch. The prosecutor ;ave chase, but soon lost sight of the prisoner. The accused, who reserved his defence, was folly committed for trial. GAROTTE ROBBERY IN THE BOROUGH.—At Southwark Police-court William Cochrane and William Smith, two men who are connected with a desperate gang of thieves, were charged with garotting, Mr. John Gottlieb Ulrich, and robbing him of a gold watch and pocket-book, containing valuables. It seems that when near the London-bridge Termini, about 12.45 on the previous morning, the prosecutor was seized by the throat and pulled backwards on to the ground. Cochrane was the man that was guilty of this outrage, as the prosecutor was enabled to obtain a good view of his face by the gaslight. When on the ground Smith took the watch and pocket-book out of the prisoner's pockets, who was so seriously injured that he was unable to call out. When he was trying to rise, with a view of pursuing the prisoners, he was assisted by a man and woman to the station-house. The prisoners were committed to Newgate for trial. A COFFEEHOUSE KEEPER CHARGED WITH FELONY.— at Clerkenwell Police-court, Robert Heath, the proprietor f the Express Coffee House, was charged with stealing a cash-box, containing £llO, the property of Mr. Fielder, chemist and druggist. The complainant swore that on the 2nd ult. he went to bed at the prisoner's coffee-house, and could remember nothing that happened until the 16th, when be found himself at the University College Hospital. A medical gentleman said that the witness had been suffering from delirium tremens. A cabman proved driving a man from the pri soner's to an ironmonger's shop, and afterwards to a public-house, where he saw the accused, who, addressing the other man, said, " Pay him (meaning the cabman) well." At the time that the man came out of the prisoner's house he had a cashbox hid under his cloak. The ironmonger in question said he saw the man referred to by the last witness, and he wanted the lock of a cash-box picked. Witness could not pick it, but unsoldered it, and saw that the box contained gold and papers. When the man went away lie left a statement of accounts relating to a chemist and druggist, but after wards returned and took it away. This witness swore that the box produced, which the prosecutor identified as his, was the one he unsoldered. The prisoner was remanded. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER OF A NAVAL OFFICER.—At the Hammersmith Police-court, a roagh•looking man, named James Brooks, was charged with causing the death of Augustus T. J. Bullock, a lieutenant in the royal navy, and son of Admiral Bullock, of Teddington. It seemed that on Saturday evening the prisdner came into Chip perton's beerhouse, North End, followed by the deceased, and Brooks said, "My good friend, go away ; what do you want following me ?" The deceased made some reply, and immediately struck the prisoner on the forehead with his fist, and he fell down. The prisoner lifted him up, and the lieutenant again reeled and fell down two steps on to the brick pavement in front of the house. The accused then caught hold of the deceased's legs and pulled him down another step on to the road. The accused then jumped into his cart, in which his wife was seated, and was driving in the direction of the deceased, when his wife cried out, " He will drive over him." Some person then caught hold of the deceased and dragged him on to the path. The prisoner was remanded, bail being accepted for his appearance. THE LATE TAILORS' STRlRE.—Patrick Fitzpatrick, a journeyman tailor, was charged with assaulting a fellow workman. The prisoner was a unionist, and the com plainant one who, in the late strike, refused to turn out ; and the assault, it was alleged, arose out of a revenge ful feeling left behind by the recent dispute. A con siderable number of men worked in the same shop, and were in the habit of hissing and groaning at the com plainant, and the accused on the day in question threw a metal can at the complainant and struck him on the head. Mr. Knox said that, stripped of its unionist surroundings, the case would not be serious, but, as it was, he should commit the prisoner for trial. A RUSSIAN MURDER. A horrible butchery has been committed at Tamborff, more than rivalling the Todmorden murder in atrocity. It seems that one evening a fortnight ago a tradesman, called Jemarin, quitted his house on business about five o'clock, leaving behind him his mother, his eldest son, a boy of 11, the cook, and dvornik, or door porter. At the time the father went out the son was taking a lesson from a young Pole, aged 19 or 20, a pupil in the Tamborff gymnasium, or Government school ; Madame Jemarin, the second son, aged 5, a female relation, and a nursemaid, who composed the rest of the family, were all absent ; but a carriage was to be sent to fetch them during the course of the evening. At ten Jemarin came home and knocked at the door, but no one answered his summons. While he was waiting in perplexity the coachman and nurse came up and told him that, having tried in vain to get into the house, they had thought it prudent to go in search of the police, several of whom accompanied them. An entrance was effected by the chief lobby, the inner door of which (there are generally two in Russian houses) was found open, and on reaching the first room six dead bodies were discovered lying on the ground—those of the mother, the wife, the eldest boy, the relation, the cook, and the dvornik. The youngest boy lay on the floor, with his head cut open, but breathing. Madame Jemarin, the lady, and the younger boy were still dressed in their furs, which proves that the crime was committed at the very instant of their return—i.e., at six o'clock. Five bullets, all of the same size, and evidently discharged from a revolver, were extracted from the bodies. In the next room was found an iron ball, tied to a leathern thong, covered with blood. The house is situated in one of the most populous parts of the town, so that one is lost in conjecture how such a wholesale massacre could have been accomplished without awakening alarm among the neigh bours or passers by. Several people have been arrested on suspicion. MURDER AND SUICIDE. For upwards of thirty years an old gentleman, named John Wass, has farmed nearly 200 acres of land under his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Stoney Houghton, a village situated about five miles from Mansfield, and seven miles from Chesterfield. Among the servants in his employ was a youth named Robert Brown, aged 10 years. Both master and servant appear to have been possessed of most excitable tempers, and two months ago Wass vio lently assaulted the servant Brown with a three-pronged fork, for which offence a summons was issued by the magis trates. A reconciliation, however, took place, and the charge was withdrawn. The old man has since that time been seriously indisposed, and his friends have thought that his intellect was affected. He has been regularly attended by a surgeon of Mansfield, who has en deavoured to advise him to take a change of air, but without effect, and his irritable temper has latterly in creased as well as his antipathy to his servant boy Brown. On Thursday morning he got up at five o'clock and called his servants, but Brown did not make his appear. ance until six, when his master, in harsh language,com plained, telling him he could neither get him up with calling nor ringing. The youth made an insolent reply, and the farmer immediately seized a gun loaded with ball and deliberately fired at him as he stood on the road fronting the house. The contents of the barrel entered the youth's back, shattering the spine, and he fell down and died immediately. An old woman, named Mary Wilson, sister-in-law of the murderer, alarmed at the noise, rushed out of her bedroom into the yard, and raised the poor fellow Pp, and, finding life was extinct ; she made an alarm. The murderer then ran upstairs, and in a very short time came down an I entered the parlour, and reloaded the gun. Just as some of his relations were entering the room he Placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and, pressing the trigger with his foot, he fired the contents into his head, the ball entering the roof of the mouth, and coming out of the right temple, shattering the jaw in a frightful manner. lie died instantly. THE VACANT CANONRY. —The Queen has been pleLed to nominate the Rev. Philip ‘Vynter, D.D., President of St. Juhn's College, Oxford, to the canonry in Worcester Cathedra'', vacant by the death a the Rev. C. Benson. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1868. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A court of Common Council was held at the Guildhall yesterday, the Lord Mayor (W. F. Allen, Esq.) in the chair. MR. STUART MILL'S BILLS. The TOWN CLERK (Mr. Woodthorpe) read the following letter, dated Ist April, which he had re ceived from Messrs. Merriman and Buckland, soli citors, 28, Queen-street, City, relative to metropo litan municipalities : "Mr. J. S. Mill has given notice of his intention to introduce his bill affecting the Corporation of the City of London ; and we are instructed to say that he will be glad to be favoured with any proposals to modify or amend the bill, and will be ready to confer with the Corporation with the view and in the hope of meeting objections now entertained." (Hear, hear.) be agreed to, and that the picture be hung up in the Guildhall as a memorial of the reception of the Sul tan by the Corporation of London. Mr. BEDFORD, in opposing the motion, said he wanted to know where they were to stop. If they wante l a portrait of the Sultan the more dignificl course would have been to ask him to sit, and to have given the order to a first rate artist. (Hear, hear.) But he , believed the Sultan did not want his portrait taken. He was told that this picture was in a very valuable frame, which cost £l2. (Laughter.) Surely it was a very extraordinary thing to ask them to buy a piCture because it was in a good frame, and because the decorations were perfectly correct. (Renewed laughter.) It was not worth the while of the Court to purchase these absurdities. The artist's price was £lOO, and they ought to have given that, or refused to take the portrait at all. If it was very cheap, let somebody else buy it. (Laughter.) Ile objected to the way in which this affair had been gone about, and he therefore moved as an amendment that the report lie on the table, and that the reference on Mr. Luutley's letter be discharged. After some discussion the amendment was nega tived, and the report having been agreed to, the Court shortly afterwards adjourned. THE GREAT FIELD FOR ENTERPRISE. (From the Anglo-American Times) The English are beginning to take fright at the rapid progress of the Western route to the Far East. In the Standard last Monday a letter ap peared from Captain BEDFORD PIM, who wrote to inform its readers that the Union Pacific Railroad when completed will bring New York within 30 days of Hong Kong and 40 of London. Then " not only will the shares of the Peninsular and Oriental Company be a drug in the market, but our Chinese business must fall into the hands of Americans, and New York become the entrepot of that trade which has cost us so much blood and treasure to attract to our shores." If England has spilt blood to attract commerce, she deserves to lose it. She has a right to expend treasure for the purpose, but not to cut people's throats. The writer embodies all the crude and ill-informed ideas which have caused so much jealousy, and will, if not corrected, lead to disastrous results. The natural road to China is through the United States. Captain Pus desires to divert the line, that England may retain the lead in commerce and the gains accruing there from. To prevent the fearful loss he says our only course " is to open up a route of our own through British America, connecting Vancouver Island, England's Cuba on the North Pacific, with Mon treal and Halifax. This line of country through which the British railway would pass is far superior to that over which the American rails are laid ; and here, to my mind, the real solution of the Irish difficulty is to be found, here the alleged craving of the Irish for land can, if true, be gratified to the utmost. Instead of an emigration of 200,000 souls per annum, a vast proportion of whom swell the ranks of the evil-disposed towards us in the United States, we might at one and the same time supply the necessary labour and settle the country, open an independent route, and add to our resources, re duce the power of the Americans for mischief to a minimum, and add to our own strength and that of Canada ; in short, both for Imperial and com mercial reasons this British-American overland route is a necessity ; and, supposing that Mr. A. WADDINGTON'g observations and conclusions will bear the test of examination, not a moment should be lost in taking up this matter with the utmost vigour." Is not Captain PIM aware that if America meant " mischief " by constructing such a line he would be adding to, not detracting from, her power. Uncle Sus might complacently smile at the pro gress of the work, wait for its completion, and take it when finished. It should never be forgotten here that North America belongs to the Americans, that England's interest is merely on sufferance, that she has no permanent nor real property in the country, and that any expenditure of hers on the soil would, in case of a war, go but to enrich her enemy. Recognizing this she will see her true policy. From the Rio Grande to the North-West Passage the inhabitants are the natural allies of the English. Every attempt to upset this, converting them into natural enemies, is artificial,unreal, and cannot therefore stand. The population is essentially Anglo-Saxon on both sides the St. Lawrence. To keep up restrictions is to injure the two sections of the country; to foster an enmity between the branch in England and the branch in America, is far mon pernicious to England than to the United States, though injurious to both. If the great cen t re o f the world's trade is to be in New York, England, who must in time lose it, should rejoice still to see it the inheritance of her race. France with more wisdom endeavoured to establish in Mexico a Latin counterpoise to the rival race. She saw the Anglo-Saxons engaged in a deadly s t r if e , w hi c h seemed likely to spread into a free fight, embracing every branch of the family. Had France succeeded, she would never have had the folly to nurse into enmity her own child—a folly peculiarly charac teristic of the Anglo-Saxons in days gone by—let us hope never to return. If Captain PIM, instead of transporting the Irish peasants into the icy wilds of the Hudson Bay Company's hunting grounds, proposed to his countrymen to take a large i n t ere st in the Union Pacific Railway, he would show a better perception of the position. The chief ob jection even to that line, though comparatively far to the south, is that it is too far north. Only the other day an avalanche five or six miles in extent swept down on the road near Cisco in California, killing six Chinamen and damaging seven locomotives. Instead of keeping up this sense less jealousy and bad blood, would it not be wiser for England heartily to throw herself into the de velopment of the resources of North America ? By doing so with men and money she would quickly gain a great control, find counteract the Fenian element. At this moment the finest field ever known for emigration is ready in America. The Union Pacific Railways from Omaha to San Francisco, from Lea vensworth to San Diego, open countries presenting every variety of climate, of soil, and of characteris tics. Literally" the world is all before them where to choose," with a positive certainty that if they choose wisely, hold to their choice, and live with common industry, temperance, and frugality, that they must attain to independence. See what it is that is offered : an open, fertile country in the best latitude of the world ; if they fancy it, spreading out into boundless prairies, or ensconced beneath snow-capped sierras; by a broad river or a wide spreading lake ; in a growing city or on an untrodden wilderness. Along the whole extent the road is the great highway between the East and the West, which must so attract travel that they will have but a few years to wait before they see the traffic swelled to an extent bey on d even the most sanguine anticipation. The e m i gran t gets the benefit of a waste—yet he settles himself on the greatest of thoroughfares. He buys his land for almost no thing, and has but to wait to gain for it high value. I.le may cultivate wine in California or grain on the prairies ; he may dig for gold in Colorado or silver in Nevada. On the one line he may choose Ne braska, Dacotah, Utah, Nevada, or Upper Cali fornia ; on the other, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, or Lower California, each passing over thousands of mil es , muc h of the land being the richest and most hi g hl y f avour ed in the world. Let people glance at the hi s t or y of such a State as Ne vada, and gain an idea of the prospects offered. It was organized as a Ter r it or y in March, 1861, that is, just seven years ago, before which it was abso lutely unknown. Though shut in on one side by the Sierra Nevada, and on the other by the Wall satch range, yet the unknown country within this period has risen into an important State, having one city containing 20,000 inhabitants, and others rapidly growing as populous, with their daily papers, daily mails, and exports, which from Vir ginia alone, in bullion, averages some £4,000 a day. In Arizona the settler will make his home stead on the ruins of a civilization passed away. If he can understand what he sees, he will find around him relics of cities, aqueducts, canals ; he will perceive traces of the mining and farming work of his predecessors, and learn that an intelligent, an industrious, and an enterprizing people had in by gone days selected as their home the country of the Gila. • Nor do we write of what may occur, draw ing on our imagination to make the picture entic ing. From the East the Union Pacific Railway has passed over the Rocky Mountains—from the West it has penetrated through the Sierra Nevada, and it is to the exploring parties tracing out the route for the Kansas line that the world is indebted for much of what it knows of Arizona. From Sacramento to the Truckee river in Nevada the line is com plete, or nearly so, and by the end of May will set its passengers down within 16 miles of the Com stock ledge. When the summer opens 10,000 extra labourers will be thrown out along the line of the Truckee and Humbolt towards Salt Lake, and by the end of the present year 300 miles of railroad will be laid down and put in running order, mak ing the aggregate length 405 miles. On the other side, the Union Pacific is working on a bridge over Dale Creek, West of Cheyenne, which when finished will be 2,000 feet long and 110 feet high, and a bridge is planned over the Missouri at Omaha, at an expense of $2,600,000. The Secretary of the Interior has so construed an Act of Congress as to withdraw from sale for the present, both the odd and even numbered sections of the land along the road."' The odd is the property of the railroad ; that is, the company owns half for a width of 20 miles on each side of the track. His object it is quite clear was to prevent jobbing, and the most valuable sections from passing into the hands of speculators•—taking advantage of the wording to construe the meaning in the interest of emigrants; the interest of emigrants being ultimately the inte rest of the country. Let England join in this great work, instead of howling in alarm at the re volution it will work. She cannot prevent the change it will effect, but she can share largely in the advantage ; and though doubtless this will be greater to New York than to London, and to the United States than to the United Kingdom, yet let her rejoice in the advance of the world, and if we must be jealous, be jealous of the Moon, or Mars, or of Saturn. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GRAND NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLECHASE. THURSDAY. Over the same course as last year, in the vicinity of Bedford, what was supposed to bo the wandering Grand National has again sot up its lent. We say " supposed to bo wandering," because, when first started, the com mittee of the National Hunt expressly stated that their meetings would be moveable, and it was understood they would not be held two years in succession in the same place. Bedford was N oted such a capital course, and the interest the Duke of Manchester took in the meeting made the claims of Kimbolton so paramount that it was determined to hold it here agafn. That it was an un wise determination the committee must by this time be aware. Only sixteen entries for the great race and a similar falling off in the other events is a change for the worse from last year, and it would have been wiser to keep the charter of the society instead of seeking to localise, the meeting over a course considered, erroneously, to be severe. Only seven came to the post for the Royal Hunt Steeple chase. Of these Father O'Leary— who ran very well in it last year up to the brook, when ho fell—was thought to have a moderate field to bear, but a horse of Mr. Welfitt's by Canute, beat him some way from home, and eventually won by six lengths. The other events scarcely call for remark, and the first day of the Grand National has passed away shorn of the eclat that surrounded its predecessors. There was a large attendance, and the Kimbolton party comprised the Duke of Manchester, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marquis of Hartington, Lord and Lady Grey do Wilton, Lord and Lady Proby, Lady George Paget, Col. Steele, and Mr. Chaplin. The Grand National Hunt Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with 250 added, for maidon hunters ; weight for age ; to be ridden by gentlemen. Second to receive 50 soya, the third 20 sovs.• About four miles. 16 subs., three of whom pay 5 sous each. Mr. S. J. Welatt's Tathwe]l, by Cauute—lmagination, by Lanercost, 6 yrs, 12st 61b (Mr. Brockton) 1 Lord Poulett's Father O'Leary, aged, 12st 101 b (Mr. Edwards) 2 Mr. F. Toynbee's Daniel O'Rourke, aged, 12st 101 b (Captain Smith) 3 Mr. F. Calthorpe's Blairquorn, aged, 12st 101 b (Mr. Goodman) 4 Drumroe, Joseph, Reginald, and Strasbourg also ran. Prior to the start an objection was lodged against Stras bourg, on the ground of his having been in a training stable. Betting-5 to 2 agst Father O'Leary, 4to 1 agst Tath well, 5 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke, and 6 to 1 each agst Strasbourg and Blairquorn. Joseph was the first away, and made play, followed by Strasbourg, but they ha I proceeded but a few strides when he was pulled back, and his place was taken by Daniel O'Rourke, Blairquorn going on third, Strasbourg fourth, with Father O'Leary, Tathwell and Reginald folio wing in the ordered named. They ran in these positions along the meadows and cleared the two first fences without a mistake, but on rising the hill beyond they separated, and wido in tervals were then seen between the leader and his fol lowers, which was made the more apparent as they rounded the clump of trees on its brow. Approaching the water jump, however, they got somewhat closer together, and Tathwell, rushing past his horses, cleared it in advance of Daniel O'Rourke, Joseph, and Blairquorn, nearly abreast; to these succeeded Father O'Leary, Strasbourg, and Reginald. The latter, however, refused, and ran round, and upon being put at it a second time he jumped short and fell into the water, and repeating his refusal at the following obstruction, he was not after persevered with. Ascending the hill towards the stand Daniel O'Rourke drew up to the leader, the pair being side by side onpassing, and they cleared the fence in the rear together, but on rounding the flag in the bottom Mr. Brockton took a line to the left, and again held a clear lead of Daniel O'Rourke, Joseph, and Blairqnorn, closely followed by Father O'Leary and Strasbourg. From this point the throe first named alternately led to within a mile from home, when Joseph and Strasbourg were evidently pumped out, and were judiciously pulled up and returned home. On entering the enclosure skirting the hill-side, Tathwell was soon in advance, still closely pressed by Daniel O'Rourke, Blairquorn, and Father O'Leary, who came on in close company to the cut fence after rounding the turning flag. Here Blairquorn ran through his horses wide on the left, and for a brief period held a slight lead, but on reaching the fence in the bottom be gave way beaten, leaving Tathwell, Father O'Leary, and Daniel O'Rourke to fight it out; but half-way up the hill for home the favourite was beaten, leaving Mr. Welfitt's colt to canter home an easy winner by six lengths. There were four lengths between the second and third ; Blairquorn trotted iu fourth. A Selling Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sous each, with 30 added. Tho winner to be sold for 150 sous. Gentlemen riders allowed 41b. Two miles. 8 subs. ----- Mr. E. Clifford's Waterperry, by Middlesex, aged, list Blb (Mr. Hobson) 1 Capt. Barclay's Savannah, aged, list 31b (Mr. Crawshaw) 2 Colonso and Atalanta also ran. Betting-65 to 40 agst Colenso, 2to 1 agst Waterperry, 7 to 2 agst Savannah, and 6 to 1 agst Atalanta. They ran in company to the first fence, at which We favourite fell, the running being then taken up by Water perry, followed by Savannah and Atalanta to the fence by the farm buildings, where Atalanta came to grief, his ex ample being imitated by Savannah, whose rider, however, was quickly remounted and following in hopeless pursuit of the leader, who won in a canter by a couple of lengths. The Kitnbolton Castle Stakes of 10 sovs., with 100 added; 11st each. Winners extra. Maidens allowed 71b. Gen- tleruen riders allowed 41b. The second saved his stake. Four miles. 5 subs. Mr T. Gough's Meanwood, by Oulston, aged, 12st 71b (J. Page) w.o. The National Heavy-weight Farmers' Steeplechase of 5 sous. each, with 50 added, for maiden horses; weight for age. About 4 miles. 4 subs. Mr V. Wilson's Nebsworth (late Jacob), by Sabreur or Underhand, 5 yrs, 13st 41b (Mr. E. Wilson) 1 St. Jacur and King Arthur also ran. Betting-2 to lon Nobsworth, and 4to 1 agst King Arthur. The latter made play at a slow pace, followed by the favourite and St. Jacur to the water jump, which the two leaders cleared safely. Not so Mr. Audiuwood's gelding, who came to grief, and was seen no more in the race. King Arthur retained his pride of place to within half a mile of home, when he foil through sheer distress, leaving the fa vourite to canter home at his leisure. NEWCASTLE SPRING MEETING. TitunsDAY. The Newcastle Spring Handicap of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 2 sovs each, 1 ft ; the second to save stake. Nearly ono mile. 22 subs. Mr 'l'. Plummer ns. Caprera, by Carbineer—Maggie, 3 yrs, ist 6lb Mr T. Dawson's Highland Duck, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b . _ (Cameron) 2 Mr Falshawe's Ladylike, 4 yrs, 7st 121b...(R. Chaloner) 3 The following also ran : —War wick, A uchinleck, Scarth nitch, Popgun, Stafford, and Lady Cavendish. Betting-3 to 1 agst Highland Duck, sto 1 each agst Warwick and Caprora, 8 to 1 each agst Auchiuleck and Popgun, 10 to 1 agst Ladylike. Won by a length ; the same between second and third. Au objection was raised to the winner ou the ground of a cross, but was overruled. The Northumberland Hunt Plato of 40 sovs, for half-brod hunters. Two miles. Mr T. Wilkinson's Searrington, 5 yrs, 12st llb (Mr T. Spence) 1 Mr J. Simpson's Helen, 6 yrs, list 131 b (Mr R. Walker) 2 Mr G. P. Read's Doddington, aged, 12st 91b(Mr Robson) 3 The following also ran :—Little Nelly, Philosopher, Minna, Bassinet,Vivid, Novelist, Once More, Young Game ster, and Stanton Vale. Betting—Even on Scarrington, 4to 1 agst Helen, 10 to 1 bar three. Won by a length ; three lengths between second and third. The Ravensworth Stakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 30 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geld ings Bst 61b; the second to save his stake. Five fur longs. 8 subs. Mr. Dobson's Hector, by Cavendish— Jenny Jones, Bst 101 b (Snowden) 1 Mr. H. Cowen's Clarionette, Bst 61b (Whiteley) 2 Mr. Fobert's Special Commissioner, Bst 61b (Noble) 3 Tho following also ran :—Olive Branch colt, Hippona, and Red Cloak. Betting-2 to 1 agst Special Commissioner, sto 1 each agst Hector and Hippona-9 to 2 agst Clarionette. Won by a head ; half a length between second and third. The Tyne Spring Handicap of 50 sovs. New T.Y.C. Mr. T. Dawson's Highland Duck, by The Drake —Relic, 3 yrs, 6st 31b .(11mdson) 1 Mr. C. J. Dove's First Blood, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Clayton) 2 The following also ran :—Armlet, Roderick Random, Ladylike, Popgun, and Caprera. Betting-3 to 1 agst Armlet, sto 1 each agst Ladylike and Caprera-5 to 1 agst Highland Duck, 6 to 1 agst First Blood, 10 to 1 agst Roderick Random. Won by a length. Caprera came in first, but M'Ewen could not draw the weight, and the horse was distanced. The Tyne Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, 2 ft., with 25 added ; weight for age; maiden and other allowances. Five furlongs. 6 subs. Mr. John Osborne's Sleeping Beauty, by Loiterer—Un fashionable:Beauty, 2 yrs (no), sst 111 b (Platte) 1 Mr. Anderson's Stitch filly, 2 yrs (.£3O), sst 121 b (Hudson) 2 Mr. W. Brown's Glennoy, 3 yrs (£3O), Ist 31b (Megson) 3 Vara also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Sleeping Beauty, 2to 1 agst Vara, 4 to 1 agst Stitch filly. Won by a neck; a head between second and third. The winner was sold to Mr. Holmes for 50 guineas. The North of England Hunters' Stakes of 40 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 2 sovs each ; gentlemen riders ; professionals, 71b extra. Three miles cver hurdles. Mr. G. Hopper's Verdi, by Adamas—Don't Come Late's dam (II b), 4 yrs, 10st 91b Mr. T. Brown's Prince (h b), aged, 12st 811 i (Mr. Smiles) 2 Mr. W. Robson's Jessie Brown (h b), 5 yrs, list 91b (Mr. Harrison) 3 The following also ran Owl, Isle of May, Sam, Whitesocks, Skedaddle, and Cabman. Betting-2 to lon Verdi, 6to 1 agst Whitesocks, 10 to 1 agst The Owl and Prince. Won by ten lengths ; double the distance between second and third. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE COMMITTEE. At a meeting of the above committee, hold at G, Old Bur lington-street, on Monday, March 30, present Mr. B. J. Angell, Mr. E. C. Burton, Mr. C. H. Carew, Mr. Sumner, and Lord Westmorland. It was proposc.d by Mr. B. J. Angell, seconded by Mr. A. H. Sumner, and resolved, that Rules 3 and 4 should be altered as follows ,—ln Rule 3, after the words " winners of steeplechases," to insert the words "in any country ;" and in Rule 4 the same. The rules will now read as follows : Rule 3. The term " winning horse," in reference to those liable to carry extra weight, or those to be excluded from any race, shall apply only to winners of steeplechases in any country of 20 sovs or upwards, not including the winner's stake, or of some prize of equal value, and not to the winners of hurdle races, flat races, or matches of any kind. hule 4. A maiden horse or mare is considered ono that has never won a steeplechase in any country of the value of 20 sovs or upwards, not including the winner's stake ; and a horse that has never started is one that has never started for a "steeplechase" in any country of the value of 20 sovs or upwards, not including the winner's stake. ,The objection made by Mr. Jones to Garus starting for the Liverpool Grand Nationul, on the ground that the horse had never been paid for in the Selling Raco at Hereford, having been brought before the committee, they decided that the objection, not having been made within the period prescribed by Rule 67, could not now be enter tained. The objection made to Nebsworth (late Jacob) for the United Hunters' Stakes at Cheltenham, on the ground that the horse should be perpetually disqualified from run ning, in consequence of having run under a wrong pedi gree at Warwick, having been referred to this committee, they decided that there were no valid grounds for the dis qualification. The case of Ablett's riding in the Selling Steeplechase at Streatham having been brought before the committee, it was stated by Ablett that he rode according to the orders ho received from Mr. Gilkes, the owner, which were, "to pull up the horse after be had jumped a fence," and this having been admitted by Mr. Gilkes, it was ordered —" That Ablett be suspended from riding until the Ist of January, 1869, and that Mr. Gilkes be prohibited for a period of five years from running any horse in his own name, or in that of any other person, at any meeting where the rules of this committee a:e in Turco." The following gentlemen were elected as qualified to ride :—Mr. Lloyd, Mr. T. Vivian Gurney, Mr. A. N. Camp boll. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. March 30, at 9 a.m., Flying Spanker, out of tho Bromley Plato and Spring handicap, at Bromley. March 30, at 9 a.m., Confederate, Garus, the Switcher, Nu, and Endsleigh, out of all engagements. March 30, at 9 a.m., Ackworth, Beesvving, Gipsy King, and The Rescue, out of the Northamptonshire Stakes. March 30, at 2 p.m. (to clerk of the course), all Mr. F. G. ilobson's horses, out of Bromley engagements. March 30, after 6 p.m., Stradbroke, out of the Northamp tonshire Stakes. March 31, at 9 a.m., Etiquette, out of Knighton engage ments. March 31, at 9 a.m., Christmas Carol, out of the Northamptonshire Stakes and Cup, at Northampton. March 31, at 11.20 a.m., all Mr. T. V. Morgan's horses, out of Northamptonshire engagements. March 31, at 11.20 a.m., Chesterfield (dead), out of all engagements. March 31, at 11.20 a.ru., Lord Waldegrave, out of all handicaps for which the weights have appeared. March 31, after 6 p.m., Tarquin; out of the Althorp Park Stakes, at Northampton. April 1, at 9 a.m., Slander, out of the Norton Manor Handicap, at Knighton. NOMENCLATURE. The following names have been given : Mr. H. Padwick's two-year -olds: B f b Orlando—Bouquet Flower Girl. Ch cby Trumpeter—The Roe ... ... Standard Bearer. Mr. J. Scott's yearlings. B f by The Ilarquis—Cypriana. Marchese. B f by Neptunus—Tooi-Toni Thetis. FORFEIT LIST.—T he forfeits of the follo wing horses have been paid : —Festival (to qualify), Kenilworth (to qualify), and Needle Work. TIIE DISPUTED RACE AT NEWPORT PAGNELL. —The objection against Lizzie was entertained by the Grand Na tional Committee yesterday, and the mare disqualified. The ;objection against Vision, who came in second, was not gone into, and theref ore th e sta k es an d b e ts remain in abeyance. NAVAL AND MILITARY INIELLIGENCE. The screw steam corvette Pelorus, 21, Captain Haswell, from China, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday, as already stated in The Sun, left ;Yokohama, Sept. 16 ; Hongkong, Oct. 16; Manilla, 26th ; Singapore, Nov. 7 ; Batavia, 21st; Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 5; St. Helena, Feb. :4 ; and Ascension, Feb. 13. After passing the Azores light easterly winds prevailed. The Pelorus was put in commission Sept. 7. 1863, and has been employed on the Japan and China sta tion. She spoke Nov. 26, in the Straits of Sunda, the bark Gleta, homeward bound, Jan. 2, off the Cape, the French bark Rele, homeward bound ; Feb. 6, lat. 16 45 S., long. 5 W., an English bark, showing 3d distinguishing pendant 9,430, 53 days from Foo-chow, for London ; 9th, lat. 11 7 S., long. 11 27 W., the Spanish bark Egeria ; 21st, on the line, several vessels outward bound ; 26th, the Hamburg bark, Madagascar, and the French brig Eloise, with emigrants, outward bound. This morning the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Colonel Palmer, left the Spital Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, at eight o'clock, and marched by . road to Lond3u. The troopers will take up their quarters in the Albany-street bar racks, Regent's Park. The 2d Life Guards will be relieved by the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, which left London this morning for the Spital bar racks, Windsor. LADvERTisEmEsT.]-11olloway's Fills.—Our long and trying winters undermine the health and prepare the way to premature decay when freccant humours are thought lessly permitted to infest the frame, from which, at the dawn of spring, they could readily be cast by these well known, long-esteemed pills. This medicine addresses it self directly to the stomach, which it rouses to its highest healthy standard, perfects the assimilation of the toed, and, incorporated with its nutritive elements, enters the circulation, and through it is brought in contact with every fibre and placed in a condition to remove all im purities. Holloway's pills thoroughly cleanse the blood, regulate any disordered organ, accurately adjust secretion and excretion, and gradually remove all corporeal imper fections. 2HE SITUATION. (Prom the Anylo-American Ti»zes.) Public feeling has little changed in the United States since the date of the preceding mail ; that is, in the interval from the 7th to the 14th of March. The nation quietly awaits the development of the game being played at Washington: The.moves are watched with interest, and the backers of the poli ticians loudly applaud, and even more loudly con demn, at each of the steps taken, some of them sufficiently unscrupulous, and even revolutionary. In truth, it is a desperate contest, pushed on at railway speed, of which the people are such quiet spectators. The country gives no sign of approval or the reverse ; Republican conventions support Congress and denounce the PRESIDENT, Democra tic Conventions support the PRESIDENT and de nounce Congress. The New Hampshire election is pronounced by the Republicans to be the emphatic approval by the country of the Congressional course. Impeachment was the only question before the elec tors ; there were no side issues ; both parties ap proved of redeeming the Bonds in coin, and the Impeachers carried the day. The Democrats, how ever, assert that the Republicans sustained a heavy loss in this year's majority, compared with that of last year; that the State which has long been Re publican, is less so now than ever, and that there fore the decision is rather against than for Con gress. The Impeachment trial came on last Mon day, when President JOHNSON'S Counsel filed his answer, denying all the Impeachment charges. They then applied for a delay of 30 days to prepare, which the Senate refused by a vote of 41 to 12. The Managers of impeachment filed the reply of the House next day, re-affirming all the Impeachment charges, and the Senate Court ordered the trial to commence on Monday, the 30th inst. While this direct issue marches thus rapidly to a denouement, there are side issues in the grand struggle which almost escape observation, though scarcely of less importance. The main attack pre sents a battle line, and every eye is fixed on the glittering advance. But the unseen, detached force acting on the enemy's flank or rear may defeat the array, and hurl it back in confusion and rout. A bill has been passed through Congress actually un noticed even by the members, though momentous in its import. The Democrats positively aided in its passage, allowing it to be adopted without even a division. It amends the Judiciary Act of Septem ber 24, 1789, so as to place officers of the internal revenue on the same footing as officers of the Cus toms in respect to suits in civil actions, &c. Mr. WILSON proposed an amendment, which was ac cepted, and the bill was passed by an almost unani mous vote, and sent to the base, where it was also passed without discussion, nearly all the Demo crats, as in the Senate, voting for it. The amend ment provides that the United States Supreme Court shall not have appellate or original jurisdic tion in cases arising under the Reconstruction Acts of Congress. Few understood the true im port of the ingeniously framed clause added to the bill, and it caused much excitement when it became known. Of course the PRESIDENT has vetoed the bill, which we learn by a telegram, dated Washington, March 25, and equally, of course, it will be passed by Congress over his Veto. The vital point it is intended to meet is the decision of the Supreme Court on the M'ARDLE case, the Justices being now in deliberation on the arguments, which have been concluded. If they pronounce against the con stitutionality of the Reconstruction Acts before the bill becomes law, the PRESIDENT will be empowered to withdraw the military froln the South, when the government of the States lately in rebellion will revert to the men who held them for years at the point of the sword against the stupendous efforts of the Northern people fighting to the bitter end be fore yielding an inch. We all know what ANDREW JOHNSON is prepared to do. He is neither to be reasoned nor frightened out of any conviction. He is alike beyond coaxing or concession, and above any paltry considerations of consequences. We be lieve that nothing would give him greater pleasure than to nullify at one stroke the Congressional le gislation, to re-unite the nation, freed from the curse of slavery, since the close of the war. If the Southern Conventions be permitted to elect dele gates to nominate the Presidential candidate at Chicago, and if Alabama and other States be re ceived into the Union on such terms as Congress may devise, the Republican party will strength&i itself beyond attack. There is every appearance that G,n. GRANT will be the successful candidate for the Presidency ; it is more than probable that AN DREW JOHNSON will be found guilty by the Senate and deposed. The Republicans will then have a thorough-going member of their own party in the Presidential Chair (Mr. WADE), as well as every chance of a Republican President to follow. The Democrats speak of the desperate measures of the Radicals adopted as the only means of saving their party from annihilation. Desperate or not, they appear to be successful, and the party, judging from appearances, is decidedly in the ascendant. But should the Supreme Court pronounce the Recon struction Acts to be unconstitutional and the PRE SIDENT in obedience to the Constitution and the laws of the United States, declaring these Acts to be null and void, withdrew all the power now in the hands of the district commanders, and allowed the State Governments to revert to the men for merly elected by the people, another bomb would burst and a real explosion follow. It is possible that the Justices, knowing ANDREW JOHNSON'S un compromising character, may withhold judgment either till the close of the trial or till the bill remov ing such cases from their jurisdiction be passed over by the PRESIDENT'S veto. Senator CHANDLER, of Michigan, and Senator TRUMBULL, of Illinois, presented petitions to abolish the office of President of the United States. The question has been a good deal discussed throughout the Union, though it has not yet any advocates sufficiently able or prominent to draw towards it public attention. That we are on the eve of changes, few can doubt. It maybe little less than a revolution that is now progressing, the full scope of which is not as yet perceptible, though some profess to see curious things looming in the distance. No de cision up to this date can,have been given by the Supreme Court on the M'ARDLE case, and it is pro bable that Congress lost no time in passing the Bill over the PRESIDENT'S veto. Mr. JOHNSON kept it as long as the law allowed, before returning it with his veto to Congress, hoping, we presume, for a judgment. If he be disappointed in this we cannot see any other means of opposition open to him ; and from the present aspect of affairs we conclude that Congress will be triumphant in every point of the struggle. At the same time there are rapid and unexpected changes in such a tooth-and-nail fight, and everybody's calculations may be overthrown by some unlooked-for event. Births. BALLARD—On the 31st ult., at East Pallant House, Chi chester, the wife of Captain J. B. Ballard, Royal Navy, of a daughter. ilAwEs— On the 2d inst., at 34, Lonsdale-square, the wifo of T. Gurney Hawes, of a daughter. POOLE— On the 2d inst., at Lea-bridge-road, the wife of Mr. Hugh Poole, of 48, Fish-street-hill, of a sm. THE METROPOLIS GAS BILL. Mr. BONTE3IS brought up a report from the Special Gas Committee, who stated that they had examined the above bill, and were of opinion that they should be authorised to present a petitio❑ against it, so as to give them a locus stanch before the committee of the House of Commons, to whom had been referred the various gas bills now before Parliament. The report was unanimously agreed to. THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. BEDFORD, in accordance with the resolution adopted at the last Court, moved that the follow ing gentlemen should be appointed a special com mittee to consider the whole question of the future government of the metropolis :—Alderman Sir Ben jamin Phillips, Alderman J. Clarke Lawrence, Deputy Fry, Mr. Lowman Taylor, Deputy De Jersey, Mr. Lawley, Deputy Farrar, Deputy Bur nell, Deputy Reed, Mr. Bontems, Mr. Figgins, Mr. Isaacs, Mr. Webber, Mr. Richardson, Mr. J. Sy monds, Mr. Rudkin, Mr. Bedler, Mr. G. M. John. son, Mr. Knight, and Mr. Coils. Mr. LAWLEY opposed the motion, which he con sidered in effect a vote of want of confidence in the Local Government and Taxation Committee, of which he was chairman. Among other.imputations cast upon that committee was that some of its mem bers were also members of the Metropolitan Muni cipal Council Association, and therefore not to be trusted. He acknowledged that when that associa tion was started two or three years ago, he thought the subject was a very proper one to be discussed in the metropolis, and on being asked to allow his name to be placed on the council of that association, he agreed to do so, with the view of promoting muni cipalities ; but when he found that the association went further than he ever thought they would have done, he at once withdrew his name from the coun cil. He, therefore, moved—That before proceed ing to the appointment of twenty members, in ac cordance with the resolution of the 26th of last month a report be read from the Local Govern ment and Taxation Committee of their proceedings, and for the instructions of the Court as to a conti nuance of the operations of the committee ; also, that so much of the resolution of the Court for the appointment of such committee of twenty members, be rescinded, and that the reference be made to the Local Government and Taxation Committee. If the Local Government Committee were to continue in existence, it must have the entire confidence of the Court ; and as a proof that it was worthy of that confidence, he might mention that eleven of the twenty gentlemen nominated by Mr. Bedford were members of the committee, and that Mr. Bed ford himself was one of its most active members. Mr. GOVER objected to Mr. Lawley's proposition as the subject had been discussed at a previous Court, and the members of the Local Government Committee seemed to acquiesce in the decision then arrived at. Mr. RICHARDSON also hoped that the Court would adhere to the decision arrived at on Thursday last. He gave every credit to Mr. Lawley for a desire to uphold the honour and integrity of the Corporation ; but he differed from him in thinking that this was a matter that should be referred to the Local Go vernment and Taxation Committee, he believing that it would be much better to refer it to an inde pendent and special committee. Mr. FRICKER opposed the appointment of any committee in antagonism to the Local Government and Taxation Committee, and remarked that he knew of nothing to be urged against the latter com mittee with the exception perhaps of a charge that one of its members had been guilty of treachery in the discharge of his duty ; but even although that was the case it was no reason why they should with draw their confidence from the committee. Mr. DE JERSEY contended that there was no attack whatever against the existing committee, all that was wanted being that a different view of the question should be taken. Mr. BONTEMS said his opinion was that at the last Court a vote of censure had been partially passed upon the committee, and he was prepared to resign the powers given by the Court to that committee ; but the members of the committee seemed to think that the issue of " confidence or no confidence" bad not been fairly raised, and there fore it was determined that it should be distinctly raised by their chairman. lie unhesitatingly affirmed that the Municipal Council Association, although they might have gone somewhat too far, were sincere friends of the City ; and he did not see why another committee should be appointed for the same purpose as that for which the Local Go vernment and Taxation Committee now existed. Mr. BEDFORD observed that the sole purpose for which the Local Government Committee was ori ginally appointed was to watch Mr. Ayrton's com mittee. Since then other matters had been referred to it, but he wanted this new committee appointed for a special object, namely, to originate some scheme for the future government of the metropolis, in which that corporation should bear its full share. That committee need not of necessity go to the com mittee now in existence, because they were called the Local Government and Taxation Committee. Indeed, they themselves, by their vote last Thurs day, carried the resolution then adopted, and there was nothing done that could be considered a vote of censure ; that was purely an afterthought. On a show of hands being taken, Mr. Lawley's amendment was carried by a large majority; and, the report of the Local Government and Taxation Committee was read and ordered to be printed and circulated amorist the members. EAST LONDON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. A petition was read from the promoters of a mu seum of science and art for the East of London, praying for a grant of money to assist them in de fraying the expense of a site. It was stated that an agreement had been come to by which they were to obtain four and a half acres of ground, situated in the parish of Bethnal-green, for the purposes of the museum, for a little over £2,000, and that the Go vernment had agreed to erect the building and pay for its maintenance, provided the inhabitants of the district showed their interest in the matter by rail• ing a sufficient sum to pay for the ground. About £1,500 had been already subscribed towards this object, and the Corporation was now asked to lend its aid in furthering the end in view by a grant of money. On the motion of Mr. BENNETT the petition was unanimously referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee for consideration and to report. MR. COMMISSIONER KERR. The LORD MAYoR said he had that morning re ceived a communication from Mr. Commissioner Kerr in reference to his duties at the Old Bailey. As the communication was very important, he was desirous to Lave it read to the Court, but before doing so he thought that strangers should withdraw. THE RECENT VISIT OF THE SULTAN. On the readmission of the public, Mr. JOHN SYMONDS brought up a report from the City Lauds Committee, recommending that the portrait, painted by Mr. James Luntley, of his Imperial Majesty the Sulta❑ should be purchased by the Corporation for the sum of seventy-five guineas. He thought the portrait would be more correctly described as a picture, because Mr. Luntley had had no sittings from the Sultan, but as he had had good oppor tunities of seeing him at the Crystal Palace, and had taken sketches of him, and he had also been fur nished with a complete list of his decorations. fie moved that the recommendation of the committee Marriages. AITCHISON—MUNDELL— On the Ist inst., at S. Michael, Chester-square, John B. Aitchison, Esq., of the India office, to Eve Mary, only daughter of W. A. Mundell, Esq., Q.C. SMITII—LowE—On the 2d inst., at Locke Park Chapel, Francis Nicholas, second son of Martin T. Smith, Esq., to Florence Catherine, youngest daughter of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Drury Lowe. Deaths. BoTTox— On the 27th ult., Mr. Henry Botton, of 42, Bar tholomew Villas, Kontish•town, aged 58. CRAVEN -On the 31st ult., at Folkestone, Theinas Craven, of Hackney and Leman-street, Whitechapel, aged 67. PLOWER—On the 26th ult., Cook Gibbs Flower, Esq aged 41. JONES—On the Ist inst., Mr. Win. Jones, of 107, Camden- road, N.W., aged 61. LOWNDES - On the 31st ult., at King's Worthy, near Win cheetor, Joseph Lowndes, Esq., aged 83. AIILLETT—On tli3 31st ult., at Newport, North , Curry, Somerset, Miss Sarah Millett, aged 88, London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.M. 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