The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

EIELBIT OP, THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Ole Time., comments upon the moderation and concilia tory. disposition of the late Primate, but says that it is not the fashion of the age to admire exclusively that which is nnpretontions. The position of the Church of England, as a whole, is immobility, with a great amount of indi vidual restlessness, impatience, and eccentricity. The life that should be one is many, various, and self conflicting. It seems but a silken thread or an unseen spell . that holds it all together, but the thread once parted, or the spell once broken, nothing remains of one pf the grandest and most p otent religious unities in the civilised world. Of natural and spontaneous adhesima there seems to be none. The parts once dis severed cannot be reunited. When such is the condition of the Church of England, it cannot enter the conflict on equal terms with antagonists each thoroughly united, each with the momentum of an aggressive advance, and each with nothing to lose and everything to gain. In such a ease the Establishment must exist upon sufferance. The Times draws attention to the late difficulties and move ments in the Church, and the result of them. A few years ago it was open to doubt, or, at least, was largely doubted, whether the Church could not in her own institutions and by her own peculiar agencies do a great deal long claimed exclusively by the Church of Rome —at least in Western Christendom. It was thought the Church of England might interpret her articles and formularies, and impose her own interpretation, in the face of any purely lay interpretation or decision to the contrary. It was thought the Church of England might make new articles of faith or communion, upon the basis of some interpre tation or some received opinion, and might proceed upon those articles to exercise discipline over her mem bers, to the extent of deprivation, and even excommuni cation. It was thought the Church of England might interpret rubrics, neglect Acts of Parliament, and set at naught such acts of royal prerogative as the customary orders of Privy Council, if there seemed to be wanting 'something worthy to be called an ecclesiastical authority. It was thought that the Church of England might exer else a universal authority all over the world, establish and enforce spiritual jurisdiction in the face of colonial or other local constitutions, maintain an efficient spiritual unity with bishops and churches out of British jurisdiction and beyond the reach of our courts of law, and, in fact, make decisions and decrees which should run through out the world. This dream has received a severe check, and the late Primate has done his part to bring about the salutary lesson of the Church's weakness. There is other work to he done, and the world is not yet ripe for the scandalous spectacle of Pope and Anti-Pope launching anathemas against one another. The Pope has had something to bear lately, and his cup of humiliation is not yet full. The Patriarchs of the English Church con not complain if they share the dangers and disagreeables of the See with which they betray a certain rivalry. Their way to peace and quiet is easy enough ; it is to avoid, rather than follow, the example of Rome. The Post thinks the Church could have suffered no greater loss than in the death of the Archbishop. The times of conflict and agitation have arrived, and ecclesias tical institutions are upon their trial. The line that parts the human from the divine, the natural from the super natural, is being drawn with increasing sharpness, and hence all that in any way stand upon that distinc tion—holy orders, sacraments, dogma, Church autho rity—are necessarily involved in a like exhaustive scrutiny. To this add the changes that have begun to spring up in public opinion on the rela tions between Church and State, on the sacredness of ecclesiastical property, the limits of the royal supremacy, and the principles of public education : go further, and include in the survey the opposite schools that have arisen within the Church itself. The old distinc tion between orthodox and evangelical exists no longer. The High Church party has resolved itself into two sections, Whereof one claims the title of moderate, and the other does not hesitate to own itself extreme. The Evan gelicals are similarly broken up. That admirable type, of which Venn and Cecil, and old Bishop Wilson were the exponents, is utterly gone. A bitter, cynical ultra-Protestantism has taken its place, and we look in vain amongst Low Churchmen for such preachers of truth and charity as once adorned the then only active party in the Church. It would be simply impossible to pick out half a dozen scholars amongst them all. The rest are divided into groups, and with little learning and less influence are a dead weight to the Church. The Standard says that in the appointment of a suc cessor to the Primate, Mr. Disraeli's task will be one of no ordinary difficulty. The high character, the adminis trative abilities, and varied excellence of the late Primate make it all the more arduous a task to find a worthy suc cessor. The times are past and gone when mere political fidelity or bare intellectual attainments were sufficing qualifications for a mitre. Something higher than family interest or the editing of a Greek play are looked for in those who aspire to the episcopate nowadays. Such appoint ments as those of Lord Russell, and not a few of Lord Palmerston's, are impossible under present circumstances. The disposition of the Crown patronage is a trust to be discharged with a sole eye to the welfare of the Church. The candidate for a position such as that vacated by the death of Dr. Longley must be a man of conspicuous learn ing and piety, 'of high administrative capacity, of well balanced mind, and of large and catholic instincts. He must possess firmness of character and impartiality of judgment. He must be able to rule, and yet be capable of winning rather than extorting obedience. He must have the nerve and the courage to be inflexible at times, and yet he must never assume the bearing of a tyrant. Above all, he must not be a party man. The Premier's choice will doubtless be a good one. According to the Telegraph,a solemn and befitting question now arises respecting the personage best qualified to wear the chief mitre of the English Church. Mr. Disraeli's recent addresses and policy give reason to hope that he fully appreciates the social and religious importance of the Established Church. The Premier who would subsidise the Irish branch of it against reason, right, and the peace of the United Kingdom, can need no invitation to be careful in dealing with its real interests in England. If he will risk his Cabinet for the church of the sister island we can hardly doubt that he will forego party and put aside partisans for the sacred sake of the English Establishment. On the other hand, the manufacture of Archbishops is a rare luxury for the most vetran Premier ; and it must be so new and seducing an occupation for the present First Minister, that he cannot be surprised if anxious well-wishers of the national Church point out how great an occasion is now afforded for doing something better than " a friendly turn," or performing a piece of Patronage- Office " pitchforking." It is to the interest of all parties in the State, and of all religious opinions, that an era phaticrdly good and worthy man should be chosen to follow Dr. Longley in the Primacy. The Telegraph recommends the Bishop of London to the attention of the Premier. The nomination of such a Prelate would satisfy the public more than that of any other, because the work which he has done for London is such as all recognise to be holy and pious. Mr. Disraeli might himself look back to such a use of his position with pride, in days when he will marvel to find how well the Irish Church gets on without an unjust subsidy ; and, in the appointment to the vacated see of the metropolis, he would still have the occasion to display his unfettered discretion, and to illus trate his zeal for the reformed faith. The herald is very bitter with the Rev. Mr. Rogers for his defection from the Tories. It can hardly be a matter of indifference to find himself universally looked upon in the light of a deserter ; and the reproaches of Churchmen can Scarcely be more painful than the ostentatious cor diality which marks the Liberal reception of a recruit still clad in the enemy's uniform. He must wish, sometimes, that his political convictions did not accord so closely with his personal interests ; that popularity and party favour did not go closely follow on obedience to conscience as to obscure the motive and conceal the merit; that he had some chance, however small, of proving his sincerity by sharing in the sacrifice he recommends to others ; that, in short, he could find some means, however costly, of distinguishing his own course of heroic self-devo- tion from that simple baseness and vulgar treason to which in all external circumstances it bears so awkward, but so exact, a resemblance. But the thing cannot be. The very grandeur of such an act as Mr. Rogers's lies in that sacrifice of fair fame and wordly honour from which men shrink, who are willing to sacrifice fortune, and prospects, and power; and the whole merit of the self-immolation would be destroyed if the victim were able to retrieve th e chi racter which he has sacrified to principle. The Daily Yews alludes to a report which has reached it that a self-constituted working-man's candidate is sending out appal on all sides, to Liberal members of Parliammt a:ld others to whom he i 3 not personally known, asking for sqbsci . iptions to enable him to main tain the position he has assumed. From what we know of tiv of the working classes of , j)rAitl this cotntry, wo feel c,:tr:nced that they would not countenance snch a precccdint:',' 1111(.1 that they are wholly unaW:-.re of what the:r candidate is doing. A member of Parliament ought to owe his scat to the constituency he represents, and in nowise to those with whom he is to sit, and whom it may be his duty sometimes to oppose. The first requisite of a repre sentative is independence of character, which by no means Involves the possession:of wealth , but which certainly cannot coexist with the mendicant spirit of a begging-letter writer. As the person to whom we refer is opposing two good Liberals who were previously in the field, knowing that it has in recent times been held by a Tory, we would suggest to the local Liberal party to expose his Practices if ':at they aro poral.lted ib 13 tot THE LATE PRIMATE. Our Le a ders May be interested in the relation of one or two incidents of the life of Dr. Longley. While at Harrow he acquired the affection as well as the esteem of the boys, and the fact was once prettily illustrated in the House of Peers. Lord de Ros informed the House in the course of a debate that in early days he had had the honour of frequently cleaning the shoes of the most reverend prelate at the head of the bishops' bench, and he had never found himself the worse for it. While at Ripon he had to carry on a long controversy with the clergy of St. Saviour's at Leeds, who were in the habit of secretly practising auricular confession, and in other ways very much inclined towards the ceremonies at that time considered peculiar to the Church of Rome. Some of the clergy were censured and inhibited, and, as a consequence, both those who were and those who were not rebuked, shortly afterwards went over to the Roman Catholic communion. The bishop deeply felt the responsibility of the part he took iin this matter ; but he truly declared it was a responsibility mposed upon him by the laws of the Church and the realm, and he could not shrink from its exercise. In 1853 the deceased prelate had a controversy with the Low Church party. He refused to confer priest's orders on a deacon because the latter held that baptismal grace only came to those infants who bad received the gift of " final perseverance." A memorial was presented to the bishop upon the subject, in which the inconvenience and hardship of such rejections were forcibly insisted on. But the Bishop cleverly replied, " Let the past amount of that hardship be tested by the fact that in sixteen years I have ordained upwards of nine hundred persons as either dea cons or priests, two only of the whole number having been rejected on questions connected with baptism." It is stated that during the last illness of Dr. Sumner, Dr. Longley was brought into connection with the Court, and that the Queen was very favourably impressed with his manner and bearing. Whether this or some other circumstances led to his elevation we do not know, but in 1862 he exchanged York for Canterbury, and was duly enthroned in the chair once occupied by St. Augustine. One of the most important subjects which came under his notice during his archiepiscopal career was the appeal from the Court of Arches in the matter of "Essays and Reviews." The Bishop of London took the side of the law lords, but the two arch bishops dissented from the notion that suclr writings could be reconciled with the expressed doctrines of the Church of England. It is understood that Dr. Longley expressed himself freely and most eloquently amongst the judges, but that he was precluded from taking part in delivering judgment by the rules of precedent. However, the Archbishop took the earliest opportunity of making known his views upon so important a subject. In a pastoral issued to the clergy, and also printed in nearly every newspaper, the most rev. prelate made use of these words : " The Church has a right to know my mind on matters of such solemn interest to each of her members. . . . I must claim to myself the privilege of giving expression to opinions formed prior to the delivery of the judgment, and wholly irrespective of the terms in which it is couched. . . . I conceived that I was bound, by the most solemn obligations, to maintain at its exact level that estimation in which Holy Scripture is held by our Church, as shown by the tenour of her Articles and Liturgy ; and to beware lest I should seem to sanction a decision which would detract one jot or little from the authority with which it is invested according to their language." The Archbishop in his life nobly illustrated the beauty and charity of the Christianity he taught, and in his death he has given us an eloquent lesson of the courage with which such a career will comfort a dying bed, and the modesty of the true saint, who, having done all that his human weakness could, yet claimed no reward from his Master for his long service, but prayed for mercy as " a poor and guilty sinner," who only looked for pardon through the merits of his Lord. LAW AND POLICE. FORGERY UPON THE EARL OF DUDLEY.—The two pri. soners, Emu and Hullett, who were arrested several weeks ago on a charge of having forged Lord Dudley's acceptance to a bill of exchange for £BOO, have been placed upon their trial at the Central Criminal Court. The imitation of his lordship's signature had been so complete as to deceive a London financial agent and a firm of bankers in Dublin. The result was that the bill was discounted, and the money handed to the prisoners. Early in the day a telegram was received from Lord Dudley, stating that he could not be in London until the evening ; and the judge, after hearing the other witnesses, adjourned the ease, intimating that unless the noble earl gave a satisfactory reason for his non-attendance the amount of his recognisances would be forfeited. MANSLAUGUTEIL—At the Westminster Police-court, on Thursday, Charles Templeman, a gentleman's coachman, was charged with the manslaughter of Stephen Drake, his father-in-law. It will be remembered that in a family quarrel the prisoner, who was much excited by drink, attacked the deceased, shook him violently, and eventually threw him upon the edge of a sink so as to break three of his ribs. The injuries inflicted upon the old matt proved fatal in two or three days. The accused was committed for trial. THE NOTTING-HILL OUTEAGE.—The man Seiler, who is charged with burglary and with violence on the person of a lady at Notting-hill, has been brought up for examina tion at the Hammersmith Police-court. Mrs. Russell, the prosecutrix, was sufficiently recovered to give evi dence, and the prisoner, who denied that he committed the outrage, was remanded for a few clays. ArPrimrcEs.—A. young man who had been an apprentice at Messrs. Doulton's pottery works has been brought up at the Lambeth Police-court, charged with having left several months before his term had expired. As similar cases had previously been allowed to pass with impunity, the young man's employers determined to make an example, and having obtained a warrant, he was captured at Glasgow. The magistrate inflicted a penalty of £0 for the loss of service, and £lO costs, or in default of payment a month's imprisonment. CHEQUE ROBBERY.—The brothers Bennett, chargect with an extensive robbery of cheques, to the amount of £lOO, from Messrs. Barber and Co., wharfingers, Brewer's quay, has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court. Judgment was deferred. A man named John Thompson has been committed for trial at the Southampton Assizes for publishing " a cer tain scandalous, impious, blasphemous, and profane libel of or concerning the Holy Scriptures and the Christian re ligion." THE PRINCESS OF HESSE. —The accouchement of her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse is expected in about ten days. On Monday next Dr. Brodie, one of the physicians of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, will start for Darmstadt, in order to be in attendance,—British Medical Journal. MUDDLED U . P.—lt is raro that editors indulge in a drop, but when they do their readers are apt to find it out. Witness the following :—" Melancholy Event.— Yesterday morning, at four p.m., a man with a heel in the hole of his stocking committed arsenic by swallowing a large quantity of suicide. The inquest of the verdict returned a jury that the deceased came to the facts in accordance with his death. lie leaves a child and six small wives to lament the end of his untimely death. In death we are in the midst of life."—American Paper. A NARROW ESCAPE.—MciIIe. Albina di .Rhona, the " dancing-soubrette " who first raised the Soho play house to the rank of a recognised theatre, and endowed it with its present title, the " New Royalty," has lately been exposed to serious peril. Her present calling, it seems, is that of a performer of legerdemain, and at the Silk de l'Orient, Brussels, she has been giving a series of performances, comprising the well-known trick of receiving uninjured the supposed contents of an apparently loaded pistol. One evening, when the weapon, after it had been handed round for the inspection of the public, was returned into her hands, she inserted her magic wand into the barrel, and felt it come in contact with an unexpected obstacle. She retired, and afterwards reappeared in a state of violent agitation. It subsequently transpired that some scoundrel among the spectators had slipped into the barrel a screw of about an inch in length, which, if it had not been dis covered, would have killed or seriously wounded the fail enchantress. A W ELSII CHURCH WITHOUT A PA ItS ON. —A Oswestry Advertiser writes : " We often hen of a Welsh church without a congregation, but now we are informed that at the parish church of Dlandanwg, in the county of Merioneth, there has been no service held for the last seven weeks. It appears that no rector hasbeen appointed to Llandanwg and Llanbedr since the removal of the Rev. J. J • Brown to Mallwyd. A clergyman who happens to be visit. ing in the neighbourhood has been occasionally officiating during these weeks at the latter parish ; but at the former, no service of any description has been held during the time mentioned. The rectory is in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and is worth about £lBO. The omission certainly is not of much importance to the resident parishioners, as hardly any of them ever enter the church when services are held there. The cure of souls in this district is pretty well cared for by other denomination; and if a project of disendowment bad been carried on hers no one in the neighbourhood, except some officiAls ? wcuid be found ready to coln,Oailki", THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1868, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. question is looitea into. A man who has robbed another of money is sent to prison for five years ; a man who robs his friend of one of his eyes receives three months. Here is apparently an injustice. But if in the first case the condemned man is a confirmed thief, has been repeatedly convicted, is a hardened rascal, and in the Other the man who committed the deed did so in a passion, when not in one respect accountable for his actions, the injustice becomes even-handed righteousness. Feeling this, Mr. Lloyd Baker has brought a memorial for adoption before the ..nagis trates of Gloucestershire, in which he deprecates the shortening of sentences by the Home Department. " Judges and magistrates," he says, " endeavour as carefully as they can to allot to each crime a propor tionate punishment. Exactly, however, as the execu tive department renders the punishment more severe, the judicial authority shortens the sentence, and convicts are thus allowed the sooner to return to their evil course." national, not official, relations witn tne new Zpamou Government ; and the French document goes so far as to express a hope that these relations may be regularised at no distant date. The cold, formal tone of the English note is said to have surprised the Spanish statesmen by its contrast with the sympathetic expressions of the French communication. General Prim, however, ought at least to know that the reality is quite the reverse of the appearance. THE ELECTIONS. The Conservatives are now beginning to hang their heads very low indeed. Every appearance is against them. They began the campaign jubilantly enough: not a seat would be left uncontested ; at any rate if they fell they would fall fighting hard. But now the battle is being fought, it is their tried men and true who are failing them. They find it more than they can do even to make a show of resistance over the posts which they had considered unassailable, without trying to carry fresh ones. It is stated very exactly, in an "impartial " j ournal, that there are no less than 299 seats which will not even be contested. Nearly 300 members then are given to the Liberal party. For only 360 (in round numbers) will there be any chance. If one runs down those in one's own immediate neighbourhood, in which a contest is to take place, and finds in how many the Tories have a likelihood of success, their chances throughout the country will appear. In Scotland, where the Conservatives, it was stated, hoped to gain a few seats, there are some two dozen seats uncontested, and amongst those which are con tested, the question is often between two Liberals. There was something said about the Conservatives carrying Edinburgh, and Lord Stanley, the most popular man in the Ministry, was asked to come forward. Feeling the hopelessness of the task just as much as the snugness of his present place, ho refused, and now three Liberals—M'Laren, Miller, and Aytoun—are left to fight it out amongst them selves. In Ireland the sky is to the Tory party equally cloudy. " With few exceptions," says a Dublin cor respondent, " the present Liberal members offer themselves for re-election, and in no single instance, if I mistake not, is any opposition threatened by an open and avowed Conservative candidate. On the other hand, several of the Tory members have announced their intention of not again presenting themselves for re-election." At Dublin University the Irish Solicitor-General is opposed by a Conserva tive. And this is the party which was at one time noted for its splendid organisation at the elections. mu. GLADSTONE EXAMINED. A Mr. James Pickering wrote seine questions down for Mr. Gladstone previous to the Wigan meeting,and presented himself at the meeting with the expectation that Mr. Gladstone would answer them in his speech. Mr. Gladstone has written him a letter explaining why he did not deal with them. He says : "Sir, the letter you have addressed to me contains, under the name of questions, the whole sug gestion of an elaborate argument on the Church Establishments of the country, which would have required a speech in reply ; and it was not possible for me, you not thinking fit to make the inquiries on the occasion of the meeting at Wigan, to mould my address to that meeting on the framework supplied by you. You will, of course, have the opportunity at the nomination of putting any interrogatories to me which you think proper." Considering that the questions submitted to . the right hon. gentleman embraced not only the disposal of the property of the Irish Church, but required from him a statement of his course of action in case the dise,stablithme* and disendowment of the English and Scotch Churches were proposed, as well as his intentions with regard to Ritualism, his reticence is not much to be wondered at. Mr. Pickering replied that he wrote his questions down because he did not wish to disturb the meeting, and that he was afraid of a knock on the head if he spoke. He is thus precluded altogether from obtaining n answer to his question. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL ON THE EXPENDITURF. Mr. Baggallay, the new Solicitor-General—the fifth or sixth of the Conservative Administration— has been talking at Hereford on the expenditure. He said that Mr. Gladstone was charging the Govern n.ent with that for which he was himself mainly responsible. Tie thought that the soldier ought to have a larger salary than he used to have ; the Government thought the same that caused an in crease in the expenditure. The Liberals said that it was the duty of the country to provide education for the children of poor parents. Mr. Baggallay, we are happy to say, thought the same ; so did the Conservative Govern ment. Their opinion cost the country another quarter of a million ; which, we may add, neither the country, Mr. Gladstone, nor the Liberal party grudges. So far so good. But in this way Mr. Baggallay has not accounted for three millions, but only for a small portion of that sum. Here is his argument as to the rest. " The population of the country was estimated to increase at the rate of something over two millions in every ten years. Could they expect that the population, say of 20 millions, in 1861 could be managed and governed for the same sum that the population of 17 millions could in 1851 If we were increasing our population every day, it stood to reason we must be increasing the expenses of their government also." At the rate of three millions per annum ? MISTAKES P The newspapers teem with complaints as to the incorrectness of the lists of election committees. Names are put down which have no business there, and one is inclined to doubt whether a mistake that is repeated so often can really be a mistake at all. Mr. Mitchell Henry's committee for the Man chester election writes to an elector to state that Mr. Henry's pledges are so numerous his success is certain. They add : " As, however, two additional candidates have presented themselves, his executive committee, in order to return him at the: head of the poll, respectfully request you, as one of the general committee, to obtain as many additional pledges as possible, and return them upon the enclosed card to the central offices without delay. That the executive may know from whom they receive assist ance, please write your name and address on the card." This elector states that he has never promised to vote for Mr. Henry, much less allow his name to be put on the committee • and remarks that if Mr. Henry's success is supposed to be certain on such grounds, he will find himself undeceived. There is some mysterious connection between politics and trickery, and even honourable men seem to be demoralised at election times, just as some usually honest people cannot resist the temptation of cheating at cards or taking advantage of their neighbours in horse dealing. MU. NEWDEGATE AND DR. TEMPLE. Dr. Temple writes to the Times to explain his pre sence at the late Conservative meeting at Rugby. 'fit the last election, it appears, he took the chair at a Liberal meeting. Soon after a Conservative meeting was held, when he was away for the holidays. Mr. Newdegate afterwards complained to him that he had met with very uncivil treatment, and thought the doctor should not have kept out of the way. Not wishing the hon. member to make the same complaint again, Dr. Temple went to the door of the Town Hall on Monday to be within call. Mr.Newdegate beckoned to him, and he went to the platform, without any inten tion of speaking. He merely attempted to assist in stopping the interruptions : He pays Mr. Newdegate the compliment of testifying to his straightforward, courteous, and friendly conduct. The case was dis graceful enough before; it is worse now ; and per haps the Globe may acknowledge that it was rather hasty in condemning Dr. Temple's presence at the meeting, without one word of blame for the bucolics who bundled him out of the room. THE ABYSSINIAN GAZETTE. Mr. Disraeli cannot be said to have been sparing in the bestowal of the Abyssinian honours, There was a peer created, several K.C.B. and similar decorations, a large number of advancements were made, and altogether the announcements in the Gazette made a " pretty batch." But nobody seems to have been satisfied except the immediate friends of those really ad vanced. " What about Mr. Rassam ? " cries one ; and no sooner is the cry raised than fifty others rise up claiming consideration for their pitiful cases. Now it is for some officer who first led the men to this place, again for one who stayed behind and guarded stores in that place ; now for some officer who was active, and again for one who, forbidden to go forward, did not chafe under inaction,—till now it comes to be " rumoured " or " pretty generally understood," "in military circles " or " at the clubs," that there is to be another Abyssinian Gazette. If so, it is to be hoped that the Premier will make a clean sweep, and leave no " legacy of discontent " to the incoming Govern ment. LOCAL TAXATION. The Times calls attention once again to the inequality of our local taxation. There is a want of uniformity even in two parishes of the same borough. The total amount of local taxation is little less than a third of the revenue of the United Kingdom raised in the name of the Crown. And this large sum is raised here on one principle, there on another ; here in one proportion, there in another ; in one case the amount is large, in another small. In Bed minster, for instance, the rateable value of land without buildings is found by deducting from the gross estimate a proportion of 10 per cent. ; at Ledbury (llereford)the deduction varies from 1 to 22 per cent., while at Bishop Stortford (Ilerts) a diffe rent plan is adopted altogether, and a rebatement of 6d. per acre is made. A parliamentary committee in 1867 recommended very strenuously that some measure should be passed for creating a common bas:s.Nothing, however, has as yet been done. Surely the question should be considered in the coming session. TIIE REPRESSION OF CRIME. There is hardly a question more delicate to handle than the question of sentences on prisoners. The one great anomaly, for instance, which has been repeatedly denounced, that crimes against property are dealt with more severely than offences against the e son, be°°nlefs allnolt a .IgrAgga...o.9. Alea. the THE NATAL DIFFICULTY. Professor Plumptre foresees so many elements of discord in reopening the question of the Natal grant at the next meeting of the Society for the Promo tion of Christian Knowledge, that he writes to the Guardian to say that he thinks it better to accept a fait accompli and let the matter alone. At the same time precautions should be taken against like disas ters for the future. If the resolution of October 6 be rescinded, it will be brought forward again and again with all the appliances of a well organised electioneering agency. If it be re affirmed and the grant augmented—a result at least possible—the society will be committed more than ever to the Bishop of Capetown's policy. The Pro fessor draws a melancholy picture of the accumula tion of motions, amendments, and difficulties, and he himself is prepared to vote against all the resolutions on the paper, except the proposal that no member speak more than once at a meeting or longer than ten minutes. It is hardly likely that the Professor will succeed as a peacemaker, and we may look for many " barren and distressing contests." A SELF-ETTER3IINATING SPECIES. The clergy of Brighton present a melancholy spec tacle. The other day we noticed that the Rev. Charles Walker wrote to the Bishop of Chichester to ask his lordship's support in case he instituted proceedings against the Rev. Edmund Clay for cele brating evening communions. The Rev. Edmund Clay, determined to do as he is done by, joins with four other gentlemen in addressing a letter to the Bishop, pointing out how he may best prose cute Mr. Purchas, and undertaking the payment of the necessary costs. There has been a long corre spondence published in the Brighton Gazette, between the Vicar of Brighton and the clergy of St. Michael's, upon the subject of ultra-ritualistic services at that church. Some of these services were represented to the bishop as so extravagant that he could not believe the account he received. Mr. Wagner, the vicar, tried to induce Messrs. Perry and Beanlands to make some alterations in their Ritual, but the rev. gentlemen belong to a school which swallows any amount of advice without the slightest effect upon them. The correspondence was submitted to the bishop, is now in mint for the edification of the faithful MADAME RACHEL. It had been long understood that Madame Rachel's case was not finally disposed of, and that it would appear in a Court of Error. The ground for dis puting the validity of the conviction was said to be the course of Mr. Commissioner Kerr in putting the case before the jury. In his summing up he drew attention to some water-marks upon _ the letters of Mrs. Borrodaile and Madame Rachel, and the newspapers were flooded with a corre pondence criticising this unusual circumstance of a judge introducing new features in a case which counsel had closed. Now it appears that the chief issue is the validity of the Commis sioner's jurisdiction. The Attorney-General has granted his fiat for a writ of error, and application has been made before Mr. Commissioner Kerr that the record of the conviction should be drawn up in accordance with the facts. It is questioned whether Mr. Kerr, who is the judge of the City of London Court, is entitled to act as one of the commissioners, and to dispose of cases in the Central Criminal Court. He formerly did so as judge of the Sheriff's Court, but the jurisdiction having been changed by the new County Courts Act, a doubt ap pears to exist whether he is now legally qualified to act as a commissioner of the Central Criminal Court. The counsel stated that this was only one of the points to be raised upon the argument in error, so that Madame Rachel, besides affording an instructive lesson in modern manners, will serve now to illus trate the uncertainty of the law. It is very strange that judges should not foresee these difficulties and should not be perfectly sure of their jurisdiction before trying a case. THE STRAW-PLAIT WORKERS OF DITNSTABLE. Can anything possibly be done to relieve the straw-plait workers of Dunstable and the neighbour hood, not by giving them charity, but by giving them work ? ,That fashion will change is too much to hope. But cannot the workers change ? Can they do nothing but plait straw ? Artificial flowers, combinations of silk velvet and ribbon, are all " some thing after their style." Are they so helpless as not to be able to take this kind of work ? Or, if so, there are certainly other uses to which straw might be put besides bonnets. A correspondent of the Daily News suggests that for the future all these workers should be educated in the laws of taste might be able to put tahnedir chemistry,s when one thing fails. hands to s o o th t e h r at thin theyg Extended, his suggest i on would come to this : " Let all who are dependent for their livelihood on the fashions, and who may thus be turned out of work at any time, learn some other and similar trade, so that when the one fails they may have the other ; or, at any rate, let their education be such as not to con fine them to the merely one mechanical opera tion." INDAY MUSIC. It will be remembered that for a long period Mr. Clapham, of the Leeds Royal Park, has been paying a weekly fine for the performance of music on the Sunday. e cost m him £l7O altogether ; and hisa g Ttohishss ent has been a loser bytat it. The case has been heard by the Recorder of Leeds, to whom Mr. Clapham appealed against the decision of the bench, and the Recorder has dis missed the appeal. He held that the magistrates required by the law. He haveco nden sled condemned i\eir. d . ti Clapham's u conduct, but did not express any opinio n as t o the desirableness of Sunday music. I t shoul d be noted that the n discretion ,s music was described as sacred, though this did not guarantee the respectability of the meeting. A very shady public-house in a certain provincial town used to advertise a " selection of sacred music " on Sunday evenings ; doubtless upon the principle that it was more intellectual to get drunk to the music of Handel than to a nigger melody. FOREIGN NOTES, THE REORGANISATION OF SPAIN, The candidates for the throne of Spain are rapidly diminishing in numbers, and none arise to fill their places. King Ferdinand of Portugal has retired. The Epoca states that the candidature of the Duke of 3' abandoned by the gllelioineratplesnsieofr the e ia L s ib b er e a e l n Excepting the more improbable nominations, there remains only Don Carlos, and he can hardly be supposed to have a chance, even in the absence of every other claimant. Republicanism seems to make progress. A Programme, signed by Senor Orense, and which demands the establishment of a Federal Republic, chews that the Democrats have fairly taken the field. The theory of Republicanism promulgated by this document is of the most extreme character. It demands a single Assembly, elected every year by universal suffrage, with a head of the executivippwer who shall be responsible in everything to the Assembly. This is return ing to a "state of nature" rather too rapidly. The full text of the new manifesto has been published. It is a very lengthy, wordy document, and contains nothing notable beyond the telegraphic summary already published. On the subject of religious liberty, the Govern ment says that the deeply-rooted faith of the country will not be injured by the free exercise of other forms of worship. It will rather he strengthened by the conflict, and will be enabled to repulse the invasion of religious indifference which is now becoming so baneful. The change is, besides, a political necessity. Religious freedom is already becoming generally ac cepted. Bibles are being freely circulated by zealous agents of evangelical societies ; and the Jews look upon the establishment and promises of the new Government as so secure a pledge, that they, too, are preparing to return to the country from which they have been excluded for centuries by the suicidal policy of bigoted rulers. The correspondent of the Incic"pcndance Edge says that two or three English agents have been traversing Madrid on horseback, distributing bibles to the crowd. It is difficult for us in England to realise the radical nature of the change which such an occurrence signifies. _ , The value of British property in the province of Anda lusia alone is estimated at over five millions sterling, rHE RECOGNITION OF THE NEW SPANISH GOVERNMENT. The recognition of the Provisional Government was preceded by a conference at the Tuileries, and there can be no doubt that the step was the result of an agreement between England, France, and Prussia, besides Portugal. The Times correspondent says a Queen's messenger and a French Cabinet courier arrived at Madrid on Friday morning. On the next day the English, Portuguese, and Prussian representatives waited upon the Spanish Foreign Minister, but the French Ambassador sent in a written communication. These diplomatic measures have been marked by great caution. All the four Governments appear to have adopted one form of DISARMAMENT. The Liberte has received a letter from St. Petersburg stating that the Emperor Alexander is endeavouring to bring about a discussion on disarmament at the meeting of the International Commission touching explosive projec tiles. The Czar will seek to make this discussion the basis of more general negotiation. This is merely rumour, but the announcement that the forthcoming speech of the King of Prussia will be a peace manifesto, as well as other signs, are all reassuring. Even the famous official ir:lp just published in Paris is for the purpose of sheaving people feat they ought to be satisfied with things as they are. BARON BEL'ST'S SPEECH. The speech which the Kew Free Press published as being delivered by Baron Beust before the Military Committee at Vienna produced a considerable effect on the Bourse. Rentes fell nearly per cent., and a panic was prevented only by the very general belief that the speech was a fabrication. And so, it appears, it is. Baron Beust addressed the committee in general terms, which the New Free Press skilfully elaborated into the most foolish harangue ever delivered by a statesman of high position. THE DUKE OF BRABANT. The second puncture, which was found absolutely neces sary to preserve the • life of the Duke of Brabant, has partially succeeded. Several deep incisions produced a partial evacuation of the accumulated water, and its temporary withdrawal from the cavity of the stomach. The prince afterwards enjoyed some little repose. But the physicians, says a correspondent of the Standard, hold out no hope from this relief ; the operation is considered merely as a palliative which cannot be again resorted to. INDIA. The news that Ameer Shere Ali desires to establish friendly relations with the British Government is of very considerable importance. It shows that the Afghanistan chiefs are beginning to be alarmed at the aggression of Russia, and are disposed to seek our alliance with a common object. Friendship between the Indian G overnm ent and Shere Ali will place a barrier between our possessions and those of Russia, and secure a friendly battle ground in case the worst, which is anticipated in some quarters, should ever arise. THE CANADIAN DOMINION. The negotiations for the incorporation of the Hudson's Bay Territory in the new Canadian Dominion are not in a promising condition. All that is required to transfer this vast tract of country is the payment of a money compensation to the Hudson's Bay Com pany, but this is by no means likely to be made. The Canadians doubt the title of the company to the territory, and, further, have no funds at disposal. The Canadian News is in a position to state that the expecta tion that any money will now be paid by the Government of Canada may he at once abandoned, and an announce ment to this effect will most likely be forthwith made. THE CANAL ACROSS THE PANAMA ISTHMUS. A letter in the Standard draws attention to a considera. tion of much importance in connection with the canal to be constructed across the Darien Isthmus. He says that the 'Washington Government has endeavoured to obtain from the Columbian Government powers to construct and to keep possession of the canal, fortifying the entrances under certain conditions. Is this true? If it is, such a bargain cannot fail, as the writer says, to provoke ae distrust of all maritime nations. MR. MILNER GIBSON AT ASHION. MANCHESTER, Thursday Evening. Mr. Thomas Milner Gibson met this evening the new portion of the constituency of Ashton com prised in the township of Hurst, and was most en thusiastically received by a crowded meeting ; Mr. Oldham Whittaker preside 1. Mr. GIBSON said some doubt had been attempted to be thrown upon which party in the Ilouse of Commons the people were indebted for the onew Reform Act and the extension of the franchise to the great body of the people. They were all well aware that the Government of Lord Russell intro duced a very moderate measure of Reform, but which many thought to be a much larger mea sure than ought to be carried, and was termed by the Conservatives a measure which would tend to Americanise our institutions, and was calculated to turn England into a Republic. The bill was defeated, and Lord Derby's Go vernment came into power, proresing to resist the tide of D,mocracy and put an end to all progress. They had not been in power long before they found that they must do something to extend, and, as Mr. Disraeli phrased it, degrade the franchise. They undertook to settle the ques tion of Reform, and he gave them credit for it. He admitted they ha 1 a difficult task to edue rte their party and to allay their fears while endeavouring to satisfy the country. Mr. Disraeli had to satisfy two parties—the Liberals that something real was about to be accomplished in the form of household suffrage, and the Conservatives; and thus, by means of checks and counterpoises, the apparent exertions of the power of the people would be defeated. The first of these counterpoises was to give certain men of property two votes, while working men had one ; the next was that the new voters were to have had two years' residence in their houses before becoming entitled to the suffrage ; and the third was that no person was to have a vote if his landlord paid the taxes. 'I here was little doubt that if these had been carried, the Reform Act would have been of doubtful value. But who got rid of these checks which were intended to defraud the work ing man? There could be no doubt the credit belonged to the Liberal party. (Cheers.) He confessed he thought the time was come when we ought to pul•J aside this question as to ratepaying, and he wool I like to see the Reform .Act sup plemented by the ballot. (Cheers.) The longer he lived the more he was convinced that in a country like England, where people were so afraid of offend ing their neighbours, and wished to live at peace with them—where there was so much social caste— the protection of the ballot was necessary. Nothing would tend so much in Ireland, where land was held under a yearly tenancy, and the landlord pulled one way and the priest another, to put the tenant at his ease as vote by ballot. Ballot would give freedom and power to those who who had the franchise, and if they ought not to possess it then our policy had been wrong in giving it. (Hear.) A good deal had been said about the public expen diture. It was claimed that the Whigs were quite as extravagant in that department as the Tories. Going back over a period of 50 to 100 years—he confessed he could not speak with confidence, but he could speak limiting retrospect to a reasonably limited period, because he had been a member of the Liberal Governments and knew what they did during the time they were in office, and he did know that there never was a man more earnest and determined to reduce the expenditure of the country than Mr. Gladstone was as Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Cheers.) His exertions were not very popular with the Departments, but dur ing the period he held office, some five or six years, he did reduce the permanent expenditure by some thing like more than £3,000 per annum. But for that he could not have repealed such duties as that on paper (upwards of a million), and reduced the duty on wine and other articles. And yet no one could say that the naval and military services were not as efficient as at any time during the war. It was to be regretted that in so short a time as the present Government had been in office the whole of this expenditure had been reimposed. But he must say that he thought nothing effective could be done in relation to real economy in the national expen diture unless we were prepared to encounter the question of the great magnitude of our military and naval armaments. Ile was not exactly a Quaker ; he knew, as the world was now constituted, we had not arrived at the period when we could trust to the forbearence of everybody, and leave the interests of the country undefended ; but there was a limit that ought to be observed in times of peace. He be lieved, not only in England, but throughout Europe, the opinion was gaining ground that the enormous military and naval armaments maintained were un necessary ; that they were oppressive and ought to be diminished. (Cheers.) He believed that sen timent was gaining ground in France and all through Europe ; they were not owing to the wish of the people, but were maintained through the power acquired by the military classes in the vari om Goveranionto, Ho found Mr. Digraeli in 1851 protesting against these enormous armaments, and most recently Lord Stanley saying the policy of England was a policy of peace. But why could not some step be taken with a view to mutual re duction of armaments ? The main expenditure of this country was upon the army and navy, and it was his firm belief that unless the electoral body took the matter in hand themselves, so great was the ascendency of the military power in the con trol of the Departments, no military reduction would be effected. The success of such au attempt would depend upon the foundation of public opinion, and he hoped that Ashton would not be backward in supporting the great cause of retrenchment, be cause if any community had au interest in peace and retrenchment it was this town. 'lice hon. gentleman concluded with some remarks on educa tion, and referred to the advantages secured by the repeal of the newspaper stamp and paper duties. Ile was enthusiastically cheered, and a vote of con fideace in him was carried by the meeting. NO DERBY NE I 7 YEAR. " I believe it because it is impossible," wrote a defiant disputant of old ; and it is only on that • principle that we can give any credence to the ter rible report that there will be "no Derby next year." We feel what a shock it must be to every well-regulated mind even to real these worth ; and we should be loth to circulate such peculiarly pain ful intelligence, had not a sporting contemporary already broken the news. It is asserted that the part of the Derby course which extends from Tat tenharn Corner to the furzes is new the property of a Mr. Studd ; that he demands a thousand a year for it, instead of the three hundred a year obtained by the former owner; that the Grand Stand Com mittee rejected the demand, believing that they could make a new course ; that they now find out they cannot ; and that Mr. Stuld, incensed at the quarrel, declares that, "no matter what terms they offer," there shall Le no racing on his grounds. As most people know, the entries for the Derby are made long before the event, and the conditions precisely specify the very course which is now Mr. Studd's property; the race could not be run elsewhere; and all the arrangements for the Derby of 1869 would be null and void—entries bets, and all—should the landowner refuse to give way. In fact, there could be no Derby next year ! But, as we have said, the thing is impos sible. As Mr. Pickwick remarked, when he and his friends were forced to lead about the country a raw-boned white horse, " This is like a horrible dream." But there are dreams that, even when we know them to be such, leave a painful impres sion ; and the bare thought that in any year there may be " no Derby" is really too much for ordi nary human nerves. We might as well be told that there is to be no sunrise next Monday, or no Wednesday next week. To liken it to "no daily papers" were feeble ; for there are several parts of the world, even of England, where, strange to say, the people live on after a fashion without the morning journals. But no Derby ! Nero wished that all mankind had one neck ; and if Mr. Studd be an unrelenting enemy of the human race, he must rejoice to find that so many millions of the English people have one amusement, and that he can stop it at a word. Savage tribes believe in the power of their medicine-man to bring on an eclipse ; but here, through the combination of legal rights with some committee blundering, the eclipsing power rests in Mr. Studd's hands, so that he can " throw several families into mourn ing," and " eclipse the harmless gaiety of a nation," sin:ply by refusing to let his land. We suppose that he has the legal power ; but is not the safety of the people the supreme law, and are the English people " safe" if enraged at such a calamity, un precedented in the history of the world ? The worst Roman Emperors never dared to curtail the circenses of the populace. Senators or patricians might be cut off, but the games for the masses went gaily on ; yet what a Caesar could not do is done by a plain Englishman, who tells us that his foot is on his Epsom Heath, and that his name is Stutl.l. In the courts of the United States writs of error are sued out in the form of " Hiram and Jenks against The People ;" and this Derby case is simply a suit of "Studd against the People of England"—twenty millions to one against Staid, and yet that awful outsider may win. It is very difficult to realise a No Derby year. It would take a five-hundred Frith power to paint the results of the national holiday on such a clay. But, like Sterne, taking one cap tive to illustrate slavery, let us take a single jockey, and imagine the blight falling on his young life, when he hears that the Derby is to be run no more. No more for him the dear delight of being the familiar of Dukes, Marquises, Earls, and, greater still, trainers of valued studs. No more for him unlimited adoration, champagne in tropical showers from titled friends proud of his friendship, and cigars, bigger than himself, from generous young " swells." Think, also, of the humbler stableboys, whose few ideas run round Derbies alone, who—as Churchmen date Sundays before or after Trinity—fix events as before or after the Derby of each year, and look to the fateful Wednesday as the central day of the throe hundred and sixty-five. But the Derby, as we all know, is not the holiday of any one class. Men who never devote a thought or a shilling to another race yield to the national frolic or mania on that great day, and stake something or other on the result. On that day Englishmen speak to one another without being introduced. On that day a costermonger and a Duke have a fellow feeling ; a beggar might, unre baked, ask a banker the tidings of the hour. In every club and public-house, at every street corner of every town, in every theatre and cone rt hall, in rail way carriages, omnibuses, and cabs, the Derby becomes the event of the year, and when it is run the result is the news of the day. Fancy, then, the change 1 All this central interest crowding round one day and round one event, would be completely gone. Imagine London not poured out of town in a long parti-coloured stream —a hundred thousand human beings with one goal in view—but doomed to stay at home. Gloomy groups stand about discussing the disaster, as if the earth had opened out to swallow up the national holiday. Fancy the Epsom road, with its desola tion and alarming, amazing silence. Fancy all the female inhabitants of all the villas and all the boarding-schools looking out of windows like Sis ter Anne to see if. anybody is coming, and not dis cerning the habitual clouds of dust—the poor girls with repartees ready for the jokers who do not come with bright killing glances, and nobody eager to be killed. The thought is too much. Let us suppose, on next "Derby" day, Studd, in a brown study, alone, rejoicing over his decision ; Epsom silent and neglected ; and then, companion picture, the people of England in anger and in gloom ! We do not believe in the being who could face such a fact—" There's no such man." Could he calmly " lay his head on his pillow," like a jury man, and hear in fancy the chorus of condemna tion from the enraged Britons cheated out of their day ? Could he, unmoved, see in his mind's eye the tears that trickle down the lovely cheeks of those deprived of that " litae trip" which they had been promised so long? Could he face unflinch ingly the possibility of a deputation of coster mongers coming to hear what he had to say in extenuation of his unprecelented crime. But we have no fear that extra legal means will be necessary. After all Studd must be, most pro bably is, human. Children have dialed his knees —at least we hope si ; he has " sat at good men's feast's ;" he may have had his troubles like the rest of us, but they cannot have altogether soured his disposition. The Grand Stand Committee may have offended him ; but what crime have we—the people of England—committed, that he should hate us with such a deadly hate ? What shall we do to appease him ? Would he like to be " Marquis, Duke, per haps Lord Mayor"—Governor-General of India, a Life Peer? He has but to name his terms, and sooner than lose the Derby we will grant anything he asks. Of course, like Erostratus setting fire to a the Temple of Diana, he may covet the immortal fame that would surely await the destroyer of the Derby ; but it is better for Studd to be remembered with bletuinge than to go down—down vory low is to posterity with execrations vented in every Eng lish dialect from all classes, occupations, and ranks, and consoled only by the consideration that he could never do anything worse, for ' 4 nothing could he to damnation add greater than that."— Telegt aph. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. DENBIGH, RUTHIN, AND CORIVEN. The half-yearly meeting was held at Manchester; Mr. H. Gartsidc in the chair. The report stated that the revenue account showed an increase, but there were claims against the company of upwards /of £12,000. A scheme was prepared by the board to raise a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities and to recoup to revenue the sum applied therefrom for capital purposes. In the event of the scheme not receiving the sanction of the Court, it was intended to give notice of appli cation to Parliament for a bill during the next s:s sion to enable the board to raise the required amount. They hope I soon to be able to resume payment of the rent-charges and debenture inte rest. The traffic had been worked without the -lightest accident to passengers. The revenue for the half-year was £4,710, being an increase of £l5O over that of the corresponding half of 186 7 - The total receipts from all sources were £4,77 1 ) and the working expenses amounted to £3,321, la" eluding rates and taxes and the repairs of the line. In reply to questions it was stated that if they obtained an act a clause could be inserted to make the debentures payable in three or five years. The, direct route from Rhyl to the Welsh Coast, it was expected, would bring additional traffic on the line. After some discussion, in which it was shown that the bill would be the most effective mode of pro ceeding, the report was adopted. GREAT CENTRAL OF BELGIUif. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the month ending September 30 amounted, on 373 mile=, to £43,124, and for the same month last year to £37,181, showing an increase of £5,943. Th e total receipts from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 amounted to £341,965, and for the corresponding period of last year to £281,226, showing an increase of £G0,739• EQUITABLE GAS-LIGHT. The report of the directors states that the ne t profit for the half year ending the 30th of June las t amounted to £17,062, out of which the directors re commended the payment of a dividend of five Per cent. for the half-year, less income tax. The bi ll passed in the last session for the amendment of th° Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, was limited to the City of London and the district of the Chartered Co'rn pany. The three companies supplying gas in t he City, and the Chartered Company in the whole of their district, would be required on the Ist of Jan' 1870, to reduce the price, and likewise to raise the illuminating power of their gas from 12 to 16 candles, for at least one year. It was hoped the long-pending and costly agitation of the question in .the metropolis would be discontinued, at 10 4 until those companies had had had an o pportunity of testing by experience the effect of the working of the new act. The revenue account for the half-year showed that £49,649 had been received, and £32,586 expended, leaving a net profit °I £17,062. STATE OF TRADE. BLACKBURN, Oct. 28.—With only a thin attend' ante we have had a dull but steady market, owing to the firmness manifested in Liverpool. Prices all round must be quoted from id. to id. per hp in advance of last week. There is a considerable feeling in favour of short time, but no one stirs in that direction. BRADFORD, 29th.—There is a rather better ton e pervading the wool market this morning, and more inquiry fur some sorts of wool which have been loag neglected. The demand, however, chiefly runs oi l the choice sorts of lustre wool, which continue tremely firm in price. Indeed, there is no chtMg ° in prices generally ; if anything, the teudellCY against the buyer. The full prices of last week 0 0 firmly sustained. Staplers hold their stocks Wit h great firmness, and show no desire to push sales• The worsted yarn trade shows no indications of ill' provement. A very restricted business is done in both single wefts and twofold yarns. Some fair offers in 36's and 40's fiud little acceptance on ac count of their being too low. There is a steadY business done on home account. Prices are fiat' There is little or no change in pieces. The mark et continues very inactive, and the business done for every quarter is much below the average. rri ces are firm. A match at football will be played between th e o f gentlemen cadets of the two Military Colleges Woolwich and Sandhurst, by permission of til e Commander-in-Chief, on the 11th of next month' The game will be contested on the barrack-field is front of the Royal Artillery Barracks. A RAILWAY DELAY.—Yesterday morning the uP Tien Valley mail had a somewhat narrow escape on the Ti eat Valley line. Some men engaged in repairing the permane nt way had a lorry containing rails on the up lino betwee n Colwich and Shugtorough. A luggaga train came ' 1 , 13 „. owing to a want of due signalling and ran into it, block in g up the line. A number of men were immediately fetch ed from the station being built at Colwich, and set to 10- rlc to clear away the obstruction, which was removed in 11' short time. At the time of the collision the Irish ma il was about due. Fortunately the officials succeede d 13 . stopping it in time. The passengers were delayed on ir journey. 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