The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-24 00:00:00

STOURBiIIDGE OBSERVER.

roEiRIAL, PARLIAiViEN T.
/a the 1101150 of Lords. July lfs, Earl Derby and the Earl
ef Comarvoit end other peers presented petitions against the
Eeirewity Tests
gal Atwell hi movlng the second reading of the Univer-
sity lasts 801, ittd it did not follow that becatise • Mall M.
.ffiteniit,eiit iii gt.„logy or soy other of the learned
sciences, therefore he could sub-crltte to every one of
Thistydine Articles. Pet was It fair or rsasiiiiable
se exclude 'hem from the full use sod free en] went of
the universities. Ile thought it was rather an unusual course
te pursue to 10000 (118 Earl Carnarvoti had given notice to tha
itthie Elbe of the bill the previous tptest ion. The noble earl
00,,,,,iered that the Interference of the church in the uni-
versities wa, a usurpatbn. Inasmuch s the universities ought
so he npen to ever) subject of her Majesty.
The Earl id etallarioll regretted that this hill had been in.
wodueed at this time, which lie regarded as the most un-
favourable moment at which the subject could have been
brought forward. The bill, liesides effecting the c hutch,
iff,,t the while scheme and system of univereity ells-
ciplute suit college discipline. 10 the former it was
compulsory, to tire letter it VI. optional. Just as
he a', nitl ihtt,..ta upon a standard of thservante and
discipline ii the Church, so he maintained that they
shoat insist upon safeguards and standards in regent to
elacation. The present bill would lead to ceaseless Irritation
and moon preindiee and this must eventually result in
a ceninronibie which would most probably be the repudiation
a all e,h,lon In the Universities and colleges. lie concluded
In moving the previous question.
ton: Morley supported the bill on the ground that the re-
tention of such tests wits inconsistent with the tendency of
sao sge, which would, if the measure were now rejected, in-
sist on its being immediately sent back to the other House.
The Bishop of ()Weeder considered Lord Caruarvou had
acted wisely in moving the previous question.
Loril Campenlow it maintained it would be a confession of
hstelletual Inferiority on the part of the Church of England
for Is lb insist on keeping a. monopoly of half the fellow ships.
lord Lyttelt., though m favour of • relaxation of the
existing bars to admission into the College., distinguished
from the Universities, had always been disinclined to corn-
Wong the Colleges to admit fht.senters. But this bill left
them their freedom of action, and he should therefore vote
for It.
a divthion the bill was rejected by Otto 54.
Lerd cletineld brought up the report of amendments to
the Municipal lrooctiiso Uiii. The proposal of the bill in
respect of irritate voting tor local Aloes was resisted by Lord
Bede,dale, but it was defended by Lords lansberley and
Calms,. and the report w.receiVed.
The Archbishop of Canterbury brought rip the report of
amendments to the Bishops' Resignation Bill, and defended.
n wind various sriticisms. 0 servations were made by
'fits Limerick and Lyttelton, the Duke of Somerset, and
Emits Rath,. tale, Harrowby, and Denman. The report was
itectiVeit together with some additional amendments.
In answer to suggestions by Lord Strathetien on the subject
of the report of the Select Comodttee on the construction of
the House, Lord Granville expressed an opinion that the per,
fettle and theoretical difficulties, Ii lint the want of a concen-
tration In some Peer of larger powers for the purpose of
insintalning order, were, in fact, reduced within very narrow
Molts by • mutual understanding on the two sides of the
House as to the conduct of a debate. Ile avowed himself •
Conservstive in respect of this question.
Lord Lytteltun thought Lord Granville had underrated the
Ineonveinince of the present system, w hich resulted oc-
easionally in ludicrous embarassments, as when two Peers
got up ti, speak simultaneously.
The Sunday arid Ragged Schools Bill was read a second
(into on Lot d Shaftesbury's motion
The Select Committ,e 01/As mulled on the Bankruptcy and
Imprisonment for Debt Bills.
Some conversation arose on the Pensions Commutation
Bill, which was reads this it time.
Other bills were advanced a stage, and their lordships ad-
journed._

In the House of Commons, the following bills were read a
bird Vine and passed :—Festiniug Railway Bill, Truce
Water Hill.
Viscount s.indon asked the Vice-President of the Com- •
mitten of Council on Education what progress had been
made in the Inquiry into the educational condition of liir-
Iniosharo, Liverpool, and Manchester ; what errs the in-
structions to the Coteruiegioners conducting it and how soon
the Houle would be informed of the result: and whether
her Majesty's Government would extend the inquiry to the
metropolis?
Mr. %V. K Feeder said that he could not furnish the noble
lord with the inatructions which had been given to the Com-
miadoners, The return ordered by the 110t1.,8 was in pro-
gress, and would he completed by about September or Octo-
ber, and two inspectors would be sent down in November or
December. He trusted the information would lie laid before
the House early next sago°. It would be impossible to get
au accurate return for the city of London, and the results
would int be stall commensurate with the cost.
Colonel Stuart Knox asked the Chief Secrets] y for Ireland
when he would fulfil the promise given by the PriMe Minfeter
lo bring m a kill to lighten the burden on Nonconforming
congregations for debts contracted in the erection of

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churches
Mr C. Fortescue said that the opinion of the Government
with regard to this subject was not changed. lie did not
think It reasonable to call upon the House to consider the
subject during the short remainder of the session.
Mr Wm Gallway mired a number of questions relating to
the great inconvenieece and delay expert, need in crossing
the thannel from Dover to Calais; anti a'so whether the
President of the Hoard of Trade did not think a select com•
mitteeor international coniteission would be of great service
Mr. Bright quite agreed with the hon. member as to the
very uusatisfactory stile if the service between England and
France. The Board of Trade had instituted an inquiry, and
a very able repot had been laid upon the table. It would
be in tie hands of hon, members in a few dais, and • copy
had been sent to the French Government in order that the
matter night be brought under their notice, with a view to
great improvement in the means of transit being affected.
Sir F. Ileygate asked the First Lord of the Treaeury
whether, in considering the application of the surplus funds
hereafter to accrue front the Irish Church, regent will belied
to the locality frost which such surplus is derived
Mr. GlAdatone said alit the question was somewhat prema-
ture. ,the financial position of the Irish I hureh Bill was
extremely complex. Ile thought that an equal distribetion
ever the whole of Ireland would be the must jut mode of
disposal of the funds.
The House spent the greater part of the evening in Com-
mittee of Supply on Class IV. of the Civil Service Estimates—
Elocution, Science, and Art. elle first vote was tne educa-
tion vote. £840,711, on which
Mr. W. E. Forster entered Into the neual explanatory
statement. There was an increase of £49,000 in the vote—
£44,ooo on the day schools, and £5,600 on the night schools—
of which te6.000 was doe to an increase in the number of
children educated Grants were made to 10,857 day schools
and 1,041 night schools, and these afforded accommodation for
1,66000 children. The number registered on the books
was 1,453 000, but the average attendauce was only 978.0e0
in
the day schools and 65,000 in the night schools. The grants
to these schools amounted to £414,900, which was supple-
Incited by £420.742 of school fees, and £472,750 y eubscrip-
tines and endowments. Speaking on the quality of the edu-
cation given, Mr hornier adduced the fact that 428,000 day
scholars and 35 500 night scholars haul passed without failure
In the It's, being smut 67 per cent. And while the in-
crease in the population was shout 1 per cent per annum,
there had been an increase of 74 per cent, in the number of
Children attending school, 8 per cent in those presented for
examination, and leg per cent. itt those passed withuuut
failure but, on the other hand, of the children of the
working claisea proper, enly one-fourth of those bet wren
six and ten years, and one-fifth between ten aud twelve were
receiving a real education.
The usual desultory conversation which followed turned
not so much in the merits of the vats as on suereestions for
the Education Bill, which it was assumed the Government
will introduce next year.
The ether votes taken were Science and Art Department
(£225,253'. end British Museum e 113,233,
The in hushiess was the ou -lin Freemen Commission ,
Bill, and, bclore going into C,,mmittee, Mr. Collins moved an
inetruction, with the view of including Youghal in the in-
fruity on the gronnd that £5,000 had been spent to pal 127
voters: Mr SI aguire opposed the motion, as a petition epeeist
the present member was now pending, and on a division it
was negatived by 154 Pr 78.
As soon as the House had gene Into committee Mr. Loy/thee
moved that the Chairman Irate the choir, which gave rise to
a short hut animated cop versatuen. vie John Hay charged
the Government with adj.* entirely on party motive., strik-
ing at the Dublin green en because they were Conservatives,
and sparing the Youghal voters i,ecnuec they returned a Ltheral ;
and Sir J Elphinetone dechired that it was the most Coe-
rept thing the Governmerit had yet done. The Attor-
ney-General for Ireland and Mr. C. Fortescue defended the
bill as the only means of snorting the Cuss, but ceelined to
go over again the arguments which hod been already thrashed
out. The motion se as rejected by 187 to 75, and the bill then
passed through Committee.
The C unty Administration and the Mines Regulation Bills
Were withdrawn.
The Trades' Union Protection of Funds Bill was read a
second time.
le me ether bills were forwarded a stage, and the House
adjourned.
In the House of Lords, July 20, anticipations of the re-
Sumption of the Irish Church question produced a large
'Heed..ce of peers and attract' d a large !lumber of stranger
to the galleries The Peeresses' Genet), was also graced with
a distieguithed assemblage, arid the vacant space In front of
the Thrum was filled by members of the House of Commons
and oCher faventeil visitors.
The Earl of Dorby presented a petition signed by the
chain man of a large open air meeting, held yesterday, in
Liverpool, praying their lordships to adhere to all the amen/-
Meets to the Irish Church Bill passed by this House, with
the exception of that relating to concurrent endowment.
The rmeetion of tire day was opened by Earl Granville, who
reeved to agree to the Commons' amendments made to the
Lords' ameedments on the Irish Church Bill, and not to in-
sist on the Lords' amendnients. to which the Commons have
eiragreed. The noble earl having reminded the Home that
ahem eve weeks ago he advised the Home not to interfere
with any of the principles of this MU, alluded to the high in-
tellectual standard maintained ..n the discussion in this House.
But there were epecks even upon the sun; and so very hard words
were at first employed against the promoters of this bill. Width
he entirely dissented from the couclueions of the noble and
learned hied opposite Lord Cairns), he bore testimony
to the fairness and moderation of iris speech. A large
ma's of ameudmente were passed arid sent down to the
House of Commons—some go. d, some bad, and nithen in-
different All the more important of their lordship:
amendments were rejected by the House of Cumulous. lie
thought It • remarkable thing that not one word disre-
spectful was uttered in the House of CORIMOOII. Wah regard
In the e supercilious" rejection of their lortishipe' annend-
ments, aster hie promise (in the part of the Government to
consider respectfully any amendments of their lordships, he
said that while Ira lea than sixty-two anundmeinte were sent
down to the other liouee, .unly thirteen were totally rejected.
The Government couteeded, in contradistinction to some
pretensions, that dismoduermeet as well tm dieestablishment
tretoralarnental principles of the bill. The Geverenuent had
added no les. than A:See WO to the Rum given to the Church
In the progress of the Mil. It was therefore impossible to say
that the Mouse of Commons had rejected every aniendMent
gent down to them Taking the amendments seri/revue
tie
asked the HOWIE to reinsert the wortls struck out it, the pre-
amble. Tbere was not only &II utter absence of pulltC leel-
ing in favour of concurrent etelossmeet, but there was a
string mad general opt osition to the suggestion. With
regard le the proposal to suspend the application of the
sonde,. the m.ure be saw and heard of the matter, the more
he was convinced of the disadvantage of ke ephig this ques-
tion epee. Ile condemned the proposal hobnob these indiums
dartilo before the eyes of the people to excite and stimulate
agita lit. As to any real practical alternative to the Govern-
ment plan, the only alternative was concurrent endowment,
which, he contended, was not in accordauce with the national
with Lie, therefore, asked the IL use not to adhere to the
arnendmeet he postponing the appropriation of the surplus.
Lord Cairns contest. d the propriety of severing the
cusaion of the tw o amendments, and moved that the Home
114, imist en its amendment in the preaMlcle. He denied that
the House of Genuine. had paid due respect to their &mewl-
meats. So far horn the change as to the curate's compenea-
tion Icing beneticial, the hill, by saddling rectors with the
salaries of curate., wberever they had deducted them
hem their Weenie-tax, without any reference to the
thee, lung or short, liming width the curates had
been employed, was made tetifold worse than ke-
rne. As for the added 7 per cent to the com-
muted asunnit les, by the admiasion even of ita advocates, that
alleged •' " was merely pay ing the proper price
for the aonuttiee. The third " concession,' in respect of
private curlew ments, was of the sane nature, L 500,100 being
at any rate not in excess of their simple value. An
for the eubatitetien for the amendment by which
the application of the surplus was postponed, he argued
that an Order in Council was an order by the Prime
Minister ter the time being, that the Pone Law Cone-
enissierere were not a lenity lit te have the disposal
of £00,400 • year entrusted to them, and that Hr
Gladsome's explanations .d the provisions of the
re-amerided Clause 60 Itself were in thrn.elve. sell-
CuLtraillididy. Ile liepeui the Home would insiet on 1114
rmintmest In this respect. If it did the Government could
11.1d,r in el Puttied int relinquishing the bill on this account,
fee this tteuld Ire simply to postpene the application of the
muredlte as the amendment now did. The amendments he
di no, d generally between those which he eimeidered vital—
viz, the scale of crummutatioe and the curates' compensatem
tlmee full wine h as tin re existed some difference at
°pillion on his OMII side or the House concerning them—e y
the Mate nuf Disestablishment, and even the right of tee
Church to retain the Mater Glebes—he should advise the
• eei insist.

Home

Lord Kimberley maintained that the House of Commons
bad in effect extended the compensation to curates. As too
the increase in Om 4:on mutation Fond he asserted it to be
incon-isteiit with the pi inciple of the bill to give S I.ttis ti.
the Church, awl eckiert thst the bill now gave S bonus to

trio boom. tin de.enovd the propered or Lord Grenv tire
to sever the consideration of the two amendment, in the
preamble.
hd.d Grey regarded the question of the preamble as In Itself
of little importer Co. He feared, however, considering the
Inuit tier in which the fouertimeuts hail been treated, that the
°oven, env tit attached less hiriporrac e to passing the bill than
to degrading the House. Toe House, on its part, hail ex.
amine.! the bill as it I rime up front the House of Gomm.%
I carefully arid les muttony, and, while hoisting on an adequate
provision for the Divestablished Church, had tutu ably
I applied the some prineiple to the other Churches of Helmut.
But the House of Uunurroirs had taken upon itself to r.ject the
amendments wMeli lutd bert made on this point without
erious discussion, on the ground mainly of sortie election
speech...
Lord Halifax defended the proposal of Lord Granville to
sever the ameedmeuts lathe preamble. Although biome( in
favour of a certain measure of concurrent emiowurent, lie
advocate I, in the interest of peace and order, the hotehisiste
ence of the House en its ameetiment to omit the words f or.
bidding an apprication of the surplus to religlem teaching.
I which, whatever their real insignelcaece, would be construed
by the country art implying concurrent endowment.
Lent Clamicarde hoped the House, in deference to the
feeling of the country, would waive its first amendment in
the preamble, but would stand firms, to the second.
Lord Shaftesbury believed the bill a revolutionary one, but,
persuaded as he was that not merely the House of Common.,
but the nation, was determined to carry the measure, arid
! that if it could not have this there would soon be a cry for
concurrent disendowment throughout the entire United
Kingdom, he appealed to the Reuse not to hoist on its
amendment..
Lord Russell defended the policy of concurrent endowment,
and thought the Government ought to have been satisfied
with carrying a measure of practical disestabli.hment and
disendowment, without inserting in the preamble abstract
dogma., which might be Interpreted as a device for entrap.
plug the Legislature into an admission of the inexpediency
of all relief us emlowments. lie apprehended that the pro-
posed application of the surplus might be employed ati a
mean. of aidieg the return of Government candidates. He
should vote for the ameedment.
The Nike of A rgyll thought Lord Grey, though the " char-
tered Heroine of debate," had exceeded hirrinelf in Po violat-
ing the decericie* of debate alt, assert that the objeet of the
Government was to bring on a conflict between the two
Houses. The tact was that the verdict of the eouutry Mel
been clearly pronounced, cud still remained decided, ugaltaat
concurrent or indiscriminate endowment, and that the House
of Commons had a keeeer instinct in this matter than this

Routes could possibly have.
Lord Salisbury defended Lord Cairns from the Insinuation
that the amendment of the latter on the sutijeet ef the
surplus was covertly intended to promote the interests
of recurrent endowment. Ile proceeded to discus
earyetira, and to deny the liberality of each one of
what he styled the bundle of small gifts offered by
the G.ernisient to the Irish Church—a Church which
had never been taught the arts by which voluntaty Churches
support themselves. So far from agreeing with Lord shears-
bury's appeal to the House to waive its amendments
in
deference to the Commons, he believed this was Just an occa-
sion on whiclett was the duty of this House to interpose
between the country and the arrogant will of one man.
The Bishop of London Dail-flitted his intention to vote for
Lord Cairns' amendment, on the ground of hie objection to
the leculariution of Church property, winch he would not
dechare must be always unjustifiable, but which he was con-
vinced was in this case both unjust and 11,expedient.
Lord Granville repudiated the imputations of L rd Grey,
which he characterised as both offensive and without founda-
tion. He mitreated the House not to be induced to take a
course which at so critical • moment must have the most
grave and serious results.
A lengthened discussion then ensued on • point of order
vie , whether it were, as Lords Derby and Cairns and the
Duke of Marlborough denied, and Lord Granville, the
Lord Chancellor, and Lord Eversley atilrmed, in accord-
ance with practice to vote separately on the two
amendments In the preamble, the negative and the
positive part. The technical pert of this controversy
was terminated by the motion of the Duke of Marl-
borough that the House should insist on its amendments
to the preamille On this motion the Lord Chancellor
claimed the right to address the House in defence of the
second, the positive, part of the preamble, which asserts
the expediency of appropriating the surplus to the relict
of unavoidable calamity. He admiuiatered, amid loud
cheers, • very warm and bitter rebuke to Lords
Grey and Salishnry, to both for their personal charges
against the Government, particularly Mr. Gladstone, and to
the latter, in addition, for the levity of his remarks on the
plan for the application of the surplus, which he hxeself elo-
queotly justified.
A scene of extraordloary confusion then ensued, and after
remarks from the Duke of Manchester, who was understood
to say that he had never heard so contrary a speech as the
Lord Chancellor's, an apology from Lord Grey in welch he
reported his accusations, observations by Lord Balls, 111111
art expression of dislike by lord Windiness for the
character of Jack Cade, occompanied by a pledge that lie
would in certain eventualities be prepared to lay his heed
on the block, the House at length divided on the mo' ion that
the House do insist on the amendments in the preamble, when
that motion was carried by 172 to 95.
The debate was then adjourned on the motion of Lord
Granville, who declared that after such • division he could
not take the responsibility of proceeding further without
consultation with his colleagues, and their lordships Wen
adjouined.
In the House of Commons, the Lord Mayor of Dublin ap-
peared, In his ofilial robes, at the bar of the [louse, accom-
panied by the town clerk, and presented a petition from the
corporation of Dublin. praying the Rouse to support the Irish
Church Bill of the Government.
Mr Ayrton, in moving the second reading of the Metro-
politan Board of Works ,Loans) Bill, said that the Metropo-
litan Board of Works was reduced to such a condition of in-
debtedness that it could no longer raise the money necessary
to carry on the duties which Parliament inspired upon it
The present resources of the metropolis were the rates upon
property amounting to £18,450,000 its value, which would
province, at a rate of one penny in the pound. a sum of
£76 074, the prozeede of the coal and wine duties, which
amounted to e 195,000 per I\llllull3, and the rate of a
halfpenny in the porind upon tire insurances. The metro-
polis was now indebted to the extent of £7,996,000 ster-
ling, end it had power to raise further loans to the anitauW
of £760,000. It hod power to raise £300,000 for the
great street to be made from the 3111151011 House to
the Embankment, £135,000 fir the Park-lane improve-
r°, nts £20'5,000 for the smell embankmeet at Chelsea;
and £40.00,0 for other improvements. A sum of £lBl7 000
was required to complete the main drainage; £5OlOO
for works connected with the Fire Brigade; and £150,000
for minor improvements. They had, therefore, power to
raise money to the extent of £7.9a0 WO, together with a suns
of £760,000, and LLler7 WO further was required. The whole
amount of liability, then, was £9,863,ee0, and it was pro-
posed by the bill to give the Board of Works power to reise
neney by the creatien of stock, which could be as secure as
the Government stock. The ratiug powers of the board
were so great that, it properly managed, they ought
to be able to raise money upon very beariy equal terms
with the Govennueut The guarantees g yen by the
Goverideent would be entirely abolished, and the
who e of the debts would be messed into a consolidated
debt, having the same incidence to the creditor as the national
debt. The interest on the stock would he kept low, and the
repayment it the capital would be effected in a period of
slaty years, at an interest of 34 per cent. and 2 per cent. is
addition for the repayment of capital As a rate of Id. in
the pound produces an annual sum of £76,875, the rate to
pay the terminable annuities would be only 41. In the pound.
Other expenditure must be estimated at A:121,000, or lid. In
the pound; so that the whole of the rates would be little
over 4,1 in the pound, whereas • rate of Sd. in the pound
must be expected.
A lengthened discussion followed, after which the bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a select
committee.
Es ogrees was afterwards made with the Committee on the
Me'ropolitan Poor Act ,1807? Amendment Bill up to Clause 5
Mr al aguiee who was interrupted by an Met!, dual at-
tempt et a "russet out ") again called attention to the very
Imperfect manner in which the Prison Ministers Act had been
carried out in providing religious teaching for the Catholic ,
prisoners in the metropolitan prisons; and, in a reply which I
Mr. Maguire admitted lobe satisfactory.
Mr. Bruce acknowledged that the operation of the Act w. •
not altogether satisfactory ; but the subject was a most tilt-
cult one, atid he saw no remedy for it butte give the Horne
Secretary compulsory powers in certain cases.
After Mr. Graves had obtained leave to bring in a bill for
estehlishing District Registries of the High Court of Ad-
miralty in England,
Mr. W. Johnston. for the purpose of drawing the atten
tiou of the House to the peaceable manner its whi,di the
Protestants of the North of Ireland have gone through
the usual July celebrations, moved for the production
of the reports from the constabulary authorities ort the
subject Giving great credit to the Roman Catholic pepu.
tenon for their 'milder,oo anti forbearance, and admitting
that the Government had behaved with signal fairness, he
complatnerl of the large envy of soldiers which hail been sent
into Ulster, mei of the harshness with which the irbh police
had treated the Orange " demonstFefors." After a satis.
factory reply from Mr, C. Fortescue, Mr. W. Johnson with-
drew his motion.
Mr Blliee brought in a Hackney and Stage Carriages Bill.
which, temporarily between tins and next Session wheu a
general Act is to be introduced , gives to the Home Secretary
the same power as is now possessed by municipal authori-
ties to make bye-laws for the regulation of metropolitan
cabs. itc.
The House then passed to the Orders of the Day, the fleet
of which was the Geld Officers Supereenued kill (Deland) Bill.
In Committee 31r. Downing was moving .• clause to meet the
nose of Mr. Marquess, the Governor of Richmond Prison
;who was superseded after the escape of the Fet ian
Stephensl, just Omit the time when the critical
d,vision in the Holism of Lords WM taken In the
middle of his speech Mr. Gladstone came into the noose and
was greeted by prolonged 81111 enthusiastic c I teereig from the
imeterial benrlies, which had filled rapidly within a few
minutes. The clause was not pressed, and the bill passed
through Committee.
The debate on the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
Bill, adjeurned from lime 8, was resumed by Mr. Talbot,
who begged Mr T. Chambers to withdraw it, alleging the
time of the year, awl the absorbing question which was
likely to occupy the House for the rest of the Session. Mr,
T. Chambers, however, declared his determination to go on
with the bull, and alter • lengthened conversation, a motion
by Mr Talbot that the order be discharged was defeated by
86-143 to 57.
After • motion to edjonrn the debate had been defeated
on a division by 145 to 4s, two Destructions moved by
air. Collins and Mr. Monk—one to exteed the hill to
marriages with a deceased hnsharer. brother, the other to
marriages with a deceased wife's niece—were negatived with-
out a division, and the House then went into Committee.
The provisions extending the retrospective effect if the tell
to Scotland and heisted met with strong u ',position, which
was prolonged mail two o'clock, and the Committee was then
eiljeurned before the clause wee agreed to.
The other business was disposed of, and the House ad.

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In the House of Commons, July 21, the following bills were
reed a third time am! pas,tl —The Iladdenham, Willing-
ham, and Lmigstanton Railway Bill, and the Wailing on and
Prince. Itisborough Railway bill.
Several petitions were presented In favour of the Irish
Church Bill, and condemnatory of the Lords' amendments.
Mr. Millbank rose froni the Liberal benches, and asked, as
a point of order, whether an apology or redress coal be de-
\ mended in that House from a peer, who, in the Upper Ilou-e,
used insolent language towards the Prirllo Minister, the
testier of a great party, and insulting to the dignity of the
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_ House of Commons.-
the 'Meeker said that the question did not involve either
a point of order or of privilege, arid such a question could
not with propriety be addressed to him. 'the hon member
should know that the House was not cognisant of what passed
in the hyper House.
The adjourned debate on the If ypothec Abolition (Scotland)
Bill, was resumed by Mr. Orr-awing, who strongly opposed
the
After along discussion, the amendment of Lord Elcho to
postpone consideration of the subject was negatived, and the
Goma, divided on the sec.mil readiog :
For the second reading, 127 : against, 91 ; majority, 33.
The bill was act read a second true.
Lord Eir field novel the second reading of the Special and
Common Juries Bill.
After a short chseUsSion, in which Mr. Graves, Mr.
Young, Mr. G. Gregory, Mr. Lusk, and Mr. 11111 house took
part,
The Solicitor-General admitted the existence of many
grievances to connection with the present jury law. lie
commended the system in force in Lancashire, and trusted
that in the next session a measure would be introduced to
effect the same good results throughout the country.
The bill was then read a second time.
The order for the Adulteration of Food or Drink Act (1860'
Anomilnieut Bill, was, upon the motion of Mr. Dixon, dis-
charged.
The adjourned debate on the third reading of Married
Womsn's Property BM was resumed by Mr. C. Rallies, and
after a short division, the House divided
For the third reading, 131; Against, 32. MajmitY. 102-
Dieing was read stunt time, end passed.
The Corn and Grain Measurement Bill passed a second
The Bankruptcy Construction FaCtlittel Act (1864) Amend-
neot Bill passed through committee.
The Chigoe POrtS Act Amendment Bill passed through com-
mittee, and the House adjourned.

niva

A despatch from Quebec, dated July 7, says :—Last
light the body of Capt temple, of the ship intrusive, wee
[(mud in the wtrods about twenty miles front here with a
pistol shot wound in his heed. 'there is considelable
mystery about the affair, and it is not known whether the
teemed was Milldereil or committed tuienie A watch,
money, end other vAluebles, were found on his person.

THE INTERNATIONAL ROWING I
MATCH.
The Harvard University picked boat's Crew left
Boston for New York last night (.ays the Nw Ye'?.
Herald, of July 8), and will arrive in this city this
morning en route to England to contest with the famed
Oxford University craw in the international tour-
oared boat-race. On Saturday next they will sail trims
this port on board the steamship City of Purls, of the
Inman line, until which time they will be the
guests of the proprietors of the Astor House by
special invitation. During their sojourn in this city
they will visit Greenp ilot, L. where they
have a new "shell" in the course of construction
and almost finished, at Elliot's yard. They also bring
with them to New Yolk a shell recently built for
them by Mackie, of Charlestown, Mass., and the two
boats will be put to practical testa to determine
their respective qualities and merits. It is not yet
determined whether they will take both boats to Eng-
land with them, or merely that which shall prove to be
the better one. Tee Nassau Boat Club, of this city, it
is understood, will extend official courtesies to the
gallant collegians before their departure.
On arrival in England they will locate near
the Thames, and not far distant from the City of
London, at a point not yet fixed upon, or, if so,
khown only to parties there having the arrange-
ments in charge. Doubtless the hospitalities of the
boating fraternity in England will be fully up to the
emergency, and the crew will find everthing ready on
arrival.
The precise time for .the grand demonstration is
not likely to become known beforehand, as the Havards
have an option respecting the weather, and their friends
may rest assured that a "smooth day" will be accepted
only. 'rhey very justly remark that it would he folly to
go 3,000 miles to have a rough and tumble pull on a tur-
bulent river surface.
It is understood that the several members of the
crew are personally in fine condition at present, and
do not feel that they have in any of their re-
cent public essays put forth their real strength ; they
are confident of a reserve of muscle not yet displayed.
There has been no actual training done as yet, though
the crew have tabled together upon approved diet for
some five weeks. Good facilities are understood to
have been provided for exercise on shipboard, including
a clear space on the upper deck for promenading, &c.,
and a calin apartment separate from the main cabin
and other apartments.

. _
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MATCH.
It has been arranged that this interesting match
shall be rowed over the well-known Oxford and Cam-
bridge courae ou Saturday, the 3lst inst. After a week's
preliminary trials, five Oxonians and coxswain from
whom the competitors against the Americans will be
finally chosen have got into regular training. The Rev.
Dr. Hornby, Head Master of Eton, has placed his
fishing-villa—well known to all old Etonians at Black
Pots—at their disposal. The villa i. situated on the
Bucks shoreof the Thames, and contiguous to the train-
ing course, which is in that part of the river that
runs through the private portion of the Windsor Home
Park, between the Victoria-bridge at Datchet and the
Albert-bridge at Old Windsor. The gentlemen in
training are the following :—Mr. F. Willan,l; Mr.
A. C. Yarborough, 2; Mr. J. C. Tinne (President of
the Oxford University Boat Club), 3; Mr. S. D.
Darbishire, 4; Mr. W. S. Woodhouse, 5; Mr. J. H.
Hall, coxswain. Most of the crew are old Donjons,
and the four finally selected, judging from their ad-
mirable style of rowing at the present time, will doubt-
I as prove themselves creditable representatives of the
Oxford University, and worthy competitors of the
Americans who have hazarded the challenge in the
forthcoming contest.

ARRIVAL OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE CREW,
On Tuesday the Inman steamer City of Paris arrived
at Liverpool, from New York. Among her passengers
were the champion crew of the Harvard College, who
are about to contend with the best oarsmen of Oxford and
Cambridge. Alden Peter Loring, captain of the crew,
and bow oar, in a Bostonian. and weighs 10et. 131 b. ;
W. H. Simtnons, of Concord, N H., weighsl24t. 41k, and
pulls a more powerful oar than Harvard has yetexhibited.
Sylvester Warren Rice, of Roaeburc, Oregon, weighs
114. 61b., and has great length of reach and power of
endurance. George Bass, of Chicaco, is the stroke;
his weight is list. 111 b., and ha is described as a
splendid athlete. Arthur Burnham, of Chicago, is the
coxswain; he weighs 7et. 81b.

ht,t,

goni-m. Probably this view explains the annually
recurring seasonable phenomenon of value increasing
just before harvest; for, in the present instance, with
oats being cut pear London with a brown tinge on the
wheat, promising harvest well begun in another
month (wheat hot year was brought to market about
the 20th of .lilly, and is not expected in bulk this year
before the 20th of August), it is idle to suppose that
we shall not have a sufficient weekly supply beeause
hayniaking has temporarily suspended it. Hay-
making is over, and farmers usually like to clear their
rains before the growing produce demands the room.
The queation, however, admits of settlement by
simple arithmetic. Wheat in May was sellitig at
under 455. per qr. the weekly supplies then being
about 130,000 qrs. of English and foreign. We have
only to reverse the two last words, and our present
sopplies weekly of foreign and English, are 160,000 qrs.,
since if home produce has dropped from 50,000 cps. to
30,000 qrs., foreign has risen from 80,000 qrs. to
130,000 qrs., and no doubt can be entertained that this
weekly bulk will be maintained throughout July and
August, the chances being that there will be a large
increase of quantity. The wheat on passage, with
stock in granary on dealers' hands, is alone sufficient
for summer wants—the Liverpool return for the six
months just ended showing 275,00 qrs. in warehouse,
against 245,000 qrs. last year, while the stocks in
America available for shipment, are advised, on good
authority, in the proportion of 8,000,000 bushels to
3,000,000 bushels in 1868, and there exists on the Con-
tinent, within three weeks of our mills, an amount of
stock, whether large or small, much in excess of what
existed in July tut year. Support is given to this
view by the fact that, through all the recent advances
in Mark-lane, ss, to 80. on wheat, the top price, town
millers (who are always supposed to have large
purchases in advance) hove not risen the price of their
flour. In May it was 435. ; in July it remains the
same; while other sotto, changing with the weekly
price of wheat, are ss. per sack dearer. This anomaly
indicates that quotations are untenable at their present
livel, and notwithstanding the fact that wheat
advanced its price agsin on Monday last. While
cargoes keep equally as high as wheat gold off market
stands, a change to former rates appears (I write in-
dividually) imminent, and at the same time reasonable
and desirable to avoid dangerous losses that result
from heavy and sudden falls. Shortness of temporary
supplies is not a safe basis on which to build a per-
ntauent increase of value, and as the temporary
advance has been allowed at the crisis, the crisis being
over our improved prospects counsel innnediate conces-
sions. Such concessions must he looked for first in
foreign produce, not in English wheat, and I have but
little doubt next week will record lower terms-25. to
30. on Russian and American wheat, Is. to 2s. on
Baltic and English sorts, while a further fall in
August would only conform to our prospects of supply
should the present weather continue. What our
prospects of supply may be from our own harvest
fields and those of surplus wheat-growing countries, if
undetermined, are yet highly encouraging, as I hope
to point out in a separate letter. Meanwhile we know
Span, Italy, Algeria, and California have had good
crops, and a fine yield is promised in South Russia.
and the Danubian Valley, while France, Hungary,
and the United Kingdom are reckoned to harvest
an average yield. More cannot be said, nor yet less.
The caution with which current harvest reports
must be received is advised by the Californian letters.
The new Pacific Railroad enables us to receive den.
patches in about three weeks. We are told the 4th of
June :—" The old crop of wheat yet remaining in the
State is barely sufficient to last until the incoming of
the new crop, which promises to make its appearance
before the close of the present month." A short time
previous, under a different state of the market in Eng-
land, we are told, "stocks are more than ample to meet
all possible wants until after another harvest, compel.
ling us to carry over a large surplus." These divers-
panciea I have not attempted to explain; they show
either an enormous export of the "large surplus" which
must be on its way to England, or that business men
are not expected to possess memory of the least com-
mercial value. In San Francisco the barley crop had
appeared, and the growing prospects were pronounced
"brilliant, with a full average yield of wheot 118 likely
to he ready for shipment by the lot of July."
During the last few weeks the claw., of maize and
bat ley has been steady, and firm at full rates, only oats
coming by large steamers have given way in price.
Russian sorts being reduced to 2 Is., at which there
should be good sales for the next month. Feeding
stuffs, including maize, have been premised for sale,
since the fine weather has allowed the grass crop to be
secured. At present the weather remains settled, and
in reference to Mr. Allaatt's quotation from Italian
astronomers that spots on the sun decrease the solar
heat, I beg to oppose the recently-expressed opinions
of English astronomers (see Chambers's Handbook, dedi-
cated to the Astronomer Royal), that sun spots such
as now prevail are contemporary with in, reamed tem-
perature as demonstrated by the observations of the
last 20 years; they are, therefore, favourable signs of
the season bring hot and electrical.

EARTHLY REWARDS.
From the Daily News).
A weekly contemporary, who pays special attention
to the testamentary duepositions of the wealthy, pub-
lisheS this week an abstract of the will of a highly
favoured son of the Church. The late Venerable
James Croft, M.A., Canon and Archdeacon of Can-
terhury. Rector of Cliffe at Hoo and Saltwa,d-cum-
Hythe, )'ad married, we are told, a daughter of Arch-
bishop Sutton. To this marriage we may assume the
best of his Church appointments were due. The
rectory of Saltwood, se hich is valued at £784 per an-
num, is in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury ;
, and FO also is that of Cliffs, valued at £1,297 per
annum. The deceased gentle-man had held the first of
these benefices thirteen years, and the second seven
years, when in 1825 he was made Archdeacon of Can-
terbury, with a canonry annexed valued at £l,OOO
e,year, and he held all these preferments until his re-
, ctnt deceare. Ihe earthly rewards he received for his
services to the Church may be thus stated •
Salt wood .. 68 3t 784 ...• ••• • .
Canonry .. 43 I 1,002

E 43 904
64,650
43,000

£151754
We should be extremely sorry to affirm that this
gentleman's services to the Church were overpaid by
the foregoing sums, but if he did not get too much, it
is certain that many men who are doing good work in
the public eye are getting too little. Supposing that
the Archdeacon could have made shift with £l,OOO a
year from the time that he accepted Soltwood, his
earliest benefice, the surplus of £95,754 would have
bean available in his lifetunefor rewarding other merit
than his own.

THE IRISH CHURCH BILL AND THE
HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Times of Wednesday has the following leafier on
the division in the House of Lords the previous even-
leg :
The political, like the physical, world is passing just now
through a "warm current" of heated air, very much to the
interruption of calm th tight and useful Wien. The House
of Lords on Tuesday night was in an especial degree charged
with dangerous elements. Lmg before the first Division,
when the Opposition persisted in adhering to their Amend-
ment of the Preamble by a majority of ;a it lu came evident
that mischief brooded all &lent, requiring the nicest
cure to prevent disaster. Words of unusual energy
were exchanged, and the sharp recriminations of
Lord Grey snd Lord Salisbury produced such an effect
that the Site temper which bad withstood without
fliechitig the combined pressure of bodily pats and political
defeat was perceptibly affected. A speech from the Lord
Chancellor, conceived in a strain of reaentful indienstion,
imniediately preceded, and perhaps affected, the Division,
and as von as the numbers Were anlionneed Lord Granville
moved the adjournment of the debate, in erder that he
might consult Ids colleagues oil the propriety of going further
wills the bill.
It is leo late to implore all who value the interest of the
nation and the par Sc development of our institutious to
escape from the heated atmosphere of Tuesday's excitement
into the cooler regions of common sense? It can be to the
ad yardage of no one that the Irish Cherch BM should be
withdrawn for a season after an outburst of every angry pus-
Mon that can disturb human reason. The rmult would err-
tautly not redound to the honour of the 51thistry. It would
be as little creditable to the discretiou of the Opposition ;
and the Irish Churchmen, who are most interested in the
issue of the present crisis, must feel that the postponement
of their fete to another Session would be too certainly an
exchange of whips for scorpions.
Nothing could more forcibly illustrate the heat and passion
we depr.cate than the minuteness of the point which first ex-
cited this daegerous mood on Tuesday night. The Amendment
on the Preamble was, after much controversy to little pim-
p .se, debated in two divisions, and the first was by common
comment a matter ef little importance. The question was
whether assuming thatthe appropriation of the surplusehould
be reserved for the Intuit, action et Parliament, a de-
claration should be inserted in the Preamble that the
Legislature would in future abstain from applying it to
rv.y religious purpose. juts plaits that to snake such a de-
claration would, as Lord Russell raid, be nothing more
than to ennunce an abstract dogma in no wise limiting the
freedom of legislation. It was idle to insist upon putting it
in. It was equally idle to insist upon keeping it mint. The
whole discussion, he it remembered, assumed that the uses of
the surplus should he reserved for later determination, and
the point of contention was whether an empty Preamble
should he adopted. Yet it was dpropos of this that Lord
Grey used the latignime which Was too much for the good-
nature If L.mr,i Granville that the Duke of Argyll waxed into
a red heat, that Dud Salisbury, mid a torreet of cheers, de-
scribed the Prime Minister in words he =at now hiasselt re-
gret as injurious to hie own cause.
It is time to rectal the excited 41 isputatts of Tuesday from
their fierce 'mounter, and ask them to remeniber what are
the points now in contention between the two Houses. We
must forget the hasty remark about bat :coons, and pass by the
sh.ap ret, rts it provoked among the Peers. What is the
exact state of affairs? Lord Granville said, its openiug the
debate, that the Lords hail made 62 Amendments, end the
Commous had accepted 35 of them ; but no one can be more
couscious than himself of the fallacy involved in this statis-
tical method ot reamoning. The truth is, that the Commons
rejected all the most important Amendrumits 4.f the Lords,
andin one case at least, in moving back the date of die-
establishment irons the Ist of May to the Ist of January,
they acted with little deliberation, for Lord Granville de-
clared on Tuesday night that he was quite willing the tat of
May should be restored. No impartial person can deny
that the rejection of this amendment was a very biglehanded,
if not a waifton proceeding, and it naturally provoked an
amount of resentment altogether dismemortio nate to its
value Lord Cairns, however, said that, so far ems he and
those Pe inedietily acting a it h him were concerned they were
disposed to ahir don all their Ameminients, with the excep-
tion it three or f nr. They gave up the Clem: glebe. They
advised the Bishop of Peterborough not to insist
uloisi his Anima-tomtit providing for the payment of the
clerical tax to the Church Itody. It seemed, also,—although
this was not made clear,—that they were wiling to yield on
the question of the release of the residence houses without
payment But Lord Cairns was firm, as we have said, in
other directions. He held the acceptance of the scheme of
Commutation proposed by Lord Carnarvon a vital tiecesaity.
He advised the Lords to Insist that the stipends of curates
should net be deducted his estimating the reserved annuity of
an incumbent. He enlarged, too, above all, upon the asset-
sity of reserving for other Sessions the appropriation of the
surplus funds of the Establishment, anti he knsisted on the
eramoiment of the Preamble so ari to correspond to this re-
servation.
The Lords, following the precedent of the Commons, began
the reconaideration 01 theft An endmentsey taking first what,
as smatter of convenience, ought to have leers taken last,
and resolved, by • majority of 78, ui koi adhering to the
Preamble as altered by themselves. The debate was, as we
have said, immediately afterwards adjourned on the motion
of Lord Granville, who declared lie must cr.usult his col-
leagues on the event. If this means Clot the Government
are disposed at once to withdraw from the prosecution of
their hill in consequence of this vote, we must seriously linea-
tion the wisdom of their intention. The particular point to
Issue is one confemedly of great difficulty. Independent
opinion was almost unanimous against them, Lord Russell in
the House of Lords speaking and voting last eight against
the Government, while in the Reuse of Commons a consider'
suite section below the gangway deserted to the Opposition,
and the Irish members, as Mr. alorrison described, used
their utmost it thience to induce the Government to yield.

Mr. Gladstone himself felt so much the force of the objec-
tions to the clause dispodng of the surplus as originally
drawn as to introduce a provisos to meet them. He proposed
that no Order in Council Appropriating any ot the income of
toe surplus should be valid if both Houses concurred in ad-
dressing the Crown against it. It is plain, however, that
this provision could not satisfy objsctors. If both Douses
were of the some mind, they could pass an act entirely
reversing the scheme of appropristion, and, as the MitimP r
for the time being must have the confidence of the House of
Commons. • chick depending upon the concurrence of both
would never restrain his freedom of action. The ordinary
and constitutional precedent for such deems provides that
Orders in Council shall be of no validity if an adores' be pre-
sented against them from either House of Parliament ; and
the alteration of Mr Gladstene's last Amendment, no as to
make it correspond to the usual form, would remove all the
undeniable objsetions to the appropriation clause as it stands,
if it did not convert the hostile majority of is into a maj rity
in the other direction.
If the Ministry were to resolve upon withdrawing the bill
upon Tuesday night's Division, the sense of the country
would not approve their precipitation. Could they plead
that they know they should be defeated upon the other
Amendments Lord Cairns expressed it his intention if pos-
sible to maintain ? 3 hey can have no such assurance. The
Division of Tuesday night was a Division, roughly speaking,
of the Ministry against all the world. The Divisions which
would follow are Divisions in which all Liberal Peers and
all the occupants of the cross benches would be found sup-
porting the Ministry; nor is it certain that the Peels of
the Opposition front above and below the gangway would be
found voting together. But consider what these amendments
are. Lord Bath pointed out the small amount of money they
involve. We, too, may point out how little there is of prin-
ciple in them. The first is Lord Carnarvon's alternative
method of commutation. It is asserted by the Govern.
went that, in consequence of 14 years being an exces-
sive valuation, Lord Carnarvon's scheme would give the
Church Body an additional million of money, and Lord
Cairns very faintly denied the accuracy of this estimate
This is a good reason for reducing 14 years to. 13,
e whatever may lie the proper average, but it scarcely
amounts to a reason why the scheme should not be brought
again before the House of Commons if the figure were re-
duced. The clause relating to (lie deduction of citrates' sala-
ries, bay ng been materi-Cly altered by Mr Gladstone upon
consideration of the Lord's Amendments, is DOW a new pro-
posal, and it is evident that the Peers ought to have an
opportunity of considering it The sole rema sing point of
contentiso is the mice to be paid for the residence houses,
and upon this Lord Cairns spoke in so doubt MI a trimmer oil
Tuesday night that it is evident he has no confidence the Peers
would support him in demanding their gratuitous surrender.
We end as we began. We are satisfied the bill may be
carried and become law this Session, if the principal agents
on both sides could divest themselves of the passions and
prejudices at present inflaming them. As it is we have Mr.
Gladstone speakieg in one House with an intolerant majority
at his back tending in no degree to soften the asperity of
command, and Lord Salisbury in the other with a majority
equally assured of its strength, and almost as much disposed
to rely upon it. lithe politiesl imagination could compass
such a fancy as shuttitig up Mr. Gladstone and the Duke of
Argyll, as representatives of one side, and Lords Salisbary
and Cairns, as Champions of the other, in one room, who call
doubt that they would contrive between them to settle the
terms of a solution already almost completed? Removed
from the excitement of friendly assemblies, they would yield
to the power of reason, and Mr. Bright himself might be
chosen as their arbiter without danger of partial judgment.
But the peril—and sse acknowledge that it is imminent—is
that the Neat of Parliament may be carried into the Cubic et,
and a hasty resolution taken, deferring the further progress
of the bill till another session, to the distraction ot the
country at largo, mid to the inunessurable detriment of the
Irish Church itself.