The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-09 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

There is nothing from Garibaldi. It is true that there
is a report of his alleged followers in Calabria having
besieged Scylla, but it is not believed. The great chief
we must look for in some more extensive movement, of
which, possibly, this may form a part.
The French press, crippled in its "ideas," loves
little the French project of intervening in Syria.
The Times' correspondent seems to hit the right
nail on the head. He says : —The landing of
European troops in Syria, intelligence of which
will rapidly spread through the whole Ottoman
empire, is likely to have a double effect. It will
give confidence to the Christians and inspire them
with the hope and desire of revenge for recent
outrages, and it will excite the anger and offend the
religious prejudices of the Mussulmans. It is possi-
ble that General Beaufort may be able, as he believes,
with his 6,000 or 7,000 men, to maintain order in
Syria; the more so as it is to be expected that before be
arrives some 20,000 Turks will have been landed, better
commanded, it is to be hoped, and more amenable to dis-
cipline, than those who lately abetted the Druses in mur-
der, and vied with them in shameless rapine. But who
is to keep order in the other provinces of the extensive
empire of which Syria is put a small portion ? Is it
not extremely possible—indeed, greatly to be feared,
that within a month or two the whole of that
empire may be in a flame, and bloodshed and excesses
going on, compared with which the late deplorable and
shocking events in Syria will appear but trifling ? Were
that the case, we can imagine without much difficulty
what would ensue. Russia would claim to interfere in
the provinces nearest to her frontier, Austria would pro-
bably do as much in those adjacent to hers, England
could hardly, in presence of such events, remain a
mere spectator, and there would be the much-dreaded
crisis in Eastern affairs arrived. It were idle to
spesulate on the course things then would take, but
we should be justified in apprehending the most exten-
sive complications, and perhaps wars, such as this gene-
ration, at least, has not witnessed. Rely upon it that
the Emperor of the French is not blind to all these
dangers; and, although he could not but let the expe-
dition depart, it would perhaps be welcome news to him
that upon General Beaufort's arrival Fuad Pasha had
restored order and done justice in Syria, and that there
was no occasion for the French troops even to land.
The Eapero states that Count Cavour has applied to
Count Brassier de St. Simon for explanations on the
subject of the Tceplitz Conference, and received a very
satisfactory reply, to the effect that Prussia had no
intention of meddling with the affairs of Italy, unless
matters should take a turn prejudicial to German

interests.
We have news of the arrival of Prince Alfred at Rio
Janeiro, where he met the Emperor of Brazil.
From the German papers we gather that the Cabinets
of Vienna and Berlin have simultaneously sent notes to
Paris, expressing their conviction that the affair of
Savoy does not require any conferences, but that the
French Government ought to give more satisfactory
explanations as to the tenor and extent of the obliga-
tions which her new acquisitions impose on her:

Belgrade, the capital of Servia,.was the seat of serious
disturbances on Sunday, when the Turks, probably
soldiers from the
garrison of the fort, which is still
occupied by the Sultan's troops, and sailors from
Bosnian vessels navigating the Save and Danube, came
to blows with the native Servian population, some of
the latter being wounded, and some of the Turks being
killed. There is but too much reason to fear that the
exciting character of the news from Syria-was at the
bottom of this affray, and that we soon shall hear of
repetitions of it in other parts of European Turkey.
The Australian Government have taken steps for the
importation of some camels from India, as an experiment
to aid the exploration of the interior, for which purpose a
considerable sum of money has been collected and an
expediticu organised, except that a competent leader has
not yet been chosen. On the 9th of June a vessel
arrived at Melbourne with twenty-four fine healthy
camels, all of which have been landed without damage..
It is expected that a leader of thee exploring expedi-
tion will immediately be selected, and the party will
start soon.

Another plant, suitable fo! the manufacture of paper,
has been declared of easy growth in Algeria—the hibiscus
esc'elentua. It resembles the flax plant, and is admirably
adapted for the manufacture of coarse linen, being
far stronger than cotton. Its culture is highly recom-
mended in the African colonies, as the leaf seems in
every way calculated to replace the deficiency of rap,
so severely felt just now, while the 'vegetable itself is a
highly, nutritious and palatable diet, possessing cooling
. • - and diuretic properties.

A national subscription for the benefit of the Syrian
Christians has been ogee ted At the dice of the Moin4eur

which journal *promises to publish the names of the
subscribers.

The news from the United States is certainly
of a most troublous character. America at
present is full of meanings A diabolical
plan to devastate the whole of Northern Texas has been
discovered. White men, friends of the abolition
preachers, Blunt and M`Kinney, who were expelled from
the country last year, are the instigators. The plan was
to lay the whole country waste by fire, destroying all
arms, ammunition, &c., to get the country in a state
of helplessness; and then, on election day in August,
to make a general insurrection, aided by emissaries
from the north, and parties friendly to the cause in
Texas. Their sphere of operations was districted and
sub-districted, each district being under the supervision
of a white man, who was to control the negroes as sub-
ordinates. Several concerned have been arrested. The
following fires are reported to have occurred on the
same day that Dallas was destroyed, all of which are
attributed to the same cause :—The mercantile house in
Black Jack Grove, loss, $30,000; three business houses at
Denton, $100,000; a large house at Pilot-point, $lO,OOO ;
do. at Ladonia, loss, $25,000 ; eight stores at Ballinap,
loss not estimated. The town of Milford, Ellis County,
was totally destroyed. Several other fires had broken
out. Great excitement existed throughout the whole
of the Northern Texas. Prompt measures had been
taken for the preservation of life and property. The
loss in the north-eastern counties of Texas exceeds
700,000 dollari. The town of Occaquan, Virginia,
has been the scene of considerable excitement, in
consequence of an attempt, on the part of certain
parties, to demolish a liberty pole erected by the Black
Republicans from which floated a flag bearing the names
of the Repul.lican presidential nominees. The Repub-
licans of Occoquan, determined to prevent the threa-
tened demolition of their flag-staff, or die in the effort,
despatched messengers to neighbouring towns for arms
and ammunition. They also notified Governor Setcher
of the state of affairs, and ho assured them that they
should be protected. The Governor ordered General
Hutton to call out his command, but it is said the general
resigned rather than obey the order. The military
were expecting to be called out to preserve the peace.
Occaquan, the scene of the disturbance, centains some
500 Republicans. It was the residence of Underwood,
who was ostracised by his fellow-citizens some years ago
because of his fanaticism. Underwood was a delegate to
the Chicago Convention, and has recently written a let-
ter to Miss Barbour, a lady of Virginia, who contem-
plates emancipating her, slaves, which could hardly fail
to re-awaken the indignation of his political opponents.
The grand volunteer demonstration in. Hyde Park
was repeated, on Tuesday, at Edinburgh. Judging from
the brief account which we have received, the review of
the Scottish volunteers by Her Majesty was a display
of a most imposing character. The day was fine ;
upwards of 20,000 men were under arms ; and an im-
mense concourse of spectators, estimated at 200,000, gazed
with intense interest upon the impressive scene. The
evolutions, if the term be an appropriate one, were of the
simplest character, and were, in the main similar to
those zone through at the London review. Sir George
Wetherell commanded the entire force, which was formed
into two divisions, headed by Lord Rokeby and General
Cameron, the Commander-in-Chief in Scotland.
A townsman has made a hit. We learn that the
experiments upon Jones's target were re-commenced
at Portsmouth on Tuesday from the Stork gunboat, under
the supervision of Captain R. S. Hewlett, C.B. The
practice was first commenced on the same iron plate
upon which seven shots had taken effect during
Saturday's practice. Seven additional shots were
fired on Tuesday at the same plate, and every shot
struck within a space of four square feet on the
target. After the fourth shot the upper edge of
the target bulged out, in consequence of the repeated
hammering upon one spot. The fifth shot followed on
the same place, near the upper edge, and it was evident
that it was the intention to test this plate to an extra-
ordinary degree, as no other iron plate in Portsmouth
harbour had ever before been subjected to a similarly
severe test. Another shot followed on the same spot,
exhibiting a singular instance of good gunnery, anp
also of the extraordinary tenacity of the plate, or the
correctness of the principle of the invention ; the shot
in this instance, as in the former ones, being shat-
tered into fragments. The seventh shot was merely a
repetition of the sixth, the fragments splitting up the
rail of the frigate. This was the last shot at the iron
plate. The eighth shot was directed against the 31
inch steel plate, and:the result appeared to be that the
shot chipped oft' from the extreme upper edge of the
plate a piece about half the circumference of the
shot itself, but leaving no sign of a fracture. This
must have happened under the circumstances of any
shot striking the plate in such a place, and it cannot
be considered a fair test of the principle of the
target, as it was merely an "edge-blow." No. 9 shot
struck at the junctidn of the edges of the two steel
plates; the shot itself was shattered into fragments, and
made a less indentation than even that which had been
made upon the iron plate. The result of the experiments
so far has been satisfactory to an extraordinary degree,
as proving the capabilities of a target constructed on
Mr. Jones's system to resist the penetrating powers of
the most effective of modern ordnance at short range.
The experiments on the steel plates were resumed yes-
terday, and there is every probability of the results
being equally satisfactory.

ADVANCED LIBERAL OBJECTIONS TO
A HALF HOLIDAY AT KNOWSLEY.

"ADVANCED Liberalism" never shews itself in
truer or more glaring colours than when its
advocates are tempted to dilate upon the subject
of our national defences, especially with reference
•to the Volunteer system. It is then most clearly
brought out that in their inmost souls they are
actuated by the most unworthy, shortsighted,
and unpatriotic motives. To a thorough-paced
Radical there is rio idea more abhorrent than
that of this country being independent of foreign
pressure ; nothing more disheartening to him
than to find the mass of the people ready and
willing to defend the Throne and Constitution.
Republicans, and revolutionists at heart, these
extreme politicians hate monarchy, --- would
destroy our ancient nobility, and desire nothing
more than to elevate Cottonocra3y, at any sacri-
fice, to the seat of power. The Volunteer Move•
ment is essentially---though not in a mere party
sense—Conservative. It was the high privilege,
and redounds to the immortal honour of Lord
DERBY, and the party of which he is the illustrious
head, that, as chief adviser of the Crown, he was
the legislative founder of the present Volunteer
organisation ; but it has received the sanction and
efficient support of the present Government and
of all classes of the people. This is only one of
many facts which have demonstrated the reac-
tionary Conservative feeling of the legislature
and of the country.

The miserable section which has acquired the
bad pre-eminence of having • sedit!' - ' 1
onEby endea-
voured to traduce the movement, h
ails from its
head-quarters at Paris, whence that sleek
and demure victim of imperial_ seduction,
RICHARD COBDEN, exercises his treacherous voca-
tion, and issues forth lugubrious dissertations
the folly of his fellow countrymen
on
adulations of the Imperial -hand that has stroked
him into mesmeric submissiveness. JOHN BRIGHT
at a respectful distance has caught Up the trai-
terious song, and seeks to sell his country to the
Frenchman for a mess of pottage. "he
dismal
chorus is faintly re-echoed by a few 11
we -known
demagogues, among whom may be reckoned
such small aspirants for local popularity as our
worthy fellow-townsman Mr. ROBERTSON GLAD-
STONE. His speech at the Co •
unell, yesterday,
was a fair specimen of that course energy which
• characterises all his efforts at rhetoric. , Because
Lord DERBY condescended to suggest to the Mayor
that his lordship's liberal Preparation Sand invita-
tion might be more generally
available if the Town
Council 'would use th •
eir influence to get a holi-
day, or half holiday, on Saturday, the Ist Sep-
tember next, when * a grand review comes off at
Knowsley Park, Ml. ri
,ALADSTONE thought himself
justified in denouncing the proposal ; first' because
of the expense! and, secondly; because the Volunteer
movement is calculated to demoralise and injure
the people l Most people will pooh-pooh the first

paltry objection as unworthy of a moment's con-
sideration, and an insult to any respectable com-
munity-. Few men will even momentarily sym-
pathise with his denunciation of the great and
glorious organisation of the Volunteers.

Whether is it more desirable to see the youth
and manhood of England of a summer's afternoon
parading in martial order, and inspired with
patriotic ardour, in such a noble park as
that of Knowsley, beneath " the smile from
partial beauty won," and under the sanc-
tion of the wisdom, the experience, and
respectability of the district, exhibiting as such
a picture does, to the life, the mode in which
were formed the hardy Volunteers, whose unerr-
ing cloth-yard shafts won so many battles that
are glorious in the history of our national inde-
pendence ; or to witness the demoralising process
by which many of our youth of to-day idly spend
their summer's evenings, inducing indisposition
to physical effort, and unstringing the nervous
system by the excessive use of tobacco, in back
lanes or murky taverns,—a vice second only, and
too often leading to, drunkenness—involving
every deplorable consequence, and spreading to
such a fearful extent, that our male children
of even tender years seem to think it a
part of their education to spit away their
health and constitution ere they have reached
adolescence ? The contrast here presented in
favour of the moral influence of the movement is
confirmed by the earnest and sincere words of his
Worship the Mayor, whose moral excellence, so
well known to the people of this district, cannot
fail t giVe them the greatest weight, when he
said, "I beg to differ in tote from Mr. GLADSTONE,
with regard to the movement. I not only think
it has had a great moral effect throughout the
world, but I think it has a good effect upon the men
connected with it. Instead of thinking it tends
to demoralise them, I think it has been the means
of keeping them out of mischief, and of doing
good, not only to their bodies, but to their minds."
The Council were all but unanimously of the
same opinion, and so undoubtedly are the people
of Liverpool and of the country at large.
The names of the small and unpatriotic mino-
rity who dissented are worthy of prominent
mention. Let the people of Liverpool remember
the votes of Messrs. SHEIL, CORBALLY, HAYDOCK,
ESTILL, STEAINS, GLADSTONE, J. It. JEFFERY,
and CROPPER, against granting half a holiday on
a Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of facilitat-
ing the enjoyment by the working classes of the
splendid and delightful treat so liberally offered
to them by our friend and neighbour, the
Right Hon. the Earl of DERBY, K.• G.—a nobleman
and statesman who,whatever may be the value of his
political opinions, has, like a long line of ancestors
before him, ever shown the warmest friendship
and most constant and careful consideration
towards the people and interests of Liverpool.
It has always, been so with your loud-mouthed
" friends of the people"—as they spuriously call
themselves.

In the Imperial, as well as in our local, Parlia-
ment, whenever it is proposed to shorten the
hours of labour or grant an occasional half-
holiday, your BRIGHTS and GLADSTONES are up
in arms with all their puny might to battle for
what they call their principles. The working
classes have long seen through this hollow
pretence, and any labourer even by the road-
side now tells the passing gossip, when the
conversation happens to turn on politics, that,
be their principles what they may, those
Conservatives have, after all, proved themselves
the true champions of Engligh freedom and inde-
pendence, and practically the best friends of the
working man. The best thanks of the people of
Liverpool are due to the noble earl for the rich
festival he has so generously ordered for
them, and for his attention to the interests of the
working men, in suggesting the half-holiday
which the Council have so properly granted.
However ungracious the attack of Messrs.
GLADSTONE and Co., perhaps we ought to thank
them for having so forcibly, though ininten-
tionally, reminded us of the real difference betwixt
psuedo and real Liberalism. This has been called an
age of shams, but the GLADSTONE sham is exploded,
and belongs to the past. Hurrah, then, despite
the 'Radicals, for a general half-holiday on Satur-
day, September Ist, and a glorious treat at
Knowsley Park ! Three cheers for the QUEEN
and the Earl of DERBY, and innumerable groans
for BRIGHT, GLADSTONE, and Co., the pretended
friends, but, as they have shown themselves to
be, the real enemies of the people of England !

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Wednesday Morning, August 8, 1860.

It appears that the French system of pam-
phleteering is now being :followed in England.
One of the evening journals of yesterday thus
notices a brochure, recently published on your
side of the Channel :—" Will it be believed that,
whilst public opinion is taken up with the consi-
deration of political questions of the greatest
gravity, an English newspaper has the courage
to entertain its readers with things comic ? An
English officer, Sir Duncan Macdonald, who is
doubtless jealous of the werkly success of Punch,
has just published a pamphlet, entitled Plan of
French Invasion.' The Morning Advertiser
amuses its readers with an extract from
this publication, in which eccentricity disputes
the palm with the grotesque." An extract
follows of the supposed plan of the invad-
ing campaign ; and French readers are re-
quested to observe that the Morning Advertiser
declares " that if measures be not taken imme-
diately to ward'off these dangers, it is ail up
with Great liritain." Of course nobody in Eng-
land who knows
.anything about the character
and credit of the. London journals, pays much
attention to anything said by theit'llg
Advertiser on subjects of this kind ; but the fact
of such a pamphlet being issued by an Enolish
officer will, doubtless, be used as a set-off against
similar publications emanating from the Paris
press, of which there are at present more than
one, which enunciate views and opinions fully as
extravagant.

The Syrian question is having much additional
interest imparted to it from several causes. Abd-
el-Kader has, by an Imperial decree, been in-
vested with the Grand Cross of the Legion of
Honour ; and the event is thus alluded to by a
Government paper This news will make a
great sensation in France, in Africa, and, doubt-
less, throughout the entire world. Such a reward
was well worthy of such heroism. This Grand
Cross is about to join the sword which Abd-el-
Kader received from the hands of the French
Emperor on his quitting France, and which he
placed at the service of humanity with a courage
worthy of the highest admiration. *
It is thus that our country has been accustomed
to act. The nation which knows best how to
conquer by force and by the prestige of its
is, likewise, the one which best knows
arms,
how to win 'minds and souls by the irresistible
seduction of its customs and its ideas. Out of
the most intrepid of Arabs we have, in some sort,
made a Christian hero, and the most redoubtable
of our African adversaries is able to become one
of the glories of France." True : but will this
gift of the Cross make him a Christian ? I am
afraid not ; and if not, is the distinction thus con-
ferred upon the undaunted Emir by the gift, not
much more illustrious than it is appropriate ? If
I remember rightly, a somewhat similar question
was raised a few years ago, on the occasion of the
Order of the Bath being conferred on a Hindoo,
but, if i mistake not, the difficulty W 8 in that

instance got over, by dispensing with the usual
oaths. The Cross to be sent to Abd-el-Kader
is to be set in diamonds of the value of 14,000 f.
Another interesting circumstance is the general
subscription which has been originated under the
auspices of the Emperor and Empress, for the
benefit of those Christians who have fallen in the
massacres, and for the relief of the survivors, the
list being headed by the Emperor with £l,OOO,
and the Empress with £4OO ; and the third, is the
confirmation that has arrived of the persuasion that
the most disastrous accounts which have reached
Europe of the Outrages and murders, would be
found to be correct.

The arrival of functionaries belonging to the
French contingent, at Beyrout, continue to be
announced from time to time, thus showing that
the sailing of the expedition had been resolved on
for a long time. It is rumoured here that Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe is to be sent out by the
British Government to Constantinople, to assist
the English Ambassador.

The two regiments of infantry attached to
the camp at Chalons which are destined
for Syria, were reviewed there yesterday
morning by the Emperor, and departed
immediately for Toulon, to embark direct for Bey-
rout. His Majesty was received on his arrival, at
half-past five, by Marshal the Duke of Magenta,
at the head of his staff. He at once mounted on
horseback, and passed along between the two
lines of troops, to the Imperial quarters, the sol-
diers' shouting Vive l'Empereur, with even more
than their usual vivacity. General Beaufort de
Hautpoul was also present.
I see it stated that some serious conflicts took
place at Belgrade, on Sunday last, between some
Servians and Turks. Several were killed and
wounded on both sides. The garrison remained
tranquil, but one may expect every day to hear
of such disturbances being reproduced on a much
larger scale. •

The Patrie of last night gives an interesting
version of the answer made by Garibaldi to Count
de Litta. It is extremely characteristic cif the
man, whether true or not. It is really an excel-
lent idea to ask the Neapolitans for the loan of
their fleet to enable him to carry out his plans for
the deliverance of Venice. But what will Austria.
say to such a request ? -
The enrolment of volunteers for Garibaldi
at Genoa, is reported as being vigorously
continued, under the agency of M. Bertani,
his indefatigable agent at that port. It is given
out at Turin that these later enrolments
are destined to form the nucleus of a force
intended to operate against the Marches and
Umbria, and that M. Farini has just returned to
the latter city from another unsuccessful mission
to Genoa, which had for its object the preventing
of these projects being put in execution.
Another rumour is, that the Piedmontese
Government itself intends occupying these pro-
vinces in force, on the pretext of succouring the-
Pope, and arresting the further spread of Gari-
baldism. It is certain th-at a very considerable
augmentation of the Sardinian army is being
effected, but I think it most unlikely that the
increase is made with any such object as that
alluded to. The sole policy of Sardinia at this
moment should be to let matters take their
course. That is the policy, by which, without in.
any way compromising herself, her real interests
can be best served.

The Prince Regent is to have a meeting with
King Leopold next Monday at the Palace of
Ostend, where great preparations are being made
for the reception and entertainment of the illus-
trious visitors.

A curious case of suicide has occurred here; the
circumstances are peculiarly French in their cha-
racter. A little time ago a married man, M.
D—, had a quarrel with his wife about a most
trifling matter. Whilst her husband was at his
work, Madam D— quitted the conjugal abode.
For two days M. D— made the most active
search for her; when, on Sunday morning last,
he received the following letter, written in pencil
"My Husband,—l have had enough of marriage ;
and as I don't wish to live in a perpetual round
of quarrelling, which I feel would be the case
between us, I prefer to finish the affair out and.
out. lam about to throw myself into she Seine..
My body will probably be found among the nets
of St. Cloud. All that I ask of you is to have me-
interred." The body of the unfortunate woman,.
who was only twenty-four years of age, was
accordingly found in the river on the following
day.

The Council of State has decided, on the report
of M. Pascalis, Master of Requests, and the
conclusions of M. L'HOpital, the Government
Commissioner, and after hearing M. Advocate
Hamot for the petitioners, that the services ren-
dered by the naval chaplains serving on board of
the fleet, have the character of military services,
and that in consequence those of them who are
nominated to or promised the Order of the Legion
of Honour, are entitled to take rank as military
members of the Order. The decree which has thus
settled this important question of principle has
just been approved by the Emperor.
The Bourse continues to present the same
monotonous aspect of inactivity. Business trans-
actions are of the most limited description, and
the fluctuations in prices are almost insignificant.
Still, the market yesterday, presented more firm-
ness than that of the previous day, and there was
a slight tendency to improvement in Rentes and
in certain descriptions of shares. The weather,
which has been unusually cold for the season—
things having almost a wintry look—has, no
doubt, some influence in
_preventing any emer-
gence from this stagnation.

The following were the closing quotations
last evening of the French and Foreign Funds
and Railways :

PUBLIC SECURITIES.
Four-and-a-Half t Credit Fonder .
per Cents .. . . 97 90 !Belgian Four-and-a-
Do. end of month Half per Cents .
Three per Cents. 68 25 Piedmoutese Fives
Do. end of month 68 25 Roman
Bank Shares ....2820 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.. 687 50 Spanish Threes
Ditto, Account.. 687 50 Horne Debt..

• 8781

801
........ 80
80i
47

RAILWAYB.
Cash. Ace. Cash. Ace.
Orleans ....1370 ..1367i Southern .. 5024. 5031 i
Northern .. 9574.. 9571 Western 580 • • 581 t
New ditto .. 875 .. 875 Eastern •• • • .630, 631 t
Lyons and M 890
.. 8881 Sardinian . • 3974..
New ditto . - _ Austrian .. 505 .. 003. Geneva 3674 Lombard .. 4964.. 496

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.'

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YESTERDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
On the order for going into committee on the Union of Bene-
fices Bill, sent down from the Lords.
Mr. GRIFFITHS objected to proceeding with the bill at that
late period of the session.
Mr. HENLEY also objected that the bill took good care of the
bishops and clergy, but altogether neglected the parishioners.
The House went into committee on the bill; but almost im-
mediately after, Mr. Malins moved that the chairman report
progress.
The motion was negatived by 76 to 16.
A long discussion took place on the proposition of the bill
that under certain conditions the city churches should be
pulled down. Strong objections were made to the destruction
of some of the finest architectural features of the metropolis.
Adverting to the complaint that the churches were not
filled,
Sir S. MORTON Pare, on behalf of the Dissenters, undertook to
fill them if the Church would consent to part with them.
Appeals were made on all sides to Mr. Bouverie, who had
charge of the bill, to withdraw it.
Sir G. C. Lewis reminded the House that it was a Lords' bill,
and if they refused to consider it, the other House would con-
sider themselves justified in their unreasonable rule with
regard to reading bills a second time alter the 28th of July.
He ridiculed the notion that, under the bill, any of the cele-
brated churches of the city would be destroyed.
Sir J. SKELLEY, in reference to the former part of the argu
ment, protested against the indolence of the House of Lords,
which did so little at the beginning of the session, that they
would not pass this important bill in time for due consideration
by the Commons. It would teach them a lesson to reject their
bill.
The bill was, however, proceeded with, an amendment,
moved by Mr. C. Bentinck, excluding from the possibility of
destruction the Churches of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and
others of the more famous churches, and the towers and
steeples of any of the churches in the city, being adopted.
An amendment, moved by Mr. Henley, prohibiting the sale
of church sites where burials had taken place, gave rise to some
debate.
Sir G. LEWIS opposed it; alleging that churCh sites in the
city had often been taken for commercial purposes.
On a division the amendment was rejected by 80 to 50.
Sir S. M. FETO proposed words permitting dissenters to pur-
chase a church as it stood, if it was decided that the Church of
England should give it up.
Mr. BOUVERIE promised to take the proposition into consi-
deration, and to propose a clause before the bill was reported.
Sir G. BARING objected, that if the dissenters obtained pos-
session of the church, there was no security that it would not
afterwards be turned to objectionable purposes.
On this point a debate arose, in which Lord J. Manners,
Mr. Hubbard, and others supported the view of Sir G. Baring.
Mr. Bouverie having repeated his promise, the discussion,
after continuing somewhat longer, was cut short by the hour
The remaining business was disposed of ; and the house
adjourned at six o'clock.

The half-yearly meeting of the. General Iron
Screw Colliery Company took place yesterday.
A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum
was agreed tv.