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LONDON. TUVIDAY, JUNE 12.

Tin solemn hush of the House last night, when
Loed Jolts Ri.aseu. moved that the order for
going into Committee on the Representation of
the People Bill be discharged, was a significant
contrast to the strife of tongues which had
assailed the Bill at every step of its passage from
the second reading into committee. Whether this
rapt and anxious silence was a tit of penitence or
a sensation of relief, a suppressed joy or a vague
foreboding, we must leave to the consciences of

honourable members and to the curiosity of their
constituencies to determine. None could be sur-
prised at the ministerial announcement. It was
time that the curtain should descend on the
gloomy comedy, and though Lord JOHN Remaxt
assures us it is only an act-drop, we fancy it will
rise next time on a very different performance, to
be played before a more exacting public. The
unenfranchised " numbers" who have still to wait
for a pittance of political justice will no doubt
understand to whom their thanks are due. Lord
Join was not the man to haul down his colours
while he had • deck to fight upon, but here was
an enemy that would neither fight nor run
away, and friends on board who would
rather scuttle the ship than work the guns.
To whom then does the responsibility of "sat
night's announcement belong ? Not to the Govern-
ment, as even the Tories avow, but to that great
constitutional and Conservative party which would,
and would not, reject the Bill, but, at any rate,
would not endure its fair discussion. Let the
Conservative party have all the credit that is due
to them fur throwing off the thin dis-
guise they wore for one session so awkwardly,
and figuring once more in their aboriginal
simplicity as systematic deniers of popular
rights. Not that Mr. DISRAELI, " notwithstanding
"the Quarterly Iterieir," is even now quite willing
that his party should return., as they say at Epsom,
to its old " form." By • dexterous confusion
of cause with effect he generously acquits the
Opposition of having achieved • triumph, and
charges " public business " with the honour
of arresting the progress of Reform. As if
the (7E4 its the Movrie.re, the BENTINIICS, and
the rest of the heavies who filled up the
Tory trench with their bodies for Whig re-
negades to pass over at the general assault,
hail been transacting " public business" from
February to Whitsuntide ! Perhaps they have
Len transacting • public business not dreamed
of in their philosophy : perhaps they have
unwittingly been laying the foundation of
• Reform Bill to which the Bill of 1860 will
have been but the sketch of • scaffolding. Mr.
Di.a.itti, however, is correct in repudiating on
beit.ilf of the Opposition the entire glory of the
slow murder el the Bill. Two-thin]. of the
amendments proceeded from the ministerial side
of the House ; and the Tories, but for thu rash-
ness of a few ...Am:. on the beck benches
and below the gangway, might safely have left
Reform to the tender. niercias of professing
friends. We are not now referring to the
member for Rye : there is nothing remark-
able in a Tory pervert clueing his career us Whig
apostate. But the member for Marylebone,
who was so eloquent last night on the serious
responsibility which the Government had incurred
by the withdrawal of the Bill—wu he not the
brat ..ut •.1 the pure benevolence of his heart—to
gib,• the enemy a cue of which they did not fail
to take advantage, and to denounce the doto upon
which the Hill was founded 1 And that other
Arcadia] member fur 3larylebone, and repreeesta.
tire of the linings of the sister island, what help
11141 be give to the Bill during its brief and troubled
existence ! He is not a Repealer, we believe;
but he is at least as zealous a Repealer la Re-
former. And the Stoic of Liskeard, who bewailed
the fate of the Bill and denounced its murderers
last night, how did he employ his gift of tongue
while the Bell was yet alive I In defending
the rights of the Ku,g of Nat•tas, and informing
against the Il•aiusioi sulecriptiots. So much for
the..., Liberals lOW, ROW that the Reform Bill is
ilea.' and boned, begin to cckbrate its virtues and
to deplore its untimely And all with one
consent begin to male ex, use. All protest "sin-
" cerity ;" all regret " sincerely ;" all desired
"sincerely." Like liners who write away
their passion, these " sincere " Reformers do
protest their " sincerity too much. The word
grates unpleasantly on honest ears. We wonder
if these Reformers v. 1111 g.. into fashionable mourn-
ing for the Bill they bullied to death, almost before
the breath is out of its body, meet each other in
the lobby without laughing. Mr. HORAMAN is
one of tic few members on either tide of the
House who have a right to keep their couute
hatsee. The member for Stroud is not an anti-
Reformer; ho is simply an Anglicised copy
of one of those poor old French doc-
trinaires who, having lost power by grudging

The Hones, then, has got rid of Reform for this
year. But will it lay the ghost of the departed
Bill? Its own recorded acts, its own irrevocable
words, its min accusing silence, remain wit-
nesses at the bar of the nation, and by this accu-
mulated testimony it remains to be condemned.
It is for the constituencies to bring their
representatives to a strict account. The Reform
Societies may do good service by the publica-
tion of such statistics as will assist the electors
and the non-electors in their search after the
principles of honourable members. Let us hope
that the great working population of this country
may look at least as indulgently upon the conduct
of the House of Commons as the House of Com-
mons has looked upon the claim of Englishmen to
be admitted within the pale of the constitution.

THE case of "Nottidge v. Prince," after five
days' hearing before Vice-Chancellor STUART, is
still sub judice, and we have no warrant to anti-
cipate the decision of the court. But the case is
not confined to a point of equity or to • question
of personal rights and claims. It has a moral
bearing which it belongs to public opinion to
examine independently of those circumstances and
considerations to which alone the attention of the
Judge is properly directed.
The facts of the cue, divested of extraneous
and irrelevant matter, are few and simple. A
maiden lady, aged 44, was induced some twelve
years since to transfer into the name of Mr.
HENZE JAMES Panics a sum of 5,7281. 7a. 2d.
New Three per Cent. Annuities. This lady
died in 1858, and it is her brother and ad-
ministrator who now seeks to remover this sum
from Mr. Palms, on the ground that it was part
of his sister's personal estate, and that it had
been transferred by her into Mr. Paixea's name
by the.exereise on his part of " undue influence,"
when she was under his " spiritual ascendancy,
" and in a state of religious delusion with respect
" to him." The first feeling in the mind of any
member of a family in which there is such a thing
as " personal estate" to dispose of must be
one of unmitigated sympathy with the plain-
tiff. The second feeling will probably be one
of curiosity concerning the defendant. It is
a bitter thing at any time for a near relation
to see money going out of the family into the
hands of strangers, through caprice, or anger, or
weakness. There are points of view from which even
charitable bequests are not absolutely delightful to
contemplate, and magnificent gifts to religious
foundations sometimes look better at • distance
than at home. But in England one is apt to
imagine that though testators are not debarred
from the privilege of that sort of practical joking
after death which consists in doing a great public
good at the cost of a great private wrong, at any
rate we are safe from the grip of the priest. In
• Protestant land estates are not settled in trust
to pay for the via' to the final passport ; in a
Protestant land we may do what we like
with our own, and who is to say where
spiritual ascendancy begins and ends—who shall
define " undue influence," or prescribe the limits
of " religious delusion"l The lady in the present
case, sister of the plaintiff, became in December
1846 a disciple of Mr. Panics, "who then and now
" declared himself to be • servant of the LORD."
Three of her sisters were already his disciples.
Who and what then is Mr. Panics 1 Mr. Panics
was a clergyman of the Church of England, whose
extraordinary zeal as a curate in Somersetahire
and Suffolk had got him into trouble with two
bishops. This precarious situation, as an erratic
curate of excessive seal, Mr. Puttee managed by
some miraculous process to convert into the com-
fortable and awful position of the founder of a new
and final "dispensation," "opener" of a new and
final " covenant," and proprietor of an establish-
ment described as the Agapemone, or Abode of Love,
where the " day of grace " is concluded and the day
of judgment "introduced," the "dispensation of
" the Spirit closed," the last "covenant with flesh"
entered into, and the best of board and lodging pro-
vided. To this Abode of Love it seems that Mr.
Psisee, the sometime curate, had in the first place
carried his rector, his rector's wife, and income.
" Brothers " and "Sisters " from time to time
joined the "dispensation," and gave up their
worldly guodsto the Tabernacle, and, among the rest,
three of the sisters of Miss Louisa JANE NOTTIDGE,
These three ladies were prevailed upon by succes-
sive " revelations " to marry three " brothers,"
and in each case the question of a settlement was
overruled, in obedience to the declared " purposes
"of Goo." Miss LOUISA JANE NOTTIDOZ, the
fourth sister, at the perilous age of 41, went to
reside in the neighbourhood of her sisters, and
became subject to Mr. Panics'a influence, but was
taken away by her brother to reside with her
mother, and shortly afterwards, upon medical cer-
tificates, placed in a lunatic asylum, because she
had expressed her belief "that Mr. Pantos was
"Cop ALIADHITY, and that he had the lower of
" conferring immortality upon her." Two years
in an asylum having failed to shake her belief in
Mr. Paisce, she was released by order of the
Commissioners, in consideration of her bodily health
beginning to fail. On the day of her release
she met her brother-in-law, also a "disciple,"
and with him went to London to transfer the Three
per Cent stock standing in her name into that of
Mr. Panic,. On her return to the Agapemone she
procured a power of attorney, and actually com-
pleted the transfer a fortnight after her release from
the asylum. It is alleged by Mr. Peeves that this
transfer of stock was made without any solicits
Lion on his part, and without his knowledge. It
was obviously the duty of counsel for the plaintiff
to paint the Agapemone very black. It is not
denied that at least the female disciples of Brother
Paley' regard him as the tabernacle of Gob upon
this earth ; but it is only fair to Brother PRINCE
to add that his female disciples appear to be ladies
who have reached that safe yet suaceptilbi period
of life, hovering between the age of hope and the
age of despair, which is glad enough to get a new
" dispensation " at any price, and ready to accept
any " covenant with flesh," or to take refuge in any
"Tabernacle." M•HOMIT COD/01W the old woman
who had doubts of a place in his Paradise by the
Promise that "the old women would be made
young again ;" but Mr. PR/NCE'S dispensation,
which is a final and complete one, has no need of
any such assurance. The transfer of the Three
per Cent. Stock is a transaction to be judged on
its own merit•, without importing into the case, so
far as the public are concerned, prejudices
against Mr. Puica's doctrines. We shall not be
I suspected of any secret propensity to Agapemon-
ism if we inquire what interest society has in
forcibly preventing old maids from investing their
Istock in a now "dispensation" 1 We may assume
that it is not the office of a Court of Chancery
to lay down the limits of religious enthusiasm, or
to decide at what point a " development" of doe-

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trine- tes into blasphemy. One need not enter the
establishment at Spliaton to led the most orthodox
female imaginations possessed wills an almost illi-
mitable belief in curates ; to listen to an unintelli-
gible jargon, to behold faith in a frenzy, and
repentance in convulsions. Religion, whether
established or una3stablished, has its excesses and
its eccentricities of manifestation, and perhaps
if we were to analyse severely all the utterances
et all the pulpits, we should be puzzled to select
from so many ” dispensations." Brother Perscz
is an extreme " development," no doubt ; but
from Cardinal WISMIAB to Brother Panics inclu-
sive, there are, as Dr. Crmmixo can tell us, Dis-
pensations, and Tabernacles, and Great Tribula-
Item, and Prophets without number, and the
" spiritual sacendancy" they represent would buy
up the Three per Cents. But in an age and a
country tolerant of diversities of faith, and braced
by the contests of opinion, the law leaves
the refutation of false doctrine to reason,
and the failure of false prophets to time,
and declines to step in to save silly women from
the " undue influence" of any " spiritual amen-
" dancy" they may prefer. " Spiritual amen-
" dancy" is often hard upon families and cruel to
individuals ; but so long as it respects the laws,
pays taxes, and acknowledges the State, it is
visited with those social disabilities only which any
form of eccentricity provokes, and which new re-
ligions call " martyrdom." Brother Panscs's
dispensation, however extravagant in theory and
on paper, has many sensible advantages over moat
of its competitors in practice. It combines, as pro-
spectuses say, all the comforts of a first-rate home
with the pleasing recreations of • fashionable
boarding-house. It brings together able clergy-
men and susceptible females who might have died
of spiritual starvation, or languished as religious
novelists, or as district visitors in obscure paro-
chial enthusiasm. It marries, and gives in
marriage, on a sound Malthusian basis ;
invests the common stock in the name
of one, but disburses it for the benefit of all;
it makes a club of a " Tabernacle," • church of
a club, a perpetual picnic of a final " dispense-
" tion "—rides, drives, dines, sings hymns and
anthems, and plays hockey. Surely, in an age of
muscular theology, ladies of fifty and upwards
may be pardoned for putting their faith in such a
dispensation as this. When Brother Parsee de-
clares that it is all "for the glory of Gen," and
Brother Temma writes that it was " quite un-
" expectedly brought before him," that Sister
AONZI4 should not have a settlement of her pro-
perty on herself, we fancy we have met with
Brother PRINCI and Brother Teoxas before, and
we apprehend we shall often meet with them

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Ws are officially informed that her Mairarr
has been pleased to intimate her intention to re-
view the Volunteer Corps in and about London
in Hyde Park, on Saturday, the 23rd instant, at
4 p.m. As some applications have been received
at the War-office from Volunteer Corps formed
beyond the Metropolitan district to be permitted
to attend the Review at their own expense, is
has been decided that such applications shall be
taken into consideration with a view to the ad-
mission, so far as space and numbers will allow,
of such corps as may be at an easy distance from
London, provided their applications are rox;ved
at the War-office on or before Monday, the 18th
instant, immediately after which each corps will
be informed whether it will be possible to accept
the offer.

The Floral Hall, Covent-garden, will be opened
dter the opera this evening, and her Majesty has signified
bur intention of honouring both the Bower show and the
opera with her presence.

Lady Sondes gave her first ball this season last
evades at the family mansion in Grosvenor-sqoara.
Mr. Leigh and the Misses Leigh gave a concert
last evening at their residence in Grosvenor-place. The
programme included the names of several eminent artistes,
among whom were Madame Borghi-Mamo, Madame Lem-
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