The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-18 00:00:00

UNCIAL NOTICIL

11FIORSE SHOW, AGRICULTURAL HALL,
CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE
i for the Lthibitlon and Sale of the same class of Goods as are
ASSURANCE SOCIETY. mold dining the Smithfield Club week, and nodal articles for
Established 1324. Lorlesniimtle pv..teposes..._,...._Terrns_
..andordeon.amtditle.enshaimutoay be
n. osbud. nod at
All persons who effect Policies en the Participating Scale be-
fore Jane Seth, 186 k will be entitled at the neat bones to one '"" ''" "'` ''''."l"."7. ''''''
yeer's additional Share of Profits over later entrants. I
Tables of Rates, and Forms of Proposal, can be obtained from • it GIIIC U LTURAL H
ALL GOLD MEDAL.
any of the Society, Agent*. or of .1 ~[7l- ab the coming HOME SNOW, in addition in A 365 given
GSORGE CUTCLIFITS, Actuary and Secretary. :In itelsaa In banters, In tom claws, the Directors offer a Gold
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. I Medal wank Twenty-Ave Guineas for the Beet Bunter in the
- Show.

UNDERCLOTHING for LADIKS at the
Wholesale Price. —CUM. AIIOW and Co., St. Faure,
have lately purchased In Stanchenter 4'3,000 worth of snperlor
Loincloths, at an eISOTOIO4II reduction in price, which they hare
manufactured, and will sell during the week as follows:
Cameaolee, from u}d. liatnlsome !Tilled Skirts. 24.11 d.
Csinesoles. trimmed leer, is./d. I Petticoats with insertion, ts. 11d.
Camesoles,trinsmedwork,ltalL Yrillal Petticoats, with work,
Ladles Drawers, 91d. Os. lid.
Drawers, trimmed lace, In. Cd. PriDed Nighicowna, 23. ed.
Drawers, with work. le. Nightgowns, with rich work,
Ladies Chemises. Is. Old.
Chemises, trimmed lace, Is. 41d. "
Chemises, with work, Is. ll.et
Petticoats, with 7 tucks, 2s.
. .

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Three
.11 Atllete—Promenad• Concert. Band of 80. Begin at 8.
Use Ninth's. Box Mace open from 11 to 4.

FLAWITE, every night, at 10.

LEOTARD, every night, et 11.
paamar Nl;htDßs, r - Ild• ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.
The Osborne Night Drew 76. 114.
IA taming Wrappers, from 76.1b1.
met Corsets. —Nagravlaga re-
a. wear, Walt free-
.. 61 awl at, St. ram's.

Repot th
Preheating' 150 &elm fee _ Ldl
.

NA'T'IONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Holborn.—The most spacious and briLliantly.decorated
baltrooes and the best band in Lnndon. OPAN for CONCERT
and DANCING EVIIIIY itYMNING. Musical director, Mr. W.
3f. Packer. Open as ball-put 8; class at It Admisaion. la.

'RING SILKS.
PORT MEL

Black Olacf, Nilo, 1 ninnt.

ilia Oros Orrin, iiis7ii.
Black Gros de Loathes, I gs.
Black Oros de duel, LI 13s. ed.
Black Gros du Lyon, 2 guineas.
Black Gros Royals, 21 guineaa.
Black Corded Silks. 3 glibness.
Black Moire Antkpies,32lBa.o,l.
Black Morning Silks, l} gs.
Black Japanese Silks, gl 9s. 641.
Black Satins, 2 guineas.
ravings of Fashions Free. The
ow Rooms In &gland.
a, Ii and 03 St. P.m'''.

1”111CRT HELLER, the famous American
_RAM GIMMUROR and HUMORIST, at the POLYGRAPHIC
HALL. 'lke Valliam-etreet, Charing-eras. EVERY EVENING,
at I, and on Wedne•day and Saturday afternoon@ at & The
best amijurbag shies the days of Robert Houdin ; Isla humour
coamdile and resalndlerg us of &Mamas Ward.

NEW BOOKS.—NOTICE.—Mudie's Library
merrengers call to deliver hooks at the residences of Sub-
scribe?' in every part of London on a plan which has given
satisfaction to thaussisda of resters for many years. Subscribers
In the country may also obtain constant supplies of the best new
books on liberal terms. Pmspectuses postage free on application.
MUM'S SELECT LIBRAItY, New Oxford-sitreet. City otnee:
4, King-street, Cheapelde.

fIITATWOCO'S "INVINCIBLE" SAFES
-.1 and MOCKS for Bankers and others are only to be bed from
the wiener et the Ch.lleoge Stakes of 30.005 frau,os at the Parts
Exhihif3o3. Depot. 130. Camsonorireet. Undo% EC.

MAGNIFICENT TUSSORE ROBES.—SPE-
CIAL PURCHASE.—CHAS. AMOTI' and Co., St. Paul's,
sill SILL, THIS DAY, 900 Rich TUMORS ROll/5. handsomely
embroidered with silk, originally l}intlnea, In buff and neutral
tints, all at 96. 11d. Sample Drees upon receipt of stamps:
CHAS. AMOTt and Co., 61 and 62, St. Paul's.
1 60NEW SPRING DRE
4 trees Os lid. full dress to S p.,
in Muslin, Alpaca, hultana Cloth, Lama, Urenadine, Ac.
Patterns post free.
CHAS. AMOTI' and Co., GI and GI St. Paul's.

RELIANCE LOCKS, FIRE And WEDGE-
PRnos SATll9.—if von wish to purchase a good Second-
hand lire-proof Safe, apply to JOLLY TANN, he having • quan-
tity to dispose of considerably under the original price.—Ware-
Uses, go, Waibrook. /LC.

;SES,

JACKETS for PROMENADE.

. 1 guinea.
guinea.
.SI 18 6
.2 5 0
2 18

The New Fitness! 18 0 I The Oradell....
The hider. 1 5 6 The Anxtdi
La Brine
The Itougemont 2p. The Minerva ...
The Druideme
'The Elyse*, Sp.,
are the landing Nov•lties of the berm
One Hundred and Fifty Engraving., post tree,
embracing the Fashions of the higher circles.
The largest Jacket and Mantle Show-rooms In F.ugland an at
AMOTT and Co., 61 and 62. Bt. Faure, ndon.

•
rIALICOES, LINENS, SHEETINGS, and
OgNSRAL DRAPERY, EXTRAORDINARILY CHEAP.-I
AMOTT and Co., St. Yours, will !HELL, during May
A 9,000 worth of the above, bought at a great reduction, for !
cash. This la the largest and chespe.t lot of genuine useful
drapery that has been offered for sale since the outbreak of the
rebellion in the Southern States of America. We quote as under
a few lota - 900 pieces of good long cloth, worth 6s. 6d., will
be sold at 25. 110. per dozen ; 1,100 pieces of heavy cloth, suit.
able for nightgowns originally its. 9d., are all marked Is. 11d.
pet dozen ; several hundred pieces of fine Horrock: and India!
longcloths, worth Ts. 6d., will be cleared out at 4a. 41d. per
dozen ; a large lot of all linen glass cloths will be sold at ls. Old.
per twelve squares-these goods are very cheap ; glees cloths at
So lid., 45. 11d. and 6s. fid.. worth more than double the ,
money ; 1,100 pairs of stout cotton sheets, originally Is. Pd.,
will be sold at 44. lid. per pair ; • large lot of cotton sheets.
eighty Inches wide, will boson' from SA 11d. to 12s. 6d. peeped':
1,200 pairs of linen sheets, all linen, will be sold at 71. 11d. per
pair, worth 14s. Od. ; Nord linen sheets, large size, at 105. 9d.,
14e. 9d., and ISt 94., worth from 161. 9d. to 30s. ; 800 dozen of
towelling*, In various makes, are marked Se. 41d. and 7s. ed.
per dozen, worth es. 6d. and 12a. e 4.: 640 dozen very heavy all
linen medical rubber towels, usually sold at 18e. 6d., will be
sold at He. 11d. per dozen ; 2,000 dozen of good nursery diapers'.
will be sold at fs. Sid. per I! sqnares: 850 dotal very heavy, all
linen, for Is. 11d., worth Us. nd. ; magnificent double damask
table cloths, two yards square. 4s. 11d.; 890 large size, to dine
14 persons, worth ns., will be sold at 10s. 9d.: 470 dozen, all
linen, real Hambro' damask dinner napkins. worth Is. for
Bs. lid. per dozen 300 dozen in extra large sizes, worth 14a, 6d.,
for 7s. ltd. per dozen ; 1.200 dozen of cambric handkerchiefs, alt
linen, will be sold at Is 00. per dozen : several hundred good
heavy bed quilts at half their cost of production. Samples for-
warded on receipt of stamps.
CHAS. AMOIT and Co., 61 and 62, St. Pours, London.

SECOND-BAND FIRE and BURGLAR PROOF
ear .—Before purchasing send for Griffiths' Monthly
Mt of Safes. by MUner, Man, Thos. Perry and Sous, Mordan,
Mee, Widtfleld, and every eminent maker, at about half the
Was of sew. A guarantee given with ash. A large quantity
of Taisn's Safes, from CI 10a Apply twOBLYITHIS, 43, Cannon
Week LC.

ej*OHNSON, ROFFRY, and Co.'. SMYRNA
MARY AND BLACK LEAD MILLS. Importers and
--'------ By Appointment to the Honourable Beard of
LAMBITH, SL

o-rz. z

tfarBO;IROFFRY, snd Co.'s VICTORIA
CIYR Powmta, es used In Mrs listentyledreabludl....
Bold everywlkere, In tins, 6d., lc, ft., and 48. silo 3d. pectetc

JOHNSON, ROFFEY, and Co.'s SILVER-
SMITH'S IPOLISH fnon.reercwiall, for cleansing and
pentads( alltar, elsciro-plate, ems marble, &c.

JOHNSON, ROFFEY, and Co.'s EXCELSIOR
ItTILNITULI POLISH. Sold everywhere.

ATKINSON and Co., 198 to 212, WEST-
YllfaTKß-BEIDOMIOAD. LONDON.

CABINET MANUFACTURERB.--Bhow Rooms
for every Descripticas of Pornitare.

CARPET WAREHOUSEMEN.

UPHOLSTERERS.

FAMILY DRAPERS.

PIUSTRATED CATALOGUES, containing
rawtags et the Furniture exhibited In the Showrooms,
forwarded free, or can be had on application, and which also
enable purchasers to form an Idea of the coat et Furnishing as
each drawiag has with it a corresponding price et the article
shown. All goods marked La plain figures.
ATKINSON sad Ca., lee to 912, WFSTMINSTKE DREDGE-
ROAD. LONDON.

KINO'B_,
THE WELL-KNOWN CITY TAILOR'S,
40, CORNHILL,
Opposite Melt-lane.

1 TAILOR,
770 FIN CB ITRCHATRRIT. 120,
iNearly opposite Mark-Lea)
rimier FITTING GARMIINTS.
Moderate Charges.

CORDING'S CELEBRATED FISHING
BOOM Warranted, and are sort sal paw..
CORDING'S FISHING STOCKINGS.

e°RDING'S GUIN. RA STORM GOAT.

CORDING'S FISHING COAT.

CORDING'S, 231, STRAND and TEMPLE-
DLR.

ARNOLD and SONS' IMPERCRPTIBLE
the sad slabiridsiing.
Inuessa .ciarwledsen to IN wig W.'
toetable wearing tame invented. Mastic Lorca"
4c., tee mimes mobs. wish:nem Re.. Abdenihml Whiny
Conveniences, Crotches, Artidcial Leics. Anna, Rands. aft :
and every dmeription ot surgical appliance mastodon& by
ARNOLD and SO2lll, U and ae, West Smithfield. Lowden.
Nit —Direettime for messnrentese and prier Unitifdod. As
efrperlenced female to attend on ladles.

WOODHOUSE'S BALSAM OF SPERMA-
CST L—nw 1 enemy of Spermaceti to
asdi galling Shs t/ a OceSho odd Colds bee lbri=
hem of many yews. It apeedfir relieves etiljeses end
nfriCof the oho* sad 119 ito Buddies
ksgsmsd by the alsbdy swab stee= ebtreibled day.
Woodloonoes Balm at Brefteeeß 91 prepared *Ol7 Or
BARCLAY end SONB, Ps, lardnordosetreet, London, Bombe&
mil. ell OM Lie Dedana Woodboese ; fed sold to
ralt, 11. 9d., sod AL ed. seat. May be olobsased ol B.

nINNKFORD'S FLUID MAGNZBIAL
The inedicaloprofeeeloa thlrty 7eare lave =
!Ws mire !Mutton Maenads aa the beet remedy for al
the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout. and tndlgMM ; tied
se the beet mild aperient for delicate
adapted for Ladle', Children, and Infeal:"1/6460.1=
Cm, amalate, IT; New Bandatreet, load*, sod of al NW
elsolele areesbeat the wend

JOHNSON, ROFFEY, and Co.. EMERY
CLOTH, GLASS CLOTH MIRY aad GLASS PATEL
York-read, Lambeth, B.X
OAKKY'S INDIARUBBER KNIFE BOARDS,
trot la dd. each.

0 AKEY'S CABINET GLASS PAPER, Emery
asd Glue Cloth, Block Lead, de.

OAKEY'S SILVERSMITHS' SOAP (non-mar-
culla% for cleaning and polishing direr, electro-plate,
plate-gtaas, de. Tablets a ea&

OAKEY'S WELLTNGTON KNIFE POLISH.
Nast' ad. mob: ties, Id., Is.. 2s. It. and 4d.

SOLD everywhere by ironmongers, grocers
oilmen, braskasakers. chemists. Re. Wk.tousle by JOHN
OAKEY sad BONS, emery sad black lead laths, 172, Blacktriarr
road, 8.

JOHN GOSNELL and Co's CHERRY TOOTH
PASTE Is greatly superior to any Tooth Powder, gtves the
Teeth a pearl-like whitewall, protecta the enamel from decay,
and Imparts a pleasing fragrance to the breath. Pilo. la dd.

JOHN GOSNELL and Co's PATENT
TRICHORADMI, re newly-Invented RAM-BRUSH, the
peculiar mechanical eenstruotion of which accomplishes the
two operations of cleansing sad polishing simultaneously. 9S,
KipperThamee-st. late of IgThreeKing-ct,Lorsbard-st.. London.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Conductedbyeamuxa
MCKIM&

HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Conducted by CHAZLES
Minim. Cheap Edition. Well printed en good paper.
filipance. Monthly Part, 120 pages, now ready.
London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster-row.

Mr. Gregory, President of the Institution of
Civil Faagineen, has limed cards for an evening reception
on Tuesday, May SS.
VISIT Of PRINCE ARTRCR TO BROWIRTNESS.
The visit of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur and the
Woolwich cadets to Shmtbstryness terminated on Saturday,
the young prince having gone through a week's active
gunnery and mortar instruction. His royal highness was
a daily attendant at Shoeburyness, and toot part in several
important and interesting experiments carried out by the
ordnance select committee, under the direction of Colonel
Handley Wilmot, R.A., commandant, and Capt. Alderson,
R.A.

WORKMEN'S TECHNICAL EDUCATION COMMITTRL
—This committee of the Working Men's Club and In-
stitute Union has completed arrangements for the
delivery of two courses of lectures en the value of mimes
in relation to industrial pursuits, et the Loudon Mechanics
Institution, Southampton-building. Professor Barr,
F.R.1.8.A. (of King's Coarse), opens the first series on
Friday neat, and he will be followed on Tuesdays and
Fridays by Mr. James Robertson, Dr. J. li. Glaaitme,
F.R.8., F. 0.8., Dr. F. Crane Calvert; F.R.8., Dr. W. B.
Carpenter, F.1i.8., Mr. R. J. Reed (chief 0012Mniekir
the navy), Professor Warrington ?Smyth, and Dr. R.
Lankester, F.R.B.
CONORROATIONAL lINION.-911. Saturday morn-
ing, according to the °Grim of armor presidents, the
Rev. Dr. Raleigh invited the ministers end delegate of
the Union to a public breakfasitin Myddelton-hall, Is Between 300 and 400 at down, including ministers
and representatives of other denomination&

DEATH OF MiCtiloll.A3 600P31. —Mx. Thomas
cooper, author of " The Purgatory et Bedsides" and other
works, formerly a well-known lecturer on Chartism, died
at Lincoln on Thursday, after • short illness. Mr. Cooper's
life wee one of the most emetful. He wee • native of
Chdneberocigh, where he wee Muted apprentice to a Moe.
maker. At 13 facsook the stall mad opened a school.
About this time he beams • local preacher for the Wes.
Imam, with very great smoses. A. brief period intervened
been he sapped Muesli to the Mess*el Nerewry, on
which paper he Need as reporter end peovicedal spat.
lAhout • year afterwards he Joined the literary staff of the
ILeiemter Cltronide, and Ude hrenat him into contest with
the pecestyetrikes eteekingers„ %le views muse be threw
Mane lead mad seal. In 1841 he Marled the Ds-
tispaister, and in 1842 the Chertial .Adevests, both of
which failed In • short lime. In AM Miter year he Ailed
the Stiffordainre Potteries, and en easiest of • violent
mattes delivered to selfless en shilde,lir wss afterwards
eemmittel to Mem for tee imam MBA there he wrote
Me beet work, and then turned an .Adel lecturer, but
resented, joined the gassed baptiets, and for fourteen
yews he weal shout delfrering Whams en Christianity.—
Advertiser.

The recent Murphyite disturbances at Ashton-
under-Lyne, following as they did thiocrimr-
rence of similar disgraceful scenes at e,
Blackburn, and other portions of the Lancashire
c Main-manufacturing districts, indicate too plainly
the existence of a condition of affairs which de-
mands the serious consideration of all who are in
the least interested in the moral and social welfare
of the operative community dwelling in the north
of England. Those acquainted with the true state
of working-class feeling in the cotton-manufactur-
ing districts are frequently reminded in various
ways of the large and increasing degree of antipathy
manifested by a very considerable proportion of the
English operative classes towards those of Celtic
origin. To their credit, however be it spoken,
the majority of the more intelligent and educated
English working men du not participate in these
bigoted and most unworthy sentiments; but their
tolerant principles unfortunately find little or no
favour among the lower and least-educated
section of the iminerous order of which they form I
part. These sentiments of antipathy and dislike
are sometimes reciprocally displayed in the shape
of apparently insignificant street affrays, in which
both parties are found assailing each other with a
determination and ferocity more in-harmony with
our traditional ideas of savage life than of what
we should expect from individuals reared within
the influences of modern civilisation. There can be
no doubt that considerable numbers of the lower
class of English and Irish workers eatartain for
each other that most bitter and most Isogovernabla
of all hatreds—the hatred of race. This unhappy
state of affairs has been brought about by various
circumstances, not the least influential being the
alleged injurious interference of the Iriah labourer
with the amount of wages procurable by his Eng-
lish brother. In Lanmahire, for instance, the
close proximity of Liverpool, the great point of
arrival of Irish emigration from Ireland, to Pres-
ton, Ashton, Blackburn, and other town where
the cotton-manufacturing industry is largely
carried on, has naturally facilitated the
formation of extensive colonies of Irish
workers in the neighbourhood of the various
mills and factories. At first the large and appa-
rently inexhaustible demand for labour occasioned
by the prodigious development of the Lancashire
cotton manufacture prevented the rapid increase of
the Celtic element from exercising any perceptible
influence on the labour market ; but when periods
of stagnation in trade intervened the English
operatives began to regard with unfavourable eyes
the presence of those whom they considered in the
light of strangers and interlopers. Moreover, it
not unfrequently happened that when a dispute
occurred between employers and employed, the I
places of those on strike were filled by shoals of
workers imported from Ireland. These circum-
stances gradually deepened the feelings of dislike
with which the Paddies "- as the Celtic opera-
tires are sometimes contemptuously designated—
were regarded by the Lancashire workers, and
tended to isolate them, as a class, yet further from
their Saxon fellow-toilers. At times, desirous of
conciliating in some degree the irritated population
among whom they hat taken up their abode,
not a few of the Irish workers would enrol them-
selves as members of the local trade organisations,
and often furnished the most vehement and deter-
mined advocates of unionist doctrines. All this,
however, failed to remove the hostile feeling pro-
duoed by the continued preponderance of the Irish
labour supply in the less skilled and cheaper de-
scriptions of employment. In every direction the
unskilled, and not unfreqaently the partially
skilled, English workman found himself confronted
face to face with his Celtic rival. And then, as if
rmaancimical difference... were not sufficient the
coolness and ill-feeling engeidereenresticts et
hostile religious creeds must needs e itself also
unpleasantly apparent. The great bulk of the
Celtic population are—as we all know—fervently
devoted to the Roman catholic faith, while the
corresponding portion of Lancashire artisans,
immigrants principally from the English
rural districts, are as strongly protestant
in their religious professions. Regarding
each other as heretics, as believers in false doc-
trines, as men whose very religion is of itself suffi-
cient to brand them with shame and ignominy.
The great mass of catholic and protestant
operatives stand separated from each other by a
gulf fully as wide as that which divides the Jew
from the Gentile. Here it should be borne in
mind that the alleged irreligion of the working
classes is—notwithstanding Archdeacon Sinclair's '
assertions to the contrary—more apparent than I
real. In Lancashire, at any rate, the ranks of '
the Sunday school teachers, district visitors, and
home missionaries are largely—in some places
wholly recruited from the operative classes. '
Strongly attached to protestant principles, whether
professed by the established church or by the vari-
ous dissenting denominations, and frequently find-
ing their attempts at evangelising the poorer and
more squalid districts frustrated by the ill-con-
cealed jealousy and enmity of the Irish popula-
tion, who are too often encouraged in so doing by
the lower and more bigoted class of Romish
priests, they can scarcely avoid entertaining
a strong and powerful dislike towards the
j Roman catholic religion and its professors.
This feeling of aversion has become in some places
yet further intensified by the significant circumstance
that in their most important social movements the
Lancashire artisan cannot always look for the co-
operation of their Celtic brethren. The temperance
organisation forms almost the only one of its kind
in which both English and Irish are found labour-
ing harmoniously together, and even here the
catholic and protestant associations are seldom
found co-operating together. In nearly all others,
the originators, officials, and supporters belong ex-
clusively to the protestant working-class. The
inevitable result of this state of affairs is to render
the Irish working population in our manufacturing
districts a nation within a nation. They form an
alien race, having few objects in common with those
among whom they live, and by whom they are gene-
rally regarded with mingled feelings of dislike and
suspicion. Yet there is no reason for doubting that
' were once the icy barriers of isolation broken
down, many of the ill-founded dislikes and preju-
dices which at present animate both sides would
speedily disappear. Influenced by the teachings
of their cheap newspapers, and still more by the
continual flood of educational literature with which
they have become inundated of late years, many of
the English artisans have been gradually led to dis-
play a far greater amount of tolerance and fair
play than could reasonably have been expected
from them. As a class, they have studiously re-
frained from persecuting their Celtic fellow-bre-
thren. They may have stood aloof in sullen dis-
trust from them, but they have in nowise interfered
with them or their religion. Nay, more, not •
few of the more intelligent and respectable claim
both Irish and English, finding themselves conti-
nually thrown together, both by emaciation in the
factories and by neighbourship, have learned
to discover and appreciate each other's
better qualities, and to mutually entertain
sentiments. of a more cordial character than had
hitherto been heldby them. The strong ortns so
repeatedly expressed by the English wo class
' respecting the unjustifiable =tannin which Ire-
land has, until within the last few years been
misgoverned by this coun&y,. hay on the other
hand, largely assisted in gaming for them the re-
spect and esteem of the bulk of Irish artisans, and
has most certainly tended considerably to retard
the development of Fenian principles among the
Oeltie labotanng population resident in the mann-
' factoring districts and elsewhere. Unless inter-
rupted by unforeseen circumstances of an unfavour-
able nature, there exists every probability that,
despite their various differences in religious and
social matters, the English and Irish elements

-
in this oountry might in due time be
found combining and working as harmo-
niously and sociably together as do the
English and Scotch elements. Unfortunately, this
desirable consummation is now likely to be indefi-
nitely retarded. At the very moment when the
English and Irish artisans were learning to shake
each other by the hand, the apple of discord has
been maliciously cast amongst them, and the clay
of reconciliation and peace has become apparently
as far distant as ever. By their repeated hot-
headed and frantic appeals to the worst pinions
and prejudices of the lower sections of the English '
working class, conjoined with their reckless and
unprovoked attacks on the religious creed professed
by their Irish brethren, the lecturer Murphy and
his bigotted colleagues have done much to re-
awaken the slumbering fires of religious strife
between the two races, and to sow within our
borders the seeds of social commotion and disorder.
The recent disturbances in Ashton and else-
where testify but too painfully to the success
which has attended the propagation of their
incendiary doctrines among the more ignorant
and impulsive members of the English working
class. They have undone much of the work of our
religious and social reformers. Years must elapse
before the angry feelings thus aroused can become
subdued and powerless. Long after the nation has
forgotten these cruel and disgraceful ebullitions of
wild and savage fanaticism, the memory of the
same will rankle sorely in many an Irish breast,
and tend to increase the instinctive dislike expe-
rienced by the Celt towards the Saxon. Such a
result can only be regarded in the light of a
national calamity. It may—nay, it will—take
years to remedy the mischief which is being daily
effected through the blind instrumentality of the
man Murphy and those who assist him in his
bigotted endeavours. A few months more of unre-
strained agitation on his part, and this country will
most certainly become the scene of riotous excesses
the like of which has not been known by us for
many years. The danger becomes the Greater by
reason of its magnitude being generally un-
suspected. It is only by constant mingling with
the working classes in the manufacturing dis-
trict that the real extent to which the flames of
religious bigotry and intolerance have been fanned
can be correctly ascertained. The influence of
the press has dune much towards counteracting the
pernicious° xam ple and teachingsof the Mnrphyites,
but it is high time tluet something more should be
effected—that means should be adopted for
preventing such inflammatory and mischievous
utterances as those which have led to
the cause of law and order being imperilled in so
many portions of the kingdom. If Murphy and
his followers be allowed to persist in their present
courses, if our catholic brethren are to be daily
subject to aspersions and insults of the most in-
famous and outrageous character imaginable, if
our mobs are encouraged into the repetitions of
excesses which carry our thoughts back to the olden
times, when a Jew could not walk through an Eng-
lish street without risk of insult or personal injury,
the cause of religious and social progress will have
received a serious, and perhaps irremediable blow.
Surely it is time for the country to interfere.
Daily News.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Awaiting with increased interest the sequel of
a state prosecution on which the political tortunes of the
United States will prob►bly depend, the Times observes,
without offering any opinion on the legality of Mr. John-
son's conduct, that, if he is convicted, there is an end to
the balance of power contemplated by the founders of the
American constitution. From that moment the President
would almost inevitably become more and more the slave
of party, and his office, already weakened and discredited,
would cease to be the object of an honourable ambition.
—Other subjects discussed in the Times are the speeches in
the French Chamber on the Commercial Treaty ; the illus-
tration of the cooperative system in the well-known case
of Messrs. Briggs and Co. and their workpeople ; and the
merit, of the government scheme of iron-clad ship-building.
The Daily Nein explains that President Johnson is
neither acquitted nor convicted, but one group of facts
which formed the basis of the last article of the impeach•
meat has been set aside as not warranting a conviction,
while as to those which remain the verdict of the Senate
is reserved. The members of the Senate seem to regard
their work as too important to be neglected, but at the
same time not so urgent as to require to be hurried. Evi-
dently no serious consequences are apprehended from
either a conviction or en acquittal, or we should not hear
of a verdict being rendered by instalments. The court
will not meet again until to-morrow week, when it will
probably see its way more clearly to a final decision.
The issue for the Hones of Commons to-night on the
Scotch Reform Bill is, says the Daily Neva, whether the
addition to theScoteh members shall be by the transfer of the
second member from tolerably large towns, as Sir R.
Knightley proposes, or of the single member from villages
of 3,000 or 4,000 inhabitants, as Mr. Baxter's motion re-
quires. It is for the latter that the Daily Beal very em-
phatically pronounces, imagining that no liberal can
have a doubt in the matter.—The ordinary trade
and finance article treats of the suit brought by M.
Labotterie and other shareholders of the French Credit
Mobilise against MM. Pereire and the old board of directors.

The Port tells its readers that the impeachment of the
President of the United States has terminated with the
acquittal of the socused.—Serjeant Armstrong's motion of
want of confidence meets with no favour from our con-
temporary.

The Telegraph regrets that the pressure of more ex-
citing business in the House of Commons hes favoured the
programs of the bill for promoting a working
union between the South•Bastern, the London
and Brighton, and the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Companies. This measure Includes
a great deal more than a mere friendly arrangement of the
train service, and a mutual understanding that no further
unproductive extensions should be carried out. It own-
prises a revision of the fares. with many important altera-
tions bearing most oppressively on the public. The Tele-
graph hopes the Lords will closely investigate these clauses
before sanctioning the Amalgamation Act.

The Star thinks the member, of the Boundary Commit•
tee, whom names were given in Saturday's Express, will
probably not be objected to. All are men of honour and
►bility ; and though neither Mr. Brace nor Kr. Whitbread
Is capable at taking a polities! advantage is s mere settle-
ment of boundaries, they will be found much more difficult
to "get round" then Viscount Everaley and Sir Francis
Crossley.

Mu. GLADBTONI AND HIS CORNISPONDINTS.
AA the last quarterly meeting of the presbytery of the cal-
vanistio methodists of the osmoties of Monmouth, Glamor-
po, and Carsossaiben, it was resolved that a petin to the
Heave of Commies, in favour of the resolatioar for the
dimstablishment of the Irish church, should he drawn up
and forwarded to Mr. Gladstone for presentation. This
was duly done, but no e.piy arriving, the secretary of the
presbytery wrote le Mr. e calling hie attention to
lie former essmaisalien. This drew a letter from the
right hoo. gesitkowsk fa width he says : " I doubt whether
• day has mused fee weeks en which I have not
received besides may of a like diameter, m-
oonlit. of public meetings er resshitims passed by import.
sat bodies liaviag the moo sitjeet. I Sal truly sorry le
have been unable to aelosewledge the letter to which you
refer, bat in • ease libs thin , where the 'Masud feeling of
the onsurtry have bias Imply Mined, I must draw largely
apes the Widgeons of many persons and asessablope et
ego bays is various forms az of
triorrNall iowerriale, if it bad beim , I would
ham Mat I could net sad ems.
set do viola without angleentrg my voila duty, tibia is
as loasseant atteatida is Ms- amain of sh.
pea. same la perlisamet." Mr. Gladstmse. des
=be essrefiaty te do him the favour of by the
of he lettsw in some Murnal, •• so t it may be
more widelyt knows.*
iso=hair rescued to its °siesta «goat by
ossestio Brash and Comb. Price: Snub's, let and
lie : recline is, 7a. lid., sad 10s : c all penmen and ebanista.
Pam/bleb oe_ &Weigle& Wholseak, Hovendes and Sou,
a, Ores* Nerlberriddedliest. W., and sad Gityeeed, Le.

FURNITURE sad DOORATION. JACK-
80N and GRAMMY ateWalt= about to fund& to
=wort the various departments of their establishment the
largest and mutt complete of Ha Wadi and their manufactory
adjoining, in which, with the aid of stoma power awe inashisery,
all means of economising cast is the predictive et Bret-skit
tmniture are employed. 7'he show.reerns to=very dome}
yon and style of furniture from that adapted the require-
ments of those who desire to furnish at the meet ernatimical
rate coneistent with good taste and sound workmanship te that
fa which art Industry of the highest class is employed. Very
article is marked in plain figures at cash recut-2d,
$7, and 38, Oxfordotreek

PHILLIPS and PEARCE,
Artists In Glass and China to the Queen,
respecthilly solidi an Inspection of their NOVEL and
DEM' rivuL DESIGN& TheyThart=nol, moderate In prise.
perfect In form, workmanship, end manufacture.
Kr. D. Pearce (for IS years at le. St. James's-street) has
the gime department under his direetion.
IS% New bond-street. and 358 and $5O, Otfordetreet, Leedom

TIT CHURTON and SO
HOSIERS sod SHIRT/WM.4
and id, OXFORD-STREIT.
LADIES' UNDERCLOTHING.

FIRST-CLASS CARPETS, DAMASKS, Le.,
lAwitrr PRIM.
ratknna can be forwarded to the Countzy Free.
T. VENABLZS & SONS, LONDON, E.

FIRST-CLASS SILKS and FANCY BRIMS.
Lowyar num
Patera% nut to the Cereett7
T. VENABLVS & POMP, LONDON, E.

FIRST-CLASS DRAPERY, MANTLES, &e.
yowler HUM
Carriage wee.
Established userly halt a Century.

FIRST CLASS MOURNIN
LOINTArr PRIM.
Pattern. bent t• the Country Free.
T. VKNA & SONS, LONDON, Z.

FIRST CLASS FURNITURE, BEDDING, &c.
LOVITAT Paints.
An Illustrated Price Ltd Po■t Yree.
T. VEIARLES & MONS, 101, 104, mad 101, Whites.lapel, sad
2,4, 6, and 8. Conimereidsdreet, London.

STILL HOCK, or Moselle, an excellent dinner
wine. whit Bond body, and tree from arlditr ; only 84s.
per dozen —The CADIZ WINK COMPANY, So, wt. haloes's-
stre.t. Lozlon. Estahlished 1847.

HENRY BREW and Co.'s "0. D. V."
MIRE IRANDY.IBs. per galkn and 364 peribm, recom-
mended by the medkal profligates. In a elm for the country We.
Inehtsive et railway earriage.—Nolbern-Mlll. and :10. Regmd-dt,

FRAUD. —CAUTION. —Order BRYANT and
MA 1"4 PATENT SAFETY MATCHES. trade mark an
Ark. and Insizt upon hawing them. as Imitations am sometimes
offered that do not afford PROTECTION FROM FIRE.

JOHN BROODEN'S CLASSIC JEWELRY.

PARIS FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL,IB67.

;1011N DROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS.

JOHN BROGDEWS BRACELETS.

JOHN BROGDEN'S BROOCHES.

JOHN BROGDENS GEM and WEDDING
RINGS.

JOHN BROGDEN'S NECKLACES.

JOHN BROGDEN'S EARRINGS.

°RIG I NAL GOLD CHAIN MAN I' FACTORY.

NO. 16, lISNRIETTA-STREET, Covent-
garden.
-- - -- --- ---
P GIFT to the UNINSURED.
A THIRTY SHORT RKPLTIA to THIRTY CON
ORIFATIONS.
By W. BANPAW, author of " Handbook to Sledkal Reterees."&e.
Sent po4 tree on application to Mr. N. HARRIS, Agent
County Are and Provident Life Office, 67, Strand, W.C.

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