The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-07 00:00:00

PAYING MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT,

~...gislative Assembly at Melbourne has mssed a
bill for the payment of members. It is proposed to give,
each member £3OO a year, and• a sum of £3,000
annually is appropriated for the purpose. Ihe bill
was strongly opposed by some members, who declared that
it would introduce a class of pauper politicians, who would
pay themselves by plundering the State and would sell the
patronage. , The supporters of the measure maintained
that members should be compensated for the expenses to
which they were put. The second reading of the bill was
carried by 26 to 17, and, after passing through committee
and being read a third time, went to the Upper House.

Mr. Disraeli is reported to be almost convalescent
from his severe attack of gout.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a
very kind letter to Dr. Hayman, congratulating him on his
appointment to Rugby.

Viscount Milton, M.P., was, on Monday, initiated
a member of the Sheffield District of the National Indepen-
dent Order of Oddfellows, at Wentworth House.

It is generally believed in Dublin (says the corre-
spondent of the Pall Mall Gazette) that the freeman fran-
chise cannot surviv,e the report of the commissioners upon
the evidence given during the last few days.

The death is announced this day of Lady Louisa
Greville, sister to the late and aunt to the present Earl of
Warwick. Lady Grt-ville died on the 31st ult., at her re-
sidence in Eaton-place.

A commercial treaty will (the Eastern Budget bears)
be shortly concluded Letwecn Austria and Spain, by which
each Power wia be ;rented on the•footing of the most fa-
voured nation." A similar treaty is about to be made with
Portugal.

The enthronement of the Right Rev. Lord Arthur
Hervey. D.D., recently appointed Bishop of B.tth and Wells,
took place to-day in the old cathedral of Wells, with an
elaborate ceremonial. It Was announced that the bishop
will hold a general ordiration in Wells Cathedral on Sun-
day next.

The Guardian, criticising Dr. Temple's sermon at
Exeter Cathedral, says:—"lf it does not dispel altogether
the hazo which has seemed to hang over his theology, it is
at. any rate that of a pious man and fervent Christian, who
accepts the ly Scriptures as tho paramount guide of con-
duct and rule of faith."

The Eastern Budget, on the strength of informs,-
Con derived by telegram from CorMautinople, declares that
the feeling against the Khedive is increasing in official circles
there. It is feared that a conflict will be inevitable, unless
the Powers interfere to induce the Kh-dive to fulfil all the
stipulations of the finnan ad lresseil to him by :he Porte.

James Malcolm, lately pointiman and telegraph
officer upon the No th British Railway, wi,s hrought before
Sheriff Hamilton, st E inburgb, on Mon 'ay, charged with
having been found in a stat or into= cation whit. on duty
Tr'uity Junction o the 81,t it. The Stier ff 1 flicted a
flue of .£2 10g., •ail ng p t to su r fi tee days' ini-
prisc•nment.

At the Coleraine quarter sessions opened on Satur-
day, a rather novel application was made by a juror to bo
excused from serving on the jury on the ground that he had
a "religious qualm of consciet.co" against condo tuning any
human being "temporally or spiritually." The chairman
felt surprise at the application ; but respected the peculiar
scruples of the juror, and excused him from attending.

We recently reported a .hocking case of judicial
torture in the Swiss Canton of Zug. The Cantoral As-
sembly has lest no time in prohibiting such barbarities
for the future within their jurisdiction. If the Messenger
of W into thur is to be trusted, a similar reform is impera-
tively demanded in tie historically renowned Canton 0'
Uri. the cradle iu former (Lys f Swiss liberty.
The new warrant for the formation of an Army
Working Corps is now being fully carried out at Woolwich.

The Scotch papers report that Lord Barcaple is
seriously ill. Overwork is assigned as the cause.
The foot-and-mouth disease is spreading• in the
Manchester district.

A rumour, says Saunders's Newsletter, has reachea
Castlobar that on Saturday night a bailiff of Lord John
Browne's was shot dead.
Many iron puddlers engaged in works near Glasgow
have struck work in consequence of the refusal of their em-
ployers to concede a rise of wages.
The Christmas decorations this year at St. Mary-
the-Loss, Lambeth, which were of a very chaste description,
aro said to have been done by vrs. and the Misses Glad-
stone.

Mr. Childers and Captain Lord J. Hay left Lon-
don yesterday for Portsmouth, on a visit to tho Royal Cla-
rence Victualling Yard, at Gosport, and the Royal Marine

Barracks at Forton.

Messrs. J. M. Johnson and Sons, of Castle-street,
Holborn, announce their intention of bringing out a new
periodical called the lbod Journal, to be devoted entirely to
the subjects of food and public health.

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by
the coroner's jury against two women named M'Nameo,
mother and daughter, accused of inflicting fatal injuries on
Patrick O'llounell during an Irish row in Liverpool on
Christmas Eve.

Colonel Akroyd, M.P., presided yesterday at the

annual soir6e of the Brighouse blechanics' Institution, and
delivered a speech, in which he advocated the cultivation of

technical education by the working classes, and the encou-
ragement of voluntary effort in education generally. Mr. IL
W. Ripley also spoke on educational topics.
The Cardigan magistrates have just discovered a
series of systematic embezzlements in regard to provisions
for the gaol; and at the same time tho imbecility, through
intemperance, of the governor—or, as he himself called it,
"torpor of the functions of the brain." The governor Las
therefore been dismissed.
The Globe says that the several " absurd" ru-
mours started to the effect that the General Commanding-
in-Chief was throwing obs'aeles in the way of the final set-

tlement of Army administration are totally devoid of foun-
dation. "His Royal Highness is sincerely desirous of fur-
thering any scheme for the benefit of the service.'
Rumours have been circulated to the effect that.
M. Ay' ton was about to deprive the park of its flowers.
These rumours are now contradicted. The Echo declares
that Mr. Ayrton intends to have the subject of park garden-
ing inveEtgated by a skilful horticulturist, who will report
upon the bad means of producing good effects without
waste.

Last evening Messrs. Turner and Cross addressed
a meeting of their constituents in the Volunteers' Hall,
St. Helent% Mr. Turner contended that the only present
effect of the Ministerial policy on Irish questions had been
the reverse of pacifying in Ireland. Mr. Cross confined
himself to a criticism of the creation of peers, baronets,
&c., by the present Government.
A split has occurred in the National Education
League, if we may believe the Eirmirzghata Gazelle, which
says:—" Many earnest men in the cause of education who
gave in the'', adhcrt nee to the first programme of the League,
had no idea to what measures that adherence would make
them appear to assent." Writing from Richmond, Mr. A. If.
Safford rays ;—,, flav;ng carefully considered the draft bill
prepared by the League, I feel that I cannot continue a
number of your body."

The Liverpool council is divided on the subject of
street trarnw:iys. The local company has sought to extend
ttzeir system. It has been resolved to of pose the further
extension of their powers, CO far as the streets of the borough
are coneorne.l. The company premised to experimenti,lise
i
for eighteen months with their present powers, and it s
looked upon as premature for them to seek permission to
cut up the streets till the system has had a more
ti ial. practical

A robbery was committed last night at the London
: residence of the Iron. J. Lothrop Alotley, the American
' Minister. There is every reason to believe that the thief or
thieves must have concealed themselves on the premises
seine time before the robbery took place, and that they
escaped by the back way. Property to the amount of about
£l,OOO is said to have been carried off, the property consist=
ing of jewellery, &c. The thieyee left behind them a
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