The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1870

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JL4I?CiI 18, 1870,

Mr. OSBORNE has again made his voice heard, in
the House, and his numerous friends and admirers,
must have rejoiced to find that he came among them
with unimpaired energies and unabated zeal. Ile
could scarcely have chosen a more appropriate theme
for his discourse on this occasion than the topic
which, on Wednesday, engaged the attention of
the House of Commons. With his usual skill, Mr.
OSBORNE turned the tables on Mr. LIDDELL, who
had spoken just before him, by declaring that his
experience of elections had been cast in a happy
land ; he had known nothing of the ups and downs
of thelpopular vote. He could well take up a
logical position in discussing the question :—" I
unfortunately have bad some experience of general
elections in more lively latitudes; and I must sly,
with my experience of the last general election in a
midland borough of England; and with my more
recent experience, of an election at a seaport town in
Ireland=-(laughter)—in spite of logic, and .in spite
of all these stock arguments which I have heard so
often repeated on this Ballot question, unless you do
introduce secret voting the whole system is a farce."
It must, indeed, have seemed idle to the ntwly-
elected member for Waterford to be told that the
advantage of the present system was that a man
might record his vote without fear ; well might he
say that the practice was at direct issue with the
theory. Another strong point of his argument may
be found in the passage where he pleads the rights of
Conservative working men, and points out that
great injustice may be done them if they vote
as members of a minority. It is all very
fine to tell them they have logical miudF, but they
are more fully convinced of the fact that they have
breakable heads. Secret voting was well described
by Mr. OSBORNE as a protection against a tyrannical
majority, or a protection for working men against
the tyranny of their fellow-workmen. "You must
remember that corruption is a wide-spread disease
among all classes, and intimidation is not confined
to the rich and powerful. Every man likes to be
powerful and to control his own society. I flatterno
class, but I dread tyranny as much from the mob as
I do from the wealthy ; and I would give protection
to both by the system of secret voting." This is a
far more candid and straightforward manner of deal-
ing with the question than that adopted by too many
reforming enthusiasts, who can see no merit in the
upper ranks of society and recognise no fault among
the lower orders.

Never, perhaps, have we been called upon to report
a more painful and unsatisfactory story than that of
the collision between the Bombay and the Oneida.
The facts, as now repotted, are almost incredible to
Englishmen, and we can only take refuge in the
hope that the distance has lent some inaccu-
racy to the current versions. The New York papers
give, it is true, full details of the calamity, and there
is a partial confirmation of the narrative in the news
received from Hong Kong, of the suspension of the
Captain of the Bombay for six months. If it be
true, however, that the English vessel went on her
way unheeding, having injured the Oneida to such
an extent that she sank in a very brief space, carrying
with her over a hundred men, the case assumes a very
startling aspect. Should this be proved to have been
the fact six months' suspension is apunishment totally
inadequate to the offence. If it be not true it is not
easy to see why the commander of the Bombay should
be punished at all. Let us hope for the credit of
humanity and the honour of British seamanship that

the sentence may rrove to have been intended to
punish some- negligence in navigation, some error in
judgment, or inatt mtion to duty, not, an act of cruel

indifference or calculating selfishness which it is
difficult too strongly to condemn.

TILE EDUCATION DEBATE.

The education debate will be resumed to-night
by Mr. Harcourt, in support of the amend-
ment, who is to be followed by Mr. Man-
della on the other side. A great number of
gentlemen are bent on speaking, and the mino-
rity are determined, it is said, to move the
adjournment again in order to obtain a morning
sitting on Monday or Tuesday for the conclusion of
the debate. This will, of course, be resLtel by
Ministers on the ground that it is urgent to go on
with the Land Bill in Committee nezt week; but it
would not be matter of surprise if the dissentients
had their way.

Mr. OSBolucE put the facts of the case before the
hoo. members without gloss or varnish when he told
them that the noble animal, the British voter, was
a poor, timorous creature, afraid to vote openly lest
his person or prztperty should suffer. Those who
listened to this speech had indeed a grand opportu-
nity of hearing an experienced individual discourse of
his election adventures in the sister countries of the
United Kingdom :—" I have a little acquaintance
with the town of Nottingham; I left it because it
was a little too lively for me, and I am not prepared
to say I have b:nefited by the change. (Great
laughter.) I have shown you what occurred in Eng-
land—" the land of the free." Now look at Ireland.

ever there was a country where open voting and free-
dom of election is not only difficult, but impossible, it
is Ireland. Look what happens in Ireland when there
is an election. The pollee and military occupy The
ground in large numbers, the voters come up at the
peril of their lives, and "your committee accompany
you to the ground armed to the teeth." No
one who considers this. will be surprised to
hear that in Ireland the people are for
the most part afraid to exercise their pri-
vileges and record their votes. But, pursued
Mr. OSBORNE, in his rambling but effective style,
look at the recent election for Tipperary, represented
by a distinguished Queen's Counsel. "Heis in the
same boat as myself—two popular members obliged
to fly for their lives. Tipperary contains 10,000
voters, of whom six thousand stayed away on ac-
count of fear. Would they have been afraid if you
had had the Ballot ?" asks the hon. member for
Waterford, with finished irony and pointed sarcasm ;
and then adds, with an unanswerable force of argu-
ment, "I can tell you this, if you wish to supersede
the revolver, you must have the ballot-box. Free-
dom of election in Ireland is a farce. If you wish
to supersede vote by bullet, you must have vote by
ballot. I have my doubts of the Government bring-
ing in a bill ; the noble lord has got too much to do
to send the telegrams 'right." Mr. OSBORNE cannot
be accused of mincing matters at any rate ; but neither
should we be justified in saying that he exaggerated
or set down aught in malice. He has narrated his
adventures in a striking manner and in a spirited
style ; and while he succeeded in adorning the tale
for the amusement of his auditors, he pointed a
moral for their edification. He has passed through
many ordeals and braved many perils of land and
water to have the proud satisfaction of standing
before the members of the House of Commons as
the representative of a constituency, and to tell them
that the. mode of securing that representation is
neither worthy of the character of their augur
assembly nor conducive to the credit of free Inst
tutions

I The perils of the seas are being brought vividly
under our notice at present. The long continued
suspense respecting the City of Boston is
reaching its climax, the melancholy story of the
Oneida is still fresh in our minds, and to-day we are
startled by the news of a terrible catastrophe, which
occurred last night in the vicinity of the Channel
Islands. Of the origin of the fatal collision between
the Normandy and the Mary it would be premature
to speak. A dense fog is said, however, to have been
the proximate cause of disaster.

The history of collisions at sea is alu ays painful
and unsatisfactory one. A seafaring life has, as we
all know, its inevitable perils, which cannot always be
avoided by the utmost prudence and watchfulness.
There are gales which no skilful seamanship can suc-
cessfully battle ; there are rolling billows whose
resistless force no craft, however seaworthy, can sur-
mount unharmed ; there are rocky coasts, and hidden
reefs, and floating ice islands, which no chart can
indicate, and no experience accurately fo• etel.
There are cyclones and hurricanes which the science
of meteorologists may prophesy, but cannot elude;
there are sea fogs and land fogs, leakagts and fires
at sea, whose dangers no human providence can alto-
gether shun. But a collision cannot be placed under
any of these heads. The sea is wide enough for all.

A very small degree of watchfulness and seaman-
ship will suffice to enable two vessels to steer clear
of each other. We do not hear of vehicles driving
into each other on the high road, if the drivers are in
full possessio❑ of their senses. Why should vessels
run deliberately into each other at sea, when the
space is so much greater, the consequences of colli-
sion so infinitely more disastrous ?
Every year our wreck register tells us a painful
story of loss of life and property from this cause.
The property wae must look upon as wilfully wasted,
the men who arc sacrificed must be numbered in the
cata'oguo of Preventible Deaths. Whether from
carelessness, a fault not ordinarily passed over at
sea, or from stupidity, or from petty professional
pride, is not easily apparent, but the fact remains
that collisior.s at sea form one of the regular sources
of fatal and disastrous accidents.

LITERATI:UIt.

SMITH, PAYNE, AND CO

- -
It sounds commercial,
,but it is comic to the last
degree of comicality. It represents no bank ; or, if
any, the bank (may we say it_?) whereon the wild
time grows—the time for leisure and for laughter. It
is the conjunctive title assumed to themselves by a
couple-of wags, worthy of each other, and so adtnir-
ably well matched in competition with their rival
leaping-poles of pen and pencil, that their wits jump
together ha-moniously —hither and thither—across
the Channel—from Dover to Calais, from London to
Paris--if not from grave to gay, from lively to severe,
from lively to gay, and from gay back again to lively.
Carrying out the jest with which they have started,
Smith, Payne, and Company, in other words, Mr. Moyr
Smith, the artist, and Captain Bertrand Payne, the
arch-wag, man of-letters, publisher, what not—these
two in combination with those who are evidently im-
plied by the Co., namely, Messrs. Noxon and Son,
of Dover-street, Piccadilly, have produced a book
full, from cover to cover, of fun, frolic, and
facetiousness, capable of scaring away a whole
legion of Llue devils, of tickling dyspepsia into
goad humour and of calling forth, a chuckle from
the veriest hypochondriac. Here is the title of the
vo:ume

The Anglican• Mysteries of Paris : Revealed in the Stirring
Adventures of Captain Mars and his Two Friends, Mes-
sieurs Scribbley and Daubiton. Depicted and Described
by a New Firm with an Old Name, Smith, Payne, and
Co. London : E. Moxon, Son, and Co.
Since Richard Doyle's pencilling of the Ad-
ventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robin-
son, we have had no such_ book as this by
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Company I A book in
which are recounted and depicted the " Anglican
Mysteries of Paris,"—meaning the stirring and sur-
f rising adventures encountered in the French
capital by Captain Algernon Milleflnir Mars of the
Royal Volunteer Horse Marines, and his two par-
ticular fi lends and fellow-travellers, Messrs. Scribbley
and Daubiton. The former of these two friends of
Captain Mars, mewling Mr. Frank Scribbley, is the
long-legged sub-editor and back-bone of The Kasper,
a weekly journal of vitriolic criticism. The other
attached companion and compatriot is a sort of
Pocket Hercules of Art—a genius working away at
High Art, with a very short arm, but a ver3rlong brush,
from one of the upper rungs of a very tail ladder,
typical of the altitude of his aspirations—Mr. San An-
gelo Daubiton by name, and in his own estimation, at
least, a person of stupendous capabilities. Setting out
together, these three, to wit, Mars, Scribbley, and
Daubiton, may be said at once to have gone and
been and done it—meaning Paris ! They have evi-
dently enjoyed themselves first of all, and by their
faithful record of all they have seen and heard have
enabled us afterwards to be participators in their
enjoyment. Unwilling to hide their light (hearted-
ness) under a bushel, they preface the visible and
risible narrative of their adventures with a Dedi-
catory-Page on which their Book is formally in-
scribed to The Prince Imperial of France, " a very
good Little Boy"—as a sJuvenir of a very pleasant
visit to Paris—the inscription being proffered to his
Imperial Highness " with his august Papa's gra-
ciou3 consent as a reward for progress in his
English Studies." Turning the leaves after reading
this Dedication, we come almost immediately upon
the delineation of the facade of " The Epicurean"
one of the most imposing (literally) edifices in the
metropolis, in which the three friends concert their
plans over a banquet. The grand entrance of this
stupendous dininghall—erected, we are told, from the
designs of Mr. Daubiton—is, in its architectural
arrangement, very much like the glorification -of one
of those astonishing structures capable of being built
up with a child's box-of-bricks. The inside is
worthy of its exterior. At the close of the sympo-
sium, we behold the three friends pledging each other,
in zig-zag attitudes, intenied by them to represent the
perpendicular. As it is, they are evidently half-seas-
over, long before they attempt to cross the Channel.
Glimpses are caught of them next at the Victoria sta -
tion, and afterwards on the Quay at Dover. On deck
and down below, later on, one or the other of them
is seen in the agonies of Crossing. Then the
comic business, as they say in the Pantomimes, in
earnest begins, the pace of the three friends
soon becoming fast and furious. Through
these adventurers it would be utterly impos-
sible—without the pictures it would be simply
idle and absurd—to attempt following them incident
by incident. All that one can reasonably attempt
is to instance some among the more salient' occur-
rences. Bent upon figuring away in the Bois de
Boulogne—Captain Mars attires himself in the
astounding uniform of the Royal Volunteer Horse
Marines, a sort of cross between a Lord Mayor's
Man-in-Armour and a Crystal Palace
,Forester!
Scribbley deems it advisable to go as a Man of the
Period, fresh from Rotten Row ! Daubiton, with a
railway rug (apparently), a wide-awake and an
ostrich feather, goes in grandly for artistic effect
The collective appearance of the three may be readily
enough conjectured. Not their horsemanship, how-
ever, when they are thus attired ! That must be
seen in order to be appreciated—the representation
of itbeing on plate 14. Another incident worth noticing
is that delineative of a visitpaid by the trio to the studio
of Monsieur. Gustave Dore. The appearance of the
three travelling Englishmen, afterwards, at the Fancy
Dress Ball given by their Imperial .Majesties •at the
Palace of the Tuileries, is, to put it mildly, nothing
less than exeruciitingly ridiculous. Captain Mars
modestly petitions the Emperor to appoint him Mar-
shal of France, offering thereupon to assume the
supreme command of the whole Army, the Police,
the National Guard, and the Sapeurs and Pouipiers,
as well as of every man, women, and child in the
French Empire ! The way in which all these are de-
picted—in perspective lines, dwindling away into the
remote distance in which they are lost in a vanishing
point—is a sight to see ! Plate 23 is the one on which the
whole of this panoramic view is delineated. Rebuffed,
but dec rated by the Emperor, Capt. Mars gets into a
difficulty with a Monsieur le Mari, by reason of certain
attentions paid to Madame. The result is a duel with

Hydropults, in the which the belligerents are all but
drowned. Bent upon distinguishing hims ,lf in litera-
ture by writing a popular History of Paris, Scribbley
is next portrayed under various astounding circum-
stances—now smashing Carlyle, now knocking
Dickens off his pins, now reducing Kinglake to his
proper level, and so forth. Purchasing a few tons of
paper, a million quills, and ink in proportion (all this
again is she wn in perspective), he sets to work on his
opus magnum. Then we have Daubiton—out-doing
Delacroix in horrors, regarding Chillay as an up.
start, considering De l'Huile a humbug, and the like
Ac

ioice specimen of the Caddus Britannicus on plate
34 is finely conceived and admirably delineated..
It looks alarmingly, as though it were, a likeness !
The Flaneur, ignorant of "le boxe," on plats 41, is
also deliciously absurd. As, on the next plate, is
the result of his wrestling match with friend
Scribbley. Daubiton in ChAncery, " as in France," is
another wild whimsicality. Altogether the book, as
an elaborate piece of dro'lery, is an astonishing
evidence of the Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Com-
exqu'site and most poignant sense of the ridi-
culous. Ir will be welcomed equally wi,h roars of
laugh•cr around the drawing room tables of France
and of England.

Her Mjesty's Indian troopship Crocodile is re-
ported by tJegrain to have arrived at A!cxaedria on
the morning of the 14% inst. ; all well.
The ni-xt examination of candidates for adtnissicn
to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering will be held towards the end of
next month. All applications must be made,before
the 20th inst.

ronticai parties are rather in a state of confusion just
now, The Radicals are beginning to chew the same dis-
trust of Mr. Gladstone that Mr. Bright and his friends
(who are left far behind by the present "advanced "men),
used to manifest towards Lord Palmerston. They are im-
patient that the Prime Minister does nor" move on," for-
getting that to disestablish the Irish Church, settle the Irish
Land question, and bring in an Education Bill, to say nothing
of reforming the army and navy, is not bad work for
fifteen months. This suspicion has been exhibited on
Several occasions during thA present -session. The
Radicals are angry becatise Mr. Gladstone will not pre
raise to deal with the University Tests Bill this year;
are angry again because Mr. Forster will not
consent to State intervention in religious teaching
by prohibiting such teaching ; angry once
more because Ministers were not prepared,
on the very
day after the report of the committee on the conduct of
elections was drawn up, to legislate upon one of the points
mentioned in the report, at the bidding of a private mem-
ber. Clearly there is no need for the Conservative party
to abdicate just yet, nor for many a day to ceme. Its
work will be that of assisting Mr. Gladstone to
resist the pressure put upon him by the extreme section
below the gangway. Such an idea would have seemed
absurd to Conservatives fifteen months ago, but thess aro
rapid days, and we are moving on very fast.
The position, however, is not exactly parallel to that
of ten years ago. Though the Conservatives are supporting
the Government on the Education question they have de-
termined to "go in" for several amendments on the
Land Bill. This was resolved upon at the meeting at Lord
Lonsdale's residence (which by the way is almost next
door to Mr. Gladstone's). About 160 members of both
Houses of Parliament were present at the meeting, and
Mr. Disraeli spoke for more than an hour. There is not
the smallest wish on the part of the Opposition to reject
the bill, but„they think that the general support which
they will give it entitles them to some concessions
on the part of the Government. Some Of the amend-
ments it will be out of the power of Ministers to accept,
and I scarcely think that the Lords will insist upon them,
But it is early yet to speak on that point. With refer-
ence to the Education Bill, I may add that it is believed
the Ulster Conservatives will take no part in the division.
They say that they were deserted last year by the English
Conservatives, and that these must fight their own battles
alone this year. Moreover, the Ulster men are afraid that
if they support denominational education in England, it
will be extendet to Ireland.
• The Wednesday debates have not usually been lively
this Session. Yesterday's was an exception. The Game
Laws and the Ballot are both questions which arouse good deal of political feeling. The first was settled for
the time by a definite promise on the part of the Govern-
ment that a Ministerial measure dealing with tho
flatter would be brought in. The second gave
.ise to a very animated discussion. Mr. Leatham
poke for more than an hour; but the speech
f the afternoon was Mr. Bernal Osborne's, whose
picture of himself and Mr. Heron, " the two popular
candidates," fleeing from their constituents, was admire.,
ble. Very good, too, was the touch about his having left
Nottingham, because it was too lively, but without
benefiting much by the change. His description of
Mr. Lowe's experience at Kidderminster, in
1857, also told very well, and the House did not
mind the delicate snub which he gave to the 'Marquis
of Hartington, the only member of Government
present. Lord Claud John Hamilton was almost as lively,
though in a different fashion. He was received with
cheers and counter cheers.
Mr. Gladstbne is looking very much better than he did
oefore the session began. I saw him about two months
ago at Professor Tyndall's lecture, in the Royal Institu-
tion, and he was then appearing terribly worn and
anxious. Now he seems far more happy,
feeling, no doubt, that his two principal measures
are, according to all human probability, sure to be passed ;
Ind, I presume, taking very little thought about the
threatening letter which he has received from an irate
Rutschuck-Varna railway shareholder at Ghent. Mr.
Disraeli is far from strong. Mr. Bright is about the
ame. There are those who say that he will never sit
on the Treasury bench again, that he will resign
nis seat at • the Board of Trade to Mr. Cardwell,
mad that the latter Minister will be succeeded by Lord
Northbrook, who, as Mr. T. G. Baring, had much expe-
:ience of War Office matters.
Bristol friends tell me that the chances are in favour of
air.. Kirkman Hodgson. But as that gentleman has
offended some of the clergy (who have great influence in
Bristol) by declaring himself a Broad Churchman, and as
he is, moreover, not on good terms with the temperance
party, it is impossible to speak with any approach to cer-
tainty. Mr. Odger is generally supposed to have no
hance.

There is great soreness among
scientific men because . .
A. HUSBAND TT SEARCH OF Tin WIrE.
lovernment is withdrawing the pecuniary •aid which A very strange case was on Wednesday investigated
It has given hitherto for scientific objects. It by the Wakefield bench of magistrates. A young woman
named Fanny Lumb, a domestic servant, in the employ'
can been notified that henceforth the Government will
Of Mr. Conacher, Bond-street, in that town, charged A
'lave nothing to do with eclipses of the sun or the moon,
tnd that gentlemen who are interested in "Bailey's middle-aged south-countryman, named Frederick Pincher,
with assaulting and threatening to stab her. She stated
beads " must gratify their curiosity at their own expense,
t she had never seen the man i.n her life until afe
YOur readers are aware that within the last week or two weeks ago, when a fellow-servant pointed, him to her ag
outlawry has come to an end, and it has been re- I9itering in a suspicious manner about the place, and a croritauttenrerzatrdersfoteo accostede her and claimed tos 1,1
marked in some journals that there never was an short
Eibolietcpurpa faewfoZgg
thing in it. This is very far from being the case. Many disappeared for several weeks, but fears ago a gentleman, then young, having been rather ago, and continued his annoyances. O Monday mornineeo
extravagant, went abroad, leaving some of his debts un- ,t half-past eight o'clocol;,htehretpiiisoner came tsoaihderhmastrl
paid. A Regent-street tailor thereupon outlawed him,
snteag'haenr if 'sllij)rdlsdennocl come vlrivearvaannd,' takingehwero bi
rwo or three years later the gentleman returned, and his the hand, he dragged her some distance into Arundele
!tether having died in the meanwhile, he was now become street. There two men came to her help, and she ran td
4 wealthy man. Perfectly ignorant of the fact that he
et ho e police-officeitte upon to.i
eerontei lain ofao theiie otuotruatgoef tthhaet
Ihv
aayd b e
untile
;vas that terrible thing—an outlaw—he went to the the following night,when he came willi a cart, accompanied
tailor's shop, paid his bill, and ordered another suit. The by several men, one of whom told Me. Conacher that he
;alders, not wishing to lose a good customer, was very vas a detective,i .iend had been employed br Pincher
atdi
careful not to inform him of what had been done, tense- scaprgehoeffndeds. wtirte prfsoonrterlycroasfst-eerxwaarmdsined her at euently the outlawry was never reversed. For forty years length to show that he married the girl at Croydon
the subject of it went on living in blissful ignorance, and and that she lived with him at several places in the
luring that time he filled more than once influential sseoeunth,. bup,efsohree, ImiotuivgVshdeeaeldanarrtitetdhgasthsehehildadnreivvel
public offices, like that of high sheriff for little while ago at Croydon with an uncle. He also his county. county. But at last his condition was dueed his pocket-book, in which he said his wife -had revealed antillurtehe
to
"Fanny
i" was sitiispicimli
revealed to him in a very unpleasant manner.
He had to bring an action to substantiate his Leath= : %.hether the woman is yeour nwiefremera not,ert is noti
right to the possession of certain property. He for us to judge ; but whether she is your wife or not, you
gained the action, but the defendant pleaded that the have no right to assault her.—The Prisoner : I did not do
so. I said, " I love you as I love my life. I'd lay down
plaintiff being an outlaw, had no civil rights. This news and let you go over me." —The bench sent the prisoner to
fell like a thunderbolt upon the plaintiff. Fortunately six weeks' imprisonment, in default of finding sureties to
for him the judge ruled that the objection ought to have keep the peace. ' been taken at the outset of the proceedings, and could . THE MERTHYR TYDFIL BOARD OF HEALTH.—An appli-
not be pleaded afterwards. Supposing this course had cation has been made to the Master of the Rolls on behalf
been taken, the outlaw would have found himself in a very of the Merthyr Tydfil Board of Health to further suspend
unpleasant position.
- the sequestration issued in July, 1869, foe- breach of an
Mr. Gladstone has completed the Episcopate, ana injunction iaogne granted
th ien 113i6v8erreepu.ninf:ehe3% fromar have
echbaerg-
there are now only two of the bishops who have at- constructing temporary works to remove the evil coif-
these are
the full age of man—threescore years and ten; plained of, and propose to remedy it altogether by a dif-
teunthliNeesploaorfd tpaedsebwage. The Master of the Rolls
these are the Bishops of St. David's and Llandaff. The
singularlyquestratiOn.te
dilatorybe suspended
their
Imovements,g but allowed theeense
two newest bishops are, however, rather advanced
in years ; both of them are 60 years of age, and the
present Premier can hardly have the same horror of the until the first day in Easter Term.A 'Geer TO A SOLICITOR.-- A case of some interest to
the present Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol received a predecessor had. When the public has been decided in Vice Chancellor Stuart's
Court. A solicitor named French received a gift of a
the offer of his bishopric from Lord Palmerston, ex- large sum of money from Miss Harrison, his sister-in-law.
ex-
plained that he was a Conservative, and might have A. bill was filed to set aside the deed on ter ground of
P
to vote against the Government, and that, there- tclemclu.e influence, but the Vice-Chancellor, after quoting a fore, the Premier might like to withdraw his sozitoonr
or
aLtciordrneEl.down shilYehesrteanitdreas laid dadownrofetshstnnaol
offer. But the jovial Minister replied, " Come along relationship towards a child, shoull accept p a reward or
and have some lunch. There is only one thing I have to gift from the infant, drew attention to the dissimilar
made.eircums circumstances under
was
sndenro
sweledreeheyttne teiiifet
minleirs casee had been
s
ask of you—don't die." It does not seem clear to what
school the new Bishop of Chichester belongs. I had always of singularly acute and business-like matter,
and lady was
ebvee r
dismissed acted
supposed him to be a Low Churchman, but an Orange most
lemProbabltehethadt
feel atdvratdage had 'been taken,
paper speaks of him as a Ritualist of the highest type, pesrplecssioynalascapacity. e The bill mustn
There seems to be no other foundation for the state- sosts. , - '•- le
went than that Archdeacon Durnford was one of the THE FAMILY ENDOWMENT SOCIETY,—An applicatiA
clergy who treated the Greek Archbishop with hospita- has been made to the Chief Clerk in Vice-Chancellor
lity when he visited the diocese of Manchester. Speaking James's Chambers in the case of the Albert Life Assurance
of bishops, I may mention that it is highly probable Company. The application had reference to a premium
Government may be called upon to establish a bishopric connected with the Family Endowment Society. Both
societies (which had been amalgamated) were now in
for Liverpool before long.
Chancery, and the question was as to the payment of the
Bfa curious coincidence' two Madera of antagonistic
premium. An order had been made that applications
schools at Oxford were preaching within a stone's throw of Should be made before the 30th of March, orotherwise -
each 'other in London on Sunday. Mr. Liddon was the 'parties would not be entitled to full payment. It was
one of his " conferences," which is the last new name for Pointed out to the Chief Clerk that many policyholders of
poertaanen:
elgamate companies might not be aware of the im-
sermons, borrowed from Rome. At YOI.IE-street Chapel 1 '
of the' order, and he referred it to the Vice-
(Mr. Stopford Brooke's) Professor Jowett preached one Chancellor.
Vice-
of his quietly eloquent sermons, so sedate and I TAE RIGHT ....HE xvIGHT OF USING TRAMWAYS.—An application
;,.yet so full of feeling, as thoroughly English has been made before Vice-Chancellor Malins on behalf of
in the style of delivery as Mr. Lidden's is French. ket "It i fin the Liverpool Tramway Company to restrain the Liver-
The Professor took for his s ished," and for pool Omnibus Company from using the Liverpool tram-
his subject the comparative uncertainty of life. He Way. Mr. Bevir, who appeared for the plaintiffs,
asked
argued that while we must all recognise the uncertainty ithat the motion might stand over till Easter term, as the
of life, yet we must bear in mind that the chances are that 'evidence was not complete. He said the Liverpool Tram-
each of us will live a certain number of years, varying
way Company was entitled to an exclusive us`e-of the tram-
way for eighteen months, but the Liverpool Omnibus
according to our present age, and that as we 'see the
Company were using it. The question in the case de-
period diminishing year by year, we ought to take stock pended upon the construction of the Act Parliament
of what we have done, and how we may best turn to best yttgdde7ewnndaonf
defendants)
tramway.i Mr. Glasse,
authorising tcliiefolra
account the residue, so that at the end we, too, might )oreclereeetdeduti°e anm adjourn-
say
appeared
tartehe Vice-Chancellor
my with something of satisfaction, imperfect as it must staagyer ial gm 21stA A1261---Ifr,'l::----4,,12" 4 th-iii
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