The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING.

THE IRISH LAND BILL IN THE LORDS.
The Times says the ultimate success of the Irish Land
Bill may be reasonably inferred. It is true
ether Go-
vernment was more than once outvoted ytday,
but the proposal to forbid conacre without a land-
lord's consent was a return to the first draught of
the bill ; and the adverse majority on the most im-
portant issue—the revision of the scale of penalties
—was small and uncertain, and will not withstand
the resolution of the House of Commons to carry the bill.
The alteration the Peers made was one of those mistakes
which will do injury only to themselves, but in their
interest it is to be regretted. The essence of the bill is the
third clause. The representatives of Irish tenants in the
House of Commons complained in some instances that
the rates of the scale were too low to prove repressive ;
and Mr. M'Carty Downing, returned by the tenant
farmers of Cork at the last election, went the
length, upon a modification of the scale, to
repudiate tall further concern in a measure he pro-
nounced too mutilated to be effective. The Lords how-
ever, led by the Duke of Richmond, yesterday further
reduced the penalties of the scale which had been
thus condemned elsewhere as insufficient. The maxi-
mum penalty of seven years' valuation was made ap-
plicable to tenants rated at £4 and under, instead of
to tenants rated at £lO and under, tenants between
£4 and £lO being cut down to six years' ; while similar
alterations were made in other branches of the scale. We
cannot but lament the perverseness of such a
could becy.
The change effected would be pitiful even if it
enduring. It will necessarily be ineffectual, and it can
only serve to mar the grace that would have characterised
a cheerful acceptance of the bill.
The debate in the House of Lords upon the scale of com-
pensation under the third clause of the Irish
ble Land Bill
was, says the Standard principally remarka for the
assertion of a new constitutional doctrine by that veteran
constitution doctor, Earl Russell. The noble lord, in the
debate upon the second reading, had declared that he
would not agree to any amendment of the bill, what-
ever arguments might be offered in its favour, and it
was, therefore, quite needless for him to have taken the
trouble of appearing in the House last night. However,
there he was, and there he propounded this wonderful
dogma that, because the House of Lords is a house a
good many members of which are landlords, it ought
to accept without alteration the scale of compensation
adopted by the House of Commons. An altera-
tion would, so said Lord Russell, give rise to
unpleasaniobservations. Ergo the House of Lords
—if the argument is to be carried to its proper
conclusion—ought not to reject or alter this bill in the
slightest degree. It is incompetent because its members
are landowners, and anything they may do may be under-
stood as resulting from interested motives. The Marquis
of Salisbury did justice to this wonderful discovery, which
threw the front Treasury bench into ecstacies, in a few
caustic words, and the House did justice to it in the
division, by which it adopted the first of the Duke of
Richmond's amendments on the scale.

THE EDUCATION QUESTION.
The incessant assurances, remarks the Daily News,
which are echoedsfrom both sides of the House of Commons
that the country demands religious education, show that
t
the House wants a good deal of assuring on t
ing
point. It is quite true that the country wants religi ?us
education, and will have it ; but there is a grow
doubt on both sides of the House whether the countr
by
wants the religious part of that education to be given
the State. There is a pretty general belief that we shall
come at last to something very much like what Mr.
Richard recommends—State secular education, and voltuy
tay religious education ; but at present the House is
casting about to find some means of staying off this result.

SCOUNDRELS IN RAILWAY TRAINS.
The Telegraph asks—Why should there not be railway
carriages for ladies only ? Men can pass Acts of Parlia-
ment compelling railway companies to provide carriages
for smokers with every train. Surely, to save an unpro-
tected woman from insult is as important, to say the least,
as to secure for man that necessary of civilisation—
the enjoyment of a cigar? A gentleman now sending
a lady of his family on a journey alone cannot
be sure that she will be free from some insult
or other, unless he get a friend to accompany her. On
railways' like the American or the Swiss, where the guard
walks occasionally through all the carriages, the passen-
gers have an authority to which they can appeal ; but in
our trains there is literally no redress, no escape ;
and a lady may be forced to travel for miles in
disgusting company, afraid to complain lest she
should be singled out for invective or assault.
Of course, women who are cool, calm, confident in their
own modesty, firmness, and discretion, might, if they
liked, travel in the other carriages, in the mixed society
there to be encountered ; but schoolgirls, or nervous
ladies, or ladies " owned" by fastidious or " nervous"
men—for men, on women's behalf, are sometimes more
nervous than the women themselves—could be securely
despatched to the ladies' carriage with a pleasant confi-
dence at parting.

The Indian Government have offered a reward of £5OO
for the discovery of the perpetrators of the fire which
caused the destruction of the ship Aurora.
Intelligence received at Calcutta from the North-west
frontier announces that fresh disturbances have broken
out among the Wuzerees.

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.]
THE DISTURBANCES IN CORK.
The city continued much disturbed yesterday. Large
crowds gathered in Patrick-street after nightfall, and
stones were repeatedly thrown at parties of police on
patrol. At 9 o'clock two companies of infantry and a
squadron of dragoons were brought down from the mili-
tary barrack and posted in front of the houses of the mas-
ter tailors attacked on the previous night. Charges were
frequently made by the police, who used their bayonets
and swords, but the crowds escaped through the by
streets and reassembled at another point. Many of the
constables were hit with stones, two or three being hurt.
Eight 'men arrested during the disturbance in Cork on
Wednesday night, arising out of the tailors' strike, were
charged al the police-office with riot, stone-throwing,
and assaulting the police and others, and refusing to
leave the streets after the Riot Act was read. Three
were sent for trial to the Assizes. On the more serious
charges two were sentenced to two months' imprisonment
each for taking part in a riotous mob, and stone-throwing ;
one to a similar term for assaulting Mr. Lee, a master
tailor, and the others to lesser terms of imprisonment.
Complaints were made of the inefficiency of the police,
who it was stated might have prevented the riot by
vigorous action early in the evening before it became
serious. An investigation will be demanded. Great
damage was done by the mob to several establishments.

MUTINY ON BOARD A LONDON AND
HULL VESSEL.
The steamer Hamburg arrived at Hull yesterday,
with sixteen military convicts from London, under the
escort of Lieutenant Adams, of her Majesty's 45th Foot
and ten privates, the whole being on their way to Wakefield.
The convicts during the voyage had been very mutinous ;
and they were consequently placed in the hold of the
vessels. In the hold there were several
Cases of wine, and
the convicts opened one of them and drank the
contents. They then finished up the bout by smashing
a quantity of bottles. Heatedm6l6 by the wine, the3ffi-
finally commenced a general e. Gdif
culty was experienced in quelling the disturbance, but the
rioters were finally repressed. They succeeded, however,
in doing considerable damage to the cargo, and would pro-
bably have continued their doings
Even then had they notiet was
been
threatened with a bayonet charge. qu
was not fully restored until the principal ringleader had
been brought upon deck dnd bound with ropes. The pas-
sengers were meanwhile filled with consternation, and
were glad to reach Hull.

THE TRIAL OF PETER BARRETT.
The third trial of Peter Barrett for firing at Captain
Lambert was commenced yesterday in the Irish Court of
Queen's Bench, before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald. The
Attorney-General opened the case. Captain Lambert
and some other witnesses were examined, and the pro-
ceedings were adjourned.

FUNERAL OF LORD ARTHUR CLINTON.
The funeral of Lord Arthur Clinton took place
yesterday, at Christchurch cemetery. The corpse was
brought from Muddiford in a plain hearse, at a quick
pace through the town to the cemetery, where it was
shortly after met by the Rev. Zachary Nash, curate of
Christchurch. who officiated. The body was enclosed
in three coffins, the outer one being covered in black
cloth, and quite plain. The breastplate was black, with
a figure of our Lord surmounting the inscriptiiefs
on,
around which was the text, He hath borne our gr
and carried our sorrows." The inscription was, " Lor29
d
Arthur Pelham Clinton, died June 18, 1870, aged
years." The mourners present were the deceased's
brother, the Duke of Newcastle, and his uncle, Lord
Thomas Clinton, attended by Mr. W. H. Roberts,
deceased's solicitor, and Mr. P. H. Wade, his surgeon.
The funeral was unusually plain • ; and the grave, although
in a selected spot, was a common one. With the exception
of those attending the funeral officially, there were not
twenty persons present.
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A THIRD RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A railway accident occurred shortly after ten o'clock on
Wednesday night, at Knighton Junction, situated about
two miles from Leicester. An engine was engaged shunting
some goods waggons, to make up a train for the South,
when on crossing the points at the south end of the junc-
tion, on the up-line, one of the.waggons struck the points,
causing several of the waggons to be thrown down a steep
embankment, and also to block up the line until nearly
one o'clock in the morning. Passenger trains to tht North
were delayed, as they had to be worked for some distance
to Wigston Junction on the South line. No personal
injury was sustained.

DEGREES AT CAMBRIDGE.
The last congregation of the academic year was held at
the Senate House of Cambridge University yesterday.
The following degrees were conferred :—M.A. Roswell C.
Fisher (Trinity), Charles G. Wilkinson (Pembroke), and
Charles Thomas Linton (Corpus Christi). B.A. Frede-
rick G. Gretton, Edward Wilson Turner, and John
Edward Hughes Thomas (Queens) ; Henry Pearson
Banks, and William Murray Johnson (Jesus) ; William
Bartholomew Weighall, Arthur Frank Thomas, M. B.
Berresford, and Nathaniel Earle (Jesus). Mus. Bac.
Charles Swinnerton Heap Jones.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SCOTLAND.
Yesterday afternoon a train from Perth to Edinburgh
ran off the line near Rath() junction. The driver, who
was caught between the tender and engine, was killed on
the spot, but the passengers escaped without any serious
injuries. The engines and several carriages were consi-
derably damaged.

FEVER IN LIVERPOOL.
The hot weather has developed fever in Liverpool.
During four days no less than sixty cases were brought to
the workhouse.

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THE DENHAM MURDERS.

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Notwithstanding the reserve maintained by the prisoner
now awaiting his trial in Aylesbury Gaol for these
shocking murdere, with regard to his real name and
family, his antecedents have recently been discovered,
and his true name has been proved to be John
Owen and not John Jones, as he himself has stated.
A portrait was taken on Tuesday last to the house
of John Owen, a tailor, of Byfield, near Daventry,
and it was immediately recognised by two daughters of
Owen, who were on a visit to their father from Birming-
ham. An exceedingly painful scene is stated to have
taken place. The sisters, on seeing the photograph, im-
mediately exclaimed, " Oh, it's our Jack ; there is no
doubt about it now," and burst into tears. The picture
was then shown to the father, who was also greatly over-
come. A gnat number of respectable persons living in
Byfield and in the neighbourhood likewise at once iden-
tified the portrait as being unmistakably that of " Jack
Owen." After they had somewhat got over the
fresh shock of the painful intelligence, they fur-
nished the police the following information relative to
the antecedents of the prisoner : John Owen was 38
years of age on the Bth of this month. He was bound
apprentice when he was 15 years of age, in 1847, to
Thomas Mason, a blacksmith, of Byfield. While there,
Mason and Owen were pulling down some iron fencing at
the rectory, and while Mason was using a pickaxe Owen
incautiously stooped down, and Mason accidentally struck
him on the right hand side of the head, which nearly
killed him, causing a severe wound, the scar of which he
carried for years, and is believed to carry now. He did
not serve his apprenticeship. out, but ran away and went
to Birmingham. He married a widow named Russell,
who kept a confectioner's shop at Shipton-on-Stour.
After they were married, he kept a beerhouse at the same
place, but lost his license for larceny. His wife is now
living with her friends.

SHOCKING DEATH.
On Wednesday, Mr. Roger Lindsey, farmer, of Malton,
met with a shocking death. It is believed he was taking
down from a nail a scythe, which fell. The blade appears
to have caught his upturned arm at the elbow, and to
have taken off the flesh to the armpit, severing the
brachial artery, from which the unfortunate man bled to
death.