The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-24 00:00:00

BEI?. MAJESTY.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, March 23.
Her Majesty drove out this morning, attended by
the Duchess of Roxburghc.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, visited the Dean of Westmin-
ster ani Lady Augusta Stanley at the Deanery this
afternoon.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
TRANCE.

PARIS, March 24.
In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body
General Lebceuf, Minister of War, in reply to an
interpellation of M de Keratry, declared he had
every reason for believing the policy of the Cabinet
to be most pacific.

CREUZOT, March 23 (Evening).
Two hundred of the rioters have gone to Mont-
charin, with a view to compel the peaceable miners
there to join the strike. They were followed by a
batt lion of Chasseurs, headed by the Prefect, and
seven prisoners were taken. At the other parts of
the works which have been visited by the proprietor,
M. Schneider, no interruption has taken place, and
M. Schneider met with a friendly reception. Alto-
gether the movement is confined to a faction who
are carried away by excessive political excitement.
Two miners, who are ringleaders, have been
arrested by order of the Public Prosecutor at Autun.
BOURSE, March 23.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

q per Cent.
3 per Cents 74 10
End of month 73 97f
Credit Mobilier 280
Transatlantic 202 50
Credit Foncier 1307 50
Paris Gas 1785
Suez Canal 337 50
RAIL WA'

Bank Shares 2830
Italian rives 56
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 46 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern
Strasburg
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 62- +
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman..

805
502}
70
82}
52

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 23.

In to-day's sitting of the Cortes, Senor Figuerola,
the Minister of Finance, introduced a bill for the
sale of the copper mine at Rio Sinto.

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)

PHILADELPHIA, March 23.

The Senate Committee nl on Foreign Relations
has voted unanimously to report to the Senate that
the St. Thomas's Annexation Treaty be rejected.
The debate on the new Tariff Bill progresses slowly
in the House. Long speeches are now being made on
the principles of the bill. It will probably not be
considered in detail till next week.
WASHINGTON, March 23.
_

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
Representatives have agreed to report favourably on
General Banks' resolution, instructing the President
to maintain an impartial neutrality in the contest
between Cuba and Spain.

NEW YORK, March 23.
The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived here
at noon to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1121 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 1121 ; the lowest, 112 i.
Sterling Exchange on London .. lOBl
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Illinois
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Cotton—Mid. upland
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, $4 60c. to $5 20c. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 30,

BRINDISI, March 23.

The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer
Brindisi, 82 hours from Alexandria, has arrived here
with 123 passengers. She experienced a severe gale.
Letters can be delivered in London on Saturday
morning.

THE POPE AND THE COUNT DE MONTA-

LEMBERT.

me memortat viptomatique-publishes hn authorished
version of the prohibition by the Pope (that the prohibi-
tion did not come from his Holiness is now admitted) of
the funeral service for M. de Montalembert arranged by
the Bishop of Orleans. Summarising a letter from
Rome, which is said to have arrived just
as it was going to press, the Memorial says :
—" The sad news of M. de Montalembert's death was
telegraphed to Monsignor de M6rode as soon as it
occurred by his family. Monsignor de M6rode is obliged
to keep his bed, in consequence of a fall, and therefore
requested Monsignor Dupanloup to arrange for the funeral
service. The Bishop of Orleans eagerly accepted the task,
but he forgot that it was necessary, for fotm's sake at any
rate, to ask authority from the Bishop of Rome, who is the
Pope, for, according to the rules of the ecclesiastical hier-
archy; no strange bishop can officiate without the consent
of the diocesan. This forgetfulness on the part of the
Bishop of Orleans is the more remarkable from the fact
that he addressed at the same time an invitation to the
Fathers of the Council to be present at the ceremony
which he was about to celebrate in the church of
the Ara Cceli at the Capitol. The Pope having indirectly
heard of Monsignor Dupanloup's arrangements, declared
that M. de Montalembert had rendered to religion services
too great not to be honoured by the head of the Church by
the celebration at the church of Santa MaTia Transpon-
tina (the parish church of the Vatican) of a funeral service
at which he would himself be present. This contradicts
the report that the Pope was opposed to the pegforniano,
of the service."

JUSTICE IN EGYPT. It is reported by a French
paper that at a recent trial before a French consular
tribunal, in Egyt, the president arrived at a very remark-
able decision. he plaintiff was a Greek, and the defen•
dant, a Frenchman. As soon as these preliminary facts
had been clearly established in evidence the learned
consul decided that it was unnecessary,tp_proceed further
into an examination of the dispute. Your cause," he
told the plaintiff, "is struck out of the list. Go and in-
form your Consul that when he does justice to French-
men I will do justice to his countrymen, but not till
then."

THE Citisrs IN AUSTRIA.-A special telegram of
the Eastern Budget says that the Emperor has reserved hie
decision as to Dr. Giskra's resignation of his seat in the
Cabinet. His Majesty has accepted with thanks Dr.
Giskra's offer to continue at his post for the present, and
has, at the same time, expressed himself in favour of the
system of direct elections. This declaration, and the
efforts of Count Beust to retain Giskra in the Ministry,
have produced a very favourable impression in the Reichs-
rath, and the success of the advocates of electoral reform
is looked upon as assured. The Reichsrath will be closed
on the Bth of April.—Nubar Pasha arrived at Vienna late
on the 22nd, on his way to Paris. He will take part in
a negotiation, with the Austrian Government, relative to
the claims on Egypt of some Austrian subjects.
A. telegram received from bhatiliiin through a col-
lector of customs at Cowes, says that a mail bag has been
picked up marked " Jersey," and brought to Shanklin,
which is supposed to be from the ship Normandy. It is
therafore evident that Captain Harvey and his officers
had got the mails out of the mail-room with the intention
of saving them.

The published details of the expenditure at St.
Patrick's Cathedral on the installation of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales shew that the whole expense
amounted to £2,146 18s. 4d. Out of this the bell-ringers
got £lO 10, and the cab-drivers not quite £3. The
remainder went to labour of all sorts, thereby giving the
people of Dublin good reason to sing with feeling, " God
bless the Prince of Wales,"
• The Chester Courant states that the consecration 01
the Rev. Joshua Hughes, to the bishopric of St. Asaph,
will take place in the southern province, probably on
Sunday, May 1, being the festival of St. Philip and St.
James. A memorial will be presented to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, praying that the consecration of Bishop
11,wrhes may take place in St. Asaph Cathedral, whieh
will be a noyeltY in the Principality. . _

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT.

WEDNESDAY.

Dour years ago Mr. Bright asked for an Irish Session,
and he declared that we should never satisfy the country
until we granted this. We have done what he wanted, though
unfortunately he is not here to see it. Yet Ireland is not
satisfied—is more dissatisfied than ever, and if the truth
were stated it would be confessed that England, Scotland,
and Wales are getting rather weary of their sister. Yes-
terday afternoon the House was thinner than I have ever
known it at catechism. This may have been due partly
to the atrocious weather—the sleet ' and the mud,
and the gloomy sky—which made it necessary
for us to light up a full hour before sunset ;
and partly to the uninteresting nature of the questions ;
but it was due chiefly to the knowledge of the fact that
we were in for another Dish night, and that Mr.
MiCarthy Downing was down for a speech. Before we
got to the Preservation of Peace (Ireland) Bill there
was a lively scene, The irrepressible Sir George Jenkin-
son asked the Home Secretary how it was that he came
to commute the sentences of certain murderers who had
been doomed to death. Mr. Bruce got up in something
like a passion. He declared that no one had ever be-
fore taken the liberty which the Wiltshire
baronet was taking ; for that on all former
occasions when the Home Secretary's advice
with respect to the Royal prerogative of mercy had be(*
questioned, a motion had been made, and an opportunity
given to the Minister to explain his conduct. The Liberal
benches cheered more and more lustily as Mr. Bruce
became and more excited ; and when he expressed his
hesitation as to whether he should answer Sir George
Jenkinson's question, there was a shout of " No, no,"
repeated with increasing emphasis, until, amid a jubilant
chorus of " hear, hear," he said " I will not answer the
hon. baronet's question." Most members would
have felt rather " sat upon " by such treatment
as this, and would have been either meekly subdued or
in a towering rage. Sir George Jenkinson shewed neither
emotion. He got up amid shouts of ironical laughter to
ask Mr. Gladstone if there was any truth in the telegram
published in yesterday's Times, whereby, according to
Spanish paper, Mr. Bright had promised to restore Gib-
raltar to Spain. Mr. Gladstone could hardly forbear
from a good hearty shake of merriment, as he replied
that he had not communicated with his right hon. col-
league, but could undertake to say that there was no
foundation for the statement. Ecce iterurn. Here
is Sir George again for the third time. He rises to
introduce a bill to regulate' capital punishment (with a due
regard to the vested interests of Mr. Calcraft, you may be
sure), and in doing so protests against Mr. Bruce's re-
marks about himself, for had he not been influenced solely
by the public welfare ? A little later the hon. baronet was
taking his departure with a dignity worthy of the posses-
sion of the fine sideboard of plate which played so important
a part in a late Wiltshire election, when loud cries of
" Order " stopped him, and he had to come back and sit
down again, for leave had not yet been given to intro-
duce his measure. That done, he was allowed to de-
part in peace, and we all bid him good speed.
Then there was rather an amusing interlude, whereof Mr.
Callan was the hero. He wanted to make an explanation,
but while doing so was called to order by the Speaker. His
being a young member, unused to the ways of the House,
looked piteously around for an explanation, and sat dowi
extinguished. Then he got up again, once more to be
snuffed out. A. third time he was up, and soon got more
bewildered than ever. Cries of " Move, move," did not
make the matter much plainer to him. At last, however,
he understood that he must move the adjournment to
put himself in order. Agitated and perspiring, he accom.
plished that feat, and then the orders of the day came on,
and we began the Irish Bill at the unusually early hour of
five minutes before five.
It was Mr. M`Carthy Downing who opened the debate.
He looks like a Dissenting linendraper in a very small
way of business. He is a Roman Catholic lawyer, has a
brother in the gallery, and sits for the county of
Cork. He spoke, alas ! for forty-eight minutes. Ho
vented much wrath upon the Pelt Mall Gazette. He argued
for three-quarters of an hour to shew, first of all
that there was no crime in Ireland ; then, that
there was plenty of crime in England ; and
thirdly, that if there was a good deal of crime

,n Ireland there was very good cause for it. All Irish
members " orate," that is, they have an exordium, an
argument, and a peroration. Mr. Downing was no excep-
tion to the rule, and he was just come to the grandest
part of his speech when he sneezed. It was not an
or u-
nary sneeze ; this would have passed without note or com-
ment. But in his anxiety not to sneeze the hon. member
made such a ludicrously falsetto " aitchew," so absurdly
tnlike his own natural voice, that at first there was a
itter, and then there was a laugh, and then
Mr. (Downing shook his head at the
irreverent jesters, as though he would say, "I will
be even with you yet," and at last came to an end with a
denunciation of things in general. When he had finished
there arose a tall, handsome, silver-haired man, who, in
the tone of his voice, and the modulation of his accents,
seemed to be imitating the leader of the Opposition. It
was Lord John Manners, and whereas the Cork attorney
had declared that there was no crime in Irelankthe Duke's
son drew- such a picture of outrages and murders,
(pronounced " mur-rders " in a very loud voice,) that
it might have been supposed that Ireland, so far from
being the Island of Saints, was Satan's seat. Of course,
this very dark colouring was used with an object. The
worse the state of the country, the greater the negligence
of the Government in having taken no steps to amend it,
Then came up again for the hundredth and first time Mr.
Gladstone's parable of the Upas tree, and Lord Clarendon's
declaration that certain evictions of tenants without cora.
pensation amounted to felony. The ex-Commissioner of

a roar,

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table with
knuckles, and then alarmed for the table. At last he
cooled down a bit, and declared that he would say no
more on this point, but would give a cordial assent to the
bill. Yet he soon resumed his old style of denunciation,
and returned sow-like, to the mire, which he had been
kicking about, in his endeavour to bespatter Her Majesty's
Ministers. He occupied forty-seven minutes, and sat
down amid the cheers of his party, especially of Mr.
Charley, whom he had complimented in his speech,
Mr. Charley's maiden compliment, I think.
Lord John Manners being an ex-Minister, it was eti-
quette for a Minister to answer him. That duty was en-
trusted to Mr. Chichester Fortescue, who spoke with more
fluency and vigour than usual. He made a good point by
reminding Lord John and his colleagues that whereas
they talked of the inefficiency of the present Government
the late Government had ruled Ireland throughout their
whole tenure of office without personal liberty ; that for
the whole duration of the late Ministry the Habeas Corpus
Act had been suspended. The present Government had
restored this liberty, and the period of transition
was one of extreme difficulty. Then he defended the
delay of the Government in the matter. It was quite
true that there were over 700 agrarian crimes in one month,
but then the nature of those crimes should be borne in
mind ; and when Colonel Wilson Patten spoke of the con-
dition of Ireland being a state of terror like that of France
during the first revolution, the exaggeration was so mon-
strous that it was impossible to go beyond it. He con-
cluded by vindicating the policy of the Goverament n
postponing the Peace Preservation Bill until now, and
spoke with greater spirit than I have ever before heard from
the Chief Secretary. Fifty minutes was his measure, and then
came the time for empty benches and fourth rate
M.P.'s. The first of them was Sir Thomas Bateson, the
gentleman who has obtained the renown of having put
the longest question ever put by mortal man to mortal
man. He thrilled the house with horror, as he an-
nounced in stentorian tones, that the Premier had already
doubled the number of Orangemen in Ireland, and that
if he continued in office long enough, there would not be
a single Protestant in Ireland who was not an Orangeman.
At this terrible announcement thegentlemen of the gallery
fled to take refreshment.

I should tire your readers and myself if I attempted to
give them anything like a resume of the speeches that fol-
lowed. Irishman followed Irishman, and accordingly as
they sat to the right or to the left of the Speaker would
be the character of their speeches. Irish Liberals
denounced the bill as utterly unnecessary and

unjust, or, if they admitted that it was neces-

earn, they damned it with faint praise, and while having
one eye upon their party, turned the other upon their con-
stituents and squinted horribly in the metaphorical and

political sense of the word. Irish Tories were willing to

support the bill and something very much stronger, and
hurled fierce anathemas at the Government for not having

introduced it long ago. According to the one side Ireland
was all peace and happiness as in the old days whereof the
utiaital ; according to A 9 othgr, rapine (pion)

rage (forte), and murder (fortissimo) stalked through
the land, and Mr. Gladstone was guilty of
the bloodshed from the time that the Duke of
Abercorn and Lord Mayo went out of office until now.
There was plenty of cheering on the left, especially when
Mr. Kavanagh contrasted Mr. Madden with Lord
Granard, greatly to the disadvantage of the latter, and
when Lord Claud Hamilton the younger defended the
administration of his father, the Duke of Abercorr. °G.
casionally there was laughter, as when Mr. ConollY,
(" Tom," he is always called) declared that Mr. Dowse
was but a "puny " member of the Administration—an
adjective grotesquely inappropriate to that most
amusing and corpulent of law officers. But
Mr. Whalley bore off the palm, or the 013
ald bells rather. He tickled the House immensely b:/
declaring that every one of his prophecies had been N.'
filled, and still more when he said that the only waY tO
pacify Ireland was for the Protestant clergyof the countrY
to preach four sermons a year against Popery, in accordance
with the ancient law; a supposition which, consider.
ing that the clergy have been preaching four sermons,
plus 100, yearly, from time immemorial, was exquisitelY
ludicrous. The climax was reached when, b./
way of proving the success of his measure, he asserted that
no Roman Catholic priest had dared to shew himself
where Mr. Murphy appeared. Shouts of laughtet
greeted Mr. Whalley's estimate respecting
that gentle,
man : "This man so unworthy, but the best I could-
get." At last even the member for Peterborough began
to weary the House, and as he went on talking
for twenty minutes, there were cries of "'Vide!
'vide." That happy consummation was De"
to be attained thus early. It was but about half-past tent
and four M.P.'s had to be heard, including that ranet
bulky of members, who is a whole deputation rolled inkone, Mr. James White. At last, almost midnight, gr.
Gladstone was up. He demolished Lord Claud Hal:lintel/
with evident satisfaction, remarking that occasions like
that which had arisen in Ireland were eminently
times for a suspension of judgment, but the noble
lord the member for King's Lynn was still at an age
when it is not usual to suspend the judgment.
He pointed out the fallacy of Mr. M`Carthy Downing'e
comparison between English and Irish crime, chewing
that it was not the moral but the social aspect of agrarittil
crime which the Government had to consider and amid;
considerable cheering, he replied to Sir 'Thomas
Bateson's denunciation of the Home Secretary for
declaring the Irish penal laws "infernal" laws
by quoting a speech of the Bishop of Peterborough%
in which the very identical expression was used. Who
the Speaker put the question that the bill be read a second
time, there was such a feeble negative that hon. members
joyfully shouted " Agreed," and hoped that they would be
able to get home without going through the tedious farc°
of a division. But such was not the intention of 3f-1.•
Moore. He raised his voice to its full compass, and cio•
dared " The Noes have it," whereupon the House
cleared, and in about twenty-five minutes it became
known that the Nationalists had won a great victorY'
they had increased their numbers from 13 (including
tellers) to 15, and were actually in a minority of only 4'