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and though Mr. Gladstone had a long and animated whis-
pered discussion with the former, he failed to convince
him, and the members for Stroud and Cam-
bridge insisted upon taking a division, with the
effect of finding themselves in a minority of
sixty-eight. Then followed Mr. Fawcett, with
a somewhat bitter attack upon the Government.
They had been vacillating, they had not known their
own minds, they had been compelled to advance against
their will step by step in the path of true progress ;
They had admitted their error with regard to the permis-
sive part of their bill of last year, and he was quite sure
that if the present bill were rejected by the House of
Lords, the Ministry would be prepared to admit
further errors next year. He therefore urged that
clerical fellowships should not be omitted from
the scope of this measure, and he said that under
any circumstances he should divide the Home on the
point. The Solicitor-General, between whom and the
Professor there has been a feud of old standing, replied to
his assailant with bland and sarcastic politeness, which
mightily pleased the House. He shewed that Mr.
Fawcett's proposal dealt with the statutes of
the colleges, and that to do this would be to
go far beyond the limits of the bill then before the House.
Mr. Miall and Mr. Gladstone then told the story of the
little conference which the Dissenters had with the
Premier last autumn, and how the first promised the
second they would not seek to compel any changes in
the regulations of the colleges. But Mr. Locke did not
see why he should be bound by the compart, and he
gave notice that he should vote against the Go-
vernment. So there was another divition, and
once more Ministers triumphed over their nomi-
nal friends by the aid of their traditional foes.

A little later Sir Bounden Palmer made an im-
pressive and weighty speech, cheered chiefly on the Con-
servative benches. He warned the House against intro-
ducing heathenism into the teaching of the univer-
sities, for that would assuredly be followed
by the introduction of heathenism into the morals
of the country, a danger which recent events,
he said (with reference to the wretched " epicene "
case), chew that we are already in danger of. Mr. Vernon
Harcourt having stated that he should not divide on his
next amendment, a large number of members left the
House, thinking there would be no need of their further
attendance. But Mr. Osborne Morgan had discovered
that a portion of an Act passed sixteen years
ago was inconsistent with the bill before the House,
and he moved the repeal of the objectionable portion.
Sir John Coleridge assured him that he was wrong. Mr.
Morgan assured the Solicitor-General that he was wrong ;
and so they went on contradicting each other with most
perfect good manners, to the great amusement of the
House. Mr. Morgan had the courage of his convic-
tions, and he divided the House, when it appeared that
only about half of the old numbers were
present, but Mr. Glyn had whipped enough
of his men from dinner to be on the winning side. Mr.
Henley went with the Radicals, greatly to his disgust,
and much to the amusement of the House when he
announced his blunder. Mr. Fawcett made one more pro-
test against the bill as a most incomplete measure
and said it was just as if the Irish Church
Bill had disestablished curates and vicars,and had stopped
short of deans and bishops. Then the preamble
was passed, and then Mr. Hardy got up and ironically
bid Government thank the Conservatives for the help
which they had given it when likely to be overwhelmed
by its own followers. Quick as thought Mr. Goschen got
up, and amid much cheering on the Treasury
bench, said that the Government was very much
obliged indeed to the gentlemen on the Opposition
bench for having rejected former measures. Had
they not done so the House would not now be having
the present satisfactory measure before it. Mr. Mowbray
retorted that Ministers were whistling before
they were out of the wood, and there
was another House which might treat the bill
rather differently from the House of Commons. Mr.
Fawcett, bent upon having the last word, said that Mr.
Goschen ought to thank the members below the gangway,
for without their help the present bill could not have been
passed. Mr. Goschen nodded assent. Mr. Morrison
obtained from Sir John Coleridge the information that
the report would be taken on Monday, and then the bill
passed through committee at nine o'clock, amid consider-
able cheering, and to the relief of Mr. Dodson, who ran
off to dine.

A. new Working Men's Institute has been opened
in Sheffield. The movement is originated by Miss
Harrison,•who is so well known in connection with many
philantrophic works, and the institute is to have a coffee-
room, at which newspapers and periodicals will be pro-
vided.

MB. BUTT AND THE AMNESTY COMMISSION.-Mr.
Butt, as president of the Amnesty Association, refuses to
acknowledge the commission to inquire into the treat-
ment of the Fenian convicts. He considers that in
excluding personal testimony the commissioners have de-
prived the inquiry of a title to public confidence.
ONE LORD-LIEUTENANT FOR TWO COUNTIES.--.
The Earl of Stair, who has been Lord-Lieutenant of Ayr-
shire since 1851, has been appointed also Lord-Lieutenant
of Wigtonshire, in the room of the late Marquis of Ailsa.
Precedents are not wanting in Scotland for the union of
two counties under a single nobleman as Lord-Lieutenant
the Duke of Buccleuch holds the joint lieutenancy of
Roxburghshire and Midlothian—while his eldest son, the
Earl of Dalkeith, holds the same office for the county of
Dumfries.

ADVERTISEMENTS RESPECTING STOLEN GOODS.--
A short bill has been prepared by the Government for the
purpose of limiting actions against newspapers for in-
serting advertisements of reward for the return of stolen
property. The Bill provides that every action to recover
penalties against newspapers under the Larceny Act
shall be brought within six months after the
forfeiture is incurred, but prohibits every such action un-
less the assent in writing of her Majesty's Attorney-
General or Solicitor-General for England, or the same
officials for Ireland, has been first obtained. The bill has
a clause of a retrospective character, which enables the
defendant to stay proceedings.

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The Secretary of
State, on the recommendation of Colonel Henderson, the
Chief Commissioner of Police, has been pleased to grant
considerable concessions to the police force in the Metro-
politan district, as follows :—lnspectors' salaries are to be
raised to £2los. per week ; Ist class sergeants, 31s. ; 2nd
class, 295. ; Ist class constables, 265. ; 2nd class, 245. ; 3rd
class, 225. ; and 4th class, 20s. Each class appointed to
the reserve force will have in addition to this the follow-
ing extra rates of pay :—lnspectors, 4s. ; sergeants, 3s. ;
and constables, Is. 6d. per diem; and promotions are only
to be made by seniority, while in cases where it has not
been the case it is to be rectified, and officers not qualified
by sufficient education are to attend instruction classes
till they are.

THE LATE SIR JAMES SIMPSON.—The Duke of
Argyll has addressed a letter to Sir Walter G. Simpson,
in which he says :—" I have received an order from
her Majesty the Queen to convey to the family
of Sir J. Simpson an expression of her Majesty's
warmest sympathy in the loss they have sus-
tained, and an expression also of her Majesty's
own sorrow on account of the loss which the country
has sustained in the death of so great and good a man.
Although I have only just received this command, it was
the Queen's intention that it should reach me some time
ago. Accidental circumstances occasioned a delay. I now
obey her Majesty's command, and I need hardly add, on
behalf of the Duchess and myself, that we both mourn the
loss of a very dear personal friend."
AN OLD RELIC.—The " Old White Horse " Inn,
the halfway house at Croydon, after standing for centuries,
has been doomed to demolition. The license to this house
was granted in the reign of Henry VIII., under very
novel and stringent conditions, but which have long since
been discontinued. A Royal grant of land was made for a
public horse-pond, and which remained till a recent
period. The ground is still enclosed. The timbers in
the old house are of stupendous size, and the exterior is
in sound condition. The old house stood on the manor of
Lambeth, and adjoining the old manor-house, which has
already been pulled down. The land of late years has be-
come too valuable to permit these ancient structures to
monopolise such a large extent of ground. A new inn of
a modern style is to be built on the old site on which the
White Horse Tavern stood.

TRADES OUTRAGES AT MANCHESTER.
THREATENING LETTER.—Messrs. Robert Neill and Sons
builders and contractors, in Manchester, recently received
a letter, in which it was stated that their premises in
Strangeways would soon meet with a "visitation " similar
to that which took place at the timber-yard of Mr. E.
Johnson, in Ancoats, some time ago. The police were at
once made acquainted with the contents of the letter, and
a strict watch has since been kept over the premises of
the Messrs. Neill: On Saturday night the police,
who had secreted themselves on the premises,
arrested three or four men, who were found inside the
yard, and whose conduct will certainly subject them to
the penalty which is usually enforced " for being found on
certain premises for an unlawful purpose." Another man
was arrested outside the premises. The prisoners were
brought up at the City Police-court on Monday and
remanded for a week.