The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 169,

CRYSTAL PALACE and No. 2, EXETER
HALL TICKET OFFICES, Open till Eight o'clock
THIS EVENING for Sale of ss. Admissions for ROYAL
DRAMATIC COLLEGE COMBINED FETE, FIRE-
WORKS, &c., TO-MORROW.

CALLAGHAN'S OPERA, RACE, and FIELD
GLASSES, of Matchless quality.
23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street).

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f___IREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
FOURTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the FOUR-
TEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of
the POPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at
the CITY TERMINUS HOTEL, Cannon-street, in the
City of London, on TUESDAY, the 10th day of August,
1869, at One o'Clock in the afternoon precisely, for the
purpose of receiving the Directors' Report, and for the
transaction of other business. _

And Notice is Hereby further Given, that ono of the
Directors of the Company, viz., Sir Edward William
Watkin retires by rotation at this Meeting, and, being
eligible, offers himself for re-election.
And Notice is Hereby Further Given, That any Pro-
prietor eligible for the Direction, ktending to become a
candidate for election at this meeting, must give to the
Secretary notice in writing, under his hand, for a
period of not less than fourteen clear days previous to the
day fixed for the meeting, of his intention to offer himself as
such candidate.

- And Notice is Hereby further Given, that Charles
Morgan, Esq., one of the Auditors of the Company, retires
by rotation at this Meeting, and being eligible offers him-
self for re-election, and that any person eligible for elec-
tion by the Company as an Au d itor. and int..uding to offer
himself as a candidate for such office, mu ,t give to the
Secretary notice in writing, under his hand, for a period
of not less than fourteen clear days previous to the day
fixed for the meeting of his intention to offer himself as
such candidate.

SALISBURY, Chairman.
J. B. OWEN, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Terminus, London, July 22d, 1869.

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on the integrity of which perfect health depends. It is a specific
for debility of all kinds, and from its containing, among other
ingredients, pepsine and phosphate of soda, will pi ove highly
beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Vide Dr. Hassall's re
port. Price Bs. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 225.
BAUMGARTEN & Co., 520, Oxford-street, W.C., London. Car-
riage free on receipt of remittance.

T HEATRE-ROYA L, HAYMARKET.

'!'His EVENING, THE OLD GUARD : Messrs. Sol Smith, G.
Murray, 3fag Llewellyn. &e. ALL FOR MONEY : Miss Amy
Sedgwick. And A QUIET DAY. Miss Polly Marshall, &c.

TIIEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIIL

THIS EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel-
more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, THE WILLOW COPSE :
Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs A. Stirling, G. Behnore, G. J.
Taylor, Stuart, C. H. Stephenon, Ashley; Miss Furtado, Mrs A.
Mellon, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss M. Harris

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

MIS EVENING, at -.30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which,
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J.
C. Con per, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Joghlan, Mrs. HerinannVezin,
Mrs. C. Horsman, &c.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
HIS EVENING, at 7.10, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Belo
ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,
James, Fenton; Si esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Button. To
conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL 3.1 r. D.
James,

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Cinder the Management of Miss M Oliver.

Tins EvRNING, at 7.30, A ROVING COMMISSION. After
which CFIECKM AT Followed by THEM ILI PARY BILLY
TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLM tY. Mr
Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss Saunders, &c.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton

THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE.

CHRISIT MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and eaturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL AL AMB RA PALACE. THR EE BALLET.
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. is. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children
under twelve,

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unmistakeable, and conclusive, and overwhelming in
its character, that the very Minister who had ap-
pealed to the country—the late Prime Minister, Mr.
DlSRA.ELl—frankly and most honourably placed his
resignation and that of his colleagues in the
hands of her MAJESTY before the assembling
of the New Parliament, before the assembling
of, in a double sense, what . was peculiarly his
own Parliament (having been called into exist-
ence, as it was, at his own instance, and through the
enlarged constituencies of his own creation)
before that newly-elected House of Com-
mons could be assembled tegether at Westminster.
Thereupon came forth the new Ministerial pro-
gramme—the programme sketched out by the hand
of Mr. GLADSTONE, as head of the newly constituted
Government. Foremost in that programme, as a
matter of course, appeared the Irish Church Ques-
tion, as the matter which, in the seesion of 1869, had
to be definitively settled. Parliament met in Feb-
ruary. With the commencement of March, the
Prime Minister laid before the House of Commons,
in a memorable and historical speech, the Ministerial
plans in regard to the Irish Church, with a view to
its immediate disestablishment, and its rapid and
complete disendowment. The passage of the
Government Bill through the House of Com-
mons was one continued series of triumphs for
her MAJESTY'S Ministers, as indeed was only in-
evi.cable remembering the overwhelming majority,
there, at the back of Mr. GLADSTONE. It was only
when it had been sent up to the Lords that the Line
of peril and anxiety commenced. There—in the
Lords—the majority was not on the side of the Go-
vernment, it was on the side 3f the Opposition. The
Conservatives as a party were aided and abetted
by independent and crotchetty members among the
Old Whigs and among the eccentric Liberals. There
was Earl GREY as a matter of course on the cross benches.
There was Earl RUSSELL—upon this particular point
in the discussion. There was Lord WESTBURY—upon
that other particular point. And so forth: Enor-
mously increasing the difficulties of the political
situation, there were angry taunts and insolent gibes
flung at the Hous,e, of Lords immediately before the
second reading of the Bill—flung at it by no obecure
assailant, by one of the Cabinet Ministers even, and
what was yet worse, by one of the most eminent
among all those Fifteen responsible Advisers of the
Crown. No wonder there was profound solicitude
felt, then, throughout the length and breadth of the
lUnited Kingdom, as to whatmight pos)ibly be the con-
clusion arrived at by an assembly peculiarly high-
spirited and naturally sensitive as to the preservation of
its dignity, and the vindication of its constitutional
rights and prerogatives. Taunted with unwisdone,
the House of Lords showed itself to be wise. In
spite of insults hurled at it from the inner circle of
the Cabinet, it passed the second reading, upon a
division, by a majority of thirty-three. Sneered at
by Mr. BRIGIIT, for what he called its childish tin-
kering with legislation, the House of Lords, labori-
ously, most carefully, most minutely, and (while we
don't, in the least, agree with the noble lords in re-
gard to the principal conclusions they thereupon arrived
at) we, for one, believe, at the same time, most con-
scientiously took the Bill :into consideration,
clause by clause, in Committee. Hence the Amend-
ments. Subsequently read a third time, and passed
with one or two further and supplementary amend-
ments, the Bill—thus amended—was sent down in
due form, for re-examination, to the House of Com-
mons. Don't we all know the sequel? It was one
but, as it were, of yesterday's occurrence. Spoken in-
sults, written taunts, were as nothing to what then
occurred. The amendments were coolly, curtly,
contemptuous, swept aside one after another as
rapidly as the titles of them could be enumerated,
as really not worthy of a moment's further consi-
deration. 'With their amendments thus scorn-
fully erased from the Bill, the Lords saw it
brought back to them for reconsideration. They saw it
brought back, thuS, with a very natural sense of in-
dignation. Regarding themselves, quite reasonably, as
having been contumeliously treated, they unhe,ita-
tingly replaced their blotted amendments
upon the preamble of the Bill—carrying
their decision upon that point by a swinging majo-
rity of Seventy-eight. That in resenting thus
the comprehensive erasure of their amendments,
that in adventuring, as they had done, upan the task
of introducing those amendments originally into the
Bill, the Lords were acting quite reasonably and quite
constitutionally, has just now, as we conceive,
been very clearly demonstrated by the fact of
the Lords and Commons coming, in the
matter of that decision, in the matter of those amend-
ments, to a compromise. The simple fact that the
Lords' amendments have admitted thus, after all, of
arrangement by way of compromise, constitutes of
itself a complete justification of the action of
the House of Lords in regard to the Bill,
as, from first to last, reasonable and constitu-
tional. To hear how Mr. BRIGHT and others could
talk, to see how Mr. BRIGHT and others could write
upon these recent proceedings of the House of Lords,
one might certainly have been led to regard them
as most unreasonable and as most unconstitu-
tional. And yet it is upon thoee uncancelled
and unretracted proceedings—it is upon those
(by the Lords themselves, at least), vindicated amend-
ments, that a satisfactory arrangement has, now, been
arrived at, by means of mutual concessions on the
part of the Government, and on the part of the
Opposition. If the Lords' amendments were what
they were said to be by the thick and thin Ministerial-
ists, there would have been no room therein, there
would have been no possibility, of anything in the
shape of a compromise. If those proceedings, upon
which the House of Lords has been these last few
weeks adventuring, had been so monstrously irra-
tional and unjustifiable as even a Cabinet Minister
would have had us believe all through—it would simply
have been idle and preposterous to dream of any good
result whatever being in any way practicable through
the medium of arbitration and of mutual conces-
sions. Yet, it is precisely that most happy result, at
which we have now arrived. The simple fact of the
announcement that it is so, is of itself a vindication of
the House of Loris in the face of the whole country,
while at the same time it is an event that reflects the
highest credit alike upon the calmer councils and the
better judgment of the Government and of the
Opposition.

It would certainly be well if the Solicitor-General
and the Lord High Chancellor could soften their
temper and moderate their language. Their recent
displays of anger, the one in the House of Lords, the
other in the House of Commons, are certainly calcu-
lated to lower their character in the estima-
tion of the multitude out-of-doors. Upon Lord
HATHERLEY'S unseemly vituperations the other
evening, we have already commented. To Sir
JOHN COLERIDGE'S extraordinary exhibition yes-
terday in the Lower House of Parliament, we have
now unhappily occasion to refer, as we cannot
help doing, with a sense at once of astonish-
ment and of indignation ! Both these feelings
are, moreover, considerably enhanced by the
fact that these most unparliamentary, and c,r-
tainly most discreditable proceedings on the part of
' the Solicitor-General, were cheered by a section of the
ultra Ministerialists, and were actually countenanced,
undoubtedly were allowed to pass by altogether unre-
proved by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Speaker of
the House of Commons. The matter under conside-
ration at the moment was, it may be remarked, the
University Tests Bill, in answering an inquiry in
regard to which, au inquiry 1% hich had been put
to him by the hon. gentlemen the member for
Carmartheushire, Sir Jails COLERIDGE, went
the length of saying that if the hon. member wished
to have an " explanation of his opinion he might say
that the entire rejection of the wishes of the House
of Commons by 4 majority of the House of Lords in

refusing even to consider aßill"—it was, here, that some
of theMinisterialists cheered—" sent up to them year
after year by very large majorities in this House"
—renewed cheering—" relieved him from the
duty of considering their feelings and pre-
judices with respect to the measure in question."
Here it was that—drowning at last the indecorous
cheers of the more excited supporters of the Govern-
ment—there arose loud and indignant cries of
" Order !"—and no wonder !—from the side of the
Opposition. Lord SANDON interposed for the pur-
pose of enforcing this cry of order, only to be
rebuffed, however, by the Speaker's intimation
that the rule of the House was not to comment on
the debates of the House of Lords, the SPEAKER
adding, that to allude to the public acts
of that House was a different matter ! At this
there was more of the same astounding Mi-
nisterial cheering ! Encouraged by which the
Solicitor-General had—we were going to say —the
hardihood to remark—" that if the majority in the
House of Lords who vuted against the Bill were un-
aware that demands of the kind ought not to
be subject to contemptuous rejection, they were
the only persons in the kingdom who laboured
under such ignorance." Mr. DisnAELT himself here
interfered with a dignified protest against so extra-
ordinary a manifestation. Even then, however, there
could be elicited from the Speaker of the (louse of
Commlns nothing further than a few feeble words
intimating, in a rather roundabout way, that an
incident of the kind was perhaps hardly desirable.

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OSBORNE, July 22.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High.
nesses Princess Christian and Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Chris-
tian and Princess Louise, walked in the grounds
this morning.
The other members of the Royal Family also
went out.

ACCIDENTS DURING THE ROYAL
FROGIIESS.

Several accidents, one of them fatal, are reported in the
Manchester Examiner as having occurred at various points
of the route during the royal progress. Shortly after the
Cortege had passed All Saints Church, one of the stands
erected by and belonging to a private contractor broke
down under the pressure of the crowd of occupants to
get away, and a large number of persons were
brought somewhat suddenly to the ground. One
lady, a Miss Dale, sustained severe contusions
in the back, and at first was scarcely expected
to recover, but on removal to the infirmary it was found
that no fracture had taken place, and fair hopes are
entertained of her recovery. By the same accident a
boy named Haney had a leg broken. In the after-
noon a boy, about 14 years of age, was brought
into the local infirmary, suffering from injuries
he received in the crowd at Old Trafford. Ile was brought
to the infirmary at three o'clock and died at four. A
little boy named Thomas Ellis, aged six years, was kicked
by c ne of the dragoon's horses, in Stretford•roa,