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1869.

1869 will hereafter le memorable for three silents
the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the c9m-i
pletion of the Suez Canal, and the opening of
the (Ecumenical Council at Rome. None of these
events can be said to be concluded. The Irish Pro-
testant Church has indeed been disestablished, but
the new body which is to govern it hereafter has not
yet been formed, and serious difficulties have arisen
in constructing it. The Suez Canal is available for
vessels of comparatively small tonnage, but a good
deal of dredging has to be done before the overland

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route is made wholly by water,
The year opened with an incident of great social
and commercial importance. The country was still
as it is even now, suffering from the financial col-
lapse of 1866. The irritation was still great because
the suffering was still severe. No event of that
collapse had been so ruinous as 'the failure of the
great joint stock company of OVEREND, GURNEY
and Co., and the feeling which prevailed almost
universally a year ago was that it was a scandal that
the directors of this Company should go unpunished.
The Crown refused to prosecute, and the proceedings
were, therefore, set on foot by a private gentleman
who had sustained loss at the bands of the directors.
On New Year's Day they were brOught before the
Lord Mayor charged with conspiracy and fraud. After
two or three adjournments they were committed
for trial, and on leaving the Mansion House
were greeted with shouts of execration. The
trial did not take place until a few days

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LONDOY.
CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATF..
NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET.
CORNER OF TOTTF.NHA3I-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON-
ROAD.

ago, and although it lasted for more than a
week the jury took but ten minutes to decide that
the prisoners were not guilty. No sooner was the
verdict given than a scene of joy, extravagant and
unreasonable, took place, and the execrated
monsters of January found themselves the triumphant
martyrs of December. The other prosecutions against
directors of companies charged with fraud have been
equally unsuccessful with this the most celebrated
cause of the year. Mr. STUART LANE and his fellow-
directors of the Merchants' Company were discharged,
though not without a strong censure upon the first
prisoner. The directors of BARNED'S Banking Com-
pany, who at first seemed greater offenders than any
of the others, were discharged without any qualify-
ing remarks. These trials, though unsuccessful, have
duibtless had a considerable effect. They have
warned enterprising gentlemen given to getting
up companies, that a directorship has its duties as
well as its rights, and that handsome fees will not
compensate for the anxiety endured by criminal pro-
ceedings. At the same time, these proceedings have
in;luced a result not altogether satisfactory. They
have almost paralysed commercial enterprise requir-
ing the co-operation of many persons. The formation
of joint-stock companies has almost ceased. Telegraph
companies have been well nigh the only associations
which have been able to maintain their position.
The consequences of this suspicion—as excessive as
was the confidence of four years ago—have been
seen in a glut of unemployed money, the Bank rate

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Lennox trey.
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Places can be secured a fortnight in advance.

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of discount having for some weeks been as low as

21 per cent. ; and in the investment of the more ven-
turesome in such insecure "securities" as the new
Turkish Loan. It is to be hoped that the very
clear summing up of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in
the OVEREND and GURNEY trial may do some-

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thing to restore the confidence of those
persons who are now deterred from devoting their
energies to legitimate enterprise. The distinction
betweenthis and reckless and dishonest speculation is
no* sufficiently clear to she* that; while the second
may lead to severe punishment, the first involves no

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such risk.
There have been other memorable trials through-
out the year. The first week of it saw the SAURIN
case. It has been called the "great" SAURIN case,
yet it was greatonly in length, and miserably mean
and petty in all else. For a whole weary month
revelations of female jealousies and infinitely small
grievances went on. There was nothing new in them,
for they take place in too many an English house-
hold, in too many an English school, and (changing
only the sex) in too many an English regiment. But
the public was all agape for scandal, and the utmost
malignity having failed to prove or even suggest
any, the public, which had wanted stories about pro-
fligate priests and unchaste nuns, was fain to be con-
tent with details about old shoes and dirty dusters.
The verdict was a thoroughly "Protestant" one, in
the bad, bigoted sense of the word; but the trial has
done good to those whom it was meant to injure, and
has shewn that the inmates of a convent may be as
pure as the inmates of a boarding-school. Thoroughly
scandalous were the proceedings in the GRENVILLE-
MURRAY case. This person, who had been dis-
charged from the diplomatic service for irregularities,
being a man of considerable literary ability, as
well as utterly unprincipled, published a weekly
journal, called the Queen's Messenger, which attacked
one public man after another with the most flagrant
shamelessness. The son of one of the persons
assailed, inflicted personal chastisement upon Mr.
MURRAY, who thereupon summoned the noble-
man in question to answer the charge of
assault. A disgraceful row took place in the
police court, where the case was heard, and even-
tually Mr. MURRAY was indicted for perjury. He
was admitted to bail, forfeited it, and is now absent
from the country, and not very likely to return. The
action brought by a member of Parliament against
the proprietor of the North Wilts Herald resulted in
the legal victory of the plaintiff; but the verdict of the
jury met with little commendation from the public.
The " EDMUNDS' scandal," after being on hand for nearly
five years, has just been settled by arbitration, and
Mr. EDMUNDS, who claimed a large sum of money,
finds that he has to pay to the Crown about £l,OOO.
Arbitration has been adopted with regard to the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the two
late rivals for the Conservative leadership in the
House of Lords, Lord CAIRNS and Lord SALISBURY,
have, it is announced, nearly completed their labours.
Arbitration has been successfully adopted in more
than one case of dispute between masters and work-
men, and it is to be hoped that courts of concilia-
tion may ere long be regularly established,
and the strikes and lock-outs, which have been so
disastrously frequent hitherto, may be unknown.
The changes in the personnel of the Bpfscopate
have been extraordinarily numerous. This is duo not
only to death, but also to the passing of an Act of
Parliament facilitating the retirement of disabled
bishops. It is to be regretted that this Act
was not originated by the prelates themselves.
It was forced upon Parliament by the popular indig-
nation, which had justly been excited at the sight of
half a dozen chief pastors receiving the revenues,
while totally unable to perform the functions of their
°film From the western limits of Canterbury to the
Land's End, there was, a few months ago, not ono
bishop competent to fulfil his duties. The Bishop of
Salisbury, indeed, was too self-denying to lay him-
self open to the charge of avarice, and the man who
gave away the whole of his episcopal income could
not be suspected of a love of money. his death, in
August, gave Mr. GLADSTONE his first appointment.
Slice then they have been made at the rate of about
one in three weeks. Bishop SUMNER of -Winchester
was the first to take advantage of the Act, and
having been for seine time paralysed, he resigned
his see to a worthy successor, Bishop \VILBEIL-
FORCE. The see which the latter prelate had
filled for a quarter of a century was allotted to
Prebendary Ma cxanNEss, who probably owes his
nomination in part to the'fact that he is a brother-in-
law of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, but he has also

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acts, written by himself, entitled NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE
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many excellent personal qualities.. Lord AUCKLAND, M.P. for Tipperary, the prospect is not chearing. The
who was also paralysed, followed the example of act, too, that Ministers have thought i t necessary to
Bishop SUMNER, and he has received a successor in send large reinforcements of troops to Ireland during
the person of Lord ARTHUR HERVEY, one of the the present month shews that there is some reason to
ablest members of the moderate Low Church party. fear a repetition of the insane risings which have
The death of Bishop WALDEGRAVE left the mitre of taken place in former years. At the same time it
Carlisle at the disposal of the PREMIER, and it was must be remembered that Government is no longer
conferred by him upon Dr. HARVEY GOODWIN, Dean ruling Ireland under a Habeas Corpus Suspension
of Ely, whom it would be difficult to assign to any Act, nor has it yet announced its policy upon the land
party. In the 7ast week of the year the see of question, which is far more important in the eyes of
Manchester became vacant by the death of Bishop the Irish peasantry than the Church question. While
LEE, the prelate whom, better than any other, the therefore there is much room for regret in the pre-
episcopal bench could spare. His successor sent condition of Ireland, there is no room for despair.
has not yet been named. But the appoint- The last year of the seventh decade of the nineteenth
ment which more than all the rest put together century may witness a nearer approach to reconcilia-
has most agitated the Church is that to the see of tion than has been made during the centuries that
Exeter. The late Bishop, a nonagenarian, blind and have elapsed since Pope ADRIAN IV. gave Ireland to
bedridden, and for many years past work, for a long his fellow-countryman, King HENRY of England, on
time steadfastly refused to listen to the strong repre- a false pretence, just 700 years ago.
sentations which were made to him that he ought to If Commons and Lords have been busy, Royalty
resign. At last, however, he yielded, wrote to the has not been idle. The QUEEN has actually spent
PREMIER to announce his resignation, and expired a half a week in her capital, in periods of a day at a
few days afterwards, before he had completed the time, and about two months ago opened the Holborn
formalities necessary to complete his resignation. Viaduct. The Prince and the Princess of WALES
After a short delay, the appointment of Dr. TEMPLE, have made a tour of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and'
1 of Rugby (who had previously refused the Deanery Central Europe. The Duke of EDINBURGH has been
of Durham) was announced, and straightway there to our Australasian colonies (where he made a lucky
arose such a clamour as had not been seen for more speculation, which brought him in £200,000, and will,
than twenty years. Dr. PUSEY, the leader it is to be hoped, spare the nation the payment of his
of the agitation, attempted to persuade Dr. presents hereafter), and to Japan and China, and
M'NEILE, as the leader of the Low Church has been spending his Christmas in India. Prince
party, to join him. But the Regius Pro- ARTHUR has been winning, if not like his
fessor of Hebrew having incautionsly let fall some brother, gold, vet golden opinions, in Canada.
words about the separation of Church and State the England has been visited by the Khedive of EGYPT,
DEAN of RIPON declined, and having told Dr. PUSEY who was not on this occasion sent to a hotel, though
that while Dr. TEMPLE was a leper .he (Dr. PUSEY) the Prince of WALES contrived to be too late to
was a leper also, held aloof from the 'proceedings`- receive him at the railway station. King LEOPOLD
which followed. These are so recent that we need of the Belgians (who lost his only son early in the
not detail them. They were most signally abortive, year) has been feted by the volunteers in London
and a protest from all parts of England which contains after a somewhat feeble fashion. The army of
only 1,500 names, and some hundreds of those' the German princelets and dukelings do not seem to have\
names of labourers, blacksmiths, sextons, and school- invaded us in such large numbers as they usually do,
girls, shows how utterly unreal was all this agitation) or else their movements have failed to interest people
and verifies the old proverb that the most empty as much as they did before Sadowa. Altogether,
vessels make the most noise. the nation has not been very gay. The Prince

There was undoubtedly more reality in the clamour
against the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A
large number of persons sincerely believed that this
step was disastrous. As they also deemed
it sacrilegious they may be pardoned some
exaggeration of language, even though it took the
form of personal abuse, in which Mr. GLADSTONE
was likened to JUDAS, and the Irish Church to our
Loran in His passion. There is no need to repeat the
arguments for and against the measure in question.
The progress of it is too remarkable to pass without
comment. Before the session began (on February 16)
it was confidently predicted that Mr. GLADSTONE'S
large majority would split up as Lord PALMERSTON'S
had in 1866, for, to use the cheerful language of the
Conservative journals, the robbers would quarrel
over the spoils of the Irish Church. Mr. GLADSTONE
introduced his bill on March 1, and on May 31 it was
read a third time. In those three months there had been
innumerable 'divisions, and the Conservatives found
mtsce to complain that, so far from the Liberals
being divided, they were too homogeneous. The
"leader who could not lead, and the followers who
would not follow," were now become " the brutal
and tyrannical majority who did blindly whatever
Mr. GLADSTONE told them to do? So persistently
large were the PREMIER'S majorities that when in
one division he counted one of something under 80,
the Opposition shouted as though they had gained a
great victory. Backed by such majorities, generally
of more than 100, the bill was introduced to the
Upper Houv. In that assembly the Ministers were
greatly in a minority. The peers had the power to
reject the bill. Would they use it ? was the one
absorbing question of the day. Popular feeling
became heated to a dangerous degree when Lord
DERBY, the Duke of AI3ERCORN, and other well-
known peers insisted -upon a policy of " No
Surrender." Lord SALISBURY, who aspired
to lead his party in the Upper House, .and
who saw that the rejection of the bill would bring
about a revolution in that House formed a "cave,"
and at the head of thirty secessionists.voted for the
second reading of the bill which was thus agreed to
on Juno 18 by 170 to 140 votes. Several peers,
including the two English Archbishops, did not vote.
June 18 had been a memorable day fifty-four years
before in English history, it has now acquired fresh
celebrity as having delivered one of the estates of the
realm from a most serious peril. This victory was
not without its sadness, as all great battles must be.
The most bitter opponent of Lord DERBY could not
read without emotion the speech whi,di the old Tory
leader made upon this occasion, a speech delivered
with faltering accents instead of with the old fire of
former dayi; with the consciousness of defeat instead
of with the light of victory gleaming in his eye; with the
tokens of desertion all around him, instead of with the
compact phalanx that used to follow him even in his
most dangerous leap in the dark. " My Lords," he
said, "I am now an old man, and, like many of your
lordships,' have already passed threescore years and ten.
My official life is entirely closed, my political life is
nearly so, and in course of nature my mortal life
cannot now be long." These were his closing words,
and the anticipation which they contained was soon
fulfilled. He did not speak again in public, and a
few weeks later all England stood at his bedside
watching with painful:lnterest the last struggles of
this brave and gallant old man with the invincible
wrestler, death. The principle of the Irish Church
Bill and of the House of Lords having been saved,
Lord SALISBURY made the mistake of supposing
that the details of the first might be altered at
the pleasure of the second. The bill was sent
back to the Commons so changed that it was scarcely
recognisable. Mr. GLADSTONE, in a few terse, dry
sentences, moved that the House Should disagree with
the Lords' amendments. They were struck out ; the
Lords remained obstinate ; and once more that body
seemed in danger of going down, as Hyde-park rail-
ings had gone, before the breath of popular indigna-
tion three years before. Fortunately, Lord CAIRNS,
who had been outwitted by Lord SALISBURY
in the previous month, determined to have
his revenge, and so, in an interview with
Lord GRANVILLE, the details of a compromise
were settled, and being accepted by Mr. GLADSTONE,
the Act c. 42 Vict. 32nd and 33rd received the royal
assent on July 26. This was by far the most Impor:.
tent measure of the 117 public Acts passed during
the session. Yet there were others which would
have signalised a less eventful year. Chief of these
were the Bankruptcy Bill and the Education Bill.
The first comes into operation with the new year.
ana by reason or Its aanuranie stringency has cast
its shadow before in the long list of bankrupts
during the present month. The other measure is
but the beginning of a great educational reform,
which, it is to be hoped, will be further developed if
not completed during 1870. There remains to be
noticed here one other matter of home politics, which
will doubtless lead to an important change, the
terrible disclosures of electoral corruption in many of
the boroughs, and notably in Brickcwat-r, Beverley,
and Norwich. The two first towns are unquestion-
ably destined to parliamentary extinction ; but
experience has shewn that such punishment
does not deter other offenders. • This being so
there is likely to be little opposition from either
political party to the Ballot, although many persons
who will vote for it have but a partial faith in its
operation.
It is greatly to be regretted that the state of Ire-
land is still most unsatisfactory. Although there is
little general crime, assassination and outrages and
violence are frequent, and nearly all of them spring
from one cause, the hostility felt towards the owners
of land by the tenants. It would be too much to
say that the disestablishment of the Irish Church has
produced /I) effect upon the Irish people, and tog
much to expect that it would in six months reconcile
them after seven centuries of animosity. Yet when
men like The O'DoxoolluE tell their countrymen that
they now can always get fair play in the House of
Commons it is clear that something has been
rained. Nevertheless, when we find a Mayor of
Cork praising the assassin of the Duke of R —DIN-
Bu. Rog as a hero. ,and a Fenian convict elected

of WALES, however, has made some splendid bags at
Studley Royal and in other noble preserves, and has
just munificently presented fifteen brace of pheasants
to Charing-cross Hospital. Pigeon-shooting has
attained very large proportions, and our jeunesse doree
have hit upon the novel idea of being paid for
amusing themselves. It is satisfactory to see that
Oxonian oarsmen still find sufficient satisfaction in
beating Cambridge and Harvard without being paid
in cash.
There has been no war throughout the year in
Europe, but there has been a good deal of fighting in
Spain. It is fifteen months since ISABELLA left her
throne, and it is still undecided who shall fill it, or
if there shall be any throne at all. General PRIM,
who is virtually Dictator, wishes very much to have
a young boy of 16 for King, but the motive i 3 so
transparent, and the Duke of GENOA, whom Pram
wishes to honour by making his too], has co little
inclination to become a puppet that neither Le nor
his friends are likely to accept the bait which con-
ceals the hook so clumsily. If there was ever
any chance of a different result, the splendid
speech just delivered by Senor CASTELAR Las
destroyed that chance. Meanwhile Spanish
politics are diversified by local revolutions, and there
is scarcely one of the great towns in the Peninsula
which has not undergone the diversion of a bombard-
ment. Greece has had the somewhat milder excite-
ment of a quarrel with Turkey. The weaker Power,
as so often happens, relied upon its weakness, and
thought that all Europe would come to its
assistance, though it was manifestly in the
wrong. It was mistaken. Neither England nor
France, nor even Russia, was prepared to light
the flames of war which, once lit, might spread over
half the Continent; and so a Conference was held,
in which moral suasion was exercised with satisfac-
tory effect upon a State too weak to trust to its own
physical force, and the breach between King GEORGE
and ABDUL Aziz was healed. This was early in the
year. At the close of it another quarrel between
the last-named Sovereign and ISMAIL PagnA,
the Khedive of Egypt, was made up through
the same good offices. It is still a part of
English diplomatic traditions to sustain the totter-
ing throne at Constantinople, and to sacrifice to that
object even the opportunity of establishing our influ-
ence in a country which concerns us far more. So
the KHEDIVE was induced to say that hence-
forth he would not raise loans without the con-
sent of the SULTAN, and as this arrangement
means a douceur to make things sweet,
all round at the Sweet Waters, the VICE-KING of
EGYPT will soon be vieing with the KING of TURKEY
in the largeness of the interest which he will be offer-
ing to persons who are confiding enough to lend him
money. Another quarrel at one time threatened to
be serious. King LEOPOLD of the Belgians having
lost his heir, his neighbour thought it a good oppor-
tunity to bully him, in the hope of thereby getting
up an agitation which should lead to the annexation
of Belgium to France. The matter went so far that
Lord CLARENDON had to interfere, and NAPOLEON,
finding that he had more than enough work upon his
hands, retreated from the affair. German politics
have presented few incidents of interest to English
readers. Prussia has, wonderful to relate, spent more
than her income. Austria has had trouble with her
Bohemian and Dalmatian subjects. Russia has been
excited by the extraordinary dissenting movement
now going on in that country. Italy, as usual, is in
a state of Ministerial crisis ; and but a few weeks
ago seemed destined to lose her first sovereign, whose
faults were all forgotten when the hand of death
appeared to have seized him. The rejoicings at his
recovery were increased by the simultaneous birth of
a grandson, who is heir to the throne. Since then
there has been another change of Ministry. and
VICTOR. EMMANUEL stands in danger of losing his
recent popularity by the opposition which he is offering
to' a reduction' of 'expenditure. But the country
which, above all others, has witnessed important
events is France. In the spring the Corps Legis-
latif expired by efflux of time, after six
years' existence. The elections, although doctored in
the moat barefaced and unlawful manner by the EM-
PEROR and his servants, resulted in the return of a
body so largely opposed to him that it became abso-
lutely necessary to make great concessions. M.
BOUHER, whose power for three or four years had
been so great that he was styled "the Vice-
Emperor," was compelled to resign, and was
" kicked up stairs " by being made President of the
Senate. Serious riots took place in Paris during
some of the elections, but they were sup-
pressed without bloodshed, and the EMPEROR
rode through his capital immediately afterwards
unattended, and amid much applause. There were
those who said that the riot had been the doing of
his own myrmidons, in order to chew their powerless-
ness and the popularity which he still enjoyed. A
little later he became seriously ill, and it was then
found how very unsubstantial that popularity was.
There was something brutally cruel in the manner in
which Parisian journalists noted down with merry
sarcasm the changes in the condition of the patient.
During his illness his cousin made a memorable
speech, in which he said that "You can do anything
with bayonets, but sit upon them," and this epigram
was held to mark the downfall of personal govern-
m -.?,nt. Nevertheless, the EMPEROR postponed the
opening of the Corps Lsgislatif for some weeks beyond
the time that it should have been opened. Mean-
while the Senate had been discussing the changes which
the EMPEROR proposed to make, and the EMPRESS
was representing her husband at the opening of the
Suez Canal. On her return it was rumoured that
reactionary principles had again prevailed, and so
loud were the complaints that it was announced that
she would not attend any more meetings of the
Council. On opening the Chambers NAPOLEON
asked them to help him to secure liberty, and pro-
mised that he would be answerable for order. The
remark was interpreted unfavourably, and the
continuance in office of M. DE FORCADE LA
RoQUETTE, the successor of M. ROUHER, was
sypppsed t9:deppte that the Egvntolt had no inten-