The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-15 00:00:00

TUE rot-sr OF LAUDS.

The Star is taking advantage of the present dis-
agreement between the Lords and Commons to point
out the defects of the former lrxly. This office it does
with no very gentle hand. The .S 7 ni• does not like
the I7pper ChambiT, says so, and gives its reasons.
It has a long article sheaving that on every
important national question for the last forty
years their lordships have pursued a retrograde
course. They opposed the first Reform Bill, Roman
Catholic Emancipation, the appropriation clause in
the Tithes;Commutation Bill, the relief of Dissenters,
as shewn in their opposition to the Corporation and
Tests Act, and the extension of civil rights to the
Jews. The opening of the universities, the abolition
of church rates, municipal reform, the abolition of
the corn laws, the extension of education, life
peerages, and the abolition of the paper duties the
House of Peers has also strenuously held out against.
Dr. Humphry Sandwith, a correspondent of the Star,
the late and probable future candidate for Maryle-
bone, in calling attention to these facts, advocates
the removal of " the effete institution " which is
impeding the progress of the nation. He is very
bitter about " the crowd of obscure titled men " who
have had the decision of the Irish Church question
in their hands, and have taken it upon themselves
to give a different decision to that given by the
nation.

THE TWELFTH OF JULY IN TIIE NORTH OF
IRELAND.

The twelfth of July itself passed off peaceably and
quietly, though it seems the thirteenth has not.
That no collision occurred on Monday, is to be
attributed mainly to the forbearance of the Roman
Catholics. The authorities in some districts were
put in the most peculiar dilemma. The Orangemen
walked with banners flying, and in 811 the glory of
party scarves, in direct and defiant opposition to the
Party Processions Act. If the police interfered
there would be the inevitable row; if they did not
they would be permitting contempt of the law, which
would grow, perhaps, into a general disregard of it,
and make it of none effect. The Government
appears to have taken a middle course, and to have
given orders that no interference should be made on
the day itself, but that the leaders should be charged
with breaking the law when the anniversaries were
over. The Dublin Mail has a leader thanking the
Roman Catholic population for their generous spirit
in allowing the Protestants to demonstrate, and
promises that the Protestants will not forget the
kindness.

In Belfast, though Monday was marked by no
very serious riot, on Tuesday there seems to have
been a renewal of the old spirit. " Rioting has
commenced," the telegrams inform us? with the usual
addenda—windows smashed in the principal streets;
national schools broken into and furniture destroyed;
stone-throwing; policemen injured.

LORD TAUNTON.
The death of Lord Taunton is announced. He will
be best known to the public as Mr. Labouchere, the
one-time President of the Board of Trade, the Chief
Secretary for Ireland, and the Whig member for
Taunton. His lordship died suddenly on Tuesday
afternoon. He was born in 1798, and in his 28th
year was returned to Parliament for the Cornish
borough of St. Michael's. That constituency fell
when the Reform Bill of 18:32 became law. But
Mr. Labouchere had previously deserted it, and had
become member for Taunton, which retained his
services during the thirty years he sat in the
Commons, and up to the time be was created a peer
by Lord Palmerston. Mr. Labouchere Brat
held the office of Junior Lord of the Ad-
miralty under Lord Grey. In 1834 he became
Vice-President of the Board of Trade. For a
few months in 1839 he was Under-Secretary of
State for the Colonies. He was made President of
the Board of Trade in August of that year, and held
the position until 1841. Sir Robert Peel came into
office in 1842, and the Whigs were on the left hand
of the Speaker until 1814. Mr. Labouchere then
was once again made President of the Board of
Trade, and carried, in that capacity, the
repeal of the Navigation Laws. His Government
made way for Lord Derby in 1852, and on the
formation of a Whig-Peelite Ministry Mr.
Labouchere was left in the cold. Lord Palmerston
called him from his retirement at the close of the
Crimean War, and made him Secretary for tho
Colonies. The Conspiracy to Murder Bill which
Lord Palmerston brought in sent the Ministry into
Opposition, and when Lord Palmerston again took
office, having no room in his Government for Mr.
Labouchere, he made . Lord Taunton. Lord
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