The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WE DNEgDA"it EVENiNG, MARCH 17, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

TUE 'UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL•

The House of Commons had a good laugh on Mon-
day night at an exceedingly amusing incident. Mr.
Bercsford-Hope moved, and Mr. Bentinck seconded,
the adjournment of the debate on the University
Tests Abolition Bill, and when beaten on a division,
they assumed that they had the right to speak, but
were put to silence by the Speaker, who informed
them that they had " exhausted their powers in that
debate." The hon. gentlemen did not see it. They felt
that they were by no means exhausted, but on the
contrary, were like new bottles ready to burst. Mr.
Newdegate, having already spoken, met with no
better success. Amid loud laughter one after another
was snubbed by the Speaker, and the House did not
seem at all to regret the loss of Mr. Newdegate's
funereal tones, or Mr. Hope's Batavian grace. The
great event of the evening, however, was . Sir
Roundell Palmer's speech. Formerly ho op-
posed legislation in the direction of the Solicitor-
General's bill. It was not known for certain if he
would still do so, and great curiosity was felt on
both sides of the House as to what course he would
take with respect to that measure. The Opposition
cheered him loudly as he rose, hoping that he would
be on their side. They must have felt not a little
mortified as he went on and spewed that some such
measure as the present was the necessary result of
the legislation which he formerly opposed, but which
Lord Stanley and Lord Derby approved. The end
of it was that the bill passed a second reading with-
out a division, and thus for the first time the
principle that the universities belong to the nation
and not to the Church was affirmed nem . con. There
will be a fight over details in committee, especially
over Sir R. Palmer's proposal that lay professors
shall undertake to teach nothing contrary to the
Church of England, which proposal Sir John Cole-
ridge declares nothing shall induce him to accept.
For once the Liberals stuck together on Monday.
night—or, to speak more technically, yesterday morn-
ing—in their opposition to the adjournment of
the debate on Sir John Coleridge's bill. With the
tellers and Speaker, there were 331 members in the
House when the division was taken. In the majority
(251) there were 242 Liberals and 9 Conservatives, but
no Liberals votedwith the minority. The Conservatives
who went into the lobby against their party were
Viscount Barrington, Lord Elcho, Mr. Orr-Ewing,
Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. W. Johnston (Belfast),
Lord George Lennox, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Clare Sewell
Read, and Mr. Waterhouse. The most prominent
Conservatives who wished the debate to be adjourned
were Mr. Cave, Mr. Ward Hunt, Mr. Mowbray,
and Mr. Walpole. Mr. Gathorne Hardy left the
House when a division was called for. Nearly all
the members of the Government supported Sir John
Coleridge, and Mr. Miall voted for the first time ha
favour of a question specially interesting to the
Nonconformist body. The tellers for the Ayes were
Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Bentinck, and for the
Noes Sir John Coleridge and Mr. Bouverie.

said, But lam a Protestant,' upon winen ne became
deadly. white, and. said, Oh ! what a revelation I
have made.' He tried to make her promise she
would not reveal what ho had communicated to her
under the impression that she was a Roman Catholic."
Such is the story; its accuracy may he estimated by
the fact that Dr. Pusey was educated at Oxford,
and has passed his whole life there since he was
a lad. The tale is very like one that
Mr. Newland used to tell of the same divine.
One day a clergyman and an old lady were
travelling together in the same train, and the lady,
after a little while, began to speak of Dr. Pusey and
his doings, to the great edification of her companion.
Among other high crimes, she attributed to him the sin
of " sacrificing a lamb every Friday." The clergyman
suggested that she might have been mistaken, but
she indignantly asserted that her authority was un-
questionable. Whereupon the clergyman replied,
" But, my dear Madam, I am Dr. Pusey, and I never
killed a lamb in my life, and should not know how
to do it."

AMERICAN AkEIIRS.

(Prom the Anglo-American Times.)

NEW Yortx, Feb. 27.
The telegram announcing the arrival of the City
of Paris at Queenstown, forty-five minutes ahead
of the Russia, has caused the transfer of some
money in this city ; for although the papers gene-
rally state that there was no such thing as a race
contemplated by either vessel, it being against the
stringent orders of both the Inman and Cunard
Companies, the people persist in believing that they
cannot help racing under such circumstances. One
New York paper boldly asserted that ocean racing
was a thing to be encouraged, but this is the re-
verse of the general opinion. The Cushing Ship
Canal across the Ilthmus of Darien is likely to be
the axle of a very fine " ring." A lobby has left for
Washington, and Peter Cooper expects the job,
though acre is a strong opposition. Peter Cooper's
Company, however, is powerfully backed, though
there is a rumour that the Pacific Company
favours the others. The Fenians are still hard at
work, they have had a great meeting at Baltimore,
which John O'Neill addressed. A naval expedition is
being organized by them, and the following advertise-
ment appeared in the New York Sun :—" To EAR-
NEST IRISH NATIONALISTS. —All Irishmen of action,
desirous of taking part in the Irish Naval Expedi-
tionary Corps, now organizing, are requested to
communicate at once with Wm. J. O'Connell,
Secretary, 323, West 21st St., City. Men of nau•
tical experience are particularly called on." They
propose to make a descent on the coast of Aus-
tralia, and it is said that the list is nearly complete.
There was a great meeting at the Cooper Institute
some days ago, but perhaps the news of the re-
lease of Warren and Costello, who are to be wel-
comed on arrival with a grand reception, may have
'a deterring influence. The officers of the Army of
the Potomac held a meeting in Fourteenth-street,
General Butterfield presiding. Among the distin-
guished officers on the platform were Major-Gene-
rals G. B. M'Clellan, French, Heintzelneann, Plea-
santon, Wright, Davies, Casey, Hooker, Hancock,
Slocum, Franklin, Humphrey, Ingalls, Torbert,
Webb, and Gibbon. Gen. M'Clellan acted as tem-
porary chairman. A grand reunion is to take place
during the summer, and five generals were selected
to make the arrangements. Washington's Birth-
day was dull, foggy, and wet ; in fact, the day was,
on the whole, a failure. The fireworks, notwith-
standing the $20,000 voted for them, did not come
off, nor was there a military procession. The na-
tional colours, however, were hoisted on the public
buildings and the shipping, while many of the mer-
chants gave their employes a holiday. The anniver-
sary furnished the liveliest time to the burglars and
thieves, who, knowing it was a legal holiday, strove
to drive as active a business as they could in the
deserted offices and stores. Bonds amounting to
$40,000 belonging to Messrs. Jay Cooke and Co:,
were stolen from the Star Insurance Company, 96,
Broadway, last August. Some of theta are alleged
to have been found on Edwin R. Lee, who was
arrested, and, after an examination, committed for
trial. The United States Circuit Court has sen-
tenced the counterfeitors John L. Keeze, to four
years Penitentiary, CharleS Harper, Albany Peni-
tentiary, 6 years; Literio Moletta, ditto, 4 years ;
Stephen Morabeto, ditto, 3 yrs ; James Carr, 3
years, King's Coanty Penitentiary ; Joseph Bar-
nabo, 3 months, ditto; George Myers, fined $250
and committed till paid ; and James M'Laughlin,
alias John H. Fuller, and Harrison Shaw, alias
John Latnartine, for making false charges against
Internal Revenue Collector Bailey, were sentenced
to five years each, in the Albany Penitentiary.
President Johnson has pardoned John 11. E-tgap,
sentenced for obtaining bounty money and back
pay, on bogus papers. It might be supposed that
Andy was recruiting an array of rascals for after
operations, so extraordinary are some of his pardons.
The Erie Railway people continue to circulate all
kinds of favourable reports regarding the annexa-
tion of Western lines to their road. Their new
board of brokers, having elected the following ofii-
cers, have commenced operations :-- President, Jas.
Baker ; Ist Vice-President, C. C. Parks ; 2d Vice-
President, E. R. Tremain ; Treasurer, Charles
Unger; Secretary, C. M. Delmar ; Assistant Secre-
tary, John R. Lansing ; Chairman of Arbitration
Committee, George I'. Clark. We cannot yet make
out for certain whether the rents in this city will
I rise on May-day or fall ; but the weight of testi-
Imony goes to prove that they will remain about the
same. The people complain that in the upper part
there are but two sorts of, houses—a brown stone
front, at a rent of from 5.',30n0 £5OO a year (I give
your money as your readers will understand it
best), or apartments in tenement houses, and those
who know the expense of the one and the misery
of the other are not surprised that so many families
live iu hotels. On your side American ladies are
supposed to prefer hotel life, because it saves them
trouble, and that they are gregarious, with no taste
for homes. This is one of your English mistakes,
for, as a rule, we are as homely a people as any in the
world ; but circumstances often compel a surrender
of inclination to necessity. It requires considerable
means to support a house in this city, for servants
are as costly as the dwellings, and their insolence is
often unbounded. An Irish girl, fresh from the
bogs, is a happy illustration of the proverb of put-
ting a beggai on horseback, and a delicate, refined
American lady has often to do work which would
make the hair, chignon and all, stand on end of
your more portly dames. What surprises me is
that any of them, except with very large fortunes,
could be prevailed on to undertake the management
of a household, when fine hotels are open to them
at less cost and trouble, and that many American
families live in these houses is the best proof of the
value they attach to homes, A case came up in the
United States Circuit Court last Tuesday against
Chas.A.Dana, accusing him when Assistant Secretary
of War, of casting the plaintiff Gazaway Lamar into
a loathsome gaol filled with vermin, taking him from
his home in Savannah to Washington for this pur-
pose. Dana pleads in defence the Act of Indemnity.
Wars for monopoly have been raging ; the great
railway war between the Philadelphia Railroad, the
Erie and New York Central is for Western traffic
and the - overland route to San Francisco. That
has been the big war which has long been waged, but
is now culminating on the completion of the Grand
Trunk Line to the Pacific. Governor Haight, of
California, has been asked to Chicago to celebrate
the opening of the Pacific road on the 4th July with
the Governors of the other States. Besides this fight,
one has raged between the Express Companies.
Cases are constantly being brought forward in our
courts; the other day one was up before Judge
Cardozo to prevent a consolidation scheme, an in-
junction being asked for, and the appointment of
receiver. In one of the suits Judge Ingraham ruled
on Wednesday that the Executive Committee were
not authorized to change the business of the cor-
poration, or to terminate the existence of the
Association, and that the injunction, so far as
it restrains the directors and executive Com-
mittee from enforcing a compliance with the
terms of consolidation on the part of those
unwilling to be members of the new company,
should be continued up till the final decision of
the case. Mr. Fisk, jun., is making a raid against the
conductors of the Erie, many suspected of stealing
having been discharged, while others who objected
to his manner of finding them out, and denounced
been him, have asked toresign. The Society of Free-
masons has brought on its head the wrath of this
dragon, and those professing the craft are to be
discharged as not good enough for such A holy em-
ploy as his. The Oddfellows, by the way, are to
celebrate, at the Steinway-hall, the fiftieth anniver-
sary of their establishment in America. The Express
Companies are also to suffer from theformi, !able Fisk,
as the Erie is to do its own express work hereafter.
A great Republican meeting is to take place in
Union-square next week, to impress on the Senate
the advisability of repealing the Tenure-of-Office
Bill, On Thursday there was a consultation ;
Horace Greeley was not there, nor was Hugh !Last-
ings, Raymond, nor Bryant, though the last three
are known to sytnpathise with the object. There
has been a discussion in our Legislature at Albany
about pressing the repeal ; also relative to llorace
Greeley's appointment as Minister to England.
Mr. Mattoon brought forward a resolution, which