The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

We are in the very thick of the crisis, and the excitemeut
in political circles is intense. After the Cabinet Council
on Saturday, at which all fifteen Cabinet Ministers were
present, Mr. Gladstone went down to Windsor. and had
an interview with the Queen. It is announced this
morning that her Majesty goes to Osborne to-nor-
It seems strange that the Sovereign should
increase the distance between herself and the
capital at such a time as this, but, though
strange, it is not unprecedented, and it is expressly
stated that the order for the departure of the
Court was not given until after the interview
with Mr. Gladstone. The inference is that there is no
prospect of a Ministerial crisis, even of that temporary
and formal character which would consist of Mr. Gladstone
resigning, Mr. Disraeli being sent for and announcing his
inability to form a Ministry, and Mr. Gladstone being
recalled, a programme which has been -talked of iu some
quarters. Some persons think that the Premier has
obtained the consent of the Queen to make a number of
new peers sufficient to carry the bill at once.
If that be the case, their lordships will doubtless be brought
acquainted with the fact, and it may have a material
influence upon their decision, as a similar fact bad upon
their deliberations thirty-seven years ago. At the same
time I am bound to add that the Conservative peers
wholly disbelieve in any such intention, for, say they, the
Whig peers will not endure being swamped in this way.
Up to yesterday it was confidently stated in Conserva-
tive circles that the Peers would not give way. Not only
were the old Tory party, who still look up to Lord Derby,
for resistance, but so too were the neo-Conservative party,
of whom the Marquis of Salisburyis the leader. Both he and
Earl Stanhope repudiated the idea of submission. They
could not yield without stultifying the House to wh;ch
they belonged. Better be disestablished at once than
undergo the humiliation of becoming mere registrars of
the acts of the Commons, &c., &c. Among the advocates
of "No Surrender" was the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Yesterday (Sunday) he set off for Hatfield, in order to
have an interview with the Marquis of Salisbury. It
is supposed that the course which the spiritual and the
temporal peer agreed to take will be adopted by the
general meeting of the Conservative peers which is to be
held at the Duke of Marlborough's to-morrow, always
barring the effect which accidents, such as the announce.
ment of a wholesale creation of peers, may have upon their
final resolve. Meanwhile, Mr. Glyn has issued a circular
to the supporters of the Government in the Lower House,
requesting them to be in attendance on Wednesday, in
order to discuss, if necessary, any fresh amendments that
the Lords may make. It is, of course, a very unusua
thing for a Government measure to be discussed at a
Wednesday sitting. But it is so important that the
present crisis should be terminated as quickly as possible
that a departure from ordinary routine may well be
pardoned.
This morning I find the same firm conviction ex-
pressed that the Lords will insist upon their amend-
ments. They complain of the arrogance of the
Government, and say that if only a little more
conciliation were shewn all might be well. But
up to the present moment it is fully believed
that the Lords will re-alter the preamble by a large
majority, and also insist upon the postponement of the
appropriation of the surplus. If this resolution is
maintained to-morrow, I do not see what is
to prevent a conflict between the two Houses.
Is the Upper House prepared to carry it through,
and to throw out the bill if presented a second time? This
is the question which I understand the Bishop of Gloucester
will put to the peers at the Duke of Marlborough's to-
morrow. Manifestly it would be absurd to resist now in
order to submit Three or four months hence.
How desirable it is that the crisis should be over may be
gathered from the style of speeches which are being made
at the:publie meetings now being held all over the kingdom.
The hostility to the Lords was pretty strongly manifested
at Birmingham on Saturday ; but the language used there
was milk and honeycompared with the speeches at Black-
heath. It was not so much the conduct of the Lords as
their existence that was denounced, and a resolution was
passed expressing "the absurdity of an hereditary Legis-
lature." Now only extreme Radicals can desire to see this
sort of talk become general. But, unfortunately, we shall
have to endure it throughout the autumn, unless the Irish
Church question is settled at once.
A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed even in Con-
servative circles at the Earl of Carnarvon's proposal to
meet the motion for the second reading of the University
Tests Bill by moving the previous question. This is held
to be an unsatisfactory and unworthy way of dealing with
a question of great importance. Some of the Conservative
peers are very anxious to offer a compromise by adopting
Mr. Beresford Hope's proposal, and throwing open the
universities to Dissenters, but keeping the colleges
intact. As this plan would enable Churchmen to retain
nearly all the emoluments, it is scarcely likely to satisfy
the Liberals and the Nonconformists.
The Prince of Wales has a busy week before him.
Some chagrin has been caused to a leading Manchester
man of enormous wealth, who hoped to have the honour
of receiving the Prince tt his mansion. He had decorated
and refurnished it at a great expense, and had arranged
with Mr. Agnew, the well-known picture dealer, to fill a
picture gallery with £25,000 worth of the finest pictures
for a week, for which Mr. Agnew was to receive a hand-
some payment. But the Prince has declined. Subse-
quently it was stated that Prince Teck would take his
place; but even this is now said to be extremely un-
certain.
We have a member of the Russian Imperial Family
now in London, the Grand Duchess Maria, sister of the
Emperor, and widow of the late Duke of Leuchtenberg.
Her Imperial Highness, I need scarcelyadd, has been sent
to Claridge's Hotel. She dined on Saturday with the
Prince of Wales, at Marlborough House, and yesterday
she attended the Russian Chapel, in Welbeck-street.
Mr. Grenville Murray was so little pleased with the
proceedings in the Marlborough-street Police-court on
Saturday that his solicitor sent letters to the London
papers requesting them not to publish a report. As only
one side was heard there was some show of
reason in the request, though the injustice of pub-
lication, if injustice there be, has to he endured
by every person similarly situated. It is this
consideration which no doubt influenced the London
journals this morning to disregard Mr. Murray's request,
and to publish the proceedings at more or less length. The
report of the Morning Post extends over several columns.
The charge against Lord Carington is to be heard to-
morrow or Wednesday.

The Morning Star has a notice to-day denying the very
general rumour that that paper was to be amalgamated
with the Daily News. It announces that there has been a
change of proprietary, and that there will be a change ir.
the management. The Star has lately passed into the
hands of Mr. Rawson, who stood unsuccessfully in the
Liberal interest at Salford at the general election. The
appointment of Mr. John Morley as editor I have already
mentioned. I may add that Mr. Ellerthorpe, who was
formerly sub-editor of the Eastern Morning News and then
London editor of the Scotsman, has joined the editorial
staff of the Star.

In all probability the price of the Echo will shortly
be raised to a penny. It is found that at a halfpenny a
profit can be obtained only with a circulation of 250,000.
The circulation of the Echo is not much more than a fourth
of that figure.

The Echo believes that the resignation of Viscount
Courtenay has been placed in the hands of his committee,
and will probably be issued in a few days. This may be
true ; but I know that on Friday night Mr. Spofforth
ordered an official contradiction of his lordship's resigna-
tion to be published.

The Opera season closes at the end of this week. It
has, I believe, been successful pecuniarily ; but there is a
grand disturbance among the singers, and next year is
likely to see us with two Operas once more. The three
prime donne take their benefits on three successive nights
—on Wednesday, Patti.; on Thursday, Titiens ; on Friday,
Nilsson. Mr. Dion Boucicault brings out a new piece on
Saturday week—" The Railroad to Ruin."
I hear that Messrs. Beyfus and Padwick have come to
terms about their unfortunate friend the Duke of New-
castle. His Grace is now at Homburg, where he is being
consoled by Lord Courtenay.

7 RAINING REPORTS.

HEDNEsronn.—The following horses have been doing

good work:--Wakefield, Fragrance, Dunco, Bon Cheva-
lier, Divorce, Hereward, Melody, Royal Lad, filly by
Claret, Wild Duck filly, Orion, colt by Artillery, colt by
St. Albans, Abbotsford, Ocean NVave, Catamaran, Whin-
yard, St. Valentine, President Lincoln, Wynnstey,
Sidedruni, Windrush, Surprise, and The Lawyer filly.
RrenmoNn.—Since my last, Bete Noire Las don© good
work, led by Little Bell and Lady Dewhurst, going re-
markably well. Attache, Do Clare, Divulger, Romulus
colt, Aggravator, Gleaner, Stella, Sweet AuLie, Avolo,
Zeno, Fusee, Loiterer colt, White Slave, The Robby, Cor-
noustie, Mansfield, Waterloo, B:ennus, Fragrance, Valtz,
Meta filly, Saratoga, Evelina, Kettledrum colt, and Beauty
have also dono a fair amount of work.

STANTON. —On Tuesday Jeannie Deans, Ben Block,
Mont Blanc, Lady Evelyn filly (2 yrs), Colonna, and Free
Trade galloped ono mile. Soo Saw and Royal Head went
a two milo gallop. Wednesday—Pahnitine, Queen Boe
colt, and Carnival filly galloped one mile. Thursday—
loyal Head bad a gallop of two miles and a half at a good
pace. Jeannie Deans, ()Aeon Beo colt, Mont Blanc, Whist
filly, and Lady Evelyn had -a steady gallop of one mile.
See Saw and several otlimrs cantered twice about three-
quarters of a mile.