The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

SPIRI7 OF THE PUBLIC:JOURNALS.

IMPERIAL 2AILIA idENT'

The Times remarks that the highest order ot. English HOUSE OF LORDS.--This EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolBaek
nobility fills no unworthy position in the division-25" of
Friday night. Out of twenty dukes in the peerage of ta'-'e at five o'clock.
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than sixteen took part in the great struggle. Among
those absent were the Dukes of Hamilton and Newcastle,
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life
both young men, both inheritors of illustrious names, the
and both the victims of the same ruinous propensity greater longevity ,of the clergy. It was also his in-
which has wrecked so many noble families within tention, the event of the secularization of the surplus
living memory. At the very time when the whole (''‘s
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country was awaiting the verdict of the Upper House I clauses be substituted providing that such surplus should
on an issue, as some thought of constitutional life be treated as a fund for 44 ranting small loans at a mode-
or death, and the most frivolous peers felt an un- rlartl).,nindterest, on adequate security, to the peasantry of
wonted thrill of patriotic responsibility, " the last of the
Duke of Newcastle's horses, comprising broad mares, stal-
lions, horses in training, and yearlings, were sold at
Chunber, in the presence of a large assemblage," not, as
we need hardly add, for his own benefit, but for that of
Mr. Padwisk and his other creditors. Never, probably,
since the treasures of Stowe and the historic accumula-
tions of centuries were put up to auction, has the interior
of a ducal residence been turned so ruthlessly inside out
fur the satisfaction of vulgar curiosity. Not a keepsake
valuable only to its owner, not a crucifix or sacred
engraving, not a family picture or precious memento
of travel, except those relics which the provi-
dent care of the Duke's father or no
may have designaed as heirlooms, would appear
to have been excepted from the inventory. Not a
bedroom is closed against the inroads of that squalid
crowd of brokers and bargain-seekers which seems to be
called into existence by auctions, just as birds of prey
flock to a carcass from invisible regions of the atmosphere.
Everything is pulled about and discussed with the coarse
familiarity which loves to have aristocratic grandeur at
its mercy, and the purse-proud -cynicism which is willing
to pay a fancy price for a token of aristocratic humiliation.
For such infatuation there may be pity, but there can be
no excuse or reticence. The influence of aristocratic
spendthrifts would indeed be pernicious if a veil were to
be cast over the disgrace which generally overtakes them,
and part of the amends which they owe to society is to
serve as a warning to others.

ENDOWED CIIOOL,-; BILL.

Earl DE GREY ga,,,;tiolico that ho should tako the
second reading of this bill on Monday next.
BEERHOUSES BILL.

On the motion of the 31arquis of SALISBURY, this
bill passed, and was reported with a few verbal amend-
ments.

THE POOR. IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

The Marquis of TOWNSH END moved an humble ad-
dress to ht-r Majt,sty, pr:tying for the issue of a Royal
commission to inquire into tim operation and administra-
tion of tho laws fur the relief of the poor in Eng:and end
Wales.

Earl GRANVILLE siid there had been frequent in-
quiries into the op.A-at:on (1 the poor laws, and under all
the circumstances it would be unnecessary to issue such a
c,aumission.

_ .
THE APPLAUSE IN THE STRANGERS GALLERY.
Lord 1:0M1I.L1.' called attention to the demonstration
of applause IN hid' took place in dm Strangers Gallery
during the late debate on the Irish Church Bill.
He said it was a sub ect that called fur immediate atten-
tion, and if disregarded might lead the most unpleasant
consequences. He thought it highly important that some
steps should be taken to stop the expression of opinion,
as it was most important nothing should be done to
overawe the debates in that house. Ho thought it
would be very easy to stop the demonstrations of ap-
plause by the instant removal of the persons making it,
but without proceeding to that step at first he would sug-
gest that an intimation be affixed in the gallery, stating
that such demonstrations of opinion were not allowed.
Earl GRANVILLE said it was improper that such de-
monstrations should take place, and he thought it would be
desirable that the doorkeepers and others should do all
in their power to check them in every way that was pos-
sible.

The Star remarks that the inclement weather has raised
fears for the wheat crop ; which means, in other words,
that farmers and holders have taken the opportunity to
ask higher prices for grain. Fortunately, the supply of
food is not now subject to any laws but those of nature
and trade ; the people are no longer taxed to keep the food
grown in other lands from their lips, in order that famine
prices may be maintained at home. When the market
in Mark-lane went up on Monday about three shillings per
quarter, the telegraph was at once put in operation to all
the great corn-growing districts of Europe, and supplies
were ordered which may help to keep down the price even
while the merchant is properly and intelligently grasping
the profit which the rise liasalready given him. It may be,
as the bad weather is said to be general over Europe,

Lord CAIRNS agreed that that the practice was ex-
tremely improper, but probably it arose from the exube-
rant John Bnllism of those present. (Laughter.)
The. Marquis of SALISBURY. said he desired to say a
word for those at the other side of the bar. He was afraid
there was more conversation carried on in the house
amogst the Peers present than amongst the strangers.
(Laughter.)
It havitig been suggested that some additional power
should be given to the Lord Chancellor, the subject
dropped.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIS DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock.
THE AANKRUPTCY BILL.

The house again went into committee on this bill, and
proceeded to consider the amendments proposed to the
clauses. The discussion was dull and uninteresting dur-
ing the early part of the day. .
The principal point taken into discussion was payment
of the costs of the sheriff, after a levying made by him, and
he had been displaced by the Bankruptcy Court. It was
proposed that he should be pail by the official assignee
out of the costs of the estate, but the proposal was nega-
tived.

that the price may go up abroad as well as here. The
grower in Bessarabia or East Prussia is as much
interested in the Mark-lane market as the farmers of
Norfolk or Essex. The Atlantic cable and the tele-
graph would takes the news West to the prairies, and
send out the farmer of Illinois to calculate the probable
result of his crop with greater glee. We have even found
a new source of supply of late, where we thought the
earth produced nothing but nuggets. California yields us
not only the gold which serves to represent our wealth,
but the corn without which man might perish while wal-
lowing miser-like in heaps of treasure. But if we have to
encounter an indifferent harvest, the Budget of the
Government has, at all events, swept away literally the
last shilling which stood between us and a perfectly free
importation of grain. All has been done to ensure a steady
and plentiful supply of food which the wisdom of man can
do, and if, after all, corn becomes dear, it is the result of
natural causes, and not of an artificial scarcity produced
by ignorance.

The committee continued its deliberatien up to the
hour at which the sitting was suspended.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JUNE 22.

2d R,egiincut ef Life Guards—George Percy to be Cornet.
sth Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward Conant to be Lieu-
tenant.

tlx Dragoon Guards—Cornet Richard Rees to be Lieuten-
ant, Charles Johnson to be Cornet.
17th Lancers—Major John Malony to be Major, Captain
Walter Nolan to be Major, Lip utenant "Wm. Wahnesley
to be Capain, Cornet James Alexander to be Lieutenant.
Royal Regiment of Artillery - Staff Surgeon Miles to be
Surgeon.
4;h Foot—Ensign William Little to be Ensign.

The herald says that unauthentic being the compouni.,
householder was again before the House of Commons on
Monday night. Ministers have a plan for restoring hint
to his legitimate place in the Constitution. He would
never have been put out of it except for the amendments
of the Liberal party. But Mr. Gladstone now professes
that he always felt an affection for this class, and looked
upon them as a corner-stone and sustaining pillar of the
realm. When, however, on Monday evening, Mr. Vernon
Harcourt moved that owners should pay rates where
occupiers were not certain for three months Mr. Goschen
and the Premier agreed in an angry protest. They
declared that the object was to destroy electoral inde-
pendence. The President of the Poor-law Board
will have the compound householder back again, pure and
simple, even though he should prove to be little better
or more substantial than a ghost. Such courage must be
praised. Still, surve3 ing the list of amendments, nomi-
nally aimed against the prii ciples of an Assessed Rates
Bill, but practically intended to held the Reform Act of
of 18(7 intact, we deeply doubt the policy of Ministers in
endeavouring to force upon Parliament at an ill-chosen
time a measure of reaction. They cannot pass their bill
in the course of the present session. The experience of
Mist Monday Ty.ust have convinced them upon that point.
The Standard refers to the recent prosecutions against
letting louses, and asks whether it is intended to forbid
tug altogether. Is it the purp,;se of the Executive to
suppress this species of gambling, as it supposes itself,
futilely enough, to have suppressed lotteries? If so, then
the shutters ought to be put up at Tattersall's. if not, these
prosecutions seem to carry with them an appearance of
hypocrisy. Of one thing we may be sure—so long as
there are races so long will there be bets. Nearly
all the word encourages them. From the thou-
sand to one which ruins a duke to the pair of
gloves which pleases a lady, every sporting season
brings its million of wagers, and no legislation can inter-
fere with a habit so national. What is the meaning of
this sudden energy? We are all aware of the evils which
exist ; of the dupes and worse who are brought to misery
or to crime by their foolish hazards ; of the destruction
wrought at the bidding of those veiled prophets who pre-
side over the Turf, andevho now strike down a coronet and
then lay low a banker's clerk ; of the fearful mischief dons
to families by misguided persons leaving their steady and
sure pursuits in the blind idea of rme:,,ng a fortune by a
venture; but how much of this can be prevented by
police intervention? For that is the actual question.
We are not blaming the authorities fur acting under
the law; indeed, it would be lamentable if whole
nests of betting-offices were to spring up ire special
neighbourhoods. All we would emphasise is, that these
prosecutions will not deter the public from betting, or
from employing agents to invest their ventures for them.
Improve the morality, decrease the uncertainties, regu-
late the legislation, and satisfy the justice, so to speak, of
the Turf, and there will be less of reckless, and, therefore,
less of dishonourable gambling.
What shall be done to honour the name and the memory
of Michael Faraday? asks the Telegraph. The meeting
just held in the theatre of the Royal institution was, in
itself, indeed a beautiful and noble tribute to the great
discoverer. There, in the building where he lived— around
the very table of green baize from which, time after time,
he announced new and glorious triumphs of research
were gathered almost all his old associates of science, with
the Heir-Apparent of England at their head, to consider
this question. The Prince occupied the actual spot in
which the good grey head, the bright, inspired
eyes, and the tenderly-wise smile of Faraday
used to be seen ; while all around the royal chair-
man were men whose names are high upon the roll of
scientific renown, every one of them the personal friend of
the illustrious dead, and his fellow-worker on this or that
pathway of philosophy. France, too, did homage to his
genius by sending as her representative the perpetual
secretary of her " Institut," M. Dumas, who pronounced
an eulogy upon Faraday's character and labours, in which
earnest admiration for the devoted student of nature was
linked with warm and just praises of the good and upright
man. Such a gathering—the heartfelt obsequies paid by
living intellect to the Newton of electrical and magnetic
science, as modest as be was renowned, a man as gentle
as he was great and wise—has in it more real celebra-
tion than marble or bronze could ever express. The
proper monument to the memory of Faraday would
be a Faraday institution, where young intel-
lects that spewed high capacity for scientific re-
search might receive a thorough training, and that
early help upon the pathways of truth which the assis-
tant of Davy so nearly missed. Perhaps there is private
gratitude and intelligence enough among us to make the
memorial list surpass the intentions of its projectors suf-
ficiently to render practicable the idea of founding such
an institution. If not, there could be no educational grant
more sure to hear a rich harvest; while nothing would be
more worthy of the land honoured with Faraday's birth
and career, than that the contributions of private purses
towards a memorial so congenial to the man whom we
would commemorate should be swelled by a grant from
the national coffers. Thus would the pious duty of affec-
tionate friends be transformed into the solemn thanks
and tribute of a country elevated and enriched by him
whom the wisest and noblest in the land delight to
honour. •

7th Foot —Cap(Lin Alfred Daubeny to be 31 ajr, Lieutenant
Henry Paddon to be Captain, Ensign the lion. Matthew
Aylmer to he Lieutenant, John Thomas Gent.,
to be Ensign.
16th Foot—Ensign Henley Griffith to be Lieutenant, Jas.
Lesley, Gent., to be Ensign.
27th Foot—Major Richard Freer to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
Captain John O'Donnell to be Major. Lieutenant James
Cotton to be Captain, Ensign John Mecham to be Lieu-

tenant.
38th Foot— Captai❑ Henry Evans to be Major; Lieut.
Henry Beal to be Captain ; Ensign John Thomas to be
Lieutenant; Edmund Francis Cuppaze to be Ensign.

49th Foot— GPorge Thomas Fipon to b; Ensign.
45th Foot—Lieut. Albert Pollaid to be Lieutenant.

56th Foot —Henry Rickets to be Ensign.
63d Foot Nuthall to be Instructor of Musketry.
66th Foot-- Lieut. Charles Underwood to be Lieutenunt.
67th Foot—Lieut. Dudley to be Lieutenant.
71st Foot—Ensign Henry Lacon to be Lieutenant.
81st Foot—John Flood to be Ensign.

89th Foot—Lieut. Richard Hublan;ty to be Captain, Lieut.
Charles Ilitssall to be Captain, Ensign Irwin Charles
llaling to be 1 ieuti•nant, Ensign joint Cutlibi.irt, to be
Lit utey ant, Ensign Chitties Barker to lie Lieutenant,
John Alexattliir Vi, an to be Ensign, Lilgar Brown to
be Ensign, and llob:•rt. Ellis to lie Ensign.
BBLITT.— The utolernientioncd officers having completed
the qualif.Ning -cervice with the rank of Lii.ut.-Colonel
to he Colonels: —o:tptain and Lent.-Col. thu Honour_
bb'e Richard Mona-, Cold,tream Guards;
James Clerk Rattray, :;Oth Foot; Littut—Col.
situ: rt Furneaux, 1.03 d Foot.

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The Daily News thinks that it may be a question worth
considering. by those who have the charge of such matters,
whether it is justifiable on grounds of humanity, or even
advisable as a matter of profit, to deprive sheep of their
natural covering in such weather as that which for some
weeks past has chilled and saddened our early summer?
The calendar may say that it is turned the middle of
June ; but our feelings tell 113 it is winter. Under
ordinary circumstances, the great agricultural festival
of shearing— about which poets and pastoral writers
have painted so many pleasant imaginary pictures—takes
place very properly in the present month ; but when the
temperatare is not much above freezing 'point (indeed,
there has been actual snow in the North, and that to no
slight amount), it is cruelty to expose sheep and lambs de-
fenceless to the piercing wind. " Sheep clipped on Tues-
day," says a paragraph of news from Yorkshire, "were
turned out into the rain and cold, to be found dead under
the lte2.ges next morning ; and even on Thursday clipped
sheep were to be seen huddled in the ditches for is little
shelter." Later intelligence from the same county
says :—" Numerous other reports of starved sheep come
to hand ; one farmer has lost thirty-seven sheep by starva
tion. In the_ north the fells are stated to be seven inches
deep in snow." One would think that in such weather a
reasonable and humane farmer would no more think of
shearing his sheep and turning them out into the cold,
than he would of stripping his children and compelling
them to sleep naked in the fields. To pursue such a
course is to trust rather too literally to the often quoted
phrase, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
It is following too closely on the charity of the Bishop in
Pope, who, in considering the poor, " Mug* 4414 icyCs
Providence e g4*et,
.