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London, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNA.LS, * MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ; proposed V
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The Saturday Review looks with suspicion on the THE DECISION OF THE IRISH BISHOPS. it would ce
The result of the Irish Conference—that a ANOTHER
modern love of the picturesque, andobserves thatit isa factßishops
general synod full and equally representing the
that, taking all the poets and writers who ever lived
-y equally
clergy and laity be called—has, on the whole, been
almost down to our own times, you can't get as much out greeted with a feeling of satisfaction and relief. Mr• WI
of them in the way of rapture about the charms of mono- The Times Dublin correspondent says that ships to th(
to the fus
tarn and sky and torrent and flickering shade and serene the decision will have the effect of recon-
depths and cloud mysteries, and all the philosophy and tiling some wide differences of opinion, and
cant of the picturesque, as you can from any fifth rate allaying feelings of apprehension and distrust which are.otf_the_ ;
..pi ahof
.
novel or trumpery magazine verses of the present day. the laity were beginning to entertain. The Irish ?Ir. Whits.
.., instruction
The question then suggests itself, whether most of our Church is already entering smooth water.
conventional enthusiasm about scenery—majestic scenery, The question of her future government presented be open to
• awful scenery, lovely scenery -the poetry of mountain numerous difficulties and dangers vrhich it is now hoped
will be surmounted. Divers schemes are advocated , and glacier, gray heath and shaggy wood, torrents and
by contending parties. Some are in favour of the
fertile vale, is not very like affectation. We shrink in • • • • afinrsdt ianctPloil
revival of Convocation, and this party in turn is benefit of
awe at the regal splendours of the Matterhorn ;we bathe divided, a few supporting a sacerdots.l oligarchy, 3lr. An/
our souls in the purple lights of the Bay of Naples ;we giving no power whatever to the laity, and treating
the Alkali are in ecstacies at the glories of the fiords and fosses of them as if their duty was only obedience. But the
Norway, because it is the right thing to be ecstatic at the i greater part of the Convocation advocates are in Which cone
right place ; because we arc told to do so. And have we favour of the representation of the laity. Another . testingofl • eex a
not read—some of us—our Byron and our Wordsworth, party think the restoration of the ancient synods Fmnroved.
and all of us our Mr. John Ruskin and our Murray's Hand- distinct from Convocation—the Anglican and more
lamlount of
book? And in our heart of hearts a good many of us modern form of assembly—would supply the best form
it is also
of government. Convocation, in the opinion of
know that we are shams and hypocrites, our passionate inevitable'
this forty, is imperfect as a system of government
love mere make-believe and hollow pretence ; the very the adva,:
without the connection of the
effort to be ecstatic about peaks and roseate hues and the State. CO great
The b'shops, says the correspondent of the Times, .
almighty rocks we feel to be too often a grievance mostsuiting. ft
have done much to reduce this controversy to
oppressive to the soul. Not that retribution is not at order. They have set an example of self-abnega-
but these
hand. The mere picturesque tourists and the students of tion and cordial sympathy with the laity if chemical
the beautiful are now set down by the real traveller as which inferior dignitaries who might be disposed to was Propel
poor creatures. Science scoffs at the landscape-painter, arrogate exclusive rights will probably feel it their the acid es
can he re(
We must nowadays do Alp andApennine with a purpose; duty to imitate. The declaration that the laity shall
a serious, brave, and improving object; we must under- be " fully and equally represented " will inspire through a
stand the laws of glacier-growth ;we must be able to say confidence and win the hearty co-operation of the .andt
interfere
ipn, er ere. •
• why every rock has its own angle, every peak its own people. Any attempt to exclude the laity from
.Respecting
the governing body, or only to admit them ender height ; we must be up with all the ages which have statespTe that
made every crag to be just what it is, and no other ; we the skirts of the clergy,. wou.ld. lead to an.
.open
furnaces, si
rupture. There will be no difficulty in devising a
must be able to say when the limestone formation began,
satisfactory scheme of representation. The bishops' by cooling
and why, being limestone, the particular mountains must •
should take counsel with both parties in each diocese. admit the
have this contour ;if we talk about trees and flowers, we i The Dublin Mail, however, by no means approves for coml
mint only do it with a full knowlege of zones of vegeta- sof the bishops' determination. The prelates, in their properly
tion and of the absolute conditions under which floras— second resolution, recommend the convening of the but not so
glacial, Alpine, sub-Alpine, and all the rest of it—must provincial synods in order to settle the difficulty of duction of
follow defined and invariable laws. When it comes to representation. The Mall thinks the bishops ought rious condi
this, the holiday traveller, the mere safe talker of the old boldly to have put forth a system of representing manufactu:
parrot talk, the second-hand prattler of the stale conven. the laity and clergy, and have convened the General rain instal)
tional adjectives—glorious, sublime, splendid, beautiful, Synod at once. The propos it to appeal for assist- is
.eashetrhto a,
ante to England seems to be generally condemned,
magnificient—must shut up his wallet of commonplace.
now k av
The picturesque, when it becomes scientific, becomes THE LODGER FRANCHISE. will remove
serious, and what is serious is apt to be tiresome. We I The inhabitants of Chelsea met on Thursday the public
should not much wonder if the fashion of travelling for night, under the leadership of Mr. Moy Thomas, to be carried
the picturesque and for the love of scenery should go out consider the unsatisfactory position of the lodger. Under the:
of fashion. I They complain that the Reform Act gives with one in giving e
The Spectator says that the session has not been hand,and takes away with the other. In consequence pressing ar
marked by any great change in the personnel of politics, of the ratepaying clause s and otherpa restrictions the
No considerable politician has died ;no new man of the value of the measure has been muchimired. Of 1, G 0 The sold
I lodgers in Chelsea only 497 were in a position to ask
first class has made his appearance; and no man has been for the privilege of being placed on the register, and cussed, ant
generally recognised as likely in course of time to attain not near that number would be able to maintain that the nu
Cabinet rank. Owing partly to the pressure of a single their title. Sir C. W. Dille, M.P.,.who was present, " valise " h
subject, upon which, as it happened, scarcely anyone i said there was every prospect that ample re- great man:
except the Premier was absolutely master of details, forms would be made in the parliamentary ordered th(
partly to the disinclination to debate which prevailed franchise next session. He in the meantime Ito ten i reg
throughout the session, and partly to the absence of keen urged the Chelsea electors to make the valise
Idles 1
interest in struggles which, with such a majority, could most of their opportunities, and push on registration the
hasso
them n
in their borough mall the utmost diligence. Theit
only terminate in one way, the Reformed Parliament has satisfactior
been undoubtedly sterile of new men. Of them all, Mr. worthy electors. appearft to hahe found the lodgerTi an
"the moil:
inadequatelanciantlered
into i pi cv
various
a illise t
11, evening.i s
Jessel has perhaps succeeded most fully in gaining the discussion.
Chairman
sun i ey_
soon disap
snie
ear of the House, as a Radical who will go far, but who •hoped, the
Besting that the Ministry be ' reconstructed, and that
has always solid arguments to produce for his apparently Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bruce be removed for two poli-
his Olden
extreme conclusions ; but Mr. Jessel has hitherto confined ticians more suited to the circumstances of tho
himself to questions in which he is professionally interested, ' day. The lab
and has yet to shew his strength or weakness both as THE FENIAN PRISONERS. choly suici
statesman and politician. There has not been much more
Mr. had been
change in the higher regions than in the lower. Mr. Johnston, M.P.. of liallskilbee boat, news
has set an '
i
Gladstone has already reached a height of popular favour "Amnesty
m : mental de'
xcellent example. lie was asked 'by the Irish
Committee " to preside at a
meeting to i
nary abilit:
beyond which no advance is possible, •a height at which .be held in Belfast for the purpose of pro-
even a blunder would be forgiven, and the decided meting the release of the Fenian convicts. • able work a
increase of his influence within the House itself, an in- Mr. Johnston curtly replied that he should i
mate Survey.
crease clue to the mastery of his great subject such as no I maintain a strict neutrality in this matter I'nen
subject toi I
other member even dreamed of acquiring, could scarcely of political prisoners, and that he should l
strengthen his already irresistible power. The only change ' interfere neither. at Belfast nor elsewhere.
.Applica- anover e
tions for Fenian sympathy do not prosper just now. little doubt
in his position is an increased belief that be cancause. tie
Colonel Warren recently asked the American
do very great very things '' in a effective wee' a ' Attorney- General to interfere on behalf of the workers, Iv
confidence which has this drawback, that he is expected to
prisoners in England, and was plainly told that the knowledge.
do things almost impossible, an expectation which in Fenians were a set of thieves.
Ireland may have fruits. Mr. Disraeli, on the other band, i
TIIE DECLINE OF A DENOMPNATION. The rem
has decidedly declined during the session, but for the 1 . .
Religious statistics are frequently unsatisfactory, amongst th
coup d'etat would have fallen almost out of sight. He has
subject of a
for they are often made to look somewhat too
made a speech or two on the wrong side of a question of • Council fro
favourable. But one denomination, the United Metho- Council fro
both sides of which he was visibly ignorant ; but the effort dist Free Churches, an offshoot from the Wesleyans, 1 The disease
wearied him, arid on smaller topics he has been unusually has the honest frankness to confess its decline. ; ing much is
silent. Mr. Bright has, we think, slightly, though very They are just now holding their annual assembly in .on its first:
slightly, lost ground in the country, while gaining it among Z.imiderland, and they find theanself. es a smallee , that all ani:
some of his opponents. The Peers have not turned out a " connexion " than when last they met. It would on landing ;
new man any more than the Commons, for Dr. Magee is appeer that their revivals are generally followed by re- ' Contagions
protected by his mitre from so sublunary a description, actions, and the present is. a period after a " stirring of enable the l
the Church." It may perhaps be asucct wile-trier e,eene.,-
and the position of knownmen has been but little changed.
meet, which in the end. causes a falling away, is _ recurren P.P_
The country is not stirred yet by what seems to us Lord
altogether healthy or desirable.
Granville's mismanagement of New Zealand affairs, and Though
in his other capacity he is what he was, not only the best THE METIITC SYSTEM. Europe ale:
leader of the Lords we could find, but the only possible the second report of the commissioners appointed there is st
leader. His opponent, Lord Cairns, after nearly surrender- I to inquire into the condition of the Exchequer distant part
ing his leadership to Lord Salisbury, recovered himself bya standard was issued yesterday morning. They have New York •
sortof coup d'aat, very clever and perhaps a thoughtunscru- ' come to the conclusion that the time has now arrived much forth
pulous, and lie has gained also by his rival's unexpected :wheal the law should provide, and facilities be country is
manifestation of his earlier temper. A little more reti- , afforded by the Government, for the intro- continuing
cents, a little less irritability, a trifle more sensitiveness
duction and use of metric weights end nmvsures in Inch I Islam
as to the opinion of average Peers—who did not want to
the . -United Kingdom. 1 hey believe that it is that the
advisable to introduce the French nomenclature, as Company is
run their beads slap against both Government and the
well r.s decimal scale of the metric system, into this Havannah,
country—and Lord Salisbury might have been master of country; for although there may be some objection ' United Ste
the Lords for life. As it is, the session has been to him 'to the inconvenient length and occasional similarity main one is
lost time. The Duke of Argyll has gained decidedly both of this proposal, both to the eye and ear of the Porto lice
by the ability and the earnestness of his speeches on the I French nomenclature, yet they think it probable stretching
Irish Dill, and by his courageous definiteness in the that these names will become familiar by custom, Panama.
administration of his own department—that railway des- and obtain popular abbreviations. The commis- of which 31
patch, for example, really inaugurates a revolution—but , sioners are of opinion that the general introduction
of all men in both Houses no man has risen so decidely as of the metric system should be permissive only, and
that even if the difficulties of establishing an inter-
Lord Hatherley. When the session began, the country,
Time r
national unit of comsge cannot be at present over- the Daly chiefly from an accidental ignorance, regarded him as a
come, yet the decimalisation of our system of coinage ' • J
makeshift. To-day a Liberal piebiscitum would make excursions 0
would be very useful to the public. They add that (it says) is th
him Chancellor. He has shewn himself the equal of any
,it is expedient that no steps should be taken in the than two hum
rival as a lawyer, the superior of most as a debater, while matter until the whole subject of weights and mea- Cook's ticket
there is not a Liberal in the profession, not even Sir j • .
' does not exec
Roundel' Palmer, whose moral weight could have added sures is urought before Parliament in one bill, which
time of the c
such strength to the Gladstone Administration. they think should be brought in by the Executive
, tweed three
Government.
The John Bull think; that Mr. Gladstone has reallyl themselves o•
taken some pains to force the Bishops' Resignation Bill TIIF. ROYAL VISIT TO GERMANY, ! them ever
through the House of Commons, and at first sight our ' one or two m
gratification at his doing so may seem inconsistent. But i The Prince and the Princess of Wales have arrived
to every rule there is an exception, and the disease in this at Wildbad. A correspondent nal:vely informs us ought
case calls so loudly for a remedy that we think there is a that their reception has been " everywhere enthusi- for those jam
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justification, particularly as the House of Commons is not astir," but that " there is no doubt that their Palaces, ma
asked to alter materially the decision of the House of retirement and comfort will in no way be interfered droves, and
Lords, which on a matter of this kind is far more compe- altogether sr,
with." The Princess, despite the fine weather, looked continental
tent to judge. There, at least, few legislators are not
pale and fatigued with her journey, a bulletin which, party ; and i
members of the Establishment, and those few (mainly
Roman Catholics) certainly have never shown a desire to unfortunately, we now often hear. From time ti
hinder. any measure for the Church's benefit, as when Mr.
. have Liberals in the House of Commons ; from TEE GRAND JURY SYSTF.3L with as man]
grand juries
which House, as the late Bishop of Lichfield It was a little while back a custom for
truly remarked, it was hopeless to expect any men- to present ae lselv .useless. advantage th
es as They did not wish t . The
sure which would really benefit the Church. The -
to spen their time at the assizes, and they came to
d' n'
abnniti tl,iiiisaiisngri
miss. _ . • I
attempt, therefore, to prevent more members of the
House of Commons from exposing their ignorance on the conclusion that they were not wanted there. organising,
Church matters than may be expected in August may be But Mr. Baron Cleasby thinks they perform a most troops of
considered a real act of kindness. Mr. Gladstone received important function, and eo he told the grand jury for annual boll
very efficient help from the junior members for both the Leeds Assizes on Thursday. They stayed s•exa-
universities ; and whether Mr. Mowbray with his tious can leave hie
prosecutions, he pointed out. They were able . traveller goir
knowledge of Durham, most efficiently' snuffed railway ticke
out Mr. Bouverie, who had the audacity to to receive evidence in private, and to act on informs- ' pleases. Tle
assert that the Bishop of Exeter's canonry was worth tion not given before the magistrates. Before Magna i explaeation.
£6,000, or Mr. Beresford Hope more effectually con- Charta the grand jury system had been established; only those t
demned Mr. Dickinson out of his own mouth, may fairly and it had been since adopted b
nearly all civilise th
be considered an open question. The fallacy that the nations, for it placed the admn isytration of justice in gentoiinds
satobo, ccar
i(
bishops are rich men still seems to prevail in the House of coupons—th
Commons, and the nonsense talked by many Liberals in the hands of the people. taking his te
the debate only shews how unfit an arena is the House of MURDER AND SEMI-MURDER. francs a day.
Commons for the discussion of religious questions. We ing places i
are glad that Mr. Henley's advice of restricting the opera- The Medical Times and Gazette thinks the tour- • Switzerland,
tion of the bill to two years has been taken, and this very mutation of the sentence on Fanny Oliver wise, cheque-book
circumstance exempts this particular measure from the though illogical. The failure of one test—that of tourist has si•
observations as to
year,te general inexpediency of legis!ation Reinsch—to detect arsenic, left the testimony of the a " Dinner
at this time of when members of Parliament are not 1 Mr. Cook at
' scientific test applied by Mr. Hill unsupported.
fairly open to Earl Granville's taunt of preferring their the other.
own pleasures, because they are wearied with labours of There was, therefore, the medical journal thinks, popular indei
unexampled severity. I such doubt concerning the scientific evidence as to of it. On
rendcr the case one for commutation, but not for is a Swiss a
The Economist, in referring to the report on paella-
" A married woman who dictates love-rnentary and municipal elections, remarks that the choice pardon. the 11th Sep
lies between the Ballot and the existing system, and the letters to a former lover, purchases arsenic, giving Italy will
existing system is declared, after inquiry, to be no longer the lover's as her own name, who nurses her husband routesil by th
endurable. We are inclined to believe that time country through an . illness, - and in whese husband's. body
_Pio'rhapne'ii, Soerr
at large will endorse the verdict of the committee, and death, cannot be surprised if lurin, and !
that the opposition, unless, indeed, it come from the arsenic is found after ^
Lords—who, however, will not like to interfere with a society considers her a dangerous person, and dis- thirty-six gui
mode of election adopted by the other House—will not be poses of her accordingly." The MedicNl Times and railway and
fierce. The discontent with the present system is very Gazelle thinks the moral of this case is that three (including a
opening of
widely diffused, and reaches very hi gh up. People who experimentalists at least ought to test suspected of another
are not much shocked by ordinary bribing dislike the ' rioting and tumult and mob coercion which attend articles in trials for murder. November,
elections, and which in Tory belief are permanently inju- Another trial—that of a husband for killing his and back b
rious to the Conservative cause. The rich and the timid wife at Iledhill—furnishes food for reflection. This Passing to th
and the refined, who aro all Conservatives by instinct, home or abro
independence
fellow,.named Simmons came home one night and
abstain from voting. yet would vote if the vote could be abused his wife, a hard-working,, sober woman, clearly define
given in the quiet which, according to all the evidence
the Ballot does secure. The small proprietors' finishing his entertainment by throwing her down all who mod:
too, are very impatient of the pressure exercised by stairs and fracturing her skull. There ho purchase of
their grandee neighbours, and the latter feel more let her lie, bleeding and inanimate ; and published twi
really remark
almost than any other men the influence of the general when assistance arrived, the woman was of twenty-fou
drift of e V
whether it be owards Radicalism or not, is towards the thattia
c liverdeath had
throughprobably
rule of the multitude, awl in thousands of minds habitually
Conservative there is a latent liking fer completeness, akicks. The man was tried for scarcely attn
feeling that as the householders are to rule they ought to ' manslaughter ; but surely it did not follow after this ordinary coat
be set free to 11 0 it. Other schemes for setting them free 1 lucky escape from a capital charge that he should be Excumonist.
might no doubt be devised ; but the only one the country ' " recommended to mere • " The Daily News never there are eig
tours over tho
knows anythate alseit is the Pallet, and the ballot there-
P,
d 1 ofifvseucyheaarsreicomm.3e;idation. Tile savage will in Holland at
fore will in nil he man probability be tried. There are
local canoes also in eeera.tieri which greatly lend to tlimi-
linehe hill be at h.
t. - I 'nberptryistooni,:iiaitsotinhee
oetnhderowfolmvhanic.h are fifteen, ar
enable the to
nish resistance to the i:,noratiun. In Si:MLA:pi the tenants
would like the flnl!ot, beenmse it wrmT,l av,•rt petty an- direction, an
THE BANNING LAWS. sum ranging
nnyancee, while time lan4lionis are so completely powerless
that the -Ballot cin rig them no harm. In Ireland it is a , Mr. Lowe has given another instance of hie dis-
regard of the official cansn, that no applineit shall in a few ca
moot paint whether secret voting would nut cripple the booking and r
priest railer more than the landlord, a vote, as was be formally' refused a request. It has lOng, been the gputlarre,llll(gmeseaicnil
carefully explained to the committee, not Leing a sin ' custom to promise. to . talic a stthject with which a oneof
which the peeitent is bound to confess before absolution. these qi
Minister does not inteed to deal into consideration. traveller mak,
In England the influence of the great employers of labour
But AI r. Lowe tells what be thinks promptly, if some- ling expenses
is so divided that its extinction will be regarded without
alarm on party grounds, while in Wales the Ballot will be times rude)y. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce book of hotel-,
received by ail lint a few landlords with enthusiasm, The has just asked the Chancellorof the Exchequer to instis he has but to
wine, to calcu
main resistance, in fact, will be from a few ultra-Tories tute aninquiry into the operation of the banking laws, impossible to •
who dislike change of any kind, and a few very strong
Liberals like Mr. Hughes, for example, who want the Mr. Lowe will do nothing. of the sort, and he replies, mtoreveds melicoanteel:
electors to win freedom of voting by pluck and perseve- through his secretary, "that the operation of the Isa
ranee as the Scotch have done, and not merely to evade Bank Act has been already so thoroughly explored, inconvenience,
the pressure by securing legal secrecy for their acts. I and the laws which regulate the currency, and which
are the EXCLUSIVE
These two classes, thc.egh influential, do not form nearly
a majority, and will not he able to delay the pealing of are reduced.. to as much eel tainty as any other branch
the measure. ----- - -- ._ _. _ __..... of political economy, are so generally understood, , worst laea.asellei
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