The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-01 00:00:00

CHILDREN IN WORKHOUSES.

Mr. GOSCHEN said it was not literally, though sub-
stantially true that five children had bsen struck off as
Catholics in Marylebone Workhouse School, at Southall,
and entered as Protestants. As 14 years of age was con-
sidered an age at which children might be allowed to
say which religion was true—(laughter)—these child-
dren had expressed a desire that they might
not be further visited by the Roman Catholic
priests. They bad been entered on the books as Protestants.
No communication had been made on the subjt!ct vii h the
parents and friends of the five children.
PRIVATE TELEGItAPIIS.

The Marquis of lIARTINGTON, in reply to Ur. Peek,
said that it was not intended by the bill for the purobes,
of the telegraphs to interfere in any way with private tele-
graphs used for private purposes, such as communication
between the offices and works of manufacturers at a dis-
tance from each other.

VOLUNTEERS PASSING THROUGH FRANCE.
Par. CARDWELL said he was not aware of any diffi-
culty Volunteers would have in passing through Franco
on their way to the Tir National in Switzerland. He had
communicated with the Foreign-office on the subject, and
there no difficulty was known on the subject. if, how-
ever, it was found to exist the Government would do all
it could to prevent any inconvenience to Volunteers.
DUBLIN FREEMEN.
The adjourned debate was then resumed on leave to
introduce a bill for appointing a commission to in9uiro
into the existence of corrupt practices against the Free-
men Electors of the city of Dublin by Mr. J. Lowther.
[LEFT 61:EASING•J

Yesterday evening a banquet was given by the
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress to her Majesty's
Ministers, the guests numbering upwards of '250.
The toasts of Her Majesty, the Prince of Wales,
and the Army, Navy, and Volunteers having been
proposed and responded to,
The LORD MATOR proposed " Her Majesty's
Ministers," and with that toast the name of one re-
spected by all, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. GLADSTONE—My Lord 1111yor, Ladies and
Gentlemen,—On the part of my colleagues, not less
than on my own, I tender to you my most cordial
and respectful thanks for the honour which you have
been pleased to confer upon us. There can be no
period at which it can he a dutyvoid of interest for the
First Minister of the Crown to acknowledge the
marks of confidence and kindness received from in-
telligent assemblies of his fellow-countrymen; but
within this hall that task acquires a peculiar signi-
ficance. You have been pleased, my Lord Mayor,
to propose this toast as the head of the first
municipality of this country, if not of the
world, and when we become the guests of the chief
of that municipality we feel ourselves to be, through
no insignificant symbol, at least in contact with the
nation on behalf of which we act. To interchange
sentiments with a body so qualified to represent
that nation, and to acknowledge the tokens of its
kindness, is always a task that rises far above the
level of routine. At this time, my Lord Mayor, it
acquires even a higher character, for you have been
pleasel to observe that we have taken office with
peculiar responsibilities. It is not for my colleagues,
it is not for me, to complain of the difficult char-
acter of the task which we have to perform, be-
cause we ourselves recognised the difficulties, and
we are accused even of having created those diffi-
culties before we acceded to office. The state of
the circumstances with which we have to deal, and
the peculiar nature of the questions which occupied
the attention of Parliament, did not take us by sur-
prise. But if we have an arduous task to confront,
I speak for myself, we .must admit that there have
been peculiar advantages attending therm I must
.mention, first, that gracious favour and that con-
stitutional support rhich every Government in
this country has, for a period of thirty-two
years, received from her Majesty, and I name
that as a peculiar advantage, because in my judg-
ment it is a grave offence on the part'of Ministers
to profess or insinuate that special favours are
granted to a particular Administration which are
denied to another. 1 say this simply because I
think it is a debt of duty to that sovereign who has
so long reigned on the throne of England and in
the hearts of the nation, that those who have the
honour to serve her should take occasion to ac-
knowledge on every fitting opportunity with what
exemplary fidelity, with what perfect but absolute
loyalty the prime duties of the Sovereign are at all
times performed. (Cheers.) I may presume to
say, my Lord Myor, that I have not been un-
fortunate in the nature, in the qualities and iu
the stamp of the men whom I was not only
enabled, but constrained to associate with me
in the works of the Government ; and I do not
think that, as far as the experience of the past
six months is concerned, that there has been
any disposition on the part of the country to
complain of the manner in which either the ad-
ministrative or the legislative duties of the great
departments of State have been generally dis-
charged. (Hear, hear.) But also, my Lord Mayor,
I must venture to discharge a debt of duty to the
House of-Commons. This House of Commons was
elected under circumstances novel and peculiar; it
sprang from the heart and breast of the people, it
bears upon it more of the notes of contact with the
masses of the nation than any House of Commons
ever gathered within the veneraWe walls of 'West-
minster ; and it would appear that in proportion as
the scope of its contact with populir sentiment has
been extended its capacity for the discharge of Par-
liamentary duties has been increased. At least I
may presume to say that, after having sat for very
many years as a member of that assembly,' and
never without a profound and, if may say so, a
filial admiration of its great qualities, at no period,
I think, have I known a body of representatives of
the people gathered together with as clear a con-
sciousne-3s of the purposes of which they are sent
there ; or-with as little disposition to waste, either
in the pettiness of intrigue, or in the idle and self-
setking discussion, the precious time that ought to
be devoted to the noble task of building up the
happiness of the people. (Cheers.) Indeed, my
Lord Mayor, to refer to one reculiar subject with
which official relations have long connected me, I
may say that for the first time—for the first time
certainly during very many years—l see a louse of
Commons more disposed to take a strict measure of
its duties, and in particular to take a strict measure
of its duties on one critical and testing subject--I
mean that of public economy—than either the pub-
lic out of doors, or even that daily Press by
which the interests of the public are in general so
well represented and defended, is aware of. I dis-
charge this debt of gratitude to the assembly in
which for so many years it has been my daily ditty,
and I may say my daily satisfaction, to labour for
what I deem to be the public good. Bat your
lordship could hardly omit, and have not omitted,
at a juncture like this; to refer to that special pur-
pose, that high, transcendent interest, which, rising
far above the mass of public questions, involves
such great issues and results; and attract to it and
claims for itself a special character—l mean the
great question connected with the condition of one
of these three kingdoms, to the loyal and main por-
tion of which it has been our duty during the pre-
sent session to address ourselves. The Lord
Mayor, this company is well aware, as the whole
country is well aware, that the House of Com-
mons, and that her Majesty's Government in the
House of Commons, have at least bestowed their
best endeavonrs upon the conduct of the measure
which is, both by what it is in itself and by what it
promises in the future, almost a vital and essential
portion of the work of peace for Ireland and for the
security of the Empire. (Cheers.) During three
months, my Lord Mayor, we expended the chief
part of our care upon the maturing of that mea-
sure, and on that measure three months were but a
short time to spend. Since it passed beyond our
portals there hai been—or I have been told there
has been—an excitement in the country. We
have read of meetings here and there, and there
has been a blaze like the blaze of sky-rockets,
repeated from point to point around the whole
horizon. We are told of the indignation of the
publiC —we are told of the reaction in public senti-
ment. The course we have parallel and the mea-
sure we have proposed are branded in language
more severe than it would be convenient on this
festive occasion to recal ; and sanguine anticipa-
tions were entertained, in the first instance, that that
measure would elsewhere meet with a speedy doom.
But since these anticipations were disappointed,
other anticißtions have been raised up to serve
the same turn and purpose ; that though ita name
and phantom perhaps might be suffered to escape
from legislative condemnation, yet it would come
back to us so altered that we should not know it,
and that we should not have any choice except
total and utter failure in both the name and sub-
stance of our work, or else to accept but the name
with the loss of the substance. My Lord Mayor,
under these circumstances, and amidst this tumult
and excitement, as we are told there is, we have re-
mainNl-1 speak for myself and my colleagues, and
I P:Pearz as an .abgerver of the II ,use of the House
of Commons —we have re:urine.' in a sate of per-
fect tranquillity. (Cheers.)We have rem lined tran-
gai! for these reasons. In the first lilacs, it ii 'o its
a ma; r not of grudge, or of jealousy, but of satis-
faction that our work shonlql be rcviewe 1 di:mit...re.
We can honestly say that we have bestowed upon
it the best of our care, and have laboured with no
stint of our time or of our faculties to perform the
duty committed to us by the country. But at the
same time, no doubt, there must be faults in our
work, and, as w4s.wc-11-said by my noble friend Earl
Granville—for-Wheam perhaps,parenthetically,l may
be permitted to convey the expression of his deep
regret that grave indisposition, and the absolute ne-.

(From the Anglo -American 2 imes.)
NEW YORK, June 12.

Our sensational papers got up a fine scare this
week—nothing less than that the Inman steamship
City of Paris, which had sailed on Saturday, filled
with prominent Americans, had gone down with
every hand. As nearlj all of us had friends on board,
you may imagine the state of consternation created
by the Lig headings announcing the terrible catas-
trophe. There was a rush to the office, into which
despatches were beginning to pour from the coau-
try asking for intelligence. All known about it
there was that the vessel, when last heard of, was
rapidly making her way across the ocean, with every
prospect of a prosperous voyage, and I venture to
ray that, before this letter reaches you, her pas-
sengers will be scattered over Europe, and all their
names recorde 1 as safely arrived iu the columns of
the Anglo-American Times. Some of the crew and
passengers of the steamer Mississippi, wrecked at
Martinique, May 12, en route from Rio Janeiro to 1
New York, arrived here in the Columbia from Ha-
vannah last Wednesday. The Mississippi left Para
May 7,and struck, May 12,a shoal seven miles from the
cast side of Martinique. Next day the French
steamer Carivel rescued 28 passengers and carried
away the mails. The vessel could not be got off, and
she was abandoned by the crew shortly after. The
filibustering expeditions try the patience of the
United States Marshal. Rumours have been float-
ing about as to the sailing of another strong force,
and they make no secret of the fact at the head-quar-
ters of the Junta, The expedition got off in a
clipper ship at daybreak last Saturday, with 850
men, commanded by Colonel W. Hendley, of Cin-
cinnati. The men, soma of them Western soldiers of
Sherman's artny, got on board from schooners near
the lightship, and the vessel cleared for San Fran-
cisco. The Spanish Consulate are well aware of the
fact, and have telegraphed to the Al inister at Wash-
ington, and although the United States Marshal
has no information on the subject; the expedition
will probably be followed by another, if it has not
already started, for it is said that three are fitting
out in New York, and they will be off before he can
act. There is a dispatch from Admiral Hoff, dated
May 27. He had arrive 1 at Matanzai, where he
found the feeling far less bitter between the volun-
teers and the Cubans than reported ; in fact a
stranger would not know a revolution was raging
from any feeling he could detect in Matanzas. Ile
reports a success about the Bth or 10th May ; some
bands having attacked the convoy on the railway
to Puerto Principe, captured 43 officers, including
1 a colonel, destroying the bridges and injuring the
road. General Lesca, the Governor of Puerto
I Principe, had been removed by Dulce for cruelty
in bombarding a camp of women and children, but
this action had given great offence to the volunteers.
The Admiral considers that the landing, supposed
or actual, of fillibusters had thrown new life into the
insurrection, which some time before had died out,
and it had blazed up effectually in some parts of the
j island, which were almost wholly in the hands of
1 the insurgents; his words are—" One fact is posi-
tive, however, and that is, the actual or supposed
successful landing of these expeditions has infused
new life into the insurrection, that to all appear-
ances was dying out some two weeks since." Cyrus
W. Field, Esq., and family arrived last Saturday
evening in the Weser. The immigration continues
on the same large scale ; the Idaho and City of
Baltimore on Monday brought 2,000 passengers.
' Another vessel has come in with smallpox, but no
particulars about the Ocean have been received. It
is officially stated that there have been 143 cases of
this disease on Blackwell's Island .during the past
month, making a total of 171. under treatment. Of
these 97 were discharged and 9 died, leaving at
present 65. Of the admissions, 83 were from
quarantiee, and the remainder from the city proper.
Yellow fever has also appeared, brought by a North
German vessel from Ilavannab, which put in for
medical ail. Two of the crew were buried at sea,
and the second offic ar in a fit of delirium jumped
overheard and was drowned, and the captain and
four of the crew were ill. The w.dters have come
off second best in the strike they inaugurated, as
I the hotels have not foun lit difficult to supply their
places, although the temprary inconvenience was
considerable. Of course the proprietors are greatly
I annoyed with the men who left them tines uncere-
I inoniously in the lure), and are glad to b able to
return the compliment by leaving them oat, in the
cold. The St. Nicholas and Fifth Avenue Hotels are
still underhanded, but the Astor has sufficient
help; the consequence of the strike has been that a
number of waiters have lost good places and a num-
ber of new men have a chance of qualifying fur
them at the expense of the guests. At a meeting
of the association the waiters passed a resolution
allowing those on strike to work for the waged they

could get, a sufficient acknowledgment of defeat;
but the proprietors refused to receive them back un-
less they repudiated the union, which they refuse.
The coach-drivers are organizing a strike for $3 a
day ; the journeymen potters are 'collecting funds
here to support the Trenton strike, and they have
collected $6OO ; they express the determination of the
men to hold out against the introduction of machi-
nery ; the German cap makers are on strike for an
increase of 50 per cent., but they desire to carry
their employers with them by proposing to raise the
price of the article. Some of the shops have con-
sented to the advance, and a bill of prices, increas-
ing the pay 20 per cent., is to be presented for the
consideration of the employers. Strikes are very
general all over the country, showing labour to be
in a very unsettled state, and this is attributed to the
universal cause of all our ailments in the opinion of
sotne—the paper currency. Mr. Edward H. An-
derson, son of Dr. Anderson, of Fort Lee, N.J.,
and Miss Josephine Allen, were married last Wed-
nesday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The
Seventh Regiment marched down Broadway en
Monday and proceeded to Brooklyn, to be reviewed
in Prospect Park by Brigadier-General Messerole.
A detachment of the batta'ion, Washington Gray
Cavalry, left on Tuesday afternoon for Boston, to
take part in the Peace Jubilee. They take with
them the original Pine Tree flag, and arc accom-
panied by Generals M'Quade, Morris, and Tweed,
of the staff of Governor Hoffman. Journals are
fond of announcing startling conversions, and per-
haps you may have noticed, for it is more notice-
able on your side than ours, that any convert to
Rome is widely published ; but if the same indivi-
dual retraces his or her steps, little is heard of the
matter. According to some authorities here, one of
England's richest peers went over to the Romish
Church, but I believe that was more true than the
report circulated here that New York's wealthiest
Merchant, A. T. Stewart, had become a Catholic,
which story, after going the rounds, has been con-
tradicted. The President was received quietly, as
he gave but little opportunity for demonstrations,
but a hungry pack of office-seekers started instantly
in chase to West Point, and remained like terriers
at a rat-hole, watching their opportunity. Under
his quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative manner,
the President feels deeply, and the narrow escape of
himself and family has had more effect than appears
on the surface. Mr. R. Young, instead of going to
Europe, as was formerlyreported,has gone toKansas,
and Mr. Ottarson has returned to the Tribune. Mr.
Whitelaw Reid has assumed the place vacated by
Mr. Young. As regards the stage the attack on
the dancing girls continues. It is said that two
American actresses only are left on the New York
boards, and that one of them is a German. The
Spirit and the action taken by Mr. Butler has
raised the storm, and the blondes are now in the
shade, but whether they will continue there I can-
not tell. Mr. Peabody, after stopping at 16,
Waverley-place, the guest of Mr. Westmore, left
for Boston, where he arrived yesterday, and after
visiting Richard H. Dana (junior) he proceeded iu
the evening to Salem. On Thursday the Annual
regatta came off of the New York Yacht Club, but
it rained and it blew, and although there was a good
gathering at Fort Hamilton, Staten Island, and
other points, the day was propitious neither to the
races from the anchorage off Staten Island and
round the Lightship, nor to the horse races in
Jerome-park. The prize for second-class sloops
was won by White Cap, and for first-class sloops Ly
the Sadie ; for second-class schooners by the
Idler. The Phantom met with an accident, or
she would have won, as she was far ahead at the
time, and by the same squall the Pubner cart ied away
her foretopmast and gaff topsail, and the Sylvia her
jib-boom, flying jib, and, jib topsail. The press
grieve over the fall of Governor Hoffatan, who
signed the Tax Levies Bills, and no doubt it cost
him a great effort, and resulted from a very heavy
pressure; but Major Hall, in his message to the
Common Council, takes high ground, an .1 hi s at
everybody. At the press for meddling with muni-
cipal affairs, at the legislators, whom he terms
"rural," and he says "concoct tax puzzles." These,
he declares, hamper the city authorities, to whom
they have left but few matters of government in
the me'ropolis, and on thtir shoulders Major
Hall piles all the blame for bad decks, ill-kept
streets, and whatever there is to find fault with.
He tells us there are 212 miles of streets in New
York city, of which 81 miles are in block, and
five miles in wooded pavement. The remainder
are either subjTted to cobblestones or await pave-
ment. After quotieg President Lincoln's saying—
" Arrange a plan, and then peg away at it until it
is successful !" he adds, in like spirit, let the City
authorities patiently peg away' upon this matter
of City improvements, for the solution of the two
great problems so vital to the interests of com-
merce and citizens' comfort. The The Barnacle
Ring of Illinois has shown how little behind us
they are in the great West. Salaries and perqui-
sites are manufactured in Chicaio, as audaciously
as in New York, and they are maintained by the
same style of organization ; it is, I presume, one
of the drawbacks of universal suffrage.

Bishop Staley, of Honolulu, who has been in
London trying to raise fends fCir a new cathedral, will find
h7s flot.k in rebellion, 03 they Ilavo sent to the Episcopal
authorities in England to withdraw tho reformed Catholic
mission and its missionaries, as they want a low-Church
pastor, who they are ready to support without assistance.
from.abroad.

Frank Leslie's illustrated paper gives a series of most
interesting sketches of the vegetable culture in the South
by Joseph Becker. It is a pity that this excellent picture
paper should often contain articles couched in so un-
friendly a tone towards England, or it could scarcely fail
as America becomes better known to Britishers tot Vain
a wide circulation among them, for it conveys ideas which
no writing can do. Frank Leslie also reproduces the most
stupid and malicious of the cartoons which lately appeared
in the English comic papers to satirise America. This is
the way in which the truly charming, amiable, and profit-
able relations between the countries are maintained. The
speeches and resolutions of " War-Horses" in Congress
are replied to by abuse and ridicule in England, which re-
produced in America generates a fresh crop, and the two
nations scream at each other like angry Billingsgate fish-
women. If a war which ended in maiming and burying
half a million of men, and doubling the National Debt of
both countries, could settle the hatred and establish amic-
able relations for a century, although at the intense suf-
fering and cost of tho present generation, it might not be
an unprofitable bargain for the world at large. When it
is considered why there should be this sacrifice at all, it is
seen how purely this work is that of the Devil ; an immo-
lation to some hideous idol—though, unfortunately, in-
sto d of attaining the object, the reverse would be the
result ; for it would but leave another war for another ge-
neration to atone for the successes and defeats of that.
The number of patients relieved during the week
at the Hospital for Heart Disease, Newman-street, Ox-
ford-street, was 130.
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sight, or headache comes on, Holloway's Ointment should
be freely rubbed into tho nape and glands of the neck,
and his Pills should be simultaneously taken to complete
the patient's security, which will be thoroughly guaran-
teed by a strict obedience to the directions for us, and
which envelope every pot and box of these purifying and
preservative remedies. Both Ointment and Pills act
beneficially, by drawing the blood from the head, balanc-
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overgorged veins, and invigorating the nervous system.
lAnveirrisemsrin—Avold Medicines: they always aggravate
chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring
Revalenta Arabian Food, which yields three timel the nourish-
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and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound
lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sloop, functional
regularity, ancl energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We
extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored
by Du Barry's Food. Care No. 68,412. " Rome, July 21, 1866.
—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since
abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirel3
to Du Berry's Rsvalenta Arabica Fond. of which he consume'
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ficial effect on his health, anti his Holiness cannot praise this etcel
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No. 58,21 G, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven y..ars' livei
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dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency,
spasms, sickness, and vorniting.—Maria Joly."—Caro No
46,270: Mr. James Rotertm, of Frimley, Surrey, of 20 years
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and
partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many
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all Omen and Ghernibta.

The Herald says that the proposals of Lord Grey, Lord
Westbury-, land the Duke of Cleveland cannot be dis-
missed without consideration upon the bare ground that
they involve the endowment of the Roman Catholic
Church. By common consent the principle of such an
endowment has already been surrendered, and Lord Grey
and his friends ask the House to advance further in the
only path open to it. Shall we consent that the Irish
Church shall be starved on condition that the Roman
Catholics shall not take over a stiver beyond the
Maynooth commutation money ; or shall we con-
cede more liberal terms to the Roman Catholics
SS the price of gaining infinitely larger terms
for the Protestant Church? Let no one suppose that it
is not a hard and bitter alternative which is offered by
the advocates of concurrent endowment. The question is,
whether it is not the least of two evils, one of which
appears to be inevitable. The staunchest Protestant may
well reflect whether it is not worth while, whether it is
not a very onerous duty, to make concessions which, how-
ever painful and repugnant they may be, will be com-
pensated by such a provision for the Irish Church as will
enable it to discharge its responsibilities with vigour
and efficiency when it is thrown upon its own
resources. We can sympathise very earnestly with
those • who regard -it as a matter of conscience
ta protest against the diVersion of Protestant money to
the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. But we
are face to face with a situation in which to refuse a com-
promise is to sacrifice everything, and we venture to urge
that, under all the circumstances, the first duty of the
friends of the Irish Church is to endeavour to gain for it
the best terms they can. If we thought it possible to
secure its property intact, we should counsel them not to
yield one inch. It is because we see no other way of re-
taining for its use even an appreciable portion of its
revenues that we are compelled to urge the necessity of
accepting some such compromise as we have indicated.
It is announced, says the Standard, that Messrs. Bright
and Forster have ceased to be members of the Refiirm
Club. The alleged cause of this portentous secession is
the blackballing of an American gentleman whom the
two Cabinet Ministers had proposed as a member of the
club for one month--a recoznised practice with the Re-
form. Who is right and who is wrong we are unable to
say. Messrs. Bright and Forster entertain such very
enlarged views and such very narrow prejudices on
American questions, that it is quite possible they might
overlook, in their admiration for his talents, the want
of some of those social qualifications which every club
has a right to require in those who aspire to its mem-
bership. He might even be a gentleman of colour
and still not generally acceptable. On the other
hand, it is difficult to believe that the club would have
blackballed a thoroughly well qualified candidate merely
because he was an American, and recommended by
Messrs. Bright and Forster. It is true that there are
rumours of a somewhat iron tyranny now in vogue in the
head-quarters of Liberalism, under which freedom of
opinion is a crime, and the severest measures are
threatened against members not possessing absolute and

unquestioning confidence in Air. Gladstone; and this may
be a pratical remonstrance. Whatever is the result, let
us hope it will end with the self sacrifice of Messrs.
Bright and Forster, and that. Mr. Sumner will not add
this new outrage to the long list he has already handed in

)r compensation and apology. As for the Reform Club,
will probably survive the secession. If it has lost Mr.

Bright and Mr. Forster has it not gained Lord Granville
and Mr. Gladstone.

The Post declares that the statement made on Wednes-
day in the House of Commons—that the wrongs and wants
of Ireland would not have been listened to by the Govern-
ment and Parliament of the United Kingdom but for the
course pursued by the Fenians—is wholly at variance
with patent facts. For the argument it is assumed that
Irish grievances are considered with a view to their being
redressed, because and only because, they have been, as it
were, shouted through a Fenian speaking trumpet ; and

the Irish Church Bill is described as a concession
extorted by .apprehensions, arising out of the Fenian
conspiracy—as a measure in every line of which
the fear and trembling of England may be read running.
The public interest in the matter is all we have to
do with, and in that sense we are bound to protest
against an imputation affecting the character of our legis-
lation, and the honour and independence of the Legisla-
ture, without entertaining any irrelevant considerations.
It is said, however, and was said in the House of Com-
mons, that the Fenian conspiracy has done a vast deal of
good for Ireland ; and, as good sometimes comes out of
evil, that may be. Fenianism, we do not doubt, has done
its work ; but it must be added that the reaction is, at
least, as marked as could be wished. The head-centres
and the triumvirates have fulfilled their mission, though
not to the end they seem to have proposed to themselves.
Their reign is over. They Were fairly tried ; they richly
deserved their fate ; the punishment they are undergoing,
heavy as it is, falls far short of the misery they have im-
posed upon Ireland ; and, for our part, we can discern
nothing in their case to entitle them to any remission of
the sentence of the law.

The Daily News calls attention to Mr. Gladstone's
avowal that he would 'be grateful for any improvements
which the Lords might make in the Irish Church Bill ;
and that any changes which they might introduce would
be respectfully considered, though they might at first, and,
as he significantly added, perhaps at last also, seem inad-
missible. It will be allowed, it imagines, even by those
who have been encouraging the notion that the
Government was not indisposed to concurrent
endowment within certain limits, that Mr. Glad-
stone speaks the mind of the Ministry. The
indirect opponents of the Irish Church Bill in the House
of Lords, who would transform its substance while retain-
ing its title, have not to deal with Mr. Gladstone alone.
Like the heroic Lord Talbot, in Shakspere's play, he
"is but the shadow of himself." The people behind him,
who have already spoken through their representatives,
and who, if challenge is given, will find means of speak-
ing for themselves ; " these," as wise counsellors will tell
the Peers, " are his substance, sinews, arms,, and
strength "—they need not add, finishing the quotation,
with which he yoketh your rebellious necks." The
good sense of a majority of the House of Lords has
led them to acquiesce in the decision of the nation, so far
as their preconceptions have allowed them to understand
it. They have sliewn what Roman Catholic theologians
would call an implicit acceptance of it, though theymay have
made an innocent error of interpretation, which further
information and a docile spirit will enable them to correct.
Be this as it may, the Government has taken its ground.
In President, Lincoln's phrase, it has put down its foot.
Another Ministry, another House of Commons, and, we
may also say, another England, will be necessary in order
to give effect to the policy of concurrent endowment in
Ireland.
The Times reminds its readers that thirty-five years ago
Lord Brougham declared the Appointment of a public
prosecutor was then contemplated by Government, and
ever since the measure has been from time to time taken
up, to be for a brief period strenuously advocated by this
or that distinguished lawyer, and then quietly dropped.
It might, indeed, possibly have continued this spasmodic
and chequered career of activity and repose for another
five-and-thirty years but for the interest felt in the
extraordinary miscarriage of justice which the want of
a public prosecutor now threatens to occasion.
Apart from, and in addition to, the magnitude of
the pecuniary stake, the Overend and Gurney trial
is of vast importance as constituting a new epoch
in the history of commercial morality. It was, we
believe, the first case—certainly it was the first case of
general interest—in which the directors of a company
were treated as criminally responsible for misconduct
which had been previously looked upon as only matter for
a civil action, and, considering the incalculable mischief
which in these days may be done, and is constantly done,
by the neglect or dishonesty of directors, it is of the last
consegnence that all Possible light should be thrown upon
the point at which the criminal responsibility of a
director begins. Nor should it be forgotten that
the social position of the accused greatly increases
the public scandal that must result from a gross
failure of justice in their case. It is no secret that they
have powerful friends and connections in very high
places; it is inevitable that a large portion of the public
will, rightly or wrongly, attribute their escape to this fact,
and believe that the arm of the law is strong only against
the poor. When all these facts are taken into considera•
tion, who can for a moment doubt that such a national
disgrace as the break-down of the Overend and Gurney trial
would be impossible if there existed a public prosecutor,
or, if this be a perilous innovation, some oflicial bound to
exercise, even in the most modified foam., certain_ dtAtifts of
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THE" ROYAL ALBERT ALMANAC."- -In the Second Court
of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Mr. Shaw, the pro-
prietor of the "Royal Albert Almanac," sued Mr. Cook,
the successor of Mr. Harper Twelvetrees, for a sum of
£74, for advertisements inserted in the almanac. The
defence was that the order had been given through tho
mistake of a clerk, and the charge was excessive. The
defendant paid £3O into court and obtained a verdict.

AN ALLEGED FALSE PROSPECTUS.

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The Lord Chief Justice and a special jury commenced
yesterday morning, at the Guildhall, the trial of the cas.,
of " Jacomb v. Watkin" and another. The plaintiff
is an attorney at Huddersfield, and the defendants,.
Sir Edward Watkin and Mr. Julius Henry
Thompson, were formerly directors of the " Humber
Iron Works Company." The action is brought to recove:
damages for false and fraudulent misrepresentations put
forwardin the prospectus of the company issued in April
1864, through width the plaintiff was in:fur:ea
to become ultimately the purchaser of seventy-11v,
shares, of £5O each. The company was esta-
blished for the purpose of purchasing and extending the
business of Martin, Samuelson, and Co., shipbuilders, a:-
Hull ; Jr. Moss and Mr. Samuelson, members of the
old firm, being on the directorate. The prospectus com-
plained of set out that the capital of the company was to
consist of £1,000,000 in £20,000 shares of £5O each, of
which 10,000 shares had been subscribed. This was the
first misrepresentation complained of. Secondly, it wa
represented that there was work on hand of an exceed.
ingly valuable character to the extent of £300,000 ; this, too.
was untrue. And, thirdly, that railways ran into the work
and connected them with all parts of England. This was mis-
presentation number three. In addition to this it is
charged against the defendants that there were heavy
mortgages on the works, the knowledge of which was
altogether concealed from the subscribers ; and,
finally, that the reports and balance-sheets issued
were false and utterly untrustworthy. The plaintiff,
attracted by the advertisement in the news-
papers containing the prospectus of the com-
pany, and also by Sir Edward (then Mr.) Watkin's
connection with it, purchased twenty-five shares imme-
diately after its establishment, and subsequently in Janu-
ary 1866 he purchased fifty more. shares. The second
purchase had been preceded by the issue of most un-
truthful reports concerning the affairs of the company.
The defendant, Sir Edward Watkin, is represented as the
life and soul of the speculation, and it is alleged against
him that he either knew, or that, if he did not know, he
ought to have known, the untruthfulness of the various
representations complained of. The company has now
been wound up, and. every shilling of the capital
called in.

THE LATE OUTRAGE ON A POLICEMAN IN CORK.
—A telegram from Cork states that the man Cornelius
Connell, arrested for attacking the police and breaking a
constable's leg, has been committed for trial. The police
called on the magistrates to support them in the dis-
charge of their duty, as they were constantly being
attacked.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S CASE.—The Duke
of Newcastle's case stands in this position : On the 2It1•
of June the Court of Bankruptcy made an order giving
the petitioning creditor fourteen days from that day—
namely, the Bth of July—to "proceed with his petition."
In the first instance it was contemplated to make the Duke
bankrupt as a dealer in horses, in which case the process
would have been easy, and completed without delay, pro-
vided satisfactory evidence -of the trading could be pro-
duced. The act of bankruptcy sought to be established is
"seizure and sale," under Section 73 of the Bankruptcy
Act, 1861. The petition has been allotted to the court of
Mr. Commissioner Winslow.
A NEW WORK OF ART IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
—A new work of art,"of rare structure, has just been
placed in the entrance-ball of the British Museum. It is
a large marble vase, of the most refined classical art of the
age which it represents, and is most elaborately executed.
This gigantic vase was orginally found amongst the ruins
of the villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Palestrina (Pro-
nesti), near Rome. The original engraving of the vase
may be found in the great work of Piranesi, " Varie
Candelabri Xlll."—tbat great artist describing it as in
the possession of Mr. John Boyd, an Englishman then
travelling in Italy, and was discovered in 1769;
The vase is composed of three parts--a krater, or
large vessel for mixing wine ; a tripod formed by three
lion's legs fantastically combined with the bodies of
grotesque satyrs, and a triangular vase ornamented with
hulls' heads and festoons in rich and bold relief.

ADVICE TO BATHERS. —The Royal Humane
Society publish the following recommendations :—Avoid
bathing within two hours after a meal. Avoid bathing
when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body is cooling after perspira-
tion, but bathe when the body is warm, provided no time
is lost in getting into the water. Avoid chilling the body
by sitting or standing naked on the banks or in
boats after having been in the water. Avoid remaining
too long in the water ; leave the water immediately there
is the slightest feeling of chilliness. Avoid bathing
altogether in the open air if, after having been a short
time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness, with numb-
ness of the hands and feet. The vigorous and strong may
bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach. The
young, and those that are weak, bad better bathe three
hours after a meal—the best time for such is from two to
three kours after breakfast. Those who are subject to
attacks of giddiness and faintness, and those who suffer
from palpitation and other sense of discomfort at the
heart, should not batho without 610 =suiting their mec.l.l-
Gig advim

Dr. Jackson, as everyone knows, disapproves of
the Irish Church Bill ; and, not having expressed
his opinion in the late debate, he took oc-
casion to do so at the last meeting of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel. Briefly, the
opinions of the Bishop of London (as he rather do-
matically expressedthern) are these : The Irish Church
ought not to bedisestablished. That sheis the Church
of the minority is no reason for disestablishment. The
Church of England—of which the Irish Church
formed part—had fulfilled her mission. She is
sending her bishops into all the colonies, the epis-
copate having increased five-fold within the past
twenty-two years. She can in this matter compete
with any Church in the world. It is not right to
disestablish any part of such a Church.