The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

OCTOBER•

Bromley - - 7 i West Drayton 2l, 22

_
NOVEMBER.
Worcester 2,3, 4 1 Shrewsbury 15,
Harrow 23 1 Leamington Hunt 23 ho
Lverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 1

COURSING FIXTURES.

AUGUST.

St. Albans 17
OCTOBER.
Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, G.
Ormosby 19, &c.
Huntingdon Club.. 26, 27.

MARICE 7 S-21128 DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
June 4.—Eales probably 12,000 bales, or more. The
market very firm.

At the light Court of Justiciary, on Monday, an
important trial for stealing a letter containing £BOO in
notes from the mail bag on the Caledonian Railway be-
tween Carstairs Junction and Edinburgh resulted in the
conviction of the thief, a fireman in the company's em-
ploy, and the sentence of seven years' penal servitude was
imposed•
properties of Du Barry's health-restoringLA.DVEßTlSSMENTJ—Heneeforth no ouewilßel dovusbietnthtse vAaraluabieblae
th thousands of blessings
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to
Holiness
hthaed
Pope,beel2
it has already received fromowlna
deemed hopeless, we may n
t. We quote from the "Gazette du
Invalids
itdlisa two f°l:
unsuccessful medical treatment whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of
ueince abandoning all other remey-
Father is excellent. espccia Y ,
Midi," July 25th :—"Rorne,ile fy 21, 1866. -The health of the Hol
h he consumes a plateful at every meal.
dies, he has confined. himself entirely to Du 13.irry's Revalents.
Ambles Food, of which
be,
food too highly." Wex- , and
,
It has producedproduceda surpiringly be,
excellent
effect on his health
his Holiness cannot praise tilts
extract a few out ofin-^re than 63.00 J curse:—Cure No. 53.216, of
the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint
1,-asting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitaten,
digestion, constant sleeplessness, end the most in-
ts,olllCoraVebri bad
enerrous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Stuart de
Dacies, Lord-Liontenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.
No. 49,832: "Fifty yours' indescribable agony from dyspepsia,
nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms,
sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr.
James Roberts, of Frinaley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lunge,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. 1M
portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more thins
sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's
name is most audaciously attached.
In tins, at Is VA; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 46 63 5 lbs 11 s ; 12 lbs 223 ;
24 lbs los.- Also Do BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE
POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at Is, for 24 cups
at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s
—being about one penny per cup. The 39s and 55s tins are sent
free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-0l;lce Order,—
BAnitY Dv Res.nity and Co., -110. 77, Regent-0TO; Lpitslon ; and
all Ctrocera wad Cheatioto. • _ •

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. I

The Times asserts that wonderful announcement MS
circulated on Thursday evening through the lobbies of the
two Houses with all the particularity of detail that could
give it credibility. According to this statement, it has
been decided that the Irish Church Bill shall be rejected
on the motion to read it a second time in the House of
lords. We feel the utmost reluctance to entertain for a
moment the belief that the Conservative party has arrived
at so portentous a determination. What, indeed, would
happen supposing the policy attributed to the Opposition
were really pursued by them? The Government have
an unshaken majority in the House of Commons of
115—to put • it moderately—pledged to abolish the
Irish Establishment. The majority was elected on this
issue. It has the power of enforcing its will. It
must do what it was elected to do. One means of accom-
plishing the end would be to call up to the House of Lords
a sufficient number of heirs-apparent or commoners to
convert the minority into a majority, and the history of a
similar crisis recommends the resolution to adopt such a
plan, Tl:e control of the supplies furnishes, of course,
another and perhaps more constitutional method of assert-
ing the power of the representatives of the people. But
there is a third line of action which could be followed.
An immediate prorogation, followed by an immediate
convocation of Parliament, would give us another
session in which the bill could be pushed forward
with the certainty of success. But if we thus
glance at what would be done if the Lords were
so ill-advised as to reject the bill, we do so only
because we find in the precision with which these extreme
steps have been already detailed the most striking proof
of the determination of the Ministry, backed by an over-
whelming majority, that the bill shall pass. We cahoot
say that the report upon which these speculations are
founded is absolutely worthless, but if we may not
peremptorily reject it, we believe it Las been circulated
rather to test the possibility of resistance than as an indi-
cation of a fixed conclusion. But what an appreciation
of the issues of the time and of the national judgment it
would argue if the Conservative peers flatter theinselves
that the present crisis could be so dealt with !
The Standard has it on the authority of a contemporary,
wh,s certainly ought to know, that the chief of her
Majesty's Government has only just been admitted to
participate in the last occult rites of august Liberalism.
Mr. Gladstone has at length, and only at length, been
elected a member of the Reform Club ! Fur now more
years than one cares to count he has been discarded by the
Conservative party, and meekly fetched and carried for
Whigs and 'Radicals alternately ; but it appears that he
had not .giVen sufficient proofs of his fitness to con-
sortin a club sense with the " unto the manner born'
among those jealous politicians. It seems a strange fate
for a man that he should have been the parliamentary
leader of a party and been excluded withal froM some of
its most highly-prized privileges. The time of doubt and
of trial, however, is now over. Mr. Gladstone is a
neophyte no more. To employ the language of the con-
temporary referred to, " his valuable party services have
now be en fitly recognised and rewarded," and helias properly
been permitted to enjoy " social intercourse among
Reformers." Lucky Premier ! Condescending Reformers

The Telegraph says that no wise man who can pardon
weakness, no good man who is charitable in his judgments,
can have read without real sorrow that item of intelligence
which was published on Thursday concerning the Duke of
Newcastle. Its main public interest lies in the fact that
the unfortunate nobleman is but a type of many young
members of our aristocracy. Plain speech on these matters
is the truest kindness, even to those to whom it may seem
blunt and cruel. We do not hesitate to say that the most
serious danger to the hereditary aristocracy of England lies,
in our day, in the conduct of such peers as the Duke
and others who have followed in the same paths, some
of them so fast and so far that they reached a dishonoured
grave as the goal of their journey. Never was there a
time when the vast majority of the people were readier to
accept, with cordiality and gratitude, any attempt at
honest political and social service from the Lords; and
never was there a time when more of the Lords were
anxious to bring themselves into frank and sympathetic
relations with the people. Practical Englishmen, we say,
are in no hurry to get rid of the House of Lords. But
the Lords must learn to " take care of themselves."
If we see, for instance, a noble library, amassed by
aristocratic statesmen and scholars,. publicly sold to
pay the debts of a " plunger "—if we find the fate of
a Newcastle following closely ou that of a
Hastings—it we know, as everybody in. London
does know, that there are other scandals of
the same sort which cannot much longer be kept in the
background—then, we say, the House of Lords is in
danger—in danger from itself. Archdeacon Denison,
with all his violence, seldom says anything which has not
a grain of sharpness and sense in it ; and he said, two days
ago, that the heaviest blows against the Church were
those dealt from within. The saying holds good of other
institutions; and unless the most aristocratic assemblage
in the world is the only one which has utterly lost the
esprit de corps, the Lords will surely come to their own
rescue, and will socially enforce that high morale without
which their order invites the exulting reproaches of its
enemies.

The Star, in referring to the recent riots at Mold, says
there are one or two considerations which are suggested
by the wretched state of things which has arisen in this
Welsh town. The spread of popular education would not
necessarily prevent such outbreaks altogether ; but it is
only reasonable to assume that the colliers of Mold are
an ignorant body of men ; for ignorance, and that
condition of mind which begets lawlessness—which,
under the influence of a supposed grievance, resorts to
the bludgeon, and is incapable of self control—are so
closely allied as to be practically inseparable. If we
looked beneath the surface, we doubt not that the
exceptional turbulence of these pitmen takes its root in
their almost total want of that elementary knowledge
which is essential to make men feel the moral and legal
responsibilities of their position. When crime is com-
mitted we are too apt to overlook those remoter causes of
its perpetration for which the State should justly be made
to bear its share of blame. The State cannot do every-
thing in the way of social or intellectual amelioration;
but this is no reason why it should almost entirely
ignore its duties to the neglected classes, espe-
cially as these comprehend no insignificant num-
ber of men who will work, as well as of those
who prefer to live at other people's expense.
'We know not whether any attempt has been
made to establish councils of arbitration and conciliation
in this disturbed district. Probably there has been no
such attempt, and if so, when masters arid men fall out—
and in every state of society, however theoretically per-
fect, such disputes are certain to arise—there is very little
of reason, but a great amount of brute passion to appeal
to. There must be something essentially wrong in a com-
munity in which even so irritating a circumstance as a
strike leads to scenes of violence on the part, not of the
few, but of the many. Moralists may moralise, and
preachers may preach ;. but until the evil is probed to the
bottom it will never give place to a healthier industrial
life in these distant parts of the kingdom.

The Daily News remarks that a fatal riot is happily a
rare occurrence in England, and a collision of rioters with
the military still rarer. Such an event, however, has now
to be recorded, with the exceedingly disagreeable feature
that it is the culmination of a dispute respecting wages.
It appears that for some weeks past the relations between
the colliers working at the Leeswood Great Pit, near
Mold, in Denbighshire, and their employers have been in
an unsettled state. The facts connected with this lament-
able loss of life must shortly come under the review of the
highest criminal courts of the land, and it is the duty of the
press not to prejudge their decision, so far a. 9 the responsi-
bility of individuals is concerned. We are all, however, at
liberty to discuss its more _public aspects, as it will be our
duty to do as soon as sufficient materials for a judgment
have been acctimulated. Seldom as a sanguinary repres-
sion of an outbreak is necessary in this country, and
jealously as Englishmen are accustomed. to watch the
employment of the military force in dealing with civil
tumults, the public will be prepared to uphold the acts of
those who have done what appeared best under most
trying circumstances. Assuming that the facts are cor-
rectly reported, it would appear that the action of the
magistrates in calling upon the military, and of the
commanding officer of the latter in ordering his men to
lire, was of a purely defensive character, and was abso-
lutely necessary, if life and property in Mold were not to
become the
.prey of an infuriated and powerful mob.
Under any circumstances the loss of life reported must be
deeply lamented ; but it will be. a matter of thankfulness
if regret is unmingled with self-reproach.

Tie Herald thinks there can be no doubt that a la
proportion of the misery, and even crime, prevalent amorg4
the rural population is due to the disconifort and squalor
of the labourer's home. It is made hateful to the man
its dirt, its crowded state, its total want of snugness, and
all else that can render a tenement intolerable. The Bath
and 'West of England Society are considering the subject
in a practical light, and much hope may be derived from
their conclusions. Of course no one affects tc believe we
can give to every ploughman and haymaker
those little Paradises of poetry which are so
charming in Gainsborough—landricapes with thick-
caved roofs and showers of jasmin over idyllic
perches. But there is a medium between this sort
of sentimental hope -and .the worse than A frit:a:l barbarity
of- the hat in which Many- an Eteelish labourer is, with
hie familV cramped:7' At-present thousands of families in
the rural.' districts of this kingdom inhabit structures
which are not houses at all Mitt ea.-bins that would disgrace
in connernara. Many:have no chimneys, still
more frequently their iloors are only made of beaten earth,
over which the rain-fall overflows ;an entire c'eseter of
them depende upon a solitary pump, noxious with
the .filterines of a horse-pond ; other arrangements
for jeeipii et y aro utterly neglected ; and passing
tlireneli seine a. hardly compact enough to
deserve the name, a peklustrian imagine him-
self to be visiting one of those. primitive hamlets
which in the nineteenth century represent a considerable.
part of the civilisation extant in: France. We are far
from implying that this is a general pietrire of cottage life
in England,' but, on the Other hand,. it .i 4 no imaginary-
picture. - 'We have set oiirServeseeaok.Stlyiii OtirTlajjse
towns to provide improved homes fort heartiiittie- M'auy
great landlords have given in the provinces examples of a
similarly wise generosity in this respect, but it must be
renlembered that we Lave to provide for millions, and it
will never be time to slacken our efforts until we cal; look
without shame upon the homes in which those who
late the • logedal