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bl. Emile 011ivier, the rejected of Paris, has just been
elected a member of the Cobden Club. This club was
I clel not think when I wrote my kat letter that the formed ia 1063, in order to spread 'the economical doc-
great topic of to-day would be, not the Irish Church, but trines of Cobden, and it now numbers 283 members, of
Mr. bright. The right hon. gentleman's letter ha 3 done whom 135 are M.P.'s. Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale, is
the Government such serious harm that it is not cur- the president, and among its members are Mr. Gladstone,
prising there should be to-day a current rumour of Mr. Bright, Mr. Quincy Adams, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Sum-
his resignation. That he has offered his resignation, I nor, M. Arles Dufour, M. Rouher, M. de Forcade, Gari-
should think must be a matter of course, after the baldi, and other eminent foreigners.
condemnation passed upon him by every journal The weather is really something dreadful. We are
except his own particular - organ. That - cold. We walk through the streets with
Gladstone will accept it remains to be seen, and will steaming breath, and great-coated cabmen smite theirhands
probably be known before this letter meets the eyes of together to keep them warm. To-day it has been raining
those for whom it is written. If the Irish Church Bill hard in spite of a high barometer, and the Henley Regatta
should be rejected in the Upper House, the event will be f has been spoilt. Yesterday there was something
due in no small measure to the President of the Board of I like fine weather ; that is, after a gale of
Trade. Perhaps he is not altogether free from the wish' great violence, which lasted till ten o'clock, the sun
that it might be rejected, and perhaps that wish had began to shine in a wan sort of manner, but sufficiently to
some part in the production of the letter. That the j draw together an extraordinarily brilliant company at the
Lords will throw out the bill, is the constant I Botanical Gardens in Regent's Park. There might have
and fervent prayer of the advanced Radicals. These been seen Mr. Disraeli and Viscountess Beaconsfield,
see that such a step would Seriously damage the Prince Teck and the Pr;ncess Mary, (looking particularly
Upper House, and having, like Mr. Bright, a deep-rooted well), quite a bevy of bishops, a large proportion
aversion to itethey would welcome a blow dealt at it, of the peerage, and any number of elaborate toilets
and all the more if dealt by that assembly itself, worn by the martyrs of fashion, who felt bound
Will the Peers grant the Radicals their request? That to dress as though we were enjoying midsummer
question lam not able to answer. No one will venture to weather instead of a temperature lower than that which
do so. Reasoning a priori, putting myself in their place, we had early in February. Although the crowd was so
I should say that they would most certainly not well dressed and well born, it mobbed royalty with as
do so. The perils which would beset such a much fervour as if the lords and ladies had been
course, the strong remonstrances of several mem- street gamins or ragged-school children. When will the
leers of the late Government, the conciliatory upper-class Londoners acquire manners equal to those of
Attitude assumed by Lord Granville (unfortunately more the Paris ouvrier ?
than neutralised by Mr. Bright's unlucky letter), the A very interesting exhibition is open just now at the
course adopted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, a pre- Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, just opposite the Royal
late whose judgment commands the respect of all parties, Academy. It consists of about 350 photographs of views
all point to a policy of prudence. There is a still stronger in the Holy Land, of models, and of antiquities and other
reason why they should adopt that policy. No one can curiosities brought from that country. Among the last
fail to see that a rejection of the bill veould, from the purely are specimens-of the Dead Sea apples which Mr. Carlyle
party point of view, suit Mr. Gladstone's purpose far better has immortalised, of tares whose similarity to oats gives
than its acceptance. Reject it, and the country (which additional force to our Lord's parable of the tares ;
cares comparatively little about the Irish Church) would of phylacteries, sandals, and other articles of Eastern dress.
be at onceoroused•bsathvfact that the Lords hadotaieinae;risere 'wife also a shepherd's sling, so small and so
upon themselves to overrule the decision of the nation.. rude of construction that the English schoolboy
Accept it, and then the various sections of the now- ' would despise it, and yet David made good
divided Conservative party would reunite in . order to use of just such a one when he went forth
enforce large amendments which Mr. Gladstone could not to do battle with Goliath. A large glass case contains
advise the House of Commons to reject without incurring articles which Mr. MacGregor took with him in the Rob
a prolonged agitation, from which be may well be sup- Roy canoe. But perhaps the most interesting thing
posed to shrink. If the bill passes a second reading, the exhibited is the mode] of the Holy Sepulchre. It is a
difficulties of the Government will only then begin. The perfect wildnerness of
,buildings, each the church of some
Lords will, in all probability, insist upon the amendments different sect, and the whole a sad satire upon that spirit
which were rejected in the Commons, will demand, for which has converted what should have been the cement-
instance, that the clergy-shall be allowed to retain-their - ing influence' of Christianity into the cause of endless
parsonages and glebes ; that the date for the retention of separations.
private grants shall be put back from 1660 to 1560 ; and There are various literary sayings and doings just now.
that some arrangement shall be made for the capitalise- Mr. Tennyson is gone to Switzerland with Mr. Frederick
tion of the revenues hit- the Protestant clergy, so that an Locker. Dean Stanley means to be present at the
Irish clergyman shall be enabled to receive his life (Ecumenical Council at Rome next December. Mr.
interest in a lump sum. It is by no means certain Burnell Payne, author of the very able article on Art in
that the moderate Liberals would care to run-the risk of a this month's Macmillan, and one of the principal writers in
serious breach with the Lords, nor incur the labour of the Pall Mall Gazette, is, lam sorry to say, compelled by
fighting the battle of the Irish Church Bill over again ill-health to go abroad. Mr. Isaac Taylor, author of
next . session by refusing their assent to these amend- " Words and Places," and son of the still better known
ments. Mr. Gladstone would then have to decide author of the "Natural History of Enthusiasm," has
between these moderate Liberals on the one hand, and the been translated from Bethnal-green, where he has long
advanced-Radicals on the other—a choice involving much laboured as a parish priest, to the pleasant living of
perplexity, and perchance the entire disruption- of his Twickenham; vacated by the promotion of Mr. K-nollys to
party. one of the numerous preferments that fell to the gift of the
But while all the arguments seem to me in favour of Archbishop of Canterbury through the death of that enor-
passing the bill, it is by no means certain that they will mous pluralist, Archdeacon Croft. M. Renan is just
prevail. Each party is resorting to the trick of pretending bringing out his " St. Paul," a volume forming one of a
that the other is sure to win, the object of each being to series with his " Vie de J6sus" and " Les Apotres." Sir
deter waverers from voting on the other side, and to induce Charles Lycll is preparing a new and condensed edition of
waverers to vote on its own side. It is said that fifteen his great work. Mr. Ffoulkes has written another letter,
bishops will vote for Lord Harrowby's motion, and that this time on the Irish Church, entitled "Disendow all or
five will vote against it. The latest converts against the none." Mr. Spender will have an article on Norway
bill are the Bishop of Manchester and Lord Shaftesbury. in the forthcoming number of the London Quarterly Perim,
The first will possibly not vote at all, being induced and one on the same subject, entitled " Fjeld, Fjord, and
to refrain from supporting the bill by the strong Foss," in the Churchman's Shilling Maguzine, also an
representations of the Manchester merchants. The article on Somersetshire in Meliora.
second and his organ, the Record, have- been Your readers will have seen that that most scurrilous of
won over to the Opposition policy by the threat of a prints, the Vueen's Messenger, has come to grief by.rneans
few High Church Conservatives who oppose the bill, and of an action for libel. The writers who conducted it
notably the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, that, if it announce that they are going to start another periodi-
is carried pley wills° in fora concurrent eudowmeateek...„cal, eelijclkh, judging by its name, The Plain
the lionaan Catholic Church. The Bishop of Oxford has Speaker, seems to be of the same kind. Another
been working very hard in behalf of the Govern- publication, Once a Week, was put up to auction on Tues.
ment, having been induced to do so, it is rumoured day, and was knocked down at 2160, but was understood
among his friends, by a pledge on the part of to have been bought in by the proprietors. It is strange
Mr. Gladstone that the Government will repeal that this magazine should not have been more successful.
the law of mortmain, so as to enable the English Started origihally by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans when
Church to become possessed of land in the same way as a they quarrelled with Mr. Dickens, and as a rival to his
school or a hospital is, and thus enable it to meet the Household Words, which was then renamed All the Year
shock of disestablishment and disenclowment, which every- . Round, Once a Week has had a melancholy career.
one believes to be merely a question of time. There are It was edited at one time by the late Mr. Lucas, of the
those who say that Lord Derby
_is riding not to_,Avin ; , Times, who ,bronght out the short-lived Shilling Magazine,
how far this is a true assertion his speech will and at the• same time published an announcement so
reveal to-night. There is undoubtedly a large number of offensive that it could be pardoned only because the writer
Conservative peers who would gladly let the bill go into was then suffering from the incipient symptoms of a
committee without a division. It is this circumstance— disease which afterwards proved his death. At present
the absolute uncertainty as to what course will be taken Mr. Dallas, author of "The Gay Science," and husband
by some twenty or thirty peers—which renders it impos- of Miss Glyn, the dramatic reader, is the editor. Yet
Bible for anyone to tell with certainty how the division this well-known littrateur has never been able to
will go. Meanwhile another vigorous " whip " is being obtain a satisfactory position for the serial, although it
made to-day on both sides, has often contained some admirable writing.
Whatever difference of opinion there may be as-to the Beeyearia of this month contains some verses by Sir
result of the division there is none at all as to the character William Mitchell, for the signature of which, by the way,
of the debate. It is pronounced on all hands to be one of the editor, Mr. Cheltnam, and not the writer, is respon-
the finest examples of Parliamentary oratory ever heard. Bible. Another set of verses written by Sir William have
This is the more remarkable because the subject had been been set to musicl very successfully, by Randegger, and
so thoroughly discussed that people were weary of the very are just now being sang with great success by Mr. Cum-
sound of the Irish Church. A great deal of the effect is mings. Words and music together form a very pretty
due, no doubt, to the infusion of the Constitutional love-song.
question—the relation of the Lords to the nation. The proposed Keble Memorial in Westminster Abbey
The scene of excitement during the Bishop of Peter- is to consist of a tablet, designed by Mr. Gilbert Scott,
borough's speech was almost unprecedented in that and a medallion likeness by Mr. Woolner. It is to be
usually sedate assembly. It must have been a splendid placed near the monument of Keble's old friend, Words-
triumph for the bishop, all the more striking if he hap. worth. A large number of eminent men, including Mr.
pened to remember that it is but twenty years ago since Gladstone, Lord Russell, Lord Stanhope, Mr. Browning,
he was a curate at Bath, in the receipt of £BO a and Mr. Tennyson, are on the committee.
year. Just as he had concluded his speech Herr Formes's performance of Shylock appears to have
two incidents happened, One peer exclaimed, turned out a failure. The Princess's is closed for two
excitedly, Why, 'tis tenfold better than the months. The attempted rival Opera at the Lyceum
Bishop of Oxford's!" and just at that moment Bishop 'Wil- collapsed after a night or two, and that theatre has ever
berforeapassed, and no doubt heard the comparison which since Leen closed, and is now "to let."
will tend to put him upon his mettle to;night. The other .
incident was exceedingly comic. A peer, dressed in a blue
coat and brass buttons and white choker of the antique
style, and. wins had heeqdihins, not wisely, but Voievelk
came up to Bishop Magee, and attempted to thank him
in words that went tumbling overeach other in a very incon-
sequential manner. The Bishop gave his admirer a good
snubbing.. This same ancient peer is an object of great
curiosity. -No one can tell who he is, but he is supposed
to be an importation from Ireland, where, I am inclined

MISCELLANIEI US NEWS.

IS ULSTER PROTESTANT ?
A great deal has been said of late about " Protes-
tant Ulster." But the idea that Ulster is entirely
Protestant is most erroneous ; that it is mainly so is
denied ; that it is chiefly Episcopalian is the very
opposite of truth. A correspondent of the Daily
News places the number of Roman Catholics at
907,000, the Episcopalians at 397,000, and the Dis-
senters (chiefly Presbyterian) at 550,000 ; so that
the whole of the religious bodies taken together
barely enible it to be said that there is a majority
of Protestant opinion in the Northern Province.

to think, he was not acquainted with the late Father

Mathew.

Lord Stanley of Alderley, has gone at last, after linger-
ing on for many weeks. He was not a great man, though
the Times attempts to make him out one. His successor, if

not great, is at least eccentric. The common rumour is
that he is so fascinated with Mahometanism that he has

THE "DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT."

always avowed his intention to build a mosque upon his
estate as soon as he came into possession of it. One of
the late Lord Stanley's daughters was married to the hope

The Conservative papers have been announcing it
the largest letters on their show bills, "Defeat of
the Government." This " defeat " was brought about
in the followinc, manner. Mr. Charles Eeed, the
new member fort Hackney, and a staunch Liberal,
moved the second reading of a bill for exemptinc,
Sunday and ragged-schools from poor rates. He
was supported by Mr. Graves, the Conservative
M.P. for Liverpool. Mr. Goschen opposed the bill,
and was bAcked in his opposition by Mr. Percy
Wyndham, the Conservative M.P. for West
Cumberland. A large number of the Liberal party
went with Mr. Reed, and the second reading of the
bill was carried through their agency by 228 to 71
votes.

of the Russells, Viscount Amberley.
While Mr. Bright's letter is calling down universal
condemnation upon that indiscreet Minister, another
member of the Government is adopting in private
the same offensive policy. Mr. Lowe's mode of
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receiving a deputation. is now become a stand-
ing joke. If he can tread upon anybody's corns
he never fails to do so. His time is so much occupied that
while he receives a deputation he continues to read his
correspondence, and as he is so intensely short-sighted
that the paper which he is reading must be held quite close
to his- eye, the effect is not encouraging. A few days
gince a deputation, consisting of the managers and clerks
of savings banks, were pointing out to him that if
he did so-and-so these institutions must cease to exist.
Mr. Lowe coolly replied, " Why should they exist ?"
The question might have been pertinent in the House of
Commons, but to officers whose living depended upon
their continuance it certainly was not a conciliatory mode
of treating the subject. If a deputation asks a question I
the purport of the reply usually is, " I don't know ;" "
shouldn't tell you if I did ;" and "It is very wrong of
you to ask the question."
The subject of a halfpenny postage for a packet of
printed matter is now fairly under discussion, and the

result of its consideration can scarcely fail to be the adop-
tion of the principle. On such a point we cannot afford to

vnampneys has made MS enoice between tne
deanery of Lichfield and the living of St. Pancras,
and has chosen the first. The second falls vacant
this week. Meanwhile it remains for the Court of
Common Pleas to decide if he can hold the living
of Tatenhill in connection with the deanery. If the
decision goes against him, he will have made a'Verlr
poor exchange from the pecuniary point of view.
Bishop Colenso has appointed the Rev. Robert
Gray Dean of Maritzburg. When the Colenso con-
troversy was at its height Mr. Gray left St. Helena
and voluntarily attached himself to the Bishop. The
Bishop is now rewarding him, and at the same time
is dealing a blow at Dean Green. It is not a little
singular that " Robert Gray " should be the name of
Bishop Colenso's warmest friend, as well as of his
fiercest opponent, the Bishop of Capetown.
Bishop Hills, of Columbia, has arrived in England,
and so has Bishop Venables, of Nassau. The latter
prelate brings a very poor account of the state of the
Church in his diocese. The Bahamas are bankrupt,
and the Church has just been disestablished. The
Bishop looks forward to the future with the gloomiest
anticipations.

1 APERIAL PARMA TENT

ROUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING.

The groat interest in the debate was again manifested,
and the house presented the same crowded state it has
exhibited during the two former eveningq.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five'o'clock.