The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-14 00:00:00

GOSSIP IN HIGH QI7ARTERF.

"Oxoniensis " writes to the Dai'y News that the.
debts of the Duke of Newcastle have been exagge-
rated. The Duke owes Mr. Padwick £89,000 ; he
also owes a Jewish gentleman £123,000. But if
for the next three years, he is content to live at the
rate of £lO,OOO a year—his wife's income—all these
debts will have been paid off ;- the estates bringing
in £70,000 a year. He has, unfortunately, backed
up heavily another nobleman ; but the result of this
gallant act remains to be proved.—The rumour is
revived that a notable divorce case connecting a lady
of rank with an unlimited number of gentlemen,
also of rank, has been abandoned on account of the
lady's insanity. Our readers will no doubt recognise
the case referred to under .the cautious periphrasis
which we have borrowed from a con temporary.—The
following marriages in high life are arranged :
Those of Captain Grahame and Miss Gathorne
llardy; of Viscount Petersham and the Hon. Eva
Carrington • Baron de Teissier and Miss lloratio
Westby ; between the Earl of Eldon and Miss
Turner, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry and the Hon.
Mrs. Turner; between Sir Robert Cunliffe and Miss
Egerton Leigh ' • between Lady Mary Stopford,
daughter of the Earl of Courtown, and Lieutenant
Shelley ; and Captain Ernest Villiers and Miss
Ada Ibbetson, grand-daughter of the late Lady ;
Jersey.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
The weather has changed wonderfully within the
last few days, much to the joy of the farmer.
Especially does the gralier rejoice. He has had
wet in abundance to make his grass grow, and
to make it Succulent ; and now, when the time comes
for ripening and harvesting, dry weather has set in
in his favour also. The reports from the country as
to the hay crops are that there is great abundance,
the earlier varieties are ripe, or nearly so, but that'
others are not yet ready for the rick, wanting more
heA to bring. them- to maturay. The. improved
weather is also good for our wheat crops,.whieh
were in great danger from cold and,excessive wet.
before the chaarve.
While the Scotsman believes that the Irish uhurcb
Bill is now'nearly certain to pass the Lords, the
Dublin Freeman and the Leeds Mercury, both, like the
Scotsman, Liberal papers, believe that the bill will
be thrown out. A communication, says the London
correspondent of the - Leeds paper, has been made
to the Ministerial Whip in the Lords by the other
side, that there will be a considerable majority
against Government. Ministers are already preparing
for this, and will prorogue Parliament almost im-
mediately, begin another session after about a fort-
night's recess, lay the Irish Church Bill on the table
without saying a_ word, create, about_ sixty new peers,-
and so ensure the carrying of the bill through the
Upper House. The . London correspondent of the
Conservative Manchester Courier confirms this state-
mitt, so far .as the resolution of the Conservative
Peers is concerned. The majority is expected to be
fifty.

Sir. G. B. Gleig, Chaplain-General of the Forces,
writes to. the herald on the pOlitical crisis, and
declares that ho for one cannot affect indifference to
the possible consequences of the rejection of the
Irish Church Bill by the Lords. He is not alarmed
by the virulence of the Liberal press, or by
the threats of angry mobs, but he is seriously,
uneasy at the nature of the advice now being ten-
dered to the Prime Minister. The House of Lords
have, he maintains, a perfect right to act according
to the dictates of their own judgment, and their re-
jection of the bill would not be an outrage to the
nation, nor a wrcng to the House of Commons, but
simply that to which all Governments are in
free countries liable—a defeat of the Administration.
In the event of such a defeat the Ministers will have
three courses open to them. By the first and, as
Mr. Gleig holds, the most Patriotic, they will finish
the business of the session as if no such check had
met them, and allow the vexed question to stand over
until next year. In the interval a vote of confidence
is to justify their retention of office' and cartloads of
petitions may be sent from all parts to support the
bill. The Lords, with such evidence of the popular
feeling before them, will not venture to repeat in
1870 the move of 1869, and the Minister win carry
his point with honour to himself, and without giving
any shock to the portion of the Consti-
tutian. A second course, not quite so patriotic,
but still- constitutional, is -to resign, trusting
to the nation to bring them back again to power
without delay. The third course is to prorogue
Parliament for a fortnight, reintro3.uce the bill, and
try the House.of Lords a second time. To stop the
supplies without proroguing, to coerce the Peers by
violence from without, or to create a large number
of new peers, would, in Mr. Gleig's opinion, surely
produce a crisis, and he asks whether any man not
insane would assert that the game is worth the
candle.

MP. GLADSTONE.

Several . Conservative. journals speak of Mr.
.Gladstone as being in a bad state of health. One
says that he is sutryting from bronchitis, another
from a disordered liver. They leave it to the clergy
to suggest that he is a prey to a tortured conscience.

ILECT.ON.

The complicated Nottingham election is simplify-
ing.itself, and the contest now seems to lie between
Mr. -Digby Seymour and Mr. Seely, jun. The
Conservatives—or A large section of them—are
by no means enthusiastic in favour of their
candidate, And his committee is likely to advise
him tp retina. Mr. Potter also-is out of the field, and
ii.net expected to go te. the poll. The moderate Con-
servatives:andnioderatfli Liberals--the Independent
party as it is called-in N:Oginghain —n re enthusiasti-
tally-in favour of Mr.-"Dikly.Seymour, ;who has; the
211efit—of 31.113i.r. „Wart airanfi.Jzgbuldariiir; it a