The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-12 00:00:00

crisis.

The point to be decided by the Council, impor-
taut though it is, is only a minor one. It will not affect
the ultimate event, the rejection of the bill by the Lords.
The Marquis of Salisbury has determined that he will not
give way upon the all-important point of the
glebes ; and, as the Government are doubly and
trebly pledged not to give way, there can be
but one result, the loss of the bill and the loss of the
session so far as this measure is concerned, with the far
more serious consequences of political agitation through-
out the kingdom prior to an autumn session. Already
arrangements have been made for demonstrations of akind
that no one can misinterpret. In the first place, the
National Reform Union (a very different body from the
Reform League), whose resuscitation did more than
anything to frighten the Conservative party into
household suffrage, will hold a meeting in London
on Wednesday to protest against the policy of
the House of Lords. Meetings have been arranged for
in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Brad-
ford, and other large towns ; and Ministers have only to
give the word, and the machinery of the trades unions
would be put in operation in order to " demonstrate."
Hitherto the country has remained quiet because it felt
that it had a House of Commons which fairly represented
it ; but now that this assembly has been set at naught by
the House of Lords, it becomes necessary for the nation
to support its own chamber. In fact, the Lords have
appealed to the nation, and Ministers reply, " Unto the
, nation shalt thou go."
Very little importance is attached to the meeting of
Irish Conservative peers to-day at the Duke of Aber-
corn's. From sixty to seventy peers were present, and
all information was rigidly refused. The anticipated
meeting of bishops at Lambeth is not to take place.
It is rumoured that Murphy will be present at the
Protestant demonstration this afternoon on Blackheath.
If so, there will probably be a row.
Actions for libel are flying about on all hands. Mr.
Grenville Murray has attacked the John Bull, which was
enterprising and valorous enough to give the first narra-
tive of the great horsewhipping case. The same person
has threatened the Times. The Standard to-day has to
ask pardon of Mr. Inman, the well-known shipping agent,
of Liverpool ; and the Saturdayßeview has to insert some-
thing very like an apology to Mr. Digby Seymour for a
very unflattering article in that paper inserted with regard
to the learned gentleman's candidature at Nottingham.
We are having a. brilliant day, and the Cobden Club,
which numbers more than 100 ALP's., and a large
number of literary men, will enjoy themselves
right well at Greenwich this afternoon. The
Club have republished, in the form of a pamphlet,
Sir Louis Malet's very able article on Cobden,
which appeared some time ago in the North British Review.
That review, by'tiiiiisy,liss justreiched its centenarir,

i.e., its hundredth number; and the editor announces a
great improvement in future numbers—short notices of
new books such as appear in the British Quarterly and the
London Quarterly. As I write, Mr. Walter Thorubury's
new novel, " The Vicar's Courtship," reaches me, and
have little doubt but that it will be worthy of the writer's
high reputation.
The rmcour that Frances Countees of Waldegra:e has
become the proprietor of the Morning Post, which in a
former letter I mentioned withcut confirming, is, I am
able to state, positively untrue. Equally untrue is the
report that Mr. Childers has purchased that paper.
The Four-in-Hand Club is becoming quite an institu-
tion. No fewer than► fourteen drags, with their
quadruple teams, were gathered together at Charing-cross
this morning, and then proceeded down Parliament-
street. I suppose that their noble occupants were going
to witness the weekly slaughter of pigeons at Hurling.
ham.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.