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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1869.

the person iu whom -the Constitution of the country'
vests the duty of both acting himself and advising
the Government of the WREN to act in cases of
offer.ces against the State. The holder of such an
office, by virtue of his office, does not deserve to be

treated with contempt ; and, Sir, if the holder of
such an office, by virtue: of his office, does not de-
serve to be treated with contempt, I say here, in the
presence of this House, that the pres.nt holder of

office has sustained its dignity and its credit in a
nay 'at. still less perhaps than any of its predeces-
sors--way as they have been, and I don't
question that -leaves him open to sneer or sar-
casm on grounds such as those alleged by the
right hon. gentleman." Waving that point, how-
ever, as a matter personal to the particular func-
tionary thus invidiously referred to, and not in any
way seriously affecting the legislative question actu-
ally in dispute, we cannot help saying that Mr.
BERESFORD HOPE, more pointedly perhaps than any-
one else who took part in the discussion yesterday in

the House of Commons, uttered the sentiments of its
members, when he said—" What they desired to
do was to strengthen the hands of 'the natural pro-
tectors of order—the Executive Government. And

they were glad to hear the ip,ve dixit of an► Irish At-
torney-G eneral raised in favour of order and against
sedition. They looked upon the chief law officer of
the Crown as the right authority for invok-
ing the sense of Parliament in a matter like this.''
Precisely. That is really, and seriously, and delibe-
rately the view taken by the Hottic upon the matter
now before it in regard to the late monstrous proceed-
ings of the Mayor of Cork—very soon, now, happily,

to be Mayor of Cork no longer. It is all very well
to talk of the Bill being introduced to the house
upon the ipse dixit of an Irish Attorney-General, upon
a mere ex parte statement, in a manner unprecedented,
in a manner almost unconstitutional. If allusion is
made through phrases like those to the absence —at
the very first stage of the Bill, at the first moment of
introducing it—of anything like evidence upon oath,
the time for the production of that evidence will have
arrived, in the ordinary course, at the date of the
motion for the second reading. Granted that it all,
in a manner, emanates from the ipse dixit of the
Attorney-General for Ireland. Why, in the natural
course of things, it does so. He is the responsible law
officer of the Crown in this matter, and he therefore,
in the name of the Government, is the one to assume
the responsibility. But, in what way does he adven-
ture upon this course? Does he do so unconstitu-

tionally ? Hardly can that be said, after his dis-
tine tly saying, as he did at the end of the discussion yes_
terday in the House of Commons, " I hold in my hand
at this moment a resolution which I intend to move
if leave be given to bring in the bill, and a copy of
that resolution is to be served on the Mayor of Cork,
apprising him that leave was given to bring in the
bill, that a copy of the bill is furnished to him, that
it is to be read a second time on Tuesday, and that
he is at liberty to appear at the bar of the House and
to be heard by counsel." Where, after that, is
there any plea whatever for charging the Attorney-
General for Irel ►ad with having asked the House of
Commons to act upon his own mere ipse dixit ?
Where is there any shadow of excuse for asserting
that, in the name of her MAJESTY'S Government, he
is asking the Legislature to deal with the case of the
Mayor of Cork in any way unconstitutionally ?

THE discussions on the details of the Irish Church
Bill are such dull work that we suppose we must not
grudge the House of Commons a little amusement.
Yet it was unfortunate that when Mr. GLADSTONE,
through the House in ,iisrgm a Linpasu re
ooalriYitzi

unprecedented expedient of a morning sitting during
the first week of May, the very first of such sittings
should _ have been rendered useless by the
tedious, though farcical, quarrel between the
rival champions of Protestantism. That Mr.
WHALLEY and Mr. \EWDEGATE, Arcades ambo,
should fall out might be extremely amus-
ing as an interlude, but that their dispute should
occupy a large portion of a sitting intended for
serious business, is beyond a jolie.. At this rate it
will be impossible to get the measure through com-
mittee before the Whitsun holidays ; and as these
are to be of a fortnight's duration, in obedience to the
wish of the house of Commons, it is manifest that
the month of June will have well advanced before

he chief measure of the session is before the

Lords. They will have a great deal to say to it,
even if they should think it prudent to do very little
with it. So we must not expect to be delivered from
the necessary but dreary talk about permanent curates,
glebes, and curtilages until the "raging Dog star" ap-
pears to aggravate and intensify whatever symptoms of
insanity may have been induced by incessant repeti-
tion of the words "Irish Church."

Perhaps we have been ungrateful to the members
for Peterborough and North Warwickshire in not
acltnowledging more heartily their efforts to relieve

us from the fate we fear by their diverting comedy.
It really was very funny. It appears that when that
highly successful banker, the late Mr. SPOONER,
found it necessary to resign his leadership in
the anti-Maynooth campaign there was a con-
ference among his fellow monomaniacs as to who
should succeed him. We might have expected the
choice to fall upon Mr. NEWDEGATE, who is not only
a gentleman (which Mr. WHALLEY also is), but has
secured the respect and, to a certain extent, the admi-
ration of the House of Commons, which Mr. WHALLEY
certainly has not. However, the second was chosen,
and the first was prepared to follow him loyally.
He soon found that he could not do this. In a very
short time Mr. WHALLEY, by his over-zeal,
by his lugging forward the subject on every unsea-
sonable and irrelevant occasion, brought it into such
disrepute that it was impossible to obtain a hearing
for it. Mr. NEWDEGATE was prepared to do as Mr.
SPOON= had-done, and have a Maynooth field-night
once a year. But Mr.WHALLEy wanted to have one
every week. He could not discuss a railway bill, or
foreign politics, or the Budget, without introducing
his favourite topic. The consequence was that
the House very speedily began to treat
him as a lunatic, and the Maynooth Grant as
the delusion by which he was affected. It was then
that Mr. NEWDEGATE warned his leader that he was
rendering both himself and his cause ridiculous.
Mr. WHALLEY resisted the advice of this too candid
friend, resented his tone of superiority, and went on
as before. There was a severer rebuke in store for
him. He was next accused of being a Jesuit in dis-
guise, and as it is not very easy to disprove this
accusation, it still remains unanswered, and, •no
doubt, credited by a large number of Protestants. The
end of it was that Mr.NEWDEGATE gave up Maynooth
altogether, and at last he and his ex-colleague detailed
to a -House shaken by tumultuous laughter the history
of their feud. We hare now Mr. NEWDEGATE'S
fbo7h
o oNrvrn avowalbrought into
Gi, that the Maynooth question has been
ADhopeless
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disrepute.ae trid
of
it a
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Cillaliarcyhn.o otThhaCt oldleognee,
the Irish up" simultaneously
we shall have
hw"eivratirillid the last of a name which has been famous for
a quarter of a century, but which will, in the course o:
another generation, be as little remembered as is now
the once celebrated Braintree.

WE do not share the apprehensions of some of our
contemporaries with regard to the Alabama question.
It is undoubtedly unpleasant that, just as we thought
this matter had been amicably settled—just as we
were beginning to ask if we had not rather compro-
mised our dignity by the eagerness which we had
shewn to arrange this dispute—the agreement
which we had forced ourselves rather reluctantly to
accept shouldbe torn up and the fragments thrown
in our faces. It is still more unpleasant that on°, of

he leading American statesmen should make a speech
in which he declared that we ought to make compen-
sation so extravagant that if we were to entertain it
for a single day we should abdicate our position
as a first-class Power, and expose ourselves to
the ridicule and the contempt of the world. The sup-
position that we are responsible forthe American War,
and ought to defray the cost of it, or any part of it,
is so monstrous that we cannot believe Mr. SeMNEIt
represents any large or influential section of his
countrymen. However that may be, we need not
trouble ourselves about the matter. The Americans
have chosen to refuse a friendly settlement in which
we have gone to the extremest limit of concession.
We can do nothing more. We must wait until they
return to a better state of mind, when they will
doubtless make some proposition which we shall be
able to consider.
In the meantime we do not consider that there is
any serious cause for alarm. No one supposes that
the United States have any intention of declaring
war against us. A person in the sulks goes into
the corner, but does not fight. The relations between
England and the States are far too close for any
chronic quarrel like this to lead to a rupture. When
men are thoroughly angry, when their blood is up,
then—though they be the nearest of kindred—they
will come to blows, regardless of consequences. War
was possible in 1862, it was possible again in 1865,
it is all but impossible in 1869. Every year that
removes us from the original cause of the quarrel,
the recognition of the Confederate States as a belli-
gerent Power, diminishes the chances that it will
lead to any serious difference. If our relations stood
the stress put upon them before, they are not going
to break now. Wars eight- years after date
are scarcely conceivable in these rapid days,
when ambassadors are withdrawn, hostilities
are declared, a campaign is fought, and a
treaty of peace is signed in the course of a few
weeks. Of course, the evil results of the present
quarrel are not limited to war between the two
countries directly concerned. So long as the
Alabama question is left unsettled, so long are we,
if we go to war with the KING of DAHOMEY, or the
DUKE of MONACO, exposed to attacks upon our com-
merce by Alabamas fitted out in New York. But
it must be remembered that two can play at this
game, and that of us two—the United States and
ourselves—the first is considerably the more likely
to be at war with some third Power than we are.
When a country casts longing eyes on Mexico in
the south and on Cuba in the east, and strains inter-
national law to the uttermost in expeditions of
sympathy with a rebellion which has no existence, it
is for that country rather than for us to consider if ,
it would not be well to get the Alabama question
settled once and for all.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE

(REU''ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, May 6.

The semi-official Correspondence, Italienne of ta-
day denies that a special mission to the French and
Italian Courts has been confided by the Spanish
Government to Senor Montemar, relative to a
candidature of the Duke of Aosta to the Throne
of Spain.

The same paper alls that the Duke is not be-
lieved to have any ambition in that direction.

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 5.

A Carlist conspiracy has been discovered at
Barcelona, which has led to 36 persons being ar-
rested. Several superior and commissioned officers,
both on active service and on half-pay, are among
the prisoners. Implicating documents have alsa
been seized.

.I.
Xt,.. 43 ~..,,
COURSE, May 5.--;:1 h'rao— o'clock—The `mark, t
closed as follows :--- -
-11 per Cent.
2.15 --
End of mouth... ItaP.un Fives 57 25
3 per Cent -
End of mouth 72 121 ilexican Ldan ...
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 260 Spanish Threes
Credit Fonder —.1567,, 50 Homo Debt —
End of month... Deferred 29 25
Cash_
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern....
Western . 573i
Eastern •••.. —
Sardinisin .. 49}
Austrian , 7l7*
Lombard , 4881,-
North of Spain .........
Saragossa
Roman , s3*

RAILWAY. 3.

POLICE INIELLNEIVCE.-71tis Day.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ATTACK ON THE POLlCE.—Gecrge Hoff-
man, who has become notceious for his attacks on the
police and others, was brought before Mr. Benson, on re-
mand, charged with violently assaulting and wounding
George Checkley, a police-constable, No. 216 H.
It appeared that the prisouer and another man were
fighting, at the Western end of the Commercial-road, and
the policeman separated theta, and requested both to leave
and go home. .Ono man did so. The prisoner resented
the constable's interference, and one of his brutal com-
panions, knowing his cowardly and murderous-like pro-
pensities said " Give the ----- one, George, he is all alone."
The prisoner too earnestly followed this advice, and hit
the policeman, who fell. Checkley was soon up again,
and collared Hoffman, who knocked him down
again. Bah fell, and a fierce struggle took place
on the ground. They both got up again, and
the prisoner kicked Claeckley on the legs until
he disabled him. The constable again fell, and while he
was on the ground one of the prisoner's savage confede-
rates actually jumped upon him. Another equally mur-
derous in his designs endeavoured to drive a horse and
cart stopping in the road over the senseless form of the
constable, and was only prevented doing so by Mr. Alfred
Jacobs, a tailor and outfitter in the road, who saw the
whole occurrence, and but fcr whose interference, assisted
by Mr. Walter Hayward, a traveller, the constable would
have been murdered. Mr. Hayward added that while the
constable was lying senseless on the ground the prisouor
beat Checkley's head against the stones. A large force of
police succeeded in arresting the prisoner and conveying
him to the station-house.

The prisoner sai cl he wiiuld-rele-r-vf; Ets-dtife nee.
Mr. Benson committed him for trial.

WZSTMINSTER.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A GUILD. —Jane Faithful was
charged with assaulting her little step-daught,r, Eden, six
years of age.

Mr. Motuin, secretary of the Society for the Protection
of Women and Children, prosecuted, and Mr. W. D. Smyth,
solicitor. of Rochester-row, defended.
The defendant was tefore Mr. Mansfield at this court
six weeks ago, and it appeared that for a length of time
the child Lad been beaten and ill-used, and so ill and badly
fed that at so early an age it was suffering from what is
termed mesenteric; disease, similar to diabetes in the
grownup subject. It was taken care of by the Marquis
Towcsend, and is improving in health. Mr. Mansfield
commented in the strongest terms on the horrible cruelty
that had been subsequently practised on the poor infant,
but as the defendant's solicitor stated her to be in the last
stages of consumption and her appearance fully bore that
out, the case was adjourned in order that the police might
report on the defendant's conduct.
The child has since ly.ea iu the custody of,the Marquis
and progresses favourably.
Defendant's health was reported to be worse.
Mr. Arnold ordered her to ficd £2O bail for her good
behavionr for 12 mouths.

The surely was fuitbeoming and d.fsbdant was re-
lease d.

'[he chid was aga'u taken back to the Mai quis's home
iu Oakley-street, Chulsee-

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

(rßom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS. WEDNESDAY. May 5.

M. de Porcado la Roquette has greatly disappointed the
public. We were all looking forward to a circular, which
was to be a sort of electoral manifesto, announcing that
the Government would take a moderato and liberal course
during the coming struggle. Instead of this, we are favoured
with nothing more attractive than a long and minute
disquisition on the duties of the prefects to whom it is
addressed. M. de Forcade la Roquette's circular is full
of electoral instructions of no importance, but it contains
none of the recommendations, fondly anticipated, by which
the pressure of the Administration was to be held within
much more restricted limits than on former occasions ;
by which, in fact, the system of official candidates was to
be at least greatly modified. Instead of the much-needed
stipulations that the country elector may give his vote as
he pleases, without incurring the vengeance of the autho-
rities, we find nothing but a general direction to
the prefects to everywhere " ensure the free
manifestation of public opinion." The circular,
in short, is a purely administrative, and in no respect an
official, one. It is just possible that a second manifesto
may be in existence ; indeed it is thought in
some quarters that a document announcing the
long-expected reforms in the conduct of the elections
was read and approved at the Council of Ministers held
last Saturday. But perhaps it is of no great consequence
whether such a manifesto is to be issued or not. It is
quite possible for the Government to promise all sorts
of reforms, and nullify them in practice. This
paltering with us in a double sense is by no means
uncommon under the rule of the astute Roller. He has
a genius for keeping the word of promise to the ear and
breaking it to the hope, as witness poor Emile 011ivier and
" Le 19 Janvier."

If the coming elections produce any zlose runs—and I
hear some lively anticipations—that at Marseilles ought
to be one of the closest. 11. de Lesseps is one
of the most formidable Imperialists in the field.
He is hardly to be called an official candidate of
the genuine type ; ho is moderate, and at the
same time his Suez achievement commands universal
admiration, and will ensure him large support in com-
mercial circles. On the Liberal side is M. Thiers, whom
everybody knows, and M. Gambetta, "the coming man "
of France. This young Republican is a native of Genoa,
the son of a worthy hosier. The father destined the son
to be a hosier too, but he hadsense enough to perceive the
nascent genius of the lad, and he sent him to Montfancon,
and afterwards to the Imperial Lyceum of Cabors. In
1856 ho took his degree, and after a short sojourn at
Genoa, started for Paris, where he was called to the bar in
January 1857. He became the sternest of students. For
three years he breakfasted off a halfpenny roll, dined
at five o'clock on tenpence, and supped on another half-
penny. He was a total abstainer. In 1859, young as he
was, his articles were being published in the Opinion
Nationale. In IECO he passed his these on mortgage, and
entered as a clerk under M. de Jony. A few months
later be took the oaths, and his maiden speech as a barris-
ter was made on August 25, 1861. lie carried his
cause, and his first victory was followed by many
others. In 1862 he was selected with Jules Favre,
Picard, and Emile 011ivier, as counsel for the
fifty-four individuals implicated in the secret
society accusation. He is a marvellously-eloquent orator;
it is doubtful, indeed, even at this early period of his
career, whether any speaker in France can surpass him.
The battle at Marseilles between such competitors as I
have mentioned ought to be the most exciting in the
country.

A. madcap feat has been performed at Bordeaux. The
inhabitants of that city were amazed the other morn-
ing to find floating from the summit of the spire of
St. Michel a coloured flag, said to be a piece of a curtain,
on which was drawn a heart pierced by an arrow, and
underneath were the words, "Libert6, Paix." The spire
is about 375 ft. in height and extremely difficult of ascent.
What interest or fantasy could have induced any man to
perform such a feat at night puzzles every one. Two
workmen have been employed to get down the banner.
The Nord announces that, by permission of the Russian
Government, Schamyl, the famous Circassian hero, is
about to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

A "family fete" is given this evening at the Tuileries,
to celebrate the anniversary of the Empress's birthday.
ller Majesty is advancing far in the unwelcome region.of
middle age. She has completed her 42nd year.
Judging by a communication from the Minister of
Finance to the heads of his department, it would seem
that the Government meant to apply administrative
pressure as tightly as ever on the 23rd and 24th.
M. Magne tells his subordinates that they must give
the Government the nasigtauce which ;t has a rialit to
expect, ; mut, tnau Lucy JAL,
the prefects, and follow their directions. They must
likewise persuade their assistants to vote for the proper
men, that is, the official men. This does not look like
reform.

THE COMIC PAPERS.

From the Owl.

THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE MAYOR OF conic.
Why are his speeches inflammatory ?-I.3ecause Cork is
light.
Why are they puerile?---Because Cork is buoyant.
Why are they harmless?—Because Cork is all bark.
Why must they soon end ?—Because Cork is a stopper.
Why will the Government have to call in the assistance
of a local miser?—Because they require a Corkscrew.
Whither should we send the Mayor ?—To a Yankee
Caucus!

(From Punch.)
." MOTLEY'S YOUR ONLY WEAR."—Mr. Motley is coming.
America, in the person of Reverdy Johnson, has had
enough of dinners. Mr. Motley comes in for getting her
desserts.

" HAIL ! COLUMBIA" MARKET.—Miss Angela Burdett
Coutts, Lady of the Poor, has given Bethnal Green a
market costing, it is said, £200,000. This is the best money
market we ever heard of. _ _ .

A SCRATCH WITH A SAW.—Artist : " Why is banging
at the Royal Academy Exhibition like kissing ?" Acade-
mician: " I'm sure I don't know." Artist : " Because
hanging goes by favour."
PROTECTION. WANTED.—There is a bill now passing
through Parliament entitled the " Sea•birds' Preservation
Bill." This is a very commendable measure ; but would
it not be advisable also to protect another class of creatures
rather too much shot at just now ? Is not a Landlords'
Preservation Bill desirable ? _ .

..... --
REAL BENEVOLENCE.- Field-Marshal Punch having
learnt, to his great surprise, that there were hundreds of
beautiful pictures, by English artists, excluded this year
from, the R.A. Exhibition for want of space, offered to
lend the greater part of the frame of his full-length por.
trait, as the usual curtain, pillar, inkstand, open letter,
gloves, and cocked-hat could be seen in several other
works in the room.

(From Fan.)

A DEFINITION BY A HORRID OLD TORY.—The Cap of
Liberty :—A mob cap.
" ONE TOUCH OF NATURE."—NO wonder that veloci-
pedes should become the rage ; they can travel at a mar-
vellous pace—downhill.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.--Those menibers of tfie lioAse
of Commons who took part in the debate on the New
Law Courts before the rising of the Chancellor of
Exchequer declare that he was guilty of great rudeness in
taking a site at them on the sly !

(From Judy.)

THE TURF.—Latest Scratching.—John Bright, out of
all his Birmingham and Manchester engagements.
CARPE DIEM (Man Threatening his Wife).—Cautions
Person : " You'll see vether I von't do for yer—and before
the 'ome Sekkeritry goes out of hoffice too."

THAT'S THE QUESTION.—In the recent race for the Two
Thousand Guineas Stakes, at Newmarket, Prince Imperial
was ridden by French. Will the French ever be ridden by
the Prince Imperial.

On Tuesday intelligence was received in Liverpool
from Wexford that the barque Emma, which left the 3lersey
for Bahia on the 28th ult., had been diivon ashore on the
Wexford coast. Captain Wreckmeastcr and the crow are
reported to have been saved, but it was expected that the
vessel would become a total wreck, as the weather was very
stormy.

So strong a gale raged off Douglas on Tuesday that
his Royal llighness Princo Arthur was unable to land in
tho bay, and ccnsequently the disembarkation had
to be made at Port Erin breakwater. Hero, however, a
largo number of spectators had assembled, and the Princo
was Erected with a most enthusiastic reception. His
Royal Highness proceeded immediately tc Castletown, and
thence to Douglas, where a gland bail w as given last night.
The town was also illuminated.

Under the beading " Another Robbery of Arms at
Cork," the following telegram is published, dated Cork,
May I; :—A t midnight the goods store of Mr. Connelly, for-
warding agent, was entered by seven men, who kept the
people in charge of the concern in custody while they searched
through the property in store, selecting two boxes belong-
ing to Captain 3lacquay, RE, which were left for convey-
anco to Carlisle Fort. They broke open ono containing
military uniforms, from which they made selections, and
carried off the other box without opening, in which were
arms. Tho constabulary vfnro quickly in pursuit, but pp
arrest made.

TITE SALISBURY ELECTION PETITION.

In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, the case
of " Ryder v. Hamilton" came before the court as a special
case. At the last election for New Sarum the petitioner,
the respondent, and Mr. G. A. Lush were candidates, and
the numbers were at the close of the poll—For Mr. Lush,
748 ; for the respondent, 679 ; and for the appellant, 623.
The appellant subsequently presented a petition against the
return of the respondent, and claimed the seat. By a
local Act of the 11th Geo. IV. the custom was for the
owners of tenements under the annual rating of £lO to
compound for the rates, the owners, and not the occupiers
being rated. The question submitted to the court was,
whether the compound occupiers were entitled to vote.
If they were so entitled, the court was to certify that the
respondent was duly elected ; but if not, then the court
was to certify that the appellant was elected, and ought
to have been returned as member. Mr. Mellish, Q.C.,
appeased for the respondent, and submitted that the
register of voters was clearly intended by the statute to he
conclusive upon such questions as that of rating. The
Lord Chief Justice said he was clearly of opinion that the
08 Section of the Registration Act, 1843, was incorporated
with the representation of the People Act, 1867, and that
the case must be governed by the construction to be put
upon the 08th Section. Rating was a part of the qualifi-
cation, and the questions in reference to it were to be
finally disposed of by the revising barrister. Judgment
for the respondent, with costs.