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endowed so soon as the bill is passed, say next
August ; at the same time the present Ecclesia§tica).
Commission will be wound up, and the property
of the Irish Church will be vested -in- --a-
new commission appointed for ten years. Ms-,
establishment is fixed, though not unalterably,
for January 1, 1871. At that date the
union between the Churches of England and Ireland
will be dissolved, all ecclesiastical corporations will
be abolished, and the ecclesiastical laws will be no
longer binding as laws except in so far as they
become part of a voluntary contract between the
clergy and the laity. In the interval between the
passing of the Act and the date of disestablishment,
and during the reorganisation of the Church,
appointments will be made to spiritual offices and to
livings, but they will not confer any vested interests.
The Act which prevents the Church from assem-
bling a convention will be repealed, and the QUEEN
will recognise any governing body on which the clergy
and the laity might agree, provided it represented
both. That body will be incorporated. Vested
interests Mr. GLADSTONE always promised should
be respected. They will be respected. The
new commissioners will ascertain the amount
of each incumbent's net income, and so long
as he discharges his duties the income will be
paid him ; or, if he prefer, he may have the income
commuted into an annuity for life. Curates who
have been employed in the same parish for the two
years ending Jan. 1, 1871, or who have left the
parish not through their own free will or misconduct,
will be entitled to compensation. Private endowments
since the year 1660 will not be touched, but these
do not include churches and glebe houses. As to
churches, wherever the new governing body declares
that it means to maintain them for public worship, or
to remove them to a more convenient place, they will
be handed over to that body; but St. Patrick's
Cathedral and a few other historic buildings will be
maintained out of a special fund allocated by the
commissioners, Glebe houses will be handed over to
the governing body on its paying the building
charges, and it will be allowed to purchase a
certain amount of glebe lands round the houses at
a fair valuation. The burial grounds adjacent to
churches will go with the churches ; all others will
be transferred to the poor-law guardians. The reci-
pients of the Regium Donum and the Maynooth
Grant will be compensated on the same principle as
incumbents of churches. The tithe-rent charge is to
be extinguished in 45 years, landlords being allowed
to purchase it at 22 years purchase, but the right of
pre-emption both as to the tithe-rent charge and as
to the lands sold by the commissioners, will be con-
ferred upon the tenants. The total value of
the Church property is £16,000,000. The
arrangements already mentioned will absorb
rather more than a half of this amount. In
round figures there remains £7,000,000 to be distri-
buted. In dealing with this large sum Mr. GLAD-
STONE exercised the orator's art by naming one after
another the objects to which the money might be
devoted, and naming them only to dismiss them.
At last, when he had excited curiosity to the utter-
most by this exhaustive eliminatory process, he pro-
claimed his scheme, which, in a word, consisted of
the application of the money to the support of
institutions for the relief of unavoidable calamity.
There is no denying the fact that the House was
at first both surprised and displeased by this revela-
tion. There went through the assembly a sort of
half-suppressed groan, a half-audible murmur of dis-
content. But soon the accomplished orator unfolded
his reasons, and as he went on those who listened
were persuaded, even those who did not wish to be
convinced, admitted, as their organ says, that " we do
not know a more innocent and prudent mode of
getting rid of the plunder could have been devised
by those who felt its possession only as an encum-
brance and a danger."
The morning's reflection justifies the night's
conviction. Let us try the scheme by the
double test of comparison with others, and
by its inherent worth. It would have been
possible to appropriate this large fund to the co-ordi-
nate endowment of the three chief religious com-
munions in Ireland. That scheme has its
attractions for several eminent statesmen, but
its one fatal defect is that the nation is resolutely set
against it ; that the nation would rather have no
connection at all between the Church and the State
than that the State should in consequence of that
connection teach what the majority of the nation
believes to be falsehood. Moreover, Mr. GLADSTONE
had pledged himself again and again that no portion
of this fund should be given to religious teaching.
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approach to the purpose for which the
money
devoted. But, unfortunately,
secular education in Ireland is as much a battle-
ground of contending religionists as the Established
Churchitself. Thepresent scheme seems likely to break
down,
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entangling it with the educational difficulty. There
is a further objection to this proposal ; the Irish
would suspect the Government, especially an econo-
mical Government like the present, of making use of
this fund in order to diminish the charges upon the
exchequer for education—in order that Ireland might
get so much less in the way of grants from
the Education Department. A similar objec-
tion offered when considering the propriety
of applying the fund to the relief of the
poor. That would have been merely relieving
the landlords, who now virtually, if not nominally,
pay the poor rates. Public works and the purchase
of railways would have offered attractions to a
Government anxious to obtain popularity, and willing
to spend a good deal of public money in gaining it.
But public works mean public jobs, mean public
scrambles for grants. They are further open to two
fatal objections, the one that a public fund is spent
for the benefit of only a few localities ; the other, that
this scheme does not possess the element of finality,
since, if the fund were properly spent, it would be re-
productive, andthus Government would be frequently
burdened with the responsibility of distributing this
money instead of distributing it once for all. Rail-
ways are open to nearly the same objections, and
both offer this additional impediment, they bear no
relation to the object for which the money was
originally granted—the cy pres principle is altogether
set aside.

No such objections attend the plan which Mr.
GLADSTONE proposes. By giving the fund to the
maintenance of lunatic asylums, of idiot asylums,
of training schools for the deaf, dumb, and blind, of
reformatories, county infirmaries, and the training
of nurses, several objects are attained simultaneously.
The very poor are relieved from a tax—the countycess
—which is borne at present even by the occupant of
the hovel; there is no room for jobbery, and the
cy pros principle is religiously observed. To the last
point we attach especial importance. We could
not have viewed without regret and dislike,
and even reprobation the diversion of funds
intended for religious purposes to purely
secular purposes like the making of roads
land the (Training of bogs. But the most scrupulous
respecter of pious intentions cannot object to tile em-
ployment of religious funds in such a thoroughly re-
ligious object as the care of the sick, the infirm, and
theyoung. The Founder of Christianity spent a large
portion of his ministry in such works as these. We
have not the gift of miraculous healing, but at least
we are better acquainted with the laws of natural
healing than the men of 2,000 years ago were. The most
deeply religious among us need not shrink from fol-
lowing the example of llim who opened the eyes of
the blind, who made the deaf to hear, the dumb to
speak, the halt to walk—of Him who was " the
Saviour of the body."

9 I

THE MAGAZINES.
Blackwood is changing_its character. Formerly it used
to give -maga; now it gives mu/tum. The articles used to
be light and-sparkling ; now they are substantial, and, it The Irish Church Bill, issued yesterday, is backed Ly
must be confessed, occasionally heavy. Of what is con- the names of Mr. Dodson, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. John
by such usly ca
as lled
" p ing,' but
of old,,
or by Matth when suppliee w d Bright, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, and Mr. Attorney men - Professor Wilson
Arnold of to-day, is often the very choicest of writing, General for Ireland. It occupies twenty-eight pages of
there is little or none in this month's issue. The foolscap, and contains sixty-three clauses. The
article on New Zealand is for length (twenty-five preamble says in effect that whereas it is exie-
pages) and for solidity fitter for a quarterly than dient to disestablish and disendow the Irish Church
a monthly. It contains much information about this
colony which will be new, 1 think, to most readers. I, at and to use the moneys of that Church in the relief
all events, was not prepared to find that in the three years of unavoidable calamity and suffering, and whereas the
1865-7, nearly 5i millions sterling of gold was exported Crown interposes no obstacle in the way, the three
from the west coast of the colony. The writer is deservedly estates herein take measures for the accomplishment of
severe upon the colonists for having neglected to teach the
Maories English. As to Maori atrocities, they are no these ends. The second clause enacts that on
worse than those of the Highlanders under Montrose. The and after the Ist of January, 1871, the union
Macdonalds and the Campbells, may not like to have their created by Act of Parliament between the
forefathers compared with men who, within the period of
this generation, were cannibals. Yet the comparison is
Churches of England and Ireland shall he'dissolved, and
useful when we are told that there is no alternative for the Church of Ireland shall cease to be established by law
the Maori but our extermination or his. It is fortunate The third clause appoints a royal commission, holding for the Macdonalds and the CampbThellse Arts that t
in the Hryuse- Majesty's theo did office during her pleasure, to be styled "Thei
not prevails two centuries ago. "
House- Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland," and
hold," is the title of an article upon a subject on which
Mr. Eastlake has lately written a book, but the author of the forming a body corporate, with a common seal and a
article does not seem to be acquainted with it, There are power to hold lands for the purposes of 'he Act.
some excellent rules laid down for furnishing a house, By subsequent clauses this commission ha.s excellent that is for a man with 22,000 or £3,000 to spend power to decide
in furnishing, and with a chateau to furnish. As forthose all questions whether of law or fact "which they may
of us who are condemned to live in ordinary streets and deem it necessary or expedient to decide for the purposes
terraces and crescents, with square-headed holes for doors of this Act ; and they shall not be subject to or restrained
and windows, we are likely to_profit little by these hints n the execution of their powers under this Act
so kindly offered. "The Northinen, Heathen, and i
Christian" deals chiefly with the religion and legends of by the order of any court." Further powers are
the Northean Europeans. The tenth of the Historical I given to call witnesses, &c., similar to that which
Sketches of the Reign of George 11. is devoted to the is exercised by the Court of Chancery in Ireland.
novelists of that time, Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne,
the fathers of British prose fiction. They may hear applications by persons considering them-
Most persons, I fancy, will read the last article in Mac- selves aggrieved. One commissioner has the power of
millan first. The subject," John Keble ;" the writer, deciding, with appeal to a court of two. The time for the
"A. P.
ley.att one irresistibly. Two months ago
Dean Stan wrote a sketch of a man with whom he most duration of the commission is fixed at ten years, and no
closely sympathised—Dean Milman ; this month he Commissioner during that time will be able to sit in
speaks of one from whom he in many things widely differs, Parliament. The tenth Clause lays down that, " Save as
but whom he loves, and in whom, High Churchman
though he was always, Narrow Churchman though he was herein mentioned, no person shall after the passing
sometimes, as when he broke an old friendship with Arnold of this Act be appointed by her Majesty or any other per-
because of theological differences, Dean Stanley can yet son or corporation to any archbishopric, bishopric, bene-
draw a lesson of toleration and charity which our bitter fice, or cathedral preferment in or connected with the
bigots of the two chief schools would do well to learn.
Professor Seeley, in his paper on Milton, first read, I said Church." The 11th Clause- vests all the property
believe, at the Casual Club, is honest enough to say hitherto held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the
that which many. persons are not honest enough to Commissioners under the Act. The 12th clause transfers
say, that Milton is reater than his poetry, that the all property "real and personal belonging or in any wise
"Paradise Lost "is atom parati ve failure. It is a great em
no doubt, but does not come up to the writer's standard, appertaining to or appropriated to the use of arch-
just because be chose for his subject one which gave no bishopric, bishopric, benefice, or cathedral preferment to
opportunity for expressing the great passion of his life— the Irish Church Temporality' Commissioners—said pro-
the passion for political liberty. His original intention was
to depict the Christian hero. He missed that mark, and perty, so transferred, being subject to rents or other
his most prominent figure is embodied evil. He summoned charge, and to the life interest of the archbishop, bishop,
ideal virtue to appear, and the summons was answered by or person." The 13th Clause sets forth that "on the said
the Prince of Darkness. The "Paradise Regained" was
more in accordance with his intentions, therefore he thought first day of January, 1870, every ecclesiastical corporation
it the better poem. Mr. Seeley considers that Milton's finest in Ireland, whether sole or aggregate, and every cathe.
piece is the " Samson Agonistes." Mr. Gallon, who is about dral corporation" as defined by this Act, shall be
to
short arti publis le on the subjecth a book on "H,
which is ereditary Ge
ingeniusnious, butsupplidoes dissolved, and on and after that day no archbishop or
not, I confess, much impress me. The fact that so many bishop shall be summoned to, or qualified to sib in the
judges and chancellors have had relations on the bench or House of Lords." The 14th Clause provides that an
the woolsack may be due to hereditary genius, but it may annuity equal to the amount of yearly income at present
be due also to political interest and nepotism. Political
exigencies also have something to do with the matter. received by any ecclesiastical person other than a curate,
The readers of Good Words have this month a double shall be paid to the said person by the commissioners under
allowance of material for study and amusement. The the Act. To permanent curatesthe same amount is granted
March number is accompanied by a supplementary part
of nearly equal size, and by the intimation that, in the so long as he hold his office. The commissioners are to
interest of both subscribers and contributors, the pub- decide as to the amount to be paid to any curate other than
lishers have resolved on issuing occasional supplements at permanent for the loss of his office. The bill then goes
intervals. The contents of the supplement just issued is
on to provide for compensation to diocesan schoolmaster-,s
very similar in style and character to the usual contents l
erks, and sextons, to whom the salary is to be paid
of Good Words; not, however, quite equal in interest to c
the March number proper, which boasts of essays from during the time they exercise their duties which they had
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Oxford. ' received before the disestablishment of the Church. To
Independently of any adventitious dignity, the recognised
is to be granted
organists and vergers also, compensation ability of Dr. Wilberforce would attract any reader to his
the amount to be determined by the commissioners, and
pages; and in the third instalment of his " Heroes of
Hebrew History," the Bishop draws the character of the not to exceed one year's salary. Compensation is also to
fearless and unflinching prophet Micaiah with graphic be given to lay patrons, acccording to the decision of the
power and vigorous eloquence. The new Archbishop
commissioners. Some four clauses are given to the
chooses for his subject one of the most impressive pages in
ancienthistorY,and findsevidenceof the truth of Christianity Powers of the Church after the passing of the Act. The
in the striking analogy of the incidents attending the fall of law is to be repealed as regards synods ; the existing
Jerusalem with the very words of the prophecy uttered ecclesiastical law is to hold good by contract • th
thirty-seven years before, when the Temple stood in all its -' e
glory, and the city itself was full of life and pride. present ecclesiastical courts are to be abolished.
The editor continues his records of his Indian The Church is to choose a representative assembly, repre.
impressions, Bombay and Poona being his subjects senting fully bishops, clergy, and laity, and this assembly
this month. The "Good Wards Commission
too, takes us on a journey nearer home, and is to be incorporated by her Majesty, and to have powers
spews us the interior life of the Staffordshire potteries. to hold lands, &c., cn behalf of the Church. Provision
The author of " Friends in Council " contributes another is made for the redemption of the annuities, and for the
series of his "short essays" on various heads, chiefly maintenance of churches as national monuments. Those
connected with public and official life. In the supplementary part I find a paper on "Cartes de Visite " which are ruinous, and are yet interesting, are to be (if the
by Andrew Wynter, which gives some amusing examples commissioners think fit) vested in the Board of Public
of the vagaries of the sun and his sitters. On one occasion, Works ; those which are still used for public worship are
Dr. Wynter tells us, two ladies entered the sitting-room to ,ue vested in the re dfh Ch h presentative bo yo t e urc ;
of a studio and placed themselves before a mirror. After
some time they wished to know if the portraits were not and those which still being used are yet national monuments
finished, believing the looking glass to be the operating are to be maintained by moneys vested in the Church
agent. One young lady expressed a wish that her hair by the commissioners. Then follow enactments with
should be mace a little longer, while another asked that her "
jewellery should be omitted in her portrait, not thinking respect to burial grounds, ecclesiastical residences, private
it at all necessary to remove it herself. The sun himself and mixed endowments. The 32nd Clause gives power to
is nearly as fantastic, turning yellow into black, and other the commissioners to sell the tithe rent charge
colours into white, regardless of the effect of the change to the owners of the land for twenty-two and
upon the toilette of the victim. The peculiarities of the
carte-de-visite buyers are quite equal to the eccentricities a half times its amount. The commissioners are
of the sitters. The laws which govern the supply and also to be able under certain limitations to
demand of these useful but not always attractive commo- convert their property into money. Compensation is also
&ties are very perplexing to the uninitiated.
provided in respect of the Regium Donum salaries, pro-
VISCOUNT GOUGH, G.C.B. f ess ars, and college buildings in Belfast,the AI D ynooth Grant,
gallant &c. In the case of the Regium Donum the Minister is to
The death of an old and soldier is announced—
that of Hugh, Viscount Gough, 'whose name is well-re- receive for Lis life the amount he has been accus-
tomed to receive from the Government, and certain other
membered in connection with the famous Indian cam-
paigns of twenty years ago. His lordship, whose titles in annual payments are to be commuted. The regulations
the rolls of the British peerage were Viscount Gough, of as to the appeal provide that where any person
Goojerat in the Punjaub, and of the city of Limerick, feels aggrieved by the value set by the commie-
Baron Gough, of Chinkeanfoo, in China, and of Maliaraj-
sioners in any life interest, advowsons, or right
pore and the Sutlej in the East Indies, was a son of Mr.
of presentation, in respect, of which is awarded connpen-
George Gough, of Woodstown, county Limerick, and was nation, he may refer such question to arbitration, and in
respect of any private endowment to the Court of Appeal
born Nov. 3rd, 1779. Having entered the army in 1704,
. in Chancery in Ireland. Beyond the provision for vested
he was present at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope
and of the Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay in the following interests, her Majesty in Council, upon the report of the
year. He afterwards went to the West Indies, and took part commissioners, to direct that, subject to all subsisting
in the attack on Porto Rico, did good service in the charges upon the ecclesiastical property then vested in
commissioners, whether such charges may exist previously
brigand war in St. Lucia, and distinguished himself
at the capture of Surinam. Whilst engaged in the West to the passing of this Act, or may be created under any of
Indian campaign he obtained his majority in the 87th, the provisions of this Act, such property shall be
then famous as the Prince of Wales's Irish Regiment. applied, under the management and control of the Poor-
On returning to Europe, after a brief breathing time of law Commissioners for Ireland, to the following pur-
peace, he proceeded to the Peninsula in 1809, and fought poses, or any of them ; that is to say-1. The support
under Wsilin,gton in many of his most brilliant engage- of infirmaries, hospitals, and lunatic asylums, in
went .. Id he armies of Napoleon. He commanded the exoneration of the grand jury cess, or other assessment in
87th at the battles of Talavera, Barossa,
Vittoria, and lieu thereof. 2. The support of reformatory and indus-
trial schools under the Reformatory and Industrial Schools
Nivelle ; and for his meritorious services at these places
he received a Cross. At Barossa his men captured the (Ireland) Acts, in aid of other grants for that purpose.
eagle of the Bth French Regiment, and at Vittoria they ' 3. The salaries of trained or skilled nurses for poor persons
bad the honour of securing the baton of Marshal Jourdan, in sickness or in labour. 4. The suitable education and
At Nivelle he was severely wounded. He was at the head maintenance of the blind, and of the deaf and dumb poor
of his men at the sieges of Cadiz and Tariffa, and for his in separate asylums. 5. The suitable care, training, and
gallant conduct, particularly at the latter place, where he maintenance, in separate asylums, of poor persons of weak
was wounded in the head, the War Office granted an intellect not requiring to be kept under restraint.
honourable augmentation to his arms. This consisted of
a chief containing a representation of the breach.
After the treaty of 1815 there was a long spell of peace,
and the prospect of attaining any eminence in the list of
our military chieftains seemed anything but promising.
It was not until 1830 that Gough became a major-general,
and seven years afterwards he went to India in command
of a division of the army He had not been long in the
East before he was ordered to China, where there was
then on hand one of those little wars which, at one period
of our history, appeared to arise Periodically and to inter-
rupt the relations of Great Britain with the Celestial
Empire. Having been placed at the head of our land
forces, Gough soon distinguished himself by an attack
upon Canton, which speedily brought the Chinese to their
Senses. He remained in command during the whole of
the subsequent operations, and for his services in this ex-
pedition he received the Grand Gross of the Order of the
Bath and a baronetcy, from Sir Robert Peel, in 1842. A
treaty of peace was concluded with China, but Sir Hugh
did not remain long in a state of inaction. Troubles had
once more broken out amongst some of the native popu-
lations in the East Indies,. and, towards the close of 1843,
Gough assumed the command of the British forces which
had been despatched against the Mahrattas. On December
29th, in that year, at the head of the army of Gwalior,
he defeated the enemy at Maharajpore, and captured
fifty-six guns, In 1845 and 1846 he was commander-
in-chief of the forces in India, and, supported by
Lord Hardinge, then Governor-General, in person, he
defeated the Sikhs at Moodkee,Terozeshah, and Sobraon.
For these services he was, in April, 1846, raised to the
peerage. The Sikhs, however, although conquered, were
not crushed. Two years had hardly elapsed before they
again tested the valour and determination of the British
forces. This time, however, Gough, who was then in the
seventieth year of his age, resolved to shew them no
mercy. In his last desperate struggle with these gigan-
tic savages, he succeeded, although at a great expenditure
of human life, in utterly subduing them at the battles of
Mooltan and Goojerat. For these eminent services, the
Government of Lord John Russell advanced him
to the rank of Viscount, the East India Company
granted him a pension of £2,000 a year, and Par.
liament gave him an annuity of similar amount for
himself and his two successors in the viscounty.
Thrice he enjoyed the high honour of receiving the
thanks of both Houses of Parliament, namely, on the
conclusion of his Chinese expedition in 1842, ou his defeat
of the Sikhs in 1846, and on his final triumph in 1849.
The deceased veteran was a tieid.marslial in the army,
colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, colonel-in-chief of the
60th Royal Rifles, colonel of the London Irish Volunteer
Rifles, Knight of the Star of India, Knight of St. Patrick,
Knight of St. Charles of Spain, and a Privy Councillor.
In 1807 he was married to Frances Maria, daughter of
.General Edward Stephens, R, A., and by her (who died
March 15th, 1863) had issue an only son, George Stephens,
who succeeds to the title. One of his daughters was married
to a son of the late Sir W. Arbuthnot, Bart. ; a: other to
Colonel G. Haines, of the Indian Army; and the youngest
to Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.B. The
present peer is a deputy-lieutenant of Tipperary, F.L.S.,
F.G.S. He was born January 18th, 1816, and in October,
1810, was married to Sarah, third daughter of Colonel
Palliser, of Comragh, county Wexford. This lady died
in the August following, and in June, 1846, his lordship
was married to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr.
George Arbuthnot, of Elderelie, Surrey, by whom he has
a numerous family.

I THE RATEPAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM BILL.
—Mr. Goschen's bill for amending the laws with respect
to rates assessed upon occupiers for short terms, has been
printed. It is to enable occupiers of tenements, whose
rents are payable at shorter periods than quarterly, to
pay rates and deduct the same from their rents : but
overseers are not to be prevented from entering into an
agreement to collect the rates from the owner
whenever such agreement may now lawfully be
made. No occup!er is to be compelled to pay a greater
amount of the rate than would be due for one quarter of
the year, nor more than twice the amount of the rent
payable according to the period for which the same is
reserved. In ascertaining the rateable value an allowance
of 25 per cent. from the gross estimated rental is to be
made in respect to the liability'imposed upon the owner by
the Act. There are also provisions—viz., for appeal
against valuation list and rate, and for enabling overseers
to make the poor rate payable by instalments. The Act
provides for the rating of successive occupiers, so that
each shall pay such proportion of the rate as may be due
upon the time he occupies the tenement.
GASTRONOMY IN CAMBRIDGE. —At the instance
of a prominent member of Trinity, an ass has been slaugh-
tered, dressed, and prepared for cooking. It is an animal
about nine years of age, and was for some time subjected
to light work, but of late has been "living in clover"
on the farm of Mr. Langton, at Thrtunpington, in the
vicinity of Cambridge. It was dully fattened up, then
butchered and dressed by Mr. Holden, a butcher, of
Fitzroy-street, Cambridge. The flesh after that pre-
sented the appearance of beef. The dead weight of the
animal was about 15 stone, and the carcase excited much
curiosity. On Tuesday it was removed to the larder of
Sydney College, where it will be cut up, and joints die•
tributed thence to various college kitchens. These joints
will ultimately find their way to the head tables of some
of the chief colleges. Xenophon, in his " Anabasis,"
describes the wild ass as swifter of foot than the horse,
and its flesh as like that of the red deer, but more tender.
Paris experts say that that of its humbler and more
patient brother is more delicate than, and far superior to,
veal. The verdict of the Cambridge sarans will probably
be made public in clue course.
SHOCKING MURDER AT WEDNESEURY. -- A
murder, attended with circumstances of the most shocking
dc seri p Lion , has been perpetrated near Wednesbury.
Bowen, a woman aged 50 years, was found murdered
on Monday morning, on the spare ground near the town
named, under circumstances utterly revolting. Pieces of
',rick and iron cinder were found thrust into her, and the
oily of the woman, when murdered, was dragged across
a ditch and thrown over the brow of a cinder
mound. In a ditch in the lane, near where the
body lay, there were traces of a desperate struggle
having taken place. The body itself chewed that the
deceased had been engaged in a fearful fight for life. Two
circumstances would seem to account for the fact that na
aid arrived to rescue her from her cruel assailants ; first, tin t
the nearest house is some 11,0 yards away, and next tort
die met her dreadful fate while a thunderstorm raged over
the district. That such was the case is inferred from the
'act that at about half-past ono o'c;oc•k. a short time before
storm commensed, a resid,..!:L 'n Hall lane, beard
everal men in altercation, near her 1:,,t1.;e, with a woman,
whom they were endeavouring to induce to accompany
them, and whom they were abasing in the grossest 0,0
vilest language.

PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES. f THE CHAMBER OF
.AGRICULTURE,
M
HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY ame
-0-
- - '
A day already celebrated in the annals of English
Yesterday, at the Salisbury Hotel, SalisburarlW'
Provincial
history has now 'become memorable. The long-looked for Fleet-street, the deputed members from the Pr°. measure for the pacification of Ireland has been unfolded, Chambers of Agriculture held a meeting. Other
members
and, without doubt, the doom of the Established Church
of the council were present, and also some of the members
of that country has been sealed. In consequence of the of the Legislature. Mr. Reed, M.P., of Norfolk, °fon.
on.
fine spring weather which prevailed, a large number of pied the chair, and Mr. Acland, M.P., Lord Robert hnt
spectators had assembled in the precincts of Westminster tagu, M.P. Sir Herbert Croft, M.P., Hon. Arthur I.llles,
;50
Hall, and by half-past three the usual string
of people M.P., Mr. R. Bright, M.P., Mr. Pell, MX., &e.. were also
was to he seen opposite the members' entrance. Inside the present.
House everything betokened a " great night:" the floor was The first resolution which was taken into consideration
of
crowded with members; mostly Liberals, and the Peers', was as to a deputation to the President of the
Board
Speaker's, and Strangers' Galleries were overflowing by Trade on the subject of a separate Government dePa
four o'clock. The Duke of Argyll took an early seat ment for agriculture.
moved
above the clock, where he was joined by the Archbishop Mr. JASPER MooRE, late M.P. for Shropshire,
lb
of Canterbury, although a vacant place was kept for the
this resolution, and stated it was essentially necessallq;
Duke of Cambridge, who entered the House about half- ' every department of trade should be represented. loot past four. The Lord Chancellor and Dean Stanley sat must all remember the cattle plague, and he thought
immediately behind, and close by were Mr. Reverdy
under such circumstances it was important that epeeti Johnson, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, and Sir should have an Under-Secretary in the
'rouse. " John Taylor Coleridge. The Speaker took his seat at ten believed that having this department they would haveo
minutes to four, by which time both sides of the House security.
were crowded with members, who, immediately prayers Sir HERBERT CROFT seconded the resolution, and stetedva
were over, rushed to the lobbies, there to discuss the that it was very necessary that the matter should be hike;
probable character of the bill to be brought forward. discussed, as some distinctive course ought to be ta
The first three-quarters of an hour is generally tedious, with regard to the agricultural interests of the ountrv.
but it appeared to be more than ever tiresome to-night, and Sir GEORGE JENKINSON said that he wished to drip.t
visible signs of impatience were manifested as the longstring whether it was to bear entleman who should attend t° fee
of questions were being gone through. It was generally department alone, or whether he was to be a 1"-9111
He tiled
known that Mr. Gladstone (who met with an enthusiastic having a seat in the House of Commons.
reception in New Palace-yard) would rise about a quarter that it would be better to have a permanent ofEeb`l' ado
to five, and by that time there was scarcely .a vacant seat Mr. GURNEY (Cornwall) said that supposeeney asked Mr
to be seen. The rush of members was so great that Government that a department should be set aside i
scores of them could not be accommodated in their usual
agriculture, would the Government not inquire intc' "h
-e
be e
places, and they immediately betook themselves to the matter? His suggestion was that there should
pi;
galleries, the one facing the Ministerial bench department in the Board of Trade
soon becoming overfiowiige The Solicitor-General • manent ,presided over by oer
secretary, who should be able to give tefornlatt°
was unable to find a seat on the Government to the Minister who presided over the department. I„
benches, and rather than go over to the Opposition The CHAIRMAN said they wanted a Government
(as many Liberals were under the necessity of doing), : secretary, who would furnish those statistics whieh,tab ,bet
he took UP a position in the gallery, where, however, he would be forced ultimately to supply. He thole gh" ---,lel
was soon under the influence of Morpheus, waking up in n one of the departments of the. Board of Trade might
time to hear the Prime Minister finish his long and ani- ' devoted to agriculture without having any seP3r-
mated statement. Mr. Disraeli took his seat at 4.25, 111inister.
where he was soon joined by Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Lord :
After some further discussion, during which sereill
Stanley, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Lord John Manners. amendments were proposed, the following resolution Was
On the front Ministerial bench were Mr. Bruce, Mr. carried :—" That this chamber considers it desirable °l°
Bright, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Childers, Mr. Gosehen, the there should be a separate department of agriculture, pre.
Marquis of Harlington, and Mr. Layarcl.
sided over by a permanent officer."
Exactly as the clock pointe Ito a quarter to five ,11Ir. i On the former resolution being carried, it was 011t-ee
Gladstone rose, amid loud ch2ers from the Ministerialsid.e quently proposed that the period as to when the dePtlo.
ea
of the House. The right hon. gentleman, who looked should wait upon the Board of Trade should be diseussif
excessively pale, and svhe a: peered to feel the Herculean at the next meeting, and this proposition was unanireens'
task which had devolved neon him, moved that the Acts carried.
s
relating to the Established Church, Ireland, the Acts Mr. DUCKHAM "°the
said that the second resolution was ,
vst
relating to Maynooth, and the first resolution of the effect that the chamber considered that a consolidated A
House of Commons in the session of 1808, relating to the applicable to the United Kingdom for the sanitary reg;
Established Church, Ireland, be read. This was immedi-
Wiens of the home trade and traffic in animals, and ately done by the clerk at the table, and the Speaker the establishment of safeguards against the introdatiol3
having left the chair, Mr. Gladstone again arose, amid of foreign diseases, is indispensable for preventing 'illor.
loud cheers. His voice was exceedingly clear and well mous losses of live stock by contagious and infect i°l7l
modulated, but his tone was for some minutes rather diseases. The second portion of the resolution prol)°%,,
mournful, and it was not until he received some encouraging that there should be full traffic regulations for the walie
applause from his party that he appeared to feel at ease. ing and relief of cattle. He stated that it was well known
For the first half-hour the cheers were loud and frequent, what an infliction such a thing as the contagious
elisess,
~ but when the speaker began to d 0
Clive into the intricacies of was. The milk of the cow communicated disease to the
the question, stillness reigned supreme. Once there was a calf. It had been tried upon
pigs, and affected them'
slight titter and some laughter, when he spoke of the life Even kittens had died from its effects, and mothers had
interests of graveyards ; and at another 'time, when he given it to their children innocently without knowing h°w
announced that the expenditure upon glebe houses had noxious it was.
amounted to £1,200,000, and that their entire value was Mr. RIGBY (North Cheshire) seconded this ra°von,
but £18,600 a year, considerable sensation was caused by and said that in Cheshire they had suffered very
relieh
members below the gangway, which appeared quite from the rinderpest, and they knew its terrible effects'
expected by the sneaker, who confessed that lie himself Under these circumstances he had great pleasure in
had murmured when he became aware of the fact. About seconding the resolution,
seven o'clock the attention of the House appeared Mr. PELL, M.P., wished to call the attention o•; the
to flag a little, but as Mr. Gladstone gradually unfolded chamber
to the fact that in Lord Robert Montag°,o
his scheme, and shen-ed the that the tenant farmers would gain bill; which was to come before the House,
by the changes he proposed to introduce, both sides regulations were confined to E
ngland, Scotland, 13•1:a
applauded his statements, and the greatest attention was Wales, and did not include Ireland. He thought that 4',
again directed to the speaker. When he took it for wout be advantageous to make the legislation general,.
granted that it "was written in letters of iron " that the it was stated that foreign cattle got mixed with Irish
surplus - should be applied to Irish purposes, a general stock on lands there, and subsequently came to England'
murmur of assent was given; and then he passe4 There being no objection to the resolution in detail the
in review the many proposals suggested for the arst portion of it was carried unanimously.
with
disposal of the surplus. It would not (he continued) Sir GEORGE JENKINSON wouel wish to add, -4
be applied for ecclesiastical purposes, not for any Church, regard to the second resolution, that no animal sb°-
not for any clergy, not for any teaching of religion. This be allowed to travel by rail, road, or water when seaffogi;
declaration raised all present to the very tiptoe of expec- ing from disease the words " nor within a certain Pe'
tation. " What will he do with it?" was the silent expres- from their having the disease."
sion everywhere prevalent, which was only diverted for a , After a few verbal alterations the second portion
and '-
moment by the Opposition cheering ironically when he the rest of the resolution was also agreed to.
announced that they must not make this great
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controversy—as yet itself not perfectly solved-the
rt
doorway to another set of conflicts and disputes.N
Le
ord says that Hooa Pacba is named Grand
But the emphatic declaration of the right hon. gentleman Admiral of the Turkish fleet.
DC
that, although not perfectly solved, it was very near its • The Earl of Glasgow, whose condition has
perfect solution, was hailed with ringing cheers by his despaired of, has rallied somewhat. An eminent Edinburgh
supporters, which prevented Mr. Gladstone from proceed- physician, who is in close atteneance on his lordship, is a
ing with his speech for several seconds. As soon as this opinion that he tray yet recover.
little diversion was over, members once more strained their In the course of some remarks on Free Trade, t,
ears for the coming announcement. But it seemed as if the
the Oldham
right hon. ,gentlenian waa determined to keep his audieneein the Literary . - Institution, • ''' elate,
system of Protection prevailing in the United x-'
the longest possible suspense. lle declared that if theyapplied
- t°
was not entirely a loss to us, for it left the neutral mar°
the funds to public works it would give rise to jobbery ;
ei
grave
for England to deal with as she thought proper.
He theas_
that it would be impossible to invest it in Irish Railways;
app that the foreign plan of having a Societe Industrielle for each
c
and that it would be a mistake to ly it in relief
large centre of industry was a very gcod one.
of the poor rates. At last he read the preamble of the
proposed bill, and then the secret was out when he cameA Parliamentary paper has been published
to the conclusion that "it is further expedient that Which shows that the Commissioners fat the
the said property or proceeds thereof should be a,ppro. Reduction of the National Debt have received, f)n
,
priated mainly to the relief of unavoidable cal-twit! ' account of the banks of savings, and friendly sue;
and suffering, yet so as not to cancel or impair the ties, a gross amount of £101,390,163 11s. 7d. The gre.,
obligation now attached to property under the Act for the amount of all sums raid to trustees, including interest 5/
relief of the poor." It must be confessed that there was a £62,387,979 19s. ld. The grcss amount of interest paid and
general feeling of disappointment when it was known what credited to savings tanks and friendly societies by the C°l:s
was to be done with the funds. A feeling of blank dismay snissioners up to and due on November, 20th, 18681 W
appeared to take hold of the Liberal members, whilst on £45,000,557 13s. 10d.
the Opposition side the statement created some little Father Porter, whose name was prominently
laughter, Mr. Cross, who defeated Mr. Gladstone, being
brought forward in the Convent case condemnsP the v_eardidiee; especially amused at the proposal. Whereupon In an address which ho has delivered at Liverpool, -e ,fo
the speaker, in a tone full of bitter sarcasm Porter says that the result of the trial is a proof that '
and lofty feeling, retorted that he felt " sorry that time
is
member for South-West Lancashire thinks that a matter purely Catholic matters, Catholics must not be sun:•
prised if the v do not receive iustice •." indeed, so ,,
for a laugh." The sting was felt, and no more unseemly • - - ' 'roe
Brit niggly unjust is the verdict, that "it has amazed the thiver,
interruptions occurred during the rest of his speech,
.tug portion of the Eng:ish people." He how°
if the Liberal party, who had hitherto been in raptures -
that the prosaic round of convent life will become
.13,.r0
with the proposals of their leader, for a few moments con-
glorious now that, by the tearing away of the veil, rho Si l'
sidered that a fatal mistake had been made, they soon
altered their opinion when Mr. Gladstone dilated with can be watched through their shortened lives.
c 1.000
great warmth and eloquence upon the claims which lunatics, ! E
oCI.
EXTENSION OF STATE AID TO NIGHT
the deaf and dumb, the blind, idiots, and the training
—On Tuesday a very influential deputation waited uP°n the
of nurses had upon the people of a civilised Lord President and Vice-President of the Committee
. o.
country, and when he earnestly appealed to the whole Council, to present memorials
praying that their lordship
House to give the proposal their most serious considera. would take steps to extend to night
schools that are not
tion, there were sympathising cheers in response. As connected with day schools, but that fulfil every e°o,
"Big Ben" struck the hour of eight, and after Mr. Glad- dition of the Revised Code, with the exception 0!._.,
stone had been speaking for three hours and a quaiter, being under the superintendence of the managers of the dad
the right hon. gentleman commenced his peroration. Hie schools, the same aid as is now given to night schools 11.0 d
°0
voice, which throughout his long and interesting in connection with the day schools. The deplanedspeech, had never failed him for a moment el
, ' 'as ca osixl of above twenty members of Parliament an
Appeared to get stronger and more mellow as other g- i
!enien. Earl de Grey and Ripon said he b:t to
b
~ port was sighted." For ten minutes the conventional fated to a,lopt any change for the present, but promised
pinrilliantd coul have been heard in every part of the large and give the subject his consideration, with a view to gene"
assembly ; everybody, from the prince of the legislation.
—The text of a bill has i st
blood royal to the peers, prelates, and the people, strained 1 THE LAW OF LIBEL.
Cl',entheir ears in order not to miss a single word of the con- Ub
' been published for the amendment of the law of e
eluding. sentences. The members in the galleries, It p hall b,.:
*des
action
no proprietor of a newspaper s
wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement, liable to an
d.t n or prosecution for a faithful reP°'- •
rose en masse, and every eye was directed .to the
he refits
toof theprocee proceedings of a public meeting, unless he
0.. A,
table, where the orator, in statesmanlike form, with arms publisha fair reply to the libel complained ._ to
outstretched, and turning first to the right and then to ' Mealier of defamatory matter not amount:inegi, 0
the left- now facing his great opponent and anon turning ''
slander shall be liable in certain cases to bedes_e
_adooa
round in front of his party—With his eye flashing fire, and 1 the same were printed or published. A t
It°_,ioo
his whole appearance contrasting strangely with the I may pay money into court in discharge of an
ay"tho
passive forms of those he addressed—declared that his For libel, and when the damages do not exceed ED
.eo
measure was a work of peace and justice, that his words
would be echoed from every shore where time name of p. laintiff sh.all get no more. costs than damages, unless ta..
dge certify that the libel was wilful and malicious.
.r_.,
Ireland and the name of Great Britain had been heard, 11
and that the answer to them would come back in the as prosecutions,. a.private prosecutor. will only be en::fo7.
'e to send up an indictment for libel after he has been
approving verdict of civilised mankind.
a justice and entered into recognisance to proceed vilevlt
It would be almost impossible to describe the scone in the case and pay costs of the defendant as well as .hires
e,
the House when Mr. Gladstone sat down, The Liberals in the event of his being unable to substantiate his charge'
screamed with delight, the Opposition appeared to be These two latter provisions, however, are not to apply e.
struck dumb by the effect produced, and everybody indictments for libel published with the view to extortion
a We
looked excited and delighted. For three hours andtwenty- This measure also provides that the defendant, in t-e
be el"
five minutes the orator had kept the House in rapt attention, of an indictment or imformation for libel, may ,rl,O
and when he had finished the long pent-up feeling could no amined, as well as the defendant's wife or husband. ;sir.
longer be restrained. Clapping of hands could be heard bill is endorsed by Mr. Baines, Mr. Candlish, and
from the extreme end of the Strangers' Gallery, and it was Morley.
only the strict forms of the House that kept the members
themselves from demonstrating their pleasure in this THE ENGLISHMAN IN AMERICA.—If he has 011011
fashion. After a pause of a few minutes Mr. Disraeli rose provided himself with some good introductions, Inrind.
certain of the kindest reception—indeed, of muchsointwith
all
amid a cheer from his own side of the House, but although
ness as to embarrass him in speaking his mos:lae 1_ hoe
it was hearty, yet, after the outburst of popular feeling just
the freedom desirable. I know that some travellers
talklerueoeo
displayed, it appeared to be cold and unmeaning. The leader
another code of morality. A man may
of the Opposition did .not take up the time of the cons-
on the
a sense
mittee but a few minutes, and Mr. Gladstone having given into his house, and treated them as olidla.furiiiennddes
faith of a slight introduction ; but no weak _ .
,p_rative
a graceful reply, Ih3 first scene in the great drama of
"Justice to Ireland" was over. No sooner had the of gratitude must be allowed to override the ruetosilv%
demands of truth. Duty will not permit the guest
be_..,
Premier resumed his seat fur the second time than the .
the important fact that his host-kindly
speaks with a decide
whole House was empty in a few minutes, and the other
nevertheless uses a spitto.on, andlnspe,
businessbeingbastily got through, the liouse rose allout half--
past eight. But long after that time scores of people were nasal twang. And as spiltltoconsre.
in the
triliaesnalartrawtainvegsn3:::
assembled in the lobbies, discussing the effect of the speech good tangible facts, they will figure
of
kindly feeling
prominently than the delicateof
and its probable results, It was admitted by friends and
livollipcherhcaP:ll:
opponents alike that Mr. Gladstone had never shown him- pervading every action
stitutes genuine hospitality.strong
v ;all
le; 10ar:
self in better form, and that it was one of the greatest of the many great speeches he had ever delivered in the the
Indeed,entertainer, i
natural that the more abnormal developments
character should impress themselves most " a to
British House of Commons.
f hard ar
the traveller's recollection. Quiet family-life i
dullest
ref°re
pages describe
bristle
; b ;bowie-knives sv
intoi e -le
someni v es
kindand
o f
v revolversivac
iltv3i,l.l make
And hetht e
..
it is, I imagine, that so few books of American 11
among the
reflect faithfully, what I am sure must be aro°
et the
strongest feelings of their authors, pleasant memo"' °f
extreme kindliness and simplicity of family-life in
~ eftm
..-From "Some Remarks on Travelling in America," 'WI
I,!‘ Cornhill litaggNiTiG".l.9l' lifarch.

A melancholy accident occurred on Monday night
at the Lime-street Railway Station, Liverpool. A woman,
with a child a year old in her arms, tried to get into the
London train while in motion and fell between the platform
and the carriages, She was killed on the spot, but the child.
sriiich, an threw forward in falling, ()seeped bakoP