The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FBIDAY EVENING, AUG IJST 9, 1867.

LEWES RACES, Friday and Saturday,
August 9 and 10.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST
RAILWAY.
ARRANGEMENTS: CHEAP RETURN TICKETS
from London to LEWES each day. Fares: Ist clags,
lie.; second class. Bs. ; 3d class, ss. 6d., by trains from
Kensington 7445, Victoria 7.55, London-bridge 8.0, and
Croydon 8.25 a.m. ; returning from Lewes at 7.50 p.m.
These tickets are only available for the trains above
specified, and on the day of issue.
Fast t rains from Victoria 16.35, London-bridge 10.45, and
Croydon 11.5 a.m.,•at ordinary (Ist and 2d class) fares
returning from Lewes 7.0 p.m. ou the 9th, and 5.30 p.m. on
the 10th• August.
EXPRESS TRAINS, let and 2d class, from Victoria
9.55, London-bridge 10.0, and Croydon 10.20 a.m., rt
REGULAR EXPRESS FARES. EXPRESS RETURN
TICKETS are available to return the same day, or
day following that of issue, and by any train or by the
SPECIAL EXPRESS TRAIN, leaving Lewes direct for
Croydon, London-bridge, Victoria, and Kensington at 7.0
p.m., on the 9th, and 530 p.m. on the 10th August.
FROM BRIGHTON by Ist, 21, and 3d class trains, at
10.30 10.55 a.m., and 12.5 p.m. ; returning from Lewes
5.35 p.m.:6.50 p.m., end 7.10 p.m.
LONDON AND NORTH-
CALEDONIAN RAI

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EUSTON STATION and the PR]
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TOWNS in

WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS.
GIS. GIS. GIS. WS. CMS. GIS. GIS. GIS.
1 2 1 2 12 12 121 2 3 1 2 12 3
London a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
(Euston) dp 9. 0 10. 0 11.20 8.40 9. 0 9.15 8.35 8.15
p.m. p.m. p ro. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.
Preston.= 2.33 3.23 6.10 1.56 3. 5 3.28 1.56 3.28
Carlislo
Edinburgh 9.10 12.45 7.10 9.30 9.40 7.10 9.40
Glasgow 9.30. 12.55 7. 9,50 10. 5 7.22 10. 5
Stirling - 7.55 10.40
Perth 12.20 11720 9. ... 11.55 9. 0 11.55
m. P.m-
Dundee 12 P.
.30 ... 10.10 ... 1.15 10.10 1.15
port. p.m.
Aberdeen 3.45 ... 12.35 4.10 12.35 4.10
Inverness
v.Dtinkeld. 9. 0 ... 2.45 ... 7.20 2.45 7.20
Tho 10.0 a.m. Morning Express stops 20 minutes at

Tho 10.0 a.m. Morning _ xpross sto'
Preston to allow passengers to dine.
Conductors in chargo of the Through Luggage travel
from London to Perth by the trains leaving Euston at 10.0
a.m. and 9.15 p.m., and to Glasgow by the train leaving at
11.20 a.m.
On Saturday Evenings passengers are not booked by the
9.15 p.m. train further north than Edinburgh and Glasgow.
W. OAWKWELL, General Manager.
Easton Station, August, 1867.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
PARIS EXHIBITION.
NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS.
Arrangements are now made for the CONVEYANCE of
ARTIZANS, with their Wives and Families, Factory
Hands, and other workpeople through to PARIS, at
REDUCED FARES, by ordinary Third-Class Trains
Daily, on production of the authorised form of certificate
from their eziployers.
Forms of certificate, and information as to the trains and
arrangements, can bo obtained on application to the book-
ing clerks at any of the principal stations,
By order,
W. CAWK WELL, General Manager.
.Euston Station, July 25, 1867.

CONTRACT FOR MOP HEADS FOR THE ROYAL

MARINES.

r Contract Depa4ment, Adm;ralty, Somerset
House, August 1, 1867.
•
T" .COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
13th inst., at Twelve o'clock at neon, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores, at Deptford, all such quantities of
MOP HEADS
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as may from time to time be demanded, for the use of the
Royal Marines, under a Contract for Twelve Months cer-
tain, and further until the expiration of Three Months'
warning.
A pattern of the mop heads may bo .seen at the Royal
Marine Office, Now-street, Spring-gardens, between the
hours of Elaven and Two o'clock.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty; and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the loft-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Mop Heads," and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, en-
gaging to become bound with the person tendering in the
sum of £lOO for the due performance of the Contract.
By Order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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minirities should be agreed to. B,!fore this amend-
ment came on the Comm-Nis had sufficiently vindi-
cated their independence by summarily rejeczing
three alterations of the Lords of small importance.
Mr. Bright proposed the rejection of this amend-
ment in a speech which, extremely weak as a piece
of argument, was excepionally strong as a piece of
declamation, and a debate ensued remarkable until
Mr. GlAstone rose only by a singullrly able speech
from Mr. Knatchbull-llugessen, who disposed of
Mr. Bright's contentious with a debating power for
the poss. ssicn of u hich no one had given him
credit.. Mr. Gladstone spoke under the convic-
tion of d.2feat. Ilis forced laugh showed the
passions he tried to smother, and the . singular
self-contradictions in which ie involved himself

exhibited the mental confusion which his irrita-
tion had induced. Once or twice rising into a
passage of eloquent declamation, ho kept for the
most part in a tedious level of hysterical emotion,
exhausting himself and wearying the house only to
deliver a speech which it would have been well for

his reputation if the reporters had conspired to
suppress. We cannot attempt now to put in their
due juxtaposition the extraordinary jumble of con-
tradictions which the right hon. gentleman's speech
exhibited. Now he was calling the principle a new
and now an old one ; now he was declaring that
minorities had no right.to representation, and now
insisting that minorities are. already represented in
virtue of the excellent arrangements of our old con-.
stitution ; now be said that Arundel and lioniton
represented the minority of Liverpool and Man-
chester, and now he declared his desire to disfran-
chise Arundel and Iloniton, whilst still refusing
direct representation to those minorities ; now he
professed his desire to accept the bill as a settle-
ment, and now he insisted that the redistribution
scheme was so imperfect that, leaving the repfeaen-
tation of minorities clause out of the question, it
could not be tolerated for a single year. As Mr.
Love, in his short and telling speech, said, Mr.
Gladstone answered himself. And Liberal mem-

bers, half convinced of the justice of the principle
by Mr. Bright's failure to find any decent objection
to it, may well have been satisfied by ➢ir. Glad-
stone's painful failure that it deserved their cordial
support. By a decisive majority the house adopted
the amendment relative to the three7cornered. con-

stituencies, and by a still more decisive majority
affirmed the enfranchisement of the minority of the
City of London, against which Mr. Crawford natu-
rally made his protest. We regret very much to
have to record that the other and equally important
amendment of the Peers was rejected by a majority
as decisive as that which adopted the clause for the
representation of minorities. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer sought to conciliate opposition by
confining the use of voting papers to the counties,
but the Commons would not have them even in this
limited shape, and so the disfranchisement of the
old, infirm, and timid is continued. Mr. Bright
cannot prevent two-fifths of the electors of Bir-
mingham from returning a candidate of different
opinions to his, if they will only take the trouble
and incur the risk of recording their votes, but he,
can still make that expression of their wishes in-
convenient and perilous. If he cannot gag them
by a majority of voters he can practically do it by
the machinery of a mob. . The question now is,
What will the Lords do ? We assume that they
will accept the bill in the shape in which it is re-
turned to them. One of the amendments upon
which they laid most stress has been accepted ;
and as for the voting papers, if the Government,
whose child the plan was, is content to sacrifice it,
their lordships will hardly peril the bill by insisting
upon retaining it.
POST.—The result of the proceedings in the
House of Commons last evening will surprise most
persons and give satisfaction to comparatively few.
It will astonish those who have hitherto been under
the impression that members of Parliament re-
corded their votes in accordance with their political
convictions, and not in blind obedience to the arbi-
trary dictates of a party leader, while it will shock
those who regard the fundamental institutions of
the country as something too sacred and too valuable
to be overthrown or bartered away at a moment's
nAice for the mere sake of effecting a compromise.
Notwithstanding the immense majority by which
the House of Commons disallowed the principle
that minorities in certain constituencies were entitled
to special provisions to enable them to return re-
presentatives, it last evening reversed that decision,
not because its opinion was changed, but because it
was deemed expedient to obey the bidding of a
Minister Who, on the same issue on a former occa-
sion, had given it precisely different advice. The
amendment of the Lords, limiting the number of
votes to be given by electors in constituencies re.
turning three or more members, was agreed to at
the close of a debate in which Mr. Bright made one
of the most powerful speeches delivered during the
present session. The other amendments made by
the Lords, with the exception of two or three of a
mere verbal nature, -vvere rejected. That of the
Marquis of Salisbury, introducing the system of
voting papers, though modified by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, so as to apply alone to county
elections, was rejected by a majority of 52 in a
house of 469 members, inclusive of the Speaker and
tellers. It was known that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would in the first instance state
the course which her Majesty's Government was
prepared to take with respect to the amendments,
and this circumstance, no less than the importance
of the issue to be raised, brought together the
fullest house that probably ever met on the 7th of
August. Mr. Disraeli's statement was brief and to
the point. In the three material amendments which
had been effected by the Lords, her Majesty's Go-
vernment, he said, were prepared to concur. These
amendments were the omission of the clause intro-
duced by the House of Commons lowering the elec-
toral qualification of copyholders in counties, the
insertion of Lord Cairns's provision for securing the
representation of minorities, and the introduction of
the clause enabling electors to record their votes by
means of voting papers. A fourth amendment, Mr.
Disraeli reminded the house, had been made by the
Lord, but subsequently withdrawn—that raising
the lodger franchise. • To that amendment, had it
been insisted on by the Upper House, her Majesty's
Government would have found themselves obliged
to advise the House of Commons to refuse its assent.
In conclusion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer jus-
tified the course taken by the Government, on the
ground that the
the fundamental principles of the bill, that they
Upper House had attacked none of
dealt with it in a conciliatory spirit, and that it
therefore became the'duty of the Commons to defer
to the opinion of the Lords in those minor points on
which it differed from their own. In order, how-
ever, to estimate the true nature of the concessions
which Mr. Disraeli asked the house to make, as well
as the spirit in which they were conceived, one was
unavoidably compelled to recall not only the course
taken by the House of Commons, bat by the Go-
vernment, is dealing originally with those parti-
cular subjects which were once more put in
issue by the Lords' amendments. The copyhold
franchise in counties was lowered in obedience
to the wishes of the majority of the House of
Commons, though contrary to the inclination of
the Government. The proposition to restrict the
elective powers of voters in constituencies return-
ing more than two members was vehemently op-
posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
was rejected, on a division, by a considerable
majority. The suggestion of voting papers was in
the first instance made by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. It was supported.by him and his col-
leagues when brought in a substantive form before
the House, but was nevertheleSs rejected. It there-
fore -appears that in counselling moderation and
concessions to the [louse of Commons in respect to
towalsithdraw the disapproval it bad
these three important amendments, the Chancellor
ov thesi
ng
ixec Exchequer
v, as regarded two of them, ad-
vising
t
expressed of his• own particirlar policy. Of the
conciliatory spirit manifested by the Lords, it was
not inaptly observed by Mr. Gladstone that it was
evinced chiefly, if not exclusively, in dealine, with
those proposals which emanated from the Govern-
ment.a Amendments which owed their origin to
members of the Opposition had not, as he pointed
out, been treated in a spirit which most persons
would have been inclinel to regard as one of conci-
liation. The House proceeded to the consideration
of the amendments in a spirit which clearly indi-
cated that it was unconvinced by the reasoning of
its present recognised chief. Sir Roundell Palmer
proposed the rejection of the modification made in
the bill by the Lords respecting the electoral quali-
fications of persons occupying chambers in the uni-
versities, and his motion was carried without a divi-
sion. The House next dealt with the amendment
restoring the copyhold franchise as fixed by the
Reform Act of 1532, and, after a brief discussion,
this amendment was disagreed to on a division by a
majority of 47. It is rather singular that it was by
precisely the same. majority that the House of
Commons originally introduced the clause which,
after being erased by the Lords, it has now once
more restored to the bill. Next in order for dis-
cussion stood the amendment limiting the number
of votes to be
.given in constituencies returning
three ar more members, There were many rea-

sons why the Commons should be averse from
altering the opinion they originally expressed up-m
this point. The arguments certainly remained
the same, but any doubts which they might have
entertained that the real obj•ct of the experiment
was to neutralise the general effects of the enfran-
chisement effected by the bill must have been
removed by the candid avowals of those by wd►om
the obnoxious amendment was made. Without once
more going into the general merits or the question,
it must be admi!ted that, under the proposed system,
those constituencies which, in consequence of their
supposed importance, have received three members,
would have been much better off if they had been
left with two. If the minority should succeed in ob-
tain►ing a representative, he might be said to pair
with one of his colleagues, and, as Mr. Bright sug-
gested, the 'practical effect would be that Manchester,
with its three members, would have less weight in
Parliament than the adjoining borough of Salford,.
with two members. Arguments, however, had no
weight with men who were prepared to. follow Mr.
Disraeli into any lobby into which he might be
pleased to lead them, and the result was that the
house by a majority of 49 affirmed a proposition
which but a few weeks since it negatived by the
much greater majority of 140.. A proposal to except
the City of London from the operation of the
amendment was negatived by a somewhat larger
majority ; and the house then, after a brief debate,
rejected the amendment providing for the employ-
ment of voting papers. •