The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-10 00:00:00

NOT-CONTENTS.

CHURCH RATES.
Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice that next session he
should move for leave to introduce a bill to abolish the
rayment of compulsory Church-rates.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER appealed to
several hoe. members who had notices of motion standing
on the paper on the motion for going into committee of
supply.- The right hon. gentleman said it was of the
highest importance that the remaining votes in supply
should be taken, and therefore he hoped hon. members
would not persevere that day and bring forward the sub-
jects standing in their names.
Mr. FAWCETT said he bad a notice to the effect that
it would be undesirable for the Government to advise her
Majesty to grant a new charter to any new university
in Ireland without first consulting Parliament. If the
right hon. gentleman would give him an assurance to that
effect he would gladly give way.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having
given the required promise, the hon. member said he
should not bring forward the motion of which he had
given notice.
The other hon. members having consented to postpone
the motions that stood in their names the amendments
for the Church Temporalities Orders (Ireland) Validation
were considered, agreel to, and the bill lead a third time.
The same course having been adopted with respect to the
Railway Companies (Ireland) Advances and Merchant
Shipping Bill, the house went into Committee of Supply.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.
On the vote of £162,387, to complete the sum of
£206,387, to defray the expenses of the Science and Art
Department of the United Kingdom being proposed, a
desultory discussion arose, which terminated by the vote
being agreed to.
The next vote proposed was £5,711 to complete the
sum of £165,700 for the London University. The vote
was agreed to without discussion.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied in disposing
of the votes in supplementary civil service estimates.
At the evening sitting the house went again into a com-
mittee of supply.
On a supplementary Civil Service vote of £25,000 for
the entertainment of the Sultan and the Viceroy, Mr.
Ayrton took objection to the form of the vote, maintaining
that it wore the appearance of an irregular addition to the
Civil List—to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(supported by Sir R. Palmer) replied that this had nothing
to do with the Civil List, and that the visit being a na-
tional one a special vote was necessary; and Lord Elcho
drew attention to the inconveniences and the loss of
national credit resulting from the want of a suitable resi-
dence in which distinguished visitors could be entertained.
A vote of £15,000 for purchases at the Paris Exhibition
was agreed to, Mr. Hunt explaining that it was to be saved
out of the £116,000 vcted for the expenses of the British
Commission.
.The committee then took the vote for Irish Education,
the debate on which was adjourned on Monday last.
Sir J. GRAY went at some length into the statistics of
Irish education to show that the mixed system had not
succeeded, and contending that the model schools were
ugelisior purposes of proselytism, and that children were
educated there whose parents were able to pay for them
elsewhere, moved to strike out the £23,500 expended on

them.
Similar view were expressed by Mr. P. Urquhart, Sir
G. Bowyer, and The O'Conor Don, who, however, depre-
cated the proposed reduction of the vote, on the ground
that the whole subject was to be inquired into by a Royal

Commission.
Mr. F. POWELL expressed his regret that soms com-
prehensive scheme of education could not be devised, which
!night be imparted to children of all denominations.
Lord C. lIAMILTON made some strong remarks on
what he characterised as the ludicrous misstatements of
Sirj. Gray and others, and, after some observations from
Mr. Whalley,
Lord, NAAS brought the discussion to a close by ex-
plaining- that the Commission would be limited to inquiring
into primary education, and expressing a confident antici-
pation that its result would be to suggest alterations which
would make the system more universally acceptable ; and,
Sir J. Gray's motion having been withdrawn,
The vote vies agreed to, as was also a vote for the
salaries of the lish E I ucation Commissioners' Office, which
concluded the Irish ElucatiOu ComrniB3ions' Office, which
concluded the business of Committee of Supply for the

ons Bill a

year.
On going into Committee on the Fortifies._
short discussion oa the coast fortifications took place, Mr.
O'BArae and Lord Elcho complaining that sufficient pre
cautions had not been taken to ascertain the best system
of building forts, and suggesting that fresh experiments
should be made before further progress was made with
these works.
Sir J. PAKINGTON explained the intentions of the
War-office, and the bill passed through committee.
Some other orders were disposed of, and the house ad-
journed at ten minutes past two o'clock.

ARCHBISITOP. Malmosbury Colville of Culross
Canterbury Mansfield Crofton
LORD Cla \ CELLOR. Nelson (Teller) Delamere [Teller]
Chelmsford Powis Denman
DUKES. Romney De Ros
Beaufort Selkirk. Dunsandle and
Buckingham and Shaftesbury Clanconal
Chandos Shrewsbury Egerton
Marlborough Tankervillo Foxford (E. Lime-
Richmond Winchilsea and rick)
ming/38E2, Nottingham Gage (V. Gage)
Abercorn VISCOUNTS. Grantley
Bath De Vesci Hartismere (L.
Bristol Eversley Henniker)
Exeter Hawarden Hey tesbury
Salisbury Melville Hylton
Westmeath Stratford de Red- Level and Holland
EARLS. cliffe (E. Egmont)
Abergavenny BISHOPS. Lyttelton
Amherst Chester Northwick
Bathurst (ilocester and Penrhyn
Beauchamp Bristol Rayleigh
Bradford Ossory, &c. Redesdale
Brooke & Warwick Oxford S herbaria()
Cadogan Peterborough Silchester T.
Derby Salisbury . Longford
Devon LORDS. Skelmersda e
Graham (D. Mon- Bagot Sondes
trose) Boston TemplemDre
Grey Brancepeth (V. Tenterden
lladdington Boyne) Thurlow •
Harrow by Churston Vernon
Leven and Melville Clinton - Wynford
Lucan Colonsay

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(From Correspondents of the Anglo-American Times.)
PARIS, August 8.
"Well met by moonlight, proud Titania."
I am apt to think the quotation pertinent, inas-
much as the brilliancy of the harvest moon has by
no means waned by nine o'clock on a summer
morning in Paris, and also as I probably play the
part of Bottom in thus perpetually roaring out hints
possibly undesired and unappreciated ; however, as
I have as yet heard of no active proceedings, such
for instance; as the stopping of a few papers having
been taken, I will venture to resume, with the
reader, our interrupted promenade, taking as our
point of depart the palace of all the world, backed
by the Seine, with its shady boulevards and
glittering shop-fronts, in which are displayed
the treasures and fabrications of east, west, north,
and south, and we enjoy a spectacle which I
can only represent to your imagination by
asking you, gentle reader, to picture to yourself
the aforesaid Seine running through the finest
streets of London, or rather of the splendid Broad-
way. But we do not pass shop fronts only ; from
time to time on the right and left tower the public
buildings ; churches, &c., rise in view ; we are pass-
ing the Louvre, with its architectural restorations
and embellishments ; in the vast square of the
Palace yard are drawn up a battalion of infantry,
they are the Zouaves of the Imperial Guard, in their
magnificent oriental costume, the picked soldiers of
the Empire, whose bronzed, manly features play
the deuce with the hearts of many a dame and
damsel fair of La Belle Paris. On a sudden three
cavaliers ride forward, clad simply in black, and
as the foremost approaches, the bayonets of the
square flash in the sun, as if moved, not by
the hands of living men, but as if by the
action of machinery, for that plainly dressed
gentleman, mounted on that magnificent light
chestnut, is no other than his most gracious and
puissant Majesty Napoleon the Third, Emperor of
France. Various evolutions follow with the same
automatic precision, the Emperor and his Staff fol-
lowing on horseback the movements of the Brigade.
At last, however, the Review is finished, and we
again move on. We pass the Hotel de Ville, the
Institut Francais, the immense Casernes or Bar-
racks of the Troops anti Gendarmerie. We reach
the Pont Neuf, long ago celebrated in the Paris
annals of crime, with its Grand Equestrian Statue
of Henri Quatre, hero of many a French Le- '
gend, whose white-plumed helmet served for the
Oriflamme, the ancient standard of France, in the
Great Battle of the League. Further on we arrive
opposite the ancient and celebrated cathedral
of Notre Dame, with its exquisite architecture
immortalised by the fertile pen of Victor Hugo
in the " Hunchback ;" but as iu the case of the Exhi-
bition we must content ourselves with only a pass-
ing glance at present. In front of the cathedral, on
the opposite side of the river, lies moored a long
line of barges, from which large panniers of fruit,
apples, pears, or grapes are continually passing to
the shore, or lie exposed for sale upon the quays,
for these are the market-boats which come up from
Fontainebleau and its vicinity ; whilst above, on
the Boulevard, the attractions of the Seine are
heightened by the varied hues and' perfume of an
open-air flower market. On, still on, though we
feel that we could linger a little longer were it only
to masticate a few of those tempting purple clusters
lying so neatly in their little willow-baskets. But
our moral policemen exhorts us to move on, and
we obey the mandate. What building are we passing
now with its double entrance and constant stream
of visitors. We enter, and we find the Morgue, the
Seine has been fertile in accidents, and three corpses
lie exposed for recognition on stone benches, behind
a thick glass screen which divides them from the
public ; the room is full of anxious relatives eagerly
scanning the pale faces of the departed, in most in-
stances!, however, without recognition. Two in-
scriptions on each wall invite the visitor to afford
whatever information may be in his power, and
acquaint him at the same time that he will incur no
expense thereby. But the view of the Morgue is too
saddening to invite a long delay, and we pass on
along by the Wine Hall until we reach the Jardin
des Plantes, which we may more properly term
the Paris Zoological Gardens with its rare col-
lection of animated nature. The entry is free,
and the gardens are seldom without a crowd,
the majority being composed generally of young
soldiers of the line, whose spending allowance of one
sou, or halfpenny, per day does not warrant them in
indulging in too expensive pleasures. The collet
tion of birds and beasts is rare and extensive, and
the warmer climate of France has accomplished the
preservation of some choice specimens, which the
more humid climate of England has failed to effect.
The gardens, mixed with groves, are extensive, and
most artistically laid out, and studded throughout
with museums, lecture rooms, &c. A cup of exqui-
site coffee here, worthy reader, in front of the
quaint little cafe adjoining the gardens, and in an-
other quarter of an hour we reach Bercy, the scene
of the tournament—(for we must post-date that in-
teresting event, and come at once upon the spec-
tacle.) A large parallelogram of water is enclosed by
barges moored together, the fourth side of the paral-
lelogram being formed by the quay itself, on which is
erected a large enclosed tent and tribune filled with
the elite of the fort. Ladies, naval officers, judges,
visitors, &c., for the water jousts of Bercy are no
ordinary event there, and although I made repeated
inquiries I found no one sufficiently well informed
as to be acqu tinted with the period of their origin.
The scene is a very animated one, for the Seine
here, of considerable width, is covered with plea.
boats of all descriptions—steamers are passi •ng up
and down incessantly, whilst a little lower down
the trains of the Lyons Railway thunder ever and
anon over one of the many bridges which span the
river ; on the broad quays are ranged long rows of
casks frequently arranged under camp tents, for
Bercy has been colonised, as it were, by wine and
brandy merchants, and as such seems their special
habitation and resort. In the enclosed space of
water two quaintly-shaped boats, made so as
to pull either way, are advancing against
each other, each impelled by two pair of
paddles, two or three others of the respective crews
lying about in the boats at their ease, the helmsman
standing erect and steering with a cu iously shaped

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