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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1867.

approbation. The general result will be that
a share in the burgh representation will be
given to every town of six thousand population.
As the right hon. gentleman said, he did not expect
that every arrangement would pass " unques-
tioned ;" but if it was improved by discussion, her
MAJESTY'S Government had fulfilled their promise
of seeking to give to Scotland a full and fair re-
presentation—and more cannot certainly be de-
manded or desired by those who fully appreciate the
difficulties of the case.

The announcement which Lord DERBY made last
night in the lIou:e of Lords respecting the Con-
ference will be received with universal satisfaction
by all parties. On Sstsrday a satisfactory termina-
tion was come to by the members of the Con-
ference in consequence of the signature of a treaty
which guaranteed for the future the neutralisation
of Luxemburg under a collective assurance of all
the rowels. The territory is to continue under the
rule of the King of Holland, but the fortress is
to be dismantled. The noble lord added that he
felt convinced their lordships would hear with satis-
faction that " an arrangement had been come to
upon this subject, which was calculated to preserve
the peace of Europe ;" and we feel assured also,
that the sentiment of satisfaction will be re-echoed
far and wide, and cause general delight and re-
joicing. The prospect of another continental war,
and one of the magnitude which it must have been,
with France for one of the contending parties, was
indeed disastrous at the present juncture, and on
all accounts it is a subject for congratulation that
the result has been what is here recorded. The
cloud has passed away which darkened the political
horizon, and we trust that it is a good augury of
future success, and that the unwonted depression
which has weighed down public affairs in this
country, and, indeed, in other lands, will give place
to a serener season, full of confidence and indicative
of prosperity.

the Virgin Mary and the infant, there are groups
kneeling in adoration, with two angels hovering
over them. Artists must take great interest in
specimens of art of this description. This species of
chasing in repousse was in use in ancient days, and
particularly in the middle age. Almost all the
works of Benvenuto Ceßini were executed in this

style.

IttELAND.

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DUBLIN, May 13.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant on Saturday
evening despatched a special messenger to Kilmain -
ham Prison, commuting the capital sentence passed
On Patrick Doran. No decision has been arrived at
in the case of Burke as yet, but it is confidently
anticipated his sentence will be commuted also.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, an
application was made by Mr. O'Brien to admit a
prisoner named Ro:thfort to bail. The prisoner is
one cf those charged with illegally assembling with
arms, &c., in the county of Clare. Mr. Longfield,
Q.C., on the part of the Crown, did not resist the
motion, and their lordships admitted the prisoner to
bail, himself in £lOO, with two sureties in £3O each.
A similar application was made by Mr. O'Loghlen
in the case of the Queen v. Hickey and ten others,
who are charged with a like offence. Mr. Longfield
stated he would not oppose the motion in the case
of eight of the prisoners, but as the evidence con-
cerning the other three, named Geo. Dixon, Richd.
Fitzgibbon, and Stephen Slattery, was of a different
nature, the Crown did not feel warranted in con-
senting to their discharge. Their lordships, accord-
ingly, refused the application as to Fit zgibbon, Slat-
tery, and Dixon, but admitted Ilickey and the
others to bail on each entering into a recognisance
of £5O, with two sureties in £2O each.
Thomas William Clarke, who was tried last week
on a charge of treason. felony and acquitted, but who
was detained under the Whiteboy Act, was on
Saturday admitted to bail to appear at the com-
mission and take his trial on receiving ten days'
notice.

Constable Adams, whose bravery in connection
with the attack on the Kilmallock police-barracks
on the occasion of the late Fenian rising will be re-
membered, has been recommended by the Reward
Board for a sub-inspectorship. Colonel Wood, the
inspector-general, has, as a preliminary step, raised
him to the rank of first-class head constable.

REFORM MEETIXG AT BERMONDSEY.

Last evening a densely crowded public meeting
was held in Newton's factory, Rouel-road, Bet.:
mondsey, in support of a lodger franchise, and in
opposition to the personal rating clause of the Go-
vernment Reform Bill. Mr. E. D. Rogers occu-
pied the chair, supported by Messrs. Locke and
Layard, the members fur the borough, and a large
number of the ratepayers of the district.
The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings with a
strong condemnation of the Government bill, and a
declaration that nothing short of a residential and
registered manhood suffrage would satisfy the great
body of the people.
Mr. Loc
received K-E'MP"then addressed the meeting.
He was with loud cries of " How about the
tea-room ?" The hon. member then proceeded at
some length to justify his conduct in attending,
what was called the tea-room meeting. By attend-
ing that meeting he had no intention of deserting
Mr. Gladstone or the Liberal party, to whom he
had given a constant support, but to endeavour to
get rid of the arbitrary £5 rating line. (Bear.) He
was one of the few members of the House of Com-
mons in favour of household suffrage pure and
simple—(bear)—with a liberal lodger franchise. He
hopes
had voted with Mr. Gladstone both ou the 12th of
April against personal rating and again with him,
last Thursday evening, in favour of the compound
householders.
people,t he Reformed Parliament. (Hear.)
the bill might be so improved as to make it accept-
able (llebaurt.) H
if theynoet,wasstill
milu innA
endeavour
that
to amend the
itin
Mr. LAYARD, M.P., on rising was received with
to
great cheering. He said he had not the same faith
as his hon. friend that the bill could be made any
better or more acceptable to the present House of
Commons. (Hear.) Neither was he at all sure
that a new Parliament elected under the provisions
of the present bill would be inclined to amend its
obnoxious principles. (Hear.) His own impression
was that it was likely to be even more retrograde
than the present House of Commons. While there
were 50 traitors in the Liberal camp there was but
little hope of any real or satisfactory improvement of
the bill. The hon. member then went ou to explain
what would be the inevitable working of the present
bill in relation to the compound householder. It
would subject him to bribery or intimidation from
his landlord, and place it in the power of the paro-
chial authorities whether he should be rated or not.
By the clause carried in the House of Commons last
Thursday, by the aid of the deserters from the Libe-
ral party, not only were all those arrangements dis-
turbed, but the compound householders, now exer-
cising the franchise under the act of Sir W. Clay,
were to be deprived of their franchise unless they
complied with the requirements of the present bill.
(near.) This was such a monstrous injustice that
he could not understand how any man calling him-
self a Liberal could have voted for it. (Hear, and
cries of " Out with them.") They would have to
settle their delinquencies with their constituencies
whom they had betrayed. He was quite willing that
the bill should be thrown out. (Cheers.) It would
be thrown out if the Liberals were true to themselves
and their principles, but as he had said before they

other in the Russian department. In the centre of LATEST INTEL LIGENCE
the English exhibition is a very splendid embroidered
bed, which is exhibited by Lady Carrington. It
is a scarlet velvet, the embroidery of which, by Lady
Carrington, is exquisite. The work is said to have
been a labour of five years. Some of the Paris
papers have passed enthusiastic eulogiums upon this
specimen of English art. The Russian chef dceuvre
is a magnificent specimen of high-relief, after a
model of the Professor of Sculpture Vetali, intended
for an ornament of the church of St. Isaac at
S. Petersburg. A prize was offered for the best
specimen, and the Academy of Arts of Russia
approved of this for the perfect harmony of the
design, the groups, and the general composition.
It is in repousse; and is considered to be the
most remarkable work of the kind ever executed,
because, from the height of the figures and their
great convexity, the execution was extremely diffi
cult. It; length is 44 inches. It was chased at the
celebrated manufactory of Salsikoff, of Moscow, by
the Russian artist Loscontoff. That manufactory
obtained two medals of the first class at the Lon-
don Exhibition. The silver is covered with platina.
The value is estimated at 10,000 silver roubles. The
subject is the Nativity of Christ, In addition to

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

LUXEMBURG.

LuxEmßunG, 1\ ray 14.

The works on the fortress of Luxemburg, which
up to the present have been actively carried on,
were stopped this morning, and the workmen dis-

missed.

hold meetings everywhere,
had 50 traitors in their camp. (Hisses.) He would
advise them to keep on and increase their agitation,
and in petitions against
the bill, and where the constituencies had been be-
trayed let theta insist on their members doing their
duty, and it was possible they might yet succeed.
A resolution in favour of a lodger franchise, and
protesting against the principle of
personal rating,
was then unanimously adopted, as was also another
expressing co/laic/lc, ❑Mr. GlAdstone, and con-
demnatory of those me:libels of the Liberal party
who had voted against him.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
proceedings of a most ently.. siastic meeting.

THE SURREY STIGHOUNDS.—This pack of hounds,
under the mastership of Mr. Arthur Heathcote, terminated
its hunting season last week, and on Saturday the pack,
which has been considerably stren,gthoned by dogs of high
blood and strain, were laid up till the autumn, while the
running deer, comprising some "fleet and staying" bucks,
were turned into park for the summer. The hunt, which
is chiefly sustained by the Epsom Squire
(the master), has
received substantial support from the gentlemen who at-
tend the meet, and this old established pack of Surrey
staghounds augurs well to be a permanent sporting adjunct
of the county. The fears recently entertained that this
pack would be broken up are now dispelled.
SUICIDE IN THE BoitouGu.—On Sunday morning
a man named Boyd, residing at N 0.14, Bedford-row, Great
Guildford-street, Borough, cut his throat with a carving
knife in a closet of that house. When discovered life was
quite extinct. The deceased had boon in a desponding
mood for some time back.

PESTII, May 13.

VIENNA, May 14.