The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAsT EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

THE MARCH TO HOUNSLOW.
18The Earl of LONGFORD said, in answer to a question
with regard to the supplying of rations and fodder
to ate troops at Hounslow when on their march to the
Hyde-park Review, that it was customary for the troops to
draw rations a day before at Aldershott, and it was con-
cluded that they would be sz supplied when they
reached Hounslow ; such, however, was not the case, and
it was from tho misconstruction of an individual officer,
and that officer had been sinco removed from his office by
the Secretary of State for War. There had been no clash
whatever between the Horse Guards and the War-office.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said that with regard to
the arrangement for rations and fodder, the orders
had been so clear that it seemed impossible
that an officer in the position of a Deputy-
Commissary-General could make a mistake. If a com-
missary officer could not find proper rations and
forage for the troops at the proper hour when they
ought to arrive, ho was unfit for his office.
The invariable answer to all his inquiries was, that it
was a perfectly exceptional case, and that whether they
took their rations or not, they ought to be provided with
them when they arrived. He would assure their lordships
that the general commanding and the colonels of regi-
ments did all that they could to facilitate the carrying out
the orders issued from the Horse Guards, and he
would tell their lordships that the commissariat
officer ought not to be attached to the War Office
at all, but to the Horse Guards,• as was the case at Ports-
mouth and elsewhere.

Lord REDESDALE said that the !opinion of a General
Officer (Lord Henry Percy) had been placed in his hands,
which stated that he considered the capabilities of the
commissariat officer in question very excellent, as had been
proved in the Crimean war.
The subject then dropped.
THE SUPPLY OF WATER IN THE METROPOLIS.
Load DE MAULEY called the attention of their lord.
ships to the expediency of the supplying of water to the
metropolis from the superfluous water from the upper part
of the Thames. He commented at some length upon the
advantage that would accrue to the metropolis from such
an utilisation, and went into statistical details to prove the
theory. He stated that there could not bo any hesitation
in confirming the assertion that London, with its wealth,
ought to bo the best supplied with water.
The Duke of RICHMOND said that her Majesty's Go-
vernment had considered the question of such importance
as to, in the beginning of the year, appoint the Royal
Commission. Ho hoped that iu the autumn an unanimous
report would be come to.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THE BALL AT THE INDIA OFFICE.

Mr. FAWCETT gave notice that to-morrow he should
ask the Secretary of State for India whether it was truo
that the ball about to be given to the Sultan was to be paid
for out of the revenues of India, and if so, to ask why the
only State iestivity to be given to a qreign petontato on

Colonel KNOX asked for information with respect to
the distribution of tickets for the approaching naval re-
view. Ile had applied for one, and had been told
that his application had come too late. From
what bad come to his knowledge, he believed
that 200 membe'rs of Parliament would go to the review,
and the rest of the persons on board the Ripon would be
unconnected with the house for whose entertainment the
country would be called upon to pay. He thought the
distribution of the tickets had been most unsatisfactory,
and he should like to know to whom they had been dis-
tributed. _ _ _

Mr. CORRY said notice was affixed to the doors of the
house that no applications for tickets would bo enter-
tained after the Bth of July. On that day only about 230
applications had been made, and as the number of
tickets proposed in the first instance to be allotted
to the members of the house was 450, it was then
thought that ladies might bo thought of, and accordingly&
second ticket was delivered to those who applied. After the
date he had mentioned a great interest attached to the re-
view, and demands for tickets became very numerous. It
was afterwards determined to issue some additional tickets,
and, in addition to the 50 to bo accommodated on board
the Ripon, 50 would be provided for on board the China.
It was absolutely necessary to fix a time, after which no
applications for tickets would bo received, in order that
arrangements might be perfected with the railway.
Mr. B. OSBORNE hoped that some arrangements would
be made to prevent anything like that which occurred at
Hounslow the other day. (near, hear.)
Mr. CORRY said be would not be answerable for any
accident to machinery.
Mr. B. OSBORNE meant victuals, Sc. (Laughter.)
• Mr. OORRY said Imielv3ort would bo-provided on board
the vessel, in addition to which there would be sherry,
boor, and brandy. (Laughter.)
PUBLIC BUSINESS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not
propose that thero should be a mt,rning sitting to-
morrow. On Wednesday the house would not
assemble. On Thursday and Friday ho preposcd tho
house should sit at 12 until six, and then adjourn. On
Monday next he proposed to movo the second reading of
the Scotch Reform Bill, and on Tuesday next ho proposed
a morning sitting, so that the Tornado case might bo
taken into consideration.

Mr. GLADSTONE asked if.the right hon. gentleman
would state which of the important measures on thepaper
would be first taken into consideration, as it was evident
some must be deferred until next session.
The CHANCELLOR of tho EXCHEQUER said ho
would state the names of the measures on Monday next.
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
third reading of this bill.
Viscount CRANBORNE said ho did not, in the course he
intended to pursue, wish to press his objections against the
bill to a division, and ho should, if there was a general
wish that the bill should proceed, deprecate as much
as any ono a division being taken on the third
reading. Ho was anxious, as that would be the
lost opportunity that would present itself, to make a few
observations on the.bill to which he so much objected. He
hadheard that the passing of the measure had been called a
Conservative triumph, and he was anxious to see what the
right hon. gentleman the member of South Lanca-
shire had had to do with the measure, because

if ho had had a meat deal to do with
it ho did not see how it could be a Conservative
triumph at all. (Hear, hear.) His object in taking the
course he was now adopting was to ascertain whether it
was so at all, because it was necessary that the paternity
of all the strange objects that come into the world should
be well established. The right hon. gentleman, the
member for South Lancashire, it appeared, had
had something to do with the measure. (Hear,
hear.) He had called for 10 important amendments
to the original bill, amongst which was the lodger fran-
chise, the abolition of the dual vote, the rejection of the
savings' bank and educational franchise, the abolition
of voting papers, the redistribution of seats enlarged, and
all these and many others had been most unintentionally
yielded. Ile had never known a Government, and did not
think a Government of the sort ever existed before, that
having introduced a very important measure so obligingly
yielded every demand made to them, even to the extent of
altering all the vital principles of the bill. (Loud cheers.)
The debates on the bill had not taken place in the
house, but had been carried on in the lobbies
outside the house—(loud cheers)-and the amount of per-
suasion that had been carried on to ensure the success
of the bill was such as never before had been known.
Mr. LOWE once more presented himself to the house in
the character of a prophet of evil, and predicted that the
result of passing the bill would be to Americanise our in-
stitutions one by one, and plunge the country into one per-
petual whirl of change, innovation, and revolution. Tho
authorship of the bill was, in short, a disgrace to be
avoided, and not an honour to be sought.
Mr. BRIGHT—I am not about to answer the speech we
have just heard from the right hon. gentleman, nor should
I have taken part in this discussion but for a habit from
which he seems unable to free himself. It would appear
that all the acuteness with which he is gifted, and the
fairness by which he is actuated on some questions, desert
him when he comes to treat any opinion of mine. I under-
stood him to tell the house that the Conservative party
had advanced to a point which I thought dangerous, and
to which I had not gone. The right hon. gentleman might
have known that for many years past I have supported
the principle that the permanent foundation of the fran-
chise ought to be in the householder. In the bill which I
proposed in 1859, but which was not brought in because
the Government of Lord Derby, having lately come into
power, were going to bring in a measure of their own, it
included householl suffrage, and in the course of the dis-
eucsion of this question this session I expressed the opinion
that the Chancellor of the Exchoper had taken my clause
and put it into his own bill. On the same question, in
1859, I said, in deference to the opinion of some, that the
lower class of householders were so dependent, and some
so ignorant, that they wore not likely to be independent
electors, and that it would bo possible to draw a line at
the rental of £1 or £3 per annum; but that was quite
consistent with all I had said before. (Hear, hear.) I
have said all along that the permanent foundation
should be in the house. I do not, of course, regret
that we should have adopted this for the permanent
foundation ; but looking at the prevailing opinion of a
powerful class who regarded such a proposal with fear,
and the lamentable fact of the existence of a class to whom
the extension of the franchise would be no advantage to
themselves or to the country, I should have been content
with some proposition that fell short of household suffrage
pure and simple. When we aro discussing questions of
this nature with public audiences who have something to
learn, erne must have some distinct and definite point to
subna As the end in view; but when you come to this
home au,4 have to consider the position of a Idjuititer, it is

Mr. COWEN did not share in the alarms of Mr. Lowe,
and had no doubt that the new constituencies would exer-
cise the franchise with judgment, care, and honesty.
Mr. B. HOPE pronounced the bill the most democratic
that had ever entered the mind of any Government to pro-
pose, and argued that, after determining to widen the
franchise, the first thing they ought to have done was to
have settled the boundaries of the boroughs, for on that
foundation rested the permanence of the superstructure.
Mr. D. SEYMOUR, who had supported the bill of the
late Government, owned that he preferred that which was
now before the house.
Mr. BARROW pointed out one or two defects in detail,
and urged that a new redistribution scheme was imminent.
Lord ELCHO vindicated the course which bad been
pursued by the independent members of the house on the
subject of Reform, but whilst declaring his preference for
Lord Derby's bill of 1859, accepted the measure on the
table as supplying a safer and sounder resting place than
anything else after giving up the £lO franchise.
Mr. OSBORNE did not question Lord Elcho's indepen-
dence, but ho did question his belonging to the Liberal
party. Indeed, he did not believe there were twenty men
on that side of the house who coincided with him. Every
(log, howeyer, had his day, and the noble lord had had his
Day. And the men who last year were the nucleus of a
Conservative party, and wore designated the party of the
Cave. what had become of them ? Like their groat under-
taking, the Day newspaper, they were in bankruptcy.
Like the builders of the Tower of Babel, there was confu-
sion of tongues among them, and they were dispersed on
the face of the earth. As to the bill and its paternity, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer was no doubt its putative
father; but he had stolen it, and, treating it as the gipsies
treated stolen children, ho had disfigured it, in order to
make it pass for his own. The real author of the measure
was, in fact, Mr. Bright. True, the hand that brought in
the bill was the hand of Lord Derby, but the voice was the
voice of John Bright, of whom the great Conservative
party were no more than the votaries and followers. His
view of the effects of the measure was that it would lead
to a largo expenditure on the part of the candidate, and a
larger consumption of beer by the voter. But this'll°
hoped, that in the place of "Register, register," the c-y
would hereafter bo " Educate, educate." For they might
rely upon it that they could not Americanise their institu-
tions, eo far as extending the suffrage was concerned,
without copying other things from America, and especially
in the matter of educating the people.
Mr. SANDFORD taunted Ministers with inconsistency,
remarked that nothing was more easy than to attain suc-
cess and maintain the semblance of power if they were
only willing to pay the price, and talked of an ignoble
tenure of office being dearly purchased by an abandonment
of principle.
Mr. DOULTON charged the mass of the Liberal party
with having been actuated by factious motives and a desire
for place in the course they had pursued wi h reference to
the bill.

Mr. NEWDEGATE had for a considerable number of
years given his support to the second reading of every
comprehensive Reform Bill, because he had seen measure
after measure passed which had infringed the principles of
the constitution. Ho said, therefore as a revolution seemed
to be going on, let us have it in duo order after a Reform
Bill. If these groat changes are to be made, let the people
have a full and fair representation, and let these changes
be their own act through their representatives.
Lord E. CECIL entirely concurred in the views of Mr.
Lowe, and condemned the bill on the ground that it would
perpetuate bribery, increase the influence of wealth, and
eventually load to manhood suffrage and electoral districts.
In short, there was nothing Conservative, no element of
permanence, in it.
Mr. LAING put no faith in the prognostications of evil
which the house had listened to that night, and therefore
accepted the bill the more cheerfully. True, ho did not
shut his eyes to the fact that them was some danger;
nevertheless, ho had confidence in the social institutions of -
the country, and in the spirit of loyalty which animated
the people.
Mr. SELWIN-IBBOTSON differed from his colleague,
Lord Eustace Cecil, in the opinion ho had expressed of the
bill, and was convinced that he had acted in accordance
with the wishes of his constituents in giving it his support.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who was
received with cheers, said :—The debate this evening com-
menced with what may be described as two very violent
speeches. (Hear.) That is to say, speeches very abusive
of the measure before us, and very abusive of the Mi-
nisters who have introduced it. (Laughter.) I am more
anxious to vindicate the measure than to defend the Go-
vernment; but it necessarily happens with questions_of
this character, which have occupied the attention of Parlia-
ment for a long term of years, that it is perhaps impossible
to distinguish the measure from the Ministry in observa-
tions of that character. So much depends upon personal
conduct and engagement, and so much depends upon the
necessity of time and of the temper of the country when
the Ministry is called upon definitely to act, that it is per-
haps impossible to separate in the remarks which I have
to offer to the House a consideration of the conduct of the
Government from the nature of the bill which wo now
ask them to read a third time. It is very easy for the
noble lord the member for Stamford (Lord Cranborne),
while ho talks of a question which has occupied the atten-
tion of Parliament for more than fifteen years, to quote
some ambiguous expression which was used at the be-
ginning of those fifteen years by Lord Derby, and even to
quote some small passage of a speech made by myself in
the year 1866. But I think that the house on both sides
will feel that to arrive at a just judgment of the conduct
of public men and of tho character of the measures which
they propose, it is necessary to take larger and fuller
views—(u laugh)—and that measures of this importance
and the conduct of those who recommend them, should not
be decided upon by the quotation of a speech made in
1852, or a passage of remarks made in 1866. I accept the
challenge made by the noble lord, and take the very term
he has fixed upon as a test of our conduct and P°•
VsVr.heni
will throw my vision back for these 15 years t018521i
we were called to the responsibility of administration the
n 1849, and
question of Parliamentary reform was rife.
1850, and 1851 it occupied the attention of Parllisoiioonet,foarued,
in 1852, when we wore sitting uestion was
when wo acceded to office in 1852, althou
oppositiohni; Tf
not one which men responsible for the
yet it was one
would have deemed it necessary to deo
it the Cabinet
glchotnducict of affairs
upon which it was absolutely necessary
hia a
mouth
should have some definite concluslioothh Wit
rett4lit Jorward the
after we acceded to office Mr.
ITcide upon the spirit in
question. The Cabinet had to
notion. was the organ to
which they would meet thae
overnment on the subject, and
express the opinions of the
I stated that it was their
luntiiaelnyi, the neglect to give a duo
mous opinion that the great
blot in the Act of 1832,
ton the the working classes, ought to be
la 1858 again it was proposed,
share of representation
remedied. (Hoary hoar.)
in the Cabinet of Lord Derby,
..that the borough franchise
bo based on the principle of household suffrage. 14
should
is true that the proposition i
was not adopted, but the reason
that it was not adopted was because it was felt o
tfha the coun-
such a
settlement would not then receive the support
try. It is now said that we have brought forward a mea-
sure stronger than the one we opposed. But if
it
be the case it is no argument against the measure, if be
one adapted to the circumstances of the times. (Hear,
hear.) There had been for a considerable time etoa
afavcoeurtraiiten
policy of reducing the borouleghh franchiseould have been that
amount, the consequence of which
a favoured portion of the working lwasses, who were always
spoken of in tor= 01,1104 y, woculd be adeli. ttod to the

reference to the fair requirements of the country, but being
in office with a large majority against us, and that Minis-
ters of all colours of politics had failed to deal with it suc-
cessfully, and believing that another failure would be not
only fatal to the Conservative party, and most dangerous
to the country, and belfeving that it was only by a frank
communication of ideas that we could arrive at a settle-
ment, we took the house to counsel with us. (Laughter.)
It was in harmony with this view that I placed the resolu-
tions upon the table ; and although you ridiculed them,
your subsequent conduct has proved your sneers were mis-
placed, for it was by your frank and cordi,4 co-operation
the present result has been accomplished. (aheeri.) he
noble lord the member for Stamford said that the ten con-
ditions imperiously dictated by the right hon. member for
South Lancashire have been obsequiously accepted by us.
The abandonment of the dual vote imperiously demanded
by the right hon. gentleman was obviously given up. But
the dual vote was given up a fortnight bete're the helped•
ous dictation. (No, no.) Another "bristling security"
referred to by the noble lord was the two years' residence ;
but so far from giving that up obsequiously, wo divided
the house, and were beaten by a large majority, several
Conservatives having left the house, while others only
voted for us under protest, so that, instead of the Govern-
ment leading the party, the party were in advance of the
Government. (Laughter.) Another security was the county
franchise. The Government adopted a £l5 rating franchise;
an hon, gentleman opposite proposed £lO, and resolutions
were forwarded to us by the country party to make a
compromise. Then came another point, that of the com-
pounder. It is true that the right hon. gentleman oppo-
site objected to our plan, but his proposal was not the ar-
rangement which now exists in the bill, but a hard line of
£5 rating, which would have entirely emasculated the bill.
It is not necessary to go into the securities of the fancy
franchises, for the moment the house adopted a lodger
frahchise all necessity for them ceased. (Hear, hear.)
When I remind the house that there have been 26 consider-
able divisions, in eighteen of which the member for South
Lancashire has voted against the Government—these may
have been some of the successful, though hardly the im-
perious dictations of which we have heard so much to-night.
(Cheers.) It cannot be said that those securities with
which the measure bristled were given up at the bidding of
the Opposition. (Cheers.) The noble lord says that by
giving these ten points I have altered the whole condition
of the bill. Is that true ? I maintain, on the contrary,
that the bill is in harmony with the general policy, we have
always maintained. (Laughter and cheers.) You have had
a thousand plans—£B, £7, all sorts of pounds —all this year
you have come down to £5, and the question we had to
consider was, whether we were to accept a line of £5 or
adhere to the convictions of 1859 that there is no safe rest-
ing place but in a rating household franchise. (Cheers.)
The question would then arise, is there greater danger from
the numbers that would come in under household suffrage
than the 300,000 or so at a£s rating ? We think the dan-
ger would be less, and that the feeling produced would be
more national. Instead of a Preetorian guard set aside with
peculiar privileges, you will have a greater chance of touch-
ing the popular heart and evoking the national sentiment.
(Cheers.) As regards the question of distribution, I think
the proposal a wise and proper ono, and I believe will be
satisfactory to the country. It has been modified to some
extent on principles which I do not believe ;• but on the
whole the policy is one that I have, on the part of the Con-
servative party for nearly twenty years, impressed on
this house. Though bitter words have been uttered too
often, and especially to-night, there has been, on the
whole, a greater absence of party feeling and management
than has ever been exhibited in the conduct of a great
measure. The right hon. gentleman is not a prophet, but
he has indulged in the most direful vaticinations. lie says
that everything is ruined, and he begins with the House
of Lords. It is not, he says, of the slightest use, and what
will happen when this bill passes ? (Laughter.) My only
opinion is, that if the House of Lords is in the position
described at present, the passing of this bill would do it a
great deal of good. (Laughter, and cheers.) But what the
right hon gentleman says is most terrible is the treachery.
I want to know when did the treachery begin ? (Laughter.)
He thinks the measure of Parliamentary reform is treachery
in consequence of what took place last year. I am inno-
cent of any knowledge of those assemblages and councils
of which he has spoken. If there was a compact last year
that no measure of Parliamentary reform was to pass—if
the proposition of a measure of Parliamentary reform is an
act of treason, then the noble lord the member for Stam-
ford and his friends are as guilty of treason as ourselves.
(Cheers.) I should have supposed the right hon. gentle-
man would have weighed his words a little more, and that
when he talked of treachery he would have had some hard
and straight line to tell us where the treachery commenced.
But the right hon. gentleman throws no light on the sub-
ject. lie has made a speech which reminds me of an in-
spired schoolboy's theme. (Laughter.) He says the people
of England must be educated, no matter what the quality
of the education, if there is only quantity. (Laughter.)
As he seems to bo somewhat at a loss to know what may
be his lot in the now Parliament, I should recommend him
to be the "schoolmaster abroad." (Loud laughter, and
cheers.) I should think, with his great powers of classical
and historical illustration, ho would soon clear the minds
of the new constituencies of all "perilous stuff," and
render them as safely Conservative as he could de-
sire. (Laughter.) the victims of Cheroneet died
for their country, and dying, expressed their pride
that their blood was shed in such a sacred cause ; but the
right hon. gentleman takes this opportunity absolutely of
announcing th, conditions on which he is ready to join the
vanquishers who have brought him to such disgrace and
suffering. (Laughter) He has given us a programme of
all the revolutionary measures he detests, but, in conse-
quence of our measure, is prepared to support. He has
concluded his attack on us, accusing us of treachery, by in-
forming us he is going to act in favour of measures he has
hitherto opposed in this house, though I believe ho has
supported them in another place, and that he will recur to
those Australian politics which rendered him once so fa-
mous. (Laughter.) He told us that in the conduct we were
pursuing there was infamy. The expression was strong..
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(e'a tells of infamy. (Cheers.) The prognosti-
tteman, W.lO ta
I of the noble lord I can respect, because I
are sincere. (Hear, hear.) The warnings
k
•cir:ntdi°‘t:estelo7:lte,otelvileilLics of the right Lou. gentleman I treat iu
a' nether spirit. I do not think that the country is in
danger. I think that England is safe in the race of men
who inhabit her; that she is safe in something more pre-
cious than her accumulated wealth—in her accumulated
experience ; that she is safe in her national character, in
her fame, in the tradition of a thousand years, and iu that
glorious future which I believe awaits her. (Load cheers.)
The SPEAKER put the question: "That the bill be
read a third time," and there were only two "Noes,"
which were drowned iu a chorus of "Ayes" and cries of

" Agreed."
Sir F. GOLDSMID asked a question, and the SITAKER
replied, both being inaudible, and
The bill was then read a third time and passed, amidst
loud cheers from the Ministerial benches and some of the
benches below the gangway on both sides.
The Courts of Law Officers (Ireland) Bill as amended
was considered.
The report on supply was brought up andagreed to.
On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL for
Ireland, the order for going into committee on the 'Com-
mon Law Courts (Ireland) Bill was discharged.
Some amendments on the Public Health (Scotland) Bill
were agreed to pro forma, and the bill was recommitted.
The Dogs Regulation (Ireland) Act (1865) Amendment
I Bill passed through committee.
Tho District Lunatic Asylum Officers (Ireland) Bill was

Yesterday was a trying day at Wimbledon. The
wind blew with vioh•nee, and the rain d^seetpled
copiously. The effect upon the shooting was, of
course,
inarkable. There were moments when, it
oiious le-
would hare been simply idle to continue the diferent
competitions. The driving rain upon the windows
of the markers' butts must have prevented their
seeing bullet marks upon the target, if the same
cause had not previously gone far to obliterate the
bulls'-eyes themselves. But whenever the rain ceased
or even moderated, for however brief a space, there
nothingand c
omwmasanmdo
remarkablealays fitlrthinngthgeoicuhgeeornft;lannesds ofre
temper exhibited by all under the discouraging wascir-
cumstances. Shooting in a strong wind requires not
merely an increased amount of skill, but a large
measure of audacity as well. Until actual experience
has justified the step, it is not every one who feels
assured that in pointing his rifle away from the target
with a view of allowing his bullet to be blown on to
its surface he is doing a prudent or even a safe thing ;
Mit. yesterday such was the force of the wind that
marksmen were obliged to aim.ls.and even 25 feet
to windward of the target, according to the range
they were shooting at. In storm as in sunshine
members of the Council were at their posts. Lord
Ducie made several bull's-eyes at the "Running Deer"
range, where one of the Belgian visitors was shooting
at the same time. Lord Grosvenor also, who had
been prevented by indisposition from, attending on
any of the former days, spent some time in the large
marquee, where most of the business of the meeting
is transacted. Col. Clarke Kennedy, Capt. Page,
Capt. Drake, R.E., and the officers of the Engineer
Staff, were on the alert to repair damages caused by
tho.storm, and so to prevent any hindrance of the
shooting.
The competition for the prizes offered exclusively
to the Belgians by the National Rifle Association
was to have commenced yesterday, and to have been
continued this day and to-morrow. In consequence,
however, of a communication received from the
Belgian Committee, to-morrow (Wednesday) has
been named as a day more convenient for the pur-
pose. The ranges set apart for the Belgians will be
indicated by their own national flag. Among the
prizes offered is the Association Challenge Cup,
value £2OO. This will be held for the coming year
by the regiment, battalion, or corps to which the
winner belongs, or if the winner is not a member of
any regiment, battalion, or corps, then by the
highest municipal authority of his own district. At
the meeting of the Tir National of Belgium in 1868
the Cup will be handed over to the Commission
Directrice of the Tir, who will draw up the condi-
tions under which the future annual competitions
are to be held in Belgium. For this cup, a massive
specimen of the silversmith's art in this country, the
trophy referred to in the speech of Col. Gregoire to
the Prince of Wales on Saturday may be regarded
tion are both in excellent taste ; and no one who
as a compliment in return. The design and execu-
visits the Exhibition marquee should omit to notice
how admirably bronze and marble are capable of
being blended and turned for account in groups in-
tended for presentation as pizes—materials which
we seem to have practically overlooked.
Yesterday afternoon an acci lent occurred to
Lieutenant-Colonel Ilalford while he was shooting
with a breech loader at one of the short ranges.
The cartridge he was loading, from some un-
explained cause, exploded on his closing the breech,
and part of the machinery was blown away,
Dr.
in-
flicting a deep flesh w
Wyatt attended Colonel llalford at the Camp Hos-
pital, and we are happy to say there.is no cause for
apprehension or alarm. By this accident the Eng-
lish eight lose the services of ono of their best

shots.
The results of such competition as were yesterday
brought to a close were as follows :
Belgian Challenge Cup, with £75 added by the National
Rifle Association, for volley firing. Five shots, 400
yards.

Average.
1140
7th Surrey, first squad, cup and... £3O ...
Berkshire, second 5quad............ 20 ...
14.20
15
Ist Surrey, third squad ........ 13-80
10 13.80
Bristol, fourth squad ...............
Alexandra, Second Stage, GOO yards, seven shots. Cup
value £5O, or £5O in cash.
Winner.
Points,
Ensign Radcliffe, 2d South Middlesex ............... 21
Dragon Cup, seven shots at 600 yards.
Winner. rein+ s.
Private Roe, Ist A. B. Salop ........

THE APPROACLIING REVIEW.
It is now bee)naing at
mter of certainty that the
review next Saturday at Wimbledon will be one of
the finest displays in the series of fetes that are ren-
dering this season exceptionally brilliant. Wimsomeble-
don, it will be remembered, was fixed upon
weeks ago as the site of the Volunteer Review to be
held in honour of the Sultan ; ansince then, the
review in Hyde Park having been deferred, the
Secretary of State for War, with a view of obviating
any disappointment which might have been felt at
the loss of the promised spectacle, has suggested
that, if agreeable to the volunteers, the Ho
troops might take part in a combined fiel day with
them at 'Wimbledon. An offer so tempting was
once accepted, and it is now arranged thathe house-
hold cavalry, the brigade of Guards, and some bat-
teries of Royal Artillery will be included in the force
to be reviewed ou Saturday next by 11.R.11. the
Duke of Cambridge, in presence of the Sultan, the
Prince d'Aosta, son of the King of Italy, and other
illustrious visitors. All that is now requisite to the
perfect success of the occasion, weather apart, is
that a really determined effort should good numld be made by
the Volunteers them3elves to atten
b.3rs. There are few foreign capitals which possess
such a Champ de Mars as Wimbledon-common, re-
gard being had to the fact that its close proximity
to Clapham Junction enables troops to be concen-
trated at the shortest notice from all points of the
compass. The railways just now arc on their good
behaviour, owing to the state of the money market
and to their own past mismanagement. If they
desire to give a timely proof of their value to the
combinei
tfaorry ognacteh.
etroi
nagffionr dt
hfea en iel
gt ihe
State, they have an excellent opportunity of doing
s
sf
h de ti
n them
g a grceoamt
bourhood of the metropolis, and show that there
really is some advantage to the public in the conver-
sion of a whole district at Battersea into a network
and labyrinth of railways. To enable the Volunteers
to assemble in anything like the numbers which
they have done in one or two memorable in-
stances already, the generous assistance and co-
operation of large employers of labour will be in-
dispensable. On an occasion, however, when wo
are, as a nation, discharging the duties of hospitality
towards foreign guests, it will hardly be held that
the appeal is unreasonable. To give as many men
as possible a chance of coming down to Wimbledon
in the ranks, the latest practicable hour,
ofprobably
5.30 p.m., will be fixed for the commencement
the review.

finethe anirtloogsusaltbwiute,,iixillildtt.sebisnneg:vri
to
The grounds and buildings of the University of
Vermont and state agricultural college at Burlington are
to be improved, new professorships established, and to
general facilities for instrultion enlarged. To do this
$lOO,OOO are needed, and of this amount the citizens of
Burlington have already
The exhibition of paintings and sculpture and
subscribed $32,000.
other works of art, with which it is intended to celebrate
ready
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leg.,
fying ever seen in America. The artists all around proffer ltehge, completionpom ise toof bell co
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summer.

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rrHEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
1 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Chatterton.
G, TITAT RASCAL) ACK. Messrs. J.
THIS EVENIN
Rouse, J. Neville, C. Warner ; Mesdames B. Alcyne, C.
Thompson.
To conclude with T lIE GREAT CITY. Messrs. C.Warner,
F. 31orton. J. Fitzjaines, F Villiers, J. C. Cowl err W.
'lntyre, J. Rouse, .1. Irving, J. 11. Johnstone; Mesdames
M. Itobertson, B. G. Le Thiere, C. Thomplon.
Commenceat Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Ilanit‘4,ir, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, PETER SMINK.
lowcd Ly TIIE COQUETTE. Messrs. Howe, Comp-
ton, Gordon, Vincent. Weatherby, Coe, &c. ; Meedarnes
Seclrw ck, Matthews, Lewin, &c.
Alter which, WHO WANTS A GUINEA. Messrs. Bock-
stove, Howe, Chippendale, Rogers. Compton. Clark, Kendal,
Braid, Gordon, White, F4c.; Mesdames Burke, Mathews,
Lava, .k.o.

and so we are convinced the community
will feel through the length and breadth of the
land. At the same time we cannot but regret the
course pursued by many of the speakers in last
night's !debate ; it was quite unworthy of the
occasion, themselves, and the House of
Commons. Surely there was sufficient
time during the protracted debates on the
subject of Reform during this Session for
these malcontents to have vented teir rage, ex-
pressed their scorn, and indicated their rights, but
it appears they thought otherwise ; and hence the
House was doomed to see long hours taken up with
vehement, angry, and lengthy protestations as to
the merits and demerits of the line Ministers had
pursued. These taunts and sarcasms were the more
idle because they could, answer no end. The Go-
vernment is totally unaffected by them ; and even
had the Chancellor of the Exchequer remained per-
fectly silent, instead of delivering one of his brilliant
speeches, the character of the Ministry would not
have suffered in the estimation of the country. We
consider the best answer that can possibly be made
to those eager speakers who so furiously assailed
the occupants of the Treasury Bench was the recep-
tion given to the speech of the right hon. gentle-
man. As for the other Ministers remaining silent,
it showed their wisdom ; they did not want to waste
another week in answering charges that all who
knew anything of the matter felt to be groundless as
soon as they were uttered, and if they had spoken
for ever they could not have won Lord
CRANBORNE'S approval for a Cabinet that had
presumed to differ from him, and preferred the
interest of the nation to the honour of his sharing
their councils ; nor could they have convinced Mr.
LOWE that Reform was desirable in any shape or form.
We do not deny that these members have a perfect
right to their own opinion, only there are different
ways of doing the same thing, and fitting times and
seasons for all things. Yesterday was not the suit-
able time for indulging in personalities ; there had
been ample opportunity for this kind of discussion
during the few months that have been nearly all
engrossed by this absorbing topic.
Mr. DisnAELts answer entirely met all the
charges against the Government, and he showed
how completely they had mistaken the matter in
stating that the Conservative party were pledged
against Reform. On the contrary, as the right hon.
gentleman said, he has taken every opportunity of
saying that Reform was a question which it was
quite open for them to deal with. Very true was
his remark to the House collectively, " You have all
co-operated with us, and it is by your frank and
cordial co-operation that we have arrived at
the third reading." As to the various charges and
insinuations put forward, Mr. DISRAELI met them
in due course and scattered them to the winds.
Lord CRANBORNE told them that they had yielded
to Mr. GLADSTONE'S imperious dictation, and altered
the character of their measure accordingly, but, as he
said, Mr. GLADSTONE had voted against the Govern-
ment in eighteen out of the twenty-six considerable
divisions that have taken place, so that there was
really not much evidence of the successful though
imperious dictation of which -.so much had
been heard. The dual vote was given up
in deference to the wishes of the Conservative
party, who were quite opposed to it. As for the
reduction in the county franchise that was also ad-
vocated by the party, and the Government received
communications on the subject. The two years'
residence was not " obsequiously" given up, because
a division was taken on the subject, on which many
Conservatives left the House, some voted against
their leaders, andothers supported them unwillingly.
If the Opposition laughed at the assertion of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that they had only
acted in harmony with their general policy,
he told them very properly that this was a
question which could not be settled by a
jeer or a laugh but by facts, " facts and results
which many of you deprecate and deplore at this
moment, and in consequence of which you tell us
that you mean to re-open the agitation which I defy
you to do."
A little reflection will show that Mr. DISRAELI
has acted consistently with those professions he has
made for many years past. As he said last
night, look at the policy of redistribution ; he
had all along advised that no seat should be
disfranchised, and also the attempt had been car-
ried out to do justice in the representation of
the counties. Respecting the assistance which he
has met with from the House during the course
of this anxious work of introducing a Reform
Bill, he still declared that they had assisted
the Government to carry out their own desires.
Very striking and effective was the closing pas-
sage in the right hon. gentleman's speech, and
especially that part in which he referred to the
" doleful vaticinations" of Mr. LOWE, who told
them that he was not a prophet, and yet went
on to picture a series of horrors that would
inevitably follow upon the course now taken.
The right hon. gentleman the member
for Calne certainly did not mince matters
in the expressions he made use of. Ho accused the
Government of treachery. He said that they were
pursuing a course of " infamy," and so on. We
think that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was per-
fectly justified in giving him the advice which he
did, namely that he might have weighed his words
a little more. Mr. DISRAELI very properly asked
what Mr. LOWE thought of his own conduct when
he assisted to turn out Lord DERBY'S Govern-
ment in 1857 on the plea that they would
not reduce the borough franchise, and
then the next year he invited his political
opponents to defe.at the measure of Lord PALMERS-
TON'S administration on the subject of Reform.
" For my part," concluded Mr. DISRAELI, "I do
not believe that the country is in danger. I think
England is safe in the race of men who inhabit her,
that she is safe in something much more precious
than her accumulated capital, her accumulated ex-
perience. She is safe in her fame, in the tradition
of a thousand years, and in that glorious future
which I believe awaits her." The right hon. gentle-
man's speech was received with the most enthusiastic
applause at its completion, and it may be considered
as one of his most brilliant successes in Parliament,
for he succeeded in demolishing the arguments of
his adversaries, and rose to the height that was due
in adverting to the position of affairs. The Govern-
ment of Lord DERBY have no cause to repent of the
choice they have made, and no reason to regret the
exertions they have made. While professions with-
out number have been followed by no practice on
the part of the Liberals, the Conservatives
have contrived to do the work effectively, and while
this generation lasts there will be no reason to ex-
pect another agitation in the matter of Reform. It
is a great cause for national rejoicing that so satis-
factory a measure should have passed the House of
Commons, and the Ministers may well afford to
disregard the sneers of some and the envy of others,
for they have performed their duty faithfully to
that people whose interests they are bound to study,
and whom it should be their pride to serve.

In the midst of all the gaieties and festivities
celebrating the visits paid by the various European
Sovereigns to the Courts of England and France,
the trial o BEREzowsEt comes as an unpleasant

reminder of some of the sterner realities. Like
the skeletot i at the Egyptian feast, the desperate
crime Qf the Foie served to recall to the minds of
the s,lectatOrv, that underneath the pageantry and
the splendour and the courtly smiles there still
lurked th a traces of oppression, of mis-
governmem 5, of popular discontent. The bullet
of BEREzt )wsKI was an unpleasant illustra-
tion of tho old saying about the uneasiness of the
heads that wear crowns, and the two Emperors
might have been glad to have dispensed with a
little of the pomp for the sake of enhancing the
security. The crime of the assassin is never one
that excites any sympathy in this country. English-
men refuse to accept any extenuation for so base
and dastardly an act, and not all the sophistries of
philosophers, nor the eloquence of enthusiasts, can
avail to alter their conviction that the assassina-

tion of the worst of rulers is a moral and poli-
tical crime. ALEXANDER cannot certainly be styled
the worst of rulers for, in many instances, he has
shown an enlarged and liberal mind. The
oppression of the Poles unhappily dates from a
much older epoch, and its very length puts another
obstacle in the way. But it is equally unfair and
foolish to visit the sins of many upon one. ALEX-
ANDER is not personally responsible for the misfor-
tunes of Poland, and his death would not certainly
have ameliorated the condition of the country. The
attempt of BEREZOWSKI, if it had effected his pur-
pose, would have been useless ; while the selection
of a friendly visit and popular rejoicing being chosen
for the murderous attack rendered it very unpopular
even among the crowds who had been previously
shouting " Viva la Pologne." The rapidly suceced-
ing excitements of the time have thrown the fate
of BEREZOWSKI into comparative oblivion. It has
been thought, however, that most probably the
assassin would not meet with the full penalty the
law attaches to his crime. it was, indeed,
rumoured that the CZAR had made it a particular
request to his Imperial host that his life should
be spared. Whether this were the case or no, it is
certain that the jury with little delay found
the prisoner guilty of an attempt at homicide,
with extenuating circumstances, and he was sen-
tenced to transportation for life. What the ex-
tenuating circumstances are is not very clear, unless
the excessive devotion of the Pole's mind to the
wrongs of his country may be accepted as forming
one of them, and his youth another. Few will be-
grudge him the reprieve, for his fate is at best a
melancholy one, and we must hope that the failure
of his attempt will make such cowardly and criminal
means of attaining a noble end, the emancipation of
her oppressed people, be henceforward laid aside as
futile, as well as stigmatised as disgraceful.

The arrival of the City of Baltimore with news
from New York to the Gth inst. tells us that the
celebrated Fourth of July was as usual celebrated
with enthusiasm throughout the North, but that in
the South the rejoicings were chiefly confined to the
freedmen and the military. Civilians of the Southern
States have indeed but little cause to rejoice over
an anniversary which must recall painfully to
their minds their own hard-fought and fruit-

less struggle for national independence. Year
after year the Republicans of the North
celebrate the determination of their fathers in
throwing off the ties that bound them to the mother
country, and in asserting their resolve to be a self-
governing nation, without seeming to perceive that
they are withholding the very same rights from
their own countrymen. They hold that the com-
pact originally made by the thirteen States was in-
dissoluble, not only as regarded themselves, but all
others who might afterwards become members of
the union. But such a theory is opposed to the whole
tenour of American principles and practice. They
allow no sacred or inherent right of government as
some European monarchies do, neither aro they very
ready to admit the claims bf custom and tradition,
and veneration and respect. They base their fabric
on reason and the rights of peoples, but in practice
they fall back on the old despotic principle of co-
ercing those who differ in opinion. Where the
limit is at which it becomes heroic for a body of
men to throw off their old allegiance and form a
new Government for themselves they do not tell us.
How many millions make the difference between
treason and patriotism they do not say, but the
Fourth of July is celebrated with enthusiasm, while
the States that formed the Confederacy are still a
desolation and a reproach. There seems little to be
hoped for from the Congress, and until we have a
change in the legislators we can hardly hope for
much change in the laws. A supplemental bill has
been introduced in the house of Representatives,
' giving the Southern district commanders discre-
tionary power to remove civil officers. This is another
of those unfortunate instances of divided authority
which are constantly occurring in the States since
the domination of the Radicals over Congress.
The Attorney-General has pronounced the removal
of the civil officers illegal, and the PRESIDENT has
reproved the general in command for sanctioning
it. The Congress is evidently determined to sup-
port the military through every obstacle, and will
alter the laws till they meet their wishes. This is
an unsatisfactory and unconstitutional method of
legislation, and is little calculated to preserve public
liberties.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.

I was enabled to state yesterday that the Emperor
had sent a letter to M. Rouher, Minister of Finance,
accompanied with the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, set in diamonds. The following is a trans-
lation of his Majesty's letter :
"Palace of the Tuileries, July 13, 1867.

" My dear Monsieur Rouher,—l send you the
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in diamonds.
The diamonds add nothing to the high distinction
which I conferred upon your long service, but I
seize this opportunity of giving publicly a new proof
of my confidence and esteem.
"In the midst of your numerous labours, in the
midst of unjust attacks of which you are the object,
an amical attention on my part will make you
forget, I hope, the annoyances inseparable from
your position, only to leave to your recollection
your success and the services which you render
daily to the country.—Receive, my dear Monsieur
Itouher, the assurance of my sincere friendship,
" NAPOLEON."

The arrivals of Sovereigns and Princes have lately
been so numerous in Paris that an additional
monarch or two is thought nothing of. Sonic people
have parodied the expression of the late Sir Robert
Peel, who, in discussing an important financial
question, held up the gold coin of a pound and said,
What is a sovereign ?" We have, however, an
arrival in Paris which has a very important signifi-
cation. It is that of Admiral Tegethoff and the
naval officers who are to accompany him to Mexico,
to fulfil the task with which they are entrusted—
that of demanding the remains of the Emperor
Maximilian. This is a visit which has created much
excitement.

We have sometimes news in Paris of political mat-
ters connected with England which is not known in
London. It is said here on good authority that
Mr. Adams, the Plenipotentiary of the United
States, has had a long interview with Lord Stanley,
in reference to the execution of the Emperor
Maximilian and General Santa Anna. After the
interview a courier was despatched in great baste
to her Majesty at Windsor, and shortly afterwards
Lord Stanley sent a telegraphic communication to