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London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

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TISIES.—Lord Halifax met last night with a de-
served defeat. His proposed Resolution on going
into Committee, declaring the inadequacy of the
scheme of Redistribution contained in the Reform
Bill and the propriety of extending it, was rejected
by 100 to 59 votes. No intimation of opinion could
be more decisive, and it must be observed that it
was based solely on the demerits of Lord Halifax's
motion. There was literally no argument whatever
against it. Lord Malmesbury, who in the enforced
absence of Lord Derby-, represents the Government
in the House of Lords, rose to answer Lord Halifax,
ai.d he thought it coavenient to reply to Lord Car-
narvon's and the Duke of Argyll's criticisms on the
cousistency of the Ministry. He was pathetic
in repudiating the suggestion that he was an "orga-
nised.hypocrite ;" but as to all Lord Halifax had
urged, Lord Malmesbury passed it by with the ob-
servation that we were near the end of July, and
great respect was due to the House of Commons.
This method of parrying an assault might not have
succeeded on other occasions, but no reply whatever
was needed to Lord Halifax. His arguments were
unanswerale, but his conclusions were unworthy ,
of acceptance. It is true—no one can deny it—
that the Redistribution scheme of the bill isth in
tade-
it
quate ; it is -true—no one can deny a
is desirable it should be extended ;
but the for-
mal expression of these abstract truths, point-
ing to no definite line of action, indicating no
articular form of extension, was an act of self-
stultification from which the House of Lords very
properly recoiled, and the rejection of Lord Hali-
fax's resolution was due at once to their good sense
and their sincerity. It is much to be regretted that
at a later period of the evening the same prudence
was not exhibited. Lord Cairns persuaded the
Lords to raise the qualification of the .Lodger Fran-
chise from £lO to £l5. Lord Maltnesbury, who
y difference
had so strenuously deprecated an
of
of
opinion between the two Houses on the question
Redistribution, assentedo talteration as a coms
-
promise, because in the Bill of 1859 a vote wa
offered to the tenant, not of unfurnished lodgings
worth £lO a year, but of furnished lodgings worth
£2O. This decision, and. the subsequent rejection
of the clause reducing the Copyhold and Leasehold
Property Franchises in counties, exhibit such a
spirit of elaborate trifling with the subject of Re-
form as to make the best friends of the Lords ap-
prehensive as to the wisdom of their future treat-
ment of the bill. It is pleasant to turn to the earlier
part of the evening. We hope the Government
having vindicated their honour will take the ques-
tion of Redistribution seriously in hand. Lord Hali-
fax and his Resolution are removed out of their way.
In spite of all his ingenuity—and he displayed
an unexpected power of manipulating his argu-
ments—he could not overcome the essential vice of
his proposal. Its abstract and unpractical character
was apparent in every turn of his speech. It was
plainly impossible that he should invite the Lords
to agree to his resolution without hinting at some
suggestions for carrying it into force, and the dex-
terity with which he contrived to refer to several
methods of Redistribution without pledging hi
to any was admirable. He pillaged freely—we are
afraid no other term can adequately describe
re -
his
method—from Mr. Laing and Lord Grey, and
ferred occasionally to the bills of 1854 and 1866.
He called attention, as was inevitable, to the insig-
nificant character of the smallest boroughs ; and
remarked that they might beg rouped, but he him-
self would not commit himself to any proposal of
groupina ;_ or they might be disfranchised, though
he must' decline to be supposed to advocate dis-
franchisement ; or there might be a third method of
treatment, although he must be excused from de-
scribing or even pledging himself to the existence
of such a third method. Then, again, on th.eTepre-t
sentation of minorities, which is an
icssednti!llaiFfaarx
of the question of Redistribution,
ulotr II
It was,
die an equally delightful amhbaig
hey.
at the
must al):
he declared, no party quclitioti,. t
same it
stain
time
el
trepseressvihneg
favoured any opi itohne °rue p s; entation
of minorities could not fail to perceive that the
adoption of lint of
would be a step towards
the attainment of the end thay had in view.
It is odd that any one should be able to per-
suade himself that anything was ever got by such
ingenious manoeuvring as this. It justifies the
simple theory of Lord Malmesbury. The Lord
Privy Seal, remembering the agitation of 1832, be-
lieves that the Reform Act of that year was a magi-
cal device for exciting the enthusiasm of the people
on behalf of the Whigs. For a time it was success-
ful, and when the love of the nation waxed cold the
Whigs naturally thought of kindling again the pas-
sionate affection of 1832 by raising a second time a
cry for Reform. This is Lord Malmesbury's philo
sophy of history, and it must be admitted that Lord
Halifax.and his resolution do in some sort excuse it.
But we have done with both ; Lord Halifax retires
discomfited from his attempt, and now that his in-
genuity and Lord De Grey's fluent commonplace
have both proved ineffectual for any purpose, we
invite the Government once more "to dish the
Whigs." Let them take Redistribution in hand.
It was, in fact, admitted by Lord Malmesbury last
night that the present scheme is inadequate and a
makeshift, since he dwelt upon the advanced period
of the Session and the supposed compromise
in the House of Commons as the sole
reasons against enlarging it. These considerations
would at once become of no weight whatever if
the Government desired to make their bill per-
fect. The House of Commons has assented to the
present scheme • but every one who followed the
debates in the 'Lower House, and watched the
growth of opinion in it, is well aware that the
Commons would accept with satisfaction such an
extension of the scheme as would give it the pro-
mise of permanence. There can be no doubt about
the temper of the House of Commons, nor need any

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apprehension be felt of delay as c 401entrod-- /4/4.7
amendment of the Redistribution c
with the Government and the Governtnqo ale' tez.—
insure a speedy and statesmanlike extenllih o . eir„
scheme of Redistribution. It may be forced upon
them if they resist,—the vote of night offering
no criterion of what would happen should a definite
proposal be submitted to the House of Lords—and
in such a case delays must arise; but if, jealous of
the character of the bill and ambitious of making it
as perfect as possible, they assume the initiative, if
they boldly determine on carrying out those sug-
gestions of improvement, at which Lord 11-difax
only ventured to hint, they will find the two houses
ready to co-operate with them to the utmost, and
they would secure for themselves well-earned ap-
proval. The decision on Lord Halifax's resolution
has cleared the way for the G wernment. It has been
made plain that the Lords will-countenance no ab-
stract Resolution, and will be parties to. no motion
which can be construed as a party device ; but it has
opinion
niioiade
lnlofttie equallyul)p pler;ition thuseat h
are
decide
au and
favour
of an extension of the Redistribution scheme. Lord
Maltnesbury and the Duke of Buckingham were, in
fact, the only Peers who took part in the debate who
ventured to defend the existing clauses, and the lat-
ter contented himself with repeating his colleague's
apprehension that any alteration might produce a
collision between the two Houses of Parliament.
The unsubstantial character of this fear is apparent,
and when we contrast this argument with the rea-
sons for amending the scheme of Redistribution ad-
vanced from all quarters of the House we must see
how overwhelming is the balance in favour of exten-
sion. The disparity between the representative
power of the smallest boroughs and the largest,
anomalous now, must be aggravated by
.tho adop-
tion of household suffrage, while the unrepresented
boroughs which were selected by the Government
in the first and second editions of their bill for en-
franchisement, but afterwards relegated to obscurity,
having had the privilege of representation held out to
them, must become impatient and clamorous for a
share in Parliamentary honours. AboVe all, theprin-
ciple of numbers, so formally approved in eirery clause
of the bill, cannot, as Lord Carnarvon pointed out,
ceased to stimulate agitation. Boroughs have been
deprived of one of two representatives on account of
inadequacy of numbers; boroughs have received a
third member on account of their numbers • counties
have been subdivided, and new boroughs itave been
called into existence for a similar reason. The process
thus sanctioned cannot be arrested as longas flagrant
anomalies remain. It is incumbent on the Ministry
to recognise this truth, and to regulate in time the
forces they cannot overcome. They have an oppor-
tunity of doing all about which the ex-officials who
sit opposite to them talk, and of: displaying a degree
of foresight of which too few of their antagonists
show any sign. The mischievous alteration of the
Lodger Franchise has damped our hopes, but we
appeal to the calmer reason of the Ministry. Lord
Halifax and Lord De Grey both took occasion last
night to maintain the usefulness of small constitu-
encies at the very time that their prime arguments
led them to the conclusion that small constituencies
must be extinguished, and they carefully abstained
from indicating any method of preserving the advan-
teaxgtiesn
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s
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et rfi redistributioni
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hole-
sale disfranchisement of small boroughs without any
compensating improvements in our representative
system. There is a better alternative before them.
Let them follow the precedents shown in the con-
duct of the bill in the House of Commons. Let
them defer to the manifest sentiment of the Lords.
We do not speak of hereditary or official opponents.
Lord Lifford and Lord Romney, the Duke of Cleve-
land, Lord Stratford, Lord Harrowby, and Lord
Taunton joined in expressing their sense of the in-
adequacy of the present scheme, and their wish that
the Government would reconsider their decision ;
and this concurrence of authority is in perfect
accordance with the deliberate judgment of the
nation.

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FA7AL CA74STIWPLIE ON THE TYNE.

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On Saturday afternoon a party of five men and
three young women engaged a small boat at Buck-
ham Quay, North Shields, and started down the
Tyne. Some of the party had been indulging ratter
freely before setting off. On approaching the
inner pier on the south side, known as the
Breaker," where a heavy swell was rolling, the
boat was observed to be proceeding in the direction
of the broken water. On this being reached the
occupants seemed full of glee as their frail craft wag
pitched to and fro. They were hailed from the
shore and cautioned, but to no ptrpose. They then
commenced running the boat in the trough of the
sea, and while in the act of pulling the prow towards
the shore a tremendous sea caught her stein, lifting
her nearly perpendicular. She was then driven like
a rocket, scuddling on the crest of the wave, which
eventually broke, filling the boat and sinking it. In
a few seconds the boats reappeared bottom upwards,
and two men were seen clinging to it. Five pilots,
who from the shore had seen, and indeed expected,
the catastrophe, lost no time in launching a boat,
though, in consequence of the force of the waves,
they experienced great difficulty. They, however,
succeeded in saving two men, whom they took on
board. On the way back to the pier they picked up
the body of one of the men, and a little further on
they recovered the body of one of the women. Al-
though a number of boats were soon at the scene of
the calamity thather bodies were recovered, and it
is supposed they must have been carried out
to sea.
The following is the list of those who met with
an untimely death :—Mary Fitzgerald, Elizabeth
Clarke, Elizabeth Stewart—all of North Shields.
Robert Higgins, John Keating, and Thomas Laird,
all seamen of North Shields. Thom as Wilson and
Charles Pulmen, also seamen, were the only surd

vivors.
The unfortunate man Higgins was an old fiddler,
and was well known in North Shields. When the
boat started he was much the worse for liquor.
Charles Pulmen, one of the men who was saved by
clinging to the boat, states that immediately he found
the boat was sinking he leapt out. On gaining the
surface the next thing he saw was the boat capsized
and his companions struggling together. One of the
girls (he thinks it was Elizabeth Clarke) seized hold
of him by the shoulders and held on for a few
seconds, when a wave came and washed her
away. He then made for the boat, and caught
hold as it came bottom up. The other survivor,
Thomas Wilson, got hold of the boat about the same
time. When the accident occurred they
were
"larking" among themselves by running the boat
among the breakers. Some of the girls begged the
men not to go out so far, while others were very
much afraid and were crying. One of the pilots
who saw the boat sail down the Narrows says that
when it got among the broken water ho and a num-
ber of his companions were looking every moment
for the boat capsizing. With painful anxiety they
watched the motions of the boat among the broken
sea. Several could not bear to look at the boat,
and walked away " sickened" and horrified at the
sight. Immediately, the boat was seen to lift and
and drive before the sea it was said she would fill
with water. Scarcely a minute elapsed before she
disappeared. The occupants of the boat were for a
moment hid from sight. A rush was then made by
the pilots towards the wa'er's edge, and a coble
launched. In running down the steep from the
Beacon one of those hastening to the reicue, Henry
Stephenson, fell and struck against some stones. So
violent was the blow that the palm of his hand was
split up the middle and some of his fingers bent
right back. This did not deter the gallant fellow
from accomplishing his purpose. The young woman
whose body has been recovered was enciente. She
appeared to be between 18 and 20 years of age. The
other victims were also young.

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Bridge and back over Westminster,;
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BlackfriarFt, and Southwark bridges n their order, and
Collings finally completed his feat by running over Lon-
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minutes to spare. The distance actually covered is com-
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CIIO 0 L OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE,
&c. Admiralty, 26th July, 1867.
The LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY
in reby give notice that the arrangements for the ADMIS-
SION of PERSONS, not already in the Government ser-
vice, to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering, as Admiralty Pupils, will, for the
present year, be as follows :--
Candidates must not bo less than 18 nor more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuilding or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected with shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin-
ciples and practices thereof.
The pupils will be selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, and numbers of marks assigned
for each are as follows : Marks.

Pure Mathematics, including—Arithmetic, mensu-
ration, geometry (plane and descriptive), plane
trigonometry, and the elements of the differen-
tial and integral calculus
Applied Mathematics, including mechanics and hy-
drostatics
Practical Shipbuildiag, including laying-off (for
shipwright's candidates only)
Practical Marine Engineering (for engineer candi-
dates only)
Frenchsoo
Elements of Physics and Chymistry
Grammar and Composition 730
G,,:,_41-aphy and Historydo 750
candi.late will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
ho last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will bo treated,
while attached to the School, in all respects as the Admi-
rtity pupils; they will receive wages the same as dockyard
apprer-tices, commencing at is. Cid. per day for six days
per week for the first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
rr
day till it reaches 2s. ~r day ; and in additio n a subsist-
en-ce allowance of 3s. per day for seven days per week
while away from their homes, either at the school or in the
1), ickyards.
Six months of eacl, year, viz., from November till May,
will be devoted to study at the School, and the remaining
six mouths to aetiye work and the acquirement of practical
knowledge in the dockyards.
It is to bo undorstood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagement to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course
as
srse of study ; and they must rely on their own
or
educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in their subsequent career. The number of such
pupils to be selected
engineer. Persons
this year is one shipwright and one
their
names
withne desirous of competing must forward
on which they acificate of birth, and of the grounds
enclosing proper consider themselves practically qualified,
of the Admiralty not certificateslater
to that effect, to the Secretary
than the Ist of September.
The candidates should
also state whether they wish to
bo examined as engineers or
shipwrights.
Tim examioation will takeplace o u the 23rd September
and three following days.
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