The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-10 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tins DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at. 10 minutes past 12.
THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Nlanchester Corporation Water, &e. ; Norwich and Spald-
ing Railway; Tendring Hundred Railway.
AGRICULTURL OF AUSTRIA AND DENMARK.
Mr. HATLAND asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs when Professor Wilson's reports on the
agriculture of Austria and Denmark would be laid un the
table.

Lord STANLEY asked the Len. member to renew the
question to-morrow.
MERCANTILE MARINI: BILL.

In reply to Dr. BRADY,
Mr. S. CAVE said in consequonca of the state of busi-
ness it would be better to intrJduca this bill in the Upper
llousa after the Easter recess.

MINES, ASSESSMENT BILL.

Mr. PERCY WYNDHAM, in moving the second read-
ing of this bill, explained the way in which coal mimes
were at present rated in different parts of the country.
Lord G. CAVENDISH moved that the bill be referred
to a select committee, and in doing so assured the mover
of the second reading that he was acting in no hostility to
the principle of the measure, but the details were so com-
plicated that they could not be dealt with by a committee
of the whole house.

After a short discussion, the bill was read a second tires
and referred to a select committee.

TEST ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.
On the motion for the house going into committee ou
this bill,

Mr. FAWCETT moved that it be an instruction to the
committee to extend the provisions of the bill to Cam-
bridge. He contended that the Universities were na-
tional institutions, which ought to be open to all her Ma-
jesty's Subjects, without distinction of sects or creed.
A discussion ensued on the question, during which Mr.
Gladstone said he was in a peculiar position, as he did
not approve of partial legislation. He thought the bill as
it stood came within that definition, and for that reason
he should vote in favour of the instruction.
The house divided, when there appeared—
For the instruction
Against it
Majority —B7
The instruction having been carried, tho house went
into committee, when the whole of the clauses were
agreed to.
ASSOCIATIONS OF WORKMEN BILL.

Mr. NEATE moved the second reading of this bill, the
object of which was to place trades unions in the same
position as friendly societies. He did not want to pre-
judgo the inquiry that was about to take place before the
Royal Commissioners, but he wanted an assurance on the
part of the Government that they would not oppose the
second reading of the bill.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was quite im-
possible for her Majesty's Government to assent to the se-
cond reading of the bill, not because they objected to trades
unions, but because it was asking the assent of the Legis-
lature to an existing and continuing violation of the law.
lie therefore hoped the house would reject the motion.
Mr. T. HUGHES hoped the house would not throw
out the bill in the summary manner that had been sug-
gested by the Attorney-General. The bill had been neces-
sary in consequence of a decision which had been given ia
the Court of Queen's Bench, which placed in peril the funds
of certain friendly societies, because they were looked
upon as trade societies as well its benefit societies, and
therefore illegally constituted. lie hoped the house would
give its assent to the second reading, as the principal ob-
ject of it was only to enable trade societies to protect their
funds, which could be pocketed by the per-
sons holding them, if dishonestly disposed, with-
out the contributors having any legal remedy.
against them. The inquiry of the Royal Commissioners
must result in legislation, and it was only pending that
inquiry that the bill of his hon. friend asked that the
funds subscribed by members of these societies should be
protected.
Mr. BARIIOW opposed the bill. Ile was addressing the
house at a quarter to six, at which hour, iu accordaeco
with the standing orders, the debate ceased.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

TURKEY AND GREECE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 5.

The Porte has addressed an energetic note to the
Greek Government threatening to invade the latter's
territory if it persisted in its hostile proceedings
against the Porte. _ . .

_Yesterday an extraordinary Council of Ministers
was held under the presidency of the Sultan, when
the propositions of the Powers in reference to Crete
and the future condition of the Christians in Turkey
were again considered.

Yr. Gladstone on American Finance.
4. _ _

Mr. GLADSTONE, when speaking on the Budget
last Thursday, paid a high and well-merited com-
pliment to the American people. We have ex-
tracted this portion of his speech, which, we must
do Mr. GLADSTONE the justice to say, is in accord
with all his previous teachings, and a system he
has never ceased to urge on the British nation.
Mr. GLADSTONE holds that the true policy of a
country is to strengthen its resources in time of peace,
by economising its expenditure, so that the finan-
cier in time of war may have his donkey unloaded,
fresh and ready for any burdens—not an over-
weighted and worn-out ass. As regards the
wisdom of the course there can be little
question with respect to the United States,
but there is much doubt of its feasibility
when applied to Europe. So long as one nation is
ready, on the opportunity offering, to attack and
swallow up another, that other must hold itself in
vigilant preparation to prove a tough morsel. The
policy of such States as Prussia and Austria, the
known gormandising powers of Russia, have had
a pernicious influence, more especially the late
policy of Prussia, in keeping up Europe as an armed
camp. The miseries that a nation inflicts upon its
neighbour by forcing on it the intolerable burdens
of an armed preparation ramify from one to
another till spread over all adjacent countries, from
Behring's Straits to Cape Finisterre. From
this • curse America is exempt. She is free
to carry out the policy dictated by com-
mon sense, and she is not likely to adopt
any other. It is not the American system which
deserves praise, for to nature and good fortune the
fact that it can be adopted, is due, but the
extraordinary manner iu which it has been
carried out. The most experienced financier
in the world may well pause in the midst
of his speech in the greatest of debating
societies to express his astonishment and admira-
tion. " Not," he exclaimed, " that we can expect
a continuance of tlle same extraordinary and un-
heard-of measures, by which so much has been
already done, for human nature can hardly stand
such a strain." This is the language which will give
the spur to the American people who delight to amaze,
to overwhelm, to toss up the burden as a plaything,
beneath the weight of which great empires have
tottered and sank, wh:le the world stands by hardly
believing that the weight is genuine, that it is not
some juggler's trick they see. To do what no
other people could or would attempt to do is
the strongest incentive ; and these citizens possess a
sympathetic cord which thrills at once through the
whole mass, making them act as one man, whose
honour or pride is touched, and enables the nation
by a combined effort to do what others would never
dream of trying. European politicians constantly
fall into the mistake, through ignorance of this fact
of supposing that American statesmen are discuss-
ing the wildest chimeras, while, in truth, they are
proposing no more than they afterwards perform.
We believe Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech will have a
good effect on the other side of the Atlantic, for
Americans like their efforts to be appreciated by
those best able to judge, and have no fancy for
" biding their light under a bushel."—Anylo-Anieri-
can Times.

A BENEVOLENT COLLECTION.--A donation of
£lOO has lately been sent to the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution by Master Herbert Marston, a son of the Rev. C. D.
Marston, rector of Kersal, Manchester. This young gen-
tleman, who is afflicted with blindness, was so interested
in the work of the lifeboat crews by hearing Mr Bal-
lantyne's story, "The Lifeboat, a Tale of our Coast
Ileroes," that he began in the spring of last year a collec-
tion for the National Lifeboat Institution, which has re-
sulted in this peculiar and gratifying donation to the in

stitution.
HousE.—Y
THE Cesterday evening, be-
tween 9 ano'clock, a fire bra() out just behind St.
John-street, and in close proximity to the Charter-house,
at an ivory turner's, destroying the roof and threatening
destruction to the back premises of the Charter-house. The
officials of this latter place very promptly brought their
engine to bear upon the flames. They with some of the
gentlemen in the establishment were mainly the cause of
checking the more extensive ravages of the fire.
lADvEnTlsEmENT.]—Hollowav'sOintinoat and Pills have
over and over again proved the best friend to persons
afflicted with ulcerations, bad legs, sores, abscesses, fistulas,
and other painful and complicated complaints. Printed
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pills should be: taken throughout the progress of the cure,
to maintain the blood in a state of perfect purity, and to
prevent the health of the whole body being j3opardised
by the local ailment. Bad legs (old ago's great grievance)
are thus readily cured witi•out confining the patient to
bed, or withdrawing him from the nutritious diet and
generous support so imperatively demanded when weaken-
ing diseases attack advanced years, or constitutions evine-
L ing premature decripitude.