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London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

filE SUN, LONDON, FRID tY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1867.

LEWES RACES, Friday and Saturday,
August 9 and 10.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST
RAILWAY. .

ARR ANGEM EN T SI(NEAP • RETURN IS
from London to LEWES each day. Fares: let class,
lls. ; second class, Bs. ; 3d class, ss. 6J., by trains from
Kensington 745, Victoria 7.55, London-bridge 8.0, and
Croydon 8-25 a.m. ; returning from Lewes at 7.50 p.m.
These tickets are only available for the trains above
specified, and on the day of issue.
Fast trains from Victoria 16.35, London-bridge 10.45, and
Croydon IFS a.m., at ordinary (Ist and 2d class) fares ;
returning from Lewes 7.0 p.m. on the 9th, and 5.30 p.m. on
the 10th August.
EXPRESS TRAINS, Ist and 2d class, from Victoria
9.55, London-bridga 10.0, and Croydon 10.20 a.m., .it
REGULAR EXPRESS FARES. EXPRESS RETURN
TICKETS are available to return the same day, or
day following that of issue, and by any train or by the
SPECIAL EXPRESS TRAIN, leaving Lewes direct for
Croydon, London-bridge, Victoria, and Kensington at 7.0
p.m., on the 9th, and 5.30 p.m. on the 10th August.
FROM BRIGHTON by Ist, 2d, and 3d class trains, at
10.30 a.m., 10.55 a.m., and 12.5 p.m. ; returning from Lowes
5.35 p.m., 6.50 p.m., and 7.40 p.m.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTE
CALEDONIAN RAILWAYS.
WEST COAST ROUTE.

,N AND

Improved THROUGH SERVICE of Tra
EUSTON STATION and the PRINCIPAL
SCOTLAND.

ins between
TOWNS in

- WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS.
CIS. CIS. CIS. CIS. Cls. Cis. cls. Cls.
1 2 1 2 1 2 12- I_2 12 3 1 2 1.2.3
London a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
(Euston) dp 9. 0 10. 0 11.20 8.40 9. 0 9.15 8.35 8.15
p.m. p.m. pm. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.
Preston...ar 2.33 3.23 6.10 1.56 3. 5 3.28 1.56 3.28
Carlisle
Edinburgh 9.10 12.45 7.10 9.30 9.40 7.10 9.40
Glasgow 9.30 12.55 7.22 9.50 10. 5 7.22 10. 5
Stirling
Perth 12.20 11.20 9. 0 11.55 9. 0 11.55
a.m. p.m. p.m.
Dundee
p.m.
Aberdeen 3.45 12.35 ... 4.10 12.35 4.10
Inverness
v. Dunkeld. 9. 0 2.45 ... 7.20 2.45 7.20
The 10.0 a.m. Morning Express stops 20 minutes at
n nilnw woacnnfferS dine.

The 10.0 a.m. Morning Jspress stops 20 mina,
Preston to allow passengers to dine.
Conductors in charge of the Through Luggage
from London to Perth by the trains leaving Euston n
a.m. and 9.15 p.m., and to Glasgow by tho train leavi
11.20 a.m.
On Saturday Evenings passengers are not booked by the
9.15 p.m. train further north than Edinburgh and Glasgow.
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1867.

travel
1 10.0
lug at

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.

PARIS EXHIBITION.
NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS AND OTIIERS.
Arrangements are now made 'for the CONVEYANCE of
ARTIZANS, wit!' their Wives and Families, Factory
Hands, and other Nvorkpeople through to PARIS, et
REDUCED. FARES, 19y ordinary Third-Class Trains
Da4Yv-i0n;i1K0ACti011...4,11y4.11,401-igise4;isran 44.43ert.itleato
l''Fiziplis of OrtifieniN:aneriUforniitio as to We trains
a:rrafigutoo to, 6fildiVita4tOtt' to
1ug:04444:m1', of the pri.0.441 St*ton.
order,
W. CAWK WELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, July 25, 1867.

CONTRACT FOR MOP HEADS FOR THE ROYAL
MARINES.

Contract Department, Adm;ralty, Somerset
House, August 1, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
13th inst., at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will bo ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into hor Majesty's Victualling
Stores, at Deptford, all such quantities of
MOP HEADS

as may from time to time be demanded, for the use of the
Royal Marines, under a Contract for Twelve Mouths cer-
tain, and further until the expiration of Three Months'
warning.
A pattern of the mop heads may beds seen tho Royal
Marino Office, New-street, Spring-gans, between the
hours of Elaven and Two o'clock.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Department of tho Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
ou the day of treaty; and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Mop Heads," and must also be delivered at
tho Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, en-
gaging to become bound with tho person tendering in the
sum of £lOO for the due performance of the Contract.

By Order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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iniesrities should be agreed to. Befure this amend-
ment came on the Commons had suflicientlyvindi-
cated their independence by summarily rejecting
three alterations of the Lords of small importance.
Mr. Bright proposed the rejection of this amend-
ment in a speech which, extremely weak as a piece
of argument, was:exceptionally strong as a piece of
declamation, and a debate ensued remarkable until :
Mr. Gladstone rose only by a singularly able speech
from Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, who disposed of
Mr. Bright's contentions with a debating power for
the possession of which no one had given him
credit. Mr. Gladstone spoke under the convic-
tion of defeat. His forced laugh showed the
passions he tried to smother, and the singular
self-contradictions-in which he involved himself
exhibited the mental confusion which his irrita-
tion had induced. Once or twice rising into a
passage of eloquent declamation, he kept for the
i most part n a tedious level of hysterical emotion,
exhausting himself and wearying the house only to
deliver a speech which it would have been well for
his reputation if the reporters had conspired to
suppress. We cannot attempt now to put in their
due juxtaposition the extraordinary jumble of con-
tradictions which the right hon. gentleman's speech
exhibited. Now he was calling the principle a new
and now an old one ; now he was declaring that
minorities had no right to representation, and now
insisting
that minorities are already represented in
virtue of the excellent arrangements of our old con-
latntion ; now he said it Arundel and lloniton
represented the minoritf of Liverpool and Man-
chester, and now he declared his desire to disfran-
chise Arundel and lloniton, whilst still refusing
direct representation to those minorities ; now he
professed his desire to accept the bill as a settle-
ment, and now he insisted that the redistribution
scheme was so imperfect that, leaving the represen-
tation of minorities clause out of the question, it
could not be tolerated for a single year. As Mr.
Lowe, in his short and telling speech, said, Mr.
Gladstone answered himself. And Liberal mem-
bers, half convinced of the justice of the principle
by Mr. Bright's failure to find any decent objection
to it, may well have been satisfied by Mr. Glad-
stone's painful failure thatit deserved their cordial
support. By a decisive majority the house adopted
the amendment relative to the three-cornered con-
stituencies, and by a still more decisive majority
affirmed the enfranchisement of the minority of the
City of Loudon, against which Mr. Crawford natu-
rally made his protest. We regret very much to
have to record that the other and equally important
amendment of the Peers was rejected by a majority
as decisive as that which adopted the clause for the
representation of minorities. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer sought to conciliate opposition by
confining the use of voting papers to the counties,
but the Commons would not have them even in this
limited shape, and so the disfranchisement of the
old, infirm, and timid is continued. Mr. Bright
pannot .preyent two-fifths Of .;the :electors of .Bir-
cAptigntio,;pf Aiffereet:
opmioiisg
`and :• they.
,01. i 4,00,the trouble
nellnotits• thei:tiSle..9p4l#-i4lo:tbtes, but he
eau still"in'aliVilio iXpresepn, =of '.their wishes in-
convenient and perilous. If he cannot gag them
by a majority of voters he can practically do it by
the machinery of a mob. The question now is,
What will the Lords do? We assume that they
will accept the bill in the shape in which it is re-
turned to them. One of the amendments upon
which they laid most stress has been accepted ;
and as for the voting papers, if the Government,
whose child the plan was, is content to sacrifice it,
their lordships will hardly peril the bill by insisting
upon retaining it.
POST.—The result of the proceedings in the
House of Commons last evening will surprise most
persons and give satisfaction to comparatively few.
It will astonish those who have hitherto been under
the impression that members of Parliament re-
corded their votes in accordance with their political
trary dictates of a party leader, while it will shock
convictions, and not in blind obedience to the arbi-
those who regard the fundamental institutions of
the country as something too sacred and too valuable
to be overthrown or bartered away at a moment's
notice for the mere sake of effecting a compromise.
Notwithstanding the immense majority by which
the House of Commons disallowed the principle
that minorities in certain constituencies were entitled
to special provisions to enable them to return re-
presentatives, it last evening reversed that decision,
not because its opinion was changed, but because it
was deemed expedient to obey the bidding of a
Minister who, on the same issue on a former occa-
sion, had given it precisely different advice. The
amendment of the Lords, limiting the number of
votes to be given by electors in constituencies re-
turning three or more members, was agreed to at
the close of a debate in which Mr. Bright made one
of the most powerful speeches delivered during the
present session. The other amendments made by
the Lords, with the exception of two or three of a
mere verbal nature, were rejected. That of the
Marquis of Salisbury, introducing the system of
voting papers, though modified by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, so as to apply alone to county
elections, was rejected by a majority of 52 in a
house of 469 members, inclusive of the Speaker and
tellers. It was known that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would in the first instance state
the course which her Majesty's Government was
prepared to take with respect to the amendments,
and this circumstance, no less than the importance
of the issue to be raised, brought together the
fullest house that probably ever met on the 7th of
August. Mr, Disraeli's statement was brief and to
the point. In the three material amendments which
had been effected by the Lords, her Majesty's Go-
vernment, he said, were prepared to concur. These
amendments were the omission of the clause intro-
duced by the House of Commons lowering the elec-
toral qualification of copyholders in counties, the
insertion of Lord Cairns's provision for securing the
representation of minorities, and the introduction of
the clause enabling electors to record their votes by
means of voting papers. A fourth amendment, Mr.
Disraeli reminded the house, had been made by the
Lords, but subsequently withdrawn—that raising
the lodger franchise. To that amendment, had it
been insisted on by the Upper House, her Majesty's
Government would have found themselves obliged
to advise the House of Commons to refuse its assent.
In conclusion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer jus-
tified the course taken by the Government, on the
ground that the Upper House had attacked none of
the fundamental
principles of the bill, that they
dealt with it in a conciliatory spirit, and that it
therefore became the duty of the Commons to defer
to the opinion of the Lords in those minor points on
which it differed from their own. In order, how-
ever, to estimate the true nature of the concessions
which Mr. Disraeli asked the house to make, as well
as the spirit in which they were conceived, one was
unavoidably compelled to recall not only the course
taken by the House of Commons, but by the Go-
vernment, in dealing originally with those parti-
cular subjects which were once more put in
issue by the Lords' amendments. The copyhold
franchise in counties was lowered in obedience
to the wishes of the majority of the House of
Commons, though
,contrary to the inclination of
the Government. The proposition to restrict the
elective powers of voters in constituencies return-
ing more than two members was vehemently op-
posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
was rejected, on a division, by a considerable
majority. The suggestion of voting papers was in
the first instance made by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. It was supported by him and his col-
leagues when brought in a substantive form before
the House, but was nevertheless rejected. It there-
fore appears that in counselling moderation and
concessions to the House of Commons in respect to
these three important amendments, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer was,
as regarded two of them, ad-
vising the I louse to withdraw the disapproval it had
expressed of his own parti▪
cular policy. Of the
conciliatory spirit manifested by the Lords, it was
not inaptly observed by Mr. Gladstone that it was
evinced chiefly, if not exclusively, in dealing with
those proposals which emanated from the Govern-
ment. Amendments which owed their origin to
members of the Opposition had not, as he pointed
out, been treated in a spiri▪ t which most persons
would have been inclined to regard as one of conci-
liation. The House proceeded to the consideration
of the amendments in a spirit which clearly indi-
cated that it was unconvinced b y the reasoning of
its present recognised chief. Sir Roundel' Palmer
proposed the rejection of the modification made in
the bill by the Lords respecting the electoral quali-
fications of persons occupying chambers in the uni-
versities, and his motion was carried without a divi-
sion. The House next dealt with the amendment
restoring the copyhold franchise as fixed by the
Ittforin Act of 1832, and, after a brief discussion,
this amendment was disagreed to on a division by a
• majority of 47. It is rather singular that it was by
• precisely the same majori▪ ty that the House of
Commons originally introduced the clause which,
; after being erased by the Lords, it has now once
more restored to the bill. Next in order for dis-
cussion stood the amendment limiting the number
' of votes to be given in constituencies returning
' three or more members. 'There were many rca-

sous why the Commons should be averse from
altering the oi4nion they originally expressed upon
this point. The arguments certainly remained
the same, but any doubts which they might have
entertained that the real object of the experiment
was to neutralise the general effects of the enfran-
chisement effected by the bill must have been
removed by the candid avowals of those by whom
the obnoxious amendment was made. Without once
more going into the general merits of the question,
it must be admitted that, under theproposed system,
those constituencies which, in consequence of their
supposed importance, have received three members,
would have been much better off if they had been
left with two. If the minority should succeed in ob-
taiuing a representative, he might be said to pair
with one of his colleagues, and, as Mr. Bright sug-
gested, the practical effect wouldbe that Manchester,
with its three members, would have less weight in
Parliament than the adjoining borough of Salford,
with two members. Arguments, however, had no
weight with men who were prepared to follow Mr.
Disraeli into any lobby into which he might be
pleased to lead them, and the result was that the
house by a majority of 49 affirmed a proposition
which but a few weeks since it negatived by the
much greater majority of 140. A proposal to except
the City of London from the operation of the
amendment was negatived by a somewhat larger
majority; and the house then, after a brief debate,
rejected the amendment providing for the employ-
ment of voting papers.