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independent members with the countenances
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support of the Government—it follows, if only in
fair play, that the Government nights should, if
possible, to that extent at least, be multiplied
The Committee's third recommendation relates to
the new standing order already hinted at as being
now, thanks to this report, " upon the cards"—
suggesting, namely, " That, by standing order, the
house, at its rising on Friday do stand adjourned
to the following Monday without question put,
unless the house shall otherwise resolve ; pro-
vided that, while the Committees of Supply and
of Ways and Means are open, the first order of
the day on Friday shall be either Supply or
Ways and Means, and that on that order being.read,
the motion shrill be made, That the Speaker do
leave the chair." This proposition, we are some-
what disposed to think, will be the least acceptable
of ail to the House of Commons generally ; at any
rate, it will be the least acceptable of all, beyond a
doubt, to the more garrulous section of the often-
speaking independents. Yet if it would add that
" one more" to the standing Orders of the House
—the House would manifestly, by that one decision,
rid itself for on and for all, of what has so fre-
quently before now been felt to be in two words
an Intolerable Nuisance. Fourthly, and lastly,
the Committee suggests in its report " That
when a public bill has been committed
to a select committee, and reported to the
house, the bill, as amended, shall be appointed for
consideration on a future day ; when unless the
house shall order the bill generally, or specially in
respect of any particular clause or clauses thereof,
to be recommitted to a committee of the whole
house, the bill, after the consideration of the report
may be ordered to be read a third time." Whereby
one superfluous hitch would be frequently avoided
in the advance of measures upon their way to their
enrollment upon the Statute-book as perfected
enactments. Although we don't forget how—to
the Actor's exclamation--

ligent family, occurred; the vicar, somehow, made
L out that it had not been duly baptised. lie sent
a verbal message, and in very uncourteous lan-
guage to the family, that he could not perform the
service over it. The father, without a moment's
hesitation, gave him as his answer, that " he was
not asked." He obtained the aid of a less bigoted
minister at his own house, who conducted a suitable
service in the family, and the little innocent was
interred in solemn silence. if Dissenters would
follow this simple example, and such interments
are the universal practice in Scotland—the Quakers
also in England have, we believe, no service at
the grave--there would be no need for any bill
whatever. Lord HENLEY sensibly observed in
the discussion, that "no educated Protestant could
suppose that any service performed over a dead
body could have the slightest effect on the future
state of the deceased," and to us this seems the
key of the whole difficulty. Dissenters think
themselves very well educated as Protestants, let
them therefore leave to the less gentlemanly of the
clergy the odium of a course which can injure no
one but those who adopt it.

We do not the less regard it as superstition
and bigotry to inflict needless pain on the illi-
terate. Christian Burial has to thousands of
persons some importance—they hardly know
why, which makes it unendurable that their de-
parted relatives should not hare it. And somehow,
perhaps by long association, some service at the
place of interment has become to them the ideal of
Christian burial. The Legislature ought to provide,
either by altering the Rubric, or by altering the
law of churchyards, that even the most illiterate
and superstitious of her MAJESTY'S subjects should
not be tortured, under the painful circumstances of
family bereavement, by clerical spite and bigotry,
for that is the plain truth. At present the House,
with its clerical riders, will hear of nothing.
Sir M. PETO, a man who, though a Dissenter,
has almost rebuilt the church in his own parish,
might obtain a hearing if any man could. He is
no member of that wild Liberation Society—in-
deed, the churchmen of Lowestoft and Somer-
leyton would appeal to the house on his behalf,
as the Jews did for the Roman pagan, " he loveth

." My wound is great, because it is so small I"
ROCHESTER wittily echoed from the boxes—
" Then 'twould be greater if 'twere none at all I"
we cannot but adopt the apparent extravagance so
far in regard to this Report of the Select Com-
mittee on the Business of the House of Commons
by observing that we do certainly regard the sug-
gestions contained in it as important and even con-
siderable by reason of their very moderation. By
thus attempting less, they are likely to do more in
the way of rational wholesome innovation.

our nation, and has built us a synagogue"—bat

all would not avail. The bill seemed like a slight
scratch on the surface of Church supremacy, and

must go to the place appointed for all such

bills.

At the present moment, when the waste of public
money by the Admiralty and its inefficiency as a
shipbuilding institution are before the public, it is
worth while to recal attention to the " grievance "
of Mr. TROTMAN, not so much for his own sake, as
because it is a national grievance. When we have
incurred such enormous cost in constructing our
ships of war, one of the most obvious of duties is to
provide them with the very best of anchors. Even
if the best cost from double tot reble what common
anchors do, the common sense of every taxpayer
would exclaim, let us have the best, cost what
they may. Every landsman can understand that
in a storm, the anchor which will bite the ground
immediately, and which will not drag when it has
taken the ground, may save several hundred thou- #
sand pounds' worth of national property, to say I
nothing of invaluable lives, from destruction.
There cannot be two opinions on the subject
amongst either landsmen or seamen.
What, then, will the public say, when we remind
them of the fact, that the anchor proved by the
Admiralty itself to be the best, recorded as the best
in their own report, the anchor selected accord-
ingly for the QUEEN'S yacht, the anchor used by
the first Lord of the Admiralty in his own small
yacht, that this anchor is not used by the Admi-
ralty, and that it costs considerably less than the
Admiralty anchor, and is considerably lighter
than the Admiralty anchor of the same powers.
Mr. TROTMAN, relying on the results of former
trials, says, in a letter to the Duke of SOMERSET :
" May I venture in conclusion to propose one more expe-
riment. Your Grace may grant it without doing violence
to your opinion as to the duty of Public Departments,' for
it will not cost the country a solitary sixpence. lam still
willing, in the spirit of my letter addressed to the Admi-
ralty, 7th April, 1859, to supply at my own risk and cost a
TROTNIAN'S anchor, weighing 50 cwt., costing £9O, to be
tested against an Admiralty anchor of 100 cwt. or more,
the contract value of which exceeds M 65—say an anchor
half the weight and one-fourth the cost, against the best
the Admiralty can produce. Will your Grace accept this
proposal, and abide the results ?"
At one quarter of the cost he will guarantee equa
results !

We in England are apt to regard Spain, Naples,
and Austria as priest-ridden countries, and to
plume ourselves not a little on the notion that
we have not allowed the clergy to get on our
backs. But we must not be too conceited. We
all know how firmly the Bishops have seated them-
selves on the Lords ; and this year has made it
pretty evident that the lower grades of the
clergy, the rural clerics, archdeacons, rural
deans, rectors, vicars, and curates, stick pretty
hard on the back of the Commons, and are riding
them with heart and goodwill. A " committee
of laymen," the instrument of some active clergy-
men, have undertaken to whip up the members
of counties and agricultural boroughs, through
the agency of parish clergymen, who are supposed
to influence parish votes. They have done their
work with great vigour, and Mr. DISRAELI,
with his usual cleverness, availed himself of the new
movement, and advertised the clergy that though
he did not like to see them politicians, he thought
now was the time for them to act energetically for
Toryism and the Church. They have responded
well to the summons of the Committee, and of the
great Conservative leader, and every member whom
the country clergy could hope to influence has had
letters enough "from influential constituents" to
make him believe that his seat depended on zeal for
the Church.
This is the whole secret of the Tory activity and
success on questions of Religious Liberty. One
after another it has been able to throw out of the
House of Commons measures which really required
microscopical vision to see how they could be said to
touch the rights of the Church ; and which, in the
judgment of liberal Churchmen themselves, cer-
tainly did not touch her interests, but would be of
considerable advantage to her. Sir MORTON PETO'S
bill last night shared the fate of all measures of the
same inoffensive, but ecclesiastically liberal charac-
ter in our priest-ridden house. We are told
that every Englishman has a right at common law
to burial in the parish churchyard. By law he has
a right to the performance over his corpse of the
legal burial service, provided he has not committed
suicide, or died unbaptized ; but in the latter,
and unhappily of late too common case, he
is refused burial by the Rubric, and there-
fore by those clergym©n who trouble them-
selves to inquire into the facts of his baptism.
Bishops have advised against this over curious
scrutiny. The Home Secretary did so too last
last night; bat there is something restless in the
clerical mind which too frequently prompts it to
" ask questions for the Rubric's sake."
Our readers can doubtless recollect having seen
numberless :extracts we have had to make of
"Refusal to bury," generally followed by scenes
painful enough in the little parish, and cer-
tainly injurious to the Church rather than helpful.
Death is an occasion on which every civilian in-
stinctively feels disposed to do anything in his
power to soothe the feelings of the bereaved family,
and it cannot be for the credit of the Church that
a country parish clergyman announces in self-
defence that his Church compels him to do in
England, with regard to the body of an innocent
child, what the Catholic Church in Spata does in
regard to:the bodies of Protestants dying there. There
might be clauses in Sir M. PETO'S bill which were
so drawn that Church clergymen might think their
position not sufficiently protected.—those, of course,
could have been amended in committee ; but the
object of the bill was to assimilate the English to
the Irish practice, by which, after due notice, and
with provisions for mutual convenience and pro-
priety, Dissenting ministers perform the wished
for service in a churchyard, if the parish clergy-
man be unwilling to do so, Now, as the
parish churchyard is kept up at the cost of the
parish, and in country districts is generally the

say.

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raiser].

His case, he reminds us again, is briefly this :
" In 1852, the then Board of Admiralty nominated Vice.
Admiral the Hon. Sir M. Stopford, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral
George R. Mundy, and the fate Admiral C. Hope ; the
Master Attendants of her Majesty's Dockyards at Sheer-
ness and Portsmouth, viz. :—J. Aylen and J. Tonkim,
Esqrs., R.N. ; alms W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., Duncan
Dunbar, Esq., Chairman of the General Shipowners'
Society, Anthony Ridley, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the
Mercantile Marine Board ; and the following members of
'Lloyds' Committee, William Drew, Esq., and William
Phillips, Esq., and George Marshall, Esq., as a Committee
or Arbitrators, to determine the relative merits of different
descriptions of anchors.' "
And what were the results of this trial ? Here is
the committee's own report :
"ART. 29.—The Committee here beg to recapitulate the
order in which they consider anchors to stand, together
with their relative per tentage of inferiority or superiority
to the Admiralty anchor, the value of which (18-17) this
being taken as the standard or unit.
Trotman 1.28 or 28 per cent.
Rodgers 1.26 or 26 Mitclaeson
Lenox 1.13 or 13 ~„
Porters. 1.09 or 9 „
Aylen ...... 1.09 or 9 „
Admiralty 1. =---the standard."
But for like dilatoriness at the Admiralty, first
n adopting steam in the navy, then in adopting
screws in place of paddles, then in adopt-
ing iron, the nation would hardly credit
the statement, after this report, that nine years
have passed away, and TROTMAN'S anchor is not
yet employed in the navy. The above experiment
cost Mr. TROTMAN £4OO ; yet he has never had an
order from the Admiralty.

Superior to
Admiralty
Anchor.

We must subjoin another statement, on which
we need make no comments. It shows how we are
sacrificed to old routine contracts, and is one amongst
the thousand illustrations of ;low the money goes a t
the Admiralty :
" The subjoined list shows the prices of anchors from the
first makers of the day, comparatively with the official scale
of prices paid by the Admiralty under contract, dated 1841.
(Specification, proofs, and test precisely the same.)
ADMIRALTY ANCHORS.
PRICE PER TON AS PER PRICE PER TON UNDER
PRICE LISTS FROM FIRST ADMIRALTY CONTRACT
MAKERS OF THE DAY. ETERED INTO 1841.
Cwt. £ 8.
N
s.
20 at 20 10 a ton.. 20 10 20t at 44 10 a ton.. 44 10
40
60 —— 24 0 .. 48 0 40 —56 0
28 0 .. 84 0 ..112 0
160—650—80 30 0 —l2O 01 80 —73 0 ..105 0
100 _
30 0 ..150 0 100 —73 0 292 0
..365 0
Present market price .422 101 Admiralty price.. . .1.008 10
"Thus the market price of the above five Admiralty an-
chors, from 1 ton, increasing to 5 tons weight, is shown to
be £422 10s. as against £l,OOB 10s. paid by the Admiralty
under a contract dated 1841. This excessive overcharge
may, in a measure, be accounted for by the fact, that an-
chor contracts have not been subjected to tho test of public
competition for at least a quarter of a century, or since the
introduction of Nasymth's steam hammer, by which in-
vention the cost of manufacture is reduced one-haltat

"I have vouchers, viz., an official letter from the Store-
keeper-General of the Navy, giving the above list of prices,
as paid to the Admiralty contractor for anchors ; also the
price lists of the following eminent anchor makers :—Messrs,
Hawks, Crawshay, and Sons; John Abbot and Co.;
Henry Wood and Co."

The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch and the
Ladies Scott have arrived at their mansion in Belgrave-
square, from Dalkeith Palace, Scotland, for the season,

',THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY- EVENING, APRIL 25, 1861.

LATEST NE WS

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

TURIN, APRIL 24.

The Nationalites of this evening states that the
southern soldiers belonging to the garrison of Mon-
dovi have protested against the letter of General
Cialdini to Garibaldi, and that arrests have been
made in consequence.

The Italia says that the state of things at Naples
has considerably improved.

APRIL 25,

A perfect reconciliation has taken place between
Garibaldi, Count Cayce'', and General Cialdini.
Garibaldi had an interview with Count Cavour,
followed by another with General Cialdini. He
afterwards left Turin, and has proceeded to the
Villa Pallavicini.

TURIN, APRIL 24.

It is not true, as has been rumouxed, that the
representative of King Victor Emmanuel at Frank-
fort has received his passports from the Federal
Diet.

The Opinione of to day publishes extracts from
confidential despatches, addressed by Count Rech-
berg to the Austrian representative accredited to
the Federal Diet at Frankfort, in which the
latter is instructed to insist that the Diet should
neither recognise the title of "Kingdom of Italy,"
nor receive any ambassador from Italy at Frank-
fort.

TURIN, APRIL 24 (Evening).
The Turin Gazette of to-day says :—" An attempt
to excite a popular demonstration was made yester-
day evening at Milan by 100 Garibaldians, who ran
shouting through the streets.'

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Mamiani proposed an order of the clay
declaring that the National Guard of the South
had deserved well of the country during the recent
events. This order of the day was adopted.
%.T M. Minghetti, Minister of the Interior, stated
that the Government was particularly occupied
with the organisation of the National Guard.
General Bixio proposed to the Chamber to adhere
to Garibaldi's project respecting the national arma-
ment.

PARIS, Apia 24.

The Pays of this evening gives a denial to the
report that it was intended to withdraw the French
troops from Rome.

The Presse and Pays assert that a Russian army,
numbering 50,000 men, has been concentrated on
the Pruth, and placed on a war footing, and

`c The reason for this concentration of troops is
said to be the fermentation prevailing in European
Turk cp.

" Austria has taken similar measures, but wit
not, in any case order her troops to cross the from.

VIENNA, APRIL 24.
The state of siege in the city of Fiume has been

The foreign consuls have been instructed to urge
Primo Nikolaus to ccric:ude an armistice with the
Turkish troops, and towithdraw the Montenegrins.
The Oesterreiehischz Zeitung of to-day states that
the Central Congregation of Venetia ha .s refused to
send. representatives to the Council of the Em-
pire cat Vienna.

MADRID, APRIL 23.

Thed Rpoca of to-day says :—" The Kaytians have
demanded the protectorate of Spain, solely in order
to pre; 3erve the administrative and judicial powers
of tile, ir republic."

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 17.

Thernew financial scheme has been published. It
differs.; widely from that proposed by Sir Henry
Bulw e.v, and gives general dissatisfaction.

On to r Pasha has been nominated to the command
of the army in Rouraelia.

A s fpc3eial Conference of the Foreign Represen-
tative a is likely to be held on the affairs of
Mont E.egro.
Tr( x)ps and money have been sent to Beyrout: