The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

DURHAM MEETING--MONDAY.

The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added ; weight
for age; maiden and other allowances; winners extra ;
T.Y.C.
Ur Armstrong nd Clarionette, by Lambton--Claribel, 2
yr; Otit Sib aismistommiltiosismsemet ~,,, ii,( TlVen) 1

Mr Berridge's Viridior, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Hudson) 2
Mr Dowson's Paleface, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Cameron) 3
Sleeping Beauty also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Clarionette, sto 2 agst Viridior, and
3to 1 agst Paleface. Won by four lengths.
The Corporation Plate of 100 soya ; winners extra. Ono
mile.
Mr Johnstone's Donaldbain, by Malcolm—Rosary, 3 yrs,
Gat 21b (Hudson) I
Mr W. Cowen's Polecat. 4 yrs, Gat 121 b... ..... .(M‘Ewen) 2
Mr Pobert's Warwick, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Cameron) 3
The following also ran :—Derwent, Scarth Nitch, and
Stafford.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Donaldbain, 3to 1 agst Warwick,
and 6to 1 agst Polecat. Won by half a length.
Tho Elmore Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 80 added ;
for two years old ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings, Bst
61b; winners extra; maiden and other allowances.;
second saved stake. T.Y.C. 20 subs.
Mr. W. Osborne's Master Tom, by Carnival —N minus 1,
Bst 71b
Mr Johnstone's Hymen Bst 31b (Cameron) 2
Mr R. Wation's Number Nip, Bst 71b (Snowden) 3
. The following also ran :—Glen Avon, Cassandra, Barna
Bimbo, Leah colt.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Number Nip, 4to 1 each agst Glen
Avon and Master Toni, and 6 to 1 agst Hymen. Won by

a neck.
The Durham Handicap of 100 sovs, added to a sweep-
stakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, and 2 if declared ; winners
extra; second saved stake. Ono mile and a half. 31
subs.
Sir W. Elliott's Three per Cont., by Bondholder—The
Foley, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Snowden) 1
Mr Fobert's Liberal, 4 yrs, 7st 41b ...... (M. Noble) 2
Mr Plummer's Caprera, 3 yrs, Gst 10Ib (M'Ewen) 3
The following also ran :—Lapidist's Dam filly, Dear
Tom, Jenny Mills, Sawyer, Beautiful Star.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Three per Cent., 4tq 1 agst Libe-
ral, 5 to 1 agst Beautiful Star, and 6 to 1 each agst Cap-
rera and Sawyer. Won by a head.
The- Stand Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 25
addel ; weight for age ; maiden and other allowances
the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. T.Y.O.
Mr Dawson's Paleface, by Stiletto—Damsel, 3 yrs, 7st
121 b (no) (Cameron) 1
Mr. T. Holmes's Sleeping Beauty, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (410)
(Platt) 2
Mr Berridge's Viridior, 3yrs, Bst llb (£3o).„(Snowden) 3
The following also ran:—Stitch filly, Vara, and Bed

Cloak.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Paleface, 3to 1 agst Viridior, and
4to 1 agst Red Cloak. Won by a length.
Tho Durham Hunt Cup of 50 sous, for hunters ; weight for
age; certain penalties and allowances; gentlemen riders.
Two miles. 36 subs.
Mr G. F. Reed's Deddington, aged, 12st 41b (Mr Robson) 1
Mr Jackson's Bob Brunton, aged, 12st 41b
(Mr Robinson) 2
Mr W. P. Metcalf s Lancaster, aged, 12st 41b
(Mr Fenwick) 3
The following also ran :—Black Prince, Governor, Go-
verness, Whisker, Chipchase, Comrade, Macassar, Minnie,
aid Red Robin.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Minnie, 3to 1 each agst nodding-
ton and Red Robin, and sto 1 agst Black Prince. Won
by half a length.

THE AUSTRIAN_CIVIL MARRIAGES

BILL.

VIENNA, April 10.

Subjoined is the full text of the letter recently
addressed by Prince Carl Auersperg, President of
the Ministry, to Cardinal Rauscher, Archbishop of
Vienna, upon the Civil Marriage question. A sum-
mary has been telegraphed :
" Your Eminence,—l have the honour, in the
name of the Emperor's Government, to reply as
under to the letter bearing the signatures of 14
Austrian prelates that reached me upon the 30th
ult., through your kind intervention.

" The aforesaid letter points out with perfect jus-
tice that laws can only receive an interpre-
tation binding upon all classes from the legislative
authority. Precisely upon that account the expla-
nation of the opinions from which those persons
charged with the executive proceed can only prove
beneficial in face of clearly present questions. The
letter further directly treats of the proceedings that
have taken place in the Reichsrath upon the draft
of a bill referring to the marriages of Catholics, in
which the opportunity was freely given for the
fullest and most general debate of this highly
important subject. 'This was not left unused,
and his Majesty's Government also has not ab-
stained from publicly discussing the matter.
But the time for that public discussion has
now expired, so far at least as the Government
is concerned, which is in duty bound to observe the
most respectful reserve in the stage of legislative
treatment into which the bill has at present passed.
The Ministerial Council could therefore only be in-
duced by the high esteem it entertains for the dis-
tinguished qualifications and the elevated calling of
the signitaries to that letter, to enter upon the
questions which that communication rather suggests
than expresses.

" None of the laws existing in these countries in-
structs or empowers the Courts to take cognisance
of questions of creed or conscience, or to assume the
regulation and administration of the internal affairs
of the Church. Articles 14 and 45 of the funda-
mental law upon the general rights of State
citizens afford ample guarantees that this will also
not happen at any future time. When, therefore,
the Government adduced sec. 1 of the law upon the
authority of the judges in support of the draft of
the bill upon the marriages of Catholics discussed
by the Reichsrath, its reason was because it felt
convinced that in so doing it claimed nothing for
the jurisdiction to be exercised in the name of the
Emperor that was not within the legitimate
limits of State authority. It would not, there-
fore, be justifiable to reproach the Government
with not taking any notice of the Catholic Church
and its constitution ; the Government is glad,
upon the contrary, to avail itself of this oppor-
tunity of declaring that it not only reverences and
intends to uphold the liberty of the Church, but
will at all times be ready to further her beneficent
operation to the extent of its power. But equally
as the Government has no intention of overstepping
the limits of the State power, so it can also not lend
its assistance to this being done by others. It must,
therefore, decline entering upon that portion of the
abovenamed letter which makes the obligations im-
posed upon State officials by the law upon the
general rights of citizens the subject of an inter-
pretation calculated, even although unintentionally,
to lead astray their sentiment of duty.
" While I request your Eminence to bring this
communication under the notice of all the reverend
signitaries of the afore-mentioned letter, I do not
refrain from expressing a hearty wish that the
united efforts of the State and ecclesiastical autho-
rities may succeed in strengthening in all.their
organs that sentiment of duty which, removed from
the contradiction between conscience and action,
promotes the interests of the State in a manner
truly conducive to morality.
" I beg your Eminence to accept the assurance of
my fullest esteem and sincere reverence.
(Signed) " AUERSPERG."

SINGULAR CUSTOM IN BURUAIL—A correspon-
dent, writing from Mandalay, describes the ceremony of
"boring the ears" of the daughters of the King of Burmah,
which took place there lately. The whole of the royal
party were bedecked with diamonds, rubies, sapphires,
emeralds, and pearls. His Majesty and two of the princi-
pal Queens were scarcely able to walk from the weight of
the ornaments on their robes. The King and the Queens
were supported on either side by maids of honour of rare
Burmese beauty. The orchestra was filled by some of the
dancing girls, who performed on the sackbuts, drums,
harps, &c. It is estimated that the whole affair will cost
upwards of 10 Lacs of rupees. The gates of the palace were
thrown open to all—men, women, and children—and
theatrical performances went on day and night.
A style of Italian opera suitabl a for railway companies
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:aims thcirint4l6
Alp rd-SPliabilrY sue,
ceeds to his station in the ctry d tii-fC‘nate.
great peer has left *place vacant,lt, httppily, we are
not poor in great peers qualified to do their duty in their
station. But the Lord Salisbury who now goes to the
hereditary chamber is something more than a great peer
with good abilities and a proper regard for provincial
duties. He has proved himself in the Commons an orator,
an administrator, and, it must be added, a thinker of the
first class ; and whereas others give promise at their
entrance into public life, too often falsified in after years,
the new Lord Salisbury has developed a higher character
for experience and familiarity With the problems of states-
manship than even his friends at first expected. All
were assured of his ability, but few could have anticipated
the breadth of view he manifested during the short
time in which he controlled the destinies of the Indian
Empire. His political power became even greater
after he sec:•ded from Lord Derby's Cabinet. Something
of his first narrowness might be traced in the pertinacity
of his invective against the present Prime Minister,
which, though excusably bitter, was perhaps a little out of
proportion ; but the vigour and range of his intellect were
manifested in so many ways as to throw this defect into
the bacl:ground. It was particularly remarkable how
quickly he adapted himself to the new circumstances of
the question of the session. He lost no time in recrimina-
tions, even when he pursued Mr. Disraeli most keenly.
He saw what remained to be done, and devoted himself to
it with the same zeal as he brought to the earlier and deci-
sive conflicts. The sudden translation of such a statesman
to the House of Lords must influence the course of our future
political history. Hadhe remained in the Lower House he
must have withdrawn, not at once, but certainly as soon as
the present Ministry is displaced, a very large section of
the Conservative party from their allegiance to Mr.
Disraeli. It is not impossible that he would have become
the Conservative leader, for he represents the sentiments
and principles of the party in all their purity and
strength, and with the ardour of undoubting conviction.
But our Constitution does not allow a noble to renounce
his privileges, and Let, like Mirabeau, to sit as a Deputy
in the Tiers Etat. Mr. Disraeli is relieved of an im-
mediate rival in the House of Commons, without the
necessity of having recourse to a Canadian Governorship.
It may, however, be that Lord Salisbury has an equally
distinguished career before him in the Upper House. The
peers hold their principles of allegiance much more loosely
than the Commons, who are kept faithful by the
assiduity of prominent constituents ; and if there were
sufficient reason for the attempt, Lord Salisbury and
Lord Carnarvon could assault the Treasury. Bench in
such force as to carry it by storm with the approbation of
the majority of those who sit behind it. It is, however,
of no value to obtain the predominance in the House of
Lords if there be no allied body ready to fight a similar
fight in the House of Commons. Lord Derby for years
ruled the Upper House, but without a sufficient following
in the Commons he could do nothing bat lead an Oppo-
sition. It is doubtful whether Lord Salisbury in the House
of Lords could reckon on any efficient lieutenant in the
Lower House. Persons of a speculative temperament may
suggest certain names, but none of them could be promoted
to the leadership of a party. There must undoubtedly be a
great rupture of existing alliances immediately after the
reformed Parliament is convened, if not at an earlier date,
but the issue is too uncertain to warrant a conjecture as
to the form in which reorganisation will be accomplished.
Lord Salisbury will have no unworthy task before him,
even if the dissolution of the present ties of party be
delayed longer than can be deemed probable. He will
find in the House of Lords " foeruen worthy of his steel,"
and if be brings to it rare debating power, it must still be
remembered that the standard of debate is on the whole
higher in the Upper House than in the Lower, and tradi-
tions of statesmanship linger there which are scarcely
understood in the Commons.

The Daily Nezcs expresses its opinion that the House of
Commons loses in Lord Cranborne a statesman without

the expression of whose opinions no discussion could be
considered complete, and a debater who at a very early
age had gradually come to take rank scarcely if at all
below Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Bright. He
never spoke in Parliament without bringing to bear upon
the topic of debate considerations-which no one could
refuse to entertain who 'wished to view the subject in
its completeness. The idea of confusing a question
or of mystifying the House for party purposes was
impossible to his clear and straightford intelli-
gence. Unfortunate as he must consider his brief
connection with Lord Derby's Government to
have been, in some respects it has been of service
both to him and the country. It gave him the oppor-
tunity of exhibiting very unusual administrative capacity.
The permanent staff of the India Office are, it is said,
unanimous in their estimate of him as the ablest chief
wham the fortunes of party warfare have for a generation
placed at their head. Lord Cranborne would, indeed, be
a greater statesman if he had a larger faith and a more
genial nature. His conduct on the Reform question,
though morally creditable to him, strewed an intellectual
insensibility to the impulses which move men, and a want
of apprehension of the living forces of society, incom-
patible with the highest order of statesmanship. But
these, very defects have helped to bring out the pure per-
sonal honour and rigid, if narrow, principles of the man ;
and to enforce more emphatically the lesson which a party
that accepts Mr. Disraeli as its leader especially needs.

The Herald declares that a man of Lord Cranborne's
great energy and rare powers will exercise almost as great
an influence upon the country in the Upper as be could do
in the Lower House. The decay of that influence which
has been noticeable in some statesmen after their elevation
is due, not to the change of the place from which they
speak, but to the fact that their powers were already in
decay, or that their names had lost their magic. Lord
Cranborne's powers have not yet reached their maturity.
He grows every session, and a long and magnificent career
is before him if he only chooses to run it. He has no
superior in the House of Peers as a debater, and he enters
at a time when the principles to which he is so firmly
attached need, especially in that assembly in which they
should naturally be triumphant, earnest and eloquent vin•
dication.

The Post remarks that in defiance of precedent Ministers
will not resign. Mr. Gathorne Hardy stated in the course
of the debate that in the event of being defeated on the
motion for going into committee, the Government would
then with unabated vigour resist the resolutions. It is
certainly true that the mere act of going into committee
does not pledge the House of Commons to any expression
of opinion, and thus far nothing has found its way into the
journals of the House of Commons which the Go .-ernruent
need refuse to endorse. The House has simply
decided on going into committee to consider certain
Acts of Parliament which relate to the Irish Church,
but non constat that it will in any manner inter; re with
them. The first resolution which the committee, at the
instance of Mr. Gladstone, will be called upon to accept Is to
the effect that the Irish Church, as an Establishment,
should cease to exist. If, as is most probable, this resolu-
tion is carried by a substantial majority, then indeed the
time would arrive when the Ministry could no longer with
any sense of self-respect retain office and seek supplies
from a House of Commons whose opinions were so corn-

pletely counter to their own. If, however, under Mr.
Disraeli's guidance, they ventured still to maintain their
position, the affirmation of the second and third resolu-
tions, which solicit specific action on the part of the
sovereign, would place them in a dilemma from which
escape would he impossible. They would be compelled
either to advise her Majesty to comply with the wishes
of the House of Commons, and by so doing become per-
sonally responsible for the first direct blow aimed at the
Irish Church ; or, by counselling the Queen to refuse her
assent, expose themselves to an unequivocal vote of want
of confidence.

The Telegraph calls attention to the Prince of Wales's
visit to Ireland. " The Prince of all the Land," it says,
has started to day on an errand of goodwill and kindly
meaning, carrying with him to Ireland the same senti-
ments from the people of this country. It is the most
Royal service that Royalty could possibly render; and every-
body must hope that bright skies and judicious arrange-
ments will give to the visit complete success and
eclat. With the Prince of Wales goes the illustrious
lady who will some day sit beside him on the throne, and
whose gentle grace and beauty, seen for the first time
by the mass of the Irish people, will be the pleasantest
translation which could be possibly made of the
desire felt from the highest to the lowest ranks,
on this side of the Channel, that Erin should at last begin
to be happy. Neither the Royal visitors nor any other
people who are rational fancy that State progresses and
pageants can supply what Ireland wants ; and we should
offer a poor compliment to the sagacity and sense of our
fellow-subjects if we expected them to say nothing more
about disestablishment, tenant- right, and education
because their Royal Highnesses were coming to see them.
No Irishman will think that so childish an illusion is
entertained by any person, and yet every good Irishman
ought to be pleased at the visit, and do his best to meet
it in the noble spirit which moves the illustrious travel-
lers.

After a long and somewhat animated discussion,
the Court of Quarter Sessions for the hundred of Salford
has decided, by thirtysix votes against twenty-six, in
favour of the appointment of a Roman Catholic chaplain
for the new county gaol. The question of salary has,
*low, A t 9 be Ranged.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1868.

Fortunately the grand Volunteer Review of yes-
terday went off as well as any one could have de-
sired, and this is the more satisfactory as all did not
promise so well at first, and none of the prior
arrangements could not forsome time be determined
on with unanimity. Portsmouth will long remem-
ber the fete of yesterday, and the very numerous
assemblage which witnessed the affair will have re-
tired from the scene deeply impressed with it. For
many reasons, it is desirable that just no w there
should be no diminution nor an apparent falling off
in the efficiency of our Volunteer force, and there-
fore we hail with the greater gratification the
fact that the best and most complete review of this
kind that has as yet taken place came off yesterday.
The weather, concerning which doubts had been
entertained from the ungenial atmosphere of Sunday,
proved most propitious, and everything else was in
accordance with this auspicious sign. We all know
that that is a great thing, for bad weather is an
enemy that the bravest may dread to encounter in
an affair of this kind ; and, above all, it is to be
regretted for the sake of the many who go
to witness the show, and put themselves
to great trouble and expense to do so. The greatest
excitement prevailed in all parts to witness the
brilliant spectacle, and for the time the quiet and
monotonous routine of everyday life was exchanged
for the glare and glitter, the bustle and animation
of war, without its sad attendants or melancholy
thoughts. A change of this sort is of benefit, even
though we do not expect to see the semblance put
aside for reality ; but we shall be all the more ready
to maintain peace if we are quite au fait in a con-
trary direction, and if, when we hear of the threats
and insinuations of unfriendly allies or jealous
neighbours, we can meet them with more equanimity
than if we were quite at random as to the mode in
which we are to meet attacks. Without any ex-
aggeration we may affirm that England has taken
a decided start in military affairs, and that the
scene of yesterday must be regarded as a triumph
of voluntary efforts, and a testimony of the national
spirit of independence, which cannot fail to be in-
fluential among foreign nations. The thirty thou-
sand who assembled yesterday are, indeed, most
efficient guardians of the country, and teach
foreigners a lesson that they cannot overlook
and will not speedily forget. We have not
the standing armies which are such a drain on the
resources and such a blight to the social happiness
and civil progress of other nations of Europe. The
conscription, which brings thousands to the call of
NAPOLEON, and surrounds the throne of Prussia
with legions of armed hosts, is not known among
us, but our shores will not be left undefended should
the chances and changes of public affairs summon
our soldiers to the seat of war, and withdraw our
regular army from among us.
All the arrangements for the Review of yester-
day were most admirably planned and successfully
carried out, and no accident occurred to mar the
splendour of the scene, or occasion any doubts or
differences in any mind. We should think that
by this time even those who do not feel quite
certain about the advantages of the Volunteer
system can hardly call it a " sham." This its
ninth celebration in the review line has not been
carried out with such perfect success without a
struggle, and perhaps more than on former occa-
sions it has been subjected to censure and cri-
ticism. Still nothing that is really strong
and steadfast takes root easily, and the under-
taking in question is none the more or the less
likely to prosper on account of being made the sub-
ject of comments not very friendly, and subjected
to sarcasm, which is certainly hostile. It is some-
thing to know that our Volunteers can get through
such a day as that of yesterday at Portsmouth with-
out failure, and, more than that, with all the success
that had been anticipated. We do not mean to say
that perfection has been attained by these forces, but
they have gone on and prospered in such a manner
that we have every reason to hope for still
better and more efficient work being done
by them than they have yet achieved ; and as
time goes on and events complicate around us we
should turn with renewed interest to this creation
of our patriot defenders, and honour the zeal and
assiduity which have sustained them in their self-