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coed with that bill after the supplementary Reform Bills SPORTING
and the Boundary Bill were disposed of. He thought they
had better clear the paper before they began to make
further arrangements.
IRISH REFORIrBILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill.
Mr. DISRAELI said he took that the first opportunity
of stating that with respect to the postponed clauses
10, 11, 12, he did not on the part of the Government offer
needless obstacles, therefore he should move that they be
expunged. (Hear, hear.)
On clause 10 being proposed,
Mr. PIM moved to leave out from " boroughs" to end
of clause, and insert "borough of Portarlington shill
cease to return a member to serve in Parliament, and the
boroughs of Downpatrick, Dungannon, Kinsale,
and Bandon shall cease to have the_right to take part in
the election of members of Parliament, otherwise than as
forming part of a district of boroughs in manner herein-
after provided."
After a short discussion, the clause was withdrawn.
The remainder of the night was occupied in the discus-
sion of new clauses. The first controversy which arose
was on a new clause moved by Mr. C. Fortescuo to group
the Queen's University with the University of Dublin for
election purposes. It was objected to by Lord Mayo on
the ground that it was not possible for these two bodies
to amalgamate, and that both were equally averse from it.
Replying to some statistics quoted by Mr. Fortescue as to
the paucity of the Dublin University constituency, Lord
Mayo mentioned that in the Irish Registration Bill a
change would be made which would add considerably to
the number of electors. The Atterney-General for Ireland
also opposed the conjunction on behalf of his constituency ;
while Mr. Gregory strenuously supported it, as the first
step towards breaking up the exclusive character of the
University representation. On a division the clause was
rejected by 183 to 173.
Mr. FA\VCETT, in order to provide a separate and
independent member for the Queen's University, moved
to disfranchise the smallest borough in Irelaud—Portar-
lington; which Lord Mayo opposed on the ground that
the house had already detertniued,not to deal with Redis-
tribution in the bill. Oa a. division Mr. Fawcett's clause
was rejected by 210 to 55.
A clause brought up by Sir C. O'Loghlen to disfranchise
all Irish freemen in future, saving existing rights, gave
rise to a long and lively discussion, which was mainly a
reproduction of the arguments used last year, when a
similar clause was moved in the English bill. It was
zealously supported by Mr. Gladstone, and the claims and
merits of the freemen class of voters were espoused with
equal warmth by Mr. Henley. bn division the clause
was rejected by 155 to 109.
The sharpest struggle of the evening was on Colonel
French's amendment to reduce the county franchise frum
£l2 to £3 rateable value. In support of it Colonel French
entered at length into the rating arrangements of Ireland,
to show that the reduction he proposed would about
equalise the county franchise in all the three kingdoms.
Lord MAYO, in objecting to the amendment, rested on
the fact that the Government scheme of Reform placed the
county franchise on the same footing in all the three king-
doms, though Roland had anticipated England and Scot-
land by some years in adopting the figure of £l2. There
was nothing, he urged, in the circumstances of Ireland to
justify this further reduction, for it was absolutely certain
that in a very short time there must be an alteration in the
system of valuation in Ireland which would completely
assimilate the basis of valuation in all the three countries.
The proportion of the number of county voters to the
population by the bill would be about the same in Ireland
as in England and Scotland.
Mr. OSBORNE, designating the bill as an ignis fatuus
and a farce, made light of this or any other reduction of
the county franchise, unless accompanied by the protec-
ion of the ballot. Between the landlord and the priest
he franchise would be a curse to the tenant without a
ease

one mile.

Mr. GREGORY took the same view of the effect of the
amendment. It would not strengthen public opinion, but
would hand over the counties more completely to the in-
fluence of a certain number of great landlords.
Mr. GLADSTONE dwelt on the importance of observ-
ing a certain proportion in the Refor►n arrangements for
the three counties, and argued that, if this bill passed in
its present form, the franchise, both iu town and county,
would be left at a higher point in Ireland than in the other
two countries. In fact, a bill of so limited a scope, adding
only 9,000 to the borough voters, could not be said to dis-
pose of the subject of Irish Reform. Lord Mayo's as-
sumption that an assimilation of the county franchise
would be speedily brought about by a revision of the Irish
System of valuation he treated as completely illusory, and.
he reminded the house that in 1350 it had accepted an £3
franchise for Ireland with the approval of Sir R. Peel.
Mr. SYSAN and Mr. O'REILLY supported the am)nd nent,
and Lord J. BxowsE suggested in vain a compromise of
.£lO. On a division the amendment was rejected by 211
to 205, and the Ministerialists saluted their fourth and
greatest victory of the night with enthusiastic cheering.
Dr. BRADY, who had a clause on the paper to apply
vote by ballot to Irish elections, being unwilling to
bring it on at so late an hour (12.15), moved to report
progress, but he was beaten on a division by 289 to 79.
Still refusing to go on, a motion was made that the
chairman leave the chair, and Mr. Disraeli, with the view
to finishing tlae committee on the bill, offered to give Dr.
Brady. Use opportunity of raising the question on the re-
port. Dr Btady himself was willing and anxious to accept
the arrangement, but other Irish members protested that
no better opportunity would occur for settling the ques-
tion than the present, and ultimately Sir J. Gray took on
himself to move Dr. Brady's clause. After wasting nearly
half an hour in discussing whether to go on or not, the
house divided on the Claus o, and it was negatived by 22.5
to 126. This concluded the business of the committee,
and the bill was ordered to be reported on Monday.
Tho Electric Telegraphs Bill was read a second time
and ordered to be referred to a select committee, on the
understanding that an instruction will be moved to the
committee to inquire into all the important points of the
general question.
The ScoV:h Reform Bill, after being recommitted for the
insertion of some verbal, amendments, was read a third
time and passed.
An amendment was introduced into the Boundary Bill
to meet the case of the compound holders in the districts
to be included for the first time in a Parliamentary
borough, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time
o-day.
Soma other business was disposed of, and the house ai-
ourned at half-past 2 o'clock.

DIE BARRACKS OF THE HOUSEHOLD

CA VALRY.

The Lancet devotes its sanitary report to the
Knightsbridge Barrack, which is condemned as un-
fit for either officers, men, or horses. The whole
place is redolent of horses and horse manure, the
buildings being huddled together, and the litter
thrown out directly under the windows of the bar-
rack-roams. Au instructive example is given of the
way in which increased accommodation may be
economically obtained. The mess-rooms of the
privates have been taken from them for regimental
offices, and they are now compelled to take their
meals in their bedrooms. The ablution rooms are
dark, uncomfortable, and their floors perpetually
wet. There is no looking-glass, no place to lay a
towel or the soap. The married men and their
children are lodged in the most shameful manner.
They have no supply of water, no watercloset, no
domestic conveniences whatever. They are worse
off than they would be in a workhouse or a prison.
The managers of the Zoological Gardens would be
execrated if they kept their animals in such au un-
happy state. The young become stunted for want
of air and light, and no of e would suppose these
puny children to be the offspring of such stalwart
parents. There appears to be an almost total ne-
glect of sanitary laws; bad ventilation, offensive
urinals, disgusting privies, uutrapped drains, and
badly ventilated barrack-roonis. Baths are so short
that the men cannot immerse themselves, and hot
water is not allowed. In theeliospital the bath for
these six-foot troopers is 4ft. Sin. long, and propor-
tionately wide, while be supply of hot water is on
a corresponding scale. The sick wards are dull and
badly furnished. Extraordinary pains appear to
have been taken to secure ventilation and pure air
by complicated tubes over the gas burners, louvre
openings near the ceilings, Sherington valves and
Galton stoves, to the utter neglect of the simpler,
but far more efficient, expedient of making a suffi-
cient number of windows opening at the top. There
are neither day nor recreation rooms, so that music-
halls and love-making are the chief resources for
amusement. The Lancet Commissioners are of
opinion that this barrack cannot be materially im-
proved, and recommend that it shoul i be at once
rebuilt. They speak highly of the site in a sanitary
point of view, and if London is not to be denuded
of its troops, the neighbourhood of the parks is the
best situation for them. There is, however, no rea-
son that the buildings should be made so unsightly
as they now are.

TIIE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—A few gen-
tlemen have formed themselves into a committee to raise
a fund for tho purchase of a testimonial to be presented
to Lieut.-Colonel Galt, of the 2d Hants Artillery Volun-
teers, in recognition of his services in securing the holding
of the volunteer review in the neighbourhood of Ports-
mouth, and his active assistance in bringing it to so success-
ful an issue. The Dlayor of Portsmouth heads the sub-
, seriptio list with 11, gift of fits guineas.

lE.—This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
HAMPTON RACES-THIS DAT.
WOLSEY PLATE.

The Wolsey Plate of 100 sous (Handicap); winners of any
race after June 12 (at ten a.m.), 71b, of two 101 b extra

Lily
Breach of Promise ... 2
Vixen .... 3

ALEXANDRA PARK MELTING.
TUESDAY, June 30.
The Palace Handicap of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, 2 if declate4
by Tuesday, June 23 (to go to the second horse), 'with
200 sovs added; tho winner of any handicap value 200
soya after Juno 17, at seven p.m., 7d); any other winners
3lb extra. About two miles. 23 subs.

Age st lb
Goodwood... ... 4 8 12
Gomm 6 8 7
Success ... 6 8 0
Salpinctes ... 6 7 12
Special ... 5 7 10
I,iss havelock ... 5 7 10
li:flight Errant ... 4 7'lo
Adamanthea ... 1 7 4
Feodor 4 7 2
Rel-Tub 4 7 2
Mariner 3 7 0
Minster Bell ... 4 7 0

Age it lb
Vixen g ... ... 4 7 0
Stratagem ... ... 4. 6 12
Virginia Creeper ... 4 6 12
Our Mary Anne ... 3 6 7
Prince Regent ... 3 6 7
President Lincoln 3 6 4
Lord Paramount ... 4 6 ¢
Mexico ." ... 3 6 4
Paplllon ... ... 3 6 0
fabouret ... ... 3 6 0
Examiner ... ... 3 6 0

WORCESTER SUMMER MEETING.
THURSDAY, JULY 2.
The Worcestershire Stakes (llandiclp) of 10 sovs each,
5 ft., 3 if declared on or before Tuesday, June 23, with
100 added ; second to save stake ; a winner of a handi-
cap of 100 sovs in value after June 16, at 10 a.m., 71b ;
of two handicaps of 100 sovs., or one of 300 sovs., I.olb
extra. New Course, one mile three furlongs. 55 dubs.
[ll the highest weight accepting be under Bst 121 b, it
will be raised to that, and the others iu proporticn.]
Age st lb Age st lb
Vespasian ... 5 9 5 *Colonel ... 5 6 9
Wroughton ... 4 8 0 *Bauditto ... 3 6 8
*Kin,f, Charming a 712 Tympanum ... 3 6 7
Christmas Carol ... 6 7 9 *Clarice ... 4 6 7
Edinburgh ... 6 7 8 Vortigern ... 3 6 7
Dick Turpia ... 4 7 8 *Blacklock ... 3 6 7
Goojerat 5 7 7 Duet ... 5 6 7
*Grey Stocking 5 7 7 Wild Briar... ... 5 6 G
*Monarch of the *Rabbit Trap ... 4 6 6
Glen ... 5 7 6 Conundrum ... 5 6 6
Moonbeam .. 4 7 5' Prince Regent 3 6 5
* Vale Royal ... 3 7 5 Jeanie Deans ... 4 C 4
Acte3a. ... 5 7 5 *Fair ... 3 6 4
Success ... 6 7 4 Pidelia (bred in.
Orion ... ... 3 7 4 France)... ... 3 6 4
Jezebel 5 7 3 Little Ellen ... 5 6 4
*Seville ... 4 7 3 Madame Wright ... 5 6 2
Lord Palmerston President Lincoln.. 3 6 2
(inc. 101 b extra) 3 7 3 The Returned ... 3 6 0
by Rommlus— Cby Thormanbv—
Attack (inc 71b Phomy (Wild
ex.) 4 7 0 Charley's dam)... 3 6
*Foresight 4 613 *Kettleholder ... 3 512
Mayflower ... 4 612 Ottoman ... 3 5 1.2
*Athena ... 3 6 12 Thorncroft ... 3 5 12
*Grand Duke 4 6 12 Pest ... ... 3 5 12
Needle Gun 6 6 12 *Landscape ... 3 5 8
Chivalry ... 3 6 12 *Kelly Rose 3 5 8
Arabia ... ... 6 611 Balvie 3 5 7
Rejoinder ... 4 6 10 Papillon ... 3 5 7
Mariner ... 3 C 10 Ligurian ... 3 5 7
Those horses marked thus (*) having been entered
without the knowledge of their owners will be struck out
at the time prescribed, unless specially ordered to re-
main in.

ItACING_FIXT I
JU

Newcastle '23
Bibary Club 23
JU

JItES FOR 1868.
SiE

I Stockbridge
Alexaudra Park 3O
LI".
Odiham

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Kingsbury and Hendon 6
Radcliffe
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July 7
Huugerford
Pontefract
Dawn Royal Corp ll
Reading
pilsby ll
AUG

Deauville
Leek 3
Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Egham l7
flastings
York August
Oxford

••
Stamford
Liverpool July M.
Huntingdon 2l.
Nottingham July
Chesterfield 23
linutsford 23

SEPT

16

Southampton
Sudbury and Ealing
Goodwood ........ 2B

UST.
IBridgewater and West
Somerset .. 2O
Dover

Scarborough .. 21
Canterbury
Great Yarmouth 25
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Ipswich 27
Lichfield
Tunbridge
Margate 3l

NIBER.

Baden
Warwick September
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster. September 8
Brecon lk
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5
Kelso l.
OOTOBER.

Hendon l7
Monmouth .. l7
Manchester
Novrtntrket Ist Oototor 22
Wats tit • 23
E linburgh -k
West Deayto,t 2B
R.val Catalonian Haut
an 1 Wastern M

'Radford 1 Sudbury and Ealing
Autumn Autuu I
ridsvtattrket 2d October 5 I Ihrrow
Lanark
Chelmsford Autumn ... 13 j Lincoln Autumn
Cheltenham l3
NOVEAI3I,I3.
Liverpool
Shrewsbury 9

STEEI?LECIIA.SEi.
OCTOBEIL

Bromley 1 Ealing

DECEUBER.
St. Albans
Kingsbury

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius before the Lord Chief Jus-

tice and a Special Jury.)

RISK ALLAH V. WIIITEHURST AND OTHERS.-LIBEL.

The Lord Chief Justice was occupied the greater
part of the day in summing up the evidence.
The jury had not returned their verdict when WQ
went to press.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY.
(Before the Right Hou. Sir It. Phillimore.)

THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP..- SETTLEMENT OF
" 350" CLAIMS.

The case of the Great Eastern, which has been
some time before the public, in reference to the
claims of about 350 sailors who were dismissed at
Liverpool on the failure of the speculation in con-
nection with the French Exhibition, to and from
New York, was now brought to a conclusion.
The arrangement is to pay £4,011 6s. Bd. to the
men, and £9BB 13s. 53. costs, making £5,000.
His lordship wished it to be distinctly understood
that no opinion was expressed on the points of law
raised. Thus this matter was settled.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAUS.]
LIVERPOOL, Jane 18.

The Reyal Nlail steamer Ethiope, with the m tits
from the West Coast of Africa, Tenariffa, and Ma-
deira arrival here to-lay. Her dues are Benin,
Alay 6th; Brass River, Bth; Nun, 10th; Came-
roons, 14th ; Fernando Po, 15th ; Cape Palmas,
25th ; Sierra Leone, 30th ; 'l'eaeriffe, June 7th ;
and Madeira, 9th.

Bank of England Returns,

An Account, pursuant to
cap. 32, for the waek ending

Lo Act 7th and Bth Victoria
V.adneschy, June 17, 1868..

ISSUE DEP kRTMENT.
Notes issued ....£36,320,080 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,954,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

.C 36,320,030