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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23,, 1868.

and of course, as in duty bound, his Royal Highness
proceeded to inspect the animals. The crowds
which assembled rendered it practically impossible,
however, for the ostensible objects of importance
to be considered at once, but still the affair must
be looked upon as a great success, and it may rank
iu its peculiar way:with the other incidents that have
rendered the Royal visit so striking and eventful,
and, on the whole, such as to surpass the most san-
guine anticipations.

Count BISMARCK has not been very fortunate of
late, but on the contrary he has met with several
defeats, and altogether has an unpropitious time of
it. It would seem as if the members of the North
German Parliament were resolved not to allow
themselves to be outwitted, and they are very right
in their determination, for the only chance for
Prussia in particular, and for Germany in general,
lies in the firm demeanour of the representatives.
At the sitting of yesterday a warm debate took
place on the reintroduction by Government of the
bill referring to the public debt of the Confederation.
The Opposition brought in an amendment, which
made individual officials responsible for the adminis-
trative shortcomings, and Count BISMARCK offered
to this his most strenuous opposition ; but notwith-
standing his powerful efforts it was carried by one
hundred and thirty-one votes to one hundred and
fourteen. Not a very large majority, it is true,
but still as significant, as in all probability the
authorities never dreamed of failure when they
brought the measure forward. The result of the
victory was immediately seen, for Count BISMARCK
withdrew the bill on behalf of the Presiding
Power in agreement with the Federal Go-
vernment. Of course considerable disappointment
is manifested by the official and semi-official quarters,
and one journal goes so far as to say that the non-
adoption of the bill by the Parliament will entail a
great deal of embarrassment on the Federal Govern-
ment in consequence of the agreement of the Bund
being made conditional with the loan for the army
and other matters. At any rate, BISMARCK has
ample cause to be dissatified with this state of
things, and, if he is not careful, he may press things
too far and overshoot his mark still more than he
has yet done. A movement seems to have taken
place in the national mind that will not admit of
retrogressive policy, and the statesmen who aim
at success, and wish for a long continuance at their
posts, must be alive to the necessity of the case, and
meet the emergency, or they will have themselves
to thank if the worst consequences ensue. Since so
many sacrifices were made, and so much injury
inflicted in the late war of Prussia against the
German principalities, it is some consJlation at
least to know that the establishment of the North
German Parliament seems likely to be of service to
the nation, and that more comprehensive measures
are likely to be adopted than at first appeared
likely, and certainly of a much more liberal ten-
dency than the Berlin Government demand or
desire.

Paris is still disturbed by rumours of war, and
the Alloniteur du Soir publishes some comments on
the existing state of things that are worthy of
notice, and are significant as showing that the
aspect of affairs is looked upon as serious by the
authorities, and every effort is made, and all available
opportunities seized on, to impress the public mind.
"Happily," says the Moniteur, "the most alarming
of the rumours are gradually subsiding." While
the French Government neglects nothing that can
be done to discourage these " bellicose aspirations,"
the other Cabinets understand that their duty
urges upon them to exert their influence in
favour of ideas of moderation and of equity."
This sounds very true, but at the same time it may
be shrewdly suspected that all is not so clear as the
official journal seeks to make out that it is. When
public opinion is satisfied, and the prospects of
peace are promising, then we do not see and hear so
much fuss made about the matter. We hope that
before long certainty will take the place of doubt
and hesitation, and that the serenity and calmness
which are at present illusory at the best will have
become certain and settled, so as to afford no reason
for conjecture of evil and prognostications of
mischief.

In the House of Commons last evening some
minor topics of considerable interest were brought
under discussion. The great events of the future
—the Budget and Mr. GLADSTONE'S Resolutions—
prevented the introduction of larger subjects of
debate ; but several small bills were advanced a
stage. Mr. MONSELL, who moved the second read-
ing of the Burials (Ireland) Bill, afforded the mem-
bers an opportunity of exhibiting their professed
tolerance and good intentions towards the sister
country. The object of the bill is to remove the
grievance under which Roman Catholics and
Protestant Dissenters alike suffer in Ire-
land in not being permitted the services of
their own ministers in parish burial grounds
except by leave of the incumbent. It might ap-
pear, at first sight, that this restriction is merely
a nominal one, and so it would doubtless prove in
the majority of instances, but there are cases in
which party feeling runs high and prejudice is
strong. It is not safe to trust a matter of the
kind to individual feeling, and we find that there
have been numerous refusals of such leave both to
Catholics and Dissenters. The Bill only provides
that the Ministers of all denominations shall be
at liberty to officiate in the parochial burial
grounds. It is sufficient proof that some
measure of the sort is needed, since
even in the House of Commons there
were not wanting members who opposed the
bill both in principle and practice, and on a division
51 voted against the second reading. However, it
was carried by a majority of 23, so that the griev-
ance is, we hope, in a fair way of removal. Death
should silence all contentions of sect and party,
and the jealous guardianship of burial grounds on
one hand, and the indignant resentment on the
other, is certainly anything but consonant with
natural good feeling or Christian kindness. Wo may
be sure that the religion which needs such defences
will not gain strength from them, and there could
be no greater desecration of a pubic burial-ground
than the introduction of anger, heartburnings, and
mutual recriminations.

Another semi-religious subject brought under
notice last evening was Mr. HUGHES " Sunday
Tradihg Bill, which, after the hon. member under-
taking to introduce a fresh clause 'or two, passed
the second reading by 68 to 31. We hope that the
House will take a little time to consider this mea-
sure before it goes through the final stages, since
the matter is emphatically one in which hasty and
ill-considered legislation will not only completely
defeat itself, but will perhaps do a good deal of
mischief by incensing and irritating the people.

The good city of Turin i 3 ju3t now in the full
enjoyment of a brief national holiday, and the
occasion is one in which foreigners can heartily
sympathise. The marriage of the Heir-Apparent to
a throne is always a matter of some moment. So
much must depend on the character and conduct of
the bride, so wide must be her influence not only
on the trade and industry of the capital, but on the
social habits and manners, the domestic welfare of
11 the whole community, that it is impossible for the

lookers on to view the scene witt indifference.
Royalty has lost of late years muci of its direct
authority, but it still retains its influence, and the
example of the reigning lady will always have a
powerful effect on thousands of her subjects. We
have in England during thepresent century had not-
able instances of what a Court should be and what
it should not be, and should the Italians owe as
much to the womanly example cf the Princess
MARGHERITA as the English do ID the domestic
virtues of Queen VICTORIA the citizens of Turin
have indeed good reason to rejoice. It is an
openly acknowledged fact that th 3 Italian Court
has suffered for want of a Soveregn lady,
and we may hope that the want so gene-
rally felt .will now be worthily supplied.
lhe Princess M ARGUE R ITA, if report speaks truly,
is possessed not only of every external attraction,
but of those feminine qualities which more nearly
concern the happiness of all belongthg to her, and
she has been educated not in the atmosphere of
Court gaieties or splendours, but witt simplicity and
retirement. The marriage of Prince HUMBERT is
the more interesting from the melancholy termi-
nation of his former engagement. For the
second time within a very few sears death has
strode in to break the royal bond and prove himself
stronger than Kings and Princes. In the one case
the beautiful young bride elect became a mourner,
in the other it was the Princess who, in all the pride
of health and happiness, was suddenly called away
from the brilliant prospects awaiting her. We need
not imagine that the melancholy death of his first
betrothed, however painful and startling to Prince
HUMBERT, would leave lasting impressions on his
mind, since the marriage was.entirely a matter of
political arrangement, and it is doubtful if
he had ever seen his intended bride. The
Princess MARGIIERITA, on the contrary, is a
countrywoman of his own, and tLe ties which
bind them together will be strengthened by that
community of association, and language, and feeling
which will add so greatly to their chances of
domestic happiness. They are both Italians, and
Italy we may hope will be the centre of their ex-
pectations and their efforts. Before them stretches
a promising and brilliant career, chequered no
doubt by certain anxieties and difficulties, but what
position is without them ? Let us hope that it may
continue, as it was begun, amidst the love and
blessings of their people, and that the festivities of
yesterday may be the prelude to a happy, a pro-
sperous, and honourable reign.

LATEST INTELL LUNGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN E X ?EDITION.

ALEXANDRIA, April 18th, via Malta.
Advices received from Aden to the 12th inst.
state that Sir Robert Napier bad crossed the
Fecazze River, arriving at Waterloo Plain on the
28th March. He expected to reach Beber on the
30th.

Theodore had removed Mr. EaSSAM'S fetters, and
sent him presents of 2,000 dollars and sheep.
The Bth Native Infantry and a detachment of the
Land Transport Corps will leave here to-morrow
for Annesley. _ _

Private letters from Abyssinia state that the hope
was generally entertained that the captives would
be released. A rumour was, in fact, current at
Zoulla that their release bad already been effected.

CORBESFORDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April 22.

It is expected that M. Thiers will make a speech
strongly in favour of peace, and demand a considerable
reduction of the budget, to prove the sincerity of the
Ministerial announcements in favour of peace. But I un-
derstand that the Ministers of War and Marine are
resolved to resist all reduction of their respective budgets,
though it is said Marshal Niel was at first prepared to
give up the insignificant sum of £72,000. The Emperor
and the Marshal are believed to be in perfect accord on
this matter.

The Liberte announces that a French journal, the Avenir,
is about to be started at Luxembourg, in order to advo-
cate annexation to France. I sincerely trust that this is
not true. If it be true, it shews that Napoleon has not
yet abandoned an idea which, should he ever attempt to
realise it, will be certain to lead to war.
I mentioned in a former letter the quarrel between the
two semi-official papers Etendard and Potpie, respecting the
alleged despatch of M. Pinard asking the prefects to give
publicity to M. Baroche's speech. The Patriedeclared that
the despatch had been written; the Eteudard denied it, and
they came to verbal blows. It now appears that, tech-
nically, the Etendard was right, but substantially the
Patric. The Minister of the Interior wrote—not a de-
spatch, but a confidential note—of the purport describedby
the Patrie. M. Pinard said : " I beg you to get this speech
inserted in the journals of your department ; the final por-
tion especially merits publicity. It contains assurances
of peace which it is useful to oppose to the rumours of
war which the press has for some time persisted in
spreading."
For some days past the Emperor and the Empress have
been suffering from colds,-and the Empress has had a sore
throat. She has consulted the homceopathic Doctor
Cabarus, whom Napoleon frequently calls in. No doubt
they will recover before their visit to Orleans, which is ex-
pected to take place on the 9th May. It is hoped that the
Emperor will make a speech then, though I am bound to
add that nothing he is likely to say will produce much effect
in tranquillising the people. The announcement in to-day's
Moniteur is certainly not calculated to cause any such re-
sult. It reads quite as much like a challenge as a decla-
ration of peace. France virtually is told that peace de-
pends upon other Powers exercising their influence in
favour of ideas of moderation and equity.

There is to be a gay wedding here next week. Prince
Achille Murat, cousin _of the Emperor, is to Marry the
Princess Salome. The Prince is grandson of the gallant
Murat, King of Naples, and son of Miss Fraser, whom
his father, Napoleon Murat, married in 1827. The bride-
groom is 33 years of age. The bride is the sister of the
Prince of Mongrelia. The Emperor gives his cousin
£40,000, and the Prince an equal amount to his sister. The
Emperor of Russia already pays the Princess £1,600 a
year, and he will now make the amount £2,400. Thus the
young couple will start with some £7,000 a year, which is
almost poverty in their position of life, and in France.
Marshal Oudinot, Duke of Reggio, is very ill, and all
his family have been summoned to his bedside. This
veteran was born in 1701; was Massena's aide-de-camp in
the Portuguese campaign ; fought at Leipsic, Hanau, and
Cracow, where he was wounded. He took command of a
brigade in the African war in 1835, and conducted the
famous siege of Rome in 1849. He was a member of the
Assembly during the Republic, and protested so vehemently
against the coup d'etat of 1851 that he was arrested, but
was soon afterwards released. Since then he has lived in
private.
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Food is so dear now, and the unfavourable agricultural
reports render the continuance of high prices so probable,
that the discoverer of any new supply of edibles deserves
the thanks which Burke offered to him who made two
blades of grass to grow where only one grew before. The
hippophagists have shewn what they can do,
but they are quite outdone by certain Parisians
who have discovered that the ,eggs of the cock-
chafer and white slugs are very good fare. There was
a slug and cockchafer dinner a few days ago, at which
fifty persons assisted. The piece de resistance was a great
dish of 200 slugs, frittered with butter. The guests per-
formed the task of mastication with a solemn conscientious-
ness which sheaved how deeply they felt the obligation
they were conferring upon their country.

Austrian statesmen are certainly never likely to raise
the cry " We've got no work to do." No sooner have
they succeeded in pacifying one portion of the Kaiser's
polyglot territory than there is trouble in another portion.
llungary has been pacified by a separate Parliament and
Administration, and has been flattered by the birth of a
Hungarian-born princess at Buda-Pesth. Bohemia is now
in a state of grumbling. The Czechs declare that they
cannot bear any increase of taxation, and they are getting
up an agitation against Dr. Brestl's scheme of finance.
According to the North Eagerri Correspondence the
Russian Government communicated to both the Prussian
and Austrian Cabinets its intention to issue a decree for
the extinction of Poland. Count Bismarck received the
communication in a very friendly spirit. Baron Beust,
having asked whether he was to consider the communica-
tion official, and receiving a negative reply, pointed
out the gravity of the measure, and intimated that it
might have been desirable before the Russian Govern.
ment adopted such a resolution if it asked for the opinion
of the others Powers who participated in the division of
Poland. Baron Beust further added
te thatn
theG vi the ovw
of thernmene
t
cf Vienna by no means participad ie
Russian Cabinet, viz., that the question was purely in-
ternal and did not concern other Powers. He would not
discuss the question whether the Polish question was
finally settled by the ukase referred to, but declared that,
instead of following the example of Russia, Austria would
satisfy the national aspirations of its Polish subjects as far
as was compatible with the integrity of the empire.
We have now details of the proposed reorganisation of
the Austrian army. Every Austrian male subject having
completed his 20th year is liable to serve five years in the
active army, five in the reserve, and four in the landwehr;
altogether fourteen years of military life ! In case of a
general levy, every male from 18 to 40 may be called under
arms whether lie has completed his term of service or not.
The armed force consists of, first, the army of the
country and the landwehr ; second, the general levy.
The army of the country is so arranged that to every in.
fantry regiment of the line is added an infantry regi-
ment of reserve, and to every regiment of cavalry is
added a squadron of reserve. These reserves are always
to be in the recruiting district to which they belong. Each
year will see 100,000 men added to the army of the country.
The excess of the troops not having accomplished the year
of obligatory service forms a reserve of replacement, which,
should hr,
Emperor,
and war threaten, is called to arms by the Emp
and divided among the army of the country and the
landwehr. This contingent is estimated at 130,000 men.
The regiments of reserve are placed upon a war footing at
the same time as the regiments of the line,
form with these last the front line of the and
are not
the
of operation. Even intending ecclesiastics a
free from service. They may obtain leave for pro-
secution of their studies, and when they becomeprieststhey are attached to the army as paymasters or hospital
acint of physical
attendants. Those persons who, on
co,
infirmity, are incapable of serving inthe army, and those
who for family reasons do not perform military service,
are bound to pay a sum in proportion to their means for
the benefit of army invalids. It is x pected that this new
scheme will meet with much oppositione in Hungary. It
is stated that the War Minister will ask immediately for
a contingent of 94,000 men, of which Hungary will have
to furnish 37,000.

Everybody who knows anything of London is aware
that Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, as it is familiarly called,
ranks among the wonders of the metropolis for its unsur-
passed power of absorbing the largest crowds. On
Wednesday evening this vast building was densely
packed in every nook and corner by an enthusiastic
gathering anxious to hear a speech from Mr.
Bright. By the time the business of the evening
commenced, 7,000 persons had obtained admit-
tance, and even then there were 3,000 disappointed
ones outside the gates. The meeting was pronounced by
Mr. Bright to have been " beyond comparison the grandest
public and political meeting he had ever attended and
spoken at in any building in this country." The Reform
agitation of 1866 witnessed a much larger gathering in the
Agricultural Hall, Islington, but the very immensity of
that meeting detracted from its imposing character, inas-
much as speakers from five or six different platforms were
delivering addresses at the same time. At the Tabernacle,
however, there was but one platform and one set of
speakers, so that the united attention of the multitude
was concentrated upon one point. When Mr. Bright, in
parliamentary form, put the resolution approving of Mr.
Gladstone's policy, there arose such a cry of " Aye " that,
to quote the language of the Times report, " the meeting
shouted as one man, and it was startled at the sound of its
own voice." It appeared to shake the roof itself, and to make
the walls ring again. The Advertiser, no great friend of
Mr. Gladstone's, says that " such a scene as that on the
outside, consequent on the crowd striving to get inside,
was never in similar circumstances witnessed in this
country. The demonstration was indeed so mighty, in its
moral as well as in its numerical character, that we might
also assume it would of itself be sufficient to seal the doom
of the Irish Church, had its death-knell not been already
sounded."

The nomination for South Lincoln has been fixed for
Wednesday next, when there will be no opposition to the
return of Mr. Welby. The contest at Grantham will most
likely take place on blouday,

THE FENIAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL
CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY.

One of the most noticeable features in connection with
the trial of the six Fenian prisoners now arraigned for
their lives in the dock of the Central Criminal Court is
the careful, almost painful anxiety exhibited by the pre-
siding judges in the direction of the proceedings. Not even
the counsel for the accused themselves have been more
jealous of the introduction of irrelevant evidence, or
evidence likely to tell unfairly against their clients,
than from the first have been the Lord Chief
Justice and Mr. Baron Bramwell. Not a single
objection to the course pursued by the prosecution,
taken by the pr'smers' advocates, however trivial, but has
been allowed to be fully argued, and has then formed the
subject of an earnest consultation between Six Alexander
Cockburn and his learned colleague. The witnesses pre-
sented for examination, especially such as might be sup-
posed to be unduly biassed against the prisoners, or
actuated by improper motives in the hope of re-
ward, as in the case of Mullany. and Vaughan,
the approvers, have passed through a searching
examination from the bench. Whatever may be the ver-
dict delivered by the jury at its close, not a voice will be
raised to deny that during the progress of this great and
prolonged State trial the strictest and most even-handed
justice has been meted out between the Crown and the
prisoners at the bar.

having remained standing in the front of the dock until
their lordships, ushered into court by the civic authorities,
had taken their places on the bench, the accused, William
Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, John
O'Keefe, Michael Barrett, and Ann Justice, were allowed,
as on previous days, to be seated, and assumed an attitude
of expectancy which plainly indicated with what anxiety
and curiosity they anticipated the decision of the Lord
Chief Justice as to the admission or rejection of the
piece of evidence in reference to the discovery of an
enclosure in one of the parcels of clothes conveyed
into the House of Detention for Burke by Mrs. Barry,
objected to yesterday by Mr. Baker Greene. The
intimation conveyed by the Lord Chief Justice to the
learned Attorne3i-deneral this Morning was, that he most
exercise his own discretion in dealing with the matter. In
the meantime, at the request of the counsel for the defence,
a man named John Davis was produced for the prosecu-
tion, who stated that, being in the vicinity of the prison
on the 13th of December, he saw the barrel with a squib in
it on the pavement, and a man, who, after doing some-
thing to it, ran away, the witness not having seen his
face.

The Attorney-General then called James Thompson, an
inspector in the detective police force, who arrested Burke
on the 20th November, 1867*, and searched him. At this
point a long discussion as to the admission of the evidence
ensued. The objection was, however, overruled, and In-
spector Thompson proceeded to say that he found on
Burke a small glass howl containing some substance which
was submitted for examination to Dr. (Ming. The bowl
had since been returned to Burke.
In answer to Mr. Straight, the witness stated that on
the afternoon of the explosion he was at the House of De-
tention, with a witness, in a cab, and there saw Timothy
Desmond and Ann Justice, the former of whom came and
looked into the cab. When the explosion took place, wit.
ness, who was on his way from the prison, jumped out of
the cab and hastened back, but saw nothing of Timothy
Desmond then.

By Mr. Baron Bramwell : Should say that Timothy
Desmond would not have been able to leave the place
where he left him opposite the prison and reach the spot
where the barrel was by the time the explosion took place.
The warder James Cape, the witness whose evidence
was objected to yesterday, on being put into the box, de-
posed to finding in the toe of one of the stockings brought
into the prison for Burke, four or five pieces of a clear
green mineral substance, which were handed over to the
chief warder. Believed that neither Burke nor Mrs. Barry
knew that he had taken the pieces from the stocking.
The chief warder John Moore proved that the last wit-
ness handed the mineral substance to him.
Dr. Odling, having examined the bowl found on Burke,
found it contained chloride of gold. Characters written
with this would be practically invisible, but could
be brought out by the application of copperas. Received
some mineral substance from the chief warder, which on
examination proved to be copperas. On the 4th January
some staves were submitted to witness, who found that
they had belonged to a barrel that had contained petro.
kum. On some of them he found sulphate of potash, a
product of an explosion of gunpowder. There were also
some unexploded grains of gunpowder upon the staves.
The warder John Moore was recalled to detail the cir.
cumstances under which the prisoners in the House of
Detention were exercised on the day of the explosion. For
certain reasons the hour had been changed on that
occasion.

By Mr. Montague Williams : The prisoners were
exercised some hours before Ann Justice visited the
prison.

Inspector Thompson was also recalled to furnish further
evidence as to the arrest of Burke and Casey, and the war-
rants upon w 'aich they were committed to prison on the
charge of trc anon-felony.

James Set tt, a youth who was in charge of the houses
injured by the explosion, found a white ball amongst the
rubbish of the prison-wail blown down, which he handed
to a police sergeant.

Henry• Morris, apprentice to the informer Mullany, de-
posed to having seen a person named Brown at his master's
house in Sherwood-street. Saw a person yesterday in prison
who was the man whom he had known by the name of Brown.
He was many times at Mullany's. Had also seen the
prisoner English there. He came once or twice while
Brown was there, and he believed they had
some conversation together. They were in the same
room together. About a month or six weeks before the
explosion two persons, one called Hastings and the other
Jackson, came to Mullany's. Identified Barrett as
Jackson. The witness then described the circumstances
under which a man named Patten, whose ear had been
wounded, came to his master's shop after the explosion.
The man named Jackson came in and was afterwards
observed washing his neck. Witness saw that it was black.
When Patten came into the shop first it was from
the back room. When washing his neck Jackson had his
coat and waistcoat off. At that time he had whiskers on
his face. Did not see Jackson again until after he was in
custody at the police-station. His whiskers were then
shaved off, and he wore a different dress. Had seen
Mrs. Barry at Mullany's soon after the arrest of Brown.
By Mr. Keogh : Had seen Burke at Mullany's several
times ; the last occasion was in the summer. Had seen
English there with Burke, but would not swear that they
were talking together.

In answer to Mr. Baker Greene, the witness said Barrett,
when at Mullany's, always went by the name of Jackson.
When taken to identify him he knew a reward had been
offered. Had not been told anything about Barrett':
appearance before he went to the police-court. Could not
say exactly at what time it was that the man Jackson
came on the day referred to, but it was after the tea hour,
which was about half-past four.
We shall continue the report in our late Edition.

When Sir Morton Peto applied to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds,
it appears that the right hon. gentleman entertained some
doubts as to whether he could confer an office under the
Crown on an uncertificated bankrupt. So he consulted the
Attorney-General, who, however, saw no difficulty of the
way of granting the application. The city is, therefore,
now in the, midst of the excitement attending a
contested election. In Bristol, as in East Kent,
Grantham, and Cockermouth, the Irish Church is
the test question of the day. Both candidates have
issued addresses, and an active canvass of every ward is in
progress. Mr. Miles promises, if elected, to give " the
most determined opposition " to Mr. Gladstone's resolu-
tions, while at the same time admitting his willingness to
do all in his power " to remedy proved defects and anoma-
lies." Mr. Morley, in his address, says : "I am convinced
that the Irish people may be rendered loyal and prospe-
rous by measures framed in the spirit of justice and con-
ciliation. Religious equality must be established, as Mr.
Gladstone proposes, not by the endowment, but rather by
the disendowment of all religious denominations, with an
equitable consideration for existing interests ; and with-
out prejudice to the rights of proprietorship, some mode
must be sought for by which the occupiers may be more
permanently connected with the land they cultivate."
He goes on to say that he desires to abolish the " vexatious
and useless " ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act, to
obtain an enlarged scheme of redistribution of seats, and
to give the electors the protection of the ballot. Mr.
Morley is "in favour of entire freedom in religious
opinions, and in the regulation of religious worship."
He would abolish church rates, throw open the universi-
ties, give greater facilities for education, amend the
law of bankruptcy, and generally give an independent but
faithful support to the leaders of the Liberal party.

It is said that Mr. Neate will not again come forward
for the representation of the city of Oxford, as the hon.
gentleman's Liberalism is looked upon as being of rather
an eccentric character. The names of Dr. Adams, of
St. John's College and Recorder of Birmingham, and Mr.
Thorold Rogers, are mentioned as probable candidates.
It is understood that Mr. Rogers wishes to be returned in
order to test the right of the House of Commons to exclude
a clergyman from that assembly. Mr. Cardwell's return
is considered certain under any circumstances.
A new fashion is announced in Paris. Ladies
carry their parasol-umbrellas—we believe the tech-
nical name for the implement is an en-tout-cas—
hitched to their sides like swords ; which confers on
them—especially if they wear hats and plumes, and
high boots with high heels, a decidedly' military
appearance.

Tart
, .

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 22.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds this
morning.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACY.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into
and report upon the operation of the Act 14 and 15
Viet., c. 60 (the Ecclesiastical Titles Act), and so
much of the Act 10 Geo. IV., c. 7 (the Roman Ca-
tholic Relief Act), as is contained in s. 24, have
agreed to the following report :
" Your committee have examined several wit-
nesses of high authority as to the legal effect of the
Act and section in question, as to the extent to
which they interfere with the Church discipline and
religious freedom of her Majesty's Roman Catholic
snbjects, and as to their general political and social
operation.
"Your committee find that, until the Act of 1851
was proposed, the Roman Catholics of Ireland seem
to have disregarded the clause in the Act of 1829.
No attempt had ever been made to enforce that
clause, and a custom had gradually grown up
which, without violating the letter of the Act of
1829, did distinctly recognise a certain status on
the part of the Roman Catholic archbishops and
bishops, and conduced to mutual good relations be-
tween them and the Executive Government. The
Act of 1851 appears to have had the effect of inter-
fering to a serious extent with those good relations
which had previously prevailed.
" Your committee have received ample evidence
to the effect that the government of the Roman
Catholic Church is, under ordinary circumstances,
conducted by means of Episcopal Hierarchies, con-
stituted by briefs or other documents emanating
from the See of Rome, and that such Hierarchies
have been so constituted in British America,
Australia, India, and in other parts of the Empire ;
and that the system of government by Vicars
Apostolic, which had existed in England before the
brief of 1850, was, iu the view of the Roman
Catholics, in the nature of a provisional and less
constitutional form of government, in which the
jurisdiction was of a more arbitrary character, and
local rights less clearly defined. The Roman
Catholic clergy and laity of England had long
sought to obtain from Rome that regular form of
government which can only exist under a duly
constituted Hierarchy ; and substantial reasons
have been urged by the English Roman Catholics
why they should have considered this change de7
sirable.

" Your committee are of opinion that the Act of
1851, which passed at a period of considerable ex-
citement, proceeded upon a misapprehension of
what the brief of 1850 was intended to effect. The
use of what are called territorial—that is diocesan
—titles seems to be inseparable from the existence
of a regular Ilierarchy in all Episcopal commu-
nions ; but it implies no greater claim to territoria 1
jurisdiction than the existence of Vicars Apostolic
or ecclesiastical superiors under other names. In
both cases persons within territory, or territory
containing persons, are necessarily referred to in
order to give certainty to the jurisdiction ;
and in both cases the real question seems to
be whether the jurisdiction claimed is of an
external and coercive, or of a purely spiritual
and voluntary kind; and your committee
have ascertained by evidence that, whether
exercised with, or exercised without, local designa-
dons, the claim made by the authorities of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
relates only to the latter, that is to say, a spiritua
and voluntary kind of jurisdiction.

" Your committee are further of opinion that the
Act of 1851, contrary to the professions under
which it was introduced, would, if enforced, seri-
ously affect the rights of the Roman Catholic com-
munion in matters purely spiritual and voluntary,
for it declares void and attaches the character of
illegality to all acts and documents relating to the
episcopal government of the Roman Catholic Church
in these countries, which in evidence or otherwise
may come under the cognisance of the teinpora
courts, or be necessarily employed in the relations
which exist between the Government and the Roman
Catholic subjects of the realm.
" And your committee cannot consider that to be
a satisfactory state of the law, in which violation of
an Act of Parliament on one side, and connivance
at that violation on the other, seem to be essential
conditions for the enjoyment of religious freedom,
such violation of the law, as it appears to your com-
mittee from the evidence laid before them, being
frequently an absolute necessity on the part of
Roman Catholic prelates in the discharge of their
purely spiritual functions.
" In the foregoing remarks your committee more
particularly refer to the Act of 1851, but the same
principles appear to them to attach to the prohibi-
tion of the assumption of local designations in the
section of the Act of 1829.

" On these grounds your committee recommend
the repeal both of the Act 14th and 15th of Vic-
toria, c. 60, and of s. 24 of the Act 10th of George
IV., c. 7.
" Your committee submit for the consideration
of the house whether, for purposes of legal descrip-
tion, certain modes of designation applicable to Ro-
man Catholic bishops might not be adopted, where-
by some inconveniences which have been pointed
out to the committee might be avoided.
" Finally, upon a full review of the evidence,
your committee are of opinion that the repeal of
the Act and of the section referred to their conside-
ration, will in no way enable the Hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic Church to assume any civil or tem-
poral precedence or authority within the realm, or
cause any detriment or inconvenience to the State,
or to any class of her Majesty's subjects, while it
would tend to allay the irritation and remove the
sense of wrong which that legislation undoubtedly
excited among the Roman Catholics of the United
Kingdom.
" August 2, 1867."

Don Giacomo Margotti, director of the Turin
journal Unita Cattolica, has collected and forwarded
to the Pope, since 1860, offerings in money to the
amount of £120,000, without reckoning gifts in
jewellery and precious objects.
The Marquis of Huntly has had a narrow escape
while boar-hunting near Moorshedabad. A tre-
mendous wild boar was speared, and the infuriated
animal cut up one of the horses and seized the
Nlarquis of Huntly by the foot, but without doing
him any injury.
The Prince Imperial is being accompanied on his
tour by his great friend, the young son of Pr'
Conneau, who aided Napoleon to escape from Haw,
and who has lately been made a Senator. It
arranged that young Conneau shall receive his first
Communion with the Prince. This is now post'
poned to May 5.
The ex-King of Hanover has just bought an
estate for £120,000.
The health of the Empress Charlotte continues to
improve in a manner that promises the best results
for the future. But for certain fits of gloominesel
which become less frequent from day to day, the
Princess no longer feels the cruel affliction froni
which she hes suffered. Sleep and appetite have
returned, and with them the taste for study. rrii°
Princess spends nearly the whole of the day in her
room, and, except the royal family, receives no one.
—The Nord.
The divorce returns of England and Wales fer
the year 1866 have just been issued. In that Year,
nine divorced men married spinsters, five divorcee;
men married widows, eight non-divorced bachel°l,
and one non-divorced widower married divorced
women. In the five years 1862-66 there have ee.:
curred in England and Wales 142 marriages, la'
which one or other of the contracting parties 45
I been previously divorced,