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The eighth triennial conference of thilipcietaas Ilan
held in the large room of the Cannon-street Hotel. About
000 delegates attended, including several from the prin.
cipal Dissenting bodies in England, and about 150 from
London and its neighbourhood. Amongst those present
were Mr. Barnes, M.P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr.
Duncan 111`Laren, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., Sir John
Gray, M.P., Sir John Bowring, Mr. E. Miall, Mr.
Carvell Williams (secretary), &c..
The Rev. J. P. MunsELL (Leicester) presided, and deli-
vered an address, in which he compared the past and
present of the society.
Mr. CARVELL WILLIAMS presented the report of the
executive committee, which referred to the parliamentary
reverses which the committee bad to report of the last
triennial conference. An unbroken series of successes
could now be reported. The report described at length
the steps taken by the society to promote the abolition of
the Trish EstaNisliment, from the time of Mr. Miall's
metien, in 1850, to the recent triumphant divisions, which
affirmed that it ought to cease to exist as an establish-
ment. Mr. Gladstone's course in relation to the ques-
tion was warmly eulogised, and the salutary effects of
the recent debates anti divisions, both in Ireland and Eng-
land, were commented on. The discussion of the details
of disestablisliment wotdd greatly fin tlier the society's
object, and the endeavour to connect the English with the
Trish Establishment was hastening the catastrophe it was
intended to avert.
Mr. WILLIA3I EDWARDS, the treasnrer, then presented
a financial statement, from which it appeared that,
including the balance in hand at the beginning of
the last financial year, the total receipts had been
£8,561 2s. 80. The expenditure amounted to £7,489 3s. ld.,
leaving in the treasurer's hands at this date the sum of
£1,074 19s. 7d.
Mr. E. S. Ronncsox (Bristol) proposed the first re-
solution : " That the conference, in receiving and adopt-
ing the report of the executive committee and the
treasurer's account now presented, expresses its devout
gratitude to God for the recent unprecedented advance of
public sentimet.t; in the direction of the society's aims,
and, congratulating the executive committee on the posi-
tion of increased pecuniary resources and on the satisfac.
tory results of their parliamentary labours, it expresses
the hope that the society's supporters will avail themselves
of the opportunities afforded by the course of public events
for pursuing with unrelaxed energy the object for which
the society was established."
The resolutions was seconded by Rev. J. H. Hinton,
supported by Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Sir John Bowring,
and Mr. E. Miall, and unanimously adopted.
Mr. DUNCAN M`LAREN, M.P., moved the next resolu-
tion. It was in the following words : " That the con.
ference rejoices at the triumphant and repeated majorities
by which the House of Commons has resolved that ' it is
necessary that the Established Church of Ireland should
cease to exist as an establishment, due regard being had to
all personal interests and all individual rights of property.'
It desires to express warm admiration of the decision and
earnestness displayed by Mr. Gladstone in the realisation
of so important a result, as well as the hope that the policy
which he has initiated will be strenuously supported by all
the friends of religious equality, not only at the present
time, but when the question is remitted to the country for
its decision at the approaching general election."
The resolution was seconded by the Rev. C. H. Spur-
geon, and supported by Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. Whit-
worth, M.P., and Sir F. Crossley, M.P., and unanimously
adopted.
Mr. H. LEE (Manchester) moved, and the Rev. W.
DROCK seconded, a resolution in respect to church rates,
and the conference adjourned.
In the evening the conference resumed its business,
under the presidency of Mr. T. Barnes, M.P. A resolu-
tion was adopted on the abolition of university tests ;
and a paper was read by the Rev. Edward White on
" Modern Theories of Church Establishments," with espe.
cial reference to the recent paper of Dean Stanley.
The conference then adjourned.

ought to be taken as authentic—(hear, hear) —and if a
different impression prevailed with respect to the state-
ment made by the noble duka in another place, he thought
the logical conclusion was that he (the Duke of Richmond)
should be called upon for an explanation. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOUVERIE said the great point had not been
answered, viz., was the appeal to be made to the old or
new constituencies. (Hoar.) The Government certainly
did not possess the confidence of the House of Commons
on the subject of the Irish Church.

Mr. CARDWELL 'wished to know whether the advice
given to her Majesty was direct or contingent, and was
any threat to be held over Parliament ?

Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the advice given was direct
and there was intended to be held out a menace of dis.
solution.

Mr. AYRTON thought the name of the Queen had been
used in a most unconstitutional manner, and ho felt that
the house had not had a frank explanation cf what had
taken place between the right hon. gentleman and her
Majesty.

Mr. GRAVES said the business of the country was
being sacrificed to make way for a bitter, party warfare.
Ile thought rather than help on such a state of things the
duty of all was to throw oil on the troubled waters.
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Mr. B. OSBORNE said there was one kind of petroleum
oil that was not at all calculated to calm the troubled
waters, and everything that he had seen only showed him
that the great thing to be effected was delay.
Mr. HORSMAN condemned the conduct of the Pre-
mier, and he demanded to know whether the right hon.
gentleman had the power to dissolve the Parliament
at any moment. (Immense cheers.) He felt he had a
right to a distinct answer to that question, and would
have it. (Loud cheers.)
After some remarks from Mr. J. GOLDSMITH and Sir 11.
EDWARDES,

Mr. WHITBREAD joined in deploring the introduc-
tion of the Queen's name, and refused to believe, until it
was so stated explicitly, that she had armed the Minister
with a generalpower to dissolve whenever he pleased. He
urged the Premier to state whether this power existed, and
for what purposes it was to be used.
Mr. LOWE, "for the third and last time," as he said,
asked for a plain answer to this—Do the Government
adopt the Duke of Richmond's language?
Mr. DISRAELI denied that he had been the first to in-
troduce the Queen's name improperly into the discussion.
All his references to her Majesty had been made in the
spirit of the constitution and with her Majesty's permis-
sion. Complaining of the Constant repetition of the ques-
tion iu a new form as it was answered in another, and de-
precating these attacks on the Government without notice
on the simple authority of newspaper extracts, he stated
that his advice to her Majesty was confined entirely to the
question of the Irish Church, awl that her permis,ion to
dissolve was also exitined to that question. If any other
difficulty arose it would h., necessary for him to seek
another audience and to take the pleasure of her Majesty.
To those who taunted the Government with not dissolv-
ing at once he pointed out the unprecedented circumstance
of the case, and that everybody knew it to be for the pub-
lic interest that as wide au interpretation as possible should
bu givun to the words "as soon as the state of public busi-
ness will permit." Referring to a remark of Mr. Whit-
bread, he denied that the course he had indicated for
the Government on the second and third Resolutions
pledged them not to oppose the bill Mr. Gladstone meant
to bring in.

The death is announced of Sir Samuel Benjamin
Auchumty, of pneumonia, at the age of 81 years.

A parliamentary return published chews that the
quantity of proof spirits distilled in the United Kingdom
and Ireland, during the year ending the 31st December
last, was 23,323,613 gallons. The duty paid amounted to
£11,382P4 53. 7d.

The royal warrant amalgamating the army pur.
veying, store, and commissariat branches, and transferring
the authoi:,y of the commissary-general-in-chief, the
director of stores, and. the purveyor-in-chief, to the con-
troller-in-chief, has, it is understood, been signed by her
Majesty, and awaits promulgation,

We hare to announce a serious accident to Baron
Sehmidthals, Secretary to the Embassy of the King of
Prussia.. The baron sustained a heavy fall and dislocat( d
his shoulder. Mr. Manley Sims was shortly in attendance,
and at once reduced the dislocation. The baron is pro•
grossing favourably.

A correspondent in Newtownlimavady writes ;
" I am informed that Dr. Watson, who assisted in
tracting the bullet from the Duke of Edinburgh, is son of
the late Mr. John Watson, Keeboll, near Castlerock, in
this county. Mr. John Watson was a martyr to tenant-
right, and widespread sympathy was entertained for him
in consequence."—Northern Whig.

Mr. LIDDELL expressed his r, Bret that the Govern-
ment had not resigned, and appealed to Mr. Gladstone
now that he had carried his first Resolution, not to
continue what could lead to no practical result this
session.

ABYSSINIA. —The Government is not yet in pos-
session of details in reference to the victory achieved by
the British forces in Abyssinia on Good Friday. In the
absence of any communication by telegraph, the public
will not obtain any further intelligence concerning the
death of King Theodore and the release of the prisoners
until the arrival of the next mail, which is due about
Monday next.

Mr. Crawford and Mr. Whalley made some remarks, and
the discussion was brought to a close by the Speaker de-
ciding, in answer to an appeal from Mr. Griffith, that
though it was technically irregular to refer to debates in
the Lords, exceptions wero occasionally allowed, especi-
ally on Ministerial declarations affecting the position of the
louse of Commons.

A PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANION.—John
Carter, a carter, of Bolton-le-Moors, has been charged at
Clitheroe with attempting to throw passengers out of the
train on Sunday night, while the train was in motion.
He had got in at Whalley, drunk, and the passengers were
heard to cry out " Murder." The prisoner said he did
not intend to hurt anybody in the carriage, but only to
kill himself. He was fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days'
imprisonment.

Lord E. CECIL moved for a Royal Comniissicn to in-
quire into the present state of military education in this
country, and more especially into the training of candi-
dates for commissions iu the army, and in the constitution,
system of education, and discipline of the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich, and of the Royal Military College
at Sandhurst.

Sir J. PAKINGTON readily acceded to the motion,
admitting that the present system of military education
was defective in many respects, and must be considerably
improved if the army was to be made more of a profes-
sion.

BATTENING AT SHEFFIELD.—Strange to.say, one
of the still many representatives of " Mary Ann" has
been apprehended at Sheffield while in the act of ratten-
ing three jobbing grinders who are said to be some-
what behind in their contributions to the union. The
name of the rattened is Joseph Bradshaw, who three
years ago was sentenced to a term of six months' hard
labour for being engaged in a case of rattening. Late on
Monday night he was seen to enter the wheel in which
the three defaulting members worked by getting through
one of the windows, and in this he was assisted by two com-
panions. While in the wheel a policeman who happened

More the motion was formally carried there was a long
and desultory conversation, in which Mr. O'Reilly, Col.
North, Mr. M. Chambers, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Alderman
Lusk, General Herbert, and others took part.

Mr. FAWCETT moved a resolution in favour of ex-
tending the system of competitive examination to India,
and sketched a plan by which simultaneous examinations
might be hell, not only in London, but in Calcutta, BM-
bay, and Madras. From this he anticipated a larger em-
ployment of natives in the Government of India, and he
showed also that it would be a great boon to the Anglo-
Indians.

to be near was communicated with, and on his approach
the two men, who were keeping watch outside, ran away.
When the police-officer got into the room where Bradshaw
was, he found him sitting opposite the fireplace, in which,
however, there was no fire, and three wheel-bands, which
had been taken off the drums, were found rolled up close
by his side, ready for removal. He pretended not to know
anything about the bands, and on being brought before
the magistrates he pleaded that he got into the wheel
while in a state of intoxication. This they refused to
believe, and granted the request of the chief constable for
a remand.

Mr. TREVELYAN opposed the motion, on the ground
that it would introduce iuto the service a crowd of natives
whose precocity of intellect would enable them to pass
these examinations, but who would be entirely deficient
in the manly morale of our present Civil Service. As a
more judicious moans of admitting the natives to a share
in the Government of India, he recommended that those
who have proved their superior fitness for situations at
present held exclusively by members in the covenanted
service should b 3 appointed to them without undergoing
competitive examinations, and he moved an amendment
to that effect.

ATTEMPTED 111URDER.—A shocking occurrence is

Colonel SYKES and ➢ir. NEATE spoko in favour of em-
ploying the natives in larger numbers, and in more im-
portant posts.

reported from Lowestoft, Suffolk, a young man, named
Isaac Clarke, a cooper, having attempted to murder a
single woman, named Anna Maria Simpson, by cutting
her throat. It appears that Clarke had kept company
with Simpson for some time, and had seduced her under
a promise of marriage. She was recently delivered of a
child, for the support of which Clarke had been ordered to
pay. The young woman met Clarke by appointment
in the High-street at Lowestoft, under a promise
that he would give her some money. Ike then
persuaded her to pass through a field with him,
stating that it presented the shortest cut to her house.

Sir S. NORTIICOTE expressed his general concur-
rence in the substance i.nd aim of the motion, but pointed
out several important practical difficulties in the working
of a system of simultaneous examination. Though a
warm friend to the competitive system, ho doubted
whether it would obtain for US a class of natives fit for all
the duties and responsibilities of high administrative
offices ; and this, he intimated, was the opinion of great
Indian authorities, who were extremely anxious to em-
ploy natives more generally in *the Government of the
country. Both at home and in India the Government was
extremely anxious to introduca the natives into the highest
class of offices, and the principle of Mr. Trevelyau's
amendment which was embodied in a clause of the India
Government Bill he had just brought in, was a better
mode of a selection than a competitive system. Under the
circumstances, ho begged Mr. Fawcett to withdraw his
motion, which he ultimately consented to do.

When in the field be attempted an assault upon her ; she
resisted, and he then threw her down and deliberately cut
her throat with a sharp pocket-knife. Clarke then re.
turned to the Iligh-street, where he met a young man;
named Moore, who, observing that Clarke's hands word
bloody, asked him if he had been fighting. Clarke rei
plied that he had .murdered a young woman. Moore asked
" 'Mitre ?" to which Clarke replied, " In the station-fieldo
and if you conic with me you shall see for yourself." They
went a short way together, and Clarke then said, " I dare
not go any further." Moore continued in the direction the
prisoner had pointed out, and saw a young woman lying
in a ditch by the side of the path. He immediately gave
information to the police, two medical men were sent for,
ln.l a small quantity of brandy having been administered

The amendment was also withdrawn.
Mr. MILL brought in two bills for the creation of
Municip.l Corporations within the metropolis, which, ex-
cept in a few unimportant particul trs, are identical with
those he introduced last year. /They propose that there
shall be a municipality for each Parliamentary borough (the
Corporation of London being preserved), all grouped I t,
round a central municipality, in which the Board of -
Works would be merged, and to which the management
of the general affairs of the metropolis is to be coin-

Poo •
r airl she revived sufficiently to state that

arke had cut her throat. She was removed to her
nether's house, and her deposition was at once taken
before Mr. James Peto, one of the local magistrates.
Clarke was taken into custody ; his hands were besmeared
with blood, and the knife with which he had attempted the
fearful deed was found on his person. He was very cool
and collected when taken into custody, and has remained
so ever since, not expressing any sorrow for his brutal
conduct. The gash in his victim's throat was 4Ain. long
and llin, deep, and it is extremely doubtful whether she
will recover.

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Some other business was disposed of, and the house was
counted out at 20 minutes to one o'clock-.

THE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED —Horn/ma/is Pure Tea is
sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting filet will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand lo► these
Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold loose, but
only in Packets, signed " tromilthan," London.