The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-13 00:00:00

NOTICE.

The Fourth Edition of The Sun of last night, containing
the Latest Betting, and races at Bristol and West
Drayton, was published in time for the country post
and for delivery in town at 8 pm.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF LORDS—Tots EVENING.
Tho LORD CHANCELLOR took his But on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Somerset and Dorset Railway Bill was read a second
time.

MR. DISRA.ELI'S LETTER.
The Duke of ARGYLL said that he now rose to speak
upon that subject upon which he gave notice some days
ago. That subject was one which was so cutting
and so injurious to the feelings of the people, that
it became necessary that it should be investigated into.
In terms which were severe, but not more severe than
they deserved to be his noble friend (Earl Russell) ha i
disclaimed any confidence in a Government which had
pursued the course adopted by the present Govern-
ment. The chief Minister of the Crown had adopted
a peculiar course in this matter. Ile had written
a letter to the Times about the matter. He must say that
the Tory party were a very good-natured party, and if the
right hon. gentleman had been on the Liberal side of
the house, and had uttered these remarks about
"being educated," a great number of justly indignant men
would have gone into the Cave of Adullt.m. (Hear,
hear.) It considered that if these five points in this letter
were to be taken as the theory of the Conservative
party, he thought that it was the duty of the
Liberals to protest against them. He should take the
Edinburgh one as it had been made. He would, however,
do the right hon. gentleman the justice to admit that he
did say by the word "I" "I do not mean myself, but the
Government to which I belong." He should lightly in
his remarks pass over the 4th clause, but should speak
at some length on the sth. The first clause asserted that
the bill must be complete. With regard to this clause i
was by persuading the minds of the members of the house
_ that they, the Liberal party, intended to bring on ono
point in one house and another poiut in the other house.
The peculiarity of their bill was that they did not wish
to abrogate the smaller boroughs, but letting them down
gently in order that they might be amalgamated with
others. The third point was that there should
be a real Boundary Commission, but this question had
never bean mooted between the two parties, and if the
right hon. gentleman for seven years had been instilling
this into the minds of the people he must have had
an uncommonly easy task. The next point was
the distribution of seats in the country, but
this was not at all a serious point. These
were the four points which, it was argued, the Con-
servatives had been pressing upon the people. He
now come to the fifth point, which was formed by the
borough franchise upon the rates, and this was really the
serious point upon which the parties had been at
issue. (Hear, hear.) The groat auestioa was not that
they should take the votes by the vote book,
or in any other way, for all the Liberal Government had
introduced a rateable franchise. Is 1859 they might have,
con-idered that the borough franchise should be reduced,
but Mr. Disraeli, when he left office, reverted to his former
opinion. Ho had asked Lord Derby's Government
—" Will you or will you not reduce the . borough
franchise?" The noble duke then quoted extracts
from Mr. Disraeli which stated that he ha not altered his
opinion on the subject of Reform, and that he was for a
lateral extension of the franchise. (Hear, hear.) On one
occasion he said that it was the impartial opinion of the
country that they rejected a gross and indiscriminating
reduction of the franchise. The noble duke said the last
time on which the right hon. gentleman had been educating
the people he said that this point was a mere blind by
which they first succeeded in duping their own party, and
then a large portion of the house. It was a remarkable
fact that the bill passed last year contained no per-
sonal payment of rates. It was a more delusion,
and contained precisely the same clause as that
of the Reform Bill of 1832, and that clause
was perfectly inoperative. It was to test the solvency
of the debtors, but generally the course was that no
notice was taken of the non-payment of the rates, or else
it was takenn advantage of politically by the landlord, or
the electioneering agents, and they paid the rate. The
clause of last year was of the same description as that
of the Reform Bill. It was meant that the poorest
votes should have an independent vote by the personal
payment of rates, but in reality it was not so. The noble
duke then went into a statistical detail of the position of
the towns of Leicester and Exeter with regard to the pay-
ment of rates, and said that if they would look into the
records of Lord Grey's ministry, they would find that so
keen was political contest that the owners of property in
those towns had agreed to pay their tenants, and they were
immediately put upon the register, and this result would
accrue from this rating clause of the bill of 1867. In ad-
dition to that, in those municipal towns where the land-
lord had no political feeliug it would bring the most cruel
and unjust effects upon the municipal authorities where
the tenants were allowed to pay the rates. In the east
of London it was proved in the appeals against the rates
that that landlords had not reduced the rent, and thus the
additional rate fell upon the poor. In the district of Hack-
ney 1,000 to 2,000 summons had been issued. Rather than
pay the rates every class of labourers and mechanics was
giving up housekeeping. In Salisbury each family had a
separate holding, but this rating system would compel
many to take lodgings.
[LEFT SITAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

In reply to Mr. CRAIN-FORD,—
The LORD ADVOCATE said it was the intention of the
Government to introduce a measure on this subject during
the present, session.
PARTY PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND.

In reply to Colonel Ksox,
The Earl of MAYO said in October last 25 persons
pleaded guilty at Downpatrick of an infringement of the
Party Procession Act. The men were allowed to go at
large on their own recognisances, they promising not
to offend the law. The others refused to plead guilty;
they were tried and convicted, when Mr. Johnson, of Bally-
kilbeg, who was one of them, asked that the other two
men might be liberated like the others, as they had
acted under his direction. Mr. Johnson's memorial went
to the Lord-Lieutenant, who referred it to the judge, but
that learned gentleman said as the memorial did not come
from the prisoners themselves, but from a prisoner who
aaked no favour for himself, it was returned to the person
sending it as informal. The informality being remedied, the
men were allowed to go at large on their own recogni-
sauces, but as Mr. Johnson had stated that he could ask
no favour for himself, he had therefore to undergo the
sentence passed upon him, which was a month's imprison-
ment for that offence, and another month for his refusal
to enter into his own recognisances to abstain from doing
as he had done for the future.

STATE OF IRELAND—THE ADJOURNED
DEBATE.
The adjourned debate on the motion of Mr. MAGuiRE
was resumed this evening by
Mr. 0. FORTESCUE, who said the mind of England
had now ripened on the condition of Ireland, and it
being considered intolerable. The Fenian organisation
had been, up to the present, productive of but bad results;
it had led to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
and other steps of repression, but it would be a most for-
tunate thing if from that evil good was to result,
and that the matter had terminated in the whole state
II of the country being considered with a view to its im-
provement ; but he must say that he thought all consi-
deration would be useless which did not deal with
the great problem which was at the bottom of
all—viz., the State Church in Ireland. That a
better state of things was in store for the country he felt
certain, and nothing showed the real state of feeling of
the well-disposed people in that country than the conduct
of the Irish juries during the late Fenian prosecutions.
(Hoar, hoar.) The right hon. gentleman then proceeded
to allude to the system of education pursued in Ireland,
and remarked that the proposition of her Majesty's Go-
vernment with respect to university education in that
country was such that he thought it ought not to
meet with hasty hostility, although it was one that
was calculated to startle seine people. It was
his great desire to see the University of Dublin
become a truly national institution, and the best results,
he believed, would follow if that institution became un-
sectarian. Whilst he said that he thought some atten-
tion ought to be given to the wants of other educational
establishments not touched by the proposal of the Go-
vernment. With respect to the tenure of laud in Ireland,
it was a subject of the greatest difficulty, and he did hope
that in any proposal that was made to place it on a more
improved basis the hon. member for Cork and those who
acted:with him would not give to every proposal that was
not entirely in consonance with the feelings they entertained
their most determined opposition. It was not by pursuing
such a course that any amelioration could be arrived at,
but, by a mutual concession much good might be done ;
but he must say that he could not see that any very great
good could result from the commission of inquiry.
With respect to land in Ireland, because it seemed to him
the commission was mainly for the pui pose of enabling
the landlords of Ireland to clear their characters from the
charges that had been made against them by the hon.
members for Westminster, Birmingham, and other places.
The great point to be considered was the mode nuder
which land was held in Ireland. It was not to be expected
that a tenant would ever rest contended and satisfied
when it was possible to turn the result of all his
labour and improvement against himself. He knew that
change of rental was very frequent in Ireland, and in
one instance that was within his recollection, no less than
seven changes in the amount of rent had been made in a
period of ten years. That was not a state of things that
ought to exist, and that opinion was shared by one of the
largest and moot benevolent land managers in Ireland—a
high Conservative too—who was of opinion that in no
case ought the amount of rent to tle varied in less than 21
years.
[LEFT SPEAKINGI

LONDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 7.

The Queen has been graciouidy pleased to appoint
Horace Rumbold, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Berne, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Em-
bassy at St. Petersburg. The Queen has also been gra-
ciously pleased to appeint Algernon Bertram Mitford,
Esq., to be a Second Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic
Service.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 9.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wm.
Doria, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at
Stockholm, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at
Lisbon. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to
appoint the Honourable Francis John Pakenham, now
Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to
be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Stockhom. The
Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Robert
Thomas Charles Middleton, Esq., Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's late Legation at Mexico, to be Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Berne.
WIIITEIIALL, MARCH 11.
The Queen has peen plemod to direct letters patent to be

passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, ap-
pointing George Maakham Giffard, ono of her Majesty's
Counsel, to be a Vice Chancellor, in the room of Sir Wm.
Page Wood, Hut., resigned.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARCH 13.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant George Windsor Clive to
be Captain and Liautenant-Colonel.
Ist Foot—Lieutenant F..Charteris Brooke to be Adjutant.
2d Foot—Ensign Francis Philips to be Ensign.
11th Foot—Ensign Dennett Kinder to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Frederick Duncan Raikes to be
Ensign.
15th Foot—Francis Charles Philips to be Ensign, by
purchase.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Walter N. Carey to be Instructor
of Musketry.
27th Foot—Lieutenant lionelm. D. Murray to be Adju-
tant.
34th Foot—Ensign Frederick Raikes to be Ensign.
38th Foot—Lieutenant Norman Pringle to bo Captain;
Ensign Harry Weatherby to be Lieutenant ; Gentleman
Cadet Philip Doyne to be Ensign.
48th Foot—Lieutenant. William Vandolour to be Captain,
Lieutenant Henry Oldhani to b© Captain ; Lieutenant
John Kane to be Captain ; Ensign George Lewes to be
Lieutenant ' • Ensign Thomas Powlett to be Lieutenant;
George Liebenroodna
to be Ensign ; William Sandean
to be Ensign.

filth Foot—The Commission as Adjutant of Lieutenant
Jekyll to antedated to the Bth January, 1868.
68th hoot —Lieut. IL Villiers-Stuart to bo Captain; En-
sign William Greene to be Lieutenant; Thomas Wil-
liams, Gent., to bo Ensign.
71th Foot—Lieut. Robert Glasgow to be Adjutant.
83d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles R. Macgregor to be
Ensign.

95th Foot Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant William :Reid
to be Quartermaster, vice Campbell.
BREVET.
The undermentioned promotions to the Brevet rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel to be antedated :—Captain and Brevet-
Major Robert E. F. Craufurd, Royal Artillery ; Major
Thomas Wickham, half-pay, late 831 Foot; Captain and
Brevet-Major Thomas B. Speedy, half-pay ; Captain and
Brevet-Major Henry Fitzhugh, Royal Artillery.
TO RE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.
Captain and Brevet-Major France James Soady, Royal
Artillery : Captain and Brevet-Major Joseph Godby, Royal
Artilley ; Major Roland Richardson, 19th Hussars ; Cap-
tain and Brevet-Major John Spurway, Royal Artillery;
Major Charles Alex. Boswell Gordon, 60th Fbot ' • Majoe
Benjamin Banbury Mauleverer, 88th Foot ; Major Francis
E. Drew, Depot Battalion; Major C. R. Sher vinton, half-pay
unattached ; MajoriG. F. Dallas, half-pay, late 46th Foot ;
Major the Hon. Charles William St. Clair, half-pay, late
57th Foot; Major Edwin Ashley Tucker Steward, 21st
Foot; Major Frederick Miller, 47th Foot ; Captain and
Brevet-Major Reginald Curtis. R oyal Artillery ; Captain
and Brevet-Major Thomas Gore, 88th Foct ; Major Wm.
James Gillum, half-pay, unattached ; Captainiand Brevet-
Major Frederick Smith Vacher, 22d Foot ; Major Charles
Pelgud Bertram, 41st Foot ; Captain and Brevet-Major
William Powell Bennet, half-pay, Royal Artillery ; Capt.
and Brevet-Major Algernon Brandon, Royal Artillery ;
Captain and Brevet-Major James Da Havilland, Royal
Artillery ; Captain and Brevet-Major Edgar Grantham.
Bredin, &Val Artillery; Captain and Brevet-Major Wil-
liam Henry R. Simpson, Royal Artillery ; Captain and
Brevet-Major George A. Milinan, Royal Artillery ; Captain
and Brevet-Major Charles E. Burt, Royal Artillery ;
Captain and Brevet-Major Hazlit Irvine, Royal Artillery ;
Captain and Brevet-Major S. M. Grylls, Royal Artillery ;
In continuation of the promotions which have taken
place in succession to Lieutenant -General Dames, de-
ceased :—Captain and Brevet-Major Sidney Augustus
Capel, half-pay, 51st Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Captain George Webb, Royal
Marine Light Infantry, to be Major.

THE TODMOKDEN TRAGEDY.

TRIAL 0 THE MURDERER.

MANCHESTER, March 13.
The trial of Mies Weatherall was commenced
this morning. The prisoner, on stepping into the
dock, did so almost jauntily, and gazed for a
moment upon the crowded court with a sort of half
satisfaction. He carried on his arm a thick over-
coat.

On being arraigned he in a firm voice pleaded
not guilty.
Mr. Campbell Forster and Mr. Addison were
engaged for the prosecution ; Mr. Torr defended
the prisoner.
Mr. Campbell Forster stated the.facts of the case
for the prosecution, which he concluded shortly
after ten.

The trial then proceeded.
By Mr. Torr's cross-examination, the learned
gentleman is trying to show that the prisoner is non
compos mentis.