THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 

LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 18G8. 
PEOPLE who complain that they are "not unders'tood" are generally either people who are not worth understanding, or who are understood only too well. The fcmm~ inoomprisc is usually both. Ireland has just set out, through the priests of Limerick, that England does not understaud her, and therefore will never be able to avoid blundering over her. That is rea.lly what the manifesto mean8, and the sequence, of course, is that Ireland must be independent. It is sometimes advisable to use very plain language j and when two persons differ, aud one is the stronger, a pacification ma.y often be brought about by settling the impossibilities of the case, and clearing them away. Irish independence of England is an, imp,ossibility. We need not waste words over that sUbject. It is essential to England and Scotland that Ireland should be a portion of the United Kingdom. Let us begin on that platform, and there 
is a chance of !loming to terms. 
Now, therefore, about this complaint of not being uader­stood. We at once, of course, repudiate the idea thll.t Ireland comes into the first category. She is well worth under­standing j and, if she did England any sort of justice, would allow that Englishmen have been making efforts to that end for a very long time, with the aid of illustrations supplied by Irishmen, and to which we do not at the moment desire to make reference. We must, in spite of 'a1 the clergy of " Limerick prodigious," declare our belief that we understand Ireland perfectly well, and a great deal better than she understands herself. This allegation will be set to the hideous self· conceit of John Bull j but as that peraonage himself is materially concerned in the matter, he will be inclined to stand by his own convictions, and refuse to be put down by the assertion always made by a nation when criticised-very often made by John Bull himself. We belieV'e that we understand Ireland j but we do not wish to proV'e 'it in the way that privll.te persons are sometimes convinced that their previously-reticent friends had comprehended them. Such revelations do not tend to harmony. A wise man assumes good points in his friend, and then the latter, if meritorious at all, endeavours to j ustHy the credit that haa been given him. 
We are to:d, almost in words, that there is a vast number of laymen in Ireland who are willing to follow the lead of the priests, and have indeed been induced by the latter to enrol themselves into societies, obey the commands of the Catholic Church, observe her ceremonials, and also abstain from evil liv;ing. The priests are understood to' have organised thia body, not out of any special regard either for its members or for the cause of law and order, as such, but in opposition to Fenianism, which is an enemy of priests as well as of lawa. There is no allegation that loyalty has anything to do with the matter j ,and, indood, we are plainly told that though these societies would have nothing to say to Fenianism, they are as disaffected as any head centre could desire. All that the clergy claim to have done is to have kept them from open outrage. The classes whence they come are stated to be shop­keepers' assistants, mechanics, and some few warehouse clerks. To meet the views of these pelsons, and to prevent their com­bining with disaffected agriculturists and making a revolution, we are to make one for them, to repeal the Union, let Ireland have a Parliament of her own, and, so long as it pleases her to ' remain under the British crown, the wearer of that crown ill to be a sort of suzerain, recognised, but not ruling. The Fenians have almost simultaneously sent in their ultimatum from America, and it is well that we should know what are the united demands of all our creditors. 
A tll,qlloq~/C is a popular but not a polite way oF. encounter­ing an adversary, and we do not care to assure the Limerick ,peIsons who have addressed Englishmen that Engla.nd is not understood in Ireland. Yet, if she were, it would be felt that to advance such views and claims is something worse than absurd. We do not say it with the slightest wish to wound the feelings of the most outrageous Hibernian, but can he think it possible that England, who has been fighting the world from her youth up, will ever surrender a precious and necessary possession at the bidding of shop men, mechauics, and warehouse clerks, even in alliance with the ruffianly scum of a disbanded a,rmy of aliens? Let us talk of the possible only: we would not confine such an adversary to the pro. bable. It is asking too much of us to ask us to talk of such thiI'gs gravely. We prefer to recognise the Irish sub risus ,and the twinkle which s40uld accompany such a proposition. We inclfne to show that we do understand Ireland by assuring the reverend gentlemen who have drawn up their act of accu~ation that we do not believe Irishmen, as a mass, would subECribe it. We arc not speaking of l'rotcstant Ireland and of Ulster tra~itions. It may be that too little account is being taken of the feelhlgs of Irish Protestants, and that there m',y be something more than mere numbers to be considered in sny l'eckoning made as a basis for legislation j but more of this at its proper time. We distinctly declare that we do not belicve the Irish masses to be disaffected and disloyal. There mny be mnny foolish ~hopmen ana artisans in Ireland, as there are in England, but we do not call them the people or solicit tbeir gracious dictation as to the government of the islar.ds. They may be-and, indeed, it is the rule-the most clamorous of the population, and therefore they obtain most attention from the public j but the statesman knows better. He knows the class that forms the backbone of society. Were Ireland Eeclctly polled, man by man, on the loyalty question, and were the figures then to be proclaimed, there would be a miserable minority shown on the side of the disaffected. Where -would the wealth, the education, the rank, the piety, the respectability be found? When' a nation makes a demaud 
this is a question to be asked. ' The Limerick clergy, however, throw us some crumbs of comfort. We are told that s9mething may be done by ,im­proving the land system and by dealing with the Church Establishment. By a happy coincidence, the same conTiction has come upon the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, and in a few weeks that body will be addressing itEelf to these subjects. We own to a hope that by removing a sentimental gl'ievance and redressing a real one we may be able to Eatisfy reasonable Irishmen and to preserve the present dynastic arrangement. What these shop men and artisans have to do with the land question we do not quite know, and, as none of them ever wall asked for a farthing towards the Churcb, their feeling against it is one of the pureslland most elen.ted hostility. But if true patriots and true C\tholicB, they will be rejoiced to know that the present Government-or, if it neglect its duty, its successor-will forthwith address itself to the grievances in qnestion. Ifthere be any other~, it might be well to look them up for ea.rly ventilation j or, when the present cnes shall be got out.of the way, there will be nothing to which the people of England or of Ireland will be inclined to listen. We are glad, nevertheles~, that the Limerick clergy 
have been so frank with us j and we hope that they will appreciate the equally frank spirit in which we haV'e met them. 
Tbe challenge cup of the C company of the London Irish Rifles was fired for on ·Wednesday, and, after a close competition, was won by Captain O'eonnor ; Private Burrowes, second. This is the fifth competition in which Captain O'eonnor has been the winner. 
The feeling of insecurity which has prevailed at Cork since the raid upon the gunsmith's shop (mentioned at page 1,8) was heightened on Tuesday by another outrage, thought at first to be of a Fenian character. An armed party attacked the residence of Mr. Charles Mathew, brother of the late Father Mathew, at Lehena, in the county of Cc,rk. They WHe fired on by the inmates, and one of thEm ';<as fhot, but he was carried off by his companions. A detach­ment of Lancers and a park of artillery paraded the city of Cork on Wednesdsy. Lord Strathnairn, Commander of the Forces, h2.8 arrived there to complete the military arrangements. The 92nd Highlanders reached Cork from thl) Curtagh on Wednesday. Rein­forcements of cavalry, artillery, and marines were expected.--The removal of a plug from tbe gas eervioe in the Worcester Guildhall, where tbc special constables were drilling, on Tuesday night, is attributed to an attempt by Feniana to blow up the TownhalI. 
The Church of St. Bartholomew, Dublin, which has been erected (from the designs of T. H. Wyatt, Esq.) to minister to the spiritual needs of a new and important suburb of the city, was consecrated, ou Dec. 23, by the Archbishop of Dublin. There is accommodation iu it for nearly 600, all the sittings being entirely free and unappro­priated. It has cost about £6000, but £1000 more is needed to com­plete the spire, inc10se the ground8, and purchase the organ. The Rev. A, Dawson, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin and secre­tary in Ireland to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, is the first Incumbent. 
OOUNTRY NEWS.
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Mr. George Worms has been appointed Austrian Consul far Eiirr­burgh, the first nomination of the kind in that city. 
William Carroll, Esq., M,D., was installed Lord :rrrayor of Drrblin !ln Wednesday. ' 
An explosion, by which eleven men were killed, occurred, last Saturday, at Faversham, at the powder-mills of Messrs. H~ll. OIl the same day a boiler exploded at Bamsley, killing the fireman and injuring several persons living in the neighbourhood. Another fatal boiler explosion has taken place at South Shields. 
Earl Vane, on Thursday week, attended the opening ceremony of a new infirmary at Sunderland, which has been erected at a cost of £20,000. His Lordship intimated that it was probable the Prince of Wales would visit the town in February; and ,assist at the opening of the extensive new docks there. ' 
On Monday the Rigbt Hon. C. P. Villiers presided at a public soiree held in celebration of the third anniversary of the Willenhn;l.I Literary Institute. 'Ihere was a numerous company, includiag' Mw. Weguelin, M,P., Sir John Norri~, Lieutenant·Colonel Vernon (ffigll Sheriff of the County), and the Hon. and Rev. A. Anson. 
The Lh:erpool Shipwreck and Humane Society has awarded t() Captain PelTY, of the Omel, and to his chief officer, each a si! ver medal of the first class, as a reward for their gall,.nt rescue of the captain and crew of the French vessel Constance, under trying circumstances, in the English Channel. 
The Manchester Examiner states that another Manchester lady has recorded her vote, but this time exercising a munic,ipal and not a Parliamentary right. During the polling for a candid:.te to supply the vacancy in the Oxford ward of that ci t1, Miss Jes3ie Goodwin presented berself, and, her name being fon nd on the roll of the citizens of Mauchester, her vote was 'received. 
The Royal Humane Society's medal for saving life wa-, 011 Thursday week, preseuted by the Vicar of Ryde to Alfred Gregory, one of the porters on the pier, for saving the life of a poy twelve years of age, the son of the Rev. R. Wilkins, of Ryde. This is the tifth life saved from drowning by Gregory, though he now receiTes the IDedal for the first time. 
A);l. influential meeting of Liberals took place on Wednesday at Exetei'-Mr. Mark Kennaway in the chair-when a silver salver was pre.,ented, with the rEsidue of £617 (the amount subscr\bed), to Mr. Thomas Lat.imer, J.P., proprietor and editor of the Western Time., by a large number of friends, to express their sense of his great ability as a journalist and their esteem for his high and generous character as a citizen. 
The Clyde shipbuilders begin the new year with more work on hand and brighter prospects than they had twelve months ago. The v€seels built or contracted for in 1867 number 380, aud show an aggregate of 233,808 tons and 32,002-horse power. Compared with. 1866, theee figures exhibit an increase of twenty vessels. "It i1l confidently expected," says the Glasgow Mail," that in the incom­ing year trade will be about what it was previous to the grea.t demand for blockade-runners and other British shipping which was occasioned by the American war." ./ 
The distress in Cornwall is, we regret to say, still on the increase A meeting of the central committee for administering the fund fdr the relief of the miners was held, on Monday, in the Townhall, Truro, under the presidency of the High Sheriff, Mr. T. T. Bolitho. Individual cases were adduced where whole families, nnmbering silt or seven members, had been entirely ,dependent on tnrnips for sustenance, In two districts, St. Just and Chasewater, of 2443 individuals who came under the notice of the sub·committee, the average earnings were Is. 7d. per head per week. The financial report showed that the subscriptions to the fund up to Dec. 28 amounted to £29<14, of which £1171 had been expended. Grants were mace to the amount of £300. 
The Corporation of Dover assembled on Monday morning for, the purpcse of receiving from Sir W. H. Bodkiu, the Recorder of the borough, an official chain, to be worn'by the Mayor and his successors for ever. The Mayor, Mr. J oseph George Churchward, presided, and there was a Jarge' attendance of members of the town council, most of whom wore their official robes. The hand;ome chain was far­nli;hed by Messrs. Watherston and Co. It has attached to it a. badge, on which the borough insignia are worked, and it beara a. suitable inscription. Sir W. H. Bodkin has held office nnder the Dover Corpora.tion since the year 1834, first as Steward and after­wards as Recorder. The chain was presented, as he said in the course of a speech with which the presentation was prefaced, as ~ mark of his appreciation of the great kindness he' had in nria.bly received daring that lengthened period. 
Addre>ses were presented on Tuesday to Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, M.P., on the part of the citizens of Dublin and the Dean a.nd Chapter of St. Patrick's, as a token of gratitude for his munificence in restoring the old cathedral at his own expense. They were made up in two volumes, so handsomely embossed and ornamented that, ~t the request of Lord Granville, they were forwarded to the Paris Exhibition, a circumstance which delayed their presentation. At three o'clock an influential deputation assembled at the Mansion House, whence they proceeded, with the Lord Mayor at their head, t() the residence of Sir B. Guinness, in Stephen's·green. His Lordship, in a few r'emarks, presented the addresses, and testified to the admi­rable style in which Messrs. Ward, of Belfast, had carried out the design originally suggested by Mr. J. Norwood, the hon. secretary to the committee. Sir B. Guinness acknowledged in grateful terms the kind feeling which had dictated the gift, and expressed the gre~~ gratification which it afforded him to see the buildin~ used and valued by overflowing congregations of Protestants. 
SUPPLEMENT, JAN. 4, :86 \ THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 
THE FENIAN P I{'ISONERS AT THE BO W-STREET POLICE COURT. 

EXAMINATION OF TEE PRISONERS. 

ltEMOVAL OF THE PRISONERS FROM THE COURTIIOUSE.-SEl!: NEXT PA.GE. 
THE FENIAN CONSPIRACY. 
THE five persons in custody on the charge of wilful murder done by blowing down the wall of the Clerkenwell House of Detention on Dec. 13, were again brouecht up at the Bow-street Police Court, before Sir Thomas Henry~ on Monday last. The prisoners were conveyed from Millbank in an ordinary prison-van, escorted by a strong detachment of mounted police, armed with cutlasses and revolvers, and as the vehicle passed through the streets at a smart trot it attracted much attention. One of our Illustrations represents the scene in Bow-street, in front of the courthouse, at the time of the arrival of t)J.e prison-van j the other shows the interior of the .court, with the presiding magistrate, counsel, attorneys, and other assistants or spectators of the proceedings, and with the prisoners in the dock. Their names, as stated in our last, are Timothy Dcsmond and William Desmond, brothers j Jeremiah Alien, Nicholas English, and Ann Justice. The counsel for the prosecution were Mr. Giffard, Q.c., and Mr. Poland j Mr. Lewis, .olicitor, defended tbe woman Justice, and Mr. Harper defended Timothy De~mond. The witnesses examined were the police-con­stable Ranger, one of those w)J.o were on duty watching the move­ments of [he suspected persons outside the prison wan at the time of .the explosion, and who took Alien into custody j Knowles, another policeman, who was on duty inside when thewornan Justice came t{) 'visit the Fenian prisoner Casey, and said she was his aunt j Matthew 
Crowley, a sub-warder j John Coldsworth, a policeman, and William .Courtley, another j Henry Bird, dairyman, who saw the men bring the truck with the barrel of gunpowder, and one put a lighted match to the fuse, but would not swear positively to the identity of either of the Desmonds, though he fonnd them very like the same men. A distinct charge of treason-felony was then set up against the two Desmonds, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe, and Patrick Mullany. It was supported by the evidence of Police-Sirgeant Bunce, who had frequently gone in disguise to the French Horn public-house, and had there met the prisonere, when they nttered various threats of what the Irishmen would do. They were re­manded till Monday next. 
Richard Burke and Joseph Theobald Casey, the Fenian ring­leaders, for whose rescue from the Clerkenwell House of Detention the attempt of the 13th ult. was made, were brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow'street, last Saturilay. Mr. Giffard and Mr. Poland, as before, were counsel for the Government prosecution j Mr. J . B. Torr and Mr. W. P. Macdonald appearing. for Burke, and Mr. Lewis for Casey. The charge was that of treason-felony, and assaulting Police Inspector Thomson, who arrested them. A third priwner was placed at the bar. He was a decently-dressed and rather good-looking man, apparently about thirty years of age, with fair complexion, brown hair, and reddish moustache and beard. He gave the name of Henry Shaw. He is said to have gone at different times by the names Shaw, Mullady, Mullidy, and Maleady. The informer, John Joseph Corrigan, or Corydon, proved that this man was an active member of the Fenian conspiracy, and an accomplice of Burke and Casey in their preparations at Liverpool in April, 1866 j and Amelia Tye, the assistant of Mr. Kylock, dealer in tirearms at 
\ Birmingham, proved that he was concerned with Burkeinhis extensivc purchases of revolvers and ammunition in December, 1865. Shaw was arrested at Dublin last March. The three prisoners were remanded for another week. 
An incident which has occurred near Cork affords ample justifica­tion of the measures which have been taken throughout the country to protect the buildings in wtich arms and ammunition are stored. At Foaty, on the left bank of the River Lee, there is a "martello tower," one of the buildings erected during the French war for the purpose of giving warning to the interior in case of invasion. The garrison of the tower consisted of only two artillery­men, and, late on the night of Thursday week, a body of men crossed from Passage West, a village on the other side of the river, took the garrison by surprise, and cllrried off a number of muskets and a quantity of other military stores deposited in the tower. After performing this daring exploit the party recrossed the river, carrying off their booty in safety. The tower is about six miles from Cork and three from Queenstown, is situated within a few hundred yards of the Cork and Queenstown Railway, and adjoins the demesne of Mr. Smith Barry, the member for the county. 
Four explosive packages were, on Thursday week, placed in the receiver of a post-office at Dublin, addressed to the Lord Lieutenant, the Hon. Mr. Dillon (Lord Abercorn's private secretary), Colonel Lake, and Mr. Ryan, of the detective police department. They were made up in small tin cases, with air-tight st,_ ppers, and when they burst an extraordinary quantity of sulphurous smoke issued forth. One package of the same kind was put into the receiver of the General Post Offic~, Sackville-street, but did no mischief. These packages are found to have contained some preparation of phos­phorus, igniting with friction. 
At Merthyr Tydvil, in South Wales, eight Irishmen employed in the Dowlais Ironworks were arrested on Tuesday morning, charged with being concerned in the Fenian conspiracy. The police there seem to have obtained some important information, which is not yet made public. The prisoners have been remanded till next Monday, and are lodged in Cardiff gaol. • 
Extraordinary precautions are taken in the Thames to protect the Tower of London and Woolwich Arsenal from any mischievous attempts. The municipal authorities of different provincial towns, such as Hull and Warrington, are providing for the safety of their gasworks and waterworks. At Warring ton some Irishmen employed in the gasworks were accused of a design to blow up the establishment, but there seems to be no sub­stantial evidence against them, and their priest vouches for their innocence of any sympathy with Fenianism. Much alarm was caused on Monday at Liverpool, by a rumour that a torpedo had been placed in the Mersey to destroy H.M.S. Donegal, but this mmour was quite unfounded. Special constables are being enrolled by hundreds in almost eyery large town. The inhabitants of West Cowes, through Mr. J. Moore, chairman of the local board of health, off~red t? adopt extra precautions to en~ure her Majesty's safety whIle reSIdent at Osborne, and to serve eIcher as special constables or in any other way to prove their loyal d~votion to her Majesty's person and family. In reply to this off"r, General Sir C. Grey wrote, on behalf of the Queen, to thank the people of Cowes, and he a~ded :-" She has herself never entertained the slightest apprehen­sl.ons as to her personal safety, though she has thought it right to Y.Ield to the represen~ations of her Gove~nment by giving her sanc­tIOn to the precautIOnary measures WhICh they thought it prudent to adopt. It will be for the Government to consider whether any­thing more is necessary than has been already done." Two hundred picked men of t he Scots Fusiliers were last week quartered in East Cowes Barracks and in a temporary barr<lck erected for them in E ast Cowes Park. Her Majesty's ship Irresistible is the guard-ship
in Cowes Roads. 
The shop of Mr. AlIport, gunsmith, in Patrick-street, Cork was entered about nine o'clock on Monday morning by a gang of ~ight men, who pointed loaded revolvers at Mr. AUport, his brother and the shopman, threatening to shoot them dead if they&lJrred ormad~a noise The assailants then deliberately collected sixty revolvers and 150<i r~undsof ammnnition, which they put into two sacks and carried off. 
F,ve of the men busied themselves in this work of pl~nder, while the other three kept guard over Mr. Allport and his two assistants. The poltce have not yet overtaken these daring offenders. 
It is very distressing, but it is a fact that Mr. Tom Hughes has been discovered to be fallible. In preparing himself for an address to his constituents this honourable gentleman and political economist by intuition, probably remembering how profoundly indifferent and ignorant the House of Commons shows itself on East Indian matters, resolved to try on the impressionable electors of that borough the device of working on their sensibilities by talking to them (no very difficult matter, possibly) of that which they did not understand. So he resorted to an illustration, taken from Indian political economy, and thus, no doubt, excited· his hearers with what may be called a dram of intellectual "bhang I" When he talked of Lord Comwallis, of zemindars, talookdars_and ryots,
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of course the interest wa3 intense; and when Mr. Hughes proposed that the land system which the twice Governor-General of India devised for Bengal should be applied to Ireland, doubtless the Lambethians applauded, and saw Fenianism settled and Irish paupers trC'oping out of their workhouse. But even heaven-born political economists may sometimes but superficially understand things that they lecture upon; and some impertinent retired Indian, not as impressed as he ought to have been with the high po­sition of the personage to whom he replied, cruelly showed, in a day or two after; that the Cornwallis scheme failed so decidedly as to place the peasantry of Bengal in a most cognate state to that of the Irish tenantry; and that, practically, the transfer of the Indian system to Ireland would be about equivalent to the advantage gained by one cottier's changing his tattered frj.eze coat with another. But, as some people seem to think that Mr. Hughes desires to see the repeal of the Union between England and Ireland, that decisive opinion must be taken to make the other blundering suggestion of little consequence, except, indeed, that the electors of Lambeth may by some chance come to comprehend that their "Tom of ten 
thousand" is, as we have said, fallible. 
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COLONEL HOGG. 
lonel Gilbert Hogg, K.T.S.,]!=.S.F., a military o~cer of note, Co lao distin ui.hed for his ablhty In the orgaTIlSatIOn and com­
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and df licedied on the 21st ult., at hiS hous~, 8, Cloremo':-llt­maD M~ 'Surre Colonel Hogg was tbe sCIOn of an anCient !'~da;;onoe:r~~ie Iris!iamily, that of Hogg, of Cartron, in the county of Roscommon, and was tbe third son of James Hogg, Es9." J.P., f Gilston in the county of RosC0ll?-mon. H~ <yas ~om m.1815,~d was e~rly in life in military sen"lce, and dlsti?gUlshed himself in the Portngneee and Spanish wa!s. He obtallled the rank of Colonel and several knightly decora~lOns. C?lon~l Hogg was snb­sequentlyconnected with the regu1atl(~n and du:ectwn of the present 
te of rural police almost from Its establishment, and he was ~~~ of the first of thoEe able chief constables wJ;o have brought the police force throughout England to. such perfectIOn. He held for a time, and during a disturbed perIOd, a command at. Manchester. Thence he went to Staffordshire, ~nd was Deputy Chief Constable of that county, and afterwards Chief. Constable of Wolverhampt.on. He eventually became, in 1857, ChICf Constab~e of !3taffor~sblre ; and after much valuable service there, he re~lted, m 1866, on a pen;ion, in consequence of ill·health, from which, to the regre~ of all who knew him, he never recovered. Colonel Hogg marned, 1!rst Bessy, youngest daughter of the late Hubert Kelly, Esq., M.D., of Parsonstown Ireland, and niece of Charles Kelly, Esq., of Charleville, by ~hom (who died in 1854) he leaves tW? daughters. He married, secondly, in September, 1857, Mary Emlly Gardner, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Ashmead Perry, Esq., of Cheltenham, by whom (who survives him) he leaves a son and two 
daughters. 
COLONEL CLARK·KENNEDY, C.B. 

Colonel John Clal'k-Kennedy, C.B., Colonel-Commandant of the Military Train, a very able and energetic British officer, who died from dysentery, on the 18th ult., at Alexandria, was the elder son of Lieutenant·General Sir Alexander Kennedy Clark-Kennedy, of Knockgray, in the county of Kirkcudbright, distinguished for the capture of an Imperial eagle at Waterloo, K.O.B., K.H., and A.D.C. to the Queen, by his wife, Harriet Rebekah, daughter and coheiress of John Randall, Esq., and was horn Sept. 21, 1817. He entered the Army, as a Comet in the 7th Dragoon Guards, Oct. 25, 1833, and during his career saw and shared in considerable service. Haying exchanged to the 18th Royal Irish, he was with that regiment on the China expedition in 1842, and waS present at the investment of Nankin. He was Assistant Quartermaster·General to the force under Major·General D'Aguilar throughout the combined naval and military operations in the Canton River in April, 1847, when the forte of the Bocca Tigris, the staked banier, and the city of Canton were taken. He served in the whole of the PUlljaub campaign of 1848 and 1849, and participated in most of its brilliant engage­ments and snccesses. He was present at the siege of MoultaD, the battle of Goojerat, the surrender of the Sikh army and guns and the forced march upon Attock, which drove the Affghans across the Indus. He was present at the advance upon 
and o~cupation of Peshawur. After his return to England, he took part I!l the School of Musketry at Hythe, and visited the French army III Algeria. He served in the Crimea in 1854 and 1855, and commanded the advanced wing of the 18th Royal Irish in the assault of June 18, when he was wounded in the mck. He waS afterwards appointed Assistant Adjutant·General at head· quarters, and was present at the assault on Sept. 8. He had the China medal, the medal and two clasps for the Punjaub, the Crimean medal and ?l~sp, and was made a C.B. in 1857. He had also received the Sardllllan and Turkish medals, and the order of the Medjidie of the fift~ c~ass. He was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Military Tram Ill. February, .1860, and at the time of his death was employed on SpecIal servICe III Egypt relative to the Abyssinian expedition. Kennedy was made a Captain in 1841 Lieutenant Colonel in 1855 and Colonel, June 22, 1858. Colonel KenneilY married, first, Oct: ;, 1850, Frances Eleanor, only child of the late John Edward W~lford, Esq., of Chipping Hill, Essex, by whom, who died April 2, 1807, ~e leaves a son. ~e. married, 5econdly, Sept. 8, 1859,Charlo~.e Isabel~a, only s'u:"lvmg daughter of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Peregnne·FranclS Cust, Dlece of John first 'Earl Brownlow and granddaug~ter of William, fourth Duk~ of Buccleuch and by her 
also leaves Issue. ' 
COLONEL CLOSE. Col~nel Maxwell Close, of Drumbanagher, in thecountyof Armagh, lIfo ~ed on the .16th ult., was the son of the Rev. Samuel Close, of Chm ark, by hiS wife, Deborah, daughter of the Very Rev. Dean d' ~.mpagne, and was. nephew of the late Sir Barry Close, Bart., adB lllgulShed officer III ~he East India Company's service. Colonel 20fueRnt~red the army m 1799, and was in active service with the E ~glment durtn~ the campaigns of Holland in 1799, and in redgyp~.lll 1801, for which he received a medal. He retired on the f hC I.on of the. Army at .the Peace in 1815. He succeeded his d~~eh~n th; family estates in 1817, He married Anna Elizabeth, sist g r 0 Colonel Brownlow, of Brownlow House Lurgan and er of Charles, first Baron Lurgan, which lady died j an. 2, lfi63. 
FENIANISM. 
THE P,ince of Wale~, accompanied by his suite, paid a visit on Tuesday to the patients in St. Bartholomew's Hospital who were injured through the late Fenian outrage at Clerkenwell. His Royal Hlghne&s expressed great sympathy and commiseration for their condition. The Royal party then proceeded to the House of Detention to look at ~he ~cene of the explosion. 
The fil'st report of the Clerkenwell Explosion F und Relief Com­mittee has been issned. It is a long document, and contains many painful fac?" Up to the present time £7143 have been subscribad, a .sum WhICh neIther duly expresses the sympathy of the public WIth the sufferers, nor is adequate to the relief of their necessities. The money already subscribed will do little more than satisfy claims for immediate assistance, including the purchase of tools, working material, and furniture for those who have lost home and the means of earning a livelihood. There remains to be derolt with more thRri 150 cases of personal injury, for an of which some com­pensation ought to be given, while for many a life provisiou, more or less complete, will have to be made. The proportion of female sufferers is unusually large, and all of the:n were dependent on their own exertions for a living. Four of these have lost eyes; others have been maimed . or terribly shaken, and will never aO'ain be what they were. The barbarity of the outrage comes °Ollt in strong colours in the report of :i\o(rs. Bailey, who has given her attention to the maternity cases, and who reports no fewer than twenty-six instances in which injlll'Y has been done to mothers and their infants. 
The adjourned inquest on two of the unfortunate persons killed by the explosion was resumed, yesterday week, by Dr. Lankester. Several new witnesses appeared. Amongst them were one of the boys . who were playing near the barrel a few miuutes before it exploded, and Mrs. Crowley, who passed a moment 01' two before. The house which was utterly wrecked was No. 3, and Mrs. Crowley was opposite No. 5 when the explosion took place. The chief warder of the House of Detention said that, on the previous day, ninety-four prisoners were exercised in that yard, and that, if the explosion had taken place, the greater part of them mmt have been killed 01' wounded. One important point was mentioned by Inspector Potter. He stated that a barrel of gunpowder had been brought to the wall of the prison on the day before the explosion, but was wheeled away again. The Inspector also intimated that the authorities knew where the gunpowder had been purchased. 
The three Fenian .prisoners, Richard Bllrke (alias Berry), Theodore Joseph Caaey, and Henry Shaw (alias Mullany), were again brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street Police Court, ou Thursday morning; and were committed to Warwick gaol to take their trial at the spring assizes. 
The seven persons in custody 011 charges of wilful murder and treason-felony in respect to the explosioll underwent another exami­nation at Bow-street on Monday_ The new evidence taken at the inquest on Friday was repeated. 'A witness named Young swore positively to Timothy Desmond as the man who assisted, aud believes William Desmond to be the man who actually fired the barrel. A boy named Abbot, aged thirteen, who was close by, speaks positively to the identity of William Desmond as the man who fired the barrel. The prisoners were again remanded. 
Some excitement prevailed on Monday in the neighbourhood of London Bridge by the arrest of a man supposed to be Deasey, one of the prisoners who escaped from the gaol· van at the time Sergeant Brett was mnrdered. He was shipped for London at Leghorn, on board the Oriana, by the English vice-consul, under the name of Lionel Granville, he being in great distress. The police had in­formation of his expected arrival, and the ship no sooner came t::> anchor than the police went on board and took him into custody. After a private examination Granville was discharged from custody, no evidence being forthcoming to implicate him with any of the Fenian outrages. He is entirely indebted to his own condllct and statements for his arrest and the implications connec~ed therewith_ 
The rumour that two vessels supposed to belong to the Fenians had been seized by the naval authorities at Wooll'I'ich as contraband is contradicted by the Times. It has been ascertained to have ol'igi­nated in the fact that two vessels which had ascended the river had loitered about the offing under what was pronounced at ·the time "suspicious circumstances," and were questioned by the river gllard_ They, however, proved to be the French brig of war Beaumonoir and the chartered transport Annie Forster, from Quebec, with condemnei arms and ammunition. Captain Crudelle, of the Beaumanoir, nlt being sufficiently acquainted with the regulations of the Thames, had taken up his berth to ship ammllnition oppJsite the Royal Arsenal without first reporting his arrival to the senior ol'\icer in command at the station. 
The special-constable movement seems to have pervaded the whole of the United Kingdom. The provincial papers, both English and Scottish, are filled with reports of magisterial meetings to enrol defenders of law and order; at every public meeting resolutions Cln­demnatory of Fenianism are interpolated ; Judges, recorders, and chair­men of quarter sessions in their chat'ges are not less strong and una­nimous in their denunciations of this mysterious iniquity, and grand juries invariably follow suit with special presentments. Sir Stafford Northcote, who presides over a sessions' court, made a spoech last week which will be reassuring. He declared his full conviction that the authorities were in possession of full information in reference to the Fenians, and that the precautions which had been taken to prevent any further outrages would be successflll. 
Among [those sworn in as special constables at Bradford is Isa~c 
Jefferson, well known, in 184.8, as "Wat Tyler," a conspicuous 
Chartist, who, being a whitesmith, did a large stroke of business as 
a manufacturer of pikes. Wat. was one of those who had sllbse­
quently to expiate their folly" in York Castle. Now, it is said, the 
Queen has not a more loyal and devoted subject than he is. 
TheLondon Irish Yolunteers have arranged to be enrolled special 
constables this (Saturday) evening. Oil T uesday evening nearly 
1000 specials were sworn in at Edinburgh, and in Leith about the 
same numbel' were enrolled. 
Mr. Digby Seymour's suggestion for a loyal address from Irishmen 
to the Queen is being acted upon. 
A court-martial has been held at Portsmouth, on board the 
Victory, for the trial of William Read, seaman, serving on board her 
Majesty's ship Irresistible, stationed in Cowes Roads, who, on being 
ordered to join a boat and proceed along the shore off 03borne at 
ni ht refused to obe , stating that "he would not take up arms 
against the Fenians." The charge was proved, and the pris mer ' 
sentenced to five years' penal servitude. There is good groand for 
believing Read to be a lunatic. 
Fourteen Fenians were brought up for examination before the · magistrates at Merthyr Tydvil on Monday, and considerable evi­dence was taken implicating them as members ' of the Feniau brotherhooa. This conspiracy is said to have obtained cGnsiderabl~ footing amongst the nUmerous Irish labourers and furnace-men · employed in the Welsh ironworks and mines. Twelve of the men have been retained in custody; two were discharged. Patl'ick: Coffee, an informer, is the chief Crown witness . 
.The forts on the Sbannon at Limerick have been inspected, and remforcements ordered. Arms have been removed from all the small forts round the coast to the nearest military depot alld the guards have been doubled at all important military post;. 
O~ Th~rsday se'nnight .a sentinel of the 52nd Regiment, on dllty at Llmel'lck Castle barracks, was fired at from Thomond BridO'e 
The late Fenian robbery of revolvers at Cork has been foUo'wed . by a.robbery of powder. The, magazine of Mr. Mun·ay, agent for · Curbs and Hal'vey, gunpowder manufacturers, situate a shn~ cli~t~nce ontside Cork,. was broken into, and the entire stock, COID­pnsmg 10 cwt. of blastmg powder, was stolen. Three doors were ­forced-one of iron, one of wood, and one of copper. Two keg.> of tbe powder stolen were dug up in a field by the police a day 01' two · afterwards. 
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 

LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 186S. 
AN American satirist, describing the conviction of a good many of his countrymen, states that the earth revolves on its axis once in twenty-four houn, subject to the regu{ations of the Constitution of the United States, We need not go across the Atlantic for illustrations of the belief on the part of very small men that, in the words of Job, "they are the people, and wisdom shall die with them," The Adelphi-terra.ce is conveniently at hand, if we want that sort of specime:1 of self­esteem. On that terrace once lived a man-an actor-to 
whom It so-called poet could say, without feeling himself an idiot., 
A nation's taate depends on you ; Perhal'" a nation's virtue too. 
We do not know whether the Reform League has got into the house that was David Garrick's, but it is quite as con· vinced as he was that from that terrace the nation is ruled. The League has had its recess, and Mr. Beales, recovered from his snubbing, addresses his parliament in Royal-speech fashio., hoping that, after the recreation of the holidays-during which, we presume, the council has ceased from making shoes, tomb· stones, and coal-boxes-it will be" prepared to encounter the labours of the present year in a spirit of sound and sober patriotism Imd judgment, and of inflexible firmness." We quote, that our'readers may not think that we are parodying the great Beales-it would be as easy to parody the opening of a Christmas pantomime. 
Indeed, we incline to be grateful to the League i for the festival is over, and what an old writer calls the mourniv.al succeeds. People cannot see theatrical spectacles twice, and the depressing weather is in keeping with the other disagree· abIes of the season. Thanks, therefore, may seem, due to anybody who will mltke us laugh, and the Beales brethrell (as an M.A., he probably knows what "Adelphi" mea.s) execute feats worthy of any circus. We shall notice these acrobats in a good-natured way. Mr. Beales himself, the champion jumper, instantly announced his intention of leaping through the newly-constructed Reform Act. He declares that the first business of the year is "to reform the reform," and to get rid of what he calls the Tory clauses, whicll 
are calculated to cheat the people out of the franchise. Next, or perhaps first-for Mr. Beales, like the Emperor Napoleon, has bis moments of vacillation-the Irish difficulty must be settled" to the satisfaction of the Irish." We shall have Mo little light on what the League means by this. Thirdly, tile Adelphi-terrace must interpose to prevent the Government from destroying our liberties under pretence of putting down Fenianism. ,The Irish Reform League, it seems, has BUS­pended operations, for which act Mr. Beales at first condemned it, but is now inclined to think tbat it was right, as the chair· man of th"at League, the O'Beales, thinks that the lrislt Executive might nob look kindly upon meetings held, at a time like this, for agitating purposes, and the chaii:. man makes a piteous allusion to a criminal convictioll and a convict prison. The Irish League is therefore p3.rdoned. But a ' terrible fact has to be reveded, and if the other Parliament is not immediately summoned to take the 'outrage .into consideration, it is only because the convoking power is in the hands of the tyrants who have been guilty of the act we are about, shudderingly, to record. The letter from O'Beales to Beales was split open at one end t Mr. Bealeil held up the envelope to the view of his brethren, and a groall of horror resounded across the Thames. There wail no mistake about it. The end of the envelope was open. Let no one imagine that the Dublin stationer had sold bad paper, or that a careless clerk had done the aeed in ramming the despatch into a bag. The letter had been cut open, either by the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin, or the Postmaster· General in London, in the 'hope that something might be discovered to the detriment of Beales. And with that haughty disregard for the opinion of its slaves which characterises our tyrannical administration, there had been no attempt to conceal the deed, no refasLening, not evell the mual indorEement that the letter had been found open : the proud despots had reael tlie document and loftily passed it 
on to the Adelpbi by the hands of one of their hireling minions, the postmen. As haughtily did Mr. Beales proclaim his scorn and his defiance, and he stated that all his cor· respondence might be published at Charing.cross-with' per. mission, we presume, of the proprietor of the hotel in whose yarel it stands. Then, casting aside this blackening proof of the wickedness of the Executive, Beales grew tender, and moved that some deep sympathy should be sent to 'the Irish Reformers, and we hope that this will be inclosed in " registered letter, for fear of other accidents. 
So spoke Mr. Beales, and then his brethren proceeded to expound and expatiate upon the words of the prophet. Mr. G uedalla declared that there would be no satisfaction to the Irish until they had a national Parliament sitting in College· green. He hoped the League would help them to agitate for a repeal of the Union. Loyalty had run mad, and he wail glad to fee that many working men had refused to be special constables. So much for the loyal Guedalla. N~xt came the equally loyal, truthful, and decorous Mudge. He" saw nl) liberty in England but the liberty to do as the Powers like, the right to keep a lot of German cut-throats in the country," This League orator and leader mystifies us a little, and the last expression is perfectly unintelligible to ils i but when thiil educated and respectable patriot and artisan shall be returned to Parliament he will probably explain himself in a sober moment. Next came the fiery FinleR. an equally worthy leader of the people, and equally qualified to'be heard as an advocate and as a witness. For some strange reason, this gentleman was a little unacceptable, and he wa!l charged with baving dishonoured the League by prodaiming his goodwill towards Fenianism i but, as the patriot Mudge, of the cut-throat epigram, declared-that no man had done so much for democracy as the patient Finlen, he was allowed t3 avow that he was a thorough Republican. We have heard that he h9s done as much service to publicans as to Repub. licans i but this does not make him less worthy of leading hi3 fellow· citizens. Then came out the valiant Odger, the magnanimous pardoner of Messrs. Bright and Gladstone, when they had languished for some time under the wither· ing chill of his displea3ure. He proposed that the Irishmell 
<should declare, by manhood suffrage, what kind of government they would like, Then did the League ,get one bit of good sense, and it came from Mr. Cremer, who ':boldly avowed that the Irish grievance was a case not of liberty but of creed, and that if England were Catholic Ireland would 'hug ber. There were State and geogtaphical reasons against 'giviDg her independence, as she might come into the hands -of a foe of this country i and this, as an English Democrat, 'he conld not approve. There was fierce strife after this, and the discussion was adjourned i the far-seeing Mudge declaring ,that the Clel'kenwell explosion had been got up by the police :to prevent Englishmen from expre,sing sympathy with 
Ireland. 
Thus llaid Beales and his League. Had this week brought .us a report of proceedings at tbe Asylum for Idiots, we .might have given it the space we devote to an account of 'more wretched folly. As it is, sane readers may as well know 
"what goes on in Adelphi-terrace, and how the " popular 'leaders n talk and act. 

NA VAL AN]) MILITARY INTELLIGENOE. 
WAR OFFICE. 
Royal Ho",e Guards:' H. L. Fox to be Cornet. 
7t1l Hussars : Cornet H. Beville to be Lieutenaut; G. Hamond to be Cornet. 
Coldstream Guard, : LiBut. 'and Capt. the Hon. E. H. Legge to be Captain

and Lieutenant-Colonel ; Ensign and Lieuts. H. C. A. F. W. Aldenburg­Bent-inck and the Hon. L. P. Dawnay to be Lieutenants and Captains; the Hon. R. G. E. CampbeJ! and H. C. Duncombe to be Ensigns and Lieu­tenants; Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. F. A. Wellesley to be Adjutant.
Scots Fusilier Guards : EDsign and Lieut. tbe Hou. P. S. Methueu to be 
Lieutenant and Captain; Sir W. G. Cumming, Bart., to be Ensign and 
Lieut<mant ; Lieut. and Capt. W. J. Gascoigne to be Adjlltant.2nd Foot : Ensigns B. A. Beale and N. W. T. Bosanquet to be Lieutenants. 5tb : Lieut. C. H. Broad to be Adjlltant. 10th : Staff Surg. G. M. Slaughter to be Surgeon. 15th: Major and Brevet Col. H. Grierson to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Capt. F. 
E. Lock to be Major; Lieut. J. J. F. Grant to be Captain; Ensign G. C. 
Daintry to be Lieutenant; C. R. B. Thorne to be Ensign. 16th: Cadet E. H. Townshend to be Ensign. 17th: Lient. C. E. G. Burr to be Instructor of Musketry. 19th: Staff Aosist. Surg. G. Atkinson, M.B., to be Assistant Surgeon. 31st : Li.mt. F. W. H. D. Butler to be Captaiu ; Ensign R. W. F. Phillips to 
be Lieutenant; Cadet F. H . M. Dswson to be Ensign.34ti,: Capt. A. J. Tuffnell to be Captain. 36th : Lieut. W. A. Smail to be Adjutant. 39th: Major-Gen. Sir C. T. Van Straubenzee, K.C,.B., to be Colonel. 41st: Capt. G. R. Miller to be Captain; Ensign J. H. Sener to be Lieu­
tenant; A. K. M'Cansland to be Ensign. 
47th: Major-Gell. J. Patton to be Colouel. 
59th: Lieut. C. H. J. Lane to be Lientenant; Ensign J. Stoyte to be Lieu­
tenant; B. W. Lucas to be Ensign. 
60th: Ensign C. L. Allan to be Lieutenant; F. M. Ward to be Ensign. 
6lst: Capt. G. C. Ro,s to be Captain.
65th: Lieut: T. Chamley to, be Captain. 
C8th : Lieut. H. B. Rhodes to be Lieutenant. 
71 st: A. C. Dawson to be Ensign. 


77th: Ensign F. H. M. Dawson to be Ensign. 
86th: Lieut. A. G. Howard to be Lieutenant. 
90th : Capt. J. Caulfelld to be Captain.
96t.h : Lieut. A. G. H. Chnrch to be Captain ; Ensign C. S. P. Willoughby to 

be Lieut. ; Ensign A. M'Kellar Wix to be Ensign; B. Pollar<;l to be Ensign. 102ud: Staff Assist. Surg. T. M. mrkwood to be Assistant Surgeon.103rd : Lieut. G. H. Bridges to be Captain. 10Gth : Lieut. M. L. Elliott to be Instructor of Musketry. 2nd West India Regiment: Lieut. E. W. Cooper to be Captain ; Ensign G. 
Roe to be Lientenant. 3rd : Lieut. A. T. Wilkinson to he Instructor of Musketry. 
ADMIRALTY. Commander J. W. Pike to be Oaptain; and Lien ts. H. H. 1L Magrath and R H. B. Hnrtwell to ,be Commanders; Lient. W. C. Geary to be retired Commander ; and SUb-Lient. J . H. Orlebar to be Lieutenant in hQr 
Majesty's Fleet. 
Royal Marine Light Infantry: Lieut. W. Armstrong to be Second Captain. 
Sir J ohn Burgoyne has resigned the office of Inspector-General of Engineers, and is succe~ded by Major.General Edward Frome. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Drury Lowe and the officers of the 17th Lancers gave a magnificent ball, on Friday night, at the Pavilion, Brighton, to about 700 friends. 
General S:r Alexander Woodford, General Sir William Maynard Gomm, General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, and General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Bart., have been created Field Marshals. 
Those of the 4Srd Light Infantry who were entitled to the Banda and Kirwee prize-money have received their first instalment-a private's share amounting to £ 50, and a sergeant's to £100. 
Two batteries of Royal Artillery and the second battery of the 13th Bligade of the Royal Artillery, with 150 mariues from the Plymouth division, have embarked at Plymouth in the screw trans­port Himalaya, for Dublin. 
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Teck inspected the Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows on Monday, when the inmates, forty-three in nnmber, were supplied with roast turkey, plum-pudding, and ale. The widoWB displayed on their breasts the medals and clasps won by their deceased husbands and sons on many a well-fought field. Some of them wore half a dozen of these decoration~, Olle octogenarian widow in particular boasting three Peninsular and three Crimean medals. Another was at Corunna with her husband when the gallant Moore fell. 
A general order, relating to lllusketry drill, has been issued by the Adjntant·General, by cOlllmand. It is to the effect that" The Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief regrets to find, notwithstanding the repeated orders which have been issued on the subject, that the pre­scribed extra position. drills and judging distance practices are still frequently omitted. He therefore desires that the number of times these drills a.nd practices are performed during each month be ip.­serted in the musketry diaries, and noticed in the district inspector's reports, and that, when they have been omitted, the cause of such omission may be fully explained." His Royal Highness further directs that more energetic measures should be adopted by com· manding officers on their private parades, hy systematic and careful execution of the platoon exercise and position drill; by attention to the mode of delivering the word of command when blank firing is 
.going on ; and by the field officers, when visiting the parties at drill and practice, enforcing the strictest attention to duty on the part of officers in charge of squads. 
The Irish Education Commission has been nominated. It consists of Earl Powis, Lord Dunraven, the Bishop of Meath, Lord Clonbrock, Judge Morris, Sir Robert Kane, Master Brooke, Revs. Dr. Wilson and R. J. Cowie, and Messrs. Deasey, Gibson, Stokes, Sullivan, and Waldron. The secretaries are Messrs. May and Dunne. 
Fenianism has received l\ heavy blow and great discouragement. Taking up so advantageous a standpoint as Droitwich, the Secretary for War has delivered a dissertation on the current treason-felony so solemn and so weighty that every Fenian who reads it must of necessity become powerless for evil-doing or anything else-at least, for a. considerable time. But, after all, Sir J OhB Pakington is just now in a position which onght to be really appreciated; for, being Secretary of State for War, has he not consented-nay, it is believed demanded-that Sir Henry Storks should be set up as a dictator in his department? 


OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
THE HON. EMILY O·BRIEN. 
The Hon. Emily O'Brien, whose premature aud lamented death occurred on the 3rd inst., at Quarrwood, Ryde, was the second daughter of William Henry Ashe A'Court, second and present Lord Heytesbury, by his wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter aud heir of Sir Leonard Thomas Worsley-Holmes, ninth and last Baronet of Westover, in the Isle of Wight, and was born Sept. 14, 1842. The hon. lady was married, Aug. 21, 1862, to the Hon. Edward Donough O'Brien, eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Lucius O'Brien, thirteenth and present Lord Inchiquin. By this union the Hon, Mrs. O'Brien leaves issue two sons and a daughter. , 
SIR IlAMUEL FALKINER, BART. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Samuel Edmund Falkiner, fifth Baronet, of Anne Mount, in the county of Cork, who died on the 30th nIt" was the third son of Sir Samuel Falkiner, the second Baronet, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Charles Leslie, Esq., M.D., and grand­daughter of the Very Rev. Dean Leslie. He was born in 1792, and was educated at Winchester. He early in life entered the British Army, and served in the Peninsula with the 61st Regiment. He was present at the great affairs of Talavera, , Albuera, Fuentes d'Onore, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, and Salamanca, in three of which he was wounded. He was an esteemed and excellent officer. He was sent home with despatches in 1809, wherein he was honourably men­tioned. He received the war medal with three clasps, and became Lientenant­Colonel in 1851. He succeeded his brother, Sir Charles Leslie Falkiner, the fourth Baronet, Feb. 7, 1858. Sir Samnel married, in 1834, Mary, danghter of J. Bowens, Esq" of Connaught-place, by whom he had issue one son, Samuel Edmund. and three daughters-viz., Edith Mary, who was married, April 29, 1856, to Joseph Wood, Esq.; ROlie Frances, who was married, April 16, 1859, to Charles Willia;m Moore, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, and died on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Nemesis, May 22, 1860; and Emily Eliza, who was married, Jan. 8, 1867, to William G. Herbert, Esq. Sir Samuel is succeeded by his only son, now Sir Samuel Edmund Falkiner, the sixth Baronet, who was born in 1841, and married, Nov. 21, 1865, Blanche, younger daughter of Sir William Berkeley Call, third Baronet of Whiteford, in the county of Cornwall. This family of Falkiner sprung imme­diately from Michael Falkiner, of Yorkshire, a Cavalier who accom­panied Ormonde's army to Ireland and settled in Dublin. His great-grandson, Sir Riggs Falkiner, of Anne Mount, in the county of Cork, was created a Baronet Aug, 24, 1777. He was grandfather 6f the Baronet just deceased. 
The Dublin police, on 'Wednesday, arrested a merchant tailor of that city, having a shop in one of the principal streets. This mo.n was t.ried fome twelve months ago for having in the shop he then cccl1pied in another street a large number of revolvers, rifles, and ammunition, but was acquitted on the defence that the arms were ph Cfd thne without his knowledge. ' He has been now committed to Riirr:air;j:r.rn Gaol m:der a Lord Lieutenant's warrant. 
THE VOLUNTEERS. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the captaincy of the IIiEh eight who are to shoot at Wimbledon this year for the Inter­national trophy. Lord Abercorngave a handsome cup to be shot for at the Irish meeting last season. 

THE FENIA N ALAnM: THE NIGHT GUA.RD IN PLYMOUTH HARBOUR. -8EE pAGE 65, 


THE FARM. 


'TIIE following are the subjects for discussion at the Farmer's Club in 18G8 :-Feb. 3 : The Sale and Transit of Home and Foreigu Stock ,(Mr. C. S. Read, lILP.) March 2: Would not the Make of English Cheese be Generally Improved by the introduction of Cheese Manu­factories? (Mr. George Jackson). April 6: Would Compu15ol'Y Edu­-cation Promote the Interests of Agricultul'e? (Mr, J. B. Spearing). May 4: The Justice of Funded Property and other ProJ,lerty now ,exempt contributing to the Maintenance of the Poor (Sir G. S . . Jenkinson, Bart.) Nov. 2: The Undeveloped Power of British 
Agriculture (Mr. J. J. Mechi). Dec. 7: The Infllleuce of Railways llptn Agriculture (Mr. J . K. Fowler). 
The Journal d'Agl'iculture P.ratique gives the following details of the manufacture of animal manure at Aubervilliers :-1'his manu­factory consumes cvery year 8000 horses, 200 donkeys, 300 COWd, 
.300 pigs, 9000 cats and dogs, 6000 kilogrammes of meat unfit for food, 500,000 kilogramm~s of offal from the Parisian abattoirs, and 600,000 kilogrammes of other refuse animal matters, snch a~ skins, horns, &c. The raw material is first cut up and boiled to extract the grease. The flesh is then separated from the bones, presse 1, -and dried. It is afterwards ground and sifted, and the dried bones, which are also submitted to the same process, mixed with it, forming a manure containing 35 per cent of nitrogen and 55 per cent of phosphate of lime. The blood is collected scparately, and also .made into mannre. 'Ihe soup obtained in the boiling is strained, and tbe solid matter thus collected is added to the rest. The off.l is piled in alternate layers with other organic matter, such a, wool and parings of horns and hoofs, with which is mixed a certain .amount of mineral phosphate3. The heap is well moistened witb. the strained sou!", fermentation is set up, and the whole is gradnally transformed into excellent manure. During this process the phosphate of lime breaks up into phosphoric compounds, more or 
.less soluble, and various salts of ammonia are formed. 
The Highland and Agricultural Society has issned its annual abstract of the state of the funds up to Nov. 30. Its property, in­cluding £180 14s. for" arrears of members' subscriptions considered .recoverable," amounts to £52,830 5s. 7d. Tile receipts from all sources at the Glasgow show of:last year were £48B9 lls. 3d. ; but, 8S yet, Rtnfrewshire has not paid up its voluntary assessm~nt of .£150, and Lanarkshire is equally behindhand with its £300. The actual gate-money amounted to £2817 9s. 8d., and the total ex­pellEes of the shOw to £2047 13s. Bd., plus £ 1374 15s. 6d. for premiums. The Rev. Patrick Bell's testimonial, to which the above society gave £100, has nearly reached £1000. 
The Mal'k Lane Expl'ess states that a sirloin of the eland which figured at the Smitbfield Club Show was duly discu"sed at the com­mittee diuner of the Farmers' Club, at the Salisbury Hotel. Some ·of the members were not in the secret, and one of them, being asked, said, "the beef is very good." The general verdict seemed to be that " the flesh is fine in the grain and carries a fair layer of fat, but is not of particularly fine flavour, and with no suspicion what­~ver of venison. It WOUld, in fact, eit b.er to look at or to taste, pass for very fail' beef, although of rather a dark colonr," 'Ve hear that another horse dinner is to come off shortly in London . 
• The official return of the French Exhibition awards iu the agri­()ultural departm€llt of the show was made on the 5th inst. The Emperors of Austlia, Russia, and France each received a Grand Prix for encouragement to agriculture, improvement in the breed of horses, and encouragement of agriculture with improvem,ent of the merino .sheep, respectively. Mr. M'Cormack, of the United States, received one for his reaping-machine; lI{essrs. Howard, of Bedford, and Messre. Ransome and Sons, of Ipswich, for agricultural machinery; and Mr. Clements R. :Markham for his introduction and cultivation of quinine into British India. Gold medals with works of art were awarded to Messrs. Garrett and Sons for agricultural machinery, and to Smith and Sons, Peasenhall, for corndrills. Mr. M'Col'mack was raised, on the strength of his reaping-machine, to the rank of Xrught in the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour. 
The council of the Yorkshire Agl'icultuml Society held their first meeting a few days since, and decided to offer £1400 in prizes for live stock and implements at Wetterby, on Atlg 5, 6, and 7. On the motion of Admiral Duncombe, M.P., seconded by Mr. Thomas Booth, the sum of £50 was votcd to the secretary, Mr. Thomas Parrisgton, in token of the admirable manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office. 
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BIRTHS AND DEATHS. THE following is the weekly return of the Registrar-General of births and deaths in .London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom :­In the week that ended on Saturday, Jan. 11, 4395 births and 8454 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was ~6 per 1000 in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dublin;, 24 in .Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 33 in Liverpool, 35 in Mlmchester, 30 in Salford, 22 in Sheffield, 29 in Bradford, 29 in Leeds, 30 in Hull, 25 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 83 in GlasgclW.In London the births of 1053 boys and 1079 girls,-iu all 2132 children-were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks ()f ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2152. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1574. , It was the second week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correctioR for increase of population, 1799. The deaths in the present return are less by 225 than the estimated Dumber. Two hundred and seventy-three deaths occurred from zymotic diseases, the corrected average number being 364. Elev~n deaths were cansed by smallpox, 48 by mea~les, 49 by scarlatllla, 49 by 
whooping-cough, 25 by typhUS, ana 22 by diarrhOla. Fourteen fatal cases of measles were recorded in the west and 15 in the east dis­tricts : :6 were in the sub-district of Kensington town and 3 in 
the sub-district of Bow. Eleven deaths from scarlatina were registered in the west, 11 in the north, and 16 in the south districts: 4 were in the Bub-district of Kentish Town and 6 in the sub­district of Plumstead. Whooping-cough was least fatal in the central districts : 3 caEes occurred in the sub-district of St. Margaret, Westminster ; 3 in that of St. John, Marylebone; 4 in that of Mile-end Old-town Weat; 4 in that of St. Peter, Walworth; and 5 in that of the Kennington first part; 
One hundred and eighty-seven deaths fl'Om phthisis, 294 from lronchitis, 91 from pneumonia, and 81 from diseases of the heart, 'were registered last week. 
The deaths of 7 children and 5 adults from bvrns or scalds, of 6 ,children from suffocation, and of 3 persons who were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets were recorded. 
The widow of a labourer died on Jan. 8, at 10, Holborn·buildings, ():ity, at the age (as stated) of one hundred years. 
The Royal Academicians will meet on Friday, the 31st inst., for the election of two associates, and one associate-engraver. 
The Gazette contains the official notice that Lord DllUboyne has been chosen by a majority of votes to be the peel' to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in the room of the Earl 0 f Rosse, deceased. 
The Queen has Iloppointed Francis Gerhard Myburgh, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Kanagawa, to be her Majesty's Consnl at Hiogo and Osaka; Lachland Fletcher, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul, and WiIliam Willis, Esq., to be Vice-Consul, at Jeddo and Kanagawa ; .John Frederic Lowder, Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Riogo and at Osaka. 
Two lectures on the life and genins of Dean Swift were deli vered, last week, at the Edinbur"h Philosophical Institution, by Mr. Robert Carrnthers, of Inverness, author of the biography of A.lexander Pope. They attracted to the Queen-street Hall a very fnl! audience, who were much gratified'; the subject being treated by Mr. Carruthers with the accurate research, the critical insight, and the sound jlldg­ment (both of facts and motives) which characterise his other labours as un historian of the English literature of Queen Allne's time. 
Intelligence was rEceived at Tramore, near Waterford, on the night of the 12th inst. that a ship was on the rocks off Newtown Hend. The Cambridge University life-boat of the National Life­boat Institution, the Tom Egan, was launched with all possible ,Blleed, and, on arriving at the spot, found that the stranded ship was the Oasis, of and for Liverpool, from Demerara. Twenty men were taken into the boat and safely landed. Five or six of the crew are l'eported to have left in t.he ship's boat, but the captain and three 
'sick men were drowned before the arrival of the life-boat. Subse­~uently, intelligence was brought that a man was still iu the foretop ilf the vEssel. The boat was a,gain launched, and, on reaching the wreclr, the foremast was found to be standing. The ship was then grappled, and a volunteer, Martin Norris, of the Naval Reserve, ~limbed up to the vessel by the jib downhaul. The sailor, who was a foreigner, was then discovered, and was able to crawl down the rigging, but became frightened on reaching the bowsprit, so he was 
lowered into the water and then hauled into the life-boat. This service of going on board and lowering the poor fellow was one of much danger, for the chain tack of the foresail was beating abont like a whip lash. 
SWEARING IN 'THE LOND(N fRBII J~'FLE VOLU~TEEIlS ,\8 SPEf:IAL CONSTABLES AT THE NATIONAL SCHOOL-ROOMS, ST, MAUTIN'8-1N-THE-FIl'LD~. 
THE FENIAN CONSPIRACY. 

THE seven Fenian prisoners held in custody in London since the explosion at Clerkenwell were again brought before Sir Thomas 
Henry at the Bow-street Police Office on Monday. It may be re­membered that hitherto only four of the prisoners have been charged with murder, and three with treason-felony; while the two Desmonds are charged with both the offences. O'Kee£e is now among those 
of a most important nature was also given by a carman in the employ of Messrs_ Curtis and Harvey, the gunpowder manufacturers, who, on D, c. 6, delivered four half· barrels of blasting· powder at a house in Pulteney-street, near Golden-square. The house was", green­grocer's shop, and the !(unpowder was received there by a man calling him,el£ George Smith, who paid £'3 17s. 6d_ for it, having ordered it two days before at Messrs. Curtis's office in Lomhard­"h'ept The wan]e,' of the Hon.e of Detention wa. palled to nl'Ove charged with both offences; for a witness swore that he saw him beside the barrel which was wheeled along Corporation-lane the day before the explosion, Dec. 12, and another that he saw him in the neighbourhood on the day of the explosion itself, Dec. 13. Evidence 
U.!l tlle same oay .filL . ...... Olen<1ge, ~.l,.. , maul? all appncaLlOll III Lhe Court of Queen's Bench, before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Blackburn and Lush, for a rule nisi, to show cause why a writ ef certiorari should not issue to remove the trial of Burke from Warwick to London. He moved on these grounds: First, that, on acconnt of the recent religious disturbances connected with Irish· men in Warwickshire, it not desirable that the prisoner shonld be tried by a jury coming from that county; secondly, that as a majority of the witnesses live in London, Liverpool, and Ireland, the extreme poverty of the prisoner would make it more difficult for him to conduct his defence in Warwickshire; and, thirdly, that Burke wishes to make his selection of counsel from the·whole Bar and not from the midland circuit only, to which he would be restricted if tried in the midland county. After some conversation between the Judges and Mr. Coleridge, the application was post­poned for further consideration. 
One Michael Serridge, who has been in the Birmingham police force thirteen years, is charged with using seditious language in referellCe to the attack upon the prison van at Manchester, and also with regard to the prisoners who have been committed to take their trial at Warwick Assizes . 
.'\. man named Lennon, suspected of being a Fenian, was arrested by the Dublin police last week -and identified as the leader in the Talbght rising. It is said that he will be indicted for high treason. He ',yas armed with a revolver when captured. 
A singular affair occurred at Cork. On Friday night, last week, as two men were walking through Patrick-street in that city a bottle in the pocket of one of them exploded. The man immediately threw off his coat, and a second explosion then occurred. The two men ran off at once, but aman named J ames Aspen has been arrested in connection with the affair. 
Three young men-named Thomas Charles M'Kenna and Joseph M'Kenna, telegraph clerks-and Thomas Weldon, a clerk on the Northern Counties Railway, have been arrested in Belfast on a charge of Fenianism. 
1IIr.• Pigott, proprietor of the ["ishman, has been committed for trial, at Dublin, for the publication ·of seditious libels. He was allowed to stand out on bail in his own recognizances in £500. 
The eleven men, chiefly Irishmen, arrested in Sonth Wales were again brought before the magistrates at Merthyr Tydvil on Tuesday. Barry was discharged; the others were committed for trial. 
'rhe chief constable of Manchester announces that a sufficient sum has been collected to afford a comfortable provision for life for the widow of Sergeant Brett, murdered hy the Fenians at Manchester. 
On Satnrday evening the L~Ddon Irish Rifle Volunteera were sworn in as special constables. The Marquis of Donegall, the com­manding "officer, who had been repeatedly applied to by members of the corps to adopt ~ome snch course, appointed a parade withont arms at half-past fi ve in the quadrangle at Somerset House. Notwith­standing the inclement weather, about 500 of all ranks mustered and marched to St. Martin's School-rooms, where they were met by Mr. Flowers, of Bow-street, Mr. Still well, and other local magistrates, and enrolled. Mr. Flowers congratulated these Irish gentlemen on their zeal as protectors of law and order. He said he believed onr fellow­countrymen in Ireland had as much liberty as we in England; bnt, if Ireland had any grievance. to complain of, there were legitimate ways of redress without violence or infringement of the law. The Irioh were a generous people, and could not approve of such doings as tl,ose which had recently taken place, and which were not only "un-English," but" nn-Irish" also. This remark was greeted with a tremendous burst of cheering. Major Ward then called for three cheers for the Queen-and three for Ireland. The cheers were given in a most enthusiastic manner, lasting for several minutes; and, order having been restored, the process of swearing in commenced (See the Illustration, page 65). Major Ward, Captains O'Connor, Purce]], Fowler, Tate, Dr. West, Captain and Adjutant Daubeny, Lieutenant Chisholm, and other officers were the first to take the oath. ,In all, above 500 were sworn; and the corps, having bQen supplied with truncheons and striped crimson-and-white armlets, the colours of the city of Westminster, again fell in behind their b'llld and marched back to Somerset House, when they were dismissed'. 
Since the announcement that special constables were to be sworn in to aid in the suppression of Fenian outrages, no fewer than seven justices of the peace have att€llded regularly at the Vestry Hall, Pad­dington, for the' purpose of swearing in all persons who were desirous of preserving law and order. The total number of special constables I\lready sworn in at the Vestry Hall was stated at the last vestry tneeting to be 1R3G, inclusive of 740 men in the service of the Great 1Vegtern and Metropolitan Railway Companies, who form a sort of special detachment, under the command of Mr. Superintendent Dur(lle, with an efficient staff of officers under him. The othet special constables are told off into four dlvisions, all being under the superintendence of able and experienced military officers, who give their services in drilling the men every day at the rear of the police station, Paddington-green, and every evening at Pearce's Riding School, Queen's-road. The Illnstration we have engraved shows the scene at the evening drill in the Riding School. The chief super­intendent of the whole Paddington brigade of Epecial constables is :M:ajor Mundy Pole, who attended the vestry mr-eting, with Colonel Ewart, of the Guards, and Colonel Wood, commanding officer of the Paddington volunteers, to explain these arrangements. The Paddington volunteer corps, 600 ·strong, have also been enrolled as special constables. . 
The precautions observed at Plymouth and Portsmouth to prevent any damage being done by fire or explosion to the men-of·war in harbour are still con tinned. The Engraving on page 56 shows the midnight watch at Plymonth, in that part of the harbour whic!). is towards Sa)tash. The watch here is kept chiefly by steam-launches, instead of rowing-boats. Every boat which passes near any ship after dark is challenged. The .little steamer in the fl'Ont of our view is the guard-boat going its rounds. Behind' it are seen two hulks, the Agincourt and the Aurora; while the ships-which appear to the right hand are the Vixen, gun-boat; the Dublin, store-ship; H.M_S. Indus, the flagBhipof the Admiral Superintendent; and 
H.M.S Defence, of the Channel Squadron. _ 
The visit of the Prince of Wales, on Tuesday week, to the sufferers in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who were injured by the blowing up of the wall at Clerkenwell, is the subject of one of our Illustrations. His Royal Highness arrived about noon, accompanied by the Dctke of Sutherland and several other gentlemen, in two private carriages. They were met by the secretary and treasurer, and some of the surgeons, of the hospital, and conducted to the beds where those patients lay. The Pl'ince expressed his sympathy for them, and they seemed much pleased by his kind attentiOn. 
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PE:ilSONS. LORD BRIDPORT. The Right Hon. Samuel Hood, second Baron Bridport, of Cricket St. Thomas, in 
Wheler, fourth and present 'Viscount Hood. He was born Dec. 7, 1788, and waS educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1809. He, pursuant to the limitation in the patent, inherited, May 8, 1814, the Irish barony of Brid­port, on the demise of his greatuncle, the distinguished Admiral Alexander Hood, 'Viscount and Baron Bridport. Having thus succeeded as second Baron, his Lordship did not interest him­self much in political affairs, but spent his time principally in Somerset. He more especially turned his attention to horti­cultural pursuit~, and his gardens at Cricket St. Thomas bear evidence of his care and taste. He was a thorough friend to the poor, and a strong supporter of the various local charities and institutions. His Lordship married, July 3, 1810, Charlotte Mary, niece of the great Lord Nelson, and only surviving child and heiress of the Right Hon. and Rev. WilIiam, D.D., first Earl Nelson, and, as such heiress, Duchess of Bronte, by whom, who survives him, he leaves issue a son and five daughters: the latter are Mary Sophia, married, Aug. 17, 1841, to John Lee Lee, Esq., of Dillington, Somerset, and of Orleigh Court, Devon; Charlotte, married, Sept. 4, 1845, to Horace Rochfort, Esq., of Clogrenane, in the county of Carlow; J ane Sarah, married, first, Jan. 4, 1838, to Hugh Holbechl Esq., of Farnborough, Warwickshh'e, who died June 8, 1849; seconaly, Dec. 10, 1853, to Captain Sir Uharles Hotham, RN., K.C.B., who died Dec. 31, 1855; and thirdly, Aug. 30, 1860, to Captain William Armytage>.-,.RN.; Catherine LouiAa, married, April 18, 1eS7, to the late Henry .tlall, Esq., of Holbl'Ook House, Somer­setshire; and Fanny Caroline, married, May 201 1845, to J. Walrond Walrond, Esq, of Bradfield, Devon, llLP. tor Tiverton. Lord Bridport is succeeded by his only surviving son, Major·General Alexander Nelson Hood, now third Lord Bridport, who was born Dec. 23, 1814, and married, Aug. 2, 1838, Lady Mary Hill, younger daughter of Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull, third Marquis of Downshire, K.P., by whom his Lordship has six sons and four daughters; the eldest of the latter, Mina Mm'ia, is married to Captain Ferguson, Grenadier Guards. This family of Hood, Barons Bridport, is ~ branch of that of the famous Admiral, Samnel, first 'Viscount Hood, K.B., whose younger brother, Alexander, also a great naval commander, was created Baron Bridport, of Cricket St. Thomas, in the Peerage of Ireland, Aug. 12, 1794, with limitation in case of failure of male issue to his grandnephew, Samuel Hood, and was also created Baron and 'Viscount Bridport, in the Peerage of Great Britain. 'Viscount Bridport died llfay 3, 1814,. when, as he left no issue, his British honours became extinct, and his Irish title passed to his grandnephew, the nobleman just deceased. 
SIR HENRY DES VCEUX, BART. Lieutenant·Colonel Sir Henry WiIliam Des Voeux, third Baronet, of Indiville, in the Queen's county, who died, on the 4th inst., at his seat, Drake­lowe, near Burton·on-Trent, Derbyshh'e, was the second ~on of Sir Charles Des Voeux, the second Baronet, by his first wife, Christina, daughter of Richard Hird, E'q., of Rawdon, Yorkshire. He was born Dec. 16, 1806, and was educated at Rugby School. He had served in the British Army, from which he retired, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1861. For Fome years he was one of the Gentlemen Ushers to the Qneen, but re­fi gned that appointment in 1859. He succeeded his father, as third Baronet, Sept. 28, 1858. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire it). 1864. Sir Henry married, July 16, 1839, Lady Sophia Cntherine Gresley, widow of Sir Roger Gresley, · eighth Baronet, of Nether Seale, Leicestershire, M.P., and youngest daughter of George William, seventh Earl of Coventry, by whom, who survives him, he had no issue. Sir Henry is succeeded by his half.brother, now Sir Frederick Assheton Des Voeux, the fourth Baronet who was the only son of Sir Charles Des 'Voeux, by his second wife, Lady Cecilia Paulet, younger daughter of Charles Ingoldsby, thirteenth Marquis of Winchester, and was born in 1848. This family of Des Voenx springs from President de Bacquencourt, of the Parliament of Rouen, whose second son, Anthony 'Vinchon de Bacqnenconrt, assumed the surname of Des 'Voeux, and took up hh abode in Ireland, having incurred the dis­pleasure of his family by abandoning their religious faith-that of the Qhurch of Rome. He was a man of great learning, and distin­guished himself by his polemical writings, particularly those on miracles, and against the J ansenists. His translation of, and com­mentary on, the Book of Ecclesiastes was considered of so much importance as to induce the University of Dublin to confer upon him the honorary degree of M.A. M. Des Voeux married the 'Viscountess de Seden, and, dying in 1792, left, with other isene, an elder son, Sir Charles Des Voeux, of Indiville, Queen's County, who held for several years distinguished offices in the Government of India, having been Governor of Masnlipatam, and second in Council at Madras; and, on his return from India, had a seat in the Irish Parliament. He was created a Baronet of Ireland on Sept. 1, 1787, and was grandfather of the Baronet just deceased. 
VICE· ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM DICKSON, BART. 

'Vice-Admiral Sir WilIiam Dickson, third Baronet, of Hardingham, in the county of Norfolk, who died on the 5th inst., at his house, 5, Gloucester-road, Old Brompton, was the eldest son of Rear­Admiral Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, the second Baronet, by his wife, Harriet., daughter of Admiral Bourmaster, of Tichfield. He was born June 10, 1798, and was educated at the Royal Naval College. He entered the Hoyal Navy in 1814, and was midshipman of the Minden at the taking of Algiers by Lord Exmouth. He became a 'Vice-Admiral in 1864. He succeeded his father Jnne 18, 1827. Sir Willie.m married, June 26, 1850, Laura Emmeline, only daughter of Colonel Northey,of L1angwathan, Pembrokeshire, but leaves no issue. Sir WilIiam is suc­ceeded by his eldest surviving brother, now Sir Colpoys DicksOD, the fourth Baronet, late a JJieutellant·Colonel in the Bengal army. Sir Colpoys was born Aug. 21., 1807, and married Emma, daughter of WilIiam Knyvett, Esq., and has a daughter. Rh next brother, Captain Ale~ander Collingwood Thomas. Dicks~n, RN., becomes heir-presumptIve to the be.ronetcy. ThIS famIly of Dickson, of Scottish origin, has long been distinguished 



THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 


TESTIMONIAL TO THE HON. JOHN O'SHANNASSY, 
OF VICTORIA.-SEE PAGE 66. 

70 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS JAl<!. 18, 1868 
THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE JOURNAL.* 

THE author's name is not on the titlepage, but the editor tells us 
how the book came to be published: indeed, we have been led to 
expect its publication since that of the first volume of the biography 
of the late Prince Consort, about six months ago. The very cordial 
reception of that work, commenced by General Grey and to be con­
tinued by Mr. Theodore Martin, showed that there was a general 
desire to be allowed to know more of the domestic IUe of our 
Queen and her lamented husband. This was no vulgar and 
intrusive curiosity. It was justified, and in some degree invited, by 
the frequent appeals made to our sympathy on account of her 
widowhood, and by the continual eulogy of his private virtues and 
reference! to their peculiar happiness in the married state. Though 
not the slightest doubt of the truth of these representations could 
ever arise in anybody's mind-though no scandal or detraction had 
ever cast a shade on the personal character of him whom she and 
we have lost, and whom she mourns with inconsolable affection-it 
was reasonable and natural that we should like to obtain some posi­
tive knowledge of the household which they shared together. And 
this wish could not be satl~fied properly except by making us 
acquainted with some few passages and scenes of their life in retire­
ment, whether at Osborne House or Balmoral. It would not have 
been enough to have given us a fuller and more enlarged Court 
Circular, setting forth in minute detail the routine of business 
and ceremony, the councils, the levees, the state dinners and drawing­
rooms, the formal visits, the interviews with foreign Princes and 
diplomatists, and all the laborious observances which a Sovereign 
(working harder than mOilt .English ladies) is obliged to undergo. 
The newspapers-added to the memoirs of former reigns, written by 
courtiers, Ministers of State, and maids of honour-supply as much 
information as can be required of the ordinary course of these pro· 
ceedings; and many of us during the lifetime of Prince Albert had 
opportumties of witnessing the discretion, the dignity, and the grace 
of his behaviour in assisting her Majesty on such occasions. But, 
while in his public and social capacity, as the Prince Consortl the 
first gentleman of the realm the enlightened patron and preSident 
of every liberal and useful undertaking, his conduct had won the entire 
approval of all parties and classes of the nation, most people had to 
take upon trust the reports of his amiable manners and of the purity 
and sweetness of his disposition, as shown in the private life 
of the Royal family. The testimony of the Poet Laureate, 
in his dedication of "The Idylls of the King," was indeed so 
emphatically expressed, and probably so well grounded in a per­
sonal acquaintance with the subject, that few of us could resist the 
convktion-one which does honour to this age and country-that 
the man lately sitting by the Queen's side, her partner, and the 
father of her children, was, indeed, altogether a good man :­
And we see him as he moved,
How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise,
With what sublime repression of himself,
And in what limits, and how tenderly;
Not swaying to this faction or to that;
Not making his high place the lawless perch
For winged ambition, or a vantage ground
For pleasure; but, through all this tract of years
Wearing the white flower of 11 blameless life,
Before a thousand peering Iittlenes3es,
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, 
And blackens every blot., .. .. .. .. 
Laborious for her people and her poor;
Far-sighted summoner of War and Waste 
To fruitful strifes and rivalries of peace,
Voice in the rich dawn of an ampler day;
Sweet nature gilded by the gracious gleam
Of letters, dear to Science, dear to Art,
Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed,
Beyond all title,; and a household name,
HereMter, through all times, Albert ihe Good. 

The sentiment expressed in these memorable lines has sunk deep 
into the hearta of Tennyson's readers, and their truthfulness will 
not be disputed. 1£ the' moral inflnence of snch an example could 
persnade any of the yonng Englishmen of this generation to cultivate 
similar graces in their own conduct, Prince Albert's memory would 
be far more worthily preserved than by the vain multiplication of 
bronze or marble statues in every market town. 
Future historians will find abundant evidence, we are quite sure, that the wife and widow of this good man was herself as good a woman, deserving, by her private virtues, the affectionate respect of her people, as well as their loyalty to her Crown. The plainness of this confession must be forgiven, on account of the circumstances in which her Majesty now comes before us, simply as a lady who has Buffered, ,like ma.hy others of her sex, the severest personal bereave­ment, and who, havin g' loved and lost a husband, sits down in the midst of her children:to record the scenes of domestic happiness they enjoyed together. She dwells fondly on the rural seclusion, the mountain rambles, the evenings at home, the pleasant little voyages, the con­versations with her family and friends, the innocent ~ports and pas­times, the kindly intercourse with her neighbours, the gentle rule of her servants, the harmonious course of a married life, which death has unhappily disturbed. It is not the Queen, but the woman, who has written this jou.rnal; which contains, in fact, little of incident that differs essentially from what might have been the experiences of any other English lady of rank and fortune, peeress or commoner, possessing an estate and mansion in Scotland} and frequently visiting the places and friends within reacn of her summer abode, in company with her wedded lord. The tone and style of her writings are so natural, so homely and unaffected, with only that native elegance which is the unconscious charm of a refined min~, that we are led to forget who is the personage here communicating to us with such agreeable frankness her own thoughts and feelings. It is easy for the reader of this volnme to believe, as he may have heard from others that our Queen possesaes, in a high degree, that queenly and ladylike accomplishment, the art of putting at their ease all those admitted to her presence, which is the test and triumph of the finest culture. She does this so perfectly in the case before us for all the readers of her Journal, that they will scarcely think of her illustrious political and social station while they peruse the simple annals of her Highland home. Yet there is one great remlimbrance which never fades out of vie'!l as it haunts unceasingly the womanly heart of the Royal widow. The spirit of conjugal love breathes in every page 
of the volume. "To the dear memory of him who made the life of the writer bright and happy, these simple record! are lovingly and gratefully inscribed" We trust that there are few Englishmen or Englishwomen likely to read this dedication who will not feel a thrill of emotion inspired by its touching words. Above every monument that sculptors and architects can erect, beyond the widest contemporary or posthumoU!l laudation, it is the blessed privilege of the departed to have merited this tender recollection in the constant mind of one so bound to him by love and duty. 
It is to Mr. Arthur Helps, the essayist and histOrian, who is clerk of the Privy Council, that the public owes the sight of this book. He tells us, in his preface, that, during one of his official 'visits to Balmoral, the Queen very kindly allowed him to see several extracts from her journal, relating to excursions in the Highlands; and, when he told her that he found them very interesting, it occurred to her Majesty that they might be printed privately, for presentation to members of the Royal family and to her own intimate friends, espe­cially to those who had accompanied and attended her in these tours. Some persong, among them a "near and dear relative of the Queen," then suggested the publication of tile J'Ul.rnal. The Qneen, however, said that she had no skill whatever in aut horship; that these were, for the most part, mel'e homely acconnts of excursions near home; and that she felt extremely reluctant to publish any­thing written by herself. Mr. Helps replied that it was to be feared that, however careful the selection of persons to whom a limit.ed number of copies should he given, some portions of the Journal, or incorrect representations of its contents, might find their way into the newspapers. He assnred the Queen, moreover, that her subjects, who had always shown a sincere and 
., "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life ,in the Highlands from 18t8 to 1861. To which are prefixed Rnd added Extracts from the same Journal 
giving an Account of Earlier Visit. to Scotland, and 'lOurs In England
and IrelandJ,and Yachting Exourslons." Edited by Arthur Helps. ilmith' Elder, and \,iQ. 
ready sympathy with her personal joys and sorrows, would be much gratified if thev were allowed to know "how her rare moments of leisure were passed in her Highland home, when every joy was heightened and every care and sorrow diminished by the loving com­panionship of the Prince Consort." With his memory the scenes to which this volume refers would always be associated. Upon these considerations her Majesty consented to its publication. 
The principal part of the contents, entitlel "Life in the Highlands, 1848 to 1861," consists of records of some of the days passed by thE! Queen and Prince at Balmoral, in the months of August, September, and October, or parts of those months, in the years 1848, 1849, 1850, 1852, and succeeding years till October, 1861; the death of the Prince, at Windsor, taking place in December of the year last· named. Mixed with these records are the narratives of varions excursions, hunting parties in the forests, exploring parties in the Grampians, local meetings and festivities, and short expeditions, in which they tried to conceal their rank and to travel as ordinary tourists, lodging at the country inns for two or three days, and returning afterwards to Balmoral. Prefixed to this main portion of the book, which is designated by its title, "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," are the Queen's accounts of her first visit to Scotland, in August and September1842, when she, with her husband, went in the Royal George yacht from Woolwich to Edinburgh, stayed with the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith, and afterwards at Dunkeld with Lord Glenlyon; with Lord Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle, Loch Tay i and at Drummond Castle with Lord Willonghby; their seCOn<1 voyage, in 1844, from the Thames to Dundee, with a fortnight's stay at BIair Athol; and their third Scottish tour, in 18,7, which occupied altogether nearly six weeks, starting in the "Victoria and Albert" from Osborne, touching at Dartmouth, the Scilly Isles, Milford Haven, the Menai Straits, the Isle of Man, and the Firth of Clyde; going up Loch Fyne to visit the Duke of Argyll, at Inverary; thence, by the Crinan Canal, passing out into the Western Archi­pelago, and l,'oking at Staffa and Iona; viSiting Fort William, near the entrance of the Caledonian Canal, and the Marquis of Abercorn's honse at Ardverikie; returning in the Royal yacht to Fleetwood, North Lancashire, and thence by railway to London. Scotland, at any rate, must be flattered by engaging so large a share of her Majesty's attention, though it is not for the inhabitants of the me­tropolis to complain, having the Court amongst them on all important occasions. Mr. Helps suggested, we think very properly, while tins book was being printed, that it would gain in interest if other extracts were added to it describing some of the Royal progresses in England, Ireland, and the Channel Islands; to which the Queen was pleased to assent. We are glad this was done; and we could have wished, for the sake of peace and goodwill and loyalty in Ireland towards the British Crown, that more frequent and prolonged visits to that country had been ,placed on record. It is doubtful if the late Prince Consort, as a German by birth and education, was ever able to understand the temperament of the Irish race, or the degree in which the political problem of reconciliug that sensitive people to their English fellow-citizens might be ren­dered less difficult by a cordial exercise of personal influence. The people of Scotland, who are, though not less affectionate a~d enthu­siastic, far leES dependent on the visible presence of Royalty for cherishing their attachment to the Sovereign, have seen the beloved representatives of the national monarchy every year going frankly amongst them. No judicious observer of human nature can doubt that such opportunities of welcoming a great public personage with demonstrations of loyalty have a reflex action on the sentiments and 

imaginations of the multitude. It may, perhaps, be reserved for the Prince of Wales to make himself, and the crown he shall inherit, as popular in the neighbouring island as in Great Britain; but there is no time to' be lost. The first time that his parents went to Ireland was in August, 1849, the year after Mr. Smith O'Brien's rebellion and the battle of Ballingarry They spent but ten days altogether, at Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, thence crossing over to the Clyde, and visiting Glasgow, on their way to Balmoral. The Queen admired the picturesque scenery of the (Jove of Cork, as well as that of the Wicklow Mountains, and of Dublin Bay; she admired" the remarkable beauty of the women, with their dark eyes and hair, and euch fine teeth;" she says the reception of herself and the Prince was" most enthusiastic," that "everi thing went off to perfection, and was very well arranged;" and that the crowd was' noisy, excitable, but very good·hnmoured," This was in the streets of Cork. At Dublin, which she thought a very fine city, with noble buildings, she was greeted by the loyal acclamations of immense crowds of people, who were, she says, extremely well­behaved. Her Majesty here observes:­
" It was a wonderful and striking scene; such masses of human beings, so enthusiastic, so excited, yet with perfect order main­tained; then the numbers of troops, the different bands stationed at certain distanceshthe waving of hats and handkerchiefs, the bursts of welcome whic rent the air-all made it a never·to ·be-forgott~n scene, when one reflected how lately the country had been in open revolt and under martial law." 
At Belfast, a town of unimpeachable fidelity, the Queen has only to remark, in this connection, that her reception was" very hearty," but that the people of Belfast seemed "a mixture of nations," and "the female beauty," which pleased her so much at Cork, "had almost disappeared." Whatever the Orangemen of Ulster may say to this, we hope the gallantry and gratitude of the southern pro­vinces w.ill appreciate so high a compliment to their bewitching danghters. Fenianism should be at a discount in the gay city of Cork, from the publication ef this Royal Journal. It is evident that her Majesty was deeply impressed with the exnberant demonstra­tions of loyalty and personal attachment she met with at Dublin, though she suffered much from the heat and dust in the streets, and from the fatigue of an inordinate nnmber of presentations, 2000 at the Levee, and 1600 ladies at the Drawingroom. The relaxing climate and warm moist air of the south of Ireland did not suit her, and her voyage up St. George's Channel was one of much discom­fort. Nevertheless, and in spite of the uncouth appearance of the poor Irish folk, with their ragged coats and cloaks (which, she hinted, they might do well to mend), she bears a true good-will to them and their conntry, which she visited once more, in 1861, to see the Lakes of Killarney. The brief notice of this last tour in Ireland brings to an end the third and concluding division of the volume; which comprises, also, the chronicle of two yachting excursions down the British Channel in Augnst and September, 1846. The Queen, on this occasion, started from Osborne, and viewed several places on the south coast of Devonshire, Sidmouth, Babbicombe, Torbay, Dartmouth, and Plymouth j she stayed at Mount Edgcumbe with the Earl and Countess, and went up the Tamar j she then crossed the Channel to Guernsey, but returned to Osborne, with characteristic punctuality, on purpose to hold a council appointed for Aug. 29' and a day or two after she steamed over again to Jersey, to compiete the tour of her Norman isles, finally visiting the Cornish ~hores, Falmouth, Penzance, St. Michael's Mount, the Lizard, and the Land's End. We are greatly pleased with her narrative of these enterprising trips, which are still remembered with uudiminished pride and pleasure by the good people of the West. It would have bestowed no less gratification on the inhabitants of other part,s of the country which have been favoured at some time with the presence of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, had she thought fit to print those pages of her diary where they are mentioned. Her 'Visit to Manchester, for exam-pie, in 1852, and her impressions at the sight of that great seat of manufacturing industry, and of the 60,000 Sunday-school children assembled to greet her in Peel Park, Salford, all joining in the National Anthem, might have furnished an inte­resting chapter. Nor can we refrain from observing, with regard to Osborne House, where, she tells us, as well as at Balmoral, all the building, laying out, and planting, are of Prince Albert's own design and creation, and stamped with the mark of his fine taste and skill, that we should have been glad, if it were not inconsistent with the strict privacy always maintained in her marine residence, to have learnt what particular features in its situation or structure were those chiefly valued by its Royal owners, and in which the traces of his invention were most apparent. It is probable, however, that this omission may be supplied in the forthcominl? volumes of his biogra.phy r and we are too thankful for the Queen s condescension, in publishing so much as Ihe has given us, to complain of anything deficient. Mr. Helps and Mr. Theodere Martin, the accomplished 
men to whom she intrusts these literary materials, will certainly 
give her the best advice in the interest of the illustrions author and 
her family, as well as of us, her readers. Their judgment is beyond 
dispute in matters of that kind. 
It seems to be scarcely worth while for us to examine this book 
as we might treat an ordinary journal of travel and residence in 
Scotland; or to follow the steps of the Royal pair, through 
all their journ'eys from place to place, and in their little 
excursions from Deeside, quoting the remarks of her Majesty 
upon obj ects which are quite familiar to thousands of our 
countrymen. The topography of the Highlands is so well 
known, and the itinerary differs so little for the majority of tourists 
in search of all the most picturesque and romantic scenes, that a 
mere collection of descriptive extracts wonld appear to lack the merit 
of originality; thongh we are struck with the freshness, the ardour, 
the sincere and unaffected capability of enjoyment the accurate ob­
servation, and the refined sense of natural beauty and sublimity which 
are displayed as qualities of the Queen's mind. We earnestly hope 
that neitherthe forlornness of her widowhood nor the weight of pnblic 
cares, nor the futnre approach of a less vigorons age in her individual 
life, may ever deprive her of the faculty of enjoying these pare and 
noble pleasures, though no longer shared by him whose name she 
repeats incessantly in the loved haunts of their Highland abode, Ifshe 
were no more to us than the hnmblest and obscurest of her conntry­
women, we could not peruse this chronicle of her private days 
withont feeling a conviction that she is one who deserves to be happy­
one whom those nearest her ought to love and honour. Cha­
racter, in whatever station, when mature and consistent like hers, 
will not be concealed. There can be no mistake in onr estimate 
of the qualities of a mind thus expressing itself in the unstudied 
style of scattered memoranda dnring twenty years. And though 
no writings, pnblic or private, were ever more free than th) 
present from the least tinge of self-consciorumess, of affectation, 
or parade of sentiment, we can find throughout the Queen's 
journal what she never intended it should exhibit-the tokens 
of a gentle and generous disposition-of candour, patience, and 
cheerfulnesa, of the utmost constancy in her affections, and of 
the kindest consideration for others. The internal evidence for this 
opinion contained in the book now submitted to our criticism is 
beyond comparison more precious than her remarks npon the Scottish 
mountains, lochs, and rivers; or than such trivial particulars of the 
household or of the road as may be found eqnally notable in the 
experience of other visitors to the Highlands. 
One portion of the subject here referred 'to is that which Mr Helps, 
a true and wise moralist-as proved by his "Friends in Council" 
and" Companions of my Solitude"-has pointed out in his preface. 
He calls our attention especially to "the willingness to be pleased, 
and also the exceeding kindliness of feeling-the gratitude, even­
with which the Royal tourists recognise any attention paid to them, 
or any manifestation of the cordial attachment felt towards them, 
by any of her Majesty's snbjects, from the highest to the humblest, 
whom they happen to meet with in the course of their journeys.", 
The proofs of this assertion lie scattered in every page of the book. 
The following instances, taken at random, will be sufficient :­
H At ten minutes past eight we arrived at Granton Pier, where we 
were met by the Duke of Buccleuch, Sir Robert Peel, and others. 
They came on board to see us, and Sir Robert told us that the people 
were all in the highest good humour, though naturally a little dis­
appointed at having waited for us yesterday. We then stepped over 
a gangway on to the pier, the people cheering, and t.he Duke saying 
that he begged to be allowed to welcome us. Our ladies and 
gentlemen had landed before us, safe and well." 
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" The enthusiasm was very great, and the people very friendly and kind. The Royal Archers Bodyguard met us and walked with us the whole way through the town. It is composed entirely of noble­men and gentlemen, and they all walked close by the carriage, but were dreadfully pushed about. Amongst them were the Duke of Roxburghe and Lord ELcho on my side; and SirJ. Hope on Albert's side. Lord Elcho (whom I did not know at the time) pointed out the various monuments and places to me as we came along." 
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"The Duchess of Buccleuch arrived directly after us, and we were shown up a very handsome staircase to our rooms, which are very comfortable. We both felt dreadfully tired and giddy. At eight we dined-a large party. Everybody was very kind and civil, and full of inquiries as to our voyage." 
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.. The Duke and Dnchess of Buccleuch, Lady J. Scott, the Emlyns Lord Cawdor} and Lady M. Campbell came on board with us, and we then tOOK leave of them. We both thanked the Duke and Duchesa for their extreme kindness, attention, and hospitality to us, which really were very great-indeed, we had felt ourselves quite at home at Dalkeith." 
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"Dnnkeld is beautifully situated in a narrow valley on the banks of the Tay. We drove in to where the Highlanders were all drawn up, in the midst of their encampments, and where a tent was pre­pared for us to lunch in. Poor Lord Glenlyon received us ; but he had suddenly become totally blind, which is dreadful for him. He was led about by his wife; it was very melancholy. His blindness was caused by over-fatigue. The Dowager Lady Glenlyon, the Mansfields, Kinnoulls, Buccleuchs, and many others, were there. 
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"Blair Athole is only four or five miles from the Killiecrankie Pass. Lord Glenlyon has had a new approach made. The house is a large, plain white building, sU1TOunded by high hills, which one can see from the windows. Lord and Lady Glelllyon, with their little boy, received us at the door, and showed 'us to our rooms, and then left 
us." 
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.. At a quarter past eight o'clock we started, and were very, very sorry to leave Blair and the dear Highlands 1 Every little trifle and every spot I had become attached to; our life of quiet and liberty, everything was so pleasant, and all the Highlanders and people who went , with us I had got to like so much. Oh 1 the dear hills, it made me very sad to leave them behind 1 
.. I rode back on • Arghait Bhean' for the last time, and took a sad leave of him and of faithful Sandy M'Ara. We set off again, and to our astonishment Lord Glenlyon insisted upon riding on with us to Dundee, which is fifty miles from Blair 1 Captain J . Murrayalso rode with us from Dunkeld. It made me feel sad to see the country becoming flatter and flatter. 
.. We took leave of Lord Glenlyon with real regret, and he seemed auite unhappy at our going. No one could be more zealous or Kinder than he was." 
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.. We reached Dalmeny, Lord Rosebery's, at two o'clock. The park is beautiful, with the trees growing down to the sea. It com­mands a very fine view of the Forth, the Isle of May, the Bass Rock; and of Edinburgh; but the mist rendered it almost impossible to see anything. The grounds are very extensive, being hill and dale and wood. The honse is quit"e modern. Lord Roseberv built it, and it is very pretty and comfortable. Wc lunched there. The Roseberys were all civility and attention. We left them about half'past three, and proceeded home through Leith." 
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•• Our reception (at Inverary) was in the true Highland fashion. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll (dear Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower), the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Stafford, Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, and the Blantyres received us at the landing-place, which was all ornamented with heather. The Celtic Society, including Campbell of Islay, his two sons (one grown up and the other a very pretty little boy), with a number of his ?len, and several other Campbells, were all drawn up near to the carnage. 
.. Both now, and the time before when we were in Loch Ryan, Lord Orkney very civilly sent us game and all sorts of things." The following are extracts from the account of a second visit to Blair Athole, in October, 1861 :­
11 We drove through an a.venue, and in a few minutes more were at tbe door of the old castle. ' Athousa.nd recollections of seventeen years a.go crowded upon me-all eeemed eo falUiliar again I No one 
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there except the dear Duchess, who stood at the door, and whom I warmly embraced; and Miss MacG:regor. How w~ll I rec~gnised the hall with all the sporting trophles; and the staIrcase whlch we went up at once. The Duchess took us to a room, which I recognised immediately as the one where Lady Canning lived. There we took off our things-then went to look at the old and really very handsome rooms in which we had lived-the one in which Vicky had slept in two chairs, then not four years old I In the dining-room we took some coffee, which was most welcome; and then we looked at all the stags' horns put up in one of the corridors below; saw the Duke's pet dog, a smooth-haired black terrier, very fat; and then got into the carriage, a very peculiar one-viz., a boat-a mere boat (which is very light), put ' on four wheels, drawn by a pair of horses with a postilion. Into this we four got, with the Duke and Duchess and the dog; Lady Churchill, General Grey, and Miss MacGregor going in another carriage; with our two servants on the box, to whom all this was quite new and a great treat. The morning was beautiful. 
"Forest Lodge is eight miles from Blair. There we took leave of the dear Duchess; and saw old Peter Fraser, t'ae former head keeper there, now walking with the aid of two sticks I The Duke's keepers were there, his pipers, and a gentleman staying on a visit with him. It was barely two o'clock when we started. We on our ponies, the Duke and his men (twelve altogether) on foot. Sandy M'Ara, now head keeper, grown old and grey, and two pipers, pre­ceded us; the two latter playing alternately the whole time, which had a most cheerful effect. The wild strains sounded so softly amid those noble hills; and our caravan winding along, our people and the Duke's all in kilts, and the ponies, made altogether a most pic­turesque scene. One of the Duke's keepers, Donald Macbeath, IS a Guardsman, and was in the Crimea. He is a celebrated marksman, and a fine·looking man, as all the Duke's men are." 
In revisiting Taymouth Castle, as lately as 1866, the Queen's ieelingB are thus described:­
" We got out and looked from this height down upon the house below, the mist having cleared away sufficiently to show us every­thing; :md then, unknown, quite in private, I gazed-not without deep emotion-on the scene of our reception twenty-four years ago, by dear Lord Breadalbane, in a princely style, not to be equalled in grandeur andloetic effect. Albert and I were then only twenty· three, voung an happy. How many are gone that were with us then I· I was very thankful to have 5een it again. It seemed unaltered." 
Mr. Helps is certainly justified in his remark, that "it is evident her Majesty never takes for granted the services and attentions which are rendered to her, and which, as we all know, would be rendered to her from dutiful respect and regard, but "iews them as especial kindnesses shown to herself, and to which she makes no claim whatever from her exalted position as a Sovereign." It would be hard to find a better definition of the sweet virtue of true con­descension-the grace not only of kings and queen~, but of real gentlemen and ladies j without which the most exquisite professor of conventional politeness, the man of serenest presence and softest manner, is more disagreeable than a ~ood-natured, clumsy boor. But this virtue, with the august lady In question, is not a mere external grace, one of the winning arts of Royalty; nor is it a mere social accomplishment; it comes, as we may see, from the candour and generosity of her nature, delighting to abandon the vantage-gronnd of rank, and to put herself on an equal footing with other human creatures. She feels, we are persuaded she does, that there 
i. something higher in simple humanity, when the intercourse between persons of different condition is ennobled by veracity and charity, than in the artificial distinctions and claims of the proudest Court. It is for this reason, and from her moral superiority to the prejudices and false standards of the world, that she owns, in the most decided language, her warm personal regard for any honest poor man or woman, a peasant, a handmaid, or a groom, whom sbe has found upright and faithful. We have no means of testing the degree in which these frequent praises of her menial servauts and of the rustic villagers around Balmoral Castle are reaUy deserved by them. It is possible, of course, that the Queen, as well as other great ladie~, may in some particular case have been deceived br hypocritical eye-service and by an artful study of her favounte ideas. But, supposing that it were so, and that one or two of the persons, mentioned so kindly in the notes to this volume, were in any way unworthy of her approval, we should not the less admire the motives of her conduct towards them-the genuine liberality, uniting bounty with justice, which prompts her to say what she thinks may be truth­fully said in behalf of those whose low position might otherwise deprive them of due honour. As the owner of estates and the mistress of a great household, she feels bound, we presume, to set 
this example of recognising every instance of personal fidelity, and expressing a lively interest in the welfare of all her dependents. The patl'im-chal feeling, Mr. Helps observes, is peculiarly strong in the mind of Queen Victoria. "Perhaps 'there is no persoD. in these realms who feels more keenly what are the reciprocal duties of masters and servants; nor does anyone wieh more ardently that there should be no abrupt severance of cl_ass from class, but rather a gradual blending together of all classes-caused by a full com­munity of interests, a constant interchange of good offices, and a kindly respect felt and expressed by each cla~s to all its brethren in the great brotherhood that forms a nation." 
It is extraordinary, indeed-we might look far among the house­holds of the upper and middle classes of English society for another Bnch example of personal care and attention-how minutely and exactly the Queen is informed of whatever concerns the happiness of her numerous domestic servants, and of the poorest of her neigh­bours at Balmoml. Here is Renwick, the sergeant footman, who carried little" Vicky" in his arms in 1844 j "a native of Galashiels, and a very good servant, promoted to Gentleman Porter in 1854, and now pensioned." Here is Charlie Christie, the Highlander who danced the sword-dance at Dunkeld, twenty-tbree years ago, and who is "now steward to the present Dowager Duchess of Athol." Here is Lawley, the Prince's Jitger, or huntsman, whose health obliged him to give up that post in 1848, when he was appointed a Page, but died in November, 1865. Here is Macdonald, another Jitger "who came from Fort Augustns in the West; he was remarkably tall and handsome. This poor man died of consumption at Windsor, in May, 1860. His eldest Bon was Attache to the British Legation in Japan; he died in 1866. The third son, is Jitger to the Prince of Wales, and was for a year with the beloved Prince." Here is Grant, the head keeper; of whom the Queen tells us he was born at Braemar, in 1810; served Sir R. Gordon twenty years, nine as keeper; and is "an excellent man, most trustworthy, of sing,ular shrewdness and discretion, and most devotedly attached to the Prince and myself. He has a fine intelligent countenance. 
The Prince was very fond of him." So she goes on to say that Mr. Grant has" six sons, all good, well-disposed lads, getting on well in their different occupations; the second, Alick, is wardrobe-man to our son Leopold j" and we are further told how the head keeper's mother, "a fine, hale old woman of eighty years, lives in a small cottage which the Prince built for her in the village. He himself lives in a p'retty lodge called Croft, a mile from Balmoral, which the Prince bUIlt for him." The Queen also mentions -Blltterbnry, "a groom (now dead some ,.ears) who followed me in his ordinary dress with thin boots and l!aits"" and seemed anything but happy. He was replaced by a gillie." She has al!ood word for everyone who has served her faithfully, but espeCIally for everyone who "was much liked by the Prince." " An excellent man," "a very respect­able, good man," such are the phrases she applies to them. Among others, she speaks thus of Mr. John Brown :­
"The same who, in 1858, became my regular attendant out of doors everywhere in the Highlands j who commenced as gillie in 1849 and was selected by Albert and me to go with my carriage. In 185i he entered our service permanently, and began in that year leading my pony, and advanced step by step by his good conduct and intelli. gence. His attention, care, and faithfulness cannot be exceeded' and the state of my health, which of _late years has been sorely tried and weakened, renders such quahficatLOns most valuable, and, indeed most needful in a constant attendant upon all occasions. He ha~ eince, most deservedly, been promoted to be an upper servant and my permanent personal attendant. (December, 1865.) He has all the mdependence and elevated feelings peculiar to the Highland race, and is singularly straightforward, simple-minded, kind-hearted, and disinterested; always ready to oblige, and of a discretion rarely to be met with. He is now in his fortieth year. His father was a small farmer, who lived at the Bush, on the opposite side to Balmoral. He is the second son of nine brothers-three of whom have died; two are in Australia and New Zealand, two are living in the neigh­bourhood of Balmoral, and the youngest, Archie (Archibald), is valet to our son Leopold, and is an excellent, trustworthy young man." 
In the same manner the Queen speaks of Duncnn, one of the keepers since 1851. " An excellent, intelligent man, much liked by the Prince. He, like many others, spit , blood running the race up that steep hill in this short space of time, and he has never been so strong since. The running up hill has in consequence been dis· continued. He lives in a cottage at the back of Craig Gowan (com­manding a beautiful view) called Robrecb, which the Prince built for him." The Queen's coachman, Mr. Wagland has held that office since 1857, and "is a good, zealous servant. He entered the Royal service in 1831, and rode as postilion for seventeen years. His father has been thirty-two years porter in the Royal Mews in Windsor, and is now seventy-five years old, and has been sixty years in the service. His granafather was also.in the Royal service, having entered it in 1788, and his daughter is nursery-maid to the Prince of Wales's children. Four generations, therefore../. have served the Royal family." Of Lohlein, valet to the late !'rince Consort, her Majesty says :-" This faithful and trusty valet nursed his dear master most devotedly through his sad illness in December, 1861, and is now always with me as my personal groom of the chambers or valet. I gave him a house near Windsor Castle, where he resides when the Court are there. He is a native of Coburg. His father has been f01' fifty years fOrster at Fiilbach, close to Coburg." 
We may here quote a remark made by Mr. Helps, whose official position has given him the best opportunities of knowing the fact :­
"Those whose duty it has been to attend upon the Queen in matters of business must have noticed that her Majesty, as a person well versed in the conduct of affairs, is wont to keep closely to the point at issue, and to speak of nothing but what 'is directly con­nected with the matter before her. But whenever there is an ex­ception to this rule, it arises from her Majesty's anxions desire to 
'make some inquiry about the welfare of her subjects-to express her sympathy with this man's sorrow, or on that man's bereave­ment-to ask what is the latest intelligence about this disaster or that suffering, and what can be done to remedy or assuage-thus showing unceasingly, that she is indeed the mother of her people, taking the deepest interest in all that concerns them, without respect of persons, from the highest to the lowest." 
Many little anecdotes show the kindly behaviour of the Queen and Prince to their personal attendants, whose own conduct, being diligent and respectful without servility, appears d~serving of the confidence she puts in them. Such men are no "flunkeys," how· ever employed; and the i:noffensive freedom of thought, expressed in one or two of their sayings, reveals the true liberality of thei!' Royal master and mistress :­
" Albert left me to go after ptarmigan, and went on with Grant, while the others remained with me, taking the greatest care of me. Macdonald is a good, honest man, and was indefatigable ; and poor Batterbury was very anxious also. ' 
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" I and Alice rode part of the way, walking wherever it was very steep, Albert and Bertie walked the whole time. I had a little whisky-and-water, as the people declared pure water would be too chilling. We then rode on without getting off again, Albert talking so gaily with Grant j upon which Brown observed to me, in simple Higbland phrase, ' It's very pleasant to walk with a person who is always "content."' Yesterday, in speaking of dearest Albert's sport, when I observed he never was cross after bad luck, Brown said, 'Everyone on the estate says there never was so kind a master. I am sure our only wish is to give satisfaction.' I said they certainly did. 
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" Albert saw some deer when we had been out about three quarters of an hour, and ran off to stalk them, while I rested; but he arrived just a minute too late. He waited for me on the other side of a stony little bum, which I crossed on my pony, after our faithful Highlanders had moved some stones and made it easier. We then went on a little way, and I got off and walked a bit, and afterwards remounted j Macdonald leading my pony. 
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"Albert felt certain he had hit astag. He ran upto the keepers, and at that moment they called from below that they' had got him,' and Albert ran on to see. I waited for a bit j but soon scrambled'on with Bertie a.od Macdonald's help; and Albert joined me directly, and we all went down and saw a magnificent stag, ' a Royal,' which had dropped, soon after Albert had hit him, at oneof the men's feet. The sport was successful, and everyone was delighted-Macdonald and the keepers in particnlar,-the former saying • that it was her Majesty's coming out that had brought the good luck.' 
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"The Duke offered to lead the pony on one side, and talked of Sandy for the other side; but I asked for Brown (whom I have far the most confidence in) to lead the pony, the Duke taking hold of it (as he did frequently) on the other side. Sandy M'Ara, the guide and the two pipers went first, playing all the time. To all appear: ance ~h~ ford of the Tarff was not d~eper than the other fords; but, once m It the men were above their knees; and suddenly in the middle, where the current, from the fine high full falls, is very strong it was nearly up to the men's waists. Here Sandy returned, and I said to the Duke (which he afterwards joked with Sandy about) that I thought he (Sandy) had better take the Duke's place; he did so and we came very well through, all the others following, the 'men chiefly wading-Albert (close behind me) and the others riding through, *and some of *our people c2ming over 10uble on th<;;. ponies." 
"Wethen cametoa place which is alwayswet,'but which was par­ticulary bad after the late raiu and snow. There was no pony for me to get on; and, as I wished not to get my feet wet by walking through the long grass, Albert proposed I should be carried over in a plaid, aud Lenchen was first carried over; but it was held too low and her feet dangled; so Albert suggested the plaid should be put round the men's shoulders, _and that I should sit upon it. Brown and Duncan, the two strongest and handiest, were the two who undertook it, and I sat safely enough with an arm on each man's shoulder, and was carried liuccesRfully over. All the Highlanders are so amusing, and really pleasaut -and instructive to talk to­women as well as men-and the latter so gentlemanlike." 
The Queen thus relates her visits to some of the poor folk near 

Balmoral:­" Albert went out with Alfred for the day, and I walked out with the two girls and Lady Churchill, stopped at the shop and made Bome purchases for poor people and others, drove a little way got out, and walked up the hill to Balnacroft, Mrs. P. Farquhars~n's and she walked round with us to some of the poor cottages to sho"; me where the poor people lived, and to tell them who I was. Befor~ we went into any we met an old woman, who, Mrs. Farquharson said, was very poor, eighty·eir;ht years old, and mother to the former distiller. I gave her a warm petticoat, and the tears rolled dOWll her old cheeks, and she shook my hands, and prayed God to bless me. It was very touching. , I went int? a small cabin of old Kitty Kear's, :who is eighty-six y~ar~ old-qUlte erect, and who welcomed us wlth a great air of dIgnIty. She sat down and spun. I gave her also a warm petticoat· she said, 'May the Lord ever attend ye and yours, her-e and here: after; and may the Lord be a guide to ye, and keep ye from all harm.' She was quite surprised at Vicky's height· great interest is ~~en in he_r. We went on to ~cottage (formerly Jean Gordon's) to VlBlt old WIdow Symon~, who IS 'past fourscore,' ~ith a nice rosy face, bu~ was bent qUIte dou~le; ehe was most fn~ndly, shaking hand;! wlth us all, askmg whIch was I, and repeatIng many kind blessIngs: 'May the Lord attend ye with mirth and with joy' may He ever be with ye in this world and when ye leave it.' To Vicky, 
when told she was going to be married, she said, 'May the Lord be a guide to ye in your future, and may every happiness attend ye. She was very talkative; and when I said I hoped to see her again, she expressed an expectation that 'she should be called any day," and so did Kitty Kear. 
"We went into three other cottages-to Mrs. Symons's (danghter­in-law to the old widow living next door), who had an 'unwell boy" then across a little burn to another old woman's; and afterwards peeped into Blair the fiddler's. We drove back, and got out again to visit old Mrs. Grant (Grant's mother), who is so tidy and clean, and to whom I gave a dress and handkerchief, and she said, 'You're too kind to me, you're over kind to me ; ye give me more every year, and I get older every year.' After talking some time with her, she said, 'I am happy to see ye looking so nice.' She had tears in lier eyes,~nd, speaking of Vicky's going, said, 'I'm very sorry, and I think she is sorry hersel' ; , -and, having said she feared she would not see her (the Princess) again, said, 'I am very sorry I said that, but I meant no harm; I always say just what I think, not what is fut' (fit). Dear old lady; she is such a pleasant person. 
"Really, the affection of these good people, who are so hearty and so happy to see you, taking interest in everything, is very touching and gratifying." 
It is very pleasant to see how endearingly the Royal mother always speaks of her children. The Prince of Wales is "Bertie," the Princess Royal " Vicky," and the Duke of Edinburgh " Affie j" besides whom Princess Alice and Princess Helena (" Lenchen," for this last name, being used as the German diminutive) are frequently mentioned in the later portions of the Journal. 
In 1846, when yachting in the Channel, the Queen says, "I never saw our good children looking better, or in Ii.igher spirits. I tried to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history." At another period we are told how" poor Vicky," then twelve years old, sat upon a wasp's nest and was much stung; and her mother, who was sketching close by, says, "Donald Stuart rescued her, for I could not, being myself too much alarmed." The following entry, dated Sept. 29, 1855, will be interesting to readers at Berlin, where the charming affability and active charity of our Queen's eldest daughter have gj!,ined her a host of friends :-" Our dear Victoria was this day engaged to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, who had been on a visit to us since the 14th. He had already spoken to us, on the 20th, of his wishes j but we were uncertain, on account of her extreme youth, whether he should speak to her himself or wait till he came back again. However, we felt it was better he should do so; and, during our ride up Craig-na-Ban, this afternoon, he picked a piece of white heather (the emblem of 'good luck '), which he gave to her; 'and this enabled him to make an allusion to his hopes and wishes, as they rode down Glen Girnoch, which led to this happy conclusion." 
The Quee!!, like a true woman, is fond of other children, IIij weIl as her own j she often speaks of "our little friends," the children of her neighbours at Balmoral, of the tenants, farm servants, and keepers j little " Mary Symons," and " Lizzie Stuart," and "the four Grants," being sometimes invited to a dance. The children of the noble and gentle families visited by her Majesty, as well as Mr. Farquharson's and Dr. Robcrtson's, are noticed with equal interest. At Inverary, for example, in 1847, she is especially pleased wi~h the Duke of Argyll's eldest son :-" Outside stood the Marquis of Lorne, just two years old, a dear, white, fat, fair, little fellow, with reddish hair, but very delicate features, like both his father and mother; he is such a merry, independent little child. He had a black velvet dress and jacket, with a 'sporran,' scarf, and Highland bonnet." 
By this time, we hope, our readers have formed a pretty fair con­ception of the estimable lady who reigns over us. It is gratifying to know so I::lUch of her private tastes and habits; that she is fond of Sir Walter Scott's poetry and novels; that she has been interested by the biography of the Rev. Frederick Robertson, of Brighton j and that she knows and likes the poems of the late Arthur Hugh Clough. We are much pleased with the little sketches of scenery and'costume, done by her own pencil, engraved here and there in the margin of this volume. Our rubbers of whist, too, will not be less enjoyed since we have been told of the rubbers played by the Royal couple with Lady Douro, or some other lady, and a dummy, in the long evenings at Balmoral. Her Majesty's favourite preachers and clergy­men are likewise popular with an increasing number of Scottish and English belieTers in sound, practical Christianity, equally remote from the fopperies of Ritualism, the severities of asceticism, and the fantasies of Calvinistic theology. The sermon by the Rev. Dr. Caird, published at the Queen's special request, under the title "Religion in Common Life," is well known, and we need not quote the notice of it in her journal. The following passage requires no comment :­
,. Oct. 29, 1854. 
" We went to kirk, as usual, at twelve o'clock. The service was performed by the Rev. Norman Macleod, of Glasgow, son of Dr. Macleod, and anything finer I never heard. The sermon, entirely extempore, was quite admirable-so simple aud yet so eloquent, and so beautifully argued and put. The text was from the account of the coming of Nicodemus to Christ by night, S~. John, chap. iil. Mr. Macleod showed in the sermon how we alt tried to please self, and live for that, and in so doing found no rest. Christ had come not only to die for us, but to show how we were to live. The second prayer was very touching; his allusions to us were so simple, saying, after his mention of us, 'bless their children.' It gave me a lump in my throat, as also when he prayed for 'the dying, the wounded, the widow, and the orphans.' Everyone eame back delighted; and how satisfactory it is to come back from church with such feelinO's I The servauts and the Highlanders-aZt-were equally delighted.'!' 
It is time, however, tbat we should bring this series of extract~ from the Queen's Journal to a close. Her remarks on the news of the death of the Dllke of Wellington, in 1852, and on that of the capture of Sebastopol, in 1855, show how profoundly she is im­pressed with the same emotions which affect the whole nation at the occurrence of such events. In the account of her visit tJ Ireland, which we have noticed, she takes the opportunity of com­mending the fidelity and efficiency of the Irish constabulary · and she expresses her approval of the Irish system of national educ~tion. "Children of all creeds are admitted, and their different doctrines are taught separately, if the parents wish it; but the only teaching enforced i_s ~hat of the Gospel truths, and love and charity. This is truly ChristIan, and ought to be the case everywhere." But the main subject of the book is one of private and personal interest-the resi­dence of the Royal couple at Balmoral Castle in the holiday season of each year. The Queen's attachment to that place may be understood. "Every year my heart becomes more fixed in this dear paradise, and so much more so now, that all has become my dearest Albert's own creation, own work, own building, own laying out, as at Osborne; and his great taste, and the impress of his dear hand have been stamped everywhere." It is for this reason, we conceive, as much as for the quiet, the ease and freedom, the absence of worldly pomp and bustle, the romantic scenery, and the pure, fresh, invigorating air, that she still feels, though she does not exclaim, "My heart's in the Highlands." Her Southron subjects 
will surely not grudge her the privilege of a Deeside holiday for six weeks in the year. They will rather be disposed to thank her for communicating to them so many agreeable particulars of her merry harmless, a!ld healthful recreations in the years w!'tich are past: How much Interest may be added to our next tour In Scotland, if we chance to pass that way, by the recollection of the amusing ad­ventures of the Queen and Prince in their incognito expeditions' when they called themselves" I,ord and Lady Churchill," or ,,~ weddingyarty from ~berdeen I" W:e ~aystop at the Ramsny ArmF, Fettercalrn, or the lUn at DalwhmUle, where, says her Majesty " unfortunately, there was hardly anything to eat, and there wa~ only nea and two miserable starved Highland chickens, without any potatoes I No pudding, and no fun ; no little maid (the two them not wishing to come in), uor our two people-who were wet and drying our and their things-to wait on us I It was not a nice supper' and the evening was wet. As it was late, we soon retired to rest.'l Ifever we, or any of our readers, lodge a night at Dalwhinnie, let u~ hope for better fare. But few travellers, in any country, bring a ~etter temper. May the remembrance of these little traits of private lIfe, common to every class, tend to augment the hearty affection of all her people-EnglIsh, Scottish, and Irish-towards their widowed 
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there except the dear Duchess, who stood at the door, and whom I warmly embraced; and Miss MacGregor. How well I recognised the hail with all the sporting trophies; and the staircase which we went up at once. The Duchess took us to a room, which I recognised immediately as the one where Lady Cauning lived. There we took off our things-then went to look at tbe old IInd really very handsome rooms in which we had lived-the one in which Vicky had slept in two chairs, then not four years old I In the dining-room we took some coffee, which was most welcome; and then we looked at all the stags' horn's put up in one of the corridors below; saw the Duke's. pet dog, a ~mooth-haired bla.ck terrier, very fat; and then got mto the carnage, a very peculiar one-viz., a boat-a mere boat !which is very light), put ' on four wheels, drawn by a pair of horses with a postilion. Into this we four got, with the Duke and Duchess and the dog; Lady Churchill, General Grey, and Miss MacGregor going in another carriage; with our two servants on the box, to whom all this was quite new and a great treat. The morning was beautiful. 
"Forest Lodge is eight miles from Blair. There we took leave of tbe dear Duchess; and saw old Peter Frassr, t'ae former head keeper there, now walking with the aid of two sticks I The Duke's keepers were there, his pipers, and a gentleman staying on a visit with him. It was barely two o'clock when we started. We on our ponies, the Duke and his men (twelve altogether) on foot. Sandy M'Ara, now head keeper, grown old and grey, and two pipers, pre­ceded U8; the two latter playing alternately the whole time, which had 11 most cheerful effect. The wild strains sounded so softly amid those noble hills; and our caravan winding along, our people a~d the Duke's all in kilts, and the ponies, made altogether a most PlC' turesque scene. One of the Duke's keepers, Donald Macbeatb, IS a Guardsman, and was in the Crimea. He is a celebrated marksman, and a fine· looking man, as all the Duke's men are." 
In revisiting Taymouth Castle, as lately as 1866, the Queen's ieelings are thus described:­
" We got out and looked from this height down upon the house below, the mist having cleared away sufficiently to show us every­thing; and then, unknown, quite in private, I gazed-not without deep emotion-on the scene of our reception twenty-four years ago, by dear Lord Breadalbane, in a priucely style, not to be equalled in grandeur andjOetic effect. Albert and I were then only twenty­three, voung an happy. How many are gone that were with us then I -I was very thankful to have ~een it again. It,seemed unaltered." 
Mr. Helps is certainly justified in his remark, that "it is evident her Majesty never takes for granted the services and attentions which are rendered to her, and which, as we all know, would be rendered to her from dutiful respect and regard, but "iews them as especial kindnesses shown to herself, and to which she makes no claim wbatever from her exalted position as a Sovereign." It would be hard to find a better definition of the sweet virtue of true con­descension-the grace not only of kings and queens, but of real gentlemen and ladies; without which the most exquisite professor of conventional politeness, the man of serenest presence and softest manner, is more disagreeable than a ~ood-natured, clumsy boor. But this virtue, with the august lady m question, is not a mere external grace, one of the winning arts of Royalty; nor is it a mere social accomplishment; it comes, as we may see, from the candour and generosity of her nature, delightiug to abandon the vantage-ground of rank, and to put herself on an equal footing with other human creatures. Sbe feels, we are persuaded she does, that there is something higher in simple humanity, when the intercourse between persons of different condition is ennobled by veracity and charity, than in the artificial distinctions and claims of the proudest Court. It is for this reason, and from her moral superiority to the prejUdices and false standards of the world, that she owns, in the most decided language, her warm personal regard for any honest poor man or woman, a peasant, a handmaid, or a groom, whom she has found upright and faithful. We have no means of testing the degree in which these frequent praises of her menial servants and of the rustic villagers around Balmoral Castle are really deserved by them. It is possible, of course, that the Queen, as well as other great ladie~, may in some particular case have been deceived br hypocritical eye-service and by an artful study of her favounte ideas. But, supposing that it were so, and that one 01' two of the persons, mentioned so kindly in tbe notes to this volume, were in any way unworthy of her approval, we should not the less admire the motives of her conduct towards them-the genuine liberality, nniting bounty with justice, which prompts her to say what she tbinks may be truth­fully said in behalf of those whose low position might otherwise deprive them of due honour. As the owner of estates and the mistress of a great household, she feels bound, we presume, to set this example of recognising every instance of personal fidelity, and 
expressing a lively interest in the welfare of all her dependents. The patl'im'cI!al feeling, Mr. Helps observes, is peculiarly strong in the mind of Queen Victoria. "Perhaps there is no persoR in these realms who feels more keenly what are the reciprocal duties of masters and servants; nor does anyone wi8h more ardently that there should be no abrupt severance of cl.ass from class, but rather a gradual blending together of all classes-cau£ed by a full com­munity of interests, a constant interchange of good offices, and a kindly respect felt and expressed by each claEs to all its brethren in the great brotherhood that forms a nation." 
It is extraordinary, indeed-we might look far among the house· holds of the upper and middle classes of English society for another snch example of personal care and atteution-how minutely and exactly the Queen is informed of whatever concerns the happiness of ber numerous domestic servauts, and of the poorest of her neigh­bours at Balmoral. Here is Renwick, the sergeaut footman, who carried little " Vicky" in his arms in 1844; "a native of Galashiels, and a very good servant, promoted to Gentleman Porter in 1854, and now pensioned." Here is Charlie Christie, the Highlander who danced the sword-dance at Dunkeld, twenty-three years ago, and who is "now steward to the present Dowager Duchess of Athol." Here is Lawley, the Prince's Jager, or huntsman, whose health obliged him to give up that post in 1848, when he was appointed a Page, but died in November, 1865. Here is Macdonald, another Jager, "who came from Fort Augustus in the West; he was remarkably tall aud handsome. This poor man died of consumption at Windsor, in May, 1860. His eldest son was Attache to the British Legation in Japan; he died in 1866. The third son, is Jiiger to the Prince of Walee, and was for a year with the beloved Prince." Here is Grant, the head keeper; of whom the Queen tells us he was born at Braemar, in 1810; served Sir R. Gordon twenty years, nine as keeper; and is "an excellent man, most trustworthy, of sing:ular shrewdness and discretion, and most devotedly attached to the Prince and myself. He has a fine intelligent countenance. The Prince was very fond of him." So she goes on to say that Mr. Grant bas" six Bons, all good, well-disposed lads, getting on well in 
their different occupations; the second, Alick, is wardrobe-man to our son Leopold ;" and we are further told how the head keeper's mother, "a fine, hale old woman of eighty years, lives in a small cottage which the Prince built for her in the village. He himself lives in a pretty lodge called Croft, a mile from Balmoral, which the Prince bUilt for him." The Queen also mentions' Batterbury, "a groom (now dead some years) who followed me in his ordinary dress with thin boots and gaiters, and seemed anything but happy. He was replaced by a gillie." She bas a ~ood word for everyone who has served her faithfully, but espeClally for everyone who "was mnch liked by the Prince." " An excellent man," "a very respect­able, good man," such are the phrases she applies to them. Among others, she speaks thus of Mr. John Brown:­
"The same who, in 1858, became my regular attendant out of doors everywhere in the Highlands; who commenced as gilliein 1849 and was selected by Albert and me to go with my carriage. In 185i he entered our service permanently, and began in that year leading my pony, and advanced step by step by his good conduct and intelli. gence. His attention, care, and faithfulness cannot be exceeded' and the state of my health, which of late years has been sorely tried and weakened, renders such qualifications most valuable, and, indeed 1Il0at needful in a constant attendant upon all occasions. He ha~ eince, most deservedly, been promoted to be an upper servant and 
my permanent personal attendant. (December, 1865.) He has all 
the mdependence and elevated feelings peculiar to the Highland 
race, and is singularly straightforward, simple-minded, kind-hearted, 
and disinterested ; always ready to ohlige, and of a discretion rarely 
to be met with. He is now in his fortieth year. His father was a 
small farmer, who lived at the Bush, on the opposite side to Balmoral. 
He is the second son of niue brothers-three of whom have died; 
two are in Australia and New Zealand, two are living in the neigh· 
bourhood of Balmoral, and the youngest, Archie (Archibald), is valet 
to our son Leopold, and is an excellent, trustworthy youug man." 
In the same manner the Queen speaks of Duncan, one of the 
keepers since 1851. "An excellent, intelligent man, much liked by 
the Prince. He, like many others, spit , blood running the race up 
that steep hill in this short space of time, "nd he has never heen so 
strong since. The running up hill has in consequence been dis­
continued. He lives in a cottage at the back of Craig Gowan (com­
manding a beautiful view) called Robrecb, which the Prince built 
for him." The Queeu's coachman, Mr. Wagland, has held that office 
since 1857, and" is a good, zealous servant. He entered the Royal 
service in 1831, and rode as postilion for seventeen years. His fatber 
has been thirty-two years porter in the Royal Mews in Windsor, and 
is now seventy-five years old, and has been sixty years in the 
service. His grandfather was also.in the Royal service, having 
entered it in 1788, and his daughter is nursery-maid to the Prince of 
Wales's · children. Four generations, therefore../. have served the 
Royal family." Of Loblein, valet to the late .l:'rince Cousort, her 
Majesty says :-" This faithful and trusty valet nursed his dear 
master most devotedly through his sad illness in December, 1861, 
and is now always with me as my personal groom of the chambers 
or valet. I gave him a house near Windsor Castle, where he resides 
when the Court are there. He is a native of Coburg. His father 
has been for fifty years forster at Fiilbach, close to Coburg." 
We may here quote a remark made by Mr. Helps, whose official 
position has given him the best opportunities of kuowing the 
fact :­
" Those whose duty it has been to attend upon the Queen in 
matters of business must have noticed that her Majesty, as a person 
well versed in the conduct of affairs, is wont to keep closely to the 
point at issue, and to speak of nothing but what "is directly con­
nected with the matter before her. But whenever there is an ex­
ception to this rule, it arises from her Majesty's anxious desire to 
'make some inquiry about the welfare of her subjects-to express 
her sympathy with this man's sorrow, or on that man's bereave­
ment-to ask what is the latest intelligence about this disaster or 
that suffering, and what can be done to remedy or assuage-thus 
showing, unceasingly, that she is indeed the mother of her people, 
taking the deepest interest in all that concerns them, without respect 
of persons, from the highest to the lowest." 
Many little anecdotes show the kindly behaviour of the Queen and 
I'rince to their personal attendants, whose own conduct, being 
diligent and respectful without servility, appears dGserving of the 
confidence she puts in them. Such men are no "flunkeys," how· 
ever employed; and the ip.offensive freedom of thought, expressed 
in one or two of their sayings, reveals the true liberality of their 
Royal master and mistress :­
" Albert left me to go after ptarmigan, and went on with Grant, 
while the others remained with me, taking the greatest care of me. 
Macdonald is a good, honest man, and was indefatigable ; and poor 
Batterbury was very anxious also. ' 
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" I and Alice rode part of the way, walking wherever it was very steep, Albert and Bertie walked the whole time. I had a little whisky-and-water, as the people declared pure water would be too chilling. We then rode on without getting off again, Albert talking so gaily with Grant; upon which Brown observed to me, in simple Highland phrase, ' It's very pleasant to walk with a person who is always" content.'" Yesterday, in speaking of dearest Albert's sport, when I oboerved he never was cross after bad luck, Brown said, 'Everyone on the estate says there never was so kind a master. I am sure our only wish is to give satisfaction.' I said they certainly did. 
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"Albert Eaw some deer when we had been out about three quarters of an hour, and ran off to stalk them, while I rested; but he arrived just a minute too late. He waited for me on the other side of a stony little burn, which I crossed on my pony, after our faithful Highlanders had moved some stones and made it easier. We then went on a little way, and I got off and wlllked a bit, and afterwards remounted ; Macdonald leading my pony. 
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"Albert felt certain he had hit astag. He ran up to the keepers, and at that moment tbey called from below that they ,' had got him,' and Albert ran on to see. I waited for a bit; but soon scrambled on with Bertie and Macdonald's help; and Albert joined me directly, and we all went down and saw a magnificent stag, , a Royal,' which had dropped, soon after Albert had hit him, at oneof the men's feet. The sport was successful, and everyone was delighted-Macdonald and the keepers in particnlar,-the former saying that it was her
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Majesty's comiug out that had brought the good luck.' 
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"The Duke offered to lead the pony on one side, and talked of Sandy for the other side; but I asked for Brown (whom I have far the most confidence in) to lead the pony, the Duke taking hold of it (as he did frequently) on the other side. Sandy M'Ara, the guide, and the two pipers went first, playing all the time. To all appear­ance ~h~ ford of the Tarff was not d~eper than the other fords; but, once m It, the men were above theIr knees; and suddenly in the middle, where the current, from the fine high full falls, is very strong it was nearly up to the men's waists. Here Sandy returned, and I said to the Duke (which he afterwards joked with Sandy about) that I thought he (Sandy) had better take tbe Duke's place; he did so, and we came very well througb, all the others following, tbe men chiefly wading-Albert (close behind me) and the others riding through,*and some of *our people c~ming over ~ouble on th; ponies." 
"We then came to a place which is always wet,'but which was par. ticulary bad after the late rain and snow. There was no pony for me to get on ; and, as I wished not to get my feet wet by walking through the long grass, Albert proposed I should be carried over in a plaid, and Lenchen was first carried over; but it was held too low, and her feet dangled; so Albert suggested the plaid should be put round the men's shoulders, .and that I should sit upon it. Brown and Duncan, the two strongest and handiest, were the two who undertook it, and I sat safely enough with an arm on each man's shoulder, and was carried succesRfully over. All the Highlanders are so amusing, and really pleasant ·and instructive to talk to­women as well as men-and the latter so gentlemanlike." 
The Queen thus relates her visits to some of the poor folk near Balmoral :,,­

" Albert went out with Alfred for the day, and I walked out with the two girls and Lady Churchill, stopped at the shop and made some purchases for poor people and others, drove a little way, got out, and walked up the hill to Balnacroft, Mrs. P. Farquharson's, and 5he walked round with us to some of the poor cottages to show me where the poor people lived, and to tell them who I was. Before we went into any we met an old woman, who, Mrs. Farquharson said, was very poor, eighty-ei,;ht years old, and mother to the former distiller. I gave her ,a warm petticoat, and the tears rolled dOWll her old cheeks, and she shook my hands, and prayed God to bless me. It was very touching. 
, I went into a small cabin of old Kitty Kear's, who is eighty-six y~ar~ old-quite erect, and who welcomed ns with a great air of dlgnlty. She sat down and spun. I gave her also a warm petticoat· she said, 'May the Lord ever attend ye and yours, her-e and here~ after; and may th~ Lord ?e a gui~e to ye, ~nd keep ye from all harm.' She was qillte surprlsed at Vlcky's helght; great interest is ~~en in he,r. We went on to ~ cottage (formerly Jean Gordon's) to ViSit old Wldow Symons, who IS 'past fourscore,' with a nice rosy face, but was bent quite double; ehe was most friendly, shaking hand;! with us all, asking which was I, and repeating many kind blessmgs: ' May the Lord attend ye with mirth and with joy; may He ever be with ye in this wor1d and when ye leave it.' To Vicky, when told she was going to be married, she said, 'May the Lord be a guide to ye in your future, and may every happiness attend ye. She was very talkative; and when I said I hoped to see her again, she expressed an expectation that 'she should be called any day," and so did Kitty Kear. 
"We went into three other cottages-to Mrs. Symons's (daughter­in·law to the old widow living next door), who had an 'unwell boy;' then across a little burn to another oid woman's; and afterwards peeped into Blair the fiddler's. We drove back, and got out again to visit old Mrs. Grant (Grant's mother), who is so tidy and clean, and to whom I gave a dress and handkerchief, and she said, 'You're too kind to me, you're over kind to me; ye give me more every year, and I get older every year.' After talking some time with her, she said, ' I am happy to see ye looking so nice.' She had tears in lier eyes,,!Ind, speaking of Vicky's going, said, 'I'm very sorry, and I think she is sorry hersel' ; , ,and, having said she feared she would not see her , (tbe Princess) again, said, ' I am very sorry I said that, but I meant no harm; I always say just what I think, not what is fut' (fit). Dear old lady; she is such a pleasant person. 
"Really, the affection of these good people, who are so hearty and so happy to see you, taking interest in everything, is very touching and gratifying." 
It is very pleasant to see how endearingly the Royal mother always speaks of her children. The Prince of Wales is "Bertie," the Princess Royal" Vicky," and the Duke of Edinburgh " Affie ;" besides whom Princess Alice and Princess Helena (" Lenchen," for this last name, being used as the German diminutive) are frequently mentioned in the later portions of the Journal. 
In 1846, when yachting in the Channel, the Queen says, "I never saw our good children looking better, or in higher spirits. I tried to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history." At another period we are told how "poorVicky," then twelve years old, sat upon a wasp's nest and was much stung; and her mother, who was sketching close by, says, "Donald Stuart rescued her, for I could uot, beiug myself too much alarmed." The following entry, dated Sept. 29, 1855, will be interesting to readers at Berlin, where the charming affability and active charity of our Queen's eldest daughter have gl!ined her a host of friends :-" Our dear Victoria was this day engaged to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, who had been on a visit to us since the 14th. He had already spoken to us, on the 20th, of his wishes; but we were uncertain, on account of her extreme youth, whether he should speak to ber himself or wait till he came back again. However, we felt it was better he should do so; and, during our ride up Craig·na-Ban, this afternoon, he picked a piece of white heather (the emblem of 'good luck '), which he gave to her; 'and this enabled him to make an allusion to his hopes and wishe&, as they rode down Glen Girnoch, which led to this happy conclusion." 
The Queeu, like a true woman, is fond of other children, ~ well as her own ; she often speaks of "our little friends," the children of her neighbours at Balmoral, of the tenants, farm servants, and keepers; little" Mary Symons," and" Lizzie Stuart," and "the four Grants," being sometimes invited to a dance. The children of the noble and gentle families visited by her Majesty, as well as Mr. Farquharson's and Dr. Robertson's, are noticed with equal interest. At Inverary, for example, in 1847, she is especially pleased with the Duke of Argyll's eldest son :-" Outside stood the Marquis of Lorne, just two years old, a dear, white, fat, fair, little fellow, with reddish hair, but very delicate features, like both his father and mother; he is such a merry, independent little child. He had a black velvet dress and jacket, with a 'sporran,' scarf, and Highland bonnet." 
By this time, we hope, our readers have formed a pretty fail' con­ception of the estimable lady who reigns over us. It is gratifying to know so :clUch of her private tastes and habits; that she is fond of Sir WaIter Scott's poetry and novels; that she has been interested by the biography of the Rev. Frederick Robertson, of Brighton; and that she knows and likes the poems of the late Arthl1r Hugh Clough. We are much pleased with the little sketches of scenery a¥ costume, done by her own pencil, engraved here and there in the margin of this volume. Our rubbers of whist, too, will not be less enjoyed since we have been told of the rubbers played by the Royal couple with Lady Douro, or some other lady, and a dummy, in tbe long evenings at Balmoral. Her Majesty's favourite preachers and clergy­men lire likewise popular with an increasing number of Scottish and English belie\'ers in sound, practical Christianity, equally remote from the fopperies of Ritualism, the severities of aoceticism, and the fantasies of Calvinistic theology. The sermon by the Rev. Dr. Caird, published at the Queen's special request, under the title "Religion in Common Life," is well known, and we need not quote the notice of it in her journal. The following passage requires no comment :­
"Oct. 29, 1854. 
"We went to kirk, as usual, at twelve o'clock. The service was performed by the Rev. Norman Macleod, of Glasgow, son of Dr. Macleod, and anythiug finer I never heard. The sermon, entirely extempore, was quite admirable-so simple and yet so eloquent, and so beautifully argued and put. The text was from the account of the coming of Nicodemus to Christ by nigbt, St. John, chap. iii. Mr. Macleod showed in the sermon how we all tried to please self, aud live for that, and in so doing found no rest. Christ had come not only to die for us, but to show how we were to live. The second prayer was very touching; his allusions to us were so simple, saying, after his mention of us, 'bless their children.' It gave me a lump in my throat, as also when he prayed for ' the dying, the wounded, the widow, and the orphans.' Everyone (lame back delighted; and how satisfactory it is to come back from church with such feelings I The servauts and the Highlanders-all-were equally delighted." 
It is time, however, that we should bring this series of extract~ from the Queen's Journal to a close. Her remarks on the news of the death of the Dnke of Wellington, in 1852, and on that of the capture of Sebastopol, in 1855, show how profoundly she is im­pressed with the same emotions which affect the whole nation at the occurrence of such events. In the account of her visit to Ireland, which we have noticed, she takes the opportunity of com­mending the fidelity and efficiency of the Irish constabulary; and she expresses her approval of the Irish system of national education. "Children of all creeds are admitted, and their different doctrines are taug~t separately, if the parents wish it; but the only teaching enforced IS that of the Gospel truths, and love and charity. This is truly Christian, and ought to be the case everywhere." But the main snbject of the book is one of private and personal interest-the resi­dence of the Royal couple at Balmoral Castle in the holiday season of each year. The Queen's attachment to that place may be understood. "Every year my heart becomes more fixed in this dear paradise, and so much more so now, that all has become my dearest Albert's own creation, own work, own building, own laying out, as at Osborne; and hi~ great taste, and the impress of his dear hand have been stamped everywhere." It is for this reason, we conceive, as much as for the quiet, the ease and freedom, the absence of worldly pomp and bustle, the romantic scenery, and the pure, fresh, invigorating air, that she still feels, though she does not exclaim, " My heart's in the Higblands." Her Southron subjects will surely not grudge her the privilege of a Deeside holiday for six weeks in the year. They will rather be disposed to thank her for communicating to them so many agreeable particulars of her merry, harmless, and healthful recreations in the years which are pasr. How much interest may be added to our next tour in Scotland, if 
we chance to pass that way, by the recollection of the amusing ad­ventures of the Queen and Prince in their incognito expeditions · when they called themselves" Lord and Lady ChurchiJl," or ,,~ wedding.party from ~berdeen I" ~e~aystop at the Ramsay Armf, Fettercalrn, or the lOn at DalwhlOllle, where, says her :Majesty, "unfortnnately, there was hardly a.nything to eat, and there was only 1!ea and two miserable starved Highland chickens, without any potatoes I No pudding, and nofun ; no little maid (the two t.here not wishing to come in), nor our two people-who were wet and drying our ~dtheir things-to. wait on us I It was not a nice supper; and the evenmg was wet. As It was late, we soon retired to rest." Hever we, or any of our readers, lodge a night at Dalwhinnie, let us hope fOl' better fare. But few travellers, in any country, bring a ~etter temper. May the remembrance of these little traits of private hfe, common to every class, tend to augment the hearty affection of all her people-English, Scottish, and Irish-towards their widowed 
Queen I 
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F ENIANISM. 

LAST Saturday a daring act-though probably only a bad joke-was perpetrated in broad day in a part of the City which is usually crowded,. and under the vel'y windows of the Lord Mayor-the post­ing of a seditious placard on the front of the Mansion House, and on that part of it upon which Royal proclamations are exhibited. The document was in manuscript. At the head of it were the figures 1868, immediately below which was a pen-aud-ink sketch of an Irish harp, surrounded with representations of shamrock, and below that agam the words, " God save Irelaud I " On each side of these emblems were the capital letters" 1. R.," denoting Irish Republic. Then followed :-" The Irishmen of America are united! Irishmen of England, follow their example I Unite; forward, ye fearless sons of Ireland ! !Stand for the old cOlmtry I Oh, that to England nailed Ireland should be! Preserve her green flag of liberty I" Imme­diately underneath this a second slip of paper had been pasted, with the word~, also written, but in capital letters nearly an inch high, 
"God save the Green!" 
All the prison~rs in the Olerkenwcll explosion case are now charged with mnrder, so that the charge of treason-felony preferred against many of them is virtually set aside. This includes Michael Barratt and James O'Neill, two men captnred last week in Glasgow, who were examined at Bow-street on Monday. The former was identified by a little boy, jnst come out of the hospital, as the man who fired the barrel. The witness Young, on the contrary, swears to O'NeiJl as the actual perpetrator of the crime. Another boy, for­merly in the employ of Mullaney, stated that Barratt, whom he called Jackson, was a frequent visitor at his master's house. He came the day before the explosion and on the day of the explosion itself; the second time with a mau whose right ear was torn and bleeding. Barratt's neck, too, was blackened as if with gunpowder, and he washed it; and both men changed their trousers. Barrat~ has since shaved off his whiskers and grown a beard. It was inci­dentally stated that on the day Bnrke and Casey were captured they were in the company of a man who has since gone to America, and whom their friends snspect of having been their betrayer. The prisoners were remanded. 
Yesterday week Dr. Lankester resumed the inquest on the two of the victims of the Olerkenwell explosion who died in his district. The evidence was very similar to that given at the last examination of the prisoners at Bow-street ; a few additional facts being brought out as to the demeanour of Burke at the correspond­ing time of the previous day to the explosion. Two witnesses positively identified AlIen and O'Keefe as being with the tmck and barrel of powder. The inqnest was adjonrned for a fortnight. 
A curious piece of information reaches us from Deptford. Three men-two of whom had enrolled themselves as special constables­have been arrested in that town on a charge of administering the Fenian oath to a man, who subsequently informed the police of whllt had taken place. The names of the accused are-Florence Macllrthy, James Richardson, and Maurice Littleton. On Wednesday they were taken before Mr. Mande, the Greenwich magistrate. The accuser is an American,' and, although it is difficult; to understand the motives of the accused, there seems no doubt they are Fenians. They were remanded. 
The death in MilIbank Prison is announced of Edward Duffy, for­merly a draper at Dublin, bnt one of the convicts for treason-felony at the Dublin Special Commission. At the Coroner's inquest it wa3 shown that. he was suffering from inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy, and the jury returned a verdict of "Natural death." 
The committee for raisin g a fund for the family of the police sergeant murdered in Hyde -road on Sept. 18 have secmed 21s. a week for Mrs. Brett and £300 for the children at her death. 
The Roman Catholics of Warring-ton have met in large numbers, under the presidency of Father Hall, and passed resolutions ex­pressive of their loyalty and condemnatory of Fenianism. 
A general meeting of the profession of attorneys and solicitors in Ireland was held in Dublin on Satnrday afternoon, for the purpose of "adopting an address to her Majesty the Queen, expressing their strong condemnation of the Fenian conspiracy, and the deter­mination of the members of the profession to support the Govern­ment by every means in tkeir power in such measnres as they may adopt for cruEl<in~ it." The mt)eting was one of the most numerously attended ever held in the Solicitors' Hall. Sir J. 1'. Orpen presided, and the address was unanimously adopted. 
Patrick Lennon, who had already been committed for high treason, was on Monday taken before the Dublin magistrates at Kilma.inh~m, on the charge of murdering Constable Kenna, .and committed for trial on the capital charge. 
Dr. Waters, who already stands committed for having taken part in an illegal procession in Dublin, was on Saturday arrested and taken care of in Kilmainham Gaol nnder a special State warrant. Dr. Waters is reputed to be the Editor of the Ji·ishman. 
In the main street of Cork, on Thursday se'nuight, a bottle con­
taining Greek fire was thrown at a man suspec:ed of giving inform­
ation of the Fenians. It struck him on the head without breaking, 
but smashed and ignited on the flags. No clue to the perpetrator 
of the outrage has yet been discovered. 
Yesterday week that troubled and tronblesome spirit, George Francis Train, was arrested at Queenstown, upon his return to England in the Clmard steam-ship Scotia, and lodged in gaol. While in America he had done much to foment the Fenian movement. He told the good people of Boston, not long ago, that " althouah there were traitors in Ireland, there yet were thonsands true, who would fight for faith, home, and native land." " The time for talk," he proceeded to say, "has passed-no more long letters, uo more despatches, no more sixty days, no more arbitration letters, no more Adalllll-Stanton-Seward's long-winded notes, no more wishy-washy paragraphs in the President's Meseage, no more neutrality swindles like that of Bauks and the Radicals Jast Session, but a short despatch like this sent over by the cable to-morrow-' Pay the Alabama claims, or fight.' " On Tuesday, however, Mr. Train was released on giving au assurance that he had no intention of promoting Fenianism in I reland. It is stated that he claims £100,000 damages of the Queen's Govern­ment for his three days' detention. It seems a moderate sum to aek, considering that he might just as easily have made it a million. 
BIRTHS AND DEATHS. THE following is the return of the Registrar-General of births and deaths in London and in thirteen large towns of the United Kingdom during the week that ended on Satnrday, Jan. 1S·:­Last week 4515 births and 3436 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin; 27 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 86 in Liverpool, 32 in Uanchester, 30 in Salford, 2G in Sheffield, 25 in Bradford, 24 in Leeds, 27 in Hull, 28 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 32 in Glasgow. In London t he births of 1129 boys and 1073 girls, in all 2202 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1858-67 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2192. ­'Ihe deaths registered in London dnring the week were 15%: It was the third week of the year; and the average numb3r of deaths for that week is, with !I correction for increase of population, 17'15. The deaths in the present return are leas by 149 than the estimated n1J.mber. Three hundred and seventeen deaths were caused by zymotic diseases, the corrected average number being 355 ; 33 deaths o~curred from smallpox, 371rommea~leB, 36 from scarlatina, 9fromdiphtheria, 73 from whooping-cough, 50 from typhus, and 14 from diarrhon . Phthisis proved fatal to 186 persons; 235 deaths occnrred frvm bronchitis, D2 from pneumonia, and 91 from diseases of the heart. The deaths of 9 children and 2 adults from bnrns or scalds, of H childt'Jn and 3 adults who were suffocated, and of 2 persons who were killed by hones or vehicles in the streets were registered. 
THE E,TEAM·SHIP CHICAGO S'rRANDED ON A REEF 0.' ROCKS OFF CORK HARBOUR. 
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LONDON: S.iTURDAY, JANU.iRY 2;;, 1868. 

OAER ODER, better known as Bristol, and unfavourably " delineated" by Savage, has been suddenly distinguishel by being selected as the scene of a remarkable pre-Parliamentary utterance on the part of Ministers_ The Conservatives of the City of the Gap, 
Marching along, twelve hundred strong Grcat·hcarted gentlemen, singing one song. 

formed, on Wednesday, in their handsome ritle drill-hall, and were addressed by three prominent members of the Adminis­tration. The formation was eminently pacific, for it took place around sumptuously-laden bauquet tables-Bristol ha3 ever been celebrated for its feasts. The Duke of Beaufort, descendant of John of Gaunt, was in the ch,ir, and the aristocracy of the two counties was creditably repre­sented. The festivity was a decided success for the Cou­servatives of the West, but Lord Stanley's speech will be the interesting feature for the country. Sir John Pakington and Mr. Hardyattended, and it will be enough to say, touching their orati.ons, that the War Secretary told us that we must keep pace with the times and the military and naval progres3 of other naj,;on~, and "incur expense;" aud that the Home Secretary was equally bellicose in his own line, and, taking hold of the announcement that Earl Russell is going to write a letter about Ireland, charged the party represented by that Earl with the intention of making Ireland a battle.grouud for political purposes. We hope that Sir John's words have no reference to any very great increase in the Estimates j and a3 for Mr. Hardy, we can but compliment him on his promptitude in discovering the dark designs of his enemies ; but we almost think that he might have remembered the Shakspearean advice given to another zealous chief-constable, "Even let him continue in his evil courses till thou knowest what they nre." These, however, are not times to blame a Minister fo r alacrity. 
Lord Stanley's revelations were of a more important cha­racter. He was at Bristol to speak the mind of the twill rulers of the Cabinet, and we need hardly say that he spoke with dignity, while abandoning to a great extent the reticence of which he is a master. Usually, though Lord Stanle.1 appears to be, and probably is, desirous of being very explana. tory, and while you listen you think he is telling you a great deal, you do not find afterwards that he has made much addition to your stock of knowledge. Pos3ibly 'studying, ill no unfilial spirit, the difficulties into which an indiscreet tongue has often conducted the brilliant orator at whose feat he has been educated, Lord Stanley may have over-cultiva.ted the art of veiling his resources; but, as he rises in the Sta.te, he will easily learn that it is plain speech, and not practical silence, that is sometimes golden. Moreover, the people of England like an outspoken man, and far more readily forgive an undeserved scolding than a distrustful politeness. This by-the-way, for in his Bristol speech Lord Stanley, as we have said, discarded much of his customary reserve, and showed that, like a very good Pantagruelian, he "had words at will." 
Of course, Lord Stanley is not in the least afraid of the consequenees of the Reform Act of 18G7, although he admitted that its results could not be calculated upon to a degree of certaintv. This was an old country, with soci&l habits and conditio"ns deeply rooted; and wealth, wisely used, would always have its influence. Divers clever electionecrera in that ball probably concurred with Lord S~anley. The as­surance to Bristol Lhat social earthquakes and disaste:s were 
not to be expected must have been particularly acceptable; for, if ,,-e recollect aright, the City of the Gap is still paying, -or was until lately paying, many thousands a year by reason of the damages caused by the political riots of the last Reform -ua. We certainly do not believe that the new constituency will bunl down the palaces of any Bishops ; but there is a pr6verb which tells ns that there are more ways than one of removing an enemy, quadruped or biped; and that some attempt will be made to do more than cant about the fishermen of Galilee is reasonably certain. Lord Stanley then went at the Education topic, and implied that Government . considered that it had ear-marked that, and held the outsiders who were laying hold of it to be little better than plunderers. It may be recollected, moreover, that Mr. Disraeli distinctly 
-declared in the House of Commons, during the Abyssinian 
Session, that the topic had not been introduced into the 
. Queen's Speech merely for the sake of effect and symmetry, 
-but that a large plan was in ·preparation. It is a rule in 
:Equity to accept intentions as acts, and to proceed on such 
assumption, and we are bound to take the Ministers at their 
word. Ehould their scheme be timid, or complicated, or ex­
clusive, the decree of the High Court of Parliament will go 

,against them, and a new" scheme" will be ordered to be pre p!Lr€d. The only play that can be permitted in regard to this -all-impcrtant question is fair play to those who have the technical right to the initiative. The Foreign Secretary spoke well about Ireland. In the :plainest words he declared that in no circumstances could 
England listen to any proposal for the disintegration of the -empire. Itwas the kindest thing, he said, to put this past a -doubt. It seems strange that anybody should have to say '1iiUch a thing; but there come strange times, when it is need­ful that the simplest truths have to be proclaimed on the ·hou~etops, and here is one of those truths-it is even recog­nised by the less ignorant among the council of the Reform League. The Church and the Land were designated by Lord .Stanley as the two great difficulties in our way. We may infer that at the preeent moment the Cabinet does not wish to deal 'with the Irish Church. It is not thought a question for a moribund Parliament. Now we at once avow our opinion -that this mode of treating, or rather of not treating, the ,subject is doubly unworthy of the Earl of Derby. He has -sho" n that he can reform the Irish Church if he will; ~nd no bolder hand was put to the work than his. Inability is not to be pleaded; and as for a dying Parliament, it has months of vigorous life before it, and might well -consecrate its last days by a good work. But the evasion is worse from a Conservative and a Churchman. The Earl of Derby sees the Irish Church in distress, and he -creates a new Parliament, which he believes will be mainly ·composed of ardent Reformers, and he hands over the Irish Establisbment to their tender mercies. We may have a very .different idea from the Earl of Derby's as to tlie Irish Church, 'but he cannot say that lae wishes it swept away; and it is _assuredly his duty to deal with it while he can. A reformed _.Parliament will not naturally adhere to the present Reform Ministry. We point out in the plainest language that if the Cabinet does not address itself to the Irish Church question, the Ilation will not credit it with any desire to redeem thecharacter which the party has terribly injured by its Reform-Act policy. We think, however, that the announcement that the question is to be kept for settlement by fiery Reformers in their first 'lIOeal for action will excite a clamour in the Conservative camp, and :that some 'monojJs intm' ~aJcos will give notice of action. As regarded the land, Lord Stanley did not commit himself to -a promisE', but frankly owned that a tenant ought to have -compensation for bona fide improvements, and he expressed a _generous regret that there were hindrances to the inletting of the fiood of English gold which would pour into Ireland 'were she in a settled condition. Finally, adverting to -Fenianism, he noted its good effect-it. having evoked the 
resolved and enthusiastic loyalty of the nation. Lord Stanley -spoke as he was permitted to speak, and it is to the Cabinet of his father that the \yarning must be given. If the Earl of Derby has discovered that his pa.rty will not 'permit him to deal fearlessly with the Irish Church, he ~ay -have no alternative besides the abandoning the questiOn. But, if he regards himself as the Conservative leader, he is, -by abandoning that question, not only deserting those who -expect his aid, but is heaping up for the Conservative party ·diffieulties which will para lyse them for years. It is not too late, in times of ten-minutes' bills, to escape from a blunder 
-of extraordinary magnitude. 'lne Earl of Derby may reform 1he Irish Church in 1868 ; if he do not, there may be no Irish Church in 1870. 
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THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.­
At OXfOld, Hilary or Lent Ter·m has fairly commenced. The hebdomadal council sat for the first time on Tuesday. Three or four forms of ~tatnte which partially passed last term have beell ordered for further steps on Feb. 4. The election of the Professor of Political Economy, -that chair being vacant by lapse of time, has been fixed for Feb. 6, and the election of a Deputy Professor of Law, under the foundation of Viner, has been fixed for the 25th of tlte ~ame month. The Camden Professor of Ancient History (the Rev. G. Rawlinson, M.A., Exeter College) will deliver two courses of lectures dming the present term-viz. :-1. A courne of twelve 011 " Early Roman History." 2. A course of eight lectures on the portions of Ancient History usually presented in the schools. !.t a meeting held in the Council Chamber, on Thursday week, presided over by the Mayor, it was resolved to appoint a committee, con­sisting partly of citizens and partly of members of the University, to report upon the obstacles to middle-class education at the Universitie@, and to consider what means can be devised for com­pelling the Univernities to adopt a system more adequate to the wants of that cl~s. Among the speakers at this meeting were Mr. Neatf', 1>f. P. j Mr. Chase, the principal of St. JlIary Hall j and ProfesEOr Rogers. 
At" Cambridge the Vice-Chancellor has given notice that the election of a Hulsean Lecturer will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 13. 
The Rij?ht Hon. Sir Joseph N apier, Bart., having been reappointed. by Lord unirns to the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, was re-sworn on Thursday week, before the Lord Chancellor, at hiB residence in Men·ion-square. 

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:METROPOLITAN NEWS. 

There wr.s a heavy gale in London and its neighbourhood on 
'/Saturday and Sunday. 

The interior of the Mansion House is being redecorated, the Court ·()f Common Council having voted £ 2000, last month, for the purpose 
The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Licemed Victuallllrs' 
Asylum came off, on Thursday se'nnight, at St. James'S Hall. There 
-was a very large attendance. 

The title of "Postmaster of the House of Commons" has been ,conferred upon Mr. Lawford, who has conducted the post-office business for many years. 
On Monday night Mr. Anthony Trollope gave an excellent lectUl'e 
>()n the subject "Politics as a Study for Common People," at the 
Artillery Hall, Stratford-green. Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., M.P., 
presided. The attendance was large. 

The second half of the fou.rth annual session of study has begun ~t the Ladies' Medical College in Fitzroy-square. The lady students <are now about seventy in number, and of the newer ones a large pro­portion are relatives of medical men. Many of the past students ,are practising in London. 
We are requested to say that the announcement which has appeared of the appointment of the Rev. W . Arnot as Dr. Hamilton's ,successor at the Regent-square Presbyterian Church is incorrect-the -committee appointed by the congregation to recommend a minister "to their choice not yet having come to a decision. 
At the ordinat·y meeting of the Royal Institute of British Archi­tects, held on Monday, Mr. Edward l'Anson read au elaborate pap~r ,on" The Kremliu of Moscow," and the architecture of that city. .A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr. I'Anson for his valuable -communication. 
On Monday evening a large party of working men-the fathers of the children attending the Clare-market Ragged Schools-s~t down ,to an excellent dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding. It was the last of a series of festivities to the poor children and adults in con­nection with this institution which has taken place since Christm~s. 'The Rev, R. H . Killick, the Rev. Mr. Gray, Mr. R. Ingham, M,P., Mr. ·W. Snell, and Mr. J. Palmer, the honorary secretary, were present. 
The seventh annual distribution' of prizes to the sick at University College Hospital has recently taken place. As is usual at this instimtion, the prizes were displayed on a grand Christmas-tree, ,and the distribution was witnesEed by a large number of the sup-' porters of the charity, among them being many members of the m istocracy. In addition to the special gifts, which were denominated ," prizes," each patient received some useful article of clothing. The ladies who were present sang carols for the entertainment of the -eick, and also performed a selectiou of instrumental music. 
A comEe of four Cantor lectures" On Food," hy Dr. Letheby, was ()ommenced at the Society of Arts on Monday evening, aud will be ()ontinued each succeeding Monday evening.--A. conference at­tended, by invitation, at the house of the society, on Thursday aud Friday (yesterday). The object of the conference was to ascertain -not merely what the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, but what the nation at large can do to promote technical education tlmong the workmen, the foremen, the overlookers,'and the employers >()f art~, manufactures, and commerce. 
The first meeting for the season of the Society of Engineers took 
·place, on Monday evening, at Exeter Hall-Mr. W. H. Lefevre, out­
going president, in the chair. The minutes of the preceding meeting 
having been read, ten new members were elected, and the chairman 
-delivered premiums to the following readers of successful papgrs 
,durin g the past year :-Messrs. S. W. Woream, H. Rigg, J. 
G re;ham, and E. Matheson. The retiring president introduced the 
. new president, Mr. Baldwin Latham, C.E., and the latter read his 

'inaugural address. 
The first meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society this year 
took place on Tuesday, in the council-room of the society, at South 
Kensington, and a fine show of cyclamens, orchids, arid other 
·flowers were exhibited. The principal objects of attraction were 
two fruits of the cocoanut palm, ripened at Sion Houae gardeus, 
Isleworth, by the Duke of Northumberland's gardener, Mr. G. 
Fairbairn, the only instance on record in which it has been fully 
. ipened in this country. The society awarded Mr. Fairbairn a first­
class certificate and the gold Banksian medal for this most 
'meritorious production. . 

Mr. T. H. Wright, on Thursday week, gave a lecture (the first of the season) on the history of the harp and its music to the members of the Society for the Encouragament of the Fine Arts. The l€Ctttrer entered fnlly into the antiquity and the distinguishing :features of the national melcd[es of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England; showing the close affiuity between the kindred arts of music and poetry, and practically illustrating the relationship by ·his skilful performances on this national iustrument. The entertain­ment was judiciously interspersed with the Bongs of Moore, Burns, and others, which were intrusted to Mrs. H. Lee, and rendered by her with artistic feeling and careful vocalisation. 
COUNTRY NEWS. 
':rhe Marquis of Westminster has resigned the office of Lord Lieutwant of Cheshire. 
Sir MNes Montefiore has established a Jewish college at Ramsgate in memory of his wife, Judith, Lady Montefiore. 
Considerable floode iu Berkshire and Oxfordshire have occurred through the recent rains, and much damage hllS beeu done. 
The Marquis of Westminster has, within the past few days, giveu £2000 to the funds of the Denbighshire Infirmary. Not'lonD' ago his Lordship ga 'fe £500 to the same charity. 
The freedom of the city of Perth was 'presented. ou Tuesday evening, in the City Hall, to Lord Kinnaird and Admiral Sir James Hope, before a large and fashionable assembly. 
The Great Northern Railway Company has opened a new station at Cambridge. The new station adjoins the Great E~stern station in the Hills-road. 
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland conferred the honour of knight­hood. yesterday week, upon Mr. Charles Lanyon, M.P. for Belfast, and Mr. Chat'les Orpen, President of the Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors. 
Ata large and influential meeting held in the Hull Townhall, on Thursday week, it was determined that a statue of the late Prince Consort should be execnted for the park by Mr. T. Earle, of London. The subscriptions have already reached a considerable sum. 
At a meeting of the Limerick Roman Catholic clergy, on Monday, resolutions were passed demanding a national legislature for Ireland, and declaring that repeal meant no separation or weakening of the empire, bnt union, consolidation, and progress. 
Some gentlemen of Sheffield who hunt with Eat! Fitzwillia'll's hounds, wishing to testify their, appreciation of his Lordship's libe­rality and kindness as a master of hounds, on Monday presented to the Earl a magnificent hunting-horn. 
The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P ., has been this week the guest of Mr. P. H. Rathbone, of Liverpool. On Wednesday Mr. Lowe was present at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Philomathic Society, and on Thursday he met, at the Townhall, a number of gentlemen interested in the great question of education. 
The Mayor of Great Yarmouth (Mr. W. Worship) hag received from the Princess of Wales a cheque for £25,,.to be applied to the fund now being raised on behalf o( the sufferers from the recent gales on the eastern coast, " with whom her Royal Highness desires to express her sincere sympathy." , 
The annual meeting and convereazione of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce was held on Tue~day night. Lord F. Cavendish, M.P. ; Mr. Forster, M.P. ; Mr. Thompson, M.P. ; aud Mr. Redgrave, her Msjesty's Inspector, spoke upon ,the questiou of technical education and on other topics of public importance. 
The Edinbnrgh express up train, on the Great Nor~hern line, was fired at, on S:ltu-day night, near Grantham. The bu'l,et struck the weather· guard of the engine, wb'ch W8" indented; and the baU it£elf was flattened by the cOllcur.sion. It w"s eecnred and delivered to the authorities ai King's·cross. Among the passengers by this train were Prince and Pringess Teck. 
The Royal South Hants IIl'irmary, at Southampton, was on Thursday week the scene of an iutere~ ting ceremony on occa~ion of the completion and opening of a new wing, which ha~ been erected at the expenee of Mrs. Eyre Crab be, one of the lady patronesses of tbe institution. This lady j~ the widow of Colonel Eyre Crabbe, K.H.. an old Peninsnlar officer, who was for eight 'years the president of the infirmary. ­
There was an explosion of gunpowder,last Saturday afternoon, at Scotswood, near Newcastle-on·Tyne. It was caused by a singular piece of stupidity. A quantity of gunpowiJer intended to be used in a sparrow-shooting' handicap was damaged by the rai!), and some bystanders, hoping to make it useful, placed it iu an oven to dry. The gunpowder exploded, two JIlen were killed, and others were seriously injnred. 
The appoiutment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the state of elementary education in Ireland is announced iu the Gazette. The constitution of the National Board and the whole question of "mixed educatiou" will necessarily form the most prominent sblbjects of investigation, and the Commissioners are specially charged to inquire how far the rules of the Natioual Board, with regard to religious teaching, "c!ln with safety be modified, 80 as to extend more widely the benefits of the system." 

'THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 
LONDOfr: SATURDAY, .3f4.Y 2, 1868. 

WHEN indignation has broken forth in one hearty deliverance 'upon the atrocious attempt upon the life of the young Prince ' in .Australia, and we have added an expression of earnest ·,thankfulness that the Queen has been spared a grief, there is .,not much more which can be said on such a subject. When ·the news, which had been reserved for a few hours for a ·1:eason which all must approve, was divulged, it is not too >much to Gay that there was one fierce burst of honest anger .frt'lm every man who learned the tidings. The outrage '"as so wicked, unprovoked, and idiotic, that there was bu~ · one word for its perpettator. Vile as all assassination is, it ,has its degrees, and human nature recognises them. A ,·savage conqueror striding over the ashes of the homes 'he bas destroyed has received a death wound from the 'hand of some unhappy and bereaved man, and the deed is .accounted for and palliated. The statesman who has success­.fully schemed for a nation's downfall has been himself stricken -down by one of its !;hildren. Even private vengeance may :bave its own wild justice, its questionable extenuation. But ,the victim must be in some way connected with the wrong. In the case of Prince Artred-the name dearest to the people­"there was no connection with any conceivable wrong, public ·or private. A very young man, with no more power in the ;State than the villain who wounded him, was presiding ;kindly over a festival for a charitable purpose, and the bullet "strikes him. Had he unhappily been slain, had all the Pribces of his house perished, the event would have had no ' more influence on the destinies of the assassin's country than ·the deaths of the children of Niobe. The deed was that of a ,savage heart and a low brain. We affect no sentimeutal 
feeling, and we hope to hear that the wretch has, in Mr. Mill's "words, been blotted out of the catalogue of living men. The representatives of every order among us have hastened .to congratulate the Queen upon the escape of her son, aud 
very loyal has been the utterance from all quarters. Even -those whose business it is to find excuses and pity for every­-one, provided only that he is criminal, have not on this occa­<sion ventured to plead for the assassin, but have joined in the -congratulation to the Sovereign. In truth, the impulse which ,·sentus all to the Throne was instinctive. The Queen had been ·signally sbowing her desire for the good of her people. One .. of her-sons had been accredited to the neighbouring island, in ·order to manifest the loving 'feeling with which it is regarded 'by its Queen; and whether there were ever any danger or not in the visit, it is certain that it was regarded as an act of the "proverbial Guelph courage, and that the Government is in possession of warnings which were forwarded, by -.friend and by foe, against the journey. Nevertheless, 4he Prince was allowed to go. And at the same -·time another Prince of the house was at the antipodes, -voyaging from colony to colony, confirming the loyalty of our ·distant fellow-subjects and gratifying thousands who will '.never return the visit. The nation felt that the Queen was ,sacrificing her own feelings for the good of us all; and at "such a moment the report of a ruffiau's weapon was heard. --,Naturally, all eyes instantly turned upon the Royal Mother. It is pleasant, but it will surprise no one, to know that' the ,Sovereign received tbe tidings with becoming fortitude, and tbat her first thought was of the way in which they coula ,be most kindly broken to tbe Prince's brother and his delicate 
wife. The Queen needs no assl:trance of the sympathies of the ·nation, but tbe voice of warm hearts' can never be unwelcome ,to the widow of the good Prince Albert. 
For the rest, we would willingly see in the event the cause -for the other congratulations which have occurred to some of -our contemporaries. But what injury it can do the criminal ,association, called Fenianism, we are unable to perceive. 
What can brand that association more indelibly than it was .previously branded. Its agents had but the other day blown "in a prison wall, murdered six persons on the spot, and six: ,more a little later, causing also the deaths of several mothers ,and of twenty children, to say nothing of persons who have 
been driven into a maniacal condition or mutilated for life. 'That piece of Fenianism was surely enough to mark out the association as a thing cursed of Heaven and of mau, and that ,savage outrage was held at the time to be the deathblow of the conspiracy. The new incident has shown that there are men who can feel neither shame nor remora~; but this 'we knew before; it has also shown that these men. are Fenians; but what do we gain by the knowledge? It . 'is well, like the Friar in "Romeo and J uliet," to be .able to extract good from all ill weeds; but the process, in ·the present cRse, is conjectural and not scientific. It would be much better to consider whether our .own laws are in the ,best condition for dealing with a criminality which is on the increase. Murder, both of a private sort and that which is ·connected with public questions, is more rife than ever in England, but law finds it more and more hard to deal with it. The police have been able to convict only one ·of the Clerkenwell miscreants. Mrs. Ann Justice and her friends have been bolding fo ul and drunken orgy over tbeir deliverance, and the toast given by the wretch from her 'Window was" Fenian victory!" wbereat hundreds shouted-:­victory meaning that the persons who were cbargecl with ~he murders of the Clerkenwell wo~en and children had escaped, 
owing to the forms of English law. Is itto be believed tbat no one was guilty but Barrett, or that the witnesses sent up from Glasgow to swear to bis alibi could not tell us, if they would, of tbe ramifications of the crime? We desire no arbitrary or violent course, but it is clear that the criminal class has studied the criminal law with sufficient cunning to know how to avoid the net, ' and its meshes were made for a state of society in which De Quincey's idea had not been realised and murder was not one of the fine arts. Instead of indulging, therefore, in reiterated commonplace upon the good which is effected by the repetition of crime, would it not be better to consider whetber a revision of the law of evidence might not bring more scoundrels to justice? In all other matters our self· defence advances with the time. Our weapons are ten times as effective as they'were, our strong-boxes are steel castles, and our police are sturdy giants instead of tottering cripple3. But we adbere to certain rules of law which men whose pro­fession is to use tbem naturally declare to be founded on eternal justice, but which are dispensed with, to the happiest result, in a neighbouring country, where the interest of society, and not of tbe culprit, is regarded as the principal business of law. There may be abuses in the system that tries to convict, though we believe tbe proportion of cases in which real injustice is done is very small; but the system that tries to acquit, and arrays in behalf of a notorious scoundrel every advantage which Judge, prIsoner's counsel, and forms can give him, may appear to our posterity to be something worse than Quixotic. Quixote fou.ght only for helpless virtue; British law fightB, and very successfully, for active crime. 
THE COURT. 
THE Queen, with the junior members of the Royal family, continues 
lit Osborne House, in the enjoyment of good health. 
On Thursday week her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Christilln, drove out. Later in the day the Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds of Osborne. Princess Louiea, Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian walked and drove in the vicinity of the Royal demesne. 
Yesterday week the Queen, accompanied by Princess Christia,n 
a,nd Princess Beatrice, walked and drove in the neighbourhood of 
Osborne. The other members of tte Royal family rode out. 
On Saturday last the Queen received, throngh the Duke of 
Buckingham, the painful intelligence of au attQmpt npon the life of 
the Duke of Edinburgh, at Sydney, New South Wales. The Dean 
of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley arrived on a visit to her 
Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote arrived at Osborne, 
and had the honour of dining with the Queen. 
On Sunday the Queen, Priuce and Princess Christian, Princess 
Louisa, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine 
service at Whippingham church. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. 
On Monday the Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian and 
Princess Louisa" walked and drove, in the vicinity of 03borne. 
Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice 
walked and rode out. Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and 
Princess Louisa of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Grey, left 
Osborne for Marlborough House. Sir Stafford Northcote left 
Osbo~ne. 
On Tuesday the Queen, accompanied hy Princess Louisa, walked in the grounds of Osborne. Later in the day her Majesty, accom­panied by Princess Christian, drove out, and called upon Lady Cowe11. ' Prince aud Princess Christian, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice walked out. Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited the Queen, and remained to luncheon. His Royal Highness was received, upon landing at Osborne Pier, by Prince Christian and Major·General F. 
H. Seymour.
On Wednesday the Queen, accompanied by Princess Louisa, 
walked and drove in the grounds adjacent to Osborne. The Earl 
of Tankerville arrived at Osborne, and presented an address to her 
Majesty frcm the House of Lords relative to the late attempt upou 
the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. . . The Hon. Fl?rence Seymour has succeeded the Hon. Lucy Kerr 
as Maid of Honour in Waiting to the .Queen. 
RETURN OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO 
MARLBOROUGH HOUS1l1. 

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by their suite, arrived at Marlborongh House on Monday evening, at seven o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses upon their return from their gratifying visit to Ireland, after visiting Carnarvon on Saturday last, pro­ceeded to Trentham Hall, on a visit the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. On Monday the Prince and Princess, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, drove from Trentham to Stafford, whence their Royal Highnesses travelled in a saloon­carriage belonging to the Duke of Sutherland, which was attached to the Irish mail, and proceeded by the London and North·Western Railway to London, arriving at the Euston terminus at twenty-five minutes past six. The Prince and Princess drove to Madborough ·House. Their Royal Highnesses were received with the utmost enthusiasm by the spectators assembled near the rail way sta,tion to witness their arrival. Prince Albert Victor, Prince Gzo.rge, and Princess Louisa of WaJes arrived at Marlborough House from Osborne House, where their Royal Highnesses have been staying with the Queendnring the visit of the Prince and Princess to Ireland. 
On Tuesday the Prince, attended by Major Grey, rode out. The 
Princess, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, took a drive. 
Ou Wedneaday the Prince rode out. The Princess, attended by 
the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, drove onto In the evening their Royal High­
nesses honoured the Queen's Thea,tre with their presence. 
HIGI! SHERIFFS FOR IRELAND. 

HIS Excellency the Lord Lieutenant for Ireland has been pleased to appoint the undernamed gentlemen to the office of High Sheriff of the following counties and counties of cities and towns for the year 1868:-
Antrim County-Richard H. Magenis, Esq., Deeraw, Finvoy, Ballymoney. 
Armagh County-John A. M. Cope, Esq., Drumilly, Loughall. Carlow County-Rohert Westley Hall·Dare, Esq., Newtownbany. 
Carrickfergus County Town-\Villiam Rowan Legg, Esq., Carrickfergus. 
Cavan County-Richard Coote, Esq. , Bellamont Forest, Cootehill. 
Clare County-James Foster Vesey Fitzgerald, Esq., Moyriesk, Quin. 

Cork County-Richard Wallis Goold Adams, Esq., Jamesbrook, Cloyne. 
Cork City-William Henry Lyons, Esq., WOOdville, Cork. 
Donegal County-Captain John Humphreys, Cavanacor, Strabane. 
Do,vu County-John MulboUand, Esq., Craigavad, HolywOOd. 
Dublin County-George Evans, Esq., Portrane, Donabate, Swords. 
Dublin City-Edward H. Kinahan, Esq., 11, Merrion-square, North, Dublin. 
Droghedo. County Town-P. Ternan, Esq., Lawrence-street, Drogheda. 

Fermanagh Couoty-Captain J ohn M. Ricbardson, Rossfad, EnniskiJJen. 
Galway County-Waiter Sbaw Taylor, E,q., Castle Taylor, Ardrahan. 
Galway County Town-Francis Lorenzo Comyn, Esq., Woodstock, Galway. 
Kerry County-Daniel James O'Connell, Esq., Lakeview, Killarney. . 
Kildare County-John Mauosell, Esq., Oakley Park, Celbridge. 
Kilkenny County-Thomas Eyre, Esq., Upperconrt, Freshford. 
Kilkenny City-John P. Hyland, Esq., Clonmoran, Kilkenny. 
King's Connty-o:>mmander Maxwell Fox, B.N., Annaghmore Tullamore. 
Leitrim Couoty-John Marcus Clements, Esq. , Delville, Glasnevin. 
Limerick Couoty-Edward Croker, Esq., The Grange, Kilmallock. 
Limerick City-John Quin, Esq., George-street, Limerick. 
Londonderry City and County-HeuryKyle, Esq., Laurel·hill, Coleraine. Louth County-William Woolsey, Esq., The Crescent, Castlebellingham. Mayo Couoty-Lieut.·Colonel Ousley Higgins, Mount Pleasant, Ball;)lgla£s. 
Mea.th County-Sir J. DilloD, Bart., Lismullen, Navan. 
Queen's County-William Phillips, Esq., St. German's, Portarlington. 
Roscommon County-Thomas A. Mapother, Esq., Kilteevan, Roscommon. 
Sligo County-Patrick C. Howley, Esq., Cooga Lodge, Easkey. 
Tipperary County-Laurence Waldron, Esq., Ballybrack, Dalkey. 
Tyrone County-Lieut.·Colonel J. A. Caulfield, Drumcairne, Stewardstowll. 

Waterford County-Pierse Marcus Barron, Esq., Belmont, Wa.terford. 
Waterford City-Thom.., Wilson, Esq., Springhill House, 'l'ramore. 
Westmeath County-Joseph TUite, Esq., Culean, Mullingar. 
Wexford County-Arthur W. Grattan Guinness, Esq. , Valentia, Camolill. 

Wicklow County-Robert Francis Ellis, Esq., Seapark, Wicklow. 
MRS. DUNDAS. 

This lamented lady, who died on the 15th inst., at the family town house, 24, Hanover-square, WaS Grace, second daughter of Sir Ralph Gore, the seventh Baronet, of 'Manor GorQ, in the county of Donegal by his wif~ Lady Grace, third daughter of Barry, first Earl of Farnham. Mrs. lJundas was born in 1803, and was married, June 2,1847, to Frederick Dundas, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of and M.P. for Orkney and Shetland, and first cousin of Thomas, second and present E arl of Zetland, K.T. 
CAPTAIN WILLIAM WEIR. 

This promising young officer, who filled the appointment of Commandant of Ghizree Sanatorium, Scinde, died recently, at Ramsay, in the Isle of Man. He was the son of the !l-ev.. ~ohn 
Weir, D.D., and was born in 1839. He commenced h'.S mihtary career, at the age of sixteen, as an officer in the German Legion, and was for some time stationed at ShorDcliffe with that corps. He afterwards obtained a commission, July 20, 1.857, in the 103rd Regiment; and served in India with the Okamundel and K~llywar field forces in 1859 and 1860, and was present at the SIege of Dwarka and the storming of the heights and fort of Ubhpoona. Captain Weir was a scion of the ancient family of Weir, otherwise Vere, of Lesmahagow, near Lanark, the clanship of which tribe was ratified and settled by a special Act of Parliament passed in the reign of James V., and printed among the public general Acts of Scotland by command of King George HI. 
ALEXANDER M'CARTHY, ESQ. 

Alexander M'Carthy, Esq., of Currymount, in the county of Cork, who died recently, at his town house, 37, Upper Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, was a scion of the ancient family of the M'Carthys of Muskerry, and was the eldest son of Alexander M'Carthy, Esq., of Cork, by his wife, Eliza, daughter of Stephen Fagan, Esq., of Cork. He was born in 1800, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1826. He was a magistrate for the county of Cork, and was M.P. for the city of Cork in 1846 and 1847, and for the county of Cork from 1857 to 1859. Mr. M'Carthy was one of the best scholars of his day. He was a Liberal in politics, and was distinguished for high probity and independence of spirit. He is much regretted by his numerous 
friende. 
CAPTAIN GRIER. 

Captain Robel't Grier, who died on the 19th inst., at Chelsea Hospital, was born in 1792, and entered the British Army, in February, 1810, as Ensign in the 44th Regiment, and shortly after went en service in the Peninsula. He shared in the glories of many of the great affairs of the P eninsular War. He was wounded at the Battle Cif Fuentes d'Onor. He at the siege of Badajoz led the advance of the feigned attack, which ultimately became the suc­cessful o!,e ; and he commanded" the forlorn hope" when the place was earned.. He was also in the campaign in Holland in 1814, and was present lU the attack on Merxem and the storming of Bergen­?p.Zoom, wh~re he saved a colour of the 44th Regiment. He was ill the campaIgn of 1815, and was severely wounded in the ankle at Q,!-atre Bras. The gallant veteran had thus his full share of the toils and dangers of war, but he did not get much in the way of honours or promotion. He had the war medal with three clasps and the yvaterloo medal. He was placed on half pay, in March, 1817, as Llel1tenan~, and :vas appointed a Captain of invalids in September last. Captalll Gner had for many years resided at Aughrea in the county of Longford, and was highly respected. ' 
FENIANISM. 

I T SEems likely that we shall have "a full, true, :J.nd p:lrticular 
account" of the doings of the senseless wretches who in 
blowing np the wall of the Clerkenwell prison killed and inj ured 
EO many persons. On Tuesday, when the Fenians charged with 
murder and treason-felony were again taken to Bow-street Police 
(J()nrt, oBly nine prisoners walked into the dock instead of ten, the 
full complemettt, nnd the missing mun made his appearanca in the 
witness-box in the person of Pntrick Mnllany, who has turned in­
former. The surprise and consternation displayed in the faces of the 
prisoners and even of their counEel, may be imagined. Mullany 
then, with a nervous glance at his former companions and in a tone 
of voice EO low as to be sometimes almost inaudible, told the tale of 
the Clerkenwell explosion; how meetings of all the male prisoners 
were held at his honse and Desmond's; how the powder was bought 
in Emall quantities by each man and with money raised by a general 
su bscription ; how they hovered about the prison and reconnoicred 
it for days, and held; adjourned meetings in front of public­
house bars to mature the plot; and how, finally, one of them hirad 
the truck and Barrett lit the fuse, and on the night of the explosion 
shaved his whiskers off and disappeared, For more than a year 
Greek fire had been made and bottled at English's place. Burke 
and English were friends. Dur:ng the first examination of Burke 
at Bow-street, BalTett waited for three days about the court with a 
loaded revolver to shoot Corydon, t he informer, but could not get a 
sight of him. Tbis was the substance of lI'IuJlany's evidence, but 
he says he knows a great deal more. The house iu Pnlteney-court 
seems to have been a favourite rendezvous of the conspil'atol'~, 
nearly all of whom, and particularly Barrett, were seen there at dif­
ferem times by many witnesses. The prisoners were remanded. 
The Comt of Queen's Bench has granted the application for the 
rcn:oval of the trial of Burke, Casey, and Shaw from Warwick to 
the Centml Criminal Court, 
Yesterday week Michael Gough was taken in the act of posting 
a Fenian plncard, at mid-day, on the front of the llfausion House. He 
prove d to be an Irish yonth, seventeen years of age, a b~okbinder 
by trade, and the same person, there is reason to believe, who com­
mitted a similar act on the previous Saturday. Gough had papers 
on him showing his sympathy with Fenianism, including a diary 
with extravagall.t entries respecting various Fenian occur~ences. 
The placard called upon Irishmen to "rise, unite, and strangle the 
Ilritish lion in his own gory ensign." 'While before the Lord Mayor 
the prisoner behaved with levity; and it was related that when a 
polic€man took from him a pencilcnse, he said, " Mind what you are 
up to; that is a revolver." He corrected the witnesses in trivial 
points, and when one of them stood down facetiously bade him 
.. good· by." Just be fare he was remauded, some small piece3 of 
hardmed mortar fell down an air-shaft into the c~urt. The prisoner, 
turning round, laughed, and said, "There's an explosion I" 
A man, giving the name (·f Thomas Daley, said to be an officer in the American army, and to be concerned in the intended Fenian attack on Woolwich Arsenal, has been arrested by the Woolwich police on <I charge of belonging to the Fenian brotherhood and of attempting to administer the Fenian oath to a sergeant of artillery. He was taken before Mr. Maude, at the Woolwich Police Court, on Wednesday, Nothing of a suspiciou3 character having been found upon him, and the fact of his having been" foolishly druuk" having bem (stablished, Mr. Maude acimonished him to keep sober for the future and discharged him, 
We understand that the loyal address to the Queen, prepared by Mr. Digby Seymour, has been figned by 14,000 Irish residents in London, and that before its presentation, through the Home Secre­tary, on the JOth inst., it is expected that 20,000 signatures will ba attached to it. 
At the Court of Common Couucil, on Thursdcy week, Mr. Reed, after a speech against Fenianiem, moved an address to the Crown condemnatory of the late outrages of "a. seditious aud revolutionary organisatkn," and expressive of a determination to uphold the Constitution of the country at all hazards aud regardless of expense. The motion was seconded by Mr. Elliott aud carried unanimously, and £100 was vottd for the relief of thc sufferers by the Clerkenwell explosion. 
J onathan Allen, late national schoolmaster, was arrested on Monday, at Bohelblloy, in the county of Limerick, for Fenianism, Allm appears to be a name which in the history of the strange plots and terrible crimes of 1867-8 will take a high place with those of a more decidedJy Irish type. Jonathan is stated to be cousin of the Allen who was hanged at Manchester for the murder of Brett. Allen, the mall in custody on the charge of being implicated in the Clerkenwell murders, is said to belong to another family. 
On Monday night a martello tower in Waterford Harbonr was attacked by armed men. They exchanged some shots with t he military, and two of the insurgeuts fell, but they were borne off by their comrades. 
The premises of Mr. Casey, at Newport, in the county of Mayo, llave been broken' into, it is thought, by Feniaus, and 8 cwt, of gunpowder stolen. Several young men have been arrested on fmpicion. 
'Ihe Ilelfast police have arrested, nndcr a Lord Lientenant's war· mIlt, Thomas Charles M'Kenna, a. clerk of the Magnetic Telegraph Company in Ilelfast, and pJaced him in Antrim gaol, on a Fenian charge. The police of Mitchelstown, county of Cork, have a130 made three anests, 
OOU:NTRY NEWS. 

Lord El7erton has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, in the room °of the Marquis of Westminster, who has resigned. 
Lord Kinnaird and Admiral Sir J ames Hope were presented, last ~ee1r, with the freedom of the city of Perth. 
The ben€hers of King's Inns Society, Dublin, entertained the Lord Lieutenant at dinner on Thursday week. Nearly all the benchers were present. The Lord Lieutenant was greatly cheered. The only toast was "Th~ health of the Queen." 
Last week an old widow lady, named Evans, died at Swansea, at the house of her daughter. She had for many years previous to her death lived in a little cottage by herself. After her death a char­woman, who was cleaning the cottage, discovered, concealed in an old·fashioned night-stool, £lG06 lOa. in gold. 
The Duke of Argyll spoke on Monday at a meeting held in GlaBgow on behalf of the American Missionary Association, He nrged the strong claims which the negroes in the Southern St.'ttes had on white men, and pointed out that assistance rendered to the former would be regarded in America as an opportnne expression of the goodwill of this conntry towards the American people. 
At a special meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday, a committee was appointed to consider the subject of the bankruptcy and other laws" bearing npon commercial credit and morality." It was admitted by all the speakers that our bank­ruptcy law is in a most nnsatisfactory state, and that practically the dishonest trader runs little or no l'isk of bein g punished. 
An amatelll' concert, at the Townhall, HOllDslow, in a'd DE the funds of the ·national schoo13 of that town, last week, was most numerously attended. Lady vVilliam Lennox gave her vahable eervice8, and was encored in her two ballads, " I built a bridge of fancies" and the " Appeal "-the latter composed by herself. The Rev, E, Hayden presided at the pianoforte. 
The town of Ipswich was on vVednesday given up to gaiety, in celebration of the opening of the new Townhall, a handsome build­ing, which has cost the town, exclusive of the value of the site, about £ 16,000, The hall stands upon the south side of the Cornhill, a large open square, in the centre of the town. We shall give a View of the Townhall in our next Number. 
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The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has appointed Dr. Robert DilL Profel;sor of Midwifery to the Qneen's College, Belfast. 
Lord Hobart, it is stated, is about to proceed to Constantinople, in the capacity of resident director of the Ottomo.n Bank, with t) salary of £3000 a year. His Lordship has had considerable experience in financial matters. 
A lady in France, who frequently gives liberal sums in charitywithout revealing her name to the public, hlls just forwarded to the Dirtctor of the Administratiou of Public Assistance . 9400f. for dis­tributiou among poor people to. aid them in paying their rent. 
The Right Hon. Milner Gibson addressed a large meeting of hh constituents at Ashton on Tuesday night, the Mayor presiding. The right hon. gentleman expressed his views on all the prominen~ topiCS of the day, his speech occupying an hour and a half. He believed our commercial difficulties were but temporary, and attributed them in part to our neglect to stipulate for free exclfauge in our colonies when we granted them self· government. He feared the new Con­federation would extend the Canadian protective dutie3 to the adjacent colonies. Referring to Reform, Mr. Gibson characterised personal rating as a delusive attempt at restriction ; the £12 COl1l1ty franchise to a limit that could not be maintained; and the minority vote an unconstitutional inuovation which he hoped. would speedily be removed. After advocating the ballot as urgeutly required, he proceeded to review the education question, and ex­prcesed his deeire to co· operate with Mr. Bruce, preferring for his own palt a rating system and secular schools. Respecting Irish affairs, he would favour a closer union than ever with England. He would abolish the useless vice· royalty. He deplored the undue ascendancy of classes in Ireland ; and regarded Fenianism as tile bitter fruit of Irish misgovernment and of our mistaken course dUl1ng the American Vvar. He believed the Alabama controversy 
would be reserved for settlement by a new Government both in America and England, who would be lInpledged and uufettered by the past utterances of their predecessors ·in office. The right hon. 
I gentleman received a unalliUlOu.~ vote of confidence. 
The Court of Queen's Bench has refused a rule nisi for criminal information against the publisher of the Daily Teleg,'aplt for au alleged libel upon M;'. R. Pigott, of the b-isltrnan, against whom proceedings have beeu instituted by the authorities at Dublin Castle. 
lotteries, under the title of prize drawings, have increased withitt the la~t year or two to an extent which is quite unauthorised by la .... 'The police have at last taken action in the matter. TI:t~ Rev. Henry Geary, the Incumbent of Christ Church, Home Bay, disposed, by means of a lottery, of the articles remaining at a ladie~' bazaar in aid of the Church Enlargement Flmd. Every subscriber received the full value of the amount subscribed, and there was not the slightest imputation on anyone concerned. The St. Allgustine's Bench, however, Jast Saturday, C'fder~d Mr. Geary to p~y £1 4.B. costs, and ordered him to come up for judgment when called apon. 
The magistrat€!! at Waterford Petty Sessious have fined one of their own order, Mr. R. T. Carew, D.L., £3 and costa, for aendi!1~ into the city for sale a cow unfit for human food. If they thought he had been aware that the meat was tn)sound they would (they said) have fined him the full penalty of £ 20. 
IRISH LINENS, direct from Belfa~t, at 

Manufacturera' Prices. 
JAMES LINDSAY .nd CO, will forwA.rd cl\1Tiagewpaid on parcels of £5 and ll~Wal'dl!..SIngleand Double DamaskTable Cloths, Nltpkins, Dia.pers, l! amily .uineue, Sheetinge. Pillow Linens, Huckabl~ck and Diaper ToweUiu5ril, Gla.ss Cloths, Pantl'y Towels, &c.; Ladies and Gea~lemen's I..'\wn aDd Cambric Handkerchiefs. 
PattenHu,nd Price~Ul)t post-has. 
James LindflRY and Co., 18, DoneguU-plnce, "Belfast. 
The past week or so has been tolerably prolific in extra-Parlia­mentary utterances, aud several of the dii minores have beeu ex­panding themselves before credulous constituents. Thus, Mr_ Butler­Johnstone has been trying to make the electors of CanterIDury believe in something like a realisation of the fable of the frog and the ox, without the fatal catastrophe to the former which contains the whole moral; and Mr_ Huddleston, his colleague, has, of course, followed on the same side. Mr. Corrance has been showing the folk in Suffolk the way in which he, even a new member, so fluently has talked in the House; and from Ireland there comes a rare out­of-doors cry from members; but as they were only· Mr. Peel-Dawson and Sir Frederick Heygate, it is hardly worth while to reproduce here any of their utterances in Londonderry. 
at the waist behind with a cluster of yellow and purple flower@, terminating in drooping ends. A small tuft of similar flowers is worD. on each should~r. . 
Fig. 3. E vening JJress, with under inpe of crimson satin, over which is w,)rn a white muslia skirt, ornamented at each seam with a broad insertion of guipure. At the bottom i2 a deep flounce, surmounted by a correspouding insertion, and trimmed Vl-ith a lace border. The body of the robe is c)mpoeed of a Spanish corselet of crimson satin, fastened at the waist wiLh a girdle. The shoulders are ornamented with rosettes, and cords, and tassels; the long satin sash encircling the waist is fastened behind. 
Fig. 4. Robe of dark fawn· coloured paplin, with tight sleeves, IInd trimmed at the bottom with a daeply-fluted flounce, secured at the top with a biais. Over it is worn a large jacket of similar matetial, but dotted over with small dark spots, and having long, loose, hanging sleeves, made in front in the fOl'm of a mantle, and having a long skirt behind. Chapeau of light blue velvet, trimmed with a border of bla:ck feathers, and with blue velvet strings. 
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 

A WORK hal appeared at Brussels which will be of much inte­rest to those ~u8ica~ readers whos: studies extend to the history.of the art. It IS entltled L a J['"nq" e aux Pc.ys-Bas avam le JJtX­N e!lvie.ne Siecle; Documents, Inedits et Annotes ; Compositeurs, Virtuoses, Theoriciens, Luthiers; Operas, Motets, Airs Nationaux, Ac!tdemies, Maltrise~, Livres, Portu.it, &c.; avec Planches de Musique et Table AlphabCtique. Par Edmond Vander Straeten. Tome premier. This somewhat old-fashioned but convenient title saves us by its minuteness from the necessity of saying much about the contents of the book. It is generally known that on the revival of music as a modern art it was in the Low Countries (Belgium and Holland) that its cultivation was carried further than in any other part of Europe. The Flemish school is the most ancient in existence. Even the Italians and Germans-not to mention the French and the English-are indebted to the musicians of Flanders for the rudiments of music as a science and an art, in as far as they had been discovered before the fifteenth century. At that peried the Low Countries were full of great musicians, and to many of them we Can trace the grandest monuments of the art, which have to this day withstood the ravages of time. To rescue from oblivion the memories of those forgotten patriarchs of music-to relate the events of their lives-to enumerate and describe their works-to show the influence of their lives and their works upon every branch of the art which they cultivated­the.e have formed the task of the author cf this book. That the t ask is a colossal one is sufficiently apparent from the author's de­
IlCription in the title of his work; but it is only from a perusal of the work itself that we can appreciate the enormous amount of research which it has cost him. We observe, too, that the work is still incomplete. The first volume only has as yet a ppeared; and a second, we understand, will be published speedi!y. w:e have pleasure in learning this; for we feel assured that It wlll be expected with much interest. No part of the history of music has been so i.Jladequately treated as the portion which forms the subject of this work. Burney, our principal English historian, has given a mere outline of the history of music in the Low Countries; and F etis, a writer of the present time, and of much higher pretensions to fulness and accurncy, has produced a work so slight and incorrect liS to be (in SO far as this subject i2 concerned) of scarcely any vnlue whatever. The works of this eminent writer, notwithstanding the err01'8 and omissions, of which they (especially the" Biographie Universelle") are full, have become :lo leading authotity on the subjects of which they treat. And yet we are told by the author of the book before us that, in his first volume alone, he has detected and pointed out six hundred mistakes made by M. Fetis, and that the second volume, about to appear, will show up a still greater number. Our author goes so far as to accuse M. Fetis of wilful and premeditated falsehood. Such a charge we can. scarcely believe; but, even ascribing his errors to carelessness aloue, they are sufficient to deprive M. Fetis of all title to credit. 
The accomplished amateur who rejoices in the nom de plume of " 'Walter Maynard " has just produced two songs, both published by Cmmer and Co. The one is Homeward Bo" nd! the other is Oh, say at once [ love thee! The words of the first, written by William Allingham, are remarkable (as well as the air) for their ~r~e and joyous spirit; so remarkable, indeed, as to be worth transcl'lbmg :­
Head the ship for England I Nightly shines the north star, 

Shake out ev'ry sail; Higber on our bow; 
Blithely leap the billows, Straight we run for England, 
Merrily sings the gale. Our thoughts are ia it now. 
CI>ptain, work the reck'ning ; Jolly times with friends ashore, 
How many knots a day? When we've drawn our pay;
Round the world-home again-Round the world-home agaiu­
That's the sailor's way. That 's the sailor's way. We've traded with the Yankees, Tom whl to the children,
Brazilians, and Ohinese ; Jack will to his dear, 
We 've laugh'd with dusky beauties, Joe will to his parents, 
. III shade of high palm-trees. Bob to ·pipe and beer; 
Across the Line and Gulf Stream, Dicky will to dancing,
Round by Table Bay; To hear the fiddle play; 
Round the world-home again-I Round the world-home again-
That 's the sailor's way . ~'hat 's the sailor's way. 
Of the other songWalter Maynard has written the words as well as the music. Itis very good, but not so original lIS "Homeward Bound." 
The skill and enterprise of many manufacturers of keyed instru­ments in England, France, and Germany have effected such im­portant improvements on the harmoninm that, since it ha.s become 'known, it has acquired the capacities and powers of an entll'ely new instrument. We need not describe an instrument now so well known. It is sufficient to say that it is capable iu every respect of supplying the place of the chamber organ, with the further advantage of much greater cheapness. Consequently, the demand for it is in­creasiug every day, and it is much in use, not only among amateurs, but among the most eminent professional artists; for the composition and performance of organ music. Much music of a high order is now written expressly for the harmonium; and among the most recent publications of this class we find several works which we desire to recommend to the attention of our readers. The fi rst of these is Six Volunta"ies fo,' the Harmonium. By J. Lemmens. (1'ovello and Co.) M. Lemmens, professor in the Cons~r~atoi:e of Bmssels, is generally known as one of the most dlstmgUlShed musicians of the time. These voluntaries are worthy of his high reputation. They are designed either as exercises for the use of the student of the instrument or for performance in places of worship in conjunction with the services of religion. They are pure organ music-simple, clear, and solemn, as such music ought to be; full of rich and beautiful harmony, yet without taxing too severely the executive powers of the performer. The next of these publications is S'ix Movements from Mendelssohn's " Elifah ., A"/'anged from the Full SC01'eforthePianriforte and Harmoni"m, by J. W.Elliot. (Novello and Co,) This work includes so~eof the finest portions of Mendelssohn's greatest work; and Mr. Elhot's ~ostmasterly arrang~ment, by ~m­bining the powers of both the planoforte and harmomum, has glven a variety and richness to his score which otherwise could not have been doue. 
There is another new work for the harmonium which is well worthy of notice. It is Hamilton's Selections rif Psalm and Hymn Tunes, speciaUy arr:anged for !he Harmo?,!i"m. (W. Ha~ilton,. Glasgow.) This is a senal pubhclltlOn, of whIch we have receIved SIX monthly numbers, each containing about forty tunes, selected with great judgment, clearly and cOITectly printed, and sold for su::pence each. It is, in short, a mo<t useful work, and, we trust, WIll have the success which it deserves. 
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The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Theophile Chrestien as Consul for Rangoon and British Bllrmah, and of Mr. William Arbuthnot as Consul for Madras and the presidency thereof, for the King of Sweden and Norway. 
The Government of Roumania, not to be behind the rest of the 'World, is making great efforts to secure the efficiency of its army. A military committee has been appointed to buy arms, and its members have proceeded for that purpose to Berlin, Vienna, and Brt1Bs'els. The arming and military organisation of the country are to be effected on the Prussian model. 
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS. 

THE COUNTESS OF TYROONNEL. 


The Right Hon. Sarah, Countess of Tyrconnel, who died of bronchitis, on the 23rd ult., at her seat, Kiplin Park, Catterick, Yorkshire, was the only child aud heiress of Robert Crowe, Esq., of 
Kiplin, Yorkshire, by his wife, Anne, daughter of Christopher Buckle, Esq., of Burgh, in Banstead. Her Ladyship was born in 1800, and was maITied, Oct. 1, 1817, to Sir John Delaval Carpenter, fourth and last Earl of Tyrconnel, Viscount Carlingford, of Carlingford, and sixth Baron Carpenter, of Killaghy, in the county of Kilkenny, G.C,H., a descendant of the famous General Lord Carpenter, who defeated the J acobites in the rising of 1715. The Earl of Tyrconnel was born Dec. 16, 1790, and died June 25, 1853, without surviving iEsue, when his honours became extinct. Her Ladyship, after the Earl's death, chiefly resided at Kiplin, where she took a deep interest in the welfare of the sUITounding poor. Her death is much and widely lamented. 
LORD VENTRY. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Townsend Aremberg De Moleyns, third Baron Ventry, of Ven try, in the county of Kerry, in the Peerage of Ireland, and a Baronet, who died, from an at­tack of paralysis, on the 18th ult., at his seat, Burn· ham House, Din­gle, in the county 
(,-.,1:1 of Kerry, was the only son of the Hon. Townsend Mullins, by his wife, Christa­bella, daughter of Solomon Day­rolles, Esq., of . Heuley Park, and was grandson of Sir Thomas Mullins, Bart., first Lord Ventry. He was born in January, 1786, and in early life served with dis­tinction in the Peninsular War as an officer of the 7th Ft1Biliers, and was left for dead on the field of Albnera. A ball which penetrated his hip during the engagement remained embedded in the bone during the rest of his life. He obtained the rank of Captain in 1811. He succeeded his uncle, WiUiam Townsend, second Lord Ventry, in the family houours, Oct. 5, 18271...and resumed the ancient surname of his family, De Moleyns, by li.oyal license, dated Feb. 24, 1841. His Lordship married, Aug. 18, 1821, his cousin, Eliza, second daughter of Sir John Blake, eleventh Baronet, of Menlough Ca£tle, in the county of Galway, and by her, who survives him, he lp.aves issue four sons and four daughters; the latter are-the Hon. Christabella, wife of Lieutenant Charles Hawkey, R.li,; the Hon. Rose, wife of Richard Chute, Esq., of Chute Hall, in the county of Kerry; the Hon. Eliza, wife of the Rev. Henry Joy Tombe, M.A., Incumbent of Glanely, in the county of Wicklow; and the Hon. Helena·Emily, wife of Edward James Saundereon, Esq., of ClIStle Saunderson, in the county of Cavan, M.P. for that county. Lord Ventry is succeeded by his eldest son, Dayrolles Blakelile:[t.now fourth Baron Ventry, who was born Jan. 22, 1828, and is Lieutenant-Colonel of the Kerry Militia. He married, Sept. 12, 1860, Harriet Elizabeth Frances, elder daughter of Andrew Wauchope, Esq., of Niddrie Marischal, Midlothian, and has two sons and three daughters. The Royal license of Feb. 8, 1841, authorising the resumption of the name of De Moleyns by the late Lord Ventry, and the other descendants of his grandfather, recites that" he is descended from a family long seated at Burnham, in the county of Norfolk, of which his immediate ancestor, Frederick William Mullins, or Molins, came to Ireland in the reign of King Charles n.;" and, further, that" previously to the sixteenth century the family name was uniformly spelled Molins, and, more anciently, De Moleyns or De Molins." Thomas Mullins, Esq., of Burnham, was created a Baronet, Dec. 7,1797, and was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland, July 29, 1800, as Baron Ventry. His Lordship was grandfather of tbe nobleman just deceased. 
THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP HOPKINS. The Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D.D., Protestant Bishop of 
Vermont, who died, on the 9th ult., at his episcopal residence at Rock Point, WIIS of English extraction, and was bom in Dublin, Jan. 30, H92. His parents emigrated to America when he was only eight years of age, and he owed his sound early instruction to maternal talent and care. He was intended for the law, but after completing his classical education he pa2sed a year in a counting-house in Philadelphia, and for a short time assisted Wilson, the ornithologist, in the preparation of the plates for his work. He was subsequently admitted to the Pittsburg Bar, where he practised until 1823, when he quitted the legal profession for the ministry. He was Rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburg; assistant minister of Trinity Church, Boston; deputy in the General Conventions of the Church, and Pro­feslor of Divinity in the new Theological Seminary of Massachusetts. He was elected, in 1832, first Bishop of Vermont, a dignity he filled to his death. He busied himself under his episcopate in building np the Vermont Episcopal Institute, and was occupied besides with con­troversial and other works. One of his latest books, a "Church History in Verse," was published last year. Bishop Hopkins was present at the Pan-Anglican Synod at L~mbeth, in which he took a· prominent part. While he was in England the degree of D.C.L. was conferred on him by the University of Oxford. The Right Rev. Prelate married Miss MUller, daughter of Caspar Otto MUller, a retired merchant of Baltimore, but previously of Hamburg, Germany. 
GENERAL SIR THOMAS BROTHERTON, G.C.B. 
General Sir Thomas WiUiam Brotherj;on G.C.B., Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, a very distinguished veteran officer, who died, on the 20th ult., at Esher, was born in 1785, and entered the 
Army, as Cornet in the 14th Dragoons, in January, 1800. He was in Egypt, under the celebrated General Sir Ralph Abercromby, in 1801, and alsoin 1805, in Germany, under Lord Cathcart. He served in Portugai, Spain, and France from 1808 to 1814. He was at nearly all the Peninsular cavalry affairs and skirmishes with his regiment, the 14th Light Dragoons. He was also engaged in the action of the Coa, and was several times wounded. He had received the war medal with seven clasps for the battles of Busaco, Fuentes d' Onor, Salamanca (where he was severely wounded), Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Nive, in which 1llSt battle he was wounded and taken prisoner. For several years he commanded the 16th Lancers. He was in July, 1830, appointed one of the Aides·de-Camp to King William IV., and subsequently held the appointment of Inspecting General of Cavalry at head-quarters. He was made a KC.B. in 1855and a G.C.B. in 1861. He was appointed in May, 1849, Colonel of the 15th Ht1Bsars; and was, on July 17, 1859, transferred to the colonelcy of the 1st Dragoon Guards. Brotherton became a Captain in 1801, a Major in 1811, a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1814, a Colonel in 1830, a Major-General in 1841, a Lieutenant-General in 1851, and a General April 1, 1860. General .Brotherton married, first, in 1819, Louisa Ann, daughter of J. Stratton, Esq.; and, secondly, in 1865, Tomasina, youngest daughter of the late Rev. WaIter Hore, and grandniece, maternally, of Robert, second Earl of Roden, KP. Sir Thomas Brotherton leaves issue. 
REAR-ADMIRAL FOWELL. Rear-Admiral. William N. Fowell, R.N., who died on the 17th ult. at Taunton, entered the Royal Navy on March 26, 1819, and served as midshipman on board the Lion schooner, in pursuit of pirates in the West Indies, in 1822 and 1823. He was mate of the Pickle in a severe action with and capture of the Bolodora, a large armed piratical slaver, in 1829. He served on the Gambia during the BaITa War, in 1831 and 1832, and, as Lieutenant in command of the Experiment, steam-vessel, he was actively employed at Prescott, 
on the St. Lawrence, in 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. He was senior officer of the lake squadron from 1843 to 1848. Fowell became a Captain in 1862, and a Rear· AdmiriU, Sept. 1, 18i7, 
DR. DAVY. 

John D~vy, Esq., lILD., F.R.S., an eminent physician, geologist, 
and phySIOlogist, brother of the famous chemist, Sir Humphry 
Davy,. Bart., died, on the 24th ult., at his residence, Lesketh.hord, 

near Ambleside. He was born at Penzance, in Cornwall, in 1790. 
He studied medicine in Edinburgh, and obtained his M.D. degree in 
that University in 1814. He entered the Army as a surgeon, and at 

the t.ime of his decease held the rank of Inspector-Gene:al of Army' 
hospItals. Dr. Davy wrote much and well on Ecientific and general 
subjects. His physiological researches have been principally 
published in the Philosophical Tmnsactions, the Transactions 
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Medico­
Chlrurgical Society. One of his most recent works consists of a 
series of " Lectures on Che,mistry:" He also wrote a " Life of. ~ir 
:S;umphry Davy," and edIted Bir Humphry's collected works,' m 
nme volumes. 
ERRATUM.-In the notice, last week, of the late Sir John Ohandos R, ade, Bart., it was wrongly stated that he never married. He married, Jan. 6, 1814, Louisa, youngest daughter of David Murray, E.sq., and niece of Alexan~er, seventh Lord Elibank, by whom, who d,ed Feb. 6, 1821, he had lssue two sons and three daughters-viz., Compton, who was born Oct. 17, 1814, and died July 31,1851; John Chandos, who was born in 1816 and died in 1818; Louisa J ane, who died unmarried in 1837; Emily; and Clara Louisa, who was married, Oct. 13, 1846, to John Talbot Rice, Esq., cousin of George Rice, fourth and present Lord Dynevor, and died Aug. 11, 1853. 
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Hon. Sir Frederick William Adolphus Wright Bruce, G.C.B., late of Washingtou, in the United States, was proved in London, on the 9th uIt., by his brother, the Hon. Thomas Charles Bruce, and Frederick Peake, Esq., solicitor, Gray's Inn. The will is dated Nov. 24, 1866; and is attested by Frederick Antrobus and 
W. A. C. Barrington, both of her Britannic Majesty's diplomatic service. The testator died, Sept. 19 last, at Tremont House, Boston, 
U.S. The personal property in this country was sworn under £70,000. He bequeaths to his nephew, the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine B legacy of £10,000; to his godson, the Hon. Frederick Bruce, £7000; and to his niece, the Hon. Louisa Bruce, £ 5000-the son and daughter of the late Earl. The testator bequeaths to his sister Char~otte L~cker, a legacy of £5000 and the continuance of a~ annmty of £200; and to his executor, Mr. Peake, a legacy of £1000. He leaves to his man-servant, Charles, £500; and to each of his other servants one year's wages. All legacies to be free of duty. He appoints his said brother resitiuary legatee. 
The will of Major-General Edward Hely·Hutchinson, 33rd Foot, on the retired full-pay list, of Tunbridge Wells, and Belvedere-terrace, Brighton, was proved_in London on the 16th ult., by the executors­namely, his relict, and W. Bell, Esq., of Edinburgh. The personalty was sworn under £18 000. The will is dated Nov. 10, 1863 ; and the gallant General died Dec. 1, 1867, aged fifty-six. The testator directs his executors to convert his property into money, except his Dublin estate, consisting of the Market House and Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin, and his library, plate, and jewels; he leaves his entire property to his wife, but if any children the estate, with the excep· tion of £2000, is to be equally divided amongst them. 

The will of Edward Weston, Esq., J.P., of Leicester, for many years a magistrate of that borough, was proved in the Registry at Leicester by William Billson and John Baines, both of Leicester, the joint acting executors. The personalty was sworn under £ lO,OOO. The will is dated AUff' 14, 1866, and a codicil March 12, 1867 ; and the testator died Oct. I) , aged eighty-five. He has left several small annuities and legacies to his relatives and frienci!s. The residue of his estates, both real and personal, he leaves to be divided »etween his nephew and nieces, the children of his brothers, Thomas and William, and his sister, Mrs. Ann Freeman. He has left the follow­ing charitable bequests :-To the Leicester Dispensary, Leicester Infirmary and Fever House, Leicester Asylum for the Welfare of the Blind, each £50, free of duty; and 19 gs. to the Leicester Infant School Society, Gallow-tree Sch001, and the Leicester Unitarian Great Meeting and Sunday Scho. J and there are legacies to a few 
other institutions. . 
The will of the late Miss Ell · beth Bolton, of 157, King's·road, Chelsea, who died Dec. 19 last, ~ged fifty-nine, was proved, iu the London Court, on the 18th ult., 1 nder £14,000 personalty. She has left the following charitable bequests :-To the Church of England Missionary SOCiety, £1000 stock; St. Giles and St. George, Blooms­bury, Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children and Ragged Schools, Field-lane Night Refuges, and the National Life-boat In­stitution, each £500 stock; the National and Infant Schools con­nected with Holy Trinity Church, Sloane-street, Chelsea, £200 stock; the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, £100 stock; and a like sum to the churchwardens of Holy Trinity Church, to be applied to the incidental expenses of that church. 
BIRTHS AND DEATHS. THE following is the return of the Registrar-General of births and deaths in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 25 :­Last week 4819 births and 3274 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality WIIS 27 per 1000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per 100 in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 37 in Dublin; 27 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 38 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 26 in Sheffield, 31 in Bradford, 23 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. In London the births of 1157 boys and 1166 girls, in all 2323 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2205. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1395. It was the fourth week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of popUlation, 1716. The deaths in the present retm"Il are less by 321 than the estimated number. . The deaths from zymotic diseases were 249, the corrected average number being 348. Twenty-one deaths occured from smallpox, 42 from measles, 29 from scarlatina, 5 from diphtheria, 52 from whooping-congh, 31 from fever, and 13 from diaIThooa. Phthisis proved fatal to 157 persons; 206 deaths were caused by bronchitis, 89 by pneumonia, and 66 by diseases of the heart. The deaths of 5 persons from burns or scalds, of 7 infants from suffocation, of 3 persons from intemperance, and of 2 persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. 
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Recently, before the Colombo Criminal Sessions, a case of de­secration of a Mohammedan mosque, popularly known as the" Great P-ig Case," 'WIIS brought to a close. Eight half-castes aud Cingalese were charged with having forcibly made their way into B Moham­medan mosque at Barbeyn, and deposited a dead pig on the pulpit where the priest officiates. A Mohammedan priest gave evidence that the mosque was defiled by the presence of the pig, and that they were in straits about what was to be done to purify it, and were about to write to Mecca for advice. Six of the eight prisoners were very properly sentenced each to a year's imprisonment with hard labour and a fine of £ 50. 
The railway returns issued show that in the year 1866 three pas­sengers were killed and five seriously injnred at railway stations in England by getting out of trains before they had stopped; one passenger was killed in attempting to get into a train after it had started, one in crossing from one platform to another, three throur;h falling from the platform and being run over, a ne~spaperboy. m crossing, and three trespasser.s; and one wom~n, shakmg han~s Wlth a passenger through the wmdow of a carnage as the tram was leaving, got her clothes entangled -lith thecaITiage and was dra~ged on the rails and killed. In Scotland two passengers were killed, and two in Ireland, through getting out of trains before they had stopped. 

RAMBLES ON RAILWAYS." 
IT might be expec.ted, from th~ title, that this volume would co~tain a series of narratIve or descriptive sketches of so many pleasure­trips enjoyed by the author on different lines of modern trav~l. :rhe real cbaracter of his work, though it frequently turns a~ld~ mto various entertaining digressions, partakes more ?f. sulilstant:almfor­mation. Few persons have had better opportumtles than Sir Cusack Roney of becoming practically acquainted with ~he actual sy~te:n of railway construction and traffic, whether m Great Bntam and Ireland or in foreign countries. The great mass. of statistical details which he has collected, and a portIOn of which is here digested for our instruction, might ~e found in documents accessible to ordinary readers. But hiS opinions on most of the questions suggested by these .facts, and by the common experience and particular controversl~s of the day, are wortby of SO"1e attention, both from railv:ay managers and shareholders o~ the one hand, .and from the trav.ellmg public on the other. These views are. not·, mdeed, expressed m t~e rigid form of theoretical proposi~ions, h~t may be ~athered from ,hIS incidental comments on the affairs of different railway compames, and on their respective modes of operation, at home and a~road. It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the importance of the subject at the present time, when we learn from the Board?f Trade ~eturnsfor the year ending Dec. 31, 1865, that the total paid up capital of all the railways in tee United Kingdom, including debenture stock and debenture loans now amounts to £455,478,000, or much more than half the N atio~al Debt. It is a very lamentable fact, that. the ordinary share capital applied to these most useful undertakmgs obtains an average dividend of no more than £2.1?s. 10d ..for each £100 whilst money iRvested in Government secuntJes obtams more than '3 per cent. After all that may be said of the blunders, the rashness, and extravagance of railway management, and of ~he credulity of shareholders, we cannot but feel that the natIOn owes a huge amount of gratitude ~o the 'yhole class. of persons who have subscribed so largelYl With so little .pecuma.ry advan­tage to furnish this vast pub ic accommodatIOn. Srr Cusack Ron~y appeals to no such' senti;oent,. but this considera­tion seems to us to strengthen hiS chum on behalf of the railway companies to more liberal treatment than ~hey have been accustomed to receive from the Government, espeCially from the Post Office authorities. He enters fully into the discussion of ~he matters in dispute relating to the postal service on railways, whICh are set forth in the· report of a Royal Commission dated May 7, 1867 and in tbe statements of Mr. Frederic Hill, Assistant Secretary to the Post Office' Mr. Edward Page, Insfector.General; and Mr. 
C. H. Gregory, th~ engineer, C?n the officia side of the controversy. 
-It is one of many years' staIl:dm~, and of ~oo co;oplex a nature to be here explained' but we are mclmed to thmk Sir Cusack Roney has made out a good case; or, at I~ast, th~t he has successfully defended the railways from the accusatIOns which the Postmaster-General and his staff have now and then brought against them. He succeed~ no less in vindicating them, on the whole, from the popular complamts of irregularity and ';ll'punctuality, and ?f reckless managemen~, causing frequent aCCIdents and loss of life. No class of me!llS faultless' but those employed on railways have the strongest motives for exerting themselves to avoid irregularity in the running of trains' and the companie~, which paid in the one year 1865 so much as £333,533 in compensation for accidents, besides £200,000 for damage' to their own stock and roads, canno~ be supposed to 1:>e careless of these risks. The total. number of railway paBSen.g~rs m 1865 was 261,577,415, of whom 23 were killed and 698 v:ere mJure,d by accidents involving no misconduct or want of cautIOn on the~ own part. Sir Cusack Roney is justified in his remark that thiS pruportion is exceedingly sm~ll; being i~comparab~y less than th~t of the persons killed or maimed by carriages runmng over them m the streets of London, not to mention the risks of ordinary traffic on the high roads, the risk of shipwreck at se~, and the risks of fire~, explosions or falling walls and chimneys, m many houses. It IS certain th~t the railways of England are much safer than those of 
America notwithstanding their higher speed and the frequency _of their tr~ins. With B complete system of eignalling, generally adopted and strictly enforced, we do not see that there could be much room for any further improvement in the working of our best­managed railways. Sir Cusack Roney thinks the present sp.eed of express and mail trains, which doe~ not ~sually~xceed f.orty miles an hour inc1udin!( the stoppages, as high as IS consistent wltheafety ; an opinion in which we quite ~gree wit~ him, not to speak of ~he dele­terious effects of more rapid travellmg on the paEsengers health. He gives us a graphic !lOd animated sketch of the jou~ney north­ward, by the "li;oite~ mail,': from Euston·square, which reaches Edinburgh, 400 miles distant, m ten hours and a half; the run to Stafford, 13311 miles, being done in three hours and ~ quarter. The chief stations on the London and North-Western line, Wolverton, B1isworth Tamwortb, Rugby, Stafford, and Crewe, with the greatworkshop~ for repairing locomotive engines, carriages, and goods­waggons, at Crewe and W 01verton, an~ the manufB?ture of Bessemer­steel rails at the former place, are mmutely descnbed; nor are t~e refreshment-rooms, with their skilful handmaidens, passed over m silence. In the remaining chapters of his book .Sir. Cusack Ron:y supplies an account of two or three of the prmClpal French rail­ways-the Lyons and Mediterranean, the Orleans, an~ other lines ; those of Austria and the north of Italr; the Mont Cems tunnel an~ Mr. Fell's summit line over Mont Cems; the Indian overland mail and the proposed new route ~a Brindisi to Alexand.ri~; the gigantic American enterprise of a rail way across the prames and Ro~ky Mountains from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast of Califorma; the progr~ss of railway construction in British I~dia; and the underground railwar in London. His book contams a store of knowledge on these mteresting subjects. 
The coming of age of Earl Ferrers WaS celebrated, yesterdar. week, at Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, the ancient seat of the family. 
The Italia of Naples states that three handsome bronze bedsteads have been discovered at Pompeii, and that they are the most elegant yet found there. 
The Porte has decided on adding a couple of turret·ships to its iron.clad squadron. Plans for the new vessels have been received from several English and French builders. 
The recent heavy rains and floods have caused considerable daamge and inconvenience in the various low-lying suburbs of the metro­polis. The water is lying on many high roads to the dep h , me mches, and on several of the lines the trains have to travel over rails completely submerged. 
Mr. Train gave his first lecture at Cork on Monday night. He had an enormous audience, who appeared by their noisy manifestations ~o be vastly delighted. The Pall Mall Gazette correspondent says that the lecture was of a very rambling character, but withal amusing. Mr. Train remarked, m commencing, that he had sent 
. invitations to the detective police to attend his lecture. He went on to praise Ireland, referring, of course with disapproval, to Mr. Roebuck's recent speech at Sheffield; and as a proof of Irish great­ness reci~ed a list of distinguished Irishmen. After this he called for groans for "Mr. Roebuck's slanders," and the appeal was very heartily responded to. Mr. Train then spoke of himself. He said that he was born in Boston, which he characterised as one of the meanest places in America. He was sorry for that piece of ilI­fortune, and begged to apologise for it. His ancestors, however, were very distinguished people, and one of them had been second cook in the Mayflower. All the Americans who had come here, he said-Mr. Everett, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. Adams-were "bottled up" on getting to London by Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone. Assuming that he should get the £100,000 he claims as damages from the British Government, he said he would give it all for a single hour to speak for Ireland in the British Parliament. He concluded amid immense cheering, and was afterwards borne in triumph on the shoulders of some of his admirers. On Tuesday nigbt Mr. Train lectured on female suffrage. 
• " Rambles on Railways." With Map., Diagrams, a.nd Appendices, &c. 
y Sir Cusack P. Ro»ey, B.A. Efflngham W loon. 
CHESS. 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

DAVUS, It. T.,OLIVER, C. B , a.nd Others are mistaken, we believe. :ft" / Minkwlth's beautiful Problem can be solvea only in his own way. 
C. R. B.-It shall be again examined carefuJ1y, a.nd a. report of the result shall be given
next week. 
W. D. H ENRIOUS, M.C.P.-I. The circula.r of the Chess World will be sent to :ra", if you forward your a.ddress. 2. The application will, no doubt, achieve the p.nd in view. 
AN AMATEUR, who sends a game pla.yed bctwe~.n •• Heir Deck:" Rond himself, should send his na.me. not for publicatt'Jll, but as some guarantee tha.t the game is a renl one. 
W. B. T.-We hflve not room to spare this week, 80 it must, with ma.ny other communica.­tionfl, stand over for a few days. 
PATON, G. T., and O~hels.-They are both by the same comp oser. See notice to H. Frnu in our last. 
E. H.-We forp'~t nt the moment where it was published. 
SOLUTIO~S 01,. PROBLEM NO. 1247 by A. B.. Larry, F. R. S., JemJ Sawney. R. A" G. P. S., Henry, Box And Cox, Miles, Cosmo, Geraldinp, P. a. Flying Seua, I. B. G., Pip, Manfred and Ma.n FridflY, Ernest, Gemgy, L. S. D., 1867, M. P., D. W. G., Fellx, Dicky, WHfred, 
N. C .. W. B. i S. P. Q. B., of B, uges i H. F., Lyons: Peon, Si~ismund, I. K. T .• Lional, 
R. B. C., KittYt A. Clerk. Pill-bo'l:L-A Swede, Bomba.dier. Q. E. D,t,.Sa.m, Pnsis, W. P. W., Kilkenny. Brlalington Quay, W. H. F., Pieba.ld, t. C. B., Anna, Leopold! Rex; I. V" of Truro; Volunteer Qui(tnuue, Iota., Civis, T. a D .• Peon, Peregrine, Van Tramp, Medicus, Ernest. Ba.nshee, Pally, Fou, Qulto ; R" of Loughboro' i T. Hambul'gb, Carlo, Florence, A. F. I., Oxoniends are correct. All (.others are wrong. 
SOLU'fION OF PROBLEM No. 1247. 
WHITE. BLACK. WHITE. BLACK. 

1. 
B to Q 6th (ch) Kt takes B or (*) reply is 3. Kt to R 6th (ch), snd mate nel:t 

2. 
Q takes B Kt takes Q move. Finally, if be p1ay R to Kt 3rd, there follows 3. Kt givC8 m~te.)


(If he play the Pawn to Queen White 
a.nswers with S. R takes Kt, and ma.tes 3. R to B 7th (ch) K moves 
next move. Ifhe pla.y R to Kt rq, White's 4. Ror Kt mates 
(*) I. I 3. Qto K 6th (ch) K tak.. P (oost) 
K to Kt Srd
2. B to Kt 8th Kt tak~s R (beet) 4. Q to Q R 6th. Mate 
(dla. ch.) 
PROBLEM NO. 1249. 
By Mr. W. GRmsHAw. 
One of the set to which has been awarded toe prize for the best English 

Problems at the British Problem Tourney. 
BLACK. 


WHITJII. 
White to. play, .nd mate in fGur moves. 

CHESS IN·BRllSLAU. The following fine Game, from tbc New Bet·line,. SchacllzeUung, was playedrecently between Me,s". ANDERSSEN and MAYr"l'.-(Evans·s Gambit.) 
WHITE (Mr. A.) BLACK (Mr. M,)
I.PtoK4th PtoK4th 
2. 
Kt to K B 3rd Kt to Q B 3rd 

3. 
B to Q B 4th B to Q B 4th 

4. 
Pto QKt 4th B takes Kt P 

5. 
P to QB 3rd B to K B sq 


(A move tried a.nd oondemnea long ago.) 
6. 
P to Q4th P takes P 

7. 
Castles Kt to Q R 4th 

8. 
BtksKBP (ch) K takes B 

9. 
Kt to K 5th (ch) K to K 2nd 

10. 
Ptakes P Q to K sq

11. 
Q to Q R 4th Pto Q Kt 3rd 

12. 
Kt to QB 3rd P to QB 3rd 

13. 
P to K B 4th 


(The N. B. Schachzeitung remarks on this move tha.t White would have done better byfirst ch()ckin~ at Kt 5th :­
13. 
B to K Kt 5th (ch) Kt to B 3rd 

14. 
Pto K B 4th Pto Q3rd 
l~. P to Q;th. &c.) 



13. 
PtoQ3rd 

14. 
B to QR 3rd K to Qsq

B to Q2nd

15. 
Kt to K B 3rd 

16. 
Q R to Q sq K to QB 2nd 


WJ1lTE (Mr. A.) BLACK (Mr. M.)
17.PtoQ5th PtoQll4th
18. Q to Q B 2nd P to Q Kt 4th 
("Time lost," Fnys the N. B. 8., because, if followed by P to Kt 5th, White can. take the QKt P witb hie Bishop, e:af81y.) 
19. Pto K 5th Pto Q R 3rd 
20. P to K 6th B to Q B sq 
21. Kt to Q 4th Kt to Q Kt 2nd (He 11110Uld ra~bcr ha.ve pb.yed this Kt to
QBbth) 
22. 
Kt to K 4th Kt to K B 3rd 

23. 
Kt to K Kt lith Kt takes Q P 

24. 
Kt to K B 5th 


(The ~I\me now ill highlyanima.ted and intereeuog.) 
24. 
B takes K P 

25. 
K R to K sq B takes Kt 

26. 
Q takes B Kl to K 2nd 

27. 
KttoK 6th (ch) K to Kt Brd 

28. 
R takes QP (ch) K to R 4th 


(If Kt takes R, White gives mnte in three mov,s.) 
25. Qto Q B 2nd Kt takes R, 
a.nd Mr. Anderssen gave mate in six moves. 
CHESS IN LONDON. 
A well-fought Game between two of our best Problem-composers, Messrs. T. 
SMa'H and H. MEYER.-(PliWdor·s D'fence.) 

BLACK (Mr. M.) WHITE (Mr. S.) 
1. 
P to K 4th Pto K 4th 

2. 
Kt to K B 3rd P to Q 3rd 

3. 
P to Q 4th P takes P 

4. 
Q takes P Kt to Q B 3rd 

5. 
B to Q Kt 5th B to Q2nd 

6. 
B takes Kt B takes B 

7. 
B to K Kt 5th P to K B 3rd 

8. 
B to K R 4th Kt to K R 3rd 

9. 
P to K R 3rd B to K 2nd 

10. 
Kt to Q B 3rd Kt to K B 2nd 

11. 
Kt to Q2nd P to K Kt 4th 

12. 
B to K Kt3rd Kt toK 4th 

13. 
Castles (on Q's Qto Q 2nd 


side)
14. 
Pto K R 4th Pto K Kt 5th 

15. 
P to K R bth Pto Q Kt3rd 

16. 
Pto K B 4th PtksPinpassing 

17. 
P takes P R to K Kt sq

18. 
QR to K Kt sq Castles HI. Kt to Q 5th B takes Kt 


20. 
P takes B P to Q B 4th 

21. 
P tks P in passing Q takes P 

22. 
P to K B 4th R takes B 


(Kt to K B's 6th looks well, but it ie not eo ,ood in reality as the move in the te.:r.t, WhlCh a.ppears to us to give White a very adva.ntageous position.) 
23. 
P takes Kt BP takes P 

24. 
Q to K B 2nd Q R to K Kt sq

25. 
R to Q sq R to K Kt 7th 


(B to KKt 4th octurs to us as a move worth consideration at this cl'illis.) 
BLACK (Mr. M.) WHITE (Mr. S.)
26. 
Q to K B 5th (ch) K to Q sq 

27. 
Q takes K R P Qto Q4th 

28. 
Kt to Q Kt 3rd Q to Q Kt 2nd (Threatening, obviou,ly. to win the 


Qaeen.! 
29. 
K to Kt sq Q to Q B 3rd 

30. 
P to K R 6th Q R to K Kt Brd 


(The position Is very critical fOr Dll\ok just now. a.nd tb.e plAy is highly creditable to both sides.) 
31. 
Kt to Q20d B to K B 3rd 

32. 
Q to K B 7th Pto Q4th 

33. 
P to K R 7th B to K R sq

34. 
Qto K B 8th (ch) Qto K sq

35. 
Q' .kes Q (ch) K takes Q 

36. 
Kt to K B 3rd R to QB Brd 

37. 
Pto Q B Brd Pto Q 5th 

38. 
Kt takes K P P takes P 

39. 
Kt takes R P to B 7th (ch) 

40. 
K to Bsq P takes R, be­coming " Q


and giving ch 
(It is rema.rkable that, in a.n end-8'ame, upon which great care was evIdently be­stowed, neither player should have seen the very palpa.ble roove by which White could here :lave won the game by force. Ex yr. :­
40. B takes P (ch) jJ, K bkes B P t.kes It, disco­
vering cn. and
"Queening." 
4.~ Kmoves Qtakes B, &0.) 

41. 
R takes Q B takes P (ch) 

42. 
K to Kt sq R to K R 7th, 


a.nd, after a fel"; more moves, the game was given up as a drawn battle. 
BRITISH PROBLEM TOURNEY. 'lo llie Edilor oj Ihe ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Sir,-Will you kindly allow me, through your colunme, to ask the awarders of prizes in connection with the Bl'itish Problem Tourney of 1866-7, why the order of meritr-which consisted of a certain number of 
marks allotted to each set of problems-given in the Chess-player's Magazine, October, 1867, after so careful and long deliber:\tion, is correctly adhered to with the foreign competitors, but n()t with the British? In the former cnC'e, Messrs. Klett and Landesmann correctly take the third and fourth prizes; in the latter, instead of the English prize being awarded to the next all their list, the committee has jumped over. Mr. Bolt and awarded the prize to Mr. Grimshaw. This probably may have been done to appease the great outcry occasioned by their apparently one-sided award. But what was done for the foreigners should have been meted out to the English. Take a case. SupposeMr. Grimshaw had been placed before Mr. HeaJey, what would the chess 
community have ",id had the prize been given to the latter instead of the former ?-Yours respectfully,
Jan. 7,1868. H. LLOYD. 
ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES. 

PROFESSOR TYNDALr" at the Friday evening meeting on the 24th ult., resumed his discourse of "]'araday as a Discove~er." He began with commenting on Faraday's dislike of "doubtful know­ledge," and his efforts to liberate his mind from the thraldom of hypotheses, adding tkat "tbis rebel against theory was inceEsantly theorising himself, and that hls principal researches were all con­nected by an undercurrent of speculation." He t1:en proceeded to de.scribe .Far~dats long series of elab?rate experiments which c1l1­mmated In ?IS discovery of tbe mag~etlBation of a ray of light (by means of hiS own heavy glass), which he announced in November, 1845. "One source of Faraday's success," said Dr. Tyndall, "was t~e employment of ext~aordinary power; he never acc~pted a nega­tive answer to an expenment until he had bmnght to bear upon it a11 the force at his command." This was the secret of his discovery of the mn:gnetic ?ondition Gf all matter, announced Dec .. 18, ) 8i 5. After tryIDg ordlDary steeJ and electro-magnets on varIOus sub­stances without effect, Faraday suspended a bar of his heavy gill'S before the pole of a powerful ~Iectro·magne+, and found tbat when the mQgnet was excited the glass retreated; and when placed between two poles of an exc:ted magnet the bar retreated from the poles and set at right angles to the line joining them. He then mb­Jected a great number of subst~nce8, animal, vegetable, and minEral, and found them all amenable to magnetic influence, and be dis­tinguished them as dia-magnetics or magnetics, according to their being either repelled or attracted by the poles of the magnet. The discovery of -magne· crystallic action followed, in 1848, based on experiments on cryst. ls of bismuth, which, when placed between the poles of the electro-magnet, set neither axially nor equatorially, but between the two positions. In his concluding words at the end of his ,Paper on this subiect, Faraday say., "a few years ago mag­~e~lsm was to ~s an occul~ pow: 1', afffcting cnly a few bodies: no,v It IS found to IDfluence all bodlep, and to pOS2eSB the most intimate relations with electricity, he"t, chemical action, light, crystallization, !lnd, through it, with the fc,I'~<s concerned in cohesion; and we may, ID the present State d thIDgS, well feel urged to continue in our labours, encouraged by the hope of bringing it into a bOJOd of union WiLh gravity itself." In December, 1847, Faraday published his paper on the dia-magnetic condition of flame and gases. He had discovered that oxygen is ma,gnetic and nitrogen dia-magnetic; and this led to his series of I:1borious researches on what he modestly says, " I will venture to call atmospheric magnetism," communicated in his memoirs to the Royal Society, in 1850. Professor Tyndall's summary of the work of "the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen" concluded with a criticism of his spaculatlons 0!l.the nature of matter, the lines of force, the unity and converti­bility of natural forces, and the theory of the electric current (1846·51). The remainder of the discourse was devoted to illustra­tions of Faraday's character; his wonderful vivacity, united with love of order ; rejoicing in the friendship of his fellow-workel's; being strong yet delicate in counsel; joyful in encouragement, and warm in affection; his disinterestedness in giving up highly lucrative professional employment for pure scientific research; and his de­clining the highest honoure, both in society nnd in .he world of s(;j.ence, determining to remain" plain Michael Faraday to th.e last." The life af his spirit and of his intelligence was so full that the things which men most strive after were absolutely indifferent to him. He delighted in the th undel'Storm or the setting sun far more than in the splendour of a palace. Referring to Faraday's favourite experiment of showing tbat water in crystallising excludes all foreign ingredients, Dr. Tyndall said that "by some such natUl'al process in the formation of this man, beauty and nobleness coalesced, to the exclusion of everytbing vulgar and low. He did not learn his gentleness in the world, for he withdrew from its culture; and still, no peer of England was a truer gentleman than he." In corrobora­tion of his remarks, Professor TynJaU !fad several letters and related several anecdotes, for which ",-e must refer our readers to the discourse itself, which will be shortly published. The president, Sir Henry Holland, was in the chair; and the Bishop of St. David'8, Earl 
Stanhope, Lord Cranborne, the Dean d Westminster, Mr. Carlyle, 
and a large number of cther eminent persons were present. 
Professor Roscoe, F.R.S., gave the first of a course of eleve n lec~ures on the Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements on Saturday last. He began with remarks on the great loss the institution had sustained by Lhe dp.cease of Professor Faraday, and more especially dwelt on nis own experience of the kind and fatherly reception that great man gave to young chemists and the help he afforded them. Professor Roscoe then repeated several old experiments by which were laid the foun~ation-ston~s.of chemistry-viz., the dis­covery of oxygen by neatmg red preCipitate or red oxide of rr.ercury in air, by Jo,eph .Priestley, on Aug. 1, 1774, and the experiment of Lavoisier (to whom Priestley commnnicated his discovery), who formed red oxide of mercury by heating pure mercury in air. By these the nature of combRstion was unfolded, and the components of atmospheric air ascertained to be oxygen and nitrogen. These experiments were stated to be the best possible examples of tbe peculiar actions which we term chemical-the one case being analysis} the other synthesis. Chemistry is essentially an expe­rimental science, questions being continually put to nature to learn the .properties of substance., to arrange and control the circum­stances not found in nature, and to learn the laws under which they occur. The bodies found in nature are distinguished into element!!,ry or simple b~e8 (!'t present. sixty-three), existing in the earth, air, and sea (of which hsts were given); and compound bodies. Four new elements have been recently discovered by means of spectrum analysis, and several of those hitherto considered elements h&ve been discovered to be compounds. Among his illustrations of chemical action, Professor Roscoe exhibited the combination of phosphorus and iodine. with the evolution of heat and light­that of chlorine and hydrogen which exploded by the action of light; and the decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen gas by the action of the voltaic battery, lec. The latter part of the lecture was devoted to an explanation of the researches of Dalton on which he founded the laws of chemical combination in multipl~ proportions and his celebrated atomic theory. He demonstrated that elementary bodies combine with each other in definite proportiona, and tbat to e~ch elel!lent a nllm1:>er ma~ be attached, which repre­sents the weight With which It combmes to form definite pro­portions. On Friday evening next, Feb. 7, the diBcourse will be given by 
Professor Huxley, F. R.S., "On the Animals which are most nearly 
intermediate between Birds and Reptiles." 
A brush with pirates took place on Dec. 1 by the Chinese gun­boat Feiloong, Captain Edwarde, assisted by several Imperial junks. The pirates were defeated. 
Mr. Burlingame has i'epigned his post as United States MinistEr at Pekin, and has been appointed, by Imperial decree, Chinese Ambas­sador to all countries with which China has relations. Mr. J. Brown, of the British consular service, who has resigned, and Mr • 
E. de Champs, of the maritime customs, have been appoinied his secretaries. Two l'ed-buttoned mandarins-Che and Sun, the one a Manchu and the other a Chinese-have also been appointed Ambas­sadors, and will accolllpany Mr, Burlingame, together with all ex­tensive suite. They will visit America first, and will be in England in May. 

THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS OF ExETER.-(To the Editor.)-In your notes uncer the head of " Archreology of the Month," in last w.eek's publication, you speak of the municipal records having heen neglected for centuries, until the present time. In justice to the memory of the careful antiquaries the late Dr. Oliver and Mr. Pitman Jones, and of Mr. Gidley, the late excellent and painstaking town clerk, I cannot help calling your attention to the fa ~t that a most careful examination of the great bulk of the archives of the city of Exeter was carried on for a long period by them, as evidenced by a small book publ;shed by Roberts, of Exeter, and lly Longman and Co., in 1861. It contains a short memoil' of the doctor, and an appendix of the documents of t he city, in which yon will find a very complete list of all the early documents of every class chronologically arranged, many given at fuU length, others shortly abstracted or otherwise noticed.-AN EXONIl\N. 
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant held his first levee for the season, on Tuesday, at Dublin Castle. The attendance was very large, numbering, it is estimated, about 1300 persons. 
A meeting was held at Edinburgh, on Monday night, in favour of obtaining additional representation for Scotland. The Lord Provost presided. Resolutions in favour of the object oHhe meeting and a petition to Parlinmen~ were adopted. 
A great Protestant defence demonstration took p~ace in Dublin Rotundo on Wednesday. The meeting was a crowded and influential one, and included delegates from various counties and districts in Ireland.· A petition to the Queen was adopted, praying her Majesty to continue her support to the Protestant Churches in Ireland, and condemning an Ultramontane ascendancy. 
Mr. Maxwell was, on Thursday week, elected, with~ut opposition , to fill the vacancy caused in .the representation of Kirkcudbright· shire by the death Of the late Mr. Mackie. The new member, like his predecessor, is a Liberal. Mr. Finley, the member for Argyleshire, has announced his intention of retiring from Potrlia· ment. The Duke of Argyll's eldest son, Lord Lome, will ba the Liberal candidate for the seat. 
At Birmingham,. on Tuesday evening, Mr. John Bright and Mr. Dixon, the members fOl' the borough, addressed, in accordance with their annual custom, a numerous meeting of their constituents in the Townhall. Mr. John J affray presided. Mr. Bright's speech was devoted mainly to the Irish que5tion. He called attention to Lord Stanl~y's speech at Bristol, and submitted that that noble Lord had really proposed no remedies for the grievances of which the people of Ireland complained. His great point was, that the empire shou-ld not be dismembered; but when he made that declaration he wag bound to show how it could be kept together. The hon. gentleman was himself in favorn' of the maintenance of the uuion. There onght really to be nothing to prevent the two countries from living in harmony; and he proceeded to sketch the measures by which such a result might, in his judgment, be accomplished. 
Last week the half-yearly meeting of the Birmingham Ctlamber of Commerce was held in that town-Mr. S. Dixon, M.P.;in the chair. The report was adopted on the motion of Mr. Field, who made some observations on technical education and the depression of trade, attributing the latter chiefly to the state of things in America and extravagant speculation in this country. Mr. Sampson Lloyd alluded, inter alia, to the defects of our bankruptcy law, a.nd the protection afforded by ·it to systematic swindlers; something ought to be done, he said, to bring abont a higher standard of com­
mercial morality. Other gentlemen addressed the meeting on 
various questions affecting trade and commerce, and the proceedings 
terminated ill the usual manner, 

FENIANISM. 


THE examinations before the magistrate in the Clerkenwell explosion case will probably soon be concluded. On Tuesday Mr. Giffard announced that he should offer no more evidence for the Crown, and the case was remanded for a week, simply to ensure the attendance of witnesses who are to be bound over for the trial. Most of the evidence given on Tuesday concerned the identification of Barratt, who, a few hours after the explosion, was seen drinking with Mullany in a public· house. No witness identified O'Neill, and Mullany, the informer, declares that he knows nothing of Allen. 
The committee of the Clerkenwell Explosion Relief Fund has announced that, having received a sufficient sum for the purposes contemplated by their present action, they have suspended their appeals to the munificence of the benevolent.-The questbn of the liability of the county to compensate the owners of injured dwellings having been referred to the Court of Queen's Bench, they have deter­mined to await that issue. If a decision adverse to the sufferers should be given they propose again to appeal to the sympathy of the country. . 
At the Mansion House, yesterday week, William Coffey, other­wise Michael Gough, seventeen, bookbinder, was charged, on remand, with affixing a placard relating to Fenianism to the wall of the Mansion House on the previous Friday. It will be recollected that the prisc,ner was arrested in the act of posting a placard, as silly as it was violent, on the north·west corner of the Mansion House by City Police· constable Timothy Carroll, and taken to Bow-lane police­station. On being searched, among other articles, a diary wa, found in which passing events had been entered. The prisoner's description in that book of the Manchester executions was verrviolent and abusive; but be calls tbe Clerkenwell explosion a' diabolical outrage." Portraits of Burke, Kelly, and Duffy were hung over the fireplace at his lodgings, in Uxbridge-street, Newington, and also the green flag of Ireland. The plaoards on the Mansion House which the prisoner posted were of a most violent character, and were addressed to the "Irishmen of London and England." The prisoner said,-" I sincerely regret my insolent conduct on Friday last, and I hope you will deal leniently with me. I have acted very ridiculously and foolisbly." Tbe Lord Mayor fined him 40s., with the alternative of a montb's imprisonment. The fine was paid by one of the priests of St. George's Cathedra.l, Southwark, who gave the prisoner a very good cbaracter. Sir W. Rose said he was sorry that the Lord Mayor bad not the power to send the prisoner to gaol without the option of a fine. The Lord Mayor said he agreed with Sir W. Rose. 
Tbe Irish Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday week, heard the conclusion of tbe ar guments upon the question of removing, by writ of certiorari, the trial of tbe publisher of the lrishman newspaper for seditious libel from the Dublin Commission Court to the Court of Queen's Bencb, in order that the accused migbt have the advantage of a special jury and the Lord Cbief Justice as Judge. The four Judges were equally divided in opinion, and the application, therefore, fell through. 
Tbe neigbbourhood of Cork continues to be tbe favourite field for Fenian enterprise. Our latest intelligence from that quarter is, that a plot to seize Macroom Castle, where the militia stores are kept, about nineteen miles from Cork, has been dis covered and frnstrated and tbat two of the supposed conspirators are in custody. By way of precaution-as is conjectured-tbe Fenians had cut the teleglaph wires between Macroom and C~rk, and between the latter city and varions other parts of the country. A canister of powder containing, it is I!tated, about 81b., was placed against one of tbe gates of tbe establishment of Messrs. Keatinge, bacon-curers, Cork, on Saturday night, and exploded. The gate was sbattered, tbe lock torn off, tbe iron bars wbicb had been placed for additional security driven from their places, and some of tbe panels broken in. Fortunately, no person sustained any injury. It is supposed tbat the object was to try tbe effect of certain quanti­ties of powder upon strong gates. Several similar canisters have been found in other parts of tbe neighbourhood • 
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THE LATE GALE. 

FEBRUARY was ushered in by storms of wind and rain so violent as to cause num erous disasters. Roofs and chimney stacks were blcwn down, bridges broken, dwellings flooded, sbipping driven asbore, and many liv(s sacrificed. At most points the gale began last Friday nigbt and raged for twenty-four hours. It extended to ~cotland and Ireland. Vie have no account as yet of any serious casualties which may have occurred at 5lea. 
The troop-ship Crocodile, from Queenstown, arrived at Valett~ 011 Monday after a passage of eight days, with the 92nd Highlanders and other Indian reliefs. She has on board 124G of all ranks, uuder Colonel Hamilton, and'fourteennaval supernumeraries. During her passage a man named Adams and one child died, and three children were born. She was to proceed for Alexandria the following day. 
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. 

The will of the Most Hon. Maria, Countess DowalSer of Harrington, was proved, in the principal registry, ou the 22nd ult. ; the executors appointed being the Duke of Bedford, the Ma! quis of Kildare, and William Platt, Esq., of the Inuer Temple : the latter gentleman is the acting executor. The personal property was sworn under £6000. The testatrix (formerly Miss Foote) was iu early life a most accomplished actress, and married, at the age of thirty· three, Charles Stanhope, fourth Earl of Hanington, who died in 1851. The deceased Countess D0wager Harrington died at her residence, 2, Richmond-terrace, within the precincts of her Majesty's palace of Whitehall, on Dec. 27 last, at the age of sixty· nine, having executed her will July 19, 1855. Her Ladyship leaves her interest in her re­sidence at Richmond-terrace, with the furniture, jewellery, and all other her effects to be held in trust for her daughter and only sur­viving child, Jane St. Maur Blanche, Countess of Mount· Charles, for her own sole and exclusi ve use. 
The will of John Hague, Esq., late of Crow Nest, IJewsbury, Yorkshire, was proved in the registry at Wakefield, under £120,000. The executors and trustees are Charles A. Tennant, of Dewsbury; Edward B. W. Balme, testator's brother-in-law, of High Close, Westmorland; and Thomas Hague Cook, of Dewsbury MillS. The testator was Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire; aud died Oct. 1, 1867, aged seventy­seven, having executed his will Oct. 11, 1866. He has bequeathed to his wife, for her life, his mansion, Crow Nest, with the grounds, plant:>tion, and other appurtenances; and, after her decease, he bequeaths the same to Thomas Hague Cook. He devises his manor of Drighlington auc;J,o all his farms, woods, mines, minerals, .Stnd tenements on that estate, and all land attached thereto, to Captain Henry Hague, Bon of his consin Thomas Hague, absolutely. He has bequeathed the interest of £2000 in augmentation of the Income of the perpetual curacy of Drighlington; and bequeaths to the Leeds Infirmary £500; to Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes, of the India House, £ 1000; and there are numerous legacies to his friends, executors, and others. H e directs a sum of £150 to be divided amongst his servants, male and female, his gardeners, and farm labourers, and all persons employed on his estate, Crew Nest, as hia wife shall think fit. He bequeaths to his wife a legacy of £ 40,000 absolutely, and also appoints her residnary legatee. 
The will of William Nicholson, formerly of Dnke-street, .Lincoln's­inn, manufacturing silversmiLh, late of Aston Clinton, Bucks, who died Dec. 23 last, was proved in London on the J5th ult., under £30,000. After the death of his wife he bequeaths the following charitable bequests :-To the Silver Trade Pension Society and the Asylum for Fatherless Children, Reedham, each £1000; St. Ann's School, London Missionary Society, City Mission, and Loudon Congre­gational Buildin g Society, eacu £600; Colonial Missionary I::lociety, Home, Bible Society, Hackney College, Asylum for Incurables, Aged Pilgrims' Friend, Pastors' Retiring Fund, Goldsmiths' Benefit Society, Infirmary at Aylesbury, Refuge in Great Queen-street, Maryleb0Ile Almshouses, St. J ohn's-wood, each £300; Gl'ay's-inn Hospital ; Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Home Teaching Society for the Blind, Blind Asylum, Cripples' Home and Laundry, Hospital for Sick Children, Christian Union Alrnshouses, Orphan Working School at H~verstock-hill, Infant Orphan Asylum at Waustead, Commercial Travellers' School at Pinner, Warehouse· men and Clerks' School; School for the Daughters of Missionaries, Walthamstow; London Congregational Association for the Evan­gelisation of the Metropolis; St. George's, Bloomsbury, and St. Giles's Charity Schools, each £200; to the trustees of Whitfield'g Chapel, £300; and a further sum of £100 to be di.tribnted amongst the poorer members assembling there. . 
FENIANISM. 

ON TueEday a numerous deputation waited upon Mr. Gat!lOrne 
Hardy, the Home Secretary, to hand to him, for presentation to her 
-Majesty, tbe address of loyalty and affecti.on from the Irish re,idents 
of London, evoked by the Fenian conspIracy and the Clerkenwell 
ontrage. Tbe address, which had appended to it 22,603 names; was 
a ' protestation of loyalty and devotion on the part of the Irish 
populaticn of the metropolis generally; 
Tbe tediously-protracted examination, before Sir Thomas Henry, 
Qf the eight prisoners charged with wilful murder arising out of the 
Fenian explosion at Clerkenwell, was expected to have closed on 
Tuesday ; hut, after the depositions had been read over, Mr. Giffard, 
counsel for the Crown, said he had unexpectedly received some 
important information, and must therefore a.sk for a remand uutil 
that 'day week; which was granted. English, it is understood, is 
anxious to follow the example of Mullany, and give "Queen's 
evidence ;" but bis offer has beeu rejected. 
Dr. Lankester held an inquest, on Wednesday night, in Clerken­
well, respecting the death of Eliza Leeland, aged 'sixty. The 
evidence showed that the deceased was the wife of a journeyman 
baker residing in Skinner-street, near the Clerkenwell House of 
Detention. On the day of the explosion, in December last, she was 
in the home, and suffered greatly from fright as well as from 
positive injury sustained. She received medical attendance for some 
time, and gradnally she became worse. She had an attack of 
paralysis and sank into a state of insensibility. She died in the 
VIer ken well infirmary on Sunday evening. The verdict returned 
was to the (ffect that she had died from paralysis, accelerated by the 
explosion. 
The ordinary spring commission of oyer and terminer was opened 
at Dnblin on Monday by Judge Fitzgerald. The leamed Judge, in 
his charge to the grand jury, referred at great length to points of 
law arising out of the press. He gave it as the opinion of himself 
and his learned colleague that the publication of seditious or 
libellous articles from American or other foreign newspapers 
conld not be justified or excused by law. In l'eference, however, to 
all such publications, the time, the object, and all the surrouuding 
circumstances were to be taken into consideration, as they mighG be 
such as to rebut the inference of criminal intention on the pa,rt of 
the pnblisher. True bills were returned against Sulli van, the 
pnblisher of ~he Weekly News, and Pigott, the publisher of the 
Irishman, for seditious libel. True bills were also found agaiust Patrick 
unnon for treason-felony and for the murder of Constable Keena; 
m:d also against the persons indicted for walking in the receut Fenian processions. Lennon was found guilty on the firdt charge; bat the jury, on Thursday, retnrned a verdict of "Not guilty" on the charge of murder. 
Several important arrests of Fenian Jeadera hav@ been made in Cork. Amongst thQm is that of a Captain Mackay, said to be late of the American army, and concerned in, if not the moving spirit of, all the recent outrages in Cork. He has been identified also as the leader in several attacks npon sundry police stations in March last. He made a desperate resistance, wounding a policeman with a shot from his revolver. A mob attempted to rescue the prisoner, and wue beaten off by a charge of bayonets. Five other leading Fenians, m'med with revolvers, have also been apprehended. Two men were arrested on Sunday night, charged with firing npon a detective named Courtenay, fortunately without woundiug him. Another 
, collision of 	the police with an excited crowd, which attempted to rescue tbe prisoners, is reported, and wounds, it is said, were in­flicted on both sides. The prisoners, whose names are O'Brien and Eddy, are recent arrivals at Cork, the former from America and the latter from England. 
The Dublin season, despite of Fenianism, has begun well. A full Levee of men of all parties and of diff~rent creeds, a brilliant Drawingroom sustaining. Ireland's fame for female be~uty, and a gorgeous investiture of the national order, recalling the ceremonials ()f the olden time, have combined to crowd the city with visitora from the four provinces, and thus to give an unusual impetus to the trade and prosperity of Dublin. The Lord Lieutenant, the Grand Master, held, by command of her Majesty, a chapter of the moat illustrions Order of St. Patrick, at the Castle, yesterday week. The knights' companions, in their mantles, stars, and collars, assembled in the robing-room, attended by the officers of the order. There was a larbe attendance of the nobility and gentry as spectators, aud the magnificent dresses of the knights and appointments of the hall ren­·dered tp.e spectacle a singularly.impOSing. and beautiful one. The Marouisof Drogheda, the new klllght, was llltroduced, and, kneelin" recei~ed the accolade. His Excellency communicated to the cha.pt~~ that her Majesty had been most graciously pleased to nominate Sir 
H. Fraucis Seymour Moore, Kt., Marquis of Drogheda, to be a com­panion of the said mcst illustrious order, and to comma.nd that his Lordship be invested with the ribbon and collar of the order. H~ was accordingly inve5ted, after which ~is L~rdship, who was c~~-' gratulated by his Excellency and the kmghts in attendance, took hls seat at the table. The chapter having been ended, Ulst,r (Sir Bernard Burke) called over the namea and titles of the knights com­panions present, who each rose from his seat on the annOllucem.ent -{)i his name, and the proceedings terminated. 
CHANGES IN PARLIAMENT. 

THE personal vicissitudes of the present Patlbment have been numerous considering that it is only entering on the second period of its naturai, or rather legal life, a period, however, to which it is not in the least likely to attain. The mutations in the House of Lords even during the last year have been noteworthy. In 1867 twenty­one members of the Peerage have been removed by death. Taking them in the order at once of rank and age, it may be stated that the Duke of Northumberland, formerly Earl of Beverley, and who but a short time ago succeeded his cousin, the fourth JJuke, died at the ripe age of eie:hty-nine, leaving the title to his son, long known in. the House of Commons as Lord Lovaine, and of late by the chivalrous designation of Earl Percy. The Marquis of Exeter has also died, in his seventy-third year. The Earl of Mayo, an Irish represeatative peer, has died, at the age of seventy, and been succeeded by Lord Naas, M.P. for Cockermouth and Secretary for Ireland, his accession to the title making no change in his status, either officially or as a member of t.he Lower House. The Earl of Moray, a Scotch Earl, but a Baron of the United Kingdom, also seventy years old; the EarI of Rosse, famous as an astronomer, and known popularly best by the possession of the largest telescope in the world, aged sixty-seven; the Earl of Camperdown, formerly Lord Duncan, M.P. for Bat,h and Forfa~shire (fifty.four); the Earl of Pomfret, at the comparatIvely early age of forty-two; and Earl Brownlow, a youth of twenty-fourt.. have de­parted this life. Two bishoprics, those of Lichfield and .i:toohester, have become vaclu:t by the deaths of Dr. Lonsdale (seventy-nine) and Dr. Wigram (sixty. nine), and have been filled up by the appoint­ment of Dr. Selwyn (Bishop of New Zealand) and Dr. Claughton respectively. Amongst the Barons there have disappeared Lord Fitzhardinge (seventy-nine), long known in public life as Admiral Berkeley; Lord Kingsdown (seventy· three), a great lawyer, who declined the highest professional rank-which was more than once almost thrust upon him-and who laboured, judicially, in the public service for many years with the greatest advantage to the country; Lord Aveland (seventy· two), formerly Sir Gilbert Heathcote, and 
M.P. for Rutlandshire; Lord Colchester (sixty-nine), whose title was derived from the services of a Speaker of the House of Commons-who was a naval officer, but a working Civil Service official, having been Postmaster-General in Lord Derby's first, and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in that noble Lord's second Government; Lord Fevereham (sixty-nine), who was the titled head of the great Yorkshire family of Duncombe; Lord Wrottesley (sixty-nine), a man pre-eminent in the Ecientific world; Lord Gray of Gray (sixty-eight) and Lord Polwarth (sixty-six), both Scotch representatives; and, last, though not least in the public know­ledge, Lord Llanover (sixty-four), who, as Sir Benjamin Hall, was 80 long member for Marylebone, and in a certain way a personage in the Liberal party. Of these peerages, the ' Earldom of Pomfret and the Baronies of Kingsdown and Llanover have become extinct. The roll of the Peerage, however, has been practically only diminished by one, because of the elevation of Lord Cairns and the promotion of Mr. Duncan M'Neill, Lord President of the Court of Sessiou in Scotland, to the Barony of Colons ay ; and who has brought about a long, theoretically, desired object-the addition of a Scotch lawyer to the judicial strength of the House of Lords inAppeals. The representative peerage has been rehabiliated by the election of the Earl of Lauderdale and Lord Elphinstone in Scotland, and the Earl of Annesley in Ireland. These annals of the Peerage may be con­cluded by a statement that in the present year six hitherto minOl:s will be entitled to take their seats hi the House of Lords on thell coming of age viz., the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Bute, the Marquis of Huntley, the Earl of Ellesmere, Earl Ferrers, and the Earl of Dchester. 
Since the general election of 1865 there have been personal changes in the House of Commons which, in one way or the other, have made variations in the tenure of seats to the extent of sixty­two. Taking the alterations in alphabetical rather than in chrono­logical order, it will be found that the waut of a seat by Sir J. B. Karslake, on his appointment to the Solicitor-Generalship, was managed by the courteous retirement of Mr. William Humphrey from the representation of Andover. In the course of last Session Mr. Scholefield, who had sat for Birmingham since 1847, died, and was replaced by Mr. Dixon; at Boston Mr. Parry was reinstated in the seat of Mr. Staniland, he having retired. Mr. Wickham, member for Bradford since 1852, died, and Mr. Thompson, a local magnate, succeeded him; a vacancy created at Colchester by the resignation of Mr. Taverner Miller was supplied by Mr. Edward Karslake, Q.O., brother to the Solicitor-General ; the county of Cork, in the place of Mr. Smith Barry, deceased, returned Mr. G. R. Barry; while a void caused at Coventry by the death of Mr. Treherne was filled up by Mr. Henry J ackson, son of MI". William Jackson, one of the members for Derbyshire; and the retire­ment of Mr. Kerfrom Downpatrick gave admission to Mr. Keown in his stead. The University of Dublin has had no less than three new members in less than two years, owing to the rapid promotion of Tory Irish law officers. Firstly, the appointment of Mr. Whiteside to the Chief J usticeship of Ireland caused Mr. Walsh. the then Attorney -General, to become the University member; and that gentleman having passed' to the Mastership of the Rolls, he was doubly succeeded as Attorney -General aud 
M.P. for the University by Mr. Chatterton, who, after a short career, subsided into a Vice-Chancellorship, and left both posts to Mr. Warren, also a double successor. The rapid transformations undergone by Mr. Michael Morris from a Liberal member into a Tory Solicitor and Attorney General for Ireland, and then iuto a Judge of the Irish Common Pleas, caused a vacancy in the borough of Gal way, and his place there was filled by his brother, Mr. George Morris; Mr. Stearne Ball Miller's promotion to an Irish Judgeship in Bankruptcy restored Mr. Vance to the House as member for Armagh; and Mr. George, vacating Wex­ford county, for the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, was suc­ceeded by Mr. Arthur Kavanagh; while Galway county became vacant by the premature death of Lord Dunkellin, just as he had made his mark in the House. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Viscount Canning Burke, now the heir to the Marquisate of Clanricarde. Another legal promotion amon~st the Conservatives­that of Sir John Rolt to the Lord Justlceship of Appeal in Chancery-gave West Gloucestershire a new member in Colonel Edward Somerset; and a fine old member, one of the ancient school, Mr. C. W. Packe, hlloving died, Mr. T. Paget was returned for South Leicestershire in his room. It has been allowed to Manchester to make such amende as it could for its rejection, some years ago, of Mr. John Bright by returning, after a severe contest, his brother, Mr. Jacob of that name, when the death of Mr. Edward James, Q.C., caused a vacancy; while the county of Middlesex, on the decease of Mr. Culling-Hanbury, chose Mr. Labouchere, who lost a seat he acquired for Windsor at the general election, on petition. The death of Lord Aveland removed the Hon. Gilbert Heathcote from the representation of Rutlandshire, and Mr. Finch, one of an aristocratic county family, succeeded. In North Northamptonshire the accession of Lord Burghley to the Mar­quisate of Exeter left a seat open to Mr. Sackville Stopford; and in South Salop Viscount Newport, eldest son of the Earl of Bradford, has replaced the Hon. A. W. Cust, now Earl Brownlow. The resignation-somewhl!t sudden, apparently-by Mr. Poulett Scrope of the seat for Stroud, which he has held since 1833, made way for 1\ new aspirant to Parliamentary honours in the person of Mr. Winterbotham. In East Suffolk, Sir Edward Kerrison (who had only sat for that division of the county since the autumn of 1866) haviI\g resigned, Mr. CQrrance was elected in his place. A well­known (in a social sense) member of the House, S4' David Dunda-, owing to failure of health, having retired from a seat in which, with­out offence, it may be said he has' more than once been a " warming­pan," Sutherlandshire returned to its ducal allegiance bythe election of Lord Ronald Leveson Gower, brother of his Grace of Sutherland. The maexpected departure of a gentleman who wa.s active and pro­minent for a new member, Captain Gridley, made a vacancy for Weymouth, which was filled by Mr. Henry Edwards; and by a "fluke," the Lord Advocate for Scotland (Mr. Gordon), who bad been floating about that purgatory which consists in the absence of a first law officer from the House, got in for Thetford, by the resignation of Mr. A. H. Baring, ostensibly because he was dis­
gusted with a Ministry Oil which he was, by this very act, conferring a great obligation. 
In the North Riding of Yor]<shire the Hon. Octavius DUllcombe sits in the place of his brother William, now Lord Fev(rsham ; and in Westmorland there is a change of representation, though not in n&me, for Mr. William Lowther succeeds his uncle the Hon. Colonel Henry Lowther. The decease of this latter gentleman causes a·nother special vacancy, that of what is called "Father of the House," to which he succeeded on the death of Lord Palmerston. The ground of this quasi distinction is only length of sitting, and Colonel Lowther had been uninterruptedly a member, snd for the same place, since 1812. This titular distinction now falls to Lord Hotham, M.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire, who first sat in the House in the year 1820. _The death of Mr. Mackie rendered the seat for Kitkcudbright­shire vacant, and Mr. W. H. Maxwell has been elected in his place. So equally has electoral fortune been balanced, at least during the past year, that there has been a gain of one member only to the Liberal party. Four elections are pending or-imminent. The eleva-. tion of Sir Vharles Selwyn to the Lord Justiceship of Appeal leaves Cambridge University vacant, while Mr. Brett's accession to the Solicitor-Generalship puts him technically out of his seat at Helston ; and the resignations of Sir Morton Peto and Mr. Finlay for Bristol and Argyleshire respectively necessitate the choice of new representatives. 
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
srn N. J. KNATCHBULL, BART. 


Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, tenth Baronet, of Mersham Hatch, in the county ot Kent, who died, on the 2nd inst., at his town house, 3, Chesham­place, was the eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, the ninth Baronet,' by his first wife, Annabella Christiana, daughter of Sir J. Honywood, Bart. He was born July 10, 1808, and was educated at Winchester, and after­wards went to Christ Church, Oxford. In 1862 he was an uusucceEsful candidate for East Kent, and at the last general election, in 1865, he again unsuccessfully contested the eastern division of that county. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, in May, 1849. He married, May 3l, 1831, Mary, eldest daughter of Jesse Watts·Russell, Esq., of Ham Hall, in the county of Stafford, and had issue .two sons and five 
daughters; two of the latter are married-viz., Mary Louisa, married, March 29, 1856, to Major Charles Stirling-Dundas, B.A., son of Mr. and Lady Mary Dundas, of Dundas Castle; and Eleanor Grace, married, Aug. 29, 1857, to Robert John O'ReiJIy, Esq., of MiJlcastle, in the county of Westmeath, sEcond survi vin g son of the late J ames O'Reilly, Esq., of Baltrasna, in the county of Meath. Sir Norton is succeeded by his elder son, now Sir Hugessen Edward Knatchbull, the eleventh Baronet, who was born April 26, 1836. This family of Knatchbull lived at Leinne, in Kent, for centuries ; they were there temp. Henry n., and there they remained until they purcba~ed the estate of Mersham Hatch, in the Eame county, in the reign of Henry VII., which has been in their possession ever since. The present mausion at Mersham Hatch was begun by Sir Wyndham, the sixth Baronet, and finished by ilis uncle, Sir Edward, the seventh Baronet. Three million bricks were used in the erection of it, and yet it cost only £20,000. From John Knatchbull, living temp. Edward IlL, descended Sir Norton Knatchbnll, who was created a Baronet Aug. 4, 1641. Sir Norton, who represented the county of Kent in Parliament temp. Charles I., was grandfather of Sir Edward, the fourth Baronet, who was M.P. for 'the county of Kent, and was grandfather of Sir Edward, the eighth Baronet, who also represented the county of Kent, and was grandfather of the Baronet just deceased. 
THE DOWAGER LADY TORRINGTON. 

The Right Hon. Frances Harriet, the venerable and respected Dowager Viscountess Torrington, whose lamented death occurred on the 7th inst., at Shipbourne Lodge, near Tunbridge, was the daughter 
of Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, G.C.B., and was born in 1785. Her Ladyship was married, Oct. 5, 1811 (she was his second wife), to the Right Hon. George, sixth Viscount Torrington, a Vice-Admiral R.N., who died June 18, 1831. By this union her Ladyship had issue fonr sons-viz., Sir George Byng, seventh and present Visconnt Torrington ; Major the Hon. Robert Barlow Palmer Byng, who fell gloriously in India, in 1857, while leading his regiment against the mutineers; the Hon. James Master Owen Byng, so creditably known in con­nection with the directorship of the Sonth-Eastern Railway Com­pany; and Lieutenant the Hon. Russell John Morris Byng, R.N., who died April 27, 1850; and two daughters, of whom the survivor, the Hon. Hilare Caroline, is manied to Rear· Admiral Sir William Hntcheson Hall, R.N., K.C.B., late Captain of the Nemesis. Lady Torrington's grandson 1her second son's, Robert, eldest son), Lieu­tenant George Stanley Byng, Rifle Brigade, is heir presumptive to the viscountcy of Tonington. 
THE HON. AND REV. F. BERTIE. The Hon. and Rev. Frederic Bertie, M.A., J.P., Rector of Albury, in the connty of Oxford, and Wyt!lam, in the county of Berks, a talented, amiable, and highly-respected clergyman, who died on the 4th inst., at Albury, Oxfordshire, was the fourth son of Willoughby, fourth Earl of Abingdon, by hi, wife, Charlotte, daughter and coheir of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, K.B., M.P. for Westminster. He was born Feb. 12, 1793, and was educated at Westminster School, and at Jesns College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1816. Having been ordained, he was Rector of Wytham, Berks, since 1818' Rectcr of Albury, Oxou, and Incumbent of South Hinkley, Oxon, since 1820. He was a magis­trate for Oxfordshire. He nrarried, Oct. 17, 182ii, Lady Georgina Anne Emily, the second daughter of Admiral Lord Mark Ken, by his wife, Charlotte (in her own right Countess of Antrim), daughter of RandaI William, Marquis of Antrim, and the niece of the Marquis o! Lothian, and by her (who survives him) had issue seven sons and four danghters, of whom five sons and two daughters are living. Mr. Bertie's fourth son is Lieutenant Vere Clinton Bertie, who, when a mere lad, gallantly served under N eill and Havelock in India. Mr. Bertie and his wife, Lady Georgina Bertie, have displayed great taste and knowledge in connection with genealogy and history. As an instance of this may be cited that snperb and popular book by her Ladyship (in which her late husband asssisted her) entitled "Five Generations of a Loyal House "-viz., the illustrious hOl1se of Bertie, Dukes of 'Ancaster, and Earls of Lindsey and Abingdon. 
F. B. BEAM ISH, ESQ. 

Frauds Bernard Beamish, Esq., of Grenville House, Cork, D.L. and J .P., the late respected member for Cork, and a worthy scion of the old Irish family of Beamish, died on the 1st inst. at Beaumont Lodge, Totnes, Devon. He was the sixth son of William Beami~h, Esq., of Beanmont House, in the connty of Cork, by his wife, Anne J ane Margaret, daughter of Robert de la Cour, Esq., of Short Castle, in the county of Cork. He was born in 1803. He was M.P. for Cork from 1837 to 1841, and from 1853 to 1865, when he retired from Parliament. In politics he was an earnest though moderate Liberal, arid a stanch supporter of Lord Palmerston. His gentle­ness of manner and honesty of purpose are not likely soon to be forgotten by those who knew him both in and out of the House of Commons. He seldom spoke in the House, but in Committees his industry and patience were well known. At the time of his death be was the chairman of the Reform Club. He married, May 3,1827, the Hon. Katherine Savery de Lisle de Courcy, daughter of the Hon. Captain Michael de Conrcy, R.N., and sister of John Stapleton, twenty-eighth Lord Kingsale, by whom he had issue Francis Bernard Servington, born 1839. 

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FENIANISM. 


THE case against the alleged Fenians who l).ave from time to time bEen brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street, was com­pleted on Tuesday; bnt the prisoners were again remanded, with the exception of Allen, who appears to have been in communication with the police before the explosion at Clerkenwell. This m'!.n was discharged, but he was immediately re-arrested as one of the pers:ms against whom the Coroner's jl1l'Y returned a verdict of wilful murder. 
It was stated in a portion of our issue of last week that Patrict< L€nnon, who had been found guilty of treason-felony at the Dablin Assizes, was YEsterday week sent{lnced to fifteen years' penal serv'i­tude. Baron Deaay, in pronouncing sentence, said he agreed, as did also Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, in the propriety of Lennon's acquittal oa the charge of shooting at with intent to kil!o But he had no douM that the conviction on a charge of treason-felony was equally proper. Thccharge had been brought hOJ;Ue to him by overwhelming evidence. L€nnon, after being sentenced, was identified by three non'commis­
sioned officer. of the 12th Lancers as a man who had been in their 
regiment, from which he deserted at Aldershott in 1862, and the 
convict admitted that this was so. On Monday Mr. A. M. Sallivan, 

proprietor of the Weeldy Press,  and  on  Wednesday  Mr.  Richar.i  
Pigott, proprietol' of the !?'is!;man,  were  fonnd  guilty of  ' having  
published seditious libels.  

At Cork John Coveny, a pnblican, of North Main-street, and Patrick Joyce, publican, of St. Patrick's-quay, have been committed to gaol under the Lord Lientenant's warrant. A large military andIpolice force is in charge of the county prison and its approaches) where Captain Mackay is confined. 
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Churchmen will, perhaps, be most interested in J,mowing 
that Mr. Gladstone has brought in a bill for the abolition of 
the church rate liS an involuntary impost. Certainly, if the institution were to die) no gentler executioner could be found 
than Mr. Gladstone. In fact, he will not allow the rate to 
die, or to be ta,lked of as dead. Only nobody is to pay i~ 
t:l1Jefs he shows so very strong a desire to do so as is mani· 
fested by'voting for it, and undertaking to pay it if carried. Dissenters a,re not to be labelled as such-at the moment when 
the W€sleyaus lire being remincted that they are Churchmen 
innenrly all but name, such labelling would be ungracious­but~thl>r' are to know nothing about the rate, unless they, 'J:everencing the old church in which their parents were 
wedded, or liking the clergyman in spite of his ordination, -choose to come to the vestry and set down their names. In what milder, softer manner could the spirit of the rate pass .away? Mr. Gladstone comes like Iris, in many-coloured light., 
Dextl'a. crinem secat. Omnia e"t uua Dnapsus calor, Ittque in ventos vita recessit. 
Yet Mr. Henley and Mr. Newdegate repine, though Viscount 'Cranboume sees opportunity for another Conservative sur­render. He thinks that a new Parliament will deal much ,more coarsely with the mbject. We think so too; if the new Parliament is to be returned by men of the principles of ~the Reform League, which on Wednesday carried a resolution 'for the abolition of the Church in Ireland without any regard to vested interests. The indignant protest' of the president, 
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-lYloNDAY. 
The East London Museum (Site) Bill passed through Commit£ee. 

On the motion of the Bishop of Oxford, a bill was brought in and read the first time for amending the law on the consecration of churchyards. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDA T. The Earl of lYlayo gave notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in the Irish Reform Bill on March 9. . M1·. Hunt announced, at the instance of Sir C. Bright, thr1t he hoped in a few days to be able to introduce a bill for the ac­quirement and working of the electric telegraphs in the United Kingdom. The motion f01' reading the second time the Habeas Corpus Suspen­sion (Ireland) Continnance Bill was agreed to after a short debate. 
The Public Departments (Erlra Receipts) Bill was passed through I 

Committee. . 
On the motion of Lord Hotham, a Select Committee was ap­pointed to inquire into the origin of the military reserve fuud3, thB sources from which they are derived, and the objects to which theyare applied. 
THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. 

The Lord Advocate, in asking leave to introduce a bin to amend tbe representation of the people in Scotland, explained tha, he had propoEed that the borough franchise should be simihr to th~t in the English Reform A.ct of last Session, and th'lt all h )useholders rated and paying their rates should possesg the qu~ification, provisions being inserted to guard against the omission fi'om the regi;;tel' of any person whose name oughtto appear thereon. For the counties he pro­posed to reduce the 'ownership qualificatian to £5 clear yearly· value, and to fix the occupation franchise at the same amount as in the English Act, or a rating value of £12. In dealing with the question of distribution jt was not intended to take away the right of repre· sentation from any existing constituency, for all must ailmit tha.t there was no superfluity of representation iu Scotland at thid moment. On the contrary, he proposed to increase the number of Scotch members by seven. Two of the.e would be allocated to the Universities of Scotland; three to the large and populous-countieg of Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, and Aberdeenshire; one to the city of GlaBgow, which would thus be placed on the same footing as Liver­pool and Manchester; and the seventh to a grouped const,ituency comprising eight towns with a population of upward'! of GOOO each­viz., Ardrossan, Coatbridge, Wishaw, Barrhead, Johnstone, Helens­burg, Kirkintillock, and Pollockshaws. He further proposed to add HaWick and Galashiels to the Haddi,ngton, and Alloa to the Stirling, district of burghs. 
A debate, in which Mr. Baxter, Mr. Smollet, Sir J. Ogilvy, Mr. Laing, Mr. Moncrieff, Colonel Sykes, Mr. M'Laren, Sir E. Colebrooke, Sir J. Fergnsson, and Mr. Graham took part, was concluded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who described the measure as the largest and most munificent increase of the constituency in Scotland that had ever been offered to the <ionsideration of Parliament. Its great principle was the extension of the franchise, and the pro­positions with which ft was associated he bejieved to be such as would give satisfaction to the Scottish people. He urged the House to pass 'a moderate measure of Reform in the present Session if possible, and, with that view, to consider the bill with candour. He nnder­took that whatever suggestions might be made should receive the careful attention of the Government, with the one desire of making the representation of Scotland as efficient as possible. 
Leave was then given to bring in the bill, which was read the first time, and ordered for second reading on Monday week. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDA Y. A bill designed to ~ffect a further clearance of the superflllOns oaths required by existing statutes was read the second time, aiGer some observations from Lord Lyveden, the Bishop of Oxford, and Lord Westbnry. The bill deals with what are called the" promis­sory oaths," and proposes to retain only five-the oath of allegiance, and the oaths administered' to constables, and to persons intrusted with judicial, military, and official duties. 
HOUSE OF COJlfMONS.-TuESDAY. 
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The House spent acOl)siderable time in the discnssion of some pro­positions made by Mr. Dodson in reference to the manner of dealing with the private business inthe House; but, finally, the consideration of them was adjourned for a fortnight. _ 
Sir S. Northcote, replying to questions from Mr. Fawcett, stated that, representations having been made to the Viceroy of Egypt to the effect that any movement of his troops in Abyssinia might create prejudice against the British mission to that country, his HighneEs had at once promised to recall them. The right hon. Baronet also added that, according to the latest acconnts from General Sir R. Napier, the troop3 had abundance of water from wells sunk in the bed of the river. 
Mr. Seely made another assault upon the mode in which the pnblic money is spent in the dockyards, and obtained the appoint­ment of a Committee on the subject. 
On the motion of Lord ·Enfield, the Select Committee of last year to inquire into the law \IS to common and special jaries was reappointed. -. 
The Oxford University Bill, the Landed Property (Ireland) Tenure Bill, Sale of · Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Bill, County Courts Admi­ralty Jurisdiction Bill, Judgments Extension Bill, and Fines and Fees (Ireland) Bill, were brought in and read the first · time. 
The Industrial Schools (Ireland) Bill was read the second time. The Habeas Corpus Suspemion (Ireland) Act Contiuuance Bill passed through Committee. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Bank Holidays Bill was moved, on the second reading, by Sir C. O'Loghlen, who explained that the object of the measure was to make St. Stephell's Day, the day following Christmas Day, a Bitnk holiday; to enable . the Queen in Council to declare Bank hOlldaya without the necessity of a special Act of Parliament; and to make bills and promissory notes due on holidays payable the day after maturity, instead of the day before, as at present. After a short discmsion the bill was read the second time, and ordered for reference to a Select Committee. . The Life Policies Nomination Bill, the object of which is to enable an insurer to indorse on the policy the name of the" per30u or persons to whom the amount should be payable, was read the second time, after a short discussion. The Habeas Corpns Suspension (Ireland) Act Continuance Bill was, on the motion of Lord Mayo>.!ead the third time and passed. 'The Select Committee on the Jiouse of Commons arrangements was reappointed, on the motion of Mr. Headlam, its chairmau. . 
PRESENTATION OF THE LOYAL IRISH ADDRESS TO MR. GATHORNE HARDY, AT THE HOME OFFICE.-SEE NEXT PAGE. 

A Treasury return, issued ou Tuesday, gives the audited account of the revenue of Great Britain an.d Ireland for the year ending Dec. 31. The gros3 income was £68,663,515, and the expenditure £69,499,055. The latter is made up of £41,550,457 for supply services; £26,065,363 as interest on the National Debt; and £1,883,235 M charges on the Consolidated Fund. The balances in the Exchequer at the commencement of the year amounted to £6,361,937; at the close of the year they were £4,363,030. 
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Marchioness of Abercorn are giving a series of dinner and evening parties, to which a large number of the Irish nobility and gentry have been invited. At a ball, yesterday week, at Dublin Castle, about 1500 attended. The Lord-Lieutenant's second levee for the season will be held on March 3, and the Drawingroom on the vening following. The Marquis of Abercorn, in replying to a Dublin deputation which waited upon him yesterday week to urge upon the Government the establishing of an institute of science and art in Dublin similar to that at South KeJl.sington, expressed his sympathy with the object, and promised to use his influence in its behalf. 
Mrs. Cobden announces in the Mancheste,' Examiner that she pro­pOBes to arrange, with a view to publication, a collection of Mr. Cobden's letters on public que3tions, commencing with those on national education. Mrs. Cobden asks that any of her late husband's friends who have letters Bwtable for this collection will oblige her with the use of the originals. 
The despatch from Mr. Seward alluded to by Lord Stanley in a recent speech has been published. It is dated Nov. 29, 1867, and declines arbitration on the claims arising out of the late war in America, on the ground that Lord Stanley insists that they shall waive before the arbitration the question of the Queen's proclamation of 1861, which" was not justified on lIBy gronnds, either of necessity or of moral right, and therefore was an act of wron gful intervention, a departure from the obligations of existing treaties, and without the sanction of the law of nat.ions." 
A lettsr by Earl Russell "On the State of Ireland" has been pub· lished by Messrs. Longman and Co. It is addressed. to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and fills an octavo pamphlet of ninety· three page3. The letter is divided into three parts, each of which treats a separate division of the subject, which are prefaced by what may be termed an introductory chapter touching generally on the whole question. The first part, after the prefatory matter, dis­cusses the material and physical condition of Ireland; 'the second treats of its political and moral state; the third makes known the course which, iu Earl Russell's opinion, ought to be adopted by Parliament during the present Session in regard to Irish grievances. 
"NOTHING IN THE PAPERS." 


N OTICE a pleasing little bit in the debate on the Scottish Reform Bill. It is not often that ancient and modern history is appealed to so bitterly for weapons of warfare. Said Mr. Smollett, M.P. tor Dumbartonshire, and great·grandnephew of Roderick RandoID, " Scotchmen, though rude in manners, and democratic in political opinions, were loyal, and did not look upon those who murdered the Queen's officers as patriots or martyrs." Said Mr. R ardon, M.P. for Athlone, "There was more jobbing by Scotcbmen than by all the rest of the United Kingdom. Was it found in history that Irishmen ever sold their King. or ran away from their 'flag in the field? " Mr. Reardon's memory, of cour>e, went to 
'fraitor Soot 

". Sold his King for a ~oa~. But is it quite clear about the Irish ? Have they never run awa.y ? Did lightning always show the distant hill 
Where those who lost tbat dreacful day 

Stood faint r.n1 few', but fearless still? Ah, now I Dermot Mac Murrotlgh was King of Leinster, and one has some recollection of that King being driveu out, and coming to 
the feet of Henry n. for aid; and perhaps, too, there might have been a little running from flags in the time of Oliver P. But one scorns to dwell on trifles, and Mr. Reardon deserves honourable men­tion for the patience with which he waited to the end' of the debate to put in his blow. Fifty years ago we should have had to add that on Tuesday morning, in comequcnce of words spoken over night in the House of Commons, Messrs. Smo]lett and Rco.rdon met at Chalk Farm, the former a:tended by Mr. M'Reekie and the latter by Mr. O'Dablin, when, shots having been excbanged without efi\ ct, a reconcili.'\tion was arranged, and the honour of the two autagonists, and of the nationalities which they represented, were declared to be sam rep,·ocl!e. We are glad that we have not this addition to make; but the bullets would bave been as pertinent as the epigrams. 
No. 1471.-VOL. LIl. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1868. WITH A SUPPLEMENT, FIVEPENCE 
IRELAND, HER SOIL AND PEOPLE. 
WHETHER the exceptional attention that is being paid just 
now to the condition-of-Ireland question will operate bene­
ficially on the temper of her people is a query to which few 
would.venture to give a decidedly negative reply. Yet, the 
answ.r to it, if complete, would certainly comprise some con­
siderations which, to some extent at least, should modify a 
final judgment. Ireland's present grivance is' rather moral 
than material; and, so far as it is material, is so mainly 
because it ill moral. Itis none the less real, none the less in­
. tolerable, none the less urgent in its claim for remedial legis­
latioD, on that account; but the fact that it is so, leaves the 
question open whether excess of anxiety, and especially of a 
visible demoDstration of it, may not excite into additional ac­
tivity the very ailment it is meant to cure. Patients, the worst 
and most unmanageable symptoms of whose malady is an 
abnormal irritability of their nervous system, are apt to get 
worse rather than better when they observe a frequent con­
I!ultation of doctors over their case, and a solemn discussion, 
not by" quacks," but by high-standing physicians, of the 

suitability of remedies which even extreme empirics would characterise as violent. In like manner, we are afraid, Ireland may get a more terrified view of her own state from the pub­lished opinions of Earl BU3sell and Mr. Mill than from the actual pain she suffers or from the sober-liveried prospects which lie before her. 
No permanent benefit will be done to Ireland, it seems to UB, by any exaggeration of the wrongs infiicted on her by English domination. We do not, for a single moment, make light of them. We have again and again acknowledged that they are real, that they have been trifled with, and that their continuance, besides being a palpable injustice to the sister kingdom, is a foul blot upon thefair fame of this. We have been among the foremost, moreover, not only in admitting but in asserting that the offe~ces and mistakes of our forefathers in their mode of dealing with Ireland have entailed upon their descendants of the present day the duty of laying aside routine, howe~er ordinarily justifiable, and of treating what is the result of a deplorable past, which none of us can recall, and for which none of us can be held per; 
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sonally responsible, with a tenderness of indulgence which we might hold it to be unwise to convert into a rule of general conduct. But we cannot shut our eyes' to the fact th'Ot the present form of Jrisb disaffection is of foreign type; that its virulence is, for that reason, temporary; and that prescriptions based upon any expectation of removing by legislation what can only be removed by time and by "patient continuance in well. doing," is mischievous as well as baseless. We doubt whether a single grievance of Ireland can be traced to the English system of rule ' for which a corresponding grievance may not be found in Wale~, sometimes in as great, sometimes in a lesser degree. Dif­ference of race, the supremacy of an alien Church Establish­ment, insecurity of land tenure, the possession of the whole land of the country by comparatively few familie~, and several of their cognate evils, are to be found in Wales just as they are in Ireland-and the national sentiment of the Welsh people is as fondly and proudly cherished by them as by the Irish. This does not, it is true. change the condition of Ireland for the better, but it does suggest that the wave of 

disaffection which is passing over the latter country h as not nec€s<arily been set in motion by the action of these geiev­:mc€s, and will not necess~rily be set at rest by the redres3 or them. 
The fpecial danger-not the remediable wrong-of Ireland's present malady arises ~rom her belief that the men.!lS of her cure lie withln her own reach, if England would but allowher to apply them, and that no other means, however a3liduou31y and tenderly applied, will in the least avail her. We in England-and indeed most educated and observant men in Ireland-deem this to be an hallucination; but it i~ none the less difficult to deal with on that account. The i~ea is being perpetually fed by Irish·American intervention, and, though easy to be accounted for, is rather factitious than natural. It is an accidental complication of a long.standing chronic com­plaint, and unquestionably ithas itsseriou9 phases forourdel ves. It ties our hands. It exposes us to unde.3erve1 T3proaches. It may encourage aggression on the part of our neighb:lllrs. It wastes our resources. It diminishes our lll')ral influence. It may, possibly, one day or another, result in some terrible disaster. We have every reasJn, therefore, to solve the Iri~h difficulty as soon as possible, were it only for our owa sa.ke, and to consent to any sacrifice of pride or prejl1dice which the solution of it may demand. SWI, the very urgency of the peril may betray us into the adoption of rcme:lies at oJ.ce inadequate and desperate, merely becau.e they are pas­sionately called for by tbe suffering people of Irelaud, a'li became we are resolved, if possible, to rocover the;n fro:n disalfection to Imperial rule. 
In attempting to get a clear view of the actual w"nbs of Ireland, in order that our remedial legislation may fairly meet them, it is surely of some importance to dlscrimi,nate carefully between those evils which arise horn a tempo­Jary frenzy and those which were felt, complained of, and ncognised before the acceas of the prese:lt fit of u·me:J.son and violence. The tension of her will under the distuebing influence of Irish-American projects is so strained a'ld the f0Tce of her imagination is at once so strong and so mls­guided, that it would be a grave mistake both for her ani for ourselves to adapt our measures to the pitch of her p~esent demands. No man sees more clearly than Mr. Mill the inevitable miseries 'to which Ireland would be doomed .we,·e the cry of a portion of her population favourably responded to J-~d her connection with England finally rent a'mndcr. B~t it does not strike us that he has s) clearly made out the necessity of a complete, albeit a pe:1"}eflll, agrarian Ievolution, as the sole means of effecting a union of sentiment between the English and the Irish p30ple. l'ile transference of the whole soil of the hland to a peasant pro­prietary at fixed J;ents might or migbt not diffuse the satis­faction which Mr. 1I1ill regarclo as likely to flow from iG; nevertheless, it has to be considered whetber the applica!;bn o>f the remedy will not raise more difficulties than any it. will dispose of. ,. But," as Mr. Goldwin Smith has pithily said, " we cannot legislate for our great-grandfathers, much less br the primitive sept." vVe cannot, if we 1V0uld, re3to,e land tenure in Ireland to the ancient Celtic pattern; n)r ca:]. lVe, !lS in Bengal, where Government is the sole landlord, en).ct universal fixity of tenure without doing violent injustice to cne claEs in order to hU6h the clamours of another. 
Putting aside proposals tbe extreme impracticability of which must alwaJs exclude them (except in the last resort, when all choice of action is takeu from ns) from being wrought into remedial legislation, wbat, it may be asked, is it required that Great Britain should do? Three things: -First, she has to consult and secure, as far as law is capable of effec~il1g it, tl:e material and economical well-being of the Irish people; Eecondly, she has to put an end to any existing inequaliLY of religious rIghts; thirdly, she hn.s, while maintaining an imrmtial and vigorous administration of tbe law, as between -man 8nd man, class and class, country and ccuntry, to do what in her lies towards soothing !1nd ultimately satisfying the sentiment of Irish nal,ionality. None of these·thing~, it may be said, nor all of them together, will make any sensible approach towards laying tbe augry and intractable spirit raised by ,Fenianism. Tha~ Ill;],y be true; we are afraid we must make up our mlnds to take oar chance of that. Statesmflnship -at lc'ast, if it be w.)rthy of the name-does not undertake to shape its course in con­formit.y with the wishes of a plainly ungovernable temper. It must re~train it from doing injury; mnst watc':J it with kiJldly concern; and must leave time and natural eKhamtion to sclbc1ue it. MEanwhile, however, it should not delay the adoption of whatever measures commend themselves' to go)d Ecnse a:nd good feeling wbenever and whm'ever reaD:), is uppermost. 
Ireland is an agricultura.l and pastoral cJuntry, with a wet climate and with few manufactures. H is of the fieat im­portance, therefore, that all legal restrictiol1l should be re­moved from the easy transference of land from owner to o\vacr, and allleg:.l proviEions tending to encourage the aggregation of the Eoil in few hands should be forth with repealed. IG is obvious, moreover, thn.t the relations of landlord and te:1:l.nt 8houLl be so far regulated by law as to ensure to tbe tenant the prospect and the righ", after payment of his relt, of getting back from tbe soil, in prodlIce or in compensation, all the money, or money's worth, which he has put into it. Immense tracts of waste laNd might also be distribtrted, under inviting conditions, among peasants, who by their own labour migbt redeem it from st(Jrility and beco:ne its proprietors. These measures would be but pal­liativeS; it may he said ; but they lie on the vcry threshold of legislaUon for the material interests of Jreland. Something also might be done tONards stimulating, organising, and for a while susta.ining, enterprise in coast aud river fisheries. As to the question of religious equality, all parties are agreed on its necessity, though there may be differences of opinion as to the most expedient manner of obtaining it-differences which it is now time should be over. ruled. Some way-all feasible ways, indeed-of gratifying Irish national sentiment must be cheerflllly resorted to. When these thingf! have been attended to in earnest, it is possible that other desirable changes may come into vielV. Every proof given of the fixed resolution of England to make Ireland a partner witb her of a common heritage of freedom, prosperity, and glory will exert a healing influence upon Irish di~affection. But whatever is clone should be done quickly. 
BIRTHS. 

On the 24th inst., at Walford H:.\U, Salop, the wife of Thomas Slaney Eyton, 
of aSOD. 
On the IGt.h inst., at the Esplanade, Sunderland, in the county of Dllrh.m, the wife of Edward Haygarth Maling, Esq., of twin sons. 
MARRIAGES. On the 20th inst., at Monkstown church, by the Rev. lIfervyn Arehdall 
e lru.'e, cousin of the bridegroom, William Cla.re Ball, Assistant COmniS53,ry­
General, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Rev. Edmond D. H. Knox, Rector of KilflYllU, in the connty of Limerick, and granddaughter of the laoo 
Ma.jor Francis, A.. S. Knox, B.A.. 
On the 22nd inst., at St. Mark's, Surbiton, by the Rev. E. P4il1ip3. M. A.,. 
Alfred Dawson, of Upper Tulse Hill. youngest son of the late John Dawsollt Esq., of Kingston-cn-Th9.mes, to Alice Matilda,. da.ughter of John Marlett 
1loddy, Esq., of Surbiton Rill, and late of the Admiralty, Somerset House. 

No cards. 
On the 20th inst., at St. Andrew's, Cardiff, by the Rev. D. Howell, Charles 
Milne, Esq., M.R.e.S., of Wa.ndsworth-road, London, to Elizabeth, youngeat daughter of-the late Samuel John Sankey, Esq., of Rainham, Kent. No cards. 
DEATHS. On the 25th inst., at Bromham, Bedfordshire, Jdbn Lavender, E;q.,llgedM. 
On the 24th inst., at his residence, Clifton Hall, Lisca.rd, Oheahire, HaghDixon, Esq., in bis 49th year. 
On the 26th inst., at 9, York-street, Portman·square, Charle. William 
Spicer, Esq., of Debden Hall, Essex, and Tasonis, in the island of Sa.rdinia. . 
*.* 'l'!te charge fm' 	the insertion 0/ Bi-rths, .Ala'J'riages, and Deaths is Five Shillings tot" each announcement. . 
Prince and Princess Teck have returned to Kensington Palace 
from visiting Prince Edward of Saxe-\1{ei:nar and Conntess Dornberg 
at Molecombe, Sussex. 
The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson have arrived at 55, 
Grosve_nor-place. 
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and the Misses MUll'ell 
have arrived at Rome from Nice. 
The Duke of Leinster has returned to town from visiting Lord and 
Lady Otho Fitzgerald at Wust Park, Wilts. 
Earl and Countess Spencer have arrived at Spencer House, St. 
J an;es's, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at 
Badminton. . 
Earl and Countess Granville arrived in town on Monday from a 
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton. 
The Gazette of Tuesday night contains the official annouucem'mt 
that her Msjesty has been pleased to grant the diguity of a BaroMt 
to Dr. Jenncr. 

FASHIONABLE AND POLITICAL ENTERTAINMENTS. His Excellency the Swedish Minister and Baroness Hochschild had a dinner party, on Thursday week, at the Swedish Legation, in Great Cumberland-street. A select company assembled after dinner. The Duchess of Marlborongh gave the first of a series of receptions, ' on Saturda.y lust, at the family residence in St. James's-square. Previously to the reception, the Lord President of the Council and the Duchess entertained a distinguished company at dinner. . The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury entertained a select circle at dinner, on Tuesday, at their residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescne, M.P., entertained their Royal Highuesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres and a distinguished company at diuner, on Saturday laBt, at their residence in Carlton-gardens. 
THE CHURCH. 

The nave and transepts of Nor·ton Canon Church, Hercfordshit'e, were reopened on Sunday, the 16th, after having undergone a complete transformation. 
TIle preachers at the special evening services at St. Paul's Cathedral for the ensuing month ll,t'e as follow :-~Iarch 1, the Rev. WiHiam. Cad man ; 8, the Rev. J oseph , Bardsley; 15, the Rev. William RobinsOll Clark; 22, the Bishop of Derry; 29, the Deau of Cork. 
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A t the annual meeting of the Bishop of London's Fund, on Monday, his LOl'dship presiding, the report stated that the total amount received/d'uring the four years and a half of its existence terminating with'the close of last year was £235,000, or little more than a quarter of the million which it had been proposed to mise. The last year, however, showed an increase of income. 
;In the Upper House of Couvocation, yesterday week, the presenta­tion of the a"ticulus cleri of the Lower House led to a long deb~te on the Natal Bishopric case. The Bishop of Oxford moved, and the Bishop of London seconded, that a committee be appointed to in­qnire into the canonicity of the sentence of deposition and excom­munication sgainst Bishop Colenso; and also that, while anxious to see the scandal removed, and to stl'engthen the hands of the Bishop of Capetown, the house must postpone its decision. This was agreed to unanimously. The Lower House was enga!1:ed in a debate on the resolution sent down from th'e Upper House on lUtu"l, which was not concluded when the sitting concluded. Both houses fire prorogued to t.he 28th of April next. 
Yesterday week the Archbishop of York presided at the annu~l meeting of the incorporated members of the Society for the Propaga­tion of the Gospel, at Willis's Rooms. The Archbishop of Qanter­bury was re-elected president, and the Burviving vice-presidents of last year '\Veri again chosen, wit.h the addition of the Earl .of Eldon, Lord Clin ion, Lord Redesdale, Sir Robert Philiimore, the Hon: Arch­deacon Hanis, Archdeacon Mackenzie; J. G. Hubbard, Esq., 1f.P. ; 
C. Raikes, Esq,. C, S. I, ; 1.oftu8 Wigram, Esq.; and the Rev. E. C. Woollcombe. The election of six members of the standing com­mittae was the next business, there being seven candidates. TIle result of the poll was as follows :-For Clement Dale, Esq" 367 ; Henry E. Pellew, Esq" 3G2; R. B. Wade, Esq .• 358; the Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys, 370; the Rev. H. P. Liddon, 362; the Rev. Cyril W. Page, 257; the Rev. Dr. Miller, 142. 
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SeROOLi. OXFORD • . In a Convocation on Saturday a short form of statute relating to the entering names for examination on the Proctors' lists was put to the house and passed. . 
At the same time the following. were approved as Examiuers for the Hertford Scholarship-viz., the Rev. C. Williams, D.D., Principal of Jesus; Rev. R. C. Powles, M.A., Exeter; and C. Bigg, M.A., Christ Church. . 
The following is the award of the ExaminerB for the vacant Fcholarships and exhibitions at Exeter :-Open Scholarships-W. 
J. Stewart, Commoner of Exeter,' late of Liverpool School; W. Grey, St. Andrew's, Bradfield; S. T. Irwin, Exhibitioner of Lincoln, late of Wellington College. Stapleton Scholarships-W. C. Perry, Klng's Sherborne; W. C. Warner, Eton (open pro hac vice). Exhibitions­
J. H. Ayre, Harrow, and H. Chettle, Shrewsbury. There were sixty-one candidates in all. 
The Trinity College (Dublin) petition, in favour of preserving its "Protestant Constitntion unimpaired," has been signed by 17 noble­men and noblemen's sons, 31 baronets and knight.s, 17 Queen's counsel, 113 lieutenants and deputy lieutenants, 767 magistrates, 345 physicians, and 320 barristers. The clerical signatures are 2079. 
The annual general meeting of the members of University College, London, was held in the college on Wednesday-Lord Belper, Vice­President, in the chair. The report from the council stated that the nnmber of pupils and students dllring the session of 1866-7 amounted to 1012, being an increase of 147 over the number during the previous session. JJord Brougham was re· elected President, Lord Belper Vice-President, and Mr. G. Grote Treasurer. The following gentle­men were elected members of the council :-Messrs. H. M. Bompas, 
W. Fowler, J. C. Gooden, C. Z. Macaulay, H. Matthews, and J. TyndaU; and Mr. A. Tylor was chosen Auditor. 
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A meeting under the auspices of the Public Museums and Free Libraries A8~ociation is fixed for Monday, March 9, at Sion College. 
The Prince of Wales will preside at the ensuing anniversary festival of St. Patrick's Benevolent Society, which is to be held at Willis's Rooms on March 17. 
The anllual general meeting of the subscribers to the Royal General Theatrical Fund, for granting permanent pensions to actors, actresses, cAorus-singers, dancers, pantomimists, and prompters, was held, on Wednesday, in the saloon of the Lyceum The~tre, and was well attended. In the absence of Mr. Buckstone the chah' was taken by Mr. Howe, of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Mr. Cllllenford, the secretary, read the annual statement. rhe total receipts for the year were £1983, and the expenditure left a balance in favour of the institution of £480. The funded property amonnts to £13,534. Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Mr. Chllrles Dickens, and Mr. Macready were re·elected trustees; Mr. J. B. Buckstone, honorary treasnrer and director; and Dr. Hastings and Mr. Webster, honorary physician and honorary solicitor to the institution. Mr. Cullenford was re­elected secretary, and Mr. Gaston Murray was appointed assistant secretary. The twelfth anniversary festival of the Dramatic, . Equestrian, and Mnsical Sick Fund Association was celebrated on the same evening at Willis's Rooms, when an excellent dinner was provided it la Russe. Mr. Benjamin Webster occupied the chair; and the gnests nnmbered in all about 250, inclUding a large proportion of ladies, the majority of whom are connected with the theatriclI profession. Mr8. Stirling replied, as usual, and with her wonted tact and grace, to the toast "The Health of the Ladies," and her speech was received with cheers and laughter. Afterwards th~ company resolved themselves into a dancing party. 
FENIANISM. 


ALLEN, one of the Clerkenwell prisoner3, who WM discharged at; Bow-street the other day, but was sut8equell~ly re-arre3ted on the Coroner's warrant, was brought up at the Contral Criminal Court on Monday. No evidence, however, was ofl',nd against him, an 1 he was set at liberty. . 
On Wednesday the three men charged wJh attempting to ad­minister the Fenian oath at Deptford wer) indicted before Mr. Justice Wi11es, and, after a lengthened a:ld patient trial, were acquitted. 
'fhe seven prisoners-William and Timothy Desmontl, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe, J ames O'Neill, Michael Barrett, and Anne Justice-who stood remanded on the charge of wilful mnrder of the persons killed by the Clerkenwell explosion, were again placed at the bar for final examination, at Bow-street Police Court 011 Tuesday, and were committed for trial at the March sessions of !;ha Central Criminal Ccurt. 
Mr. Sullivan, proprietor of the Nation, and Ur. Pigott, proprietor of the ["isll1nan, convictedat the Dublin Assizes last week of publishing seditions libel upon the Government, were sentenced on Saturday morning. Sullivan was sentenced to six months' and Pig-ott to twelve months' imprisonment, and at the expiration of those periods to be bound over in heavy recognisances to be of good behavionr. 
Mr. John Martin, Mr. A. M. Snllivan, and their associates, wh1m the Irish Govel'l1ment has prosecuted for taking part in the Dllbliu procession to commemorate the Fenians executed at Manchester, have been discharged through the inability of the jury to agree upon a verdict. ' 
The Cork policeman Casey, who wits shot in the leg by the alleged Fenian, " Captain" Mackay, while resisting his capture, died in the infirmary on Saturday of gangrene. The boy Leary, wh~ was wounded by the police during · the late riots, is also dead. The Coroner's inquiry into the death of Casey has resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against Mackay-Walsh, Manning, and Spillaue being inclnded in the charge as having aided and abetted in ths commission of the crime. 
On ~Ionday night another attempt was made on the p!l.rt of a band of supposed Fenians to obtain arms from a house in the neigh­bourhood of Cork. '£he house was that of a magistrate, but the marauders were fired at and retreated. ­
At the Manchester Police Court yesterday week, P "trick MuUady was again brought up, charged with having been concerned in the attack upon the police-van in Hyde-road on Sop. 18, the] es )ae oE the Fenian prisoners Kelly and Deasey, and the murder of police­sergeant Charles Brett. . The prisoner s~t up an alibi, and calied several witnesses in support. The magistrate, howe"~r, after hea,ring evidence, decided to commit him for trial at the enming 

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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. 
A bill WitS laid on the table by Lord St. Le~nards to provide that the Lords Justices should sit together on appeal motions. 
LAND TENURE IN IRELAND. 

The Marquis of Clanrical'de directed attention to the question of land tennre in Ireland; and, having referred to the various schemes proposed on the subject, said the only hope of improviug the land of Ireland was in the introduction of capital, which could alone be profitably employed by farming ou a large scale. The measure, therefore, which he would recommend was to secure to the tenant a fair remuneration for his improvements and deal fairly with the rights and interests of both landlords and occupiers. By adopting such a course they would establish a state of prosperity and avoid laying the foundations of future distress and chronic agitation. 
Lord St. Lecnards saw no necessity for fresh legislation, unless it could be shown that the Act of 1860, which appeared to be a most fair and business-like measure, had failed. 
The Earl of Kimberley approved of the bill, but could not agree 
with the revolutionary schemes recently propounded. . 
The Earl of Malmesbury, as the mouthpieca of the Government, said they did not oppose the introduction of the bill of the noble Marquis; but he recommended its promoter to refer it again to the same Committee which sat last year. 
The bill was then read the first time. SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS, CORPUS ACT IN IRET,AND. The House then proceeded with the bill contiuuing the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. . Earl Russell admitted the necessity for this exceptionallegialation, but demanded that the Government should explain its Irish policy. He specially singled out the Irish Church for denunciation. His views on this part of the question were supported by Earl Grey. The Duke of Richmond spoke on behalf of the Government. Lord Ellenborough -demanded religious equality in Ireland, but he warned Parliament against alienating Protestant support. After a few observations from other noble Lords, the bill was read the second time. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. Mr. Melly took the oath and his seat for Stoke-on·Trent, in the room of Mr. Beresford Hope, resigned. Mr. M'Laren gave notice that, on going int·o Committee on the Scotch Reform Bill, he should move a resolution to the effect that no arrangement would be satisfactory to that country which did not recognise its position as an integral portion of the empire, and which did not provide for an addition of fifteen members. The Public Departments (Extra Receipts) Bill was read the third time and passed. The Railways (Extension of Time) Bill was read the second time and oreered for Committee. Leave was given to bring in the following bills :-Mr. Ewart, a bill to introduce into this country the metric system of weights and measures; Mr. S. Cave, a bill to carry into effect a convention between her Majesty and the Emperor of the French concerning the fisheries in the seas adjoining the British islands and France, and to amend the laws relating to British sea fisheries; Lord J. Manners, a bill to further continue and appropriate the Lond,m coal and wine duties; the Lord Advocate, a bill to amend the procedure in the Court of Seesion and the judicial arrangements in the superior courts of Scotland; and a bill to amend the procedure in the Court of Judiciary in Scotland. ' 
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HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuIlSDAY. The Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Act Contillllance Bill passed through Committee. 

RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OF DERBY. Lord Malmesbury said he regretted to inform their Lordships that Lord Derby had, from failing health, felt himself compelled to offer his resignation to the Queen, and that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept it, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been intrusted with the formation of 'a 1finietry. However painfuHy they all felt the resignation of Lord Derby from such a cause, none could more deeply regret it than his colleagues who had served nnder him in office or stood by him in long, dreary years of opposition. At the same time, they must hope that the very rest which the late Premier proposed to give himself would restore him to them in renewed strength, so that they might once more have the advantage of his experience and enjoy the charm of his eloquence. Lord Malmesbury then proposed th'tt the Hou,e should adjourn till two o'clock on Thursday, to read the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill the third time, and meet again on Friday for the Royal assent to the bill, which must be passed before Sunday. Lord Russell thought thore was not the least objection to the arrangements proposed, and warmly expressed his sympathy with the Government at the loss they h~d sustained. Often as he and his colleagues had differed, and long as they might now differ on public questions, they could never fail alway~ to entertain for Lord Derby those sentiments of regard and esteem which his great qualities were so calculated to inspire. Their Lordships then adjoumed till two o'clock on Thursday. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. Mr. Beresford-Hope took the oath and his seat for the University of Cambridge, in the' room of Sir C. J. Selwyn, now one of the LJrds Justices of Appeal. 
RESIGNATION OF 1HE EARL 0])' DERBY. The rnmours of Ministerial changes afloat all the afternoon attracted the first large andience of the· Session. After the priva.te business had been disposed of, ' Lord Stanley rose and announced that, in consequence of the state of his health, which made absolnte repose for a considerable period essential, Lord Derby had tendered his resignation, which had been accepted by the Queen. He further stated that, acting on her Majesty's commands, Mr. Disraeli was engaged in forming an Administration, and he suggested tllat, under the circnmstances, and following the invariable course, to give time for the necessary arrangements, the House should adjourn until Friday. Much as Mr. Disraeli regretted to delay the discussion of Mr. Maguire's most important motion on the condition of Ireland, he had no option. Mr. Gladstone, after remarkiNg on the singular destiny. which had given it to Lord Statlh!y to make tllis announcement, expressed the general regret that a career so long, so active, and in many respects so distinguished, should have been brought to a close by bodily illness. He agreed that the adjournment proposed WM most appropriate under the circumstances. The Honse then adjourned until Friday. 
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At a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, on Tuesday ev~ning, the Lord Lieutenant, responding to the toast "Prosperit.y of IreJand," took an encouraging view of its condition. He held out hopes of a better railway system, 9S the result of the Com­miseion. There was a decrease of 19,000 in emigration last year, and an expected further decrease this year. He referred to the disturbances in Cork as exceptional, and believed three fourths of the country sound. The attach on martello towers were like Don Quixote's battles with windmills. He remarked that the English people were disposed to discriminate between the perpetrat\lJs of outrages Bnd the Irish people, and to consider their grievanc3s, and sympatbi~e as far aB possible. He noticed the progress of Dublin. Its tonnage had increased from 880,000 in 1857 to 1,436,000 in 1867, and the revenne from £26,000 to £44,000. He also intimated the desire of Government to give more liberal and special encourage­ment to tbe Irish. 
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSON& 
THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GLASGOW. 

The Right Hon. Julia, Dowager Oountess of Glasgow, who died on the 19th inst., was the third daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, first Baronet, of Ulbster, by his second wife, the Hon. Diana, daughter of Alexander, first Lord Macdonald, and was sister of Sir George Sinclair the present Baronet, of the Ven. John Sinclair, Archdeacon of 'Middlesex, and of the late distinguished anthoress, Oatherine Sinclair. The Countess .of Glasgow was born June 16, 1796, and was married, Nov. 13, 1824 (she was his second wife), to George, fourth Earl of Glasgow, who died July 6,1843. By this union her Ladyship had issue a son, the Hon. George Fl'ederick Oarr·Boyle, who is heir presumptive to the Earldom of Glasgow; and a danghter, Lady Diana, married to John Slaney Pakington, Esq., elder son of the Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, Bart., M.P., G.O.B., Secretary of State for the War Department. The Oonntess's stepson is J ames, fifth and present Earl of Glasgow. 
MR. J USTICE SHEE. The Hon. Sir William Shee, one of the Justices of the Oourt of Queen's Bench, a ' distinguished lawyer, advocate, and Judge, who died on the 19th inst., at his town house, 5, Sussex·place, Hyde Park-gardens, deeply regretted by all who knew him, was the son of Joseph Shee, Esq:} of Thomastown, in the county of Kilkenny, and Belmont LOdge, Nine Elms, Surrey, by his wife, Teresa, daughter of John Darell, Esq., of Scotney Castle, Kent, a branch of the very ancient and honourable family of Darell. He w.as born at Finchley, Middlesex, in 1804; and was educated at the Roman Oatholic foundation, St. Cuthbert's Oollege, Ushaw, near Durham, and at the University of Edinburgh. He was called to the English Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, June 19, 1828. He, soon after his call, politically distinguished himself by an eloquent speech on the Liberal side at the great Protestant meeting of " the Men of Kent," held on Pennenden-heath, Nov. 24, 1828. He went the Home Oircuit, and l'Ose quickly into business and repute. His practice eventually so increased that it became at times very great indeed. He was made Serjeant-at-Law in 1840, obtained a Patent of Prece­dence in 1846, and was appointed a Queen's Serjeant in 1857. He was, in 1847, an unsuccessful candidate at the general election for the borough of Marylebone ; he, in 1852, was elected M.P. for the county of Kilkenny, and represented that county in Parliament till 1857; He subsequently nnsuccessfully addressed the con· stituencies of the county of Kilkenny and of Marylebone. He was a moderate and consistent Liberal in politics; but he was of a-high and independent spirit, which did not readily yield to the varying requirements of Parliamentary electors, and thus he did not always suit them. This elevated tone, however, combined with great talent and good sense, unbending honesty of purpose, a most amiable and benevolent disposition, and very genial manners, had made him so popular among all members of the law that it was with the acclaim of the whole Bar and of the profession generally that he was at last raised to judicial rank in 1864, as a Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench. He was the first Roman Oatholic J ndge of the Superior Oourts of Westminster since the Revolution, the last Oatholic Judge before him having been Sir Richard Allybone, a Justice of the Court of King's Bench, who died in the summer of 1688. Mr. Justice Shee was knighted in 1864. His manly bearing and untiring energy, his sound knowledge, and his other excellent qualities were making him also conspicuous on the Bench, when, in the midst of apparent health, his sudden illness and death have cast a gloom among the profession which will not soon be forgotten. It should be added that Sir William Shee was also of note as a legal author, having ably edited new editions of the works of Abbott (Lord Tenterden) on shipping, and of Marshall on insurance. SU' William married, Dec. 26, 1837, Mary, daughter of Sir J ames Gordon, seventh Baronet, of Gordons· town and Letterfourie, Banffshire, and sister of the present Sir Robert Glendonwyn Gordon, premier Baronet of Nova Scotia, by whom (who died Oct. 11, 1861) he has had issue. The old and eminent Kilkenny family of Shee, to which Sir William belonged, and which has branched into the Shees of Dun more, Oloran, Gardenmorres and other lines, has been of signal reputation both abroad and at home. In Austria and France the Shees held high military commands. Napoleon's Minister, Clarke, Duke of Feltre, was maternally of the race. They have earned fame also in Ireland and England. One of them obtained a Baronetcy in reward for his services as a Minister of State; and another was President of the Royal Academy of London (the President's son, by the way, Mr. Shee, of the Ohancery Bar, has just been made a ,Q.O.): yet, among them all, there was not one of a finer intellect, a more gentle spirit, or a nobler soul than the Judge whose premature and lamentable demise we here record. A portrait of Sir William Shee was given in the number of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS for Jan. 2, 1864. 
FENIANISM. 


AT the Warwick assizes, on Thursday week, true bills for treason­felony were found against Burke, Casey, and Shaw. The prisoners will be tried at the Central Criminal Court in April next. 
The aesizes at Sligo were, on Tuesday, brought to a premature conclUBion by the illness of a juryman. Nugeut, was on his trial, which was consequently postponed until the next assizes. Colonel Nagle's trial had previously been postponed until the next a~3izes, an adequate number of aliens not being in attendance. 
More outrages in Ireland, attributed to the Fenians, are reported. Michael Briscoe, an ironmonger's aS9istant, was fired at in a Dablin public-house on Thursday week, and died of the wound on S,m<iay. A waiter at the house has been arrested. The police .attribute the outrage to Fenianism. A revolver, which had all its ba.rrels loaded, was found in the street near the house. Near Cork the house of a clergyman named Leolie hits been attacked. A strong bo:1y of armed men demanded admission, and, on being refused, fired through the door. Mr. Leslie returned the fire, and, on the ringing of an alarm bell, the fellows decamped. An attempt was made on Wednesday se'nnight to fire the magazine of a military bEmack near Cork. On Monday evening a bottle of explosive liquid, re3em­bling Greek fire, was thrown into the warehouse belonginz to Mr. Tait, of Limerick, but the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. 
The Irish papers publish a letter from Mt'. John Mitchel's New York journal, the Citizen, to Mr. John J\.[artin, of Dublin, in which Mitchel describes the American-Irish Feniahs as having been sys­tematically deceived by the " organisers" as to the " men at home." He knows what he says will make enemies fur him among the Fenians, but will add that the Fenian "Republic, with its faroo of a government, secretaries of state, army, navy, government bO!lds, and sO forth, is an impe1'i-um in imperio excessively repllgn$nt to the­American people," who "hold it up in terrorem before the eyes of England by way of indUCing har to be more compliant in diplomatic­diEcussions ;" but the American Government knows all its armouries,. can lay its hands on them at any moment, and has arranged with the Canadian Government" for a joint defence of that frontier; and in every seaport keeps so vigilant a guard that not even a single ship of considerable size, to say nothing of It fleet of transports, can possibly go out or get ready to go out." 
Mr. William Johnston, of Ballykilbeg House, Grand Master of the Orange Society for the county of Down, w~s, yesterday week, con­victed at Downpatrick Afsizes of having joined iu a procession on July 12 last, at Bangor, in violation of the Party Processions Act. Mr. Justice Moni.e, on Saturday, sentenced the prisoner to be kept in confinement for one month and then to enter into recognisances­himself in £500 and two sureties in £250 each, to be of good behaviour for two years, or in default to be imprisoned for one month. Two ot.her men, convicted of a similar offence, were ordered to be imprisoned for one month and enter into bail-themselve3 in £50 and two sureties in £25 each. 
A most atrocious murder was committed, on Monday night, at Toomorden, by Miles Wetherall, a weaver. A servant-girl to whom he had been paying his addresses having been discharged from her situation in conseqnence of his visits, he resolved on wreaking his vengeance on her master, the Rev. Mr. Plows. Armed with a hatchet and a pistol, he accordingly made his way into the house at night and attacked the whole family, seriously wouncled Mr. and Mrs. PI(,ws, and shot one of the housemaids dead: When overpowered, the ruffian took a pipe from his pocket and said, " I may as well have a smoke; I suppose it is the last I shall have, for I know I shall swing for what; I have done." He was armed with three pistols and a hatchet. 
MARCH 1, 1861 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 

LONDON: SATURDAY, JlARCIl7, 1868. 

MR, DISRAELI arranged hig Cabinet withclUt difficulty, and Lord Malmesbury's "if possible" is a little addition to an interesting collectioon of infelicities. The alterations in the Ministry can scarcely be said to strengt hen it. No doubt the new Lord Chancellor is one of the ablest lawyers and cleverest advocates who have held the Seal; but, unless it shall turn out that Lord Cairns has been educating himself upon the Irish Church question, on which he was very positive a few months ago, the appointment may eit4er mean that the Oonservative Cabinet is diginclined to deal with that subject, or that its Chancellor is to be of small ouse in the debates upon it. Mr. Ward Hunt, who takes the office of his distinguished chief, appears to have a clear head, and he has made business statements in a way which was satisfactory to the HOl1se ; but he is a young financier, and it is somewhat early 
to make him "ruler over many things." For the time, how­ever, we may assume that he will be but the mouthpiece of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. What Lord Malmesbury may accomplish in the House of Lords it is not fOl: us to pre­dict. Hitherto, his Lordship does not appear to have been encumbered with many of the secrets of his leaders. Tile Cabinet coronets do not shine much. The popular e~ement dominates remarkably in this Conservative Ministry. 
We necessarily write in anticipation of the Ministerial statements, and it is not therefore useful to discuss the chances of Ministerial success. A short time will settle the question whether the Liberals are inclined to encounter the great re­sponsibility of outbidding Mr. Disraeli. Meantime, we remark with unfeigned satisfaction that, with few exceptions, that statesman's success has been generously received by the organs of public opinion-even by those which represent m0re than political hostility to the new Premier. n is not sur. prising that a high-minded man like Mr. Gladstone should regard Mr. Disl'aeli much in the sp.irit of the knight in one of the finest poems of one to whom the former has lately done honour which did honour to himself;­
Thus, then, my noble foe I greet, Health and high fortune till we meet, And thon-what pleases Heaven ; but it is gratifying to findthat something of the same feeling, if more grudgingly expre~sed, should have madd its way through the rank and file of Liberalism. We are not of those who think that success is everything; and we have frequently been ready to go into the same lobby with Cato, who an· nounced that he "divided" against the gods, and supported the conquered ; but, Philistinism apart, there is little real and abiding success without merit; and in the case of such a triumph as Mr. Disraeli's, it would be an insult to the EngUsh nation to regard his position as other than a proof of me'rit, Who have been the Premiers since Government beca.me illl.­tional? Let us go back through a small portion only of the list, and we read the names of Palmerston, Russell,Aberdeen, Peel. Melbourne, Grey, Wellington, Canning. Does a man take his place among such men by accident or in spite of unworthiness? The least gentle-minded of Mr. Disraeli's enemies have not failed to see that it is England, and not the Premfer, whom they would assail in denying his right to be where he is. The Premiership of an empire of 224,000,000 of human beings is not a prize that is scrambled for, but an honou~ that is won. And to do the majority of his critics justice, most of them have admitted this fairly, and many of them generously. Claiming the right to detach ourselvell from mere party, and to offer, however 'humbly, a mClre judicial vote than·that of party, we record with satisfaction. that whether Mr. Disraeli's Cabinet stand or fall, there haa been ample recognitions of his claim to form it, and, if necessary, to reconstruct it hereafter. Had be been to the "manor" bOlll, nearly all that we have said would have bee .. unnecessary; but this is a very territorial country, and the man who rising from the ranks wins the baton, may gain great victories over his enemies, but he has already won a greater over tho!e wbom he leads. There is one thing for this Cabinet to do, and, if it succeed in that, the name of the Disraeli Ministry will be gratefully remembered. We want to see the American question settled. and the most amicable relations re· established between the two great leading nations of the world. It is not because of this wretched Fenian business. Does any reasonable being suppose that we should have any real difficulty in settling­that is, stamping out-Fenianism, even if the twenty thousand. men° who walk in darkness and make military promenades through the brains of American writers were drltwn up ill bltttle array, and could fall back upon a garrison in every city in the neighbouring island? Could not Lord Strathnairn imitate General Sherman, and sweep his way from north to south, in spite of all the Fenians that ever wore green or wished to wear it f Would not the Irish themselves, at a summons givell in eltrnest, rise and exterminate treasen the moment it leall,. threatened their connection .with the British tl!.rone 1 We will not waste words over such questions, which excite ridicule from the Continental and the American press, and procure for us taunting offers to do police work for us. We care: just aa much about Fenianism as our clever friends across the Atlantic do, while using the Irish catspaw to grip the Pre­sidential chestnuts. We desire to be friends with the Americans both on selfish and sentimenta~ grounds. We 
want  to  buy  from  them  and  sell  to  them,  and  we  
do  not  want  trade  paralysed  anod  capital  frightened  
by rumours  of  war.  We want  several  treaties with thelU,  

aome literary tre!lties, inter alia. We should rejoice to see them redevelop the resources of the south, nof only for their 
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"own sakes, but for ours; and we ar<.1 much interested in the work of inducing the American protectionist to become con­verted to Stuart Millenarianism. That is a great deal-we frankly allow it. Like the London tradesmen, we do not want to lose our best customers, the less that '/Ve have not °been extortionate. But there is a great deal more. We .desire that the earnest and hearty feeling which exists, and which the Americans know to exist between themselves and the Briti~b, should not be perpetually chilled and frozen, but should vivify our intercourse. It is a feeling that grows very much by practice, and diminishes by disuse. It" lives on daily food," as a poet has observed of love. And we deem it high time that the atmosphere should be cleared, and that oscowling and sulking, though they mean nothing more, should be done away for very shame. Here are t wo nations which contain in them more intellect, goodness, and religion than all the rest of the world put together; two nations that, if in thorough accord, would cause wars to cease throughout all the earth ; two nations of a common parentage and speaking a common language, so that all the ordinary difficulties of union vanish; and here are these nations affecting to be estranged, and really losing weight of prestige, for the sake of a quibble in language and °the price of one single day of war. Let Mr. Disraeli please -the Irish, adjust the rate question, and pass all measures of 
domestic reform, if he can; but we are sure that it is in him, by somc gracious device, to make thin gs pleasant with America, and if he will do this his name shall live in the history of England. 



IMPKRIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TnuRSDAY. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cairns) took his seat for the first time on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of Malmesbury made a statement similar to that made in the House of Co.mmons by Mr. Diaraeli as to the policy of the Government. The Public Departments (Extra Receipts) Bill nnd the Courts of Appeal Bill were read the secon,d time. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TnuRsDAT. The Marquis of Lorne, lately elected for Argyleshire in the room of Mr. l'inlay, who retired, took the oath and his seat. The Earl of Mayo obtained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the alteration of days upon which fairs were now held in Ireland. Mr. Morrison obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the "Metropolis Gas Ad , 18GO," and to make fluther provisions for regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis, and for other purposes. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Mr. Disraeli, who was ~'eceived with loud cheerd, said )1e hoped the House would allow lum to make a few remarks, in consequence of a change which has taken place in his relation to the HOllse. The retirement of Lord Derby from the chief conduct of athirB had already been stated. He had no language which could describe his sense of the importance of that retirement, and he would not for oue moment attempt to dilate upon the public character of the noble Lord. He hoped that Lord Derby would ba restored to health, and, what was much more, to enduring health; aud in that ca3e he would no doubt be able to give them the benefit of his advice, and would express his opinion on events -an opinion rendered so valuable from his great knowledge of the public affai rs of this country. Least of all should he think ie nece33~ry to speak upon Lord Derby's services in that House, whel'e it was their pride and boast that h~ had long been among them, and which was the arena of so many of hid greatest succeEses. There were mauy there who recollected t \;)ose days, and they would remember that brilliant percel?tion and fire of eloquence which he possessed over most men and hiS nnwonted expertness in business. Upon Lord Derby's resignation being tendered and accepted, her Majesty was graciously pleased to Beud for him (Mr, Disraeli), and intrust to him the office of forming a Ministry­of forming a Government. Under any circumstances, he thought there was no one who, when such a trust was reposed iu him, did not feel he must incnr a great burden-have to encounter many difficulties. In his case there were personal grouuds, which made him feel that the burden would be more than usually heavy and the difficulties more th!Ln usually insur­mountable; but, nevertheless, his self-respect dem30uded tha.t he should undertake the responsibility. In doing so, he trnsted to the support of the Governmest, and to the generosity of a House of Parliament in which he had now passed half his existence. He had not trusted in vain, and he was bound in gratitude to acknow­ledge the cordial manner in which his colleagues had promised him their hearty co'operation. In accepting the trust which h~d been resigned by Lord Derby, he could not but feel that he succeeded also to his policy, a policy he thoroughly approved of, aud which he could the better follow, as the twenty years which had pa.ssed between them in confidential communication had ma.de him con­versant with the opinions which Lord Derby held on the subjects of the day. With regard to the foreign policy of the present Government (continued the right hon. gentleman), they should pursue the policy which Lord Stanley had pursued, with the approbation of Parliament and with the confidence of the country. That policy was a policy of peace-not peace at any price, not a peace sought alone in the interests of England, but from a conviction that this policy of peace was for the general interest of the world. That policy could not be one of selfish isolation on the part of this country, but, on the contrary, show sympathy with other countries, not merely in their prosperity, but with their anxieties and tronbles. And if such a policy were continued, he had no doubt .that when the occasion might arise-and periodically occa­sions of this character would arise that the influence of England was necessnry to maintain the peace of the world, that influence would not be exercised in vain. With regard to their domestic policy, added the right hon. gentleman, the present Administration would pnrsue a liberal policy (cheers and laughter from the Oppo­sition); he meant a truly liberal policy (renewed laughter and cheers)-a policy that would not shriak from any changes which are required by the wants of the age we live in; but one that would never forget that it is our happy lot to dwell in an ancient and hi3­toric country, rich with traditionary inflnences, which are the best security for order and our liberties-the most valuable element in our national character. Speaking of that domestic policy, he experienced the deep mortification they felt that in one of the most interesting and important parts of the United Kingdom they were obliged still to maintain the suspension of the most important security for the personal liberty of the subject. But upon the question of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, he would express the same opinion as did Lord Derby-that he looked upon this Act not as an Act against the Irish people, but as a means of protecting the pe?ple of Ireland from the machinations of unprincipled con­SpIrators. He thought that the Parliament and the,country would find great consolation that there had been a lenient administration of the law, and he trusted that the agitation which had disturbed Ireland was near its end, and he believed that the agitators were dis­appearing, and would soon disappear altogether. The House would now have to turn their attention to introducing and carrying mea­surfS for the amelioration of the condition of Ireland, and he had no doubt that by consulting the enlightened and temperate opinions of all parties they might be successful in advancing its prosperity. He would not dwell in detail upon this subject because his observa­tions might be misapprehended, and because he was aware that they should be avoided on occasions like the present. They had now immediately at hand an important debate upon the whole question of the conditIOn of Ireland. On that occasion h,S noble friend, the Chief Secretary for Irelancb would then state the general policy of the Government in regard to l1'eland. There was ouly one topic he need further allude to. It had been stated in his absence, and with great justice, that there had been a delay from concurrent circum­stances in the progress of the business of this House. That delay was inevitable. Bnt he could only say that so long as he continued in his present office the House might rest assured that there would be no lack of energy or want of labour on the part of the Govern­ment in conducting public affairs, while at the same time it would be always most agreeable to him to facilitate the conr.e of gentlemen opposite bringing their motions before the House. The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid general cheering. Mr. Bouverie complained that Mr. Disraeli had not followed the course pursned by Lord Derbl', and asked some on that (the Oppo· sition) side of the House to jom the Ministry, so as to form a strong Government ; and he made the extraordinary statement that the Liberals had on their side of the House leaders that could not lead and followers that would not follow. Sir G. Bowyer hoped that the Government would allow no delay to intervelie in the introduction of remedial measures for the acknow­ledged grievances of Ireland. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WITHIN PRISONS BILL. Mr. Secretary Hardy moved the second reading of this bill. ' Mr. Serjeant Gazelee moved that the bill be read the second time that day six months. Mr. Gilpin argued against capital punishment altogether. 
A discussion having taken place, the second reading was carried, on a division, by a majority of 181 to 25. ELECTION PETITIONS AND CORRUPT PRAOTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. 
Mr. Disraeli r.noved the second reading of this bill, and said that by it her Majesty would have the power of nominating ,two J udges from the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common PleM, or Exchequer to act as Judges on election petitions ; that thQy should thereupon cease to be Judges of those Courts, but would re­ceive ·all the fees and emoluments that they had been iD. the babit of receiving, but be only hon. Judges of those courts. They would be members of the Privy Counei!, and would act as J udges of Appeal. They would also be called upon to fulfil other judicial duties connected with the courts, but would be always liable to be called on to hear election petitions. That, hi thou"ht, would obviate every objection that had been made to the tribun;l. 
Mr. Gladstone thought it was a very reasonable request to ask that the bill be read the second time merely for the purpose of. having· it reprinted, and he would assent to that on the under. standing that by doing so the House did not pledge themsel ves to it. 
SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY (IRELAND) BILL. Major O'Reilly moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. M'Laren opposed the bill. His reason for doing so was that 
the bill did not provide for the abolition of the sale of liquors entirely on a Sunday. However, as the Secretary for Ireland hali intimated that the ques tion, togeth~r with tl1e system of licensing, would be referred to a Select Committee, he would not oppose it. 
The Earl of Mayo said that it was considered necessary that tlte ~ale of liquors and the whole licensing system for Irebnd should be taken into consideration by a Select Committee. 
The bill was tlten read the second time. 
THE FARM. SEVER,H. new members were elected on Wednesday at the meeting of the council of the Smithfield Club. Among other business, the pig classification was extended, and the amount of the prizes some· \'\'hat increased. The live weight of all the animals is to be ascer· tained and published in future on their arrival. Mr. Torr's motioI as to the annual clnb dinner of the society being discontinued was carried unanimously, and it is proposed to have a luncheon in fllture at two o'clock on the Tuesday for the members of the club in the new dining-room adjoining the Agricultural Hall. Why not say three 0' clock dinner at once, and break up in time for half price at the theatres ? At the council meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society (whose subscription arreara are much lessened) the report of the impiement committee-which had a hard day of it on Tuesday-was adopteli. It meets many of the suggestions of the implement-makers, of which we gave an abstract last month. The triennial trial of im­plements is to be quinquennial in future, and a certain classificatioll for the next five years was agreed upon. A prize of £150 is offered by the Pacha of Egypt for the best steam cultivator, fulfilling cer­tain special qualifications. Mr. Ransome; junior, was ' elected a member of council in the room of Mr. J ohn Hudson, of Castleacre. A favoumble report was received of the Leicester show-ground and its approaches, and a plan proposed by which the grand stand Call be utilised at an entrance fee of half a crown per day. 'A memorial to the Privy Council as to (1) a cattle m~rket for foreign stock (2) the slaughtering of fat cattle at the port of de, barkation, and (3) the quarantine of lean foreign stock, was agreed to in 2upport of the report presented from the Royal Veterinary College. Wheat, which had touched 74s. 9d. in its previous London average, fell from 1s. to 2s. at Mark-lane 011 Monday. Vegetation and field­work have been going on vigorously, and as yet the former ha3 hardly felt" the nip of March." The wool trade has made a decided im­provement since March, and Gird wood's Circular observes, "as far as I can form an opinion of the future, I am inclined to believe the prospects of sheep farmers bright, and th~t with no untoward out­ward influence the improvement will be a lasting one." Mr. Clayden's shorthorn sale of sixty head, including several &i. the Sylph, Blanch and Frill tribes, is fixed by Mr. Strafford for May 7; and Mr. Robert Smith's "Bobby" cobs will come to the hammer at Bristol, on March 17, the day before the great Braad­hinton sale. Mr. Eastwood's private catalogue contains eighteea females, and is headed by the twelve-year-old Rosette and her o~­eval Emma. Rosette has three descendants amongst them, anl there are also three young Barmpton Roses, and th·ree Alics Butterflys, two Esthers, and two Golden Duchesses. 
NATIONAL SPORTS. DERBY had nine stewards, but sport was at a discount throughout the two days, except when Triplet and Clara ran a very memorable! finish. Hilda was knocked down by a cab in Nottingham; but here she carried 71b. extra, and beat Amadou again as easily as she half. done the day before. Windsor had fine weather, but it might haTe fared better with more horses and fewer welshers. The Liverpool fields were small and the sport decidedly tame. Hilda cut down her horses in a canter for the Tyro Stakes, and old Pearl Diver raised the hopes of the Brayley division by his clever hurdle-race win, at . half a stone less than his weight for the Grand National. Twenty­one, or exactly a fifth of the number of horses entered, went to the post for the latter race, and Hall Court was one of them for the fourth year in succession. Mr. Studd's three were scratched on the Tnesday, and Moose and Helen were declared to be the stable fancy, vice Pearl Diver and Fan. The Lamb, of whose -higlt trial no mystery was made, wae third favourite t9 the last, and all Hampshire and Ireland were on him. Chimney-sweep slipped up and broke his leg befo re they reached the first fence, and was drawn to one side and shot. Fan refused the third fence, by which time five were out of the race; and four more joined the "unfortunates" before the leaders were on the racecouse again. At Beecher's Brook, the second time round, nothing but Alcibiade, Tha Lamb, Pearl Diver, and Captain Crosstree were left with a ghost of a' chance. The last half mile was hotly contended between The Lamb (10 st. 71b., Mr. Edwar ds) and Pearl Diver (10 st.. 121b., Tomlinson). They galloped head and head through the last flight, and" cannoned" heavily in the process. The Lamb, however, got his" third wind" first, and crawled home a winner by two lengtbJJ. But for the" cannon," it is difficult to say how the set-~o would haTe ended. The Lamb (who had won a steeplechase and three flat racei in Jrcland) is Irish bred; and, after this victory and that of Master M'Grath (both of them blacks), Fenianism should be quite at a dis­count on the cornbox and in the kennel. Alcibiade and Captaia Cross tree were a bad third and fourth, and Astrolabe and Heien fif~!t. and sixth, on sufferance. Mr. Dilly, who was trainer for several years to Messrs. Payue and Greville, is deadaged seventy-seven. Captain Machell took 10llg odds at Liverpoo rabout St. Ronan for the Two Thousand and Derby; and Rosicrucian's price at The Corne r and his "hours of idleness" at home seem to show that he will not see Newmarket. Only eight of the Waterl09 dogs ran in the Dray ton Manor Stakes, at the 1'amworth meeting, of which Sir Rabert Peel is suoh a strenuous patron. Of these, Royal Seal was rather nnluoky, as the hare soughed at a critical moment, while Marionette, the winner, was very clever, and fortunate in having short courses. The runner­up, Comet by Beckford, was sold before the meeting for £120, but the buyer had no share of the stake. Marionette was beaten in the Waterloo Cnp by Master M'Grath, one of the handiest and speediest dogs that was ever slipped. Some people said" What bad hares I" when he killed them so easily; but the Nestors replied, "It's the dog that makes them bad." Lobelia was patched with diachyloll. plaister when she ran at Altcar, but Southport, next week-, will na doubt see her more like her old self. 




THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 

STATUE OF EDMUND BURKE. 

MR. FOLEY, the eminent Irish sculptor-nay, the first of British sculptors-will ultimately be nobly represented-in his native land. Several of the most distinguished sons of Erin will be transmitted to posterity in sculptures no less artistic than lifelike from his hand. Of the Father Mathew, for Cork, and the Goldsmith, set up before Trinity College, Dublin,-we have already given illustrations. We now engrave the statue of Burke, which is on the point of being erected on College-green, as -a companion to the last; and at no very distant period may be expected the great national monument to O'Connell, of the approved design for which we lately gave a short description-to say nothing of the stattles of Sir Henry Marsh and Sir Dominic Corrigan, for the Dublin College of Physicians, and other works in progress. _ _ 
The statue of Burke is no,v being cast in bronze, aud will be erectEd within a very short period. The credit of having procured both the Goldsmith a,nd Burke for Dublin is due to the lata Lord Carlisle, whose statue, also by Mr. Foley and for Dablin, is ad­vsncing most favourably. 

The character, as well as the personal peculiarities, of Gold.mith and Burke afford scope for effective contrast. Even the dress of each, though as costume almost identical, is nicely discriminated. The one wears his hair in the fashionable queue, aud his gentlemanly attire is worn with the easy, unconscious grace of famillarity. The other, notwithstanding his amnsing fits of foppery, is justly credited with something of the slouching slovenliness of a studious man. Then poor Goldsmith was singularly ill-favoured, whilst Burke's presence was handsome and at once strikingly manly yet refined. The attitudes and expressions are equally descriptive and appropriate-the one absorbed in contemplation and engaged in literary composition; the other in an oratorical attitude, eminently significant of the force of his eloquence and the dauntless courage with which he asserted his conviction of right, fearle3s of the numbers or the influence of his opponeuts, many times in the House, and notably on the trial of Warren liastings. The extremely spirited and effective attitude, the firmness and combativene~s expressed in that clamped mouth, are beyoud all praise. Altogether the living character and the exquisite modelling-perfectly true to nature, yet governed by the finest artistic feeling-of this statue entitle it to be considered one of the greatest trinmphs of modern sculptural art. The materi~18 Mr. Foley has consulted are a mask of the face taken after de~th, lent by Mr. Morton Wood; a portrait by Opie, at Knole; and the portrait by Reynolds, giving nearly a profile view. 
As Mr. Train was pagging along Nassau-street, Dublin, on Tuesday evening, he was arrested by four bailiffs, on a Jltdge's fi~t, at the suit of all English creditor. He is lodged in the Marshalsea. 

STATUE OF EDMUND BURKE, BY J. FOLEY, R.A., FOR TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. 

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. 

Letters of administration of the personal estate and effects in this country of the Honourable Ulick Canning De Burgh, Lord Dunkellin, have been grauted by her Majesty's Court of Probate to his father, the Marquis of Clanricarde, K.P., P.C., Lord Dunkellin having died intestate. His Lordship, who had retired from the military service, was Lieutenant·Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, formerly Aide-de­Camp and State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and was also appointed Aide-de·Camp to Earl Canuing in India. He served 
,in the Crimea in 1854-5; represented Gal way in the House of Commons since 1857, and died at the age of forty. 
An attempt was made in Cork on Saturday last to burn a police' station with Greek fire. Three arrests were made. 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 

WITH the House of Oommons at last (in March) at work, and the House of Lords feebly indicatiug efforts to be busy till dinner-time twice a week, the country ought to be happy, inasmuch as it i3 regularly supplied with its proper allowauce of Parliamentary talk. The excitement, if it can be,-so called, of a new, and in a certain senEe a grotesque, Premiership subsided very soon: and the day after Mr. DiHaeli's more or less tciumphal re-entry found the (){)mmons in its normal condition. Judging from the early appear­ances of the House, it Beemed as if the debate on the Alabama question .would be protracted at least through a night's sitcing, for numerous back· benchers intimated by their countenances and gestures that they were desirous of inflicting their little crudi­ties on the House. In the event, however, and for reasOUS quite palpable, the discussion was really short. The introduction of the subject by Mr. Sbaw Lefevre was, in its way, very good. If a little mincing in his talk, he was modest in his demeanour, and his state­ments and arguments flowed smoothly and regularly on the ear; nor was there any attempt to import passion into a dissertation of a nature essentially calm. Some Minister~, responsible for the burden of a debate., are prone to wait to its end before pronouncing; but Loro Stanlty, possibly with a creditable desire to prevent petty Bciolists in foreign affairs making ninnies of themselves, and perhaps complicating more already complicated questions, generally strikes in at once, and so settles everything, that all after-talk is merely perfunctory. So he did now; and, standing up straight, scarcely moving hie head, or even his arms, except to turn over the leaves of the inevitable pile of papers, which are supposed to cuntain notes, but are suspiciously suggestive of a written-out speech, in gentle. convQrsational tones told a plain story, and so indicated a judicious pollcy, that the HORse, which had listened all through, almost without even an approving inter­ruption lest a word' should be lost, broke out into a cheer, which was as genuine a development of entire satisfaction as it w~unanimous. A t(st of the value IInd weight of the speech may be found in the fact that aftfr it the debate collapsed. Theback-benchers, feeling that their little contributions would be treated as foolish irrelevancy, went away and did not retnrn; and thoagh Mr. W. E. Forster and Mr. 8tualt Mill t"ok care to deliver the speeches which they had pre­pared, they had scarcely an audience, and only ostensible listeners; while Mr. Gladstone, if he had constructed an addre3s, did not think it necessary to speak it, but contented himself with an expression of as much confidence in Lord Stanley as it is pOEsible for a leading political opponent to feel. It is almost certain that nothing more will be heard of the Alabama affair in the House this Session. There was a feature of this night which was noticeable. Mr. Disraeli inaugurated his reconstructed leader­ship by a tactical mistake; for he was haughty and almost insolent in vindicating his right to' arrange the Government business as he pleased. He was tempted almost to browbeat Mr. Chichester Fortfscue, and brought Mr. Gladstone up in a flurry to tell him that that sort of manner would not do at all, as he himself had found by Ull'pleasant experience; 
Was it an omen that the quasi new Government should have stnmbled on the threshold? It is, however, a fllct that they were obliged to give up the very first bill they sought to-pass, became they did not dare to face a division, in which they would have been in a minority. The measure really was of no consequence, and it was introduced by the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, with all that bonhomie of which Mr. Ward Hunt has so large a fund. But it was a question of withdrawing, though only nominally, a sum of money out of Ireland; and the patriot members rose in their fury and foamed away in their ordinary fashion about spoliation of Ireland and such­like fOQlishness. Thj~, of course, might have been passed by; but, IQ J EOmething having been said about petty sessions, all the country justice of the peace kindled in Mr. Henley'~ soul, and he got up por­tentomly, and pronounced one of those ex cathed,.,;, judgmeuts which, when they are (as now) against the Government, are caught np and acted on with malicious eagerness by the Opposition. In vain, therefore, did Mr. Disraeli plead; the Irish members on both sides insisted on the only point on which they ever unite-that of keepil' g public money iu Ireland; and Ministers suffered the bill to be negatived. The joke of it is, that there is nothing to prevent the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by his own authority, disposing of the money in the way proposed, and the bill was only introduced out of .abundance of caution. 
Something quite the opPQsite to the sublime seems to' haug about the Scotch-Reform Bill. Last year the then bill passed its second reading without a word, but amidst plenty of laughter, caused by the most extraordinary circumstance of all the Scotch members being canght napping; and this year, when a reconatructed measure reached the like stage, the discussion upon it was opened by Mr. Hadfield with a forcible exposition of his character as a protester, while it was ended by an attempt of that most logical, and pleasing, and dignified Irish member, Mr. Rearden, to argue the prinCiples of the re/listribution of seats in Ireland on the second readmgof the Scotch bill; and this he would have done if he had not been, metaphorically, knocked down by the Speaker. The debate would have been nothing particular, as no one seemed inclined to talk about the measure then, but for twO'. ~ircumstances. The first was a speech of that iron~ tongued pohtical cynic, Mr. Smollett, who more thau whispered or insinuated that he is a representative of a faction in the Conservative party which does not feel allegiance to Mr. DiEraeli. During much of the early part of a speech which, as usual, by its bitter comicality, suggested a study of " Hnmphrey Clinker" as a preparative for it, every other sarcastic word was Disraeli; and so patent was contempt in every syllable that one might have thought that if Mr. Smollett could transplant hi~ ostensible leader and himself to that up-country district iu India which he once ruled with a sQrt of rough justice that astounded the regular agents of John Company, there would be a very practical expression Qf feeling on both sides, each after its own kind. Inimitable was the way in which Mr. Smollett-after showing how, up to Macaulay, the representatives of Edinburgh had been distinguished and even great men-fixinO' his eye on a queer crouching figure opposita to hi~ on a bench below the gangway, proceeded to sketch the fut:ue members for that "romantic toun" from the life, with all theIr petty-tradesmen and town-councillor characteristics. Never­theless, Mr. M'Laren rose anon, with that supreme consciousness of weight and authority which distinguishes him, and dictated the sort of Reform Bill which he means, without any concession-not a jot, not a whit-tO' have for Scotland. The other circumstance to which allnsion was made was in tbis wise :-Late in the discussion Mr. Laing walked in, and immediately afterwards, in that cool, assump­tive manner which belongs to him, stated that he was authorised by Bll the sensible people of Scotland to propose the terms of the Reform measure. With contemptuous indignation, Mr. Ed ward Ellice burst out with a direct denial of Mr. Laing's assertion' Mr. Kinnaird was roused almost out of his meek spirit of Christiad cha,:ity, ~nddid likewise; while even Mr. Craufu~dfelt strong enough to pItch mto the presumptuous member for WlCk. Oddly enough, the debate on a grave Scotch subject ended in peals of laughter· but it was inevitable, because Mr. Serjeant Gaselee intervened with a scheme of his own. 
Making allowance for certain extravagances of phraseology and stagey emphasis and manner, which are excusable because ~h~:l: are e.xpected, Mr. Maguire made a speech on Tuesday, m mtroducmg the great question of Ireland, which would have put him high in an Irish Parliament, and which h'l.s given him a good place in that of the United Kingdom. He roamed from grave to' gay, from lively to severe, asserting here, deprecating there, and, on the whole, appealing impetuously to High Heaveu and the High Cour~ of Parliament for justice to Ireland, in th~ shape of 8uch secunty of the tenure of land aB implies the abolition of the law of ~istress and. no payment ~f rent; the disappearance of the moral fabnc of the IrIsh Church, WIth the preservatiQn for their hves (hoped to be short) of the vested rights of incumbents Qf all ranks; the purchase of railways by thg State, when, by the entire possession of the land, the people-that is, a section of the people­y,cre pr.os~rous.enough to make traffic for them; a Queen's palace III Dnblm, mh;;blted for ;; thlId of each year or 20; !YId laat, by no 

means least, the erection of docks and arsenals in the harbonr of 
Cork. Then, and then only, an Irish millennium. Some people 
might have thought Mr. Neate was justified in bringing Qn, in 
his dry· as-dust way, his amendment protesting against impos­
sible, extravagant, and absurd abstract resolntions about Ireland. 
An expected feature of the evening was the appearance of Lord 
Arthur Ulinton. Laden with an immense resolution, arrayed in 
several layers, and after one or two false starts, a fairhaired youtb, 
with no particular manner and with a half-frightened air, read, with 
scarcely any concealment, from papers in his hands, a commonplace 
expansion of tbe large resolution of which he had given notice, and 
which could not be put to the House, to about thirty members, and 
will probably be heard of no more. PQssi1Jly there has not been for 
many years EO painful and protracted a case of Parliamentary par­
turition aa the speech of Lord Mayo. For more than three mortal 
hours did he pound on, throllgh mazes of statistics and statements 
leading up to the idea that, though the Government did not think that 
th ere was anything in the condition of Ireland that needed amend­
ment, yet tbat he waB about to reveal a tremendous policy. After cruel 
procrastination he at length developed the policy, which was, in 
fact., onc of delay and inquiry in some respects, and no surrender in 
others; while in the only case in which action was to be taken, that 
of r;ranting a charter to and endowing a Roman Catholic 
University, a remarkable anomaly was to be added to the other 
anomalies of Ireland. The speech W:LS a great physical effort, at 
any rate, though once Lord Mayo nearly broke down from tem­
porary exhaustion. Of course, when the mouse crept out of the 
long parturient mountain, Mr. Gladstone chuckled and mowed, and 
seemed as if he was" mentally ejaculating" "Ah, ah J I have them 
now!" while Mr. Chichester Fortescue looked as if he felt that 
the moment had arrived when he might feel that he is the coming 
man for Ireland J The debate was only launched that night. 
LA W AND POLICE. 

Last Saturday the new Lord Justice (late Vice-Chancellor Wood) took his seat for the firs t time in the Court of Appeal in Chancery, on which occasion there was a strong muster of leading members of the Bar to dO' him honour. The place of senior Lord Justice was gracefully conceded by Lord Justice Selwyn to his colleague, although the appointment of the latter was subsequent to that of the former. Lord Justice Wood, therefore, took tbe Eeat so long occupied by Lord Justice Knight Bruce. 
Mr. G. M. Giffard, Q.c., has been appointed Vice-Chancellor, in the rOQm of Sir W. Page Wood. Mr. Francis Henry Bacon, of Lincoln's Inn, has been appointed secretary to Vice-Chancellor Giffard. Mr. Bacon holds the appointment of revising barrister for Middlesex, in wbich position he succeeded Mr. Edmond Beales. 
The hearing of the case of "Sadlcr v. Smith," an action arising out of the late contest between Sadler and Kelley for the sculler's championship of the Thames, was brought to a close on Monday. The defendant, Mr. Smith, was the stakeholder, and, although there was no race, handed the money (£300) over to Kelley, who rowed Qver the course by himself, averring that Sadler would not start. The caEe for the plaintiff was, that he was ready to start, and, indeed, did SO' twice, but Kelley would not go, and after much disputing Kelley l"Owed the dista\\ce alone and claimed the stakes. The jury returnEd a verdict fot' the plaintiff, with leave reserved to the defendant to move the Court above on a point of law. 
Tbe case of Peto, Betts, and Crnmpton came before Mr. Com­missioner Winslow again, on Wednesday, for consideration of the claim made on behalf of the Londun, Chatham, and Dover Railway, to prove against the estate of the banltrupts for the enormous sum of £6,661,941. Sir Morton Peto was examined at great length; and ultimately the investigation, which involves a very complicated state of factlo, as well as of aoooun ts, was adjourned nntil the 19th inst. 
Burke, Casey, and Shaw were yesterday week removed from Warwick Gaol to Ntwgate, to take their trial at the Central Criminal Court. 
At the Westminster Police Court, yesterday week, Margaret 
Walsh, an assistant teacher at the school connected with the 
COIl vent of St. Vincent de Paul, Ashley-place, Pimlico, was charged 
with a.Eaulting Ellen Brown, a child of the age of four years, by 
immersing htr feet in a copper of hot water. There was no doubt 
as to the fact, and the eVIdence for the prosecution went to show 
that it was done wilfully. The prisoner, however, said she had only 
p,ut the child on the copper to frighten her, and she had fallen in. 
The magistrate remanded her for a week, and the Rev. Mr. Kirke, a 
priest, who seems to have the spiritual oversight of the school, gave 
bail in £20 for her appearance. 
On Tuesday, the Irish shoemaker, Thomas O'Haran, ch~rged with having discharged five barrels of a revolver at two policemen in the neighbourhood of Finsbury-circu8, was .brought up for re-examin­ation at the Clerkenwell Police-office. The qnestion having been distinctly put to the police, it was stated that there was no reason for supposing the prisoner was connected with Fenianism. He was committed for trial. 
The trial of David Nichol, manager of the Blackburn branch of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, for forgery, was con­cluded yesterday week, at the assizes at Laricaster. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. 
George lYlackay, one of the anti-Popery ledurers whose appear­ance at Rochdale, last week, led to a riot, was charged at the police court of that town, on Friday, charged with shooting. at twO' police constables, with intent to do bodily harm. He was committed for trial. A cotton· spinner, named Arthur Holesworth, was charged with shooting at a man, on the same occaaion, but was diicharged. On Monday, James Houston, of Birkenhead, another of the Protestan t lecturers, was before the magistrates charged with causing an illegal aesem bly. He was ordered to' find sureties to be of good behaviour for the ensuing twelve months. 
Two women-Mary Callaghan and Alice Davies-lately fought a prize battle in the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. The stake was 5s.; the ring was pitched in a field near the town. No accom­paniment of the ordinary prize-fight was wanting, even to the seconds and the crowd of blackguards. In the third found, we learn that Miss :Mary, smarting under a well-aimed blow, bit Miss Alice in the arm. This was a breach of the rules of the ring, and a row ensued. The champion ladies were then led away to auother field, where four more rounds were fought with varying success; but by this time the police came up and put a stop to further proceedings. The wretched principals and three of the accessories were summoned before the magistrates and fined in snms varying from 158. to a guinea. We do not learn that any of the mon present at the fight were whipped, Qr dragged through a horsepond. 
The Cork Assizes opened on Monday. Judge O'Hagan, in address­ing the grand jury, regretted the exceptional nature of the calendar as compared with the rest of Ireland.. It contained aggravated crimes, including infanticide, robbery of arms, seven homicides, treason-felony, murder and abetting murder, exhibiting deplorable social disorder and a spirit of lawless insubordination and insur­rectionary violence. He praised those who repelled attacks on dwelling-housee, and regretted that the assailants were Itot arrested. He rejoiced at the full attendance of jurors, as a proof of the desire to discharge social obligations. A true bill was returned against Captain M.ackay for murder, aud against Mannix and Walsh for abetting. 
,At the Derby County Police Court on Monday, James O'Connor was brought up charged with attempting to murder Mr. Willoughby 
G. Fox, chief constable of Derbyshire. He was committed for trial. 
At the police court, Liverpool, on Tuesday, John Wilson, David Han'is, 'Walter :B'ord, and Henry Jaekson, the young men remanded on the charge of conspiring tu rob and murder Mr. Adolphe Kusel, wine merchant, of that town, were brought up for final examination. They were all committed for trial for.-the attempt to murder-as prillci'pale I\lld aooessories l>eiole the fact. 
OOUNTRY N.EWS. 


A storm swept over Liverpeol and the neighbourhood Qn Sunday, doing much damage to exposed b-uildings. 
One hundred pikes have been found by the police under the fioor of the Roman Catholic chapel of Kilteely, county Limerick. 
A rose show, open to all England, is to be held at Stamford, in Bnrghley Park, by permission of the Marquis of Exeter, on June 9. 
The Liverpool Town Council have given the health committee anthority to borrow £71,000, to be devoted to sanitary improvements. 
The Marquis of Huntly attained his majority on Thursday week, and the day was celebrated with great rejoicings all over the Aboyne estates. 
In consequence of their heavy pecuniary liabilities, the Liverpool Town Council resolved, on Wednesday, to' postpone the erection, at a cost of £18,000, of a fine-art gallery. • 
The Earl of Durham has been admitted a freemau of the city of 
Durham and borough and Framwell Gate, and of the" corporation 
of the society and fraternity of the art and mystery of a smith." 

Twenty thonsand colliers Qf the St. Helens district are Qn strike against a proposed reduction of their wages of 15 per cent. They are willing to accept a reduction of 10 per cent; but to this, at present, the masters refuse to aSl!ent. 
'I he foundation-stone of King's Lynn Docks, to which the in· 
habitants are looking forward as a means to restore their once· 
mportant trade, was laid, on Monday afternoon, by Mrs. J arvis, the 
wife of the cbairman of the company. 
At a meeting of ragged-school superintendents and teachers held 
n Manchester, last week, a resolution was passed declaring that n() 
measure for extending education would ba complete unless it gave 
power to compel the attendance of children. 
A vacancy hns arisen in the representation of Huddersfield by the death of Mr. Crosland, who died at his seat near that borough on Sunday. The deceased at the last election for that borough defeated Mr. Leatham, brother-in-law of Mr. John Bright. 
A full-dress ball will be given by their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn, at Dublin Castle, Qn Tuesday next, the 17th inst., in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. The Knights of St. Patrick are to wear their ribbons and stars. 
The dghtcenth annual concert in aid of the funds of the Railway Guards' Universal Friendly Society, held under distinguished patronage, took place at the Raglan Concert-hall, Birmingham, Qn Thursday week. The .programme was Qf a varied and attractive character, and, as usual, a highly-respectable audience assembled in the large hall, which was filled to overflowing•. 
An attempt was made, last week, by two youths to scale the pre­cipitous face of the Dewerstone Rock, Dartmoor, which i8 450 ft. high. After ascending one third of the height, the climbers were brouo-ht to a standstill by an overhanging rock. They shouted for h~lp>which, by chance, in that dreary region, was fortunately at hand. After seme delay, a rope was pl"Ocured, andthey were dra wn to' the top. 
WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. 

THE Registrar-General gives the following return Qf births and 
deaths for the week ending Saturday, MarcR 7:­
In the week 4655 births and 2996 deaths were registered in London 
and in thirteen Qther large towns Qf the United Kingdom. The 
annual rate of mortality was 24 per 1000 persons living. 
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per 1000 in London,. 
30 in Edinburgh, and 27 in Dublin, 26 in Liverpool, 30 in Manchester, 
32 in Salford, 24 in BiJ:mingham, 26 in Sheffield, 20 in Leeds, 23 in 
Bristol, 27 in Hull, 25 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. 
In London the births of 1187boys and 1082 girls-in all, 226~ 
children-were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks 
of ten yeam, 1858·67, the average number, corrected for increase of 
population, is 2222. 
The deaths registered in London during the week were 1331. It 
was the tenth week of the year, and the average number Qf deaths 
for that week is, with a conection for increase of population, 1610. 
The deaths from zymotic diseases were 259, the corrected average 
number being 331. Twenty-four. deaths occurred from smallpox. 
39 from measles, 16 from scarlatina, 7 from diphtheria, 61 from 
whooping-cough, 48 from fever, 12 from diarrhrea, 154 from 
phthisis, 138 from bronchitis, 76 from pneumonia, and 62 from 
diseases of the heart. The deaths of 3 persons from burns or scalds, 
of 6 penons from drowning, of 5 infants from suffocation, of 3· 
persQns who were killed by horses or vehicles ip. the streets, and of 5­
perEons who committed suicide,were registere<l. 
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A grant of £lOOO towards the purchase of the site for a church and schools, has been made by the Bishop of LDndon's Fund, iu a. n'liesion connected with St. Matthias's, Stoke Newington. 
Government has, it is said, resolved to' send out Mr. Angelo, the African traveller, to the Somali country, to inquire into the alleged existence of British captives there, and provided with means with which, if possible, to effect their liberation. 
.The annual.gen.eral meeting of the friends Qf the Royal National Llfe-boat Instl~utlOn was held ~t the London'I'avern, on Tuesday, under the preSIdency of the RIght ·Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty. 
An inaugura~ion of the volunteer season is, by long-established precedent, appomted for the first Saturday in March, and accord­ingly las~ Sat'!rday was very gener~lly obse:ved by the City and metropohtan Ilfle corps as a day speClally dedIcated in the calendar' of the English national guard to the ceremony of a march out. 
On Monday morning Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B., made his first official inspection of th~ second battalion of the 8th Regiment, which had arrived at Alder­ehott from Malta YElflterday w~k. ~ir J ames S::arlett expressed tr> Colonel Robertson h~ satlsfactlOn WIth the cleau and soldier-lib appearance of the reglment.--On Tuesday Sir James reviewed the infantry bligades on the Queen's Parade, North Camp. 
According to the Western Mm'ning News, the reward of £50() which has been paid by the friends of Mr. Speke for his recovery is likely to cause a gQod deal of heartburning. It was scnt by Mr. Mtu'dcch to Colonel ~il~rti c~ief constable o~ gornwall, for him to award accordmg to hlS dlSCl'etlOn. He has dIVIded it between Mr. Vincent, deputy constable, and Mr. Baines, superintendent of the Bodmin police; while the coastguardsman who gave the information which led to Mr. Speke's arrest, and the Padstow police whO' arrested him, receive nothing. 
The Pall Mf!ll Gr:zette hears that explanlttions have passed between M~. DlSl'ae~ and Lord Chelmsford with a satisfactory result. It IS now sald that Lord Ohelmsford, on the formation of Lord Derby's Government, was appointed Lord Chancellor on a. distinct understanding that he might be asked at any time to. make way for Lord Cairns. Mr Disraeli had relied on this in.. annnging to' apI!0int Lord Cairns; Lor~ Chelmsford had utterly forgotten the eXIstence of such a condItiOn; but on the production of his own letter to Lord Derby he has admitted Mr. Disraeli's perfect right to do what he did, and the Prime Minister and Lord Chelmsford have shaken hands. 

A meeting of the Birmingham trades council was held on Thurs· day week, for the purpose of c?nsidering in what way a working man mIght be returned as the thlrd member for Birminaham The committee which was appointed some time a"o reporte"'d th;t their scheme had be~n favourably receivild by all the trades with whom they had been in conference. It was proposed to give the mGmber £300 as yearly salw.'y, and pay his election expenses which were estimated at £200, which would be raised by 10 000 m~mbers at 1s. yearly. The report was unanimously received, a{ld some discussion ensue~ on the suggestion to form 1\ working men's representation 
CODlmlttee. 
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 

LONDON: SATURDAY, MAR Cll a, 18GB. 
SCOTLAND has had brief audience of Pll.rliament, and Ireland is mistress of the situation. A debate, which promises to be long and may be interesting, was initiated by Mr. Maguire,. who, in a speech of much ability, and either adorned or dis­figured, according to tastes, by rhetorical effects and humorous personalities, set forth the wrongs of Ireland, as underatood by himself. He dwelt much upon the accident of the present state of law there, and talked of Ireland being occupied by an army, like Poland or a Turkish province. Ari Irishm!l.u had no more liberty than It Mexican or an Abyssinian. What one thing an Irishman may not do except con,pire against the Imperial Government Mr. Maguire did not tell the House of Commons. He then showed to his own satisfaction that Ireland was not making progress, as insultingly and injuriou,ly alleged by the English; but that, on the contrary, m.l.nu­factures and agriculture were declining. The Irish mind Wild generally disaffected towards England. But he appealed to the justice and wisdom of this people. The Irish looked to. Fenianism as the only means of preventing them from being swept from the land. Vigorous land measures were wanted. Of course the Church must be swept away, but the Catholia clel'gy would accept no pay from the State. Education and public expenditure (Cork not forgotten) must be attended to, and Royalty ought to have a plolace in Ireland, and occa. sionally reside there-though this measure of courtesy to the people would have no material effect. Suoh were the salient points of the" grand remonstrance" delivered in, on the part of the people of Ireland, by Mr. Maguire. 
A few speeches intervened between the opening oration and the Government reply; we note only Mr. Neate, who vindi. cated the character of the Irish landlords, and fell upon Mr. Mill's proposals, which he described as worthy only of Jack Cade. While we hold that the memory of good and noble work should save the doer thereof from harsh treatment in after days, even when he manifests shortcoming, it cannot be denied that Mr. Mill has been acted upon unfavourably by the vulgar atmosphere into which he has descended, and has been stimulated by ignorant adulators to become" practical .. in an unworthy sense. When left to himself, Mr. Mill's utterances are of the old class, and he has more than once since his election thrown upon Parliamentary topics a light so bright that it compelled the Legislature to deal with them in statesmanlike fashion, But the plaudits of Reform Leaguers are not gained in that way, and we cordially wish that Mr. Mill would suspect that, when they are gained at all, it must be at the price of his true fame. His Irish scheme has been universally denounced, and though Mr. Neate might have expressed his views of it more graciously, it cannot be said that the opinion of the country was unfairly represented by the member for the city of Oxford. 
The Secretary for Ireland took the remainder of the even. ing, upwards of three hours, for what was intended as a justification for the smallness of the announcements whioh he was permitted to make. The speech reminded us much of an illustration which we heard used by Lord Palmerston in regard to an anti-climax, in years gone by. "The honourable gentle­man constructed a tremendous array of facts and figures, and they led to so insignificant a result that I recall an in­vention, Sir, which was described with almost as much elabo. ration. There was a boiler, and a furnace, and a huge fly­wheel, and a piston-rod, and a complication of wheels and levers, and all this gigantic apparatus was for working a screw that \vas to draw a cork." Only that the machinery had much interest in itself, and Lord Mayo's details had comparatively little. The answer to Mr. Maguire's complaint about the Habeas Corpus Act was easy enough-all the Irish members supported the suspension, and it was used for the protection of the Irish people, and all the power which had been given was in Irish hands. He dwelt with some efl'eot upon the fact that all the offices in the sister island was given to n!tti vea of it, and to a large extent to Catholics. Then he went at much length into "statistics, and argued that there was a great increase in agriculture; and in the value of cattle and sheep j and he made a good point of the increase of deposits in the savings-banks, which, in less than five years, have risen from £ 13,000,000 to £19,000,000. The diminution of crime he also regarded as evidence of progress, though some of the Irish champions refuse to see any morality in this, and describe the people as too heartbroken to take the trouble of sinning. Finally, we reached the Government intentions on the Irish question, and they are these : 
As the Church is the subject of investigation by a Com. mission, which will probably report this Session, no measure on the subject is to be brought forward at present. From other language used by the Ohief · Secretary, it was obvioull that no "overthrow" of the Irish Establishment is in con. templation by the Ministry in which Lord Cairns is Chancellor. 
The Education question is not to be touched until the Com. 
mission shall have reported. 

Vvhen another report shall have been made, Government hopES to introduce a bill for the better management of Iri:;h railwals. 
Itis proposed to establish an exclusively Catholic Univel' ,ity, to be endowed by the State; and this will obviate any neces. sity for interfering with Trinity College or the Qtl een's University. 

A bill is to be at once introduced for securing, by means of a. system of continuous registration of improvements, com?en. sation for what a tenant·may have done upon the land in his occupation j and .this bill will contain provisions for tha 



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accompanied by Princess Louisa and Prince Leopold, drove in the environs of Windsor. Princess Louisa rode in the Home Park. Prince ArtLur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the castle from Greenwich Park. Sir JamesClark left the castle. Prince and Princess Christian dined with the Queen. The E~rl and Countes3 
· of Tankerville arrived at the castle and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. 
On Snnday the Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice atteocled Divine sel'vice in the private chaFelof the castle. The Rev. T. J. Rowsell officiated. Prince and Prmcess Christian remained at the 
· cru;tle to luncheon. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Dean .. of Windsor, and the Rev. T. J. Rowsell had the honeur of dining-with her Majesty. . 
On :Monday the Queen, accompanied by Princes. Christiar., walked · and drove in the grounds of the castle. Lletltenant-General the : Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey and Sir John and Lady Cowell had the 
honour of dining with her MajeEty. On TUEsday the Queen received an address from the Corporation 
· of the city of London upon the subject of the Feuian outrages. Mt'. 
Shuiff Stone, Mr. Sheriff M'Arthur, and the City Remembrancer 
had an audience of the Queen to receive her Majesty's pleasure as to 
'the reception of the address, to which audience they were intro­Iluced by the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. The Lord Mayor, .attended by the sword and mace bearers and accompanied by the members of the deputation wearing their state robee, arrived oat the castle at a quarter to three o'clock, and were shown into the Waterloo Chamber, where luncheon was served. The Qlleen, accompanied by Princess Louisa and Princess Beatrice, entered the White Drawing·room shortly after three o'clock. The deputation, ·with tbe address, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Stone, Mr. Sherifi' M'Arthur, Alderman Sir Francis Moon, Mr. Alderman 'Cartel', Alderman Sir Wm. Rose, Mr. Alderman Cotton, the Re­corder, the Town Clerk the Remembrancer, Mr. Deputy Charles Reed, Mr. Deputy J. H. Elliott, and upwards of a hundred members ·of the Common Council, with the Keeper and Deputy Keeper of Guildhall, were introduced and presented the address. The Queen, having returned a gracious answer, the Lort~ Mayor and Messrs Reed and Elliott, the mover and seconder of the address, were pre­sentell, and had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. The two senior Aldermen, Sir Francis Moon and Mr. Alderman Cartel', were next presented, and had the honour of kissing the Queen's hand. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, subsequently drove 
to Cliefden, attended by Viscountess Clifden, and visited the 
Duche,s Dowager of Sutherland. 
On Wednesday her Majesty walked in the grounds, and after­'wards drove ont, accom panied by Princess Christian. Princess Bestrice rode in the Home Park. Princess Louisa drove from Buckingham Palace to Kensington, and hououred Mr. John Bell with a visit at his studio, where her Royal Highness inopected the group of statuary representing America intended for the Prince -Consort memorial in Hyde Park. The Princess subsequently re­turned to Windsor. Prince and Princess Christian dined with her :Majesty in tbe evening. Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, 
:Mies Bowater, and Dr. Robertson had the honour of being invited. 
On Thursday the Queen held the first Drawingroom of the season at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Louisa, left Windsor by the Great Western Railway at 11.35, and on reaching Paddington drove at 
·once to the palace. Ample arrangements were made for the recep­Hon of a large number of persons the notices of presentat.ians sent in havin g been ulllOsually large .. There was also a large attendance ·of Ambassadors and foreign Ministers, who were anxious to pay their rCsIccts to her Majesty. 
Lord SkelmerEdale and Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, R.N., have succeeded Lord Bagot and Colonel the Hon. C. Lindaay as L)rd and Groom in Waiting to her Jlbjesty. , 
, encouragement of written contracts. Lord Mayo also augges ts 
, a further inquiry into this part of the question. Tbe Irish Reform Bill is to be proceeded with at once. Such is the Government scheme for Ireland, and we imagine 
that it can disappoint no one who has given consideratioll to 
·the probabilities. Mr. Disraeli has expreEsly said that he 
Hlcceeds to the place and to the policy of the Earl of Derby; 
· and that declaration made it reasonably clear that the class , of measure for which agitators have been contending would not be found in the repertoire of the Disraeli Administra­tion. The instant transfer of the Great Seal from a Chancellor who was not particularly obstructive to one whose last act as a politician was to pronounce most prodigiously in behalf of · the Irish Church and all its interests was a tolerably signifi­
' cant sign. We know not whether there be those who believe 

• 

·that Mr. Disraeli will imitate the policy of the Minister whom 
he used to assail with his beat invective and his keenest 
irony, and will weld his party into compactness for the sake 
, of bringing them into a position that must compel their sur­render of a long-cherished principle. It is not our business 
, to predict, bnt to record. We now wait to see whether the 
· exceeding moderation of the Government and the proposed 

• 

·boon to the Catholics will find their reward in the forbear­
, 
' ance of the Opposition and the gratitude Qf Rome. The 
· debate has opened somewhat heavily, but it is impossible th!it 
it should close until distinguished men shall have spoken 

·well-and spoken out• 
THE 	OOURT. 
' THE Queen, with the junior members of the Royal family, continues , at Windsor Castle, in the enjoyment of good health. 
On Thursday week her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louisa and Prince L€opold, drove out. Princess Louisa and Prince Leopold walked in the castle grolUlds. Princess Beatrice rode in the Hcme Park, and afterwards took a drive. Lady Cowell had tbe honour of being pre£ented, on her marriage, to her Majesty by the 
. Duchess of Roxburghe. 
Yesterday week the Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess ",Christian and Princess Louisa, went to London, and held a Court .. at Buckingbam Palace, some account of which is appended. 
Her Majesty travelled by the Great Western Railway to Pad­
dington. The Queen drove thence to Buckingham Palace, 
· escorted by a det.achment of the 3rd Hussars. Prince Arthur, 

• 	attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Palace from Green­wich Park. Lord Stanley had an audience of her Majesty. The Marquis d' Azeglio, the Italian Minister, was introduced to the 
,. Queen by Lord Stnnley, to present his letters of recall. The Bavarian :Minister, Count Hompesch; the Chilian Minister, Don A. Blest Gana; rand the Minister for Hayti, General Saloman, were also introduced by Lord Stanley, and presented their credentials. Sir · Andrew Buchanan, her Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg, had an audience of the Queen, on his return to resume his official duties: Lord Bagot and Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance. The QIleen, accompanied by Princess Louis::t, left the palace at a quarter before 'five o'clock and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Mar!­'borough Honse; after which her Majesty drove to Paddington, eecorted by a detachment of the 3rel Hussars. Prince and Princess 
' Christian met the Queen at the terminus and accompanied her Majesty to Windsor, al'l'iving at the castle at a quarter before seven. Prince and Princees Christian drove to Frogmore House. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, returned to Greenwich Park, after the Court. Prince Leopold walked and drove out. 
On !Saturday last the Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds of tbe castle. Later in the day her Majesty, 
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. Bills for the improvement and consolidation of the law of bank­ruptcy, for the abolition of arrest on final process in civil actions in -England, for the repeal of enactments relating to bankruptcy, and to -make valid certain orders which have been made by the Ec~le­,siastical Commissioners, were laid on the table by the Lord Chau­-cellor. The Public Departments (Extra Receipts) Bill aud the Registl'a­tion of Births (Scotland) Bill were passed through Committee. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. An nnusnally large number of questions was put to difCerent Ministers. The most important of them related to the Clerk en well -explosion, and Mr. Hardy, replying to Mr. H. Lewls, gave 1\ loug ,explanation on the subject, admitting that information of a design to blow up the prison wall with gunpowder was received the day before the explosion, and that the police authorities believed the precautions they had taken to be sufficient. 'I'he Government had its first defeat on Irish matters. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the second reading of the Fines and Fees (Ireland) Bill. The object of the measure was to remove -certain funds derived from fines and fees in Ireland to the Consoli­,dated Fund. The bill met with general opposition, and, though Mr. Disraeli hims~lf came to the rescue, the measure had to be with­drawn to avoid rejection on a division. The Sea Fisheries Bill was, after eome preliminary discuasion, passed through Committee. The Railways (Extension of Time) Bill was read the third time 'and passed. The Metropolis Subways Bill was read the second time. Leave was given to Sir W. Hutt to briug in a bill for the better regulation aud the supervision by the Board of Trade of the accouuts -of railway and other joint-stock companies ; and to Mr. Stephen Cave a bill to confirm orders made by the Board of Trade under "The 'Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Act, 1866," relating to the River3 _Blackwater (Essex) and Humble. Sir Stafford Northcote also obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable guaranteed Indian railway companies to raise money on debenture stock. THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. The second reading of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill having been moved by the Lord Advocate, Mr. Hadfield proposed, as an amendment, that the bill be read the second time that day six months, on the ground that he was opp05ed t o increasing the aggregate number of the House of Commous and that additional seats ought to be provided for Scotland by means of the disfranchisement of the smaller English boroughs. _ Mr. Rearden having seconded the amendment, Sir W. Scott spoke in support of the second reading, and, thanking the Government for proposing an increase in the Scotch representa· tion, suggested that that increase should be carried still further by three additional seats being conferred upon the burghs, thus getting rid of the invidious distinction which at present existed between 'town and county. Mr. B. Cochrane concurred with thehon. Baronet in thinkIng that -seven new members for Scotland was an inadequate number; but he was not inclined to look a gift horse in the mouth, and was thankflll for small mercies. As to increasing the number by the disfranchisement -of English boronghs, there was not the remotest chance of any sach measure being carried in the face of the violent opposition which a proposal of the sort would be sure to evoke. His advice to the Scotch members, therefore, was not to throwaway the present bill 'without being sure of getting a bettcr. Mr. Smollett gave his support to, whilst proclaiming his dislike of, 
the bill. 
Mr. M'Laren regarded tke proposed extension of the franchise as -satisfactory, but pointed out wh"t he considered defects in several portions of the scheme. These, however, could be l'emedied in Com­mittee; and for that reason he appealed to Mr. Hadfield to withdraw 
his amendment. 
Mr. Moncreiff inquh-ed whether the Government adhered to the proposition they made with respect to additional members for Scotland, or intended to concede any larger number. 
SirJ. FerguEson (in the temporary absence of the FirBt Lord of­the Treasury) said that he was not sufficiently acquainted with the intentious of the Government on this poiut to return an explicit answer; but he reminded the House that when the bill was intro­duced his right hon. friend stated tliat the number of additional seats was not fixed upon any arbitrary rule, and that it was rather for the members from Scotland to point out the places which they considered to require ,separate and additional representation. If a better distribution scheme could be set before the Rouse by hon. members, it had never been a2serted that the details of the measure were not open to amendment in this respect. 
Several other hon. members haviug delivered their opinions on the measure, the amendment was withdrawn and the bill read the second time, and ordered to be committed next Monday week. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDAY. The House, during a sitting of a few minutes only, read the Dublin City Steam-packet Company Bill the second time· passed the Court of Appeal (Chancery and Dispatch of Business) 'Amend_ ment Bill through Committee; and read the third time and passed the Public Departments (Extra Receipts) Bill and the ReO'istration of Writs (Scotland) Bill. " 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDA '(. 
THE ST.ATE OF IRELAND. 
The great subject of interest was Mr. Maguire's motion, asking the House to resolve itself into a Committee, with the view of taking the conditicn and circumstances of Ireland into immediate considera­
tion. The hon. gentleman drew a very gloomy picture of the con. dition of Ireland. To say that discontent prevailed would he ob­served, be a very mild mode of expressing the terrible 'reality. There was a universal feeling not of discontent merely but of absolute disaffectiou, and Lord Mayo was entirely in ~rror in supposing that the farmers did not sympathise in the Fenian con­spiracy. With regard to the land question, a bill which might have been ac?epted two years ago ~o.uld no longe! be deemed satisfactory. Th~y ~Id not wa,nt a CommlssIon, ~ut a vigorous measure, which, whIle lt would gn,:e the tenant secul'lty of tenure and the certainty of reaping the fruits of his industry, would do no injurl to the owner <>f the soil. He demanded the dis-establishment 0 the Church repudiated any scheme for granting State allowances to the Roma~ Catholic clergy, asked for a ~arger exp~nditure of ~ublic money in Irelaud, repeated the complamt respectmg the contmned absenc) of Royalty fro~ the. country, and submitted ~hat t?e proposal to pur-, 'chase the Irish railways was worthy of conSIderatIon. Let the British Parliament do what was right, and it would conciliate the farming {llasses and the large mass of people in the towns; it would have the Roman Catholic clergy at its side, and a blow would be struck at l'enianism that it would never survive. ' 
~he motion having been se.conded, Mr. Neats moved and Mr. D. Grlffith seconded an amendment which declared that the constant recurrence of impracticable resolutions, and the proposal or sug­gestion of extravagant and impossible remedies, are the great obstacles to the restoration of peace in Ireland and to the prosperity -of the Irish people. 
The propositlOn, however, was withdrawn as soon as made to give place to the amendment of which Sir F. Heygate had given notice. His amendment was to the effect that before -the consi~er~tiox: by the House. of constitutional change~ in the laws and IDstltutlOns of Ireland, It was both just and expedient to inquire into the causes of alleged discontent and the best mode of remedying the same. Replying to the assertions of Mr. Maguire, the hon. I!aronet ?~ntended that the member !or Cork, in describingthe materIal condltlOn of the country, had mdulged iu some ex­aggeration, and that whatever might_be the depressed state of trade :md agricultur~, it was due t? e~te~al causes rather than to any'lnherent fault m the laws or lUshtutlOUS of the country. 
Mr. Dawson seconded the amendment. 
Lord A. Clinton next moved Ifia amendment, which was in the form of a seriea of resolutions. 
The Speaker, on the conclusion of the noble Lord's speech, inti­mated that as there was already an amendment before the Houle, that of the noble Lord could not be put unless the ot her were withdrawn. 
Mr. O'Beirne, who was to have seconded Lord A. Cliuton's amendment, spoke in support of the views which it expressed. 
The Earl of Mayo, remarking that he had only to tell a plaiu, un­varnished tale, and reply to some of the statements which had been put forward by gentlemen who claimed to represent the people of Ireland, at once proceeded to dispose of the assertion that to British legislation was to be traced the existence of the Fenian conspiracy. Pointing to Australia and other colonies where immense numbers of Irishmen were settled, he challenged contradiction when he said that among them the hostile feeling towards England which cha.rac­terised the American-Irish was nowhere to be found. This was even the case with Canada, which was in the immediate neighbourhood of the Fenian organisation, and where the Irish portion of the colonists were most loyal to the British Crown. In Irelaud, also, the feeling of disloyalty and disaffection was confined to a lower cla8s than any who had taken part in previous disturbances, whilst the movement was directed by m en whose chief distinction was that they had held subordinate offi ces in the American army. Further, it was not in the agricultural districts, but in the large towns, and especially those in the south of Ireland, that the mass of the people were tainted with Fenian principles. In fact, the real strength of the conspiracy lay not on this but on the other side of the Atlantic; and he believed that if the connection between America and Ireland could only for a short time be cut off, Fenianism would totally disappear. The noble Lord then stated the views of the Government on the subject. With regard to the future, he pro­posed next week to bring in a land bill very similar to that of last year, which, however, should contain provisions to enable limited owners to charge their estates for improvements, and to encourage written con­tracts between landlords and tenants, instead of the present parol agreements. In addition to this, it was proposed at the earliest pos­sible moment to institute a solemn inquiry by Commission into the relations between landlord and tenant. The Reform Bill would be introduced in a few days, and steps would be taken to increase the efficiency of the Irish railways. The question of education was already under consideration by a Royal Commission, but the inquiry had been delayed by the death of the Earl of Rosse. With regard to University education, he believed that nothing could be more impolitic than to interfere either with Trinity College or with the Queen's University. They had both effected much good and enjoyed the confidence of the sections of the people who adhered to them. Many Roman Catholics, however, objected to send their sons to any college where religious instruction in their own faith was not a leading elemmt. It was desirable, therefore, to establish a third institution, and with that view it was proposed to advise her Majesty to grant a charter to the Roman Catholic University. 011 the subject of the Irish Church, the noble Lord reminded the House that a Commission was now inquiring into the Establishment, and that it would be premature to attempt any hasty legislation up'on such a question. He did not believe that the Irish Church could be overthrown without a fierce and protracted struggle, and he con­sidered that if it were eventually to fall it woald inflict incalculable injury on the country, 
In reply to Mr. Gladstone, Lord 1Iayo said that the Government, as at present advised, intended to oppose both the original motion and the amendment. 
On the motion of Mr. Hc>rsman, the debate was ailjourned until Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. 
The Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Bill was read the second time. The Lee River Conservancy BiU was also read the second time and referred to a Select Committee. 
Mr. M'Laren obtained leave to bring-in a bill to abolish the Annuity Tax, or ministerd' money, in Canongate, Edinburgh. CHURCH RA.TES. 
The greater part of the sitting was devoted to church rates. There were four bills on the paper-Mr. Hardcastle's, for total abolition ; Mr. Hubbard's, which, under the title of Church Rates Regulation, relieves from the payment of the rates all persons who claim exemption by notice to the churchwardens; Mr. Newdegate's Commutation Bill; and Mr. Gladstone's measure for the abolition of the compulsory rate. The first three stood for second reading, and the fourth for Committee. 
More than an hour was taken up in a preliminary discussion as to the most convenient mode of procedure. Mr. Hardcastle and Mr. Newdegate postponed their bills until April 8 ; but Mr. Hubbard de­sired to have his bill read the second time, in order to have it referred to,the same Committee as Mr. Gladstone's. This suggestion was supported by Mr. B. Hope and Sir S. Northcote; but Mr. Gladstone strongly objected to it, pointing out that in principle the two bills were diametrically opposed to each other, and that there was no hope of welding the six clauses of the two into one bill. 
Ultimately, acting on the advice of Mr. Walpole, Mr. Hubbard consented to postpone his bill until April 8; and the House then went into Committee on Mr. Gladstone's bill. 
On clause 1, which contains the pith of the bill-the abolition of compulsory church rates-Mr. Henley insisted on a diviSion, and the clause was carried by 167 to 30. 
Clalise 5, which provided the machinery of a poll in cases of difference, was struck out, on the suggestion of Sir S. N orthcote, with the consent of Mr. Gladstone; some verbal amendments were ma~ein the other clauses; and the bill passed through Committee. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Orders in Council Bill was read the second time. The Court of Appeal, Chancery (Dispatch of Business) Amend­ment Bill was read the third time and passed. TENURE (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of Clanricarde, in moving the second reading of this bill, said the state of the law regarding landlord and tenant in Ireland was such as to call for an early amendment. One of the greatest defects of the law as it stood was that written c(mtracts were not neceesary in the transactions between landlord and tenant, and he contended that the first thing Parliament ought to do was to enforce written contracts. One provision which he hoped _their Lordships would sanction was that the tenant should be permitted to borrow money from anyone to spend upon the land with the approbation of the landlord. He pressed the second reading of the bill, and hoped the Government would either take it up or permit it to go on. lf they sent a roving commission to Ireland they would raise illu­sory hopes never intended to be realised. 'fhe noble Marquis read the extract from Mr. Bright's letter regarding the extermination of the landlords, and asked whether it was to such counsellors as Mr. Bright that they might look for an equitable settlement of this question? Regarding the dark picture which had been drawn of the present condition of Ireland, he denied emphatically that the representations were true, contending that Ireland was never in a more prosperous condition than at the present time. Lord St. Leonards thought the noble Marquis ought, in deference to the Government, to have suspended progress with his bill until the Government proposals were brought before their Lordships, BO that they might have the various plans before them. Lord Lifford defended the conduct of the Marquis of Conyngham, who had acted in the most liberal manner to all his tenants. When leases fell in he had raised the rents but slightly, much leas than English landlords would have done under similar circumstances. It was true that a number of evictions had taken place on his Lordship's estates, but they were only formal, and in many instances were solicited by the tenants in order that they might avail themselves of his Lordship's more liberal offers regardiug other property upon which he had laid out about £9000 for the benefit of his tenant3. He (Lord LifCord) deprecated the false statements that had been put forward by Mr. S. Mill and others regarding Ireland. The Earl of Malmesbury thought the debate had shown the necessity of the Commission about to be seut out to Ireland. The object of the Government was to ascertain the,truth, and,let every­
body be pirly heard. When the last Commission was sent out the landlords were not fairly heard, although that was their own fault j but now he thought they ought to have an opportunity of repre­senting their case. He did not thiRk the Marquis of Clanric&rde could charge the Government with depriving him of his bill, aud he urged upon him to be satisfied with the measure being referred to 110 Select Committee. 
The Earl of Leitrim deprecated any legislation for Ireland in the manner proposed, and said that, if their Lordships expected any beneficial results from it, th~.y would be deceived. 
The bill was then read the second time and ordered. to be referred to a Select Committee. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. On tbe motion of Mr. Adam. a new writ was ordered for Hllddel's­fieJd, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Crosland, deceased. Lord J. Manners, replying to Mr. Candlish, said·it was not the intention of the Government to pla{)e the statue of Oliver CromweU in Westminster Hall. 
IRELAND-ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. Horsman resumed the debate. The right hon. gentlemall commenced by referring to the policy of the Government regarding Ireland, as enunciated the other night by the noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland. In respect to the Church in Ireland, their policy was one of inactivity; in reference to the land it was a policy of procrastination; and as to education, it was a policy of retrogressioR. A reform bill was promised, but the Gtlvernment were sholVing a great reluctance to inform the House of any of ita details. A. grant to a Catholic University completed the measures which the Government proposed in order to remedy the many grievancea of Ireland, and as the meaus of allaying that disslttisfaction which reigned almost universally throughout the sister country". He chll­racterised the proposition in regard to education as an lllauspicioua measure, tending to counteract the advantages of that national system which was established by Lord Derby and with which the name of the noble Lord was honourably associated. Three fourthll of the children of the poor frequented those schools, and the number of Roman Catholics and Protestants in them bore a fair proportion to the population. The children of both religions mingled together and contracted those ties of friendship and good feeling which it was so desirable to encourage. The best results took place. He thought, then, that they were bound to sustain the non-sectarian system of education and to resist its subversion in Ireland. The highest dignitaries of both Churches expressed their approval of the national system, and the late Mr. O'Connell and other leading authorities on the subject warmly supported it. Until Dr. Cullen came from Rome to Ireland, no public opposition was offered to the system. That dignitary, however, having received direct instruc­tions from the Pope, and calling together the Synod of Thurleg, organised a formidable -opposition to the national system. The statement of the noble: Lord created the most general dis­appointment. The noble Lord had nothing to offer in the shape of healing measures. He had shown himself utterly hlind to the responsibilities of his position as the organ of the Government and the Chief Secretary of a country in which the Habeas Corpus Act was actually suspeuded, and the state of things existing was of a most alarming character. To the discredit of this country, the Constitution had to be suspended five times since the present Government came into office, and had been sU8pended about thirty times in the preseut century. The evils of Ireland had arisen aud been perpetuated by the fault of the British Government-because that Government had ruled Ireland on " principle by which they ignored the differences of religion, of cbaracter, and of race. They governed Ireland according to English lawe, English customs, ay, and English prejudices. It was im­possible that there could be peace or contentment in that country so long as they maintained a favoured Church-the Church of a, small minority. If they said they could not legislate for the Church or the land in Ireland on difCerent principles than those acknowledged in England, they furnished the strongest encouragement to the existence of Fenianism and to the demands made by a portion of the Irish people for a Tepeal of the union with this country; for the state of things in England was totally dissimilar to that in Ireland, and called for a completely different kind of legislation. By acting upon those considerations fearlessly and determinedly, and treating Ireland in a manner more consonant with the religious and national feelings of her people, the Government would soon reap the reward of thdr legi.lation in the establishment of peace and prosperity at home and increased strength and security abroad. Mr. Corrance supported the views of the Government. Mr. Lowe dwelt npon the unhappy sectarian differences which existed in Irelaud, and to which he ascribed much of the discontent which prevailed. He denied that Ireland was oppressed by bad legislation, or that England dealt unfairly by her; and urged that, so far as financial affairs were concerned, the balance of advantage was rather in her favour. The great object to be accomplished in Ireland was to raise the mass of the population above the daily wants of life. Ta do this, capital ought to flow into the couutry, and manufactures a!!.d industry ought to be introduced. Confidence, however, was first requiTed; and it would have come long ago but for the friends of Ireland who were always proclaiming her wrongs and exaggerating her condition. The right hon. gentleman then denounced the sug­gestions of Mr. Mill, Mr. Bright, and others as wild theories and visionary exp€dients, calculated to lead only to anarchy and separa­tion. The suggestion of the Government in respect to a Catholic University he viewed as a kind of pyrotechnic dlsplay, merely ill­tended to conciliate the Ultramontane prelacy for election purpose,. The flagrant injustice of Ireland was the Established Church, the prolonged existence of which was a disgrace to Englishmen and a. degradation to Parliament. :Mr. Mill supported the plan he had already set forth in the pamphlet he had published, the main feature of which was th",t the Government should purchase up the land of Ireland and lease it out to the tenants under certain conditions. Mr. Secretary Hardy, on the part of the Government, deuounced the Echeme of the hon. member for Westminster. On the motion of Mr. Chichester Fortescue, the debate was aojourned until to-morrow (Friday). 
The Saxon Government has presented to the Chambers a bill which proposes to abolish the penalty of death, as well as certaia corporaf punishmeuts still employed in the prisons. 
A telegram from Bombay announces that the Bheela have risen on the frontiers of Cashmere, and that a force had been dispatched against them. 
'fhe Navy Estimatss for . th~ pres~nt year, published on Tllesday, amount to £11,177,290, which lS an lUcrease of £201,037 upon those for la8t year. 
A banquet was given on Monday, at Willis's Rooms, to Field Ma'll'hals Sir John Burgoyne and Sir Hew Rosa. The Dllke of Cambridge presided, and a large number of officers was present. 
The Rev. J. Jones, Rector of Llandissii, has ~en intrusted by her Majest.y with the translation of her "Journal" lUto Welsh. AcoP1 of the English book has been presented, with the Queen's autograph, to each of the London hospitals. 
The Breech-loading Small-Arms Committee has made its r~port upon the competition of rifles, and has awarded the second prIZe to Mr. Henry. The first prize is withheld, and the question of cartridges is still under trial 
Mr. Cyrus W. Field, of New Yo:k-to w?ose .ability and per­severance the laying of the AtlantlC cable 18 chiefly due-:-gave It. dinner on Tuesday evening, at the Palace Ho~el, BuckIngham­gate, ~t which about seventy of the principal gentlemen in' Engl".nd interested in telegraphy were assembled. By arrangement WIth the telegraph companies, Mr. Field was enabled to have the telegraph wires brought into the dining-room of the hotel, and messages were di8patched to and replies received from New York, Washington Havannah, Newfoundland, and Heart's Content. Among tbe~e were messages from the _Pr~ident~of the United 
States and from Mr. Seward. 
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OOUNTRY NEWS. 
A lady has given £500 to the St. Mark's Mission and hvalid Kitchen, established at Woodhouse, Leeds. 
The lace trade at Nottingham is in a condition of activity unexampled within the last eight years. 
A fire broke out at Truro early on Saturday morning last, by which a number of stores and houses were destroyed. 
The Prince of Wales has consented to open the National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, in the week commencing May 18 next. 
The St. Patrick's ball at Dublin Castle was more nume!ously attended than in former years, and everything passed off III the most agreeable manner. 
About tbree weeks since a cow, the property of the Rev. Mr. Lol1gden, of Breut Eleigb, S?ffolk, ga!e birth to three calves (two heifers and a bull), all of whIch are domg well. 
An account has been published of the receipts and disbul'sements ()f the Duchy of Cornwall in the year ended on Dec. 31, 1867. , .The receipts amounted to £80,786; and the total payments to £72,101. 
'I'be vacancy in the representation of Huddersfield, occasiC!ned by the death of Mr. Crosland, has been filled by.the electlO?, .on ThurEday, of Mr. E. A. Leatha!!!J Libera,l, by a consldera,hle maJonty over the other candidate, Mr. w. O. SleIgh, a ConservatIve. 
A meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the CJuncil Chamber at Birmingham, on Wednesday, to make arrangements for the visit of the Social Science Association in October next. His Worship presided. A handsome subscription-list was made up. 
It is understood that the Dowager Viscountess Combermere, widow of the late gallant Field Marshal Viscount Combermere, intends to bequeath the major portion of her property for an extensive addition to the hospital accommodation in the city of Cork, where her Lady­6hip's family long occupied an eminent position. 
Two Royal Commissions are sitting in Dublin-:-that on the Irish Church, and that on national education. The former holds meetings also in London. The primary education inquiry commence3 with the examination of a former officer of the national education system, wbo has of late years been an active advocate of "denomi­nationalism," and the investigation is likely to be protracted. 
A public meeting was held on Thursday week in the Townhall, Leeds for the pnrpose of considering the advisability of adopting the F:ee Libraries Act. ' The Mayor presided. There was a strong opposition to the scheme, the reasons advanced being that such libraries were not used so much by working men as by other classcs, and that the local taxes were already sufficiently heavy. The Mayor declared the vote to be in favour of adopting the Act. 
General Mildmay Faue. when hunting on Thursday week in the lleighbourhood of ~ulbeck Halll his seat in Lincoll'!shire, m~t with a fatal accident. HIB horse havmg fallen, threw hlID on hIS fore­head, and on being taken up he was found to be quite dead, his neck having been broken,. The deceased General, who was Colonel of the 54th Regiment, was in hls seventy-second year, and was nncle to tbe Earl of Westmoreland. He served in the Peninsular campaign, and at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, fit the former of "'hich he was severely wounded. 
At a special meeting of the Dublin Town Council, on Monday, the Lord Mayor rend a letter he had prepared to be sent to General Knollys, conveying the wish of his Lordship and. the c0!ln~il t~at the Prince of Wales would bonour them by acceptIng an InVItatIOn to a ball in the Mansion House during his stay in Ireland. [The Prince has accepted tbe invitation.] A pctition was also adopted praying the Government to purchase the Exhibition Pabce for a Boyal Irifh Institute, similar to that at South Kensington, "to be maintained by an adequate grant." 
Among the passengers in a train on tbe Midland Railway, bst S&tnroay, were a lady and her son, a child ol two years of age. Near Trmt station, the little boy was leaning on the door, which hGd not been lccked, and while the train was going at a rapid rate the door flew open, and the little fellow was precipitated on to the line. The terrified mother. could not make either engine· driver or guard hear, and the train did not stop till it got to Trent station. A special engine was then immediately dispatched, and the little boy was found sitting on a bank, apparently uninjured. 
At t,he Thornington sale of shorthorns, thirty-two cows and heifers averaged £34 Hs. 4d., and seventeen bulls £33 3s. 6d.; 70 gs. and 49 gs. were the highest prices respectively. The calves sold fairly for their age. The prices at the Broadhinton sale were also not very large. The highest for cows or heifer lots were Queen lfab (54gs.) (Earl of Radnor) and Emerald (52 gs.) •. Rose of Sharon's four-months' heifer-calf made 30 gs" the same price as Cashmere's, which was two months younger. Six of the females reached 40 gs. and upwards, and three of the bulls averaged ·12 gs. 
The report of the Commission which sat in Manchester some time ago to take evidence relative to trade unionism in the city and dish'ict was iEsued on Wednesday. The Commissioners state that during the last ten years no act of intimidation, outrage, Cl' wrong can be traced to any association of masters; while, on the other hand, all the outrages with which the report is thickly studded were deliberately planned nnd executed in furtherance of a system which Bad for its object the subjection of both mastcrs and men to the rules of the unions and the destruction of freedom of labour. 
A large meeting was held at Halberton, Devon, last Saturday, to consider the qr.estion of the wages of agricultural labours. Sir John Bowring presided, and on behali of 2000 labourers and working men of the county presented the Rev. Canon Girdlestone with a silver epergne, value £40, : "in grateful remembrance of his successful tll'orts to raise their wages." Canon Girdlestone, in acknowledging the testimonial, said he had been told that it was outrageous for a clergymen to step out of his pulpit and take an interest in the welfare of his people; but this he did not believe, and he was determined to aEsist the labourers in getting more wages. 
Two fine new life-boats have been sent by the National Life.boat Institution to the coast. One of them is stationed at Ross Links. Holy Island, where Grace Darling immortalised her name by her heroic services to the crew of the Forfarshlre steamer which was wrecked off that place in 1838. The Ross Links boat, which is 32 ft. long! is named the Bombay, and is the gift to the institntion of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Frith, of London. The second boat has been sent to Stonebaven, on the east coast of Scotland, and is named the St. George. This boat was presented to the society by Mrs. George Burgess, sister·in-law of Captain Burgess, secretary of the United 
Service Institution. 
The ste!'m·frigateTerrible, Captain Commerell, C.B., is on her way to England, havingcn board for the British Museum many objects of antiquity, whlch she had shipped at Smyma and other parts of the 
East. 
Such is the state of famine in Finland that those who were em­ployed to carry relief to the suffereI's have found several villages withont a living inhabitant, the corpses of the poor starved creatures 
lying unbulied in the streets and houses. 
The following Peerages became extinct during Lord Derby's Ad­ministration, and on the dates aesigned :-The Barony of Bayning, Aug. 5, 1f66; the Barony of Ponsonby, Sept. 10, 1866; the Barony of Llanvver, .April 27, 1867; the Earldom of Pomfret, June 8, 1867 ; the Barony of Kingsdown, Oct. 7, 1807; the Barony of Wensleydale, 
February, 1868. 
The Italian papers mention an important sale of books and works of art going en at Milan. The collection belon"'ed to the late Duke Litta, an d is being sold by auction in the Litta Palace. The library, faid to have cost 500,000f., was sold to a speculator for 50,000f. It is Btated to comprise a quantity,of rare and precious works and of old manuscripts. A Russian decoration in briIliants, which beIonaed to Admiral Litta, was purchased by a jeweller for 33 OOOf. " A llllmber of pictures, statues, and other works of art are to be Bold. 
LAW ANI) POLIOE. 
Judgment was given in the HOHse of Lords, on Tharsday week, in the appeal of " Campbell v. Earl Dalhousie and Others," involving a Bum of £28,120 expended by the late Marquis of Breadalbane on his estates. The Lord Chancellor said that the two appeals before the House raised questions of great importance, no doubt, to the parties concerned, bl!t upon which there could be n? serious di!liculty. The first question ralsed by the appellants was dIrected agaInst the finality of certain proceedings taken by the late Marquis of Breadalbane under tbe Act 10 George nI., c. 55 (commonly called the Montgomerie Act), wbich had the effect of charging his entailed estates and tbe ground of argument was that tbe appellant was not represehted in those proceedings. But the appellant's father was a party to those proceedings, and. it would be impossible to .give .a rational construction to the Act If the ancestor could not bmd hIS descendants. The proceedings by the late Marquis must therefore be taken to have established finally the propriety of the charges against the entailed. estates •. He th~ught, .however, that th~ .l~te Marquis of Bread alban e, havmg avaIled hImself of the faCIlItIes given by the Rutherfurd Act for making good these charges, must be taken to have made his election between the two Acts, and to have abandoned the position which be had formerly taken as a creditor against the estates under the Montgomerie Act. The inter­locutor 01' decree of the court below must therefore be revised in so far as the sum of £5000 is charged upon the estates under the Montgomerie Act, without prejudice to the appellaut taking any steps which he may be advised to make good his charge for that amount under the Rutherfurd Act. In other respects the interlo­cutors 8hould be affirmed. Lords Westbury and Colonsay concurred. On the question being put, the iuterlocutors appealed from were affirmed with the variation suggested by the Lord Chancellor. The first appeal consequently was sust~in~d to t~e extent of that varia­tion, and the second appeal was dIsmIssed WIth costs. 
Ye~terday week Vice· Chancellor Malins rejected the motion to commit Sir Robert Peel for his alleged refusal to obey an order of the Charity Commissioners. 
At the Stafford Assizes, last Saturday, an action was brought by lfr Samuel Buxton. bleacher, of Fazeley, against the North-Eastern Railwa7 Company, for damages on account of injuries sustained by an aCCIdent on defendants' ~ine. The plaintiff, who is sixty-two years of nge, claimed damages for business losses, "structural suffer­Inl!s," and" the agony he endured in the anticipatio~ of·an untimely elid." The accid~nt occurred on Aug. 23. He tned to shake off the effects of the accident by going to Derby, and afterwaI'ds to Lichfield races; but his efforts were ineffectual. His business fell <ff, aJ:d "his limbs failed him." l'he jury awarded him £800. 
A point of cab law was yesterday week in dispute before Mr. Balker at Clerkenwell. A gentleman was summoned by a cabman for n fare. The defendant, an invalid, had hired the c!lb by the hour at Ho)]oway, and told the cabman to drive him down the Green Lanes. 'Ihe cabman did so, ' and when the hour was up the iny~lid found himself at Eome distance from home, and was told that If he wanted to return he must take the vebicle by distance. On hia return he refused to pay the money (simply for the purposelof having tlie matter settled by a magistrate). The cabman contended that by the words of the Act the hiring by the hour was good only for one hour at the txpiration of which the driver was competent to insist on a 'fresh hiriD g and fresh terms. Mr. Barker thought :so too, and ordered the defmdant to pay the fare and the cost of the summons. 
At Bow·street Police Court, on Monday, Peter Mohan, or Morgan, was charged with administering the Fenian oath to some soldiers at W colwich and persuading eight artillerymen and two of the MilitaIY Train to desert in December, 1865, in order to go to Ireland and assist in the Fenian outbreak. The prisoner wag remanded. 
The Middlesex Sessions for March hegan on Monday, before Sir 
William Bodkin and the county magistrates. The calendar con­
tained the n8I1!eS of ninety-one prisoners, charged with a great 
variety.of offences. A man loamed White was found guilty of pick­
ing the peck et of the Chancellor of ~he Duchy of L:lncaster. M~. 
Wells was passing along the Strand III a cab, when he saw the ,Prl­
s~ner ,Pick Mr. Wilson.Patte!l's pocket. He stopped th~ c~b, seIzed 
the pmoner, and gave him mto custody. Fourteen prevlOUS con­
yictions were proved against the prisoner, and he was sentenced to 
seven years' penal servitude. 
On TUfsdaya man, brought before Alderman Lawrence for wil­fully breaking a street·lamp, declared that he did it to get bread, . for he had had nothing to eat since the previous morning, and he hoped he should be fent to prison. If he could tide over the next fourteen days he thougbt he should do, for then there would probab'y be a chance of work for him at his trade as a hammerman. The Alderman gave him seven days. "Oh, do give me fourteen days, Sir!" he, said; but the magistrate was inflexible. 
' An explosion of naphtha, by which a whole family was greatly injured and a mothu and her son were killed, took place on Tuesday night at a house in Charles· street, Lambeth. The facts of the case were disclmed at an ilJquest held by MI'. W. Payne, on Wednesday, at Guy's Hospital. Mr. Dickes, the husband of the wo~an killed, was at his stall, in,the Lower Marsh, Lambeth, at the tIme of the explcsion' and whe];! the news was brought to him he ran home aJ:d fOUIld' all hls familv in flames. His wife, who was on the floor, was mistaken by one witness fOl' a bundle of burning clothes. He da1 hu} in and handed the children, burning as they wel'e, out to the neighb~urs. In doing. this he. had to carry them .up a narr0V!" crooked staIrcase, and receIved senous burns. Mrs. DlCkes, who, It appears, had left her husband's stall to fetch the nal?htha-lamp, had put a caD, containing about half a gallon of the spint, upon the hob, thinking the fire had g0!le out, whil.e she trimmed the lamp. 9ne of her children was kneelIng by her SIde and the rest were playmg in the room, when the nnphtha in the can exploded, The jury retumed a verdict of " Accidental death." 
At the Mansion House Police Court, on Thursday week, Charles Brown, thirty·four, labourer, "as charged with shamming illness fOI' the purpose of cbtaining alms. On tbe previous day the prisoner prefented himself before the Lord Mayor, supported by a crutch 8l;d stick. He statfd that he had been permanently lamed through a fall flOm a building. So well did he act up to the character he aEsumed that relief was crdered, Bnd he was carried into an adjoin­
ng room to receive l·efreshment. But his success at court made him r(cklesp. He refused solid food, and called for brandy-and­water, which was duly administered. Then he gave several con­~ulsive sigbs, and stretch£d himself out in' a way which suggested 
mmediate dissolution. He was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hoepital, and w)Ien taken in appeared to be more rigid than before. By direction of the doctors he was taken into a ward, and laid upon a bed. A very ~hort examination induced the doctors to believe that he was an impostor. He had stated that several ribs were broken in consequence of his fall, but on removing a piece of stick­ing-plaster which was on his side it was found that no ribs had been broken. During the examination the prisoner pret<lnded to be speechless. A powerful galvanic battery was then brought. At the first shock the prisoner sprang up in bed, making free u~e of his tongue. At the second shock he began to dress hlmself; and at the third he walked off without the aid of crutch or stick. He was then taken into custody. In reply to the charge, he admitted that he feigned illness. He was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprison­ment, with hard labour. 
.An i:tquest was held last Saturday on view of the body of Lady 
H. F. Tichbome, who had been found dead in her room on the previous day, 'Ihe deceased was the widow of the late Sir James Tichbol'llP, upon whose death difficulties and complications arose in consequence of the absence of the eldest son, who had gone to AUEtralia twenty-seven years before, and had not been heard of for years. After a time a gentleman appeared in England aud claimed to be the missing heir; but that claim is disputed by the represen­tatives of the infant child of the second son (now deceased) of Sir Jamfs. The deceased lady acknowledged the claimant from Australia as htr son, and he Eaid that he suspected some foul play against her on that account, and wished a post·mortem examination to be made. Nothing transpired to wa17snt such a suspicion, and the jury found tbat death wa2 tte result of natural causes. 
A commercial traveller, of Bury, was charged last week, before' 
the Crewe magistratee, with smoking in a first· class carriage on the 
North Staffordshire Railway. He was requested to desist from 
sme,king by a fellow· passenger and by some of the station-masters 
on the line, but he refl,sed to do so; and further refused to give his 
name and address to tbe Crewe station· master. 'rhe full penalty of 
40s. and costs (£3 17s.) was imposed. 
At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday week, a young woman, mooed Ann Maria Bond, was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. The only notable feature of the case was that the prisoner's husband, Edward Bond, was committed for trial the previons day on a similar charge. The man Bond married the prisoner in 1861, and in the following year he married again at Gosport; but, meeting his first wife lately in Birmingham, he deserted hls more recent spouse. The latter, thus aggrieved, gave information which led to Bond's apprehension; and, after the examination before the magistrates, Mrs. Bond was given into custody by a zinc-worker, named Charles BangerteI', who states that he was married to her in 1863. 
At the M~nchester AEeiz(~, on Tuesday, Patrick Mullady and Willism Pherson Thcmpson, charged with being the accomplices of Alien, Gould, and Lal'Kin, in the murder of Police-Sergeant Brett at tbe assault on the police· van, were found guilty and sentenced to death. 
Mr. Murphy, the anti·Popery lecturer, who had been taken into custody at Rochdale en a charge of causing tumultuous gatherings dangerous to the peace of the borough, was taken before the' magistrates on Wedne~day. On entering into an engagement not to publish inflammatory placards in the ltoman Catholic quarters of thc town, he was lib~rated on his own recognisances in £200 to keep the peace fOl' twelve months. 
Mr. Mackey, a Jecturer of "The Evangelical Mission and Pro­testant Electoral Union," was indicted, at the Manchester Assizes, last Saturday, for shooting at a police constable on duty, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The case arose out of a riot at Rcchdale, which had taken place in consequence of certain lectures against Popery being announced; when, the police having charged the mob, the prisoner fired two bllJ:rels of a revolver at the constable. For the defence it was urged that the pistol was fired into the air and not intended to hmt anyone. The jury found the pri90ner guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy; and the Judge s~nttnced him to sixteen months' hard labour, stating that but for' the recommenliation he would have sent him to penal servitude. 
The trial of the Irishmen employed in the Welsh mines at Merthyr' TydfiI, on charges of treason-felony, took place, on Thursday weeko at the Swansea Assizes, when two of them were found guilty. Patrick Doran (head centre) was sentenced to penal servitude for seven! and Patrick Ryan (captain) for five years. The other prisoners-eignt in, nnmber-were acquitted. 
Five colliers tried at Swansea for attempting to drown a man at Llantrissant who had gone to work during a strike in that district, were, on Thursday wl\ek, convicted of misdemeanour, and sentenced to terms of impJisonmeut, with hard labour, ranging from three to six months. 
The Devonshire bread rioters WHe, yesterday week, senoonced by Mr. Justice Blackburn, at Exeter, to terms·of imprisonment Tarying' flOm four to eight months. 
Miles Weatherill was tried, yesterday week, at the Manche3tCr AEsizes, for the murder of Jane Smith, at Todmorden Vicarage. The plea of homicidal mania was set up in his favour; but the learned Judge, in his summiD~ up, s.aid that the eviden.ce would justi!Y nothing shCIt of a verdIct of wilful murder. The Jury concurred In this view of the case, and Weatherill was sentenced to death.--, 'Ihe Rev. Mr. Plow died on Thursday week of the injuries inflicted on him by Wetherill. Mr. Plow's infant child, born shortly before the attack on Mrs. Plow, is also dead. 
At the Maidstone Assizes, yesterday week, William Partridge ane! Samuel Deadman, charged with murdfIing a woman named Jackson. and putting her down a well, wel'e put upon their trial. Thedefence was that, the night being dark and st.ormy, and .the woma~ being directed to an outhouse to sleep, the path to WhICh ran beSIde the well, she had fallen in accidentally. The jury took this view of the case and acquitted the prisoners. 
A murder, which on the face of it was the act of a madman, has been perpetrated in the parish of 'Vinscombe, near Weston.super­Mare. A young man named Holmes, who represents himsalf to be the son of a retired officer in tbe 12th Lancer~, residing in Rescrea, in Ireland, gave himself up to the police, affirming that he had just killed a boy. He stated that he felt he must kill some one, and passing a field where a lad twelve years of age was scaring birds from the newly-sown grainj he went to him, and without saying a word felled him to the ground with a hedge· stake. He then took out his knife and tried to cut off the head, but did not quite succeed. He next washed his hands in a brook, walked on to the village of BanweJl, and slIl'l'endered himself. The body, the hedge· stake, and the knife were all found as he had descrieed. 
Frances Kcdcer, aged twenty-five was sentenced to death at, Maidstone, on Thursday week, for the wilful murder of her -step­daughter. The prisoner had shown symptoms of hatred to the deceased, who was about twelve years old, on many occasions, and on Aug. 17 last tock her out under pretence of going to a fair at New Romney, but returned home at ten o'clock at night, wet through, wit,h a statement that she and the deceased had been flightened into a ditch by fome horses, and that she had been unable to get the poor gi1'l out. The body of the lieceased was found in a ditch, where the watcr was not more Ithan a foot deep, and there were marks of a struggle on the bank. It also appeared that the. prisoner, although bent upon so horrible a purpose, had, like Gilpln's wife, "a frugal mind," and so compelled the poor child to take off' her boliday clothes and put on an old ragged frock, besides whlch ~he changed her own dress with a like object. The evidence was so strong that the jury do not appear to have had any difficulty in returning a verdict of wilful murder, and the h!lrd-hearted culprit received her doom with perfect composure. 
Timothy Faherty was on Thursday week sentenced to death, at the Manchester ASl'izes, for the murder of Mary Hanmer at Droylsden, on Christmas Day. This was a murder of the coarsest tne. Hanmer had rejected Faherty's addresses, and he beat her to 
death with a poker. 
WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. 
THE Registrar-GEneral gives the following return of births and deaths for the week ending Saturday, March 14 :_ . 
In the week 4951 biIths and 2994 deaths were registered iu London Bnd in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual ~ate of mortalit.y was 24 per 1000 persons living. 
The annual rate of morality last week was 22 per 1000 in London, 29 in Edinburgh, and 24 in Dublin; 27 in Bristol, 23 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 28 in Manchester, 22 in Salford, 23 in Sheffield, 27 in Leeds. 25 in Hull, 24 in Newcastle·on-Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. 
In 1.oJ:don the births of 2288 children-1172 boys and 1116 girls­were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten Yfars, 1~58.67, the average number, corrected for increase of popu­
lation, is 2258. ' 
'Ihe deaths registered in London during the week were 1309. If; was the eleventh week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1021. The deaths in tho present return are less by 312 than the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 228, the corrected average number being 325. Eleven deaths from smaU­pox, 36 from measles, 12 from scarlatina, 8 from diphtheria, 54 from whcoping'cough, 86 fI'om fever, and 14 from diarrtooa were registered. There were 191 deaths from phthisis, 140 from bron­cbitis, 73 from pneumonia, and 73 from diseases of the heart. 
The deaths of 3 children from burns or scalds, of 5 persons from drowning, aRd 5 infants from suffocation, of 4 persons who wer~ killEd by horses <'I' vehicles in the streets, and of 8 parsoll/! wh)committed suicide, were registered. 

MARCH 21, 1868 
Iri~h Cburcb, and he declared that such a course ahonld ];e preceded by an appeal to the nation. This, of course, told npon the House; Ministerial cheers came down thick -and fast ; and the Premier said that he had thought the best 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 
LONDON: SATuRDAY, JfAROIl 21, 1868. 


INTEHESTING and important as wa§ the great Irish ~ebate of 
four nights, it may prove to have been but" a swelling pro­
logue to an Imperial theme." There was a whisper toward3 
the close of the concluding. ;night that a notice would thell. 
be "tabled" by Mr. Gladstone with intent to brin~ on a 
crisis, and though on that occasion calmer counsels prevailed, 
intimation has since been given to the proposed effect; and a 
few hours after these lines are in type, the Opposition gauntlet 
will, in all probability, be thrown down. This fact, of course, 
deprives the more pacific proceedings of much of their interest; 
but a brief review, less of the speeche3 than of the situltion, 
is nece:osary to an exact under3tanding of the tactics which 
seem at length to have brought the leaders of party fa.}e to 
face for real fray. 


The Thursday was marked by addresses from Mr. Horsman, 
)

Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Mill-each able in its way-all con­
demnatory of the Irish Church, but none setting forth more 
than the distinguished speaker's personal convictions;. nor 
was there much of note in the general defence with which 
the Home Secretary took their points in his target. An 
utterance, on the next night, by Mr. Chichester Fortescue, 
the last Chief Secretary for Irelaud, to the effect that Goyun­
ment would not be permitted to delay justice to that country, 
was noticed as a strong hint; aud it was followed up on the 
concluding night by language from Mr. GladstJne which, 
perhaps, the leader of Opposition might not have used 
but for the tremendous aud exhilarating plaudits which came 
down on him from the Liberal ranks; then, for the first 
time, he avowed his belief that the hour of the Church of 
Ireland had come. We may say, indeed, that the Liberals 
as a body appeared to feel something of surprise, as well as of 
gratification, when, after a very long aud not very brilliant 
introduction, in which there was more energy than oratory, 
Mr. Gladstone gave out the word "disestablish." With 
that word· he went to the head of the Opposition, aud 



vigorously grasped the baton which had previously bllt 
dangled in his hand. From that moment it was felt tha~ 
real antagonism was apprOAching, and Mr. Gladstone inti­
mated, we might almost say threatened, that, if the Premier's 
speech were not materially different from the speeches of his 
colleagues, it would be the duty of the Opposition to take the 
decided opinion of the House, and this not as a merc declara­
tion, but with a practical step to show the Irish nation that 
Parliament is in earnest. 

The Premier's reply was certainly different from the &peeches of any of his colleagues, though not in the sense which Mr. Gladstone intended. It was at fi,st as ineffectiyc as had been the opening of his rival, with the a~ded disad. vantage that the HOl1se was less ready to tolerate weakne3s, because the preceding speech had worked up the members to the expectation of a spirited reply. But Mr. Disraeli h"d planned hia course, and ia not easily turned from it. He bestowed the prepared badinage upon the new-born enthu­siasm of the Opposition for the settlement of a que3tion of seven hundred yeara-a question which, during hia tenure of office, the leader of that Opposition had n)t touched with oue of his fingers. But he took higher grouud, and defended the prir:ciple of ecclesiastical establishments, dwelt upon the im­portance of the connection of religion and government, refusing to regard the latter as a mere ma.tter of police, and insisted upon the importance of a Church, which steadied men's faith. Still, he produced no 



great effect -it may ·be that his cornmend~tions of religions influences were felt to be somewhat professional, not to say perfunctory, and it was not until he had done with praising a religious people and asserting its aff~ction for Establishments that he made his great poInt. Suddenly becoming practical, he thundered out a denial that the present Parliament had any moral right to aboliah the ·way would be to close the business of the Session, aa was the intention of the Government, and hasten, as he was prepared to do, to that appeal to the enlarged sympathies fortunately secured by the Reform Act of last Session. It was " prepos­telous " to assert that this Parliament ought to decide on t he question of continuing ecclesiastical endowments. 
So matters were brought, informally, to an issue, Mr. Maguire's motion being, by general assent, withdrawn, and so the extraordinary Irish debate ended. Mr. Gladstone, as has 
-been said, has taken a step towards carrying out the menace of his speech, and we have now to see whether the Liberal ,-army Can be once more united into a majority willing to carry an anti-Ministerial declaration. The crisis appears to us to be one in which very great advantages would be gained to the country by an adjustment, or at least a postponement of battle, .and tbe statesman who at this point should interpose with a well-devi:oed suggestion that stayed the fray would do more service than he wots of. It is not of a mere party victory and defeat that we speak. There are times. when such struggles are productive of positive, visible good ; t hey brace the minda of the statesmen, and they enlist the interest of the nation in its politics. But what ia to be got at such a period as this by an ullsettlement of men's -mindp, when a great and general struggle of a novel character ·is so close at haud. Will the new constituency be induced to think better of the governing classe~, or be more willing to submit to their leaders):lip, when, in the few lJionths before dissolution , the great chiefs are seen trying to outbid each other for the sake of power ? There have been some strange ,stories of wild extravagance in t.he way of turf gambling of late; but it appears to us that they h ave been paralleled by wh[,t we have seen in the way 0 f high prices paid or offered by statesmen for the retention of, or accession to, place. We are far from convinced that the signs of the political times are of the good omen which just now the 
.augurs should · be most eager to detect. We are not going to invoke Mr. Bright's aid to arrange the crisis, nor do we ·suppose that he will withhold speech 01' vote from Mr, OlaClstone; but we calmot conclude a sketch of the . most important debate of the day without a tribute to the .masterly eloquence displayed by the member for Birmingham on the last night but one of the Irish debate. His laud plan -will pllSS away and be forgotten, but his speech will not; and the conclusion, in which. he implored his audience to forget .party, and to think only of justice and of moderation, had a religious flavour which took back reading men to certain days when indeed not much of either was shown, especially in l'egard to Ireland, but when men spoke the good old English of a good old book. We are not so unreasonable as to expect Mr. Bright, for all that, to forego the excitement of political battle, but a better opportunity has never beeu preseuted to olt man of weight and of adroitness than is offered by the pre:oent situation of parties. 
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 
MARCH 21, 1868 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 
E'OR once in a way the House of Peera, during last week, was more attractive than the Commons for an hour, though the Irish debate was going on in the latter house. The gilded chamber was dressed out with ladies who, sitting in the galleries, suggest a likeness to a fringe of flower and ribbons aloft on the walls of a festal hall, while the rougher sex gathered thick and eager. There mnst have been a notion that the Duke of Argyll (who was to resume his function of crushing Conservative Premiers, and who, Lord Derby having dis­. appeared, was to commence operations on Mr. Disraeli) would have a more formidable antagonist than Lord Malmesbury, ,and that there was to be a set·to worth witnessing. No doubt, the Duke went in ,vigorously for showing that the M'Callum Mohr of the preEent day has not ~o any extent lost. the hot blood of t he Campbells; and had It not been for hiS efforts to seem grand and lofty, whereas he appeared to be only passionate and bitter, he would have been rather effective than not. The question of real leadership of the House was decided by the fact that on this, a party and almost personal squabble, and not a high matter of S~ate, the Lord Chancellor descended from his pride of place and entered into the' arena of comparatively petty strife. His speech was constructed on the com· monest princlples of what is called debating; and though, of course, skilful anti pointed, it was of a character to give force to Earl Russell's sneer at its tone of barristerial advocacy, and to came, by contrast, tbe anewer to it by that noble Earl to seem a miracle of fine sentiment and dignity. The force of dispraise can no further go. It appears that the age, supposed to have passed away, of debating Lord Chancellors has returned, and that in this, as in other respects, Lord Cairns intends to assimilate himself to Hardwicke, 
-Thurlow, Brougbam, and Lyndhurst. The more the p.ty, will probably be tbe feeling of the sober public. 
The pyrotechnic Irish debate expired amidst such a blaze of fen d'a?'tijice tbat it is like raking in burnt p'per ,tnd ,"hes to talk about it now. But it may well be said that, apart from its uses, which arc many, it e;;hibited the debating power of the House of Cummons very favourably. The notable men excelled their ordiuary scl ves in their deliverances. Thus, Mr. Horsman, though as reckless and loosc as ever in assertion, was closer in al:gument than heretJfore . bis points were not worked up to by so mtluy devious words as i~ customary with him; and, above all, he was prudent enouah for once to bring his speech into moderate compass ; and heo ma~e 
.only cne peroration instead of half a dozen, as usual. It was almost, as the heralds would say, 01' upon al',qent for lYrr. Lowe to follow him with only one parenthetical country gentleman between them, but the member for Calne was in exc~llent vein. He did not seem to be in a hurry, and in the early part of his speech spoke more slowly and without any of that slithering, clipping articulation which causes him sometimes to be . nnintelligible, except to those quite close to him, when he is making B point or completing an antithesis. If possible, keen sarcasm and subtle argument were more than usually mixed up with humorous illustration; and, notably when he dealt with Mr. Stuart Mill's land-plan for Ireland, he contliv~d thoroughly to convince everyone for the moment that it was possible for a philosopher to make himself very ridiculous when he tries to become prac­tical. Like all the Liberals, l'eal or supposed, Mt'. Lowe seeIDS to have made up his mind as to the lriilh Church, and his voice sounded loud and clear in the chorus of "Delenda est," which was chanted all through the debate. The anxiety which has been felt about 1I1r. Jacob Bright's qualification of active membel'dom has beim to a degree relieved by his having made his debut. Except to say that he has no sort of resemblance in any respect to his bt'other John, and that he spoke with a platform twang about him, enough will have been said by the announcement of the fact of his appearance. A very manful effort was made by Mr. Stuart Mill to reply impromptu to Mr. Lowe's merciless scarifying of his scheme for the pacification of Ire­land; and it might have been thought that he would have been more fluent if he had not evidently been too careful about the constmction of his Bentences, too curious about the right word in the right place; and thts the unprepared part of his speech was slightly disfigured by hesitancea which need not have existed if he had suffered his thoughts to flow into such language as occurred to him in the first instance. It was on this same night that the Government spoke first, by the mouth of Mr. Gathorne Hardy, who generally skir­mished, and left people in a state of indecision whether the Ministry had or had not any Irish policy. 
,The position which 1>fr. Chichester Fortescne holds in relation to Irish affairs in the Liberal party gave him a plain right to open the adjourned debate on one evening; and, though everybody went to the LOl'ds to see the Dukes, Chancellors, and Earls" fence and foign," he proceeded steadily through one of those set speeches of his which are wonderful in their way, inasmuch as, while you are listening to them, they Beem full of sound practical matter, but when they come to an end leave you without a notion of what he haa been talking about. In this case there was an exception, because he, too, was' per­fectly plain and intelligible-spoke so that he might be pinned here­after, usually a very difficult operation to perform on him-on the subject of the Irish Church. One of the features of the evening was t he speech of The O'Donoghue, which was well composed; but it might be saii! that, though he speaks with emphasis and impressive­ness, his utterance is BO slow as to suggest an idea that he is trustillg implicitly to his memory. To use a very hackneyed phrase, on that same evening there was for Mr. Bright the proudest moment of his life. By that one speech he has ' for ever destroyed all the capital of his opponents, who, great and small, were always trying to be smart upon the member for Birmingham; for, so to speak, he developed the culmination of an entire change in .his political idiosyncrasy. Not only was he moderate, conciliatory-in a word, close upon conservative; but he was so universally sympathetic, so gentle, even tender, in regard to all parties, persons, and questions, that he carr,ied the whole House with him as one man; and when he closed that masterpiece of rhetoric, in the writing down of which the omission of one word would have been a blunder akin to a crime, it is doubtful if there was anyone who heard him who did not confess to himself that Mr. Bngbt had established firmly his right to be considered a statesman, and, moreover, given the country a claim to call on him to take his share in that sphere of public life the duty of which is "to govem men and guide the State." It is only just to Sir Stafford N orthcote, who followed, to say that he seemed to feel the disadvantageous position in which he was placed, and studiously to make his state­ment plain and as business-like as was possible for a member of the Ministry fpeaking tentatively only upon Irish policy. 
During the debate, of course all the dii minorea, Irish members especially, were allowed to have tolel'ably free run; and, judg­ing from the scores of them that leaped up at the conclusion of every speech, there was stored up material for sustaining the dis­cussion till August, though, in fall'ness, it mar be said that most of the decidedly millol'ea were judiciously brie • To be sure, Mr. Monsell and Mr. Gregory, who conceive themselves personages, at least, emerging out of the second rank of their party, ltlmbered on for their hour, or forty minutes or so ; and Mr. Synan-who is popu­larly supposed, by those who have only just l.eard of and never actually heard the original, to be a reproduction of Grattan-was long in labour with a mass of statistics and arguments. In the contributions by smaller English members Mr. 'Butler·Johnstone was prominent, because he not only gave up the Irish Church to destruction, but, repudiating Mr. Disraeli's leaderahip in that matter, offered himself distinctly to any chief who would m~rch straight upon that Establishment. At this time it was that Mr. W. 
H. Gladstone made his first formal speech. If he had borne any other name, the House would have beheld only a well-conditioned young member. possessing very fair ,elocution, modestly but fluently de­livering a neat essay· like speech on the matter in hand; but, of course, a special interest attached to him, and he was noticed, aud in the most kindly way, in all the modes that the House is accustomed to express interest. It so happened that one of the members who was absent and did not hear him was his father. All the doubt which was felt earlier in the evening as to whetber or not the debate was to exteud over another night was pnt an end to shortly before ten, when a back-bench member was spealt­ing, by a little telegraphy between the Speaker and Mr. Gladstone, 
-which indicated that the leader of the Opposition demanded the 
hearing. ~he first. tones of his voice were literally "lou1 as a trumpet wlth a sllverv sound," and certainly that or"an has never seemed to be in better condition than on this occa3ion its vigour being sustained and its inflections perfectly at hi~ command all through one of Mt·. Gladatone's most powerf,ll r!"etorical and orato~'ical (for both these epithets were pecu. har1y apphcable) dehverances. It was on one continuous rollinO' wave. of ~ords that his arguments. and illllstration rode buoyantl;' an?-1U thls regard he w~s oratol'lcal; and it was delicately an.1 sk1!fully that he .dealt wlth most o~ th~ topics of Irish p~licy, 0 '1 whlCh he had posslbly 'not made up his mmd, and here he was emi­nently rhetorical; and in his declarations aG'ainst the Irish Church and in his impassioned peroration he was both orat~rica.l andrhc­torical at once. Perhaps for the last year and a half there has been no such universal applause awarded to a speech of Mt·. Gladstoae by the gentlemen who sit behind as on this occasion. The manner of Mr. Disraeli, when he stepped forward to commence his first great sPE;'€c!, as Prime Minister of England, was m'lrked by t~e pecuhanty that he showed no eagerness and little alacl'ity in hiS ?,ovements. He began with that which is a very permi8sible devlce on the part of the leader of the HOllse about to sum up a party debate, ~or he was. comicaliy sarcastic on his immediate OpP). nent, 3nd obtamed that OeEt of all starts, one which is m"d~ amidst the laughter of honourable members, who are thus Pllt int) good humour. It may, however, be thought that it would have baen well if during tb~ remainder of" v~ry able (clever is the most expressive word), and m some respects skilful speech, he had been more sparinO' of" chaff." He seems to have fOLUlded himself 00. Lord Palmeratoll'~ manne,r when that noble Lord was master of the feelings and goodwlll of t,he House, and assul'~dly Mr. Dismeli h'13 not yet made for himself such a baSIS. Iu truth, his mltnuer WitS yery odd for a Prime Mini,ter who, by his own coufe,sioa fi Is tbat Coffice under " peculiar circumstallc'es," Whether it w .:8 atJ. 
overflow of exultation, or an effort to get over an oppres;iv:; ncrvO:!3­n~ss, he sfemed like a man who has not his mu"l command 0: Illmself. Hi~ voice, gestures, lal1guafle. illustrations, arguLD~nts­all suggest~d ldeas Of. a person who had imbibed l:tllghing-ga, ; of a SI, mnambul.lst dehvermg w~yward. utterances i of .a priest of Isls in hlS cups. mwglwg profane )ests wl~h the mystical Jargon of his cc·aIG. Everythmg that could ammate hlm he had-cheers lau"hter all that.the assembly he was addressing could do to sho'~ tha~ he 'WI13 n:;akmg a most remarkable speech; but, whethcr as a declaration of policy or BS a specimen of the mode and manner in which the Firat Minister of the Crown should, as it were, address the nation on a solemn occasion, may be matter of opinion. 
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. . The Duke of .Mal'lborougl: gave notice. that on Tuesday, the 24th )nst., he would mtl'Oduce a blll on the subject of elementary education in England and Wales. Th~ Railways (Extension of Time) Bill was read the second time and tbe Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Orders in Council) Bill wa~ read the third time and passed. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS,-MoNDAY. Sir P. Egel'ton brought up the report of the Coventry Election Committee, of which he was chairman, unseating Mr. Jackson on the ground <:f corrupt practices by his agents. In Commlttee several supplemental votes in the Civil Service Estimates were agreed to. 
THE STATE OF IRELAND.-CLOSE OF THE DEBA.TE. The debate on Ireland was resumed by 1>fr. Monseli, who depre. cated the proposal of the GovernmQnt to endow the Catholic University. What would be the best thing to do would be to m~ke the D,ublin University a national instit~tion. He complained that practically the Government had no po!lcy, save one of obstruction in regard to the land and the Irish Church. . Mr, Butler-Johnstone followed, and spoke with much vigour. He dld not complain of the Government's policy as to the land question; but on all other points they had thrown away a great opportunity. I!e de~lared he would in future follow any leader who proposed a pohcy different from the hand·to·mouth policy of the present Premier. Mr. Gr~gory declared that hitherto the English Legislature had treated lnsh wants and grievances upon Mr. Bumble's principle. That functionary said, "I know what these paupers want, and when they come and ask me fur any thing I give them somethinG' else, and so they don't come again." This was precisely what th~ Government proposed to do now. Mr. Gregory indorsed Mr. Bright's views as to the land and the Church, but thought this Pa,rliament would not be able to deal with the question. , Mr. Conolly argued much !!,ood from the practical turll of the debate, and, while maintaining that Irish Protestants were not indis­posed to a calm and just settlement of the Church question, inti­mated that he should oppose Lord Mayo's Land Bill if it was like that of last year. As M;r. Conolly sat d.own more than a ,score members sprang up to contmue the debate III all parts of the House, but chieflv on the Libeml benches, and the Speaker called on -Mr. W. H. Gladstone, who, in a successful maiden speech, argued that the circumstances of Ireland required a bolder treatment thau the Ministerial programme. Feuianism, he held, was not so danger­ou.'! as the subdued and smothered feelings of discontent, which pre­vailed extensively, and on which it fed. The cause of this discontent be defined to be the illiberal policy we had pursued towards the Irish people, both as cultivators of the soil and as Roman Catholics. He advocated a system of certain and liberal compensation for im· provements, and this he would substitute for the tenant-right cus­tom. Deeply regretting that the Government had no policy in regard to the Churcb, he insisted that no time should be lost by Parliament in pl:onollncing f~r the principle of religious equality. Ou the questlon of educatlOn, though he should have preferred a fusing of all educational establisbments into one University, he did not disap. prove the plan of the Government to charter a Catholic University. Lord Castlerosse complained of the timidity of the Government in not dealing with the ChurcQ.. He expressed a strong opinion in favo~r of a measure for compensation to tenants, and predicted that Parliament would not consent to the plan of a Catholic University. The discussion was continued on the same side by Mr. De la Poer and Mr. Synan; by Colonel Brnen, who argued against the estab , lisbment of fixity of tenure by law, and approved the endowm 'lnt of a Catholic University; and by Mr. Kendall, who justified the course .of the Government on the three points-Land, Church, and Education. Mr, Gladstone, who rose just before ten o'clock, and was loudly cheered by the Opposition, pointed out that, numerous as had been the blots hit in the Ministerial programme, their greatest error of all was that they had failed to realise the grave fact that we had l'eached a crisis in the Irish question. Ireland had an account with this country which had endured for centuries, and in the opinion of every enlightened nation in the world, much as we had done, we had not done enough to place ourselves in the right. The most recent proof of this failure of the Government to grasp the gravity of the occasion was Sir Stafford N orthcote's speech; for the impartiality of the Executive Government, to which he trllSted, was not sufficient to counterbalance the injurious effect of tmjllstlaws. Time, his second palliative, had beeB tried some centuries; and of the third palliative­justice-he remarked that Sir Stafford's idea of it included the main­tenance of the Irish Church. Admitting that Lord Mayo's account of the state of Ireland was, on the · whole, accurate, he ar~ued that the co· existence of material progress with widespread discontent was a proof that some unsatisfied necessity still existed, and in enforcing the gravity of the political crisis he pointed to the de­pletion of Ireland by emigration, the repeated sllspension of the Habeas Corpus, and the invasion of England by Fenianism. Mr. G1adstone next discussed at length the adequacy of the Government p0licy to the exigencies of the case under six heads-viz., Par­liamentary reform, the repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, rail­
ways, education, land, and the Church. The first three he dismissed very briefly, and on the question of U nivel'3ity education he re­marked that the Roman Catholics had a real grievance. He defended the action of Earl Russell's Government ill 1866 on this 
81~bject; and, in ~i~cussiug L?rd Mayo's suggestion, he insisted, 
With much cmphlis18, that Parhament had never voluntarily und,r' 
taken the support of denominBtional universities and schools' bat 
on the contrary, of late yea,rs it had been sedulously endeavduriog 
to get rid of all votes of a purely denominational character Mr 
Dicraeli must know as well as anyone that such a scheme a~ thU; could 
not be canied in~o effec~; it was a .mere idea, in fact, which in reality 
was dead before It had hved; and, III the absence of any information 
as to the views of t)1e Roman Catholic Bishops, it might be described 
as another "leap III the dark." Eut i~ was impossible to give ~ 
final opinion on the University question until the view of Parlia­
ment on the Irish Church was ascertained; for if a sweepin~ policy 
were adopted it would be necessary to consider how far °Trinity 
College conld be madc available. On the land question Mr. Glad. 
stone asserted that the real grievance of the Irish people had been 
acknowledged by the Devon Commission, which had recommended 
a measure of compensation for improvements. A iust land l~w he 
laid down to be one under which, in the absence ·of any contr~ct 
between landlord and tenant, the improvements effected by the 
tenant should be his property; and he preferred to trnst rather to 
the operatkn of such a security than to any measure for fiKity of 
tenure. Commenting on 1>lr. Bright's plan, he pointed out some 
diffi?ulties to it.. He suggested that if the Go:vernment took pos­
sessIOn of the Ir;sh Church property, the expel'lment could be tried 
there. Paesing to the Church question, Mr. Gladstone congratulated 
the House on the rapid advance of public opinion, as shown, 
perhaps, more forcibly in the defence of the Church than ill the 
attack, After condemning strenuously Lord Mayo's hint at an 
increase in the Regium Donum and a subsidy to the Roman 
Catholics from the Consolidated Fund, and ridiculing the Govern. 
ment pleas for delay, he announced, amid loud cheers from the 
Opposition, his opinien that the Church, as a State Church, must 
ceasc to exist. Religious equality must be established difficult 
though the operation might be ; but he decidedly conde~ned the 
prinCiple of bringing up other denominations to the level of the 
Ch,t:r?h by grants from the Consolidated FlI.nd, and the plan for 
f(QlVldlDg her revenues among the clergy of different denominations. 
Thoee plans had long passed the point of practical possibility. On 
th~ whole, he agr.ecd very much with Mt'. Bright's ~ode of effecting 
thiS great operatlOn. He recommended Mr. MaO'tllre to withdraw 
his motion; but he intimated that, unless Ml'~ Disraeli's speech 
differed altoget.her from the 8peeches of his colleagues, it would be 
the duty of the Opposition to ask a decidcd opinion froIll the House 
on this question; and it must not be a mere empty declaration but 
it must be attended by some practical step which would sho~ the 
Irish people that Parhament was now in earnest. ' 
Mr: .Disraeli, who was also lo~dly cheered, began by ironiClllly bewallmg the unhappy fate whlCh made the commencement of his Ministerial career cobcident with the imperious necessity of imme. diately settling ::111 account seven centuries old. Examining the elements of the Irish Clisis, as stated by Mr. Gladstone, he showed that all of them had existed while he was ill office, and that no attempt had been made to deal with them, CommencinO' with the University project, he defended the Miaisterial programm~in detail. The object of the proposed charter was to eKtend to the Irish Roman Catholic~ the opportunity they had long desired of giving their children the benefits of a higher education under the inallenca of their own priesthood, and the sarcasm of Mr. HOl'sman that it Wall meant to conciliate Ultramontanism was absurd, as he showe:l by l\ recapitulation of the facts relating to the Queen's College, which Mr. Horsman, he said, had ,totally misrepresented. He vindicated, next, the land policy of the Government, premieing that in this and all other points the Government had proposed not that which was theoretically perfect, but that which WIl8 practiclil and practicable. They had picked out all those points on whICh there Was a general agreement that legislation was possible, while they had referred to a Commission those poillts only which were not ripe for decision; and he characterised the a38ertion that the object of the Commission was delay as "the lees and refuse of f~ctioU8 insinua­tion." Passing to the Chnrch question, and admitting that the Irish Church was not in the position he should wish to see her­having in ber communion the majority of the people-Mr. Disraeli discussed and defended the principle of ecclesiastical endowment.s. He denied that the spirit of the age was opposed to endo w­ments, as had been laid down by Mr. Bright, who, with the aid of the philosophers, had apparently converted Mr. Gladstone to the same opinion. He warned the House that it was not the comparatively limited issue of the Irish Church, it was the principle of ecclesiastical endowments, an entire reyolution in the national habit and character which was at stake. Drawiug from the Ministerial benches loud and continuous cheering, he denied the moral competence of the House to decide that ' issue without an appeal to the .country. It was a question which the country alone could decide. For thirty years the Liberal party had been in power, but what had they done to prep are the public mind fol' such a reTO­lution? This Parliament, he held, ought not to decide it; it ought to be resel'ved for the new and enlarged constituencies. Bgin\l' per­sonally in favour of ecclesiastic al endowments, he strongly objected to the destruction of the Irish Church. The violence and confisca­tion with which it must be accompanied would be a great detri­ment to Ireland, where there had already been violence and confiscation enough; but he reEerved to himself the right of con­sidering the labours of the Commission now sitting, and at the same time he expressed a decided opinion that the moment had arrived 
when there must be a considerable cbange in the condition of the unendowed clergy of Ireland which would elevate their influence. By this he did not mean what was vulgarly called "paying the priests," making them the stipendiaries of the State, of which he strongly disapproved. Referring to his oft·quoted speech of 1844, he maintained that, though expressed, perhaps, with the heedleSll rhetoric which appeared to be the appanage of all who sat below the gangway, the sentiment of it was right, and he concluded by avowing his belief that the Ministerial programme was the com­meRcement of a new policy for Ireland. 
The motion and amendment were withdrawn, and the deb~te came to a close. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuSSDAY. The Lord Chancellor presented a petition signed by 6683 persons in Ireland, 4423 being graduates in 'l.'rinity College, Dublin, praying that, in any scheme for Irish University education, they might not be deprived of the privileges which they had enjoyed for three centuries. Earl Stanhope gave notice that, on the 20th inst., he should mon for a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the Eccle­siastical Titles Act. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. 
Tbere was a long discussion on proposals for amending the pro. ceedin gs in l'eference to pri vate bills. Eventuany it was agreed that all opposed private bills should be referred to a Committee consisting of four members of the House and one paid referee. 
Mr. H. A. Bruce obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide for elementary edncation in ugland and Wales, The bill, he said, differed so far from the bill he introduced last year that, instead of being permissive. it contained provisions to secure its enforcement. It provided that one tenth in number or value of the ratepay6m might call on the Educational Committee of Privy Council to institute an inquiry into the state of education in any district or place, and if they fotmd that sufficient means for education were not provided, the Act should be brought into operation, and under it the municipal council, or the commissionel's under any local Act, might levy rates for the support of tbe school. 
Bills were also introduced by the Earl of Mayo to amend the law relating to reformatory schools in Ireland, and by Sir John Pakiugtoll to amend the Contagious Diseases Act, 1866. 
The House then went into Committee of Supply, and two votes were taken to make up the excess of expenditure in the Army and Navy Estimates. 
The Sea Fisheries Bill and the Fairs (Irel:md) Bill passed through Committee. . The County Courts (Admir9.1ty Jurisdiction) Bill wa3 reld th~ second 'time. , . 
THE IRISH REFORM BILL. 

The Earl of Mayo rose to ask leave to il!.troduce a l'dform bill to amend the representation of Ireland. The Government propOle:l to leave the county franchise in Ireland (£12) precisely as it was, which was the same as that of England under the Act of lEtst Session. With regard to the boroughs, it was proposed to fix the franchise at £4. The Government proposed to constitllte the Boundary Commission as it was constituted in Englaud. There were thirty-three boroughs, returning thirty-nine memi)3rs, with a ~opula· tionof790,000. Theelectors numbered 30,700, which would beil1creased 9313 by the proposed extension of the franchise. It was pro­posed that Downpatrick, Dungannon, Bandon, and Kinsale shoued relinquish their seats in favour of the respective counties in which they were sitnated; that Portarlington should re3igll its se tt altogether, and that it should be transferred to the city.of Dublin, which would have three members. It was not proposed to alter the number of representatives returned for Ireland. H~ving ex­plained the other details of the measure, the noble Lord obt.ined lEave to bring in his bill. 
On the motion for the "djournment of the Hou3e, seveul Irish m£mbers expressed their Objections to the measure. 
The supplementary estimate of the sums required to be voted for the expenditure of the year ending March 31, 1868, on account of the Civil Services, in addition to the sums provided in the estimates presented in the Session of 1867, have just been printed. The prin­Cipal sums required are, for law charges, England, £11,000; law charges, Ireland, £36,000; Court of Cha.ncery, Ireland, £14,000; maintenance of prisoners, £12,000; temporary commissions, £21,000; and local dues under treaties of reciprocities, £11,000. Among the B~aller amounts is one for Cape Haytien bombardment, compensa­tIOn, £4000. The whole sum required is £134,000. 


THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 
LONDON: St1 TURDt1 Y, ]J{ARCH 28, 1868. 

"IF," wrote Mr. Macaulay, "if there were in any part of theIworld a national Church regarded as heretical by four fifth3 of the nation committed to its care, a Church established antl n:aintained by :he sword, a Chur~h producing twice as m~ny nots as converslOns, a Church which, though possessing grea.t wealth an~ power, and though long backed by persecuting 
laws, had m the course of maRY generations been fouRd Ull· able to propagate its doctrines, and barely able to maintain. its ground, such a Church could not, we own, be defended. We should say that a State which allied itself with such a. Church postponed the primary end of government to the secon.d." These lines, in which is neatly summed up, with the vIgour of an act of accusation, all that will be discllrsi vely set out in the impending debate on the Irish Church were written in reply to a remarkable book, in waich the p~op;sition that it is one of the principal ends of government to proplgate religious truth was eloquently and elaborately supported by " a young man of unblemi'Shed character, and of distinguish.ed Parliamentary talents, the rising hope of th03e stern and un. bending Tories who follow reluctantly and mutinously a leader whose experience and eloquence are indispensable to them, but whose cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor." The rising hope was the distinguished statesman who on Monday night will ask the House to resolve that the Established Church in Ireland shall cease to exist. We have cited the words of Macaulay for a triple reason; first, for the sake of their own merit as a summary of the ca lB 
against the Irish Church; secondly, in justice to some who now receive sarcasm and obloquy for having yielded to the lessons of a quarter of a century, as Mr. Gladstone himself has wisely done; and,. thirdly, because Mac~ulay's pregnant sentences may assist sundry well.meaning persons . to do themselves more justice, in readin~ recanta11ons, than they may perhaps do if left to their OWIl unaided endeavours. We shall be sorry to hear honourable members who mean to support Mr. Gladstone trying to steady themselves upon slippery stepping·stones of a revolving nature, and talking about times being changed or making uneasy references to Fenianism. We prefer to address them in the spirit of Mr. Dickens's amiable detective, and, having read to them the Macauleian hypothesis, to say to them, " You mean what's right; that's what you mean, isn't it?" We cannot disguise from ourselves the conviction that there will be some exceedingly awkward utterances in the course of this comin~ debate; and, in fact, considering what has been said in other days by 1111 the l€ading men who will join in it, we do not see how, by any class except the ultra·Liberals, if! the ground 
pede libero Pulsauda. 

Indeed, we are not sure that the best way would not be to commence the debate with a sort of indemnity act for all words spoken and votes given in days gone by, or with a tacit understanding that it is to be considered bad taste to refer to any: previous declarations on the subject; for if the battle is to be fought out on recrimination principles, we foresee a. conflict which will leave its scars for many a. long day. Who, as we have said, except the consistent ultra·Radicals, who have always d€clared for the destruction of all State Churches (and who now quietly }>ut the Churches of Scotland and England out of the way, not because they are defensible bllt because they might embarrass the present dispute), can s~eak out freely-beat the ground with a free foot? Not the COD.· servatives, who were led until the fifth of this month by the statesman who not only recognised the right of the State to do ~hat it liked with a Church out of repair, but gaYe a lIvely colour to his avowal of that faith by taking away half a score of Irish mitres. Not the Whigs, who, represented by Earl Russell and Sir George Grey, have de· nounced attacks on .the Irish Church as revolutionary, yet who are now expected to rally round Mr. Gladstone, who takes tae torch from the hand of the Earl. Not the Roman Catholics who, if their Bishops' solellln declaration3 eau bind them t; 

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anything, have sworn over and over again that, if there be one thing they will not injure, it is the Church Establishment in Ireland. No; the only persons who will be able to say (with Hamlet), when the address is moved, "Your Majesty, we that have free souls" are gentlemen, like Mr. Hadfield, and Mr. Peter Taylor, and Mr. White, who have never had any . occasion, by virtue of responsibilities or expectations of office, t o depart from the fOlmulated cry of "nuisance," and who will Le able to indnlge in unmitigated approbation of Mr. 4Hadstone's resolutions, though wishing perhaps that they had reviled as well as assailed. For the rest, there is the dance in fetters, and he will be adroit who qaite prevents the clank. 
Neither seldom nor grudgingly have we avowed our con· viction of Mr. Gladstone's sincerity and our admiration of his genius. We are fully prepared to hear him deliver, in sup· port of his resolutions, one of those speeches which make an epcch in political history. It is but fair to say that such a speech is demanded by ~he exigency of the occasion, and that less will not only be a disappointment to the nation, but an injury to the cause he advocates; for all that can be said 
.against .the Irish Church was said by Mr. Macaulay to Mr • . Gladstone years ago. Since that time the case of the Irish 'Church has, indeed, mended rather than become worse. Re· arrangements have prevented outward scandal, aud there are no riots, and. the sword ie understood, not shown. The furious Irish firebrand clergy, whose decla· lmations used to be the shame of decorous Churchmen, have nearly vanished, the few bellowing Orangemen who preserve the breed, &re rather to be admired as specimens of a race than hunted down as animals of prey. Circumstances have altered the relative numbers of the religionists, and something also Imay now be taken into account as to the character and educa· t ion of the respective bodies. There is therefcre far le3s scope for mere oratory than there was five·and.twenty years ago. It will be fer Mr. Gladstone to show, not only the necessity ,10r passing resolutions for the destruction of the Irish Church, but for passing them at this moment. He will have to con· :vince England and Scotland, not only that their own Pro· testant Establishments are in no danger-an easy task-but ,that Imperialism is making no hasty sacrifice to terrorism; that . the Government of 220,000,000 persons is not being urged to 
a small policy affecting a comparative handful; and that the proposed blow, the most important that the reformed Parlia· ment has been called to strike, is demanded by the highest principles of statesmanship. That Mr. Gladstone will be . equal to the occasion we doubt not. . He knows his country· men and that they are neither bigot.s nor led astray by every wind of doctrine ; that th'ey are ready to hear reason, and, 'w1:en convinced, to act; bub that, on a question involving the three great considerations-national pride, vested rights, and the interests of religion-they will look for a grand and ,broad but practical exposition of the reasons which at this moment induce Mr. Gladstone to Bound the trumpets against the walls of the Irish Jericho. They must give no uncertain 
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At a meeting of the metropolitan commanding officers, held at the office of the National Rifle Association, yesterday week-Lord Elcho in the chair-it was resolved to ask the Secretary of State for War to receive a depntation on the sUbject of the capitation grant. 
The Marquis of Donegall has expressed his approval of the rules drawn up for the guidance of the"Irish team" of twenty which is to compete in the rifle contest at Wimbledon. The noble Marquis mentions that he intends to present the champion of the twenty with a badge as "champion of Ireland." 

" Captain" Mackey was found guilty of treason-felony at Cork yesterday week, but was recommended to mercy. He acknowledged that he had had a fair trial. On Saturday morning he was sentenced to tweli!e years' penal servitude. He made a long addrees, asserting his belief in the ultimate success of Fenianism and his hopes of releaEe before his term of punishment should be over. 
The prisoners Mannix and Walsh, reccutly found guilty of at­tempting to rescue Mackey from the custody of the police, have been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. 
Tbe Manchester convi'cts, Thompson and Mullady, who were sentenced to death for the murder of Sergeant Brett, have been reprieved, as it was expected they would be. 
The report of the Royal Irish Academy for the year mentions with much satisfaction that, mainly through the good officp.s of the Lord Lieutenant an additional annual grant is to be included in the estimates of £ 1000, which will be expended in a reorganir,ation of 
·several of the principal departments of the Academy. The determi­nation of the Government to purchase Dr. Petrie's collection of Irish antiquities is also a subject of congratulation. Very few antiquities were offered for sale to the Academy dnring the year; but,under the treasure-trove regnlations, they have acquired a great number of valuable gold articles from the north, south, and west of Ireland, "one of them being amongst the heaviest pieces of antique manu­factured gold known to have been ever discovered in Ireland." It having come to the knowledge of the conncil that their insurance companies objected to reinsure, in consequence of the nature of a new heating apparatus, they have effected a temporary insurance with another company at an increased premium, and called the attention of the Board of Works and the Treasury to the alleged unsafe state of the premises. 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 'THE Logislature assembled this year ten days later in the spring than usual, compensation for the trouble of meeting in November being thus made. Since Feb. 13 nearly a fortnight's holiday ha~ been given, whilst Mr. Disraeli w.as being t~ansformed into 11. P~ime Minister; and, except once dunng the Insh de~ate, the sltt.mgs until this week have been abnormally short mght afoor mght. Nevertheless, the House of Commons has exhibited the most school· boy impatience for the Easter vacati.on. More than a fortui!lht in lidvance, a sage, grave member, who has been a workmg . official, desired to know, amidst the most eager sympathy, when the recess was to commence; and when Mr. Disraeli, in accents trembling with alarm, stated that he feared that he should have to aek the House to sit in Passion Week, there broke out a universal groan, as if extracted by physical pain; aud it was followed by a loud chorus of " No! no I "; though, to be sure, Mr. Gladstone shook his forefinger energetically, and cried out, "Yes I yes I" The Prime Minister, havil!g greater fear ?f ~he House on this point than any other, checked hIs speech and illtlln~ted re­consid€l'ation; and, on a subsequent occaSIOn, when arrangmg for the great debate, on the hish Church, of next week, artfully offered that if it was concluded' on the Friday in that week he would let the dear boys' holiday commence from that date. Thus has been happily settled a question on which more genuine feeling has been . evinced than has been excited by any other subject this Session. The progress of Parliamentary affairs, though not without features of interest, has not been abundant in them. The cauldron, 'though boiling up high, perhaps twice, hlls, on the whole, been rather simmering. While conn'ing mat~rial for a chronicle, the acts of private memberdom ~eem rather to be pr0lI!-in~nt, usin~ that word in rather a negatIve sense. Naturally, It IS becommg to record something of the herculean attempt of Mr. White, of Brighton, to resuscitate the compound householder; and it may be recommended to budding statesmen to study his speech, as a speci­men of high art in the way in which a sciolist of sciolists can .give a flavour, at least of research, to a Parliamentary speech, Perhaps this class of members wisely retain a. secretary, who is a certificated schoolmaster. However, Mr. White got very fair sup­port; and it seemed as if those who do not desire the resurrection Gf the compound houieholder wished to see whether his struggles now were only galvanic ?t not, and urged that he s}lOn!d I?e left alone until, by effiux of tlme, he showed whether hIS VItality was real. It did not seem of much consequence that it should be late when the Irish Reform Bill came to be introduced, for Lord Mayo began with and preserved a very picktooth manner all though his speech, intimating by that, and indeed even by what he said, that the ,measure was of very little consequence indeed. No doubt he had not any violent changes in the franchise to announce; and though, as regarded the distribution of seats, he had to disavow the principle of non,disfranchisement of .boroughs, which Mr. Disraeli has over and over agai!! insisted on ·as vital in his plan of Reform, he did 80 not only coolly, but with that sort of pleasant smile which ·a surgeon ass~es d~ring an ,amputation, ~nd which is ,intended ,to impress the patient WIth a behef that pam IS only a tnck of a dlS­ordered fancy. But there were some ,patients to wh,om the a~put,a­ting knife was threatened who were mfluenced terrIbly by thIS dls­·ordered fancy. By anticipation Mr. O'Beirne seemed to endure the sharp pangs attendant upon cutting off, and he cried out, in a tone of angry lamentation, which suggested recollections of the Ah I ah! ah I of Philoctetes over his wounded toe. Still, it would seem that Mr. O'Beirne is resolved to take a firm stand, say on the rock of Cashel, to defend the borough of that name from dis­franchisement. Then it must have been peculiarly mortifying to Mr. Lawson to hear a political opponent quietly proposing to cut his ParliameIltary ground from under the feet of an ex-Attorney­·General for Ireland, who not unreasonably hopes to fill that office again ere long; and so the right hon. gentleman spoke, with the skill of a lawyer/..not directly for Portarlington, but against,the bill generally. ·.l'here was, of conrse, a broguey cry ralSed against the measure for awhile) but the most noticeable matter was that that very ol'iginal Irish member Mr. Reardon laid ·down that the proper thing to do was to repeal the union, and, when that was accomplished, to add foroy more members for Ireland to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. To be sure, this was not less characteristic than the statement of ,another Irish member in another debate that "the county cess was paid by the cess payers I " or that of a witness before the Commi ttee iln the' Sunday Liquor Trading (Ireland) Bill, who said that he was sure that, "if all the public-houses were shut up on Sundays, the people would cease to go to them on that day I" However, as the Govel'Ument did not seem to care much about the bill one way or other, perhaps outraged members may in the event be placated. On Friday in last week the House of Commons was in a delightful state of titillationl for it was exp~cted that Mr. q-ladstone would launch his resolutIOns about the Insh Church, and so almost every­body was in his place and anxiously inclined to witness the opera­tion, commonplace enough in itself but suggestive of stirring debates thereafter. Whatevel' gentlemen on the floor may have thought, it is more than probable that strangers who had gone through the agonies attendant on securing places in the spectators' galleries must have been rather disappointed when the leader of the OpPOSition, in by no means a magnificent but, indeed, in a hurried and confused manner, gave notice that he should on Monday give notice of a motion. It may have struck mere uninitiated lookers-on that a statesman who had made up his mind to bring in certain resolu­tions might as well have waited Until he had resolved on the form in which they were to be couched before he said anything about them; and foolish, unintelligent, uncomprehending people might have been rash enough to think that in the course which was taken there were indications of difficulty and ,hitch which it would require the interval between Friday and Mo,ndal afternoon to get over; ~nd, that possibly Lord Cranboul'Ue's ImpiOUS precedent of studymg a secular matter on Sunday had to be followed, Auy way, the consequence was that the House had the gratification of gettiug up a second time one of its favourite scenes by assembling in force again early on Monday afternoon. There were whispers about that the full performance would be again post,Pongd; and Liberal members of pretension, who were beset by chents iu the lobby, asking whether Mr. Gladstone would speak out that evening, were obliged to declare that "they were not in his confidence." However, it turned out that he had got his rasolutions ship-.shape, and he pronounced them. At the end of the first there was a steady good cheer, but it came from the second bench below the gangway, where the members who may be called the Iconoclasts sit; but it did not seem to be echoed from the front and third seats in that locality, while from those immediately behind the leader of the Oppo­sition there came no applause at all, or if any, so faint and partial that it could not be recognised by ordinary obs~vers. On this occasion Mr. Disraeli appeared in his very best manner, He was so frank, so courteous, so obliging to his immediate opponent, so deferential to the House, so ingenious in his way of showing what a manager of Parliamentary time and business he was, and above all, so artful in throwing out more than a hint that it would be only under the very severest pressure that he could resort to the extreme step of dissolving Parliament before the "beginning of next year," at which time he had always intended to take the course of appealing to the new voters whom he has created. The infer&nce to be drawn was calculated to go direct to the sympathies of that tolerably large body of the Liberal members who are said to be waveriag between their wishes to prove their Liberalism to their constituencies by de­·elaring against the Irish Church and their immeasurable distaste to t he coming into power of Mr. Gladstone .; for it was gathered from what Mr. Disraeli said that it depended upon them whether there was to be a general election now, under the existing registration of voters, and another next year, which, would comprehend the recent additions to the constituencies. The question for those whom Mr. Gladstone must Esteem as weaker brethren would therefore be, whether they would have two general elections or one. rt is worthy of note that the warlike estimates were neTer so far ·behind as this year; and possibly no Parliamentary observer of this generation remembers such a thing as the statement ot the N twy E stimates beiug delayed till after a late Easter. . 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. The Non-Traders Bankrupt (Ireland) Bill was read the second time. THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY. The Lord Chancellor moved the second reading of the Bankruptcy Acts Repeal Bill, the Bankruptcy Bill, and the Judgment Debtors Bill. The bills embodied the recommendations of an influential Com­mittee of the other House, and they consolidated the whole of the law on the subject. They abolished the law of imprisonment for debt so far as the creditor was concerned, but securities might be required from persons likely to abscond, or a debtor might be imprisoned by order of the Court. Provision was also made for the gradual abolition of the power of the county-court judges to im­prison, but power was given to attach a man's wages to the amount of one fomth. Debtors might file a declaration of insolvency, and for a period of twenty-one days would be debarred from taking any further steps, in order that the creditors might have an opportunity to step in. After tbat there would bea proceeding analagous to thJl Scotch system of trusts over bankrupt estates, except that the services of an official assignee would be retained. With respect to he discharge of a bankrupt, there would be no suspension of a certificate for more than three years, and that only in cases which were rigidly ddined in the Act. In certain ca,es, and after a second bankruptcy, there would be the power to attach after-acquired property, With respect to deeds of composition, a deed once en­rolled must be a judicial act of the court, and every creditor would be called npon to prove his debt in the usnal way. No new courts or addition to the present judges would be proposed, but the district courts would be gradually absorbed, and a concurrent jurisdiction given to the connty courts, on which ultimately the whole of the bankruptcy business of the country would devolve. In the metro­polis the existing judges would be retained, and have not only a concurrent jurisdiction with the county courts, bnt would also sit as a court of appeal, subject to a further appeal in certain cases to the Court of Chancery. He was quite ready to refer the bills to a Select Committee. Lord Westbury and Lord Romilly criticised the provisions of the bills adversely. Lord Chelmsford said he believed that the alterations proposed would effect a great saving in, expense, and at the same time establish the only' system that could be effective and satisfactory. The bills were then severally read the second time. 
. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. , Mr. E. A. Leatham took the oath and his seat for the borough of Huddersfield, in the room of Colonel Crosland, deceased. In Committee of Ways and Means £6,000,000 was voted out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year. The Consolidated Fund (£362,398) Bill was read the third time and passed. . The Land Writs Registration (Scotland) Bill; the Indian Railway Companies Bill; the Inclosure Bill ; the Marine Mutiny Bill ; aud 
the Registration of Writs (Scstland) Bill were read the second time. The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Bill passed through Committee. THE IRISH CHURCH, 
Mr. Gladstone, amid loud cheers from the Opposition benches, announced his intention to submit three resolutions on the Irish Church. They run thus :­
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That in the opinion of this House 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 to all individual rights of property. 

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That, subject to the foregoing consideration, it is expedieut to preveut the creation of new personal interests by the exercise of any public patronage, and to confine the operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner. of Ireland to objects of immediate necessity, or involving individual rights, pending the final decision of Parliament. 


3, That" humble address be presented to her Majesty, humbly praying that, with a view to the purposes aforesaid, her Majesty will be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parliament her interest in the temporalities of the archbishoprics, bishoprics, and .other ecclesiastical dignities and benefices in Ireland, and in the custody thereof, 
The light hon. gentleman added that if the Government were unable, owing to the pressure of public business, to give him any facilities for bringing on his motion, he would endeavour to move it on Friday as an amendment to going into Committee of Supply. 
Mr. Disraeli ' (who on rising was received with cheers from the Ministerial side of the House) observed that he was willing at once to state the course which he was prepared to take. If the Secretary for War were enabled to make his statement that evening, and the House would agree to vote the number of men for the Army, the Mntiny Bill might at once be proceeded with. Assuming, as he thought he might do, that the House had assented to the principle of issuing a Royal Commission to examine into the question of borough boundaries in Ireland, it was proposed by the Government to issue a Commission as soon as possible for that purpose, so that the dissolution might take place at the beginning of next year. Looking, therefore, to the vast and paramount importance of the subject which the House was i!lvited to discuss, he was ~repar~d, under all the circumstances, to gIVe up Monday next to the dlSCtlSSlon of the Irish Church; and, if the debate sholild be brought to a con­clusion on the following Friday, he should propose that the House should then adjoum for the Easter holidays. 
Mr. Gladstone thanked the right hon. gentleman, and stated that the proposed arrangement would be quite satisfactory to him. . 
THE ARMY ESTIMATES. The House then went into Committee of Supply, and Sir J, Pakington made a general statement with regard to the 
Army Estimates. He observed that the total number of men re­quired would be 137,530, against 137,245 voted last yes!'. The total sum asked for on account of expenditure was £15,455,400. The estimates, however, did not show , certain repayments to the Ex­chequer which would reduce the actual expenditure to considerably below £14,000,000. Still he admitted that that was an enormous sum and that the responsibility rested upon the administration of the Army of conducting ~hat department with the utmost regard, to economy. The increase ID the vote for the year as compared With that of the previous year was £203,000; and this was partly ac­counted for by the increased cost of the militia and the cost of the surveys of the United Kingdom, though the latter item ought not pro­perly to be charged to the Army Estimates. Recruiting was in a satis­factory state .. Qut of thirty-nine of the recommendations made by the Recruiting Commission, twenty-four had been put into operation with most beneficial results. The right hon. Baronet then proceeded at considerable length to explain the several votes i!l detail. Allnding. to the Army reserve, he explained that the numerlcal strength of the militia, if recruited to the full amount of strength, was 128,923 ; the yeomanry cavalry, 15,823 ; and the enrolled p~nsioners, 1~,000. For the militia the increased cost was £81,950, whIch was attllbutable to the increased allowance made to officers for lodgiug money. The vote for the volunteers was augmented by £24,150, and a deputa­tion had waited upon him to urge an increase of the capitation grants, but he had not felt it to be his duty to accede to the request. As the numel'ical efficiency of the force was increasing, there was no necessity for asking the House to add to the allowance already made. On the vote fo!' stores, which included the manufacture of artillery and small-arms there was a decrease of £64,100, This vote com­prised in it thc'cost of converting the remaining Enfield rifles which were capable of conversion. Tht: question which was the best we!l'pon to put into the hands of the mfantry had not yet been deCIded, bnt there was no doubt the Snider was at present the best riile supplied to any army in the world. I~ was already ~sued, to the regular Army, and he hoped to see It shortly supphed to all our other forces. Iu the course of the present year ninety-five guns of different calibres had been provided for in the estimates; but they had before them a large and inevitable expenditure for heavy artillery for fortifications, and he was not satisfi~d that t~ere was sufficient check and control over the mal!Ufactunng eatabhshment at Woolwich. He thought, therefore, that it would be desirable to appoint a commandant for . the supervisiou of the establishment there. Describing the steps taken by the Government tn the 
.' direction of Army reform, he said that in general the report of Lard Strathnairn's Commission had been acted upon, and" that when all tne changes had been carried aut a saving of £25,000 a year would be effected. Greater efficiency would at the same time be secured, and a system of transport would be in operation that would be perfect in time of peace and capable of expansion in time of war. 
After a discnssion of some hours, the vote for the men required was agreed to; as was one of £ 892,500 for pay and allowanOOll, commissariat establishments, and movement of troops. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TulWDAY. ELEMENTARY EDUOATION. The Duke of Marlborough brought in a bill on the subject ef public elementary education in England and Wales. He said the education given in the schools assisted by the Government had beell more succeesful in meeting the requirements of the country than had been generally represented. The Government did not feel it th~ir duty to propose either a general, or a partial, or a compulsory system of rating, but they proposed to enable her Majesty to appoint a Sec­retary of State who should have the whole range of educational matters under his discretion and control. Experience had shown that the rate at which the public money was granted in aid of volun­tary effort was not excessive, and ought not to be exceeded. Other changes were proposed which were of an important and useful cha­racter. At present many of the schools belonging to Nonconformist congregations did not avail themselves of the grant, because they considered that the State ought not to inquire into the religioulI teaching of the chilolren, and ought not to contribute in any way towards that religious teaching. The Government had come to the conclusion that a change might be made in the Revised Code, and that change was embodied in the bill; the effect of the change would be to leave out the condition that all schools, in order to be aided by the State, must be in connection with some religious denomination. '£hey proposed to give payment for results on a secular principlel 80 that, when a school offered itself to be inspected, and showe<1 that it complied with the conditions of the grant as to arrangements anll space, it should not be denied the benefit of the Government grant. At the same time it was intended to insert the arrangement clauses which relate to the inspection of Church of England schools exactly as they now stand. In order that schools in poor districts might par­ticipate in the grant, it was proposed to take a limit below whicll schools might receive a portion of the grant without the employment of a certificated teacher. Itwas proposed further to make some addition to the building grants, to amend the conscience clause by providing that the religious teaching of the school should be left uuinterfere<l with, but that every parent should have liberty to withdraw his child when religious instmction was being given, aud to empower the Secretary of State for Education to take an education censll8, so that they might obtain full information the subject. After some discussion, the bill was read the first time. 
HQUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. The Court of Appeal, Chancery, Dispatch of Business Bill and tile Indian Railway Companies Bill passed through Committee. The Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Bill was read the third time and passed, after a division on a m0tion by Mr. Newdegate that the debate be adjourned, which was negatived by 131 to 28. LICENSES, Mr. Marsh directed attention to the subject of such licenses a, operate to restrict the trade and commerce of the country, witll a view to their abolition. The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that the subject was one which it was very difficult to deal with, aud if the motioll wel'S pressed to a division he should meet it with a negative; but he pro­mised to give his best consideration to the suggestions of Mr. Marsh. After a short debate the motion was withdrawn. . LONDON OOAL AND WINE DUTIES. On the motion for going iuto Committee on the London Coal alld Wine Duties Continuance Bill, Mr, Candlish objected to the bill, as continuing a tax which wall bjtsed on no principle. . Some discussion p"o and con. ensued, when the motion for goill: into Committee on the bill was carried by 147 to 33, and the HOlll6 went into Committee accordingly, and agreed to the several clauses with some amendments. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION. Mr. Samuelson moved for a Select Committee to inquire into, the provisions for giving instruction in theoretical and applied science to the industrial classes. The motion gave l'ise to a somewhat protracted discussion on the question wl;!ethcr it was necessary that primary education should be supplemented by scientific and-technical instruction or not. On tile one hand, it was argued that to enable this country to compete wi~1t foreign rivals in manufactures a technical and artistic education was absolutely necessary; whilst on the other it wd!! contended, amongst others by Mr, Bazley and Mr. E. Potter, that the primary systelll combined with the experience of the workshop waa sufficient j that, notwithstanding the boasted superiority of the foreigner, the Euglish. workman maintained the foremost place in the world's market, and that where the former excelled it was at the cost of long hours of toil and low wages. Eventually, the motion was agreed to. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Mutiny Billllnd the Consolidated Fund (£6,000,000) Bill were read the s~cond time. ' The second reading of the Grand Jury Cess (Irelaud) Bill was moved by Mr. Stacpoole. Its object is to divide the incidence of the countv cess between the owner and occupier, and it was opposed by Lord Mayo, on the ground that the whole subject had recently beell referred to a Select Committee. On a division the bill was thrown ~t~70to57. .. The committal of The O'Oonor Don's Industnal Schools (IreJand) Bill, the object of which is to extend the system of industrial schoola to the sister country, was opposed by Mr, Peel-Dawson, Mr. Vance, and others, on thfi ground that it was very distasteful to the north of Ireland, and that it will be a very serious blow to the united system of education. Lord Mayo, though expecting very little practical effect from the bill, recommended the House to go, into Committee. On a division the stage was canied by 82 to 46, and the first fort:r clauses were agreed to. The remainder of the afternoon was occupied in the disCUSBion of a bill introduced by Mr. Beresford Hope to regulate the institution known as Tancred's Charities at Whixley, in Yorkshire. It waa opposed by Mr, Shaw,Lefevre and others, and on a division it Wall thrown out by 83 to 69. 
HOUSE OF LORDS,-THURSDAY. The Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Bill was brought 11p from the Commons and read the first time. The second reading wu fixed for Thursday next. The Non-Tmders Bankruptcy (Ireland) Bill and the Fair3 (Ireland) Bill were passed through Committee. The Legitimacy Declaration (Ireland) Bill and the .Conselidated Fund (£362,39i) Bill were severally read the second tIme. Earl Stanhope moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the question of any law or laws relatiug to the subject of the Assumptioll of ecclesiastical titles in Great Britain and Ireland, and whether any and wbat alteration should be made therein. The noble Earl briefly sketched the history of the Papal aggression which led to the PMS­ing of the measure, remarking that no attempt had yet been made to enfo rce the penalties of the enactment. He argued that nothing could be worse than to have penal Acts in existence which the Crown did not venture to put into operation, or than the sys­tematic violation of the law on the one hand and the systematic connivance at its violation on the other. , On these grounds, alld also that that Act injuriously affected Roman Catholic founda­tions and bequests, and produced a painful effect upon the mind of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, he urged the 
wisdom of making a concession on the subject whilst it was possible. Still, he saw no cause for regret that the Act had been allowed to remain a dead lett.er. 
After some discussion, 'l'he Earl of Malmesbury said that the Government h:1d no objeo­tion to the Co~mittee, The motiou was then agreed to, 
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The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Marchioness of Abercorn left Dublin yesterday week for Baronacourt, where his Excellency will remain whilst arrangements are being carried out at the castle on a considerable scale for the reception of the Prince of Wales next month. The Dublin Municipal Council held a meeting yesterday week to prepare an address to the Prince 6f Wales on the occasion of bis visiting Ireland. An unexpected intimation by the Lord Mayor to the body to the effect that he had learned that a pro­bability existed of the Prince being accompanied by tbe Pril9.cess of Wales caused many expressions of satisfaction, and induced the council to adjourn the business in hand until a future day.--A sum of £2000 has beeu allotted by the Irish Board of Works to c~rry out the preparations in St. Patrick's Cathedral, in connection with the approaching ceremonial there. 
Ou Wednesday se'unight an armed band attacked Leemount House, within three miles of the city of Cork, the residence of Mr. HeUl'y I,jndsay Young, a magistrate. They attempted to force an entrance by the front and rear doors. Mr. Young had the alarm bell rung, and fired at the assailants, which brought the police from the adjoining stations, and the assailants tled.--The house of Mr. John Cronin, North Main-street, Cork, was entered on Tuesday evening by several armed men, who presented revolvers, demanding 'guns and other arms in the name of the Irish republic. Having overawed the inmates, they went to a bed-room and took a gnu, which they carried off. On Sunday night an attempt was made to fire the Chegeela glebe-house, near Macroom, the residence of the Rector, the Rev. Edward Spring, but the fire was confined to the adjoining out office. For some nights previous missiles had been fiun g through the windows, and on one occasion the assailants were fired on. 
The period of engagement of the sp·ecial constables sworn ill during the recent Fenian alarm having in many cases expired, the Home Secretary has intimated that, under present circumstancesl!le does not consider an extension of the engagement necessary. Mr. Hardy states that altogetherclose upon 114,000 special constables were enrolled, and he believes that the good arrangements made at this time will not be lost, as they will be easily available should auy similar occasion present itself. 

Contemporary artists in sensational fiction must universally conceal their diminished heads in the presence of Captain Burton's translations from the Hindustani, now appearing in Fraser. The first instalment of "Vikram and the Vampire-a Tale of Indian Devilry," leaves Vikram carrying the vampire on his back to a cemetery where a religious mendicant, "whose black body was streaked with lines of chalk, while a girdle of thigh-bones encircled his waist," is "amusing himself by drumming to an assembly of devils upon a skull." It is rather a violent transition to find oneself asked to consider, on leaving this charming society," How to Save Ireland from an Ultramontane University ?" The author of this thoughtfnl essay is one of a very valuable body of men-the Liberal Roman Catholic graduates of Trinity College, Dublin; and his remedy for the evil he deprecates is the thorough opening of that institution to Dissenters, both Catholic and Protestant. He contends that the Roman Catholic laity do not want any more sectarian colleges, and asserts that the only ostensible body of students at the 80­ca~ed "C~tholic Uni versit~ " arc the attendants of a medical school whlCh eXisted long before It, and WhO themselves usuall graduate either at Trinity Coli ege 01' the Queen's Universit . 
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MR GLADSTONE'S opening of the Irish Churoh debate h~d been, no doubt, carefully considered, and it had been, con· trived with much regard to his own personal character, or liB a means of disarranging the plans of hiB antagonists. It was no effort of oratory, nor was it even the large and con­vincing statement which we might have 'expected from such a man on the threshold of sO important a debate. But it was cautious, temperate, and we may say more deferential t3 opponents in and out of the House than many of the Opposition would approve. The amendment which had been moved by Lord Stanlcy was evidently displeasing to the Liberals, yet Mr. Gladstone was too honest to inolude it among the alleged tricks with which he was somewhat in" hurry to credit the Government. He might, in Bhakspearean language, have permitted Mr. Disraelito continue in his evil courses until Mr. Gladstone knew what they were. The weakest part of the speech was the part whose weakne:s was not due to ~. Gladstone, but to the strength of faots. He felt it neoes­
sary to show that there had been no sudden ohange in his opinion on the subversion of the Irish Church, and to convince ·the House that be bad nearly always seen that it mnst and ought to come down. We can afford to pass this matter ·over more lightly than Mr. Gladstone cared to do. We have no doubt tbat he has long entertained a general conviction that a certain rectification was due to Ireland. Perhaps he went further. Most thinking men, especially if they have, like Mr. Glad stone, certain theological views, console them· selves for mnch that they see around them by a hazy yet sincere belief that, one of these days, grievances will be very largely redressed, and men will be placed in morc amicable relations -with one another. But thinking men, and even theologians, are seldom in a hurry to precipitate events, and reserve the -Esoteric belief for domestic use. We do not see why Mr. ,Oladstone need involuntarily deceive himself, or as in· voluntarily atoompt to deceive his admirers, among whom we ran ge ourselves. He had no immediate idea of subverting the Church of Ireland. We doubt not that, like most other persons, he gave it many years of life. But a stirring time has come; the Constitution has been roughly, we do not say 'Ilnwholesomely, dealt with; general excitement prevails, and party spirit shares the influences of the new atmosphere. It 
ia neither surprising nor discreditable tbat Mr. Glad.tone ,should suddenly rectify his calendar· and put on his watch. ·(Jnly we think, and the House of Commons thought, that he 'was throwing away his talents in showing that his calendar <had always been Gregorian, and his watch set to mean <Greenwich time. 
In other respects, granting the premisses, Mr. Gladstone's speech could scarcely give more offence than lay in the proposals he advocated. He laid less stress upon the stock arguments ,against the Establishment than upon tbe elaborate and almost affectionate care which must be taken of those whose interests will be affected by the change. Down to the humbles t curate­nay, to those who might only have expectations from the ·Church-there was to be tenderness; and the sudden silence with which Mr. G1adstone'sexceeding thoughtfulness fOl' these unfortunates was received on thc Liberal benches was note­worthy. One was reminded of the Puritan Legislature and its " carefulness for the babes of grace," only the persons for whom Mr. Gladstone pleaded did not quite come into the category. The peroration, though graceful, "Was scarcely Gladstonian; but we test it by a high standard. It appeared to us that the cheers of the Opposition ·were less in applause of what had fallen from the orator than in evidence of a defiant satisfaction that Buch a man had ,come to the front in a atrict party fight, to borrow a phrase from Congress. And thus the great act of accusation was . opened, and with this speech commences the Parliamentary 
history of the campaign that is to undo the Hibernian work ,of the Defender of the F ith. 
Lord Btanley has not had fair play i but it is his own fanlt <and that of those who conceived the amendment. The latter 'exasperated the Opposition very mnch i and it ma.ttered not who might support it, there was a rain of contemptuous .adjectives ready for his devoted head. Lord Stanley did his work very well, considering what he had to do. Nobody <expects that kind of man to glow over the Irish State Church, ·or any other; or any given thing. He has too many brains to be entbusiastic about anything, and might probably make but a 
p"hilosophic and balanced defence of the perfection of this best of 1111 possible worlds. His speech was a striking proof 
·of the wisdom of Canning's ridicule of the cant that talks about" measures, not men." Lord Stanley is a man of a ':marked type i and whatever measure. he has to deal with will reflect his character, which is mistaken by those who caU him a mere man of moderation. He sees too clearly to be mode· rate, in the seme of those who modestly feel that they may be wrong; but he is moderate, becanse he knows th a.t men will ·allow no standard of absolnte right. Lord Stanley defended his position not with the fire of a yonng champion burning to win his spurs, but with the calm, wary stroke of a swordsman of character wbo h as accepted a post of bonour. If his blade did not glitter in any superfluous flourishes, it was sharp enough i for, when he rather suddenly revealed his own keen sense of the business, and~ntimated that certain converts were doing very good electioneering WOl k, it was felt that Lord Stanley had said a particularly disagreeable thing. It is ·easier to scoff at Lord Stanley's speech than to convince t he public that a man hitherto proverbial for calm jlldgment and effective 11tterance has been unworthy of himself on a trying ·occasion. The difficnlty was made for him, the success was his own. Lord Cranborne, on the other hand, had no diffi. ·culty at all. He was pledged to no pady, but had simply to .Ilssail those who were in the fetters of office and to announce his abiding conviction in the plenary inspiration of certain Acts of Parliament. He did all this very well indeed; but it was nothing to do, and we suppose that it told nothing new to anybody-leaSt of all to Coloncl Taylor. 
If an admit-ably-delivered, vigorous, fearless party speech, with something in it telling of a conviction that lifted the speaker a little abovc party, can make a man, Mr. Hardy is made by bis capital effort in behalf of the Irish Church. If ()xford wanted that article she has not been cheated-we may say that she has got a bargain, and it rests with Mr. Hardy to fix the day when he will be carried in academical t riumph from the 'station to Magdalen Bridge. Mr. Bright hit on el<­actly the right compliment (it Wag misgiven in print) when he said that Mr. Hardy's speech was worthy of the great county whence he came. It was a good Yorkshire speech, and to those wbo know the meaning of words the . words will speak. He did battle like a man, and feared not to olose in personal struggle with the great Opposition leader to question ,him as he sat, and to comment trinmphantly on 'the absence 
of reply. And Mr. Hardy proclaimed the glories and rights of the Irish Church in a way that must have tonchcd her. It is long since that faded damsel ha, reccived love·homage. Mr. Bright's answer was entirely of an opposite kind. He has been studying the fable of the man with the cloak, and Boreas no longer blows, but Zephyr breathes and asks aid from Phoobns. Mr. Bright's speech was quite paternal i but a dash of humour of the best sort prevented its being in the least didactic, and it W liS so IIrtistically flavoured to the t,ste of the House that the Ministerial organs have broken into hones t and hearty eulogy. The leopard is lying down with the lamb i but for all that the millennium is not comin" Party, thought to be dead, has waked up to new life and nc~ fighting, and it is highly appropriate that such a revival should be marked by a rush for Irish cudgels • 
326 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEvVS APRIL ~, 18~ 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 

THERE is no doubt of the interest which attends the debate on the nominal qU€stio:,-of t.he to be .or no~ to be of theJrish C~urc~, while the real l~sue mvolved IS, whlCh of two pohtlCal chiefs IS to be Prime Minister. On the latest sitting evening of last week there was just that sort of House which indicates that there is nothing particular likely to come on. . O.uly .one or two of the initiated knew that there was somethmg Immment, and so the sudden advent of Lord Stanley with a notice-paper in his hand was a surprise-a sensation-to many a listless gentleman who was wiling away the hours before dinner. As the terms of the amend­ment were made manifest, there might have been observed a state 
.<>f things in the ranks of the Opposition akin to that which may be supposed to ~xist when a shell. falls int.o the midst ,of a battalion. The Clrcumstance that hiS resolutlOns were to be met on the very threshold, aud in a more crucial manner than if it had been proposed in Committee, startled Mr. 'Gladstone into activity at once, and he wanted eagerly to know whether he was to be "blocked" on the motion that the Speaker .do leave the chair. ' There was a sort of archness, indicating that he thought he had madea good move, in the way in which Lord Stanley in his brief reply implied that he was certainly going to take so much advantage as that course gave him. OLl the face of it, it would seem that proceeding in this manner will deprive Mr. Oladstone of the right of reply, which he would have had in Com­mittee; where, indeed, he might make half a dozen speeches if any­.cne would listen to them. There was immediate collapse of the House, in the sense of anything like a full attendance for the rest of the evening-gentlemen most probably preferring to Mr. Gregory {In the British Museum, or even Lord William Hay and Mr. Smollett IOn India, conversation in gossip-corners as to the effect , of an amendment which was inspired by Disraeli and drawn by Cairns. 
There is really nothing new to be said about the appearance of the House of Commons on the night of a great party debate. The featnres are identical, almost to the presence of the same men as ,spectators, with those of last year when there was a series of .sensation evenings, arising out of the transformation scenes illus­trating their ideas of Parliamentary Reform which were so fre­.quently got np by the Government. Yet there was one peculiarity {)n MondllY night-namely, that the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a gentleman developing remarkably the popnlar idea of a civic dignitarYl in his official vestments and lookiLlg very grand, was real y hustled, and had to struggle to get to the bar to present a petition as if he were quite an ordinary person and not "every inch "-110 Mayor. The preliminary business was also sub­jected to a hustling away, and ve~y ~arly Mr. ~ladstone's oppor­tunity was , reached. The techmcahty of movmg that the Acts "relating to the Irish Church be read was ~~ken advantage .of in a peculiar way. For Colonel Stuart-Knox, rlsmg from the midst of the Orange Irish Members, with that sort of manner which always su"gests Parolles when that worthy is endeavourillg to show that he is ~ man of courage, demanded that the Act of U Llion be read. , A half groan came from the House and the reading clerks in unison, beoousc if that had been literally done as much time would have been occupied as in the delivery of Mr. ll-ladstone's speech, and with a ,display of elocution very different to that of the right hon. gentleman. However, the difficulty was got over bythe recital of the sections re­lating to the Irish Church, every high Protestant section of which was ()heered as loudly as if it had been a party toast given late at a political dinner. This over, up rises Mr. Sur tees, who, belonging to Hertfordshire, was not so much in keeping as Colonel Stuart Knox when he insisted on the reading of that part of an Act of William (of blessed and immortal memory) and Mary that prescribes the ()oronation oath to be taken by the Sovereigns of this countrr' and the noises made by the ultra-Protestant members as the recita went on may have been taken to indicate the points on which perjury might be imputed if the impending resolutions were carried. How­<ever crafty, and it was not without its craft, this device may have 
.}Jeen, Mr. Gladstone turned it adroitly on its promoters by at once <expressing a hope that its solemnity would have a bene­ficial effect on those gentlemen who were meditating to meet his motion with tricks and contrivances, the last words being ,accompanied by a savage side· look at Lord Stanley, who did not, however, show any consciousness of being scathed. It was obvious that both sides of the Houee were highly charged with Parlia­mentary thunder, for on the slightest provocation they stormed at <each other alternately in the loudest and most suggestive cheers. :But, on the whole, Mr. Gladstone took little advantage of the com­bativelless which was so apparent, fOl' he was judiciously unexciting, being narrative and argumentative, and scarcely at all falling into his usual impassioned vein. Possibly he was too tender in his deal­ing with parts of the question of the Irish Church for som.e of his <extreme followers, and something like a groan came from behind him when, in handling delicately the point of vested interest, in the Irish Church! he hinted that he might even be willing to extend those rights mto reversions in favour of the present generation of ~mbryo parsons. On the whole, however, it would seem that Mr. Gladstone has eeldom made a more careful and judgmatical spe,ech; for he was extreme neither in assertion nor in langnage; and, above all, he was, for him, singularly brief. 
Any pereons, strnngers to the British Parliament, who had come t o witness the performance of the "rose and fair expectancy" of the Government and the Conservatives, must have b~en pretty con­siderably astonished with the exhibition made by Lord Stanley. It was positively painful to behold him reading, in a huddled and con­fused manner, and with dreadful indistinctness of articulation, from a paper containing a huddled and confused, though prepared, speech, yet so far fluent as going straight without a ChiCk is con­cerned, but still with an obvious sense of embarrassment, special 'pleading-nibbling, in fact-doing exactly the opposite to that which he generally does-namely, overcoming defective utterance and awkwardness of demeanour by the lucidity and commonsense of his observations. Except that he gave several such backhanded slaps :at the Irish Church, which showed that, if he had his way, he would be less tender to that institution than Mr. Gladstone appeared to be, :and so set himself up against at least half the Ministry to which he belongs and nine tenths of the members around him, his speech was of no more effect than would have been the gObble-gobble of a rather feeble turkey. One effect it had, and that was completely to wet·blanketiBe the debate, which thenceforward went on in so dreary and perfunctory a manner, that when Mr. Moncrigff came to speak he sounded positively lively, cheerful, and humorous; snd was delivered of a mot or two, which were so good as really to :rise almost out of the region of "wut" I There was a general ex­pectation that Lord Cranborne would come out slashingly, and he fulfilled the highest hopes in that regard. Probably on this, if not on most occasions when he means to make an onslaught on some­body, he prep~ed himself by a perusal during the dllY of a selection from the letters of J unius and some of the bitterest passa~es to be found in the writings of Swift. It is probable that what IS rare as to most speakers may be the case, in this instance, of Lord Cran­borne's deliverance-namely, that anyone who merely reads his speech will be able to form a very good idea of its effect; but the manner was more than coincident with the language. What the Honse thought of it was of course sufficiently obvious; but what were the sensations of Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley when he was hurling burning darts into them can only be surmised. This was just one of those speeches after which the H ouse desires to hear no more talk until another season, and the debate nearly collapsed. But Mr. Laing, a man watchful of cpportunities, saw one then, and slided in, and gave one of his choice specimens of political finaucing and of that Parliamentary manipulation of a qnestion which may perhaps be akin to that 
which in another sphere is known as cooking of accounts. 
If it was the purpose of Mr. Gathorne Hardy at once to answer and to crush Lord Stanley upon the Irish Church question, he was perfectly successful. The speech of Mr. Hardy was, in its con­ception, its manner, and its delivery, worthy of being classed with those orations of statesmen which are marked in the chronicles of Parliament. No better testimony to its character can be given than the fact that it was as much applauded by his opponents as by his friends-as mnch for the high spirit and consistency which it developed as for the earnestness and animation, rising almost to ()ratory, with which it was spoken. To him, too, was accorded the compliment of the manifest desire of the House to wait a while before they listened to anyone else ; and even if a pungent and capable debater had followed Mr. Hardy, it is probable that he would not have kept too many of the audience. As it was, SJ soon as Mr. Goschen began to sibilate and to pump out jej une ideas as if they were rich solidities, members, spectators, led eagerly by the Prince of Wales, who had been present during M,·. Hardy's speech, fled tumultuously, and did not return in anything like force until late, when they were in time to witness the funniest exhibition before the Treasury bench that has ever been beheld there, certainly by the present generation. There was to be seen t he Attorney­General for Ireland, presumably a grave man and a sage lawyer, playing the most fantastic tricks of voice, gesture,:andlsubject-matter, intending to be perfectly serious and very empbatic, and yet provoking un appeasable roars of laughter, and in the main suggesting a notion of the appearance of a dancing-dog if it was to attempt to put itself into the attitude of the classic sculpture piece popularly knowLl as Ajax Defying the Lightuing. There is a sad side, however, to this picture; and probably Mr . Disraeli was at that moment a most-to-be-pitied Prime Minister. For the rest that night, Mr. Bright made one of those speeches.with which the House is now familiar, that compel half friends and whole opponents to admit that he has developed into a statesman, witholtt wbom the next Libeml Cabinet would be decidedly incomplete. 
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT_ 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-SATURDAY. The Honse met at twelve o'clock to read the Consolidated FUlld (£362,398 19s. 9d.) Bill the third time. It was read accordingly the third time and passed, 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. The Royal assent was given to several bills. The chief business of the evening was the consideration of the Poor Relief Bill. After some discussion it was ref erred to a Select Committee. 'Ihe Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act was appointed, and some other business of no great importance transacted. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. The Marine Mutiny Bill was passed through Committee; and, on the motion of Mr. Otway, an amendment was inserted to exempt marines from corporal punishment in time of peace. The Inclosure Bill was read the third time and passed. 
THE IRISH CHURCH. The great debate on the Irish Church began this night, and attracted an audience which, in its numbers and the eager interest with which it followed every incident and argument, was not sur­passed by any of the most memorable nights of the two Reform Sessions_ The House was densely crowded, both on the floor and in the galleries, while the Peers and distinguished strangers not only filled the boxes assigned to them, but overflowed into the corridors and passages. The titles of the various Acts relating to the Irish Church having been read by the clerk at the table, at the instance of Mr. Gladstone, the fifth article of the Act of Union was read, on the motion of Colonel S. Knox; and subsequently, at the request of Mr. H. E. Surtees, the Act of William and Mary prescribing the coronation oath was also read. At five o'clock Mr. Gladstone rose (and his doing so was the signal . for a burst of cheering from the Opposition) to move that the House should immediately resolve itself into Committee to consider the Acts relating to the Established Church in Ireland. He observed that he could not regret the motions interposed by hon. members opposite, as they reminded the Honse of the solemn duty they were about to enter upon. He further construed these motions to mean that there were men in the House who intended to meet the plain, broad, and intelligible propositions which he should ask them to adopt by other propositions equally plain, broad, and intelligible, and that the great and solemn controversy in which they were about to engage was not to be degraded by a warfare of trick and con­trivance' but would) be conducted in a spirit which befitted the magnitude of the issue. The proposition which he hnd to make was, that, in the opinion of the House, the Established Church in Ireland should cease to exist, so far as it was an establish­ment of religion. He would also invite them to renounce a salaried or stipendiary clergy. With regard to other religious bodies who now l'eceived grants, he thought their cases ought to be met by the application of analogous principles of justice, eq1iity, and even indulgence. The fabrics and parsonage hou,e3 of the Anglican Church would, he presumed, remain in the hands of the Protestants so long as they chose to maintain them ; but he con­tended that, after due and ample provision had been made for all personal interests and the rights of proprietors, the residue should be treated simply as an Irish fund for the benefit of Ireland. Anticipating the probable argument tkat action had not been taken earlier, he expressed his readiness to justify the votes which he had himself given, and the policr of Liberals and Conservatives alike, on the ground that public feehng had not until the present moment pointed in the direction of disendowment. The object of Mr. Pitt in carrying the Union was to banish ascendancy and secure equality, but it had not been accomplished. Under the barbarous and abominnble penal laws the Catholic population had declined in Ireland; but in direct proportion as those unchristian-like laws were relaxed, the Catholics increased. This was a proof that the Established Church had not answered its original object-the Protestantising of the people. The experiment had, in fact, proved a total failure; and the progress of Protestantism, even under the most encouraging circum­stances of a terrible famine and chronic destitution, was so small that it would take 2000 years to convert the people to the Anglican faith. He contended that it was necessary at once to arrest the operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; and, as an illustra­tion, he called attention to the recent creation of two benefices-one in the diocese of Tuam, and the other in that of Lismore, in which the Catholics numbered about 5000 persons and the Protestants were represented by eight individuals only. Having commented upon the nature of the amendment, which he described as disingenuous and evasive, and calculated, like other abstract resolutions, to lead to mischief, discredit, false hopes, and bitter disappointments, the right hon. gentleman referred to the distracted condition of Ireland, to the protracted suspension of the Habe~s Corpus Act, and to the imminence of civil war, and asked whether it was the desire of Parliament to perpetuate an institution the existence of which did so much to irritate the vast majority of the people. He admitted that the issue was wholly in the hands of the present Parliament ; but he held that it was their duty to consider well before they took the first step. Having, however, entered upon the controversy, they were bound to aCluit themselves like men in their attempt to remove what still remained of the scandal and calamity of the relations between England and Ireland, and to put forth their best efforts to build up with the cement of hnman concord the noble fabric of the British empire. Lord Stanley (who on rising was received with c~eers from the Ministerial benches) moved as an amendment" That this House, while admitting that considerable modifications in the temporalities of the United Church in Ireland may, after the peuding inquiry, appeal; to be expedient, is of opinion that any proposition tending to the disestablishment or disendowment of that Church ought to be reserved for the decision of a new Parliament." The noble Lord dwelt upon the unpractical character of the resolutions which Mr. Gladstone intended to propose, and which he said, although useful for party purposes, contained no plO-n upon which Parliament could act. The real question, he submitted, was what could be done not to destroy but to improve the Irish Church. He admitted that the ecclesiastical arrangements of Ireland were not satisfactory, but he contended that a moribund Parliament was not competent to deal with tho most difficult and dangerous question of our times ; aud he ' urged that, even admitting that it was, the supporters of disendowment were bound to submit a plan for the appropriation of the revenues of the Church. It was preposterous to suppose that immediate legislation 
could take place on a subject so full of difficulty. The only bU3iness which the. present Parliament could transact was the passing of the Reform Bills for Ireland and Scotland. The Government while in­disposed to fetter their discretion with regard to the fut~re, would not interfere with the functions of a new Parliament, and in thllot determination he believed they would have the approbation of the House and the country. 
Mr. E. A. Leatham believed it wa3 folly to look for lasting tran­quillity in Ireland so long as the Irish Church was maintained. It was not the pruning-knife they wanted, but the axe; not reform, 
but disendowment. ' Mr. O'Ncill denied that the Protestants were not ince"sin'" ill Ireland, and contended that to disendow the Church WM to rep~"l
the Act of Union. Mr. Pollard-U rquhart addressed the Houee in support of the motion, and Mr. B. Cochrane against it. Mr. Moncreiff believed that by doing justice to I rebnd in respect to the Irish Church they would do more to tranquillise Ireland tun by any other course. 
Lord Cran borne said the leader of the Opposition offered them l\ policy; the Foreign Secretary offered them a paltry excuse for delay. He maintained the principle of a State Church, which had dOlle 1U much good in past times, and might do much good hereafter; ad. he would not desert that principle when applied to Ireland. The attitude assumed by Ministers was neither Wise, fair, nor creditable; and, ag for the amendment of Lord Stanley, it was too clever by ha'f, He was prepared to meet Mr. Gladstone with a straightforward ne,,,­tive; but he would not fight in the dark by supporting an amend­ment which, if carried, would merely keep the cards in the hand! of Ministers to ehuffie, just as convenience or exigency might sugg6lt. 
Mr. Laingstated .his intention of voting for the motion, but uid it was not a qnestion that could be settled by the present Parliament. 
The Solicitor-General contended that the second resolution w". illegal and the third unconstitutional. The former objection might be met by an Act of Parliament, but the latter could not. If the1 destroyed t~e Irish Church, what security was there for the Sco,tcb. or the Engheh ? 
Mr. Lawson answered the legal objections of the Solicitor· General, and said that the effeot of the Irish Church Establishment was to carry religious rancour into almost every ramification of SOCiety Ht Ireland. 
At midnight, on the motion of }fr. G. Hardy, the debate WAIl adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDAY. 
The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were brought frGm the Commons and read the first time ; the Railway (Extensioll of Time) Bill Wall read the third time and passed; the Indian Railway Companies Bill was passed through Committee ; and the Consolidate4 Fund (£6,000,000) Bill, and the London Coal and Wine Dllties Call.­tinuation Bill were read the second time. 
On the motion of the Earl of Malmesbury, and after some discWl­sion, a new standin~ order was agreed to, that the practice of c,Uin: for proxies on a diVision should be discontinued; and, to prevent thtt order being lightly suspended, that twice the nsual length of notice should be given for its suspension. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were read the tbird time and passed, by special order, at half-past four o'clock. 
THE I R ISH C H U R C H. The adjourned debate on the Established Church in Ireland "Ill resumed, in a crowded House, by -Mr. Secretary Hardy, who described the cou~se of the OP?ositiltn as an attack not merely upon the Church, but;upon the Government. The latter had to meet not, only an assault in front, but an en~ venomed attack on their flank. He complained that the condllct of the leader of the Opposition was in the last degree incJnsistent with his avowed opinions and professions, and th~t the mJmellt he had selected ior action was inopportune and premature. It Catll6 upon the Government and the country by surprise; and he was at .. 10ES to understand, after the declarations made by Mr. Gladltone ill the Honse, on the hustings, and elsewhere, that he could put him­self in the van of such a struggle. If the Irish Church was a burdell and a weaknees, that was no reason why it should be aba"ldoned, especially as no hope had been held out that even the destru,}tion of the Establishment would pacif,r the people'of Ireland. On the con­trary, it was urged that nothmg short of a repeal of the U uioll and the restoration of their native Parliament would accom­plish that object. The Church was but a party dy, and if it were abolished to-morrow, other grievances, far more substantial, would bQ put forward. He held, moreover, that thoss who desired to disendow the Established Church were bound to bring forward a scheme for the secularisation of its funds. He was not prepued to throw over the Protestants of Ireland, who were bound to England by ties of blood and religion, although he was prepared to extend religious equality to all. No great emergency had arisen to jus ily such a change as that now proposed; and, even if the ConseI'lative8 were to change their opinions, theirs was not the hand to give tile stab. The Government would oppose the resolutions; and in ,. futnre Parliament they would give no pledge, save this, that if i\ should appear, by the report of the Royal Co~mission that change! and modifications were required to purify and reform the Iria1t Church, they would make them with a fearless hand. Mr. Goschen contrasted the speech of Mr. Hardy with that delivered the previous evening by Lord Stanley, and congratulated the HOWle OD. having at length obtained a declaration from the Government of iti policy. They now knew that ther meant to do nothing towardi allaying the . disaffection or concillating the good will of the Irish people. Mr. Peel-Dawson was prepared to support those ecclesiastical institutions in Ireland which had so long existed as a connectin: link between the two countries, and which, in his opiniou, could not be dissolved without the certaiuty of universal disaster. At the same time he would endow the Roman Catholic clergy and increllll~ thc stipends of the Presbyterian ministers. Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, Mr. Carter, Mr. Serjeant Armstrong, and Ml·. O'Reilly dilated on the general arguments against the Irish Church and Protestant ascendancy; while the injustice and inexpediency of disestablishment and disendowment were enforced by Sir H. Bruce and Colonel S. Knox; and Mr. SchreibJr con­gratulated the Conservative party on having found in Lord Cranbourne Bnd Mr. Hardy leaders for the defence of the Irish Church, and looked forward with confidence to a protracted struggle. Captain White advocated disestablishment BS the only mo le of fusing races and promoting goodwill in Irelaud, for to the existenc~ of the Irish Church he attributed chiefly the unsettled state of the country and the want of sympathy bet ween landlord and tenant. The Attorney·General for Ireland vindicated the legal and pre­scriptive title of the Church to her property, and corrected som~ misapprehensions as to its amount and distribution. Ou behalf of the Protestants, he maintained that no amount of spoliation WGll'.d affect their loyalty, and he showed how easily Mr. Gladstone'. arguments would lead to the destruction both of . the English and Scotch Establishments. Mr. Bright remarked that the impression left upon the Miuisteriu benches by the speech of Lord Stauley was the rever3e of c)mfJrtable, and that Mr. Hardy hnd endeavoured t<) neutralise it in a sp,e~lt which at some future stage of the debate would probably be answered by the First Minister of the Crown. There were confusion and cbaos in the House-a Government in a minority, and an Opp)sitioll that was really no Opposition at all, as its funotlOns were limited t() IIssisting the G6vernment to give effect to its principle J. In a~· proaching the consideration of the Iri8h Church, he decl ined to adtllit that its disendowmentwould indict any wrong upon the half-million of Episcopalians in Ireland. The Protestant Establishment had ludicrously failed as an engine of conversion. It had not made Catholics Protestants, but it had made Catholios more intensel1 Roman than they were in any other country of Europe. Nor had it succeeded as a political agent in uniting tile two countries, al . there was a considerable .party in favour of t'le repeal of the union, and anarchy was only subdued by force. If the Established Church were dono away with, the Episcopalians would be in no 
THE I R ISH C H U R C H. 

The adjourned debate on the Established Church in Ireland WAI resumed, in a crowded House, by • 
Mr. Secretary Hardy, who described the cour~e of the Opposititll as an attack not merely upon the Church, but;upon the Government. The latter had to meet not only an assault in front, but an en­venomed attack on their flank. He complained that the condact of the leader of the Opposition was in the last degree incJnsistent with his avowed opinions and professions, and th~t the m)ment he had selected for action was inopportune aud premature. It catlle upon the Government and the country by surprise j and he was at 11. loss to understand, after the declarations made by Mr. Glad3tone ill the Honse, on the hnstings, and elsewhere, that he could put him­self in the van of such a struggle. If the Irish Church was a burdeu and a weakness, that was no reason why it should be aba'ldoned, especially as no hope had been held out that even the de3tru~tion of the Establishment would pacifl the people of Ireland. On the con­trary, it was urged that nothmg short of a repeal of the U!lioll and the restoration of their native Parliament would accom· plish that object. The Church was but a party cry, aud if it were abolished to-morrow, other grievances, far more substantial. would b€ put forward. He held, moreover, that those who desired to disendow the Established Church were bouud to briug forward a scheme for the secularisation of its funds. He was not preplred tfJ throw over the Protestants of Ireland, who were bound to England by ties of blood and religion, although he was prepared to extend religious equality to all. No great emergency had arisen to jus if, such a change as that now proposed; and, even if the ConservatiTe8 were to change their opinions, theirs was not the hand to give tlte stab. The Government would oppose the resolutiom j and in a future Parliament they would give no pledge, sa ve this, that if i\ should appear, by the report of the Royal Co~mission that chauge! and modiflcations were required t o purify and reform the IrillL Church, they wonld make them with a fearless hand. 
Mr. Goschen contrasted the speech of Mr. Hardy with that delivered the previous evening by Lord Stanley, and congratulated the HOOBe Oil having at length obtained a declaration from the Government of it'! policy. They now knew that thel meant to do nothing towardi allaying the disaffection or concillating the good will of the Irish people. 
Mr. Peel-Dnwson was prepared to support those ecclesiasticlll institutions in Ireland which had so long existed as a connectinl:' link between the two countries, and which, in his opinion, could not be dissolved withont the certainty of universal disaster. At the same time he would endow the Roman Catholic clergy and increllie the stipends of the Presbyterian ministers. 
Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, Mr. Carter, Mr. Serjeant Armstrong, and Mr. O'Reilly dilated on the general argnments agaiust the Irish Church and Protestant ascendancy j while the injustice and inexpediency of disestablishment and dLsendowment were enforced by Sir H. Brnce -and Colonel S. Knox j and Mr. Schreib }r con­gratulated the Conservative party on having found iu Lord Cranbourne and Mr. Hardy leaders for the defence of the Irish Church, and looked forward with confidence to a protracted struggle. 
Captain White advocated diseatablishment as the only mole of fusing races and promoting go odwill iu Ireland, for to the existeuce of the Irish Church he attributed chiefly the uU3ettled state of the country and the want of sympathy betweeu landlord and teMnt. 
The Attorney-General for Irelaud vindicated the legal aud pre­scriptive title of the Church to her property, aud corrected som ~ misapprehensions as to its amount and di.tributiou. On behalf of the Protestants, he maintaiued that no amount of spoliation w~u'd affect their loyalty, and he showed how easily Mr. Gladstone'. arguments would lead to the destruction both of _the English and Scotch Establishments. . 
Mr_ Bright remarked that the impression left upon the Ministerid 
benches by the speech of Lord Stauley was the reverse of clmfJrtable, 
and that lI1r. Hardy had endeavoured to neutralise it iu a sp,eJlt 
which at some future stage of the debate would probably be allswerecl. 
by the First MInister of the Crown. There were coufusion and 
cbaos in the House-a Government ~n a miuorit;y, and an OpplsitioD. 
that was really no Opposition at all, as its funotIOns were limited to 
ItSllisting the G6vernment to give effect to its principlel. In ap.­
prolUlhiug the consideration of the Irish Church, he declined to adtllit 
that its disendowment would inflict any wroug upon the h~lf-miUion 
of Episcopaliana in Ireland. The Protestant Establishment had 
ludicrously failed as an engine of couversiou. It had not made 
Catholics Protestants, bnt it had made Catholics more inteusel, 
Roman than they were iu any other couutry of Europe. Nor had it 
succeeded as a political agent in uuiting the two countries, al 
there was a cODsiderableparty in favour of tue repeal of the 
union, and anarchy was only subdued by force. If the Establi.llhad 
Church were done a,way with, the Episcopalians would be in no 
worse position than the Church in the colonies_ There was nothing dangerous or terrible in the leap which the House was invited to take. If the effort were made, the hobgoblin would vanish ,like "protection," "the balance of powe,-," and many oth~r thing3 Wb..ich used to frighten the Tory party. In his opinion, the changes of Our times were the glory of our times; and he believed Ollr posterity would look upon them as the natural and blessed growth of truth and intelligence. He did not wish to dislodge the Government from the TreasUIY bench; for he looked upon the question at issue as far above party considerations_ He asked the House to view it in a wise and statesman-like spirit. Let them touch the Church not with a rude but with a resolute grasp. They might theu plUCk up a weed which polluted the air, and plant in its stead a Protestant Church whic)l would be hereafter an ornament and a grace to all who might be brought WIthin the range of its influence. Ireland waited and longed for · a great act of conciliation, and England aud Scotlaud were eager to make atonement. It depended upon the Imperial Parliament whether that reconciliation should take place, and whether that atonement should at length be made. 
On the motion of Mr. Roebuck, the debate was adjourned until Thursday. ~~T__~ ~~ ~~'."MT~ 
COUNTllY NEWS. 

The Queen has approved of Mr. Hezekiah G. WeJLs as Consul at Manchester for the United States of America. 
The ironmasters at Birmingham have decided to reduce prices 10s. per ton, and wages ten per cent. 
The designs of Mr. Alfred Waterhouse for the new Townhall for Manchester were, on Wednes­day, adopted by the City Council. 
The number of emigrants who left the various ports in Ireland for the three months ending Dec. 31 last was 13,227, being 333 in excess of the number for the corresponding quarter of 1866. 
Some labourers have discovered 268 old coins of the reigns of Elizabeth, J ames I., and Charles 1., at the back of .a house in Conduit-stl-eet, Lichfield. 
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has invited the Lord Mayor of London and Lady Mayoress on a visit to the Mansion House, Dublin, during the stay of the Prince and Princess of Wales in Ireland. 
The Home for Convalescents, at Bournemouth, in Hampshire, erected in memory of Lord Herbert of Lea, has been a great success as far as regards the benefits it is producing. It has now twenty-two inmates, and has accommodation for thirty-two. 
The gold medal given by the Prince of Wales will be played for by the North Devon Golf Club on the Links, near Bideford, on May 20; and on the 22nd the gold medal of the club will be com­peted for. They are both open to all members of recognised golf clubs in the world. 
The following gentlemen will act as presidents of the various sections at the Norwich meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science :-Professor Tyndall, mathematical sec­tion; Mr.' Frankland, chemical section; the Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley, biological section; Lord Strangford, geological section;-the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., statistical section; and lIr. G. P. liidder, mechanical section. 
The Asylum for Idiots still holds its own in its claims upon the charitable world. The admirably­conducted establishment at Earlswood, as seen at both the summer and winter fetes, has been so often spcken of .that it is only necessary now to Eay that duriug the year it has not receded from the high position it has so long occupied. The twenty· first dinner was held, yesterday week, at the London Tavern-Sir Fowell Buxton, M. P., in the chair. During the proceedings the history of tll.e society was sketched, and its position dwelt upon. There are nearly 430 inmates, of whom 289 are males and 132 females. This number might be doubled if the :accommodation were sufficient. £5000 of the income is paid by inmates who oc­cupy the pcsition of boarders, and the remaining £20.000 has to be provided by subscription. The company, which included ladies, was numerous, and the subscriptions they sent in to Mr. Nicholas, the indefatigable secretary, amounted to about £3500, the chairman heading the list with a gift of 
£ 100. 
MARVELS OF THE TELEGRAPH. 

MR. LATDIER CLARK gives the following particulars of some of the 
recent performances of the Atlantic telegraph :­
At the anniversary banquet recently giveR to Mr. Cyrus Field messages were sent from London, and answers received, in the fol-· lowing periods :-From the President, at Washington, two hours ten minutes; from Mr. Seward, at Washington, two hours twenty-five minutes; from several persons in and near New York, average one hour forty-five minutes; from the Governor of Cllba (who apologised for the-delay caused by his residing at a distance from Havannah, two hours twenty-four minutes; from the Governor of Newfoundland,. at St. John's, thirty-eight minutes; and from Heart's Content, Newfoundland, six minutes. But even these performances are thrown into the shade by an ordiuary message sent from London to­San Francisco on Feb. 1. The wires in America were joined up, for experiment, from Heart's Content to California; and the message was sent from Valentia at 7.21 a.m. The aoknowledgment of its receipt was received back in Valentia at 7.23, the whole operation 

-having only occupied two minutes. The distance travelled was· 
about 14,000 miles; and the message arrived, according to San 
Francisco time, at-1l.20 p.m., Jan. 31, or the day preceding that on 
which it left England. 
An elegant structure in the modern Italian style, situated in Thornhill-road, Barnsoury, was opened, on Sunday, as a place of worship for the Jews of North London. 
On Monday the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained the Lord Mayor of Dllblin and Lady Mayoress, and a few gentlemen connected with the Corporation of that city, at dinner, in the Venetian Parlour, at the Mansion House. 
THE PRINCE O~ WALES AND THE ORDER OF 
ST. PATRICK. 


THE announcement that the approaching visit of the Prince of 
Wale3 will be made the occasion 6f a grand installation of knights 
of the Illustrious .Order of St. Patrick, and, amongst others, of his 
Royal Highness, gives an interest to everythiug connected with the 
order of more than common character. The Order of St. Patrick 
consists of t wenty-two knights companions, and, like those of every 
other order in chivalry at the present day, their duties are merely 
honorary. It was first instituted by King George HL, in the year 
1783, during the Viceroyalty of Earl.Temple, subsequently created 
Marquis of Buckingham. On that oc~~~sion fourteen peers were 
created" Knights Founders," including the King and the Duke of 
Kent. The next grand installation was in 1800, about the period of 
the Union; another took place in 1819; and the greatest, and last of 
all, was held· in 1821, during the visit to Ireland of King George IV., 
on which occasion his Majesty officiated as Sovereign of the order. 
Since then the final rite of admission into the order-that of instal­
lation-has been altogether dispensed with in every case, through 
the medinm of Royal letters. 
At the ceremony of 1821, on Aug. 20, the King held a chapter in 
Dublin Castle, when the knights elect were duly invested. 
On Aug. 29 the ceremony of installation took place in the ancient 
Oathedral of St. Patrick. The Sovereign and the Knights, together 
with the great officers of state, the principal public functionaries, 
and a large number of distinguished personages, amongst whom were 
Prince and Princess Esterhazy, proceeded in procession to St. 
Patrick's Cathedral. "As the church filled, the view (we quote a con­
temporary) became more imposing and varied. Rich military uni­
forms, gm ve clerical attire, forei~n cr08ses, novel dresse~, court suits, 
elegant female figures in ful:. dre,s-the colours chiefly blue and 
white-with gay plumes of nodding ostrich-feathers and costly 
brilIiants, rendered the scene, thus brightened by a glorious display 
of female loveliness and grace, almost enchanting. The subdued 
light which the rain caused cast a sombre hue on the scene below, 
and served to shadow, with picturesque effece, the varied forms 
around, abounding as they were with brilliancy. The banners, the 
helmets, the swords Rnd spurs of the knights completed a picture 
which removed for a moment the curtain of time and in imagination 
transported us back again to the golden days of chivalry and 
romance." "His Majesty's appearance (says a writer of the day) 
was truly noble and his deportment inimitable. He was clad in 
the close coat of the order, which was of silver tissue, richly 
trimmed. His shoes were of tissue also, with large white rosettes 
and diamond clasps. He also wore trunk silk hose and large knee 
rosettes, and silver points. His Majesty had a black velvet hat, 
with a rich diamond button and loop, and black and white plumes 
of feathers. His appearance was still further improved by the 
splendid collar and magnificent mantle of the order. His train was 
borne by six sons of peerp, and when he was seated he was sur­
rounded by the great officers of state." In the evening an instal­
lation dinner was given by the King in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin 
Castle. The scene there is described as gorgeous in 'the extreme. 
His Majesty played the noble host as Sovereign of the order with 
fascinating effect. 
It is understood that, so far as practical;ole, the coming ceremonial 
will be the same as it was in 1821; the Lord Lieutenant, of course, 
officiating as Grand Master in the absence of the Sovereign of the 
order. His R oyal Highness the Prince of Wales will be created an 
extra Knight of the order-a position held by the late Prince 
Consort. The arrangements of the ceremonial are confided to Sir 
Bernard Burke, Ulster King·at-Arms, and it is believed that its 
splendour will outvie all former occasions. 
The preparations for the ceremonial to be observed at the installa­tion of the Prince are now so far advanced that Sir Bernard Burke has been enabled to communicate the following details :-The Grand Master of the order (his Excellency the Marquis of . Abercorn, K.G.), his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Camblidge will proceed in their state equipages, and with their state attendance, from the castle to the cathedral, escorted by a large and brilliant cavalcade. This procession will pass down Dame-street to College-green, and thence by Dawson-street, Stephen's-green, aud York-street, to St. Patrick's. From the first, no other route was ever contemplated . Meanwhile the Knights of St. Patrick, attended by their squires and the Officel:S of the order, will !lave assembled and been robed at the cathedral, and will there have awaited the coming of the Grand Master, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge. The foot proceesion of the knights of the order has been dispensed with. So soon as the Grand Master's cavalcade arrives, the procession of his Excellency and the Order of St. Patrick will enter the cathedral by the great west gate, and the ceremony of installation will commence. The Grand Master and tke knights are to be in uniform, robed, of course, in their mantles ; and each knight will have his esquires in attendance. As for the accommodation of the public, Sir Bernard sa,ys every available space in the cathedral is being appropriated for their use, and every effort 
made to distribute the admissions fairly and impartially. 
Itis arranged that the Prince of Wales will cross from IIolyhead 
to Kingstown on the 14th inst. There is still a probability that the 
Princess will accompany him. 
The Municipal Council of Dublin and the chief officerB have invited the Lord Mayor of London and Lord Mayor of Dllblin to a banqnet to be givEn on a sumptuous scale at the International Hotel, Bra.y. on the 23rd inst. The Ohief Magistra.tes of both cities have accepted the invitation. 




THEIR DEPAR'rURE FOR IRELAND. The Prince and Princess left Madborough House on Tuesday en route for Ireland. The suite in attendance consisteli of the Marchioness of ' Carmarthen, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, General Sir William Knollys, Major Grey, and Mr. Fisher. Their Royal Highnesses drove to the Euston terminus of the North.Westem Railway, where they were met by the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Teck, who accompanied the Prince and Princess upon their journey. Their Royal Highnesses travelled in a state saloon by a special train, leaving London at ten minutes to tbree o'clock and arriving at Chester at half· past seven. The Mayor presented an address, which was graciously acknowledged by the Prince. Their Royal Highnesses proceeded to the station hotel, where they dined. The Bishop of Chester and the Mayor and Sheriffs had tha honour of dining with the Royal travellers. Their Royal High· nesees appeared at the windows of the hotel and acknowledged the enthusiastic greetings of the assembled multitude. The journey was resumed at half· past eight, and Rolyhead pier was reaChed at a quarter to eleven. The Prince and Princess were attended by Admiral Schomberg. The Anglesey volunteers formed a guard of honour, under the command of Major Stanley. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed along the line of route, and various buildings were illuminated. The monument of the l'YIarquis of Anglesey, 
near the Menai Bridge, was illuminated, and the speed of tlIe traill ;vas slacke~ed in order ~hat their ~oyal Highne@S68 might witnesa It.. The Prmce an? Prmce~s emba~ked on board the Royal yacht,whlCh layoff the Jetty untIl five 0 clock ' on Wednesday moming when the Royal Equadron steamed off for Kingstown en rOttte fo; Dublin. The number of persons in the ships in attendance UpOll the Prince and Princess across the Channel amounted to 2820( 
THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. 

THE Prince and Princess of Wales set foot on Irish soil on Wedues­day morning, a,nd were received with all the enthusiasm natltral to the occasion. The fleet of war-vessels which left Holyhead on Tuesday night arrived at Kingstown the next morning at five o'clock, and cast anchor in the roads where men·of-war usually lie. SOOIl after eight the Royal yacht, having the Prince and Princess 011 board, was sighted, and then the fleet fired a salute of twenty·one 
. guns. Kingstown was crowded with people who had come tG witness the anival of the Prince and Princess. So()n after the yacht had been sighted she steamed through the fleet, the sailors at the time manning the yards and sen ding forth ringing cheers, which were responded to by the peo,ple on shore and afloat. The' :yacht came to anchor at the east pier in the harbour. 
The Lord Lieutenant, with the Marchioness of Abercorn and the Sts,ff, Lord Str~thnairn, and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, were in wmtmg to recelve the Royal party. A guard of honour of Grenadier Guards was drawn up on the spot where the disembarkation w;as to take place. As soon as the gangway was lowered the Lord 'Lieu­tenant advanced over it, followed by his suite, and, going on board exchanged cordial greetings with the Royal and illustriou9 vi&itoI'3: 
.Shortly after twelve o'clock the Princess, escorted by the 'Lord, Lle~tenant, walke? on shore. The Prince followed immedia.tely, leadmg the MarchlOn€€S of Abercorn. The Duke of'Oambridge and Prince Teck walked next. ' 
.A s their Royal Highnesses set foot upon the Irish shore a Royal salute thundered forth; the yards were manned; the band ()f the Grenadiers, which had I?een p'aying the Danish March and'" St. Patrick's Day in the Morning," struck up "God Save. the ·Q;ueen·" and there was a burst of the most cordial cheering from the brillil~~t crowd assembled near. , 
The Lord Lieutenant, as representative of her Majesty the Qjxeen, entered the first of the carriages, and headed the process,ion. ' Tb.eil' Royal Highnesses wit,h the Duke of Cambridge arid Prince Teck occupied a barouc4e which followed the carriage of 'c the .Lord I;.iett~ tenant. The ~rincess looked remarka?ly well . . Her Royal Hig~eJ8 was dressed m a puce· coloured tabmet dress, and wore a, white, bonnet adorned with pink roses. : 
The Royal cortege, preceded by a · troop of ,Lancers, began to move at half-past twelve. The barouche in which the Prince and Princess rede was escorted by a troop of the 10th Royal Hussars , the Prince's own regiment. ' 
The route was through Crofton.road, Blackrock.road, Seafield­
, avenue, ~eapoint.road, Blackrock, Ball's Bridge, Pembroke· road, Canal Brldge, Daggart-street; thence by Merrion-square, College­green, and Dame-street to the Castle. , The whole of the course, from Kingstown to Dublin, a distanoo of seven miles, was lined with spectators; the houses were decked with flags, among which the Danish colours .were conspicuous. Stands were erected at turns of the road. Garlands and com­plimentary inscriptions were displayed everywhere. '. Great num­bers of cars and private carriages went out from the city to meet. the procession. Neither military nor mounted police were employed to keep tile. road, but throughout the whole distance the crowd maintained the most perfect order, and received the Prince and Princess witll the heartiest cordiality, which their Royal Highnesses repeatedly acknowledged by bowing. The whole way from Merrion·square to the castle was occupied, by a dense crowd. The Lord Mayor and the Corporation of Dubliu met the pro· cession at Baggot-street, and thence followed it to the castle, wuich was reached by the Royal party at two o'clock. . The Lord Mayor and Corporation presented an address, in which they cor gratulated the Prince on his becoming a Knight of St. Patrick, and on,his intention to unveil the statue of Elmund Burke. They moreover expressed a hope that her Majesty will command a. suitable residence to be prepared for her in Ireland, and will dwell there ameng her subjects. The Princess was separately addressed. allAraving by Iier deeds of charity and kindness, as well in,.,tha uountry of her birth as in England, justified the enthusiastic wel­comes which greeted her when she first landed, on our shores. The Prince replied as follows :­
My L~rd Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Dllblin-It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have received your address of welcome to your ancient and loyal city. The reception which the Princess and myself have this day experienced calls forth our liveliest feelings and most heartfelt acknowledgments. It has been my most anxious desire since I last visited Ireland to return to it" accompanied by the Princess; and I regard her pre­sence this day, equally with yourselve" as a happy omen for the country. although I have never-fof"'lr-tngment doubted your constant o.nd devoted 
, attachment to the throne of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. It will be " great source of pleasure to me to be present at the inauguration of the statue of one of Ireland's most distinguished statesmen, and to be enrolled 
. > and installed as a Knight of the mo,t illustrious Order of St. Patrick. III the name of the Princess and myself, I return you once more our hearty thanks. 
The members of the Corporation were then presented to thlic Royal Highnesses. 
After the Prince and PrinceEs of Wales and partaken of lunchson they were driven through Phcenix Park, accompanied by the L?rd Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorll, to the Viceregal Lodge. ­
The illuminations in the evening were general throughout the city. The most effective displays were made in Sackville-street and: 
, in Westmoreland-street. The ships on the river were decked with coloured lights, which produced a ,very pleasing effect. The streets were crowded by sight-sep,rs, and perfect order prevailed. , The Prince and Princess, with the Viceregal party, left Dublitl at half· past twelve on 'I'hursday for Punchestown racecourse. The streets of Dublin were crowded by respectable . people, wh() cheered the Royal visitors as they drove along. Their Royal Highnesses arrived on the course at two o'clock, and were warmly cheered along the line by vast crowds. The weather was extremely fine. This meeting is at any time one of the most popular in Ireland. As far as Dublin is concerned, it may be said to answer to the Derby in England ; but the humours and perils of the road from London to Epsom are greatly intensified upon the highway between this metropolis and Punchestown. On Friday the ball at the Mansion House was to take place. To-day is appointed for the installation of the Prince as Knight of the Order of St. Patrick in the national cltthedral. This cere­mony is to be on a scale of extraordinary magnificence. In the evening there will be a banquet at the c:lstle, attended by the knights and officers of the order and the leading members of the Irish nobility. > The p~incipal events ?f next week will be the review on Monday, the openlllg of the AgrICultural Show on Tuesday, and the nlltional blll1 on Tuesday; but on one or other of these days the Prince an·! Princess will pay a visit to Tl'inity College, and his R1yal RighneJ3 will unveil the statue of Mr. Burke, which has been placed in front of that building, on the opposite side of the entrauce to the statue of Oliver Goldsmith. 
The Austrian Archduke Ernest has resigned the railital'y command which he held at Gratz. The cause of this act, as we learn from Vienna, is said to lie in the intention of the young Prince to follow the example of his brother Henry, by marrying a lady not of noble birth. This alliance is stated to be disapproved of by the Emoeroc who, &s head of the Imperitll family, has ref\\Sed his COIlSent. • , <, 
METROPOLITAN NEWS. 

On Wedn&day evening the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress left town for Dublin. They will be the guests of the Lord Mayor of Dublin during their stay there. 
The annual Easter banquet was given on Mond<lY evening, by the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House. The Bishop of Rochester, General Sir Archdale Wilson, Admiral Cooper Key, the Solicitor­General, Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., and Mr. Whitbread, M.P., were the principal speakers. 
Tuesday being the eleventh anniversary of the birthdayof Princess Beatrice, the Royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, General Post Office, Royal Arsenal (Woolwich), Tilbury Fort, Royal Artillery Ground (City· road), Somerset House, and other Government offices. The houEehold troop~ paraded, and the vessels on the river presented a gay appearance. 
The Jacksonian prizes for the current year have been awarded by the council of the Royal College of Surgeons to Mr. Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S., and Mr. WiIliam JohnBon Smith, F.R.C.S. Mr. Heath is assistant surgeon to University College Hospital, and Mr. Smith played a conspicuous part in the ship.to-ship visitation on the Thames during the cholera epidemic of 18G6 as chief medical visitor on the staff of the Seamen's Hospital Society. 
On Tuesday, according to custom, the Bluccoat boys marched in procession from Christ's Hospital to the Mansion House, and, having been drawn up in the Egyptian Hall, pa~sed through the vestibule, where the Lord Mayor handed to each boy a sum of money-the Grecians, of whom there were fourteen, receiving a guinea ea;h; the probationarieB, numbering seven, half a guinea ; the monitors, numbering forty-seven, half a crown; and the remainder, numbering 664, a shilling. The boys had each a glass of wine and a bun. 
The customary exodus of holiday folk from London took place on Goed Friday and Easter Monday, the chief point of attraction being the Crystal Palace. Of the sacred concert, which drew some 50,000 people on Good Friday, we speak in another column. For Easter Monday and the holidays Mr. Bowley provided a host of special amusements. Ethardo coaxed his globe up and down the spiral plank, the Oriental troupe of acrobats went through their groteaque performances, those inimitable pantomimists the Brothers Payne appeared in a mirth'moving ballet, and two of the most symmetrical dwarfs ever seen in this country-bright, intelligent little gentlemen, whose names are Ernesto and Primo :M.agri-dance, sing, and fence with great chic. As well made as the" Italian Miniature Men," only on a more colossal scale, is the Norwegian Giant, who is said to haTe served in the late American war. There are various other entertainments at the Crystal Palace, and the grounds are in all the freshness of spring beanty. Easter Monday also brought a vast number of holiday-makers to town. The varions pictnre-g&lleries, the Britifh Museum, the South Kensington Museum, the Horti­cultnral Gardens, and the Zoological Society's Gardens were crowded -as, indeed, were all the public exhibitions~of the metropolis. 
THE UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

At a meeting o(Convocation of the Queen's University in Dublin, iln Tnesday, Dr. MacCorlllac, of Belfast, was chosen a member of the senate, in the room of the late Lord Rosse. Resolutions were passed in favour of mixed edncation in Ireland, and of representation in Parliament of the Queen's University. A committee of seven memb_ers was appointed to confer with the Government on the latter subject. 
The following circular has been addressed by the Head Master of Eton to the parents and guardians of the boys at present at the school :-" I have determined to include in one fixed annual payment all the charges hitherto made at Eton for school instruction and experu:es, without at present interfering with the charges for board and private tuition. I also wish to provide a further sum for the intrcdnction of new subjects of study. I find that at present the average annual payments made for Head Master, mathematics, -school expenses, and leaving money amount to £.19 10s. for each boy. I propose to distribute this amount in the following manner:­Head Master, £6 6s. (as hitherto); classical masters, £6; mathe­matics, £4 4s. ; school charges, £3: total, £19 10s. The school charges will include the payments : for the sanatorium (now reduced' to 14s.), 'watching and lighting,' 'boys' library,' 'mathematical stationery,' ' clerk,' ' postman,' and other small payments hitherto charged as extras. The charge of 3s. per diem hitherto made for boys in the sanatorium will be discontinued. I propose to aed a charge of £4 10s. a year for additional studies, thus making tj1e total payment for school instruction and school studies £24 a year. The double fee hitherto charged for noblemen will be discontinUid, as well as 'leaving money.' The total aunual expense of a boy at a tutor's house w~be as follows :-Board, £99; private tuition, £21; school tuition and charges, £24: total, £144. At dames' houses the usual charge for board is £84 per annum. At this rate, and supposing a boy to pay his tutor £10 10s. for tuitiou, which he may do ifnot requiring' private business,' the total charge will be -only £118 10s. per annum-thus: Board, £84; tutor, £10 10s. ; school tuition and charges, £24: total, £118 10s. There will be, as heretofore, an entrance-fee of £5 53. to the Head Master, and at boarding-houses either a payment at entrance or a small additional annual charge in lieu of the upholsterer's and china-man 's bills.' ' 
The Court of Quarter Sessions for the hundred of Salford decided on Monday, by thirty-six votes against twenty-six, in favour of the appointment d a Roman Catholic Ch~plain for the new county gaol. 
Professor Agassiz has recently been lecturing in America, advo­cating artificial fish-culture. -He declared his conviction that of all animal substances fish was the best adapted for food for those engaged in great mental labour, as it was the most nutritions in repairing the wear and tear of the hnman brain. 
-. 
A letter from ConstaRtinople states that Couut Edmond Zichy has obtained from the Sultan the concession of the Eastern Railway, which, starting from Constantinople, will pass by Adrianople, Sophia, Tatar-Bazar, and Novi-Bazar, with branche3 to En03, Salonica, and Varna. When tkese lines_are finished the traveller will be able to make the journey from Paris to Constantinople in three days ten hours, and from London in three days eighteen honra. 
TheDublin correspondentofthe Pall Mall-Gazette statesthat" as Mr. Featherstonhaugh, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Westmeath w~ driving .on Wed~esd~Y'"night; accompanied by &-serv-ant, fro~ Killacan statlOn to his-resrdence,Bracklyn Castle, he-owas-shot-dead-.­The assaesin approached so close that the clothes of the deceased were scorched by the explosion. Mr. Featherstonhaugh was one of the largest landed proprietors in the county." 

MR. DISRAELI UPON CHURCH AND STATE. 

THE following letter, addressed by Mr. Disrooli to the Rev. Arthur Baker, Rector of Addington, Bucks, a constituent of the right hon. gentleman, has been sent to the Times :-. 
, "Hughenden Manor, Maundy Thursday, 1868. ' 
" Reverend Sir,-I have just received your letter, in which, as one of my constituents, you i,ustify your right to ask for s~me ~xplana. tion of my alleged assertiOn that the HIgh Ohurch RItualIsts had been long in secret .combination and wer~ now in open .confederacy with Irish Romamsts for the destructiOn of the umon between Church and State. I acknowledge your right of making this inquiry j and lif I do not notice in detail the various suggestions in your letter, it is from :a~ wan~ of courtes~, b~t from the neceesity of not needlessly mvolvmg myself m hterary con­troversy. You are under a misappre~ension if you suppose that I intended to cast any slur upon the HIgh Church party. I have the highest respect for the High Church party j I believe there is no body of men in this country to which we have been more indebted, from the days of Queen Anne to the days of Queen Victoria, for the maintenance of the orthodox faith, the rights of the Crown, and the liberties of the people. In saying this I have no wish to intimate that the obligations of the country to the other great party in the Church are not equally significant. I have never looked upon the existence of pa,rties in our Church as a calamity j I look upon them as a necessity, and a beneficent necessity. cr:hey are ~he,natural and inevitable consequences of the mild and lIberal pnnClples of our ecclesiastical polity, and of the varying and opposite elements of the human mind and character. When I spoke I referred to an extreme faction in the Ohurch, of very modern date, that does not conceal its ambition to destroy the connection between Church and State, and which, I have reason to believe, has been for some time in secret combination, and is now in open confederacy, with the Irish Romanists for the purpose. The Liberation Society, with its shallow and short-sighted fanaticism, is a mere instrument in the hands of this confederacy, and will probably~the first victim of the spiritual despotism the Liberati01lSOciety is now blindly working to establish. As I .hold that the dissolution of the union between Ohurch and S~at& will cause, permanently, a greater revolution in this country tp,an foreign conquest, I shall use my utmost energies to defeat these fatal machinations. 
" Believe me, Rev. Sir, your faithful member and servant, 
, , " B. DrsRAIlLr." 

, 
.A RETROSPECT OF THESESSrON. 
NOT so very long ago there was a phrase current in regard to 
Parliamentary proceedings j for everybody was semi-grumbling 
about" humdrum Sessions." Jhe aspirations of the two leaders in 
the Honse of Commons, who are rivals for the privilege of " govern­
ing men and guiding the State," have changed all that, and Sessions 
are now decidegly sensational, and the present Session not the least 
amongst them. In fact, so much has the legislative period since 
Feb. 13 been given up to sensation that never, in the memory of the 
present generation, has commonplace business been so behindhand. 
In the tir~t place, because there had been a winter sitting, which 
was devoted to special matters, and did not tend in the least 
to advance that of the ordinary year, it was thought 
necessary to compensate for such an abnormal proceeding 
by postponing the usual meeting of Parliament to a date ,ten 
days later than usual. It is true that on the very night,of the 
reassembling of the Legislature, the Government indicated an 
industrious spirit by putting one or two bills down for consideration. 
One of them was the Metropolitan Foreign Market Bill, which was 
actually read the second time, but was soon blocked and sent'into the 
limbo of a Select Committee, where it still lingers. Then, with some 
little pomp and circumstauce, Mr. Disraeli introduced his measure 
for amending the law of elections and dealing with corrupt practices j 
but in its very initiation it wall a fiasco, and it hung about the notice­
paper for weeks, was remodelled, and got read the second time 
only after humble entreaty to the House for that grace, andby 
a further concession, was got into Committee P"o forma, h

were it remains, and is likely to remain until no one knows when. One measure which was early brought forward certainly made way, and came almost rapidly to completion, and that was the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland j but that might as easily have been done in one day ae in half a dozen. About Feb. 17, or little more than four da;ys after Parliament had met, circumstances arose which materially lDfluenced'-perhaps insensibly-the progress of business for the next fortnight j for the House, of Commons wall listless, the Government inert, and brief sittings and earlyadjourn­ments were the normal condition of things. The absence of the Earl of Derby from his place became noted by Parliament and the country. It is true that on that day the Scotch Reform Bill was reintroduced, and, having been a good deal criticised and a little laughed at, was shelved until March 9, when it was allowed to have its second reading, " under extenuating circumstances." About this time a. Promissory Oaths Bill was brought into the Lords by the then Lord Chancellor j but no one is quite aware what has become of it j the probability being that it has been" sat upon" by the new oocupant of tBe woolsack. StilI observing on the hatching of measures, in order of time, it may be mentioned that about this date in February, there being no private business to speak: of, the opportunity was taken by Mr. Dodson, the Ohairman of Comniittees, to bring in 'an elaborate scheme by which the labours of mem­bers were to be lightened and proceedings expedited j but the fatality of deJay, which is characteristic of the Session, alighted on this measure also j for, having been twice since discussed and voted upon, it still remains half-finished. Here, . too, will be the proper place to mention the fate of a number of bills for which private members are responsible, which all seem tG ,be influenced by the pervading Parliamentary blight. Thus, Mr. Coleridge's University Tests Bill, which was duly launched early, has had its second reading postpqned to deep in the Session j Mr. John Abel Smith's Sale of Liquors on Sunday Bill has, to be sure, bad a debate j but in order to respite its execution it has beeIl.J:eferred to a Select Committee j the crop of annual bills which Sir Colmall O'Loghlen sees grow np to a certain point bnt never reaching fruition are in their normal state; the Libel Bm, Bank Holidays Bill, and others being kindly sent to a like tribunal; Mr. H. A. Bruca's Education Bill has been introduced, ani! that is all j and Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens's Artisans Dwellings Bill had almost got through Committee when it was checked, and will have to wait long for its reappearance. It is true th::;t the church-rate question bas been settled by the House of Commons by the acceptance of 
Mr. GJadstone's bill, and that is no small achievement. 
On Feb. 24 came the grand check. Lord Derby's resignation was announced, and time asked for Mr. Disraeli to reconstruct the Government. An,interval then occurred till March 4, when Mr_ Disraeli reappeared in his new character. Lord Cairns took his seat on the woolsack, and Mr. Ward Hunt had become Chancellor of the Exchequer. Curiously enough, the very firs t attempt at getting on with a Government measure was unsuccess{ul, and the new Ministry were in effect defeated. It was a small matter­merely a bill to enable the Treasury to transfer certain fees and fines in Ireland, which might have been done sum­marily j but an ominous cry of injustice to Ireland was raised, the Irish members mustered strong in a thin House j there had been no Government" whip j the Opposition evidently wanted the fun of putting the new Ministry into a minority j and the Prime Minister was obliged to give the order to allow the bill to be rejected without a division. Immediately after this intervened the giant discussion ou. Mr. Maguire's ,motion on the state of Ireland, which took from tha 10th to the 18th of March. On the 19th the Earl of Mayo, in a very jocose way and as if it was not only a perfunctory proceeding but merely a ~bad joke, brought in the Irish Reform Bill, which was at once put away until fmther notice} a more than usual indefiniteness being attached to tkis indefinite phrase. O. March 20 came Mr. Gladstone's notice of his motion establish­ing the prinCiple of the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Of course, it was obvions that a regular party fight was imminent, and one which might not by any means be concluded in a single contest, but might easily be extended into a campaign. Accordingly, preparations were made for pushing on the backward commonplace business of the Session and arranging for carrying on a long time after the Easter recess, which was impeuding, and the laying of unholy hands upon a day of which was resented and groaned at by anticipation in so serious a manner by the House that Mr. Disraeli really seemed alarmed, and probably took such counsel with Mr. Gladstone as to be able to combine the finishing of tile Irish Church debate with the full complement of the Paschal holidays. In the mean time, in the Lords, Bankruptcy Reform. measures were produced and hung up, and the Ministerial measure on education was also launched and then laid up in ordinary. . 
A mighty mess the financial measures, with their satellites, had by this time got into, and to a great extent they so remain. The general order of things is that early in February the Navy Estinlates should be formally introduced, with a statement by the responsible Minister of Marine, in the Commons, and votes taken upon them up to a cer­tain point j and then a like course is pursued with the Army Estimates, both these Estimates, as a rule, being got rid of by the end of February at latest. What · is the case now? Rather late in March votes on account, both for Army and Navy, were obtained; and close on the end of that month, after numerous baulks, Sir John. Pakington was .able to make his statement for the Army, while, owing to domestic circumstances, Mr. Corry's explanation of the Navy Estinlates has been postponed until after Easter-a circum­stance which is scarcely within the memory of man. Then it has been arranged by Mr. Disraeli that the Vi vii Service Estimates, which are never taken until after those of the Army and Navy are cleared away, are to be proceeded with on the 20th inst., so that all three Estimates will be mixed up, each fighting for a day. Comparatively late, the Budget stands for Thursday, the 23rd inst., so thltt it is difficult to see how in the week commencing on the 20th inst. any progress will be made in clearing away the Estimates, or, at least, those for the Army and Navy, before the debate on the Irish Church, which is to supplement that which Bas already taken place on Mr. Gladstone's motion, and which is fixed for Monday, the 27th, comes on. No doubt the better part of a fortnight's sitting days will be occupied with that discussion, and after that no one exactly knows what. It has happened that the backward state or anticipatory finance, and particularly in regard to the Army and Navy, caused the Mutiny Bills to be pushed along in a very higgledy-piggledy fashion in order to prevent the legal disbandmeut of the Army and Marines on April 1 j and altogether the goings ou of the Session have been as confused as ever the eccentricity of Prim~ Minister ltnd leader of Opposition could make them. 
No. 1480.-VOL. LIl. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1868. WITH A SUPPLEMENT, FIVEPENCE 

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES 

IN IRELAND. 

EXCELLENTLY timed has the Royal visit been-like a golden streak in the east after a dark and troublous night. Too much may be made of it, we admit; but also too little. Regarded merely as an isolated event, having no special relation to the past, no significance for the future, it can assume no serious political importance. It has been, indeed, a break in the monotony of gloom, and for this reason, if for no other, wel­come-just as, to one who watches when sleep reigns all around 
fOT it can only put forth beauteous bloom and bear precious 1ruit under a due proportion ~f sunshine. Bat it will 
-inke much to km it. At any rate, it is not dead in Ireland. Ordinary culture soon enables it to display ita inherent vitality. And this it has done to a br more gratifying extent than many had anticipated. The rush of feeling evoked by the genial Prince and his lovely consort has throughout been of a kindly, respectful, appreci­ative order, growing warmer and more generous day by day, as day by day hope shone upon it more brightly. It would be {)bildisb, no doubt-it wonld even be worse-to assume that Royal visits can ever by t,hemselves efface the effects of political injustice; but they may dispose the Irish people to recognise and respond to an honest effort to govern them in a lIpirit of considerateness and equity, It is, perhaps, a small thing in itself to win a nation's smile; but when the smile DaB been won, and before it has faded away, the way for conciliatOlY measurcs is smoothed, and there is the greater likelihood that they will reach the heart. 
The installation of the Prince as a Knight of St. Pa',rick gave a touch of solemnity to this reciprocation of good feeling between the reigning family and the Irish pe Jple, beau tifnlly appropriate to the occasion, The Order, it is true, ia not ancient ; but it was instituted as a symbol of unity and fellowEhip between the Crown and the best representatives of Erin's chivalry, patriotism, and worth. The investiture of the Heir Apparent constitutes and designates him a champion of Ireland's honour, and clothes him with a sort of sacred responsibility on behalf of her intere3ts. So he seems to nave interpreted the splendid ceremonial in the renovated Cathedral of St. Patrick; so, with exquisite grace and impressive eaJ.'nestness, he spoke of it at the banquet which followed. Tt was a comecration of the relationship between himself a-nd an important portion of his future subjects, which he had visited Ireland to demonstrate, and which the people of Ireland had enthusiastically bailed, It was not a m'ere show -it was the formal, public, and religious acknow­ledgment of a special obligation. Thenceforth the Prince Wll.S to regard himself and to be regarded by the Irish nation liS theirs-not-, indeed, in an exclusive but in an unrestricted­sem,e-pledged to maintain their rights, to demand for them equal justice, to watch over and to promote their wellbeing, Mld to bear himself towards them and their happiness as a trlle knight should do in the dis,charge of his knightly vows. 
The almost magicRI change of feeling which has result.ed from the Royal visit to the Irish people must be considered as dlle in part, and in no small part, to the appeal which it made 
t.o their gallantry as well as to their loyalty, Sense of duty and fidelity to the Queen was doubtle"s quickened by the coming among them of the Queen's eldest son as the repre­sentative of ber most gracious Majesty; but Ireland's hear£ w~s led willing capiive by the irre~i8tible loveliness of the Princess. The sacrifice she made to bear her husband company in reCelVll1g Ireland's hospitality laid hold of the tendel'est susceptibility of the nation. Gratitude for disinterested and self-denying bndness waited ~o express itself on her arrival; but gratitude, however sincere and deep, was instantly outshone by a warmer feeling when the sweet Princess made her appearance and smiled her first greeting. "Sure, never was such a Princess out of fairy tale I "-t.he exclamation of one in the crowd­may serve as an unexaggerated interpretation of the fond and surprised emotion she everywhere excited, The charm of her face and manners fairly took possession of the people before they were aware of it; and, in the soft light of her presence, they spontaneously opened their innermost nature to a strange, because novel, impression of unreserved trust and loving joy. 
Need we particularly advert to all the pageants, ceremonies, visits, festivities, amusements which figured in the progeamme of the viceregal, mnnicipal, and popular hospitalities 1 Are they not all written in the daily journals '/ and will they not be duly illustrated in tbis paper? Comparatively un, important and necessarily transient as such things must be in themselves, they attract and repay attention in connection with this Royal visit, becanse one may see reflected in them all the varied phases of gratified sentiment which the princely representatives of Imperial authority and law rendered conspicuous to the whole civilised world. The healing tflkacy now being exerted upon the Irish mind will sh-engtben the determination of the people of Great Britain to raise Ireland to a level of complete equality with all other portions of the empire, It will extend its influence beyond these shores, It will rehabilitate our somewhat damaged reputation abroad. It will m[\ke itself felt in America. In every quarter of the globe satisfaction will be felt that the great work of conciliation has been so hopefully and Euccessfully begun; aud the unfeigned respect which her Majesty's name everywhere excites will be still further deepened by the association with it of the beneficent service done to Ireland by the Prince of Wales and his amiable consort. 
Only let us remember that we are at the beginning, not the end, of this great enterprise. There should not be-we trust there will not be--any slackening of hands until the object be accomplished. We must -an hold ourselves prepared to cast a( me sacrifice upon the altar-to prove our sincerity by the quiet smrender of some fond prejudice or tenderly cbel-i~hed feeling, No grand conquest was el'er made with­out it--no conquest of a nation's heart especially. We have to do af, under similar circumstances, we would be done by­to "be just and fear not." Tbe Prince and Princess have sbown us the way to success. While we applaud and rejoice, bo it our care also to copy in spirit their example, Then, before we qni t the atage of earthly duty, we may hope to witnes3 ",,:bat for many generations past has seemed a consllmm!>tiOll 
him, and who feels himself wearied with his loneliness, a single bright star shining, though ever so transiently, through a rift in the clouds overhanging him, gives a momentary thrill of delight. The most evanescent glories occasionally leave behind them lasting results, and the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland, even if considered as an unconnected incident, may possibly, by the attention it awakens, impart a new direction to national thoughts that had previously too unresistingly tended to des­pondency. But the visit, we t~ust, means something more than a happy accident-it suggests even greater satisfaction 
nevel' to be realised-an Act of Union extending not only to tbe form of govemment, but symbolising a oneness of senti­ment, sympathy, and affection betweentbe people of Eng1and, Wales,: E'cotland, and Ireland, 
than it gives. It resembles not merely the shining of a star, but of the star of the morning. It is the harbinger of a better era. It is a prophecy, surely, of coming day. 
The reception of the Royal guests by the populace of Dublin and its neighbourhood gave incontestable evidence to the fact that the sentiment of loyalty has its roots deep in the heart of Ireland, It may be, as once and again it has been, obscured. Among the_vivacious and sensitive people of the sister isle, not less but not more than among ourselves, it is apt to pme and dwindle, and perhaps almost disappear from the surface, under neglect, Political weeds may overrun'it, 

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No. 1480.-VOL. LIl. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1868. WITH A SUPPLEMENT, FlVEPENCE 
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES 
IN IRELAND. 
EXCELLENTLY timed has the Royal visit been-like a golden 
streak in the east after a dark and tronblous night. Too much 
may be made of it, we admit; but a180 too little. Regarded 
merely as an isolated event, having no special relation to the 
past, no significance for the future, it can assume no serious 
political importance. It has been, indeed, a break in the 
monotony of gloom, and for this reason, if for no other, wel­
come-just as, to one who watches when sleep reigns all around 

him, and who feels himself wearied with his loneliness, a single bri~ht star shining, though ever so transiently, through a rift in the clouds overhanging him, gives a momentary thrill of delight. The most evanescent glories occasionally leave behind them lasting results, and the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland, even if considered as an unconnected incident, may possibly, by the attention it awakens, impart a new direction to national thoughts that had previously too unresistingly tended to des­pondency. But the visit, we trust, mealls something more than a happy accident-it suggests even greater satisfaction than it gives, It resembles not merely the shining of a star, but of the star of the morning. It is the harbinger of a better era. It is a prophecy, surely, of coming day. 
The reception of the Royal guests by the populace of Dublin and its neighbourhood gave incontestable evidence to the fact that the sentiment of loyalty has its roots deep in the heart of Ireland. It may be, as once and again it has been, obscured. Among the. vivacious and sensitive people of the sister isle, n()t less but not more than among ourselves, it is apt to pme and dwindle, and perhaps almost disappear from the Burface, under neglect. Political weeds may overrun'it, 

VlSIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO IRELAND: THE IRON-CLAD SQUADRON SALUTING THE ROYAL YACHT IN DUBLIN BAY.-SEE PAGE 414, VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO IRELAND: THE IRON.CLAD SQUADRON SALUTING THE ROYAL YAOHT IN DUBLIN BAY.-SEE PAGE 414. 
On Tuesday night two ragged, dissipated-looking men, Edward Barry and Michael O'Keefe, were seen in the vicinity of Buckingham Pa1ace, carrying a hamper. One ,of them was known to a detective who was on duty in the neighbourhood, and, after a Eevere struggle, both men were secured and taken to a police Etation. An examination of the hamper disclosed enough to justify their arrest. It was found to con~ain a quantity of explosive fluid, supposed to he Greek fire. One of the prisoners is a basketmaker, and the other a labourer, but it said they have no regular occnpation. They were examined at Bow­street on Wednesday. Very little evidence was offered against them, and they were remanded until the analysis of the contents of the cases was completed. 
The inquest on the body found in the house at Hackney-wickwas brought to a close on Tuesday, when a verdict to the effect that the deceased, Heaseman, was a person of unsound mind, and that his death waR caused by poison admiuistered by himself. 

It was hardly to be supposed that a burials bill for Ireland, which, being interpreted, menns a measure to take away from clergymen of the Established Church the power of preventing the interment of .any but members of their own flocks in the parish churchyards, would be discussed without raising some sectarian high .talk. This time it was mainly on the Protestant side-such Papist­hating members as Mr, Greene (who came out splendidly, from an anathematising point of view), Mr. Newdegate, and Mr. Hubbard, being in a dreadful fright lest the passing of the bill should prove to he aehortcut tothatcon!i~cation of the Irish Church property which it is just doubtful whether even Mr. Gladst:me as yet decidedly .esEf.ys, The Roman C!l.tholic3 were magnifioently represente:l by -= 
Mr, Bearden, who out-did the Protestant members in railing, talking of the Reformation of Renry VIll. in a way which was quite terrible ; but when he became so shocking as to attempt to question the moral character of Queen Elizabeth he was silenced by tre­mendons groaning and shouts of " Oh I " from a p~rticular p3rt of the Ministerial benches. It was chivalrous, indeed, to p,otect the reputation of the Virgin Queen from slanders which, though uttered so many hundred years after her decease, would, to use the common phrrule, cause that lady-monarch to turn in her grave. 
The debut of Mr. Ward Runt as Chancellor of the Exchequer was creditable both as regards his bearing and his powers of tina~cial exposition, while he gave some comfort to the tax.paying com­munity by his announcement that the Abyssinian expedition is to cost cnly five millions, and that the only addition to imposts is the bringing up the income tax to sixpence in the ponnd. The House was evidently pleased with him, personally and officially. 




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1868 
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES 
I N IRELAND. 

SOME account of the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales on their landing at Kingstown, and their entrance into the city of Dublin, on Wednesday week, appeared in our last Publication. They came from Holyhead, with the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Teck, ou board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which was com­manded by Captain the Prince of Leiningen. It was accompanied by the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, with a party of distinguished visitors. They left Holyhead at five o'clock in the morning, arriving at Kingstown twenty minutes before nine. They had been preceded by several iron· clad vessels belonging to the Channel Fleet, those vessels being the Minotaur (Captain Goodenough), the flagship of Admiral Warden, C.B. j the Warrior (Captain Boys), the Achilles (Captain Vansittart), and the Defence (Captain May). The fleet was accompanied by the tenders Helicon (despatch-vessel) and Pigeon (gun-boat). The ironclads arrived at daybreak, and took up a position, in two lines, a mile off shore, outside the harbour. The Royal yacht had a most favourable pas­sage from Holyhead. There was little or no wind, and the sea was almost as smooth as the water of a mill-pond. About five miles from land the Victoria and Albert was met by the Tarifa, one of the Cunard line of steamers, and several other vessels, which had been dispatched from Dublin and Kingstown to meet the Royal squadron. The Victoria and Albert was saluted by the ironclads in passing through their squadron, with the Enchantress and the despatch-boat Helicon. This is the subject of one of our Illustrations. The Royal yacht, having anchored in the harbour, was left undisturbed till ten o'clock, when a deputation of the Kingstown commissioners went on board and presented a loyal address. At the same time the Princees received the gift of a white dove, as a token of peace, which was presented to the Queen when she landed here in 1849. The appointed landing.place was the Victoria-wharf, near the railway station at Kingstown, where a pavilion had been erected for the purpose of enabling the Royal visitors to set foot on the Irish shore under the most comfortable circumstances. This structure was com­modious enough, but not very elegant. It was a wooden shed, built in the form of a boat-house, having the floor covered with crimson cloth.l and having at the point of landing the letters "V.R.," with the ngures " 1849," to indicate the spot on which her Majesty the Queen stepped when she first visited her Irish subjects. On each side of the pavilion were raised tiers of seats for the accommodation of a number of ladies and gentlemen who had secured tickets to witness the landing. These seats were all occupied an hour and a half before the time fixed for the debarkation, which was twelve o'clock. Towards the harbour a guard of honour, supplied by the Grenadier Guards and accompanied by the band of the regiment, was drawn up j and on the land side the Royal carriages and the cavalry escort, furnished llY the 10th Hussars-of which regiment the Prince of Wales is Colonel-were in waiting. During the morning large numbers of people arrived.by rail and road from Dublin, Bray, and Wicklow, and from many small towns or villages in the vicinity. By eleven o'clock a large crowd was collected upon the quay, and occupied the esplanade which surrounds the l'ailway station. 
Shortly before noon his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant (the Marquis of Abercorn), accompanied by the Marchionees of Abercorn, arrived, and took up a position in readiness to receive the Prince and Princess on their landing. They were accompanied by Lord Claud John Hamilton, M.P., A.D.e., and Ladies Albertha, Georgiana, and Maude Hamilton j by his Serelle Highness Prince Edward of Sue­Weimar, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Strathnairn, G.C.B., Com­mander of the Forces j the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice Keogh, the Earl of Mayo, the Attorney-General, Major·G~neral Cunynghame, C.B., Admiral Buckle, Admiral Warden, the Hon. Colonel Fielding, Colonel Mackenzie, C.B., Colonel G. W. Mayow, Colonel Henry, C.B., R.H.A., Colonel Seager, Brigadier-General Little, Brigadier­General Borton, Colonel Bentinck, Colonel Maude, the Hon. Luke Gerald Dillon, the Hon. Charles Fowler Bourke, Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms j Sir John Marcus Stewart, the Hon. J enico Preston, Dr. Burke, Dr. J. S. Hughes, and many others. 
The Royal yacht, having been unmoored from its first berth, was now brought alongside the wharf. The Prince of Leiningen came on .shore, and invited the Lord Lieutenant on board. His Excellency, the Marchioness of Abercorn, the Ladies Hamilton, and Lord Claud John Hamilton accordingly proceeded on board, and tendered to the Prince and Princess of Wales a welcome to Ireland. After a brief conversation the Royal party made preparations to land. The Lord Lieutenant offered his arm to the Princess of Wales, and conducted her on shore. Her Royal Highness was followed by the Prince of Wales and the Marchioness of Abercorn, behind whom were the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Teck with Lady Georgiana and Lady Albertha Hamilton. The appearance of their Royal Highnesses was greeted with a loud burst of cheering. Ladies waved their hand­kerchiefs and gentlemen their hats. There could be no doubt as to the heartiness of the welcome thus offered to the Royal visitors j and both the Prince and Princess appeared highly pleased with their re­ception. The Princess looked very weil, and, as she graciously acknow­ledged the acclamations with which she was greeted, her countenance was lighted up with that bright and pleasant smile which won the hearts of the people of London on her first arrival in England. She 
'wore a drees and jacket of deep-blue tabinet, or poplin, trimmed with Irish lace j and a white bonnet of Irish lace, ornamented by a single rose. The Prince was in morning costume, and in the breast of his blRe frock-coat he wore a rose, surrounded by a bunch of shamrocks. He also wore a cravat of the Irish colour, green. As Boon as they landed, the Royal standard was displayed from a flag­staff close to the pavilion, and a Royal salute was fired by the gllard·ship, the Royal George, taken up by the squadron outside the harbour, and repeated by a battery of the 7th Brigade of R.oyal Artillery on the East Pier. While the great guns were still jthun­dering, and the people were cheering, the Prince and Princess of Wales took th~ir seats in .an open carriage,. accompanied by the Duke of Cambndge and Prmce Teck, and, amid the acclamations of the crowd, drove off towards Dublin. The Roral carriage was pre­ceded by that of the Lord Lieutenant, containmg the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and his Excellency's Aides-de-Camp. It was escortetil by a troop of t he 12th Lancers, at the head of which rode Colonel Lake, C.B., commander of the Metropolitan Police of Dublin. The carriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales was escorted by a troop of the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Hussars. The third and fourth carriages contained the Marchionees of Carmarthen, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Viscount Hamilton, the Hon. J ames Macdonneil, and Mr. Holzmann. 
The route taken was along the Crofl;on-road, Blackrock-read Seafteld-avenue, and Seapoint'road, to Blackrock. Here a triumphal arch was erected in the neighbourhood of the Townhall, and twenty­five young ladies, attired in white dresses, w:ere assembled. Miss Vance, daughter of the chairman of the Town Commissioners, handed the P rincess of Wales a bouquet of exotic and spring flowers. From Blackrock the cortege moved on by Balls Bridge and Pembroke-road, to the canal bridge at Baggot·street, where it entered the city of Dublin, and passed through the principal streets and squares to the Castle. The streets were filled with enthusiastic crowds, who cheered wildly as the procession passed by. The Lord Mayor and Aldermep, and the other members and officers of the Corporation, had joined it at the s:ity boundary. The procession, with lts guard of lancers and hUSBaJ;s in front, and with the Lord Mayor's gilded coach in the rear, was very imposing. 
" But the one point in .the city route," says a reporter, "which 
really presented a most IDlpresslve spectacle was College-green. 
Few who have visited Dublin have forgotten the famous space, 
which is richer in historical associations than any other spot in 
Ireland. The venerable pil~ of Trinity College, the splendid build­
ing known as the Bank, which once contained an Irish Parliament, 
the range of new lofty houses which stretch up to Dame-street, 
inclose a place in which some of the strangest scenes in the annals 
of Dublin have been witnessed. Here for many years the periodical 
fights between town and gown raged around the equestrian statue 
of William Ill. j here Grattan has received the homage of the mul­
titude and O'Connell has driven in triumphal procession, here the 
Irish volunteers assembled in 1782, and here was passed that solemn 
Act which established the legislative union between Great Britain 
and Ireland. On festive days like this, College-green is the chosen 
point of view for the great majority of the inhabitants of Dublin, and on no former occasion has so vast a multitude been collected. 
" In front of the college, and covering the entire space between the building and railings, was erected an immense stand, palt of which was assigned to the students and part to ladies. The roofs were thronged. Every available inch of space was taken up by a spectator. Some urchins climbed on the pedestal of King WiIliam's statue j .others, more adventurous, clung to projections around the Bank and College. In the immense area between the buildings people pushed and struggled for the chance of seeing. There can hardly have been fewer than a hundred thousand spectators, but, although on the outskirts of the crowd there was considerable con­fusion, the passage for the Royal equipages was kept without much difficulty by a small body of police. The statue of WilIiam Ill. stood out over the surging masses. A bright patch of scarlet in front of the college gave some relief to the eye j it was the statue of Edmund Burke, carefully wrapped up in red baize. From the housetops and upper windows floated innu­merable banners-blue, and crimson, and green-which gave much variety to the view. One might have looked long through College­green or along Dame·street without tiring of the sight. But a few minutes after one, a distant shout was heard, gradually increasing into a tremendous roar j and presently, as the escort of lancers were seen wending through the narrow passage at the corner of Grafton­street, the spectators in front of the College rose up on the platform. Thewhole aspect of the scene suddenly:changed. The waving of white handkerchiefs, the uncovering of the head1s of the vast assemblage, and the simultaneous rush forward were a remarkable contrast to the appearance of College-green only a few minutes before. Here was the point at which the population of Dublin were to decide the character of the reception. 
"Not only was the multitude enthusiastic, but it was respectful. No obstruction was caused by the popular curiosity. With the 'ex­ception of the small escort of cavalry which preceded and closed the procession, there was no military guard. The streets were not lined with soldiers, and a spectator in the front row might have placed his hand upon the Royal carriage as it passed him. If there n ad been the least desire on the part of even a small section of the inhabitants to exhibit disaffection, they might have done so with impunity in College-green. The Lord Lieutenant's carriage passed first, several hundred yards in front of that of the Prince. It was grati­fying to observe that a Viceroy whose government of Ireland has been so just and considerate enjoys a large popularity. The cheering for his Excellency had scarcely subsided when the Royal equipage came in view. From the moment it passed the Bank until it reached the Castle the eye could easily trace it by the motions of those who occupied the windows in Dame·street. A hundred ragged youngsters, shouting and flinging up their caps, ran beside the carriage wheels, to the amusement of the Royal party. Behind the lancers came the equipages of the members of the Corporation of Dublin, who wore their scarlet robes. A place of honour was reserved for the mrd Mayor of London, who is for a few days to be the guest of the chief magistrate of Dublin. But the municipal authorities attracted little notice. As soon as the Prince of Wales had passed any point the entire multitude rushed forward. 
A . few seconds after the cheering around the college had ceased, there was a ~eneral movement towards the castle. The people pressed on until the street was choked and traffic was completely stopped. Passing the City Hall the Royal party received the greet­ings of the ladies and gentlemen who thronged the stand in front of the building on a level with Hogan's marble statue of O'Connell. There was some trouble in making way into the castle yard, for the space at Cork-hill was crammed. By the efforts of the mounted police the way was cleared, and at half-past one the Prince and Princess of Wales were welcomed by the Lord Lieutenant at the residence prepared for them." 
After a brief interval the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the members of the Corporation were presented to their Royal Highneeses in the Throne-room, where an address was presented to the Prince, who said, in reply :-"The reception which the Princess and myself have this day experienced calls forth our warmest and most heartfelt acknowledgments. It has been my most anxious desire since I last visited Ireland to return to it accompanied by the Princess j and I regard her presence this day, equally with yourselves, as a happy omen for the country, although I have never for a moment doubted your constant and undiminished attachment to the Throne of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. It will be a great pleasure to me to be present at the inauguration of the statue of one of 'Ireland's most distinguished statesmen, and to be enrolled and installed a Knight of the illustrious Order of St. Patrick." The streets of Dublin were partially illuminated on the Wednesday evening. 
On Thursday, lIS stated last week, their Royal Highnesses went to the races at Punchestown, near Naas, in Wicklow, going by rail­way to Sallins, and thence in a carriage. They started from the King's Bridge terminus at half-past twelve. The special train, drawn by a powerful locomotive, gaily decorated with evergreens, included a state saloon-carriage, which was of unnsual length, richly upholstered in blue silk and damask, with white and blne fringes, and luxuriously furnished with fauteuils and reclining chairs, while the introduction of looking-glasses gave a pretty effect to the interior. With the Royal party were the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Teck, the Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn, the Ladies Hamilton, the Earl of Mayo, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord H. Lennox, Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, the Hon. E. Edgcumbe, A.D.C., Sir James Ferguson, Lord James Butler, Sir John M. Stewart, the Earl of Mountcharles, Mr. Gustavus W. Lambert, Lord Straithnairn, the Hon. Luke Gerald Dillon, and Mr. Cockerell. 
The Princess of Wales wore a dress of pale green silk, richly trimmed with lace, and a light-coloured zephyr burnous. Her bonnet was of white lace, adorned with simple flowerli. The party reached the grand stand at Punchestown at twenty minutes past two. There was an immense concourse of people in carriages and on foot. await­ing their arrival on the ground. The Royal party took theIr seats in tke pavilion next to the grand stand. The Princess, as well as the Prince of Wales, took a lively interest in the proceedings. The weather was brilliantly fine, and almost sultry. The racing com­menced at half-past two and ended at half-past five ' o'clock. No serious accident occurred, although the racecourse was obstructed by the crowd pressing in front of the Grand Stand to see the Prince and Princess. The numbers exceeded those at any previous gathering there. The Royal party left the course at a quarter to six for Sallins, and left for Dublin by special train. 
The Prince of Wales again went to Punchestownon Friday, which was the second day of the races. He rode a grey Arab on the raceground. The Princess did not venture to incur the fatigue of another journey, but enjoyed comparative repose in town. A change of weather m the morning may have had something' to do in determining her Royal Highness's resolution. Some heavy showers fell, at an early hour j but the effect was very agreeable, and the condition of the ground was greatly improved. In the afternoon her Royal Highness paid a visit to the Alexandra College, an educational institution f~r ladies, with which she has graciously allowed her name to be aSSOCiated..It was handsomely decorated with festoons of flowers j and the ladles of the college, who assembled to receive her Royal Highness, 'Yere most demonstrative in their welcome. As the Royal carnage approached, the Princess had a floral shower cast upon her, and was presented with a beautiful bouquet by one of the pupils, while the Archbishop of Dublin hand~d a. congratulat?ry address t? her Royal Highness. I n the evemng the Pnnce and Prmcess and twelve hundred of the nobility and citizens were enter­tained at a ball in the Mansion House. Their Royal Highnesses arrived at eleven o'clock. They were enthusiastically cheered on their way through the streets. The? were also most heartily greeted on entermg the ball-room. The Prmcess wore a dress of pmk satin and flounce of Irish lace, presented to her by the ladies of Ireland. The ball was opened by the Prince of Wales 'Yith the Lady Mayoress, and the Princess with the Lord Mayor. Prmce Teck, who w~)Ie the blue uniform of an Austrian officer of Hussars, danced Wlth the Marchioness . of Abercorn, and the Lord Lieutenant with the Marchioness of Carmarthen. 
The grand ceremony of the installation of the Prin~e of Wales as Knight of St. Patrick took place on Saturda:y in Dubhn,. an,d paesed off with all the eclat of a great State ceremorual. St. Patrlck s Cathe­dral was crowded with a brilliant and distinguished company. The proceedings, under the management of Sir Bernard Burkc, Ulster King of Arms, were very imposing j but we shall give an Illustration of them next week. The ceremony of installation was followed by the banquet which his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant gave to the Knights, the Royal visitors, and a noble company of 120 guests in St. Patrick's Hall. All the Knights wore their mantles, and his Excellency displayed on his breast the badge of the order. The banquet was given upon a scale of eplendour befitting the occasion and the munificence of the Viceroy. The band of the Grenadier Guards was stationed in the gallery, and played several Irish melodies during the evening. After the toast of "The Queen " had beeu proposed and drunk with loyal cordiality, the Lord Lieutenant, in a most appro­priate speech, gave the health of the Prince of Wales, Chief Knight of the order. His Royal Highness, speaking in reply, said :-" I can assure you that I feel very proud to wear this evening for the first time the star and ribbon of this illustrious order j and I am very grateful to her Majesty the Queen for having given it to me. On former occasions I have received the orders of Great Britain from her Majesty's own hands j and, although I cannot but regret that on this occasion she has not been able to give this order to me her­self, still it was the Queen's wish that I should receive it on Irish soil, from the hands of her representative, the Lord Lieutenant. This order was first founded, now more than eighty years agohby my great grandfather, King George IlL, and was instituted by im as a mark of his goodwill and friendship towards this country, and it is my hope that, as his great-grandson, having to-day received it on Irish soil, I may also be instrumental in evincing in this country, in the name of my Sovereign and my mother, her goodwill and friendship towards Ireland. I feel alio proud that I have been not only invested with the insignia of this order, but installedin the mag­nificent Cathedral of St. Patrick, for the restoration of which we are indebted to the great munificence of a private gentleman of Ireland, whose name is so well known that I need not mention it to you, more particularly as I have the pleasure of seeing him at this table. My Lords and Gentlemen, I am very glad to have this opportunity of stating to you, on behalf of the Princess and myself, how deeply gratified we are by the reception which has been accorded to us in this'country, not only, as the Lord Lieutenant has observed, by the higher classes, but by the sons of the soil as well. After the sad times of the past year it might, perhaps, have been thought by some that our reception would not have been all that could have been wished. I myself felt confident that it would, and my hopes have indeed been realised. I beg, therefore, to offer, not only to those present who participated more immediately in our. reception, but to the whole Irish people, our thanks for the cordial, hearty, and friendly welcome which we have received." . 
The Prince and Princess of Wales and the MarqUls and Marchioness of Abercorn attended Divine service at Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday morning. There was a large congregation. The Archbishop of Dublin preached the sermon, and the choral service was conducted by Dr. Robinson. Their Royal Highnesses were well received by the crowd both going and returning. 
On Monday the Prince and Princess, with the otl?-er ~embers ?f 
the Royal family at Dublin, attended a grand review m Phrenu: 
Park. In the evening the Lord Lieutenant gave a splendid .ball at 
the Castle. 

On Tuesday their Royal Highnesses visited Trinity College, where the Prince, the Lord Lieutenant, and the Duke of Cambridge had conferred upon them doctors' degrees . . With t his ceremony was combined that of the inauguration <'If the statue of Burke. Speeches were delivered by Sir J. Napier, the Vice-Chancellor of the Uni­versity, Chief Justice Whiteside, and ,the Provost .of Trinit:y. Afterwards the Prince unveiled the statue. The receptIOn of theu: Royal Highnesses, both within and without the College buil~ings, was most enthusiastic. In the afternoon the Prince and Prmcess visited the Hibernian Academy, the cattle show, the Catholic Uni­versity, and other places. They everywhere met with a most cordial reception. 
THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT PORTSMOUTH. 
I 
A DESORIPTION of the great meeting of the volunteer corps at 
Portsmouth on Easter Monday, the inspection and. "march-past" 
on Southsea-common, before Lieutenant-General Sir George Buller, 
and the sham fight in the valley of Cosham and Wymering, between 
the HiLsea lines and Portsdown-hill, was given in our last Number. 
We now publish several Illustrations of the mimic battle, which 
was one of the most interesting affairs of its kind. The battle· field 
extended along the northern end of Porch~ster l~ke, from a po~nt a 
little to the west of Paulsgrove, to the HIlsea hnes at PortsbIldge, 
thence northwards in a straight line beyond the village of Cosham 
as far as the crest of Portsdown-hill, and then in a westerly 
direction along and including the whole of the southern 
slope of the Ports4Pwn 'ridge as far as Southwick Fort. The 
plan of action supposed that the British fleet had been dispatched 
from Spithead in search of a hostile squadron, and that an enemy 
had seized the opportunity to land an army in Sussex. Por,smouth 
was garrisoned by a mixed force of volunteers and regulars j and t}le 
enemy, thinking the capture of the arsenal and dockyard an easier 
task than an advance on London, had moved his whole force to the 
westward. He was considered to have silenced the fire of the forts 
on Portsdown-hill for a time, to have held possession of the heights, 
and to be desirous of investing the town of Portsmouth. For this 
purpose two strong divisions were marched round the eastern and 
western flanks of Portsdown-hill, by night, to seize the villages of 
Cosham, Wymering, Paulsgrove, and the intervening farmhouses 
!\lld buildings. A first parallel havi~g th~s been obtained, the 
enemy had intended to sap up, and. ~ posslble,. carry. by: assault, 
the Hilsea lines. He had succeeded m occupymg hiS IIItended 
position i but the garrison of Portsmouth, being made aware 
of his mtention, had manned the whole of the earthworks 
and moved up a strong body of troops, in reserve, to resist any 
sudden assault, or drive the eneJI.ly from the gro~nd. Dayli~ht came, and discovered the enemy Wlth strong battalions occupylllg the southern slope of the hill. The operations then commenced. ! .The two columns of the defending force, as they reached the lines at Hilsea, proceeded to take up their position behind the long line of 
strong earthworks, the third division taki?g the left of t}le po~iti)U 
and extending from the west end of the hnes to the new lIon brld~e, 
and the fourth division deploying from the new military road, 
across the old London road, and stretching away to the east nearly 
to Hilsea redoubt. Our General View of the battle from Portsdown­
hill, the Engraving of which fills the two middle pages of this 
Number, represents an advanced period of the engagement, but it 
may here be referred to for the topography and plan ?f 0l?er~tions. 
This View looks due south, across Porchester Lake, whICh hes m the 
right-hand portion of the Engraving, with Porchester Castle on a 
low promontory to the extreme right, and across the valley of 
Cosham and Wymering, with the creek in fr~mt of the Hilsea forti­
fications, which are shown in the middle dIStance of the left-hand 
portion. The town and shipping of Portsmouth are seen about six 
miles off, at the farther extremity of the island formed by the Hilsea 
creek. Beyond Portsmouth is Spithead, with the expanse of the 
Solent, and the Isle of Wight in the background. . 
The 1st Hants Engineer Volunteers, under the command of Captam 
Buchan, had constructed, the day be!ore, a ba~rel-and'pier pridge 
over the water in front of Hilsea Lllles. ThiS operatIOn IS the 
subject of one of our Engravings on page 400. A pontoon bridge, 
for the use of the general public, was laid the same day by the 
Royal Engineers. The first· mentioned bridge was designed for the 
sortie of the defenders in the mock conflict. The engagement was 
begun by the cavalry of the enemy opening commuDicatio~s with 
the two divisions advancing round the flanks of Portsdown-hill. The 
second division was seen in columns of route, preceded by cavalry, 
moving about midway down the southern slope of Portsdow?--.h~lI, 
from the direction of Havant on to Cosham, and the first dIV1SIOn 
moving in similar order from Fareham on to Paulsgrove a:n~ Wymer­
ing. This demonstration was the signal for sudden actlV1ty on the 
part of the defenders. The field-guns and the i8-pounder guns of 
position of the 3rd Middlesex Artillery were dragged up the sl~pes o~ 
the earthworks and into the battery on the top. The Royal Engmeers 
pontoon-train at the same time began to throw over a pontoon­
bridge. to the west of the new iron bridge, and between that and the 



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MR. FETHERSTONHAUGH. 

James Howard Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., of Bracklyn Castle, in the county of Westmeath, J.P. and D.L., whose most barbarous and cow­ardly assassination occurred, on the 15th inst., on his road home from Dublin, between Killucan station and his seat, Bracklyn Castle, was the son of Thomas J ames Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., of Bracklyn Castle, 
J.P. and D.L., High Sheriff of Westmeath, by his wife, Lady Eleanor Howard, second da:ughter of William, third Earl of Wicklow. He was born May 23, 1819, and was formerly a Captain in the 11th RegiI!'ent. He was well known as an active and able magistrate, and was much respected. He married, Aug. 16, 1854, Lucy Emily, daughter of the late William Wingfield-Baker, Esq., M.P., of Orsett Hall) Essex, a Master in Chancery; and by her leaves issue (with another son and a daughter) an elder son, Cecil Howard Digby Fether.stonhaugh, now of Bracklyn Castle. . 
THE GRAND MASTER INVESTING THE PRINCE OF WALES WITH THE ORDER OF ST, PATRICK, IN ST, PATRICX'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN,-SEE PAGE 439, 

The trial of the Fenians at the Central Criminal Court, for the­Clerkenwell explosion, was concluded on Monday. A case of alibi. set up for Barrett signally failed, and the jury returned a verdict. of "Guilty" against him and acquitted the other prisoners, English and the two Desmonds. Barrett delivered a long address when the usual question was put previous to passing sentence; after which the Lord Chief Justice condemned him to be hanged. The Attorney­General, in the course of Tuesday, said that he had considered the subject of the remaining indictments against the prisoners who were acquitted upon the charge of murder arising out of the Clerkenwell explosion, and he thought that he ought not to proceed with the· remaining charges. He should, therefore, enter a nolle prosequi upon. thoEe remaining charges. The leameq. Judge (Baron . Bramwell) upon this made an order that William Desmond, Timothy Desmond,. Nicholas English, and Ann Justice should be discharged. 
The police reports inform us that Ann Justice celebrated her' escape from the fangs of justice by getting drunk and presiding at· an Irish riot in Little Pulteney-street. Sl;Ie appeaved at an open window, with her hair loose, clapping her hands, and screaming out· " A Fenian victory I " whilst her supporters were breaking each other's heads in the street below. The police had to interfere. and several cases of drunkenness were adjudicated upon by Mr. Tyrwhitt, the' Marlborough·street police magistrate, who dismissed the offenders, with good advice and small fines. Patrick Murphy was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for attempting to rescue a prisoner. and' aSiaulting the police. 
The trial of Burke, Casey, and Shaw for treason-felony began Oll; Tuesday, at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Baron BramweJI. and Mr. Justice Keating. An attempt on the 8art of Burke to prove himself an American citizen broke down.-n Thursday the case· against Casey was withdrawn, and he was discharged. Burke and Shaw were found guilty and sentenced-the former to fifteen years" and the latter to seven years' penal servitude. 
At the Middlesex Session~, on Monday, Robert lieath, coff,e-honee­keeper, King's·cross, was indicted for stealing £110, the moneys of Mr. F. F. Trelder. The prosecutor gave the prisoner a cllshbox to take charge of containing the money mentioned. Prosecutor was taken suddenly ill at the prisoner's honse, and several days elapsed before he recovered consciousness, when he found himself in an hospital. The cashbox was sent by the prisoner to an ironmonger's. where the lid was sweated off. After the prisoner had been found guilty, a sergeant of police stated that there had been numerous complaints from persons wno had stopped at the prisoner's house of having been robbed. He was sentenced to five years' penal. servitude. 
Margaret Walsh, the pupil teacher in a Roman Catholic school at· Westminster, who was charged with putting one of the pupils, a,. child foul' years old, into a copper of boiling water, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday week. The defence, as when the case· was before the magistra.te, was that the child was not intentionally put into the copper, but fell in by accident. She was acquitted. 
At the Bow-street Police Court, on Monday, Barry and O'Keere were charged on remand with being in possession of a quantity of inflammable matter, for the purpose of committing a felony. Dr•. Noad, of St George's Hospital, stated that he had analysed the· snbstance, and found it to consist of about 6 1b. of phosphorus. When he took it from the canister he placed it on a slab, and while he went into an adjoining room "the whole burst into a tremendous conflagration spontaneously, and without anything being done t() it." The substance was not explosive, but had ignited ~ilDply by' the friction of the air. To make it dissolve, it wanted mixing with. bisulphate of carbon, and then it would have been .real "Greek fire" in a liquid form. The prisoners were captured in front of Buckingham Palace. They were again remanded. 
Richard Bishop, who was convicted, at the April Sessions of the· Central Criminal Court, of the murder of Alfred Cartwright, at. Sydenham, was hanged, on Thursday morning, in front of the county' gaol at Maidstone. 
Rewards amounting in all to nearly £2000 are offered for the-. apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Fetherstonehaugh, of Westmeath. The landed proprietors of the county have contributed a large por­tion of the sum. Three men arrested on suspicion are now in Mullingar Gaol, two of them being tenants on the estate and one a,. servant-boy of a farmer. 
Last year 81724 emigrants len the different ports of Ireland ;: 45,861 were 0011.1es, and 35,863 females. 
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS MAY 2, 186S 
VISIT OF 
THE PRINCE AND · PRINCESS OF WALES TO IRELAND. 
THE 
ORDER OF ST. PATRICK. The foundation of this order by George Ill., belongs to the time when Ireland had the doubtful privilege of a separate Parliament at Dublin. It was then thought proper that the King should manifest his re­gard for Ireland by some public and gracious act of fav()ur. It was the policy of the Administra­tion, of which an eminent Irish nobleman, the Earl of Shelburne, was the head, to conciliate the more powerful peers of that coun­try, by bestowing personal marks of distinction upon them. The constitution and limited number of knights of the three existing British orders made it inconve­nient to apply those decorations to that purpose, and determined King George Ill. to institute a fraternity of knights in Ireland formed on the plan of the Garter. A Royal warrant was, on Feb. 0, 1783, addressed to George Nugent Temple Greville, then Lord Lieu­tenant, ,commanding letters pa­tent to pass under the Great Seal of Ireland " for creating a Society or Brotherhood, to be called Knighte of the Most Dlustrious Order of St. Patrick." On Feb. 28 the statutes of the order were aigned by the Sovereign, The cross of St. Patrick-a red snltire and a golden harp-the ancient Irish ensign -together with the national badge, the shamrock, were made the symbols of the order. From the Royal warrant, it appears that, although every person of or above the rank of a knight was eligible to be elected a, companion of the order, yet of the fifteen originally nomin­ated, one was a Prince of the blood Royal, one was a Duke, and thirteen were Earls of Ireland; and there ie no instance on record of anyone except a peer being invested; until Lord Farnham was invested, on Nov, 12, 1845, all the members were above the rank of Baron. Two of the knights nominated by the Royal warrant never received the ensigns of the order-the Earl of Antrim, who declined to resign the Order of the Bath, to which he was appointed iu 1780, and the Earl of Ely, who died on May 6, 1783, without having been invested. The first chapter of the order was held in Dublin Castle by the Lord Lieu­tenant, the Grand Master, on March 11, 1783, and it was at­tended by twelTe of the Knights­elect-namely, the Duke of Leinster, the Earl (afterwards created Marquis) of Clanricarde, the EaJ 1of Westmeath, the Earl of Inchiquin (afterwards created Mar­quie of 'l'liomond), the Earl (after­wards made Marquis) of Drogheda, the Earl of Tyrone (afterwards created Marquis of Waterford), the Earl of Shannon, the Earl of Clanbraseil, the Earl of Morn­ington (afterwards created Mar­quis Wellesley), 'the Earl of Courtown, the E'arlof Charlemont, and the Earl of Bective. On St. Patrick's Day, 1783, the Grand Master and fourteen knights elect were installed, including Lord Muskerry as proxy for Prince Edward. The dresses were all of Irish manufacture, and in every part of the ceremony and enter­tainment the utmost magnificence was displayed. The second in­stallation was held on Aug. 11, 1800. The Duke of Leinster died 

THE OOLLAR AND BADGE OF .A. KNIGHT OF ST. P.ATRICK. 
in October, 1804, and his ribbon was given to the Marquis of Water­ford. Siace that period no member of the ducal house of Leinster has been a Knight of St. Patrick. The third installation took place on Feb. 13, 1809. At the fourth installation, on May 27, 1819, the Marquises of Thomond and Sligo and the Earls of Enniekillen and Longford were installed with the usual formalities. King George IlL, founder of the order, died in January, 1820, and was suc­ceeded by the Prince Regent as King George IV. The most memorable proceedings in the order under this, its second Sove­reign, were the creation of extra knights, and the circumstance of his Majesty's having held an in­vestiture and installation iu person in the capital of his Irish do­minions. The fifth, or Royal, in­stallation took place on Aug. 28, .1821. The first act of Queen Victoria, the present and fourth Sovereign, was to iBBue a warrant, dated Aug. 25, 1837, substituting declarations instead of the oaths prescribed by the statutes to be taken by the knights and officers. 
THE WEATHERBOARD 
WATERFALLS, 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 

DURING the stay of hie Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in New South Wales, which has, by the infamous act of a Fenian assassin, been abruptly terminated, he visited the waterfalls at the Weatherboard, in the Blue Moun­tain district, about sixty milea from Sydney. We have received from Mr. Oswald WaIter BrierleYl the artist who has accompanie<1 the Prince all through hie tour among the Southern British colo­n ies, a sketch of the picturesque scene at the Weatherboard water­falls. There is a rail way from Sydney to that place, and his Royal Highness, with the Earl of Bel­more, the Governor, the Countess of Belmore, the Bishops of Sydney and Goulburn; the Hon. James Martin, Prime Minister; the Hon. Henry Parkes, Colonial Secretary of the province; and several other Ministers; Lord Newry, the Hon, EliotYorke, Mr. Briedey, and other members of Prince Alfred's suite, tr(l.velled. thither by a special train, At Pennth the Prince was wel­comed by a crowd of the inha­bitants, with the volunteer band and several hundred children of the schools, who sang" God Save the Queen," and shouted" Wel­come 1" or "God bless Prince Alfred I" There was no formal address, and the Prince seemed to like this better. He travelled on, across the Nepean Bridge, up the zigzag inclines, by which the rail way ascends to a height of 1800 ft. above the Emu Plains, and beyond thie, still higher, to the Weatherboard station. Bush­men, dwelling in bark huts, and very simply clad, are the Bcanty population of thie dietrict. Abont a hundred of them, with the women, boys, and girls, were assembled at the railway station. They cheered, and waved such white handkerchiefs as they had at the ends of sticks. The Prince and his party got into six car­riages, and drove to the waterfalls. The scenery is better delineated in Mr. Brierley's sketch, which we 
have engraved, than by any verbal description. The weather, un­fortunately, was rainy and misty, so that the waterfalls could not be seen to great advantage. They have a depth, from ledge to ledge, of several hundred feet. The party stayed three hours, ate a Bub­stantialluncheon, and went back to Sydney in the afternoon. 

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VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO IRELAND. 

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS AT ST. PATRIC I\'§j ~-,\T~EDli\AL~-~~ rAGE 439. 

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, 
INSTALLATION OF THE PUINCE OF WALES -AS A ~NI~H~ OF ~r, ~,A.TRICK, IN ST. PA'fRIOK'S CA'l'HEDRAL, DUIILIN: .t.:LSTEH KING QF A.~MS PHOOLAIMING THE ~PRINCE'S TITLES.-SEE PAGE 130. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINA.TE THE DUKE OF 
EDINBURGH. 

PAINFUL news reached this country from Australia at the close of last week. On Tuesday, March 12, the Duke of Ediuburgh, while accepting the hospitality of the friends of the Sailors' Home at Clontarf, near Port Jackson, New South Wales, was shot in the back by one O'Farrell. The wound, though dangerous, was not fatal. Within two days of its infliction the ball was extracted, and within eight days his Royal Highness was sufficiently recovered to go on board his ship. . 
The following telegram from Galle was received at the Colonial Office on Friday se'nnight from the Earl of Belmore; Sydney:­
On March 12 a person named O'Farrell deliberately shot his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in the back at a public picnic given in aid of the Sailors' Home at Clontarf, Nldle Harbour, Port Jackson. 
Providentially, the wound was not fatal, and he is now able to go on board 
his ship, and hopes shortly to resume his duties. 

The ball was easily removed on Saturday, March 14, by Doctors Watson · aud Young, of her Majeaty's ships Challenger and Galatea. O'FarreIJ fired another shot the moment he was seized, which severely wounded a gentleman named Thorne in the foot; the ball has been extracted, and he is doing well. The assassin, who avowed himself to be a Fenian, was arrested on the spot. 
In consequence of the report of a medical board, Commodore Lambert has ordered his Royal Highness to return to England as soon as he Is eufficiently recovered, which w!JJ probably be next week. 
Immediately on receipt of the news the Duke of Buckingham proceeded to Osborne to communicate it to her Majesty. 
Another telegram, dated Sydney, March 31, 1868, was IIfterwards received by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos from the Earl of Belmore, which states that the Duke is progressing favourably. 
The following telegraphic despatch, dated Sydney, March 28, was received at the Admiralty on Saturday morning from Commodore Lambert, commanding the Australiau station. It is addressed tothe Secretary of the Admiralty. The despatch was received at Point de Galle on the 20th inst. :­
On March 12 his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was deliberately shot in the back by a man named O'FarreU, at a public picnic given in this harbour. ProvidentiaUy the wound was not fatal, and he is now (March 28) able to go on board his ship. The baU entered the back half an inch from the spiue, struck the ninth rib, foUowed round the course of the rib, and lodged five inches from the umbilicus and four inches and a quarter beneath the right nipple, having traversed a die',ance of twelve iuches and" quarter. It was easily removed on Saturday, March 14, by Drs. Watson .and Young, of her Majesty's ships ChaUenger and Galatea. 
The assassin, who avowed himself to be a Fenian, was arrested on the spot, and was arraigned before the Supreme Court yesterday, on the capital charge of wounding with intent to km. On application of .counsel for the defence, postpostment of the trial till Monday next was granted. A defence on the 
ground of insanity will be set up. In consequence of the report of the medical board, I have ordered his Royal Highness to return to England as soon as he is sufficiently recovered, which will probably be next week. 
The conviction of O'Farrell followed swiftly on his crime. He was tried on March 31, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged­the attempt to murder being still a capital offence in Anstralia. 
Further telegrams, of the same date as those already made public, from the Earl of Belmore to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, intimate that the assassination of the Duke was attempted by O'Farrell in consequence of messages sent from conspirators in this country, which ordered the Prince's death. It is understood that O'Farrell was selected by lot to perpetrate the crime, and that the attempt would have been made when the Prince landed in state, but that an opportunity of doing so without risk of injury to others did not occur. 
The New South Wales Government offered £1000 rewaril for the 
apprehension of each accomplice; and one arrest, considered to be 
important, has been made in Victoria. 
The attempt on the life of the Duke has caused an outbul'St of 
horror and indignation throughout the colonies. Enormous d~monstra. 
tions have taken place and numerous addresses have been signed, 
Prayers and thanksgivings have been offered up in all the churches, 
His Royal Highness was to sail for England on April 4, 
JOHN HYACINTH TALBOT, ESQ. 


J Qun 'Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., of Ballytrent and Castle Talbot, in the county of Wexfo,d, J.P. and D.L., who died recently at his seat, Ballytrent, in the county of Wexford, after'a pro­lan ged illness, was the son of Matthew Talbot, Esq., by his second wife, J ane, d~ughter ,?f John D'Arcy: Esq., of KIltullagh,lU the county of Galway, and widow of Count D'Arcy, of France. He was born in 1789. From the year 1832 he was an active supporter of O'Connell, and was four times returned as M.P. for the borough of New Ross. He was last elected for that borough in 1847. He, in 1852, retired from Parliamentary life. He practically, in the name of his then Jiving nephew, William Talbot, Esq., an invalid, appeared before the House of Lords in the great Shrewsbury case as a claimant for the Earldom of Shrewsbury in dispute. Mr. Talbot was much liked and respected as a thoroughly amiable 
and high. minded gentleman. He married, first, May 10, 1822, Anne Eliza, only daughter and heiress of the late Waiter Redmond, E~q., of Ilallytrent House. and by hel' (who died 1826) had three daughters­viz., Anne Eliza Mary, married to the late Sir Thomas N. Redington, K.C.B., of KilcornaD, in the county of Galway; Jane Anne Eliza, married to Sir J ames Powel', the second and present Baronet, of Edermine, in the county of Wexford, and Matilda Anne Eliza, manied to ONeill Segrave, Esq., of Cabra House, in the county of Dublin, aud KiltimoD., in the county of Wicklow. Mr. J. H. Talbot married, secondly, Feb. 25, 1851, Eliza, fifth daughter of the late Sir John Power, Bart., and by her leaves issue (with a daughter, EmUy) a son, John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., who was born Dec. 13, 1851, and is now heir male of the Talbots of Castle Talbot. This family of Talbot of Castle Talbot claims to be a branch of the noble house of Shrewsbury. A copy was given in evidence in the Shrewsbury case of an inscription from an ancient monument in the church of Bromsgroye, W orcestel'shire, erected to the memory of the ancestor of the later Eads of Shrewsbmy, Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton, and his two wives. This inscription, as far ss related to Sir .Tohn's issue, was in the following words :-"The LadyMargaret, hye first wyfe, bare to him three sonnes and five daughters; and ye Lady Elizabeth bare to him foure sonnes and fonre danghters." The present Earl of Shrewsbury, be it observed, descends from a son of the second wife; and the Talbots of Castle Talbot opposed his claim to the Earldom in the House of Lords, and grounded that opposition upon their descent, as they alleged, from one of the yonnger Bons of Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton, by his first wife. Be their view right or wrong, the whole of this is a deep mystery, which the decision of the House of Lords in favour of the better-prepared ana~rongercase of the present 
.Ead of Shrewsbury will probably leave for ever unsolved. Yet it is a curious and certain fact that the Talbots f Castle Talbot still hold lands in Ireland which came to them fro an Earl of Shrewsbury. Their first immediate ancestor, WaIter Talbot, clerk of the Crown for the county of Wexford, was a party in a suit in Cbancery in 1586. From him directly descended Matthew Talbot, Esq., of Castle Talbot, who, by his first wife, JuJiana, Countess Dowager of Knglesey, had William, his successor; and by his second wife, as mentioned above, had (with other issue) John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., the gentleman just deceased. Matthew's eldest son and suc­cessor, WiIliam Talbot., Esq., was father (with other issne) of the late WilIiam Talbot, Esq., his successor, the nominal claimant in the Shrewsbury caee, and of the late Maria Conntess Dowager of Sbrewsbury, widow of John, sixteenth Earl of Sbrewsbury. Unlike the Talbot family generally, whose crest is a talbot dog, the Talbots of Castle Talbot have for ages borne the peculiar lion crest of the noble honse of Shrewsbury. 
Peter Morgan, alias Mohan, was on Wednesday convicted, at the Central Criminal Court, of inducing soldiers to desert from ker Majesty's service to swell the Fenian ranks, and sentenced to penal servitude for ten years. 
A large meeting in support of the Irish Church was held. in S~. J ames's Hall, on Wednesday. The Archbishop of Canterbnry pre­sided, and he was supported by nearly a dozen bishops and a host of peers and members of Parliament. Among the speakers were the Lord Mayor of London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of London, the Earl of Harrowby, the Archbishop of York, DeM Stanley, Lord Colchester, the Duke of Northumberland, and Lord Chelmsford. Three resolutions were adopted by the meeting. The first affirmed the principle of Church and State; the second declared that the disestabJishment of the Irish Church" would be it serious blow to the reformed faith of the United Kingdom, would materially affect the supremacy of the Crown, and would directly tend to promote the ascendancy of a foreign Power within her Majesty's de minions ;" the third admitted the possibility that it might be found necessary to carry out cer~ain reforms in the threatened Establishment. 
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SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 

"THE Commons House of Parliament is amusing itself. Once on a ·time a great Eastern potentate pll\yed chess, with real men for the pieces on his board, which was an immense hall; and now there is going on a game of who shall be king of the castle? which may be in some sort likened to that exaggerated diversion, inasmuch as the players are high politicians. A word or two on the moves. Taking up the narrative on th<lt eventful occasion when, for the third time, aIi immense majority declared in favour of Mr. Gladstone as opposed to Mr. Disraeli-for this is the true and proper way of putting it-let it be I'ecorded that, early on that evening, some moves were made which may have been premeditated attempts to try Mr. Gladstone's temper. For a Protestant· Northern Irish member with provoking coolness and insinuation qnestioned his accuracy (it was only about the terms of a petition which he had presented), and that was dire offence; · and so he exploded at once. So successful was this first essayz that another assault was made on his equauimity, prJbably with mten· tion also, bv a demand for the reading of the now obsolete oath taken by Roman Catholic members. The leader of the Opposition ··conld not contain himself even until the qnestion was put, but sprang np to protest with as much vehemence all his assailants could possibly have desired, and there went on such a clashing discussion that Mr. Disraeli at last got up in a mock state of alarm and proceeded to soothe, in just the way in which a nnrse endeavours to placate a petulant child. All this was a special instance of the art of Parliamentary worrying <of an irritable opponent, and must have been stimulating to a House which had got drowsy over the debate on the Irish Church reso­lutions. Indeed, after this episode, tbe discussion dribbled on very feebly, not excepting when Mr. Walpole developed himself with all his possible force, suggesting the overflowing of a stagnant pond. ·To be sure, the magnanimous Lord Elcho did contrive to infuse into it an element of lhat discord which is pleasant to the House, the enjoyment of antiphonal cheering between ten and eleven being eve.r new; and, indeed, on this occasion there was noise, and peculiar DoiEe, while the noble Lord was speaking, suggesting ideas of the excitement which invariably attends the sport of rat· hunting. After this gentlemen sank back into the state of indifference which they had shown all through the second act of the great political drama in course of enactment, and no one rose. The astonishment of Mr. Gladstone was palpable; he looked round to his own followers, one of whom might have been expected to succeed Lord Elcho, who had proclaimed his dis­affection to his nominal leader; then he hinted by expression of face Ilnd gesticulation his expectation that Mr. Disraeli would take the floor; but tJ:,;r~ gentlemen was in his sphinx-like vein-coun­tenance, form, and, one would almost think, intelligence, sunk into immobility; and 80 the leader of the Opposition was obliged to ·forego the last word. On the whole, considering how he had been Bprighted early in the evening and out-manoeuvred then, he was · mild and moderate; while as to Mr. Disraeli, he did that which is generally his best thing-he maqe a rapid, rattling, gene­ral, brief reply, with just enough spice. As to the division and its surroundings, the effect was akin to that which follows a thrice­repeated song. Of course there was applause, but it was not .enthusiastic ; for the result was obvious, and it is probable that any cheers which were louder than the rest were directed at the increase in the majority. Once Mr. Disraeli dated the dedication of ' 
· a novel" May morning;" and it was even on such a morning that he bad to rise to acknowledge his third crushing defeat. He seemed to be under the genial influence of the moment of the season; for he was calm and even soft in his manner when he stated that the Ministry wonld consider their position, though there was something about him which suggested a recollection of the style ill which, ill 1859, he performed a similar task, and which might have been taken to indicate that" dissolution" was in his mind. 
There waR snch a gathering of Whig peers in the places in the 'CommoJ;s allotted to the Upper House, at the earliest possible hour ·on Monday, that one could not help feeling that there was a belief in the reoignation of the Tory Ministry and a proximate distribution of offices in the State. If they and all the vast crowd of which they formed a part came to behold the humiliation of a beaten 
-GovernmeBt, they were profoundly mistaken; for Mr. Disraeli in bis address adopted that most effective of all manners ou such ·an occasion -he was calm, easy, slightly assured; spoke with special clearness of voice, and level of diction; and, in fact, demeaned himself just as a Minister might who was intro­,ducing a meMme which could not possibly excite and hardly interest his audience-say a bill to revolntionise India. His retrospect of the caretr of the Ministry was the coolest assumption of undisputed merit; and he seemed to take it for granted that, after the statement of 2uch a case, no sensible House of Commons could do otherwise with 
,a Minister who had gone through the formality of tendering his resignation than allow him to carry on the business-ay, and aid him cordially to do that-until about this time next year. As to three tremendous majorities against him, they were mere abstrac· tions, which might amuse Mr. Gladstone but could not hurt him. 'The House, or rather the Opposition, took all this so quietly, that it was palpable that Mr. Disraeli thought he had done the trick; for in his concluding sentences he appeared to be in a state of contentment, such as he might have experienceS. if he had been ,stating that he had just returned from Osborne, having completed the formation of an Administration that must be agreeable to the Legislatnre universally. The lengthened protest of Mr. Gladstone was not disfigured by any passion, thongh he was sharp and stinging here and there, and gave out plainly that he had not yielded a nail's­breadth of his position. That he was not specially stimulating was proved by the fact that the bulk of the House seemed to cOl~si?er the affair over for that evening. But not so Mr. Lowe, who, slttmg, as .bis manner now is, in a high place on the front Opposition bench, seems to be devoured with a keen hunger for office, and is apparently re­solved that indecisive Ministerial statements shall not mock his empty -stomach and craving appetite. He set on a new discussion, the object of which was to demand to know the Premier's inner thoughts of his futnre; and he was backed eagerly by Mr. Ayrtou, who, pos­.sib1y, with the Bce~t of office in his nostrils, thinks it best to show a deep concern for the sensibilities of the Crown-certainly a reaction from the state of mind in that regard which he evinced Bome little time ago in a speech at St. James's Hall. Then, too, Mr. Bright, 'manifestly angered at the probability of the slipping away from the grasp of Mr. Gladstone of the great political eel, tried to set his foot hard upon his tail. So there was senatorial noise enough for an hour or two. The effect on Mr. Disraeli was peculiar, for whereas he was before the critical discussion assured, he was now t,rinmphant and d~fiant. He had of course seen a weak point in Mr. Gladstone's speech, which was apparent enough-namely, that that gentleman did not threaten or even indicate a straight last attack in the shape of a vote of no confidence in the Ministry; and so he began crowing on this very point, and talked in a very come·if·you-dare ,spiIit. In fine, as things stood at the end of the discussion, it looked very much as if there was no Ministerial crisiS, aft~r till. 
On that same evening, having in his hand seemingly written instructions what to say, the Eapl of Malmesbury briefly and l'ather in­.definitely announced to the half dozen peers in their own House who had stayed away from the Commons that the Ministerial difficulty had been settled, and the matter nearly passed away. But, after an interval, the querulous spirit of Earl Grey suddenly exhibited itself, .and a conversation arose, in the course of which the Dllke of Rich­mond, in the fulness of his heart, let out the real feeling of the Government-namely, that they were quite comfortable about sub· .duing the House of Commons, inasmuch as au immediate dissolution was hanging over them. 
On . Tuesday night, even if there had not beeu whispers of something coming, the aspect of Mr. Gladstone was portentous to 8nyone who is familiar with the demeanour and expression of 
·countenance of that tight hon. gentleman, and there was not ,much surprise when he took the earliest moment to make a speech which was an expansion of the phra.se, what the d-l did the Duke of Richmond mean by such an insolent asser­tion as he has made, and what do you (Mr. Disraeli) Bay to it ( Well, Dot much did he say in reply, and that half mystical, half insolent; no­thing,certain or direct as to whether he intended to exercise the power, if he bad it, of immediate dissolution. Everybody, however, was ,curious; even Mr. Sandfol'd took the opportunity of gi vlug a. poke 
to his nominal leader. One after another, members of various calibre insisted on Dot being left nnsatisfied as to whet her they were to be affiicted with two elections in twelve months. .There was Mr. Ayrton, fuming again, full of sympathy for the ill-treated Crown; there was Mr. Osborne, in his most ·severe vein, paren­thetically proclaiming bis disinterested determination not to accept office-a very cheap self-denial; Mr. Horsmau assuming the right, seemingly, of a delayed official to demand a categOrical answer; and, finally, Mr. Lowe, now downright ogreish in his office­hunger, capped the climax of intense curiosity. Wonderfully well did Mr. Disraeli bear the pitiless pelting of interrogation, and craftily did he, after all, creep out of the difficulty; for, though he was emphatically distinct in his statement that any pow er. of disso· lution which he possessed was applicable only to the question of the Irish Church by no word or hint did he sa,tisfy the real inquiry­namely, to which of the constituencies, the old or the new, he meant to appeal. Probably the answer to this query will not be obtained until after the Ministry has been subjected to the ordeal of a vote of no confidence. The quiet and unopposed passing of the second and third resolutions, on Thursday, formed an epoch in this eventful 
p"li.m~:;·;~·;:;:L PARLUMENT. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. MINISTERIAL STATE~[EN1'. The Earl of lIfnlmesburyexplained the course taken by the Govern­ment in consequence of the adverse vote of the Commous on Thursday night, and announced that they had determined, wit.h the consent of her Majesty, to expedite tbe measures now before Par­liament and appeal to the country as soon as the state of public afi'ai,s would permit. Earl Grey protested against the doctrine that the GJvernment were justified in appealing to the country because the subject on which they were defeated was not brought forward prominently at the last general election. The Lord Chancellor reminded the House that the present Par­liament was elected in 1865, when the issue presented to 'the country had no l'eference to the disestablishment of the Irish Churcb. The Duke of Somerset asked whether the Goyernment inteuded to appeal to the country at once, or to the new constituencies as soon as the arrangements were complete. The Duke of Richmond said it would depend upon the state of affairs whether the appeal would be to the prese nt or ~he new constituencies. The Earl of Feversham approved of the courde taken by the Government, and also of their general policy. The subject then dropped. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-]\fONDAY. Mr. Ramsay took his seat for the Stirling burghs in the room of 1>11'. Oliphant; Lord IngestJ;e, for Stamford, in the room of Viscount Cranborne; and Mr. Pemberton, for East Kent, in the room of Sir 
B. Bridges. 
MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS: 

Mr. Disraeli's statement on the Ministerial crisis was made to a densely-filled house. Having l'eminded the House that, on Thursday night, he declal'ed that the adverse division on the Irish Church had altered the relations between the Government and the House, and tbat it would be necessary for the former to consider their position, for which purpose he asked the House to adjourn for a few days, now requested further leave to make a statement upon the subject, and give the result of considering the question, and the course which they thought it their duty to pursue. The right hon. gentleman then reviewed the circnmstances under which the Earl of Derby undertook the Government in 1866, and the way in which the Ministry had conducted the affairs of the country up to the moment when the House was asked to consider a policy of a startling character, which was no less than the dl,establish­ment of the Church in a portion of her Majesty's dominions. This proposal Ministers had resisted for reasons which were fresh in the recollection of all; but the House decided in favour of the motion. After that vote of Thursday he lost no time in obtain­ing an audience with her Majesty, which she was graciously pleased to accord to him in the afternoon of Friday. On that occasion he placed fully and fairly before the Queen the position of the Govern· ment, of parties, and of the country, and he told her Majesty that the advice which Ministers, under the circumstances and in the true spirit of the Constitution, were prepared to offer her was, that she Ilhould dissolve this Parliament and take the opinion of the country upon the conduct of the Government and upon the question at issue. At the same time, he represented that there were important occa­sions on which it was wise that the Sovereign should not be em­barrassed by personal claims, however constitutionr.l, valid, or meritorious, and that if her ]\fajesty was of opinion that the qnestion at issue could be more satisfactorily settled, or the just interests of the country be more studied by the immediate retirement of the present Go Yel'llment from officehthey were prepared at once to quit 
her Eervice. He then tendered is resignation to the Queen, who commanded him to attend her in audience on the next day, when she expressed her pleasure not to accept the resignation of her Ministers, and her readiness to dissolve the present Parliament EO Boon as the etate of public li>usiness would permit. Under these circumstances he advised her Majesty, although the representatives of the existing constituency were no donbt as morally (lompetent to decide upon the qnestion of the disestablishment of the Irish Church as the representatives pf the new consti.tuency, still it was the opinion of Ministers that every effort should be made for appealing, if pe8sible, to the new constituency; and he stated that if the Govern­ment had the cordial co·operation of rarliam~nt he was advised by those who were experienced in this matter that it would be possible to make arrangements by which that dissol ution might take place in the coming autumn. With regard to the second and third resolu­tions on the Irish Church, baving disapproved of the first, he of course disapproved of the second and third, which he looked upon as corollaries of the first. With a view to the dispatch of business, however, he would not enter into protracted and formal discussions upon them, although he should offer them a hearty negative; but he would be happy to devote the earliest possible day at the disposal of the Government for their consideration. 
Mr. Gladstone was ready to admit that in some of its branches the public service had been conducted with ability; but he refused to include in this panegyric what he called the great spending depart­ments. He criticised with great severity the plea put forward by Mr. Disraeli that every Government, when beaten, had a Con­stitutional right to advise a dissolution. No such right existed, unless, upon a great question of public policy, there was a reason­able prospect that the country would reverse the decision of Par­liament. He said there was no precedent for the spectacle they were now witnessing-a Governmeut which had twice been defeated by majorities of 60 and 65 clin.ging to the Treasury bench. Bnt, whatever the position of affairs, the duty of the LiberaJ. p:1rty was clear. They must follow up the course upon which they had entered with regard to the Irish Church. He had no compact to make with the Govern­ment, and the Prime Minister's statement contained nothing which would justify thllm in relinquishing the design of bringing in a bill based npon the resolutions. At the same time, he would not press the motion of which he had given notice, that the second and third resolutions should be dealt with before any further vote was taken in Supply. 
A discussion followed, in the course of which Mr. Lowe aud Mr. Bright strongly denounced the Government,l!and, in effect, insisted that they were bound at once to move to the left of the Speaker. 
WAYS AND 1[EANS. 
The House then resolved itself into Committee of Ways and Means, and a lengthened discussion toek place on the first resolu­tion, to increase the income tu by twopence in the pound. 
Mr. Gl:ldstone pointed out that two millions and three quarters had been added to the Estimates dnrillg the time the present Government had been in office, and urged the absolute necessity of l'etrenchmentl without which, he warned the House, there would be a financisl Ctlsis. . 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. The Marquis of Salisbury (Viscount Cranborne) took the oath and his seat on the Ministerial side of the House on his accession to the Peerage. Lord Annaly also took the oath and hiB seat as one of the representative peers of Ireland. The Executions Within Prisons Bill was read the second time, as was also the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Bill. The Medical Practitioll.ers (Colonies) Bill was read the third time lInd pl1!lsed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. THE IRISH CHURCH. The House having gone into Committee on the Established 'Church (Ireland), Mr. Gladstone, in moving his second resolution, said, by the plan which he recommended no Bishop or clergyman would be affected ·during his lifetime, but until the vacancies occurred there would be time allowed for the Bubstitution of a voluntary system; and what he ·desired to provide was that during this transition period no new vEsted interests, from which now lall the difficulty arose, should be created. He would state that the Suspensory Bill, which would ·only be proposed to continue in force until Aug. 1, 1869, would ·only relate to the official patronage, for if he attempted now to interfere with the private patronage, he would at once have to deal with the question of compensation to private rights, which, as the .number of benefices affected was unlike the case in Englaud, being small, CGuld very easily be postponed. By adopting a clause of the Temporalities Act, which was now law, ample provision would be made for the discharge of the spiritual duties of the bishops, and by .a very slight modification of the existing law, for the cure of souls iu populous parishes, in a thoroughly effectual and respectable manner temporarily, so as not to create a freehold or -vested interest. By these provisions all temporary inconvenience would be removed, so as to outweigh all considerations of this kind in comparison with the great object to be attained. In conclusion he moved that, •• subject to the foregoing considerations, it is elCpe· dient to prevent the execution of new personal interests by the ·exercise of allY public patronage, and to confine the operations of the EcclesiastICal Commissioners of Ireland to objects of immediate necessity, or such as involve individual rights, pending the fi\lal .cJecision of Parliament. Mr. Hardy eaid that the object of the Government was very dif­ferent from tbat of the other side. The latter wished to destroy the .Establisbed Church in Ireland. The former were quite ready to remove all abuscs and to do all in their power to make that Church .as effective' as posEible. Their opinions were thus far quite irrecon­cilable; but he was quite ready to admit that the Government had already met with as great a defeat as it possibly could on this -question. Therefore, although the Government conld not assent either to the resolutions, or to the bill which was to be brought in as their result, they felt that, with the view of expediting the public bnsinesa, as they had already undertaken to do, it was not desirable 
to prolong the discussion, and he hoped that the resolution would be met with a negative only, without giving the House the trouble to ilivide. 
The resolution was subsequently agreed to. 

Mr. Glaustone then moved the third resolution, as follows :-"That au humble address be presented to her Majesty, humbly to pray that, with a view of preventing, by legislation, during the present Session, ·,the creation of new personal interests through the exercise of any public patronage, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parliament her interest in the temporalities of the archbishoprrcs, bishoprics, and other ecclesiastical dignities and benefices in Ireland and in the custody thereof." 
Mr. Disraeli said that, when the resolutions of Mr. Gladstone were carried, her Majesty's Government would be prepared to take the matter again into their consideration, and to give the Queen their ,best'advice in relation thereto. 
Mr. Gladstone acquiesced in this arrangement. 
This resolution was also agreed to without a division. 
Mr. Laing, whilst withdrawing the resolution of which he had 


,given notice, suggested the advisability, on the part of the Govern­ment, to take the sense of the country upon the issue now raised. 
Mr. S. Aytoun moved a resolution declaring that, together with the disestablishment and disendowment of the Anglican Church in I reland, the Maynooth grant and the Regium Donum should be dis­-continued; and that no part of the funds of the Church or of the .State should be applied to the endowment or furtherance of the .Roman Catholic religion in Ireland or to the establishment or main­tenance of Roman Catholic denominational schools or colleges. 
In the course of a discussion which arose, 

Mr. Bright decliued being bound to the terms of the latter part 
,of the resolution; and, if it were pressed to a division, he should 
vote against it. He would remind the Committee that the reso­
lutions of Mr. Gladstone were not binding as a law. It would be 
necesEary to pass a bill through both Houses in order to give them 
·the effect of a legal enactment. The present, therefore, was not the 
time for considering the question now raised. 

Sir J. Fergusson remarked that the speech of Mr. Bright clearly 
proved that this was a party question. 
Sir G. Grey thought that the adoption of such a re301ution as that 
1l0W moved was calculated to occasion the greatest inconvenience. 

Mr. Gladstone, whilst fully sensible of the responsibility of his position, was of opinion that this was not the preper time for the ·consideration of the resolution of the hon. gentle man, and therefore ·declined to be any party to it. At the same time he had no hesitation jn saying that with the extinction of the Established Church in Ireland the Maynooth grant and the Regium Donum must also ,cease to exist. He would not bind himself to interfere at all with private endowments. 
Mr. Whicbread moved an amendment to the effect that, when the .Anglican Church in Ireland was disestablished, the Maynoeth grant .and Regium Donum should be discontinued. 
The Committce having divided, Mr. Aytoun's resolution was negatived by a majority of 198 to 85. Mr. Whitbread's amendment then became the substantive resolu­t ion and was read from the chair. Mr. Gladstone moved an addition, with the view of protecting ·existing personal interestB. 
In the course of a lengthened discussion, Mr. Ayrton taunted the ·Government with maintaining silence on the question and retiring from the Rouse before the division. 
Mr. Disraeli said that he was opposed to the resolution, the nmendment, and the disestablishment of the Irish Chnrch. What he had foreseen had taken place, and would take place again. The gentlemen on the Opposition side of the House were now quarrelling '(lver their booty, and that was a question upon which he did not 
feel himself called upon to express an opinion. 
It was then agreed to amend the resolution of Mr. Whitbread by 
the addition of the words moved by Mr. Gladstone. 

Mr. Green proposed an addition, to the effect that no part of the .endowment funds of the Anglican Church in Ireland should be .applied to the endowment of any other religious community. 
The Committee then divided upon the question that the words proposed by Mr. Green be added to the resolution, and the result was the defeat of Mr. Green's amendment by a majority of 132 to 97. 
The resolution amended by Mr. Gladstone was then accepted without a division, amid great cheering from the Opposition ,bencbes and a scene of great excitement in the Honse genera.lly. 
lIIr. Dismeli would tell the House that the resolution wonld do 

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notbing less than introduce into the queBtion the element of con­
fusion. 
Mr. Bright said Mr. Disraeli would learn from what had passed 
Ihat night bow difficult it would be to pass a measure for the en­
dowment of the Roman Catholic Church. He believed, notwith­
standin~ ~he great meeting of Church dignitaries ye.terday, that 
the mSJonty of the people of England would be found in favour of 
the policy of Mr. Gladatone. He was as much interested in 
the peac~ .and proper~ of Ireland as anyone. He had deplored 
tbe condItiOn of that country, and was for doing an act of 
substantial justice to the Irish people. Mr. Disraeli had talked 
of the interviews with his Sovereign; but such a man was as 
guilty as the conspirator who wished to dethrone her if he deceived 
her. He feared Mr. Disraeli had not told all that had happened at 
these interviews, and he would tell any lIIinister who put the Queen 
in front, and who told the Irish people the Queen holds the fl ag 
under which we a1'e marshalled, he wa~ guilty of an offence the most 
grievous that a Prime Minister could possibly commit. 
Lord J. Manners said Mr. Bright had just voted against an amend­
ment which would prevent Parliament from taking auy part of the 
reveLues from the Roman Catholic Churcb, although he pretended he 
did net want to endow the Roman Catholic Church. 
Mr. Gladstone regretted that this discussion had been provoked by 
Mr. Disrneli's remark, couched, as it was, in language which had 
never before been nsed by a Minister. Then, why the taunt of Lord 
J. Manners about endowing the Roman Catholics when Govern. ment had openly expressed a desire to introduce the principle of wdowment ? 
Mr. Disraeli denied that he was open to the charge of using in­oecorous language. Anyone who had heard the various and con· tradictory propositions put forward that night would hold him justified in saying that the elements of confusion had been intro­duced into the question. With respect to the statements made by Mr. Bright, who had accused him of using language at once pompous and servile in his intercourse with the Queen, he would appeal to gentlemen on both sides-for, fortunately, there were gentlemen on both sides-and, challenging Mr. Bright to prove any charge he had ever made against him, would leave the verdict in the hands of tbeee wbo sat on the same side of the House as the honourable member. 
After a few words from Mr. Newdegate, the Chairman reported the resolutions as amended, and they were agreed to. 
IRISH REFORM BILL. The second reading having been moved, Mr. C. Fortescue would not oppose it, but in Committee would have important amendments to make. The amendments against the second reading having been with­drawn, tho bill was read the second time. 
' MAY 9, , 1868 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 

THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. D'ARCY M'GEE. l'HE late atrocious crime 'of the Fenian con­spirators in Canada, equalled only by their attempt on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh in New South Wales, has aroused the sternest ,indignation. The Hon. Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee, 'who represented Montreal West in the House of Commons sitting at Ottawa, was an Irish­man of high personal character and of re· ,markable talents and accomplishments. 'Having, when a young man of twenty-three, been one of the accomplices in Mr. Smith 0'Brien's rebellion of 1848, he escaped to America; and, when the amnesty was 'granted, became a loyal citizen of the British lcolony. His subsequent public career may be compared with that of his friend, Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy, who has nobly atoned for a similar mistake in bis own eal'ly life by setting an example of disinterested fidelity, and has gained an honourable place amongst the 'political worthies of Australia, both as a jour­nalist and a leading member of the Colonial ·Parliameut. Mr. D'Arcy M'Gee was most .earnestly opposed to the Fenian conspiracy; and has, during the last three years, directed ,his'utmost exertions, by speech and writing, to warn his countrymen against it. The in· Il..nence which he justly possessed among the -Idsh of Lower Canada, as well as among ,those in Ireland who knew his proved sincerity BS an Irish patriot, made him very obnoxious ,to the Fenian party. The plot to murder him was hatched at Montreal, but not without the connivance or the chiefs of that infamous con­Ilpiracy at New York. It was executed, in the basest and most cowardly manner, on the night of April 7, when Mr. M'Gee, after the 'eloquent speech he delivered in the House of 'Commons, in favour of loyalty and nnity among the British North American colonists, -was shot dead from behmd, as he arrived at the door of ' his own lodgings, and at the momellt when he stopped to put his latchkey in the door., The agent of ,this bloody deed was a person named J ames Whelan, a journey­man tailor of Montreal, who had been-lurking 
'about Ottawa several months, always with his' 
.loaded pistol, and had been accustomed to ,watch Mr. M'Gee from the gallery of the House of Commons, 'and to follow him about the streets. Four or five other men are in custody, charged with a share in the crime. , The lamented gentleman, who has left a wife and family, was ;greatly esteemed in the. city of Montreal. His ' funeral, managed 
,by a committee of .his friends at the expense~of the ¥ontreal City Council, was a most impressive spectacle. It was attended by official representatives of the Government, the Judges and ,magistrates, numerous memberS' {If. the Federal Senate and House of Commons at Ottawa, and of the Legislative Council ,and Assembly of Lower Canada, the Mayors and Corporations of Montreal a,nd Ottawa, the officers of all the British troops in 'Canada, the clergy, the professors and students of the Universities, and deputations frpm various friendly or benefit llocieties, especially those belonging to the Irish working class popul:;lotion. The coffin was borne on a handsome funeral car, drawn by six horses, preceded and followed by many other mourning 'coaches. The streets through which the procession went, from the house of the de~eased in St. Catherine-street, were lined by fourteen companies of volunteers, militia, and regulars; and the 78th High. 

IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN BORN.-SEE PAGE 466. 
landers, the famous regiment that won the heights of Abraham under General Wolfe at Quebec, held the most important post. Many house-fronts were hung with black from the windows or roof. The course of the procession (which is the subject of one of our En. gravings) was first to St. Patrick's Church, where the Roman Catholic service for the dead was performed by the officiating priest, Father Dowd, with a fine choral accompaniment; and a sermon was delivered, in English, by the Rev. Mr. O'Farrell. The procession was again formed, and the coffin was then taken to the parish church of Montreal, in the Place d' Armes, for another service, with a sermon in the French language; in which the Cure, the Rev. Victor ' Rousselot, conducted the liturgical part, and Monseigneur Bourget, the Roman Catholic Bishop, preached the sermon. At the special recommendation of Lord Monck, the Governor-General, it is proposed by the Parliament at Ottawa to grant a pension to the family of Mr. M'Gee, who is truly regarded as a martyr to the cause of loyalty. His portrait, by Mr. W. Notman, the well-known photographic artist of Montreal, has found a very extensive sale. The photograph of the funeral procession, from which our Illustra­tion lS copied, was taken by Mr. J. Inglis, of the same city. 
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON RITUALISM. THE second report of the Royal Commissio::l on Ritualism has been presented to the Queen. The Commissioners say that, althongh there have been candlesticks, with candles, on " the Lord's table" during a long period ill many cathedrals and collegiate churches and chapels, and also iB the chal'lels of some colleges and of some Royal and episcopal residences, the ,instances that have been add uced to prove that candles have been lighted as accessories to the holy communion are few and much con­tested; b>lt no sufficient evidence has been adduced to prove that at any time during the last three centuries have lighted candles been used in parish churches as accessories to the celebration of the holy communion until within the last twenty·five years. The use of incense, too, inthe public services of the Church during the present century is very recent, and the in­stances of its introduction very rare, and, 80 far as the Commissioners have any evidence before them, it is at variance with the Church's usage for 300 years. They are, therefore, of opinion that it is expedient to restrain in the public services of the Church all variations from established usage in respect of lighted candles and of incense. " The "speedy and inexpensive remedy" which the Commissioners suggest should be provided for parishioners aggrieved by the" introduction of incense and candles is as follows :-" First, that whensoever it shall be found necessary, order be taken concerning the same, the usage of the Church of Eng­land and Ireland as above stated to have pre­vailed for the last 300 years, shall be deemed to be the rule of the Church in respect of vestments, lights, and incense; and, secondly, that parishioners may make formal application to the Bishop in camem, and the Bishop, on such application, shall be bound to inquire into the matter of the complaint; and if it shall thereby appear that there has been a variation from established usage by the introduction of vestments, lights, or incense in the public ser­vices of the Church, he shall take order forth­with for the discontinuance of such variation, and be enabled to enforce the same summarily." The Commissioners also think that the determination of the Bishop on such application "should be subject to appeal to the Archbishop of the province in camera, whose decision thereon shall' be final-provided always that if it should appear to either party that the decision of the Bishop or Archbishop is open to question on any legal ground a case may be stated by the party dissatisfied, to be certified by the Bishop or Archbishop as correct, and then sub­mitted by the said party for the decision of the Court of the Arch­bishop without pleading or evidence, with a right of appeal to the Privy Council, and with power for the Court, if the statement of the case should appear to be in any way defective, to refer back such case to the Bishop or Archbishop for amendment." Precautions are suggested to prevent "frivolous applications" from being brought before the Bishop. The Commissioners inti­mate that theirintention in making these recommendations is simply to provide a special facility for restraining variations from established u2age, without interfering with the general law of the Church as to ornaments or the ordinary remedies now in force. The rubrics, orders; and directions contailled ill the Prayer Book will form the subject of the next report. 

FUNJ;;RAL PROCESSlON OF THE LATE HON. 'l'HOM-AS D'ARCY M'GE E, AT MONTREAL, CANADA. 

The council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland has, awarded the Carmichael prizes to Dra. Mapother and ABhe. 
Mr. John Crawfurd, the distinguished Oriental scholar and ethnologist, died on Monday at his residence inElvaston'place, South. Kensington, in hiS eighty-fifth year. 
The Royal Humane Society has awarded a medal toJ Mrs. Elizabeth Poigndestre, the wife of a Jersey clargyman, for rushing­into the sea and saving a man from being drowned in February last. 
The Home Secretary has ordered a respite of the sentence of death passed on Michael Barrett, for participation in the Clerken­well outrage, until the completion of the investigation which is proceeding into t!te truth of the alibi set up for him on his trial. 
The Congregational Board of Education has decided by a large majority that the rejeotion of aid from public money administered by Government for educational purposes be no longer indispensable to membership or participation in the benefits of the institution. 
At the recent arts examination at Apothecaries' Hall, Mrs. IsabeI Thorne presented herself in company with sixty-six gentlemen. Out of the sixty-seven candidates, forty-seven passed. Mrs. Thorne came out among the first six, and her papers were so excellent that the usuallliva voce examination was dispensed with. 
The · deputy keeper of the Public Records has presented his twenty-ninth annual report. It details all the business transacted at the Record Office in 1867, including the progress made in the calendars, the transcripts of Digby manuscripts, the Carte and CareN papers, the chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, the Durham records, &c. The amount of fees paid in 1867 was £441, and the total paid into the Exchequer since 1840, £22,463. 
At the close of the year 1866 there .were in England and Wales 283 railway companies whose lines were open for traffic, with a total mileflge of 9701, of which sixteen companies alone owned, leased, or worked 8481 miles. In Scotlaud at the present period there were thirty-one companies with 2244 miles of railway open for traffic; andin Ireland there were thirty-nine companies, with a total mileage of 1909. Nine bills have been introduced during the present Session of Parliament, anthorising amalgamations which, if carried out, will add 540 miles to our present railway: system; and it is proposed t() add eighty-five more by fomteen bIlls laid before Parliament con­tllining provisione for working arrangements, 
At the close of the year 1866 there .were in England and Wales 283 railwal companies whose lines were open for traffic, with a total mile~ge 0 9701, of which sixteen companies alone owned, leaged, or worked 8481 miles. In Scotland at the present period there were thirty-one companies with 2244 miles of railway open for traffic; and in Ireland there were thirty-nine companies, with a total mileage of 1909. Nine bills have been introduced during the present Session of Parliament, authorising amalgamations which, if carried out, will add 540 miles to our present railway system; and it is proposed t() add eighty-five more by fomteen bills laid before Parliament con­taining provisions for working arrangement.9. 
BIRTHS. 

On tbe 4tb:inst.,at Licbfield, tbe wife of Captain P. C. G. Webster, of ason. On the 5th ult., at Bangalore, the wife of Captain A. R. Gloag, of a son. 
MARRIAGES. 

On the 9th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddington, by the ReV'. Dr. 1I1ackwood, assisted by the Rev. Henry Long, Henrietta Julia, eldest daughter .,f R. J. H. Harvey, Esq., M.P., and of Lady Henrietta Harvey, of Orown Point, near Norwich, to Edmund Knowles Lacon, Esq., eldest son of Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart., M.P., and I,ady Lacon, of Ormsby Hall, near Yarmoutb. 
. On March 19, at St. John's Church, Meerut, India, by tbe Rev. J. Spears, 
Chaplain, James Hair, Esq., C.E., executiye engineer Ganges Canal, 
Row'kee, to Catherine Ruth, second daughter of the late Rev. Henry John 'Tooze, Pehembury Vicarage, Devon. On the 12th inst., at the residence of the brIde's brother, Langside, near Glasgow, by the Rev. Professor Weir, D.D. , brother·in·law of the bridegroom,

lIullwr, youngest son of Charles Spence, Esq., Manchester, to Maria, youngest 
lIaugh!er of the late John Pilling, Esq., Sale, Oheshire, No cards. On March 19, by the Rev. J. Chubb Ford, Chaplain of the English Church, 

:Buenos Ayres, Edward, son of E. Medlicott, Esq., of Cabo Ruivo, Lisbon, to 
Nary Waterson, daughter of H. P. Smith, Esq., of the county of Tyrone, lreland. • DEATHS. 
On the 4th inst., at Foynes, near Limerick, Nathaniel C. Barton, Liett· tenant R.N., fifth son of Charles O. Barton, Esq., of Rownhams, near I)outhsmpton, aged 31. 
On the 7th inst., at his residence, 11, Lyndhurst·road, Peckham, Sttrrey, S.E., Richard Glaister, Esq., in the 66th year of his age. Friends will please Jlccept this intimation. 
On the 8th inst., at 16, Park·terrace, Glasgow, James Dalziel Johnston, Esq., of Redesdale, Skelmorlie, N.B., second son of the late Andrew Johnston, Esq. Friends will please accept this intimation. 
On the 6th inst., at Oastle Morres, John de Montmorency, Esq., D.L., of Vastle Morres, in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, aged 54. 
On the 7th inst., at 3, La Belle·place, Glasgow, Elizabeth Jamieson, the beloved wife of Robert McCowan, Esq., O.A. Friends will please accept ~his intimation. 
"." The charge fo>' the insertion Dj Birth., MlM'riages, and Deaths, is Five Shillings f a" each announcement. 
· On Thursday afternoon the -Dublin Corporate address to thGl Queen, congratulating her Majesty on the escape of the Duke of Edinburgh from assassination, was presented at Windsor Castle. The deputation consisted of the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Mr. W. Ca1'1'01l), Aldermen Manning and Crothy, Mr. Barrington (Town Councillor), Mr. Henry (Town Clerk), and other members of the Corporation. 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 
-WHAT at a fair in Ireland is called a free fight is the only phrase ~applicable to the scene which occurred in the Commons House of Parliament on that night when Mr. Gladstone's resolutions on the Irish Church were agreed to so quietly. At that moment the Liberal :party was at a greater height of triumph than even at the moments . when the flushed and panting tellers on their side proclaimed im­'meme majorities in their favour on this question. In le1s than an hour afterwards that party presented themselves in that rabble·rout -condition which Mr. Bouverie (one of them) has so unctuou.ly de­,scribed. Not content with the resolutions a~ they stood, sufficiently broad and comprehensive, a Scottish member, who will acquire a doubtful celebrity in Parliamentary history from that night's work, ;.must needs demand that a rider should be added to them, binding the House, and even fut;u-e Parliaments, to a spec~al course, from a No-PopeIY. point of. view. At ?uce the gr,eat .unlted):~lberal party . ·broke up mto sectIons or factlOns; and, msplred as It were by a very demon of diECord, regardless of admonitions from Mr. Bright, ,and still more heedless of suggestions from Mr. Gladstone, sec about to disagree almost individnaJly. In vain did Mr. Cogan, in half­petulant, half-melancholy tones, suggesting ideas of the kind of .,grief that may be heard. at. a ~vake, im~lore .that .the 9PP?' ,sition should not proclaim Its mternal dlssenslOns; m vam did Mr. Clay, who often, in Parliamentary tumults, comes out. as the vir pietate gmt'is, endeavour to arbitrate; the confusIOn was complete-so complete, that Mr. Newdegate was enabled ·,t o speak eight times;, and even !"fr. J o~n Hardy was in 3: position to rise and flout the disordered, dlsorgamsed mob before him. All the wbile the Ministers, and, for the most part, the Conservative lmembere Bat sardonically smiling at the m/Hee, and chuckling as oue .member ~f the Opposition tilted with all his force at another. In ·t he mean time, Mr. Whitbread, who has of late assumed a sort of judicial position in t~e-House, acting as moderator, had proposed. a .middle course-that IS, to cut off half, and the most controver31al .half, of the resolution; and, after more noise, more row, more sense­less clamour, a division was called. Instantly the members of the -Government present jumped up, and, doubtless laughing mer­rily in their sleeves, walked out of the House, leaving ·the Opposition to fight out · to the end their own unseemly battle. True it is tbat Sir James Fergusson, owing to exigencies ,-surroundin g him as a Scottish member, had to take part in the discussion and stay to divide; and the A.ttorney-General for :Ireland, who, for cognate reasons, had also delivered himself aud :performed on~ of tl:~ose series of pirouettes. in front of the T~e~s:rry bench for which he IS remarkable, also remamed. After the dl 'nslOn, --which showed a singular splitting, a curious subdivision of mem­'berdom-extreme Liberals and high Orange Tories joatling together in one lobby-the disorder became aggl'avated, if that were possible. A n attempt of Mr. Gladstone to remodel the amended resolution ,seemed to set his whole force into a worse state of rough-and-tumble. There was bellowing, screeching, cheering, yelling, gesticulation, ·of the most pronounced kind; arms swaying about in such fashion as to lead to a ' belief that fists would be applied. to faces in another moment; and, in short, a Beales-Potter demon­stration in Trafalgar-~quare shines out grandly for order and. .decorum when contrasted with this mere Parliamentary row. All this while the leading Ministers, and Mr. Disraeli in ]:larticular, were ·conspicuously absent ;.an~ so,. snddenly, ~p rose Mr. Ay~to?, a~d, in his sarcastic way-whlCh IS a very qUiet, but a very IrIltatmg way-expressed a desire that, as the leader of the Opposition would ·do nothing to temper the situation, the official leader of the House should try his hand. Of course he added a feW gibes at the personage whose aid he was invokirrg, and, in the midst of them, in walked Mr. Disraeli. It wa2 not his cue to soot.he the passion ,of the Liberals, and so he set about to rile them as much as .he .could, insinuating that h~ was not t~e. guide, philosopher, and friend of gentlemen OppOSite, and stnkmg two-edgedly at Mr. Qladstone and Mr. Ayrton, by suggesting that even a leader of the House should be influenced by moderation and perhaps modesty, and -not be speaking on every subject and at all times. Then lookiug, with a sardonic smile npon his lips, at the tumbled mass .on the Op­position side, he dropped out that his expectations had been realised, that the united Liberal party, when they g?t the Ir~sh Church into its power, would soon be found qnarrellmg over ItS plunder. ,Strange as it may seem, this did not seem to ' be resented by the bulk of the Opposition, indeed, they appeared to be ra~her guiltily 
.startled. Mr. Gladstone, however; could not resist an effort to 'retort· but he was not very successful, especially as in an attempt to be ~mart on Mr. Disraeli, when he talked of his having been enjoying himself in his little private room, he utterly blundered .over and spoiled tbe story of Mr. Disraeli's joke on Lord Russell by describing him, when a member .of the Aberdeen Cabiuet without office, as "a great man in a small room; " for Mr. Gladstone spoke of the joke as having been ~ade when L~rd Russel~ was -Paymaster-General, and had po.ssess~on of a consld~rable ~Ulte of ·official rooms, and when Mr. DlSraeh was not yet m ParlIament. A very irascible member, Mr. Greene, next interposed with another .amendment, and again the row went on fast and furious, Mr. Newdegate intervening at regular intervals and performing in his mournfnl manner a function something like that of the chorus in a 'Greek play. 
At length the noise which had continued ~or several . hours ,subsided, the amended and reamended resolutlOn was dISposed -of, when, at the moment of the lull, up rose Mr. Disraeli, .and, in what ~ all readt;rs must appe~r. a. few not particularly offenSive words, Wished the OPPosltlOn JOY ~f th~ ·confusion into which they had got themselves. Now Mr. DlstaelI is eminently a dramatic speaker, and the tone of voice, the gesture, .a nd the expression:of face which accompanied these words made up the perfectlOn of triumphant irony. The Parthian arrow-sharp, tipped with bitterest gall-appeared to go straight into the most ,sensitive part of Mr. Bright's system. Doubtless, he had been upset previously by the scene which he had witnessed; but, at any rate, he forgot for the moment all that gentler manner which he has .adopted in the House of late, and went in for one of his extremest platform ebullitions of abuse. When Lord John Manners had scolded, 
l.n that fashion which would suggest to a person with his eyes oahut that somebody was teating a cat, and when Mr. Gladstone had dashed out his contribution of sound and fury; in remarkable {)ontrast to the antecedent speakers, Mr. Disraeli, with all the skill of a rhetorician, began in the calmest tories, very quietly put the -case of complaint against him, and argued it out; and then rising into what seemed to be a towering passion, but under cover of which doubtless every word was weighed, retorted on Mr. Bright in the most scathing fashion, appealing from him to the "gentlemen" on ·both sides,. and even to those on his (Mr. Bright's) own side of the Honse. Mmehow, everybody appeared to think after this that it was time that a five hours' discreditable personal encounter should cease; and if, in commenting upon this affair, one is compelled to ,say that, whether as regards temper or retort, from first to last Mr. Disraeli had the best of it, whose fault is it that it was so? 
Mnch, if not most, of the subseqnent proceedings have been -such ·as to be hardly worth chronicling. To be sure, there has occurred 
. the very nnnsual circumstance of the statement of the N!1.vy .Estimates being made on May 11, just three months later' than usual; and the occasion was only marked by the advent of a new _naval reformer, in the person of Captain Mackinnon who, under very disadvantageous circumstances, made an exceilent speech, which reads admirably in the reports, and by the fact t'hat Mr. 'Carry spoke for three hours, leaving not an item of detail of .AdmiraJty administration untouched or unexplained. 
It was on that evening that an immense House eagerly waited for the an~wer ' to the address to the Crown contained in the 

, Irish Chnrch Resolutions, which did not, however, Gome . until the next evening, when Lord Royston, with good emphasis -and discretion, read her Majesty's reply. It waa at once accepted as an admirably-framed docnment; even Mr. Gladstone's lowering brow relaxed, and he made an involuntary _gesture of -approval; while the Opposition gave one of those Simultaneous, short., decisive cheers which denote special appropation, -the Minis­terialists preserving an ominous silence. With eager alacrity, and with a leap as acti'Ve liS that of a harlequin, Mr. Gladstone rose, and at once gave notice of the introduction of his Suspenaory Bill, and 
the ceremonial, if it can be so called, passed away. Then suc~eeded a 
special, a precious illustration of those melancholy exhibitions which 
are known as private members' motion nights. For many hours, in 
the emptiest of Houses, was there a droning sound of dull men's 
voices, and if you listened you heard abstract talk of the most 
common-place kind, ending in the inevitable withdrawal of motions, 
and the proceedings may be characterised as, though varions, dull, 
and the speaking as at once crotchety a:nd long-winded. ' At near one 
o'clock the House was at what may be called a state of prostration, 
and the Orders were being disposed of summarily when the Military 
at Elections (Ireland) Bill was called on. At once Mr. Serjeant Barry 
moved its postponement, but on tRe very slight provocation of a 
growl from Mr. Vance, signifying that he was tired of dancing 
attendance on the bill, tbe learned gentleman went off at score with 
his regularly-prepared speech, spoke for an honr or so, and wound up 
with a narrative of the well· known occurrences at the last Water­
ford election, specially dwelling on an episode which was calcu­
lated to tell, from an electioneering point of view, in any coming 
contest for the representation of Dungarvon. But; oh! what a 
falling off was there I Some unified somnolent influence came over 
the stenographic chroniclers, and, 10 I when the morning papers 
appeared, there was not a word of M~. Serjeant Barry's great speech 
in one of them I But, if gentlemen will make great speeche, between 
one and two in the morning, what can they expect? 
On the face of it, it would appear to have been difficult to give 
new life and interest to the Universities Tests Bill, which has been in a manner long a/ait accompli in the House of Commons. Never­theleEs, there was considerable freshness cast around it this time, owing to various circumstances. In the first place, owing to its being preceded by another bill, the coming on of the Tests Bill was delayed till nearly four O'clock, and so the House was full. Then Mr. Coleridge, who, when he speaks, always causes one to think of that orator and lawyer of former times who was called the" silver­tongued Mnrray," not only put forth all his ordinary qualitie3 and every charm' which belongs to him in so marked and distinctive a degree as a speaker, but he infused into his manner a warmth and into his voice an emphasis of which generally he is sparing; and the liquid flow of his eloquence was ever and anon interrupted by little bursts of something akin to passion, just as now and then, in the midst of its calmer current, some abounding river leap3 up with a pleasant noise to :dash over a temporary obstruccion to its course. There is no better way of putting it than to use the old conventional phrase and to say that the House hung upon his lips. A.las I for Mr. Walpole to have to follow such a speaker, with all his forcible feebleness. The House rushed away from him. Many who came back must have been glad that they did so; for they were witnesses to a very remarkable Parliamentary debut in the person of Mr. Winterbotham, who, if it may be said of hinl that he spoke a prepared speech, showed at least that he knows how to prepare a. speech and how to speak it :afterwarde; and this is no slight com­mendation. The end of this day (being a Wednesday) was singular, and not unamusing. In the first place, the Conservatives, who had all through the sitting been amenable to a suspicion that they were speaking against time, for reasons sufficiently obvious, did contrive to talk out the Tests Bill at a quarter to six o'clock. Some little matters intervening, there were but seven minutes left before the imperative hour of adjournment to Mr. Gladstone to bring in his Suapensory Bill. However, buoyed up, no doubt, by the conscious­ness that he can speak as much in five minutes as most other men call in half an hour, he went in cheerfully, almost airily, for a statement, when sujdenly he was interrupted. Up rose the spectral form of Mr. Newdegate (spectral is the only word to describe the peculiar aspect which the hon. gentleman usually contrives to assume), and in his most solemn tones he objected to going on with a measure to which he was opposed at that hour. The Wednesday rule of the House, that no opposed business is to be taken after a . quarter to six, is imperative, and so Mr. Gladstone sank back into his seat, and) the opponents of his Irish Church legislation thus 
gained one Slay. . 




IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. Tbe Lord Chancellor withdrew the Judgment Debtors' Bill, the Bankrnptcy Bill, and the Bankruptcy Acts Repeal Bill, saying that it was impossible to pass them in time to enable the House of Commons to deal with them this Session. • . The Regulation of Railways Bill passed through Committee. The fifth clause, which provided that directors might. be imprisoned for falsifying the accounts of a railway company, was, on the· motion of the Marquis of Salisbury, amended by making it an offence punish­able by tine and imprisonment for the officers or auditors of a rail­way company to sign accounts which they knew to be falsified. The Capital' Punishment Within Prisons Bill was read the third time and passed. Several other bills were advanced a stage. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. Mr. Disraeli, replying to Sir Andrew Agnew and Mr. Moncreiff, stated that he was anxious to bring about the earliest possible dissolution of the House, and with that view to bring the Scot,~h RefOl"IXl Bill under consideration as soon as possible. It waa requisite to take the Boundary Bill first on Thursday, and as there was an objection to the Scotch Refor m Bill being placed second, he sh()Uld put it down for the first open day. ­
THE NAVY .ESTIMATES. 

On the order for going into Committee of Supply, Captain 
Mackinnon drew attention to certain alleged deficiencies in the iron­
clad fleet. Describing the performances of various ships, he con­
tctcded that they were faulty, inferior, and retrograde. He frankly 
acqnitted the present Admiralty, however, of all· blame. 
Mr. Samuda followed, with some comments upon a Parliamentary 
return relating to the designs for war· ships furnished by private 
shipbuilding firms, on an invitation from the Admiralty, arid the 
c.ourse taken by the Admiralty in respect of them. 
Mr. Corry offered a few remarks in explllna.tion and in defeJ;lce of 
his department. . ' 
The House the~ went into Committee of Supply, and . 
.Mr. Corry proceeded to explain the Naval Estimates, which he did 
at considerable length-his statement occupying nearly three hours. 
He said the total amount of the estimates this year was· £11,177,290, 
as compared with £ 10,976,253 last year-showing an increase of 
£201,037; but this increase was apparent ouly, as £203,292 would be 
repaid to the Exchequer, showing an actnal decrease of £2255. But, on 
the other hand, some few items had been removed from the Navy to 
the Civil Service Estimates; and the general result'was that there was an . 
increase in the Estimates for the naval ser:vice of the present year of 
£9480 over the amount voted last year. In preparing the Estimates 
the question rose whether any reduction should be made in the 
nnmber of seameI\ for the year, and of course t hat depended on the 
question of whether 'our foreign squadrons were to be maintained 
at their present strength. He referred to the various stations, 
stating the increase and decrease which h~d been resolved , upon 
with regard to each; the general result being that there was a re­
dnction of thirteen ships out of 135, and of 2768 men; and if it had 
not been for the Abyssinian war the reduction would have been 
canied to eighteen ships and 3208 men. ' The total number of men 
voted last year, excluding boys and marines, was 37,065 ; . and in­
cluding boys and coastguard, 51,663. This year the total number 
was 50,800, b~ing a reduction of 842 men; but they had reduced 
the number of marines to the extent of 1700 men, showing a gross re­
duction of 2542 men. But though there was this reduction in the 
number of men, there was a net increase in the Estimates on vote 1· 
of £85,682. The Honse had agreed to various proposals for the com­
fort of the men, and increase of expense was the inevitable result, 
and a portion of the increase was cauaed by the new regulations fOl' 
the promotion of the officers in the marines. In vote No. 2, victuals, 
for clothing for seamen and marines, the amount asked this year was 
£1,335,842, being a net increase of £94,228; but £90,500 of this was 
due to othel' departments, and therefore, for the purposes of com­
parison, the increase was only £3728. In vote No. 11, for new 
works, buildings, machinery, and repairs, which was important in 
amount, but wbich did not involve a question of policy, there was a 
decrease of £74,351. On vote No. 6, for dockyards and naval yards at home and abroad, there was a decrease of £151,806, the amount being £1,223,562 this year as against £1,375,368; but on vote No. 10, naval stores, for building and repairing the fleet, steam machinery, and ships built by contract, there was an increaae of £231,.941. He next came to what he described as the most importap.t branch of naval expenditure, the building of ships of war. The ships that were being built, according to the programme of last year, were thirty­seven unarmed ships and four armed ships in the dockyards; and when he came into office there were three armour·clad shipii and fourteen unarm6d ships which were being built nnder.contract in private yards. The estimated cost of the four armour-clads was £915,518, and of the fourteen unarmoured ships £210,800, making a total of £1,156,300; but the contract price was somewhat less, and there was a surplus of £67,500 on that head. Four armour­clads were launched during the year and twenty-five unarmoure:l ships. In the ensuing year they proposed to bnild two corvettes at Deptford, and when they were finished it was not intended to lay down any more ships in that yard. It was also intended to build six: new armour·c1ad ships, thrr.e in the dockyards and three by con­tract. There was no doubt of the great superiority of turret-ships for coast defence, and one of the new armour-clads would be 110 turret-ship, which would be capable of going to sea; but they did not intend her for a cruising ship. By Oct. 31 they hoped to have 
seven armour· clad ships for cruising purposes. In conclusion, the right bono g,m,tle'man referred to the general state of the N~vy. wbich he described to be most satisfactory, the desertions being leas than formerly and the health of the men very good. . 
Mr. Childers criticised the statement in detail, and said the reduc­tion in the sbips and men on the foreign stations was in pursuance of recommendations from the Opposition sid e of the House. He approved of the intention to build more ironclads, but he ani­mlldverted strongly on the increase in the wages to marines, arising from the circumstances that, though the number of men was decreased, the numbe r of officers was increased. He moved that the sum Tequired for the wages of the marines be reduced by £60,0)0. 
After some discuasion, the amendment was negatived by 127 to 73. 

Colonel Sykes condemned the policy of having the squadron 011 the south·east coast of Africa, and moved the reduction of the vote by £20,000; but, after some conversation, the amendment Wall withdrawn. . 
Votes of £3,036,634 wages to seamen and marines, and of £ 1,335,842 for victuals and clo thing, were then agreed to. 
The House then resumed, and the other orders were disposed of. 

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HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDAY. The Duke of Marlborough laid on the .table a bHl to suspend appointments in endowed grammar schools, which was read the 
. first time. . The United Parishes (Scoland) Bill was read the second time, and. the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee. 
Earl Fortescue called attention to the report of the Intel'llational Conference on Weights, Measures, and Coins, and complained of the inconvenience of the legal standards of this country, more especially as the greatest commercial nations had adopted the deci mal and metric systems. Lord Overstonesaid, before attempcingtointroduce a uniform standard of weights and measures all over the worId, it would be better to establish one in England. He believed that all the authority of the French Government had failed to euforce one throughout France, and he believed it would be totally impossible iu this country. The Earl of Malmesbury said there would be no objection to publish the report; but he warned the noble Earl that legislation on this qnestion woald be most difficult. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY.
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Lord Royston, Comptroller of the Household, brought up the reply of her Majesty to the Address of the House relating /to the Irish Chnrch. The Royal answer said-" Relying on the wisdom Qf my Parliament, I desire that my interest in the temporalities of the · United Church .of England and Ireland in Ireland may not stand in the way of the consideration by Parliament of any measure relating thereto that may be introduced in the present Session." Mr.' Gladstone then gave notice that he would, on Wednesday, ask leave to bring in a bill to prevent for a limited ~ime any new appoint.me~ts in the Church of Ireland, and to restram fer t he same perlOd .1O. certain respects the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 
Mr. S. Cave stated, in reply to Mr. Horsfall, that the Board of Trade had carefully considered the report of the Commission of Railways ; but that, without fnrther consideration, they were not prepared to introduce any measure giving sanct!on to its recom~endations, . 
A discussion arose on the questlOn of the audit of the pubhc accounts. Mr. Dillwyn moved a resolution the eff~ct of which was that the auditor should be responsible to the House of Commons and not to the Treasnry. The motion was supporced by, among others, Mr. White, who argued strongly in support of the proposal as a means of effectually promoting economy. It was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Childers, and Mr. Gladstone, and eventually the motion W!IB withdrawn. . 
Sir M. Lopes then moved an abstract resolutlOn, to the effect that inasmuch as the local charges on real property had of late year, much increased, and were annually increasing, it was neither just nor politic that all these burdens should be levied exclusively upon this description of property. This gave rise to a long discussion. At its conclusion the motion was withdrawn. 
The Stockbrokers (Ireland) Bill was read the second time. 
The County Courts (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Bill was passed through Committee after a preliminary discussion, in the course of which Mr. Hugessen made a Buccessful appeal to save the rights of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports relating to the existing comts in those places. 
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WIlDNESDAY. . Mr. Ewart's Weights and Measures Bill (Metrie System) waHead the second time by a majority of 217 votes to 65; but, on the sug­gestion of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, it was agreed that the measure should not be further proceeded with this Session • The Oxford and Cambridge Universities Bill was talked out. Mr. Coleridge moved the second reading. in an able speech, and Mr. Walpole moved the rejection of the measure. The debate was pro­. ceeding when, at a quarter to six o'clock, it waa suspended by the standing orders. By a like point of order Mr. Gladstone's motion for leave to brlllg' in a bill based on the Irish Church resolutions was thrown over. ' The Cotton Statistics Bill, the Customs and Income·tax Bill, and the Exchequer Bonds (£1,600,000) Bill, all passed throug" Committee. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. The Religious, &c., Buildings (Sites) Bill, on the motion of Lord Cranworth, was read the second time. Its object was to abolish the necessity of enrolling in Chancery deeds conveying the sites of chapels, mechanics' institutions, &c. The Duchy of Cornwall Amendment Bill waa read the.seco.nd .time. The Induatrial Schools (Ireland) Bill was read the thlrd tlme an<l pllEsed • . SEA-FISHERIES BILL. 
In Committee on this bill, . 

The Marquis of Clanricarde. said that the convention with Franca, which was the foundation of this bill, had left the Irish oyster-bed'! entirely unprotected from being dredged by-Frenchmen and English­men during the close season. 
The Du1l:e of Richmond explained that the fears of . the noble Marquis were groundless, as there were express provisions against any grievance of that character fo~ Ireland. , . . . . 
Lord Lifford opposed cert:un clauses of the bill, as llllurLOusly 
affecting the Irish fisheries. After considerable discussion, The Duke of Richmond said that the conventiou between France 
and England was ratified, and would stand whether the bill pagged or not. The object of the bill was simpl:r to give to the Executive certain police powers over various portlOns .of t1e. coast for th~ purpose of carrying out the convention in its integrity. . 
Ultimately, the Marquis of Clanricarde moved that the Chamnllll report progress, and the motion was agreed to. . 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. J. Peel gave notice that, in the event of Mr. Baxter's instruc­'tions in Committee on the Scotch Reform Bill proving unsuccessful, lie should move the addition of the following words to the amend­ment of the member for Northamptonshire ' (Sir R. Knightley) :­"whose population shall not, since the Census, have increased one 'fourth." THE BOUNDARY BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on the Boundary Bill, Mr. Gladstone said it was to be regretted that the bill had not undergone a discussion on the second reading, for it was clear that such a bill could only be passed by a general agreement on the part, of the House. The duty of the Boundary Commissioners was a very ,difficult and delicate oue; for the House had given them no instruc­tions whatever as to the principle on which they were to perform tbat duty, and they were therefore greatl;9' indebted to them for the care and diligence with whicu they had discharged their arduous task, He trusted that the House would receive with impartiality the recommendations of the Commissioners. lIe ' could not altogether accept the principle of the identity 'of the municipal and Parliamentary boundaries laid down by the Commissioners, who appeared to have been solely {luided by the wishes of the locality interested. That would have been a very proper consideration for the House itself, but not for the Commissioners, whose business it was to report on the circumstances of the locality, and the identity of interests in the parts to be annexed to any borough. He felt that in many cases an elltension of tbe boroughs would disqualify many who resided in the ~ounties, and already enjoyed votesoll account of their places of busi­ness in the borough, as county voters. He believed, also, it was a mis­take to have tied tbe Commissioners down not to inquire into the re­,striation of the boroughs, which in some cases was so desirable that the question would have to be disposed of in another Session, Many ID:lemorials had been presented to the House, and it was their duty to attentively consider their reqnest ; but, if they were to take all the boroughs seriatim, the bill could not be passed by June 10-the latest day Gn wbich it could become available this year. It would therefore be desirable to adopt' the suggestion of the member for Oldham, and leave out the case of the old boroughs, or at least ()f those about which there was any contention, and confine their attention at pl'eeent to the consideration of the case of the new boroughs. Mr. DisraeJi though~ the House ought to adopt the recommenda· tions of tbe Commissioners, otherwise it would be found that if, after a great deal of trouble, the report of the Commissioners was taken no notice of, it would be very difficult to obtain gentlemen to undertake the responsibility. ' This was not a Government measure, bOut the Government acted as the trustees of Parliament, The cir· ~umstances nnder which t_he Commission was appointed would be in the reconection of the House. The names of some gentlemen, wh~ were noted as much for their ability as for their extreme Liberal views, were submitted to the House but not approved of, and eveniually the five gentlemen who formed the Commission were appointed nnanimously. As regarded the Assistant Com­missioners, they were not appointed by the Government, but by the Cl1ief Commissioners, and he did not know who tbose gentlemen were until he read the report of the Com­mission. He did not for one moment think that the House had lost i s power to revise the report of the Commissioners, He could not consider this bill a party question under any circumstances. He considered it would be very difficult to say which party would be more affected by the adoption of the Commissioners' report. It was most desirable that this bill should be passed as early as possible, and, if it ccnld not be passed by ordinary means, he thought there "'tre'some means of legislation that could be adopted, as last year­namely, by resorting to morning sittings. Mr. Hibbert explained the reasons which prompted him to bring forward the amendment of which he had given notice. , Mr. Bright said great party results were expected from the skilful IIIan'pulation of the boroughs, but he did not place any faith in these ' expectations. Ifthe case of the boroughs to which objection was made was referred to a Select Committee, he had no doubt that Committee would inake a report , satisfactory to both sides of the House, The 'Commissio.ners were shut ont from taking into consideration local circnmstances and local feelings. A Select Committee, without damaging their labours, would be able to do what the Commission was prohibited from dOlDg. Mr, N ewdegate did not approve of the proposition. Mr. Munk said a few words. " Mr, Roebuck did not think the question could be satisfactorily 'Eettled by a general inquiry. If there was a Select Committee, ,party spirit would be inoperative, and the question could be perma­'1l€ntly determined. -Mr. R, Gurney explained that the powers of the Boundary Com­,mi£sioners were ample, and they had discharged their duties so, as best to conduce to the public il3.terests and the views of the Legis­latnre. The Oommission were quite willing to attend to any sug­gestion from that Honsp, with the view of contenting all parties. Sir F. Crossley eaid the large boroughs were getting too unwieldy, ,and he should recommend that these large boroughs be dLvided, and that each member represent his own constituency. , Mr. Di8raeli, having heard the opinions expressed by several hon, members, should have pleasure in acceding to their wishes and ()QUEenting to the appointment of a Select Committee, who should fnrnish evidence from time to' time. Mr. B. Osborne said the Bonndary Bill was not less important than the Reform Bill, and yet there had ' been no discussion as to the principle. He objected to the instructions given to the Commission, and he recommended t.he House not to pass a bad bill, which the next Parliament would be certa.in to' repeal. It was material to understand w ha~ the Select Committee was to do. If they were not to correct the oversights of the Commission their labours would be ' wor.se tban useless. The report of t:Q.e Commission had not given satisfaction-it had given general dissatisfaction. After some furthe~ ,discussion, Mr. Gladstone did not quite understand whether the Committee was to report on reserved cases or to report finally. His opinion was that the Committee ought to report on reserved cases; but his desire was to Eee the question fairly settled. , Mr. G. Hardy was willing to make the reference of cases to the Committee as wide ae possible. Mr. Bright suggested that the Select Committee, instead of being nve in number, shonld be seven. He trusted that all cases would be allowed to come before the proposed Committee, and that, no cases would be prejudiced that otherwise would come before the Committee of the whole House. , Mr. Lowe hoped the House would not come t? any decision to-, night as to the appointment and, duties of the Committee; The HOtlSe went into Committee on the Boundary Bill profO)'11Ia, and reported progress. 
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ESTABLISHED OHUROH (IRELAND) BILL. 
Mr. Gladstone moved for leave to bring in a bill to prevent', for a limited time, new appointments in the Chnrch of Ireland, and to restrain, for the same ~riod, in certain respects; the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland. 
Colonel Stuart Knox opposed the introduction of the bill, and ~noted a speech of Mr. Gladstone's in snpport of the course he was adopting. He,stated that, for the reasons contained in that speech, he must oppose the bill, 
Mr. Newdegate objected to the introduction of the bill on the ' twenty-sixth standing order of the Honse, ' 
Mr, Gladstone disclaimed the quotations Colonel Knox had made from what he had termed his (Mr. Gladstone's) speech, With regard to the bill, it was fully explained by his second resolution. The time for the bill to be in force was to be till Aug. 1, 1869. 
Mr. Vance believed that if Mr. Gladstone had been in office, or if Lord Derby had been in office, they would have heard nothing of the bill. The House had -not seen it, but he knew enough of it to know that it ought to be rejected. 
The house was cleared for a division, but the motion was at last agreed to without oue. The bill was then brought in and read the titst time. 

OOUNTRY NEWS. 

An art-tressures exhibition, primarily designed for the benefit of a local educational institntion, was opened at Over Darwen, on Thursoay week, by the Marquis of Hartington. 
At Edinburgh, during a thunderstorm on Monday, Donald Mathison, about tbhty years of age, was killed by lightning while walking on the Radical-road, Salisbnry Crags. 
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The committee who managed the successful ball given to the Prince of Wales in the Dublin Exhibition Palace have a surplus, after paying all expenses, of nearly £600, which is to be distribllted amollg the charities pf the city, without distinction of creed. 
Mr, George F. Train was admitted 19 bail in Dublin, yesterday week, on obtaining two sureties in the sum of £1000, each of them qualifying to tbe full amount, One of the sureties was Mr. Eastmann, the United States Consul at Queenstown. 
'l'he Royal Commission on Primary Education in Ireland is holding regulal' sittings in Dublin, and aU the Commissioners are in attend­ance-Earl Pow is being cbairman. The Commission is a mixed one, az:d represents the various opinioBs on edncation existing in Ireland, 
A serions riot took place on Sunday and Monday, at Ashton-under­Lyne, between the" Murphyites" and the Roman Catholics, in which some persGlns were shot. A woman was knocked down and trodden under foot by the rioters, and when taken up was found to be dead. A detachmeBt of the 6th Dragoons was employed to clear the streets. There has been rioting also at Stalybridge. 
The :Mayor of Leeds has received an intimation from General Knollys that the Princess of Wales will not be able to accompany the Prince to Leeds on the occasion of the inau!,uration of the exhibition. Tbe medical advisers of her Royal J:lighness are of opinion that, in the delicate state of health in which she is, it would not be advisable to undertake a long railway journey. 
A new line of railway, unimportant in a commercial aspect, but which will be welcome to the tonrist and the sportsman, was opened on T UEsday. The line is that of the Tees Valley, abou t nine or ten miles in length, wbich joins the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Bamard Castle, and goes to within a short distance of tbe celebrated High Force, a magnificent waterfall, 
At Dublin" Colonel" Nagle, one of the principal :persons in the Jacknell expedition, together with Patrick Nugent (in whose ca,e an abortive trial took place at the last Sligo Assizes), Frederick Fitzgibbon, Andrew Leonard, and Daniel Lee, other members of the expeditionary for{)e, were released from custody last week. They were to proceed to the United States last'Saturday. 
The people of Tamw,orth have held a public meeting and passed a resolntion Eupporting Sir Robert Peel in his resistance to the inter· ference cf the Charity Commissioners with his school. Although Sir R0bert, according to the decision of the Lords Justices, cannot refuse, to show the Commissioners the accounts of the school as long as it exists, he has power to close it. This power he intends to exercise, and afterwards to l'e-establish the school upon a footing which will enable him to set the Commissioners at defiance. 
The island of Co11 was recently visited by a severe thunderstorm. In the townsbip of Cornaighmore a hill, at the foot of which stood three dwelling-houses, was struck by lightning; the rock was split, and the lightning , passed thence through the walls of the houses, breaking up stones of considerable size and shattering the woodwork into splinters. One of the tenants, Donald M'Kinnon, together with his wife and three other members of his family, was seriously injured and thirteen head !)f fine Highland cattle were killed. 
A girl named Emily J olinson, only six years of age, was severely lurned at the York Theatre, on Wednesday se'nnight. She was engaged to take part in the pantomime-cc The Fair One with the Golden Locks "-and was standing at one of the wings, waiting to join a "demons' dance," when her dress was set on fire by a candle, whfch was being used by the man who was managing the lime.light. A member of the staff, who saw the flame, rushed to her assistance, but could not save the girl from being frightfully injured. She lies 
, in a dangerous condition at the York County Asylum. 
Her Majesty's Government, with ,a view of coustituting a sepa­rate department of science and art for Ireland, analogous iu its con­stitution to the existing science and art department in London, an<l. of amalgamating as far as possible all existing institutions in Irelarid receiving state grants for science or art) have appointed a Commission to' report on the best means of carrymg out this object. The Commission will be composed of the following gentlemen :-The Marquis of Kildare; the Hev, Dr. Haughton, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; the Very Rev. Dr. Russell, President of Maynooth; Colonel Laffan, Royal Engineers; Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Secretary to Treasury; Professor Huxley, F.R,S.; and Captain Donnelly, Royal Engineers, who ,will also act as secretary. 
Messrs. Bradbury, Evans, and Co. propose to isslle, under the I 
heading of the "Handy-Volume Series," a number of volumes, which shall be at once varions, valuable, and popular. The series has commenced well with" The Gordian Knot," by Shirley Brooks. This novel, which is one of the most powerful and brilliant of Mr. Brooks's works, was interrnpted by a domestic affiction when in the course of serial publication, and is, for the majority of readers, a new book. It has been carefully revised by the author. The form of the "Handy-Volume Series" is most convenient, and the work before us is printed in an elegant and agreeabl,e type, The quantity of matter given for the price-half-a,crown-is a liberal concession ,to " popular" demand, even in these days. 
A meeting of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution was held, on Thursday week, at its house, John-street, Adelphi-the Duke of Northumberland in the chair. Mr. Richard Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of theprevio us meeting, the sum of £7 10s. was voted to pay the expenses of the life-boat of the institution at Withernsea in going off and bririging ashore, through a very heavy sea, the crews of nine men of two Withernsea _ fishing-boats i £1078. 6d, to the crew of the institution's life-boat at Cromer for putting off, on the 9th nlt,~ duxing a heavy north-east gale, and rescuing the crew of five men of the brigantine Agenoria, of Lowestoft, which was wrecked opposite Cromer gangway; £8 10s. to the crew of the life-boat at Blakeney for going off, during a strong north·east gale, and saving th~ crew of three men of the sloop Richard, of Goole, which had stranded on tp.e west sand; £8 8s, to the crew of the Ayr life-boat for putting off, on the 29th ult., and saviIlg the 'crew of five men of the schooner John C. Wade, of Newry whicb, during a heavy north-west gale, had stranded off Troon Harbo~r; aJ;ld £410s. to the crew of the' institution's life-boat at MoeUre, for going off, during a strong easterly wind, and rescuing two men from the smack Cy-mro, ofAxnlwch, which was wrecked in Moelfre Bay on the 8th nit. The life-boats of the institution stationed at Barmouth, Pakefield, and Howth had assisted to bring the following vessels and their crews safely into harbour:­Schooner Dasher, of Amlwch, four; brigantine Douglas, of Guernsey, seven; and the brig Arran, of Irvine, eight. Rewards were granted to the crews of, the life-boats of 'the institution at Hnnstanton, Wexford, Worthing, Aberystwith, Campbelltown, and Mullion for various services to distressed vessels during the recent 'gales, Various other rewards were' granted to the cre,ws of different shore-boats for saving life from shipwrecks on our coasts. Payments amounting to nearly £1500 were ordered to be made on various life-bo(lt establish­ments. A bfnevolent lady has given the institution the cost of the LoweEtoft.life-boat tbrough Miss Prince and Mrs. Pilgrim, of Brixton. It :was alno reported that legacies had recently been bequeathed to the institution by the late Mr. Felix Slade, of Lambeth, £300; the late Mr. R. S. Fydell, of Rutland, £100; the late Mr, GeOl'ge 
' Berger, of N,ewcastle-street, Strand, £10 10s.;, and £20 by the late Mr. Edward Davies, of the saine street. It was repoIted that the institution had sent new life· boats during the past month to Broad­stairs, Kent; and Penmon, Anglesea. Reports were read from Captain Ward, R.N" the in Bpector, and Captain D. Robertson, R.N., the aesistant inspcctor, of life-boats to the institution, on their recent visits to the coast. The Duke of Northumberland presented £100 to the institntion. 
METROPOLITAN NEWS; 

The funds of the Westminster Hospital have been enriched, durin'" the last few days, by £10,000 from a governor of the institution. 
On Saturday Miss Burdett Contts presented the prizes to the suc­cessfnl boys of Highgate School, after the conclusion of the sports. 
The annual return relating to the British Museum was issued on Monday. '!'he number of persons who visit the national institution continues to increase-445,036 having been admitted during last year to view the general collections, in addition to 103,469 to the reading-room for the purpose of stndy or research­2416 to the galleries of seulpture, for the purpose of study; 520 t~ the mausoleum and Cnidus galleries; 2792 to the print-room· and 2084 to the coin and medal room. The amount granted by'Par­liament was £99,621, and other receipts swelled the income to £126,754. The expenditure was £98,274. ' 
A statement has been submitted to the Metropolitan Board of Works of the money which is required for the completion of the works now in progress, and for the carrying out of which powers are sought by the board, which has been forwarded to the Govern­ment on an application to that effect, and is as follows :-New street from Blackfriars to the Mansion House: Compensations, £227,001)' engineering works, £56,000. North and south embankments: Cam! pensations, 250,000; engineering works, £7901000. Additional works: Park-lane improvement, £125,000; Chelsea embankment, £236,000; Thames embankment approaches, £230,000; total, £2,026,000. Dednct cash balance, loan, and payment from St. Thomas's Hospital, £244,759. Net amount, £2,026,241. The esti­mated amount to be received from sale of land: Thames embank­ment, nortb, £76,250; southern embankments, £31,612 i new street to Maneion House, £2,007,862, 
The fifty-ninth anni versary diuner of the members of the Artists' Benevolent Fund too k place, on Saturday last, at the Freemasons' Tavern-Sir F. Grant, president of the Royal Academy, in the chair. Since the formation of the fund, £28,869 has been distributed in relieving the widows and orphans of British artists, fifty· two widows having, during the past year, re€eived annuities amounting to ~847 l£s.,.and five orpbans the sum of £23 15s. Sir Francis Grant, ID propoBlDg "The Health of the Queen," stated that her Majesty had given £3000, in the aggregate, to this society. Her Majesty had still further testified her interest in art by permitting 1"rincess Louisa to send to the Royal Acade my a bust ot her brother, Prince Arthur, executed by her Royal Hig hness's own hands. He had n() hesitation in saying that as a work of art this bust of the Prince wa~ most beautifully executed, and was an admirable likeness. This opinion was shared in by all the members of the Royal Academy wli() had seen the work. A subscription-list of £600 was announced. 
Mr. H. OtHey gave his usual annual discourse on the art-topics of the season at the rooms!)f the Society for the Encouragement o.f the Fine Arts on Thursday week. Commencing with public works, he referred particnlarly to the late competitions for the law courts and the National Gallery, which had each resulted in a dead-lock, and which had been in every respect so unsatisfactory that he hoped all the plans wonld be thrown aside and the whole questions re­opened anew. They had at least gained this information from the extraordinary designs which had been sent in-that their respective anthors bad planned and worked at sensational ornamentation with­out any regard to the purposes of the several buildings and tha character which should mark them, and this might be avoided in any fnture effol·ts. Speaking of the hundredth exbibition of the Royal Academy, now just opened, Mr. Ottley said he could not concur with those who applied to it the hackneyed compliment that "it was a fair average exhibition." On the contrary, in his opinion there had not been so bad an exhi­bition within his memory. Portraiture, as usua.!, claimed the giant's share of the walls, making hideons the glare of day; and of the other works he, after a careful examination, ventured to say that there was not a single one which, subject and execution considered, the country wonld be prepared to put forward, whether at home o.r abroad, as fairly representing the status of our art. This was a sad refiection, and on this the hundredth anniversary of the foundatioD. of the Royal Academy the question forced itself npon the mind how far that institution would have to be held responsible for an unsatis­factory result, the conditions of which there was no disputing, The discourse, which excited considerable interest by the boldness of the positions asserted in it, was followed by a discussion in which several notabilities in art took part. "-

Dr. MarJ<p.am, the Poor· Law Inspector, has milde a report to the Poor-Law Board, in which, he states that at present there is in most of the metropolitan workhonses more or les8 waste continually going on in staple articles of food, arising from its being either unsuitable in kind, bad in qnality, ill cooked, or over-abundantly supplied, and the Poor·Law Board has issued to the boards of guardians of the metropolis a new dietary table, together with directions for cooking the several articles of food to be supplied to workhouse inmates. No. 1 diet is for the able bodied :-Breakfast, men and women, 5 oz. of bread; men a pint and a half, and women a pint, of oatmeal p~n'idge. Supper, the same quantity of bread and porridge, or & pint and a half of meat broth, instead of the porridge, ,Dinner, 
t wice a week 50z" and women 4i oz., of cooked meat and 
12 oz. of potatoes or other vegetables; twice a week a 

pint and a half of pea soup and 3 oz, of bread; twice 
a week 16 oz. of su~t pudding; and once a week, men, 
24 oz., and women, 200z" of Irish stew. No. 2 diet, for infirm 
imnates:-Breakfast: Men 50z" and women 40z., of bread, toz. 
of l)uLter, and a pint of tea. Supper the same as for breakfast. 
Dil"ner: twice a week, men 4aoz., and women 40z" of cooked 
Iilutton, and once a week the same quantity of beef, with 12 oz. of 

vegetables; once a week 16 oz. of meat pie or pudding; once a. 
week a pint of pea soup and 3 oz. of bread; once a week, men 14 oz. of baked snet pudding o~ 16 oz. ?f baked rice pudding; women, 14 oz. of baked suet or nce puddmg; and once a week the men 24 QZ,; and women 200z" of Irish stew. No. 3 diet, for inma.tes employed on extra labour :-Breakfast: men and women, 6 'oz. of , bread, i oz. of butter, and a pint of tea i and the same for suoper. Dinner: five times a week, 5 "Z.of cooked meat and 12 oz. of pot~toe3 or other vegetables; once a week, 240z, of Irish stew; and once a 
week, 18 oz. of meat pie, ' 
The New South Wale~' papers announce the death in that colony, in J an nary last, of John Shaw Strange, the last of the convicts con-c~rned in the Cato·street conspiracy. ­
The trustees of the British Museum have appointed Dr. Cobbold, 
F,R,S., to hold the Swiney Chair of Geolog y for the next term of 
five years, and they require that' the first a nnual course of twelve 
lectures be given in Edinburgh. , 

An extensive mountain slip has taken place in the village of 
Ober"bilten, canton of Glaris, in Switzerland. The inhabitants, 
warned in time, had left their houses, wh ich, for the most part, 
have been overwhelmed, Large masses cont inue to fall. 

Accordipg ts> the Rfl,ilway News, a new difficulty is likely to delay 
the opening of the Mont Cenis Summit Railway, it "having been 
f,mnd that the play in the springs of the engine has a tendency to 
tear up th~ .centre rail gripped by the auxiliary wheels." 

We learn from a bluebook published last Saturday that tile 
expense incnrred by pnblishing the survey of Jerusalem will soon be 
more than covered by the profits arising from the sale of copies of 
the survey, and of the photographs. 

Yesterday week a printed copy was issued, on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the estimate prepared by the India Office of the expenditure for the Abyssinian expedition, The estimate of the total charges to England and India is set down at £5,351,000, but this" must be regarded as approximate only." 
A new weekly publication, The Censor, is announced. Itis to be a miscellany of satire, literature, politics, art, and social ethics, The programme states that it will be "illuminated by honesty, illustrated . by wit, ornamented by epigram; and in it will be found good sense, plain speaking, and clear thinking." Possessing these qualities, it ought to succeed. 
A report by the Lords of the Treasury from the Commissioners appointed by them to examine into the whole financial condition and prospects of Irish railways and canals has been laid before Parliament. The Lords of the Treasury have not committed them­selves to purchase, but they requested the Commission to obtain all the information which would be necessary before the proposition could be intelligently considered. 
The Irish Rifle Association will hold a contest at the Cllrragh on the 26th and three following days, when the Abercorn cnp and abollt £300 worth of other prizes will be shot for. English volllnt)e~3 are expected by the association to attend and compete. 
These are evil days, and many terrible things are d;>ily chronicled. But I thlnk that I have not recently read anything more dreadful than a fact which appears to have eBCllped the notice of the jour. nalistE, and which even the paper which records it passes over wit.hout comment. There was held, on Monday, a meeting in the City in favour of the Irish Church, and I read with a ehudder that ''If any person in the body of the hall did not coucur with the txtravagant and absurd statements of an exuberant speaker on behalf of the Cburch militant, he was forcibly torn to pieces by a furious mob, principally composed of clergymen l" Tern to pieces I-and forcibly, too ; and these are the meek and lowly, &c. 
By a return recently issued we learn that there are in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 2495 brewer~, 96,421 victuallers, 46,510 persons licensed to sell beer to be druuk on the prEmieee, and 3215 whose licences do not" permit the drinking on the premise8. The total quantity of malt made during the year ending Dec. 31 last was 47,891,816 quarters, and the amount of duty charged was £6,494,217 128. 5id. The total qnantity exported from tke United Kingdom was 525,619 barrels, the declared value of which was £1,9€O,053. The largest pnrchasers are British India, the Australian colorues, and the West Indies, 

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. Mr. Disraeli, replying to Mr. Gladstone, stated that the Govern­ment, l'egarding the Established Church (Ireland) Bill a3 the firat step towards the disestabIishment of the Church, intend to gi'l'e it all the opposition they can. He further stated, in reply to Mr. Dalglish, that he will on Thursday next announce the c,)Urae t he Government intend to take with regard to the Scotch Reform Bill. The report of Supply was bronght up and agreed to. ' The County Courts {Admiralty Jurisdiction) Bill, as amended, was considel'ed. ' The City of London Gas Bill passed through Committee. 
COMMISSIONS IN TIlE ARMY. 

Mr. Trevelyan propounded his scheme for reforming the system of sale and purchase of commissions in the Army, and the main features of which he combined in a series of seven resolutions, to the effect :-That the purchase and sale of military commis3ions should be discontinued after a date to be fixed for the purpose; that from tbat date every officer on full pay should be credited with the then value of his commission, taking into consideration the regula.tion and extra regulation prices; tha.t the sum so credited should be paid by the Government to any officer retiring from the service under circumstances which would previonsly have eaabled him to sell his commission ; that a portion of the sum so credited should be paid to any officer promoted to be effective major-general ; ta at regimental promotion up to the rank of captain should be made according to a combined system of seniority and selection, and above that rank by selection ; that suitable conditions of retirement should be provided at the expense of the State for officers of every rank ; and that a fixed proportion of the vacant commissions in each regi­ment should befiUed by the promotion of qualified non-commissioned officers. 
The motion having been seconded by Mr. Melly, 
Captain Vivian, who pronounced an eulogium on what are the 
acknowledged merits of the purchase system,' and objected to Mr. 'Trevelvan's plan, on the ground of its sweeping character, met the proposal with a scheme of his own, which (l) abolished purchase above the rank of captain in the cavalry and the infantry of the line ; (2) reduced the number of regimental commissioned rank> to three-viz" lieutenant-colonel, captain, a~d lieutenant; .(3) i.!ls~i, tuted a course of practical professional training as a neC'l33ary pre-
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lim~ary to the acquisition of a commission in the cavalry, GuardJ, 
or L:ne; and I?led~ed the House to, make good such sums as might be 
reqrured to give Just compensatlOn upon retirement to existinO' 
officers who, in respect either to the regulation value of their com.~ 
missions, or of sums paid in accordance with regimental nsa"'e might 
be liable to pecuniary injury by the adoption of this arra;gement_ 
He contended that, if his scheme were carried into effect, all ground 
of complaint against the operation of the pnrchase s:rstem wOltld be 
greatly diminished, and the efficiency of the service lmproved. 
After a long debate, the motionw8a withdrawn. 
A.GRI CULTURE. 
Mr. AcJand called attention to the inconvenience arising from the 
want of an authori ty specially charged with the duty of considering 
questions affecting agriculture and the food of the people, and moved 
for a Com mittee to inquire into the SUbject. 
Mr. Read seconded the motion. 
Af ter some discussion, in the course of which l.Ir. Hardy admitted 
the defe ctiveness of the present system and said the subject had not 
been lost sight of, the motion was withdrawn. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESD AT. The Entail Amendment (Scotland) Bill ar.d the Railways (Guardrl and Passengers) Communication Bill were read the second time, The County Courts (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Bill was read the third time and passed. ' LAW Oll LIBEL. Sir C. O'Logblen's often-debated Lieel Bill, which was introduced before Christmas, came on for Committee, and the opposition offered to it on former stages was renewed, and on the same grounds. :Mr. Newdegate moved its rejection, objecting to the transfer of responsibility for the publication of a libel from the newspaper to the speaker, and also to relieving the newspaper editor from thQ duty of carefully revisiug all that he publishes. Mr. Roebuck supported the bill on the ground that it is for the public interest that truth should be propagated, and that all the proceed­ings of public meetings should be known. Mr. '1.'. Chambers made a long speech against the bilI, denyinO' that it is always advantageous that tl'llth should be propagated, ana pointing out that a slander which would be harmless when spoken in a small public meeting became infinitely mischievous when pub­lished in a widely-ci rculated newspaper. The bill was also opposed on the same arguments by Mt'. Coleridge, who objected that it gave the remedy against the wron'" person ; by the Solicitor-General, who urged that the bill was ~ protection to careless newspaper editors, which was not required by newspapers honourably conducted; by Mr. Dillwyn, the Attorney­General for Ireland, and Mr. Whalley. On the other hand, Mr. Neate, the Attorney.General, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Goldsmith, Mr. Buxtou, and Lord Amberley urged the House to go into Committee. On a division, the stage was carried by 108 to 38, and the House went into Committee on the bill. The remainder of the sit ting was spent in considering the first clauses. On clause 3, wbich makes the speaker of slander at a pnblic meeting subject to the same liabilities as the writer of a libel, there was a long discussion. Sir R. Collier moved its omission, and ~ir C" O'Loghlen offered to postpone it for t~e purpose of bringing lt up lU an amended form ; but lts opponents lUslsted on ne"'ativinO' it. On a division, the postponement was carried by 89 to 54, aud at this point the Chairman was ordered to report progress. 
HOUSE OF LORDS,-TnURSDAY. This being Ascension Day, their Lordships, as usual, did not meet. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuURSDAY. 
TRE CRURCH IN IRELAND. Mr, G. Hardy gave notice of bis intention, upon the motion for the seco~ d reading of the Suspensory Bill regarding the Anglican Church lU Ireland, to move, as an amendment, that the bill be rdad the second time that day six months. 
THE ~lINISTEmAL DECLARATION. 
Mr. Disraeli asked the permiision of the House to state the conrse which the Government proposed to take in respect to the votes at which the Committee had arrived on Monday evening on the sllbject of the Scotch Reform Bill. The Government hlld never shown any want of sympathy with the claims of Scotland; on the contrary, they had always wished to treat those claims with the utmost re3pect and with an effort to satisfy them as far as possible, consistently with the principles which they held. With an anxious desire to carry the Reform Bill for Scotland, the Government had, 
,though unwillingly, deferred to the feeling of the Committee in 
respect to its decision upon the amendment of the honoarable 
member for Montrose (Mr. Baxter). Bnt he (Mr. Disraeli) believed 
that in respect to the amendment of the hon. member for 
Kilmarnock (Mr. Bouverie) the decision which had b3en come to 
ha<.i been anived at in a very thiu House, with great surprise and 
under a great misapprehension. It appeared to him that if that 
decision were persevered in it would seriously affect the ope :atiou 
of the English Reform Act, in which the principle of the payment 
of rates was recognised as a condition to the possession of the house­
hold franchise in the United Kingdom. He hoped, therefore, w;th a 
desire to carry the bill to a satisfactory conclusion, he w Juld be able 
to induce the Committee to reconsider the determination to which 
it had come. With that view, it would be his duty on Monday next 
to propose the addition of a proviso, that no elector in Scotland 
should be allowed to exercise the franchise who was not 
rated to the poor and, who had not paid his rates. The 
language with which he would endeavour to secure the object 
he had in view, and to vindicate the principle already established by 
the House, was the language which he found in a clause regnlating 
the exercise of voting in the Poor-Law Act of Scotland. 
Mr. P. Wyndham was of opinion that the government of the country and its legislation no longer rested in the hands of her Majesty's Ministers. The hon. member for Birmingham and thoslt . who supported him generally succeeded, in the end, in carrying out their views, without any of the responsibility that should attach to them in consequence. The present state of things was drawing upon the Ministerial side of the House the contempt of every think­ing man in the country; and if it were allowed to continue much longer it would, in his opinion1 render the existing system of Parliamentary government imposBlble. The Ministera of the Crown were sinking int o the position of a mere joint'stock company for the division of places amongst themselves. In conclusion, he m Jved the adjournment of the debate. ' .< 
Mr. Bright denied that the amendment of Mr. Bouverie was carried by surpl'ise or in an unfair manner. At the time the VJte was taken thirty' five or thirty-six Scotch members declared them­selves in favour of the amendment, and only five against it, two of the latter being members of the Government. The menace of a dis­solution held over them by the Prime Minister was one which n() Minister ought to resort to, and no House of Commons ought t() submit to. If carried out it would occasion the useless expenditure of about one million of money, which might be appropriated to many better purposes. In reference to the notice given by Mr. G. Hardy, it appeared to him that that was a step wholly inconsistent with the conduct pursued by the Prime Minister in respect t() Mr. Gladstone's resolutions affecting the Established Church in Ireland, and with the desire of the Government that th~y should ,get into smooth water. If the Oppositio~ were to be asked to make any conces3ioll3 on the Scotch Reform BIll, he thought that the Government should show a willingness in the same direction. After all, those weekly Ministerial crises were neither creditable to the Government nor alS!eeable to the House. 

The Philharmonic Society of Dublin gave their last concert of the season on the 6th of this month. It was a splendid and successful concert. Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony was performed for the first time in Ireland. Herr Lubeck, the celebrated pianist, played Beethoven's concerto in E flat; and, with the equally famous 'Violinist, Herr Auer, the well-known "Kreutzer Sonata." Mdlle. Leibhart joined in several of Mendelssohn's part-songs; and the 'Vocal music. also included Henry Smart's fine song with Mr. Latey's wOl'ds, "Wake, Mary, Wake I" sung, with great effect, by Mr. Richard Swift. The Dublin Philharmonic Society ia one of the most important musical institutions of the day. 
Mr. Rearden, M.P. for Athlone, who ventured to attempt to say 
in the House of Commons that which drew down the indignation of 
the entire assembly, distinguished himself some little time back by 
asking Mr. Hardy whether he would not reprieve Barrett, and 
rEceived from the Minister a reply which would have kept a gentle­
man of ordinary sensibilities quiet for a good whilo. But the out­
rageous proposition last offered to the Commons by Mr. Rearden 
'Was evidence of Eomething more than that a just and severe rebuke, 
from a member of the AdminiEtration, given with the approval of 
t he CommoDs, could produce no effect npon the member for Athlone. 
It cannot be neceEsary to say that the sentiment with which the 
nation received the account that such an insult had been spoken 
would have been strangely different had not Mr. Rearden's conduct . made it cleat that this is no case for anger. 
HAY!30, 1868 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 
LONDOV: SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1868. 

THIS "week of sports" enables us to record a lull in the singular history of the anomalous Session. On the Irish Church question the Government offered all the resistance possible, as Mr. Disraeli had intimated he would do,. the pos. sibility not coming to much. He made a speech which he contrived to render more interesting than was expected, though, of course, he had nothing new to say, and on division the supporters of the Church were defeated by 312 to 258 ' and if they find any comfort or any proof that the Legislatur; is changing its mind, in the fact that the anti.Church majority has been reduced from 65 to 54, it would be hard measure to ridicule such a consolation or argue down such a conviction. The bill for suspending appointments in the Churoh of Ireland has been read a second time, and, barring acci dents will be read a thirdtime and passed by the Commons. The Arch. bi8ho~ of Y~rk has intimated that the Lords know their duty, • and WIll do It; but their worst will be in reality, and in face of such a declaration by the representatives of the people, 
scarcely a more respectable formality than the resistance offered by the Premier. On Monday night the other important question was re. sumed, but it was pretty well known that there was to be peace with Scotland. The matter in dispute had been-to use a word which has been used a good deal this week­squared. Mr. Bonverie's victory was to be forgot tell.. The Lord Advocate moved amendments, the practical result of which was to reverse the prior decision, and it was declared that the borough vote in Scotland should be forfeited by a man's being exempted from poor rate on the ground of poverty, or by his receiving relief from the parish. All tenants are to be placed on the rate· book, and some words which were supposed to be intended to curtail the franchise by providing for a deduction from the qualification 
for advances-it was called the interest on a heritable debt and would apply to the case of those who had borrowed money to build-were rejected. Then the C@mmittee went on carefnlly blllt rapidly, until Mr. J. Lowther rose to obje~t to increasing what he termed the monotonous character of Scottish representation. A somewhat lively debate followed, and Mr. Smollett demanded of the Lord Advocate a definite statement as to what he proposed to do with the ten seats which the success of Mr. Baxter's motion had wrenched from the English representation, Mr. Gladstone urged the Com. mittee to go on, and protested against disturbing the settlement which had been arrived at on the previous Monday. Ministers he said, had done all that they could j and, being beate[l~ ' had yielded. Mr. Harvey, on the other hand, aS3erted that ·· a breach of faith with England had been committed, and that the Reform Act of last year had passed on an understanding which was now to be set at nought. TherewM feeling enough 
· on this subject to demand the interposition of the Premier. Mr. Disraeli asked, fairly enough, what the House was to , do. It had been decided that there should be no disturbance of the cabalistic 658, and also that Scotland should/have an increased representation. He suggested certain groupings, and giving two members to the Scotch Universities. The Ilew plan was not received with favour by the Opposition, t./ld Mr. Gladstone declared his adhesion to Mr. Baxter's f~roposals, affirming the judgment of the country ap· p roved of the extinction of the ten insignificant boroughs, which it would now be hard to restore to life. But ~~;lt will the tJ6'li8'lViili say w Ab-. Bright, who, In opposing the Minister's plan, called on the House to recollect that Scotland was merely a part of the United Kingdom, and that the name was simply that of the Ilorthern portion of the island? It is true that the member for Birmingham spoke in behalf of the addition to the Scotch "',fembers, but it was at the price of denying that there were ' any ~cotch members at all, or any members except those for ~helkingdom. Clearly, Mr, Bright has run up an account which he will soon be called on to settle; and out of the large torea of admirable quotations which his reading has accu· Jl}ulated, we advise him to select one or two from Burns wheIewith to disann the enemies he has evoked. Gratitude for his vote will not suffice to ensure impunity for his epithet. However, he proceeded to urge strongly the wisdom of equal representation, which, he said, was what he understood by democracy; and he ' begged the Conservatives not to make a disturbance, Mr. Lowther then stood out of the way, but Sir Lawrence _Palk stood to his guns, and moved an amendment to annul Mr. Baxter's resolutions against the English boroughs. That gentleman proposed alterations in the distribution of the new , S~otth,h seats, and the Government actually got a majority on It fresh amendme,nt moved by Mr. Hardy, triumphing by ~61 to 222-a fact really worth noting. Without detailing the complex quarrels which followed, we may state that the Ministerial proposals were, generally, adopted; and then the Premier, having failed in his endeavour to induce the sturdy. minded Baronet of Devonshire to abstain from further resist· ance, the great parties joined against Sir Lawrence, and, by : 262 to 95, rejected hiB amendment. The Commons, having thus done a very good stroke of business, felt justified on the ·following nigbt in being counted out and departing to make their arrangements for seeing Blue -Gown win the Derby. Neither the debate nor its results present_ much subject for rEmark, beyond the moderate congratulation which may be >offered to the House and the nation on the fact that brrsiness !s making some progress. The state :in which the representa. t ion of Scotland is finally to be left cannot be stated with <exactitude until a mass of new amendments shall be fused into sh'ape and printed as legislation. The Firilt Miuister · says that he sees more 'difficulties than heretofore in the way to arranging affairs for early dissolution, and Mr. -Oladstone has come to his aid with a. proposition so -singular that it could only have emanated at a time of ,disturbance and dislocation like the present. He advises Mr, Disraeli to refer the winding·up question to a small Select Committee. That is to say, a small council is to be formed to advise the great council called a Ministry, and to he rel'ponsible for those who decline to be responsible for ·themselveR, and call themselves "trustees for the House." It is not in accordance with the temper of the day to appeal to principles, or to be much in lament about anything except -getting through work with as small an expenditure of trouble as possible·; but we have lived in times when such a propo· sition, which seemed to attract ,little or no notice from the House, ·would have opened all the floodgates of constitutional ire, and brought out such tremendons appeals to political ~istory as would have made the welkin ring. Those days have gone by, and it may be that constitutionalists are reserving their thunder for tbe defence of institutions. J3ut it is impossible to let such a suggestion pass without note or comment. It may be difficult for Mr. Disraeli to combat it, because Mr. Gladstone will tell him civilly, and Mr. Bright will tell him uncivilly, that his Cabinet is itself nothing but a. Select Committee, and one which does not command the obedience of the House of Commons. Mr. Oladstone would have had a crushing answer for any political opponent who should thus seek to humiliate him. But, clearly, the project is opposed to all conceivable rule of Ministerial conduct; and, though we have had re· luctantly to record many political monstrosities of action, we hope to be spared the completion of. the strange tale by adding that the Ministry of Mr. Disraeli was actually unable to wind up the business of the Session without the aid of a Select Committee. 
534 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS MAY 30,1868 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 

"THEllE are these who, despite of the facts of anarchy in the House of ·Commolls, 1\ Government which cannot influeuce or direct, and aR -Opposition which is not led, believe that we have seen the last of the Ministerial crises for this Session; and that Mr. Bright's nerves 'will not be tried in this regard twice a week any longer. If so, Mt'. Disraeli will be glad to mark with a white stone that Holy Thur3day, when the Lords, holding to an ancient tradition, had no sitting; alid all the Whig Peers came with eager eyes and office~hungry looks to Eee once more the Prime Minister wriggle out of his latest difficulty, although perhaps that was as little their hope as could well be. For it was well known beforehand that out of the disorganisation of the Parliamentary situation Mr. Disraeli had plucked safety; that be had, mil'ab-ile dictii, out·manamvred the Scottish member3, owing, it is believed, to the treachery d one of them, and that he was once more master of the position. That his confidence in this regard must have been very great was proved by the circumstance that he m~de .a bid for the sympathies of his extreme supporters by putting up Mr. Hardy to' give notice of a formal motion to reject the second reading oI'lf the Snspensory Bill, which would have been very bad tactique in· 
~~,atthe moment he waaaboat to appol\l to the hou~ei.!: reneral to ~erse a Ministerial defeat, if he hlld not been eure of hie power for that occasion at least. When, however, Mr. Disraeli came to speak, he was too much of a rhetorician, to say nothing of being a Premier, in difficulties generally, to let one jot of his confidence appear. Nay, he was not only gentle and persuasive, but he was almost cajoling; and, with singularcandonr, even went so far as to hint that the Govern· ment was on the night when Mr. Bouverie struck personal ratiug outof the Scotch Reform Bill in a pmable condition; that they had been surprised by their own ner-ligence ; and that Prime Minister, Home l3ecretary, and a "whip' like Colonel Taylor had been absolutely ·deceived into going away to dinner! and letting their men go away­pairing, to be sure-under the Impression that the Hou3e, to ·which the Scotch Bill had been snrrendered by its promoters and owners, would not go on with it in the ~bsence of those parties to it. In short, he threw himself, as it were, ·on the mercy of the Opposition, when all the while he knew that for that night, at least, he had them in the hollow of his hand. A CUriOllS scene ensued; for a very meek, mild, but by no means weak-except in his voice-Conservative member, Mr. Percy Wyndbam, rose, and, in the softest accents, administered to the Ministry of which he is a supporter a more severe scolding on their conduct than ever Mr. Bright has; and even when Mr. Bouverie ,came in, with an exag~eration on his previous fish·wifey objurgations, be was fadess effective. Then, too, Mr. Liddell, who is palpably . suffering from a political broken heart; and Mr. John Hardy, blaffest .and quaintest of inconsequent talkers, lectured the Government, beside ·which they sit; and Sir Rainald Knightley, in one of those wicked half whispers for which he is noted, dropped out his idea that the .Reform Bills should first be passed and then the Government should Ioe ruthlessly kicked out. It was significant that at the usaal -feeding-time the House, as a body, went away, leaving a few gentle· 
men, who had probably dined early, in the expectation of a sensation ·scene and a party fight carried on recklesSly long over the dinner· hour, to prose away the hours till "pairing ~ime" was over. At the later hour a little more life was infused into the discnssion, and Mr. Hardy, who seems selected to act as the Captain Bobadil or Ancient Pistol of the Ministry, talked very" big words in the breach," and dared the Opposition to come on with a vote of no confidence iu his .highest and most panting tones, while Mr. Oshorne appeared in the novel character of a moderator, with about the like result as would follow the application of stinging·nettles to cutaneouB irri­tation. In fine, the House separated with a full conviction that, on the following Moilday, they would be called on to eat a leek,. and would eat it. 
On Friday evenings the rules ofthe Housepetlllit private members 'to exhibit themselves, their crotchets, and eccentricities, at their will and pleasure; and the Friday of last week was peculiarly notable in this regard. Iu the first place, that remarkable, most ()riginal representative of the people, Mr. Rearden, fulfilled a part of his eccentric mission. It had been known that this hon. member had tendered a notice of motion which was based on the assump· tion that the temporary retirement of the Queen to Scotland at this present tims had caused a check to the business of the West-End tradesmen, and had especially interfered with the letting of famished hlluBes for the season; the logical inference, therefore, was that her Majesty should abdicate. It is understood that the :Speaker had advised the honourable member not to bring forward such a motion; but he persevered in his right to do so, and rose .accordingly in the midst of, Perhaps, the greatest agitation-that is the most Significant word-which has been witnessed in the House for many a day. It is just conceivable that it might have been better to have langhed down such a proceeding, bat the "unerring instinct" of the House prevailed; and it iSl no fiction to say that the honourable member was literally execrated down, the curious combination of sounds which was hurled on him being describable only by that word. The rebuke of the Speaker fol­lowed of course, and the honourable member really did seem for once a little abashed. It may be added that subsequently aud daring the discussion on the Scotch Reform Bill a sort of trap was laid for ¥r. Rearden, into which he fell ; for, having risen several times in vain, on his next essay, there were some cries fur him; and thus he suc· ceeded in getting on his legs, but no more; for instantly there was a universal yell of derision, mixed-a very unusual circumstance­with hisses, beneath which he quailed and sat down without au utterance. Soon after the news of the capture of Magdala there was going about what was thought to be an extreme joke: to the effect that as soon as Sir Robert N apier came within the jurisdiction of the courts of England, the Jamaica Committee would pl"Osecute him for the murder of King Theodore. No one could, however, have possibly conceived that a member of Par­
liament would treat this squib seriously. Yet Captain Archdall, a grave, solemn, heavy·dragoonish, Irish Orange member, absolutely asked whether, in such an event, the Government would aid the gallant General in bis defence. Oddly enough, the absardity did not seem particularly to strike the House-perhaps because the volatile, exuberant Colonel Stnart Knox instantly sprang up and began tilting at his half-namesake, Mr. Stuart Mill, about Governor Eyre; and Colonel J ervis, in . a fit of indignation, bee-an to raise the question whether the Treasury lawyers would aid iihe ex· Governor in his new tribulation. There was a little confusion, in the midst of which it was found that Mr. Bailey Cochrane was in a furiously protesting manner, and Mr. Darby Griffi th in a merry, magnanimous vein, postponing their (the only) motions which stood between the second reading of Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill. It ID:l.y here be pre·observed that in all the recent party squabbles and development of Ministerial crises Mr. Gladstone had maintained a mest judicious silence; and now, when he had to perform a duty which, as leaaer of the Opposition, was an agreeable one, and one calculated to indace an impulsive man to crow a little, he exhibited the utmost moderation, and did his work, as it were, as a matter of COUl-Be, and without the least touch {)f triumph in his tone. Again, when he came to reply, though his speech was animated and a masterpiece of incisive debating, he still preserved moderation of langnage and demeanour; and once, w.hen, as he was disclaiming any pereonal object in his action against the Irish Church, he was interrupted by ironical cheers, he not only sustained his equanimity but put aside the quip with good·humour and smiles. It was Mr. Hardy's this within a great distance of his in dispute; for he was indeed, so forced as to on which continuous and renewed only louder and louder puff-pTilt£­of its drawing power. A ve~' clever, Mr. Disraeli, a wonderful sp~imen of tender ground; and with him;it have closed. Bnt, as has is fully marshalled for a and judicial exponent of all in his gruesome way, and set how the House for once recognised tlllHnSOI.el thougb, as a rule, this gentleman is quite 
enjoy the delight of hearing his voice, so ullcea~ing a flood of groans was brought to bear upon him that he only spoke, without one word being audible, for a quarter of an hour. 'rhe eff~ct of the reduction of Mr. Gladstone's majority on the Irish Church from sixty·five to fifty-four was palpable on the under executive of the Government!. and, in the confasion of the emptying of the House, 
one could a most fancy  that  one  saw  the  trio  of  Ministerial  
"wbippers·in" performing  a  sort  of  "boro boo,"  or  dance  of  
triumph, down the floor.  

Another sensation Monday which was expected proved to be not sensational at all. To be sure, in the early part of the evening Colonel Stuart Knox once more performed one of his faudangos, accompanied by his own voice, for he wanted to show Mr. Buxton up as a persecator of ex· Governor Eyre; but the Houge would not have it, and the Speaker was, for once, stern and imperative; and so the gallant Colonel was stormed down, though for awhile there kept dropping from his lips the word" Baxton 1" "Buxton 1" just as the head of Urpheusfaintly murmured out cries of "Eurydice 1 " 
z
" Eurydice !" as It floated down the Hebrus to the 2Egean Sea. It was amusing to observe how quietly personal rating was rehabilitated in the Scotch Reform Bill, poor out·witted Mr. Bouverie sitting in his seat, high up on that which in the French AWllllbly used to be called the " Monntain," in an attitude mnch akin to that which Turner has in his well-known picture gi-ren to Polyphemus as he watches the escape of Ulysses. Things, however, did not go quite so quietly with the redistribution part of the bill, though it was, alas 1 a hopeless case for the Scotch members and Mr. Baxter, though they made great efforts to get the ten seats filched from English con· stitnencies for Scotland. The Government had got with them a motley lot, composed partly of their own men and partly of the Opposition amongst them, of course, the condamnes of the under.five·tbousand English boroughs; and, though lIfr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright fought gallantly in the front of the stdfe, it was soon palpable that it was all up. Presently a sense of weakness was shown by Mr. Baxter's giving way on one point of his motion, and, anonthe proper moment ha.ving arrived, Mr. Hardy charged home-that is, he made a motion to negative the giving of four members to Glasgow, upon which a division was taken; and, 10 1 the Government was found to be in more thau a respectable majority. With what a gracious air of gentle triumph did Mr. Disraeli rise, and soothingly ask the defeated Opposition whether, after such a division (which had evidently had a most restorative, tonical effclct on him), it was worth while to squabble any more; ani! whether a more or less delightful harmony might not prevail. However sulky the section of the Opposition which stack by the Scotch members might have been, they had no alternative; and it was quite amusing to witness the quiet, business·like way in which Mr. Disraeli proceeded to strip, bit by bit, Mr. Baxter's motion off the notice· paper, and BO to arrange that thereaft er Scotland should have the seven members originally promisec\, and no more. It was in this state of things that the belief above alladed to, that Ministerial crises were over for the present, arose. Curiously enough, on the following evening that enfant .gate of the Hou3e, Lord Stanley, was, so to speak, personally defeated, on a question of con· fidence in his administration of a financial detail of the Foreign Office. 
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. Lord Portman appealed to Lord Chelmsford, who has charge of the Artisans' Dwellings Bill, to have it sent before a Select Com· mittee. Lord Chelmsford declined, on the ground that he could not attend the Committee. Lord Portman then gave notice·that, on the motion for going into Committee on the bill, he should oppose any further progress with it. • The Consolidated Fund (£17,000,000) Bill was read the third time, The Endowed Schools Bill was read the third time and passed. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. Mr. Maguire called attention to the riots which have taken place at Ashton-under·Lyne and other places in the north, and, after a short discussion, the subject dropped. Mr. Secretary Hardy, replying to Mr. Bright, explained the cir­cumstances under which the Government had determined to permit the law to take its course in the case of the convict Barrett. In reply to a question fI;,Om Colonel J ervis, Mr. Disraeli said the Government could not undertake the defence of Mr. Eyre, but they 
would watch the eviden~, fo'i' aud'agaJIiSt him, and if after the trial they thought it was thtir 'duty \;0 make a proposal to Parliament with reference to th~p!eywould not hesitate to do so. 
The following bil "read the third time and passed :-The Local GOvel'lllll8l1li fllemental, the Pier and Harbour Order Con· firmation, the Reformatory Schools (Ireland), the Partition, the Medical Practitioners (Colonies), and the Divorce and M~trimonial Causes Court. 
THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. 
The House went into Committee on this bill, resuming the dis· cussion on clause 3, which relates to the occupation franchise for voters in burghs. 
The Lord Advocate reminded the Committee that on Thursday night they struck out the third and fourth divisions of the clause requiring that the voter shall be rated and have paid his rates. He now moved to insert words disfranchising persons who have been exempted from payment on the ground of inability to payor who shall within twelve months have been in the receipt of parochial relief. Mr. Moncreiff accepted the amendment, and it was agreed to. 
On claUEe 5, which relates to the occapation franchise for counties, which was fixed at a rateable value of £12 or upwards, an amendment was made to leave out" rateable," to which the Lord Advocate consented, but altering the amount to £14, and in that form it was agreed to. . 
On the clause which gives two members to certain Universities, Mr. Lowther said the claims of Scotland to additional representation wonld hardly bear light when compared with other parts of the United Kingdom. He moved that the clause be postponed. Mr. B. Hope protested against the vote on Mr. Baxter's motion the other night being taken as the deliberate decision of the House. 
Mr. Hayter supported the same view. . 
Mr. Smollett thought there was no use in going on with the bill unless it were remodelled so far as the redistribution went. 
Several other members having addressed the House, 
Mr. Dismeli said he would now make another proposition, that seven additional members be given to Scotland, not ten-namely, one member to each of the three counties of Lanark, Ayr, and Aberdeen, one member more to Glasgow and another to Dundee, and two members to the Universities. One member he would obtain by combining the counties of Selkirk and Peebles, which now returned one each, and the remainder he would obtain by applying so far the principle of Mr. Baxter's resolution. 
Mr. Bouverie said this was a new proposition, and they ought to have time to consider it, but he preferred that of Mr. Baxter. 
Sir L. Palk could not agree to the compromise proposed by Mr. Disraeli. He could not consent to one single seat being taken from the representation of England and given to Scotland; but he was willing to give more representation to Scotland by adding to the numbers of the House. 
Mr. Gladstone believed it would be unsatisfactory to the country to recede from the vote they came to the other night. He thought . CIf Scotland to ten additional seats was made out. 
agreed with Sir L. Palk, and hoped he. would divide Honse upon it. lIfr. Bright impressed upon the House the wisdom of accepting Mr. Baxter's resolution. Mr. W,alpole thou$ht they were bound to accept the settlement of the queetion -of·redistribution come to last year. 
Mr:Baxter should not accept the Government proposition, and proceeded to move that ten additional members be allocated to Scotland as follows :-One to the Universities, one additional to each of the connties of Ayr, Lanark, Aberdeen, and Perth; that Glasgow be divided into two districts, each returning two member. ; that one additional member be given to ,each of the cities of Edinburgb, Aberdeen, and DllUdee. 
A desultory conversation followed, which ended by Mr. Baxter 
amending his resolution hy proposing to give two members to the 
Universities, and omitting the county of Perth. 
Mr. G. Hardy moved as an amendment that three membel'S only 
be given to Glasgow. 
On a division, Mr. Hardy's amendment was carried by 261 to 222. 
Mr. Disraeli expressed a hope that, after this vote, the Houss 
would accept the proposition ef the Government. The clause was further amended in accordance with the pro·position previously made by Mr. Disraeli. Sir L. Palk then moved to add a proviso" that the representationof England and Ireland be not thereby diminished." 
Mr. Disraeli said the plan proposed in the bill did not reopen the distribution for England, whereas the proviso of the hon. member would. He appealed to the hon. member to withdraw it. 
The motion was negatived by 262 to 95. 
Fnrther progress with the bill was then suspmded un \i\ Thursday. 
HOUSE OF ·LORDS.--=-TuESDAY. Lord Chelmsford moved the second reading of the Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Bill. It was discussed with much 'oJ."eai, read the second time and referred to a Select Committee. The ReligioulI Buildings Site3 Bill, the Consecration of Ohuree­yards Act Amendment Bill, the Sea Fisheries Bill, and the Cott In Statistics Bill passed through Committee. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuESDAY. The Earl of Mayo stated, in reply to Sir Colman O·Loghleu. that the Committee on the Irish Reform Bill would be taken on Jane 11. Mr. Labouchere moved a resolution declaring that all the expanses of the diplomatic service should be voted annually, and estimates of them duly published.. There was a brief discussion on the mo~ion, which was opposed "by I.urd Stanley. It was, however, carried on a division, by 76 votes to 72. 
HOUSE OF' LORDS.-Tnul\SDAY. The Marquis of Clanricarde, having brought up the repor; of the Select Committee on the Land Tenure (Ireland) Bill, intimltei his ·intention to withdraw the measure in consequence of the state of business before Parliament. . The Poor Relief Billl1nderwent a long discussion. Several clauses having be.en postponed, the bill paesed through Committee. The Consecration of Churchyards Act Amendment Bill was read the third time and passed. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-7'nullSDAY. THE PROPOSED CATHOLIC UNIVJlRSITY. Mr. Murphy asked the Chief S,cretary for Ireland whether her Majesty's Government intended to take anyfarther steps with r~gard to the proposed Catholic Univeraity for Ireland. The Earl of Mayo said it wM not intended to take any farther steps in the matter, which the Government considered at an end. 

OOUNTRY NEWS. 

Sir Arthur Edward Guinness has accepted the invitation of the Conservatives, and will offer himself as a candidate for the repre· sentation of the city of Dublin, in the room of his lamented father. 

OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS. LORD MUSKERRY. The Right Hon. Sir Matthew Fitzmaurice Deane, third Baron Muskerry, of Mus­kerry, in the county of Cork, in the Peet­age of Ireland, and a Baronet of Ire­1 and, who died on the 18th inst., was the fourth and youngest son of Robert Jilson, first Baron Muskerry, by his wife, Anne, daughter of John Fitzmaurice, Esq., and grand. daughter and sole heiress of John FitzmauTice, Esq., of Springfield Castle, in the county 
of Limerick (of the family of the Earls of Kerry). He was born March 29, 1795, and succeeded his brother "s third Baron Muskerry Dec. 25, 1824. He married, first, Aug. 13, 1825, Louis& Dorcas, second danghter of Henry Deane O'Grady, Esq., of Lodge, in the county of Limerick, and by her (who died in 1846) had issue three sons, bf whom the eldest, the Hon. Robert Tilson Fitzmaurice, married, Dec. 11, 1847, Elizabeth Geraldine, daughter of H. K. Grogan-Morgan, Esq., of Johnstown Castle, M.P., and assumed, in 1855, the additional surname and arms of Morgan, "nd died in February, 1857, leaving an only child, Hamilton Matthew Fitzmaurice, his grandfather's successor. His Lordship married, secondly, April 13, 1864, Lucy, widow of Colonel Aldrich, of the Royal Engineers, which lady died Jan. 16, 1867. Lord Muskerry is succeeded by his grandson, 'now Sir Hamilton Matthew Fitzmaurice Deane­Morgan, fourth Baron Muskerry, who Wag born May 18, 1854. The ancestors of this family are stated to have been seated at Deane's Fort, in the county of Somerset, temp. Henry Ill. :Matthew Deane, born 1626 the third son of Moses Deane, Esq., of Deane's Fort, Somersetshire, settled in Ireland, at Dromore, in the county of Cork, where he purchased considerable estates, and was created a Baronet of Ireland March 10, 1709. His descendant, Sir Robert Tilson 
Deane, the sixth Baronet"M.P. for the county of Cork, was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron MU8kerry, Jan. 5, 1781. He had fonr sons, of whom the second son, John Thomas Fitzmaurice, was his successor as second Baron; the third son, the Hon. William, 38th Regiment, was killed in Portugal, in 1811; and the fourth son, Matthew, was the nobleman just deceased. 
SIR B. L. GUINNESS, BART., M.P. 

Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, first 'Baronet, of Ashford, in the . county of Gal-way, and of St. Stephen's -green, in the city of Dub­lin, M.P., LL.D., J .P., D.L., one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland, who died, on the 19th inst., at hi" town home, 27, Ncriolk-street, Park -lane, was the youngest but last surviving son of the late Arthur Guinness, Esq., of Beaumont, in the county of Dublin, by his wife, Anne, 
eldest caughter and coheiress of Benjamin Lee, Esq., of Merrion, in the county of Dublin. He was born Nov. 1, 1798. In 1851 he became Lord lIfayor of 1he reformed Corporation of Dllblin, and was in 1865, returned to Parliament for that cit.y, being a Liberal-Conservative in Ilolitics. He was created a Barouet of the United Kingdom bipatent, dated'April 15,1867. To the munificence "nd energetic ana patriot.ic spirit of this gentleman his native city of Dnblin. is greatly indeMed, especially for the restoration of the venerable Catlfedral of St. Patrick. Though almost in ruiDS whim ' ·he commenced the great work, which he carried out at his own Bole cost and under his own personal direction, the cathedral, restored in exact conformity with its original style, is now the finest specimen of church architectnre in Ireland. In commemoration of this patriotic act, her Majesty granted to the Baronet and his successors the right to bear supporters. At the late grand installation of the Prince of Wales in St. Patrick's Cathedral Sir Benjamin was present and was assigned a prominent place; and aG the installation banquet given by the Lord Lieutenant, to which Sir Benjamin was specially invited, the Pdnce of Wales made pointed and most flattering allusion to the munificence of the worthy Baronet and to his great public services. Sir Benjamin married, Feb. 24, 1837, his consin, Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Edward Guinnees, Esq., of Dublin, and by her (who died Sept. 22, 1865) had issue three sons, Arthnr Edward; Benj.min Lee, of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue); and Edward Ceci!; and one daughter, Anne Lee, married to the Hon. and Rev. William Conyngham Plunket, trea­surer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, eldest son of John, third and present Lord Plunket. Sir Beniamin Guinness is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, the second Baronet, who was born Nov. 1, 1840. This family of Guinness claims descent from the ancient house of Magennis. Richard Guinness, li:Eq., of Celbridge, in the county of Kildare, born about the year 1660, was grandfather of Arthur Guinness, Esq., of Beaumont, in the county of Dublin, J.P. ond D.L., born March 12, 1768, w'Jo held for many years, hononred and respected by all classes of his fellow-citizens, the foremost place amongst the mer,chants of his native city of 
Dublin. He WaS father of the Baronet just deceased. 
METROPOLITAN NEWS. 

Last Saturday the fourth annual procession of boats of the metro­politan amateur rowing-clubs took place at Putney. 
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster has consented to preside at tbe anniver8ary festival of the Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation, to be held early in July. 
The Council of the Royal Botanic Gardens, in Regent's Park, is about to enlarge the winter garden, or Ilonservatory. The design adopt£d (by Mr. Turner, of Dublin) proposes two additional wings. 
Mr. Justice Hannen took the chair at the annual dinner of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association, in Willis's Rooms, on Wednesday. Subscriptions to the amount of nearly £600 were annouuced. 
On Thursday week Mr. F. Y. Hurlstone gave his lecture, a criticism upon art-criticism in England, when Mr. H. Warren presided, at the rooms of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts i and on Thursday last the annual meeting of the society took place. 
'The Lord Mayor has complied with the prayer of the requisition, signed by a large number of citizen~, and will preside over a public meeting at Guildhall, on the 22nd inst., when Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church policy will be discussed. 
A new Roman Catholic church-the Church of Notre Dame de France-situate at the north-east corner of Leicester-square, was opened, on Wednesday, with the usual ceremony. The buildiBg wag for many years used for Bnrford's panoramas. 
Dr, J. Alderson, F.R.S., the president of the Royal College of Physicians, and the Fellows, had a conversazione, on Wednesday night. at the college, Pall-mall East, when a numerous company aeeembled at their invitation. 
The seventeenth annual conference between the council of the Society of Arts and the representatives of the institutions in union and local boards will be held next Friday, and Mr. William Hawea, F.G.S., chairman of the council, will preside. 
A special general court was held, on Monday, at the Trinity House, at which the Duke of Edinburgh was nnanimouslyre-elected Master, and Captain Frededck Arrow, Deputy Master, of that ancient Corporation, for the ensuing year. . 
The memorial window presented by the operatives of Lancashire to the Corporation of London, as a memorial of the aid rendered by the citizens of London during the period of the cotton famine, is being put in at the east end of the Guildhall i and an early day will be named for opening it in the presence of Lord Derby. 
That portion of the personal damage done by the murderous Clerkenwell explosion which can be assessed in money and com. pensated to survivors, amounts to £10,000, and is sufficiently met by voluntary public chality. The material damage is estimated at £ 8000, and, after appraisement, is to be met by the Government. 
The new Act to further continue the statutes on the London coal and wine duties has been printed. The Acts are continued till the yeaI' 1872. The proceeds of 4d., part of 12d. duty, is to be applied to complete the Holborn Valley and other improvements, and after­wards to improvements "in or adjacent to the city of LondoD," aa sanctioned by Parliament. 
The Duke of Cambridge presided at the annual festival of the Newspaper Press Fund last Saturday night. The toast of the evening was acknowledged by Lord Houghton, the president of the institution; and amongst the speakers were Prince Christian, the Marquis of Cla111'icarde, Field Marshal Sir J. Burgoyne; Mr. Newdegate, Jlf,P.; Lord Trmo, aud Captain Sherard Osborn. Subscriptions and donations to the amount of £1000 were announced. 
On Monday evening an interesting paper was submitted to the members of the Royal Institute ef British Architects by Mr. M. Digby Wyatt, " On the Foreign Artists Employed in England during the Sixteenth Cent.ury, and their Inflnence on Iltitish Art," A long and anima.ted discuEsion took place upon Mr. Wyatt's paper, in ",]ich part was taken by Professor Donaldson, Mr. Robins, Mr. Gordon Hill, Mr. Morris, Professor Kerr, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Thomson, and Mr. Charles Barry (the chairman). 
A Parliamentary return, prepared by the Metropolitan Board of WorkB, shows that the estimates for the Thames Embankment (north and south) amount to £3,167,515 j Jlfansion House-street, £2,227,837; other approaches, £173).000: total, £5,568,852. The ex· penditure to May 5, 1868, reached :t3,572,013; there was £157,339 available for fnrther expenditure, leaving a further sum of £ 1,839,000 required.--The bill before Parliament, which has passed the House of Commons, applyiug for powers to alter the streets in communica· tion with .the embankment on the north side of the Thames, has been so amended that the proposed alterations will not interfere iD. any way whatever with the Savoy Chapel or the burial-ground attached to it j and instead of the_ new street terminating at the corner of Wellington-street, in the Strand, it will terminate at the commencement of Lancaster-place. It has 1I1so been arranged that neither Northumberland-street nor Craven-street is to be interfereli wit.h by the proposed alterations. 
On Thursday a meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at its house, John· street, Ade1pbi. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having l-ead the minutes of the previous meeting, it was reported that the Birmingham No. 2. Life-boat of the institution, stationed at Caistor, had gone off on the night of the 23rd ult., and in less than three hours had succeeded in getting the Swedish barque Balder off the Hasborough sands, and afterwards in taking her into Yarmouth hnrbom. A reward of £6 103. was voted to the crew of 
-the society's Civil Service life-boat at Wexford, for going off on the 7th ult. with the view of rendering assistance to the schooner Maggie, of Berwick, which was observed to strike on the Long bank. Various other rewards were also granted to the crews of different shore-boats for saving life from shipwreck on our coasts. Payments amounting to nearly £900 were likewise ordered to be made on various life· boat establishments. The iustitution decided, on the application of the Governor of the Isle of :Man, to station a life-boat at Ramsay, ou that island. Mr. Ryder, a member of the Manchester Corporation, had, throngh the Manchester branch of the society, liberally promised to give the inetitution the boat. A lady at Plymouth has presented to the institution the life-boat that was about to be pJaced on board the pilot ship at Bnrry Holmes, near Llanelly, in memory of her late parents. 'The Right Hon. H, T. L. Corry, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, had forwarded to the society a liberal donation of £10. It was reported that legacies had recently been bequeathed to the society by the late Miss Louisa Hall, of Maida-vale, £1000 stock; the late E. A. Bromehead, Esq., of Lincoln, £100 i the late Dr. G. E. Aldred, £100 i and the late Mrs. Mary Chapman, of Aldborough, £60. The committee expressed their regret at the death of Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbnry and Talbot, who for many years past had been a warm friend and liberal supporter of the Nat.ional Life-boat Institution. At Fulmouth, on the Brd inst., a. life-boat regatta took place amongst the nine life· boats of the insti· tution stationed in that locality. It was witne'ssed with great interest by the numerous visitors to the Bath and West of England Agricultural SOCiety's Show, whose committee divided £ 21 amongst the life-boat crews. The roce was won by the Looe boat, which is named the Oxfordshire. 'rhere were also present 500 boys from her Majesty's tra.ining-ship Ganges. Reports were read fl"Om the 
inspector and assietant inRpectol' of life-boats to the institution on their recent visits to various life-boat stations of the society 0 :1 the coae t . 
The Commissioners of National Education iu Irelaud, iu their thirty-fourth report for 1867, state :-"On Dec. 31, 1866, we -had 6453 schools in operation, which had on their rolls, for the year then ended, 910,819 children; with an average daily attendance for the same period of 316,225 children. At the close of the year 1857, the number of schools in operation was 6520. The total number of children on the rolls within the year was 913,198, and the average daily attendance of children for the year was 321,515. As compared. with the year 1866, there is an increase of sixty-seven in the number 
ef schools in operation for the year 1867. The increase in the totlll number of pupils on the rolls is 2379; and the iucrease in the average daily attendance is 5290. We have in .conrae of erection eighty-one National school-houses, which will con­tain 125 separate school-rooms. When these eighty-one buildings shall have been completed, they will afford accom­modation to 10,510 children. Of the above eighty-one school­houses the erection of forty-three was sanctioned during the year 1867. There were fourteen vested schools opened. during the yeu, towards the erection of which g:ants had been m,.de, and one suspended school was reopened. The number of schools strack off our roU during year 1867 was seventy-t.hree. Of these seventy ha1 been previously in operation, the remaining three 1;>eing merely cases in which gmnts for bnilding were cancelled. Th3 number of s~hoo!s in the' suspended list' at the close of the year was seventy-one, of which five were suspendcd during the year 1867." 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. 

Sir Arthul' Guinness took the oath and his seat for the city of Dublin, in the room of his late father, Sir B. L. Guinness. 
Mr. Bright gave notice that he intended, on the 16th inst., to call attention to the petition from Nova Scotia presented to the House en the 15th nIt., complaining that great dissatisfaction prevailed in that colony, and that he should move for a Commission to proceed to Nova Scotia to examine into the causes of the alleged discontent, 
with a view to their consideration and removal. 
A case which is creating a great deal of public interest, and in the issne of which a large amount of property is involved, is being heard in the Pro­bate Court of Dublin, before Judge Keating and a oonnty special jury_ The case is that of "Browne 
v. Esroonde," by which the defendants eeek to dis­prove the validity of the will of the late Lady Esmonde, of J ohnstown Castle, in the county of Wexford, on the usual statutory grounds, and alleging, further, that it did not comply with the provisions of the Wills Act. : Among other bequests ber Ladyship left £30,000 to Trinity College for the purpose of fonnding a college in the county of Wexford, in connection with Dubliu University, to be called the Grogan College. 
OBITUARY Ol<~ EMINENT PERSONS, 
THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. 

The Right Hon. Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, eighteenth Earl 


of Shrewsbury, in the Peerage of England, Ear! of Waterford, in the Peerage of Ire­land, third Earl Talbot, Viscount Ingestre, and fifth Baron Tal­bot, of Hensol, in the county of Glamorgan, in the Peerage of Great Britain, Premier Earl of England, Here­ditary Great Se­neschal of Ire­la"d, Admiral RN., P.C., C.B., K.S.L., KS.A., 
KR, who (just upon the anniversary of his summons to the House of Lords as Earl of Shrewsbury, ten years ago) died on the 4th inst., at Newbattle Abbey, near Dalkeith, the seat of his son-in-law, the Marquis of Lothian, was the eldest son to survive youth of Charles Chetwynd, second Earl and fourth Baron Talbot, by his wife, Frances Thomasine, eldest daughter of Charles Lambart, Esq., of Beau-Pare, in the county of Meath, and niece of J ames, first Lord Sherborne. He was born Nov. 8, 1803. Having entered the Royal Navy, he commanded the Philomel at the battle of Navarino, in 1827, and was made a Vice-Admiral in 1861. He was a Knight of the Order of St. Anne of Russia, and of the Redeemer of Greece, and had received the cross of St, Louis of France. He was a Lord in Waiting to the Queen from February to December, 1852, and Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from March, 1858, to June, 1859. He, in 1853, was appointed a Depnty Lieutenant of the county of Stafford. His Lordship was returned to Parliament for the city of Dublin in 1831, and subsequently, from 1837 to 1849, sat for South Staffordshire. He succeeded his father, as third Earl Talbot, Jan. 10, 1849. On the demise of Bertram, seventeeuth Earl of Shrewsbury, his Lordship, as his nearest kinsman, claimed to be his successor; but his claim met with strong opposition from the Duke of Norfolk, aB' guardian of his son, under the devise of Earl Bertram, and from Major William Talbot, of Castle Talbot, in the county of Wexford, on the assumption of being a nearer heir to the title. The case being referred by the Crown to the Houee of Lords, there ensned one of the most memorable legal contests on reco\'cl, which commenced July 13,1857, and terminated June 1,1858, in his Lordship'S favour. The Committee for Privileges declared that Henry John Chetwyud, Earl Talbot, had made out his claim to the Earldom of Shrewsbury; and the House of Lords having reported accordingly, a writ of summons was issued, and his Lordship took the oaths and his seat as eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, June 10, 1858. He was further, in 1863, admitted by the House of Lords to be Hereditary Great Seneschal of Ireland, and he acted in that capacity at the recent installation of the Prin ~e of Wales in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The Earl married, Nov. 8, 1828, Lady Sarah Elizabeth Beresford, only surviving daughter of Henry, second Marquis of Waterford, and by her had issue, four sons, who survive him; and four daughter8, of whom the three younger are living; the eldest, Lady Victoria Susan, having died unmarried June 8, 1856; Lady Constance Harriet Mahonesa, the second daughter, was married, Aug. 12, 1857, to William Scbomberg Robert, eighth and present Marquis of Lothian. The Earl is succeeded by his eldest son, Charles John, Viscount Ingestre, now nineteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and fifth Earl Talbot, who was born April 13, 1830, and was M.P. for Stafford from 1857 to 1859, and for South Staffordshire from 1859 to 1865, and was just elected for Stamford; he mlmied, Feb. 15, 1854, Anna Theresa, eldest daughter of the late R. Howe Cockerell, Esq., Commander RN., by Theresa, his wife, afterwards Countess of Eglinton and Winton, and has a son, Charles Henry John, Viscount Ingestre, and three daughters, Lady Theresa Jersey Helen, Lady Gwendolen Theresa, and Lady Muriel Frances Louisa. The annals of the illustrious house of Talbot, Earls of Shrewsbury, which deduces its descent from a period before the Conquest, are part and parcel of the history of England itself. The first Earl of Shrewsbury, who was so 
created May 20, 1442, was the famous Lord Talbot, whom Shakspeare calls "the great Alcides of the field," and who was one of the first captains of the warlike age he lived in. He fell, in his eightieth year, at the battle of Chastillon, July 20, 1453, after being victorious in forty battles and skirmishes against the French. From him the present Earl of. Shrewsbury descends. Among the Earls of Shrewsbury between them, John, the second Earl, KG., was Lord Treasurer of Ireland; George, the fourth Earl; was made a K.G. for his valour at the battle of Stoke; and CharleS, the twelfth Earl, K.G., created Duke of Shrewsbury, was, at the death of Queen Anne, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Lord Chamberlain at.the same time. The branch now become the senior stem is that springing from the Right Rev. Dr. William Talbot, Bishop of Durham, whose son, Charles Talbot, Lerd Chancellor of England, was ·created, in 1733, Baron Talbot, and was grandfather of John Chetwynd"third Baron Talbot, created, in 1784, Viscount Ingestre and Earl Talbot, whose grandson was the nobleman just deceased. 
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the Edinburgh Burns Club and others, to the Town Council, under 
• whose care it will be in future. 
.. The Criminal Chamber of Baden has had to decide on a rare case, that of Count Obendorff, of Bavaria, tried for defrauding his cre­ditors. He was well known in that capital for his dissipated life and reckless expenditure, and, having been declared insolvent, endeavoured to abstract a number of objects which ought to have gone to meet his debts. He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment. 
A startling accident has happened at an isolated colliery in the Dowlais district; which at first threatenei the loss of 150 lives. The colliers working in the 4-ft. vein at the Pontywain pit were greatly alarmed by the Budden burst of a lal'ge stream of water into their croBS heading, and a race for life at once commenced, and by dint of the most frantic exertion of strength the colliers gained a place of safety. For several seconds the men were obliged to struggle thrcugh water reaching nearly to the top of their heads. 
A public meeting in connection with the present movement for the rebuilding of the medical hospital of the Royal Infirmary was held in Queen-street Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday week-Lord Provost Chambers p~esid~ng. A ~eport was submitted stating that the amount of contnbutlOns recelved up to the present. time was above £56,000~ and suggesting that, as the funded capital of £40,000 presently in me possession of the managers was required for the current expenses of the institution, an effort should be made to raise £ 100,000 independently of that sum. 
At a meeting of the Cork Harbour Board last week a communi­cation was read from the Board of Trade containing a proposal with reference to the blasting of Daunt's Rock, providing that, whatever sum of money might be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Board for the purpose, an equivalent should be paid by a special toll levied off the trade of Cork, so as to indemnify the Mercantile Marine Fund. The board unanimously rejected the proposal on the ground that it was an Imperial rather than a local measure, and that the trade of Cork had no right to be called on to contribute. 

ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES. 

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART., F.R.S., gave the first of a course of six lectures on Savages on Thursday week, the 4th inst. In his open­ing remarks he stated that, in the gradual progress of civilisation, we find Beveral principal stages-I, the omnivorous, in which man lives on fish, roots, fruit, and insects ; 2, the hunting stage, in which he feeds on the produce of the chase; 3, the pastoral, in which he consumes the milk and flesh of his flocks and herds; 4, the agri­cultural, in which he adds grain to his diet; and, 5, the stage when letters and coin come into use. Ignorance, said Sir John, is the characteristic of barbarism; and the application of knowledge that of civilisation. In his apology for savages, he noticed their want of any means of cleanliness ana comfort ; their great resemblance in language and habits to the children of the superior races of men ; and in regard to their moral character, he expressed his opinion that, considering their whole mental condition, they ought not to be judged by our standard, if judged by us at all. He then adverted to the erroneous idea that savages are free, and described a variety of excessively minute regulations, fettering their daily social inter­course (such as a woman being prohibited from looking at or speaking to her son-in-law); many restrictions being based upon the uni­versal dread of witchcraft. Among other prevalent customs are the father being nursed instead of the mother when a child is born, the turning the back on a snperior or sitting in his presence as a . mark of respect, the torturing young men as an initiatory rite on admitting them into the tribe ; while, on the other hand, kissing, our natural mode of expressing affection, seems to have been quite unknown amongst many races of savages till introduced by Europeans. Their dances are said to partake of a religious and theatrical character. Commenting on cannibalism, Sir John ad­verted to various reasons assigned for the practice, it being adopted by some for the sake of food ; by others from motives of revenge, as causing the annihilation of an enemy, so that he might not be met with in the world of spirits; by others with the expectation of acquiring the wisdom, courage, and other qualities of the deceased. 
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come under the dominion of the nervous system, so as to be entii:ely subject to it, and the various steps of the development of the nel'Vons system itself, are quite unknown. In conclusion, aftel' proposing the questions relating to higher or lower animals, Is a bee higher than a fish? is it nearer to ourselves? and showing the difficulty of deciding whether we consider the structure or intelligence of the animals in relation to our own, Dr. Foster concluded by observing that by the study of embryology, the conception of the animal king­dom as a narrow linear series, leading from protozoa up to the highest vertebrates, gives way to the idea of a bounteous broadcast scattering of life to meet the varied circumstances and shifting con­dition of being ; and of the animal kingdom not being a ladder by which one can mount from round to round uutil we find ourselves at the top; but rather a tree, with branches spreading in all directions from a common trunk, bearing all manner of fruit, every fashion of flowers, and all kinds of leaves. 
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at Belfast, after a·lengthened discussion, has passed a resolution, on the motion of the Rev. Dr. Cooke, forbidding instrumental music in Divine worship. The majority was 30, there being 390 membem present. . 
A correspondent of the Scotsman calls attention t o what he caJ.Is an act of Vandalism. He says that the shaft of a crOES which for centuries marked the point whence Robert Bruce and his followers left Arran has lately been removed, and used in the construction, in the neighbourhood, of a dry stone dyke. 
There were great rejoicings, on Monday, among the friends of Sir Robert Clifton, at Nottingham. Some months ago coal was found on the Clifton "and Wilford estates, and on Monday the first sod of the colliery was turned by Lady Clifton. A procession was .formed in the great Market-place, Nottingham, at two o'clock, headed bybands of music and flags, and marched to the ground. The Ab yor and a portion of the Corporation of Nottingham were present. 
The Government has appointed Professor Mofhtt, LT..D., Q'1oen's College, Galway, to the office of Senator of the Queen's UUiVel"8ity, Dublin, rendered vacant by the death of the late Right Hon. F. Blackburne. 
Tie first 8tone of a new church at KUcock, near Maynooth, in the (,OllDt,y of Kildare was laid by Mr!!. Rotberam on Tuesday week. The .ite b&8 been granted by J am~ C. Moore, Esq,; and towardd H e ejection of the neW bnilding, which is to have a round tower aHacbrd to it, £ 1000 has been contributed by Mr. William Coates. 
THE HUSH It~FOlm mu.. 


On the OrdEI' for committing this. bill, I\ir. S~ndrol'd cC)ndemlled the redistribution pordon of the meaSllre. Complainiug that it did Dot disfrancbise the smallest and mOot insigni[ic:H1t boroughs, he pronounced the ~cheme unsatisfactol'Y to aU pa.r~ies, and rec(>m· mended that the measure should be converted into asimple franchise bill, leaving the question of redistribution to be dealt wich in a f'ltLtre Sersif,n. This view of the matter was supporled by Mr. Henley, on the ground that in ita then shape the bill would provoke mtlch debate, and cause "reat delay in bringing the Session to a c!oa6. 
In the course of the 8hort discllssion which Buccaeded, and in 
w.hieh Mr. Bagwell, General DtlDUe, ~rr: C. Fo,rtesclle, }I". Gregory, 
S11' H. Bruce, Mr. LawBon, }Ir. H. B~llhe, and' othe}: membera taok 
part, the redistribution scheme was generally condemn~d as defective; 
but after !lIr. Disraeli had pNmised that the argnm'Jnt:J addu·~eJ 
against it should receive respectful consideration, and 0[,56rO'e1 th~t 
nothing had been urged to render necegs~ry a dep,utm'e fro'n the 
COUrfe proposed of considering the c1!1IBes in Comrni,tee, the Sve~k.er 
left the chair and t,he bill was committed. 
Having spa~dily reached the third ala.me, /;,:ing th<2 borong'l frar;chiAe at a £4 rating, Mt'. Lawson objected th~t, as the clau,e was "'orded, it enfranchised only persons who were rate,1 at " more than £,1," and moved an amendment IIccol'din,{ly. 'rhe motion \us oppoeed hy the Uovernment, and on a diO'ision W,\i neg~tiO'ed by 188 to 177. Subsequm:tly the three clauses relating t'J redistribution were postponed. 

To the"C111nae prohibiting the payment of the expanse of c~nvey' ing voters Mr. Yorl'is moved an amendment excepting the cotlnty of the town of Galway, which led to a division, Bnd the adoption of the amendment by 134 to SI). The several b()roughs of Carrickfergtls, Cork, and Limerick wero alao admitted as exceptions. PtOpos lhl to exempt the city of Cork, Drogheda, Kilkenny, and W'lterIord from the operation of the clause were negatived• 
. The remaining clauses of the bill, with the excepUon of those pcstpoved at an earlier period tlf t.he evening, were then agread to, with a few verbal alterations, and the Ch,~irman reported progt'ess. 
~'HE IrlISK HEE'OlUl BlL[•• 

The HouFe weut int" Committee on this bill. 
Mr. Disraeli regret,ed to Bay that the redisr.rihmtion clauses did not find favour witb either side of the House. He qllite agreed with many of tbe objections urged by hon, gentlemen a law nights since; and he would thel efore move that cl"uses 10, 11, and 12 of th.e: redistribution clauses be withdrawn. 
The clauses were accordingly struck out of the bill. 
Eal'l Mayo moved, after clause 26, t~at in certain bOfOllghs the: occupiers d lands the owner3 of which are 110W ral;ed shll.H ba entitled to be registered if the rate due f<Jr th.e ye~r 1868 h.48 b )en paid before July. 
After con8idel'e.blc discussion, the clause was agreed to. Mr, C. Foricscue moved that the University of Dnblin and the Queen's University shall jointly return two melIlber3, and a sec )1I<i 
I

clause defining the qualification of voter •. 
The Earl of Mayo objected at some length to the motion. 
After discuEsion, the Committee div,ded :-For the clause, 173; ogainat 183: majority for Government" 10. 
Sir Colman O'Loghlen moved the following clan~e :_cc After the pa'dn'" of this Act no person shall be eutit!ed to vo'.e a~ the e'~cLio~ of a member to serve i ll Parli,tment for a~y city or borough by leason of bein" a freeman of such city or borough, Si,"'e a 'ui except those who :t the time of the pasiillg of this Act sha11 hava been actually enrolled as freemen on the freemaa's roll of alIen city or boroul-,h." . . 
After~ lengthened di.scussion, the Earl of Mayo said that the h )n. member proposed to do 'Hvay with on~ of tue most ancient rights. 0 f the freemen of Ireland, and he proPJsed to do so on vory m­sufficient grounds. 
Air Sullivan contended that at t,he l~st electbn the freeman voters ewaU::ped the property.voters, and virttl.'l.lly di,franchi5e(~ the~, Ba that they who paid tlotblOg to'Yards th~ expenses or ta,,.a~lOn or tl1a city swamped those who bore It all. 
Mr. Henley said thllt lastlear the lIons.o was a~keil to digfr3,uchlla the freemen of Engla!ld, an he opposed le, aud fot' the eamo rea.3OIl he should oppose the proposition to disfr!\llcb.ire the freemen of 
Ireland. . 
Mr Gladstone contended that the Honse laqt yet\r dhfrl1.nchlsei! many people; bllt the freemen's votes W"r;e ~nlY retaiued by: fl numbe'), of members in that HOtlSe who had IU vie'" the op;>ortuntty of trading on those votes. The que.;tion to considel' was not whether the freemen should be diefmuc!tised, but whether the vot.o w<\g beneficial to the couutry. It was useless to call this a disfranchtsin.g clllu£e because now that the principle of hon'ohold SU[I'I\gO wa.s admitted they would only take away a maa's vote a.5 a froom~u to give it him back a~ a bouseholder. 
Mr Lowt.ller referred to the corrupt. boronghll of JAuC'.fI'!Wr. Reig~t.e, .Totnes, and _Yarmmlth as evidence !n filv,,)ur of tb.1?; freemen being relieved from the charge of cm:mptlOn. 
The C()mmittee divided :-For Sir C. O'Loghlmt's clause, 109; '\ against, 155: Blbjorit.y for the Government, 46. 
Mr. Fawc,.!,t tl'en moved the following clause :-" In' all futllre Parliaments the Qnefn's University in Ireland sball rettlrn one mEmber to Een·e in Parliament, and the borongh of Portarli.u.gton fheli C"~Ee to fr·turn a member." 
The Etld of :Mayo opposed the clause. 
Mr. C, Fort€ecue ur!!,ed the hon. member, not to pr~Bs ~Lq cl~llse. Thtl'e " (!lld, he ERid, be another opportunIt.y of consldermg thls a8 well 3S many other questions of a similar character. , 
Mr. :Fawcelt having inskted upon dividing, several of the LIberal merul::ers left the hou~e. 'Ihe IeElllt of the division was :-For Mr. Fawcett'a clause, 55 ; ag~i)\st ir, 210 : majority. 155. Colonel Fre11ch woved a clause having for its object. to make the CCCtlpRtion fnlllchise in counties above £8 instead of £l2, 
The Earl of :Msyo objected to the clause. There was nothing in the etate of Irelar.d to jusd fy the establishment of a lower count.y frsllchi;e in 1hat country than they had given by the bill of last year to England. . .. 
Mr. B. Oobornc ERld that the so·called Irish Reform Bill WitS neither dCfircd r.or d.'served. He said "Bo-called reform bill" becauee i.t was no reform bill at all; for it was an igrlfts futu"•• The pwple diel not wont the franchise reduced; bllt wbat they did want wa. protcetion for tbe exercise of that which,they: at pres,e~t he!d, and Le belk .. ed that if they lowered the franchIse Without gl VLUg tne protection of the ballot it would be a perfect cut'se to the tenan~ falmelR ",ho hlld 110 leases. 
:Mr. Gregol'y cppooed the motion, because he felt that it would throw t,he voters illtO t.he b8nds of large landowner~. Lord J. Browne suggested that the franchise should be fixed at £10. 
Mr. Glaostone said that the proposed franchise for Ireland was higher in proportion and mOle restricted than in either England or €rotislld snd wne, therefore, mo~t unsRliofll.ctory. If any difference fxisted i~ ought to be in favour of Irdand. If it were thougat desir­able to ,xt.end the francllise, it would be better to do it iQ a liberal marmer than in the small way it was to be done by thia bill. 
The COllJmittee divided} when the numbers were :-For the clause, \1(,5; ag~illft it, 241 : majority against the clause, 36. 
Dr. 13, ally then woved that the Chairm~n report progress and as1<: leave to ~it agailJ, up0n which a division took place :-For reporting progr€ES, 79; against it, 289: majority against reporting p,rogre~s, 210, Dr. Brady then moved that the chairman leave the chaIr, wlle'l 
Mr. Di~J'8cli appealed to him not to pre"B his clause at that late hour· but if he would waive his right now he could bring the I'ubje;'t forward on tbe consideration of the report, aud, under th3 cirtUlHtanCe?, it would be made an early order. , 
Dr. 13racy acceded to the propo;;ition amid edea of " l.Io'l'e,! " l\rId se"e1al appeals from members not to {et the present opportuut~y pafs without pref8ing his motion, but he declined to do so. 
I;ir J'otJll GIRY sain tbat aa his hon. friend wonld not move.the claUE!', he would do it. He then moved that the votes at electlOnil in Ireland ~bol.lld be taken by ballot. 
Mr. Kenll€cy 811pported the clau8~, and said they nerer wOlt1d know whut was wanted for Ireland until the people were en~bled to fend JlJfmbers to Parliament who were acquainted with the wants and fn,lings cf the IriEh people. . 
After a .hol'tdiscuosioD, the Committee divided, when the numbers wn e-for tbe clause, 126; against it, 225: majority against the clausc·, !'tl. 
The bill then passed through Committee. 
i'BE DPKE OF EDINBURGH'S DEPARTURE 
FROM AUSTRALIA. 
JUST before the Prince's departure from Sydney he was entertaiued at luncheon at Government House, a number of the IGading gentle· men of the colony being invited to meet him. In reply to L,he toa~t of his health, which was proposed by the Earl of Belmore, hiS Royal Bigbnces, who wa~ so much ~ffected as. to be u!J"b~e to speak for fever .. l s€colld~, E81d . as soon as the cheerlUg had sub3lded :­
, "Gemlen;en,-I have no doubt yon will allow me to read the few wOlds ihat I deoire to Eay to you, as I do not feel equal to the task of fpeaking extempore (Encouraging cheers). In returuing YOlI my best thanks for drinking my health, I .must exploe:"s my regrat. at having to bid yen farewell, and I take thw opportuntty of thankmg you for the e£thusisstic and hospitable manner in which I have been received and entertained in this aa well sa in all the AlJ.stralhn co]c,nies. The unh'erssl manifestations of loyalty to the Queen aud attachment to her person and throne have ere this been made known to her Majesty, and cannot fail to have given her the livelieet pleasure (Applause). I mu~t now, howev~r, allude to the unfort.unate cccurrenco cODnected With myself, whwh marred your festivities and cast a temporary gloom over the comtlltmity. I ~inc€re)y regret, cm your part, that there should have occur~ed any <me h,cident., dUling my sojourn amo,ngat. you, ~vhlCh should have det.racted from the general Batl8factlOn whtch I believe my vi.it to Australia hRS given (Lond and prolonged chfcring). The event, however, can.not in any degre~ 6hake my conviction of the loyalty of the colom.ts ~t large (applause) nor her Majesty·s confidence in her Australian subjects. Indeed, the meet­ings and expressions of sentimen~ which have been c"Ued forth by t he rtcent attempt on my life will show tbeir feUow,sttbjects at bome and the world at large, that they not only have loyalty, but affection for their Queen and her family (Cheers). If there ia any dissffrctiGn tending to disloyalty amongst any community in any section of this portion of h~r Majtsty's dominions, it ~ill be the dut>" of the Go,-ernment to put It down; and I am certam that he!e It will I ccehe eveIV support from all classes (Prolcnged cheermg). Through the merciful interpodtion of Providence, the inj llry r received, was but slight; and I believe no flIrther evil consequences ale to be I'nticipated from the wound (Loud cheers). It ba~, h<!w­ever been considered that I shall be nnequal to any great exertIOn for s~DJe t.ime, and therefore ithaa been decided that it would ba most advi8able for me to rEturn home direct. It is a great disappointment for me not to be able to visit New Zealand, and I am afl'uid it wi.ll also very much disappoint the people there. In thanking yon once more for your ~indlle88 to me duriug my visit, I must tell you how much I hu,'c enjoyed it, and regret that it comes to an end to·dIlY. Defore I conclude I will ask you to join me in a toast: I .pr?pose, 'Proeperity to the colony of New South Wales;' and as thiS 18 t·he last oppotlunity I 8hall have of addressing an !U!sembly of AIIstra­lians, r beg to couple with it the toast, 'Prosperity to all tht; 
Australian colonies.' " 
The Melbourne A"gU8 reports the execution of O'Farrell (ou A.pril 21) kr the shooting of Prince Alfred. From the time of his con· viction the prisoner maintained a quiet, reserved demeauollr, A fc'.'I' cays btfore his execution he was visited by hiB sister, and daily received the ministrations ef a Catholic clergyman, The doomed man paFscd the night in his usual manner, and did not appear to Euife.r from any nervous excitability at his approaching fate. Pre· cisdy at nine o'clock th~ Sheri1.f demandod his body, alld O'F~rreU appeared at the c..JI door m obedleuce to the 3ummOllS. He 8nn.nlltted to the prcce,s of pinioning without a murmur, and walked uncon· cernedlv to the foot of the Ecaffold. Here he knelt with the priest, and for 11 few moments was engaged in religions devotion. He mounted the ladder with 1L firm step, and, before taking his place tInder the drl'p, looked up, apparently at the rope and the btal beam ovel head. Be then took his place directly under it; the cap was adjusted over his fare; he shook hands with the priest; the drop ieU, and the ),,&t IIct of the Clonta)f tragedy WtIB over. 
O'F.nel1 Idt bEhind him a letter, ill which he expresses extreme grief for what he bad done and denies that his crime was inst'gated by any organisation whatever. There was not a single huml!.u being in exi&1 eIlce, he Bays, who had the slightest knowledge of his project, His statement that there was a Fenian organisf.tion in Now South WallS hud no fOllndation, except, perhaps, mere he~rs~y. "FroUl brooding over the wrongs of lr0iand, I became," he Bays, in con­du.iol', " excited, and filled wi;;h enthusiasm on the subject; and ie W6S when um:er the illfiufDC(J of tho~e f~eJ.ingg thp,t [ a~tempted, to }J€rp. hate ,he dEed for which I am now ju,<;tly cflllm\ upon to ,sl,flu." . 

During last year over half a million of money-.E5iO,884-wa.. tran8Dlitted to Ireland from America by emigrsntg to their frie(ld~, £202,914 of the Bum being in the forlll of prepaId pas;<age orde.8. 
The Enllonde will c~~e, which has occupier! the Comt of Probate in Dublin for so many days, terminatetl, yest€l'cny week, in an unsatisfactory IllallDH. The jury deliberated for nearly two hours, and, being unable to a!.(ree, were di8~harc!ed. The learned J1)(lge who triad the ca~e testified to tho ahijity wLh which it had been argned on both sidep. 
Modern dramatists do not often bring clergymen on the stage. We used to have them, of course; Shakspeare has many; and then there were the Spanish Curate and a host of diverting parsons in the bad and merry days of the stal!,e; and we have Dr. Cantwell and the vir­tuous clergyman in "The .Man of the World." The latest was Mr. Boucicault, as an Irish priest who declined to reveal the secrets of the confessional. The matter occulTed to me OR reading the account of the rec~nt Irish will case. There would be subject for a drama there were it not for hurting the feelings of living persons, andl as these have been at least sufficiently wounded one way and anotner, I will only note the part of the curious case which includes the manOluvres of the professional religionists. The Catholic priests have been too many, as UBUal, for the Protestant priests. The former make a convert, the latter cannot make out a case. The superiorityof intellect is clearly with Popery, though there was no lack of zeal on the Protestant side, and the clergyman wrapped in the eider-down quilt, with the looking-glass to aid his spying, and the attorney in his stocking-feet testify to the strenuousness of the endeavour to win. Here is an argument for disestablishing the Irish Church. The wits of the Papists have been sharpened by discouragement and persecution (I think they say they are persecuted, and they ought to kuow), whereas the Protestant genius waxes supine in prosperity, and when put to its trumps has not got any to play. There is a capital fable about two dogs, the one pampered, the other illtreated, aud it will be remembered by the younger readers. After a few years" in the cold," our side will have learned a wonderful deal. 
THE MILITIA. 

From a Parliamentary return recently published, it appears that the militia establishment of the United Kingdom and Ireland in the year 1867 was composed of 4686 officers, 5027 non·commissioned officers, and 124,622 privates; but the number in training on the day of in!pection was only 67,731 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, the Irish contingent not having been called up for train· ing last year. It seems, however, that 1347 officers, 340 non·com· missioned officers, and 26,202 men were required to complete the establishment in England, Wales, and Scotland, leaving Ireland out of the calculation. 
A coin of the Roman Emperor Pllhlius Luciniu3 Gallienns, in: good preservation, W 8S found in Winchester last week. 
Another address from the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, pre­pared at its half·yearly meeting, boasts 01 the large numbers of the nobility and gentry, and" resolute young men/' who have lately joined the ranks of the institution, and of the" noble exhibition of Protestant life and union" witnessed in many parts of the empire. The address complains of the injustice with which the Orange Society has been treated by successive Governments, and the "pe~. version of the lllwi'! to ~b.e manifest \!linry of Protestant~ alone," 
BIRTHS. 

On the 20th inst., at Birch Grove, in the county of Roscommon, the Hon. 
Mrs. fIrencb, of a son and heir. 
On the 31st ult., at Woodville, Lncan, the wife of Lieutenant-Oolonel Scobt, 9th Regiment, of a Bon. On the 20th ult., at HiD de Janeiro, the wife of George R. Gepp, Esq., of a 
sou. 
On the 11th inst., at Pera, Ooustantinople, the wife of Hing.ton Har,ey,Esq., solicitor, of a daughter. On the 22nd inst., at Crawler, Snssex, the wife of Robert Romer, Esq., of a son. On the 22nd iust., nt Stibbington House, Wausford, the wife of Mr. John Jackson, of a son. 
SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. 

'IRE period of the Session has arrived when the House of Lords is coming to the front. Recently their Lordships have been showing symptoms of vitality, and have even begun to be frisky, if such an irreverent phrase can be applied to so august an assembly. A word 'or two, therefore, on their Lordships' little doings. On a day last week the peers got what the Law Lords would call " seizin " of Mr. G1adstone's Iri8h Church Bill; and as soon aB it was announced that on Thursday evening they would fall to upon it, as they have done, up darted that skeleton of a statesman Lord Grey, aud stated his resolve to move its rejection. He thus, as it seems, jockeyed the Lord Chancellor, who on this question is determined to leave the Govern­ment no loophole of retreat; for that noble Lord, later in the sitting, also gave notice' that he wo should opeu fire ou the bill. Of course he was under the impression that Lord Grey would at once yield the p as to the great law officer; but that noble Earl is made of very tough, not to say stubborn, stuff, and probably thinks as little of a brand· new peer Sitting on the wool­s~,ck as he does of the fifteenth Earl of Derby, whose creation dates from 14.85, in comparison with the per sonal importance of the third ,Earl Grey, whose coronet was won only in 1806. Thus it came about tht1t, though Lord Malmesbury figuratively went on his knees before him with a request that the Government might show in the very front of the~contest on the Irish Church Bill, Lord Grey was lnexorab:e, doubtless believing that he would have a poor chance of being listened to after the House had got into the midst of the debate. The Earl of Ellenborough has been plt1ying the part of the "roused lion." The sound of the triumphs of an Indiau army waked him from tbt1t state of torpidity in which he generally scems to be sunk in his place in the Lords, aEd, posBib ly reminiscent 
,of Bome of his own doings as Governor,General, and especially remembering the episode of the Gates of Somnauth, he demanded that the troops returning from Abyssinia should be received with military honours, whateyer that may mean. He forgot that the forccs will return home in driblets, and that there are no facilities in 'this country as there are in India for triumphal processions, and 80 he took nothing by his motion. As was to be elCpected, the Marquis of Salisbury, late Lord Cranborne, is as busy in tbe Lords as a certain personage, whose name it is unpolite t<J mention, is proverbially said to be in a high gale of wind. In the Commons, the noble Lord wos authoritative enough in his speech and demeanour; but in the Lords, knowing probably the strength of a single guerrilla debater in that assembly, he is downright dictatorial, and, truth to say, treats his pens with something akin to contempt. 
The Commcns have been with tolerable sue cess disencumbering 1hemselyes of the remains of the Disraeli scheme of Reform. ,Amidst thankegivings not loud but deep they have got rid of the Scotch RefOlm Bill, and are indulging in a hope that Mr, M'Laren now will not speak more than fiye times in each sitting for the remainder of the Session, thus reducing bis regular contributions to the wisdom of 'the proceedings by something jike 95 per cent. There was a palpable sense of relief in Mr. Disraeli's appearance when he gave up, as a matter of no consequence-as, in fact, it was not-the distribution part of the Irish Reform Bill, havin g perhaps a glimmer of a hope that the oiscueoions on this subject would be reduced by one half, and the atmospht re of the House so far rendered less dense, as it would be so much less charged with brogue. Nevertheless, that "Which, by a violent interpretation of language, is called Irish patriotil!m, was as vigorous, and as strong, and long-lunged as ever; and ere the discussion in Committee had ceosed, there was a cha­ractenstic free fight amongst the Liberal Irish members. It was in this wise: Very, very late, Mr. Brady, who is a sort of Irish Mr. Toots, always anxious to come forward, but suffering agouies of diffidence, and so advancing and retreating with rapid alternation and grotesque awkwardness, rose to move a clause giving the ballot to Irish voters. Naturally, there was objection to enter on such a subject then; and an ofter of Mr. Disraeli, made in his sweetest mannerl..to give another opportunity for the discussion, was accepted by Mr. l:Irady, in a state of blushing rapture at the peculiarly flatter· ing tone towards himself of the Prime Minister. All this time there was clamour-sounds sugges tiYe of Donnybrook fair-around; and anon t he doughty Sir John Gray was found to have snatched Mr. Brady's clause out of his hands, and was moving it himself. The consequence was that it was rejected on a close division by a small majority, without any discussion, and in an unprepared House; and 80 a just possible triumph-of argument, at least-was stolen from Mr. Brady. The exertions of the Irish members on this occasion ostensibly led to a somewhat interesting event on the following evening. It happened that Mr. Fawcett (whose , unpopularity in the House is growing to be noticeable) had ,a motion which stood first on the paper, the object of which is to "throw open " Trinity College, Dublin, to all sorts and mnnners of religionists. Now, it is understood that the Liberal Irish members djffered considerably on this point-at any rate, they did not want the matter brought forward just then-and thcy urged ,on M1'. Fawcett to postpone his motion. As that gentleman did not wish the world to be deprived, even temporarily, of one of his dis­sertations, he point-blank refused. Upon this the Irish brigade :fo rmed itself into a league to prevent a House being made, and nearly succeeded; for a thirty·ninth member, who happened to peep into the door, was, at the audible suggestiou of Sir Colman O'Loghlen (who, influenced by his intense desire that the House should be always sitting for his special delight, was the ouly li:ish member who was not a consenting party to the plot), was in a manner dragged in, and so the House was made. In five minutes, however, by the influence of Mr. Cogan, aided by the physical exertions of Lord Robert Montagu, whom, by-the-by, ,ever since gentlemen have been (ironically, it is to be presumed) calling a distinguished member of the Government, the House was cleared down to nineteen and connted out. 
As may be supposed, this untoward event was the motive cause of no little grievance-mongery at the next meeting of the H ouse. To be sure, Mr. Fawcett affected a cheerful air, and only hinted with forced good-hnmour at having been played a trick; but the eftect on his mind may be judged by the fact that the honourable member quietly disposed of his motion, by fixing it for the 17th of next month, a scornful laugh from the I rish members [indicating that not one of them would be found at Westminster by that time, except, of course, Sir Colman O'Loghlen, who will, as usual, linger in the House until the charwomen come in to shut it up for the vacation. Perhaps it would be as well here to ,dismiss the Irish Reform Bill by stating that in its penultimate and ultimate~stages it was girded at by all sorts of members, and went its way amidst sibilant declamation fl'om the high-sounding patriots, of whom Mr. O'Beirne is a special'type. To show how little Mr. Disraeli cared about the measure it is only necessary to say that when there was a chance of a discussion being prolonged because Lord Mayo supported a clause moved by Mr, Vance, the Prime Minister coolly threw overthe Secretary for Ireland, and got the clause squashed. 
Public business has now got, in the Commons at least, to suc h a state that sketching is almost necessarily confined to what may be called member-ana. Conceivc the sense of fun which was evoked by Mr. Grenfell getting up and, in almost tearful accents, complaining that the J amaica Committ~e was being systematically persecuted by an irresponsible body called the Eyre Defence Associa­tion ! Imagine the expression of Mr. Disraeli's face, the irony, the mcckery there, when he was talking of being shocked by the event of a "count out," which act"ally worked to give him four more days of hope that he will not be obliged to have a meeting of Parlia­ment before Christmas! Let it be res!"ectfully hinted to Lord William Hay that, admirably suggestive and full of matter as are bis speeches on Indian subjects, a private member who works even a specialty for which he is almost celebrated for more thau an bour at a time is yerging bst towards the category of Parliamentary bores. Behold the influence of Mr. Newdegate in t he Home crucially tested on two divisions, in one of which he got twenty-five members to follow him into the lobby, not on one' of those particular questions in which, as Mr, Osboine s~ys, he shines out as the representative pal' excellence of the bigotry of the country, but on the Public Schools Bill; and, again, when he eE5Eayed another amendment on that measure, his followers amounted to but nine. There were starting, and wondering, and hilarious surprise when one day, in the midst of the talking and chaffing that always accompany Mr. Serjeant Gaselee's speeches, it was discovered that he was eulogising the" wisdom of our ancestors," and protesting against Radical changes. Amongst original ideas developed by members may be mentioned a notion of Sir Harry Verney, that an army of reserve might be created by a Legislative enactment compelling all boys at schools to be drilled; and an earnest protest of Mr. Labouchere against anyone being forced by the rules of any institution to go to church if they did not like to do so. These are specimens, but a few, of member peculiarities. 




IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 

HOl'TSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. Their Lordships, during a sitting of about twenty minutes, for' warded several bills a stage, but none of them possessed any features of importance. ' 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MoNDAY. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to Sir F. Heygate, said 
that the supply of half-crowns was equal to the demand, and that 
there wos no intention to withdraw them from circulation. 
The Earl of Mayo, replying to an inquiry of Sir C. O'Loghlen, ex­
pressed the wish of the Government to issue a Royal Commission on 
the tenure and occupation of land in Ireland ( but, as it was desirable 
tbat members of both Houses should ferve upon it, they felt that it 
would be impossible to do so until the new Parliament had met. 
Lord Stanley, in answer to a question from Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 
said the Government fully concurred in the general tendency of the 
recommendations of the Neutrality Laws Commission, but it would 
bejimpossible to deal with the subject during the present Session. 
The Lords' amendments to the Sea Fisheries Bill were opposed by 
Mr. M. Gibwn, Mr. Blake, and Mr. Gregory.; but, after two 
divisions in favour of the Government, the amendments of the 
U Pl'er House were agreed to. 
On the motion for going into Committee on the Government of 
India Act Amendment Bill, Lord W. Hay entered into some 
crit.icisms of the measure, which, in his view, did not carry a change 
in the constitution of the Council far enough. The only proposal of 
importance it contained was to make the term of office for which 
the members were appointed twelve years instead of for life, or good 
bebaviour: but the power of the Council to overrule the Secretary 
of State for India in matters connected with revenue and expendi­
ture was left untouched. Moreover, he thought that the 
persons composing the Council should have ten or twelve years of 
recent experience in Indian affairs. The discussion was continued 
by Mr. Mm, Colonel Sykes, Sir H. Rawlinson, and Sir S. Northcote. 
The right hon. Baronet urged that the Indian Government was now 
a branch of the Imperial ElCecutive; but it was desirable to give 
greater administrative strength to the Governor-General, and ex­
perience had shown that it was well to keep the control in a body 
apart from the House of Commons, and placed beyond political con­
siderations. The House then went into Committee, and, after 
passing a few clauses, progress was reported. 
The consideration of the Irish Reform Bill was then resumed. 
Some verbal amendments were introduced, and the report was 
received. 

The Boundary Bill was read the third time and passed; Mr, Moffatt's Bankruptcy Act Amendment Bill was read the secoud . time ; and some other, bills were forwarded a stage. 
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDAY. The Goycrnment and Earl Grey have been disputing as to which .hou~d move the rejection of the Irish Church Suspensory Bill. The Earl of Malmesbury made this fact known. Earl Grey had, he said, r-efuscd to withdraw, and therefore the Government had con­sented to allow him to move the rejection of the bill. Later in the evening Lord Lyttelton presented a petition from 261 clergymen praying for the disestablishment of the Irish Church. '1'he Earl of Malmesbury moved the second reading of the bill for ~mending the representation of the people in Scotland, the provisions of which he explained at some length. A few observations followed from the Duke of Argyll, and the bill was read the second time. Their Lordships had a long discussion on the Poor Relief Act. 
HOUSE OF COMllWNS.-TuESDAY. At the morning sitting the House went into Committee on the Public Schools Bill, and resumed the discussion at clause 5, the preyious clauses having been disposed of last week. Mr. Newdegate propcsed an amendment for the purpose of prolongin'g the period of office of the present governing bodies of the schools for twelve months beyond the period mentioned in the Act, in which it is pro­pcsed that their functions shall cease in 1869. On a division there appeared for the amendment 25, and against it 109; so the amend­ment was lost. The Committee then proceeded with the further discUEsion of the bill, and this lasted till the close of the morning sitting. ' At the evening sitting Lord Elcho moved an address for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon our military organisation, in so far as it relates to tbe establishment of a snfficient and an economical army of reserve, and the means it offers of speedy and efficient expansion to meet the requirements of war, more especially for home tlefence. His Lordship entered at some length into the state of our military system and the necessity for some improvement in its working. A long discussion took place, and the motion was withdrawn. Mr. Hnghes withdrew his Sunday Trading Bill. Mr. M'Evoy also withdrew his Ecclesiastical TitlesBill. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. 

A dehate on elementary education occupied the hrger portion of 
the sitting. It was initiated by Mr. H. Bruce, who, in withdrawing 
his bill on the subj~ct, contrasted its provisions with those of the 
Government measure introduced, a few weeks since, in the House of 
Lords. His purpose had been to frame a scheme which would inter­
fere as little as possible with any other and meet the wishes of the 
vast majority of the people by providing a good secular education 
for the children of all classes, leaving the religious ele ment to be 
supplied through the parents; and he saw no reason why, if the 
secular system were adopted, State aid should be refused. ' 
The order for the second reading of the Railway and Joint-Stock 
Companies' Accounts Bill was also read and discharged. 
Mr. Blake, in moving the second reading of his bill relating to the 
Irish sea fisheries-the object of which is to create a central board, 
consisting of three fishery inspectors, to sanction the advance of 
public loans for the development of the fisheries of ll'eland-com­
plained that, whilst Frenchm~n and other for~ig~ers ha~ bee~ per­
mitted to encroach on these lllvaluable fishenes 1D cons1deratlOn of 
the payment of a small sum of money, the Irish people themselves 
had been systematically discouraged from entering into that branch 
of indnstry. The Earl of Mayo conceded that the system of inspec­
tion b'y the Board of Works was unsatisfactory, and that the pro­
posal to create a permanent fishery board was worthy of consider­
ation; but the proper time for legislation on the subject had 
not yet arrived, inasmttch as the Fishery Commission would 
expire in the course of the present year, after which the Government 
would find itself free to act. He would not oppose the second read­
ing of the bill, but he hoped Mr. Blake would not press it futther 
this Session. After a few words from Mr. Lefevre, who objected to 
the principle of loans, and from Mr. Mill, the bill was read the 
second time. 

The Railways (Ireland) Acts Amendment Bill was passed through 
Committee. 

Leave was given to Sir J. Fergusson to bring in a bill to amend 
the law relating to the use of voting-papers in elections for the Uni­
veIsities, also a bill for removing doubts as to the validity of certain 
marriages between British subjects in China and elsewhere, and for 
amending the law relating to the marriage of British subjects in 
foreign countries. 

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDA Y. Tbe Royal USEent was given by Commission to the Stockbrokers (Ireland) Bill, the Cotton Statistics Bill, Documentary Evidence Bill, and a large nlllnbH' of other public and private bills. 
THE SUSPENSORY BILL. Earl Granville, in moving the second reading of this bill referred to the horror and indignation which had been evoked by th~ outbreak of Fenianism in Ireland and Canada, and which had caused people to reflect and to see what could be done for the better government. of the sister i~le. The late ins~rection had been opposed 
by all the flcher classes III Ireland, but 1t had found favour with many small families and artisans, and no doubt it had beel1 received with sullen acquiescence by a vast number of the Irish lower classes. Her Majesty's Government had fully a.d­mitted that Irel,:nd wasd he question of the day. The Lord Privy ~eal and!l'he Insh Secretary l:ad both referr~d to the various ques. tlOns WhICh they deemed elCpedICnt to be con31dered for the improve-­ment of Ireland. The noble Earl descanted on Lord Mayo's views as expr,essed in ,r~gard to the Irish 9hu rcJ;., and quoted at length from hIS Lordship s several speeches 1D Parham ent on this subject and proceeded to say that the inference which he drew from the de~ ~laration of ,Lord !>1ayo in regard to a Ca tholic University was that It was the mtenhon of the Goyernment to endow a University for the Catholi~ ,body. Th,e Government certainly did at first show some concilIatory policy towards Ireland, thou",h in a mauner of which he did not approve. But the Opposition, in can­sequence of thinking that some great conciliatory measure was necessary for Ireland, had brought fOTlvard this bill. He was bound to say that he heard with great regret of a speech made by a right rev. Prelate (the Archbishop of York) on the Episcopal benches, and who impnted unworthy motives to those who diJl'ered from him. None of their Lordships wonld consider that opiuions delivered twenty or thirty years ago could be binding on this topic now. Mr. Gladstone had entertained his present opiuions for soma time, but knew there was no possibility of his being able to cllrry them out ul;ltil the prese;tt time. He (the noble Earl) would refer t<> a conversatIOn he had w1th Mr. Gladstoneat the commencement of la8~ Session., The right hon. gentleman saw there was one question whlCh any Liberal Government must be prepared to deal with­the I!ish Church. Governments might be broken up upon that questlOn.. but t~e duty must be met. Others received the sa.me declaratlOn, wh1ch had made so great an impression upon him. He deprecated the idea of Mr. Gladstone being credited with a desire of taking a mean advantage ?f. the Government, when he (the ;table ~arl) knew that thes,e opmlOns were held so long ago. It IVIIS IUllloss,1ble for' anyone no~ m the ~overnment to bring forward such a b111, 1~ was urged; but 1t was stIll worse to bring forward abstract resolutlOns. He need not repeat the substance of the resolutions of Mr. Gladstone, which were now formed into a bill. That bill' nad been confirmed in tbe House of Commons by en3rmous maiorities. Lo~d Stanley had said .that not one e~u.cated man could ~upport t~e mamtenaLce of the Irish Church as It IS at present. HIS Lordship, however, expressed a most unfavourable opinion as to the redi,q­tribution of the revenues, saying that he could not beliel'e the question would be entertained. Ail those noble Lords who had pre­sentations would be in an unenviable position if the bill were not passed, for the suspension of benefices might possibly be insisted on by the Commission of Inquiry. Her Majesty's Government had already consented to a suspension of benefices in Jamaica until an inquiry into the ecclesiastical revenues had taken place. He believed tlus measure would be a sign of the good-will of Parlia­ment itself to the people of Ireland. The noble Earl then referred to the expreesed opinions of Lord Macaulay and others on-the question of the Irish Church to strengthen his case. He found bi the last Census that there were not 700,000 Anglicans in Irel~nd, while there were more than four millions and a half of Roman Catholics. There was only one diocese where the percentage of Anglican worshippers exceeded 25 per cant. Such a statement of facts showed that the object of the Church was not fulfilled as a mission Church. He CJuld, not help asking whether the Irish Church was not an injustice to the people of Ireland? The Church was thQ last remnant of conaict. No amplification on his part could add to the force of the simple facts he had just laid before their Lordships. The noble Earl thell proceeded to reply to the arguments which had been offered the other evening by the uoble Lord the Chairman of Committees (Lord Redesdale) against the disestablishment of the Church. He h~d spoken of it as a matter of sacrilege to deal with the reveuues of the Church. These 'were grave words; and it seemed to him (the noble Earl) to savour of profanity to use the word sacrilege in connection with ecclesiastical revenUES. Looking at the way in which revenues had been changed from one sect to another, he should like to know whose rights could be called sacred and whose not, or whether any cotlld really be called so. Archbishop Whately had acknowledged the right of the State to take away any benefactions when they had not answered the purpose for which they were c mferred. He felt that the Church of England was one of the kindest, most considerate, and most tolerant Churches in the world, not only with regard to the noman Catholics, but with regard to their dissenting brethren. But he thought that the separation of the Irish Churcu from the State would be an advantage to t he Church of England. It had been urged in opposition to Romau Catholics that the clergy-­men in that Church had such influence over their flocks that they could influenee them to any degree they thought proper; and, if that were so, what conld. be expected from a people who were taught to feel the degrading position they were placed in by having to maintain the State Church on the one hand and their own Church on the other ? There was one argument against the bill which had at least the charm of novelty, and that was the feeling of foreigners that thedisestablishmentofthe Irish Church would be fatal to Protestantism in Europe ; but the fact was that the great obstacle the friends of the Church found in Canada and other colonies was the Establishment of the Irish Church, for it was always thrown in their teeth when, ever they supported the supremacy of the Church of Eugland. Arguments had been brought forth as to the want of confidence by the Canadians in the Government of this country if the bill passed, but there was no sign of anyone of the fears which had beart 
expreesed being fulfilled. There were many reasons why this bill 
should not pass the second reading, and they would be urged with ' 
all the experience of the opposite party; but he asked their Lord· 
ships whether it would be wise or sane for them to strew the spot on 
which they were to alight with broken glass and flints. He appealed 
to theh' Lordships whether it would not be wise to pass the second 
reading of the bill, and thus show to the Irish people that they were 
prepared to take into their serious consideration any measure th~t 
was calculated to afford them that justice which they aaked for. Earl Grey said that he had no party feeling in opposing the second reading of the bill. He thought that the attempt to support the establishment of the Irish Church would only perpetuate all the ill-feeling that at present elCisted between the Irish Catholics and the Protestants. It had been said that this was a step for the disestab­lishment and disendowment of the Protestant Church; but, holV-­ever much he agreed with them in that step, the bill did not;. go the right way to accomplish that object. It made no provision for the disposition of the Church funds ; there was nothing to state to whom it should belong, by whom it was to be administered, or to whom it was to be given. The bill provided nothing, but paralysed the existing means of administering the Church funds. The bill proposed to last only to August next year, but their Lordships would see at once holY easy it would be to get that bill renewed until the Irish Church might gradually die out. They were now asked to deal with the Irish Church not only without genarosity, but without fairness; and would rouse in the minds of the friends of the Irish Church a feel., ing that they had been most unjustly treated. The proposal wonld have been far more graciously made if it had been made .. by Il responsible Government instead of by a party feeling. This measure would have been much more appropriate if it had preceded instead of succe~ded the violence that had taken place in Ireland. Their objects ought not to be to redress Irish grievances only, but to do it in 2uch a: manner that, while they did iustice to the Roman Catholics they did not offend the Protestants. There was uo doubt that the public feeling was in favour of a change in the pre­sent establishment of the Irish Church, but he was opposed to the mode in which it was proposed to c~my it out. fie concluded by moving tbat the bill be read the secoud time that day six months. 
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Mr. Train's case has been again before the Irish Court of B"nkrnptcy, and he has been returned to the Marshalsea. Mr. Train finished an altercation with the J ndge by saying :-" I protest against the proceedings from beginning to end. I protest, in the name of the American Government, against this arrest. Your Lordship stated that there was no appeal from yonr decision in this conrt; but I appeal to the army and navy of the United States of A mericn, and I will yet have the power to re­move you from the bench. There has been no fair dealing from the commencement." There were repeated bursts of applause from a crowded gallery whilst Tram was delivering this "protest," alld a mob accompanied him from the court as he went, in custody, to the Marshalsea Prison, cheering loudly. The police ultimately dispersed it.