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LORDS, THE COMiiGNS, ANJJ…
LORDS, THE COMiiGNS, ANJJ iinji PEOPLE. The Conservative papei-3 recently called special atten- tion to the ll'l111ber of meetings agamst tlw Irish Church Bill. They published a list of some eighty meetings. There was Preston with (using the numbers as claimed; 1),000 present; Sheffield, 3,000 present; Leeds, 6,000 present Manchester, 250,000 present Crystal Palace, 20,000present Bradford, 0,000present; Liverpool, 30,000 present;, &c., &c. These meetings, it must 1 e observed, have been held since the Irish Church Bill 'no? been brought in. ,But tae Liberal papers, in reply, publish ahst of some sixty places which have protested against the Lords' amend- ments. These amendments have only been before the country for a comparatively ahcrt tim;. Nevertheless it is pointed out that there have been petitions, memorials, and protests sent to Mr.-Gladstone from the Presbyteries of the United Presbyterian Church a; Edinburgh, Glas- gow, and Berwick; from the General Assemblies of Ireland: the Presbyterian Synod of Londonderry; the Wesieysn Conferences in London, Plymouth, and Cork; the Protestant Nonconformists of London the Dissenters of three denominations in London and its environs; frnm the London Baptist Association, from the Baptist Union of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Re- formation Society, che Congregations of Coventry, the English Baptist Association of Carmarthen and _Giamor- j gan, the Associated Baptist Churches of Kent and Sussex, the Congregational Unions of Finsbury and of Surrey, the Noiu-uuf ormist ministers of Norwicn, Liverpool, Leigh- ton Buzzard and Walsall, and from the Weslcyan Metho- dist Society of St. Neots. Several "meetings took place on Monday. One at Bristol was addressed by Mr. Morlev, M.P., and Mr. Marling, M.P. Resolution were adopted expressing satisfaction with the determination of the Government to resi.:stthe amendments, and pledging tLe meeting w give Mr. Gladstone their support. A memorial to the Housa of Commons was adopted in accordance with these resolu- tions. At O.iford also a meeting of the citizens was l'eld ia the Town HaH, and there was a very large aoten. lance. The Rev. J. L. T. Rogers, late Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, in an able and energetic speech, in which he paid the highest possible compliments to Mr. Gladstone, proposed the following resolution, carried amidst the greatest euthasiasui :—"That this meeting views with satisfaction the resolute manner in which her Majesty's Government have met the amendments inserted into the Irish Church Bill by the House of Lords, and entertains a strong impre3sion that their lordships will recognise the strength with which tl.e nation has de- dared as-a,in3t any new endowment of churches i y public money." A meeting held at Lambeth, presided over by Mr. A. M'Arthnr, and addressed by the Lord Mayor and Mr. M'Arth ur (members for the borough), and by Mr. INew- marc iiait, passed a similar resolution, and the following on3 :—" That, in the event of prolonged resistance by the Lo." to the Irish Church Bin, the members for tho borough be requested to promote a measure that will cause an inquiry to be made as to the course pursued by the Upper House during the last fifty years on the vari- ous (pi! scions affecting the liberties and progress of the people." A meeting at Chelsea WAS audressed by the borough members, Sir. Charles Dilke and Sir Henry Hoare.— Sir Charles Diike, M.P., said he bad never been one of those who pretended that the bill was ail that could be ■wished. It ;1.ve far to.o much to tne Chr:rch, but 0: this he said nothing-, be.ause he had voted for the clauses in which the thing w-ag done. Against the "financial puzzle" chmse he had voted, and he had never given a vote with greater pleasure. In accordance wich that which he knew to be the feeling of representative Liberal electors of all classes in Chelsea he had also voted ".gainst the Government upon the question of the surplus. Mr. Bright said that the Government bid gave the surplus to the poor and tho afflicted. lie did not know whether the landlords were poor and afiiicted, because the Government proposal was to gi'.e the surplus to the landlords.—Sir H. Hoare, wki.e agreeing with this, thought the "bill ought to he got out of the way as soon as possible. A resolutiomn favour of getting the matter settled was passed. A meeting on the other side was held at Liverpool. Tho Standard says there were 15,000 present; but the Liver- pc; C'(;)Urie1., a Conservative paper, puts the number down as 8,GOO, and another computation is that ¡,t more than 10,000 were at any time at the meeting. It was held in front of St. George's Hall. It •was called to adopt a petition to the Kou^e of Lords, praying their lordships to stnnd lirm to their amendments as sent to theComrcona. with the exception of the concurrent endowment clause." The speaker denounced the Irish Church Bill, 1\ir. Giadst»xie. and the Government, and approved the Irish Establishment, the action of the House of Lords (with the exception of it.3 amendment of concurrent endowment) and the determination of th, Conservative party, as led by Mr. Disraeli ani Lord Cairns, :0 have nothing to dl) with levelling up. A Mr. Joseph Bali took the chair, and was supported by some clergymen and a \Ves!eyan minister. Very strong language was used by some of' the orators. The petition adopted was-to the effect that concurrent endowment was a great curse," inasmuch as histury and experience are alike t&achers that Popery has been acursoto every nation or country wherever it hns had full scope and been predominant; it raises the creature above the Creator, and gives a practical lie to the f'orious Gospel, which, declares there is only one me- iator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. "With regard to the remainder of the amendments pro- posed and carried by your lordships, we believe (the memorial went on to say) the country on the whole approve of them-,and that they, taken in connection with the bill, shew mature judgment founded OIl a desire to act honestly and becoming the character which your lordships' house has uIl every great occasion merited. We therefore pray your lordships ro stand firm to them." A special meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh has been held, for the purpose of considering the Lords' amendments on the Irish Church Bill; 3VIr. William Balfour, Holyrood, moderator. Sir Henry • V. eli wood Moncreiff moved the following resolution :— "That this Presbytery, talcing into consideration the clause introduced into the Irish Church Bill by the House of Lords, la favour of concurrent endowment in Ireland, and the resistance by the House of Commons to this clause, and taking further into consideration the principle always held by this Cnurch, that :he endowment of a Church can be justified only as a testimony to religious truth, hereby resolve to petition both Houses of Parliament against the clause referred to." Mr. A. Mackenzie seconded the motion, which was, after some conversation, agreed to. It was resolved that a petition, signed by the moderator, in terms of the resolu- tion. be forwarded to Earl Granville for presentation in the House of Lords, and that another le sent to the Lord _¡ vocate for presentation in the Rouse oi Comm ns. A crowded meeting assembled on TI:e3chy at the Insti- tute, Plymouth, under the presidency of Mr. H. Brown, chairman of the Liberal Association, for the purpose of supporting Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill, when three resolutions we*e carried unanimously. The first was pro- posed bv Mr. F. Hicks, and seconded by Mr. iiooker ;the second was proposed by Mr. • N. Bennett, seconded by Mr. F.W. Collier, and supported by Messrs. Baikwill, Freckle- ton, and Williamson and the third was proposed by Mr. Eldred Brown, seconded by Mr. R. Rundie, and supported by Mr. M'Carthv. One of the resolutions was as fol- lows :-H That this meeting affirms its entire approval of the action of her Majesty's Government with reference to the Irish Church Bill, and expresses its desire that the measure approved of by the-House of Commons, involving the immediate application of the surplus funds of that Church, may be adopted by Parliament in its -'ntegritj." Petitions to both Houses of Parliament will be forwarded.
--*-".:....::-:.-----THE EVENING…
THE EVENING PAPERS ON THE oKISIS. The Pali Mall Gazette greatly regrets that Earl Gran- Tille stopped at the first defeat in order that the Ministry might consider the propriety of withdrawing the Irish Church Bill. The whole of the bill should have been disposed of before the Cabinet considered such a question. The Peers met, chafing under irritation at the contemptuous spirit evinced against them in the House of Commons and by the pre.-s, and the first adverse vote was the result of that irritat on. It was bad statesmanship on the part of the Government to treat this first angry vote as tinal. Had all that was to be urged in the Upper House been patiently heard, and the <1.mendlllents of the Lords been still persevered with, the Government would have been amply justified, and the Ministry and the House of Commons would have been saved from the charge of contemptuous aggression upon the functions of the House ot Lords. But if now Ministers with- draw the bill they will do so on grounds which, at least, half the world will call insufficient, and in a way which, while it must necessarily aggravate the hostility of the Houses, will greatly justify the quarrel of the Lords. How much the Lords themselves may be offended we do not greatly care but they, too. have their partisans in the country, and we cannot think that wise conduct which unnecessarily inflames and expends a quarrel bitter enough already. The Globe, in a note upon the crisis, says:—The responsibility which the decision of the Lords throws upon Mr. Gladstone is a crucial one. In its very nature it is a test of the real mod ve and inspiration of his policy. If, as he alleges, he ue in fact supremely desirous of passing the Irish Church Bill, and settling the questions at stake in its provisions, he can now do so without any humiliating compromise or fatal inconsistency. He knows, on what points the Lords have yielded, and are still willing to give way. These points are really numerous and important, and the concession of them reveals so so wise a spirit of conciliation as to be entitled to the utmost respect. On the oth.r hand, the Prime Minister knows that tbe points ün which the Lords will not give way are few in number; that they are i j no means incompatible with the integrity of his measure and that a great number ot his followers in the House of Commons would be heartily glad to yield them. Ir. then, we repeat, he be really anxious to do some great thing for Ireland during the present session, the opportunity is clearly open to him and he v.ill, moreover. prove himself to be a statesman of finer temperament, of nobler "moderation, and of more nrselfisli inspiration than his opponents, and some even of his followers, have hitherto thought him to be. L, on the other hand, he is intent on the assertion of the authority of his personal will, if the r.hsobite impcrinai of 'Mr. Gladstone'is the goal at v-hioh he aims, ho will refuse all concessit and perpetrate turbnlent popular agitation by appealing to the b iotry ot Ultnuoontanism on the one side, and the imt-aC'ei-ce "f voluntaryism on the other. The result amv j-o-d 'v. though we do not. think it. b.; victory for the m ov.-tr. !it s't^ici.ms ->f those who have, as we hwe, hilll as a ,Mi1\i8ter, all his great talent he mistakes self-will for sagacity, arro- gance for dignity, and impetuosity of purpose for the tact by which the surest and most abiding political triumphs are achieved, will he justified before all the r ation." While in this leader the Globe urges Mr. Gladstone to adopt the amendments, in another pnrt of its paper it says, Whether the decision of the House of Lords fce accepted or rejected, the Government will hardly I escape from a very memorable position. If Mr. Glad- stone adopts the amendment he surrenders his principle. If he withdraws the bill he commits himself to a long and j arduous, and a very doubtful struggle*" From the Orkneys to Land's Endtsays the Eel;), from the coast of the German Ocean to the Atlantic shore of Ireland, the country o"W is possessed with one feeling of grateful and earnest resolution, that Mr. Gladstone must be supported acainst the defiance of the House of Lords. It. is for Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues to consider whether the defiant, attitude of LOPft Cajrns, taken in connection with this adverse vote, permits of any reason- 'le hope tha,t the hiTI- can be carried., by offering this firtt -art only of the preamble, with its leading and distinguish- ing feature unchanged. Lord Cairns roundly asserts his determination to surrender nothing of all the spoils which the Xorda' amendownts gfttbtred together foe tf-o Irish Church, except the Ulster glebes and he ecclesiastical tax. 2\I1nisters can judge much letter than anv observers from the outside how far the om per of the Peers indicates a determination to support Lord Cairns in overriding the decisions of the House if Commons. We must own that the majority of seventy-eight against Ministers does not cncourage ns to be very hopeful still, Lord Granville may be able to assure himself that it is possible to eradicate from the bill the most noxious of the amend- ments which Lord Cairns pledges himself to r.laintain, a3 well as the principle of concurrent endowment, fully -sserted by the majority that followed Lord Stanhope. If he, knowing well the disposition of those whom he has to manage, cannot entertain such an assurance, it will remain for the Ministry to revert totheir first thoughts, and to carry out unflinchingly the policy by which—or rather by the mere threat of which—in 18o2 the House of Lords was brought into accord for the moment with the national wiil. or take what other course may seem expedient, should Ministers Lie forced to decide upon this course, which we ft11Jy admit i" an extreme remedy the applica- tion of which is justified only by an extreme evil, the nation must hold itself firmly faithful, traswervir^y1-yal to Mr. Gladstone. THE DIVISION. Among the Liberals who voted against the Government on Tuesday night were Earls Grey, Eussell, Meath, and Leitrim and Lords Congleton, Lyveden, Sinclair, Stratheden. and Westbnry. Tbe Conservatives voting with the Ministry were Earls de la Warr, Denbigh, and Jersey, and Lord de Tabley; the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin, [lnd the Bishops of Bangor, Derry. Gloucester and Bristol. Hereford, Lich- field, London, Peterborough, Rochester, and Tuam formed part of the majority. The Bishop of Oxford went with Ministers. The Duke of Cleveland neither paired nor voted.
AILCHDEiCON DENISON ON CHURCH…
AILCHDEiCON DENISON ON CHURCH AND STATE. On Tuesday afternoon Archdeacon Denison delivered an address in Liverpool on the Open Church movement. Mr. Duckworth, whu presided over the meeting, remarked on the great success which had attended the Free and Open Church movement in that diocese. In nearly every church the monthly offertory w&siuniversal, in two hundred churches th3 offcrtcry was weekly, and more than one hundred churches were entirely free and unappropriated. Within the last six months fifteen free churciles llad beeD added to the list. The AKCHDEACON, in opening his address, said that it was nearly thirty-seven years since he had last Eet foot in that great town, and during that interval there had been great, changes in the position and X->rc3pects of the Church of England. For a long series of years he bad been fighting the battle of Church and State, and he had livell tn see that position slowly but steadily waning. He had tried with others to put on the brake, but it was impossible to check [111 engine when it wn.s going down an incline plane of civil and religious liberty, and was near the terminus. When a country believed that men of all religions, or of no religion, had an equal right to be members of the Legislature/it was simply a question cf time as to what would become of the National Church in connection with the State. They could not shut their eyes to these things, but there was a great difference between helping to pull down a national Church amI acquiescing when th:1t pulling down came as a visitation. He was not discouraged. It would, at the worst, simply throw them back from a temporary rest or ful- crum upon that which was an eternal fulcrum—the divine strength of the Church herself. During the last seven ami thirty years lie had seen the inner or spiritllalliic of the Church grow :-nd increase. He had seen the whole movement, from the time when the "Tracts for the Times" canw 01lt of the Oxford College, of which he was a fellow, to thnt which might now be said to be its culmi. ration and the increase of the inner life of the Church had gone on side by side with the decline of her outer life. Disestablishment might not occur in his lifetime, for the Church was so deeply imbedded in this country that it would be difficult to pull it up by the roots but those who thought disestablishment was going on only in Ireland made a great IlIi.3take. It would be madness in any number of men to propose the disestablishment of the Church of England now but year by year they were cutting off the brandies. There had been no enthusiasm among the people for the Church. There were many reasons for this, but one was directly connected with the object that broughtthem there-the amrmingof the right of property in Churches. Nothing had llone more to discredit the Church with the people. He threw himself heart and hand into the causa ot freedom of public worship; at whatever cost, they must vindicate the perfect freedom of God's House in this land. Until they achieved that they could have little real interest until they had reality they could not Lave enthusiasm, and without enthusiasm they woull1 havs no consistent, steady sllpport of t:10 Church. He had no idea of keeping up the distinctions of social life in the Church, where ail alike went to worship and pray. The Archdeacon then referred to the great change in the maintenance of churches and' churcii- yards in England, which he had resisted, as he resisted most changes, though he wa" al. ways beaten. As there was no compulsory power of levying the assessment it was nonsense to call it a rate, if he might apply that term to the work of the House of Commons. A yeoman in his own parish said he wished a new Cromwell would deal with this Parliament as Crom- well did with his, but for his own part he would begin with the House of Lords and the bishops. The sooner the bishops were out of the House of Lords the better. In conclusion, the Archdeacon declared he had no fear of the issue, as the eternal sup- port of the Church itself would never fail them. In answer to the Rev. Mr. Lefroy, who asked who would undertake certain responsibilities on an uncertain method of meeting them, the Archdeacon said if he had to begin life again, rather than not turnw himself OIl the free-will offerings of his people, he would prefer not to be aminister at all.
GETTING INSIDE THE HOUSE.
GETTING INSIDE THE HOUSE. One day last week, says the JJirmini/ham 6V. Birmingham artisan—connected with the glass trade, as we are informed—was in London, and being anxious to see what the House of Commons was like, and being anxious also to hear a discussion on trades union matters, he repaired to "Westminster, fully resolved to procure admis- sion to the first assembly." Sir. 13-, as we shallcall the visitor, sauntered up to a policeman-and here we leave him to tell his owu story ;— Is Dixon in the House ?" "Don't know," said the officer. "I saw him a few minutes ago. He was in, but I think he's gone out." "Muntz?" "Don't know; haven't seen Muntz." "Bright—is he in "Oh, yes, said the policeman, after an interview with another official, Bright's there on tbe Treasury Bench." Would you tell him I want to see himwas the next remark of our Birmingnam visitor, whose appearance unmistakeably indicated tha.t he was one of the genuine working class sort. Can't do that," said the officer. "Sendyourcard." The Birmingham artisan produced a card on which was His name. He then on the back wrote the name of :Ir. John Bright." The card was "passed" to Mr. Bright, who straightway left his place, and "come out." Our informant goes on Seeing Bright coming forrard out of the doore, I walks up to him, and he says, says he, Is this from you 4 Yes,' says I. May lask what youwant ?' saysBright, quite gentle- manlike. To go inside,' says I. Oh,' says he, "I think I can manage that.' After a while he calls me, and he says, go up thar.' This was up a flight of stairs. I goes up, and I was in the He use. There was three (?) Cabinet Ministers there—Forster, Bruce, and Bright. Lord .John Manners was a talking.' "As for the 'House' I don't think much on it. It is not by no means the place I should ha' thought it was." Asking the visitor if he ware not impressed with the courtesy and attention of Mr. Bright, he rep.ied: "Ah! but I should have sent for Lord John Manners, or Glad- stone for that matter. I only wish I'd been up there this week, I'd been able to sit it out better this hot weather than some of those old rich nobs." We have given the visitor's rough but honest version ol the attention shewn to him, not only by Mr. Bright, but, more wonderful still, by the officials of the House.
THE LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY…
THE LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. A meeting of the members of this society was held B1 the rooms of the Architectural Society, in Conduit-street, Bond-street, on Saturday last. There was a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen. The chair was taken by Mrs. Peter Taylor. Mrs. TAYLOR, in opening the proceedings, said the society had been in existence two years, and the progress made during that period was very satisfactory. Before Mr. Mill brought forward his bill in 13b7, the question of women's suffrage was either ignored or treated with ridicule but now it was c-ne of the questions of the day. For this every woman in England owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Mill. Mr. Chisholm Anstey had held that, under the new Beform Act, every woman who was a householderwasentitled tHvote but th" Court of Common Pleas was adverse. They must not be disheartened at this, nor discontinue their exertions. The association had not thought it advisable that any parliamentary effort should be made while the Irish Church Bill was occupying the attention of the House. The SECKETAHY (Miss Caroline Biggs) read a brief report, from which it appeared that during the present year 2:20 petitions had been presented to Parliament on this subject, containing 41,COO signatures, and that 18.) pamphlets h«d been distributed, written by Mr. Mil iss Cobbe, Madame Bodichon, Professor Newtna-n, and others. Mr. J. STUART MILL, who was received with louct applause, congratulated the society on the success of their efforts. The admission of women to the francnise, which not long since was a mere protest on behalf of abstract right, had now grown into a definite political aim. He had always held the opinion that women had the same right to the suffrage as men. Nevertheless, he confessed that he Wfui not prepared for the large amount of sym- pathy and support winch this movement had received. That success would be unaccountable were it not for some important allies that had been at work in their behalf. The first of these was the sense of natural justice. Another auxiliary at work for them was the progress of the age. Every impnneinent that characterised the present age would be found tending in thesamedirection. X ot OIle of them could he thoroughly realised and perfected unless women, with all their moral and intellectual capabilities property developed, were associated in the work. Look, for instance, at education—the one great cry of the nay. »v ere they going to educate a nation without the ani of women—women, who were acknowledged to be tae best teachers of the young? The management Oi tae poor, too, he believed would ntver be successfully treated until women took their proper share in the work. I he nursing of the sick was a privilege which had been seldom denied to women. It was now understood that thev ought to'be educated women. No ignorant person con,d^be a good nurse. The prevention and cure of disease was likely to become a branch of public administration. At present the medical staff of the unions are wretchedly underpaid and until the medical profession was opened to women, there would never be a sufficient supply of educated medical practitioners for any but therich. Society was every day growing mon and more to realise that women were needed for other uses than to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." They might safely atfirm, then, that their causa waa powerfully backed, iuw* it bad for ito allies th« £ itat forces which »vfciywhere at work, striving to improve the world. Their business, then, as a society was to go on striving until they reached the crowning point of woman's cause— the suffrage. He concluded by moving, "That this so- ciety declares its strong conviction that it is in the highest degree unjust and impolitic to make sex the ground of exclusion from the exercise of political rights." — The nev. C. KINGSLEY seconded this resolution in a short address, which was much appln,llded.-The resolution wa3 then put and carried. Mrs. FAWCETT moved the following resolutionThat this society pledges itself to use every lawful means to obtain the extellsion of tha franchise to women, and it considers that a hit! for that purpose should be intro- duced into Parliament as early as possible."—Lord HODGHTON" seconded the resolution, which was also supported by Mr. Junx MOELEY, and then put and carried. Sir CHASLES WESTWOUTH DILKE, M.P., moved, That this meeting desires to record its satisfaction at the progre;3 the society has aJreaùy made." He expressed his own readiness, and that of Mr. Jacob Bright, to take cllarge of any bill which the committee might 1'repare.- Mr. PETER A. TAYI.OR, M.P., in seconding the resolution, expressed hig deep sense of the importance and necessity of this society and considered the success they had met with was truly wonderful. —Professor MASSOX supported the resolution, which was put and carried. Mr. STANSFELT), M.P., proposed a vote of thanks to Mrs. Taylor. He had no doubt of the ultimate snccess of the society. His sympathies had ever been with the movernent.lr. MILL secondetl the motion, and, Mrs. TAYLOR having briefly returned thanks, the meeting concluded.
THE GREAT METEOR.
THE GREAT METEOR. "A.S.Herschell" writes to the Times describing a great meteor which he saw 011 Friday evening, at 11.33. At the time mentioned—no shooting stars having yet been observed, a sudden flash, Eke that of lightning, much brighter than full moonlight," causing him to look round ami upwards—he saw the meteor descending between the clouds. ilt was yet an intensely white and bright star, like the electric light, and appeared to sparkle, or rather to be alternately extinguished and lighted up again, much more rapidly than could be accounted for by the pretty clear and open space between the clouds, through which the final part of its course was seen. When first observed it passed about three or foiTr degrees over the head stars of Delphinus, and procperled with moderate speed, amI with little dimi- nution of its light, towards Epsilon Pegasi, close tó which star it rather suddenly disappeared, without bursting or emitting any sparks upon its course. Iliick clouds pre- vented any persistent streak of light. The duration of the flash of light and of the meteor's flight while it re- mained in sight was about two seconds and a half. The great meteor was seen by the Duke of Argyll. His Grace writes to the Times :—" On last Friday night I hap- pened to be looking at the sky at the moment of the appearance of the great meteor which i3 described by Mr. Herachel. As the night was clear, I had an unusually perfect view of the whole course of the meteor. It began in a thin streak of red sparks, very like a common rocket, but as it advanced, which it did with immense velocity, thelight became more and more brilliant until it rose to that of an intense white heat.' It gave oti jets or sputterings of light along the whole of its course, and from both sides of its body. These were particularly remarkable when the meteor was at its maximum of splendour. Its disappear- ance was extremely sudden, as if its substance were wholly consumed. For a second there was left a train of sparks. I could hear no sound. It began not far from the zenith, and the direction of its path was from N.N.W. to S.S.E., but the whole course was very short." Another observe!' of the meteor writes :-—" Ik path was not continuously illuminated, but appeared broken, for quite half the length of its flight, into a train of brilliant. sparks. Its termination was marked by an explosion and a display of iuexmclescence whica lighted up the objects around us as in full moonshine. The smaller meteoric bodies into which the principal mass becamo divided were very quickly extinguished, and I looked in vain for the luminous track in the heavens which sometimes lingers after these brighter kinds of meteoric displays."
VOYAGE IN A BALLOON.
VOYAGE IN A BALLOON. Mr. Youens had a balloon ascent on Saturday evening, leaving the Belle Vue Gardens, near Huddersfield, in the Aeria], which is capable of containing 20,000 cubic feet of gas. It rises to a height of 50 feet, and expands to 100 feet in circumference. Awayfoatedthe balloon in a westerly direc- tion, oscillating for a considerable distance in a most extra- ordinary and unusual manner. Mr. Yonens experiencel1 a stronger breeze than he had anticipated, and the current changing rapir11y, his energy and J.1J()wled¡;e :1S an aeronaut were very closely taxed in managing the balloon. A fresh current drove the Aerial to the east for a, time, but presently another gust, unexpectedly, in the direction of Halifax, thence towards Bradford, in a northerly course, and, after the lapse of twenty minutes, the Aerial and its occu- pant pierced thc clouds. 1\lr. Youena then began to make observations, for the purpose of selecting a suitable site on which to descend; and in a few minutes concen- trated his attention upon a field in which a fete was being held. The breeze, however, carried the Aerial some three miles further, and, a second time, Mr. Youen attempted to lower himself in a field adjoining some farmhouses at Dunholme. Cautiously opening the escape valve, Mr. Youens continued the journey downwards and threw out the grapnels. Impetuous blasts of winds increased the difficulty of bringing the Aerial to anchor. A strong wind prevailing, the baBoon hecame unmanage- able, and drifted over fields and stone walls with amazing Telocity. The flukes of tbe grapnels penetrated the ground and uprooted the earth as they followed in the wake of the balloon, while the Aerial chariot dashed onwarLS making, in its career, wide gaps in several stOUI) walls. Mr. Youens, preparing to encounter the worst fate, wrapped the enel of the cord which opens the escape va1ve round one of his wrists, and burying himself in thecal-, permitted the balloon to proceed until the breeze subsided when, after the car bad been thnce capsized, and every article which it contained thrownout, Mr. Youer.s, whoreceivedno injuries, anchored, and completed a voyage of many miles, occup3-ing half an bour in its accomplishment.
THE FLYING SQUADRON.
THE FLYING SQUADRON. A correspondent of the Evening Standard, writing from on board the Linev, Madeira, July 2, describes the cruise of the Flying Squadron up to that port. After referring to the misadventure which happened to the Barossa just as the squadron was leaving Devonport, the correspondent goe3 on to narrate their further progress. The first signal made was to rendezvous seven miles south-west of the Eddystone; but the winds were so light that it was past noon of June 19 before tho squadrun had taken up thcir stations. The. Scylla shewed herself by far the fleetest ship t the Liffey came next; the Liverpool and the Bristol were about equal the Endymion was the slowest. Towards evening the wind freshened up from the north-west, and the vessels bowled along at six knots an hour. On Sunday, 20th, the vessels were off Ushant. The routine with regard to sail diill was carried out on Monday, 21st, and all hands were very glad when the dinner pendant released them from their toils. On Tuesday, several boating excursions were caused through a temporary change of naval instructors for the examination of the midship- men under their charge. The Bay of Biscay was now in full roll. Nevertheless 011 Wednesday, the 23rd, Admiral Hornby inspected the Liffey, coming on board untier circnl11sta.nces of wind and sea that would have deterred any but the most energetic of young admirals. June 26 saw the wind in the south-west, and by noon the Liífey was 22,1 miles from Madeira.. The heat was now very oppressive, and the hot wind made the very small allow- ance of five quarts of water a day for drinking, washing, and shaving a serious trial. Under these circumstances a cruise of two or three ypars lost a good deal of its romance for the yomig officers, and the elder one3 reckoned that the small sum of 3s. a day expended in coals would relieve all this distress, as one ton of coals gives 2,000 gallons of water. On the 20th the vessels found themselves 140 miles frorn Madeira,and bifhllg winds com- pelled them to retrace a portion of their way. It was not till .Wednesday that they sighted and passed the beautiful island of Santo Porto, 30miles north of Madeira; but at C.30 all the ships were hove to, as all the captains and commanders were invited to dine with Admiral Hornby, on board the Liverpool. While at dinner the homeward-bound African mail steamed up along side of us to get the mails, but, alas none were ready. The flagship, however, detained her sufficiently long to send home some letters. On July 1 "the ships were tan- talisell by:.1, near view of the 1and, hut ag they lay be- calmed, with but distant prospects of anchoring before evening, it was the reverse of agreeable while native boats, which hovered about, were tempting in their offers of transporting us to the shore."
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. The statistics of importation quoted the other week prove that the population of the United Ivingdom is becoming more and more dependent upon foreign supplies. The question then arises, are we falling behind in our own production absolutely or only relatively to the rapidly-growing demand? It is V1'8 P'f'l'|t that we feel the want of agricultural statistics. I lie abstract which has been lately issued states that the acreage under grain in the United Kingdom has increased from 11,459,296 acres in 18Gt> to 11,600,049 in ISGtS, an improve- ment of less than 2 per cent. in three years. I ne acreage under green crops shews much worse results, having actually fallen from 5,0C4,35S in 1866 to 4,864,877 in 1868. The number of cattle has increased from 8,569,093 to '.).0o3,416, an advance of 6 per cent.; sheep from 26,380,248 to 35,607,812, an increase of more than 33 per cent. while pigs have fallen off from 3,997,780 to 3,189.167. But the tables are unsafe guides for several reasons—they only include the last three years, and they are notoriously defective in the returns from particular districts. And as for the live stock, the comparison does not hold good between the first return taken before the lamb- ing season was over, and the last return, which includes all the lambs, except those which had been killtd and eaten. On referring to the elaborate pamphlet issued some time back by Messrs. J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert, on the Home Produce, Imports, and Consumption of Wheat," we find that they estimate the area under that cereal to have diminished from 4,036,969 in 1854-5 to 3,750,812 in 1868-9, and these last figures do not .greatly differ from what the official return, so far as it goes, tells us. The latter, however, gives an estimate of increase in all grain, wheat included and, as the point is of some importance, our regret is all the greater that reluctance to give information of such interest should deprive us of all mea^s of arriving at the exact truth. We are afraid, however the figures tell us quite enough for our purpose < approximative as they may be, they seem to shew be- yond dispute that while our home production of food has, on the whole, increased, it has in no instance kept pace with the increase in consumption of im- ported food, while in some respects it has fallen back. Absolutely there is an augmentation relativelyto demand we are sure there is not. But if we consume more and more every year of food from abroad, while our own agri- culturists are also producing more largely, what is the inference? The import is increasing because the home market is constantly getting more clamorous for supplies. I We receive more because the demand is greater.— Chamber of Agriculture Journal.
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THE CROPS. Tho Mark Lane Express, in its review of the grain trade during the past week, says An o tl18 l' week, after opening with a thunderstorm, has brought exactly tho weather we needed to hasten to maturity our backward harvest, and it seems likely to give usa full week 01' more of benefit as to reaching maturity. But the gardeners and the graziers are beginning to cry O'¡t for mir, and EO it is in several parts of Europe. The new crop of hay will therefore soon bu drawn upou, and wo are sorry to hear there are many docks heated, tho sap in the gmss this season being mortl abundant than calculated by some who were hasty in getting it up. Oats, too, avd barley would be benefitod by general showers, and the wheat might work more kindly." The Nennrjh. Guardian, BpeakjlJg of the crops of Tipperary, says: — "Tho farmers in this district are manifesting the most painful anxiety for rain. Experienced farmers, how- ever, stato 11wt thew need be no cause for appreh nsion for a fortnight to come. The present weaTher has teen most !<ervicable to potato growiug and liny making tho potatoes have grown as if in a hotbed, and the meadows in this pnrt of th" country baving been neady all mown and the hay cocked. Cereals promise to be an average crop, the ea s of "heat and oats looking very full and healthy; po- tatoes, if spared 1 he blight, and there is not, we aro happy to state, the Mmdiest whisper of it hHrp, v.-il1 show a good return, both as to quality and quantity and as for fodder there will be }10 dearth, fiS RDY shortness in straw will he compensated by tho abundant yield. The harvest will bo a fortnight later than last year's." A Sligo pqwr says:—"We regret to say that tho weather is not at all as favourable as farmers would wish it to be. However, the crops look well, but want a supply of the snn's warmth to ripen them. New potatoes aro now I plentiful in our markets, and are selling at 5d. and 6d. per >tone. There is no appearance of the hlight whatever, but the late ¡,orth-wcf;terly wind has done t-ome damage to the I stalks."
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A JERSEY JUDGE AND HIS FEES. The straits to which.J ersey officials, owing to the empti- ness of the island exchequer, are driven for money have been repeatedly referred to. Last Saturday the Jersey Jurats sat as a Court of Admiralty, when they gave judg- ment in several cases against the South-Western and Wey- mouth and Channel Islands Packet Companies for har- bour dues which both companies allege to be excessive and unwarranted, but which the States have determined to enforce. A characteristic conversation wa3 originated by the bench. Judge Le Montais asked why his fees had not been paid for attendance on the bench in the last South- western Steam Packet Company's case. He added, "In all Admiralty cases we are entitled to two shillings fees." The Attorney-General (who appeared as counsel for the States): I am not going- to advance moneyfor the public I cannot getpaid my own fees.—Judge Le Mentals But the harbour-master should advance the money; heiscontinually receiving harbour dues. The Attorney-General said the money (;"111(1 not be advanced without an order from the Committee of Harbours. If the judges wished, he would apply to the committee, but unless provided by tho com- mittee with cash. he won!<IIJot advance n, single haHpenny for the public.—Judge Le Montais: But the Grefiierinforms me his fees have been paid. The Attorney-General explained that this was by mistake. He should not in nnother case pay the fees.—The Greffier In that case the cause would not be inscribed on the list. The Attorney- General I will not advance money for the public.—Judge Le Montais The harbour-master must p:1.Y our fees. The Harbour-master You must make an order to that effect as my discharge.—Judge Le Montais: You don't want anything of the kind. Shall we not be in the States to vouch for the order we now give yon ? The harbour- master assented. In order to appreciate the conversation fully, it in necessary to bear -in mind that the judge, who seems apprehensive of losing his 2s., sat in a case equiva- lent to a Crown prosecution, and the insular resources are his security for the fees. The Attorney-General, who de- clined to 1}.llvance a Imlfpenuy for the public, was at the time the advocate of the public, that is, of the States. Confidence in the future finances of Jersey, therefore, is at a low ebb.
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS TO EXCURSION…
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS TO EXCURSION TRAINS. On Saturday two accidents happened to excursion trains en route to Liverpool, one of which might have resulted in a great destruction of life, but which caused but one actual death. This unfortunate train was com- posed of twenty-two carriages, and contained about 600 passengers, chiefly members of the Crewe Co-operative Stores and their friends. The train was announced to leave Crewe (London and North-Western Railway) for Liverpool at 6.30, but did not leave until a quarter of an hour later. Soon after passing Winsford station a coal train of about twenty carriages was shunting off the down line, but had not got quite clear, and the engine of the excursion train, together with the carriages, came into violent collision with the hinder part of tha coal train, the result being that a saloon carriage was entirely destroyed, and also a third-class carriage in the centre of the train. Although the latter carriage was nearly full of passengers we are glad to say not one was injured. All the windows on the coal side of the train were broken, and many of the steps, handles, and rails were wrenched off, and a number of the passengers re- ceived serious injuries by glass, &c. A little girl, aged 7 years, the daughter of a Liverpool publican, named Anderson, who was returning home from a visit to Crewe, was killed, and her ¡¡ister, who sat next to* her, was very much hnrt. The shock was FO great that the huffer of the excursion engine on the side of the coal train was twisted out of all shape. The passengers were brought on to Liverpool after a delay of half an hour. Blame is at present laid upon the shunters, but no doubt a full in- vestigation will be made. The second accident was on the East Lancashire Railway. The train ill question was composed of twenty-live carriages with excursionists from Bradford and thc district for Li verpooJ. About a quarter-past nine, when between Bamber Bridge and Lostock Junction, the excursion train C11me into collision with a goods train, and the engine and three carriages of the former train were thrown off the line, and many of the passengers received severe injuries, none, however, we understand, that are likely to terminate fatally. Several of the goods train waggons were also smashed.
LAW AND POLICE.
LAW AND POLICE. THE NEW LAW COURTS. — In Vice-Chancellor Malins's Court, on Monday, the case of Crichell v. the Commis- sioners of Public Works" was heard. It was a suit for the specific performance of a contract for the pur- chase of land forming part of the Carey-street site of the New Law Courts. Some of the land supposed to be freehold has been alleged to be only held for the end of a lease originating in the time of Queen Elizabeth., His Honour thought the plaintiff had shewn a good title to the fee, subject only to the question of the old lease. The defendants were ordered to pay the plaintiff .£1,000, part of the purchase money, the plaintiff undertaking to concur in any application that might be necessary to get the money out of £2,200 paid into court under the Lands Clauses Act. SINGULAR APPLICATION. — On Monday a singular appli- cationwas made to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House. Four iNestorian priests from Lrzeroum waited upon him, being accompanied by Professor Amenney, of King's College. They had visited this country to solicit contri- butions for the relief of suffering members of their com- munion, whoso homes and churches and cattle had been plundered and destroyed by the Koords. Since the ar- rival of the priests in London they had been supported at the expense of the Turkish Government, but the Consul now wishes them to return. This they decline to do, declaring they would sooner starve than leave England without accomplishing their object. The Consul was, therefore, in a difficult position. The Lord Mayor said the matter was hardly one in which he could be expected to take a lead in his official capacity, but probably, if the facts were made generally known, some public sympathy for the applicants and those whom they represented might be elicited. EXTRADITION CASES.—Two cases of extradition were tried on Monday, at Bow-street Police-court. Jean Bap- tist e Daflos, a Frenchman, who had escaped from Arras while under a charge of murder, wa8commltte,1 to the House of Correction, to be delivered over to the French autho- rities. It appears-that the prisoner's escape was of a somewhat daring character. I11 his flight from the gendarmes he swam a brook with his wrists handcuffed together, and it was not until after crossing the stream that he suceeded in breaking his fetters. The second case was that of a Danish sailor named Sorensen, who was charged with the murder of an apprentice on board a Danish merchant ship at Marseilles. The prisoner was a sailor, and they quarrelled about the division of the dinner. They had a light, and tbe prisoner stabbed the deceased, who died in consequence. Sorensen was ordered to j'e committed to the House of Detention for removal to Copenhagen. ML!. GKENVILLE MUJIHAT.—At the Middlesex Sessions, in the case of the Queen on the prosecntion of Granville Murray against Lord Carington. a bill has hecn presented to the grand jury against his lordship for proyokiug Mr. Murray to fig-ht a duel and for assaulting Mr. Murray. The grand jury have returned the bill, ignoring the count for provoking to tight a duel, hut finding :1. true bill as to the count for assault. SINGULAR CHAKGE.—At the Mmsion House, on Tues- day, Robert James Brown, merchant, of C-rnhili, and Charles Stanbridge, bill-broker, were charged with conspiring to defraud. Mr. Diythe. a young man, under age, who wi1l 1-1' entitled to a fortune of £100,0110 in a few months, had had certain bills drawn for ■ £ 1,000., £2,000, and £ 3,000 respectively, and placed in the hands of a bill discounter without receiving any conside- ration for them. He found soon afterwards that they were being circulated, and the defendants were.charged with fraudulent dealing. The prisoners were remanded, bail bei 01; accepted. Mu. BIUEKLY.—At Guildhall, Mr. Brierly, the barrister who Las frequently disturbed the quiet of the courts of late, was charged with assaulting a telegraph clerk, and bound over to keep the peace for six months. CRUELTY TO A HOIISK BY A LUKK'S COACHMAN.—The Duke of Grafton's coachman was charged at Marlborough- street with having cruelly flogged one of his Grace's horses. The prosecution was instituted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but the Duke, who was unable to attend, sent a letter stating that be considered hjs coachman to be the last person" who would be guilty of the offence charged. The magistrate, however, considered the case proved, and inflicted a Penalty of 40s. ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN.—In Hants, George Hasler, a bricklayer, was charged with attempting to overturn a train by placing two oak gates on the rails of the London and South-Western Railway. The engine driver gave evidence as to the gates having been on the line, but the case was not proved against the prisoner. The magistrate discharged him accordingly.
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CWSINGOF THE TIJAMES TUNNEL.—On Tuesday nigb-ttbe Thames Tunnel, so long accounted one of the sights of London, was finally closed as a public footway.
CO::-i"IK\IPO RAIL Y OPINIONS.
CO:i"IK\IPO RAIL Y OPINIONS. THE LORDS AND THE BILL. The limes asks if it is too late to implore all who value the interest of the nation and the pacitic development of our institutions to escape from the heated atmosphere of Tuesday's excitement into the cooler regions of common "ense ? It can be to the advantage of no one that the Irish Church Bill should be withdrawn for a season after an outburst of every angry passion that can disturb human reason. The result would certainly not redound to the honour of the Ministry. It would be as little creditable to the discretion of the Opposition; and the Irish Church. men, who are most interested in the issue of tho present crisis, must feel that the postpone- ment of their fate to another session would be too certainly an exchange of whips for scorpions. If the Ministry were to resolve upon withdrawing the bill upon Tuesday night's division, the sense of ths country would not approve their precipitation. The Times is satisfied the lJlJlmay be carried and become law this session, if the principal agents on both sides could divest themselves of the passions and prejudices at present inflaming them. As it is we have Mr. Gladstone speaking in one House with an intolerant majority at his back tending in no degree to soften the asperity of command, and Lord Salisbury in the other with a majority equally assured of its strength, and almost as much disposed to rely upon it. If the political imagination could compass such a fancy as shutting up Mr. Gladstone and the Duke of Argyll, as representatives of one side, and Lords Salisbury and Cairns, as champions ûf the other, in one room, who can doubt that they would contrive between them to settle the terms of a solution already almost completed? Removed from the excitement of friendly assemblies, they woultl yield to the power of reason, and Mr. Bright him- self might be chosen as their arbiter without danger of partial judgment. But the peril—and. we acknowledge that it is imminent—is that the heat of Parliament may be carried into the Cabinet, and a hasty resolution taken, deferring the further progress of the bill till another session, to the distraction of the country at large, and to the iUJlIleasnrable detriment of the Irish Church itself. The Standard declares that the House of Lords had a duty to perform toïtseJf far transcending in importance its obligations to the Irish Church. The reception given by the House of Commons, at the instigation of Mr. Gladstone, to their lord,'lJil' amendments, had rellùered the question of the decree of disendowment of that Church, before the chief and engrossing one, secondary and subordinate. The great issue wa" whether the Peers should maintain their dignity and vindicate their indepen- dence by insisting upon some at least of the amendments so insolently rejected hy the Minister, or whether, by abandoning them en bloc, they should definitively accept the position of a mere court for the registration of the decisions ot tl^e House of Commons. There was no possi- bility of blinking the question. The Prime Minister had taken care that the Peers should lind no opportunity, in any concessions on his part, for retiring witn honour from their position, and the language of his supporters at public, meetings and in the press forced upon every mind the fact stated by Lord Grey, that his object was not so much to carry the bill as to humiliate the Upper House. The practical effect, if not the intended effect, of the adoption ot the preamble and the 68th clause in the shape in which they appear in the bill returned to the Lords, would be to, place at the disposition of the Govern- ment an immense sum, which they could dangle before the eyes of the Irish peo})le, and so pr01ilOte their political purposes. Such a power should not be given to any government. Parliament ought to reserve to itself the full and entire control of this property and the fact tha.t the House of Commons has neglected its duty in this matter is but another proof of the necessity for another Chamber, composed of really independent men. The Post observes that the issue raised by Lord Cairns in replying to the speech with which Earl Granville moved that the Peers should not insist on those amend- ments to which the Commons had disagreed was clear and decisive. And this issue virtually was whether the Upper House should insist on richly endowing the disestablished Church, and also whether the ultimate disposal of the surplus property should be postponed for future considera- tion. On three, if not 011 four, of the rejected amend- ments the noble and learned lord invited the Peers to insist. The preamble, as originally framed by the Government, and as subsequently insisted on by the Commons, afiirmed two distinct propositions— first, that the proceeds of the Church property should not be applied to religious uses; secondly, that it should be applied in a secular manner as prescribed by one of the clauses of the bid. The preamble as settled by the Lords omitted all reservation of the uses to which the surplus might be applied, and left that question in all its bearings open for future consideration. The other amend- ments dealt with the partial endowment of the Irish Church. All the points in issue were practically discussed in the debate on the rejectioll of the amendment to the preamble, and, consequently, the public are in as good a position to form an opinion of the scheme un which the Lords insisted as if divisions had takcnplace on the subse- quent amendments. With thp Lords will rest the respon- sibility of the course they have pursued. The Daily News thinks that the1 country is in the midst, not of It parliamentary, but of a constitutional crisis. The House of Lords, giving full swing to its reck- less impulses, has rushed into collision with the Govern- ment" the Commons, and the country. The Upper Chamber has, by a majurity of 78, once more struck out of the preamble of the bill the vital words which the Commons bad re-inserted by a majority of 124. Its first vote, and, as it turned out, its last, was given on Tuesday evening in favour of removing the declara- tion against the application of the surplus eccle- siastical revenues or IreJand" for the maintenance of any Church, or clergy, or other ministry, or for the teaching of religion." No sooner had the Lord Chancellor announced the numbers than Lord Granville moved the postponement of the consideration of the remaining amendments. The mis. chievous iibiiits which may follow from the courses which the Lords have taken were very frankly stated by Lord Shaftesbury, who declared that the conduct of the Peers would be fraught with injury, not only to the Irish Church, but to the Established Churches of England and Scotland also, and to the podtion of tbeir Lorùship's House, The cheers which greeted 1\Ir. Gbdstone when he entered the House of Commons on Tuesday night, after the Peers' decision was known, are significant. It is for the country to say whether it will allow fin irresponsible debating society to stand between it and its deliberate purposes and convictions, constitutionally expressed. If this question should lie answered in a sense disagreeable to the Peers, they will have LordSaiisbnry, Lord Grey, and Lord Russell, who has persistently played into the handa of the Opposition, chiefly to thank. It can hardly be denied, says the Herald, that if the House of Lords were Jwt to surrender at discretion it could hardly have conceded more, or chosen the points for conceBsioll and fur resistance more wisely, justly, and judiciously than has been done by Lord Cairns. And, in truth, a surrender at discretion waa.impo-sible. It would, under the circumstances, have involved that which, as Lord Grey observed, is the worst calamity that can befal an individual or an order a loss of honour. When such a hint is thrown out by a man of Lord Grey's cold temper, great experience, and statesmanlike moderation, who de- sires to see the hill passed into law, it is plain to candid and impartial minds thatgreatprovocationniusthave been given. The Lords had to deal not only with a bill that they dislike, but with a faction that dislikes them not only with an affront put upon them by the House of Commons, but with a set purpose to mortify and degrade them mani- fested by the First Minister of the Crown. To have yielded under such circumstances would have involved a sacrifice of prestige and of power quite as great as would follow a pitched battle and a total defeat. Happily, the Lords were not swayed by the argument or fear. By a majority of almost two to one—a majority in which Larls Russell and Grev went into the lobby with Lord Salisbury and Lord Cairns-the Peers decided to insist on their amendment to the preamble of the bill. The Star affirms that the House of Lords have rushed upon the certain conseouences of defying the national will. Before midnight they came by a majority of 78 to a decision adverse to the Government. It revealed the spirit in which the bill was to be opposed, and the. numeri- cal strength which would be arrayed against it. Lord Granville, whose demeanour had throughout the night been most exemplary under the most trying circumstances, at once took the only course pos- sible at such a crisis. He stopped the bill, and nothing will now be known until the Cabinet have deliberated upon this extraordinary vote. The Lord Chancellor, with great energy and enthusiasm, spoke in indignant repudiation of the aspersions on the Government, and in lofty censure of the flippant reckless- ness with which Lord Salisbury had risked a schism be. tween the two Houses. Shortly after-when the Earl of Wincliilsea had, with profuse action, declared himself prepared for the block or the rope—the House divided. The result we have already stated. Lord Cairns had pre- viously announced the amendments on which he was pre- pared to insist, but this declaration passes at once into insignificance in the great crisis upon which her Majesty's Government have now to deliberate. The ielegrapn believes that since, at the eleventh hour, the obstructors have refused to abandon the fatal ground which they have occupied—the bill must be regarded as lost for this session. Mouths of discussion will have been wasted, and at the beginning of a new session the work must be begun again. But it will not begin under the same circumatanceM. The whole country will be agitated by meetings, which will insist on any measures that may be needed to accomplish the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. In a more stringent form than that which it at present wears, another hill will be passed through the Rouse of CommonR and presented to the Peers. That bill must be accepted—but accepted under conditions which will compel the Peers to drive a bad bargain for their clients. If anything had been needed to damage the interests of the Irish Church, and to rouse the coun- try into an attitude of passionate resistance, it would have been furnished by the reckless debate of Tuesday night. Some Peers seemea to have lost all sense of responsi- bility. Lord Salisbury, in particular, by attribut- ing the measure to the will of one arrogant man," did his best to provoke a storm of indignation throughout the nation, of which Mr. Gladstone is the chosen leader and an emphatic response was given to such denunciations by the deafening cheer with which the Prime Minister was greeted when, after t1.e division, he entered the House of Commons. The country ha^ reached a great crisis, and Ministers must determine the course which they will pursue; but after the fatal division of Tuesday night, the nature of that course can admit of no doubt. UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL. The Times observes that, whatever else may be thought of the proceedings in the House of Lords on Monday night, it cannot be doubted that they were extremely inopportune. A difference on a question of the first moment is pending between the two Houses, and it j*. grt?at importance that the existing opposition of should not be aggravated by antagonism of 1- ft" Hitherto, as we have frequently admitted, the have sacrificed a good deal in order to jndica, j. desire to meet, if possible, the wishes of the L-wei if such an attitude was ever desirable, it J3 ■> important. Yet at this critical occasion *1? If*dsJ aVC dismissed the Univerr-bv Tests Bill on ,A J um question" by a mnioHtv of 01 to' 54. cf''ot but observe with n these imma 1 policy the Lords are j, ,ed to adopt. A coursa \ViUch BI.H -I^NS honourable I« can neither b" >neeetoStm 18 to yield on the principle, u'nt' 'which "enov ti maintain existing arrangement » N, ally mean existing privileges- by haggi" i 1 .<ainnig over details. Tins is the course winch has been adopted on the Irish Church Bill, and the vote of Monday night is simply another illustration of it. It is obvious that such a policy is in danger of bringing the two Houses into collision on ground where the popular force cannot scruple to exert its full power. If matters of principle, and therefore of jonscience, are waived, it becomeiJnmere question whether Vhe will of the people or the will of the Lords on a point jf expediency shall be supreme. Pertinacious opposition lssumes simply the character of selfwill. Let us have sne thing or the other. If, as was indicated by the vote of a few weeks back, the Lords arc prepared to adopt it &s the first rule of political life that the will of the people must be obeyed, let them accept the position frankly, and not needlessly provoke irritation by prolonging- a contest of which, by their own confession, the issue is already decided. The Standard declares that the aim of tho University Tests Abolition Bill is to uu-Church the universities in the first instance, and in the second to subject them to the control of Dissenters. To effect this, it proposes to sweep away all guarantees for religions teaching, and the eventual result will be the secularisation ot the teaching of the universities. It is one of the most mischievous features of a bill of this kind that none of its friends will acknowledge it in its true character. No one who has a word to say on behalf of it will for one moment admit that it ]8 aimed against the influence of the Church in the first place or of religion in the second. What the religious Dissenters who favour this bill have to remember is tuat it would admit to the council board, with full power to take part in the election of a. pLegius Professor ot Divinity persons who might be declared Atheists. Lonl. Campordown says fra/iKiy that it is not so mUch a question °f admitting non-Churchmen to a certain number of fellowships a.s0f asserting the prin- ciple that, as Lord Eussell says, the universities are the property of the nation, and that their endowments may be devoted to such purposes as may be thought most likely to promote its welfare. J he noble viscount admits that upon this theory it may be necessary to .¡ vary" the wills of founders. Would it not be more true to say that if the authors' of this measure are to have their way those wills must be treated aa if they were waste paper? Everybody admits that the aim of this bill is to obliterate the Church character of the universities. Can anyone who has passed even half a day among the colleges or Oxford or Cambridge (leBY the truth which is imprinted on every stone cf those glorious fanes, and which makes itself felt in the very atmosphere around them, that they were built by Churchmen for the training and nurture of Churchmen? Silently, but with a dignity of their own, they declare while they vindicate their mission, and it will be an act of violence little short of sacrilege which forces them to other uses. Thanks to the vote of Monday night the process of un-Churching them is delayed for at least another year. AN "OMEN FCLilLLiiD. .The Daily Xexcs asks how far do educated people really believe in the superstitions which they are so fond of keeping in memory? It is unlucky, we hear, to sit down thirteen to dinner; unlucky to see tho new moon for the first time through a window; unlucky to spill salt; unlucky to hand a knife or any sharp-edged instru- ment to a lady very unlucky to break 1l looking-glass. Especially on the Continent is the breaking of a mirror regarded as a sign of coming misfortune. Nothing would persuade half the women in Prance that it is not so and just r.ow the French Press is all a-blaze with the report of a disaster which seems to corroborate toe superstition. A few friends met by invitation in the drawing- room of Madame Judith Mendes, daughter of the well- known poet and journalist, Theophile Gautier. There was a looking-glass over the mantelpiece which, without any apparent cause, came crashing down, at the same time smashing some magnificent china vases. Madame Mendes was extremely gay that evening. She had just 'finished writing a new novel, entitled, "Iskender, a Persian Story." (Ii the success of which slle entertained tbe fairest liopvs. The future seemed bright with the prospect of its early publication. But tho looking- glass wag broken, and evil was to follow. Next day Madame Mendes arrived at the offices of the Liberte. A great personage, M. Emile de Giiardin, had consented to publish her novel in the feuilleton of his newspaper. When Madame Mendes proceeded to pull the NIS., on which she had bestowed all her care, out of her bag-, she discovered that the omen had fulfilled itself. No novel was there It had been dropped in the street or in the cab, or it was stolen. Anyhow it was gone, nor has it been found since. And all on account of that malicious looking-glass that chose to break itself! Do people really believe in such things, or do they only amuse themselves? One thing at least is clear, that every time the superstition comes true the event is most carefully registered, while no note is ever taken of its falsification. PASSENGER TRAINS AND GOODS TRAINS. The Herald remarks that two railway collisions are reported as having taken place on Saturday last in the north-western counties. In each case an excursion train ran into a train belonging to the goods and mineral traffic. Excursion trains are usually understood to 10 exception- ally (1angerons, and goods trains are recognised as the real breakers ahead." Gf a railway trip, Just as n:1turally as oxygen and bydrogen combine to form wat<r RO it would seem do excursion and goods trains unite tn create an accident. A junction or a shunting-place is of course a likely spot for a collision. These elements and conditions being all present, the chance: are in favour of a disaster. If a disaster uoes not occur, "we may presume it is prevented by watchfulness and good signalling. Generals in command on the field of battle are described as hurling their battalions against the foe. The scene of battle, is scarcely more terrible—in some respects less so than that of a train of twenty-two railway carriages, heavily freighted with passengers, thundering down upon an obstacle which it must either destroy or be destroyed by. The Herald is strongly of opinion that the public have a right to some further guarantees for their safety in regard to collisions between the passenger and goods traffic. It is not a mere question of rules and system, though these are extremely important; but to the wisdom of adopting the best code we must add the necessity of having the code faith- fully carried out. Facts seem to shew that, while the signals themselves are sometimes inefficient. it still more frequently happens that the signals are partially dis- regarded, and the rules with reference to shunting un- blushingly disobeyed. It is to the interest of the railway companies to remedy this state of things. The Abergele catastrophe alone sacrificed more than thirty lives. It is in the obstructions created hy the goods traffic that we find tlie great danger of railway travelling. Signalling and shunting are the elements of safefry 1Te?Sr«vn<t no pre- cautions which skill or prudence can suggest ought to be omitted or trifled with. OFFENCES OF THE POLICE. The Telegraph refers to the false charges that have lately been made by police-officers, and says that a still graver stigma must attach to the head of Ibe policf, if it be true that he hears and knows of such in. ta: ces, yet does not promptly bestir himself to afford justice those who have been outraged, and purge his force from an odious suspicion. It is all ver;f. well to say that it is the business of a person who believes himself wronged to appeal to the law, and not to the Chief Commissioner. That may be precisely the rejoinder upon which easy- swearing constables rely and we suppose Colonel Hen- derson would have the right to make it as regards any complaint preferred against individual officers. But that which may be a sufficient put-off against the private complainant is by no means enough to stifle the public demand for investigation and punishment. Those who are responsible for appointing men to the force, and for retaining them in it so long as their conduct fits them to be trusted with the power of arrest, cannot and must not overlook or "pooh-pooh" revelations like those lately made. We say that silence on the part of the Chief Com- missioner will not satisfy the public. There must be proof given, and given promptly, that those in command of tbe force comprehend the terrible danger created by the presence of practised perjurers in its ranks; and that they spare no trouble either to remove that suspicion, or to expel and "punish. those who have brought a stain upon the uni- form. Mistakes will and do occur, and sufferers must bear their ill-fortune with what patience they may, so long as it arises from nothing worse than over-vigilance and energy on the part of constables. Hard swearing, however, to what is not true, is no "mistake," but a. deadly and detestable crime, more perilous to. socic-ty than many which these policemen are paid to prevent and it may at any hour lead to the disgrace and conviction of a. perfectly guiltless individual. If it is not the business of a Chief Commissioner of Police to see that so 'perilous a crime does not flourish, it is difficult to see that, such a functionary fulfils his public duty and we would require to keep a second Commissioner, specially charged J-, took nfter Scotland-yard and its authorities. NAPOtKOS'B COMPROMISE. "Letmea.cta.a I please," says the SpedaLr, "and I will let you talk as you please." That is the substance of the compromise which the Lniperor of the French has so graciously and "wisely" offered to the Chamber and the nation, and over which most of our contemporaries have been singing hymns of thankfulness and praise to the far-sighted monarch," who has once more shewn, as in Mexico, how completely he understands his epoch. We regret, for the sake of France and of Europe, that we cannot join in their paeans. The letter of the 12th July, which they think so marvellously wise, seems to us to contain irresistible evidence of failing insight and decay- ing resolution. It reads like the decree of an hereditary king, aware that the revolution is on its way. but full of the conviction that statesmanship is but another word for wile. Foresight the Emperornever had, as witness his forecast on the American and German wars, the absurd menace which produced the British Volunteers, and the total failure of his Algerian policy but till now he has always compre- hended France, always expressed in some l'oug¡h "ut efficient way her latent thought. Now he fights ier on the hustings on the one point on which stronger than the Emperor, be his rema1IJl" -"leagtn what it may, will take no denial, the o>,vein- ment; mistakes the whole drift of the e > writes in June to Baron de Mackau a Jetter /le will never give way tells Grauier de C"* c ear y m July to state in the J'ays that he regrets g neglected the "majority," i.e., the Arc»dia; ?> party more Imperialist than the Emper°rA c,i(*ii, on July 12th, gives way in such a, to shew the hostile world he is y'eldl,mt to content that world; and finally', I11Warning, wJthout I even informing ti,p n- n ci of spasm of agitation, prorogw^^ ^er. Nothing so illusory as his reform *HUed to an exc.ted people. Finally if N*P° ] ar Wiser t-aan all France, why does he'fail? do«S wish the Empire to be weak, vet if there 19 meaning Jn app,.al-ances tbe Empire is failing. losjn £ -r°n'u'« driven to small devices in spite of him and his iaisighted policy. Opinions may end will dilfer about e letter of the 12lh of July its object, its jntaoing, its reSUit8; but on this one point, at least, we tliink, I'pmion will lie unanimous. Had the Kinp're been gairiiug s rength, had the elections reaffirmed its prin- ciple, had tliQ grouI1d been solid beneath its founda- tion", had even the builder retained the full command of his genius, that letter would never have been written. The Belsha^ai ot to day sees 1]0 handwriting on the wall, or he wouid read, and reading understand, and perhaps evade his doore,. There are men nowadavs who could swindle even ]■ ,t,. All he sees i*3 that a finger, shadow} biit omnipotent., undefined but irresistible, is writing it import* him to read and he strains and^tumoles blinded towards the Scroll which, though invisible, lie y..r, ]-noWH to be there, and to be his sentence. I" .listory h.-re is no figure which so excites the iinatf}";1"n as this Emperor, pressed on all sides by a force whn-n is no force, which yields as he strikes gives way as he spring seems even to buoy him as he'loses his feet, yet always sweeps him on relent- lessly to his doonn
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.== The advowson and next presentation to tiie Rectory of Onibury, near Ludlow, is to be sold by auction oa Tuesday, August 3. Ittfs stated that "the United Pack and the Ludlow hounds hunt in the neighbourhood." Tbo. living is worth £030 It year. The present rector ia sixty-. four tehie of age, and tho patron is the Earl of Craven.
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ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP. Mr. Mill's Subjection of Women" has appeared in Paris uuder the title of L'Assujettissement dec; Femmes." —The Cuurrier iVOrient states that, by the labour of Midhat Pasha, a palace has been discovered beneath the ruins of ancient Babylon tilled with archajological trea- sures. Among the most curious objects is a library built of bricks of extraordinary composition. The charac- ter with which these bricks, or rather pages, are covered, are in a perfect state of preservation.— The bte Rev. George Fielding, who was for eighteen years incumbent of Bishop Auckland, county Durham, and subsequently rector of North Ockendon, Essex, was. the last surviving grandson of Fielding, the lIovelist.- Mr. William Morris has determined on publishing a fur- ther portiou of his poem, The Earthly Paradise," in November.—IMessrs. Mears and Stainoauk, the eminent founders of J;ig- Ben," of Westminster Palace, have just cast a magnificent peal of eig-ht bells for Ballarat, Aus- tralia, to commemorate the Duke of Edinburgh's escape from as,assin::1.tion.-The Geographical Suciety of Italy have struck their prize gold medal in honour of Mrs. Somerville. On one side of it is the likeness of Victor Emmanuel, and on the other the name of the venerable lady to whom it is presented.—The Musical Standard says: —The new Prussian national hymn, by Sir Michael Costa, i" to oe performed in public in the autumn. Auber's new opera is to be called" Peve d'Amour." :1is" Laura Harris has entere,1 into an l'ngagemeut with the manager, Merelli, to sing at the Imperial Opera at Moscow for two years. Miss Minnie Hauck will also appear there.
TIE COMIC PAPERS.
TIE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) A Bootc ALL TITLE PAGES.—The Peerage. THE LORDS' BLUNDER.—Said an Irish Lunatic to an Irish Hector, The Lords must have mistaken you for I when they are for transferring the s0.rplns' to the surplice.' DEB FHEISCUUTZ IX IRELAND.—A telegram from Dublin, the other day, told us that "A body of 800 armed Catholics lay in wait in Wolfe's Glen for Protes- tants, but encountered ncne." In tiie opinion of many people it is a pity that these Catholics were disappointed of meetb g their Protestant match in the Wolf(e)'s glen, and that Zamiel didn't fly away with both sides. A C rANGE FOR OLD IRELAND. — May Hope (not Beresford) turn out to have told no flattering talc to the Eight Eev. Samuel.-Bishop of Oxford, when she said that to him which made him say to the Lords, in the Irish Church Bill debate, that he was "hopeful of a great resurrection in Ireland." A resurrection will bo a great improveIlJent on insurrections. A NOEL2 MARKSMAN.—In the ATnrninrj Post, the other day, appeared a letter on Pigeon Shooting," vindicating it from a charge of special cruelty, and signed "Willoughby de Broke." Doubtless the cruelty of pigeon-shooting has been greatly exaggerated, and its champion is a dead shot, otherwise one might ask whether his signature should not have been Willoughby de Brokenwing," (From Fail.) PAPER.—Our worthy contemporary The Globe is surely a little behind the time It devoted an article the other day to the discussion of paper as a material for clothing. It mentions Important garments, of great strength and flexibility, which can be sewn with a machine, giving seams almost as strong as woven fabric! The inventor has particularly applied it to the production of petticoats, which are either printed in imitation of the fashionable skirts of the day, or stamped out with open work of such beant.yan(] delicacy 1\S 110 amount of labour with scissors and needle could imitate. The marvel is that these really beautiful productions can be sold retail at Gd. each Imitation cretonnes and chintzes for bed furniture are also made, a set costing retail about as." The Globe must be aware that so far from this being a novelty, it is a fashion, which, by force of circumstances, is dying out. Why, before the collapse of the house of Overend, Gurney, and Co., numbers of City men not only clothed but fell their families "n paper, while not merely their residences but their places d 1.>nsine"g were constructed of the same mat.erial APROPOS OF THE RAID ON EETTIXG HOUSES. The rule in Letting matters Yon scarce can Justice call- It "down with an in tatters, But not in Tatters-all 1"
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MOONSHINE AT ST. CLOUD. A Sat¡"7'ihl' Reviewer, wlw has veen reading the Paris correspondence of the Daily Telegraph, reveals to us soma more wOll(1ers of the astonishing author of those letters. It is well know n that the said writer is in the secrets of the Emperor of the French, that he attfcnds ail the Impe- rial parties, and is on intimate terms with all the great men v.-iio visit St. Cloud. He gives to the world, moreover, all that is said and done at the Palace. He listens at St. Clow1 and writes to th," Telegraph. On Friday last week, the Ministerial Council met; but on the Thursday e'veir.ng. hefore taking 1\1. Rouber and his col- leagues into his confidence, the Emperor at the fete given to the Viceroy told everybody what was going to happen. So at least says Our Own Correspondent." The Emperor "was in the highest possible spirits, never looked so little preoccupied," and challenged everybody to talk. What he said to one deputy we have, thanks to our Daily Telegraph, in ipsissirnis verbis; how he "agreed with the liberal views of the nation," and how he was anxious to declare this agreement to a mob of twenty or thirty people at a time we are assured, moreover, that his Majesty spolce evidently arec and we are by no means sure that he clid not get on a chair and harangue his guests on what was to come off on the morrow. Now if all this be true-amI it is written in the Daily Telegraph, and therefore must be true, though these pictorial debils of coining events labour under the disadvantage of being printed three days after the formal and oliicial announcement of the Imperial pnlicy-wlmt a o.o.v view of the Napoleonic char.1cter it gives A dark ;1,11(1 impenetrable man, kecping his own secrei; till the last moment silent and mysterious, and repelling in speech and manner cold aud reluctant even when he declares his mind—such, we have been assured by ordinarv observers, is the present Emperor. It's all a mistake. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph-pre- pents quite another picture of the true and genial Napo- leon. He is simpiy the jolliest of good fellows, ready to jabber and gabble on the most important questions of State policy with twenty or thirty anybodies or nobodies a mere political "ieve or colander, spnrting out his views about the most serious State and Cabinet secrets like a drysa.lter in tile l'eck\¡aUl ()!\ll1ilm3. But more the Daily TeJei/rajih correspondent tells us. It is solemnly recorded that at St. Cloud on Thursday in last week they had a. new heaven a1l to theUlHe1 ves. ';1.'1 weB ail an earth, which was of heaven, at least the heaven of the ballet and the pantomime. On Thursday, July 8, this grand entertainment was given at St. Cloud to the Viceroy of Egypt and on Friday, July 0, the almanac tells ns that there was a new moon. But the great Emperor ordered and got a full moon last Thursday week for his own special behoof and the glory of his imperial party. "Our Own Correspondent saw it Figure to yourself a garden still charming and abounding, &c., tine shrubs and flowers, &c., quiet rivulets, &c. Above was a large and calm-looking ■moon." And then. again, we hear of the combined effect of electric light and moonshine on the Empress's dres., and drawing-room. We always took the Emperor to be a very great man. but his command over the moon shews the real master of nature. To order up a full moon for an evening party is what 111) host ever yet ventured upon. We want to know more ahont it. Did it Rhine over all France? Or was he the only privileged lunatic in the universe to see what was hidden from all oHler sorts of men ? We always ball !1.Teat n'!lpect-we mean Huhlimc admira- tjon-for tile Paris correspondent of the TJnUy Telegraph, but this large and calm-looking moon" of his on July S, IS63, i:3 certainly 11;3 greatest achievement. Of course there may be coarse, vulgar, superficial minch who argue the unknown from the known. aud who believe in the almanac and the present planetary laws, and who will perversely begin to say that all our excellent Own Correspondent's Princesses and Marquises and Cabinet secrets and Imperial conversations are just as imaginary, in fact just as much moonshine, as \jhat he saw in the heavens at St. Cloud on July 8. But this is poor cavil. Our friend saw the moon. and if there was no moon to see, so much the worse for the moon, for be writes very nicely about it._ And as it is quite certain that the Emperors (alk is quite as likely to have been talked as the Daily lelegraph. j moon to have shone. we have for ourselves no more objection to the talk which is imported from St. Cloud than to the moon which was seen there.
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THE WIMBLEDON MEETING. The task of distributing the prizes was very unaf- fectedly and gracefully performed by her Royal Highness the Princess Christian on Saturday. Brilliant weather brought down a fashionable company, though the number of successful competitors who were able to muster sufficient courage to receive a public recognition of their honours was comparatively few. These were paraded by Captain Miidmay immediately in front of the two tallies containing the trophies and the raised dais upon which the Princess Christian stood. The London^Rifle Brigade formed the guard of honour when the Princess came on the ground. 0 As the open carriage in which she rode approached the dais, the guard presented arms, and the band played a few strains of the" National Anthem but there was no cheering from the people in the Grand Stand or in the little open pens in front of it, who hardly seemed to recollect the fact that the rather petite lady, dressed plainly in mourning — black dress and white bonnet — was the daughter of England's Queen. Her husband, in full uniform, accom- panied her Royal Highness, Lady Elcho also occupying a. place in the royal carriage. Cm the dais Lord Elcho received the Princess, and an oversight on the part of the authorities caused his first exclamation to ta.ke the shape of Good Heavens, where is the chair ?" No seal iad actually been provided, a defect which was remedied it last by a couple of chairs being- produced from a ;ent. and covered with a Union Jack. Not, however, that seats were needed, for the Princess persisted in standing. Gallantly assisted to the dais by the President Jf the Association, who stood a step lower at 'ier right to read out the names of the winners, the Princess at once commenceÜ duty. The first for- tunate marksman called to the front was Serjeant Nors- svortby, of the 23rd Middlesex, who won the Gaiety Cup. tie was followed by King, uf the S:1me corps, who was presented with a gold regulator, the gift of the editor of Will 0' the Wisp. Corporal Ingram, il-rd Lanarkshire, Dame next, the Princess merely handing the trophies to the men without saying a won1. The Dudley firing, it was stated by Lord Elcho, was not yet adjudged. Some trivial protest, it is understood, has been lodged against the winners. Dr. Rae, of Newcastle, Cap- tain Riven, Sergeant Abbott, Sergeant-Instructor Gilder, Private Bay, arid Sergeant Snelus passed forward in rota- tion, ar.d took their prizes from the hauds of tbe Princess. Ensign Boynton, of the 5th East York, was the next name called by Lord Elcho; and tbe Vorkshireman appeared to receive the voucher for £ 30 he had won in the first stage of thQ Albert with evi- dent satisfaction. The first genuine cheer was raised for Private Doe, 1st Middlesex, though why the spectators selected him as the primary recipient of their tokens of approval did not clearly appear, seeing that le only won £23. It would be tedious to reproduce the nalle3 of all the other prize-takers. Sutnceu. to say of individuals, that Captain Fenton, of the 24th Lancashire, whose shooting is, UIl!loul¡tecl1y, of the first order, for the £100 Albert Prize, was also loudly cheered, as was Sergeant Kirk, who did so well with the Inter- national Irish Challenge andothcrcompetitions. Through- out the whole proceedings, except in the case of Cameron, the Queen's Prize man, nothing like an ovaticn was gotup. The nearest approach to it was when the representatives of the winners of the Elcho Shield—a prize which the President said it was impossible her Royal Highness could handle —the Cambridge men, the Harrow lads, and the Captain and two of the Scotch team passed in front of the dais. Corporal Cameron—whose brother took several prizes—was escorted, not by a detachment of Volunteers, but by two comrades. His appearance was the signal for a genuine outburst of applause, which everyone who Saw the corporal shoot will admit lie well deserved. Immediately the distribution was over, the Princel's and her husband reached their carriage, and gracefully acknowledging the cheering of the spectators. proceeded to Earl Spencer's cottage. A review of volunteers afterwards took place, which turned out to be completely successful. There were about 9,000 volunteers on the field, and 4,COO regulars, or 13,000 altogether, and the whole of the military proceedings were over soon after seven p.m., havinglasted rather more than two hours.