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TKCKSDJtY, JCVBX 8, 1SS0. raaov reasons the speech delivered yesterday It Ml Ssuw Lurvits at Reading will be read at tba present moment with an interest mora than cmerscrate with hit actual position and in aeccw in the Government. At he himself explained, the new First Commission of Wotxs owe his promotion chiefly to the recogni toa of hi qualification for rendering effective assistance to the Government in nutters not imme connected with his own office. Xo one tarts that the great Parliamentary question of next aMtion will that of Irish land, and Mk. Shaw.

Ltrtrit's mastery of this subject is well known. Iheiievs now expressed by him concerning it sataae. therefore, a special intertst. They mast not, coeim, he identified with those of the GoTern nent, but ther may fairly be expected to. throw txat liptt on the latter.

There moreorer, ctir points of interest in Ms. Shaw Lztstkc's seJu Wht he says about the Admiralty repre aaats denite cScial intentions, eren though what atys about Ireland should be only the expression of his personal views. If any subject but one can command interest at the present moment, it wSU ceriainlr not be without satisfaction that the or in Inland, he talk 'sj it Is sotoriotu that the Irian peasant Is far mor passionaUly at tached to the land he oocnpies than tha corre class In England. These are, nodoubt.tha THE TIMES, THUBSDAT, DECEMBER 1880. then the finished product is suddenly wet awar.

Man Indeed remain, If not of an experience ripe, endued with legal learning equal la scope to bib jamu VOimrt, of a legal reputation more facta with which we have to deal.thocch a recocui individuallr distinct. fn tlon of the problem hj no tncant the same thing middle life. The list of former legal members of aaitaaatfsfactciolutioiuFewiiTaaical poliU Viceroy of India's Council Is illustrated by vj isgiaiaiion create a peasant names weu ntted to follow that of Sir James Col proprietery in England in the teeth of economic j'viiK. In the number may be found the pro tendencies which, quite independently of special foundest knowledge of the antiquities and science laws and customs, make for the accumulation of fof jurisprudence there, too, may be found the Mu.Hg,. lira economic principles pnnsa aoiiuy to separate toe essence from the sc which govern the distribution of land in England cidents of law, and to harmonize its principles, are not, perhaps, absolute or universal, but they It is not the dearth of competent successors, but spring directly from the condition of a country In i legislation which has rendered Sm Jamts Cot which commercial enterprise offers a far more pro Tin's loss irreparable, by providing that it shall wising return for capital than agriculture on a not be repaired.

The vacancy he makes simply small scale. In Ireland, however, the conditions closes up. When a aacoml v.r. h. judicial deficiency, it has been enacted, is to be supplied, not where it occurs, but in the ranks of tne House ol Lords.

The interval before it is supplied anywhere may in the course of nature be long. In view of the advantage the Empire derives from the industry and sagacity of the surviving three paid members of the Committee, it may be hoped it will be very long. When, how ever, tne anticipated occasion arrives, the single successor to bis. James Colvils and to the col league who is destined next to vacate a seat will appertain unmsnlv to ihaliau.anf T. km.

scribed as such, is no reraely, any more than leisure only as he can spare from his paramount force is. The remedy is not, perhaps, to be found functions there will he be expected to bestow upon ujr vb iegisiauve ezpeoicns. uui tne country me Judicial Commutes. has resolved to face the whole problem without prejudice and without foregone conclusion, are widely different, if not entirely reversed. There the peasant is accustomed to look to the land as his sole meana of sustenance, and to cling to it with all the attachment natural to such an occupation wherever the conditions of life afford no alternative in commerce or 'industrial pursuits.

Tho question is, to satisfy the Irishman's natural and almost inevitable longing to hold the land he occupies, while doing justice to the other interests involved. No one would wish that landlords, should suffer for no fault of their own. Confiscation, or anything that can be de and it will give a favourable consideration to all serious efforts to solve it. especially to those which the Government are about to make. Tka question is still, as it were, in solution, though Starving the Supreme Court of Appeal for the whole of the residue of the Empire seems a roundabout way of securing an efficient Appeal Court for Scotland and Irelaud.

Historically it is a sort of accident which has vested the appellate jurisdic tion ol toe House of Lords in one of the two Iegis wnmng lattre chambers. Politically there is an inconsis to consolidate Itself in the aocentanoa of rari.tr. l. i .1 4 i ii 1, i wouSn cnieny, may be, theoretical, in broad line, of poUcy. If in some quarter, there delegating a judicial supervision of Colonial uuru to persons ostensibly because they occupy seats in a branch of the Brituh LegisUture.

special nesand circumsUnccs, but some conces A more consistent and natural mode of establish sion which England can never grant, it must be admitted that the conduct of the Land League and its followers affords some justification for it. But such a suspicion will certainly be held in check in view of tEe coming proposals, and Englishmen will await with patience the result of a fresh and determined effort to satisfy the reasonable demands of Ireland. For long periods the bench of Judges goes on without change in its constituents. Then a breach is made in its ranks, and vacancy follows upon vacancy with bewildering rapidity. "Within a very brief space four of the highest judicial authorities in the land have died.

One, as it seemed, departed at least thirty years before his time. Two vi .1 1 a had far outlived the ordinary term, though retain pcUic will hear of the definite intention of the 8 v. 1 1 I passed away, at an age which still allowed hope of icezms in the navy. The conclusion is almost aj i several fruitful year, more in the service of the foregone one. but it is nevertheless satisfactory to fx, IsarTthatit i.

to Uk. effect immediatelv. Sor f1 The gap left by the cbMppearance of the arafc lurw in paifaoij iciu log country nan is tie announcement made by the late Seckitary already begun to understand the noble judicial ui Aniiuui munnuiu: ug moue 01 appoint i promise of Lord Jcstici Tbesicus career. In the Best to naval cadetahipa of less interest. The 1 r.

sxpenmect tried by the late Government of ssbnitsting nomination for limited competition was not unreasonably regarded with sus habit and a power of surveying hard and rexed asssrvs us with no little emphasis that it has .1 i late Loud Chief Baxox and the late Lord Chief Jcstick it misses. two names which form an. essen tial part of the memories of an entire generation. It misses in their empty seats more than that a v. ti.vi.

.1 l.ii proved a complete failare. Nominee cadets are; nuiuj 1 irni uauuug. 01 1 i Sir James Colvilz will not have stirred those selected by competition. On such a point 4. Il 1.

emotion of pity and surpnie which I 'thrilled men's hearts at the news of the death of competition for boys of such tender are as naval 3'm I Lost Jcstice Thesiqer. Death at seventy is not cadets are entered at needs to be very judiciously. handled, is certainly entitled to the preference over the alternative system of nomination if it is feund in practice to producs a better class of cCcers. It is, however, on Mil. Shaw Letevre's remarks about Ireland that public attention will be concentrated.

This is the topic uppermost in all men's and its perplexities weigh more heavily day ly Car. thea as patiently a. we may, the question which 'ou still forces itself on our notice, and which daimi, ely ks. material tlun the catastroph, premature like death at forty two. The legal achievements of the laborious equity draftsman, the Calcutta Advocate General, the Bengal Puisne Judge and Chief Justice, the Indian Assessor and member of the Judicial Committee, awaken no special English reminiscences.

They are identified with no picturesque forensic or political scenes. Perhaps, however, could the room really occupied UT Seek as we will for remedies, and discuss measured, tne whether we like it or not. precedence of all rtLtrs, is that of the actual condition of Ireland. The picture drawn by Mr. Jcstice Firz cxsaid his charge to the Grand Jury for the.

Mcnster Assizes, which was published by tsyerterdsy, is serious enough to strike even the acst careless or the most callous rtader. If wished to heighten its colours, it would be easy to do so by ipriutiog even a selection from the mass of lettars with which we are overwhelmed frotn all quarters, describing the lawlessness and terrorism shich prevail throughout the greater part Ireland. It may be true, as Lord Grajtvxlle ptinted oat not long ago, that the actual amount of crime recorded in the past few months is less than that which Las marked some previous outbreaks of Trian agitation in Ireland. But the fact can hardly be scceptd as mitigating the grave responsibility resting on a Government which permits an amount cf crime such as that enumerated by Ms. Jcstice Fitzgerald to remain unrepreased.

Even if the crime and its consequent terrorism stood alone, it would constitute a stste of things such ss responsible Government could contemplate for a taotnent without tb gravest misgiving but when us indirect effects are considered it becomes a Matter of immediate national concern. The very focndatioLS of civilized life, as it is understood throughout Western Europe, are being ahaken in belaud. Life rendered insecure, its sustenance isaithheld, the occupation of thousands is so impeded that their very existence becomes preca property is rendered valueless, contract is defied, and there remains hardly any act of lswless for the followers of the Land League to com unless it lethe refusal to pay the QceiVs talel 29 agrarian distress, no hereditary grievance can justify such a complete defiance of all securities of civil and social life. It is daily Ucoaing more and more evident that the force Mind the Ind League is not one which derives lis 5cacy from a demand for the redress of ad Rutted grievances or from a generous recognition the hard lot of the Irish peasant, but one of nn tppeaaable opposition to England and its rule. On print Mr.

Shaw Letevre is at one with fD Sausbvrt himself, and uses almost Identical language, to express his views. The Land fge, he says, has aet up a Government in opposition to that of the QrEEJt, just as Lord Sius WRT said at Woodstock that there were two Go nitnente in Ireland, one of which, at least, hws its own is determined in its policy, and unrelenting in its decrees." The question uch al men are asking is. How long is this state thin to be allowed to continue I Even if due Howance is made for the influence of panic in os, of the accounts which reach us, the residue indisputable evidence is, to say the least, more disquieting. We cannot shrink from the intJ of recording the state of things which exists nd calling attention to iU gravity. For the pre at any rate, the Government has assumed the responsibility of declining to strengthen the existing securities of order in Ireland.

Public opinion, a sot irritated, is at least perplexed by this re ohe, end will look keenly for the issue of a Policy of which all can discern the periL In his remarks 00 the absorbing question of Irish land tenors, Mr. Bbaw Lztxtu wis dls Ntly, not to esy disappointingly, brief. Bute are tea small holders of land in England for es which have within the past few months removed from the judgment seat others more illustrious. The Committee of the Privy Council judicially is one. It speaks by a single mouth the conclusions of several minds.

The British public cannot apportion the merit or the responsibility. In. perplexed controversies on jaghires and the title to minister to family idols it takes but a reluctant interest. But the British Empire is larger than the British public. and Australasia, Chinese and China merchants, French advocates in Mauritius, and Maharajahs, and zemindars, and ryots, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, hare been canvassing Sir James Colvilr's merits for the last twenty years.

They have recognized his voice in a thousand judgments they have felt his touch probing the weakness and the strength of their litigations. Could the consciousness of unimper sonal services rendered by one who was content to sink his whole apparent individuality in the task of preserving the unity of Imperial justice be testified by visible demonstrations, the quiet grave in Fife would be surrounded by no fewer symbols of admiration than shed over the November dreariness of Kensal Green the semblance, in the company if not in all the accompaniments, rather of a triumphal procession than of a funeral. It would be doing an unkindness to the modest nature of the man to claim for Sir James Colvile the dazzling brilliancy of a Cocebcrx or the acute cess and strength of will of a Fitzroy Kelly. It is enough that professional opinion here, and the consent of suitors throughout the British world, pronounced him equal to the immense range of tho duty he had to discharge. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, except when one small branch of its functions brings it within tumultuous ecclesiastical criticism, works without superfluous creaking of the wheels.

But the Roman Forum itself was not the centre of a judicial system so vsstas one dull large room in Downing street, In order to administer its multitudinous jurisdic tion aright technical knowledge of the forms of bw to which its appellants are accustomed must co exist in the same mind with an understanding of the spirit of universal justice which can disceih the moves in the game better than the players. Something else still is wanted. A tribunal may be as infallible as those of Mikos and Bhadamax thcs. To exercise its powers for the benefit of its suitors, it must not rely on its mere force to compel obedience. Sitting in London, it will be a tyranny, however paternal, unless it has the patience so to couch its decisioae that they shall win the sanction of enlightened public opinion where they are to come into operation.

Hitherto the Judicial Committee has not failed to obtain that ratification, while never swerving an inch from its supreme obligation to study the reason as well as the letter of each body of law it has had to interpret. While Six James Colvile belonged to it that has been its glory. That he is entitled to a full share of the praise is an eulogium as exalted as any Judge could desire to attain. It Would not be like him to have wished it said in addition that his loss was irreparable. Yet in one sense that too may be asserted.

Jurists versed in many diverse lews are not made in a day. They are the slow growth of the jurisdiction they are needed to exercise. Twenty, years of multifarious training educate the instinct to survey a question with the eyes at once of an and a Hindoo and lngone appellate tribunal for the whole of the Qcees dominions was the scheme originally pro Posed, by which the powers alike of the Law Lords and of the Judicial Committee wore to have merged in one new and comprehensive Court. As, however, strong motives of conservatism and sentiment barred the rood to the merger of the House of Lords as an appeal Court in what would have been virtually an expanded Judicial Committee, the best available alternative was probably an attempt, so tar as might bo, to merge the Committee in the House. At least the.

arrangement obviates the difficulty of collecting a double supply of the highest judicial ability and reputation, not re quired lor other purposes, to furnish separate elements for two supreme appeal tribunals. Provided the persons be the same, it may be admitted to be immaterial whether they sit first as Lords of Par liament and then as Lords of Council. A graver 'objection to the arrangement may be that, unless it be proposed to increase very considerably the number of life peers, there must always be mem bers ol the Judicial Committee who will not be members of the Appeal Court in the House of Lords. There will thus continue to be the incon venience, to whatever it rosy amount, of a Court, claiming the loftiest authority, composed of Judges sitting by different titles, and whose attendance will depend upon varying conditions. Even if that, too, be a sentimental defect, it is not a sen timental grievance of British colonies and dependencies that the constitution of the Court to which mey 100a ior me redress 01 ignorance or errors in local judicatures is to be determined by considerations whether one especially adapted to be a Judge of colonial litigation fulfil the prior condition of fitness for the position of a legislator.

The House of Lords, it may well be supposed, would never be discredited by the presencoof a person held worthy to be a member of the Judicial Committee. It does not equally follow that political reasons may not weigh with those who select Law Lords to choose for a dignity of which a seat on the Judicial Committee is an incident a different person to him they would have "chosen had ability to adjudicate on points of colonial law been the sole standard to be considered. It is possible to render a position so attractive ss to put it beyond the reach of the men who could best discharge its duties. We publish in another column a letter upon the subject of one of the measures whichMn. Childers has now under consideration with the object of completing our new military organization.

It de serves respectful consideration on more than one ground. It comes not only from Oxe who has who has served with mafkeddistinc tion, and who is entitled to speak with more than ordinary authority, and it appears fairly to reflect the sentiment which prevails among many officers of the army. Our, distinguished correspondent objects to the linked battalion system upon several grounds. He pronounces it injurious to, if not destructive of, that tsprit de eorpi which has hitherto constituted so valuable an element in the British Army. He says that under it young soldiers.moved about between one body of troops and another, will be deprived of the incentive and encourage ment to good and soldierly conduct which is im plied in their being continuously retained in the same military family as it were.

It tends to re duce men to the prisoners in a gaol, or like so many bales of goods tobe moved odfiWfum from one regiment to another." Ho observes that the substitution of territorial for numerical designations will increase clerical work. He points out that the regiments which did such splendid work under bin Frederick Roberts were chosen because they wero composed of men older than the average and he maintains that, if applied to a sudden emergency like the Zulu war, the system would be attended with an expense out of all pro portion to the results. As against these detects Ose who has Served "can see no countervailing advantages, lie contends that the closer connexion sought to be established between the Line and the Militia will not be the meana of giving increased strength or efficiency to either of these in the general result, that the amalgamation, when carried out, will not give one additional soldier for service abroad or in the field." The objections thus urged are more of a sentimental than a practical character. But it would be impolitic to disregard them on that account. Sentiment fills no inconsiderable space in the existence of an army, and that ttprit corps in which it finds its most marked exemplification has often told with effect in critical circumstances.

It should therefore be treated tenderly, not only upon considerations akin to for its direct practical value. While recognizing the validity of the arguments of Oxx who has Served," and admitting with him that shifting a soldier from one regiment to another is calculated to affect his pride in his corps, it is open to question whether the effect of recent changes in this respect has not been somewhat exaggerated. The transfer of individuals from one regiment to another is no novelty in the British service. Probably half the older officers of the army have exchanged, not a few of them several times over, and some not entirely by their own volition. We have not heard of injurious results.

On the contrary, the general testimony would seem to show that the individual is i spirited to gallantry and good conduct by the honour and reputation of his corps none the less because that corps waa not the first in which he Nor is the proposition well established that regiments suffer in wtoraJ from a change of designation. Many corps have experienced numeri cal and other transmutations and hare not failed to sustain the reputation of the Army under their new titles. All the briga ies and batteries of the Royal Artillery have undergone a change in their distinguishing letter or numeral within the last three years without, as far as we know, any loss of efficiency or of that wholesome spirit of emulation existing between the constituent units of that splendid corps. As a matter of fact, one of the regiments particularly referred to by our corre spondent, the Vld Highlanders, Trhich has just so nobly extmplified its old fsme, was formerly numbered as the 100th and became the 92d only within a very few years before those deeds which gained it high distinction in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. It seems, therefore, open to question whether those who wish to stand upon the ancient ways are not betrayed into some exaggeration upon the subject of ttpril de rps, not so much, perhaps, as to its value, but as to the circumstances which are necessary to create it.

We may doubt, in fact, that its salutary influences are felt only by regiments either possessing old traditions, or which hare never changed their original number or name. In truth, the general observations of our correspondent upon this subject, however appropriate to the original scheme of linking battalions, are only revelant to the course likely to be taken by Mr. Guilders in so far as they tend to sustain and justify that course. It is to be inferred that Ose who has Served approves of the system which prevails in the twenty five senior double battalion regiments of the Line end in the two Rifle corps. In their case, the old regiment "and the new brigade are conterminous in sit respects.

No man enlisted for the brigade changes a button, a tradition, or a designation during the period of his service. There is nothing to affect the influence of ttprit de eorpu If we understand aright, what Mr. Cuilders is endeavouring to do is to bring substantially the other brigades and battalions of the Line from the 26th to the 109tfi into the same' satisfactory condition as the senior twenty five. In accordance with the decided recommendation of Coloxel Stanley's Committee, he wants to make each pair of linked battalions, not merely two units joined in a certain sense for administrative purposes, but constituent parts of the same body. He wants to make homogeneous two elements the injury of ttprit de corpt, are now dissimilar.

The amalgamation under one number or title of so many battalions now separately named manifestly renders it necessary to suppress many of the present numerical designa tions. Each regiment or brigade, for the terms will be synonymous, is to be christened anew, and it has been proposed to make the designation local rather than numerical. To most minds the choice will commend itself. There is nothing stronger than the spirit of locality, and by seeking to give it a large share "in the ttprit corpt a moral element of good ought to be created, even more powerful than that which now exists. Our correspondent seems to think that the thorough association of the Militia with the Line portion of the regiment wonld have no effect in obtaining more recruits for the Line from that branch of the service.

Surely that hypothesis is at variance with what he writes about the general value of ttprit de eorpt. That spirit might be supposed to induce the Militiaman to volunteer more freely to the active portion of the corps to which he already be longed than to an entirely strange regiment in whose reputation he had no interest. In arguing as he does, our correspondent illustrates a kind of curiosity, in discussions upon army changes in which men express views practically at variance with what may be called their traditional military politics. Thus, those who might be expected to advocate an increase of the army are found depre cating that short service system which is especially instituted to increase the army by means of trained Reserves. Again, those looking with just disfavour upon the practice of transferring men from one regiment to another are found combatting the very step intended to put an end to that practice.

For, as we have indicated, one of the objects now sought to be attained by Mr. Childers is that soldiers shall serve continuously in the same corps. But, although it is not so expressed, the real ground of objection probably is that the regiment or brigade is too large and too much geographically divided to allow the cultivation of the spirit that is so much prized. That, however, is a matter of organization deliberately adopted and advisedly retained as the best means of fitting our resources tc our possible necessities. Its main feature is its elasticity in other words, its ready adaptability to sudden emergencies.

Putting aside those large measures neoessitated in the case of imminent national danger or great emergency, we want a means of placing 10,000 or 15,000 trained and efficient soldiers at once in the field without a general strain and disorganization of our resources. Four successive ar Ministers, acting upon the best professional advice, appear to have come to the conclusion that the new system fur nishes about the best machinery for sttaining thst object. No other alternative has been put forth. The settlement of the question is purely a matter of business. It should be arranged, if possible, with a due regard for sentiment and individual susceptibilities, but in any case upon the paramount consideration of making our army as efficient as practicable for any purpose for which it may be required.

has been diligently searched for peoplee, one more barbarous than another, and absolutely destitute of literature, and missions rise of preternatural energy and ability have reduced their speech to writing and given them the Bible in it, The negro dialect of the West Indies cannot be heard or read by an Englishman without continual provocation to ex travagant and unseemly mirth but the Bible has been translated into it, and is so read in their churches. It has been printed and published by the Society, though its officials would very properly look twice at any gentleman stepping in to ask for a copy. The work of translation necessarily gains upon that of evangelization, for the missionary can do nothing till he has mastered the language and supplied himself with a sufficient quantity of text. Once buried in his paper work, he is apt not to leave it and in a few years he comes home to complete his task, with but a sorry reckoning of actual converts. But the agency at any stage of this great work is immense.

In the comparison the Bible Society beats the vast edifices cf the middle sges, or of Egypt itself, the Crusades. the monastic orders. The simple circulation of the Bible in all languages is the one commandment, the one creed, the one virtue, the one grace, the one battle cry, the one banner, the one palladium, the test of arising or falling State, the way to possess the earth and climb the skies. Such the sweet belief and balmy confidence, of myriads, whom no reasonable person. would wish to disturb or rob of their life's joy.

But it is not given to everybody, either by nature or circumstances, to lire entirely by the rule of blind faith and gregarious practice. What is the volume with which the earth is being covered and fertilized! It is a collection cf writings that hare come to us from antiquity in two main tongues, but affected in their usage and interpretation by translation and paraphrase into various languages and dialects. They traverse all history, many successive stages of religious feeling and faith, many systems, and various philosophies. It is impossible to perform upon tbem that duty of investigation which the translators and disseminators declare to be the first duty of a Christian and rational man without coming across many problems each of which may well occupy a life. At the very entrance of such an investigation a hundred fixed idesi give place to as many uncertainties.

It becomes a matter of opinion, wherever an opinion can be entertained, who were the authors of the books, at what date they were written or compiled, and how far they represent tradition gathered long after the events recorded. The mere reconciliation of the narratives into har monious forms is often simply impossible, as they must sorrowfully confess who have given years to the attempt. Uur own advertising columns bear innocent testimony to the vast research, the multitude of commentaries, and the ready reception of new lights necessary for even the popular study of the Scriptures while it has also to be confessed that, with the best intentions, even scholars may disagree. Besides this there are many parts of the book which, it may be said; an practically abandoned by soiae or even all ordinary readers. The details of the ceremonial law an left to curious students and to divines in search of types and emblems.

Even well informed Christians seldom look st some of the minor Pro phets, take no trouble to follow the argaments of i Job, dismiss the Proverbs ss savouring too much of the wisdom of this world, go delicately and as if on stepping stones through the Judges, and pick and choose at their own discretion even in such books as Isaiah and Ezekiel. Meanwhile this volume, sown broadcast over the world, without the omission of one jot or tittle, has been excluded from the legal course of instruction in our own elementary schools. Yet these good folks can honestly and from the depth 0BHUAIIY. dayareaingsiteravsryshort Iflntag. hi luVSTth year, listeek his dagTM La ISIS, aa4 baa rtakWd aloce tbaS time without a break.

lie was appoiatcd Ftevoal la 1839 hj the Doka of Welliaftaai, kiriuf brca practically hsad ol the collets for aom years darin lb lifetime of I locate proToat, Dr. Landau, and fcavieg filled tbe eOaeettatJr for saaay years, lie was Vios CbaaeaUor fms 183Z to ISA, daring tbe reeoostraeUea of tbe Uairersity ty tbe as Coaaiaaiao. Ha waa in bit yeaager days laritad te take part with bis (tare brother iarlaw. Dr. in tbe publication of Cb famous TracU for tbe Times," bos cIiDed, aul in laltr years was retarded as aa important tallying point et tbe ttvasfelieal scnooL But all Mcbaoa nailed in recognizing bis feaoiae and simple Dixy.

Us gvoOaaaa of baart aad stardy cntiahantiwmgaa iUay taneratioos of Oxford mm aii recall wisb affactioatae small eager Ague invariably wrarait at tbe Ueivernty benoeo sill quia lately. Ibm dotiee of his coifeg 4 uttca be diacoarfed tul wttoin tbe Uas tbne days ol OU him. EVESHAM BLKCTIUX PRTITION. Th inquiry waa raiomaJ yniarday at Woroattar, before Mr. Justice Htm and sir.

Joatice Uewea. Evidence te rsbat the evUeoce of drinking at public heutos 'was jiren oa beaalf of tbe sitting member. ltrs. llouM, of tbj Trumpet In dcaied tbas there was aay tree driakm at bar boose before tbe election, M'iliiam Halleit. Louisa Poole, John Biafon, and lie.

Evans to tbe orderly nature of tbe proceaaioa which went froia Ball's boos on lu moraine vt we puU. Una, wile of Cbaclcs Jotaa, laoouitf, said uat she aad her lamily sat spall night oa tbe eve of toe'poU. lbre was so mbch noiae in tbe street and so many people a tout that tbey coold net bare alept if tbey bad Ouo to bed. At 9 30 tbas iU(Ht Kalpo. L)on.

not te tbe i.euse and naked bar bnabana for a stick to warm te Kleea." Ha bad bad some drinX. Her husband told him to evtae iu awi aare himself from trouble, aiai be came In and atajeti lor an boor, bus bad notuing to eat or driidu At a boat in moraine Downs came saio. Me waa drank. Ifestaaybe said be did not ano woe. be (os tbe drink.

Charles Johns, busbacd of tbe last witness, corroborated his wife's evidence, and aaid be bad bean several times and out of bis bouse dnnnj ate niztt. preceding tbe pull, but be bad not been MfcelTs, aad had bad no driaa" alter tbe da ing of tie pablicboosca at II o'clock. He did not know that drinking was going on at Ball's bouse th.t night. JcaeDb Uarreu admitted takiss: sum beer 10 Bell's bouse cn the night tefore tbe elective, rie got it trom tbe Talbot it was tbe produce at a air peony from fc IV. L'4n k.

V. wbuky was dmsJc CorroburatiTo evidence barirg been rjvea by Charles and fredericlc lleritagd and Jertiuiaa Fear son, francis Bell said be lived at tbe Leys and was sometime called fevana. He w.a an auctioneer porter aad Si wife Sent a reoeral abop. lie waa a menioer of tno Lib.ral Hundred for the Bcngemorth district, bat coaldnetther tead nor wiite. He supplied information to Mr.

Leomana is wtere tbe voters lived, but never canvaseea and never promised Wincott any mouey to vote for Mr. Lehinann jits, avi corrocoraua tn eviaence ner niusanu. It wss stafed that tie rebuttinc evidence wvnjd be coa uded early to day. The Court soon altcrwards roA USiVEtiSlTY IHTELUOESCE. CAMBRIDGE, Dsc.8.

Tbe follow inr hv lmsm! toe soeaisi examinatioa lav Natural bciauce, aatitllug tbem to tne ordinary BA. de Ifee CbeniietiT. Claaal. (in order of luxuj lajUr, Clare Leenuag, Christ's, and erira, Curisva, equal tUemaa, non collegiaie, aad U. Weiaiord, C'aiua, tiiaL Lisas U.

(la alpuauctical rder W. 11. Beaumont. Dowat U'S Boyaou, Xmuty Hialicnor, bon coUegiaae a. Ciawferd.

Cains lumulstwn. bu sctct' it at, now coliegiate V. Maiden, Trinity Manners, f. J. rower.

Trinity HalL Zoology. Ulaes l. Warwick. non eoUegiata. Botany.

Claa 1 class 2. uudla stone. Trinity. 'Tbe follow lug list of those examined and approved for the general einnuaUoo for tbe ordinary A. degiee baa bee issued this evcui.g.

Tne names in aacd claa are arranged alphabet cai orucr Class 1. A. J. Black. Trinity Churchward, at.

John's I Clark, Christ al. lirumiuuad. Trinity Jud, liluity Mall UoocUlt, Ot. Jonn's; Uaaaam, bt. Joan's; J.m aim, Chiist's; Johnston, Corpus; Morgan, bootoilegiate Plant, Magdalene; BeUuaon, Jesus H.

Y. bultb. Trinity. Claas IL ArmiUre. Trinity Bate.

Queens' Buck Trinity Mall i U. V. A. uutton, 8. Joint's JaCaso.

Cltisi beues, Jesus Poland, 'iiuuty ttoauer, SU John's; T. L. Stack, Pembroke. Claa ILL Clare tV. E.

Beaumont, Downing Cbamberlaia, at, Jooa' rax, noo eeliegiau Uaoiaw, St. Catharine' Uirdleatoue, Trinity urUHa, CUcw Hildyard. Trinity M. Mngbe. bt, John's Jecxmen, Petbhouse; 11.

L. Johnson, Christ's; B. a. Jonnxw non eoliegiate Landoc, St. John's LercSCbe, Bf.

Joan's Id lie, Liu Jaayur. St. A utaguim, sjowniag Meddinxs. ooo coiicsnaw Parson, noe cour.ial Prewac, Trinity J. Boas, Usiu Boas, irinity amitn, Clare Store), anally aayier, uara Auocm ot ownn a v.

Uliams, nou couegiat. Class IV. AUoru. Carpus Armstrong. St.

Catharine's Beard, St. Julia's Bidden, Trinity MaU; Ciar a. Corpus a. Cole. Trinitv Mall Coliiaoa.

Pembroa i H. K. Cwoka, Trinity; Cuuingfora, St. Jonn Lun, Jesus Deane. Trinitv of their simple hearts tell all the world that the I Jidersneim.r einbroke xnnngion, Pembroke ir.

Jens mere reception of this volume is the abort and sure way 10 ail excellence sua cappines On Tuesday night there assembled a goodly com pany a few doors from this office to celebrate a work without a parallel in the history of this laborious snd occasionally eccentric world. About 350 members of the British and Foreign Bible Society and tneir noble and civic friends met to observe the jubilee of their Con tinentisl agency, only a small part of their world' wide operations. The edifice in which they met is a palace, and would be so denominated on the banks of the Seine. It is the head quarters to which myriads of all classes, and most creeds, down to none at all, send subscriptions, donations, legacies, and collections made at public worship or from door to door, to an amount of revenue which many a respectable State would rejoice to have as free and clear. The object is the circula tion of the Bible in every language under the sun.

The society is no respecter of persons or races in the execution of this work. Xo people is too savage for it, manners or intelligence too rudimentary, no language too barbarous, no vocabulary too limited. If pre historic man could be found in his cave breaking bones with a celt to get at the marrow, the Bible Society would have ready for his use before the end of a twelve month the Bible the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible in his own simple vernacular of squeaks, hiccoughs, stammers, and grunts. The enumeration of the European nationalities which have received many thousand copies of the Society Bible in their own language, and to a large extent actually paid for them, is appalling and suggestive. Our own version is under revision, and hardly a village preacher mounts his pulpit without offering some important correction of the text, often with a strong doctrinal bearing.

It is pronounced almost impossible to produce a French or Spanish Bible which shall not offend either taste or truth in very page. Yet races which politicians are forced to regard as semi barbarian hare been saturated with versions in their own spoken tongue. Africa that it alike the food of babes, saints, and heroes. At home, in our great cities, at the seats of industry, of learning, and of government, the volume, ii received and read, is unsparingly scrutinized. It is treated as a mats of valuable and interesting litera ture with a serious bearing oh our spiritual desti nies but the first thing we do is to put it to every kind of test.

We examine the language, tbe history, the doctrine, much as we should the witness in an important cause. This we do ourselves, and for ourselves. Our good people present it to the lowest forms of humanity in the heart of newly opened continents, just as it is, without note or comment, as requiring no commentary but a strong faith and willing heart. It has been the way in alleges. People; have always been, told that they were bound to accept and believe everything, whatever was then the secret of immortality.

They must accept the Church, its Pope, its councils, its dogmas, its traditions and customs. They must accept some theory of Divine selection and acceptance. They must accept the forms of faith and worship sanctioned by the national authority. They must accept the Book in its verbal integrity and entirety. They must never think for themselves.

It has always been excusable to take this course with the people, because the people, on whole, prefer it, and fall into sad blunders when tbey attempt to think for themselves. Mankind, in this matter, as in some others, likes a strong, decided, unwavering tone. They are like women, ruled by the masculine qualities. It is positive cruelty to call upon the greater part of mankind to exercise independent judgments. It only ends in their finding some one who will not allow tbem to think for themselves, but will force himself into them, and take no denial or doubt.

Such has been the history of bur country and its ecclesiastical affairs. If the Church's trumpet, or the national trumpet, blows an uncertain sound, other trumpets are heard about which there can be no uncertainty. The Bible Society carries out this programme with the whole world. For tbe present it seems to answer, though, when we are told of Germany receiving to many thousand copies of the Bible, we should feel better satisfied if we heard also of the moral and religions result. But all the world is accepting the gift.

Hot a savage bnt will one day have his Bible. So far, well. But the day must come, as it has come even with a famous Zulu, when all the world will ask questions and not be easily satisfied. Tn Qcxnt. The Queen and Princess Beatrice, attended by' tbe ladies and gentlemen of the Court, are, according to tbe most rrcrnt arrangement, to leave Windsor Castle on or about tbe 17th ins, for Osborne.

Yisrroas st Wixbsos. Csstlk. Lord Beacons field left Hagfaeaden yesterday af tenmoa on a visit to the Queen at 'Windaor Castle. His lordship dined with Her Majesty and wss expected to sleep at tbe Palace, Lieo tenaot Oenerel sir frederick Riberts and General Baker also were invited to join the Royal dinner party yesterday evening. The Daks of Cambridge, General Vbitmere, General Beaoehamp Walker, and Colonel Hogs Geogb left the Castle yesterday morning upon the conrfasioo ot their visit to the Queen, and returned to London by the 10 30 Great Western train.

ULorcESTSx Borsz. The Duke of Cambridge left Ulooeester leuae, Park lane, yesterday, for a few days' aboutingwlth Lord Deer aad nend at tbe Hoe. Herts. Sis F. RoBKiTs.

On Tuesday evening Sir Frederick Bobert and bis staff were entertained at dinner by tbe members of the East India United Service dab at 14, Bt. Jaeaes's square. The Marquis of HartingtOB presided, and Viscount Craabrook was among those presect. Sir Frederick Eotert will be entertained at a banquet the Exhihitiew Palace in Dublin on tbe lta of Decessbcr. Tbe Lord Lieutenant will be prwsest.

Loan Mouxt Tnirxx. Lord Mount Temple has bee taken IU at tbe Ticeregal Iodr, oq a visit UlAsMandIyCowpsr.M will be enable to be moved fer secsadays. A alairroyaas lady dVictor ba bmsmmmooed specially from London to attend him, and is new siajtag at Lroka tireen. bUoha's 1 Maine. Trinity TT K.

llan CalUSf Marvey, bU John's Heap, Trinity Mali; W.B. Migham, noo owJegial MoklswortO, Ju Mouse, Magdalene Metham, inaity Mum. Jesus J. Johnston, Irinity Clare Ii. Lloyd.

Bt. Jooa' Miller, Trinity Lee, Join's Ion, Trinity Mall Norwood. Trinity; Pnilpot, Trinity; Bcutl, Trinity; bidgwick, Clare H. Boam, Cains Bpieer, at. Catherine's; Bturkey, Peubroaa Tatnam, tit.

Jonn's J. B. Taylor, Cains; Tennant, Trinity; B. U. Tvpbam, leiua; Veracnovl.

Psmbroka 1 Halters, lunmanuci Weiinep, Cnrist'a Wibismaon, at. John's Wing, Clare Weellam, i ever house. HiaHCLXZX Castlx. The lion. Alan Herbert lef Mighdcra Cat tit yesterday oa a Vaut to Lady Gwendoline Herbert at Putney, saving reeovvced irons hie City ot Loirncor LrrxsT Coiltasxis' Cojocis SJO.h.

A meeting of this Commission was held yesterday altemoon at Victorta cUewt, Westminster. Tnere wet present tbe Earl of Derby the Duke of Bedlord Viscount Sherbrooke, air M. am Botnscblld. M.P.. Sir Byduey Waterlow, Mr.

Alderman Cotton M.P.! Mr. W. H. James, Mr. Pirth.

Mr. Tbotua Burt, M.P.. and tbe secretary, Mr. M. D.

Warr. Narioiiai. Puuzxixs CXHlBirjOJf. a meeting of the London Committee was held yesterday at tu Visa mougei' hall, ii tbe chair ws taken by Mr. K.

Birk tfeck, as. Jr ana among uoss presens wot sow a Warden of tbe fishmongers' Coapany (Mr. Jefhro Mom LlowerL Mr. Hyde Clarae, D.C.L., Mr. U.

L. Buxton, Mr. A. J. Chamoerlin, Mr.

I. J. Mans, Mr. Jex, C. Mr.

Klnuud Johnson. Sir. J. L. Barer.

Mr. W. M. Williamson. non.

Secretary ot tbe Loudon risa salesmen Association, and other member of the geseral committee. Mr. W. nldham Chambers, tbe Loo. secretary, aauounren a letter bad been received by the Prune ardea from tbe BaronrtT Bordctt CoutU, wbo gave 120 toward the general expense of the furtntr promised to add such a sum aa the aommittee might think it dean able to otter a a premium for an exay on 'An international Close 1 una for Deep sea Pishing." Toe Prune Vt arden explained that a list ol subjects urawa out By tne committee naa been submitted to tne Bsrones.

and that she bad selected tbe one named a that for an esaay on Which she would giv. a prise. Tbe chairman said that since the last meeting it bad been decided to enanga tne title of the exhibition one which better expressed tne national character the ejects it was intenued to promote. After some curre tpoudence with the Maine Departintnt Le had tcceived aa intimation that btr William siarcourt did not see hi w.y to receive a deputation on tne subject, aad is waa auggestcd that a letter setting forth tne viewe ot tbe cvmoulleo woald mt thnr tiuruos lullv. Accotduirtr.

accoinveJued by Mr. Counan, the senior uiemncr for xvricd, ne called upon air WtJiam Marcouit. wh. snowed a appreciation o( tl object with wnicil toe exhibition nnol. Bo far, however, aa grant or a gill of jueuai waa coor ecrsed, bsr William saia the matter did not res witB Lua, bat with tbe Lord of the "treasury.

About tnree weens ago the Prime Minuter, who, wneu oa a visit la bad hi attention called to the exhibition, expresaed hi ap rproTal of the project. Tbe chatnaaa aid be aad tinea written to sir. uiaustoae in sue suvjen, anu in nwmi a reply through a secretary, wno wroox, "Hi. la as tone regret to gainer from jour letter tnat the inatitatioa of medai woulduvolvesomuch expense, aa be doc net bow ta find tb mwini of I ureishing any sua approaching Nor could it, he 1 afraid, be made the auoject of as ai. pli cation to Parliament.

Ixm will, however, tut lose sxgnt of tne matter, and will consult with air W. Mareourt. Tne fears of Mr. Clad. tone with regard to tbe largeness of tbe sum required were, tbe f'lainnan explained, ground less, and bad apparently arisen from a nuaapprvbenvicei ef the requirement ot the caaa wnieh bad becu made to tbe Prince of Wale.

The chairman sa be had since. aca sir. Hsmiltv'i at 10, Dowuiax street, and had explained that about 200 for medaie would completely meet tne cost, Mr. Hamilton bad procmsii to lay tne matter tefore Mr. Gladstone at the earliest vpportuiuty.

A letter had been received from the Society ot Art promising the ipedal of tbe society, to be awarded for sucu object as the eon mitte mignt select. Oa the snation of Mr. Jex. sreomave Vr. luaWlk.

who mmid that, a tanner, he had a deep, practical interest la the xn.ttcr, it wa deelrted to Otter a special prue for netusar tor ansi cimrtenineit fialt aad hrefuM a a nnure, and also lor Proceaacs for rendering innocuous to nsb lir atreame polluted by sewage aad cbeanoal or other wwks. Taw PriBse Warden mid tbe hmogtxe' Ooospaey had rsaesa ta be ally alive to the iiwportaeoa ot taxaing to saswt tbe larr quaatitr of stt whieh came to martart unit fee toed. They had tbe great difflsoJXy to get na OC oca refhae. Tai raUwwy eempanie woeld notcerry i authorities would not si It to be takes along tne reeds, aad a company formed to ess this refuse saseramXiesx bad bees prevented trim easrytnr te week. With) regard.

to tne prspawal togiwaa pra far a sssf;) Aa IatenattieaaJUowe Time far Deep ftahing. Mr. Jex said se thought ft weald be impoasibJ te laterfere seriously a such a law would do wh the of KvwH Itlaadiaiea tbw share ef the exntrie botdwriag est the, North See who were directly asl indireeUy v4mst lw.daawaxdawin Tan ewiees atsisi. wobM be eaVTby rner trawl acts which wesi aW tss7eagfast lie pointed euS tbaS a ww sit I nrinewae Bftdfraaimpterartof tMs JiiTljttiiu..