Manchester Weekly Times and Examiner from Manchester, Greater Manchester, England • 2

THE MANCHESTER WEEKLY TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNTEJJOTl- 2 THREATENED STRIKE OF TELEGRAPH 'TOE M' LORD JUSTICE JAMES. 'urinff -upon his Rights to waintain. the Balgariw Constitution. DESTRUCTIVE -EARTHQUAKE IN ARMEWiA. one xmvfh A One hundred persons haveeeu kffled and 8ii.

injured by an earthquake at Tiphon, A 3 of houses, were destroyed, and much suffering ACentral News telegram, dated Constantinople, Wednesday, says further particulars have been received wJ disastrous earthquake in Armenia. The tX Lt SiU fuoompleto, but they show that the catas- villages situated east of Van have been totally destroyed, the havoc wrought being terrible. The wretched sum-vora fled to the they are existmg as best they can, and are in the greatest distress. The loss of Mo proved much greater than first reported, 100 killed, though the exact number cannot yet be ascertained. Captam Clayton, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Van, is busy distributing relief to the refugees, and has telegraphed to the English Embassy at Constan- HOUSE OP LORDS.

MONDAY. Lord GRAHViliM promised, as early as possible, to lav some papers on the Greek question before the House. Lord Eipb called attention to. the strong wish felt in Scotland to have a Minister for that country, and described the presentarrangements as very unsatisfactory. The Duke of AaoiiL thought the evil was chiefly due to the block of business in the House of Commons.

Lord Gran ville thought that the anomalies conhooted with Scotch government had been exaggerated, and promised the fullest consideration of the Government to the suggested appointmont of a Minister. Tho Married Women's Proporty (Sootland) Bill and some other measures wero advanced a stage. Lord SiDWOtrTH moved for a return of the expenses caused by the proooodiugs of tho Committee whioh had inquired into the loss of tho Atalanta. Lord Noth: bbqok objected to the motion, which, was withdwyn. A number of billa wero advanced a stage.

THURSDAY. Lord Dartmouth called attention to the ciroum-sianoea attending the death of John Gateley at Solihull, Warwickshire, on Sunday, Dooombe'r 5, 1880, a case in which the coroner's jury brought in a verdiqt ot Wilful murdor." He quoted portions of the evioenoe givon before the" coroner, and contonded that there was every reason to believe that in this instance a coldblooded murder was committed in order to strike terror into the Irish living in Warwickshire. In a violent party speeoh he attompted to traco some- oonneotion Between 1 this outrage and Mr. Gladstone's Midlothian speoohes." After Lord Dalhousie had replied, several bills were advanood a stage. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FRIDAY. The House went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Servioo Estimates. A Select Committee on the Rivers Conservancy aud Floods Bill was appointed, and the Rivers Floods Bill was also referred to the same Committee. At the evening sitting, Mr. Wm.

Fowler 'oallod the attention of the House to the law as to the settlement of land and the creation of settlements, and moved a resolution. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. AaTHBK Aunold having spoken, the House was counted out during the speeoh of the latter. MONDAY.

Mr. Foesthe, who reappeared in the House, replied to several questions as to the state of Ireland, and stated that the aots of lawlessnesshadbeen greatly exaggerated. He believed that the landlords were not generally trying to force the Government to supportthemintheunjust exorcise of their The House then went into Committee 011 the Land Law (Ireland) Bill. Several amendments wore withdrawn, on the promise of verbal alterations in the bill to meet their views. Mr.

MacNaohtBN moved an amendment giving the Court power, both regard of -the landlord's right of pre-emption and the sale of the tenant right generally the pnee shall be fair and reasonable, considering all the circumstances of the caso. It was supported by Mr. Bal-j-oub, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Buodmck, and Mr.

G'iBSON. "The supporters of the Government contended that the "clause as it stood would meet the requirements of the case. Tho amendment was rejected by to 130 A proposal by Mr. Lalob to strike out the intervention of the Court to. ascertain the price aa between landlord and tenant was rejected by 123 to iu, and Mr.

Litton's amendment that the sale should be by publio auction was negatived by 102 to 29. The Attoisney-General for Ireland moved that the Courtshall "asoertaiu" not "settle" the value of the tonant right when the landlord claims the right of pre-emption. This was agreed to, a suggestion ot Mr Gibson that this value shall be the true value, was adopted by the Government and earned, notwithstanding the objection of Mr. Healy and others. Mr.

Chaplin moved that on all holdings not subject to the Ulster enstom the value of the right shall not exceed the amount of the tenant's improvemnnts, 111 addition to what he had paid for the tenant right. Mr. Gladstone opposed it as depriving the tenant of tho value ot his right of occupation. tho discussion Lord R. Churchill moved to report progress, and a very warm and exciting altercation followed.

The amendment was negatived by244 to 145. The Committee then adjourned, and the Alkali Works Bill was further considered Committee. TUESDAY. The House was in Committee on the Laud Law (Ireland) Bill. An amendment proposed by Sir R.

Blen-NERHASSETT that the tenant, shall give notice to the landlord of the name of the purchaser of his interest and the amount of tho purchase money was accepted by the Government. A further proviso, moved by Sir R. Wallace, allowing the landlord to delogate his right of pro-emption to another tenant, with the objeot of facilitating the amalgamation of holdings, was negatived by 210 to 107. On the next relates to the landlord's power of objecting to the purchaser, Mr. Lalor first proposed to omit the power altogether, but this was negativod; and Mr.

O. Russell subsequently moved to strike out the three causes of objection specified in tho clause, leaving only a general power to the Court to dooide on the reasonableness of the landlord's objections. Mr. Gladstone said that, after hearing the arguments, he was of opinion the clause would be. safer for the landlord if it did not specify any In the end the words were struck out.

Several unimportant amendments were mode in subsection 6, and at the close of the sitting, an amendment moved by Mr. with the objeot of compensating the landlords of easy rented farms out of the purohase money of the holding for the difference between the actual rent and the fair rent to bo fixed by the' Court, was negatived by 212 to 100. At the evenine sitting Sir W. LawsoN moved his will, prove, tie the lopg run; hut, like most it has had many prejuiiqes to contend with, audits introduction way have been premature; M. Albert of just issued a decree forbidding to natives the possession fiwfma wifchnnt Glacial pormisaion.

The names of I those who may be. authorised to retain their weapons will be carefully registered, tUe. arm being likewise- Bjarjcea. This is-evidently a measure of precaution against a possible insurrection, and it affords farther testimony, if such were needed, the dangerous character of tho situation. It will, however, be difficult to tlm dnnvaB owins to the extant of the country.

the manner in whioh the population is dispersed through-- out the different provinces! and the peouliar customs' of the natives. It is hard to see how the tribes along the eastern and western frontiers are to be disarmed. these districts, whioh are exposed to the inoursiona of marauders from Tunis or Morocco, not a horseman is to be found who doe3 not carry his gun aorosB hiB saddle, a preoaution with which he cannot dispense. The sarao objeotipn may be made in the oase of the Saharan. tribes.

Even in the Tell, a less dangerous country, a douar," completely disarmed, would lie at the meroy of every criminal, the attacks being always made at night. M. Pobedonosstzeff, Procurator of the Holy -Synod, has received a threatening letter warning him hot to oontiuue what is desoribed as his Jesuitical advioo to the Emporor, whor by His Majesty is induced to revert to the policy of John tho Terrible and Niohblas the Tyrant; The letter further declares that should the knout be re-introduce in Russia M. Pobedonosstzeff shall himself be knouted to death. The Golos of Tuesday publishes intelligence from Saratoff stating that large numbers of peasants from the interior are emigrating to Siberia, principally, to the Government of Tomsk, with tho view of obtaining more and better land than at home.

It is a'ddod that the ferry on the Volga is scarcely able to transport the continually arriving caravans of half-naked peasania and lean horses. THE ASHANTEE INDEMNITY, The Ashantee Ambassador delivered 600 of gold to Sir Samuel Rowe, tbo governor, on the 21st and 1,000 ounces on the 23rd- inst. The balance of the indemnity of 2,000 ounces is expected daily. The Ambassador remains, by his own desire, as. hostage for the payment.

TORNADOES iN THE UNITED STATES. Tornadoes on Sunday viaited Minnesota, Iowa, and Northern Missouri, doing great damage. Their course was generally from west to oast, on narrow paths 400 yards wido. Over 70 lives are reported to have been lost. A large number of cattle and horses were kdled.

The houses in some oases wore lifted bodily and oari'ied over the tree tops. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN -The Spanish coasting steamer Alicante has been totally wreoked near Gibora. The Council of Spanish Ministers has fixed August 21st as the date for tho eleotion of the Chamber of Deputios, and September 4th for the Senate elections. The Cortes are expected to meet on September 20th. -A mission of King John of Abyssinia to the with a sum of $45,000 for presentation to the Coptic Patriarch.

The latter will be requested by the members of the mission to appoint a bishop of Abyssinia. Fuller particulars received respecting the floods oaiised by the overflow of the rivera in Ohio show that the' first reports of the losses were greatly exaggerated. The damage causod in the neighbourhood of Pittsburg is, however, considerable. Lord Dufferiu, the new English Ambassador, arrived, in the Dardanelles on Tuesday morning, arid at Constantinople the following morning. The indictment against the alleged murderers of Sultan Abdul Aziz was drawn up on Tuesday and an apartment in the Yildiz Kiosk is being prepared for the trial.

s. Hafiz Pasha director of the army con tracts jn Turkev, has been dismissed from his post. Pram A Ihfivh Victor and Prince George. of -Wnles have -arrived- at Adelaide on board the peninsular ind.6riflntal-Bte'amer'Cathay.",-'' in Tuesday's oftuer uerraan.jrariia.-ment the commeroial treaties with Austria-Hungaryy Switzerland, Belgium, and Roumania were read a time and.passed without debate. The census returns of South Australia show a population of 277,000, that of Tasmania a population pf 116,000.

Mr. Watson's Transcontinental Railway buv-vey Party has arrived at the Gulf of Mr. Watson reports that the district traversed was a fine country, ottering soaroeiy any engineering uuuuuiwtsa. The Daily News' correspondent at St. Petersburg savs that Hartmann has been arrested in Germany, handed over to the Russian authorities, and brought to St.

Petersburg. The final result of the biennial election 13 the Netherlands shows that the Liberals have lost throe seatsintho Second Chamber, whioh now oonsists'of 49 Liberals and 37 anti-Liberals. M. Bredius, Liberal, has been replaced by M. Pompe, a Protestant clerical can? didafce.

In the French Senate the bill granting liberty of-public meetings been adopted with Atf-'attempt was. made, on Wednesday night to blow up the statue of M. Thiers at St. Germain' by means of a box filled with gunpowder. Fortunately the statue escaped with but slight injury.

An inquiry into tho affair has been instituted. The House of Burgesses at Hamburg has adopted tho treaty for the incorporation of Hamburg with the German Customs Union by 106 against 46 votes, thu3 constituting the'requisite two-thirds majority. A despatch received in Buenos Ayres announces that the Chilian Government is withdrawing its troops from Lima. General Baguedano has resigned the command of the Chilian army, and has beon replaced by-General Lynch. Pierola is still in the mountains a very few followers.

The Chilian Government is send-. ing an envoy to tha Argentine Republic to negotiate upon tho boundary question, which is in a air of; arrangement. AU Vienna has been startled by the terrible, murder of Baron JJothon, a millionaire, who was shot: by his own servant, to whom he had given warning. A Vienna correspondent says terrible haik storms have-destroyed-the entire in the.disfcrict irfto" the river. According to the Australian Handbook for this year, the capital of Tasmania is henoefortti to bo known simply as Hobart, instead of Hobart Town aS' formerly.

A line of steamers under the British flag succeeds the abandoned American line to Brazil. The new line sails between Now York, Rio Janeiro, Monta- video, and Baonos Ayres, with small Clyde-btjilt, steamers, beginning in July. A St. Petersburg correspondent says the haiV' vest prospects generally have been promising, according to tho report from Charkoff the continuous-wet weather in the south is having an unfavourable effect on the winter wheat. Price3 in consequonce aro rising.

A Vienna correspondent, says the eminent physiciau, Professor Skoda, died on Monday at the. ago, of 76. He was the. originator of peroussion aud ausool-tation. 1 C'zonstochan a peasant to throw some dynamite' shells into.

the' oliuroh, but' was arrested. The death is announced in Paris of M. commonly known as M. Roger du Nord, a Republican life senator, and of M. de Banneville, an ex-Ministatv1; M.Rogerin early life was secretary to the Constantinople Embassy, and was -a staunch adherent aud personal' riend of M.

Thiers. He was in his 79th year. M. de-Banneville was for a short time Minister of Foroign' of tho war of 1870. In 1877 he was again Foroign' nantj' fln.Vtiiint wTiinli fnrmftd the LUllllljtrtJL III UUIOD uu.w- transition from the Broglie to the Dufaure Ministry.

A -r aria correspondent says me reports wu- corning tho crops state that the past weoK weatner nas a good deal diminished the satisfaction felt before then, and that the discontent already manifested in the some of the, oasfcern southwestern, departments, where many of the crops have been damaged by--the ralAn official inspection of the St. Gothard Rail- of tho Federal inspector, the lines of access will be ready for traltlc Borne time 111 tne autumn, ana ine mails may regularly travorse the groat tunnel before the beginning of the winter. No opinion iB expressed as to when tho entire line will be opened for through traffio- The Governor of Algeria has issned a decree forbidding the possession of arms by natives without a' license. This restriction had hitherto only applied to the tribos which revolted in 1871, though the purohase of powder hud been subject to license. The measure is evidently designed "to prevent insurrections and crimes; but it will havo to be carried out with some discretion', for the frontier tribes require arms as a protection againBt raids.

The American tobacco crop, having been favoured with an excellent planting season this yoar, has matured in good time, "and has now boon completed in Virginia. But less tobacco has been shipped from tho State to England during the past year, than in any previous, year sinoe the war, because the British market was found to be overstocked. The following is an extract from a letter just received from a high medical authority at Madras on tho subjoat of tho fatal termination of tho illness of the late Mr. Adam: "It is at any rate a melancholy consolation to know that this termination might have 'occurred anywhoro, and that Mr. Adam's Indian career has not tended to shorten his life." The attempts to confer upon the aborigines of North America the benefits of higher education are, it is stated, meeting with remarkable success.

At thbj Salem College Commemoration the-gold medal for oratory has been awarded to a young Chootaw are several graduates of the college who belong; to the Ohoctaw people. 1 The best and ohoapest Table Cutlery in town at "White's, 111, Oldham-atreet. Abvt. iumnvo. On Saturday, night, attheForesters'Hall Aldoi-street, London, two meetings, attended by anao of about 1,200 postal telegraph employes of boil? were held, under tho presidency of one of thn acc's' clerks.

He referred to the statements that ittior made by the Postmaster-General In the Houao of fi4 mons with regard to the overtime being balloted fn after contradicting them read a letter from oner; telegraphists employed iu the western district i i1 it was stated that a telegragh olerk had bV'omn tally deranged in consequence of the prolonea 1 6l1' arduous labours whioh ho had been ooaipelled form. Other speeches wero dolivered, and it u-'' to the vote whether the men and women would a 3 "stride "'if this course of aotion were aocided 31,1 A unanimous and enthusiastic reply waa giVg and the resolution embodying tho Jot -nation was unanimously agreed to. Resolutions! also passed calling a national conference of clerks to be hold at Liverpool in three weeks time pledging the meeting to abide by the decision of 'tlf1 conference. It was also resolved to take immediate it to bring about a total cessation of overtime work The Leeds telegraph clerks on Tuesday, pa3j0 i a lution not to accept as final any scheme of whioh did not recognise tho status of telegraph as olerks in the permanent civil service of the Crl as set forth in the Telegraphs Act, 1838. LAUNCH OF THE POLYPHEMUS, The lonnoh of the now torpedo ship Polvphomaq successfnllv effected at Chatham Dookvard on We i day afternoon, in tho presence of a vast aaseuibiT of The launch was announce n.k Mit-bb o'clock, hut 1m, UJ to dockyard gates, and wended their way to tho 1 Blip On WHICH tUO jtuijuouiiu was lvin M.

Xrevelyan, tne wue 01 j. xrevelyan, Sip 1 -XT rl, secretary to ina a.uiuuwior, mu was 10 perform th ceromony, was condueted to the bow of tiio ve-1 where the operation of launching was explained to by Mr. Saunders, the ohief constructor, under wiio-! superintendence the Polyphemus has been built Aft? the usual form of prayer used at the launohes of shivr? war had been recited by the Chaplaiu of the yard tk signal was and Mrs. Trevolyan christened' tl vessel. In a.

few seconds the vessel began to mo down the slip, and in a minute or two was fairly aiw in the Modway, the spectators giving round after t0Z, of cheers, while the band of the E-oyal Morinw played "Bale Britannia. The Polypneas wm dooked to be completed and equipped for sea. A London evening paper says the Polyphemus mi be fairly described as an overgrown torpedo boat f0: though her ram is the principal feature in her eonaW tion, it is in the free use of torpedoes, and especially the Whitehead torpedo, that she will provo destructive. Gups she will not carry at all, beyond a few maohina guns and- these will be provided 01 the upper deck for use in an emorgeucy-a3 in tho case of an attack by torpedo boats but m'-in the ordinary circumstances in which she wpi be engaged. In this way she represents an effort which has been already made in the construction of the Hupert of distributing the offensive properties of mon-of-war ia different classes of vessels.

Tho Rupert and the Poly, phemus will bo used as rams, and everything else been subordinated to this intention. As a "ram-' there can be little doubt that the Polyphemus, if shj h5i a fair.ohance and realises the speed expected of her, which is no los3 than 17 knots an hour, will make shot-work of the most powerful vessel now afloat. In she is helped by her form. Unlike most armoured vessels her ends are pointed like a cigar aud aro submerged, and her appearance will bo not unlike 1 orocodile with a turtle on its back, the crocodile bein under and the turtle alone visible above the water, in the centre of the vessel a struoture is providsdia which the engines will be placed and decks provided, This struoture will be cylindrical, and protected throng, out by steel armour, which will be carried under water for a considerable depth. What the accommodation likely to be for tho officers and crew may reudlj- imagined.

To obtain any light at all in the cabins appliances will be necessary, and the elootric ligi: extensively used; and as these cabins will -bo aU heloir the armoured deck, they must necessarily be yeiitital artificially. There is some satisfaction to those who mil serve in her to know that the sub-division of her lose; parts into minute watertight compartments has carried out ou a very extensive scale while the nowl position of her coal bunkers is looked upon as affording a certain immunity from ramming. Tho Polyphemus is, altogether, a very ingenions and interesting vessel, aal if she adds little to our knowledge on naval construction she ought to be a serviceable addition to our fighting strength in the navy. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS. The Earl of Bandon has been gazetted representative peer in the room of tho lite Lord Dunboyne.

Sir John Earns, the member for Athlone, prevented by indisposition from attending to his parliamentary duties. We (Daily News) are requested to contradict in tho most emphatic manner the revived statement that the Marquis of Eipon is opposed to the evacuation of Afghanistan. "SV.e (Times' are requested to state thai the scheme relating to the telegraphists, at present in the hands of the Treasury, will (when approved) take' effect from the 1st of April last. The Daily Telegraph believes it has now been definitively arranged that the Earl of Omperdown shall succeed the late Mr. W.

P. Adam as Governor of Madras. The London Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed Major-General Sir Edward Bruce Hands? to be British Commissioner on the International Commission to supervise the transfer of territories ceded bj Turkey to Greece; and Major John C. Ardagh to 59 British Commissioner' for the delimitation of the neff Turco-Groek frontier. It is announced in the Dublin Gazette taat tne P.arl of Bandon has been elected an Irish reproscatawi peer in the room of the late Lord Dunboyno.

It is rumoured that the Government will bring in a short measure for the purpose of transferring Nt Geo. Jeasel from the Bolls Court to the Court ot Appeal, and the appointment of an extra judge. Mr. Arthur Arnold's motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into tho manor ment of Crown lands and of tho estates of tho hec.e-fr,v TiWliiTirS and Wales was MS third orcter of tho day for June 23th. Yesterday 3I.

Arnold balloted for another day, and obtained the lire plaoe on the notice paper tor Tuesday, Juiy Daily On Saturday afternoon, at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London, wero married Mr. uw.ia 'u-Gerald, C.M.G., and the Hon. Amieia Milr.es, eldest daughter of Lord Houghton. The newly-married pair afterwards left for Bulstrode Park, tho seat of theDuko of Somerset, to spend tho honeymoon.

Rsoa-pe of A Russian Prisoner feo'1 SST-RRTiTA. The Enssiau Socialist Mokriewitch has suc ceeded in escaping from nenal servitude in Siberia ann reaching Switzerland. Thero is only ono other mstaacs on record of a political prisoner making good his eseapJ from Siberia. TheCommittee of the VVesleyan Mission noiue have nominated for the vacancy in the secretary caused by the death of the Eev. Dr.

Morloy Pnurtoa, lin Tit-oa fntlnunnty Tninicfjsrfl Cifrnvvp. W. B.A., principal of Southlands Training College, Batter-una. Ebt. Sfcrinsrer Eowe.

of Bradford and Eev. Frederick Greaves, of Highbury. The appointment resfc3 with tho Wesleyan Conference, and generally conferred on one of the three ministers ncim- nated by the Foreign Mission Committee. Accident to Sib Robbbt Caeden. whue on his way to the House of Commons on Tuesday night, to record his voto against Sir Wilfrid Lawson's LocJ Option resolution, Sir Robert Carden met with an accident.

He was proceeding in a hansom cab down St. James's-street, when the horse fell, and he was thrown ou1'. Though severely shaken, and complaining of iniuryto one of his legs, he wont to the House of tiommons. Alter a Dnei rest, nowever, ne ruium" homo without waiting to vote. Birmingham and the British Associa tion.

At a meeting on Wednesday of the representatives of the philosophical, scientifio, literary, and eduoational ins.titutionB ot Kirminghara, it was unm" mously resolved to invite the British Association to hold its 1884 meeting in that town. It was reported that tho association had received invitations from Leicester, Southport. and Oiford, but that there was every probability of the association visiting Birmingham, where it has not been for 16 years. The Rev. Pelham Dale.

On Friday, June 24, Lord Oranmore and Browne will call attention to tho appointment of the Eev. T. Pelham Dale to the living of Sansthorpo, in the diocese of Lincoln, and ass if this is tho same Eev. T. Pelham Dale who is inhibited from performing duty in the diocese of London by tho Ecclosiastical Courts in consequence of his illegal Ritualistic practices;" and will also ask "foraretnra of testimonial given him by three beneficed clergymen that he has not ttany time maintained, said, or writtea anything coutrary to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England." True Heroism of a Woman.

-To the lis' of courageous heroic women should be added tho name-of-Mrs. Smith, widow of the bandmaster of the 94t a Regiment. She was present at the massacre of Bronkorss Spruit and from a letter written by an eye-witness ot that melancholy affair we learn that her conduct wa-j suoh as. to elicit general admiration. She attendea the wounded men undor fire, tearing up her droas make bandages for those who wore -bleeding to doatn.

And Colonel Bollairs aftorwarda published the lowing, district orders April 5. The oftcre commanding desires to thank Mrs. Smith, widow ot tn) bandmaster of the 94th regiment, for the good service rendered at Brankorst Spruit fight, ia assisting wounded. Mrs. Smith was herself present in the mws of the action; but, though surrounded by dead a dying, she in a courageous way set 'about atloviatioj the sufferings of the wounded, and for upwards a threo months ha3 continued to be unremitting -lion upon tlieni under very trying circumstances- 3 true heroism and devotion merit recognition ana praise.

Colonel 'Bellaira therefore takes the opportnmv of Mrs. Smith's returning to England pubhsly to to the good acts she ha3 performed." Th death of lord Justice James 1 was referred to" succeed the late judge. THE CLERGYAND THE BURIALS ACT. The Eastern Weekly Express, PUshed in Norfolk says that an torment under toe Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1980, took plaoe on theaf tor-noon of Whit-Monday, when tho body of Mrs. Stirgea was intorrod in the parish churchyard, ine first portion of the servioe was held in the Dree Methodist Chapol, where the Rev.

J. Brown was assisted by the Rav. Beeken (Holt), the Rov. J. Hammond (Holt), and the Rev.

W. Hammond, Primitive Methodist minister (Holt), at the conotasion ot whioh the mourners and their friends proceeded totiie churchyard, where the Rev. J. Brown simply read that, part of the servioe usually read at the graveside. ims evont wonld have oaused but little excitement tne parish had it not been that the rector, on Sunday evening, instead of preaching a sermon, delivered a political lecture, in whioh he denounoed the JJurials lot, the Liberation Society, and the Radioal Government, and deolared that whenever a Nonconformist funeral took plaoe, the church door should be olosed, no bell should be tolled, that the sexton should simply dig the grass and close the grave," but give no assistance.

This soems to have been faithfully carried out, for no sexton appeared on, the ground, and when the mourners left the churchyard Mr. Brown had to request the policeman to watoh the grave till suoh time as the sexton should be allowed to perform his duty I This is a strange comment upon those whoso duty it is to carry out tho golden rule, to preach peace on earth and good-will towards men. The following extraordinary letter was sent by the reotor to Mr. Brown three or four hours before tho time fixed for the funeral Oley Rectory, June 8th, 1881. Sir, As I have no desire to cause a painful scene at the unenil wMoh.

I undsrstnnd you are to take to-day, I send.you by messenger au expression ot my views on the subject, whioli otherwise I should havo read ou the arrival of the procession at the churohyird gates. I bos then to enter my most earnest and solemn protest against the act of invasion which (I regret to find) you are prepared to countenance and support. No amount of argument can alter thefacb that these burial grounds whioh the State, yielding to au agitation ot the moat wioked and unscrupulous oharaoter, hns opened to the use ot Dissenters ore the property ot the Church of England; They ware provided in a vast majority oases by the liberality- of her faithful sons, for the interment the parishioners generally, but for the exoluaive ministrations of her clergy. Gifts of this sort ought to be religiously re-speoted, and ware it not that wo live in very dangerous days when all the props which have added greatuoss and stability to the country are being one by one thrown down would be. How professed teachers of religion can reconcile the new with the lessons of that Holy Book which they are supposed to take as their guide, it is not for me to say, I am certain of one thing, that if conscience be fairly and honestly consulted ou tho matter, they must be stangwith humiliation and shame.

Bobbery is robbery, whether perpetrated by a high-handed abuse of-power on tho part of the State, or by the low ruffian who darts out from behind a hedge on the lonely wayfarer. I have no hesitation in saying that all who avail themselves of this unjust and unrighteous Act are participators an utterly indefensible crime, and ia the sight of God are gnilty lam sorry to have to write thns, but a sense of duty forbids my remaining silent. I am, sir, yours faithfully, J. Q. Blackkobe, Eeotor of Cley-next-the-Sea.

To the Methodist Free Minister, Cley-next-the-Sea. P.S. I haveonlyto add that as the ropes and stoolshitherto used for all interments are the property of the church, your triends must make their own arrangements in these matters. I cannot, by sanctioning thoir loan, be a party, even in the slightest particular, to the infliction of a grievous wrong. THE IRISH LAND BILL.

A meeting in support of the Irish Land Bill was held, under the auspices of the Batley Carr Liberal Club, in the Industrial tiaU, uewsDnry, on oaturaay evening. Thorn was a latse and enthusiastic audience. Mr. AlHprman V. Firth presided.

Mr. Charles Busseil, Q.C., M.P., said that in his frequent visits to his native country he was pleased to see signs, all over of the people of all degrees and (losses, and. above all. of all religions, being drawn closer together, until there was the fair hope that in a short time there would, be seen in Ireland what had not vet been seen, a really united people. The Government now in power were his judgment Honestly ana maniuny endeavouring to Bettle a great question.

The Conservative policy with regard to Ireland, literally rendered, was a polioy of doing nothing, stickingto rack rents, enforcing contracts whether free or otherwise, and trusting to the military and the Eoyal Irish Constabulary to keep the peace. The hon. member warmly criticised tne itinerant orators who were raising the cry of "confiscation," and declared that there was not a provision of the Land Bill that was not perfectly defensible. fle had just come from Ireland, and he had no hesitation in stating that the disorder wnicn prevailed, ana wnica was ouu local disorder, was grossly exaggerated, and that the talk about an imminent rebellion or revolution was the merest twaddle and nonsense. This sensational cry about the state of things in Ireland was, he believed, largely due to a desire to distract the serious attention of ilngland from dealing rainy ana on its proper merita witti the greai iana queBiaoii.

Mr. Serjeant Simon, to whom a cordial reception was uiven. also spoke on Irish affairs. The Rev. Father Kenny moved the following resolution That this msBtinff hails with satisfaction the bold, humane, and statesmanlike efforts of tha Government to pass a good Land Bill for Ireland, audrespecttuiiy hopes tnactne juioeravs of both Houses will support the bill now oetoro faniamenc, with such amendment as will give full effect to its principles; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Right Hon.

W. 33. Gladstone. With regard to the Lond Bill, he, speaking as one who knew something of the feelings of his countrymen at home and abroad, believed that, if amended, as he hoped it would be, and passed, it would indeed be welcomed as a message of peace. (Cheers.) Mr.

Gladstone had already done muen lor iroiana, ana 11 tins oiu (jasauu iiuua would rejoice with a greater joy than Irishmen the world over that the right hon. gentleman had been able to score so grand a victory. (Cheers.) Mr. Alfbed Parker and Mr. Howes (Manchester) supported, the resolution, which was enthusiastically passed.

The proceedings wore then closed with a vote of thanks to the speakers and the chairman. In addition to the twenty-eight specific votes obtained in Committee of Supply on Thursday and Friday, the Treasury havo iu hand, by a vote on account, funds which will enablo thorn to carry on till the 11th July. This is a circumstance that will permit the Government to devote the whole of their time for an uninterrupted period of five weeks to the Land Bill. Observer. At conferences of the Irish Liboral members it has been agreed to abandon, abont 100 amendments to the Land Bill.

This result has been arrived at by a careful the amendments on the paper, and by the members arranging among thomselves to propose only a certain number of amendments. Further reductions in the number of amendments are likely to follow. Mr. A. M.

Sullivan, in an address on Wednesday to the members of the Peckham Liberal Club on the Irish land question, said, though tho prosent Land Bilh might not settle the question, it had great and noble features, and he had no hesitation in describing it as the greatest, and noblest aot of justice to the tillers of the soil in Ireland that had ever been conceived by any British statesman. His efforts should be directod to amend and carry the bill. A resolution was passed approving of the Land Bill. Among the Parliamentary papers issued- on Thursday was a oopy of the Irish Land Bill of 1870 as read the first time iu the House of. Lords, and showing the amendments in the bill, as returned to the Commons, and what afterwards beoame of suoh amendments.

Riot in the Naples Tobacco Manufactory. On Thursday a Btrange riot took place in the royal tobacco manufactory. It was caused by tho 1,800 female workers, owing to a false rumour that they would honceforward be employed only half-time and strictly searched. It took a considerable police force several hours to bring them to reason. The Utile of the Road.

A case of importance to bicyclists, involving the question whether a locomotive may run down a bioycle with impunity, has just come before Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson, judge of the Salisbury County Court. The litigants wore Hdward Peck and Thomas Miles. The evidence' showed that at nine o'clook, on the night of May 7th, iu moonlight, the plaintiff, a chemist's assistant, was riding on a' bioyole from the Old Salisbury, when he was met by defendant's locomotive engine, with a driver and a man in front as usual, carrying a rod flag. He was going down hill at a pace of three miles an hour, and immediately jumped but the locomotive, which was on the wrong side, ran into his machine a new one and smashed it to pieces, ho himself narrowly escaping.

The defence was that tho plaintiff himself contributed to the accident, but the judge ruled that the locomotive should have been kept on the proper side of the road, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for 15. 13s. 6d. and costs. Dn.

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I consider it to be a very pure oil, not likely to create disgust and a therapeutic agent of great value. This eminent physician remarks With strumous and emaciated' subjects, and whore the general health is impaired, this remedy tells with peculiar efficacy. The reviving and reanimating effects of a regular daily course of this animal oil are mghly satisfactory. Its favourable aotion on the system is renovating it checks progressive emaciation, restores theyieldiughealth, rebuilds, as it were, the tottering frame, and brings about a most remarkable and salutary change jn all- the vital funo-tionB." Dr. de JongVs Light-brown Cod Liver Oil is sold only in capsuled imperial half pints, 2s.

pints, 4s. quarts, with his stamp and signature and the signature of his sole consignees on the capsule and the label under wrapper, by all chemists. Sole consignees, Hansar, Harford, and 77, Strand, FOREIGN NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL QUESTION. Tho correspondent of the Standard at Durban says the following statement, as to the present position at Pretoria may be accepted as trustworthy, it having beon sent down by a gentleman despatched to the spot by one the prinoipal business firms hare, to inform them as to the real state of affairs at present, and their prospeot in the future i He describes the position as uncertain the two parties looking at aU things from ft diametrically opposite point of view, Pnmmission The general feeling, however, is that the Commission Will hand over the entire Transvaal to tfoers There are some, even of the lieve that with a strong resident, entrus ted with ox tensive powers, good law courts, 'Touldweak oer Government, lite that which foSy eSste in the Transvaal, be again eowfatated, contoenesTdonce of loyal white men would involve The nXc question continues to be discussed, and it is sscrctthatGeneralWood holds very wrong Js-iot hitherto shared by his colleagues-of the absolute necessity for a protected zone to Separate the Boers from the Natives.

Sooner than sanction the abandon-Sent of the latter to the Dutch he wiU, it is believed, resign his seat on the Commission. GENERAL SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS. The correspondent of the Daily News at Cape Town telegraphs on Wednesday as follows TheBasutos have paid the cattle fine, and there is every prospeot of a settlement of the pending questions. The Transvaal Commission has commenced sitting at Pretoria. The opinion prevails that the whole country will be restored.

An excellent impression has been produced by the aotion of the Boers with reference to the authors of the outrages during the war. The Cape Assembly has resolved to amend the Con-atitution and allow the optional use of the Dutch language in Parliament: THE FENIANS AND THE DOTEREL DISASTER. The Times' correspondent at Philadelphia says that the Doterel disaster, in oonneotkra with the reoent attempted Fenian outrages at Liverpool and elsewhere, has infused, new spirit into the secret Fenian societies in the United States, swelling their contributions, also inspiring the Irish malcontents with encouragement for further outrages. There seemsto be little doubt, after proper inquiry, that the land League there is aMiated withthe Fenian organisations. M'Grath, who has been arrested at Liverpool, residod for some time in Philadelphia.

The American Fenians proolaim their previous knowledge of the Doterel disaster, also the Liverpool affair, asserting that tho3e attempts were planned in America. THE FIGi-HTING IN AFGHANISTAN. The following telegram from the Viceroy, dated Simla, 15th June, 1881, has been published Letters from Candahar give particulars of Girishk engagement tolegraphed to yon on the 8th. Ayoob a party estimated 1,500 strong; lost about 50 killed, none of importance. Ameer's troops, only two wounded.

Sirdar Hashim Khan was not preset Letters of 9th report Mahomed Hassam had crossed Helmund, with 300 of Ayoob's horse, and occupied Sangbur and made a raid'on Miskarez. Eeinforoements were going from Candahar to Girishk. and troops from Kelat-i-Ghilzai were approaohing Candahar." THE REJECTION OF SCRUTIN DE LISTE. The Paris correspondent of the Times says that although the senatorial division on scrutin de Uste was a seorot one, the composition of the majority oan be determined with tolerable aoouraoy. There being- six vacancies, the absentees and neutrals numbered 32, only four of these belonging to the Bight, while the other 28 oomprise the President, who never votes four Ministers, who were bouud by the compaot with their colleagues to neutrality; five Ambassadors to foreign Courts; M.

Albert Grdvy, detained iu Algeria; and 17 other senators, mostly on the Biok list. Even had all these supported scrutin de Uste it would have been rejeoted by a majority of two. The 112 Reactionaries are presumed to have voted against scrutin de Uste, though very possibly five or six, under cover of secresy, went tho other way. At least 35 Republicans must therefore have voted against the bill, these defections forming the greater portion of the Loft Centre. General Grovy, the President's brother, is said to have made no seoret of his being one of them.

The demand for a seoret ballot, whioh when made' by 20 senators is compulsory, was preferred by 20 members of the Right, but at the request of some of the Republican opponents of the bill. Scrutin de Uste now falls under a standing order of the Chamber, which is in these terms When propositions or bills passod by the Chamber of Deputios shall be rejeoted by the Senate, thoy cannot be revived within three months, except on the initiative of the Government." ELECTORAL REFORM IN ITALY. The Eleotoral Reform Bill is under discussion this week. The proposals of Signor Crispi and other deputies to give the right of voting to all those persons who knew how to read and write were resisted by the Government. The Chamber afterwards voted by secret ballot on the motion of tha extreme Left, that all Italians, including those who are notactually Italian subjeots, should have the right of voting, and rejeoted it by 314 votes to 32.

On Wednesday the amendment of Signor Crispi was rejected by 220 to 154. This yote is a victory for the Govomment, who made the rejection of the amendment a Cabinet question. Iu opposition to the proposal of the Government that the franchise should be granted to all who paid taxes to the amount twenty lire, and could read and write, Signors Jtovana and Butret moved to substitute ten for twenty lira. The Government, however, declared the point a vital one, on which thoy were determined to stand or fall, and the Chamber rejected the amendment by 212 votes to 173. All the other important votes wero also givon in favour of the Ministry.

The disoussion was continued on Thursday, It is now considered certain that the bill will finally pass, and it is probablo that the quostion of adopting the scrutin de Uste will be allowed to remain in suspense. MASSACRE OF AN ITALIAN EXPLORING PARTY. Intelligence has been received that an Italian exploring party from Assab, consisting of Pallieri, ten sailors, and four Boldiors, have been massaored in the interior. The evont occurred near the Egyptian halting station at Bailul. The expedition, which was in charge of the African traveller Signor Gialatti, started from Assab last April to explore the iuterior, with the objeot of determining the course of the Qnalima River in the interests of geographical soienoe and for trading purposes.

Immediately on receipt of the intelligence tho Italian Government telegraphed to Cairo demanding a strict inquiry into the oiroumstauces of the massacre and the pnnishmout of tho offenders. It is stated that Signor Luzzalti, the leader of the expedition, is among the killed. The attack was made by the natives at night, at a spot 12 days' niaroh from Assab, and the objeot of the umssaoro is bolieved to have been plunder, though, according to anothor account, it was perpetrated in retaliation for tho act of the explorers in seizing tho person of a sheik in cousoquonoe of a dispute about a camel. THE CORINTH CANAL. Much interest is felt in Austria (according to a Vicuna correspondent) in tho proposed scheme for a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth.

M. Gorstor, a oivil engineer, is staying at Corinth, and engaged in drawing up the details of the plan for M. Lesseps. The preliminary works are to commence in the anoroaohmff autumn. It is expected that tho pioroiug of the Isthmus will oooupy rather moro than four years, and that tho Canal will be ready for use within five years as the maximum from tho prosent time.

The importance of tho sohemo for Austrian and, indeed, for international commerce generally, is that stoamers desti'nod for Constantinople, the Blaok or iEgoan Seas, and ooming from the Adriatic and the West, will be able not only to shorten their voyage considerably, but will in winter be ablo to avoid the dangerous route round Capo Matapan at the southern Bxtremity of the Peloponnesus. The saving in time from the Adriatic Sea will often bo as muoh as 24 hours. Italian steamers generally will gain, on an average, 16 hours; and steam vessels from Gibraltar eight hours. The number of steamers annually passing round Capo Matapan is estimated nt nearly 3,000, inoluding 1,300 postal steamers, an equal nnmbor of ordinary commercial steamers, and Borne 300 war vessels. TURKEY AND THE POWERS.

The Ambassadors of all the Powers had on Sunday received the ratiiioationB of tho Turco-Greok Frontier Convention. The Ambassadors and Assim Pasha, Minister for Foreign subsequently met at the porte and exoharigod ratifications of the Convention. THE CRISIS IN BULGARIA. The semi-official Agmice Basse of Wednesday, contradicting the rumour published by some newspapers concerning the alleged eventual occupation of Bulgaria by Austria and Russia, says "Austria and Russia, as well as the other signatory Powers of tho Treaty of Berlin have nothing so much at heart as to see the Bulgarian crisis sottled by a conciliatory compromise." M. Zancoff has been arrested in consequence of the publio letter addressed by him to tho Russian diplomatic igent on the 5th accusing Prince Alexander of bavin" committed various violations of the law.

M. Zancoff still adheres to his charges. A despatch received from Philippopolis reports that a meeting of 1,800 persons Hold in that oity it was resolved to sent a deputation to Prinoe Alexander with an address tmople lor more. rr r. -r---- subscription for the sufferers, and is collecting funds.

ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE AT CHIOS. Another shock of earcnqnaKe occurred at nine on Friday morning woek, causing the fall of a Turkish minaret and ot several ruined nouses in the town Two men were slightly injured. THE TUNISIAN QUESTION. Mustapha Boy, the Tunisian Prime Minister, em-KoVnl nn Snndav morning for Frauoe on board the. renou mmumu The Tunisian Government has addressed a letter to the Rubattino Company, saying that, it being understood that the arbitrator named by the Italian side is unable to produoo the original oonoession granted to M.

Jacob for the- oonstruotion of the railway to Haminam Ellif, the Government has dooidod to oancel all rights previously accorded for the oonstruotion of the line. Tho rank of Ferik" (equal to that of Marshal) has been conferred upon General Elias. The Bey has.oonferred with great ceremony upon M. Eoustan the decoration of tha Ahid Order. M.

Roustan has informed the representatives of the Powers that he has been entrusted by. the Bsy with the direotion of relations between them and the Tunisian. Government. The German ConBul-General at once replied that he accepted this arrangement without reservation. In Tuesday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies tho supplementary grant of for the Tunisian expedition was unanimously voted.

Previous to tho vote, General Farre, Minister of War, made a statement to the effeot that the sole objeot of the expedition was to seouro tho influence of France and Bafety of Algeria, and that this objoot had been gained with the least expenditure and the fewest sacrifices possible. The Porto has addressed a Note to the Power3 complaining that the French Consul in Tripoli claims to exercise protection over the-Tunisian subjects, and has posted up a notice tothateffeot at the consulate. Porte considers this measure contrary to the riglifO? the Sultan, whose' subjeots the Tunisians are, and. it will oppose its execution. THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

MANY ARRESTS. INCREASE OF DISAFFECTION. Intelligence receivod through Berlin announces that the commander, officers, and orew of the guardship lying off Peterhof where the Imperial family will shortly take up their residsnoe, have been changed in consequence of the discovery of a number of revolutionary proclamations on board the vessel. Many arrests have beon made in connection with the affair. A Moscow correspondent of the Daily News writes English people, I think, hardly realise the change that has ooourred in the condition and prospects of Russia since the issue of the manifesto on the 1.1th or the revolution and revulsion of feeling and" con-; viction.

During the lifetime of tho late Emperor, and specially sinoe he had entrusted the direction of internal affairs to Melikoff, tho educated classes cherished the 'hope of the institution of liboral measures, at a date more or less proximate. Ever since the fatal March 1-13, the anticipations of a liboral polioy have boen imperilled by the surroundings of the now Emporor and the fanatical influences which from time to time were allowed to sway over his simple, uncultured mind but when, with the active concurrence of his brother Vladimir (the prospective Regent, a man of intelligence, and unaorstood to' exercise' considerable influence), the proposals for a homogeneous Ministry wore deliberately adopted, and Melikoff with somewhat of urgency was requested to accept the position of First Minister, it was coudluded then that a fair beginning of a liberal programme had been initiated, and that tho Convocation of the Deputies to deliberate as to a Consultative Assembly (very modest as all this was) would soon take placb, as had been twice decided. But when, in the midst of these arrangements, snoh a manifesto was issued behind thi backs of the Ministers the revulsion can bo Bomewhat imagined, or, at all events, gauged to some extent by the absolute resignation of the three most important Ministers. I now hear, day by day and in all directions commercial, official, military, even in Sclavophil quarters-4he same utter discontent and disaffection, with contempt for tho cowardice displayed in all the precautions for seolnsion, the most serious Bymptom being the evident disloyalty in the as shown in the arrests of officers, and such a gathering- as took place on the evening of tho issuo of tho manifesto. It so happens that the superior officer who telegraphed at once to Gatchinosas to thg unfavourable impression produced, is now designated by the Emperor Chief of the Staff, in the place of Count Heidla.

The old War Minister, Milutine, and the new one, Vanofsky, both represented to the Emperor in favour of Obrntchoff a very able and experienced man, and told him that Gonernl Kauffmau (brother of tho Turkestan Governor) and others who wero seniors of the one designated by the Emperor would resign. Let them resign, tho stupids," was the reply Even less gracious and more insulting was his reoepfcion of Scobeleff, to whom lie did not express a word of thanks, but him for having (by the successful manner in which he had done tho work assigned to him by the late Emporor) embroiled him in Europe (England of course is meant), where his victories had -made so muoh ado, Scobeleff was stupefied, gone away, like Melikoff and Abaza, thoroughly "discouraged and hopeless of any good with such a feeblo and incapable oharaoter. Ignatieff probably will bo clever enough to get rid of the fanatic PobadonotsefJ, who prompted tho manifesto, and only believes in clerical influences (in this country simply nil). He may then persuade the Emperor that some reforms are indispensable, as he wishes to play a liberal r61e, and- will-initiate something in the direotion of the Provincial Assemblies. But whether this will inspire and restore tho oonfldonoe which the intelligent classes had in Melikoff is very doubtful, as Ignatieff is so well understood personally thatno one has any oonfidonoe in Mm.

Altogether the prospect is very gloomy. Against all this there is the ohance that the Emperor will recall Melikoff, keep his word to him, and leave him to ohoose hi3 Ministers. But this chance is small with a- weak and obstinate oharaoter, influenced by fanatioal arguments of Divine right," Meantime, tho disaffection grows rising upwards amongst the higher 'who are. ashamed an autoci'aot hiding himself from his capital and his subjects, and doing nothing for the such a man as Ignatieff at the helm, there is no' saving' what desperate foceiga advoutni'03 he may launch into to divert for awhile attention from homo affairs. As-long as Germany koops with Austria, the Russians can do nothing in the direotion, of Constantinople; bat Persia is now an easy morsel lor them to awallow, and the TC'kkos will be valuable auxiliaries when they want to have Herat.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. The correspondent of the 'St. James's Gazette in Borlin says Tho relations between Germany and Russia are unsettled. Apprehension prevails le3t General Ignatieff's Panslaviut 'Sympathies should load to acts whioh would cause a disruption of the ties of friendship uniting the two Powers aud the complaints which aro constantly. coming from Germans settled in Russia of the lawless persecutions of Whioh.

they' are the viotims a tendenoy to strain thoSe ties. In the meantime, great efforts are being made by the Czar to preserve a good understanding botwoen the two countries. He is indefatigable in assuring the Emperor William of his friendship and of the peaoeful intentions of himself and his oounoillors. He 1 lately presented to the German Emperor a life-size portrait of Alexander a gift whioh is said to have deeply affeofced the recipient of it. DISAFFECTION' IN ALGERIA.

Thpoorrespondentof the Daily IW-egrajjiat Paris says Affairs are in a critical state, in Algeria. Bou-Amema, who is at the head of the insurrection in contrived to soour tho country from south to north, and thou from east to weBt, without enoouutering any resistance, adding fuel to tho flame, and raising tho tribes in every direction. The Frenoh officers seem to havebeen put completely off the scout, and while thoy have been maroh-iug one way, their foe has boon going anothor, eluding all their efforts to reaoh him with the utmost skill. The consequence is that Bou-Amema- has now 200 kilometres between him and his pursuers, whom every day brings nearer to tho terribly hot season, when campaigning iB out of tho -question for Europeans. The dissatisfaction of tho War Oflioe is proved by tho fact that two mora officers of rank have been deprived of their commands, General Collignon boiug placed en dis-ponMUU, while Colonel Innocenti, the horo of the unfortunate affair at boon transferred to the subuivision of Biskra rather a ourious ohoico, as that part of the country will on bo up in arms as well.

It is now roposed that all tie Frenoh oolumns should unite-and give ohaso to Bou-Amema, whioh, as there is no time to bo lost, would seem the wisest plan. Whatever this insinuation may mean, there seems to be little doubt that Algeria is now passing through a crisis which will greatly affeet its future position. The civil regime, is- on its trial. So far has. proved a failure.

It has been attaokad by the colonists, as represented by their deputies, attd it is now being assailed by the natives. The new. system and probably "Local Option" resolution. Mr. Burt seconded it.

One or two speakers having spoken against the resolution, Mr. Bright said it did not commit the House to' the Permissive Bill, only to a declaration that the present licensing system was bad, and might bo improved. Ho pointed out the impossibility of any early legislation on tho subject, and said that the question must continue to grow, and that tho agitation would not only compel some future Government, to deal with it, but would enablo them to deal with it effectually. After some observations from Colonel Makins against the resolution, the division was taken, and it was carried by a majority of 42196 to 154. Major Nolan obtained leave to bring in a bill to suspend evictions in Ireland for a limitod period on payment of six months' rent.

The Government assented to the first reading, bnt Mr. Gladstone said they had oome to no decision on the subject. The majority for SirW. Lawson's resolution was greater by sixteen than last year, though the division was taken in a much smaller House. The figures last year showed 245 for the 'resolution and 219 against itbeing a majority of 26.

On Tuesday night the figures were. 196 for the motion and 154 against a majority of 42. Mr. Bright, Mr. Foster, and tho Attorney-General for Ireland wero among tha supporters of the resolution.

Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Childors, Lord 'Froderiolc Cavendish, and tho Irish Solicitor-General voted against it. Mr.

Chamberlain would also have voted in opposition to tho resolution had ho not been accidentally shut out. A majority of the Irish abstained from voting. When.tho local option resolution was brought in the late Parliament, jusfc before the dissolution, it wa3 rejected by 273 votes to 185. WEDNESDAY. Mr, Anderson moved the second reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill, a measure for creating a body of Commissioners to administer tho Patent Law, principally', with a view to extend the duration of patents for seven additional years when thought advisable.

Mr. DillwtN objected to the bill. Mr. Chamberlain admitted the existence of evils in the patents laws, but thought the matter should be dealt with by the Government. The bill was at length read a second time, upon the understanding thau a thorough measure shouldheroaftor bo introduced.

On the order for, Committee on the Welsh Sunday Closing Bill, Mr. Cabbutt moved an instruction to include Monmouthshire in the bill, on the ground that it was virtually a Welsh county. The motion was strongly opposed by the Attorney-General, and was not pressod. Mr. Warton, however, subsequently moved that tha bill be committed "this day six months," and this gave Mr.

P. Taylor the opportunity of delivering an animated diatribe against the party of oonscious virtue," including the Sabbatarians and the teetotalers. Mr. Warton's amendment was negatived by 123 to 29, and the bill was then passed through Committee. THURSDAY.

Lord R. Churchill having asked a question respecting the affairs of Tunis, Sir C. Dilke refused to reply on tho ground that it was identical with another question to be answered. A violent scene ensued, and Sir H. Wolfs moved the adjournment of the House to gain an opportunity of speaking.

Sir C. Dilke refused to answer the question without duo notice had been given. Mr. Gladstone warmly condemned a motion for adjournment in order to extract an immediate answer on a delicate question of foreign affairs as tho most indefensible he had ever and he hoped the House would mark its sense of it by refusing to allow it to be withdrawn. In the result the motion was by leave withdrawn.

The Land Bill was then considered in Committee. Some of the amendments, after a slight discussion, wero withdrawn. A long debate occurred on a motion by Mr. HENEAOB to exempt from the right of free sale BBtates where the improvements are made and maintained the landlord on the English system of management. The amendment was rejected by only 225 to 200, and the narrowness of tho majority provoked a loud burst of cheering from tho Opposition.

Clause 1 was then put as a whole, and was carried by 204 to 47. The City Press (of London) states that Mr. C. H. Robarts.

the late remembrancer, has delivered his formal claim against the Corporation. He. asks for restoration to his office, or in the alternative for ,25.000 damages. The "Wimbledon Meeting. Entries for the QueBn's and St.

George's Prize3, at Wimbledon, have closed, the numbers being for the former 2,300, or less than last yoar, and for the latter 2,096, or five more than last year. Twenty-three Canadians and colonials have entered in each competition. Tho entries for the other competitions aro above the average. The Lords and Commons matoh will tako place on Saturday, July 16th; the Elcho Ohallengo Shield on Thursday, 21sfc and tho National Challenge Trophy, whioh year was won at Edinburgh by England, will be shot for on July 18th, this year at Wimbledon.