The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

ELOPEMENT OF A BAPTIST MINISTER'S DAUGHTER.— On Friday last, Detective officer litttiiiiigway, of the Birkenhead police force, apprehended James Pearoe, an engine fitter in the employment of the Great Western Railway Company, at Ins temporary lodgiogs, in Trau- mere-park, un a charge of deserting hia wife and family under the following circumstances: I'earce is a mar. ried man, aged 35 years, and has a wife and several ohildreu living at a place called Skwn, near Neath, in Glamorganshire, not far from Swansea, of which place the Rev. John Jones holds the position of minister of a Baptist congregation. The prisoner had become ac- quainted with a daughter of the rev. gentleman, a young lady of prepos-iessing appearance, betweou 19 and 20 years of age, with light ringlets, approaching flaxen in colour. On Wednesday morning hist the young lady left home, telling her parents that she was going to Neath on a visit. On the road she was met by Pearce, and both proceeded by railway to Birkenhead, where they speut the night. at a temperance hotel, in Chester- street. The next morning they left this place, and took away their luggige, Pearce having passed under the name of J. W. Thomas. It would seem the pair intended sailing in the Eugland, oue belonging to the Natioual Steamship Cumpauy, but they were too late, and agreed to defer their journey for a week. In the meantime, the police of Swansea had been communi- cated with, and the head-conatable telegraphed to Liver- pool police, stating that the fugitives were supposed to be lodging in Chester-street, Liverpool. IhinRmg ttin meant llirkenhead, Major Beswick, the h-al-constable, W&i informed of the matter, and it was placed in the hands of Detective-officer Hemingway, who traced the pair to Victoria-road, Traumere, where Pearce waa ap- prehended on the charge of deserting his family. He was locked up in the bridewell at Birkenhead and the oonstable at Swausea communicated with, who in reply requested that Pearce might be detained until an officer was seut to remove him. There was found in the possession of Pearce, amongst other articles, XIF in money. The young lady seemed to be greatly disap- pointed at the furcible separation which had taken place, and expressed her determination not to return to her friends. The prisoner said he had been obliged to sepa- rate from his wife in consequence of her conduct, and that he allowed her 20s. weekly. Miss Jones was placed in private lodgings, while her paramour was kept under lock and key. THE QUEEN'S INCOMR-SO much nonsense is con- stantly talked, and such erroneous notions are held, re- specting the Queen's income, that it can hardly be con- sidered a work of superoragation to put the precise facts before the public. By an Act passed soon after her Majesty's accession, in which the Queen waives her right to. and interest in, certain hereditary rates, charges, duties, and revenues, which, by her prerogative she might have claimed, the civil list, i.e., her income is fixed at X3s5,000 per annum. Many people have an idea that this sum is actually paid to tue yueen every year. Such is not the case. The civil list is divided into six classes, to each of which we will briefly refer. Class I really represents the amount of money paid to her Majesty for her private use. This amount is £60,000, which is payable in monthly instalments as long as her Majesty lives. Class 2, which appropriates £ 131 '260, is for the payment of the salaries of her Ma- jesty's household. This business is conducted by an official called the Paymaster of the Household, and when it is considered what a multiplicity of officers there are connected with Court-from the lord of the bed-chamber to the page of the backstairs—it can readily be imagined how easily the sum is expended. Class 3 appropriates a still higher sum of zE172,500, and is for the expenses of the household. Royal housekeeping and royal parties and balls must be kept up on a royal scale, and auy one who has visited the Buckingham Palace mews and the Windsor stables-not to mention the royal kitchen-will not wonder that this sum finds pleuty of channels for its disposal. The amount of Class 4 is small, and its purposes are almost entirely charitable. Out of the sum of X13,000, £ 9,001) is de. Toted to the payment of what are termed royal bounty grauts" add" Rpecial service awards." Grants from the Royal Bounty Fund, which are in the gift of the Pre- mier, are generally made to distressed literary men and women, or to the necessitous relations of deceased mili- tary or naval officers, or to others who have claims on the government. Special service" covers extraordi- nary payments, Buch, for instance, as the awards made to the officer who first landed in England with the Abyssinian despatches from General Napier. The alms, or Maunday" money, also come from Class 4, aud to the amount "f i:2,000 are distributed by the Bishop of Oxford as Lord High Almoner. A further item of £ 1 200 is devoted to the payment of pensions to dis- tressed ladies. These pensions, as they fall in through death are in the gift of the wife of the Prime Minister for the being. Class 5, which consists of the payments tuade as pensions tOi deserving literary and scientific per- sons, or to any who have deserved the gratitude of their country, does not come out of the X385,000, but by a special clause in the act before referred to, the sum of £t.200 is set apart from tho Consolidated Fund in each year of the Sovereign's reign for this purpose The civil list pensions now amount to upwards of X17,000, after allowing for deaths. Class 6 may be regarded as s6 sort of reserve fund. The amount of it is £ 8,040, and it may be used towards meeting a deficiency in any of the other classes.

THli WKLSti NAI'MNAL JilSl'iiUDFOD. I At a general meetiug of the Council of the National Eisteddfod, on Thursday, last week, at Brecon, where the Eisteddfod of 1869 is to be held, Mr Pedr Iostyn Williams, of Manchester, was elected as secretary in the room of .Mr J. P. Williams, of Rhyl. deceased. There were twenty eight applications for the office. The work of the new secretary is unquestionably a most arduous one. For some years past a debt has been accumula- ting, until it has now nearly reached X1,000, and feeling that so long as it exista the council must be tiainpereu in their movements. Mr Williams has set before him the task of its liq uidatiou. As an earnest of this, circulars were issued to those who formed the local c miiuittee when the Eisteddfod was held at Chester, to attend a meeting at the Committee Hoom of the Music Hall, on Tuesday evening last, with the object of considering the best means for assisting this natioual institution of the Welsh out of its present difficulties. The chair was taken by W. M. Williams, Esq., but we regret to say that the attendance was very small. The Secretary, Mr P. M. Williams, attended, and from his statement we gather that the liabilities of the General Council are about LI,000, which had been in- curred by the Eiateddfodau held at Carmarthen, Ches- ter, and Huthin. No prizes were paid at Kuthin, and still worse, circulars were sent out repudiating just claims. A:203 was owing for prizes, and as the (Jouucil had no fuuds at command, the first thing they had re- solved to do was to ask what could be doue in those places where the Eisteddfod had been held. At Chester the, e wai a deficiency of X 478, of w hich L200 was still uupaid, and in fact more, because there was a balance at he buik against them of C398 and interest. He said t .f ache no be had to propound was to raise, if possible, £ 200 in Chester, which would not be half the debt in- eurred hjre, and to get up a Welsh concert in aid of the same object. Eventually a subscription list was started, Leaded by the chairman with £ 5 Mr Owen, "Owain A law," X2 2 s; Mr J. Jones, ii Is Mr Griffiths, cheesemonger, £ 2 2s, &c. Tue Secretary stated what is true, no doubt, that the debt upon the Eisteddfod threatened to crush it, and there are geod grounds when Chester bequeathed a heavy debt to the Council that it should be looked to at least for a portion of the sum. L- Lll.. J Ikr. tllrlf tlu RiQ- iNo <»ne, nowever, can «»e ounu w mo «*««« te,idtod has been wretchedly managed; and although none of us like to pay for past pleasures, it would seem ungenerous tu our neighbours to repudiate all moral re- sponsibility in this matter. It is Mr Williams' first aim to pay "tf the heavy debt, and every Welshman and En- glishm ill who can join hands should help him in his laudable endeavours, and the more so if they hope at some future time to see another National Eisteddfod, tiel, I hi,re. The next Eisteddfod is to be held the first week in August, a. the quaint old town of Brecon. We append the subjects for prizes, and the amounts; t ) be givt!ti, at the forthcoming Eisteddfod 1. For the best account, historical, and architectural, of the castles in the county of Carmarthen (in English), shewing whether they were erected upon encampments of prior date, by whom or;ginally built, by whom sub- sequently held, and the several warlike transactions in which they formed either points of attack or defence, and the legends and traditions convected with them. Prize, X40 presented by John Johues, Esq., Dulaucothy, Carmarthenshire. 2. F"r the best treatise, in English, an mineral springs of Brecknockshire and Llandrindod, including the most accurate aualysis. Prize, £25. 3, For the best biographical account, in Welsh or Euglish, of the emiuent men of Breconshire. Prize, £ 15, and medal. 4. For the fullest catalogue of manuscripts (English and Welsh) extant in Wales, specifying the age, author, aud Bubject of each. Prize, X15 15.1, and medal. 5. F,)r the best acconut of the different varieties of the colloquial Welsh language in the Principality. Prize, £5 5s, and ruedal. 6. For the best critical and biographical essay, in Welsh, on Vicar Pritchard, Llanymddyfir, author of Oanwyll y Cymry" (l'he Welshman's Candle). 7. For the best history (in English) of Brecknock and it* Castle, Priory, College, &c. Prize, £ 10 IUs, aud medal. 8. Forthe best essay, in Welsli or English, on" The old customs, superstitions, and traditions of Breck nock- shire, relating chiefly to witchcraft, charms, fortune- telling," &c. Prize,, X5 5s. 9. For the best description of the ancient weddings, biddings, and funeials of South Wales. Prize, £5 5s. 10. For the best treatise in Welsh on the system of farining bestadilpted for the upland farms of Breeou- shire, how they can be most usefully and profitably cultivated, aud if any breed of sheep could be advau tageouijy introduced. Prize, X5 5s, and a medal. 11. For the best English essay on the Miues and Miners of Wales, the last of the series of geological sub- jects proposed by Professor Ramsay. Prize, 910 10s, and medal. POETRY. 1. The Chair Prize, for the best Awdl, not exceeding 1,000 lines, on Elijah (Eliaa y thesbiad). Prize, £ 20, and the liardic Chair of Wales for 1869. 2. For the best Welsh I'ryd lest on any subject, chosen by the competitor, provided the subject be a Welsh character. Prize, X20, and medal. 3. For the best past ii-al song. in Welsh, founded on some Welili treatise. Prize, £5 5s, and a medal. 4. For the best descriptive poem, in Welsh or English, on the Natural Beauties of Brecknockshire. Prize, £5 5" and medal. 5. For the best elegy, in any metre, on Rhydderch- of on," for the late secretary o Yr Eisteddfod. Prize, X5 68, and medal. 6. For the best stanzas (Englyn) on Y Niwl. Prize, XI Is. 7. For the best stanzas (Englynion) on Bannau Brycheiniog." Prize, C2 2a. The musical subjects ami prizes will be arranged by Mr Brinley Richards, and will be published shortly.

The post of secretary to the Midland Railway has been given to Mr James Williams, of the Great Western Railway. Mr George Virtue, the well-known publisher of Ivy. lane, died suddenly a day or two ago. He was seventy- five years of age. The American Senate bas passed a resolution sym pithising with the Spaniards in the efforts they are making to establish a more liberal government, and urging them to abolish slavery in the Spanish possessions as soon as possible The latter is rather a new-born zeal in the cause of humanity. An influential deputation of gentlemen connected with India has had an interview with the Duke of Argyll on the subject of irrigation in that country. The Duke, owing to the short time that he'has been in office, forbore from euteriOK into the details of the question but he expressed his agreement with the view that it was hopeless to expect that works of this nature should be defrayed out of the current revenues of the empire. On the other hand, the principle had been laid down, which he thought was a sound one, that as far as possi- ble the revenues of India should be made to assist the ordinary public works of the country, so long as those works did not increase the public debts of India. He therefore thought that schemes of this nature might be met by a loan, in so far as they could be made re- munerative. I The inquest on the death of Ma-y Urant, who was killed during the late election riots at Newport by a I bayonet wound from a soldier has been concluded. The jury were unanimously of opinion that the deceased was accidentally killed by a bayonet wound received in a charge of a division of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fosiliers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bell. They added that while they sympathised with Mrs Grant's family, they were of opinion that no blavae whatever attached to the military and that but for the humanity and discretion evinced by Colonel Bell much more seri- ous consequences must have ensued. An accident happened on the Cambrian Railway on Saturday similar in character to one that bad happened at Huyton on the previous day. The axle of a salt wagon broke, the disabled vehicle got off the metals, and in falling over a bridge dragged with it into the river four other trucks. Some passenger carriages were at. tached to the train, but happily the couplers broke, and the travellers were thus saved from another Staylehuret calamity. As it was they received a severe shake, and one woman was seriously injured. The Westminster Play is this year Phormio," and it is pronounced by a critic to be the beat as regards the exhibition of special talent in particular parts, and of combined training in the production of a complete whole, which the Westminster srage has furnished for many years. The theatre on Thursday evening was crowded with a fashionable company, including, besides the head master of the school, Dean Stanley, the new Bishop of Lincoln, and several members of the government. DISTEMPER IN CATTLE.—The lung distemper in cattle known by the name of pleuro pneumonia has, since it first appeared in Ireland in 1839, been far more fatal to live stock than the rinderpest. An elaborate investiga- tion of the subject, including the causes and prevention of the disease, was some time ago entrusted to Professor Ferguson, of the veterinary department of the Irish Privy Council, aad the matter has also engaged the attention of the English and Scotch veterinary colleges. The statistical information thus collected is now in course of arrangement. A Cork veteiinary surgeon of great experience has been for some yeurs practising in. oculation as a precaution against pleuro-pneumouia, and reports favourably of its preventive effect. So also does Mr H. Lowe, manager of the most extensive stock farms in the west of Ireland. Professor Ferguson, however, is of opinion that further experiments and a more exten- sive experience of the remedy are desirable before ar- riving at any conclusion as to its merits*

ANGLICAN ADVOWSONS AT HtiAVY I DISCOUNT. The Duke of Norfolk ia wise in his generation. He is the must illustrious Roman Catholic in the British Em- pire, and the political influence which attaches to his station is awarded without stint or reserve to the policy of disestablishing and disendowing the Protestant Church in Ireland. Mr Gladstone and the Radical party have repudiated with vehement and scornful langhter the no- tion that the confiscation of the revenues of the Irish Church involves any attack on tne ngncs 01 property IU general. The plundering of the Church in Ireland is a purely exeeptioual aflair. The rights of individuals must always be secure, and the endowments of the Eng. lish Church are safe, because she is throned in the hearts of millions." But, as we have said, the Duke of Norfolk is wise in his generation. Cordially disposed as he is, both by his religion and the traditions of his house, to weaken the Protestant Church in Ireland by stripping it of its revenues, he is also the holder of ec. clesiastical patronage in the English Establishment, and the advowaous ate property with a value in the money market. Hence his grace, or rather his trustees -for the Duke will not be of age until the 27th instant—re- gard the question from a more sober point of view. They appear to have arrived at the conclusion that the precedent set in Irebud may exert a deteriorating in. fluence on the security of Church property in England. Tue argument of Mr Miall and the Liberationism, that both the Kstablishmeuts rest on the same footing, seems to have come home to them in a highly practical sense. If it is lawful for the State to sequestrate the revenues of the Irish Church, upon what ground are those of the English Church to be maintained as sacred and inaliena- ble ? And in that case what becomes of the Duke of Norfolk's property in these advowsons of his ? Doubt- less Mr Gladstone entertains the most equitable and beneficent intentions with regard to the rights of private pafrous but Mr Gladstone's wishes are not sufficient guarantee against the violence of his followers, and there is abundant evidence that the Roman Catholic and Liberationist sections of his supporters are by n') means deposed to be so scrupulous. The Duke of Norfolk and his trustees may be disposed to wink at wholesale con- fiscation in the case of Ireland, and possibly any hesita- tion they might feel in seeing the same measure applied to the English Church might be allayed if the personal interests of his grace did not stand in the way. Under these circumstances what could be more natural than that they should attempt to realise at once a property which might in a few years become absolutely valueless ? We do not say that this is the case, but it is certainly an obvious and colourable explanation of the fact that oa Tuesday last the Duke of Norfolk's trustees offered for sale the advowsons of five livings, the patronage of which has been in the family for at least seventy years past. Such, at any rate, was the construction placed upon it by the assemblage which thronged the auction- room on Tuesday. Only one 1* lot was sold, and the offer of the rest provoked inquiries which showed that the uncommonly shrewd sort of people who usually con- stitute the buyers'' on similar occasions had formed a very practical conclusion as to the meaning and effect of disendowmcnt in the case of Ireland. At the opeoing of the sale an opinion was expressed that there Beemed to be a good deal of diificulty about Church property at present in fact it might be altogether confiscated in a short time." Upon this the auctioneer, like his great prototype, now the First Lord of the Treasury, volun- teered his solemn conviction that, whatever the Legis- lature mightdo in regard to the Irish Church it "would never confiscate the property of the Church of England." It is instructive to learn that this assurance did not seem to convince the persons present, who shook their heads donbtingly." The subsequent admission of the auctioneer that, in the event of the iucome of a living being confiscated the patron would have to bear the loss, appears to have quite settled all questions as to the worth of Mr Gladstone's pledges on behalf of the English Church. One living worth X565 was sold under special circumstances at less than seven years' purchase, but the others found no purchasers. The magnificent sum of X100 was otfered for a rectory with an income of X200, but not a single bid was made for the other three livings, the estimated capital value of which was not less than £ 20,000. This result is instructive. It exhibits the kind of estimate which commou-sense, hard-headed, practical men place upon Mr Gladstone's assurauce that disendowment in Ireland involves no danger to the revenues of the English Church. An advowson which two years back was worth ten years' purchase is now absolutely unsaleable, because buyers of that kind of property have not the smallest faith in Mr Gladstone. It would be instructive to know what is the selling value, since Mr Maguire's notice of motion, of any of the Irish estates held by the City coLopauie,Y'he Standard.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK IN THE ATLANTIC. The chief officer, Mr O. Lamb, of the ship John Dun- can has arrived in Liverpool from Gibraltar, where he and six of the crew of the' ship John Duncan had been landed from the American brig Dirigo. Mr Lamb tells a terrible tale of the sea. The ship John Duncan, Captain Randall, sailed from St. John, N.B., for Liverpool on the 2nd ultimo, with a full cargo and a deck load of deals. Immediately after leaving the port she encountered fear- ful weather, which continued up to the 10th, when it blew a hurrican from N.N. W. At night there was a tremendous sea running and a heavy storm of snow and liaii-almost every sea pooping the ship, The cahin skylight was washed away, and the cabin filled with watur, the stores being washed about in all directions. The ship was still running before the wind and sea the cabin was full of water; all the clothing, nautical instru- meut., &c., were destroyed and every aea broke over the ship, which wa, fast becoming water-logged, and steered very badly. An attempt was made to throw the deck load over board, and two of the crew were washed away. The remainder of the seamen were then lashed to the standing rigging. At four p.m. on the Uth the ship pooped a tremendous sea, which cleared the poop of everything, carrying away all the boats, hurricane deckhouse, wheel, wheel-chains, four of the crew from the wheel, the captain, his wife, infant son, and a male passenger. The stern was knocked in, and the poop deck torn up. The ship then broiched to, split the three lower topsails, and lay on her beam ends, the sea breaking over, and washing away the deck load. The surviving crew took to the rigging, and afterwards to the topgallant forecastle. At seven p.m. the ship fell over on her broadside, with her uwts and yards in the water. The fore and maintopmast was carried away, as was also the mizenmast, with all the yards the decks were swept of everything, and the port side torn up. The ship then righted, having her foremast and main- mast standing, but three of the crew were drowned. The weather continued fearful until the 13th, when it moderated, and some of the wreck was cut away to pre- vent the ship from breaking up. It was then found that all the provisions were destroyed, but a pig was found and at once killed. The remainder of the crew suffered very much from want of fresh water and the eating of the raw pork until the 17th, when a brig hove in sight, but bore away without offering any assistance. On the 23rd the American brigs Dirigo and Radbone fell in with the ship, and rescued the unfortunate survivors. The names of those who perished were Captain C. O. Ran- dall, Mrs Randall, and infant son; Mr Reed, son of the owner of the ship W. Richley, carpenter; W. Wylie, sailmaker; James Smith, A. B.; James Gulling, A.B. J. Silver, M. Anderson, T. Frazar, M'Allister, and the boatswain, whose name is unknown.

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THE NEW PARLIAMENT. 1 It is perfectly true that the persons returned to the House are identically the same men as were returned to former Houses—perhaps with the ditfereuce of being rather richer on an averjge th in their predecessors. We never doubted that this would be the case. Wealth and rank have enormous influence in this country, and of this influence, part is natural and legitimate, part is alto- gether base and corrupt. When a man favoured by nature and society uses his advantages as they ought to be used when he employs his leisure and wealth in a ] serious study of political subjects and in proving to the world at large that he has seriously studied and formed a careful independent opinion upon them, he is and ought to be a mail of weight and influence and if per- sons less fortunate than himself recognize his advantages and repose their confidence in him, the act is likely to be useful to the public at large. The new Parliament contains a good many men of this stamp. Besides this legitimate influence, however, wealth has also an illegiti- mate influence, which is conspicuously shewn in the pre- sent Parliament, and which some people are foolish enough to regard in their hearts with satisfaction, be- cause they suppose it to be Conservative in its'teudencies. There are many ways by which rich men can buy them- selves seats in Parliament; and no one can doubt that a very unusual number of purchases of this kind have been made in the Parliament which met yesterday for the first tiane, If any one in his secret heart looks with satisfaction upon such transactions as these, and says to himself, here, at all events, are people who will make and keep things pleasant, and from whom nothing revolu- tionary is to be expected, he is grossly and lamentably deceived. The real revolutionists, the real dangerous class, is composed of these very men. The corrupt con- stituent and the corrupt member whom he sends to Parliauieut are a thousand times more dangerous than the most visionary enthusiasts. Let us consider for a moment what corruption means. It means that the parties concerued have for their real object in entering Parliament or sending members to Parliament, their own private advantage and the gratification of their meaner desires and that in order to effect this object they are willing to resort to whatever meaos may serve, however dirty they may be. Throwing about £5 notes is only one form -perhapa it is not the worst and moat danger- ous foria-uf corruption. It is, however, the most di- rect and unmistakable and can it be supposed that men who will do that will not do what is far more mis- r chievoue-that they will not first excite and then pan- der to the worst passions of the mob in order to get into power or that, when they are in power, they will not be the degraded and submissive slaves of those who put them there by their votes ? Those who look with secret unexpressed satisfaction on the accession to power of some selfish, vulgar, essentially fraudulent speculator, who by corrupting a borough has got a sort of excuse for supposing that he is a geutleman and that his wife is a lady. and who thank God that here at all events is a man who will do nothing to shake the foundations of society, should ask themselves how this bulwark of so-. ciety is likely to behave if he finds that he must choose between keeping his seat and voting for any absurd or wicked scheme to which his equally selfish and corrupt canstitueuts may take a fancy. Or, if we view the mat- ter from the other side, and look at the voters, will not the corrupt voters know perfectly well what they have done in selling their votes ? Will they not be aware that their member is in their power, that he must vote as they bid ? and can it be imagined that they will not know how to use this power > It is one of the wildest and also one of the most immoral delusions which can beset mankind to suppose that a Conservative and re- spectable government—a government Conservative of things really good, and respecting things which really deserve respect-can be founded on corruption. Let those who think so look at New York, and recollect their own tirades against democracy. The vein of black- guardisin which, no doubt, exista in American politics is derived from the alliance between vulgar wealth and vulgar peverty. It is when the rowdy who will sell his vote for a dollar meets the rowdy who has pleuty of dollars with which to buy votes that you get every scandal and abomination which a corrupt legislature, a corrupt Administration, and, worse than all, a corrupt judicial bench can indict upon mankind.Pall Mall Gazette. R[GHT8 OF PROPERTY MENACED. I It must be accepted as rather ominous of the new state of things in Parliament that several of the netices of motion last week were of a nature to proclaim the advent of a novel influence. Evidently members were in a hurry to show how completely they were iu accord with Mr Gladstone in his latest mood. Motions to repeal the income tax uuconditiunally-to abolish the rating clause in the Reform Act -to assimilate the laws rela- ting to the succession to real property to those affecting personal property-to alter the system of registration— to cast the expenses of elections upon boroughs and counties—were amoug the first notified on the first day of the Householder Parliament. Most significant of all was a notice of motion given by Mr Maguire, beariug upon the question of corporate property in Ireland. The intention of the member for Cork is to move that it is undesirable that corporations should be holders of landed property, and that it is the duty of the Government to relieve then: of such property, in order that it may be sold to private persons, with special rights of pre-emp- tion to the existing occupiers. We commend this mo- tion of a supporter of the Government to the electors of the City of London. Here, then, we have, even earlier than we had antici- pated, a precise realisation of what we had predicted as a necessary consequence of Mr Gladstone's Irish Church policy. No sooner is the new House of Com- mons formed, which was elected to serve Mr Gladstone, than we have a distinct intimation that the property of all other corporations is to be no more sacred from assault than is the property of the Irish Church. Von- fiscation," as Mr Disraeli said, is contagious." We see how quickly he has caught the prevailing contagion, or rather, how eager he is to proclaim the infection. The signal being given of a raid upon existing institutions, .Mr Maguire has only responded in strict logical se- quence. Why should the corporation hold property which it is the desire of individuals to possess t The great London companies have no better right to their estates in the North of Irelaud than has the Church to its revenues. Thesa estates once belouged to others, and their transfer was a deed of conquest—their reten- tion a sign of Protestant ascendancy. As disendowment is the order of the day, there is no reason why the Lon- don companies should be spared. To rob them would be to please all those who benefited by the property. A corporation has no more right to hold property than a church and if the religious part of the great Protestant settlement is untenable what reason has the secular part to expect to be maintained ? It will be important to watch this first sign of a de. sign for a general redistribution of Irish properties and we are thankful to Mr Maguire that he has so frankly and promptly followed up the hint thrown out by his leader. That we are justified in accepting this motion as the precursor of many others of the same kind no one will deny. We have always maintained that one inevitable result of the spoliation of the iriaii onurcu would be to whetthe appetites of all who partake of the spoil, or taste of the vengeance, for other game of the same kind. We have indicated the corporation pro- perty as the first which was likely to be assailed in the name of justice to Ireland. We are now fully confirmed in this prediction. Mr Maguire has taken a step in ad- vance of Mr Gladstone and the fact is of especial sig- nificance, because Mr Maguire is a kicd of authority with Mr Gladstone. The mind of the member for Oork is precisely one of those minds which influence Mr Glad. stone's conscience-in fact, we see in Mr Maguire's opi- nion of to-day the foreshadow of M r Gladstone's fervent conviction of the future. Mr Maguire was the man who had the largest share in educating Mr Gladstone to the fact of the connection) between Fenianiam in Ame- rica and the Protestant Establishment in Ireland. Have we not, therefore, a certain interest in Mr Maguire's utterances of to-day, when he delivers himself of the opinion that the corporations in Ireland should be com- pelled to sell their properties, and that their tenants should have the right of pre-emption ? Judging by these and other indications of the general tone of the business done by the House yesterday, it is certain that the mind of the new Parliament elected upon the platform" of Mr Gladstone, so far as it has yet pro- nounced, is running strongly upon the rights of pro- perty.-Tlte Standard.

MR BRIGHT. Mr Bright has taken office, and if anybody thinks that six or sixty amiable noblemen, of liberal tendencies, will counterbalance Mr Bright, they are quite welcome to a delusion which will not last very long. To do our new Minister justice, he has never deceived us. We know him, and we know his policy. We know his policy must be the policy of those who act with him and we also know, that, however Mr Gladstone may seek to disguise it by putting forward his colleagues and keeping back his real master, the nation will not be long in detecting M r Bright's policy, and in condemning it as it has always hitherto done. The actual instruments may indeed be the delicate hands of dukes and earls; but the country is not too obtuse to recognise the familiar voice-not indeed of Jacob—but of Jacob's big brother. We do not for a moment blame either Mr Gladstone for offering or Mr Bright for accepting office. No other course, as far as we can see, was open to either. Since Mr Bright's creed has become the creed of the Liberal leaders, a Liberal Cabinet must clearly be his creature and he could not honourably evade responsibility for its actions. So we beg the disconsolate Radicals to be a little less dolorous. They are not to have office it is true; but they are to shape the course of those who are willing, on this condition, to office-holders. And what more can a patri it desire ? That the bull has got in the china-shop cannot be denied. The only question that remains to be asked is —How will he behave himself now that he has "t there ? Will he want to break the crockery ? Aud if he does, will he be free to do so? Of course it is quite possible that Lord Halifax, for whom no post has beeo found, but who has promised the Administration hi. paternal assistance, may be told off to play the part for which he is so eminently fitted, that of a political Tur- veydrop, aud miy occupy his ven;rable leisure with teaching Mr Bright proper Cabinet deportment. Hut. on the other hand, Mr Bright uity prove to be a clumsy, and even an unwilling pupil. What if, after being ac- customed to dance furious jigs all his life, he does not take kindly to the stately Wnig iniouet, io which it will be the duty of Lord Halifax to instruct him ? Supposing that he insists on a rollicking pal ieut-liuvv then ? Sill" posing him to inform l.ord Hatherley tllat entaIls must be abolished; Mr Chichester Fortescue, that the s il must be transferred from landlords to tenants; Mr Lowe that there must be a free breakfast table and the revenue raised from realised property Earl Granville that the sooner we get rid of the Colonies the better Mr Childers, and Mr Cardwell, that the Army and Navy are ex- travagant anachronisms, and his colleagues generally that the views he bis been advocating for thirty years must now be emoodied in legislation—what will these worthy peers and gentlemen It) I An I if Mr Bright insists on none of t here things, what follows ? Surely that a com- plete cure has been found for mad bulls. -I,et them into the china shop, and then they will be mollified. The device, at least, possesses a charming simplicity-- Imperial Review.

There is no truth whatever in the rumours which have beeu reported in various newspapeis as to the un- satisfactory state of the Bishop of Liucolu's health. The testimonial to General Peel now amounts to about X900, It will be presented to the gallant General at a public meeting at Huntingdon, The Army and Navy Gaulle says it is rumoured that the arraugements which Sir John Pakington made pre- viously to his retirement from oiffce, with reference to the head of the Arseual and the new Ordnance Select Committee, are likely to fall to the ground. Ten thousand persons at W oolwich are at the present time without any means of subsistence, a great discharge of workmen having taken place at the Government esta- blishments. The Relief Fund Cummittee have re- ceived uearly £1,000, about half of which has been expended in relief. There are aoout 700 head of fami- lies at present receiving relief from the committee, at the rate of about £100 per week. The officers of the Woolwich garrison have subscribed X57 to the fund. Mr Gladstone, in reply t) an address to him signed by 4,810 of the women of Lancashire, expressing regret that the right hon. gentleman had ceased to represent the county, says —" It has so often been my lot to feel that any efforts I had endeavoured to make fur the pub- lic good met with a far more than just appreciation that my words may appear unmeauiug when I make very unfeignedly, a similar acknowledgment in the present instance. This need not, however, prevent my return- ing my grateful thauks to all who hive signed the add ress, nor my adding the assurance that their kind and generous language will at once stimulate and sus- tain me in the arduous labours which must devolve upon the present government in connexion alike with political and social objects." A case of considerable importance to workmen (though involving only the sum of is 2d), was heard in the North Shields County Court on Thursday. A joiner, named Lumsden. summoned Mr Addison Potter, of Willington Quay, for the recovery of the sum mentioned. The plaintiff, with some other men, had been engaged in out- door work joiner in Mr Potter's factory, aud a day's work in such circumstances is from daylight to dark Mr Potter has a workshop where joiner work goes on before daylight and after dark by gas, or from six to six. The plaintiff, with some other men, had been wotkiug in the open air; but between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the material necessary to keep them em- ployed ran short, and the foreman of the joiners t,-Id the plaintiff he must go iuto the workshop and get some doors ready. He went, but at dark he knocked off. Next morning he returned, but there was no employ- meat for him, and he had to go home, lie summoned Mr Potter for the quarter-day he lost. The judge main- tained that he was entitled to it. It was qthile clear that the plaintiff was employed on a definite class of work, viz, in the open air, the time for which was fiomday- break to dark He gave judgment for the plaintiff with costs, and his day's pay as a witness. Summonses have been issued against six of the prin- cipal directors of Overend, Guruey, and Co., charging them with having, in July, 1865, and at other times, unlawfully conspired together by various pretences aud representations alleged to be false and fraudulent, and by divers subtle devices and means, to induce persons to become, and by which it is alleged they did become, shareholders in the company, with intunt to cheat and defraud them of certain valuable securities, bankers' cheques, and sums of money, and by which they were, in fact. defrauded 'to the amount of £ 3,000,000. The chief complaiuaut is Mr Adam Thom, LL,D., and at his instance the summonses have been obbiued. Before they were issued the Lord Mayor is understood to have given the matter his long and anxious cousideratiou. The summonses are returnable at t ie Justice-room on the lat of January, and the investigation is likely to be exceedingly protracted, and to be adjourned from time to time. The present Lord Mayor (Mr James Law- rence), will probably be assisted by Sir Thomas Gabriel, than whom there is not a more painstaking or astute man in the whole Court of Aldermen. CESSION OF GIBRALTAR.—In a letter to the Times of Monday, signed George Grey, Admiral," the writer denies the absurdity of the proposal to cede Gibraltar to Spain. He says Ceuta is in every respect a more desira- ble place as a harbour of refuge an d refitting. Gibraltar, owing to its position, is tit lor neither purpose, in peace or in war, in calm or in storm. The Admiral, therefore, proposes that a certain number of years should be al. lowed us to form a harbour to the southward of Ceuta by a breakwater similar to that at Portland, for which there is every facility, and then to cede Gibraltar intact, with all its fortifications, in return for a proportion of the expense at Ceuta being paid by Spain. This bar- gain, he thinks, would be at once advantageous to Splin and the best bargain for Erglau,]. -In the present stdte of Spain, the Timet is not surprised that the question of the cession of Gibraltar should be revived. If the Spanish are susceptible on this score, so are we; and we are not yet prepared to abate any rational pretensions or to surrender any historical trophies without good reason and equivalent advantage. On the other hand, England's prosperity is not bouud up with even the smallest of its possessions. We cau see that a foreign settlement may represent rather a loss than a gain, and we are now more disposed to balance the claims of others against our own. The Doulton case has been re-opened in the Brussels Court of Appeal. The Deputy Procureur entered an appeal against the decision recently given that the crime or offence came within the Belgian code, and on Friday the rrocureur-General de Bavay, appeared before the Court of Appeal in support of the appeal. The charge against Doulton was, he said, complicated in a variety of ways. In May last, when oalled upon to appear, a state- ment was made on Doulton'a behalf, that he was at the point of death, yet a few days after that date he was iu his seat in Parliament. (Laughter.) The Procureur- General pointed out that the pot de vin contract, under which Doulton obtained the 148,000 fr., was made be- fore the company was formed, and Doulton, showing the contract of 15,000,000 fr. to the company, said not a word about his having made a contract for himself of 2,500,000 fr. Moreover, the contract made by Doul- ton to the company was that the concession was to be free of all charges to the company on the payment of the costs and the presentation of 10,000 deferred shares; and it was only after, when the demand of Clench was made, that Doulton, fearing the pol de-vin would come to light, obtained from the company a letter to make "arrangements with the contractor"—"arrangements" which had already been made, with the avowed purpose of making these demands. Having gone on to speak of Frant, the Procureur-General concluded by declaring that the charge had been m1.d" out against Doulton, who had offended against both the old and new penal codes of the kingdom, and called for the punishment of the offender. The Presiding Judge said the court would take time to deliberate. The proceedings then con- eluded, and the court will not be open for several days, when the judgment will be given. To CONSUMPTIVES.-A grateful father is desirous of sending by mail free of charge to all who wish it. a copy of the prescription by which his daughter was restored to perfect health from confirmed consumption, after hav- ing been given up by her physicians and despaired of by her father, a well-known physician, who has now discon- tinued practice. Sent to auy person on receipt of stamp o prepay postage. Address O, P. 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THE RUPTURE BETWEEN TURKEY AND GREECE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 19. The Porte sent the Greek Minister his passpi.rts yea. terday. Fifteen days are allowed to all male Hellenic subjects, with certain exceptions at the option of the Porte, to leave Turkish territory. Three ironclads and oue frigate left yesterday to reinforce Admiral Hobart Pacha in the Archipelago. Pec. 20, Evening. The Porte has approved of the action taken by Hobart Pacha before Syria, in the matter of the Knosis. The Ambassadors of England, France, and Austria have re- fused the request of the Greek Minister, M. Uelgannis, to take, the interests of the Greeks expelled from Turkish territory under their protection. BUCHAREST, Dec. 20. The Ramanul asserts that the.policy adopted by the Turkish Government in the Greek question is due to the counsel of Count Beust.

FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 21. The health of the Marquis De Mousticr, the lata Minister for Foreign Affairs, has become worse. I The France of this evening "'ys there is no truth in oertain disquieting rumours v\\i;ch have been afloat respecting the attitude of Rouiiyima. The same pa. per re-amrms that the relations between ttie Cabineto of St. Petersburg and the Tuileries are satisfactory. The Kmperor received M. Hizls I'augabe, the newly. appointed Greek Minister, yesterday, who presented his credentials. An Imperial decree, dated the 19th instant, convokes a General Council on the 11th of January next.

SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 21. The Correspondencia publishes a letter from Flor- ence, announcing that Prince Carignan is ahout to spend some time in Madrid, and that suitable apartments have already been retained for him. The telegrams published in the Gazette show that the municipal elections are proceeding in an equally orderly uunner as on the first day. Some slight disturbance* of a trivial character occurred in one or two places, but in every case the local authorities were able to preserve the peace. Up to the present time the monarchical and constitutional candidates have in nearly every instance obtained large majorities. A decree of Senor Sagosta makes it compulsory upon all municipalities and provin- cialAuthorities to convert within thirty days their fund* invested in banks of deposit into Treasury bonds.

ITALY. FLORENCE, Dec. 21. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the bill granting to government the provisional exercise of the budget for January and February came on for dis- cussion. TI-e committee appointed to report on this bill proposed an article declaring that payment of the Italian quota of the Pontifical debt should be mean- while suspended. Siguor Cambray Digoy declared that the government refused to accept the proposal of the committee. After several speeches pro. and con, Gen. Meuabrea said the Pontifical debt could not be con- founded with the Roman question. When in 1867, subsequent to the Roman movement, the Chamber by its vute on the motion of Siguor Valerio suspended the payment of the Pontifical debt, the government con- sulted the Council of State, whose opinion, dated 6th of February, 1868, decided that the Italian Govern. ment was not released from the obligation of paying the quota of the debt. General MenaLrea added that the suspension of this payment cannot damage the Pontifical goverumeut, but only its creditors, who confide in the fulfilment of the obligation formally assumed by the Italian government. Such suspensions would be con. trary to law, contrary to justice, aud could only create fredii complications and fresh embarrassment at home aud abroad.

ROME. ROME, Dec. 21. The Pope held a secret consistory in the Vatican to- day, at which his Holiness nominated ten archbishops aud bishops-six of thew in partibus infidelum. He afterwards spoke upou the events 11 in t-pain, aud de- plored the many evils suffered there by the church, mentioning particularly the danger threatening the uuity of the faith which had ever formed the chief glory of that Catholic nation.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A BRITISH CONSUL. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 21. News has been received here from Tittis of yeater. day s date, asserting that at Erzefoum an attempt had been made to assassinate Mr Taylor, the British Consul there.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 20. The following ia a summary of the Cambrian's news: Very bad weather had prevailed along the coast of South Africa. For many years before such succession* of storms had not beeu experienced, and colonists stated that they had never witnessed similar unseasonable weather. Considerable damage had been done among the snipping off the Cape. Ten large ships had put into Cape porta for repairs. Many total losses of vessels were reported, and several disabled vessels were still expected to be outside, making for ports to refit. Busiuess was still dull in the Cape colony, but the weather had been favourable for the crops. The move- Illent for improving the quality of Cape wiaes, and opening up foreign markets for their sale, was progres- sing, and a company was formed with a capital of £ 100,000, for carrying out those objects. The grape crop in every district promised to be very large this year, and large shipments of wool had been made. Ostrich farming was proving ,-ry successful, and it* adoption extending amoug farmers. The colonial border relations were very unsatisfactory, and from Namaqaaland to Victoria West the country was being kept in a perpetual embarrassment by smaU hordes of plundering bushmen and koramas. On the north east border there was a disturbance with the Tambookies, but nothing very serious was apprehended to result from it. Mr Brand has been re-elected President of the Free State. The Basuto dispute remained as before, the Basutoa distinguishing themselves, as formerly, by their zeal and skill in cattle theft. Mr W. V. Erskine, a son of the colonial secretary of Natal, had discovered the mouth of the Siuipopo river. I in 24 55 S., 34 10 E. Herr Maneh had discovered gold in another locality during his journey to the nOI th wet. The natives state that they used to dig there for copper, but it was of a different colour to that now obtaiued. A Government commission had not been sent to investi. gate these discoveries, and the Actoertiser and Mail advise diggers not to leave England until some more definite and satisfactory accounts are obtaiued. The Bishop of Capetown had been enthusiastically received by the members of the English Church on hù return to the colony.

A Lesham solicitor named Logan, 36 years of age, has committed suicide near Durham. He had lately given way to drinking. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S FIRST PIECE OF PATRO- mt.GE.-The first piece of ecclesiastical patronage in the gift of the Lord Chancellor has fallen to Lord Hather- ley. It is the vicarage of Moretou, near Oswestry, which is returned as being worth £680 a year. The Duke of Edinburgh, instead of being in India at the latter end of February next, as at first proposed, will not visit that Empire until the end of October next year, and he will leave there about the end of January following. At the Durham assises, Henry St. John Montague. aged thirty, a schoolmaster, was convicted of a capital assault on Isabella Hope, one of his pupils, a girl aged fifteen years, at Willington, on the 23rd of July last and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. He was carried out of the court insensible. HltKAKVAST, — A SCCCESSfUL EXPERIMEST, The Citil Sem-t Gazette has the following iuterestinjr remarks:- -There are very few simple articles ot food which can boast so many valuable an4 important dietary propertiMM Ceeo. While acting on the nerves as a (tenti6Mim?lnt it provides thQ body with ..me of the Durest ^lennrita of nutrition, and at the same time corrects and invigorates the action of the digestive organs. These beneficial eirects depend iu a great measure upon the manner of its preparation but of late ye." such close attention has been given to the growth M< treatment of cocoa that there is no difficulty in securing it with nlf™ 5ilTM y "insular succefs which !T Epps attained yi his homœopathlc preparati,m of cocoa has never been ?rpa?e.t by any experimentÜi,t. Faund wide the ronnt H of t-pp? ? Cocoa ha? Bpread by the simple force of its „ V merits. Medical mm of all sha les of opinion have agreed in recommending it as th.i safest and m?t. beneaciat article of (li?t FOR NORTNNC NF .??.;?..t:??? ?'t j.?- ?-:?- f"VU<J V. ncan 1,lIUSl,.llUlI'IU 11U supeimrivjr of a particular mode of preparation ever all others is a remark* M))e pro?t of the t;re?t results to be outdned from little causM. Hy ? thorough knowledge of the natural laws which ??veru the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful applica- tion of the tine properties of well-so'ected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bever- age which in ay save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of snch articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until ttrnni; enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us, ready to atUck wherever there is a weak poiiit, We may es- cape many a jital shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified wttb pure blood and a properly nourished frame. 537