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eU> nò »■'V J. (> ¿ K i t * I !. •' ........ -"—Y"-4—■—— ZJLGKl , i gni; i.I. iiA '■“ . - ..•’. -rii fitti.. ■': i ■ :• •■■■ ■•: ■■■■ H •Iti. • t.!*t 1 ... ; ■■Siti • , J l » < i ... »' ...lis No. 984. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1859. T>vitati. /STAMPED, SIXPENCE. JTR I C E j UNSTAMPED, FIVEPENCE. atile of Contents* 1 1m ,v,^ j COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE : India and ' •ch; Disarmament of Oude; Nana Sahib ; Reasons for the halt at m . .. . e t ; ” The Massacre of Tinnevelly. China, il and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill; Burning Lfornia. Central America. Costa R ica. The iosta Rica. France: The Princess Clotilde. i Government Circular ; The Loan. Austria, aria. Rom e : The Pope and the Prince of any: Death of the Hereditary Archduchess, ss o f the King. Spain. Greece. The Ionian rfa The Danubian Principalities. The Debate ian Loan ............... ••• ••• . ...114TELLIGENCE:— Diocese of Westminster : le Children at Spitalfields; New Church and entish Town. Diocese of Beverley: Young y, Huddersfield. Diocese of H exham :^S t . ese of Shrewsbury: Presentation to the Rev* jr. Diocese of Birmingham: New School at The Redemptorists. Conversion o f the P*0" aemmer. A Martyrdom in 1835 ... . . . l i s - i y itholic Electors and Whig Candidates; The ie Workhouses; The Italian Question.... ... 120.-21 he History o f France; Algeria during the r ; Uwins’ Life and Letters; Southern Lights g ••• ••• ... 122-Jo itermediate"Education; the Galway Election; v Dr Cullen; the Chaplain of the North Dublin See of Dublin ; A ll Hallows' College, Departure ries; Profession o f two Nuns and Opening of a lercv and Orphanage at Cllfden; Laying the Stone of the New Church of Aglish, D io ceg of Rev. Mr. Curley in America; Death of the Rev. >ney, P.P. of Ballymacnab; the Phrenix Clubs ourt of Queen’s Bench; the Phoenix Society— Ennis; the Cork Club on Independent Opposius Accident from the Bursting o f a Gun; Tenant Reform, Demonstration in Tipperary ... . .. lM - s o )ENCE The British N avy; Catholic Military The Royal Commission on Education; St. i Hospital; Dr. Newman’s Life of Cicero ... 126-^7 j ^ u m m a r g . r----- ----- --------------ise o f Lords has not been busy since our Earl of .Leitrim’s motion, on Friday last, of persons assassinated in Ireland between L858, was cushioned by common consent o f i Tories— Loyds Derby, Monteagle, Dunind Desart all objected, and' this faint > repair, at Westminster, the disastrous Dublin, and by raking together the for- twenty for slandering a whole people, and forwardrigues o f a small faction, failed as it deserved Ifcaejubtedii jndb tb i t thB-cMcte b f -a p f •o f f t # srs, and even if it did, the inference sought .vn from these returns would be in such contradiction with the actual state o f things, HO use ip any one, * Hythe and Greenwich have sent Jews to Parliament ’f a T fe Laron I*. iljiapljilrl and k b . ■SaiomOBB. Sffie W ^ ^ Riding returns S}|?;John R amadan v ib e mb* presentjEapl o i Gladstone is re-dected for Oxford University. In Marylebone, Mr. Frederick Romilly is a candidate in place o f Lord Ebrington, who resigns. __W e have given lengthy extracts from the Indian news all leading up to the announcement published in the T im es o f Thursday from the telegraphic summary of the Bombay mail o f January 25. I t is difficult to abbreviate the short and pithy statements of the telegram. The campaign in Oude ended on the 8th o f January. Ten leaders had surrendered. The Begum with some followers fled into Nepaul. Nana Sahib was supposed to be with them. Lord Clyde was on Ihis way to Lucknow. A ll the forts had been destroyed, and 400,000 stand o f arms surrendered. A liberal Zemindaree settlement was going on,and was to be finished hy the 10th o f February. Tantia Topee is still at large, having been overtaken and beaten several times, once b y Colonel Benson, twice by Colonel Somerset, and again on January 16th hy Brigadier Showers. The latest news o f all is from Allahabad, Jan. 18 : that on the 16th the rebels crossed from the Terai, in Oude, over the Sardah, or Sarthea river, into Rohilcund, from twenty to thirty thousand strong, when they were attacked and defeated with slaughter, their guns taken, and themselves driven back again across the nver into the Terai. . „ __The great meeting at Thurles, m favour of Tenant-right and Parliamentary Reform, having for its basis, “ Vote by Ballot,” took place on Monday, and we report it elsewhere. The meeting unanimously adopted the resolution— “ That the minimum o f justice « due to the Irish tenant is that which is contained in “ the hill o f the Tenant League, and that, no matter “ what measure short o f that hill may be sanctioned by “ the present or any other Government, the country “ cannot, and should not, be satisfied till the entire ti measure adopted by the League has passed intd law. As a lso44that every day’aexperience provesmore clearly “ that the only policy whereby Irish interests can be ad“ yanced in the British Parliament is that o f the Inde44pendent Opposition party— that that policy should be 44the rule o f action for every true Irish representative, 44and to sustain it, the duty o f every Irish constituency “ __that any man assuming to represent this county in 44Parliament who does not faithfully adhere to that 44policy cannot be deserving o f our approval, and that u o’Ur esteemed representative, The Q ’Donoghue, for his (Tearing away a number of Inisconceptions as to what had M SL ih is subject: ;.betyeay ;A « Juteeticanf and British Governments. I t seems i is no difference between them. Lords ry, Clarendon, Aberdeen, Derby, and i, are all in the same story. As far hack Lord Aberdeen renounced all pretensions id search American vessels in time o f peace, ed for every navy in the world the right ining by visit, the nationality o f merchant there, was reason to suspect their illegal " , T p ç ir g h t ’ ig àdçiitted b y France and and it is understood by all that it must be ai the risk and on the responsibility o f the :er in command, in case o f a mistake. To iformity o f practice, France and England sd on ,a n identical code o f instructions t 3rs, and it has been submitted to the Ameri •nment for adoption. use o f Commons on Friday was engaged for on a subject of which the readers o f the ve lately heard a good deal, viz., Gothic ire. Lord Palmerston took the same line as ? o f the pamphlet, ,“ A W ord to the Goths,” ; might argue from similarity o f style and mode o f treatment, the pamphlet which Dy. has repudiated might possibly be the ex­ He objected to going back to the and dark ages, and disliked Italian Gothic, he did not know precisely what that was.” , however, was a “ monomaniac.” Then the General introduced his Landed Estate^ Bill, ; an indefeasible Parliamentary title to all ~s who can prove the goodness of their title isfaction o f a New Court to be established for al, purpose. Fifteen months is to be allowed dors. I t is an extension to England Irish Encumbered Estates Bill, minus er o f ordering a compulsory sale, case o f nepotism by which the Lord High r o f England lately scandalised us all in % a near connection o f his own, whose fitness sant public duties had not been evidenced by on which he held, or the services which he ered, to be a “ Master in Lunacy,” with ■year, and a retiring pension o f 1,2001., ight before the House by Mr. G. Clive, lit, Mr. D ’Israeli stated that the Chancellor ; have made" the appointment i f he had not tied o f his nominee’s competency (a laugh) ; he latter gentleman had resigned the post I t is at any rate a proof that the difficulty ing abuses and defying public opinion is inbject o f Indian Finance was brought before î on Monday by Lord Stanley, l Tuesday Lord John Russell, undeterred by terial Bankruptcy Reform Bill, fulfilled his qade at Liverpool, by introducing a scheme i. The Times praises both Bills, and thinks id be considered together, and should suggest “ buaust . J a ' t o M t o k ’ .’' ' ’ ' ; TSeqe are th e resolutions ■whieh'were t o : b a ex* pected from Tipperary, and which, if they were acted up to, and carried out, both in Tipperary and in other countries with consistency, perseverance and energy, would ensure the triumph#o f the great cause for which so much has been spent as yet without success. The meeting seems to have abstained from any less general assertion o f its Views, «pedtding, .tfi" adopted by the Tenant League in August last, o f waiting for a month from the •opening» o f o f Parliament to see the bill which the Government promised to introduce, and which Mr. Whiteside is about to bring forward. The expediency o f accepting that measure as an instalment o f justice, and as o f beneficial operation,, of and by itself, without surrendering any portion o f the further claims which may be left unsatisfied, will then have to be discussed on one hand, as well as on the other hand, the advisability o f opposing it and endeavouring to procure its rejection, lest its adoption should be taken by so many as a final settlement that all hopes o f future action wpuld become vain. The meeting adopted the following resolution concerning Reform :— 44 That the efforts o f Mr. Bright to “ procure Parliamentary Reform are deserving o f the “ warmest approval and co-operation o f the Irish “ people; and although there are some details o f his 44 projected measure, particularly in reference to the 44 distribution o f representatives as regards Ireland, “ which should be more favourable to this country, “ yet we hail the sound principles he has enunciated, “ and, above all, his making Vote by Ballot an indis44 pensable condition o f his hill, as the charter of “ electoral independence, without which any reform “ or extension o f the franchise would be, at least in “ Ireland, but an extension o f oligarchical domina“ tion, and a further prostration o f popular liberty.” But on this matter we are afraid there is a mistake. I f 44any Reform or extension o f the Franchise, would “ be, at least, in Ireland, but an extension o f oligarc h i c a l domination, and a further prostration of “ popular liberty,” (and we agree with the meeting in that view), we take it that the agreement which the meeting assumes to exist between it and Mr. Bright, is a misconception. Unless we are grievously mistaken, Mr. Bright looks to the passing of his Reform Bill and its operation as the means by which the Ballot is to be obtained a fterw a rd s . He looks upon the Ballot as the certain andnecessary consequence ofhisbill. And though we differ on such a pointyfrom such a man with real diffidence, yet we do differ from him, and it is quite certain that the Tenant League, last August, and the County o f Tipperary, at this moment, differ from him too. W e want the Ballot before Reform, or even without Reform, for we all say that without protection to the independence o f the voter, Reform will do more harm than good. But Mr. Bright says Reform will do so much good that one o f its first fruits will be the Ballot. The difference is material. What we had hoped was that there would be a determination everywhere among R e formers both in England, Ireland, and Scotland, to listen to no proposal for Reform o f which the Ballot did not make a part. W e have always said, and on this we thought that in Ireland at least the great bulk o f the Independent iury’s Bill to enable men to marry the sisters ead wives was read a second time on Wedr a majority o f 58. - ................................. ................ ............. [■elections haye taken place since our last, a n d ’ party were agreed, the smallest measure of*Refonn _ with the Ballot would ho worth everything — the largest measure o f Reform without the Ballot would be worth nothing. By separating the demand for the Ballot, from the demand for an extended franchise and a redistribution of seats, the Reform porty itt' fifaglaftd h£i4, w4_ttinS:, n i4de,a .im itate; in policy. The meeting at Thurles makes no mistake about the right policy, but is mistaken on a fact. -— Loyd Stanley’s Indian Financial Statement, on Tuesday last, will add to his reputation. I t was characterised by lucidity o f expression and arrangement. I t is an old saying, that any member who can make an intelligible and interesting financial statement must in this country become, some day or another, ChafiedlaFof tlie Bsftffieguer. I f Lord Stanteyjmrwie the policy o f which he has already given some promise, snd t* $ t (n a fy in ^ ^ r i ^ n if t p o l | ^ » t t o vyVpw M . be amongst the grumblers i f he also hold the First ,. .. ■” j v B y the Noble Lord’s statement, it appeared that the deficiency for the year 1853-4 was £2,100,000; that the deficiency for the year 1854-5 was £1,700,000; that for 1855-6, it was 1,000,000 ; and that for the year 1856-7 it fell to £179,000. A t the time o f the outbreak o f the mutiny the equilibrium between between income and expenditure had been well' nigh restored. The estimated revenue ( th e actual accounts have not yet been received) for the year 1857-8 was £31,544,000, and the estimated expenditure £39,129,000; showing an estimated deficiency o f £7,585,000. But this does not include an extra expenditure o f nearly £1,500,000 upon troops and stores in England. So that the whole deficiency for the year 1857-8 may be taken in Church a t va r ia n ce w i fo .t fa .la m q ft ih c <Sto<0. vj Tlûrtythree votes to twenty-eight rejected Mr. Massingberd’s amendment. The object o f the amendment was to avoid the admission that the law o f the Chirrch would be Changed byan A c t ofParliament, and to setup the theory that as a conflict between the law o f the Church and the law o f the land could he talked of and voted about, such a thing as the law of the Church must heeds exist, imptáátefromañd’in d e ¿ e ¿^ n t law c ^ A p l a n d ; and consequently that the Church could not be called the mere creature o f th'e State, much leas a mere department o f it. However, this view was too high for the majority, who knew themselves and their own position, and the Realities and Veracities better than the mild enthusiasts who dream o f Church authority, and like sensible men they spoke o f the A c t of Parliament according to its necessary operation. ILattst 3£nUlIici;nuT. • ■ 0 ■■■■— _ h-."; . THE FRENCH ARMY AND THE’ CONFERENCE. Paris, Thursday Morning. The Moniteur publishes a decree, fixing the payment to he made hy soldiers of the Class of 1858, in substitution of personal military service, at 2,000 francs. THE CONGRESS AT PARIS. The Moniteur contains also the following :—44The Confsrpnee ^Representatives of the Powers wifi,,)fcwcy reassemble at Paris for the purpose of discussing ( examiner) the result of the Moldo-Wallachian elections. The Ministerial warning given to the Presse has created a gfmi nniiHrtfati on the Boulevards 40 centimes. round numbers at £9,000,000. The financial result o f the year 1858-9, which will close on the 30th April next, is estimated at a further deficiency o f £12,600,000; so that the financial result of the mutiny isadeficiency i f n T , f t l F As to w h ^ tortfciff lossa might .be incurred for compensation for losses and recompense for services, the noble lord was necessarily somewhat ’ia l^ iSnak., .. -ji;-’ :,;'¿ .i.: :V i . ' The Revenue derived from the land tax was, in the year previous to the mutiny, £19,080,000, being the largest amount ever realised. In 1857-8 it fell to £16,671,000, and rose again in 1858-9 to £18,392,000 This source o f Revenue is incapable of any except i very slow increase. The other great source of Indian Revenue is the Opium d u ty : this had risen in 1857-& to £6,413.706, being an increase in one year of £1,800,000. " The trade with Uhinajn ifci“ ffeYoi" that . . . ... utrrrjueKnon oi its noxious properties was not one for the consideration o f ’ Government, and moreover that these were greatly exaggerated, and did not exceed those o f ardent spirits. The House, which likes Revenue, cheered these statements throughout. These two sources o f Revenue contribute four-fifths o f the whole which is raised. The Salt duty contributes the much larger portion o f the remaining fifth. The extra military expenditure, caused by the mutiny, the Noble Lord set down as £18,000,000 for j t e the loasfcgr These items amount together to £28,620,000. As to the total financial result, i f the same two years exliibited a deficiency o f £21,600,000 only, it follows that Indian finance, minus the mutiny, ,wuuti>ghow a ii n 7^ o f £ 2,’f i ^ ,O O ÿ ^ ,l i0 t ' ^ ’y je ia i 4àDa this!a f t i ^ ^ ‘ %xpen<ütwre o f !about’ £ 8 ;OdO,O0^ a-year in public works The present amount o f the Indian Debt was £74,500,000, o f which £15,000,000 had been raised in England on the security o f the Indian Revenue, and . ^ m o o o in TmjK» . Finally, he .asked to give him leave to raise £7,000,000 in this country qn,iw0,^HBoetienib oF th e /la m a fr lM t yectE^thatlfq, on the security o f the Indian revenues. :> ; . y.,t *-BAwA'ThJiwa*yi4.Mp.in. The Bourse opens very firm, in consequence of the warning given to the Presse for its warlike articles. Rentes are nearly J per cent, higher than yesterday’s closinB- il c i r . : , cs/ij» ul 6 3.20 p.m. The rise has not been fully maintained, and Rentes close 68f. for money,-and 67f. 90c. for accoUnt. T m’uTi <2?j <’!>1.!:( ill Hn mn.stPK..; ¡m a t '■^ SERIOUS NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPALITIES. us! ■ V-d' Trieste, Thursday. The steamer just arrived brings news from Constantinople to,ifi» |f&fe!jfast- '■ ‘IF ■ A message received from Jassy announces the entry of A. Couza into Bucharest. He has published an edict, decreeing the union of the Principalities, with one ^national assembly for the two, which assembly is to hold its sittings at Fokscliani. : ________ _ , N i JfeWJWm r'Tresentatlve of Fresh despatch of troops to the Danube is in prospect. Redifs are continually arriving here. f.l L THE SERVIAN S E N A T E ./ ' ^ The Senate has been reconstituted by Prince Miloscli. It numbers at present four members of the ancient Senate, and sevennew members. :i;i 1r..( f The President of the Senate is Mr. Stewscha. The President of the late Senate, Mr. Jankovich, and the former; Senator, Mr. Jerevich, have been accused of high treason and put in prison. I he late President of the Council, Markovich. has been exiled. .. ■■•U:Y; „ .■ . . , ' MARRIAGES IN PRUSSIA. f '% •*V'Vf’/t .■? • .Thursday, Feb. 17th, In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies this day, a ministerial project of law, relating to civil marriages, was brought in. The project proposes the abolition of certain obstacles to marriage and the introduction of. certain grounds of divorce. According t&g ffT fcjif j ^ r 1 not be obligatory, nor will it be longer a necessity, but oftional • v T -'“ “ T* ; ' ■■ ENNISKILLEN ELECTION. Enniskillen, Thursday. ¿ijiTo-day the following gentlemen were respectively proposed and seconded to represent the borough, in the room of Mr. J. Whiteside, who has resigned;—Paul ‘Dane, Esq., Hon. John Lowry Cole, John Collum, Esq., H. M. Darcey, Esq., W. A. Dale, Esq. The show of hands was in favour of the Hun. John Lowrv Cole. A poll was demanded by the other candidates. — Lord Chelmsford has got himself into a scrape, from which, as we are informed, i f required some rather peremptory intimations from his colleagues to tpjjqtii’itim t o wnncWj^iv. -•H e afip tifited Ing’É m ^ 4 w t ,.i of very fair abilities and a very estimable person, but unfortunately no lawyer, to the very delicate and (inénùtta ppet o f Master, in L tsa py . I t was very f a ^ y objected to this, that Mr. Higgins’s sta tu s as a Barrister was merely formal, that he had never practised, and that his occupations since his call to the bar ih ifn g 't ijn i, .firtty -* n ^^tirk i i Min rntrmiB oÉtm* then o f private secretary to Sir Bulwer Lytton, and jtittllyjfolBifca w i p e (Wod oSdtjs o f h is ' fijCafer-fKtJaWv of a Registrar in Bankruptcy, did not fit him for the arduous and very responsible and important that on his promotion to this office (one o f 2,OOOZ. a-year), his previous preferment (o f 1 ,000Z. a-year) bâjbeiip, fiilâ up, aad that ïùs reugnatk^r pf tiks more valuable post leaves him the victim o f the kindness o f the Lord Chancellor. But we have been informed that the Registrarship in Bankruptcy had not been definitively filled up, and that consequently Mr. Higgins will retain it. $mperial ^arltamrnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Thursday, F eb. 17. The Lobd Chahceixob took his seat at five o ’clock. THE IONIAN ISLANDS. The Earl o f Cahnaevo^, in reply to Earl Grey, replied that the IrllfBH |[>|Ni» rtf ITw’niijjtiiittWfiWifiiUnTTM, Gladstone to the Ionian Parliament, recommending certain changes in the constitution, was perfectly authentic; but he declined to say whether the recommendations received the sanction of the Governmen,. or to produce the papers. Earl Grey then gave notice of a motion on the subject for Monday next, and after some observations dropped Earl ° f Derby fSW the Earl o f Ellenborough, the subject The Law of Property and Trustees’ Relief Amendment Bill wasread a third time and pa<iM?0 I r . * i ‘ l i T T " , EXCHANGE OF CHURCH LIVINGS. The Earl o f Derby introduced a bill for the purpose o f enabling Her Majesty to exchange a church living with one of her subjects, which, after a few words of approval from.Lord Brougham, was read a first time. The House adjourned at a few minutes before six. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— T h u r s d a y , Feb. 17. The Speaker took the chair atfour o ’clock. A new writ was ordered to be issued for Marylebone, in the room o f Viscount Ebrington. Mr. C. Gilpin gave notice o f a resolution on the subject o f the growth o f opium in India. — The Guardian devotes fourteen pages this week to its report o f the proceedings o f the Convocation o f the Province of Canterbury. And thé Times invites all who feared the dangerous consequences o f allowing the Protestant Bishops and Clergymen this faint shadow o f independence, to admit the extremely harmless nature apwsefnents in whioh •these rnpnfijihlfi men wile away a few hours or days every year. And yet, in the Lower House, there has been a discussion, a division, and a decision, the significance o f which is not to be mistaken. I t was on the Marriage and Divorce Act, and the House adopted as an articu la s c le r i a complaint on the subject, and presented it to the Upper House. Canon Selwyn proposed to say, ' “ 'since the A c t is felt by a very krge number o f the ; to Tutvc t f y ' lqw ., i f f i 9 c a^ . 't b e Rev. F : M^cBi(igbçcdwoyè4 W<M^’ gtitute the words, appears to have p la c ed the law o f the Mr. Locke K ing asked leave to introduce a bill to provide that the landed property o f a person dying intestate should be liable to the same law of distribution as his personal property. The SolicitorGeneral assented, and leave was given. , , jr;: ' ¿ m u s y a m M a a n p m w L ¡ ¡ . . Mr. Ayrton moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal those statutes which restrict the right o f political printing and reading. H e traced the history o f this legislation to the fears o f Whig and Tory Ministers at various periods, and argued the absurdity of maintaining laws which hampered newspaper proprietors and publishers, without giving the least security against treasonable or seditious writing He remarked, also, upon the unequal and tyrannical administration o f the law by the stamp authorities underthe late Government, who suppressed! some useful and harmless publications, and took no notice of a paper issued on purpose to try their right to interfere. Mr. M. Gibson seconded the motion. The Solicitor-General said he should not oppose the introduction o f the bill, thinking it unwise to retain statutes which no law officers o f the Crown would put in force, but.whether it was expedient to repeal all the statutes which were in force was a matter for con— tfRAArt.» rfAi." III’.tUi— 1 ..-t-iiCd-i ,r.v:; Legy » _gtrvn; , VMj Viscount Melgund moved that the Educational Grant for England! and Scotland be in future taken separately. Mr. A dderley opposed the motion, and it was, after a short discussion, negatived without a division. I Soma other business was then despatched, and the House adjourned at 10 minutes past seven o ’clock. U-i /: Hwio! i "• f j i ’i fiWOiU'OG.r 'jtil.iiii Si \

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COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE : India and ' •ch; Disarmament of Oude; Nana Sahib ; Reasons for the halt at m . .. . e t ; ” The Massacre of Tinnevelly. China, il and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill; Burning Lfornia. Central America. Costa R ica. The iosta Rica. France: The Princess Clotilde. i Government Circular ; The Loan. Austria, aria. Rom e : The Pope and the Prince of any: Death of the Hereditary Archduchess, ss o f the King. Spain. Greece. The Ionian rfa The Danubian Principalities. The Debate ian Loan ............... ••• ••• . ...114TELLIGENCE:— Diocese of Westminster : le Children at Spitalfields; New Church and entish Town. Diocese of Beverley: Young y, Huddersfield. Diocese of H exham :^S t . ese of Shrewsbury: Presentation to the Rev* jr. Diocese of Birmingham: New School at The Redemptorists. Conversion o f the P*0" aemmer. A Martyrdom in 1835 ... . . . l i s - i y itholic Electors and Whig Candidates; The ie Workhouses; The Italian Question.... ... 120.-21 he History o f France; Algeria during the r ; Uwins’ Life and Letters; Southern Lights g ••• ••• ... 122-Jo itermediate"Education; the Galway Election; v Dr Cullen; the Chaplain of the North Dublin See of Dublin ; A ll Hallows' College, Departure ries; Profession o f two Nuns and Opening of a lercv and Orphanage at Cllfden; Laying the Stone of the New Church of Aglish, D io ceg of Rev. Mr. Curley in America; Death of the Rev. >ney, P.P. of Ballymacnab; the Phrenix Clubs ourt of Queen’s Bench; the Phoenix Society— Ennis; the Cork Club on Independent Opposius Accident from the Bursting o f a Gun; Tenant Reform, Demonstration in Tipperary ... . .. lM - s o )ENCE The British N avy; Catholic Military

The Royal Commission on Education; St. i Hospital; Dr. Newman’s Life of Cicero ... 126-^7

j ^ u m m a r g . r----- ----- --------------ise o f Lords has not been busy since our Earl of .Leitrim’s motion, on Friday last, of persons assassinated in Ireland between L858, was cushioned by common consent o f i Tories— Loyds Derby, Monteagle, Dunind Desart all objected, and' this faint > repair, at Westminster, the disastrous Dublin, and by raking together the for-

twenty for slandering a whole people, and forwardrigues o f a small faction, failed as it deserved Ifcaejubtedii jndb tb i t thB-cMcte b f -a p f •o f f t # srs, and even if it did, the inference sought .vn from these returns would be in such contradiction with the actual state o f things,

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Hythe and Greenwich have sent Jews to Parliament ’f a T fe Laron I*. iljiapljilrl and k b . ■SaiomOBB. Sffie W ^ ^ Riding returns S}|?;John R amadan v ib e mb* presentjEapl o i Gladstone is re-dected for Oxford University. In Marylebone, Mr. Frederick Romilly is a candidate in place o f Lord Ebrington, who resigns.

__W e have given lengthy extracts from the Indian news all leading up to the announcement published in the T im es o f Thursday from the telegraphic summary of the Bombay mail o f January 25. I t is difficult to abbreviate the short and pithy statements of the telegram. The campaign in Oude ended on the 8th o f January. Ten leaders had surrendered. The Begum with some followers fled into Nepaul. Nana Sahib was supposed to be with them. Lord Clyde was on Ihis way to Lucknow. A ll the forts had been destroyed, and 400,000 stand o f arms surrendered. A liberal Zemindaree settlement was going on,and was to be finished hy the 10th o f February. Tantia Topee is still at large, having been overtaken and beaten several times, once b y Colonel Benson, twice by Colonel Somerset, and again on January 16th hy Brigadier Showers. The latest news o f all is from Allahabad, Jan. 18 : that on the 16th the rebels crossed from the Terai, in Oude, over the Sardah, or Sarthea river, into Rohilcund, from twenty to thirty thousand strong, when they were attacked and defeated with slaughter, their guns taken, and themselves driven back again across the nver into the Terai. . „

__The great meeting at Thurles, m favour of Tenant-right and Parliamentary Reform, having for its basis, “ Vote by Ballot,” took place on Monday, and we report it elsewhere. The meeting unanimously adopted the resolution— “ That the minimum o f justice « due to the Irish tenant is that which is contained in “ the hill o f the Tenant League, and that, no matter “ what measure short o f that hill may be sanctioned by “ the present or any other Government, the country “ cannot, and should not, be satisfied till the entire ti measure adopted by the League has passed intd law. As a lso44that every day’aexperience provesmore clearly “ that the only policy whereby Irish interests can be ad“ yanced in the British Parliament is that o f the Inde44pendent Opposition party— that that policy should be 44the rule o f action for every true Irish representative, 44and to sustain it, the duty o f every Irish constituency “ __that any man assuming to represent this county in 44Parliament who does not faithfully adhere to that 44policy cannot be deserving o f our approval, and that u o’Ur esteemed representative, The Q ’Donoghue, for his

(Tearing away a number of Inisconceptions as to what had M SL ih is subject: ;.betyeay ;A « Juteeticanf and British Governments. I t seems i is no difference between them. Lords ry, Clarendon, Aberdeen, Derby, and i, are all in the same story. As far hack Lord Aberdeen renounced all pretensions id search American vessels in time o f peace, ed for every navy in the world the right ining by visit, the nationality o f merchant there, was reason to suspect their illegal " , T p ç ir g h t ’ ig àdçiitted b y France and and it is understood by all that it must be ai the risk and on the responsibility o f the :er in command, in case o f a mistake. To iformity o f practice, France and England sd on ,a n identical code o f instructions t 3rs, and it has been submitted to the Ameri •nment for adoption. use o f Commons on Friday was engaged for on a subject of which the readers o f the ve lately heard a good deal, viz., Gothic ire. Lord Palmerston took the same line as ? o f the pamphlet, ,“ A W ord to the Goths,” ; might argue from similarity o f style and mode o f treatment, the pamphlet which Dy. has repudiated might possibly be the ex­

He objected to going back to the and dark ages, and disliked Italian Gothic, he did not know precisely what that was.” , however, was a “ monomaniac.” Then the General introduced his Landed Estate^ Bill, ; an indefeasible Parliamentary title to all ~s who can prove the goodness of their title isfaction o f a New Court to be established for al, purpose. Fifteen months is to be allowed dors. I t is an extension to England

Irish Encumbered Estates Bill, minus er o f ordering a compulsory sale, case o f nepotism by which the Lord High r o f England lately scandalised us all in % a near connection o f his own, whose fitness sant public duties had not been evidenced by on which he held, or the services which he ered, to be a “ Master in Lunacy,” with ■year, and a retiring pension o f 1,2001., ight before the House by Mr. G. Clive, lit, Mr. D ’Israeli stated that the Chancellor ; have made" the appointment i f he had not tied o f his nominee’s competency (a laugh) ; he latter gentleman had resigned the post

I t is at any rate a proof that the difficulty ing abuses and defying public opinion is inbject o f Indian Finance was brought before î on Monday by Lord Stanley, l Tuesday Lord John Russell, undeterred by terial Bankruptcy Reform Bill, fulfilled his qade at Liverpool, by introducing a scheme i. The Times praises both Bills, and thinks id be considered together, and should suggest

“ buaust . J a ' t o M t o k ’ .’' ' ’ ' ; TSeqe are th e resolutions ■whieh'were t o : b a ex* pected from Tipperary, and which, if they were acted up to, and carried out, both in Tipperary and in other countries with consistency, perseverance and energy, would ensure the triumph#o f the great cause for which so much has been spent as yet without success. The meeting seems to have abstained from any less general assertion o f its Views, «pedtding, .tfi" adopted by the Tenant League in August last, o f waiting for a month from the •opening» o f o f Parliament to see the bill which the Government promised to introduce, and which Mr. Whiteside is about to bring forward. The expediency o f accepting that measure as an instalment o f justice, and as o f beneficial operation,, of and by itself, without surrendering any portion o f the further claims which may be left unsatisfied, will then have to be discussed on one hand, as well as on the other hand, the advisability o f opposing it and endeavouring to procure its rejection, lest its adoption should be taken by so many as a final settlement that all hopes o f future action wpuld become vain. The meeting adopted the following resolution concerning Reform :— 44 That the efforts o f Mr. Bright to “ procure Parliamentary Reform are deserving o f the “ warmest approval and co-operation o f the Irish “ people; and although there are some details o f his 44 projected measure, particularly in reference to the 44 distribution o f representatives as regards Ireland, “ which should be more favourable to this country, “ yet we hail the sound principles he has enunciated, “ and, above all, his making Vote by Ballot an indis44 pensable condition o f his hill, as the charter of “ electoral independence, without which any reform “ or extension o f the franchise would be, at least in “ Ireland, but an extension o f oligarchical domina“ tion, and a further prostration o f popular liberty.” But on this matter we are afraid there is a mistake. I f 44any Reform or extension o f the Franchise, would “ be, at least, in Ireland, but an extension o f oligarc h i c a l domination, and a further prostration of “ popular liberty,” (and we agree with the meeting in that view), we take it that the agreement which the meeting assumes to exist between it and Mr. Bright, is a misconception. Unless we are grievously mistaken, Mr. Bright looks to the passing of his Reform Bill and its operation as the means by which the Ballot is to be obtained a fterw a rd s . He looks upon the Ballot as the certain andnecessary consequence ofhisbill. And though we differ on such a pointyfrom such a man with real diffidence, yet we do differ from him, and it is quite certain that the Tenant League, last August, and the County o f Tipperary, at this moment, differ from him too. W e want the Ballot before Reform, or even without Reform, for we all say that without protection to the independence o f the voter, Reform will do more harm than good. But Mr. Bright says Reform will do so much good that one o f its first fruits will be the Ballot. The difference is material. What we had hoped was that there would be a determination everywhere among R e formers both in England, Ireland, and Scotland, to listen to no proposal for Reform o f which the Ballot did not make a part. W e have always said, and on this we thought that in Ireland at least the great bulk o f the Independent iury’s Bill to enable men to marry the sisters ead wives was read a second time on Wedr a majority o f 58. - ................................. ................ .............

[■elections haye taken place since our last, a n d ’ party were agreed, the smallest measure of*Refonn

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with the Ballot would ho worth everything — the largest measure o f Reform without the Ballot would be worth nothing. By separating the demand for the Ballot, from the demand for an extended franchise and a redistribution of seats, the Reform porty itt' fifaglaftd h£i4, w4_ttinS:, n i4de,a .im itate; in policy. The meeting at Thurles makes no mistake about the right policy, but is mistaken on a fact.

-— Loyd Stanley’s Indian Financial Statement, on Tuesday last, will add to his reputation. I t was characterised by lucidity o f expression and arrangement. I t is an old saying, that any member who can make an intelligible and interesting financial statement must in this country become, some day or another, ChafiedlaFof tlie Bsftffieguer. I f Lord Stanteyjmrwie the policy o f which he has already given some promise, snd t* $ t (n a fy in ^ ^ r i ^ n if t p o l | ^ » t t o vyVpw M . be amongst the grumblers i f he also hold the First

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B y the Noble Lord’s statement, it appeared that the deficiency for the year 1853-4 was £2,100,000; that the deficiency for the year 1854-5 was £1,700,000; that for 1855-6, it was 1,000,000 ; and that for the year 1856-7 it fell to £179,000. A t the time o f the outbreak o f the mutiny the equilibrium between between income and expenditure had been well' nigh restored. The estimated revenue ( th e actual accounts have not yet been received) for the year 1857-8 was £31,544,000, and the estimated expenditure £39,129,000; showing an estimated deficiency o f £7,585,000. But this does not include an extra expenditure o f nearly £1,500,000 upon troops and stores in England. So that the whole deficiency for the year 1857-8 may be taken in

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ILattst 3£nUlIici;nuT. • ■ 0 ■■■■— _ h-."; . THE FRENCH ARMY AND THE’ CONFERENCE.

Paris, Thursday Morning.

The Moniteur publishes a decree, fixing the payment to he made hy soldiers of the Class of 1858, in substitution of personal military service, at 2,000 francs.

THE CONGRESS AT PARIS. The Moniteur contains also the following :—44The Confsrpnee ^Representatives of the Powers wifi,,)fcwcy reassemble at Paris for the purpose of discussing ( examiner) the result of the Moldo-Wallachian elections.

The Ministerial warning given to the Presse has created a gfmi nniiHrtfati on the Boulevards 40 centimes.

round numbers at £9,000,000. The financial result o f the year 1858-9, which will close on the 30th April next, is estimated at a further deficiency o f £12,600,000; so that the financial result of the mutiny isadeficiency i f n T , f t l F As to w h ^ tortfciff lossa might .be incurred for compensation for losses and recompense for services, the noble lord was necessarily somewhat ’ia l^ iSnak., .. -ji;-’ :,;'¿ .i.: :V i . '

The Revenue derived from the land tax was, in the year previous to the mutiny, £19,080,000, being the largest amount ever realised. In 1857-8 it fell to £16,671,000, and rose again in 1858-9 to £18,392,000 This source o f Revenue is incapable of any except i very slow increase. The other great source of Indian Revenue is the Opium d u ty : this had risen in 1857-& to £6,413.706, being an increase in one year of

£1,800,000.

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utrrrjueKnon oi its noxious properties was not one for the consideration o f ’ Government, and moreover that these were greatly exaggerated, and did not exceed those o f ardent spirits. The House, which likes Revenue, cheered these statements throughout. These two sources o f Revenue contribute four-fifths o f the whole which is raised. The Salt duty contributes the much larger portion o f the remaining fifth.

The extra military expenditure, caused by the mutiny, the Noble Lord set down as £18,000,000 for j t e the loasfcgr These items amount together to £28,620,000. As to the total financial result, i f the same two years exliibited a deficiency o f £21,600,000 only, it follows that Indian finance, minus the mutiny, ,wuuti>ghow a ii n 7^ o f £ 2,’f i ^ ,O O ÿ ^ ,l i0 t ' ^ ’y je ia i 4àDa this!a f t i ^ ^ ‘ %xpen<ütwre o f !about’ £ 8 ;OdO,O0^ a-year in public works

The present amount o f the Indian Debt was £74,500,000, o f which £15,000,000 had been raised in England on the security o f the Indian Revenue, and . ^ m o o o in TmjK» . Finally, he .asked to give him leave to raise £7,000,000 in this country qn,iw0,^HBoetienib oF th e /la m a fr lM t yectE^thatlfq, on the security o f the Indian revenues.

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y.,t *-BAwA'ThJiwa*yi4.Mp.in.

The Bourse opens very firm, in consequence of the warning given to the Presse for its warlike articles.

Rentes are nearly J per cent, higher than yesterday’s closinB- il c i r . : , cs/ij» ul 6 3.20 p.m.

The rise has not been fully maintained, and Rentes close 68f. for money,-and 67f. 90c. for accoUnt. T m’uTi <2?j <’!>1.!:( ill Hn mn.stPK..; ¡m a t '■^

SERIOUS NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPALITIES.

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■ V-d' Trieste, Thursday.

The steamer just arrived brings news from Constantinople to,ifi» |f&fe!jfast- '■ ‘IF ■

A message received from Jassy announces the entry of A. Couza into Bucharest. He has published an edict, decreeing the union of the Principalities, with one ^national assembly for the two, which assembly is to hold its sittings at Fokscliani. : ________ _ ,

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Fresh despatch of troops to the Danube is in prospect. Redifs are continually arriving here.

f.l L THE SERVIAN S E N A T E ./ ' ^ The Senate has been reconstituted by Prince Miloscli. It numbers at present four members of the ancient Senate, and sevennew members. :i;i 1r..( f

The President of the Senate is Mr. Stewscha. The President of the late Senate, Mr. Jankovich, and the former; Senator, Mr. Jerevich, have been accused of high treason and put in prison.

I he late President of the Council, Markovich. has been exiled. .. ■■•U:Y; „ .■ . . , ' MARRIAGES IN PRUSSIA. f '% •*V'Vf’/t .■? • .Thursday, Feb. 17th,

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies this day, a ministerial project of law, relating to civil marriages, was brought in. The project proposes the abolition of certain obstacles to marriage and the introduction of. certain grounds of divorce. According t&g ffT fcjif j ^ r 1 not be obligatory, nor will it be longer a necessity, but oftional • v T -'“ “ T* ; ' ■■

ENNISKILLEN ELECTION.

Enniskillen, Thursday.

¿ijiTo-day the following gentlemen were respectively proposed and seconded to represent the borough, in the room of Mr. J. Whiteside, who has resigned;—Paul ‘Dane, Esq., Hon. John Lowry Cole, John Collum, Esq., H. M. Darcey, Esq., W. A. Dale, Esq.

The show of hands was in favour of the Hun. John Lowrv Cole.

A poll was demanded by the other candidates.

— Lord Chelmsford has got himself into a scrape, from which, as we are informed, i f required some rather peremptory intimations from his colleagues to tpjjqtii’itim t o wnncWj^iv. -•H e afip tifited Ing’É m ^ 4 w t ,.i of very fair abilities and a very estimable person, but unfortunately no lawyer, to the very delicate and (inénùtta ppet o f Master, in L tsa py . I t was very f a ^ y objected to this, that Mr. Higgins’s sta tu s as a Barrister was merely formal, that he had never practised, and that his occupations since his call to the bar ih ifn g 't ijn i, .firtty -* n ^^tirk i i Min rntrmiB oÉtm* then o f private secretary to Sir Bulwer Lytton, and jtittllyjfolBifca w i p e (Wod oSdtjs o f h is ' fijCafer-fKtJaWv of a Registrar in Bankruptcy, did not fit him for the arduous and very responsible and important that on his promotion to this office (one o f 2,OOOZ. a-year), his previous preferment (o f 1 ,000Z. a-year) bâjbeiip, fiilâ up, aad that ïùs reugnatk^r pf tiks more valuable post leaves him the victim o f the kindness o f the Lord Chancellor. But we have been informed that the Registrarship in Bankruptcy had not been definitively filled up, and that consequently Mr. Higgins will retain it.

$mperial ^arltamrnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Thursday, F eb. 17. The Lobd Chahceixob took his seat at five o ’clock.

THE IONIAN ISLANDS.

The Earl o f Cahnaevo^, in reply to Earl Grey, replied that the

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Gladstone to the Ionian Parliament, recommending certain changes in the constitution, was perfectly authentic; but he declined to say whether the recommendations received the sanction of the Governmen,. or to produce the papers. Earl Grey then gave notice of a motion on the subject for Monday next, and after some observations dropped Earl ° f Derby fSW the Earl o f Ellenborough, the subject

The Law of Property and Trustees’ Relief Amendment Bill wasread a third time and pa

EXCHANGE OF CHURCH LIVINGS. The Earl o f Derby introduced a bill for the purpose o f enabling Her Majesty to exchange a church living with one of her subjects, which, after a few words of approval from.Lord Brougham, was read a first time.

The House adjourned at a few minutes before six. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— T h u r s d a y , Feb. 17. The Speaker took the chair atfour o ’clock. A new writ was ordered to be issued for Marylebone, in the room o f Viscount Ebrington.

Mr. C. Gilpin gave notice o f a resolution on the subject o f the growth o f opium in India.

— The Guardian devotes fourteen pages this week to its report o f the proceedings o f the Convocation o f the Province of Canterbury. And thé Times invites all who feared the dangerous consequences o f allowing the Protestant Bishops and Clergymen this faint shadow o f independence, to admit the extremely harmless nature apwsefnents in whioh •these rnpnfijihlfi men wile away a few hours or days every year. And yet, in the Lower House, there has been a discussion, a division, and a decision, the significance o f which is not to be mistaken. I t was on the Marriage and Divorce Act, and the House adopted as an articu la s c le r i a complaint on the subject, and presented it to the Upper House. Canon Selwyn proposed to say, ' “ 'since the A c t is felt by a very krge number o f the

; to Tutvc t f y ' lqw ., i f f i 9 c a^ . 't b e Rev. F : M^cBi(igbçcdwoyè4 W

Mr. Locke K ing asked leave to introduce a bill to provide that the landed property o f a person dying intestate should be liable to the same law of distribution as his personal property. The SolicitorGeneral assented, and leave was given. , , jr;: ' ¿ m u s y a m M a a n p m w L ¡ ¡ . .

Mr. Ayrton moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal those statutes which restrict the right o f political printing and reading. H e traced the history o f this legislation to the fears o f Whig and Tory Ministers at various periods, and argued the absurdity of maintaining laws which hampered newspaper proprietors and publishers, without giving the least security against treasonable or seditious writing He remarked, also, upon the unequal and tyrannical administration o f the law by the stamp authorities underthe late Government, who suppressed! some useful and harmless publications, and took no notice of a paper issued on purpose to try their right to interfere.

Mr. M. Gibson seconded the motion. The Solicitor-General said he should not oppose the introduction o f the bill, thinking it unwise to retain statutes which no law officers o f the Crown would put in force, but.whether it was expedient to repeal all the statutes which were in force was a matter for con— tfRAArt.» rfAi." III’.tUi— 1 ..-t-iiCd-i ,r.v:;

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Viscount Melgund moved that the Educational Grant for England! and Scotland be in future taken separately.

Mr. A dderley opposed the motion, and it was, after a short discussion, negatived without a division. I Soma other business was then despatched, and the House adjourned at 10 minutes past seven o ’clock. U-i /: Hwio! i "• f j i ’i fiWOiU'OG.r 'jtil.iiii Si

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