17.-The debate on the Irish Church was resumed by Lord Derby, who in a spirited speech denounced it as a measure the political folly of which was only equalled by its moral turpitude. He called upon their lordships to reject it at once. "My lords (he concluded), I am now an old man, and, like many of your lordships, I have already passed threescore years and ten. My official life is entirely closed; my political life is nearly so; and, in the course of nature, my natural life cannot now be long. That natural life commenced with the bloody suppression of a formidable rebellion in Ireland, which immediately preceded the Union between the two countries. And may God grant that its close may not witness a renewal of the one and a dissolution of the other." The debate was continued by Lord Kimberley, the Duke of Cleveland, and the Duke of Devonshire, in favour of the bill; Lord Salisbury, Lord Stanhope, and Lord Nelson in favour of the second reading with a view to amendments in committee; and the Bishop of Ripon, Lord Colchester, and Lord Redesdale altogether against the bill.

Four persons killed by an explosion at Curtis and Harvey's powder-works, Hounslow.

The new North German Federal harbour of Jahde (Wilhelmshaven) opened by the King of Prussia.

18.-The second reading of the Irish Church Bill carried in the House of Lords by a majority of 33. The debate was continued by Earl Russell, who challenged some of the details of the bill, but on its general principle his approval was unequivocal. He confessed, however, he would like to see some glebe lands and chapels given to the Episcopalian clergy with a view to keeping them amongst the people, and thus promoting the civilization of the country. To the relief of the county cess from such a source he objected; and the provision set apart for lunatics would require a whole province to go mad in order to absorb it.-The Duke of Abercorn urged the House to disregard any excitement in the public mind on this subject, taunted the Government with subservience to Roman Catholic priests and Nonconformists, and traced the measure to the personal ambition of a single Minister.-The Duke of Argyll remarked that the stress with which the Opposition dwelt upon the loyalty of the Irish Protestants implied unjustly the disloyalty of the Roman Catholics; and another alarming Inference from their speeches was that even the loyalty of the former, our only stay and support, was of too mercantile a nature to be much Such insinuations were unfair depended on. to both parties, and had a most mischievous

effect.-Bishop Selwyn, presenting himself as a disestablished and disendowed prelate of fourteen years' standing, offered an unprejudiced opinion against the bill.-The dinner-hour was over, and the House had again filled, when Lord Westbury rose from the bench immediately behind the Ministry, and proceeded to pour down on their heads a bitter denunciation of their policy and motives. Borrowing from Burke, he called them "admirable architects of ruin." Their bill was absurd and profane, the child of fear and offspring of weakness-a mere instrument of wanton destruction. The Lord Chancellor defended the bill in a speech asserting the right of the State to deal with corporate property with far more latitude than with private property.-Lord Cairns rose about one o'clock, and spoke for two hours in an argumentative strain, basing his resistance to the bill chiefly on the necessity of maintaining the Royal supremacy in Ireland, and the cruelty of stripping a Church for the mere sake of depriving it of property which the despoilers were puzzled to dispose of. At three o'clock A.M. the division was called, resulting in the carrying of the bill by 179 to 146 votes. The division appeared to have taken place in the fullest House within living memory -325 peers having personally recorded their votes, while eighteen paired.

18. The new Southwark Park opened by Sir John Thwaites, accompanied by Mr. Layard and Mr. Locke, the borough members.

19.-Came on in the Court of Queen's Bench the case of George Henry de Strabolgie Neville Plantagenet Harrison against the publishers of the Cornhill Magazine, for an article in the April number of that periodical, in which the plaintiff, under the title of "Don Ricardo," was referred to as General Plantagenet Harrison, and described as a swindler who had been escorted by the authorities in Spain out of that country to Gibraltar, and there handed over to the English authorities. The defence was that in the publication of the article the writer had no malicious intention against the plaintiff, or any desire to injure him; and was, in fact, ignorant of the real existence of any person called General Plantagenet Harrison. plaintiff, who described himself as a genealo gist, stated in examination that he seriously believed himself to be heir general of Henry VI., and rightful Duke of Lancaster, Normandy, and Aquitaine. A jury gave him 50l. damages.

The

21. Came on in the second Court of Queen's Bench the case of Cadogan v. Piper, an action raised by the Hon. Frederick Cadogan against the proprietor of the North Wilts Herald, for the publication of a libel in connexion with the recent election contest, and embodied in the contents of a certain yellow handbill, circulated in the Conservative interest, and which was subsequently republished in the defendant's paper, and secondly in a letter signed "Scrutator," which appeared in the number published next after the decision of the election,

when Mr. Cadogan was placed at the head of the poll. The handbill accused Mr. Cadogan of having made use of his position as vice-chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company to obtain information of which he made use on the Stock Exchange (see October 27, 1857); and of having, whilst in the service of the Commissioners of the International Exhibition of 1862, used his influence to obtain for a Frenchman named Veillard the refreshment contract, for which service Veillard had agreed to give him, if successful, 2,400/. The trial lasted till the 25th, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff: damages, 40/.

21.-Sale of the Duke of Newcastle's effects, at his mansion in Carlton House Terrace, commenced.

The case of the Earl of Wicklow opened by Sir Roundell Palmer, before a Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords. William, fourth Earl of Wicklow, died on the 22d March last, without leaving any male issue. His next brother, who had predeceased him, the Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard, had three sons by his first marriage, all of whom were dead. The succession was claimed by this brother's son by a second marriage, Charles Francis Howard. But another claim was preferred in the name of an infant, William George, alleged to be the issue of a marriage between William George, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard by his first marriage, with a certain Miss Helen Richardson. The question turned mainly on the incidents of this infant's birth; and the extremely suspicious circumstances attending it were the strongest arguments urged against the claim. In June 1863, four months after his marriage, Mr. W. C. Howard was living with his wife in London at a Mr. Bloor's, an outdoor officer of Customs. After a very short stay there they left Bloor's house, returning some six months later, when Mrs. Howard found quarters in the immediate neighbourhood. Her husband did not cohabit with her in these lodgings; but met her, by Mr. Bloor's permission, in Mr. Bloor's house. From the end of 1863 Mr. Howard, it was said, was in hiding from his creditors in Ireland. In the spring of 1864 Mr. Bloor went over to Ireland on Mrs. Howard's behalf to arrange with her husband for her confinement. On the 16th of May, Mrs. Howard expressed her intention of withdrawing from London for a time, and accordingly left the house in a cab with one large box to go to the railway station. In a very short time she returned, saying that she felt very ill, and went to bed. On Mr. Bloor's returning home from business, Mrs. Bloor at once despatched him for Dr. Wilkins, a medical man whom Mrs. Howard specially requested might be sent for, though he was not the usual attendant of the house, and lived at some distance.

Bloor left the house at about 8 or 8.30 P.M.; but on his return at 9.30 he heard from Mrs. Bloor that the child was born, and Mrs. How ard would not therefore require the attendance of Dr. Wilkins. Some weeks after, however, according to the statement of the Bloors, Dr. Wilkins did see and prescribe for the child. To complicate matters Dr. Wilkins died before the case came on. The evidence of the persons who saw the child was generally harmonious and consistent, but De Bandenave, a fellow-lodger, who in the early stages of the case offered to act as Mrs. Howard's agent, was missing when their lordships wished to examine him. In the course of her evidence, Mrs. Howard stated that Mrs. Bloor and Miss Rosa Day were present when the child was born. She herself was so weak she did not know what occurred. A little boy, fair-haired, five years of age, and dressed in white, was presented at the bar, as the child she then gave birth to. The solicitor to the Wicklow family in Ireland admitted that Mrs. Howard's movements had been closely watched by her husband, who had reason for believing that she was carrying on an adulter ous intrigue with De Bandenave. The examination of witnesses was continued till the 4th of August, when the solicitor addressed the Committee on behalf of Mrs. Howard, and S John Karslake replied upon the whole evidence. The proceedings were closed on that date for the session, on the understanding that the case might be reopened by either party on the pr duction of fresh evidence. (See March 1, 1870

21.-One man killed, and several injured, the accidental collision of two squadrons cavalry, during a field-day at Aldershot.

22.-The Viceroy of Egypt arrives in Londo on a visit. He was met at Charing Cross Stat by the Prince of Wales, and conveyed to Ba ingham Palace.

Miss Shedden concludes her case in the House of Lords, being the twenty-first day hearing. The application for a new trial in t suit of Shedden v. the Attorney-General Patrick, in the Court of Probate, was refuse by Lord Penzance.

Four armed Fenians break into the res dence of Mr. Pope Grey, Ballinlough Hos Cork, and demand delivery of all weapons his possession. A courageous defence was nat by the inmates, and the leader or capta shot at the hall door; his companions made their escape.

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Lord Carrington horsewhips Mr. Gre ville Murray, at the door of the Conserva Club, in retaliation for an offensive article the Queen's Messenger, of which publicati Murray's son was registered proprietor. M Murray withdrew to his club, and, after co sideration, resolved to prefer a charge of assault against Lord Carrington. A preliminary quiry took place at Marlborough-street Pouce Court, on the 7th July. The charge of assa was not denied; but his counsel cross-examin

Mr. Grenville Murray very severely as to his connexion with the Queen's Messenger, and the authorship of the article said to reflect upon Lord Carrington, entitled "Bob Coachington, Lord Jarvey." After much wrangling, he denied the authorship of the article, but declined to answer the questions relating to his connexion with the paper. A number of letters, articles in manuscript, and a corrected proof of an article were shown to him, but he declined to say whether they were in his handwriting. He admitted that he had written some articles in the Queen's Messenger, but said that he would rather have cut off his right hand than have written others. Lord Carrington was ultimately bound over to keep the peace in reference to one summons, and committed for trial on the second, charging assault.

At the

close of the proceedings a disgraceful struggle took place between the friends of the contending parties for the possession of a box containing papers relating to the Queen's Messenger, and said to have been improperly transferred to the keeping of Lord Carrington's solicitor, Mr. Newman.

23. Three lives lost by a collision at New Cross Station, between a goods train and another conveying passengers from the Licensed Victuallers fête. The accident gave rise to numerous lawsuits against the London and Brighton Railway Company, in which damages in some cases were awarded to the extent of 2,500l.

24.-Proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon to the army at the camp of Châlons, exhorting the troops to keep in remembrance the battles of their fathers and their own achievements, "since the history of our wars is the history of the progress of civilization."

26.-Prince Alamayoo, son of King Theodore of Abyssinia, leaves England for India, in the care of Captain Speedy.

Sheriffs Cotton and Hutton entertain the Lord Chancellor and and her Majesty's Judges, at a banquet in Haberdashers' Hall.

27.-Died, aged 62, Sir William A'Beckett, late Chief Justice of the colony of Victoria. 28. The Endowed Schools Bill read a second time in the House of Commons.

Died, aged 66, Rev. Dr. J. H. Todd, of Trinity College, Dublin, author of various works illustrating the antiquities of Ireland.

Hosier-lane. Early in the morning the police on duty at Smithfield station received a letter written by Duggan, stating that their services would be required at his house in Hosier-lane— a street very near the police-station-at ten o'clock, and that if they found the doors locked they were to force an entrance. Policemen were at once sent to the house, and the whole family-Duggan, his wife, four boys, and two girls were found lying dead in their beds, poisoned with prussic acid. In another letter, written to a relation, Duggan complained that he was led to commit the crime through harsh treatment recently experienced; but this was disproved in evidence before the coroner, whose jury found that the father had murdered his wife and six children in a state of mental aberration.

29. Mr. G. Moore's motion for an inquiry into the treatment of political prisoners rejected by 171 to 31 votes.

The newly elected Legislative Body of France meet for the first time.

30. For the six months ending to-day, 20,087,000 people are reported to have been carried over the Metropolitan Railway system.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decide that the Dean of Arches must hear the charge of heresy preferred against the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, vicar of Frome.

Speaking at a Ministerial banquet given by the Lord Mayor, the Prime Minister said that every change proposed in the Irish Church Bill should be respectfully considered, even though at the first moment, nay, it might possibly be, at the last moment, Ministers should not be able to regard it as an improvement. The respectful consideration, however, must be subject to the recollection of the position in which the Government stand, of the words they have spoken, of the pledges they have given, of the commission they have received. Government had pledged itself to general disestablishment and disendowment, and that all claims should be dealt with impartially; "and," continued Mr. Gladstone, "there was a third pledge also, not less momentous nor less definite than the rest, a pledge freely tendered to Parliament, and freely tendered at the hustings, but I do not hesitate to say a pledge which if not freely tendered would have been extorted by the national sense and opinion- namely, that after the satisfaction of these equitable claims on principles of equality as between different religious denominations, the remaining portion of what is now the property of the Church of Ireland should be applied for the benefit of the Irish people, but not to the maintenance of a Church nor the support of a

clergy. These were the conditions which, as a matter of historical fact, attended our concession. They form a clear and manifest covenant between us and the country. We tendered the terms of that covenant when we sat in the exile of Opposition; we shall not forget it now that we are installed in the seat of power."

July 1.-Lord Carnarvon's amendment on the Irish Church Bill, providing for the commutation of the life interests of the clergy at fourteen years, carried by 155 to 86 votes. It was also agreed to continue to the bishops, after disestablishment, the privilege of being summoned by rotation to Parliament.

The Viceroy of Egypt leaves London for the Continent.

2. By a majority of 213 to 69, the Lords carry the Marquis of Salisbury's proposal to relieve the Irish Church from the payment of building charges on the glebe houses; and by 146 to 113 votes reject the Duke of Cleveland's Concurrent Endowment scheme.

3. Speaking at a Trinity House banquet, in presence of the Prince of Wales, her Majesty's Ministers, and many members of the Opposition, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said the discussion in the House of Lords on the Irish Church Bill was placing the Commons in a painful position. "The clear and definite outline we had drawn becomes blurred and indistinct; all sorts of-I will not say tricksexperiments are tried on our performance; and we are compelled to stand by with our arms folded to watch this excruciating process without being allowed to interpose a word. (Cheers and laughter.) That is no doubt a painful position for the House of Commons to be in, but the darkest night is nearest the dawn, and we console ourselves with the reflection that after these alterations have been made in our performance it will return to us, and we shall have to give it the final touch. (Loud cheers and laughter.) And we are not without hope that we may be enabled to reform what has been blurred, to restore the outline, and make the picture, if not exactly the same as before, yet so much the same, at least, as to be satisfactory in all points of view. (Cheers.)"-Mr. Disraeli, speaking in the name of the honorary brethren, said, "Perhaps, in the execution of your duties, Mr. Deputy Master, you may experience cares and anxieties not less than those which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has with so much tact and taste recalled to our recollection-(a laugh) and sure I am you will feel this. Whatever may be your public duties, you may encounter them successfully with the temper and forbearance which generally in public affairs meet their due reward; and you may feel sure in the transactions of public life that there is no wise rule that it is more sedulously our duty to observe than this-that it is unwise to

introduce difficult subjects, upon which men may differ, when it is unnecessary to obtrude them on public notice. (Cheers.)"

3.-In the case of Farrar (appellant) v. Close (respondent), the Court of Queen's Bench decide, by a majority, that the defaulting secre tary of a trade society could not be prosecuted, because the rules sanctioned the employment of funds for illegal purposes. An information was laid against Close at Bradford on the ground that, being secretary to the Amalga mated Carpenters and Joiners' Society, he had in his possession the sum of 407. belonging to the society, and that he had wilfully misappro priated it. The Justices stated, on their juris diction being objected to by the respondent, that though they were decidedly of opinion that the case as laid in the information against the defendant was fully proved, yet they must dismiss the charge, on the ground that the rules of the society were in restraint of trade, and so not within the 18th and 19th Victoria, chapter 63, but established for purposes illegal, being con trary to public policy. (See Hornby v. Clive, January 16, 1867.) The Judges were now equally divided in opinion; but, in accordance with the usual practice, the junior withdrew his judgment, and a verdict was entered against the appellant.

4.-Gift by Mr. Peabody of another million of dollars to his American Southern Education Fund, the entire capital being now two mi lions, and the annual income 130,000 dollars

5.-Termination of the Monkwearmouth colliery strike, by which 1,200 men and boys were kept idle for two months.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury's propos to give the Ulster glebes to the Irish Church body carried in committee by 105 to 55 votes

Lord Hartington introduces a series of re solutions with basis of a bill for the purchase of the telegraphs, fixing the price at twenty years purchase, and referring details to arbitrators The gross revenue was set down at 673,858, the expenditure at 359,484/.; and the gros sum required 5,715,047%.

6.-Lord Cairns' amendment, reserving fr future discussion the disposition of the Iris Church surplus, carried by 160 to 90 votes.

Private investiture of the Orders of the Bath, Star of India, and St. Michael and St George, by the Queen, at Windsor.

7.-Mr. Hughes's Trades Union Bill read a

second time in a thin House.

The new Alexandra Dock, at Lynn, opened by the Prince of Wales.

Tried in the Court of Queen's Bench the case of Padwick v. Peters, an interpleader iss directed to be tried by Mr. Baron Martin, determine whether a certain execution and judgment obtained in May last by Henry Pad wick, in an action against Henry Pelban Alexander (Duke of Newcastle), were legs

and valid; and, secondly, whether certain horses seized at the suit of the defendant on the 3d of June, in execution by the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, under a writ of fieri facias, were at the time of the seizure the property of Henry Padwick. Verdict for the plaintiff.

8.-Earl Russell's Life Peerages Bill rejected, on the motion for a third reading, by 106 to 77 votes.

10. The International Enfield trophy, at Wimbledon, won by England.

11.-Died at Bushy Heath, aged 88, William Jerdan, formerly editor of the Literary Gazette.

Captain Lambert, of Castle Lambert, Galway, shot at four times on his own lawn, and severely wounded. A man named Barrett was apprehended on the charge, and, after various examinations, removed for trial to Dublin, on the ground that a fair jury could not be impanelled in his own district.

12.-Imperial message read in the French Legislative Body, announcing the Emperor's intention to accord to the Chamber that extension of power which is compatible with the fundamental basis of the Constitution. The Senate will be immediately convoked to consider the propriety of enabling the Legislative Body to regulate its own proceedings and "elect its bureaux;" of simplifying the mode of moving amendments; of binding the Government to submit to the Legislative Body all changes of Customs duties stipulated by treaties with foreign Powers; of "voting the budget by chapter"-i.e. in greater detail; of enabling the Ministers to be members of the Legislative Body; and of "extending the right of interpellation." The Government will further take into consideration some questions concerning the position of the Senate, "the more efficient solidarity which will be established between the Chamber and the Government," the "presence of all the Ministers in the Chambers," the "discussion of affairs of State in the Council," and "a real understanding with the majority elected by the country." The Emperor has always shown himself "disposed to relinquish in the public interest certain of his prerogatives; and the proposed changes "constitute the natural development of those which have successively been made in the institutions of the Empire." The Emperor adds that "they must at the same time leave intact the prerogatives which the people has most explicitly confided to him, and which are the essential condition of power and of the preservation of order and society."

The Irish Church Bill read a third time in the House of Lords, the last division taking place on Lord Stanhope's amendment, on clause 28, providing residences for Roman Catholic parish priests and Presbyterian ministers, which was carried by 121 to 114 votes.

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Numerous meetings held for the purpose of strengthening the Government in its resistance to the Lords' amendments on the Irish Church Bill.

Finney, late manager of the English JointStock Bank, sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, for misappropriation of money and publishing false statements.

Completion of the French Atlantic cable, a message being received at Brest from St. Pierre this evening.

Collision on the United States Erie railway, caused by the shunting of a goods train as an express was approaching. Eight passengers were bruised or burnt to death by the carriages taking fire, and many others injured.

15.-On the order of the day being read for the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Gladstone explains the intentions of the Ministry as to their accept. ance or rejection. The first, he said, related to the preamble, and he should propose to restore it to its original form. The second related to the date at which the bill was to come into operation, and he should propose to restore it to the one originally fixed. The third related to the annuities to the curates, which he should propose to agree to, with some modifications. The fourth, which related to the tax on ecclesiastical incomes to be handed over to the Church body, he should move to disagree with. The fifth, which occurred in the 25th clause for the protection of annuitants, he should propose to agree to the amendments. The sixth, which related to the fourteen years' commutation, as it might be called, he should move to disagree with, but he should propose, by way of amendment, an addition to the clause as amended by the House of Lords, the nature of which he would explain at the proper time. The seventh, which removed the conditions of payments for the glebe houses, &c., he should move to disagree with. The eighth, which related to the Ulster glebes, or, more properly, the Royal grants, he should move to disagree with, offering, however, 500,000l. in lieu of all private benefactions. The ninth, which allowed a deduction of the poor rates from the tithe rent-charge, he should move to disagree with. The tenth, which related to the disposal of the