THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 18G9.
THE IRISH CHURCH BILL OF 1833.
I'rom th Lotvlon fSaturdng Hevirw.
It is impossible to follow ths oourse of the
present measure by which the Irish Chnreh
is to be swept awy as a State Church and to
be stripped of property glren it by the State,
Without feeling an Interest rerired in the his
tory of its predecessor six -and thirty years
go. The Irish Churoh Temporalities aot of
1833 was a very small piece of legislation com
pared with Mr. Gladstone's bill, bnt it pared
the way for what has now come to pass, and
many of the passions it exulted, and of the
arguments by which it was attauked and de
fended, are being resusoltatod and repeated at
the present moment. A sketch, therefore,
of its nature and history may not bs without
interest; and if it is safe to assume anything
as to the general knowledge of the past, it is
safe to assume that no portion of history is so
little known as that whioh lies jast beyond
the memory of eaoh generation. The day
Will come when examination papers will be
Bet in the history of William I V's reiga; bat
nntil that day cornea, probably no part of
English history will be so unirereally un
known. Then, as now, it was at the outset of the
proceedings of a newly-reformed Parliament,
when there was in power a Liberal Ministry
with large majority in the Commons, that
the Irish Churoh bill was brought in.- Parlia
ment was opened on the 29th of January, 1833,
and on the 6th of February the King made his
cpeeoh, in whioh, after stating that the atten
tion of Parliament would be directed to the
better distribution of the property of the
Churoh, the King went on to say that,
"although the Established Churoh of Ireland
Is by law permanently united with that of
England, the peculiarities of their respective
olroumstanoea will require a separate consid
eration." He also referred to the disturbances
then going in Ireland, whioh had greatly in
creased slnoe the end of the preceding session:
"A spirit of insubordination and vlolenoe
has risen to the most fearful height, rendering
life and property insecure, defying the autho
rity of the law, and threatening the most fatal
consequences if not promptly and effectually
repressed." Bo closely does history some
times repeat itself; and we might almost think
it was the present Queen desoribing the
brutal outrages of the last few weeks,
and the appeals of released rebels at
a Mayor's dinner-table to the "logio of the
sabre." The address of course eohoe l the
speeoh, and elicited a warm discussion. Mr.
O'Connell at onoe characterized it as a bloody
and brutal address in answer to a brutal and
bloody speeoh. This was, in faot, the begin
ning of O'Connell's long and violent hatred of
the Whigs, and he was at once answered by
his own epeoial antagonist, Mr. Stanley (Lord
Derby), who laid down the proposition that
"a government, to be loved, must first be
feared." On the 12th of February the bill
for the reform of the Churoh of Ireland was
introduced by Lord Althorp, who began by
explaining that it was beoause the bill was
one to whioh the Government attached great
importance that he, as leader of the House,
and not as Mr. Stanley, the Irish Secretary,
had been charged with its introduction. Lord
Althorp said that although, looking at the
proportion of the population attached to the
Protestant Churoh, the people certainly had
occasion to complain of the greatness of the
revenues of the Established Church
In Ireland, yet the amount of those revenues
had been greatly exaggerated. The House,
he thought, would be surprised to hear that
the net revenue of the Irish .bishops was only
130,000 a year; for, although vast traots of
lands belonged to the bishops, five-sixths of
the yearly value went to the tenants. The
annual inoome of the Church did not exoeed
800,000. The first proposal of the Govern
ment was to do away with the whole system
of First-Fruits, and, in lieu of it, to tax bene
fices on a soale whioh, starting with an exemp
tion of all benefioes of 200 a year or under,
rose in an increasing ratio aooording to the
value of the benefioes, and was estimated to
produce, on the whole, an inoome of 42,000.
The bishops were to be taxed on a soale some
thing similar, and this new taxation
was to begin at once, without regard to
vested interests. A Board of Commissioners
was to be appointed to administer the fund,
and as Churoh rates were to be forthwith
abolished entirely, the fund was to be applied
to those purposes to whioh Churoh rates were
applicable. Further, by rednoing the inoomea
of Borne archbishops and bishops, by abolish
ing all sineoare seals in oathedrals, additional
funds were to be plaoed at the disposal of the
Commissioners. Out of twenty-two bishoprics,
ten were to be swept away, and two arch
bishoprics out of four; bo that, out of the
130,000 a year previously belonging to the
Irish Episoopate, 60,000 a year woald be at
the disposal of Parliament In the sense that
Parliament was to hand this sum over to the
Commissioners, for churoh purposes, and
especially for the augmentation of small
livings. Bnt the aext proposal stood on a
very different footing. The bishops had
. large landed estates, but they oould only
grant leases for twenty-one years; yet the
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tlVABVO tv CIO 1U pittuviuo auauattr ivuvnnut
the fine, together with the rent, formed the
revenue ot tne tnsnop. xne value or suon
leases, lessened as it was by the uncertainty
whether tne bisnop wouia renew ine lease,
and bv the obance of the fine being augmented
if the tenant made the property more valuable
by improvements, was only twelve and a half
years' purchase. The Government proposed
that anv tenant who chose to tender a sum
equal to six years purchase might have a
lease in perpetuity at a fixed corn rent. The
urn thus gained was, it was said, a mere cre
ation of the Legislature, and therefore be
longed to the State. Bypassing an aot of
Parliament the State instantly gave a value of
nix Tuars nurohase to the Jana, ana me Biaie,
whioh created this value, might reasonably
Vun It fur ItHelf.
This was the essence of the ministerial mea
sure of 133. It did not proress 10 appiy any
nf iv. ravennea of the Churoh to seoular pur
poses. The Government most carefully
iruarded itself against doing anything of the
sort. It left to the disposal of Parliament, for
any purposes that Parliament might think fit,
'" no Church property at all. The theory of the
xnlnlatry was that by a clever stroke of legls
il..i invuntad a. new cleoe of pro
erty, whioh did not Deiong to me vuurou m
any sense, for it did not exist, and it was only
the State that could make It exist. It was a
sort of treasure-trove, a roriuiione uuesniuu
of wealth, which Parliament mlghC it was
supposed, apply to secular purposes rbeoanse
It never had belonged to the Churoh. " was,
at it were, a new thing belonging by right of
occupancy to its maker and inventor, the
Elate Thus the whole character of
the bill of 1833 was different from
that of the bill of ISM. It rearranged the
revenues of the Church so ask admit of he
abolition of churoh rates, and to augment , tho
inoomes of the poorer Incumbents. It sup
pressed ten bishopries without in any way
consulting the Church as to its wish to dis
cense with this amount of spiritual super
C aid it proposed to leave l
to apply to any purposes, secular or not but
in no way specified, a fond which was not,
trM ,TV.r has been, eoolesiastioal property.
The bill of the present year is totally dM
It allows the toiurcu v irs"""
own
spiritual affairs, but it takes away a vast
amount of eoolesiastioal property a d applies
it to secular purposes purposes that have,
indeed, a sort of tinge or halo of religiousnuss
about them, but the effect of whioh is to re
duoe the amount of ooutity rates paid by
Irish tenants.
Mr. O'Conoell followed Lord Althorp, and
expressed his warm approval of the bill,
wbioh he considered "contained within itself
the seeds of future amelioration." The bill,
though not going so far as he oould wish, wai
founded on a valuable prinolple, fiiuce it re
cognized the right of Government to look into
the state of eoolesiastioal property hereafter.
"Tbey had in Ireland fever hospitals, recepta
cles for the insane, and institutions where in
dividuals a HI io ted with various maladies are
reoeived. These institutions might be sup
ported by a portion of that eoolesiastioal pro
perty." It would, he thought, bs found here
after that, by a due appropriation of part of
those Churoh revenues, the country might bs
relieved from the Grand Jury Cess. It thus
appears that the destination of the ultimate
surplus of the Irish Church was anticipated
by O'Connell. Mr. Gladstone is adoping word
for word the suggestion whioh O'Connell
then made; but in so far as O'Connell spoke
broadly of applying ebolesiaatical property to
the purposes he recommended, he was de
parting from the proposal of the Ministry of
the day. He might choose to think that their
bill would afterwards lead to applying eoole
siastioal property to secular purposes, but
this was something different from what they
proposed. They were seoular funds, seoular
because invented and called into existence by
the State, that the Government of Earl Grey
proposed that Parliament should, if it thought
fit, apply to seoular purposes. At a later
period of the evening Mr. Stanley owned that
the Cabinet were, as had been hinted by a
previous speaker, not agreed on the ab3traot
point whether the State had a right to touoh
Church property, but he said that the pro
posal submitted to the House did
not raise the question, because
the Church had no claim to a property
which it had never possessed; and although
Mr. Stanley did not in the course of his speeoh
refer to the particular suggestions of O'Con
nell, or express approval or disapproval of
them, he contended that the difference be
tween the former value and the Increased
value of the episeopal lands might be applied
to seoular purposes, or to any purposes that
the State might direct. On the other hand,
as Mr. Stanley is now the Earl of Derby, it ought
to be recorded that he at the same time stated
that he would never consent to any measure
which he thought in his conscience and judg
ment would destroy or injure the Protestant
Churoh in Ireland, or would interfere with the
extension of the Protestant religion.
The Opposition was led by Sir Robert Inglts
and Sir Robert Peel. The former urged that,
if the King were to pass the bill, he would
violate his coronation oath, and that the mem
bers of the Legislature were equally bound by
the oath they had taken not to support it. He
also thought the bill an infraction of the Aot of
Unien, and contrary to the preamble of the
Catholio Emancipation act. He also thought
that, when Lord Althorp said that the reve
nues of the Irish Church were exoessive, he
forgot the "expansive force of Protestantism."
Further, if bo many Irish bishops were sup
pressed, how would there be enough to attend
in the House of Lords? And he ended by
dwelling on the merits of the Irish clergy, and
the danger to the Churoh of Eng
land if the Churoh of Ireland were in
jured. Nothing could be more different,
or more curiously mark the difference between
the habits of thought and the intellectual
oapaoity of the two men, than the objections
of Sir Robert Peel. His first objeotion was
that a proposition of this sort, as relating to
matters of religion, ought to have been
brought forwaid in a oommittee of the whole
House. lie admitted that the time was oome
when the whole state of the Churoh of Ireland
must undergo an enlarged and comprehensive
consideration. He approved of redistributing
the revenues of the Church so as to make it
better able to propagate and extend the bless
ings of the Protestant faith; and he
thought that church-rates onght in
some way to be abolished. He oould not
say whether twenty-two bishops were or were
not too many for Ireland, but Sir Robert Peel
in no way questioned the perfect right of Par
liament to suppress bishopries, if it could be
shown that there were too many. He had no
scruple in Interfering with the spiritual
organization of the Churoh. With regard to
the proposed application of the improved
value of the land, Sir Robert Peel acknow
ledged that the Government had offered their
proposal as one that did not raise the question
whether ecolesiastical property oould properly
be applied to seoular uses; but he urged that
it was calculated to mislead, and that, as a
matter of fact, it had misled the House, and
had been taken, and would be taken, as a
declaration that the Government were
prepared to seoularize Churoh property.
There can be no doubt that Sir Robert Peel
was right. The House welcomed the measure
for this reason, which was very popular in the
House. It was thought to be, and it was im
mediately treated by O Oonnell as being, an
indication of the determination of the Govern
ment to establish this prinolple. Lord Althorp
and Mr. Stanley did what they oould to make
this misunderstanding impossible; but they
were misunderstood, and much of the disap
poiotment and irritation caused by the bill
was owing to this misunderstanding. Even to
this day traces of this misunderstanding remain ;
and there are persons who confidently assert
that Lord Derby in 1S33 himself proposed that
tbe property of the Church should be applied
to such seoular purposes as were then sug
gested by O'Connell, and are now suggested
by Mr. Gladstone.
Tbe progress of the measure was delayed
by the passing oi the bill, introduced In ao
cordance with tbe King's speech, for the sap
pression of disturbances in Ireland. This bill
was commenced in the Lords, and was read
for a third time there on February 22. The
first reading of the bill was moved in the
Commons on February 27, and the third read
irg was carried on March 29. Thus a whole
month was consumed in disoussiog this bill,
and nothing could exceed the fierceness and
aiiimoslty wiih whioh it was opposed. On
Maroh 12, however, a motion had been made for
the second reading of the Irish Churoh Tem
poralities bill, and then objections were taken,
under the,, auspices of Sir Robert Peel,
to the eileo that it was a tax bill, for it taxed
the incomes of Incumbents, and therefore
ought to be brought forward in a committee
ot the whole House. A committee was ap
pointed to searoh for precedents, and the com
mittee supported the objeotion. Aooordingly,
on April 1, the House went into oommittee,
and resolutions were passed fer the regulation
of the temporalities of the Churoh. The next
day the House agreed to all the resolutions
passed. Nothing more, however, was done
that month, but the bill, which was now
founded on the resolutions, was read for the
second time on May U, the ayes being 317, and
tbe noes 78. In the little band of dissentients
Is recorded the name of W. E. Gladstone, the
member for Newark. Sir Robert Peel of
course led tbe Opposition, and his arguments
against the ministerial scheme of treating the
improved value of the episcopal lands as seou
lar property because oreated by the Stale
appear finite unanswerable. The Bishops, he
pointed out, had an unlimited power of lai-
ott, nntu their powers were restrained br the
State, to the limit of twenty-one years, and
the restraint, as stated in the preamble of the
act oreatlng it, was expressly devised in the
interest of the Church, that the property of
the Churoh might not be wasted. That the
Btate should relax these restraints, and then
claim the benefit aooruing from this relaxation
for itself, was neither logical nor just. To all
wbioh Lord Althorp replied, as might have
been done this very week by his then silent
opponent, themember for Newark, that "he
could not admit that there was any analogy
between Church property and that of cor
porations, and still less was theie any between
t and the property or individuals which came
to them by inheritance."
On May 13 the llouse went into committee
on tbe bill, and Lord Althorp then formally
tenlnea that the KIdit had plaoed his interest
in the temporalities at the disposal of Parlia
ment. Sir Robert Bateson, who was supposed
to be a good authority on the subject, Informed
the Government that this measure mast lead
to the destruction of the Protestant Churoh In
Ireland, and had alienated from the Ministry
the afleotions of the Protestants of Ireland.
Mr. Stanley, who was by this time Secretary
for the Colonies, did not contribute muoh to
the debate, exoept by informing the House
that, whereas he had on a former occasion
stated that he had discussed the bill with the
'rlmate, who had said that the least objec
tionable mode of obtaining reform was to re
duoe the number of bishops, he now wished to
let the House know that it was he himself,
and not the Primate, who had made that dash
ing remark. On the 20th May a Mr. Dillon
proposed an amendment whioh anticipated the
bill of 1SGP. It was that the revenues of the
Irish Church should be applied to purposes
of general utility after the demise
of the present incumbents. Only six-
teen members, and of these only six
English members, voted for the amendment,
among whom was Mr. Roebuok, whose poli
tical testament, if he had tried to make it
then, would have been very different probably
from what it was when he made it last week.
The bill for some time made little progress,
because the House was busy with the Minis
terial proposition for the abolition of slavery;
but it was taken up in a desultory way on
June 17. when Mr. Lefroy defended the
large number of Irish bishops, on the curious
ground that Irish bishops were really only
like archdeacons, so that their number
might be expected te be large. The mouths
of English arohdeaoons must have watered
when they heard that in Ireland
archdeacons were of so glorified a nature
that the Minis ry held it a great oredit to
themselves that they ventured to propose to
reduce the income of one of them the Bishop
of Derry to 8000 a year. On the 11th an
amendment was proposed, but had to be
withdrawn without a division, to the effect
that Irish bishops should, after a certain date,
cease to sit In the House or Lords; but, oddly
enough, the ardent reformer who. proposed
this was willing that Irish archbishops should
continue .to sit forever. On June 1!' the oom
mittee got eo far as the lOyth clause, aud then,
two days later, came a memorable day, the
day that finally separated O'Connell from
his party, and in the end separated Lord
Derby from the Whigs. Mr. Stanley
announced that the Government pro
posed to withdraw the 147th clause, by whioh
the surplus was to be appropriated to such pur
poses as Parliament might think fit. He
yielded to the strong feeling that prevailed in
tbe House and in the country against any
alienation of church property, and be candidly
owned that, although the Ministers had been
able to convince themselves and their own
circle, they had been unable to convince any
one else that the surplus created by the State
was secular in its inception, it is worth re
marking that Sootland and the Scottish mem
bers were violently opposed to anything nice
disestablishment or disendowment; and this
may warrant the belief that the snooess of Mr.
Gladstone's present bill will be due to the Free
Church movement in Sootland more than to
any other single cause. The necessity or wis
dom of modifying the bill to get it through the
Lords also weighed or oourse very strongly with
the Government, although they could soaroely
aver that tbey were guided by this considera
tion. But, directly Mr. Stanley sat down, he
and bis colleagues were bitterly taunted with
their base fear of the upper house; member
after member declared that he had been de
ceived, and had been induoed to vote for the
.Irish Coeroion bill on the false pretense that
he was to have an opportunity of conciliating
Ireland by voting for the 147th clause; and
O'Connell not only denonnoed the ministry
as faithless to Ireland, but deolared, and car
ried out his threat, that he would vote against
the bill going any further. Nevertheless, the
ministry had a majority ef 131, and the bill
passed through the Commons in the shape
whioh the Ministry recommended. It must be
observed that the effeot of the Government
proposal was, that no declaration should be
made as to the appropriation of the surplus,
and it was left as an apple of discord for fu
ture sessions to say what this appropriation
should be. All that was done was to leave
out any express statement that Parliament
should deoide how the surplus should be ap
plied. The bill was read for the third time and
passed on July 8. after Mr. Shall hid inef
fectually proposed to insert in tbe preamble
an express declaration of the right of the
Legislature to make such appropriation of
the property of Cthe hnroh as should most
oondnce to publlo utility. To us in . this day
the only feature of interest in the last de.
bate of the Commons on the third reading '
is that Mr. Gladstone took that opportunity
of uttering his sentiments on the subjeot.
He was prepared to defend the Irish
Church, although he admitted it had slum
bered. But what Protestant Church had not
slumbered ? As for the future, it was of the
utmost importance to have a body oapable of
spreading and extending the Protestant doo
trines. The theory now upheld by Sir Staf
ford Northoote, it may be observed, was not
invented then; a perfectly stationary Churoh
still st-emed rather Ignoble, and the defenders
of the Irish Church balieved that it had an
"expansive force," and that the business of
the Irish olergy was to extend Protestantism.
un joiy v the hill was read for the first time
in the Lords, the Duke of Newoastle entreat
ing the Bishops to vote against it on prinolple,
regardless of oonsequenoes, and the Bishop
of London replying that he thought it was
always unwise to be indifferent to the
oonsequenoes of a vote. The debate on
tbe second reading took plaoe on July 17,
and no speech made on that oooasion Is more
phasing to read now than that of the Marquis
of Westmeath, who said that he objected to
the amalgamation of the diooese ot Kilmore
with that of Elphln, because the then Bishop
of Kilmore was a very old man, and if the'
Bishop of Elphln died first this old Bishop of
Kilmore would have, in taking charge of the
two dioceses, to go thirty Irish miles and then
ciosa the Shannon. And how oould the
Bishop oroes the Shannon, and wbere.he would
atk, could the Bishop put up at ntahtf These
pertinent questions, he thought, quite dis
posed of this great measure of aatlonal justloe.
The debate was adjourned, and the next night,
the 18th, the Bishop of Exeter wale a great
demonstration against the bill. On the 20th,
be was followed by Lord Kldon, who said that.
)f the bill pasred, the House of Lords would
not last twenty years; and he reaohed the
loftiest flight of Eldonian humbug the com
pletes! type of humbng perhaps ever attained
in England by declaring that "the aroh
bifhops, bishops, and clergy might undergo
much persecution, but he hoped that
tby would allow him if they would
allow a layman to go along with them
to take a full share of the evils of the
Churoh." Let it be folly remembered that
one' of the moBt audacious parts of the bill
was to out down the inoome of that, sweet
martyr, the Bishop of Derry, to 8000 a year.
With no inconsiderable courage the Bishop of
London (Bishop Blomfleld) followed Lord
Eldon, and announced his intention to support
the bill. The Archbishop of Dublin supported
him; but the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr.
Howley) took the other side, arguing against
bo sweeping a reduction, "more especially as
the bishops must be useful in the capaoity ef
resident gentlemen." Two royal dukes took
part in tbe debate, the Duke of Sussex being
as muoh for the bill m his brother of Cumber
land was against it. The division showed that
Ministers had a majority of fifty-nine. A few
amendments were made iu committee, but of
so slight a nature that the Government ad
vised the Commons to agree to them, and on
the second of August all discussion on the bill
was at an end, and it reoeived the assent of
both houses. '
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COLLECTIONS made on all accessible points.
INTEREST allowed on deposits. 8 30 lm
pa S. PETERSON & CO.,
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
No. 39 South THIRD Street,
Members of the New York and Philadelphia Stock
and Gold Boards.
stocks, uuis us, Jitc, bought ana sold on com
mission only at either city. l 26
CENT.'S FURNISHING QOODS.
p A TENT SIIOULDER-SEAM
SMUT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN, FURNISHING STORE.
FTCF T'F.OT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWEES
muile from nioamireuiont at very short notice.
All otbur article, of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS
in full variety. ,
WiiMlllllalJ!.K X UU.,
11 2 No. 700 CUKSNUT Street.
H. S. K. C.
Seamless Kid
Harris'
Gloves,
EYEKY PAIlt WAKUANTEB.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR GENTS' GLOVES.
J. V. SCOTT & CO.,
B 275rp
NO. 614 CHESNUT STREET.
PRUCQIST'S SUNDRIES.
1 It. TURNER,
J.V. WHOLESALE DFALKR TV
COMbS, BRUSHES, PEUFCA1ERY,
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES,
No. 324 CHESNUT STREET,
KKCONI) FLOOR.
4 9 lm PHILADELPHIA.
DENTISTRY.
PW" ARTIFICIAL TEETH. UNSUR
CEmWpassecl for beauty and durability. Set. 810. Call
Hml uYitmiiiti fiiieoiiiietis.
All dontiil operations carefully
attended to. Reference. lr,
11 ASSET, No. 413 South
NINTH Street, below Locust.
4 3 lm
T
HE PRINCIPAL DEPOT
FOK TUB PALE OF
REVENUE STAMPS,
No. S04 CHESNUT STREET.
CENTRAL OFFICES, No.' 105 S. FIFTH STREET,
(Two doors below Cheanut street),
AND
No. 432 WALNUT STREET,
(Peun lluildiiiK),
ESTABLISHED 1 S ti
The sale of Revenue Stamps is still continued at
the Olil-EHtaliliHlied Airency.
The stock comprises every denomination printed
by the Government, and havintt at all times a largo
supply, we ore enabled to fill and forward (by Mail or
Express), ull orders immediately upon receipt, a
niatter of great Importance.
United States Notes, National Rank Notes, Drafts
on Philadelphia, and Post Oillce Orders received in
pavment.
Any Information regarding tho decisions of tho
Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue Stamps printed upon Drafts, Checks, Re
ceipts, etc.
The following rates of commission are allowed ou
Stamps and Stamped Paper :
Ou $'25 aud upwards 2 per cent.
"100 " 3 "
" 800 " 4 ".
Address ull orders, etc., to
STAMP AGENCY,
No. 804 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS of all
kinds uud STAMPED ENVELOPES constantly on
hand.'
WOODLANDS
CEMETERY COMPANY
T 1 The following
Mauagur aud OlHoei'K uav btiou
lected for th year lwiWj
r l.I l
Pltlf'F, Presidont.
I William W. Keen,
Ferdinand J. Dreer,
William 11. Moore,
hsmuul n. A.oou,
fiilliu. Dallett,
Fdwin (ireblo.
hucrntury and Treasurer,
IK.
f.K
tiuorge j i.uzuy.
. A. Knight.
O.SEl'H II. TOWNRKNI).
o'i.u iliu..,.uu.i li.v. tmstiMl a resolution roouir.ua both
I ot holders and Vibito.no present tickets at the entrant
101 adiuix-iiuii W the t Vn.elery. Tickets may be bad at the
ioe of the Company, fttf. Sflil AltU Smut)!, or of any
4,kWMauvm
AUO DON BALES.
i
of
. .j-.no, no., zc.ri and '
.... . . v ' ' AUIi
AUCTION-.
ooraar
LARGE 8AI.F OF nmVisH
AND lOM KHTHJ nil v ii'iiiiiJi GKBMAH,
April 2, at 10 o'clock, on 4 nioiulu,' ciudil
14 XI M
.AIIGE BALE OF OAFPKTf NTis. OTt ,.f1i.rvri,u .
TON AlA'lTlMiH, KTO
...... ...,...."Ji!d?, Ml ,
piocc. of ingrain. Venetian, list, hemploottia and r.
oa.pet.nRn, floor oil cloths, muttm, eU. ' 4 si 5,5
LARGE SAI.F. OF FRENCH AND ' OTHER KURo'
On Monday Morning,
Miv J. at 10 o'clock, on tour .nuiitli. credit 4 Jl H
THOMAS fii RONS
AND Ml
l H. FOURTH STREET.
i -V,i I""""'. "-"",'" " cnn.ro and Cllns. taliina.
Inlni'l nioKuc marble; fine broimes, tine marble ti,rnro ani
ornaments, marble mns. rosewood molndoon, elegant lao
curtains, hne oil .minting, by F. Norly, l.inge, .nnmnr
mnn, Ifolgern, Kosni, Wimmnr; fine Hwisa carvings fin.
engravings, richly framed; sitting room furniture, crimao.
rni; superior on k dining rcsnn furniture, extension dining
titlile, bnfbit sideboard, secretary bookcase, fine chin,
glass and plated ware: suits ot elegant walnut ohaml.or
furniture, tine wnrdrobes, fine hair mattresses, feather
IV1S. olf.ffsnt ilf m. vnivnt nml ntlmr . e a ;
cal box, oto. Also, t he kitchen furniture, oto '
My be examined on tho day previoua to dale from 18 1
4 o clock. t m .
Rill' Nr, 1Q1M Ttiltnnltniik,.
NF.AT HOl'KEHOLI) FURNITURE. BRUSSELS
OARPETS, KTO.
On Thursday Morning,
iNth instant, nt In oVlopk. st. Nn 1 01 n.t.nt...
S'insre, between Walnut and Spruce, by ratalogue, to
neat furniture, comprising walnut parlor, diiiing-room, and
chamber Inmi'ure, cottage furniture, line hair mattrosaea,
bolster and pillows, UmishoIh and ingrain oarpeta, chinaana
glassware, kitchen furniture, stoves, otr. 4 2j at
Juirmture in use but n short tune and in good order.
MARTIN BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS. ,
(Lately Salesmen for M. Thomas A Son..)
No. 5'JlfCHKbNUT Street, rear entrance from Minor.
Rale No. Ohesnnt street..
HANDSOME WALNUT FUHNITUKK. FLEOANT
FRENCH PI ATK MIRROR, ROSEWOOD PIANO
FORTE, VERY (SUPERIOR FIRE AND RURliLAR
PROOF SAFES, HANDSOME URUiSSKLS, IMPE
RIAL AND INGRAIN CARPETS; STEAM EN
GINES, KTO.
On Wednoaday Morning,
2th Inst., at 10 o'clock, at the auction rooras. No. Hilt
C.'hesnut street, by catalogue, very excellent furniture,
including Handsome walnut and chorry drawing-room
suit superior parlor furniture, covered in fine reps, and
hair cloth ; 6 suits handsome walnut chamber furniture:
rosewood piano-forte, 4 very superior fire and burglar-proof
antes, made by Farrol A Herring, Evans A Watson, and '
Lillie; superior dining-room luiniture, spring mattresses,
feather buds and bedding, fine sbowense, handsome Brus- '
sels, imperial, and ingrain carpeta; fine window shades,
china and glassware, etc.
KI.EOA NT FRENOH PLATE MIRRORS.
Also, 2 extra large and very elegunt oval pier mirrors,
massive gilt frames; 4 oval and piur mirrors, haudsoinob
framed. 4 2ti2t
TO BANKERS, MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS.
Peremptory Sale, No. :! Arch street.
F.XTFNS1VE STOOK Ok CHILLED IRON F1RR AND
111 RtiLAR PROOF SAFES, MADE BY 1,1 LI, IK A
SON: SECOND-HAND FIRE AND BURliLAR
PROOF SAFES, MADE BY KVA NS A WATSON
AND FARREL A HERRING. MONITOR ANI
DUODECACiON COMBINATION LOOKS; TWO '
FINK LARGE HORSES. LARGK TRUCK, ATO.
On Thursday Morning,
April 29, at 10 o'clock, at No. ; Arch afreet, by cata
logue, to close the Philadelphia Agency of Messrs. Lillie di
Hon, tho entire stock of very superior Fire and Burglar -Proof
Safes, inclnding-8 extra large chilled iron double
door fire and burglar-proof safes ; 2 small burglar-proofs, im '
each patent combination locks; 5 large double-door chilled
iron tire and burglar-proof safes; 40 superior chilled iroa
fire proof, burglar-proof, and tire and burglar-proof safes
of various sizes, with the celebrated Monitor aud Duode
cagon combination locks.
SECOND-HAND FIRE PROOF SAFKS. " ' -A
number of superior second-hand fire aud burglar-proof
safes, made by Lillie A Son, Evans A Watson, and F arret
A Herring.
CELEBRATED COMBINATION LOCKS.
Suitable for banks, vault-doors, etc., of the Monitor and
Duodccagr.n make.
FINK LARGE HORSES, TRUCK, ETC.
Large and very tine white stallion ; largo white draft
horse; large and superior heavy truck; heavy harness 1
quantity of rope, rigging, etc 4 RJ Ut
THOMAS BIRCH & SON, AUCTIONEERS
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No, JMU
CHESNUT Street ; rear entranco No. 110 J Ransom St.
SALE OF A STOCK OfTTnE LINENS. SHIRTINGS.
DAMASK TABLE COODS. TOWELS. HANDKER
CHIEFS, QUILTS, SHAWLS, TABUS COVERS,
ETC.
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Morn
ings, April SS, 87, 2H, and 29,
Commencing each day at 10 o'clock, will be sold a large
stock of superior linen housekeeping gixids, consisting of
1. .. ..1 : n u i iu j
line linen sheetings of all widths, splendid linen damask
tamo cioina 01 an s.zoe anu paiterns7 napkins ot every
variety, fruit cloths, doylies, towels, Turkey red damask.
crahcs, table and piano covers, caBhmeru, square, and
long shawls, lauies anu gents Hosiery, bosoms, bandker
chiefs, etc. etc. 4 22 tit
TAMES HUNT. AUCTIONEER, SOUTII-
t west corner of FIFTH and SOUTH Streets.
CARD. Persons relinouishing housekeeuinv. stora-
keepers and ot tiers desirous of selling their goods at pub-,
lie side, either at their own place or at tbe auotion store,
will find it greatly to their advantage to call on us. Our
personal attention will be given to all business intrusted
tous. Our charges are tho most reasonable : we refer by
.icrmissiou to hundreds for whom we have sold as to capa
biiity and responsibility. 4 23 l2t
TY I-.IPPINCOTT, SON CO., AUCTION-
F.ERS, ASUHURST BUILDING, No. 10 MAR.
KET Street.
On Wednesday Morning.
Aniil 23. at' 10 o'clock, on four months' credit.
LA ROE POSITIVE SPECIAL SALE OF WHITE AND
LINEN OOODS, HOSIERY OOODS, HANDKER
CHIEFS, KID CLOVES, MILLLN'KRY OOODS,
ETC. ETC.
Also.
' SPECIAL SALE OF STRAW GOODS,
Including about !i.V cases ladies', misses', and children's
wear, in the most lasiuonaiiie styles.
Also, iy order 01 tue auerni, large stocK 01 general dry
goods. 14 20 at
On Thursday, April 29,
LARGE STOCK OF DAMAGED GOODS,
From the late tire. No. &il Market street.
Full particulars hereafter. 4 2r 3t
B
Y B. SCOTT JR
SCOTT'S ART GALLERY. No. lOir) CUKSNUT
btreet, Fuiladelplua.
SPECIAL SALE OF MODERN PAINTINGS.
On Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings,
27th and 2sth Inst., at M before 8 o'clock, at Soott's Art
Gallery, No. I O'iO Chesnut street, will be sold, without
reserve, a collection of Modern on falnlings, by artists ot
reputation, comprising landscapes', ri
views, all mounted in neat gold-lout frit
landscape, river, ana mountain
ames. 14 2t 2t
Ci D. McCLEES & CO., AUCTIONEERS,
' s No. 50 MARKET Street.
SALE OF 1500 CASES BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS,
E CO. ETC.
On Thursday Morning,
April 20, at 10 o'clock, including a large line of oity-mad
goods.
N. B. Sales every Monday and Thursday. f4 36 St
B
Y PANCOAST & LARGE, AUCTIONEERS,
No. 'idii MARKET Street.
CONSIGNMENTS of American and Imported Drf
Goods, Notions, Millinery Goods, aud Stocks of Good
solicited. IB 87 u
KEENAN, SON & CO., AUCTIONEERS, NO
114 N. FRONT Street. l
PROPOSALS.
piiOPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES
OFFICE OK THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
Washington. 1). C, April 22, 18ii9.
Scaled Proposals, in duiilicnte, will be received at
this oillce until 12 M. on FRIDAY, the 3()th mutant,
lor Kiipplvinir the Sitrnal Service of tho army with tho
fTmWv X TELESCOPES, with Strap,
a's!ve ""MARINE GLASSES (B.nocular),witU
VXaon or before them of
J,TheTele.-ope must ho of not less than thirty
three (83), and the Murine Uhi8He9 o f not K thw
thi"& to lo emlorncd .'Proposal-," and ad.
tiXSAnxmU made Wnowu
Brevet Major, U. S. Army,
4 , 4t Properly and Disbursing OHU er.
" " jEVV PUBLICATIONS.
iiryIII.Y DOCTOR. A DICTIONARY"
1 )F DOMESTIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY,
,'....illv adapted for lHi.iiiy use.
J...I'"" " I DISPENSARY SCRGKON.
Illustrated w ith upwards of One Thousand Illustrations,
own svo., cloth, 760 pages mid an Apiwudu, J 60: hjxd
morocco, $4.
Ast)iu vtauieu.
Aoolv tn
GEOKGK OF.BBIK,
Ho. W SAN SUM tsuoet.
433 Iw
... . ..&I,(N"- :f'i North Fifteenth stiwt
I'l.KOANT H'RNIT;HH LACK OCKTAINS F'TVH
Ol J- H A 1 NT 1 W , s A N L K N ( : II A V 1 Ji i i s? BliO N F S
MARIiI.E STATl'AHV. r.!IKHOK, UN F WlTlW
VELVET AND HUUSfsFLS CARPETS. KTO.
On WftdupHdav Morninir.
April SWli, nt 1(1 o'clock, at No. 1 M North Fifteenth
t , ly catalogue, the entire Furniture of a family (mine t
Europe, comprising -E logant walnut drawing mom fur-