MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS,

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2603, 21 June 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS,

The Bill for the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister has once more been rejected by the Lords ; this year by a majority of 20, of whom 13 were spiritual peers, last year only by 4. Several members of the Commons united to call an “ indignation meeting” at St. James’s Hall, toprotestagainstthisobsructiveness of the Lords, but few persons of mark attended, ’.and the affair degenerated into an exhibition of turbulence, over which the morning papers made merry. The red flag was waved from the gallery, but caught up, and its standard-bearer ignominiously expelled. Meanwhile, Mr. Sergeant Simen has given notice of his intention to move, in t e Lower House, that the right of the House of Lords to reject measures which have been several times passed by the House of Commons, ought to be limited. The earliest acts of the Commune in Pans excited general alarm. The first few days after its installation seemed about to inaugurate a new Hcign of Terror. One ominous sign was the publication in its Journal Ojjiciel of an article, not yet disavowed, advocating the assas ination of princes. 'lhe Duke d’Aumalc, say M. Vaillaut, the writer onty travelled alive from Bordeaux to Versailles “ because the moral and civic sense has become much weakened.” A prince, even if he happened to have become enlightened, “ should expiate in retiring exile the misfortune and the shame of his birth.” “ Society had but ene duty towards princes —death. It is hound but to 0..e formality—proof of idoniity.” The President has issued a proclamation staging that the outrages of the Ku Kluk Klaii will bo pub down, if necessary, by the United States forces.