The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Adr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse, F. Moreland, Barrett, F. Wilson, Barrett; Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. T HEATRE ROYAL, II A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone. jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothetn, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, &e. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OE TAN: WATCH: Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, Se. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill &e. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-ofilee open daily. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of "After Dark." THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which. Pion Eoueleardt's Great Drama. entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Viniuq. Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt. Fdlneuds, "Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclereq. Coneladincr with THE SECRET. ')oors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. 1 DAY'S EIS RING : Mr G. delmore. kt 15 to 9, 9th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Pechter. Miss Carlotta Lederer', Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey. etc. To conclude with WFIITE.B IIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL, Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON SATURDAY, IsT OF WAY. For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. I)0 YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. 3lessrs. ^1 trke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bilfton and Maitland. After which. .JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t` e Last Three Weeks of the Equestrian Season. — Last appearances of the Wonderful PERFORMING HORSES. —Brilliant ' , tt unequivocal success of the Easter Programme.— The SAL \M A NDER HORSE. the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No other Theatre in London offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement The magnificent t• tud of FIFTY PERFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. Ihe most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the wonderful and beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 2ath of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. ItOYA I. C II ItISTY'S, GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT-STREET, Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated Amer:can Comedian, Mr. Hatay Leslie. Pro nounced by the Press to he the genuine sensation, and the only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week : • CHANGE OF PROGRAIDIE. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCTT-S. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Boxes, £2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. 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Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THTS EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At B,—AFTER DARK : Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leclercq, ste. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENTNG, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At lIS to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leelereq, Miss Lennox Grey, &c, And WHITEBAIT AT GREG NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh, , - THIS EVFNINO, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs, Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC Messrs. Thorne James. Fenton: v esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. Ti conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROTAL. Trn EvENtNa, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7. 5. MTNNIE, or. Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: I . 4eF:rs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Fie dames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Tinder the Management of 3fisi It Oliver. Tins r.CENING, at 7.10, A LOVISO CUP. Mr. Dewar, I..t.ss °fiver. To he followed by CLAUDE MITA L: Mr. Dewar, To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. M • Oliver PRINCE OF WALI'S'S ROYA T, THEATRF , . Cinder the Manslzement of iss Marie Wilton THIS EVE N NG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montaente, Addison, Glover. and Ba n c ro ft : M rs. linckingbam White. illtss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL A3IPIIITHEATIIR AND CIRCUS, lIOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud or 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c., and the Salamander Horse. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tarq FVENTNO. at S. THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MLNSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA ; PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Bor-offic( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GADENS, ReGent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. 4,)N • 54444- ~r(ljtt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1869. According to the argument set forth by the pam phleteer, upon whose sketch of the actual system upon which " Our Foreign Relations" are now con ducted we commented yesterday—according to his argument, as to the revision of that system in the future, greater efficiency may be secured by the very means of a more economical arrangement. rl l l i The proposition is, to say h It only remains to consider the e het leat hesritof i t, e alluring. It ay an g a . truly, practicable. Anl, before entering into details upon this point, we may premise at once that the conclusion arrived at is entirely in accordance with our previous convictio ns—namel y , that it is practicable. That much more economy and much more efficiency may be secured readily enough and simultaneously—that one, in a manner, involves the other—that the terms, in one sense, are almost co-relative. As a rule, it might even be said —not alone in reference to this department, but in reference to all departments of the Administration, without any exception whatever—that extravagance and inefficiency are almost inevitably found cheek by-jowl. it is not extravagance, however, strictly speaking, that has to be complained of in regard to the moneys voted for the remuneration of our orga nized diplomacy. It is rather in the manner of their application than in the matter of their aggregate amount. And here it is that we come point-blank to the gist or argument of the whole scheme set forth by the anonymous would-be reorganizer of our existing system for the conducting of our Foreign Relations. When he proposes no economy whatever, he shows how, identically, the same funds may be much better applied. For example, we are spending now annually £12,200 upon our Diplomatic Staff at the British Embassy at Paris. This amount the pamphleteer conceives in no way to be exorbitant. He would, therefore, not in any way propose its diminution. lle would only suggest that it should be distributed differently. The Ambassador himself should still have the same income as hereto fore—that is, the splendid sum of £lO,OOO per annum. It is with the remaining £2,200 that he would deal duff erectly__ meaning in this, of course, the pamphleteer. According to the existing arrange ments there are at the Paris Embassy the first Secre tary with £1,200 a year, two second Secretaries, one with £4OO, the other with £3OO ; two third Secretaries each with £l5O a year, and two unpaid attaches. Our innovator proposes that in future nobody should go altogether unpaid—that the labourer, what ever his name is, is worthy of his hire, and that the £2,200 should be applied thus :—£l,ooo to the First Secretary, £5OO to the Second Secretary, £250 a year each to a couple of Third Secretaries, and £lOO a year each to a couple of attaches. Surely a reasonable—not to say an equitable—proposition ! In the instances of Madrid and of Stockholm—the former a First Class Mission, the latter a Second Class Mission—he would ; deal somewhat differently, effecting a petty saving of £lOO a year at Madrid, and another petty saving of £2OO a year at Stockholm—each with an increased guarantee, through the economy itself, of greater efficiency. How this is to be effected at Madrid he explains by saying that, whereas now there is an Envoy there with £5,500 a year, and a First Secretary with £7OO, and a Second Secretary with £350, together .20,500—he should propose that in future there shall be given to the Envoy £5,000, to the First Secretary £6OO, to the Second Secretary £4OO, and to a Third Secretary £2so—being an economy of £lOO as already intimated. At Stock holm, hitherto, we have had, and still have, of course, an Envoy and three Se- ! cretaries—the Envoy receiving an annual income of £3,400, the First Secretary one of 2500, the Second Secretary one of £250, and the Third Secretary one of £l5O. Stockholm being, as we have said, a Se cond Class Mission, the proposed reorganizer of our diplomatic system would have the British Lega tion there consist henceforth of an Envoy, and two (not three) Secretaries— the Envoy receiving £3,000 per annum, the First Secretary £7OO, the Second Secretary £4oo—a saving of £2OO a year being thereby effected. These and other similar sug gestions, thrown out in the course of his argument, impart a practical value and importance to the pro positions of the pamphleteer. And they are certainly • propositions—the majority of them—eminently well : entitled at the least to contideration. AT least let us be holiest. In England, at all events, we are not a " Sabbath-keeping " people. The gentlemen who waited upon Mr. BRUCE to argue against the opening of the National Gallery and the British Museum on Sundays assumed that we were. Mr. BRUCE himself seems to have assumed it, and to have refused to grant the prayer of the National Sunday League because, though personally he approved of it, the nation disapproved. That may be true (it is at least questionable), but closing the National Gallery and the British Museum is by no means the same thing as " keeping the Sabbath." The simple truth is that the great majority of persons in our large towns not only do not "keep the Sab bath," but absolutely and shamefully dishonour it by conduct that would disgrace a working day. It is on the " Sabbath " that our beerhouses are most crowded, that our spirit-dealers drive their best trade ; ',it is on the " Sabbath " that we make most drunkards, that we convert most men into swine. And then we compare ourselves with France and Italy; we point to our closed Museum and Gallery and to the open Louvre and Pitti, and say, "Stand by thyself ; lam holier than thou." If we could but see ourselves as others see us, we should discern that our English reverence for the " Sabbath," on which we pride ourselves, means merely that the working classes in England have lower tastes than those on the Continent. The second find their recreation in looking at the sacred paintings of RAFFAELLE,the first find theirs in drinking "Old Tom;" the second spend their " Sabbath " in the Palace of the Louvre, the first spend theirs in the gin palace. No doubt it is a sinful thing to gaze at a picture of the Holy Family on the "Sabbath," only do let us for very shame hold our peace about it so long as the heads of our families celebrate the " Sabbath" by lying drunk and incapable in the gutter. THE debate on the Budget now proceeding in the Lower House of the French Legislature is one of the most important of late years. It is not merely a discussion on the most hopeless and uninviting of French topics—French finance. It usually happens that the Budget—which is designedly made the last item of the session, in order that it may not give the Government much trouble—comes on for discussion in July. But the country is now on the eve of the third general election under the Empire,and the com mencement of the Budget debate in April is a sign that the end of the session is near. In a few weeks will begin the contest which may have the most important influence on the destinies of the EMPEROR and his people, " The Opposition, therefore, is THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1869, embracing the last chance of calling the Govern ment to account for its stewardship. The Budget is never very inviting; this year it is of no great importance, and figures are cast aside in the presence of far more important facts. The Budget has been made the pretext for bringing into court a far wider subject—the State of the Nation. What has the Empire done for France since the last election in 1803 ? What does it propose for the future ? Do the French, in short, enjoy that i l s ibe s r o ty ra t p o idl w y hih h c eeem th in ey g t a h r e e i e n n h t e i r tld, and i e taiweef which every European ? These are the questions which the small minority in the French Parliament discontentedly puts, and which the large majority vainly strives to answer. The case, as set forth by M. TRIERS in one of his best speeches, is very plain. It is matter of history that after the coup d'etat of 18.1 France went through the farce of a plebiscitum which elected Louis NAPOLEON Emperor, and accepted a Constitution of his making. This Constitution was admirably adapted for the pur poses of the EMPEROR, but by no means favourable to the liberties of the people. Under it the French have, indeed, a Parliament. But the Upper House, the Senate, is simply nominated by the EMPEROR, whilst the power of the Corps L6gislatif is reduced to a shadow by the sovereign's prerogatives. No measure, not even money bills, can be brought before the Chamber, and no law can be passed, save only by consent of the sovereign. He appoints and discharges his Ministers at pleasure, makes peace and war, and nomi nates to every office in the realm. It was not to be expected that a great nation would tolerate such a Constitution, accompanied as it was by strin gent laws against the press and public meetings, and most insufficient guarantees for the liberty of the subject. The French people have cease lessly struggled to throw off the yoke which they so rashly accepted. Scant success, however, has hitherto attended their efforts on behalf of liberty. Up to 1807, indeed, no changes of any great moment were made, and the reforms which were then wrung from the EMPEROR were far from " crowning the edifice." The Bill of Eights is still of most formid able dimensions, For the reforms of January, as they are called, the Opposition, as represented by M. THEIRS, gives the E3IPEROR full credit. The debates in the Corps L6gislatif are conducted with greater freedom than formerly. All the Ministers are pre sent, whereas there was formerly but one. The right of public meeting has been con ceded. This privilege is hampered by endless restrictions, it is true ; but the privilege now exists, and there is always hope that the progress of the wedge may not be confined to the thin end. Lastly, the press has been conceded some small measure of liberty. But allow the widest interpretations to these reforms, and how much remains to be accomplished ! The EMPEROR'S Ministers are not responsible, but the EMPEROR, takes care, whenever a blunder is made, to throw the odium of it upon some unlucky official. An irresponsible Ministry is the source of numerous evils. Then the people are not allowed to elect the Corps L6gislatif, miserable as are its powers, after their own fashion. Every species of device is used to convert Universal Suffrage and the Ballot into a machine for the manufacture of Imperial adherents. The influence of the clergy is enlisted. Offices, small and great, are temptingly held out to voters. Public money is granted to the communes on the tacit stipulation that votes shall be given in return. In short, the upshot of the Constitution is that the Parliament can do nothing, and that few but Imperial adherents are chosen to do it. Once elected the Corps L6gislatif cannot, as we have seen, make any laws, nor freely criticise the acts of the Government. Even a question cannot be put in with out authorisation. The measure of liberty granted by the press partakes so little of the nature of true liberty that press prosecutions take place almost every week. The right of public meeting is turned to the profit of the Government. Even the liberty of the subject may scarcely be said to exist. Under the pretence of providing for the public safety, the Government can imprison at pleasure ; for who but the Government can decide what is, or is not, necessary for the public safety ? Such are the principal conditions under which Fiance exists on the eve of a general election. Never w as the nation more dissatisfied with its lot, but the EMPEROR cannot or dare not promise further con cessions. There seems to be a general awaken ing on the part of the people. The clamour for reform is stronger than at any previous time. So strong, indeed, is it that the Govern ment unmistakeably expresses, by its acts, its grave concern for the result of the contest. But it will not make the promises which would secure it the support of the nation; and, meanwhile,the people which of all others in Europe has sacrificed most for liberty, is reaping the smallest reward. THERE is mutiny in the Conservative camp. The Record tells us that a meeting has been held at the Carlton Club, at which " great and just dissatisfac tion was expressed at Mr. DISRAELI'S speech, and at the more pronounced levelling-up avowals of his pro-Maynooth lieutenant, Dr. BALL." The Record might have added the still more open avowal of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. Our contemporary goes on to say, "a strong intimation has been conveyed to their chief that they do not intend to submit themselves to the dis cipline of the new course of education for the purpose of meeting the Irish difficulty, and that in this matter they are not prepared to take another leap in the dark.' " This statement has an interest apart from the subject to which it immediately refers. It solves the questions asked a good deal of late, " Can educa tion be carried on without rewards and punish ments ? Can our schoolmasters give up the cane and the prize, and trust solely to the thirst for knowledge ?" The answer is clear; they cannot. You cannot expect men to take a leap in thedark without at least a fair prospect that they will fall on something soft. Mr. DISRAELI must first of all throw out the Irish Church Bill of the Liberals before he can persuade the Conserva tives to pass one of their own. lie has a difficult task to teach his pupils theirs. We are inclined to think that, clever master though he is, he will find it too hard for him. EXACTLY a dozen years ago this country was in the turmoil of a sudden and unexpected general election. The question before the country was not Parliamentary Reform, not the Irish Church, not any great measure of justice either in secular or ecclesiastical politics, but whether our representa tive in China had done right in bombarding one of the chief cities in that kingdom with red-hot cannon shot, in order to punish the Chinese authorities for hauling down the British flag from a pirate ship which had no right to hoist it. Parliament had condemned our representative ; but Lord PALMERSTON, acting upon the principle that Great Britain must never admit herself in the wrong, however wrong she may be, inflicted the penalty of dissolution upon the Parliament, and appealed to the country. The country supported him, and declared, not that Sir JOHN BOWRING had done right, but that his action must be upheld. The chief advocates of the policy of justice to all nations, whether Occidental or Oriental, whether strong or weak, were rejected by their con stituents ; and men who loved their country, but loved righteousness more, mourned over this national endorsement of an atrocious wrong. Twelve years have passed since then. The same Minister holds the Foreign Seal as held it then ; but a change has come over the nation. The voices that then cried in the desert have since then been heard in the Senate. Mr. GLADSTONE, who voted against Lord PAL3IERSTON then, is Lord PALMERSTON'S successor now; Mr.BRIGHT, who was rejected by the third city in England then, is, next to Mr. GLADSTONE, the most influential member of the Administration. Lord CLARENDON, as we have said, is Foreign Minister now as he was then; but he has different colleagues, a different Parliament, a different nation, we might almost say, to deal with. So, instead of defending the - latest outrage of a British official against the Chinese, he announces that the author of it has been recalled, and he expresses his hope that this measure will be an effec tual warning to the whole consular body. And yet the outrage at Formosa is not to be named in the same day as the outrage at Canton. There was no bombarding with red-hot cannon balls, no wholesale slaughter of innocent victims, no refusal to accept an apology when it was offered, no attempt to maintain by force a wholly illegal act. Lord PALMERSTON would have resigned twenty times over rather than have consented to this course of his former colleague. But, happily, the lesson taught amid jeers and scoffs and personal sacrifice a dozen years ago—the lesson that righteousness, and righteousness alone, exalteth a nation, has been learnt at last. Lord CLARE DON'S short speech is enough to arouse from his undis tinguished grave in the Sussex village. churchyard the great man who, through good and evil report, mainly through evil report, protested against the substitution of might for right. It is enough to kindle to new life the warm heart and the clear brain of RICHARD COBDEN. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. ()MOIL OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, April 6. Lord Stanley's speech at Glasgow, or at least that part of it which relates to foreign affairs, has attracted some little notice here. Lord Stanley, it will be remembered, said the only serious risk of England being involved in a European complication must arise from those pledges of protection, in the form of guarantees, which you have given to minor European States. " Well, it is obvious to remark that those small States are protected by international jealousy quite as much as by international morality. No great Power willingly sees any other great Power aggran dised in its own neighbourhood. The only real danger to those minor communities would arise out of anything like a general understanding or concert, or combination among all the greater Powers for the absorption of the smaller ones." Such a combination, Lord Stanley added, is very improbable, but should it be made, it could hardly be expected that England would oppose it single-handed. On this the Temps remarks that Lord Stanley made similar remarks two years ago, in order to disarm criticism on his intervention iu the Luxembiurg affair. As the Liberal and Conservative parties are pretty much at one on foreign intervention, and differ only in detail, the Temps thinks that these statements, which, it observes, represent the nation generally, are not very reassuring for the small States in these times of "general agglomeration." The small States are being swallowed up wholesale by their neighbours, and England decides to remain an indifferent spectator. The Budget, or rather the Things in General debate, is still going on. The Right is intensely anxious to get rid of the political part of the discussion and to land on the comparatively tcrra firma of the Budget itself, but the Left is not less anxious to keep up its attack. Yesterday M. Buffet vigorously assailed the system of official candi datures, and 'again M. de Forcade la Roquette defended them. Then M.M. Louvet and Magnin carried the discussion into the territory of finance proper, to the great delight of the majority, who a'ce the denunciations of the Left with a very bad grace, and are anxious to end the debate, in order to get off to electioneering occupations. But even the fiscal proclivities of MM. Louvet awl Magnin did not keep them to £s. d. considerations solely. Politics were continually cropping up in the speech of the former. To- day the.Budgetis again forgotten, and Disarmament takes its place. The incident of Saturday, M. Rouher's polite invitation to M. Girot-Pouzol to " hold his tongue," is nut, I hear, likely to be forgotten very readily. The insulted deputy means to bring the Minister to account for the expression, and is collecting evidence that his version of the scene in the Clermont Court is correct. A great number of persons have signed a memorial affirming that the words which M. Router denied were actually made use of. The Paris branch of the We3leyan Missionary Scc't ty has just held its anniversary at the Church in the Rue Raquepine. Addresses were delivered by several English clergymen, and over £6O collected. Lyons does not seem disposed to give up the project of an international exhibition for 1871. The scheme has been revived on modified terms. The projectors do rot this time ask for a subvention of £60,000. All they want is the exact sum which the octroi duties may produca during the time the exhibition is open. All suc cess to the scheme ; but it would appear from past ex perience that no exhibition can command very great success unless held in a great capital. The International Art Exhibition at Munich is definitively determined en for this year, and will be opened on the Ist of August. Munich is at all times an art exhibition, and doubtless would command a much larger number of tourists if the sanitary arrangements were not so wretched. They have however, greatly improved of late years. ITALY. (FRO3I our. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) FLORENCE, MAncu 31. Knowing that the long-expected Green-book would be in the hands of members yesterday, I have delayed my letter until this morning for the sake of being able to give some account of the impression which it has produced. You will recollect that after the publication of the French Yellow-book an interpellation was made by Deputy Guerzoni with regard to the attitude of the Government here vis-a-vis to that of France on the Roman question. The reply was, that a more complete collection of despatches, down to a later date, would be laid before Parliament. This has been looked for with groat impa tience. You will have been informed by telegram of the substance of its contents, and I will only add that since the 31st of October last (date of the last French despatch already published at Paris) the present issue contains only one despatch of General Menabrea (dated 23rd November), in reply to the above, and reiterating the arguments al - for the recall of the French troops from Civita Vecchia. To this, owing to the absence of M. de Monsticr, there was no reply, and no despatches are publis' eel bearing date subsequently to 'the accession to (Ace of Al. de Lavalette. There is, consequently, no ground fo: assuming any change in the reciprocal attitude of the respective Governments, beyond what may be inferred from the antecedents of the last-named Minister, and the general impression appears to be one of considerable dis appointment at the meagreness of the additional informa tion supplied by the document which has been waited for so long. At the same time, the publication of the whole series of the Italian despatches proves the policy of the Menabrea Ministry to have been such as to furnish a suc cessful answer to any hostile interpellation from the Left. The curious ceremony of the " Colorabina " took place as usual on Easter Eve, and at this dead season, in the absolute dearth of political intelligence, your readers may possibly not be averse to hearing something about it. At the time when preparations were being made for the second crusade, a considerable body of Florentines assemble 1 to join it at the spot which is now the villa of rrince Devi doff at Saint Donato, but which then was a monad' ers under the abbot of that name, who became the leader of the expedition. The fact, by the way, is commemorated by a painting, executed by Liverati, to the order of the wealthy owner of the place. Among these Florentines was to be found one of the celebrated family of the Pazzi. This knight, after bearing his part in the furious escalade which placed Jerusalem in the possession of the Crusaders, was so astonished at having effected his entrance without receiving a wound, that he betook himself on the following • day to the spot at which be had climbed the ramp:..rts. There he found that his ascent had been facilitated by a flint, which projected from the wall. This flint he took possession of, and deposited it at Florence in the Church of the SS. Apostoli, where, according to the tradition, it still remains. A condition attached to the possession of certain property now belonging to the municipality ensures the continued observance of the ceremony con nected with it, which is quite peculiar to Florence. On the morning of Holy Saturday a procession leaves the cathedral for the SS. Apostoli, and the fire which is to serve for the lamps and tapers during the ensuing year is struck from the flint in question and brought back to the Duomo. But this is only a prologue to the " Colombina." In front of the high altar and the canon's choir is erected a lofty wooden pillar, from the summit of which a cord is stretched along the church, and, passing out of the great doors, is affixed at its other extremity to a monumental structure of fireworks placed upon a car drawn by the large oxen of the country. At the moment when the first words of the Easter " Gloria in Excelsis " awaken the organs and all the bells of Florence, a light from the new fire is applied to the pillar, and a fiery dove or carrier pigeon bursts into life at the summit, and, scattering a sheaf of sparks like a comet's tail, rushes over the heads of the crowd along the nave and out of the doors, ignites the car of fireworks in the middle of the piazza, and returns with equal rapidity to die out before the altar, while the explosion of the mortars outside forms an ac companiment to the booming cf the bells, the crash of the music, and the singing of the choir. Any one who is acquainted with the gloomy magnificence of the interior of the cathedral of Florence, and the wonderful effect of sound under the dome of Brunelleschi, will be able to imagine that the tout ensemble is not otherwise than striking. The car, some of the fireworks on which are arranged so as not to explode at once, is then drawn by the oxen in front of the old palace of the Pazzi family, where the rest are let off. This curious observance dates from between three and four centuries ago. Mr. Chapman's action against Mr. Price, Q.C., came to an abrupt termination, so far as the public hearing is concerned, on the opening of the Assize Court at Leeds on Monday morning. Counsel on each side had a con ference with the judge in private, and after that it was agreed to refer the points at issue unreservedly to an arbitrator. His lordship expressed a strong opinion that topics would have to be gone into unsuited for a court of justice, and the troublesome investigation could be very much better conducted by a referee. The referee is to have full powers, everything being left to his discretion. A- mysterious tragedy is at this moment causing a great sensation in the neighbourhood of the Rue do Tour-- non, Paris. A loud detonation was heard a few morn'ngs back proceeding from the apartment of Commandant Thevet, at the barracks of the Garde de Paris. On the door being forced open, that officer was found ing on his bed lifeless, baying discharged a pistol into the rogios of his heart. Near him was standing a lady dressed in her under clothing only, and who proved to be the wife of a person of high family residing in the neighbourhood. The deceased officer was between forty and fifty years of age, and possessed of considerable property. An investigation is going on, but this affair is still enveloped in great obsCu rity. The lady, who is aged about 30, had been Acouaimted with Ali commadiat fa about to watts. PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIOII'S. The select committee appointed by the Muse of Com mons to inquire into the general question of parliamentary and municipal elections held their first sitting on Tues day. The members elected to sit on this committee are Sir M. H. Beach, Mr. Brand, Mr. Bright, Mr. Cross, Mr. Dalglish, Mr. Edward Egerton, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Graves, Sir George Grey, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the Marquis of Hartington, Sir F. Heygate, Mr. Staveley Hill, Mr. Howes, Mr. Hunt, Mr. James, Mr. Leatham, Mr. Locke, The O'Connor Don, Mr. Eaikes, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Villiers, and Mr.,Whitbread. The Marquis of Hartington took the chair, and the first witness called was Mr. Barber, the Mayor of Nottingham, who said that in that borough, in connection with the municipal elections, he believed one-third of the voters were corrupt. A number of statistics which he a•lduced went to spew tl at in one of the wards of the borough, cut of 1,067 voters, 600 were open to bribes ; in another ward, 500 out of 1,330 were susceptible to the same influence ; in a third, 250 out of 630 ; in a fourth, 300 out of 1,008; in a fifth, 170 out of 678; in a sixth, 100 out of 582; and in a seventh, 582 out of 1,475. The amounts paid were usually 3s. 6d. and 55., though some times they were much larger, and the bribery was a matter of public notoriety; so much so, indeed, that many respectable persons refused to have anything to do with the elections at all. The reception of bribes was not confined to the lower classes, but if the amount offered was deemed sufficiently large, the shopkeepers were quite ready to take it. This system of bribery had been in existence as long as the witness remembered. He did not think that the bribery at municipal elections was intended to have, or did have, any considerable effect upon the parliamentary elections. In answer to Mr. Villiers, the witness said that attempts had been made to stop the system of bribery that existed, but they had generally broken down before the elections were over. The money for the bribes was paid by the candidates generally, though, when the amount was large, it was sometimes raised by subscription. The corruption in the borough was on the increase, and, in the opinion of the witness, money would carry any election, parliamentary or municipal, in Nottingham. Replying to Mr. Hardy, Mr. Barber stated that there were many instances in which small shopkeepers had been content to receive 10s. for their votes. One remedy for the present evil would be secret voting, if a system of secret voting could be adopted, though probably more would be done in the way of remedy if the law could easily be put into operation to punish the bribers and the bribed. To Mr. Fawcett the witness said that a public prosecutor would be necessary to put the law into motion against offenders. The remainder of the sitting was occupied with the examination of other wit nesses from Nottingham, who confirmed the views expressed by Mr. Barber. The committee will take evidence from various boroughs and towns in England, CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE, A meeting of the council of the Central Chamber of Agriculture was held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, Salisbury-square. Amongst the gentlemen present were Lord Berners, Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., Sir George Jenkinson, M.P., Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P., Major Parker, M.P., Mr. G. Backhouse, M.P., Mr. T. Dyke Acland, M.P., Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., Colonel Brise, Mr. G. H. Gregory, M.P., Captain P. G. Craigie (North Riding), Mr. R. C. Wade (Devon shire), and others. After the transaction of some formal business, The CHAIRMAN called upon Mr. R. Jasper More to bring forward his proposal for a deputation to the Presi dent of the Board of Trade on the subject of a separate Government Department of Agriculture. Mr. JASPER MORE said at the last meeting there was an adjourned discussion on this subject, and on the night of that day Mr. T. Dyke Acland brought forward his motion on the same subject in the House of Commons. Mr. Acland fairly repre sented to the House the remarks made in the council. In making his motion Mr. Bright stated that the Home Secretary was considering whether some adjustment of departments could not be made which would to some extent attain the object of the chamber. He would, there fore, propose that they should not at present send a depu tation to the President of the Board of Trade, but should, at the same time, keep the matter in mind, so that if an arrangement of departments did not take place to their satisfaction, they would be able to place their views before B r i g ht in a definite form. The proposal for the adjournment of the question met with general approval, and the chairman proposed that the matter should be referred to a committee of the council on the subject. Sir Massey Lopes, in seconding the motion, said they might congratulate themselves on the fact that the Prime Minister had to some extent given his promise that something should be done ; and that, statesmen on both sides of the House had admitted that the grievance as it stood at present was indefensible. He was quite satisfied that the urban population were not at all aware of the extent of the grievance to which they were subjected. People in 'the rural districts, and, he believed, all county members, were alive to it ; but they wanted the assistance of the borough members, and the only way to obtain that was to create some agitation in the towns. He did not think that it would be desirable for the com mittee to propose any particular remedy ; the more they dealt in generalities the better. Mr. R. C. WADE asked whether it was intended that information should be collected, or that advocates should be sent about the country. If the latter course were pursued, he believed that it would be anything but bene ficial. Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, M.P., said he had a motion on the paper of the House of Commons, for the 16th instant, asking for an inquiry, but since he put that motion on the paper, Mr. Rathbone, the Liberal member for Liverpool, had asked him to postpone it for the purpose of giving him an opportunity, as the representa tiye of one of the largest mercantile towns in England, of taking the initative in the matter, and of chewing the feeling of the towns on this subject. When once the towns saw that it would be to their interest to support the counties on this question, the case would be greatly strengthened. The motion was agreed to, the following committee being appointed :—Mr. Andrews, Captain Craigie, Mr. Jasper More, Mr. D. Long, Mr. F. S. Corrance, M.P., Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., Sir George Jenkinson, M.P., and Mr. Varden. The third subject on the paper was, "What steps should be taken with regard to the Government Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill." Mr. Hawley proposed a series of resolutions on the subject. He asked the Council to resolve that there should be added to the bill compulsory regulations for the proper accommodation of animals in transit by ship or rail; provisions that owners of animals suffering from contagious or infections disease should be required to give immediate notice of the existence of such disease ; that less arbitrary powers should be given to inspec tors; that the slaughter of cattle which have been in contact with plague-stricken cattle should; be made compulsory ; that sheep-pox should be dealt with in the same way; that the slaughter quarantine, or sufficient inspection of imported animals at the places of debarkation should be made compulsory ; that separate markets should be established by statutory enactment at all places where foreign animals are landed ; and that a deputation be appointed to lay these views before the Vice-President of the Privy Council. This series was in substance carried (with some altera- tions) after some little discussion. On the motion of Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, an additional resolution was adopted to the effect that every encourage ment ought to be given to the carrying on and the de velopement of the dead meat trade. On the motion of Mr. WHITAKER (Worcester) seconded by Mr. RIGBY (Cheshire), the following resolution was agreed to : " That compensation for slaughtered animals should be defrayed, as in Ireland, from the general taxa tion, or, at least, a moiety of that compensation should be defrayed from Imperial revenue." - The deputation to attend on the President of the Board of Trade that afternoon was then appointed, Mr. T. Rigby (Cheshire), Mr. Randall (Lincolnshire), Captain Craigie (North Riding), and Mr. Duckham (Hereford), being selected as speakers. The next subject on the paper was "To consider the best substitute for the malt tax," but in consequence of the lateness of the hour, ned and the co unc il adjourned' the discussion was postponed and THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN.- ANOTIIER DEATII.—The list of the victims by the explo sion at the Ifighbrooks Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Mercer and Evans has been further increased to thirty. four by the death of the lad Wilcock, whose name has been heretofore included in the list of those most seriously injured. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —Last week the annual rate of mortality in London was 27 per 1,000, while 30 was the rate in 13 other large towns of the United King. dom. In the metropolis, 2,319 births and 1,670 deaths were registered, the latter exceeding by 40 the estimated number. It is remarked that the mortality in London has gradually increased during the last six weeks, the deaths in the seven days ending 27th February having been 1,419, or 251 less than they were last week. Four persons were killed by vehicles in the streets, The mean temperature (1 the , LveAls Ta , l3oicitto or La jliat tho mum. • ME MAGAZINES. everal good articles appear in at, haul's. The writes on " The Election Petitions" discusses in a non-partisan spirit, the effect of the new tribunal for trying the validity of elections. He comes to the conclusion that the nelf system, though an improvement upon the old method, does not provide a sufficient safeguard against electoral abuses. For instance, with regard to the general belief that it is cheaper because the petition is tried in the town instead of in London, it is pointed out that, although the petitioners save the cost of bringing the witnesses to the metropolis, the cost of one eminent counsel (who is obliged to be engaged) outweighs that of many wit. nesses. Still, the writer has no doubt that the reform, in so far as it has gone, is one in the right direction. A judicial verdict may he uncertain, but it is certainty itself compared with the decision of.a parliamentary committee. The important question of "Army Reform" Is once more discussed, this time by a private dragoon. He is plain spoken in his views, which may be summed up briefly as follows :—He does not agree with the notion that the lowest soldiers should be able to rise to the highest position in the army, and this opinion is due to the fact that his experience convinces him that the private soldier is an " arrant snob." He would sooner (so says the dragoon) be kicked by a lord than civilly entreated by a mushroom man—wherein he differs not materially from his civilian countrymen. some interesting particulars are given of " A Lunatic Colony," situated at Gheel, twenty miles from Antwerp. In that place a large proportion of the population consists of insane persons, who share in all the daily toils and pleasures as other sane fellow citizens, who live in fraternal equality with them, and are permitted freely to take part in their religious festivals and ceremonies. M. Lanfrey's work on Napoleon I. comes in for the highest praise, through the fact that the historian tells his facts simply and forcibly, because he indulges in no efforts to reproduce an imaginary past a nd never directs the atten tion of the reade r t o spec ulations of his own. Mr. Fagan's memoir of Daniel O'Connell is subjected to a searching criticism, which, I thi nk, is mos t r i c hly d eserve d. Th e two tales still conti nue to cla i m di v id e d h onours among the contributions i n Mr. Trollop's magazine. Temple Bar this m on th p re sents a readable number. The serial " Sus an Fi elding an d Kitty" progresses satis factorily, and th e ot h er contents, th oug h p ossess i n g no e great depth, are most interesting. A eulogy of the musician Gluck, without fulsome flattery, places the good parts of the composer before the reader ; and "Six Years in the Prisons of England" calls attention to phases in the treatment of our criminals—how they are dealt with in the prisons —which has been lost sight of to a great extent in the discussions on the subject. The writer is opposed to capital punishment, and enthusiastically calls for the humanitarian treatment of time dangerous classes. He wants to make them work, and give them in some way an interest in their w or k. "The Turn of Fortune's Wheel " and " The Majolica Painterof Urbino"make up the quantity of fiction. A contribution for the ladies is given in " Flirts and Flirtation." Fli rtation is de f en d e d , on t h e groun d that by it alo ne girls c an ge t t o find out, without being doomed for lif e , o f w h at men are ma d e. M en t h emse l ves ought to unde rs t an d and do, up to a certain point, what is meant ; and if th ey a f ter a time take things too seriously, whose fault is 'it? Girls are warned, however, not to indulge too freely, for they may be nipped instead of the men. The Art Journal opens with an engraving of Maclise's " The Warrior's Cradle," which faithfully represents that attist's hard and minut e style—he should have been an armourer. Mr. H. Dawson's " A Stormy Sunset" is in en iis that of M. Mathurin ng every way admi ra bl e, and is a cap i tal stu d y o f clouds. The other p r i nc i pal Moreau's bro nze group " Cornelia." Mr. Hall takes his readers to Castl e H oward, a very stately spec i men of the stately homes o f E ng l and. Mr. Dafforne gives a biography Tide Y , an art i s t w hose r e p u tati o n grow s of Mr. Henry grav from year t o y ear. Among the miscellaneous articles are acounts of th e ex h ibitions of Welmert ' s pictures and those at Mr. M ac l ean ' s Gallery. What I may call the leading article deals with the Highlanders of Scotland, and is based upon Mr. Macle's book. The tour through the picture galleries of Italy takes the reader to the far famed Pitti Gallery, at Florence. I would venture a word of counsel to the binder. His covers should hold together until the Journal is promoted to substantial boards. Mrs. Gladstone's Convalescent Nome is the first subject discussed in the current number of the J'ictoria, and it is one which cannot fail to commend itself to the hearty sym pathy of its readers. There can be no doubt that in ministering to suffering and relieving unmerited distress woman is in her trite element. The record of what Mrs. Gladstone, Miss Twining, and others like them have been able to achieve shews how much may be done by women amongst its even though they may not be able to write M.P. or M.A. after their names. An article on the Education of Women declares the great deficiency in the teaching of girls to be its lack of thoroughness. There is no doubt great truth in this, though the programme of the writer might not be always cept ible. At least the subject is thoroughly discussed, for the essay in question occupies twenty-seven pages. " o L m i e p c lore a paper which tells us and there are not i ces on Female Suffrage, Ladies' Clubs, Miss Rye' s E m i grants, an d ot h er B o r r i e ou o s f our Forefathers" ; is kindred topics. The approach of spring renders gardening an important consideration, and amateurs and professional cultivators will find a good deal of useful information in the Gardener for April. The article on the Rose is continued from last month, and treats of pillar roses, standard roses and weeping ro se t rees . There is, besides, an essay on the cub. tivation of hardy fruits ; and among the general informa tion for the month a compendious list of new plants and new flowers is riven. readable tnis montn. Professor Tyndall's is da m ll o 's re st t y il l a e n is lis p u e a r l f l ect. There is no other writer that I know who can so perfectly convey an ideaby one or two words. What can be finer, for instance, than the words I have italicised? " A swathe of fog ;" " the Weiss horn sh oo k out a b anne r toward s th e north, formed by the humid southern air as it grazed the c res t o f th e moun t a in ; " "hacked an d h urt b y time, the aspect of the Matterhorn from its higher crags saddened me ;" "the alternation of sun and frost have made wondrous havoc on the southern face of the Matterhorn, cutting much away, but leaving brown-r e d masses o f the most imp os i ng magnitude b e hi n d —pillars an d towers a nd splintered o b elisks, clearly cut ou t of the m ounta i n — gran d in th e i r h oariness, and softene d by the c o l our i ng of age' Mr. Tynd a ll' s accoun t o f the etapof his eight years' war with the Matterhorn is in- tensely exciting, even to readers who, like me, have seen the mountain only from Zermatt and the Ge- Grat. What the acoanyt must be to those fsiv favoured climbers who have actually made this, the msiii perilous of all the Alpine ascents, I can well imagine. Miss Olney's story, ".Astelle," of which the large instalment of forty pages is given, is very lively and amusing. Mr. Morrison's paper on Phy sical Ed ucat i on i s a rev iew o f M r. Maclaren's book, but takes no note of the daily increasing grumble of parents that physical education is becoming a l mos t th e b eg inning and end of teaching at cur great public schools. An article on " The Worth of Educational Endowments " is an answer to Mr. Lowe's condemnation of endowments, and !thews in terms, mainly borrowed from the Education Com missioners' report, how a large number of charitable en dowments, at present useless and even injurious, m ight be turned to good ac count by dev o ti ng them to t h e partial sh support of good schools. Sir John Lubbock reviereviewsyortl Mr. Wallace's "yan Archpe , " which seems to be a really brilliant book of travel. " Iwo Views of the Conv en t Q ues ti on " are written by two la di es , one of whom w ro t e th e ar ti c l e in the February num b er on t h e Position of Wom en . B oth articles are full of soun d sense, and administer a severe and deserved rebuke to the majority of the newspapers for their flippant and superficial articles on the Saurin case. They ass umed that because there were petty details and qu arre l s in convent life therefore the life was all petty; whi c h i s just as if one were to say that because husband and wife sometimes quarrelled about the dinner, and the mi stress of the h ouse some ti mes d us t e d the drawing-room c hi na, therefore married life was wholly mean and petty. The writers assert that conventual life is making rapid pr ogress among our upper c l asses . T hey lament this, for th ey think the life h as greater disadvan tages than advadvantages ; but the fact remains , and all the articles in all the Protestant journals in the world will not alter the fact. Ifit is to 1) altered it must be by giving women another choice than that which is now offered th em , the inanity o f fashionable life or the strict ness of conve n t ua l li fe. The Dublin U n i versity Magazine i s as strong as ever in the amount o f its fiction. Th e class of stories which it publishes is not, however o f the highest. Vapid senti mentalism mark s too many of its novels, and to judge of life from the Dublin Unive rs ity one would look on it as a dream y , unreal kind of existence, whose end and aim is t o g e t i nto love. There are three stories now annearing as serials, "My F)wn Stern" "Up and Down in the World," and the " Wyvern Mystery," all of W hi ch make progress . B es id es th ese, a complete tale is presented, called Ruth." ft tells how a gentleman unwittingly wed an occasional lunatic, and then in trying for h er sa ke to hide her infirmities from the world, i ncurs t h e obloquy of so c i e ty. Of course he i s thoroughly v i n di cate d at t h e l ast. 'Though the novelette is not free from that misty unreality which marks the stories which appear in this magazine, it conveys a healthy, manly moral. The " padding "is variott9 both in kind and merit. The worldliness of the stories is counterbalanced occasionally by controversial articles on the genuineness of the Gospels and Epistles, &c. The history of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, is an interesting compilation. The other articles come up on the whole to the usual standard. 'ood Words is, as reakinz ill us t ra ti on to " al, ebham's Vow" is excellent. at, n ouncuty luagaztne tor tnis mon th is up t o th e average . The " City Man's" usu well illustrated. The love articles are capital. But why, by continuing his s t or i es of " Hoppety Bob" has he shewn to his readers that his hero is only a creature of the imaginer tion after? all The articles on Ragged Schools, by Dr. Guthrie, are very goo d . He tells how sa d he b ecame when, leaving his ministry in the village of Arbilot; where they' was only one public-house, that outside the town, only three or four drunkards and everybody attended church, h e came to Edinburgh, where public houses are so plentiful and (it follows as the ni,lht tha dayLhurch-zottemerefLfew- .4 robt HER, MAJESTY. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, April 6. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, left Wind sor Castle this morning at a quarter-past 11, and arrived here shortly after 12. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, visited St. Bartholomew's Hospital this afternoon. Prince Leopold visited the Tower of London. LATEST INTELL IG-ENO (REU - ER'S TELEGRAMS.) DEATH OF SIR E. CUNAIW. NEW YORK, April 7. Sir Edward Cunard, Bart., died suddenly, front heart disease, in New York, last evening. He w as 53 years of age, and a principal partner in the house of Messrs. Cunard, Burns, and Maclver, the steam ship owners. FRANCE. BOURSE, April s.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : per Cent. End of month .3 per Cent End of month 7O 35 Credit Mobilier 272 50 End of month 275 Credit Foncier l-Ib7 50 End of month — - RAIL Wk Bank Shares 2850 --' Italian Fives 55 8 0 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 32 5 0 Homo Debt Deferred s. Cash Orleans ... 9481 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean -1. Southern..... 6131 Western Eastern •••••• Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. 511 G6n 475. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Tuesday. The Prince, accompanied by their ExcellencieS and a bril!iaut party, left town to-day at 12 o'clock for Panchestown. llis Royal Highness was cheered by the spectv ters, who lined the way to the terminus, and the crowd there assembled. He was also warmly re' ceived on the course. The weather was unfavour' able, and the attendance was not so large as RIO year. The Prince of Wales's Cup was won by Fer tullagh. Cardinal Cullen was among the guests at the Viceregal Lodge this evening. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. INGENIOUS ROBBERY.—Joseph Ricketts, porter, in the employ of Mr. Jabez Hughes, dealer in photograpbi ° apparatus, 379, Oxford-street, and also Frederick Smitl 3 l photographer, New-street, Covent-garden, and brother-iY law of Ricketts, were brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, the former charged with stealing a quantity of property be' longing to his employer, and the latter with receiving tb° same with a guilty knowledge. From the evidence it appeared that in consequence o f the prosecutor having lost a large quantity of property the police were communicated with, and after watching 06 premises several mornings the prisoner Ricketts was 00 0 by Mr. Werge, manager to the prosecutor, and Police-coo' stables Walker and Beechey, to go to the premises hour before his time, take down the shutters by mead of a pair of steps, go through the fanlight into the shoPt and after being there a quarter of an hour come back and place a parcel behind the door. The officer then toot Ricketts into custody, and on the way to the station be threw away two keys which had been left safe in the sbol overnight by the manager. On the parcel being o pened was found to contain some of the prosecutor's property Beechey then went to Smith's house, Smith being th e brother-in-law of Ricketts, and found there several article!' used in the trade of a photographer, and which wore idea' tilled by the p ro S ecu t or as hi s property, and when S i nit: was charged with receivin g th e t hi ngs, he sa id h e b3' purchased them four mouths ago, but one of the articleh a bottle of collodion, bore the prosecutor's mark. After the depositions hid been completed Mr Tyrwhi tt asked the prisoners whetlfer they wished to state an) thing. a Mr. Lewis Lewis, f o r the prisoners, s a id th e y Nvot ll reserve their defence. Mr. Tyrwbitt co►nmitted them for trial. THAMES. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES.—Robert Stoker, a stoker 00 the Great Eastern Railway, was charged with violent l y assaulting his wife, Ann. The complainant, who carried a fine child in her arm y ' had been married two years to the prisoner, whose coo" duct for the last twelve mouths had been harsh and crue l ' He frequently taunted her with her religion, Boma r/ Catholic, which he knew when he married her, for they were united in a Roman Catholic Chapel by a Rotnisil priest. He bad often struck and kicked her, and there were bruises cn her arms and bosom. He had also been 19 the practice, out of mere wantonness, of stripping the 10 61 ; clothes off her and her baby, and leaving them uncoverl in cold weather. Once ho buffeted her about the he ad with a pillow and stunned her. He bit her on the OA on the side, and on her bosom. Ho had a quarrel with bi 4 landlord, and because she took the landlord's part 1 -' 9 knocked her down and kicked her. In cross-examination by Mr. Charles Young, the woma n said her husband was very industrious, and made sev'9, seven days' work per week. She never told him she not like him because he was a Protestant and a member ° , the Church of England. She did refuse to procure m eal' for his dinner on Good Friday. She had a fish dinn er that day. Mr. Chas. Young said the man had bean nine years in O a ° employ of one company, that ho was a steady man, itt l that his wife was always "nagging" him and tauntill; him with being a heretic." Mr. Benson said the parties were very foolish to quarrel about religion, and had better leave theology alone' Their religions were very nearly alike. A Boma ° Catholic was as goof as a Protestant, and a Protestant 1 good as a Roman Catholic. Good Friday was an awkwA V day to talk to a woman of the complainant's faith abet ) ! meat. Tho parties must bear and forbear, or they mroal , t be always unhappy. He had no doubt the prisoner vial a good workman, and sober, and steady, but it too oft3t l happened that men had a good reputation in the oute r world who were brutal and tyrannical at home. 11.11 a prisoner was a tall, stron g f o ll ow, and h o 07 , afraid that hi s t emper was a bad one, o'. that he had ill-used his wife very brntalif The complainant was the most creditable woman of De r class he had ever met with, and deserved better treatmen t ' If the prisoner was over brought before him again for 9 similar offence he would send him to prison for a very lout; time. He ord ere d hi m t o fi n d b a il , two sureties in .£ l° each, to keep the peace towards his wife and all ber jesty's subjects for twelve months. The sureties were provided. Astley's Theatre was again suddenly closed 011 , Monday night, and great disappointment was occasion e d to both performers and the public. VICTOR HUGO'S NEW STORY.—At last it is p O5; sible to publish Victor Hugo's new s t or y ; an d we regr° very much to say that it cannot be published in Onc d a Week. The reason is, that long before M. Hug ° ! novel was heard of in this country Mr. Anthool Trollopo had agreed to write a story, to 5 commenced in the course of next month, a story great interest, and sp ec i a ll y d es i gned for the form o f Osc" a Week. In consequence of the first delays attending th e appearance of L'Homme qui Rit in Paris, Mr. Troller kindly consented, in spite of his other arrangements, ta . , allow his story t o s ta n d over t ill the b eg i nn i ng of J u ly, which time it w as expec t e d th at the publication (I', Victor Hugo's tal e i n thi s magaz i ne would (be n or'/ 0 completed. 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