The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

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R OYAL AMPHITHEA TIE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t' e Last Three Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— last appearances of the Wonderful PERFORMING HORSES. —Brilliant Pnd unequivocal success of the Easter Progra,n.me.— The SALAMANDER HORSE. the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the Metropolis. No other Theatre in I ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement. - ONRA, the world-renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinary double somersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING TRA PEZE. The magnificent Stud of Fifiy Performing Horses, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. The 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 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. 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Furniture and Fittings in Office 1,117 11 5 Mortgages and Loans Loans on Policies within these Surrender Value Premiums dun and sundry Agents' Ba lances (nearly the whole of this since received) Cash Balances, viz : City Bank Current Account National Provincial } lank Cash in hand l5O 0 0 11,784 14 0 --- Total Assurance Fund The Proprietors' Fund Account at the close amounted to • • 45,449 14 6 Which. added to the foregoing, makes the Total Assets £286.751 6 10 A debtor and creditor account of the assurance fund is appointed hereto with the valuation as at December 31st, 1866, and the surplus now sh-ovn is of the most encourag ing 'character, and justifies the expectation that at the division of profits at the end of 1871 the results will be exceedingly favourable. The Directors draw the especial attention of their new connexions to the circumstance that 16 years since they inaugurated a plan of weekly audit of accounts. This system is still carried out by them with an undiminished care and attention, and by its adoption they aro enabled to control the operations of the Company iu the most efficient manner. J. GILLMAN, Chairman. March 19, 1869. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, TUE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C To conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRF.-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Bnckstone, jun., Mis 4 Fanny Wright, &e. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale, &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, 11111, ate Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. fir. Fothern. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commenee at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIPS EVENYNa, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tnts EVENTNG, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips Stuart: Carlotta Leelereq, Miss Lennox Grey, itc, And 'WHITEBAIT AT GREF NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SNvanborough. Tins Evr.Nise, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne. James. Fenton; %lesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. TIM EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.15, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Twrs EvENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, Lc. To conclude with TIIE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of ➢lisp Marie Wilton THIS EVENINO, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss 0. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN, Trite EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of ;',O Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. TAM EVENTSG, at 8, TIIE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: awl the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 sntlB all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. Is. Box-oftlci open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-rmk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, ed. ginh's 3r • VAjt LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1869. A remarkable pamphlet has just been issued from the press* in regard to the organization of our Dip lomatic system. It is ob‘iously written by one tho roughly conversant with the plan upon which Our Foreign Relations are at present conducted. And, for ti e most part, it is well e,i,sitlered. The picture drawn from this esoteric point of view is somewhat disheartening—disheartening, we mean, to those TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY .EVENING, APRIL 6, 1869. Y °linger aspirants whose ambition lies in that par 'cular direction, and who, with the sanguine tem perament of youth kindling their hopes, look forward to a halcyon future in this, in the one sense, highest of the purely intellectual professions. Everything, according to their anticipation, seems couleur de rose in r gard diplomatist. u th n e iversit y ,th. e embryo Im mediatelyciiplomatist joins one or other of the legations in the upon quitting his University , character of an attache. The Court of the Sovereign, to which his chief is accredited, is open to him on his first entrance into public life, and so are the drawing rooms of the best society in the capital in which his residence is, for the time being, fixed. Intermediately, may be, he has tried his hand, perhaps got it well in, as a precis-writer in association with the working of the Foreign Department in Downing-street. But, if he chances to be the scion of a noble house, he passes directly from the surveillance of a tutor to the surveillance of an ambassador. He goes from the cloistered shades or quadrangles of Oxford or Cam bridge to the home and the haunts of some starred and ribboned Excellency. Life with him is still tha t of la jeunesse, but it is la jeunesse d'oree. Operas and balls, afternoon canters and evening decanters, flirta tions and presentations, are to be among the chief events of the new existence. The tour of Europe is to be made in the grandest way possible—tamely, by removal from one metropolis to another, in bettering capacities and bettering positions—attache, third, second, first Secretary, Envoy, full Ambassador— Munich, Brussels, Madrid, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Paris. The couleur de rose deepening and ripening in tint like the fluctuations in the hues of the dying dolphin —" The last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is— grey !" That is —until, with the silvering hair of a veteran diplomatist, the active and successful career is closed by a tender cushioning on a pension and a peerage. Such, in brief, is the day-dream indulged in by ingenuous youth in regard to the average career of a diplomatist. Mark, now, the lamentable contrast presented to view by the anonymous pamphleteer, who has but just now, with uncompromising accu racy, told—not the secrets of the prison house, but of the British Legation, as it actually is in the chief cities of the various countries of the European Continent. " A youth of folly, an old age of cards" —there is, happily, none here, as a rule in the diplo matic career. On the contrary, it isa youth, and some thing more than a youth, of drudgery of a certain kind, and unquestionably of that "hope deferred" which proverbially " maketh the heart sick"—and which is lengthened out, in the majority of in stances, into full maturity. First of all, be tween the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six the young diplomatist has his first start in life as an attaché—for four years—gratuitously ! After that probationary interval of four years has fully run out, he is then —at twenty-five years of age at the very youngest—appointed to the dignity of Third Secre taiy—rec2iving the superb official income of £l5O pr annum, and even that contingently ! After five or six years' enjoyment of this magnificent annual Ipayment of £l5O, and of this high position of Third Secretary, the advancing diplomatist is at thirty or thirty-one years of age pro moted to the rank of Second Secretary, with a yearly income of from £250 to £4OO. When about forty years of age—if he is particularly lucky —he becomes First Secretary. His income then ranging from £5OO to £l,OOO. If his constitution survives, if he has a good deal of influence, but, better than all, if he bas a run of luck, he becomes in the course of time—perhaps after a dozen or even fifteen years have elapsed—Minister or Ambas sador. Very mmy get dejected, get Lipped, get broken in health and in spirits—take to the German waters, dabble in homoeopathy, obtain a pension if they can, and withdraw into retirement. Such, in a few rapid sentences, are the contrasting romances and realities of the diplomatic career, as imagined, upon the one hand, by the stripling who intends, let us say the day after to-morrow, to become au " attache," and as described, from experience in col I blood, by one who, the year before last, we will suppose, was a veteran diplomatist. Enough for the present moment, if the comparison thus startlingly instituted be borne for a while in remembrance, and more or less strongly realised. Subsequently the consideration forces itself both upon the writer of the pamphlet already mentioned as well as upon his reader —as to how best the system, as it now is arranged, may be judiciously modified, with a view to the opening up of a more reasonably hopeful career to the majority of the diplomatic servants of the Crown, and at the same time of striking a rational balance between effi ciency and economy in the general scheme of our diplomatic organization. UNLESS Lord STANLEY is a very vain man he must be getting as weary of hearing himself praised for common sense as other people, 2,350 years ago, were of hearing ARISTIDES praised for his justice. And yet we really know no other word which so fitly and completely sums up Lord STANLEY'S char acter. His speech at Glasgow is the explanation of the no-speech at Westminster during the debate on the Irish Church. It is a warning to his party of the absolute hopelessness of the position which they are assuming, which has been taken up by Lord Joiur MANNERS and Mr. HARDY, and, there is too much reason to fear, will be taken up by the great bulk of Irish Protestants. It is impossible to reverse the verdict passed by a majority of 118 ; it is impossible to set aside the wish of the people expressed at the polling-booths last November. This is as much a matter of . fact as that if the Conserva tives knock their heads against a stone wall it is the heads that will suffer, not the wall. Lord STANLEY went beyond facts ; he advanced opinions which to his party must sound like heresy. He said that " the actual and existing position of the Irish Church is invidious, and not easily defen sible;" that " all merely titular distinctions and marks of dignity are not for a Christian Church worth fighting for or retaining ;". and that " funds not really wanted may fairly be applied to any justly national purpose." What more than this could be said even by Mr. BRIGHT ? The EX-FOREIGN SECRETARY and the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE are agreed that the Irish Church cannot be defended; that the right of the Irish bishops to sit in the House of Lords is not worth a contest ; that Church funds may be appropriated to other national uses, which need not even be religious. True, Lord STANLEY went on to say, " I do not think that endowments which are wanted, and which are not abused, ought to be swept away after three centuries of possession merely in order to establish a theory of religious equality." But no one proposes to sweep them away; those which are wanted, and which are serving a good purpose, will still be available for the Church, and will be merely handed over to commissioners, who will see that there is no waste. Lord STANLEY thinks that " we may still succeed in saving something out of the fire." So does Mr, GLADSTONE; indeed, he saves the very handsome amoulit of 71 millions out of 16. We are not at all sure that Lord STANLEY'S salvage would have proved quite so satisfactory to the Irish Church. Nor are we sure that the purposes to which he would have put the residue of the money would have borne quite such a close relationship to the original object of the endowments as those which Mr. GLADSTONE has selected. Lord STANLEY says only that the purposes should be " national," a term which would include the purchase of railways, the draining of bogs, and the subsidising of packet companies. We are inclined to think that even Irish Protestants would prefer the appropriation of the money to the relief of unavoidable calamity to any repetition .of the Shannon and the Galway jobs. There are other points upon which we cordially agree with Lord STANLEY. _- -- Mr. GLADSTONE has clearly made a mistake in liberating the Fenians. It was the mistake of a generous nature ; it was the mistake which did not appear to be such until after it had been made ; yet not the less was it a mistake, and one which, there is reason to fear, will produce unfortunate results. We agree also with Lord STANLEY in the desire that in carrying out the important changes with regard to the Church and the land which are now contemplated nothing will be done gratuitously to wound the loyal Irish Protestants. It is, unfortunately, too true that we cannot afford to alienate Irish loyalists ; at the same time even this danger must be incurred, if necessary, in order to render the great bulk of the nation loyal. Moreover, if the loyalty of the minority depends solely upon the maintenance of their ascendancy, "it is not worth the keeping, let it go." But, probably, little importance is to be attached to the cry for a repeal of the Union which is now being raised by the ultra-Protestants of Ulster and Dublin. They cannot fail to see that in an Irish Parliament Protestantism would be as com pletely outnumbered as in the British Parliament Romanisin is outnumbered. So much for Lord STANLEY'S speech. And now what of Lord STANLEY'S position ? It is a signifi cant circumstance that the Conservative papers sup press this speech. They know full well that it would justify what independent journals, as well as the Liberal organs, have long been saying, that though Lord STANLEY is with the Conservative party, he is not of it. He has, unfortunately for his own fame, become involved in Conservative tactics. He has taken part in " dishing " his opponents, and in his colleagues' leap into the dark. He it was who in 1866 denounced the degradation of the franchise involved in Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposal to reduce the qualification to £7 ; he it was who then proposed £8 as the means of saving the Constitution ; and he it was who in 1867 accepted household suffrage as the only safe resting place. But with regard to this Irish Church question he has not hopelessly committed himself. He said last year that if anyone was prepared to uphold the Church in its present position, he was not that" one. He says this year that the Church is " invidious, and not easily defensible;" and that the battle is lost, and the time is come to capitulate and make the best terms. He makes a speech so liberal that the journals which have been accustomed to praise him as a Heaven-born Minister, dare not publish, much less refer to it. How much longer will he continue to occupy havesent position, which is as " anoma lous "as the Irish Church itself ? We have the authority of Sir WALTER SCOTT, that— " On Stanley, on,' . Were the last words of Mariniun." and the STANLEY of to-day would do well to bear them in mind, He cannot stand still. Ile must either advance, and take his seat among the men whose opinions he shares ; or he must consent to follow the lead of the new champion of Con servatism, the darling of the squires and the clergy of a past generation. :And while we -wait for his answer, what shall vve..say of the party which in the course of forty- e i g ht h o urs is advised by Lord JOIIN MANNERS t o h o i st th e s t a ndard of " No- Surrender," by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON to " level up," and by Lord STANLEY - that, not only is the battle lost, but that a large is not worth fightin g f or ? portion of the subject of conflict %, Wt ' aV; 7 •6`,: i l fjp-14 .1 * it ib 4 , VilltUkt HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 5. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice went out in the grounds this morning. Prince Leopold also went out. LATEST INTELL MENU (RELJ'ER ' S TELEGRAMS.) MALTA. VALETTA, April 5. The Bordeaux and the Algiers, two monitors of 800 tons, for the Sultan, and constructed in France, on their w a y arrived here yesterday, to Constan tinople. Her Majesty's corvette Rapid, from Naples, also arrived yesterd a y, and will be followed to-day by the Caledonia, having on board L or d Cl arence Paget. The Rapid, in beating in, tailed on the rocks. GIBRALTAR, April 5. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta left for Southampton at 1 o'clock this morn ing, where she may be looked for about the evening of the 9th inst. SUEZ, April 5. The Caruatic left at 10 a.m., and the Nubia at 3 p.m., y es t er d ay, for Bombay and Calcutta re spectively, AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, April 6. The North German steamship Weser, sailing to day for New York, takes out English gold coin to the value of £lB,OOO, and French jewellery to the value of 94,500 fr. PHILADELPHIA, April G, 3 a.m. The Republicans have carried the elections in Connecticut by a majority of 500. Marshal Jewell has been elected Governor of the State. One member of Congress has been gained by the Republicans. FRANCE. BOURSE, April s . —Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :-- 41 per Cont. End of month... - Italian Fives 55 80 3 per Cent End of month 7O 321 Mexican ,Loan ... 241 Credit Mobilier End of month... 275 Spanish Threes Credit Foneier ...1490 Home Debt — End of mouth... _ Deferred — RAILIVAYs. Cash Or l e ans .. ... 955 Northern .............................. ... / 1371 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... Western ........... Eastern ............. ........ Sardinian Austrian Lombard ...................................... • North of Spain Saragossa ......... 80 lt°m - an ............................................ 51 IRELAND. DUBLIN, April 5, Evening. Prince Arthur ar r i ve d in Kingstown early this morning. At half-past 11 th e L or d-Lieutenant and suite went on board the yac ht, and presentations were made. A deputation from the Kingstown Com missioners presented an address. At 12 o'clock a special train brought the Royal party to town. At Westland Row a❑ address was presented by the Corporation of Dublin. The Prince received a respectful welcome from the citizens. An inquest was held at Lyons to-day, and the jury found that Lord Cloncurry came by his death by falling out of a window. He had been under close re-traint for some time. Capthin Al'Donald, one of the candidates for Queen's County, committed suicide to-day in Kings towu by cutting his throat. CRYSTAL PALACE.---ONE SHILLING DAY.—Mon day, April s. —Admissions by season tickets, 2,003; ditto on peymeut, 2,234; tntaul visitors, 4,237. CORRESPONDENCE FROM Pd RIS. Mom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. MONDAY, April 5. 'The speeches on the great Budget debate accumulate far too rapidly for my brief space. But I ought not to omit to notice the great moderation which characterises the speeches of the Opposition leaders. M. Thiers set the example in an address which was as temperate as it was was vigorous, and M. Jules Favre has followed suit. His language was perfectly free from offence, but he did not hesitate to give the question, " Has the conduct of the Government since 18(13 given satisfaction to the legitimate aspirations of the people?" a most decidedly negative answer. M. Thiers dealt with general principles ; M. Jules Fevre went into details. The vague and arbi trary law of " public safety " involved danger to the per sonal liberty of every Frenchman. Under the pretext of providing for the public safety any person might be cast into prison. " Every day it happens that those who defend the rights of citizens at the bar of Justice finds themselves powerless to obtain redress for the wrongs of their cliente. Let us now look at the liberty of the press. In thirteen months you have instituted 118 prose cutions, and what have been the results for the writers of the incriminated articles? Nine years, one month, and twenty-three days of imprisonment, nine months of inter diction of civil rights, and £5,400 fine ! And do you think you have disarmed your critics by such rigour? One may affirm as a general rule that those who persecute the press only dig for themselves the grave into which they must one day fall." This hit was received, according to the official report, with "mingled sensations." I should think so. Then M. Favre turned to freedom of election. He gave M. Rouher the full benefit of his declaration that official candidatures were indispensable to the Govern ment. But were this proposition true, nothing could be imagined more discreditable to those in power than the maintenance of that system. If a Government is obliged to designate and recommend the friends of the Emperor, the reason is that it is not strong enough to face public opinion freely expressed. The Constitution has given very considerable prerogatives to the executive power ; but it has also reserved for the nation a right that cannot be alienated. Whilst, however, the Emperor cannot alienate this right, he endeavours to nullify it by seating his personal nominees in the Chamber. M. Fame then gave some instances of the means employed to turn elections. A sum of £240 had been granted to one commune for public improvements, and the juge-de-paix was ordered to solicit in return the gratitude of the elec tors for the only candidate of the Emperor. A letter was at this point handed to M. Favrelrem M. Bethmont. It was from a prefect, announcing a subvention, and asking the electors in return to support a candidate. The speaker then gave the Government a pretty broad hint about the recent disturbances at public meetings. At Paris, he said, a singular spectacle was witnessed. Although political discussions are forbidden in public m ee ti ngs, nothing else takes place, and in the. very presence of the Commissary of Polico ! " What is the reason of such toleration? The truth is now disclosed. The violence of the speakers was useful to the secret designs of the Ministers. The meetings have been dissolved, and all what remains of them is a pamphlet which the Government is circulating in profusion. The pi oneding is not new, but will not be always efficacious. The revo lutionary spectre is being exhibited to all France, but the country no longer fears it." M. Baroche replied. His . speech was very amusing, and was received with great applause on the right, but it added nothing to the sub stance of the discussion. A strange, and to the Government a discreditable, hie!. dent occurred at the opening of this and the previous debate. During M. Thiers's speech on Friday the great orator of the Left complained that judges who failed to convict for political offences were overruled on appeal, and disrespectfully spoken of by the Government agents. In one case a Procureur- General, whilst supporting an appeal against the court which first dared to acquit in the Baudin case, said : " Justice at Claremont has shewn itself unintelligent and short-sighted." M. Rouher, interrupting, denied that any such expression was ever used. M. Girot-Pouzol then rose and said he had heard the words himself. M. Rouher, in a rage, exclaimed, "Hold your tonge ; respect the Chamber." The deputy thus addressed did not hear this re buke, but was amazed to find it in the Journal Officiel next day. On the opening of Saturday's sitting he brought up the expression, and a lively scene ensued. M. Rouher's words were stigmatised as monstrous ; but M. Rouher refused all explanation. There the matter rests ; but I may add that M. 'Tiers was right. The words of which he complained were spoken in court. The Minister of State has been guilty, not only of a gross act of rudeness, but of a wrong, which he refuses to rectify. It is again rumoured that M. Emile 011ivier is rising in favour at the Tuileries. Reports of Ministerial changes, in which M. 011ivier will play an important part, are again current, but I cannot set them down as being of any importance. There are always rumours in Paris, and these Ministerial speculations are merely the waifs and strays of the day. A very little consideration serves to dispose of them. M. 011ivier attacked ' the iipperial dee .tion policy in a fine speech, which has done much to retrieve his reputation. M. de Forcade la Roquette defended it, and declared that the Government neither could nor would give up official candidatures. The Emperor has written a letter applauding the speech of his Minister, and therefore condemning that of M. 011ivier. Is it likely that his Majesty will stultify himself by at once taking the Paris deputy into his confidence ? As to M. Rouher, his position remains neither better nor worse than it was. But whenever the Emperor chooses to part with him it will not be at a time like the present, when, of all the Imperial Ministers, the eloquence and talent of M. Rouher alone can control the Corps Legislatif. A judicial phenomenon has just happened.,Lere. A man has been condemned to death. A few weeks ago an old woman, who lived as housekeeper in the Rue Mont- Thabor was murdered by a man to whom she refused to lend some money.. This fellow had known his victim from his c hildh oo d, and thought he might get assistance. But instead of money he got only reproaches for his evil ways, and thereupon stabbed the woman to the heart. No extenuating circumstances could be found in this case. A bicycle race, the distance being from Chester to Liverpool, about eighteen miles, was run on Saturday after noon. There were twenty competitors, and the prizo, a silver model bicycle, was won by Mr. W. H. Eaton, an amateur. The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige confirms the reports of great preparations in all the military departments of France. All the strong places of the north are being provisioned. On the other side of the Rhino the same activity is being displayed. The Echo understands that the son of the Paella of Egypt will be presented to the Queen during the week. The same journel is " enabled to state that the announcement of Miss Cappenter's return from India which has appeared i: a contemporary is at all events premature." Prince Arthur has arrived in Ireland. On land ing at Kingstown he was loudly cheered by the people. lie proceeded at once by rail to Dublin, where the streets were filled with people, who also gave him a warm recep tion. lie sat in a carriage with Earl Spencer and a brilliant staff, and drove direct to the Viceregal Lodge. John Martin, a saw-handle maker, who was charged with having thrown a bottle full of gunpowder against the house of his cousin, a non-unionist workman, at Sheffield, in March last, was tried for the offence at Leeds on Saturday, before Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, and on convic tion was sentencei to 14 years' penal servitude. The banquet and presentation to Mr. Miles, the , Insuccessful Conservative candidate for Bristol last Novem ber, will take placo on Monday, the 19th inst. The cere mony, which will come off under the auspices of the "Bris tol Working Men's Conservative Association," was post poned from Easte:-Monday in consequence of the death of Lady Miles. Mr. Price, who unsuccessfully contested Brecon in the Liberal interest at the last election, has given notice that he does not claim the seat under the petition which has been presented against the return of Mr. Gwyn. The Cambria Daily Leader states that in the event of Mr. Gwyn being un seated, the Liberal party will request Lord Hyde, sou of the Earl of Clarendon, to stand. It is also said that Mr. Giffard will be the Conservative candidate. The report of the Special Committee on breech :oading rifles, together with minutes of evidence, etc., was published on Monday. The result of their investigations transpired a few days since. They recommended the Henry 45-inch bore barrel, combined with the Martini breech mechanism, and the ammunition most approved of is the "Boxer" case, with Mr. Henry's combination of lubricating wad and bullet. Inspector-General Armstrong, RN., has been q )ointed Director-General o f th e Medical Department of the Navy. The new Director-General will not enter on the duties of Oleo until the 15th inst. The apt ointment w:11 give general satisfaction to the service, more particularly as it was recently rumoured Oita other interests were brought to bear to override the claims of Dr. Armstrong is favour of another officer of less service and experience. The estimate is s u e d on Monday showing -the nnanoial position of the various Civil Services for which a vote on account is required for the year upon which we are entering, does not, as far as n e perceive, promise any great result from the exploits in economy of which we have recently heard so much. The sum voted for the year 1868-69 was £9,171,534 ; the estimate for the year 1860-70 is £9,558,408, thus showing an increase of £586.874. SUSPECTED MURDER. A man, named Alfred Lawrence, was on Monday charged at Sevenoaks with having caused the death of a woman' unknown on the previous day. The prisoner, a young man, from the neighbourhood of Ch at h am, has hitherto borne but a very indifferent chAacter, and he has lately been employed as the driver of a coa l van , living at a tramps' lodging-house at Dunton G reen, a hamlet about three miles from Sevenoaks. The circum stances are that about half-past F a x on Sunday morning, as Frederick Sherry, a fly-driver at Riverhead, was passing from his home at Dunton Green to that place, he saw the dead body of a woman on the footpath at the side of the road. Around the body there were indications of a severe struggle having taken place, from the deeply indented foot impression s on the road and path, and a quantity of lucifer matches, from the sale of which the deceased woman appeared to have obtained a living, being scattered about over a distance of several yards. Sherry hastened to give informs. tion to the county police. In the struggle which had evidently taken place the deceased woman had been very seriously handled, her clothes were nearly all torn from her, and a piece of ter dress was found over a fence in an adjoining field. There was also a swelling above the left eye, the only visible mark of violence on the body. The evidence against the prisoner was that only a few hours before, just after midnight, Sergeant Pope saw the deceased, who was in a state of intoxication, leave a public-house in Riverhead with him, and that he subsequently saw them within a quarter of a mile of where the body was found. The prisoner remarked to him that as they both lodged in the same house he would take care of the woman, and the officer seeing them going quietly together took no further notice. The officers paid a visit to his lodgings, where they found him in bed at 10 o'clock in the morning. His clothes were wet and muddy, bearing the appearance of having been drawn over the wet ground, and when this was pointed out to him he could not account for it, but said that he was at his lodgings at 11 o'clock the previous night, forgetting that it was after midnight that he had spoken to the police-sergeant. He was then charged in the usual way, but his reply was that he knew nothing about it. Nothing whatever is known of the deceased beyond that she had been in the neigh bourhood two or three days, and that she had said she was a married woman, but that her husband, a cabman, was living with another woman at Notting-hill. She appeared to be from 35 to 40 years of age. The prisoner was remanded. THE ItILTI?DER IN TIPPERARY. The magistrates and police of Tipperary are actively engaged in prosecuting inquiries respecting the murder of Mr, Toppin, but are prudently withholding any informa tion from the public. Suspicion does not actually point to any person, but some circumstances which have tran spired seem to strengthen the belief that the crime was agrarian. Mr. Toppin wa's tenant on the property of Mr. John Richard Toppin, and also held a small farm of nine acres from Mr. R. Hemphill, of Clonmel. His father was agent over this property up to the time of his death, and his mother, who then obtained the agency, evicted a tenant, named Fitzgerald, about sixteen years ago for non-payment of rent, and became herself tenant of the nine-acre farm, The deceased and his family lived with her. It is reported that this eviction caused a good deal of ill-feeling. The house of the widow Fitzgerald was searched by the police, and a coat found having some slightly discoloured marks, and a pair of " brogues," which had been recently. worn, with clots of blood on one of the heels. Mis. Fitzgerald accounted for them by stating that she had worn the " brogues" herself while attending some cows that were calving. A hatchet with reddish marks was also discovered. This was explained by the state ment that it had been used for cutting meat , and as it is evident that the deceased was killed by gunshot wounds, the finding of the blood-stained hatchet rather weakens than confirms any suspicion which might be excited by the state of the shoes and coat. The police, however, thought it right to arrest three sons of the widow, and they have been remanded by the magistrates for further investigation. They strongly protested against being taken into custody, and declared that they had always lived on friendly relations with the deceased. The clay upon which the mutilated remains lay has been carefully sifted in water, and in it was found a large swan drop, similar to some which on a postmortem examination were extracted from the body. It is conjectured that as Mr. Toppin was crossirg the fields he was suddenly confronted by some one, who fli ed at bm, The woun I divided the w:ndp . pe, his hat fell off, and he ran forward a few paces and fell. To make his work more sure, though it was already done, the assassin fired at him again as he lay on his right side. At the inquest Mr. Martin Fitzgerald, the brother in-law of Mr. Toppin, stated that the deceased had called upon him to obtain the assistance of a man to open some drills next day, and that lie went with him, as he had been in the habit of doing, about 200 yards across the fields on his way home. He then returned to his house, joined his family, who were on their knees repeating the rosary, and, after going out for of ew moments to look at a cow, returned and went to bed. He heard no shot, and knew nothing of what happened until next morning, when messengers came to lock for the deceased, and a little boy named M`Henry found the dead body. He said he was not aware that any person entertained towards the deceased, and lie never knew him or his mother to be threatened. Mr. Matthew Toppin, a cousin of the deceased, deposed that he was out on his farm about half past eight attending some sheep which were lambing. He had a lantern in his hand, and was accompanied by a little boy. He heard two shots from the direction of where the body was found. The little boy told him to put out the light, that " there was something bad doing," and seemed to be afraid. He did not put out the light until he crossed the next fence, but he then extinguished it, and he and the boy went to their respective homes. He met no one on his way home. Next morning the wife of the deceased came looking for her husband, and he told her he was afraid something had happened, as he heard two shots. It is a strange illustration of Tipperary life that the boy at once suspected that a murder was being coin• mitted, and yet no inquiry was set on foot, whether from indifference or fear. The following appears as a " heading " in the New York Herald :—" Three Negroes Hanged for Mur der ! They expect to go straight to Heaven." A duel was fought near Paris on Friday between a Hanoverian Baron and an English ex-officer. It ori ginated in another recent encounter. The principals posted down to the ground, were both seconded by Englishmen, and fought with sabres. The Englishman was wounded, but not grievously ; his antagonist was calmly smoking his cigar in the "Bois" before ft; o'clock p.m. The friends of Mr. Miall continue to hold fes tive gatherings in celebration of the return of their favourite candidate. The other day a whole sheep was roasted by some of his friends at Agcliffe Hill, Great Horton ; and during the past week a memorial has been received from a body of electors at Banbury, congratu lating the Bradford constituency on their success in returning Mr. Miall, the memorialists having, as they state, once made an effort, but without avail, to return the hon. gentleman to Parliament for the borough of Banbury. CHPLD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.—A coroner's inquest was recently held on a case of murder, followed by suicide, in Putt - areealfgatta-street, Calcutta. The facts reveal a very common phase of Bengalee society. Heeralall Bysack, a young man of about 20 years of age, who had been educated in Dr. Duff's College, and who, with his wife, a girl of 13 years of age, was supported by an aunt with whom they lived, resided in a house in the proximity of some pro stitutes, and a wall had been built to shut these out from view. One evening Heeralall was enraged to find his wife look ing over the wall. Next night he cut her throat and after wards his own. Hi s aunt d escribed him " as a bad tempered young man, who took offences at trifles." The jury returned a verdict of murder against Heeralall Bysack, who subsequently committed suicide, and is a felo de se. The progress of female and the higher male educa tion has, says the Friend of India, no greater foe than baby marriages, while prostitution and murder are fed by forbidding widow marriage. NARROW ESCAPE OF A MISSIONARY. —The Rev. Mr. Johnston, a missionary, who is working in connection with the Baptist Missionary Society amongst the Santhals, near Ramporelia,ut, has had a very narrow escape from being killed by a tiger. Mr. Johnston had received frequent complaints from the villagers of the destruction of their cattle by a tiger, and had resolved to destroy it, if possible, the first opportunity that presented itself. He received intelligence of its whereabouts, and went out in search of it. On crossing a khal lie was met by the animal full in the face, and immediately dis charged his rifle at it, but without effect, and in an instant the tigi r was upon him, threw him down, and commenced the work of devouring, seizing one of Mr. Johnson's arms between his teeth and crunching it. For tunately, Mr. Boerson came up in the nick of time, and by clapping his hands and shouting, so frightened the animal that he made off, but not before Mr. Johnston had been seriously mauled. He was conveyed immediately to the house of Mr. Hampton, at Ram porehaut. Fortu nately the native surgeon belonging to the station was on the spot, and was able to render prompt assistance. Mr. Johnston is progresssing as favourably as could be expected, considering the nature of the injuries he has 'received, but it will be long before he is able to resume his Woo, • HORSE TRAINING IN FRANCE. The French Governinent, it is well known, assumes the direction of most branches of industry, but probably few .are aware that it carries its protective power into the art of breaking and training horses, and of teaching riding and driving. The first public institutions of this kind in France were founded in 1862, and placed under the control of the same department which has charge of the imperial studs. A board of inspectors decide all minor details, the rate of charges, and the arrangement for the periodical shows or trials. The largest establishment is at Caen, and the State subsidy amounts to £1,500, and the department assisting to the extent of £4OO. The next in importance are those of Shz in Normandy, which receives a subsidyof £B2O, and of Rochefort, in Poiton, with £l,OOO ; and there are besides more than twenty others. The trial shows are held at intervals throughout the summer, for four-year-old horses, which are put through their paces and tested as to soundness. Experience has shewn that animals regularly broken-in and trained in these schools are more likely to carry off prizes than outsiders, and as the trials are generally held at the same time as the local fairs they always succeed in attracting a number of buyers. Since the establishment of training schools, in 1862, horses are estimated to have risen 25 per cent. in value ; and at the last Normandy meeting showy pairs of Anglo-Norman carriage - horses fetched from £240 to £2BO, a price formerly unheard of. The actual number trained in these institutions in 1867 did not, however, exceed 2,500, and those which were afterwards sold realised together the comparatively small sum of £28,000. It is not thought, therefore, that the schools and trial shows have produced any extraordinary effects, though their influence has been salutary. The French Government intends to establish also a school for shepherds in the Department du Pas de Calais, which, it is thought, will be of great practical service in improving the class of shepherds and in spreading information as to the best methods of managing flocks. THE MURPHY RIOTS AT NORTH SHIELDS. Some further details are to hand of the Murphy riots at North Shields. The Anti•Romanist lecturer was announced to preach two sermons in the circus, situated in the Borough-road of that town. In accordance with instruc tions from the Home Office, the mayor on the previous day issued placards stating that all persons attending lectures delivered by Mr. Murphy in the circus, where money was taken, would be liable to a penalty of £2O each ; and the ground landlord of the circus (Mr. Scott) served Murphy with a notice, inti mating that if he attempted to force an entrance into the Circus he would hold him liable to an action for wil ful trespass. At two o'clock Mr. Murphy appeared, accompanied by several of his followers, and demanded admission into the Circus to preach. Mr. Scott said that Mr. Murphy could not have admission under any circum stances, whereupon Mr. Murphy answered that he had got leave from the agent of the Duke of Northumberland to preach on the New Quay. The crowd and Mr. Murphy then marched in that direction, And a platform was extemporised. After the singing of a hymn, Mr. Murphy proceeded with an address, but, owing to the great uproar which prevailed, very little of what he said could be heard. A group of Irishmen and women from Low-street, who were outside the crowd, soon got into a very excited state. Several tucked up their sleeves to fight, but were greatly outnumbered, and A number of people of both sexes had their heads broken. Mr. Murphy concluded his address without any further disturbance. Before taking his departure, Mr. Murphy announced that he would preach on the Long Sands, Tynemouth, at half-past six o'clock in the evening• A meeting of the magistrates was held in the afternoon, when their clerk was instructed to write to the Home Secretary, informing him of the allegation by Murphy that the agent of the Duke of Northumber land had allowed him to preach on the quay, in defiance of the authorities, and asking the Government authoritieS to represent the matter to his Grace the Duke. During the whole of the afternoon, a large body of special consta bles were kept in reserve in the Town Hall, and in the evening these officers, with all the available police force, were marched down to Tynemouth. An immense con• course of people assembled on the Long Sands between six and seven o'clock—indeed, it was estimated that there could not be less than between 4,000 and 5,000 personfl present. Mr. Murphy delivered a vehement address frota the bank side, strongly denouncing the authorities, and he said that he would proceed to London at once to enter an action against the parties who had kept him out of the hall. The meeting on the sands did not last more than an hour, and there was no renewal of the disturbances. It is reported that one of the recommendations of the Commission on Judicaturo will be the creation of an assize centre in Birmingham for tLe three counties of Wor cester, Warwick, and Stafford. THE QUEEN'S BIRTIIDAY.—The date fixed fo r the celebration of the Queen's birthday has, by he' r Majesty's command, been altered frJm Saturday, ISW 29, to Wednesday, June 2. Last week a summons was issued on behalf of Messrs; Cobbett and Spinks, the petitioners in the Oldham election case, notifying to the respondents' agents that tilel intended to apply to Mr. Justice Blackburn, in Chambers, fcl liberty to proceed with the further hearing of the petitions and to set aside or vary Ihe decision as to cost& The 211anchest ,r Examiner, however, of to-day states that the application for a rehearing of the petition Las been withdrawn, and th e qu '_•tiou with respect to costs has also been settled. 311. * 1 Just'ee Blackburn F ee s no reason f or vary i ng the or igi". ,l orde-, and the summons has therefore been dismissed Vi itb caste. Returns relating to the election petitions heard under the old system since 1865 have been published. i ° twenty-six constituencies the elections were questioned on the ground of bribery and corruption, I ° 4 in sixteen cases one or both of the members We re unseated. In the case of Harwich, May 2, 1866, the petition was pronounced frivolous and vexatious, and in six in stances special reports were made alleging extensive corrur tion. These were :-1. Bridgwater ; 2. Galway Town ; Great Yarmouth ; 4. Lancaster borough ; 5. Reigate ; 6 : Totness. During the same period there were sixteen pet s tions alleging intimidation and undue influence, and seVell of these failed to invalidate the election. The Nassau Herald reports the capture of th e American brig Mary Lowell, at Ragged Island, by ti le in Spanish an-of-war Andalusi a . Th e b r i g at the ti m e °i the capture was in the possession of the British custonl' house officers on the charge that she was carrying arta° and supplies to the insurgents in Cuba. The British II steamer Cherub h as sa il e d f rom Nassau to Ragged Is l a ° to investigate the affair. The Havannah Government fully advised of the conduct of the commander of the Andalusia. The Peruvian monitors remain atßagged During their voyage one of the rams broke loose, ran into the steamer Havannab, and sunk her. Seven of the crevr ° the Havannah were drowned. A Conservative banquet was held on Saturday a t Latchford, near Warrington, in honour of Mr. Greensl l , W e M.P. for Warrington, who lost his seat at the last elect° and failed to recover it on petition. Two thousa e : l persons are said to have l'een present. Mr. 11 . Cross presided, and an address was presented " tho Conservative electors of the borough, to 311.. Greenall, expressive of their sympathy with him in tb : miscariage o f j ust i ce by which he had been deprived a bib seat, and pl e d g i ng themselves to support him upon the f r e t opportunity which occurs to offer himself again as a CSII - for the representation of the borough. Speaking at the " great demonstration" at Ma n ' Chester against the disestablislnuent of the Irish Church' Mr. Ch ar l ey expresse d hi s aston i s h ment that he s hould have been subjected to ridicule for declaring that be b e; lieved he was an instrument in th e h an d s o f a higb e power to work out a high and holy missi on u p on Hr. Gla d ' stone." This Hr. Charley s er i ous ly b e li eves to he h it t destiny, else how sho u ld it h ave come t o p ass th a t be P E elected for Salford, and succeded in passing the ordeal e a an adverse petiti on . "If y ou b e li eve i n th e pro videu e i of God," said Mr. Ch ar l ey, " am I wrong i n b e li ev i n g that owe the double success which 1 achieved to the intervent l° . of a higher p ower ." Th e C onservat i ves applau d e d thee ' sentiments to the echo. THE FORTUNE OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. ; has already b een stated that the Prince Imperial is tin.; versal legatee t o th e l a t e P r i ncess Baciocchi. other estates which his Imperial Highness has thus *-„; herited is the Villa Vicentina, an immense p r opertY from 1,200 t o 1,500 h ectares (2i acres each), in the °VT is rons of Trieste. Th e di rector of the Emperor ' s Pr iv3 domain has just left Paris to visit th e e state, a order to decide whether it sLoald be preserved or disP °sc of. e lt STICKING TO IT.—TIIO London correspoll"-1 of the Birmingh am G azelle tells the following storY:-; .4 We remember a case o f a Cabinet Minister who had a experience a hotly-contested election, in which he rece ive very valuable aid f rom a member of his com mitte e ' During During the contest he promised the com mittee -1 %. a place for hi s son, and soon after h i s f pliant return to Parliament and Whitehall, and son w a it e d upon him in person, rein a him of his p rom i se, and very respectfully ttr,gteert him to redeem it. Th e statesman, of course, had forosee all about it, b u t was promising in the usual fash i o n t° Rite what he could do, &c., when he was cut short by hi ° „t ; henchman exclaiming, " Very well, that's all 1 I 'llleave hi m w i t h you, " w i th wh i ch he quietly IDa' cl e ; be exit, and the y oungs t er , w h o cou ld not very until shaken off now, was se t t o wor k at t h e T reas ury 1 0 04 could 1) . 9_ fkuild for Wn_a M 0 CON The the busi runt oc brokers and the rate of Cous count, New '1 i,1,000, par; Indi. ditto Cent., per C( £1,00( In Brazili 94} tc of l. ex di 85; 3 78.1 79 661 tc ditto 1 Span i 64 ; d 41 to In better to 48 to i ; and F. I A son' llf Atl 3i