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THIS EVENING, at 7 o'cloek, a new Drama, THE NOF TWO LIVES: Mr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse, F. Moreland, Parrett. 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 e, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL,YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, 'FLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone. jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley. &e, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill. kc. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF Tll H. WATCH : Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &C. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill &c. Concluding, with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Backslone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEAT RE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Reval of " After THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED Dark." After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Lecleroq. Concluding with THE SECRET. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. R WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. A. DAY'S FISHING: Mr G. Relmore. At 15 to 8, 10th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Pechter Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. To conclude with WFHTE.BAIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray 110LBORN 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 DRAIIATIC LITERATURE. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. 'A Irke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Burton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Nlessrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude pith HUE AND DYE. R OY AL AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t' e Last Three Weeks of the Eqnestrian Season._ Last appearaures of the Won , erful i EBFORNIIN 11. HORSES . —Brilliant nd unequivocal success of the Easter Programme. — The SAL M NDER WHSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of Ithe day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No other Theatre in 1 ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement - The magnificent stud of FIFTY 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. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. (3 -1 -LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING. at 7, THE HAPPY FAMILY. At 8, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama. MINNIE; or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens. and Miss Brennan; Messrs L avid Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. ROYA LCHRISTY' S. GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET. Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. FASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. Harry 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 PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burb.sque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DLITCFT_s. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Boxes, ..£2 2s. ; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. • Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. " SUN" NE WSPA PER.—G. R. GLENIE T deliNers the L A Tr: EniTr4 - )N at Chelsea, 7:10; Kilhurn, ; Staral-trecn, 9.45. 8; Woolwich, 7.:10; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford. "SUN" NEWSPAPErt.--G• H. 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The Lectures will commence on Friday, April 9th, at 9 a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Fee, £1 lls. 6d. Professor Tennant accompanies his Students to the Public Museums and to places of Geological interest in the country Ile also gives Private Instruction in Mineralogy and Geology at his residence, 149, Strand, W.C. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Bole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C Di:lon. 'Xo conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS; Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone, inn., Miss Fanny Wright, ,te. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale. &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Dill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. r. Sothern. Concluding with MATTE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence, at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tess EVENING. at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK : Mr Vining, Mr Waiter Lacy, Miss Rose Leetereq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7. A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belt - Pore, Mr. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to S. BLAcK ADD WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leelereq, :MPS Lennox Grey, &n. And WHITEBAIT AT GRE! NWICii : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND TfIEATP,E. Sole Lessee and Mann , eress. Mrs. Swanhoronah. This EVENING, at 7.:10, THE WID , )‘l7 MINT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF AR(1: Me,srs. Thorne, James. Fenton: , esdarnes Goodall, Lydia 31aitland, Burton. To conclude with HIE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS FVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7..5. MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone. J. Clarke; 51e3drimes Lydia. Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens ROYALTY THEATRE. 'Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. This EVENING, at 7.t0, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Niel M. Oliver.. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, ttc. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton --- THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. ,Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss O. Addison, and Miss arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, DOLBORN. TUTS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of ro Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, fie., and the Salamander Hot se. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tars EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaglnza, THE VERY GEAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY _MINSTRELS. St. James's ery Night, at Wednesdays and ,Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BILLET; Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-oftlef open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-lark, OPEN dully (ex cept Sundays). Admission, la.; on Idendays, Gd. Children under twelve, Ca , j j ) - S LONDON, 7 I-1 URSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869. In a speech of considerable abili!y, Mr. MACMUR ROUGH KAVANAGII, one of the members for the County Carlow, supported an amendment moved yesterday afternoon by his colleague, the other mem ber for the same County, Mr. HENRY BRUEN, to the effect that the second reading of the measure then under the consideration of the House, to wit the Poor Law (Ireland) Amendment Bill, should be fixed for that day six months, or, in other words, be set aside altogether. The intention of the Bill is, as is well-known, to extend to Ireland the principle of Union chargeability already enforced in England, thereby putting an end to what the author of the tuea sure, the member for New Ross, Mr. PATRICK NI`MA HON, conceives to be the altogether abnormal system now and hitherto existing in the Sister Island. An other Irish member, the member for Limerick, Mr. SYNAN, proposed the intermediate course of referring the measure to the consideration of a Select Committee, a suggestion which received the support of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking in the name and on the part of her MA JESTY'S Government. After complimenting Mr • KAVANAGH, in the strongest terms, upon the double fact of his having shown so much knowledge of the question, and so much power in dealing with it—a remark which elicited loud applause from the House—Mr. CHICIIESTER FORTESCITE inti mated, on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the readiness of the Government to support the amend ment, not of the member for County Carlow (Mr. BrtuEN), but of the member for Limerick (Mr. SYNAN)—namely, that the bill, instead of being altogether shelved, should be referred to a Select Committee. The discussion upon the original motion for the Second Reading of the bill, and for the rival amendments, was continued some time afterwards—being intentionally prolonged by the opponents of the measure. And the noble lord the member for Tyrone was yet speaking, when the minute hand of the clock confronting Mr. SPEAKER, pointed inexorably to the fatal quarter to six o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon, the arrival of which forty-fifth minute is a death-blow to any mea sure under similar circumstances. That time being reached, Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON received a ringing cheer from the antagonists of the Bill, the motion for the second reading of which was thus indefinitely adjourned. Although the subject involved in the bill has thus consequently been set asi Ic for this while, it is intrinsically of so much importance that, before dropping it out of view altogether, we would refer to some of the many striking reina! ks thrown ; out yesterday by the member here first named by us, that is to say, the member for Carlow, Mr. KAVA NAGII. The hon. member said, among other things, that so far as be could gather, there were three main 9..-ouinerits uted in support of the prireiple of tlii6 bill--firstly, that the principle had been adopted in and should therefore, be applied to I re l an d ; s E e:::n la d td i r y: that union rating would remove the en cot: raffetnent which electoral rating held out to land lords to clear their properties of the labouring classes, lest they should be taxed for their support ; and, thirdly, that the high rates on town electoral divi- TPIE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1F69. sions, as compared with rural electoral divisions was mainly due to the influx of the pauper popu lation so cleared off the estates of the landlords. With each of these arguments he dealt in succession. With reference to the first, while observing that his hon. KA\. A icA colleague Glt said thathad sufficiently disposed he must be allowed it wos with no small surprise he heard this a r g ument o t o f add i th at it t Mr.at uwsaescithby at hon. no m a naelomsbyersexiosptepdostiteet,wweehnostehegtewneoraclouerny tries, and who claimed legislation of the most ex ceptional sort for Ireland. Without going further, he remarked that he need only refer on this point to the Irish Church Bill, and to speeches from hon. members opposite about the Irish land question. As to the second argument, he insisted that, if once applicable, it was now clearly and dis tinctly inapplicable. Formerly, as in 1838 or 1839, when the Poor Law Act first came into operation in Ireland, the survivors of pestilence and starvation flocked into the towns and workhouses where food and shelter was procurable. But, now, he th7nked GOD such was not the present state of affairs, and he firmly be lieved that, so far from this argument being any longer applicable to Ireland, the present tendency was for landed proprietors to build dwelling-houses and encourage labourers to settle on their estates, for in many places the want of labour had begun to be seriously felt. The third argument Mr. KAVANAGH dealt with by means of two or three very telling illustrations, in the way of hypothetical cases in point, for the better examination of which his speech of yesterday is well worth turning to and reading throughout. Altogether the question, though set aside for the pre sent, is one that must before long be revived for the purpose of being dealt with much more effectively than was in any way possible by means of the baulked bill of the hon. member for New Ross. IT is to be regretted that the accession to power of the Liberal Ministry has been the means of delaying a most important reform which their predecessors were preparing to effect. The Con servative Government decided that a reduc tion of rates for the postal carriage of newspapers and other printed matter was urgently required. The Liberal Government has preferred a temporary consideration of revenue to a permanent consideration of national progress. The fact that for thirty years the postal rates have remained sub stantially unaltered is of itself sufficient to prove that a revision is needed now. Anti quity is not an admirable quality in com mercial legislation. Few regulations for the conduct of trade affairs can remain in force for a generation without falling utterly behind the times. In the case of the Post Office but one great change, from a prohibitive to a moderate tariff, has been thought necessary since its establishment. The business of the country has multiplied beyond pre cedent, but the legislative facilities for conducting it remain unaltered. The importance of a reduction of the postal carriage for newspapers and other printed matter is not questioned. The subject is mature, sufficient information has been already accumulated, and it is not probable that by delay we shall gain anything. But the Government has refused to make the change because it would involve some financial dis arrangement. The arguments adduced by Ministers on Tuesday speedily reduce themselves to the one consideration of the Budget. Such pleas as insufficient premises, the difficulties caused by bulky parcels, the necessity of not interfering with the rapid transmission of letters are simply puerile. They cannot even be regarded as arguments for delay, which, it seems, was all the Po STMA ST En-G ENERA L intended themf or. The size of the General Post Office and the inconvenience of manipulating heavy parcels are matters of detail with which the public has no concern whatever. To seliously urge them against even the post ponement of a great reform, is nothing less than a confession of weakness. The question of profit and loss was not more logically met. As we have before observed, private companies and in dividuals distribute newspapers at one-third of a penny, and yet realise considerable gains. The Post Office will neither allow full competition in the cheap car riage of printed matter nor undertake the work under protection of its monopoly. The Marquis of lIARTINGTON attempted to justify this position. lie urged that the Post Office was for the country at large, not for the great towns only ; whereas private enterprise could choose the most profitable districts. It would not be fair to allow private companies to select those portions of the country where the work was easy and lucrative, and leave those portions where it was difficult and costly to the Post Office. But if this proves that the Post Office ought not to part with its monopoly, it is also clear that it can have no claim to a rate so much higher than private enter prise would admit. The profit necessary to private individuals is greater, their expenses higher, their resources inferior to those of the Post Office. It is true that they would naturally take the cream of the work, whilst the department must undertake the whole, but this is in no wise pertinent to the question at issue. Free trade in carrying printed matter does not imply equal freedom in the carriage of letters ; and as the POSTMASTER-GENERAL admits that the Government carries comparatively little printed matter, he concedes that the work is left undone. Either the Post Office should unde . rtake this duty at a practicable rate, or it should admit others to a business which is at present neglected. The financial argument should be treated with all respect. The Post Office is at present an important source of revenue, and at a time when the Government is earnestly carrying out a policy of economy the prospect of diminished profits deserves serious consideration. But making every allowance, the advantage of the change is so immeasurably in excess of the loss which would be incurred that it is merely parsimony, not economy, to refuse the reform on this ground. In the absence of other resources the Post Office revenue cannot be disre garded ; but, after all, a large profit of this - department is nothing more than the most objectionable of taxes. The Post office surplus represents an impost on intelligence, knowledge, business, and social intercourse. The profit of the Post Office ought in no respect to weigh against reform in a department which, more than any other, affects the well-being and comfort of the nation. In this case the first loss is set down by the POSTMASTER-GENERAL himself at £320,000, a loss which would certainly be diminished and eventually lowered by the increased business. And yet for this consideration we must remain in the ruck of progress --far behind France and the United States, and not even on a level with Spain or Greece. In nearly every civilised State is business commu nication cheaper than in the first commercial country in the world. 6i/14 real , 8 , . HER, MAJESTY. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, April 7. The (4:leen, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor of Wales, drove out this morning. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, honolired Air. Thornycroft and Air.lV. Theed with viiits to their studios. We are requested to state that the diplomes d'honueur, go'd, and other medals, and certificates of honourable mention, awarded to British exhibitors by the international jury at the Havre Maritime Exhibition, can now be obtained on application to Messrs. J. M. Johnson and Son, of Castle-street, Holborn, the commissioners of he United Kingdom. LATEST INTELLEGENCE (11EUTEn's TELEGIZAUS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 7. Gold closed at 1318, the highest quotation during ing the day was 1318, the lowest 1311. Sterling exchange ou London, 108 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1191- ; ditto, 1885, 116 i ; ditto 1865, 1131; 10-40 Bonds, 1051 ; Illinois, 1381 ;' Erie, 3311. Cotton, midland upland, 281. Pe troleum, standard white, 311. Flour, extra state, $5.95 6.55 ; corn, old mixed, 88c. HALIFAX, April 7. The Inman Royal Mail steamer Etna arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day. All well. BRINDISI, April 8 The Adriatic and Oriental steamer Principe Carignano arrived here this morning, 84 hours from Alexandria, having experienced bad weather and head winds on her passage. She brings 29 passen gers, 17 of whom are English. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, FROM OUR OW2 CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April 7. The general debate on the Budget has come to an end. M. Gamier PagZ2s, who has received the name of the "Angel of Peace," opened yesterday's sitting with another of his attacks upon thelmperial system of great armaments. One of the journals here gives M. Gamier Pags another name—" The Exterminating Archangel of Imposts," and the two titles very adequately describe his policy. M. Gamier Pages wants to abolish armies and army budgets, and devote the proceeds of this vigorous retrenchment to the rethiction and abolition of divers obnekious taxes. If the hon. deputy had his will, the salt tax, the news paper duty, the tax on doors and windows, and the octroi duties would all be exterminated at once. In order to provide for the deficiency, the standing army should be at once disbanded. Thie uncompromising piece of philo sophy was the root and branch of M. Gamier Pag4's dis course, which lasted not less than three hours. The scheme may readily be ridiculed as - Utopian, and the cause of liberty is not favoured by Utopian ideas ; but if the whole of the worthy deputy's plan be not practicable, at all events some of it is. Heavy taxes are the result of great armies, and the reduction of the one would lead to the diminution of the other. Whether the pure and simple suppression of the army would be good for France is, perhaps, question able ; but at all events France could not lose more by a paix *salmi& than by the paix arm& from which she suffers now. No State would think of attacking or insult ing France if her army were no larger than that of the United States. M. Magne replied to this pacific exhorta tion with great courtesy, but at the same titne not without a fair admixture of Attic salt. As might have been expected, he ridiculed M. Gamier Pagts's scheme as impracticable. I shall not enter into further detail. One feature, how ever, of this debate must not be overlooked. It has been a remarkable testimony to the reality of the public feeling in favour of peace. Whatever might be the differences of the speakers, their accord in denouncing war was general. Legitimists, Orleanists, Republicans, and Imperialists, have all expressed the same opinion. They may quarrel about official candidatures, the press, Ministerial responsibility, public meetings, and the Imperial financial policy of con tinually borrowing during times of peace ; but they are unanimous in declaring that France ought not to undertake any further isolated expeditions in search of adventures. War is still the last appeal of humanity ; but the representatives of France decide that it is only the extreme necessity which can justify such an appeal. Even the optimist, M. Louvet, who believes the French Budget to be an amazingly perfect work, is with the Left on this question. It is thought that the date of the elections may be unavoidably postponed a little. They are at present fixed for Sunday and Monday, the 30th and 31st of May, but these clays may be altered. Your readers will doubt less be surprised to hear of election ballots on Sunday, but people here seem to consider the day a very favourable one. It saves interruption of business. The sale of Prince Demicloff's art collection and furni. ture has produced £23,000. It was a most valuable accumulation of art treasures—jewels connected with historic personages, antique Flemish tapestry, woven after cartoons by the great masters of the sixteenth century, curiously-wrought ornaments, and weapons. The history of the family to which this collection belonged was very remarkable. Prince Paul Demidoff was married in the Greek Church of Paris in 1867. This union, however, which was not a happy one, and with which State intrigues were said to be curiously blended, did not last long. Whatever rilay have been the cause, the beauti ful bride of Prince Demidoff was evidently overwhelmed with grief, and neither bride nor bridegroom seemed to entertain hope of happiness from a marriage which, we are told, was concluded solely from State seasons. The Princess soon died, leaving one child, a boy. Her husband was, up to the period of her death, a man of pleasure. But that event completely altered him, and he resolved thenceforth to devote his whole fortune and energies to training his child as an apostle of humanitarianism, and ministering to the temporal and spiritual wants of the working classes. Paris was chosen as the most favourable centre for the ...ommencement of this enterprise. An establishment in ronnection with the Prince's dwelling has been founded in :list great focus of working-class life, the Faubourg St. Antoine. This establishment supplies work to 200 tempstresses, and furnishes them with a shelter whilst en gaged at their labours. The assistance of English, French, and Russian ladies has been obtained to direct the work. The women have perfect freedom of worship ; ministers of all denominations are admitted to the lecture-room. The little Prince is being brought up as an apostle of humanity amongst the children of the poor women who have thus been gathered together. .EXTRAORDINARY METEOR. Some of the papers (says the Pall Mall Gazette) have published an account of an . extraordinary meteor which was seen in Cumberland on Saturday morning. The story as printed appeared very doubtful ; but it is confirmed as to its main features by our own correspondent at Carlisle. The time of the appearance was between four and five o'clock in the morning. The meteor first appeared in the north-east part of the sky, and took a rapid course to the south-west, and then seemed to burst with a force which caused violent vibrations in the air. Some persons who saw it describe the meteor as a large ball of fire ; others consider it was more like a " pillar of fire." While it was careering through the heavens the sky was brilliantly illuminated, and when it burst, the noise was like thunder, and wakened many people from their sleep. Mr. Thomas Prichard, of Regent-road, Manchester, says that the meteor was visible in Manchester at ten minutes to five. It travelled at a very rapid rate, and just before losing itself seemed to break up into large pieces, resem bling molten iron. Mr. Prichard did not hear any explosion. RIVAL LEADERS• The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says: " There can be no question as to the fact that the leadership of th e C onserva ti ve s is slowly but steadily drifting i n t o t h e h an d s o f Mr. Hardy. Night after night Mr. Disraeli sits silent and moody on the front Opposition bench, rising only when—as on Friday evening —some personal attack is made upon him, and leaving to the late Home Secretary the task of indicating the policy of his party upon the questions before the House. On the Irish Church question there cannot, of course, be a doubt as to which of the two statesmen is in the more direct accord with the feelings and opinions of the majority of his party; and the Irish Church being the question of the hour, it is not unnatural that under uch circumstances the Conservatives should be disposed .o follow the leader who for the time being has their sym iathies most completely. But already there seems to be reeping over the party a feeling of listlessness and indiffe •:,ence on this very question of the hour. Mr. Disraeli has a strong personal following ; and that body is being aug fuented by those who see how utterly without prospect of success is such a policy as that advocated by Mr. Hardy. Upon the whole, therefore, no one who studies the present aspect of affairs can come to the conclusion that Mr. Disraeli is in any actual danger of losing his hold upon his party. It may for a time be weakened ; but when the present crisis has passed away the Conservatives will undoubtedly return to their allegiance to the only man Who seems able to blend into one harmonious whole the very discordant elements of which his party is composed. The Daily News, however, considers that the years during which Mr. Disraeli will retain the leadership of the Con servatives in the House of Commons could be numbered on the fingers of one hand. The enthronement of the Bishop of London took place to-day. A committee has been formed to raise a fund for a testimonial to the band of rescuers at the recent colliery inundation. The Bishop of Salisbury, says the local journal, " though not quite so well during the last few days, continues much about the same. The accounts received by the family on Saturday morning were 'rather more com- orting." The Earl of Sefton has accepted the office of chair man of the Executive Committee of the Liverpool Church Congress. The committot) has resolved, on the recommen dation of the Bishop of the diocese, to add "The Church's Work amongst Seamen" to the list of subjects already an nounced. Tho Archdeacon of \Vinci:este: has stated at a public diLncr that the bishop of tho diocese has so far reco vered from the attack which lie experienced some time ago as to be able fully to discharge diocesan duties. His speech is not quite so fluent as it was, but the physic:als enterta'n hopes that ho may oven recover that. A very melancholy accident is reForted from Louie o coas of Morayshire. Four i'sl!ermen went out a day or two ago in a boat to pursue their calling. Th e sea was rough ut the time, and it is believed the boat, which was found on the shore the same day, had been capsized, and the four men had been (frowned. The Prince of Wales (according to the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) has Lad a com munication this week from home which will cause him to shorten his sojurn in the Levant, as it is th& especial desire of the Queen that ho should return to London by the second week in May. His visit to the King of Italn for which arrangements had been made, will consequently be post mod till Another ocoAplon, PORTUGAL. LISBON, Apt it 7. The British squadron have left the Tagus on a five days' cruise. AUS FRIA. VIENNA, April 8, The New Free Press says :—" It is asserted on reliable authority that King Victor Emmanuel ex pressed to General Moeriug, the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary, his desire to pay a visit to the Im perial Court. Rumour adds that the Emperor Francis Joseph would probably return this visit daring the coining summer. BOMBAY MAIL. 3IESSINA, April 8 The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Nyanza passel through the Straits of Messina at 2.30 this morning en route for Marseilles. MALTA, April 8. The Pera leaves at 8 a.m. to-day for Southatnp ;on, where she may be expected about the 17th ilstant. The Tanjore, from Southampton 27 ult., reached Malta on the 4th instant at 4 p.m., and left at six the following ev e n ing for Alexandria. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LivEnrooL, April 8, The British and African Stearn Navigation Com pany's steamer Bonny arrived here this morning with ship letter mails from the West African Coast. Her dates are--Old Calabar, March 1 ; Fernando Po, 2,1 ; Bonny, 9th ; Benin, 11th ; Lagos, 13th ; Accra, 15th ; Cape Coast Castle, 16th ; Cape Pal mas, 18th ; Sierra Leone, 23d; Teneriffe, 30th ; and Madeira, April 1. The news from the different Ports on the 11'est Coast is unimportant. The health of the rivers was tolerably good, and trade continued steady. A kagnificent Gift Book. The Nobility of Life : its Graces and Virtues. Selected and Edited by L. 'Valentine. Prose, and Verse, and Pictures. Warne and Co. As appropriate to Easter (or, for that matter indeed, to any time of the year that might be named) as to Christmas, this really superb gift-book commends itself as heartily to our consideration, now, among the spring flowers, as four or five months ago among the holly branches and the mis- tletoe. It is, inside and outside, " a thing of beauty ;" and, therefore,—according to the most fatuous first line of a first poem, that we know of in all literature—it is " a joy for ever." We) consequently, scruple not, now, to call as particular attebtion to this volume, as though it had but just made its appearance from the press—a volume on we remembe r ri g htly, imme diatelylast year, being (as it was) one of the most conspicuous among the poeti calil ally and uefbol pictorialirseiltdh published, f close of precursors season known in the old d ays as Y u l e tide. No matter how the time may run on in the future, the book before us, so long as its leaves and covers call hold t oget h er , mus t b e fresh and new—as new as the moonmoonin its firs t quarter —as y fresh as the breath of the morning. It vu means offuot_ig four -and-twenty—not black birds bak e d i n a pie, b pictures printed in colo urs , a id e d by elaborat e b orders, head i ngs, and vignettes, to celebrate, as its ti t l e i n ti ma t es , " The Nobility of Life: its Gr aces and its Virtues. " And it I urports to do this, yet further, by making those gra ces an d v i r tues as they h ave b een portrayed (we arc quot i ng th e words of th e Ti t l e - page), 46 I n Prose a n d V erse by the Best Writers." Though, it must be said, we are rather taken a b ac k , h ere, i n t hi s mention of Prose and Verse, to fi n d prece d en ce thus accord e d to Prose ! i However that may be, there is th e b oo k in its i ntegrity—Prose, Poetry, Pictures, it and Pictures—a dainty dish t o set b e f ore a ll true lovers o f both Art an d Li tera t ure . the e , arc principal allcolour-printed—some should be said at O o f them exquisitely co l ou r-printed— e i t h er by Edmun d Evans or by K ron heiun and Comp any. The art i sts are draughtsm en of varied excell ence. The majo rity of t h em contribute t wo illustrations, out of the twenty-fo u r adorning thi s singularly ornate volume. J. D. Watson . thus namely, R e li g i on , supplies a couple — as typified iu the visiting the fatherless and the widows in their affliction—and Justice, as illustrated by the memorable historical incide n t o f P r i nce H e nry b e f ore Judge Gascoigne. 11. Le J enne h as t w o—on e of them pourtraying Faith, i n th e person of th e C enturion coining to Christ —th e o th er Childhood, i n a flowery dingle. J. Maho ne y h as an other p a i r of these pictures to himself —the first shadowi ng forth Lore i n Childhood, Manhood, and Old Age, as charm ingly sung in one of his prettiest love d i tt i es by Charles Mackay—th e second (in an un coloured heading)_ revealing to us Patriotism in the person of Arnold Von Winkelreid. Two among the coloured pictures in the volume contri .. buted by another illustrator, E. 11. Wehnert, appear to US, in some respects, among them all, the most successful. One symbolises Genius in the person of Shakspere lyi ng asleep in his youth on the banks of the river Avon—the other, Age, con soled by the shadowy apparitions of many tender remembrances. They a r e essentially companion pictures—delineative, the one, of the Dreams of Youth ; the other, of the Dreams of Age. Over the slumbering form of the boy Shakspere there aro seen the visionary shapes of the future creatures of his imagination—. Hamlet in the Graveyard, Othello and Desdetnona, Macbeth and the Witches, King Lear and Edg ar , Titania, Shylock, and Richard HI., accordine, to the hint conveyed to the artist's mind by the passage selected from "Dreamland." Around the musing figure of the Old Alan—illustrative of one of the very loveliest of all the minor Poems of Longfellow—we see the dimly-indicated " forms of the departed," who have " entered at the chamber-door—" the beloved, the tr ue - hearted," who, there, " came to visit him once more." The picture is exquisite. It is one to be looked at through tears. Beyond any comparison, it is, to our fancy, the gem of the book. If only for the sake of that oce illustration, as a most delicate tribute to the genius of the American poet, the volume ought surely to be placed in his hands on his return, now almost immediately, to England. As a gift-book or as a table-book, no volume that we have seen for a long while past is in any way comparable to the "Nobility of Life." Mrs. Jeremiah Ladd, the oldest person in Con necticut, died on Wednesday, March 10, iu East Lynno, aged 103 years and 9 months. THE .FACTOBY INSPECTORS' R.EPORT, The reports of the inspectors' of factories for the half yeas ending October, 1868, have been issued, and form an octavo volume of goodly size. They contain a great deal of useful information concerning the application of the new Factory Acts to the miscellaneous trades and occupations of the country, and to the educational questiong connected with them. In the first place it is satisfactory to find that few instances have occurred during tho half-year, in which it has been necessary to prosecute offenders under the Factory Acts. In the district of Mr. Redgrave, the senior in spector, there were only twenty manufacturers be felt called upon to proceed against. Of the 5,396 occupiers of fac tories under the earlier acts only 16 have been prosecuted, and of the 7,580 occupiers of works under the act of 1867 only three, and in one of these throe cases the prosecution I was undertaken with tho view of settling a doubtful point of law. It is, as Mr. Redgrave observes, most gratifying to find the good feeling and co-operation inereaing in every class of works. The number of accidents reported 2,789, is much larger than the previous year, but that is owing to the regulations being better known. Mr. Redgrav© is of opinion, however, that most of these reports are useless, end more than half the accidents were not caused by machinery, and many of the remainder were purely accidental. It is worth notice, however, that Mr. Baker, the second inspector, holds a different opinion on this point. Mr. Baker thinks that it is highly important the origin of all accidents should be ascertained. There is often negligence or indifference or dislike to incur expense on the part of the owners, and great carelessness or nonchalance among the workers, and a dangerous amount of curiosity among the new hands. It is stated that since the accidents in mines have been carefully inspected the number has been greatly reduced, and it is hoped the same result will follow the accident reports in the factories. Mr. Baker advises the compulsory maintenance of all sufferers by accidents from unprotoctod machinery by the employer, with pensions to families whose head is killed by such prevent:lA disasters. Another point on which Mr. Baker differs from his colleague is that of the surgeon's certificates. At present the em ployers are obliged to obtain a surgical certificate of age for every young person under eighteen whom they employ, a regu ation which Mr. Redgrave thinks is needlessly oppres sive, as the registrar of births could supply the requisite in formation. This clause in the act excites a good deal of discontent among the employers, who have to pay the surgeon's fees. Mr. Baker, however, is anxious to main tain the law as it now stands, believing that it pre serves us from the physical evils produced by factory work. The Workshop Regulation Act has worked very well, and is likely to do much service. In every con ♦iction under it during the half year the offence was the illegal employment of young girls and women. Some diffi culties exist in the way of enforcing all the Acts in special cases. Thus many tobacco manufacturers are Jews, whose scruples prevent them from employing women and young persons on Saturday, while the law fc rbi Is tl. em to eo so on Sunddy. The job printers, too, are dissatisfied with the re strictions imposed on them, while the establishments for needlework of various kinds suffer from the enforced limita- tion of their hours. In this case, h it would be necessary to proceed very carefully in the way of relax ing the law. The educational effect of the Factory Acts is not their least important aspect, and we are soriy to find that as yet they have proved valueless in raising the stan dard of education in the metropolis, Mr. Ilende't see, one of the sub-inspectors, says that, with ono solitary exception, he is not aware of any children attending school under the Act of 1867 in his division.. Employers Lave made no effort to adopt the half-time system, because thoy can get as many young persons over twelve as they choose to employ. With regard to the half-time system itself, it is noticeable that these reports fully confirm all that has been said of its advantages. In spite of the general advantages of the Scotch in the matter of education, only 46 per cent. of the factory children of Edinburgh could read and write, while in Leeds, Rochdale, and Blackburn, where the half time system is adopted, the percentage was respectively 67, GG, and 76. The several inspectors advise some slight modifications or alterations in the Acts, though sanguine as to their general effects, and on the whole the impression left by their reports is encouraging. THE COMIC PA.PE.RS. (From Punch.) THE REAL "CAPTAIN OP THE WATCH."—" The Captain "—just launched—and all congratulation on your child, Captain Cowper Coles. WHAT WILL xr TAKE?—GoId• has urtny propert7es, but we never knew that it could feel a desire fur drink, until playbills and posters told us of The Thir.t of Gold at the Olympic. A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION.—The " Miners " are amongst those on strike at Preston. Would it not be well for all, both masters and men, to lie " minders' of the advice of such counsellors as Mr. Mundella. AN EXCEPTIONAL MONTH.—Many people have cora pained a good deal about the weather we have bad during the past month. Nevertheless, after all, this last March has been none so dusty. REVIEWING TIIE PAST.—What the Volunteers would like to have, when they go again to Dover, would be a Walmer reception by the Lord Warden—and the weather. They hope the next tide they see tl ere will Le a Whitsuntide. A ROCK AHEAD.—A telegram from Madri I has agi tated our Foreign Office by the portentous information that : "In to-day's sitting of the Corti s, Senor Orense gave notice of an interpellation respecting the future of Gibraltar." That future some Spaniards w...uld fain have us make a present of, by presenting them with Gibraltar. As long as Gibraltar is necessary to ou: maritime position, don't they wish they may get it ? (rrom Judy.; THE FOOT GUARDS.—Boots and shoes. NoT A BILLY-DOUR.—Mr. Gladstone. MOTTO FOR THE LIGHT BLUE EIGHT.—" After Dark." THE LATEST CABINET QUESTION.-" Who shall be nearest?" OR COURSE IT ISN'T !—Unless we are very much mis taken, Mr. Gladstone will shortly find that the " Bench of Bishops" is not to be sat upon, at any rate by him. FULLY ACCOUNTED FOR.—Mr..Bright doesn't feel him self quite so free to act as he did last year, having specu lated rather much lately in Treasury Bonds / A WORD OF ADVICE.—The cotton spinners at Preston are now on strike. Judy advises them to get back to work again as soon as possible, or else their condition may shortly turn out to be one of Reel di, tress ! LORD DUNDREARY AGAIN.—When his lordship recently saw the announcement that a little pamphlet, under the title of " Gardening All the Year Round,' was in the press, he wittily remarked that he himself had just been " Weading All the Year Round!" BROTHERS IN HEROISM.—AII the world gives its meed of praise to that noble animal which Mounts St. Bernard to rescue the snow-covered traveller from his icy bed ; and the other "Doggy" who descends Brierley Hill Pit, as Tom Brown recently did, to save his fellow man, is equally worthy of that praise ! From the Owe. WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT LIKE THE SUN ? — Decause when it is not Lowe it is Bright ! THE TABLES TURNED. The Grammar School, Birchington. Dear Owl,—We are all delighted to hear that there is a clause in the "Endowed Schools Bill" which compels tha masters to be examined. What fun ! Do you think they will allow the boys to examine them? We would do it capitally. This is the sort of paper work we should give them.—Your affectionate OWLETS. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS, PRACTICAL AND CRITICAL, 2 TO 4 P.M. I.—Write out 100 lines. 2.—(a) Do you believe the story of Romulus and Remus? (b) Or, Do you think the wolf merely represented the schoolmaster of the period ? (c) If you do not believe it, have you ever tried to look as if you did? 3.—Give an anatomical analysis of the floggtble por tions of the human frame, having special regard to their relative sensitiveness. 4.—Define " swipes," " sky blue," " p a th d e resur rection," " squish, " and "scrape." s.—Subject for Latin Ele,giacs (not to exceed 250 lines) : " The Minimisation of Small Beer." G.—Supposing you to have given "an extra week at Christma s " on the occasion of the birth of each member of the R oya l Family; what has been your aggregate saving i n b utchers' meat since the Accession of her Majesty ? On Tuesday morning the town of Wigan was alive with a rumour that a second explosion of fire damp had occurred at the pits of Messrs. Mercer and Evans, in Park lane, Ashton, near Wigan. An ace:dent indeed, had oc curred, but happily no very serious damage was caused. Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning, a portion of th e brick lining of an up-cast shaft, which had pr o b a bly b een loosened by the explosions frequently occurring during th.i combustion of the coal, and which had escaped notice, became detached front the sides and fell down the shaft to the PeMberton four-feet seam. Tho descent of this mass of material bad the effect of reversing the ventilation for a few moments, and the ascent of the smoke up the down-cast gave tho impression that an explosion had oc curred. The news spread, and the wives and mothers of the men working in the pit were soon anxiously moving to wards the shaft. the true facts of theca_ so were, goon known, : 1 hoviNvor, A CIRCUS DIRECTOR EATEN BY LIOIO A Brussels torrespondent writes : " Easter we e , has closed with a fearful occurrence at Bailleul. troupe of performing - lions had been visiting ° place. On the night of the last performance 0 lion -tamer was suddenly taken ill, and i n ord' not to disappoint the public the director of 0 1 circus, M. Brennett, notwithst an di ng th e o plo ., tion of his friends, was rash enough to undertake dompteur's part. M. Brennett entered the cage, al / succeeded for a time in making the lions g through their performances ; but when it came / the close, which consists of giving the animals O f meat, the director lost courage, and instead of keeril a firm eye on the animals, as tamers aro wont to do, trembled, and made for the door of the cage. 'This seek his doom. A large lioness was the first to pounce 11P 4 him, and in a few minutes the rash, unfortunate man it torn to pieces. SHOOTING AT BLACKBURN ELECTIO. At the Blackburn Town Hall, on Tuesday, a station! named John Charles Bradshaw, was brought up on! mand, charged with shooting at two police-constables, Penny-street, on the day . of the parliamentary electiO, with intent to do grievous bodily harm ; also, WI unlawfully discharging a gun with intent, and wi l assaulting a man named John Kenyon, after the declau tion of the poll after the parliamentary election at Blac ; burn. A street row took place in Penny-street, wile the prisoner resides. He was seen to fire four 8120 1 into the street from his house window, and afterwa' discharged a revolver over the shoulder of Kenyon in street, and then knocked Kenyon down with the but end of the revolver. Heavily-loaded weapons were fond in the prisoner's house. The theory of the prosecutid t was that the prisoner fired the shot over Kenyan' shoulder at two police-constables on duty in the etre* This was denied by the defence, who alleged that the 0 0 were fired to frighten the people who were break the prisoner's windows. After a lengthy hearing 0/ , magistrates dismissed the charge of shooting with intelo and fined the prisoner £5 and costs for the assault c ° Kenyon, and 40s. and costs for unlawfully firing a gun, °I in default three months' imprisonment. PRISON LABOUR. At the Devon Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday,Sir Stafror Northcote, chairman, the subject of prison labour ags il engaged considerable attention. A special committee of t bi visiting j us ti ces o f th e coun t y gao l h ad visited the gaols d Bedford, Winchester, and Holloway, with the vi e :, of ascertaining th e re f ormatory and pecuniary resill' of prison labour. They had found the labour roll nerative, but in some instances not reformatory, Il the objecti ona bl e "shot drill " was adopted. Tlie'i Came to the conclusion that the " s e paro system," as adopted at Exeter, is beneficial in t lis reformation and punishment of criminals, and recall' mended that the present use of the treadwheel be C O? tinned. The Earl of Devon expressed his strong ca . viction that before long the system of remunerati ll labour in prisons, as adopted in so many eountri e/ on the Continent and in America, would I): more generally adopt e d i n E ngland. At the Pvii time he thought th e f ac t s ascerta i ned so far did justify a change from the present system at the Do' c° County Gaol. This was the prevailing opinion, and a r e ; solution to that effect was carried, Sir John Bowring, had introduced the subject, again and again expressed''' . great surprise that magistrates could be so blind as sanction the plan of " l ett i ng b uckets into empty we ' and growing old with drawing nothing - if HABITUAL C 1 IM The Recorder of Birmingham, Mr. Adams, spoke pe lf strongly at the 'Warwickshire Quarter Sessions again' , some of the provisions of Lord Kimberley's bill. As example of the severity with which the proposed 0 ; would occasionally bear upon particular cases, 3JI Adams mentioned that of the number of persons tri o before him and the Assistant-Recorder of Birminglol last year, no l ess th an t wenty- fi ve must have recei/eo sentences of seven years' penal servitude if this bill 0 been in force. H e b a d prepare d a li st of those cases, 0 of which he mentioned. In one instance, a boy stolen 51h. of beef, for which he was sentenced " 11 imprisonment and ordered to b e w hip pe d. H e nex t st° a pound of tobacco, and had one mon th. Th e nex t , he was caught stealing a few slices of fried fish, of t li value of 2d. For that he (Mr. Adams) sentenced Wat t : nine month s ' i mpr i sonment, believing that was what the justice of th e case d eman d ed. If, however, this bill b been in operation, he must have given seven years' P el3 ,,i servitude. H e c it e d another case of a lad convicte d" , stealing four packs of cards, for which he had seven dal e imprisonment. F or a second offence of a similar natu re he had a s en t ence o f t wo mont h s. The third 6°, ho was brought up on a charge of stealing a Peg of boots, for which he had a sentenc e o f n i ne mon ths. this case, too, there must have been penal servitude nud e the new bill. He moved that a petition be drawn 11 P' pointing ou t th e o li• ct i ona b le character of the elails` , ; named. Mr. T. C. S. K ynners l ey, stipendiary magistr ate of Birmingham, secon d e d the motion, and said he N ag sure the bill, if it became law, would result in mol the Secretary of St a t e ' s off i cial life a burden, 0"- account of the number of petitions which would be Pi; sented when the severe sentences were apparent. motion was carried. THE MYSTERIOtTS TRAGEDY IN TAO The tragical and mysterious event which occurred 5 0131 . 1 days ago in the barracks o f th e R ue d e Tournon stl occupies attention. When the report of a pistol was h° in the rooms of Commandant Thevet, the soldiers rusil, e ;; to the apartm en t s . Th e y f oun d . th e commandant dea d in Pci bed with a revo l ver l y i ng b es id e hi m. Beside the be ij with no dress on but a chemise, was a female, who wil e , out to be a lady of ran k, an d one o f th e l ea d ers of t/3,1 fashionable world of Paris. Thi s l a dy was arres ted °, suspicion of being a mur d eress , b ut h er husband lie,f'd shortly came to claim her, an d th e comm i ssary of poil,co being satisfied that the officer had com m itt e d su i c ide, °P t, was set at liberty. The story goes that the commandA l3 4 who had carried on an int r i gue w i t h the lady for the Wif six months, had in th a t ti me completely ruined hirose by ministering to her extravagance. It was remark that on the shouldexs of the lady were some reel, scratches, and th ese , it appears, were occasioned in t;t attempt which she m a d e t o p reven t Commandant Tho; from committing suicide. M. Thevet's son, a young of 18, was at the races, and had arrived at the house Jo s as his father was a b ou t t o exp i re . H e was prevented foe entering, and take n t o th e h ouse o f a m ili tary man, wile; the sad news was broken to him. The occurrence too place on Sunday wee k. M . Thevet was buried on Thlll4, day last, without the usual military honours. A r Owing to the depressed state of trade the 1 , Lancashire Coal Association have resolved to reduce ttit wages of the colli ers t en per cent., and notice of this dete ,, mination will be giv en i mme di ately. The step is not uue't; petted, and the men, who are still suffering from the elle ° , of the strike of last year, will, it is said, accept the raci ll ' d tion without r esor ti ng to another contest in which they I'. pretty sure to be defeated. A sum of £47 has been subscribed by the T, habitants of Uxbrid ge an d th e ne i g hb our h oo d to reward t'i police sergeant Mason, who a few week ago stopped a c) driven by four burglars, captured two of them, and recoire re g a quantity of stolen property. Two-thirds of the aura 113 0 been given to Mason, and the remainder to a policeman inc ji , came to his assistance and secured the two burglars. 113 0 1 presentation was made by the chairman of the bench magistrates ou behalf of tho subscribers. Pt The steps to procure econo m y i n th e Governtne offices aro being taken one by cne. The clerks in the etl' e Servieo are (says the Manchester Examiner), by an 01 %, just issued, required to provide their own pencils, knis e j and other office materials, excepting stationery. It is S. s 4 ' that the recent ord er a b ou t pen mending and waste P6r,i0.4; which caused some am usemen t w h en i t was published? Po resulted in a revenue o f about £lO,OOO, paid by cen tres° who purchase the " waste" material. A labs— iabourer has been committed for trial at Gt o ford for putting a boy, 10 years of age, into a coPPer„°o scalding water, when th e b oy re f used to fetch him se'l turnips. Tho brute dipped the boy thrice in the seaqino,j liquid despite his s creams. Th e doctor who had attended Pe,-, since the sth Feb ruary , w h en t h e b arbarity was conidtl6o stated to the bench th a t no t a bi t o f s k in remained frac' 's middle of the thigh to the toe; and that the boy for a I° ' time lay in a precarious condition. ft)g Sentence was passed on T ues d ay at the West 1 33-i1 o f sessions upon John Firth, convicted sumo mouths 4°, 1 stealing 50;000 cubic f ee t o f gas, th e property of the Corporation. The fraud was effected by intercepting ; es gas from th e ma i ns o f t h e Corporation by means of 9,19fd introduced at a point w h ere th e gas cou ld b e o b ta i ne d and urifii without the qua n tit y b e i ng recorded by the meter. At the "tild certain legal poi n t s were reserve d f or the opinion efsid, Court of Crimin a l A ppea l , b ut th e conv i ct i on was confir P- o i c k and the defend an t now came up f or sentence. The Prfifo ing magistrate sa id th e ev id ence s h owe d t h at th e Ile: of o il Corporation had b een a b om i na bl y ro bb e d b y a siste w fraud which had been carried on for ten or eleven Ve t ? ientenced the defendant to six months' imprisopiejth hgd Mow. Erick Thl If " Eri the abseil( from other well for ti ratter of the ordina conceived possesses adorntnen common si what he b 4 the school appearanc lation of school-day is in every affection v "Fan" ant circumstai influences, old tender have the h plot. We which ovc and tries sweet lath been some tion might story. T these loves themselves This wan the plot is, "Erick Th have alrea( future exce its writer. vastates the tive is very the mind " The Mill brother fou is somewha ever, rewa: and (no ma is well that Lorna DOOl Black Imo] Vols. S From soi rious, such favourite in men and ro power of 1 men are " cherishes t Claude Du celebrity. England ar of robbers, scattered to round. Th doings,whic to be relat in the eve yeoman, al Oare, in th written in a and quite r( and scene tc collections I the murder and his me very home glimpse of Boone, the Himself a g better think salty of ou forest of Ba grandsons their hand quence with in the midst princess of Lorna, whof chronicle. pion and hi latter has fu in the perso similarity t romance of novel-reader M 0 N COMAL Settling v day, and L " bears" ha` whether thei in price is y( creased in 1 The abundai anticipations very influeu minimum ofi night, is full Consols a count, 931 New Three £l,OOO, 4 pn par 5 pin ; I 240 39 ex di India Ste, ditto 5 per C Cent., Oct., per Cent., . May, 1879, In the F Brazilian of 9 5 to ex div. ; di of 1861, 84i ; Mexic 79 ; Russit 68 to 68i ; ditto ()hark( Spanish of 1 64 ; ditto of 41f to American Erie Railwa tral, 96 to 1 bentures, 31 gage Bonds, In the Rai Western, Mi 1 to I, but litan have f —London Great West+ ; London i Eastern, 37; Eastern, 751 Great Not tl 110 ; Cale& and Dover, ]?or Bank 161 t. London Join ralnster, 645 Anglo-Austt Ottoman, 2 In Miscel 114 to ; G tional, l to Telegraph Telegraph I and Anglo-A The scrip to i prem. The mor4 ciation are q The Sufic] £Bl,OOO in g ___ There wer terday. It is doubt for any of t Spanish Crc Senor Olozai