The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-26 00:00:00

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MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS fl• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. FMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke A • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Flatters, 'Hosiers. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and SOY • CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHA3I-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 233, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre sentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nlv Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, I)RURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CbattPrton. Great Combination of Attractions for the Faster holidays.—A new romantic drama and the grand Pantow ime of "Puss in Boots." On EASTER MONDAY, March 29, and during the week, her Majesty's Servants will perform (for the first time) a new roman tie Drama, in three acts and a prologue, entitled THE MAN OF TWO LIVES, founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel, "Les Miserables," adapted by Bayle Bernard, adat ter of •' Faust." Principal character by Al r Charles Dillon. supp3rted by the en tire strength of the Company. To eonclude with the Pantomime) of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transforma tion Scene. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stirling; Musical Di rector, Mr. W. C. Levey. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. —SPE CIAL 'MORNING PERFORMANCES on WEDNESDAY, March 31, and SATURDAY, A pril 3. t Two o'clock, the - Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's 11511) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PU-S IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. At half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS oF TITE PERIOD: At Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundr d Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Five. Doors open at half-past One, commence at Two o*el. ck. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz., First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. To-morrow Night, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken. dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton. &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. Astley, &c, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, fic. With (by desire) BOX AND COX: A! essrs. Buckstone and Compton. Concluding with A KISS 111 THE DARK. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. 41HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. To-morrow Night, a new farce, entitled & DAYS FISHING. Mr. G. dehnore, Mr. C. H. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. &t 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore. Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Viss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last 5 Nights. To-morrow Night, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama. in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. I4ldlle. Beatrice. On Saturday, March 27, for the Benefit of Mdlle. Beatrice. N.B. - On Easter Monday AFTER DARK. Ooors open at half-past a, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 111., Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. To-morrow Night. at 7, A V 7 IDOW HUNT. Messrs. '3l xrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which. nit FIELD OF Th..S CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, &c. To conclude ffith HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t e Last Five Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— 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.—OKßA , the world-renowned. in his original and unapproachable evolutions on the FLYING TRAP KZE, every Evening. His double somersaults and pe rouettes from the flying bar are incredible. The matchless SCENES in the ARENA, including theme eat CA RRE TROUPE and the magnificent Stud of performing rses as usual.. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per- Doors armances Wednesday and Saturday , commencing at Hall-past Two. ROYAL AIIrinTHEATRE, Holborn. — THIS EVENING, GOOD FRIDAY.—GRAN D PER FORMANCE of Handers Oratorio, "T HE MESSIA I ."—Full Orchestra and chorus, numbering nearly 250 persons. A rtistes Mdlle. Rose Hersee (of Her Majesty's Operaj, Miss Palmer, Mr. Reed Larwill, Mr. Maybrick, and the celebrated basso A err Karl Formes. The St. Cecilia Choral Society (120 Voices). The Orchestra wilt include th.t most eminent Performers from both Opera Houses, the Sacred Harmonic Society, &c. Leader, Mr. Carrodus. Solo Trumpet, Mr T. Harper. Conductor, Mr. C. J Yfargitt. The management would specially refer to the fact that this will be the first appearance in Oratorio for many years of the renowned basso, Herr FORMES', and his Farewell Performance, previous to retirement from the Lyric boards. Box-office open daily from ten till five. Tickets at all the Libraries. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 1 0, BROWN AND THE, BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall. Warner, David fisher, Andrews, Bur Won, and J. Clarke: Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnold, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. T. GEORGE'S II ALL , Regent-street. '77 • FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided hit. New and beautiful Songs, Dances, Burlesque Sketches, &e., and the highly successful burlesque THE VERY GI; AND DUTCH—S OF LONDON, EVERY EVENING. ROYAL ORIGINAL CTIRTSTY MINSTRELS (Priprietor3, Messrs WILSOM and MONTAGUE) Th e Only Company of Christy's who ha ve h a d the liononr to appear. by sp ov ial command. before. THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVE`: It; G- at LIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People ev ery S a t ur - Iry night at eight . Admission, One Shilling. Private boxes and places may . be secured at Mr. Mit chell's Royal Library, at the musicsellers, and at the hall. Actingma n ager, Mr. ANDREW NISI 110. T IE " SUN" NEWSPAPER. --(T. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4. Connaught-terrace, E at the earl dgeware-roaest d, delivers the LATE EDIT UM of "'THE SUN " possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Zlpies ur Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 8.45 o'clock ,Orders by post punctually attended to; THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN.' J. 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THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN ' supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. PLEXA‘DER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," giving all the SPORTIN G NEWS of the day, may be seen at JEM IY M A NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. L ONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. IMPORTANT REDUCTION OF RATES FOR RETURN AND SEASON TICKETS. On and after the Ist of APRIL, next, the following REDUCED FARES will be charged between Loudon and Brighton:- Ist Class Express Return 2d „ - 14 s. Od. u Ist „ Ordinary Return l4s. Od. 2d „ 7 7 3d „ u SEASON TICKETS. Ist Class 2nd Class. One week ..... 2 10 0 Two weeks One month Two months Three months l3 0 0 Six months Twelve months Return T!ckets available for two days, and from Friday or Saturday to Monday. Corresponding Reductions in the Fares to and from Lewes, Worthing, Eastbourne. &e. Five Third Class Trains between London and Brighton daily. By Order. London-bridge Terminus, March 9, 1869. TROUVILLE SUB. MER (NORMANDY) LOAN of £400,000, SECURED by MORTGAGE D EBEN TURES of the T ROUVILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited)., Issue of 40,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of £lO each. Annual interest 7 per cent., payable half-yearly, in London and Paris. The First Half-Year's Interest will be payable the Ist September, ISG9. These Debentures will be redeemable by annual drawings to begin after the third year at £l2, thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent. - _ _ _ _ Applications for Debentures, accompanied by a deposit of £ per Debenture, will be received in London by Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., Bankers, St. James's-street, London; Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, London. And in Paris, at the offices of the Association, 51, Rue de Cardi nal Fesch. The affairs of the Association are under the direction of The Right Hon. Viscount Bury, M.P., Director of the London and South-Western Railway, 66, Prince's-gate, London, Presi- dent. The Hon. William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's Palace, Lon- don. Monsieur Jacques Adolphe Cordier, Ancien Depute, 124, Boule vart I[aussman, Paris, and Chalet Conner, Trouville, Nor mandy. Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., 45, Sussex-gardens, London. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles H. Lindsay, M.P., Winch Held, Rants. Monsieur Dumond de Monteelz, Administrateur des Mines de Zinc de la 44, Rue de Luxembourg, Paris. Sampson Lucas Sanville, Esq. (Messrs. S. Oppenheim and Sons), 18. Old Broad-street. London. Debentures, £lO each. The Subscription is payable, £2 on ap plication, £2 on allotment, 12 on the Ist of May, £2 on the 15th June, and £2 on the Ist August. Or the whole £lO may be paid up at once, in which case dis- Count at the rate of 7 per cent. will be allowed. BANKERS. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, London. _ BROKERS. Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn. Throg,morton-street, London. ABRIDGED STATEMENT. ADVANTAGES OF TILE DEBENTURES. Mortgage taken iu the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Debenture-holders. Each tlo Debenture: - Will be secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypotho cation. bonus of Will be redeemable at £l2 per bond (thus giving a - 20 per cent.), by annual drawings, after the third year. Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum attached, and— Will be accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the holder(in addition to' the above bonus) to a distributive share in half of the surplus profit arising from the ultimate realisation of the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled to priority of allotment. If no allotment be made the whole of the deposit will be re turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future payments due upon such number as may be allotted, but interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be allowed and paid as above thereon. An opinion of the soundness of this security, and of the value of the distributive share of surplus profit offered to the Deben ture-holders, may be formed from reports annexed to the printed particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is one of the choicest marine resorts in France, where the noblesse spend their summer. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, directly south of the Isla of Wight, and possesses one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in France, public rooms, gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. From London Trouville may be reached via Dover and Calais, For lkestone and Boulogne, or via Southampton and Havre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half distrait by railway. Plans of the properties and reports of architects and sur veyors may be obtained at the Offices, or will be forwarded by post. Full printed particulars of the Loan and forms of subscription may be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and at the Offices of the Association, namely :-26, Old Broad-street, E.C.; 6, Whitehall, Westminster, London; and Paris, 51, Rue de Car dinal Pesch. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION. Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMAP.KET. Saturday Night, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstono, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Followed by BOX AND COX. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARK. Comment% at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Vining. Saturday Night, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At a. quarter to 8, MARIE AN TOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. G. Shore, Miss Lydia 11 oward; Mdlle. Beatrice. Concluding with .% CUP OF T A : Nicll'e.Beatrice THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHt Saturday Night, at 7, A DAY' i FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to S, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &o. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Saturday Night, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longsnore, B. Goodall, I.ydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Saturday Night, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; fifesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. Saturday Night, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Lionelßrough , H. Irving ' S. Emery, Miss H o dson, &c. Concl u ding with THE BIRTH PLACE OF ODGERS: r Toole. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND clncus, HOLBORN. Saturday Night, the Great Carre Troupe and Ca a gnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Onra , A lfred Bradbury, A. arre, & ROYALTY THEATRE. Under tho Management of Miss M. Oliver. Saturday Night, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To concludo with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under tho Management of :Miss Mario Wilton Sa:nrday Night, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Banercft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Saturday Night, at 'B, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBItA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-0Mo( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 61; Children under twelye, 6d. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARC II 26, Ei69. 1147 , SITU."Irgi officers, that the vigilance of the Admiralty must not be relaxed. Although our ironclads are good as broad side ships, the tide of authoritative evidence is turn ing more and more decisively in favour of the turret principle. Admiral WARDEN'S idea of ironclads is that they should always be built of iron, be armoured throughout, be armed as heavily as possible, and possess bow and stern fire. But perhaps the time has arrived when the increased power of artillery, and the consequent increased thickness of plating, will render this theory of armoured vessels impracticable. In that case if the weight of guns be such that the whole broadside cannot be made available to carry them, and if the space they occupy be such that they cannot be pro tected by armour of adequate weight, it seems to follow, says Admiral WARDEN, that the turret ship is a necessity. The broadside ship can carry neither the most formidable artillery nor the most powerful protection. On the other hand, "guns of every weight can be placed in turrets, armour of almost any thickness can be carried round them, and it will then be necessary only to protect the water-line with a belt as heavy and thick as the ship can bear." Admiral RYDER pronounces to the same effect. This officer regrets much that a turret-ship was not sent to cruise in company with the fleet; but, without passing any definite opinion, he shews that turret-ships have two great advantages—they can be made longer, and therefore can carry more fuel, whilst in action they can maintain a greater average speed, and yet keep the guns upon the enemy. The only ques tion is whether cupola ships can be built which will prove seaworthy in all weathers. Providing this can be done, the turret vessel is undoubtedly the man-of-war of the future. In the meantime, however, it is reassuring to learn that whilst the British fleet is not all that it might be, it can still bear comparison with the navies of our great competitors. IT was a recent Parisian bon mot that the delay in the publication of M. OLLIVIER'S pamphlet arose from the fact that the printers had not sufficient J.'s to meet the demand caused by the pam phleteer's incessant use of the word " ire." The news papers which have given Mr. ROEBUCK'S " political testament" in full must have found themselves not a little embarrassed to provide sufficient I.'s. The ex-member for Sheffield's egotism is always conspicuous; but in a "political testament," in a last speech, in a piece justicative, in an apologia pro sus vita, it was sure to be overwhelming. Accordingly, we are not at all surprised to find that in the last fifteen lines of his speech the first person singular occurs two dozen times ; nor to learn that though Mr. ROEBUCK has formally retired from public life, has put the coping-stone upon the arch of his career, he believes that there is a great work in store for him, in the doing of which he promises that his steps shall not falter. In truth Mr. ROEBUCK is like a notable female singer, who shall be nameless. She has made at least a dozen farewell tours, and each time found parting such " sweet sorrow," that she determined to have another parting on the morrow. Mr. ROEBUCK'S position is, indeed, not exactly similar, for in his case it is the audience which has parted with him, not he with the audience, and it is just possible that the party responsible for the farewell may not care to repeat it. However, it will not be the rejected member's fault if he does not once more make his voice heard in the concert-room of St. Stephen's. There are three clauses in Mr. ROEBUCK'S testa ment—" Beware of Trades Unions ! " " Beware of Ireland !" " Beware of America ! " That is the outcome of a thirty-five years' career as a Liberal. At a time when Tories as well as Liberals are admit ting the necessity of giving a legal status to trades unions, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say " Beware ! " At a time when Tories as well as Liberals are urging that measures of conciliation shall be adopted towards Ireland, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say " Beware ! " At a time when Tories as well as Liberals are using their utmost efforts to bring about a cordial friendship between the two great families of the Anglo-Saxon race, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say " Beware !" This is the ripe fruit of matured wisdom. This is the statesmanship of a political veteran. It is very sad, very lamentable. It shews of how little value years and experience are in themselves, how they may be worse than useless if the mind be warped and the judgment clouded. It shews that age is not only not free from panics, but is peculiarly liable to them. Of course what Mr. ROEBUCK said by way of justifying his alarms, was all good enough in its way. It was of the good goody. But the time is gone by for lectures to labour and capital upon the advantages of co-operation, and the disadvantages of strife. Both sides know these things better than Mr. ROEBUCK can tell them. What they want to know is how their interests are to co-operate, how they are to avoid strife. In reply he can say nothing but " Beware of trades unions." This is just as if, when two armies were drawn up in battle array, he were "Beware o f th e enemy. " I t to say to one of them, is just as effectual as if Tear' ern were t o s t an d barking at the burglars while they were binding the inmates. So, again, as to Ireland, Mr. ROEBUCK would have us do justice to that country, but to keep it at arm's length, to " beware" of it. He does not tell us what justice is ; but as he sneers at Mr. GLADSTONE, we presume th a t h e d oes no t think the disestablishment of an alien Church is just. As for anything beyond bare justice, he does not pretend to it. The attempt to make the Irish people as loyal as the Scotch, to make I re l an d as grea t a source of strength to England as Scotland, is, he deems, wholly chimerical. So with the United States, Mr. ROEBUCK, the one-while Radical and all but Chartist, has no sympathy except w ith th e f ormer slaveholders of the Southern Confederacy. He has not even the wit to see that prudence at least urges us to prefer the friendship of a great Power actually in existence to sentimental regret over a Power that might in Mr. ROEBUCK'S opinion, have existed if we had but recognised. it. That assumption is a very large one indeed ; and at the best it deals with a state of things which no longer endures. Mr. ROEBUCK is so intent upon his hypothetical past that his " testament " is utterly worthless for the certain future. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON. PHILADELPHIA, March. 25. Ex-President Johnson is very ill at his house, Greenville, Tennessee. There is a report that he died this morning of paralysis. THE BELGIAN RAILWAYS. BRUSSELS, March 25. The Etoile Belge of this evening contains a rumour to the effect that a Prussian company pro poses to enter into negotiations with the Belgian Grand Central Railway Company to resume the management and working of the line from Aix-la- Chapelle to Antwerp. It is added that this pro ject has been officially communicated to the Belgian Cabinet. SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, March 25. Fears are entertained that there will be a re newal to-day of the disturbances which have re cently arisen here. The journeymen printers who refuse to join the strike have been compelled to leave the society, and are about to constitute a new one. 4 p.m. The expected demonstration has not been held. The strike continues, but the excitement has abated. THE ROB' ROY ON THE SEA OF TIBERIAS. In the nart ative of his canoeing explorations, " Rob Roy" writes 'to the Record :—" The Sea of Tiberias is a little more tb an twelve miles long north and south, by seven miles broad at the widest part, and its shape is very like that of the continent of Africa. The best view of the lake is from. the water about a mile from the south-east corner and looking north. From thence the hills form a complete amphitheatre. On the left the towers and walls of Til ferias are reflected in the water. They are the only sto) ie buildings all around the entire circuit of this once pop) ilous lake, except one or two modern mills and a bath. Bey and them is the smooth beach of the land of iGennesareth„' a little crescent-shaped strip of plain teem ng with verdure down to the shore, which is of clean, pretty gravel and shells and sand, with a row of oleander bushes growing in the water. Next comes the white strand, where once Bethsaida stood. When I sailed to this beautiful spot the waters from a copious hot spring were gushing over rocks into the lake. Part of them were laid through a mill, and as the wheel of this turned slowly in the dark, cool evening, a cloud of steam rose from the hot foam and curved up to heaven in graceful folds. Soon round my boat I saw ten thousand fish, their heads and backs above water, and as close together as they could lie. Outside of these was a circle of cormorants and ducks waiting for prey. I stopped a night in the travellers' house at Tibe rias. The walls are ten feet thick. The proprietor is a Jew, for this is the capital of the Jews of Palestine. The streets are most wretched and abominably filthy. The Jews, who seem to prowl about rather than to reside in the place, are dirty and unkempt, and many of them are ragged to a degree. Now, one does not meet any ragged Moslems. Their garments may be old and patched, or worn out or discarded entirely, and they may then become nude paupers, but the Jews are in draggling rags, squalour, and listless-looking, abject wretched. ness. Inside their houses things are different. The houses look clean and comfortable. Still, the saying is a true one, The king of the fleas holds his court in Tiberias.' I could not sleep a wink, for the lev6e of his magesty was in my room. The governor of the town came to see the canoe (which always reclines alongside its master, even in a house). The narrow street of Tiberias was crammed with spectators as the Rob Roy was carried through to be launched again. They stood also on the house-tops as I paddled out into the lake." PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AFTER EASTER. When the House of Commons reassembles on Thursday evening next, the adjourned debate on the motion to inquire into the corrupt practices at Norwich will be con tinued, and the Attorney-General will on the same evening propose a similar motion to in quire into the election practices at Bridgwater. The principal business on Friday will be the consideration of the Navy Estimates. The second reading of the Attorney-General's Bankruptcy Bill is fixed for Monday, the sth of April, and his supplemental bill for the aboli tion of imprisonment for debt is also down for second reading. On Tuesday, the sth, Mr. Graves intends to call attention to the rates of inland postage, and will move that it is desirable to reduce the rates to one halfpenny for newspapers and printed matter under two ounces. Mr. Sheridan will move a resolution that it is expedient further to reduce the duty on fire insurances ; and Mr. Seely will direct the attention of the House to the report of the select com mittee on the American postal contracts, and will move a resolution thereon. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Libel Bill stands for the same day, Mr. Newdegate having moved an adverse amendment to its further progress. The financial statement of the Government will be made by Mr. Lowe on Thursday, the Bth, on which day the Con tagious Diseases Bill (No. 2), the Valuation of Property Bill, and the Assessed Rates Bill are fixed for second reading. Sir Michael Hicks Beach will move that the latter shall be referred to a select committee. On the following day, on the motion to go into Committee of Supply, Mr. Fawcett will move that all appointments to the civil and diplomatic services ought to be obtained by open competition. Mr. Evan Richards intends to call the attention of the House to the question of friendly societies, after which he will propose that the Government should introduce a measure to remedy the present insuffi cient state of the law in relation to this question. Mr. Maguire has given notice to bring forward his motion on the land now held by the London Companies in Ireland, and will move that an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty praying that she will be graciously pleased to issue a royal commission to inquire into the subject. The question as to the continued appointment of the Lowthers to the post of Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmoreland will doubtless give rise to a party discussion, and will be in troduced by representatives of both sides of the House Mr. Howard and Mr. Hodgson. Mr. Locke King is to bring in a bill to afford facilities for performing divine service by ministers of the Church of England. The Married Women's Property Bill and the Burial Regulation Bill are entered for second reading on the 14th of April, and the Sunday Trading Bill is to be con sidered in committee. Mr. Lopes is to move that the former be read a second time on that day six months ; and Mr. Brady will do all in his power to resist the further progress of the latter measure. The Irish Church Bill having been fixed to come on for consideration in committee on the 15thApril,Mr. Newdeg ate has already given notice that he intends to move that it be referred to the committee in six months' time. This, of course, will be defeated if the member for North War wickshire goes to a division, and Mr. Aytoun will then move his injunction relating to the Maynooth Grant. The second reading of the bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister is down for Wednesday, April 21, but will not be allowed to pass the stage without an effort to shelve it on the part of Mr. Assheton Cross. On the 28th of April Mr. Newdegate intends to move that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill be not read a second time ; and on the following Wednesday Mr. Cavendish Bentinck has given notice that he does not think the Uni versities' Tests Bill ought to go into committee. On the 2nd of June Mr. Locke King's Real Estate Intestacy Bill is to come on for second reading, on which occasion Mr. Beresford-Hope will move an amendment that it be read a second time upon that day six months. Several motions are upon the paper for which no days have yet been fixed. Mr. Whalley intends to bring in a bill for the abolition of turnpike tolls in England and Wales ; Sir Henry Bulwer is to move a resolution in favour of the Ballot; Mr. Charles Forster has given notice that he will call attention to the inconvenience of the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Bill ; Mr. Taylor has determined to bring in a bill" for a recurrence to the ancient constitutional system of payment of members ;" Mr. Gilpin will once more make an effort to do away with capital punishment ; Mr. Gourley thinks the funds of trades unions ought to be dealt with by the House, and will bring in a bill for that purpose; Mr. Gregory's motion "that all museums and galleries supported by the State should be open to the public on Sundays after the hours of Divine morning service," will probably meet with strong opposition ; Mr. Benjamin Smith has given notice to make another effort to introduce the metric system of weights and measures into:this country. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen has not yet fixed a day for the introduction of the Government bill to alter the present mode of administration of county finance. Sir Lytton Bulwer has given notice that, "on the earliest occasion after the decision of the United States Senate with respect to the treaty recently signed in London becomes known, he will call the attention of the House to the relations between Great Britain and the United States," and to move for papers. The army and navy estimates will give rise to some important motions. Lord Elcho intends to move that the Army Estimates fail to furnish a sound basis for the efficient and economical organisation of the war power of the nation ; and that the establishment of a sufficient and reli able army reserve is a matter of urgent need. Captain Frederick Beaumont is to call attention to the expendi ture to be incurred in completing our fortifications, and Sir Henry Hoare will move the omission of Vote 9 of the Army Estimates. Mr. O'Reilly has given notice to direct the attention of the House to the present system of the government of the army and the administration of military affairs. We understand that Mr. Gladstone intenda to visit Lady Herbert of Lea, at Wilton, during the present vacation.—Echo. BAKED APPLES.—It appears that Voltaire was not the author of the famous saying that " the only ripe fruit to be eaten in London was baked apples." The honour belongs to the Marquis of Cariaciali, Ambassador at London and Paris. On one occasion the King of England asked him if the fine day did not remind him of Naples, to which he replied, " Ah, sire, the moon of the King, my master, is worth snore than the sun of your Majesty." BEWDLEY ELECTION. —The Hon. Major Anson, the defeated Liberal candidate at the late election for Bewdley, issued on Thursday an address to the Liberal electors for that borough, in which he intimates his inten tion of claiming the seat on a scrutiny. We understand that Major Anson has fortified himself with high legal opinions before resolving on this course, and he has every confidence in gaining the seat. It appears that the Con servatives admit they polled some bad votes, but maintain that they will hold good on the polling-book, and cannot now be invalidated. THE QUARTERLIES. _~_ The North British presents a bill of fare of very tempt ing variety. Its space is largely devoted to questions of the day ; but it avoids the sterile track of politics, and is not without interesting research in the more recondite walks of literature. " The Royal Engineers " is a short paper giving a full account of the system of training and discipline adopted in preparing for a commission in the non-purchase corps. There can be no doubt that if the officers of other branches of the service were required to undergo such an ordeal, the British army, in respect of officering, would be the most formidable in the world. The candidate for admission to the Engineers or Artillery corps is required to pass a preliminary examination of considerable severity. Then he spends two years and a half in training at Woolwich Academy. The course at this establishment terminates by another examination, at which thirty or forty compete, out of whom some half-a dozen only are selected for the Royal Engineers, the rest being drafted into the Royal Artillery. The six successful aspirants are next received into the Royal Engineer esta blishment at Chatham, where they expend tw•o years in the most searching training—surveying, fortress and bridge building, sapping and mining, &c., besides all the ordinary duties of a soldier. E ven these four years and a half of discipline do not finish the preliminary course of training, for the young officer is now generally drafted into one of the forty companies which are stationed sepa rately in different parts of the British Isles. His actual duties on service are the most arduous which fall to the lot of the soldier. He reconnoitres the enemy's position exposed to the fire of riflemen, plans batteries and trenches, and leads the assault upon a beleaguered for tress. The blowing open of the Cashmere gate at Delhi may be cited as a specimen of the Engineer's duty. And yet it will scarcely be believed that this corps is con sidered the least " honourable" in the service, and the Engineer officer is not allowed to aspire to the command of the army, or even of brigade. Lord Napier of Magdala led the Abyssinian expedition because he was chosen by the Indian Government. The system is mon strous. A very different subject follows this useful exposé. " Turguenief s Novels" is an excellent article on one of the most occult of topics—Russian fiction. The Russians believe in fact, and ignore fiction as a rule ; or, at least, they confine it to their diplomacy. But they have one novelist worthy of being accounted amongst the greatest. His name is Turguenief. As the reviewer re marks, Turguenief's writings have gained a wide celebrity in France and Germany, but they are little known in England, and I can safely recommend this entertaining analysis to all who find pleasure in an excursion in the less cultivated fields of literature. Turguenief's style, judging from these extracts, approaches nearest to the English school. It is furthest removed from the French style ; and there is too much incident for the Germans. The translations of Turguenief published in this country are very unsatisfactory. The reviewer translates him well ; why not undertake a whole work, or the series ? " Revo lutions in the Queen's English" is an able review of the chief alterations which the English language has under gone during the three great periods of change—the reigns of Elizabeth, Anne, and Victoria—for, oddly enough, the reigns of the three British queens were the turning points in the history of the English tongue. This, too, is a very able paper, and is, I am glad to see, to be followed by a a sequel. There is, of course, an article on Dean Milman, and another on " The Increase of Lunacy," the writer accepting the increase as a serious fact ; whilst the Saturday Review, on the other hand, argues that it is more apparent than real. " Going back," says the writer in the North British, " to 1849, at the beginning of that year we find 14,560 patients in the asylums of England and Wales, and 33,213 at the beginning of 1868, being an in crease of about 19,000 in nineteen years, with nothing to indicate that there may not be a like increase in the nine teen to follow." But, in the first place, the population has increased ; and, more than this, the insane, especially paupers, are far better taken care of than formerly, so that many lunatics who were formerly at large, and never included in the estimates, now swell the number which seems to rise at so rapid a rate. The same thing has been noted in France. There an immediate apparent increase of lunacy followed the passing of a law for the better treatment of lunatics ; but the proportion has not risen since. This explanation seems on the whole satisfactory. The Hudson's Bay Company is very severely handled in the next paper ; in fact, though the writer's enthusiasm for the Great North British Empire idea is palpable, he is successful enough in demolishing the position of the com pany. That a territory of such immense extent should be kept as a hunting ground for a company of merchants on the authority of a charter which was never confirmed by Act of Parliament, is simply discreditable. I must pass over the remaining three topics of this fine number, though each of them is good enough to deserve notice. " What is Man's Chief End?" is the only philosophical paper in the number ; it is devoted to an examination of Mr. Arnold's theory of culture. Then comes a full and very opportune article on " Public Works in India ;" and a paper on " The Reconstruction of Germany " brings up the rear. At the Norfolk Assizes, on Thursday, the grand jury returned a true bill against William Sheward, who is charged on his own confession with the wilful murder of his wife at Norwich in 1851. It is understood that the trial will take place on Monday next. At a meeting of the Cheshire Chamber of Agricul ture on Wednesday it was decided that the G overnment should be asked to appoint a special tribunal for settling claims for exemption from the cattle plague rate. Great dissatisfac tion was expressed by the chamber regarding the way in which the local authorities have discharged the duties as signed to them. On Tuesday, April 6th, Mr. R. N. Fowler intends to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether Mr. Lowe, as reported in the Times and other newspapers, said that at guard mounting in the Castle-yard, Dublin, on St. Patrick's Day, the populace " indulged in revelry of a dangerous form, and afterwards expressed their hatred of England by groan ing and hissing the National Anthem in the presence of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland." The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian attributes Sir Robert Peel's absence from the division on the Irish Church to political disappointment. "It is said that he was not only disappointed at not having been offered a seat in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, but much offended at the Premier's ai ologising for his omission on the ground that his younger brother, Mr. Arthur Peel, had been given a subordinate post in the Administration." A distressing accident occurred on Wednesday at an old building which was in the course of being pulled down in connection with the reconstruction of Boar-land, Leeds. A division wall in the back portion of the premises fell unexpectedly, and buried in the ruins two men named Atkinson and Vickerman. The latter bad purchased the wood work, and at the time of the accident he was watching Atkinson's progress in the demolition of a doorway in the wall. Both the men wore speedily rescued by the rest of the workmen, some of whom had a narrow escape as the wall fell. Atkinson was compa ratively little worse, but Vickerman had evidently been killed on the spot. Mr. Goschen's bill to Amend the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 has been published. It gives the Poor-law Board discretionary power to dissolve asylum and school districts and unions, and to adjust the parts of a ny divided parish in such manner as shall seem to them to be most expedient. They may also rescind the provisions in the local act which relate to the assessing and collecting of the poor rate. It enacts that where a dispensary is provided the Guardians shall provid&a, place for the attendance of the sick poor and the medical officer. If the Guardians refuse to provide a dispensary, the parish shall have no claim on the common fund for me dicines or medical officers. The present year completes the•quarter of a cen tury during which the Earl of Zetland has held the office of Grand Master of the Freemasons of England, and his 10-d -ship having intimated his intention to retire from the office at the close of the year the Freemasons are gettfng up a tes timonial to him which promises to reach the sum of £5,000. His lordship lately declared that he would not apply the testimonial to any personal object or to any of the existing masonic charities, and it now appears that it is his intention to invest the money in the names of trustees, and devote the interest to the relief of distinguished brethren who may become distressed, and their widows or other relations depending upon them. The fund is to be called the Zetland Fund, and the disposal of it is to rest with the Earl of Zetland for his life and after him with the Grand Master for the time. BLACKBURN ELECTION. —Mr. Morley has issued an address as candidate with Mr. Potter for the represen tation of Blackburn. He says the issue is no longer that which excited violent dissension last autumn, as the Irish Church question must be looked upon as practically settled, and there are many signs that the party most strenuously opposed to the change of the Episcopal Church in Ireland into a free Episcopal Church now perceives that this mea sure, formerly regarded by them with deep distrust, will bring no ill to Protestantism, while it will assuredly do a something to remove that discontent in Ireland which has long been a source of weakness and danger to the empire. The question for decision in the present election is whether the borough will send two members to be lost in hopeless minorities following Mr. Disraeli, who are led by him into shallow compromises inefficacious for practical good, or to support a strong and resolute Government in lightening and readjusting imperial and local taxes, in giving the country large and beneficent measures of education, and in favour of the Ballot, which we need now to protect the many against the few, and which we may by-and-by need to Protect the few against the many. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE QUEEN'S CHARITIES The Queen's Charities, usually given on MaundaY Thursday, were distributed at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on Thursday morning. The Bishop of Oxford, her Majesty's Lord High Almoner, officiated, and was assisted by the Rev. Dr. R. W. Jelf, the contribu tions being made to fifty aged men and fifty aged women, the number of each sex corresponding with the age of the Queen. A procession was formed in the Almonry Office, in Whitehall, consisting o f the Yeomen of the Guards, the Secretary and Yeomen of the Almonry accompanied by six children, two from each of the National Schools in the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, and St. Mall' le-Strand, who had been selected for participation in this privilege in consequence of their good conduct, and moved from the Almonry to the Chapel Royal, where they were met by the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Jelf, and a body of the parochial clergy. On arriving at the altar steps, the alms were deposited in front of the royal closet, and special service for the occasion was read by the Rev. J. W Vivian, D.D. A distribution of red and white purses took place. Each red purse contained the usual gold sovereign and a further sum of one pound and ten shillings, as s commutation in lieu of provisions formerly issued from the Lord Steward's department of the Queen's household. Each white purse contained the Maundy coins, consisting of 4d., 3d., 2d., and pence in silver, amounting to £u o • The gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, of Westminster Abbey, and of St. Paul's Cathedral assisted in the ceremony, which was witnessed by a large number Of persons. LaNDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1869. The recurrence within these last few days of that .deplorable casualty more or less frequently disgrac ing this vast and wealthy community, compels us to express, not inappropriately on Good Friday, our earnest hope that the right hon. gentleman, the Pre sident of the Poor-law Board, will in no way relax his efforts to recognise, as rapidly and as comprehen sively as may be, the notoriously faulty and inade quate system of affording aid to the very destitute among the humbler classes of our population. The miserable announcement we are now referring to is so often made in the columns of the public newspapers, in our own columns, and in those of our numerous contemporaries, that it behoves the State and the Nation, the People, and the Parliament, the public out-of-doors, and• the two Houses of the Imperial Legislature, to bestir themselves at last in this matter of vital import to the whole community—if only to the end, if that may really be in any way possible, of preventing the repetition of a species of calamity which is a disgrace to our civilisation and an outrage upon our Christianity. Death from absolute starva tion ought, in truth and in reason, to be a thing im possible within the area, or even within the vicinity of a capital like that of the British Empire. So far from being an impossibility, however, it is a calamity, as we have said, and, as every one amongst us but too well knows, of frequent occurrence. Scarcely a single quarter elapses without one or two of these afflicting announcements. Some wretched tenement, perfectly well known to be inhabited in its immediate neigh bourhood, is suddenly observed to be shut up for two or three days together. Entered by the police—an emaciated body is found in one of the unfurnished rooms—the very cupboards are seen to be empty ; not a particle of food, scarcely a stick of furniture, hardly a rag of clothing is anywhere discoverable in the house from roof to basement. It was precisely thus in the particular instance to which we are here referring. On Tuesday morning, the 16th in stant, a policeman on duty in Cross-street, Sudbury, Suffolk, had his attention drawn by a crowd of people there assembled to a dilapidated cottage, on entering which there were found two emaciated corpses—one the corpse of an old woman of seventy years of age, MARY READY by name—the other the corpse of her daughter, aged thirty-four, MARY ANN ALETHE.A. READY—both of them poor needlewomen or staymakers. Here is the police man's evidence as to the condition in which he found those dead bodies—" The body of the daughter was lying upon the floor naked, with the exception of an old cloak tied round her soulders, a bonnet, stockings, and a golosh on her left foot. The body was lying near the street door, which opens into the room. The body of the mother was lying under an old cover ing, in the front room of the cottage. There were no other clothes but the old covering on the body. The body was cold, and it appeared to have been laid out by some one soon after death. The witness searched the house, but could not find any food or firing of any kind. There was a little water and about a handful of salt on the table downstairs." It is a very old story this—occurring though the par ticular instance under notice did as recently as on the 16th of this present month of March. It is old, we mean in this sense, that it has been related so often before in nearly precisely the same way, with merely a difference of names, and dates, and localities, that we know it, as the phrase is, by heart —and it makes our heart ache within us all the more grievously with every repetition. Reverting to the report of the inquest, which took place only the day before yesterday, at Sudbury, we find from that re port that " Several other.witnessss were examined, who deposed to the eccentric habits of the deceased. They had been in business and comfortably off, but of late had been in great distress, sell ing gradually every article of furniture they pos sessed, anti gaining a precarious subsistence by working as staymakers. They begged occa sionally, but were too high-spirited, one of the witnesses said, to apply for parochial relief." That last touch is a reminder of old Betty, mortalttuna L l Es, h o rror D ICKENS'S Friend" of —the e v age l asros good g going di no rlteihia the open to i serial m tehewa s o r\or r o y (hrnak o od- f t in such l o Oc u i ‘h s ul e rr a and CiuiA who dying at t in the Workhouse), has her poor head lifted in her last agony—" lifted as high as Heaven." If in no other way, bi see dl ef w up—out pro e dowiueot,u ofidk have eotuh resaelltowtohers like poor Betty, common p charity— e w r o at m h e e n r ts o lo f la S nr u a dbury, of sheer starvation. THE maintenance of our navy must ever be, in some respects, the most unsatisfactory problem with which the British Government has to deal. No branch of administration is of equal importance and at the same time presents so many difficulties. The conditions of excellence are subject to such repeated changes, the science of naval warfare makes such rapid progress, that the best directed efforts can attain but a relative degree of perfection. The discoveries of a s i n gle year may render a whole fleet obsolete. It is always an open question whether the theory which has been followed in the construction of a fleet is the best ; with an ironclad navy, consisting . mostly of broadside vessels, it is more than doubtful whether we should not be best served by turret-ships ; and even when we are satisfied as to theory; there still remains the stern test of prac tice. In the midst of this Sisyphus labour a partial consolation is welcome. It is satisfactory to learn that the Channel Fleet has triumphantly undergone the test of sea service. The best principle of construction may not have been originally followed; but there can be no doubt that our ironclad ships, such as they are, are seaworthy, and display good fighting qualities. The cruise of the Channel Fleet last summer was not entirely con clusive, as the weather was mild, and no heavy gale of wind was met with. Nevertheless, the admiral and captains are able to report favourably on many important points. Admiral WARDEN divides the squadron, consisting wholly of broadside ships, into four classes. Of these, the Bellerophon, which forms a class by herself, is deemed the most valuable vessel. She has the most powerful battery under the thickest armour, is readily handled under steam, and quite capable of fighting her guns in a moderate seaway. The Minotaur, Achilles, and Warrior form the class of longer ships, averaging a hundred feet in length beyond the rest of the fleet. Short vessels are deemed the best for handling, both under steam and sail ; but these three colossal iron clads are pronounced " unrivalled and unsurpassed by any ship that has ever been built " in respect of their fighting qualities. They are superior to the rest of the fleet in the invaluable quality of steadi ness, and this alone is greatly in favour of lengthy vessels. A ship which will combine the steadiness of the longer class with the handiness of the shorter is pronounced to be the beau ideal of a broadside ironclad. Of the third class, the Prince Consort and the Royal Oak, the admiral can say only that they are as good as could be expected. They were built as makeshifts, being wooden vessels cut down, and are not likely to be imitated ; nevertheless, they are not without their good qualities. The fourth class consists of the Defence and the Pallas, of which the former is a fairly good ship, but the latter worth less. It is not difficult to deduce a general verdict from this evidence. So far as broadside ironclads go, England possesses some of the most formidable war-ships afloat, and can in this respect compete on at least equal terms with any other maritime nation in the world. And, as the turret principle has yet to be fully supported by practical tests, there cannot, with just vigilance for the future, be the slightest fear for England's position as a naval Power. _ _ - - --- But it is also clear, from the testimony of these A TERRIBLE VOYAGE. A painful story reaches us from New York of the dig' astrous voyage of an emigrant ship, which took three months in completing the passage from Liverpool to NOW York. Eighteen of the unfortunate passengers died on the way, and many more narrowly escaped with life. The vessel was considered to be thoroughly seaworthy at the date of her clearance, and the emigration officers et Liverpool found no fault with her accommodation for passengers. However, the 146 emigrants were huddled together in the hold, which had been converted into a large square room, with tiers of bunks on each side. There was an almost total absence of light , and no system of ventilation, so that in rough weather , when the hatches were down, the atmosphere was stifling• It is not suprising that under these circumstances ship" fever broke out. Four deaths occurred in rapid succession, and a panic spread among the passengers. One man became distraught and leaped overboard. Three more deaths soon took place from various causes, and the emigrants became still more disheartened while fev er raged among them. Happily they reached the e nd of their voyage at last, though in so miserable a condition that the health officer at New York refused to pernut the vessel to leave quarantine. The passengers tell fearful tales of cruelties practised by the captain and other officers on the seamen of the ship, four of whom are said to have died under their sufferings. But this is not a uthen' ticated, though it is said the boatswain and carpenter have been arrested on complaint of the seamen. It is no t surprising that the Commissioners of Emigration have resolved upon instituting a thorough investigation in to the whole affair. DISASTERS TO BRITISH SHIPS ON TO FRENCH COAST. The most afflicting accounts of disasters on the French coast, during the storm of Friday and Saturday last, con tinue to be received. At Havre the tug Grand Emperor ha d brought in the brig Margaret Cook, of Yarmouth ; the latter had been picked up completely waterlogged, on ba r way from Nantes to Newcastle ; both her masts had gor 3e. Among the vessels which had entered with the tide . more or less damaged were the brig Hannah, . 01 Guernsey, schooner Defiance, of London ; the 610 1 Hannibal, of Liverpool, and Worwaerts, German ; and the brig Edmond, of Courseulles: the Amelia, of Guernsey' bad also sunk at the entrance to the port. The Gr and , Emperor had gone out again with a lifeboat to assie the American ship Narragansett, which left 11 ° 1° three days before, and which was off the coast die ' masted. The ship Zanzibar, of Havre, in the same stilt, was anchored six miles from Arromanches. The big Fanny, of Whitby, has gone ashore at Senneville 111 : crew are, however, saved, and the vessel may be got 0 1 * An English schooner, name not stated, has also been lost between St. Valery-en-Caux and Venlettes the master, his two children, and a seaman w ere drowned; a boat with the name Rosa, Guernsey, painted her, has been washed ashore at the same place. In ad dition to the Eucharis-Paul, which we have already o r nounced as having gone ashore at Cherbourg, Ve t other vessels are also in the same situation en 1116 ; part of the coast ; these are the Roy a l Ad e laide, 0 " Llanelly, Leonie-Celine, of Bayonne, Saint-Louis, of Bowe n ' Confiance, of Dienette, Saint-Jean, of Chausey ; no n ye : were however lost. A three-masted vessel has been los t 0 ' St. Vaast. The brigs Mogador, Jules, Flaneur, and Eug enc ; have also gone ashore near St. Servan. fishing boats belonging to Granville have been wreck ed', their crews were saved, but their owners are quite NW ; Such a fearful storm had not been seen on the French coax for the last 15 years. General Yomini, the well-known writer on niilitarl tactics, bas died at Passy, aged 90. The recent decree of the King of Portugal, r educ ,: s ing the number of Deputies in the National Assembly, ":111' caused great agitation in the country. Meetings 0f classes have been held to condemn tho measure. Two hundred masons in the employ o f the D uke of Portland, at Welbeok, h ave j ust struck work. 11. Laren number of dependent l a bour e r s h ave , con sequently , thrown out of work. The masons seek an increase o f WBg-. On Tuesday it was found that the whole of tb t: fish in the River South Esk, from the Bridge at Brae lii° d, Bridge of Dun, a dist a n ce o f fi ve m il es , h a d been P oison f Not only salmon, but flukes, and every other description fish were picked up dead, so that the river is utterly ruined. The cause is supposed to be some pernicious material fro° the public works on the river near Brechin. Gaz et . t o e u • A strange rumour, says the Pall Mall comes from the River Plate, that Lopez has made a el A ged of Paraguay to the Unit e d St a t es . The Bueo s Standard says that the report w as at first d ishe " — d in Montevideo, but that later some importance was attaclrbe to it. What may help to accredit the rumour j a k ith United States Minister, M'Mahon, has remained Lopez, and is his companion in his present interior re tre ra l , It is one thing, however, for Lop e z and M'Mahon to ache t such a cession, and another for the United States to acceP, it. The Paraguayans would probably at once ratify plebiscite, if it were referred to them, any such cession P— posed by Lopez. 18th A correspondent at Florence, writing on the inst., says :—" Th e arr i va l o f Si gnor Ni g ra here fr om co hasrar given rise to a great number of reports about a Fr 3ll Italian alliance against Prussia, the app ointmen t of a tl ew L bassador to France, etc. 1 have reason to believe that king mission of Signor Nigro, has nothing whate ver to do NY. either of these subjects, a nd that, so far from there in rest: any prospect of a F ranco -It a li an a lliance, there is at pt h a decided coldnes s between the Courts of F lorence and Tuileries. Mr John M. Cook, writing to us from Naples on the 19th inst., s says:—" :—"Seeing by the English newspapers t tw me toh h e a i t nsft v oa e rt r em y o e fy x ot a hu g et g hA e a r ltp at itn e h d ee reports are in circulation respecting has for time praaislswesayatsethrveieepresent thno, some been restored, and that on the conducted a special train with six'tviya I Mont Cenis ' with perfect safety." Ur. Cook adds that an accident which happened to his father, who is 'didcharge of an excursion affect any of the excursion party. party in Egypt and Palatine, not thepasse7gne6th trs Can is o r NA TOB• ASSASSINATION OF A UNITED ST ATES SE —The Talhassie Sentinel has the following c oncerning tile assassination of a State senator and a cl erk of the Court, ircuit i in Marianna, Florida Florida:—":—" While w e were just re: ing at the subsidence of all po litical excitement an joc : the prospect of a peaceful future, the startling 1: 101° ,_ ° „ s fearful assassination at Marianna reach es us to Mai ° " a a bo shudder. On Friday evening, the 26 th ult.,ut re• o'clock, while Major Furman, one of our State senato r a e n t d ur J n . in L o . Ffirnolm a ayson, concert cleric of , the Circuit Court, were and when few yards of their residence, they svewreithifinte3 at by some ruffian concealed behind a tree s ain t . rods distant. The gun was loaded with large buck shot, one of which penetrated the brain of Dr. Fuck causing his death in about an hour, while Major Fu tn:lit was shot in the neck below the ear. No clue to the Pe t " petrator of the infamous deed has been discovered. Pt' Finlayson was a quiet inoffensive man, and one mies. NO° would not be likely to have any bitter political ene Major Furman, on the contrary, is a very outspoken Radical in politics, and his political acts and speeches hav! doubtless made him many enemies. Some t hink the &ifs°, had no political bearing whatever ; that it was the reet!lb Whate er tne of some private grudge or fancied injury. d e ploy cause or origin of the trouble, it is one of the Most ci able occurrences that has happened in our State, at, coupled with the recent murders at Jacksonville, Wu' do more to cast discredit upon our people than anything that has transpired in the history of Florida fora long M 0 COM The Si but the a may be rangeme] share ttu transactil Monday the Stoc' business. 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