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Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Belmore. it 15 to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: Miss Neilson, Mr Arthur Stir ling, Mr Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mrs. Leigu Murray, Miss Minnie Sidney, &c. To conclude with WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last '1 hrce Weeks of the Season. THIS EVENING-, will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Boucica,ult, entitled PRE,UMPTIVE EVIDENCE, in which Marla ,- ne Celeste, Miss Louisa, Moore, Miss Emma Barnett, Mr. NV. Ilignold, Mr. J. G. Shore. Mr. G. P. Nevil'e, Mr. Moreland, Mr. Parselle, and Mr Dominick Murray will nonear. To be preceded by THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGP, in which Madame Celeste will give her celebrated impersonations of Ernest de la Garde andZambaro. %ors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. ryl HE A TRE-ROYAL. HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manar., , r, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MI STI:E:_•S OF THE MILL. M 8 o'clock, Lord Lyttou's Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY, ry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George !Toney, W. H. Stephens. Charles Coglan. Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E Dyas; Mrs. Hermann. Vezin, Ails:, Louisa Thorne, au:l Mrs Charles Ifortruan. I' OYAL STRAND THEATRE II Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Fwanl , orough. THIS EVENING, at 7.!:4), Fl V. GOOSE. Messrs. Mtrize and Belford; Mesdames 13,fton rr.d Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: - Messrs Thorne. James. Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames F-ufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude /nth HUE AND DYE i ,_l LOBE THE ATR E-ROYAL. VA So!e Proprietor anl Manager, M. Sefton Parry. At 7, TT. J. Ilyron's now and original Drama. MINNIE or. Leonard's Love: Mss I3dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan %lesnrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. At 9, A_r.nt 7 ...kcir OF Pii03117.1i7. conelthte w:th BROWN N•ND TM: Mar3hall, Dav:,l tuber, Andrews. I!ttri3tou, autl e .T. 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THIS EVENING, at 7, THE HOU - E ON THE BRIDGE: M aflame Celeste. Concludincr with PAF.SUM wrivE EVI DE •CE : Madame Celeste, Louisa Moore, &e.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murx ay, eze. THEATRE-P.OYAL, ADELPHT. THIS Ev - ExiNG, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C A MBERWELL: Mr. G. Relmore, Mrs. L. Murray At tr, to 8, LIFE FOR LIME: Miss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr. Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Minnie - ydney, And WHITEBAIT AT GRF h NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough, 1111 S EVENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Burton. JOAN 01? ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: ► esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Burton. To conclude with BITE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, 1. BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone. J. Clarke; slesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLB 0 11:1. THIS EVEvING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. U. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, ROYALTY THEATRE.. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tilts .Et ENING, at 7:10, FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COM viISSION. And THE MILT VARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss 11. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tim EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Hiss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. 'And A LAME EXCUSE. CARISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Ilall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET This EvENING, at 3, TIIE noy;.a. ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravapnza, THE VERY G i:AND DUTCH—S ROYAL AL fiA3IBP A PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-oftie( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL CrAII,DENS, Itegerf s-paik, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Ilezdays, Gd. Children under twelve, 61 14,, 42 ;\ IA IT • LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1869. Although essentially in its character a non-poli tical Pleasure Excursion, the recent tour made by ,heir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of WALES through Egypt, through Greece, through France—to Cairo, to Constantinople, to Athens, to Paris—an excursion in the course of which they have been the honoured guests, successively of the PACIIA, the SULTAN, the Ilcllenic KING, and the French EMPEROR —has been, dis tinctly, in furtherance of the interests of Peace, and in confirmation, one after another, of our amic able relations with four of the reigning Sovereigns, or Chiefs of Government. During the interval of this holiday, journeying through eastern Europe, and then homewards across Franco the future Sovereigns of this country have enjoyed the opportunity, first of all, of examining, immediatelyprior to its inauguration, one of the grandest engineering feats of the Nineteenth Century, and afterwards of familiarising themselves with those historical scenes in the Crimea associated with the last of our great heroic glories, the siege and the eventual capture of the stu pendousfortidcations,of Sebastopol. Closely related, as their Royal Highnesses are, to the still stripling Sove reign of Greece, their visit to King GEORGE at Athens naturallypossessed a peculiar interest of, its own,coming as it did, so immediately after the hair-breadth extrica tion of his forces from the peril of collision with those of a far more formidable power, the power of the Sultan Caliph, ABDUL AZZIZ. Extric ited, Greece and Turkey were, from the otherwise inevitable necessity of open war, by the opportune interposi tion of European diplomacy. And it was almost, as it were, in testimony of the sincerity of the recon- ciliation effected, at any rate for the time being, between the Ottoman Porte and the Hellenic Monarchy, that the Prince and Prin cess of WALES, the sister and brother-in-law of King GEORGE of Greece, immediately after their having partaken of the hospitalities of the SULTAN, visited their Royal relative at Athens—proceeding, directly and quite naturally, from the Bosphorus to the Piraeus. Having been feasted on the banks of the Nile, within view of the Golden llcru, and under the shadow of the Acropolis, the Heir Apparent to the Crown of England, and his Consort, immediately before returning homewards across the Channel, have just now celebrated the close of their delightful tour through Egypt, Turkey, and Greece, by beComing the guests for a while, within these last few days, of their Majesties of F rance, the 111. and his Conscrt the Empress EUGENIE. It is but just and fitting that theirroyal highnesses should thus have indicated their cordial friendship for the Imperial dynasty of the BONAPARTE'S, by paying a visit-, immediately before crossing over to England from the European Continent, to the mostsineere andfaithful of all the allies this country has had during these lasttwo decade::--in point of fact, ever since the reigning Sorereign,of France _attained power as the deli berately chosen head of the French Government. In THE SUN, LONDON, MON)AY EVENING, MAY 10, 1869 peace and in war— during this interval of one and twenty years—literally through good report and through evil report (for the present EMPEROR has un questionably at intervals been reviled here in England more loudly and more fiercely than any other Prince in Christendom) —in arms and at the council board it is impossible to deny that, uninterruptedly, from the first accession to power of the Prince Louis NAPO LEON, in the December of 1848, until this present moment, when he is still as he has been during now very nearly seventeen years the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., that cnce jealously re garded ruler of France, has been the true, and faith ful, and cordial ally of the English Sovereign and of the English Government. His forces and the forces of her Britannic MAJESTY, have upon many a bard " foughten field" bled side by side--"brothers in arms and rivals in renown." It is as spectators of no merely empty pageant therefore that the Emperor NAPOLEON and the Prince of WALES, that the Empress EUGENIE and the Princess ALEXANDRA witnessed together on Saturday that magnificent spectacle in the Bois de Boulogne, the review of the cavalry and artillery of the disciplined soldiers of France—in battle array, in all " the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." Merely pleasure excursion though this has been for their royal highnesses, our future sovereigns, it will leave behind it its beneficial influences, alike in their own minds and in the re collections of the respective rulers of .those countries allied to England, which they have rapidly, recently, wisely, and happily visited. THERE is something very remarkable in the rapid progress of the Irish Church Bill. Here was a measure involving, on the one hand, • principles of the very highest importance, on the other hand, the most complicated details. Yet in tho gthort space of three weeks this measure has been discussed and settled. There now remain only (so far as the House of Commons is concerned) the third reading; and a few amendments most of which will infallibly be rejected. This celerity is the more remarkable because it was possible only under two conditions, which were sup posed to be lamentably deficient, and which certainly were lamentably deficient a year ago—skilful leader ship and thorough unity. When Mr. Bo UVERIE made his memorable accusation against the Liberal party, he little foresaw that in the course of a few months the skill of Mr. GLADSTONE and the hearty support of his followers would enable that party to carry the most important measure since the abolition of the corn laws in "a period shorter than is often given to a private and comparatively insignificant bill. Contrasting this year's legislation with last year's, the abandoned principles and forfeited pledges of the minority Minister with the ready maintenance of every single principle on the part of the " splendid majority " Minister, we cannot but rejoice at the great change which has taken place, we cannot but thank Mr. DISRAELI for giving the country the oppor tunity of terminating a state of things that was unconstitutional, and was absolutely fatal to good Government. Mr. DISRAELI, in one sense, gave us • reform, and the enfranchised nation has given the country a Government, strong beyond example for many years, strong enough to do a great act of justice, delayed far too long. Unfortunately all is not rose colour. Britain is doing her duty to Ireland, but Ireland is making a poor return to. Britain. Disaffection becomes more loud, if not more deep, as we remove the causes of disaffection. Every act of justice is looked upon as a measure extorted by our fears. This is the natural result of previous postponement. The disloyal Irish reckon that they can obtain all their ends by appealing to the same emotion. Mr. BRIGHT has, most unfortunately, given them occasion for this belief. Nothing could have been more unhappy than his declaration that he would never consent to acts of repression without their being accompanied by acts of remedial and consoling policy. -Manifestly a time when rebellion has to be kept down by military force, or by the suspension of civil rights, is the worst of all times for considering political and social reforms. Mani festly, too, this declaration of Mr. Bnioxii.'s may be, and, we believe, will be, accepted as an invitation to the very acts which he would be the first to deplore. Tell a people that if they behave so badly as to require acts of repression they will receive also some " consoling" measure, and they will be sure to secure the second even though they have to endure the first. They know well that the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act is merely temporary, but that the land measure which, accord ing to Mr. BRIGHT, is to accompany the suspension will be permanent. Clearly such a gain outweighs such a loss. We are, therefore, not surprised that the Peers should have taken this speech into cOntideration, technically irregular though such a course may have been. At the same time they were in danger of aggravating the very evil which they dreaded, by attaching greater importance to the speech than it deserved. That risk has been avoided in some measure by the course which Lord G R ANVIL'S. assumed. With that exquisite courtesythat o one f which he is llea g tlec soou could perfecta possibly master,say in he n sa i defenced of another who has blundered; at the same time he let it be clearly seen that he thought there had been a blunder. The Cabinet does not make itself responsible for the indiscretion of the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE. Mr. BRIGHT, it is to be hoped, will, by the time he has been full six months in office, have learnt that one of the first duties attached to office is reticence. THE bill to amend the law relating to Post Office Savings Banks has just been withdrawn. The sacri fice of an innocent in the beginning of May is rather an ominous token of the slaughter which may fairly be looked for in July. When Government bills are withdrawn thus early, the chances of useful minor legislation appear small indeed. Nor can it be said that in this instance the insignificant character of the measure offered a fair excuse for its retirement. The Post Office Savings Banks Bill certainly was the smallest of measures on paper :. twenty-five lines of large type sufficed for preamble, clauses, and all ; but its brief provisions were of very considerable moment. At present no depositor can entrust to the Post Office more than £3O in one year, and the total sum to his credit must never exceed £l5O, exclusive of interest, which is allowed to accumulate to the extent of £5O more. The unfortunate bill which has just been stifled provided that the deposits might extend to £lOO in one year, and might reach £3OO altogether. Some change of this kind was much needed. The limit of thirty pounds was quite large enough for most working men ; but to those who could save more than thirty pounds a year the restriction was a serious inconvenience. Single women with small properties, clerks of fair position, the humbler grade of Govern ment officials, and many others in a similar rank of life, can accumulate no savings which an ordinary bank would think of any account, but many have a yearly balance considerably in excess of thirty pounds. For these the Post Office Savings Bank took the place of the strong box ; the old stocking, the secret hole ; and all the other dangerous and semi-bar barous contrivances by which people of small savings contrived to hoard their balances. But at present this large class is still under the necasity of hoarding every penny they might scrape together above thirty pounds, and to hoard means often to lose, and still oftener to spend. The exten sion of the i imit was loudly called for as a public necessity. It met, however, with great, and r FI it appears successful, op_9osltion. It was feared that many sums now entrusted to the commercial banks would be transferred to time Post Office. It was urged that the Post Ofiiee wcrald become a permanent bank of deposit, that th, a business of the ordinary bankers would be seriously impaired, and that forty-five millions of capital would be withdrawn from circulation and enttsted to the coffers of the State. To the pwerf ul interest which led this opposition thee is too much reason to fear that the Govrnment yielded, and thus the advantage of the man has once more been sacri ficed to the interest ofhe few. Forty-five millions is certainly not an uner estimate of the sum which would be withdrawn rom the manipulation of the bankers and handed over to the Post Office. But even granting this strained calculation, it proves nothing. nose who prefer the many conveniences of the oilinary banks would still resort to them; those who doiot should not be compelled to do so against their will. Considering recent events the public my well be pardoned if its humbler grades are not disposed to entrust their all to the ommercial firms. Indeed, it is pretty certain thr, they will not do so, and that the system of hoardig will be carried on still, without the slightest irofit to the bankers. More than this, whatever objection might be taken to an increase o; the limit from thirty to one hundred powds, a mean between these two sums might have keen adopted without even the chance of injuring anbone. The limit might have been seventy, sixty, )r fifty pounds, and still the Post-office investors would have greatly profited. There is not the slightst reason for insisting upon the figures 30 and 100 as the only alternatives. The haste with which thi: subject has been disposed of savours strongly of that neglect with which the concerns cf the poorer classes are too often treated by the Legislature. At the first breath of opposition theGrovernment has decided that the reform shall wait at least another year. Mean while the bankers have achieved a triumph. They will not take the tronole to keep small accounts, and they have successfilly determined that nobody else shall. , r - iistl t .tn l :4- - ' Arir- v - i z q _ ir •. , ..„..,,,,,rt, t- '' -f 'LA 11 'I t P - -- 'cti-- -- Li 11 tlibi t ,--.3,---------- HER .1111JESTY. WINDSOu CASTLF, May 9. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Lopold, and Princess Bea trica, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER's TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, May 10. The Official Journal of this morning publishes the following " Their INlajesties the Emperor and Empress paid a to the city of Chartres yesterday on the occasion of the distribution of prizes at the Horticultural exhibition. "In answer to the congratulatory address of the Mayor of Chartres the Emperor said Twenty years ago when I was appointed President of the Rep%lic, it was the town of Chartres which I visited first. I have not forgotten the pleasing reception I met with. It was within four walls that I, on the strength of my good intentions, made my first appeal to the spirit of conciliation, calling up all good citizens to sacrifice for the public good their regrets and feelings of ran cour. To-day, after seventeen years of peace ful prosperity, I am about to speak to you in the same lauoage, but with greater authority and confidence than in 1848. Once more I address myself to the honest men of every party, inviting them to second the regular advance of in-y Government in the path of liberal progress which it has laid down, and to oppose insuperable resist ance to those subversive passions which appear to revive only to threaten the unshaken fabric of u:tiversal suffrage. " In a few days the people will meet in their electoral conlitia, and will, I have no doubt, choose men worthy of that mission of civilisation which we have to accomplish. I count upon you, citizens of Chartres, because you aro part of those eight millions of Frenchmen who have thrice accorded to me their suffrages, and because I know you are ani mated with ardent patriotism, and where genuine love of one's country r ei g n s , there the best guaran tees for order, progress , and liberty cannot fail to exist." BUKBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, May 9. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, leaves at 9 p.m. to-day for Scuthampton, where she may be looked for about the morning of the I.lth instant. All well. ELECTION PETITIONS. The hearing of the North Norfolk election petitibn bas been postponed until the 17th inst. It appears that Mr. Justice Blackburn, who will dispose of the case, will be detained at Stafford longer than had been anticipated. The Stafford election petition is still under hearing. On Saturday Mr. Thomas Lawrence Brough, solicitor and agent to Messrs. Pochin and Chawner, was examined. He denied that anything was clone with his knowledge in the way of encouraging violence or intimidation, nor had any bribery been committed. The extent of his own expenditure during the whole canvass was ss. 6d. one day and 12s. on another day. He was agent for Mr. Bass at his election in 1865. No corrupt payments whatever were made at that time ; the money paid to committemen and others en gaged in that election on Mr. Bass's account was 21,900. At Christmas 1867 there was the usual gift of coals, blankets, and 10s. a head on behalf of Mr. Arthur Bass. The distribu tion on that account cost about £720. Donations of the same character were made on behalf of Mr. Bass at Christmas 1865 and 1866. Mr. Bass's bounty was not confined to voters. Mr. Bass still continues his gifts.—Mr. C. Chawner, one of the candidates at the late election, was then examined. He said that a deputation waited upon him and invited him to come forward. He ex plained to them that not one shilling was to be expended but what was legal. So far as be knew, his views were carried out ; he was not aware of any other expenditure beyond that which had been returned.—Mr. Brough was recalled at the suggestion of the court. In reply to his lordship, he said that the expenditure, 2720, at Christmas 1867 was exceptionally large ; the average was £3OO. Mr. Bass left the matter entirely iu his bands. Mr. Justice Blackburn said he had an important question to settle. Supposing he came to the conclusion that Mr. Bass, through his agent Mr. Brough, spent a sum of £720, or whatever it might be, to secure a future election, and then afterwards Mr. Chawner took the place of Mr. Bass, and adopted his agent, thereby undoubtedly getting the benefit of the corrupt expenditure, how would that affect Mr. Chawner? The same thing would, in a minor degree, affect Mr. Pochin, he having coalesced with Mi. Chawner. THE .MILITARY PRESS ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION. - --- -.S. - Th. rel.tlona between England and Ainerlea are dis cussed in the professional journals. These are inclined to think that we have already conceded too mach. The Broad Arrow cannot look back with any feel ings of complacency to the part our Govern ment has played. Whichever party has been in power, our negotiations with America have been conducted in anything but a dignified manner. Forced back from one position to another, we have yielded, and yielded in every instance with a bad grace. As each concession has been wrung from us, our adversaries have advanced another step in their position. Our willingness to make any sacrifices to obtain their goodwill seems only to have incited them the more obstinately to withhold it. It is probable that a firmer and less vacillating attitude on our part from the beginning might have been better calculated to achieve the desired result. There must be an end of concessions to America, an end of humouring, an end of all attempts to keep peace between the two countries except by acting so as to allow the Americans to realise the fact that, nation for nation, we are, and shall probably continue to be, their masters. The citizens of the United States will not remain united. The President and his compatriots may fancy they have only to await a declara tion of war to overrun Canada, but they are mistaken, they will never incorporate the Dominion. In the distant future Canada will more likely annex some portion of the States. The conceited blind ness of the Americans prevents them from realising the strength of Canada. Let us put more confidence in our North American fellow•subjects. They will bear their part nobly in any war, and both the great parties in England are agreed as to the advisability of looking on Canada as an independent empire, and abandoning our military hold of the Dominion, in the determination to exert the whole force of the British nation in her defence. The Broad Arrow thinks it time to give up talking about kith and kin. Our American kin seek to place their knuckles at our throat, but have not the power to keep them there. If it must be, we will fight them, and to a certainty we shall thrash them. The United Service Gazette has no doubt that the conduct of the ruling c l asses in America is steadily tending to excite and extend a feeling of hostility between the two nations which may ultimately lead us into a war, and this belief is not weakened by the American descriptions of what their governing classes are. The New York papers speculate pleasantly on the ultimate possession of Canada; but it is well to remember that, with all their resources and with all the poverty of the Southern Confederacy, it took the North four years to annex the Southern States. how about Canada with open ports and England at her back? The whole affair is too ridiculous for serious thought, and we may rest assured that Jonathan has no wish to burn his fingers by war with England. Whether it may nob beuvuie necesettly roe England to bring him to his senses by open war becomes every day a less doubtful question. The United Service Gazette advises the Government to meet the Alabama claims by a counter claim regarding the Fenian invasion. Firmness and self-respect are the best preservers of peace and prosperity. A DESPERATE OFFENDER'!—At the Tinahely Petty Sessions, the other day, a little girl was prosecuted for taking up, when passing through a bog, two wild ducks' eggs. The bench imposed a fine with costs, or im prisonment, on this famishing little child of a poor labourer. —Freeman's Journal. CENTENARY OF MACIIIAVELLL The fourth centenary of the birth of Machiavelli has just been celebrated in Florence. In the morning an address was delivered over his tomb in the church of Santa Croce, and other addresses were given during the afternoon in the palace of Princess Orloff, which had been placed at the disposal of the committee. In the evening Machiavelli 's translation of the" Andria" of Terence was represented at the Nicolini Theatre. The American poet Longfellow was present at the ceremony. GRETNA MARRIAGES.—A paragraph has been going the round of some of the papers, copied from a monthy magazine, to the effect that Gretna marriages are still legal. That is undoubtedly the case ; but such a simple announcement is calculated to mislead; and as the 'Whitsuntide hirings are approaching, when many mar riages take place among agricultural and domestic ser vants, we would draw attention to the fact that in order to render Scotch marriages legal, one of the contracting parties must have lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding such marriage.— Carlisle Journal. HORRIBLE MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL.—One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in this country, and which has caused the greatest pain and indignation among all classes, was perpetrated a few days ago in a field in the vicinity of Casal Musta, a village about six miles distant from Valetta. The victim—a young countrywoman, Domenica Galea—had been missing from her home for two or three days, and on Saturday last her corpse was found in a well in a field into which she had been thrown, after having been barbarously assaulted and murdered, the body of the poor girl bearing marks of atrocious violence, and a knife wound in the abdomen. A peasant, who lives in the vicinity of the field, has been arrested by the police on suspicion of being con cerned in the perpetration of this horrible crime.—Malta Observer. A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—We (the Bir which our relations with the narrator warrant us in minghain Gazette) have just heard a ca p ital anecd ot e, endorsing in every par ti c ular. Some eighteen months ago two were as our friend G. P. It. James would gentlemen—one n b t e seen,e m e o o n t say, wending their way up the avenue leading to a s p acious hall,&c., but quietly ta kin g an evenin g stroll into th e neighb o urhood of Temple Bar, where they encountered a damsel of the "period," of course, crying bitterly. The sympathies of the younger of the two were at once enlisted, but the elder , whose chivalry had been quite extinguished by long knowledge and experience of Lon. don " dodges," treated the affair as a hoax, and exhorted his companion to " come on." Our hero gallantly refused, and the two parted company, when the lady informed het knight that she had that day come to town for the first time in the company of her father, a Warwickshire clergy. man, that they had repaired to an hotel of which she did not remember the name, and that sauntering out to do some shopping, she had been absorbed by some novelty, and " missed papa," and consequently knew neither what to do nor where to go. The gentleman was placed in rather an embarrassing position. Of the truth of the lady's story he entertained no doubt ; he soon discovered that she was a lady, and like a sensible man he determined to do his utmost to set hex right. Ordering a cab, she was conveyed to an hotel and located for the night, her rescuer appointing to meet her in the morning, convey her to Paddington' and despatch her back to Warwi c k s hi re . Il e did so, and a few days afterwards the genuinene ss o f th e case was con. firmed by a visit from the clergyman, who after heartily thanking his daughter's deliverer for his kindness and chivalry, invited him down to the rectory, where the intimacy was renewed and soon ripened into affection, which was consummated last week by the matrimonial I;nion of deliverer and delivered. Moral: Never refuse help to a lady in distress if you can be sure she is a laiiy, and not an impostor, since by assisting her you nriy be entertaining an angel and a future wife unawares. FRANCE. BOURSE, May B.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows 4} per Cent. End of mouth... Ital!an Fives 56 45 3 per Cent End of month 72 82 Mexican Loan ... Credit Mobilier 248 75 Do. B on d s End of month... 253 75 Spanish Threes Credit Foncior ...1553 Home Debt 25 End of mouth... Deferred ...... RAiLwAYS. Cash. Orleans ................................ 9o7} Northern .............................. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... CO7I Western ............ Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Childers, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Mrs. Childers and son, with Vice- Admiral Sir Sidney C. Dacres, First Sea Lord, and Captain B. Seymour, Private Secretary to the First Lord, arrived. at Portsmouth on Friday evening from London, and embarked on board her Ma jesty's steamer Black Eagle with the intention of crossing over to Jersey and the islands. The Black Eagle left Portsmouth harbour early on Saturday morning, but was compelled by the rough weather to put back on reaching the Needles pas sage. Mr. Childers and party lauded again from the Black Eagle at Portsmouth Dockyard on Satur day afternoon, and, after calling upon Vice-Ad miral Sir James Hope, at the Admiralty-house, in the yard, returned to London by the evening up train over the direct line of the London and South- Western Railway. No. 14 Troop of the Military Train is under orders to proceed to Aldershott,-10 men, 7 soldiers wives, and 11 soldiers by rail to-morrow ; 2 oflicees, 38 men, and 39 horses by march route on Wednesday. The 2d Battalion 6th (istofal Warwickshire) Regiment, melee the command of Col. J. 11. F. Elkingt on, will leave Aldershot Camp on Thursday next, the 13th inst. Five companies will proceed by rail at 8 o'clock to Brccen, and the head-quar ters and remainder of the regiment half an hour later for Newport, there to be stationed. The unarmoured wooden screw frigate Endytnion Captain Charles Wake, recently returned to Ports mouth from L'sbon, has received orders to pay out of commission. She has boon named as one of the ships to form the flying squadron. DI:NVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of WiThi:y in the world. Their Old Irish - Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta lion. Quotations on application to 31cnrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buililings, Strand, London, 1 ,11.0 Yvrtiscincnt. DR. CUIILITIAYI. Dr. Cumming and the Highlanders of London are at feud. There was a Gaelic minister—Mr. M'Pherson, of Greenock--up in town last week. Dr. Cumming wrote to him asking him to preach a Gaelic sermon last Sun day afternoon in Crown-court Church. The Highland minister accepted the invitation, and the fiery cross went round among the enthusiastic Celts, hungry for a sermon in their native tongue. A para graph announcing the circumstance appeared on Wednesday in a number of the daily papers. On that day, however, Mr. M`Pherson received a second letter from Dr. Cumming, retracting his invitation, because it was his Communion Sunday, and the tables could not be removed in time for the afternoon service. There was no time for contradicting, in a proper way, the information previously given. Another church was obtained, and some of the leading Gaelic men, think ing it would be wise to warn people off Crown-court, stationed themselves there. Naturally enough, they looked at the notice-board outside the church, in the expectation that common courtesy would have dictated an announcement of the change of plan, but there was nothing of the kind. They packed off everybody who came to Swallow-street, saw Dr. Cumming's bederal (who told them he could easily have removed the tables if he had got the order) and then they went themselves to Swallow-street, where they heard a very capital sermon —no thanks to Dr. Gumming. Something must have been at work in the rev. gentleman's mind to make him thus strangely alter his offer. But he is rather a queer man in a good many respects. There is a very characteristic story told of him which I believe to be true enough. . He had got a country minister to fill his pulpit for him. The two were in the vestry; the country man had put on the gown, and was just emerging on his road to the pulpit. But the Doctor was taking stock of the congregation through the door on the jar, and lo ! he beheld a Duke. Turning on the astonished country minister, he hurriedly bade him take the gown off, for he must preach himself, and he actually stripped his brother clergyman, and went into the pulpit to preach to the Duke.—Londou Correspondent of the Elgin Courant. THE HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES. A writer in the Daily News gives a description of a visit made by him to the Hospital for Incurables. This insti tution is another of those which owe their origin to the noble benevolence of the late Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed. Towards the close of his life, it occurred to Dr. Reed that out of the innumerable medical charities with which Eng land abounds, there was none for the reception of patients who were dismissed from the hospitals as past cure. Ilis efforts to supply the deficiency met with success, and in 1854 the present institution started into life. It stands in a garden many acres in extent, commanding a view which has the mansions and plantations of Wimbledon Park as a foreground, and is flanked by a wide range of distant Surrey hills. At the time of our visit, there are many invalid chairs in the garden. Basking in the sun by the side of the house are some paralytics, one of whom is smoking, while those around him talk and chat and twist themselves laboriously into easier attitudes in their chairs. A word of introduction to the matron, and we are courteously conducted over the home. The entrance hall is a portion of an old family mansion which the parents of the present Duke of Suther land occupied for many years, and in the morning room beyond Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart, and Sir Humphrey Davy have often met. It has been converted into a day room for the female patients, and is tolerably full. In easy chairs, on couches, engaged on fancy work, or gazing listlessly up at the ceiling or out of window, are afflicted women of all ages and of various degrees and kinds of suffering. The one thing they have in common is the impossibility, as far as man can see, of ever being restored to health. Here, was a young woman with a bright eager smile and gentle expression, who was helplessly paralysed; there, an old lady who had lost the use of her limbs, but who was employing the only two fingers she had available on Berlin wool. There is no uniform dress, save that worn by the attendants, and nothing in the room or its furniture to mark it as part of a charitable institution. A spacious sitting-room, into which the morning callers of a month or so have been all aggregated, is the first impression it gives ; for the moulding and medallions on the walls, the pictures and books, and the organ given by the treasurer, Mr. Huth, all combine to give the place a cheerful, habitable look. Many of the patients betray no sign of the infirmities under which they labour; the sufferings of many others are only discovered when personal investigation succeeds the first glance round. The greatest marvel is the benign cheerfulness on nearly every face. There are no sick-room moanings, no sick-room expressions anywhere. The matron herself has one of those contagiously beaming countenances which are a blessing to their possessors, and her tone and manner are advisedly of the briskest. To avoid sheaving the afflicted that you think them in pitiable case, and seem to accept chronic pain and permanent hcl v inacnccw nw common conditA.ns of life, are the points to aim at when visiting and conversing here ; and it was positively startling to see how thoroughly those addressed caught this spirit in their replies. The great room is very quiet. The occupants of the sofas and reclining chairs are in acute pain, or are permanently crippled, or are dulled by repeated fits, and are all without hope of ever discharging the duties or enjoying the blessings of life. To be carried clown from the floor on which their sleeping chamber is, to hobble painfully, or be wheeled to its lift ; to take up one position in the sitting room, and to keep it all day ; to know that to morrow will bring no change, unless it be in increase of pain, and to look to the end of life as the only solace ; this is to be smitten deeply with incurable disease. There is a wistful look on some of the faces turned wearily to the windows, as if the buds and tender leaves of spring sent thoughts wandering ; and a general air of patient Waiting over all. You do not master this at first. The cheerful ness with which your inquiries are met, and the bright interest which lights up each countenance directly its owner is addressed, throws the visitor off his guard. Perhaps expecting.something repulsive, the mere every-day snug ness of the sitting-room, with its sheltered nooks and cosy coteries of neatly-attired gentlewomen, leads observation astray. But behind all their genial cheerfulness and patient gratitude these poor people know emphatically that they are waiting for the end, and it seems as if each one were sitting there for the express purpose of receiving her summons of release. We pass up stairs, and through neat, light, and pleasant chambers in which the bedridden are living. "It's a most beautiful view from this window," said one lady, who gracefully did the honours of her room ; " and when it 's a little clearer, the Crystal Palace is easily seen, so that when I'm tired of my lace-work, I just lean back on my pillow, and draw this curtain on one side, and look at it." Again, all was so cheerful—so chirpy, if we may usa the word—that the matron's remark, " one of our greatest sufferers has intense and almost constant pain," came with an actual sense of surprise. One hand some young woman, who looks the picture of happiness, and who assures us she " bas very good health;" is literally dead from the chin downwards. Her winsome face, intel ligent eyes, and thick brown curls come before us as we write, for it was difficult to believe that they belonged to a paralytic. This inmate has taught herself to write with her teeth, on a rest which the nurse arranges for her on her bed, and she shewed some of her writings with an innocent pride it was very agreeable to see. Mr. James Monteith, of Duke-street, St. James's, London, has invested with the Senate of Glasgow Univer sity the sum of £l,OOO as a Bursary Fund, with the view of encouraging the study of modem languages. The bur saries are to be three in number, each of the annual value of about £l6, and tenable for three years. THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICUL TURAL SHOW.—Her Majesty, through Sir Thomas Bid dulph, has subscribed V:0 towards the expenses incurred by the local committee at Southampton in connection with this show. The exhibition itself will open the last day in the present month, and Mr. Goodwin, the secretary, states that it will be in all probability the largest the society has ever yet held. MONUMENT OF THE LATE MR. R. OASTLEIL —A monument of the late Mr. R. Oastler, the successful advo cate of the " Ten Hours Bill," and known in Yorkshire and Lancashire as the " Factory King," is being at pre sent raised at Bradford, prior to its being formally unveiled by the Earl of Shaftsbury, on Saturday next, after the marshalling and marching of a great procession of friendly societies, trades, and factory operatives. The monument consists of a colossal figure of Mr. Oastler in bronze, standing in a familiar attitude, with two factory children, whose cause he is earnestly pleading, before him. RARE AUTOGRAPHS. Some letters of a highly interesting character have been receltly sold at high prices by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, at their house in Wellington street. The following are from among the more important examples : Letter of Charles I. to Lord Ormond, written when the King was in great dis tress, owing to the rebellion in Ireland, .130. Oliver Cromwell to his son, being a highly characteristic l e tt er o f this extraordinary man, £4O. Letter of Dryden to Sir Robert Long respecting his annuity, £2O. Letter of Elizabeth to King Henry IV., written in French, Ea Sir Isaac Newton to Lord Townshend, £22. John Pym to General Waller, £3O. Rabelais to Budeus, in Latin and Greek, .V5O. Dean Swift to Ambrose Phillips, relating in a great measure to Addison, £3l. Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Walter Cope, entreating him, in the most touching manner, to gain permission that "my wyfo might agayne be made a prisoner with me (in the Tower) as she bath Wile for six Years last past." M). ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP: Nearly six thousand visitors paid their shilling at the Exhibition of the Royal Academy on the opening day, and catalogues were sold to the amount of about 2150. Add the free list to the number, and it will not be surprising that the galleries, spacious as they are, were at some part of the day somewhat overcrowded.—Mr. E. P. Shirley, in his " Noble and Gentle Men of England," can find at the present time only 350 families, including Peers and Commoners, who have held landed estates in unbroken male descent from a date anterior to the breaking up of the monasteries under Henry VIII. Of these gentlemen, exactly 10 per cent. are Roman Catholics.--At their meet ing last week, the Royal Society filled up the three vacancies in their list of foreign members by electing Alphonse de Caudolle, (of Geneva), Charles Eugene Delaunay (of Paris), and Louis Pasteur (of Paris); the first being eminent as a botanist, the second as a mathematician and physical astronomer, and the third as a chemist. The number of foreign members is limited to 50. By this election the list is therefore once more complete. —The Acad,Smie des Beaux Arts, to which body the Emperor has entrusted the awarding of the prize of 100,000 f., to be bestowed on whatever work of painting, sculpture, or architecture would be deemed most worthy, has declined the responsibility of adjudging the imperial gift.—The project for establishing a large aquarium at Brighton is taking shape. The old company is broken up, and a new company, which proposes to raise £400,000 as a beginning, has been formed. A bill to carry out the work is now before the House of Commons. —A continental journal states that Victor Emmanuel was lately obliged to confess that he did not know who Pliny was, and thought that it was but four or five centuries since Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried. — The Achille Leclere prize for the best design for a monument in honour of the late composer Rossini has been won by M. Dillon. The work is to be placed in a garden, and the statue of the maestro is placed in a kind of temple. In the intercolumniations of the colonnade which surrounds the principal statue are four figures representing the four chef-d'ceuvres of the master— " William Tell," "The Barber of Seville," " Moses," and " Semiramide." On the central pedestal are inscribed the title of Rossini's operas.—The Rev. D. Silvan Evans, rector of Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire, is preparing "A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, from Original Sources."—The oldest surviving Senior Wrangler at the present time is the venerable Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., late Chief Baron of the Exche ,ner ; he took his B.A. degree in 180 G.—The first sign of future greatness which the first Emperor Napoleon shewed was an essay, for which he obtained the prize offered by the Academy of Lyons, on " The principles and sentiments which it is most impor tant to inculcate in order to promote man's happiness." Steps are about to be taken by the authorities in France, under the sanction of the present Emperor, to obtain and publish this interesting document. PARLIA3IEIVTARY BUSINESS. Now that the Irish Church Bill is through committee, the House of Commons will, for a short time before the holidays, be able to devote themselves to the consideration of some other measures now before Parliament. Twenty-- one orders are entered on the paper for this evening ; but Mr. Gladstone intends to propose that the orders of the day be postponed until Mr. Corrance's motion relative to pauperism and vagrancy in England is dis cussed, after which the bill for the new law courts is to be brought in by Mr. Layard. The University Tests Bill stands on the paper for consideration in committee, but it is scarcely likely that this—the twentieth order- - will be reached to-night. Mr. Morley will want to know of the Attorney-General how soon the amended Bankruptcy Bill will be ready, and on what daY he expects to go into committee ou this measure. Lord John Manners intends to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce any measure for the better protection of life in certain districts of Ireland. On going into committee on the Civil Service Estimates, ]dr. Candlish has given notice that he will call attention to the imperfect audit of the public accounts, and to the failure of the departments to lay their accounts before the Auditor• General. The Municipal Franchise Bill will be launched into committee, when Mr. Dilke intends to move that wherever the masculine gender in the bill occurs the words shall be held to include women. There will be a morning sitting to-morrow for the pur- • pose of reading Mr. O'Sullivan's Disability Bill a second time, and to give the Mayor of Cork an opportunity of explaining his recent language at an evening banquet in Cork. Mr. Maguire will move as an amendment that the bill be read a second time on that day six months, which will doubtless give rise to a lengthened debate. In the evening Mr' Fowler (Cambridge) proposes to call the attention of the House to !Ale state of the law as to the duty charged on the succession to real property, and as to the exemption from probate duty of certain descriptions of property; M,•. Staveley Hill wants a select committee to inquire into , and report upon, the operation of the commercial treaty with France, and particularly as it affects the silk manufactures in this country ; Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen will make another attempt to bring in a bill for the esta blishment of county financial boards ; and Lord Elcho has given notice to call attention to the adulteration a manures. The Beerhouses Bill, which is proposed for committee, is the first order of the day, Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill comes on for second reading on Wednesday. Colonel Jervis intends to move that the bill be read a second time on that day six months ; in the event of the amendmen t being lost, Mr. Donald Dalrymple (Bath) will endeavou r to refer the measure to a select committee. The Admi ralty Jurisdiction (County Courts) Bill is also down for second reading. Thursday will be occupied with the Irish Church Bill , the report on which will be brought up by Mr. Gladstone. About twenty amendments will have to be disposed Of , when the bill will be ordered to be read a third time after the Whitsuntide holidays. The Courts of Justice Bill is intended to be read a second time, as also Mr. Trevelya o Greenwich Hospital Bill. On the motion that the Civil Offices (Pensions) Bill be considered in committee, 'Ur' Tom Collins will propose that the bill be taken into COol' mittee on that day six months. It is exceedingly probable that the adj urnment will take place on Thuns• day night, the holidays to last a fortnight. TRADE DISPUTES, The lock-out of plasterers and masons at Leeds maY said to be near its end, as the numbers out of employment diminish every day ; but a report of the present state o f the strikes and lock-outs in various towns, shows that there are sn strike at Birmingham, 25 ; Cheltenham, 2; Liverpool, 14; Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, 334; Sunderland, G ; total, 381. Locked out :—Blythe Marsh (Staffordshire), 8 ' Bolton, 79 ; Bradford, 118 ; Coventry, 7 ; Leeds, 112 ; Lyn n ' 6; Sheffield, 101; St. Helen's, 18; Swinnerton (Stafford shire), 21 ; Wakefield, 10 ; total, 480. Aggregate number ea strike and locked out, 861. The report shows that thi° number is very small as compared with the thousands wbc' se notices are still pending. The position of affairs at the South Yorkshire collieries, where the men are now out, 104 • not changed during the week, whilst the committal of a number of them for assaults, &c., has had a most saluteri effect. At Denaby Main, where it has been usual for /be old hands to go close to the colliery, and escort thoS° who had been at work to their homes with whistles, droll flags, and hooting, th ere is n ow gr eat quietness, a n the men are able to go to and fro withcut molestatiaa. A dispute has arisen between the weavers employed bl a Messrs, Berry and Turner, Folly Hall, Huddersfield, an their employers, and it has resulted in the parties aPP eat; t ing before the magistrates. The men were summoned '° breach of contract, and the magistrates held that the der should give fourteen days' notice, and granted a case I°r the opinion of the superior court on the point in dig:i,le, At each of the Over Darwen Mills, where a strike t°°l, r , place on Thursday, deputies from the operatives had lute , views with their employers. They urged that a redoet i o would be ruinous to them, as they had lately suffere d 6 0 much from bad material. With two exceptions, the ina st , e , :r agreed to defer the reduction, and promised that a be l o material should be supplied. One master refused to postpOt the reduction, and a number of the men remain on strike. At another mill' i the operatives have resumed work, but 1.' 31 ' 0 given 14 days' notice. The masons who have for some til° past been engaged upon several large buildings in Kirkea lci , and neighbourhood have left off working. The rate of Ncg 4e it of late has been 51d per hour; the demand, short of whit nothing will satisfy the workmen, is now Gd. per hour. I ' l lo ployers have refused to accede to this demand ; hen ce t strike. The lock-out of the masons at Crieff has teron, noted much sooner than was anticipated. It seems that ac , r cording to the union rules the men acted irregularly ja ;:e gard to the nine-hour movement, which, together Wit h 0, determination of the masters to resist the demand, brouP °l .ic. the disputa to a close. All the journeymen resutne d on Thursday on the old term., namely, ten hours a daY• The last rail completing the junction of the li g° s (•,t ioL s of the Pacific Railway was formally laid to•day. It is stated that Murphy, wounded at Perry, W en : tifies Barker as having fired the shot that kille d Craig. Dal ker has been released on tail. It is rumoured in the City that a clerk it A t ono of our most extensive banking firms, MO the confidence of his employers, has absconded within thei last few days, havin secured booty to an extent not i_ divulged, but which g 011%4 expresged in lover th ap figures. 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