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Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL Sole LCFSCO and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON SATURDAY, IST OF STAY, For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. P OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. trke. Eel ford, Joyce ; Mesdames Batton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. .lames. Fen ton, Turner, ChanTherlaine; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude RIC:IITUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN' Positively t' c Last Week but One of the Equestrian Season.— ). ast appearances of the Wonderful PEILFORMING HORSES. The SAL kM A NDEIt HORSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No other Theatre in London offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement - The magnificent stud of FIFTY PERFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, 11. J. Byron's new and original Drama. MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss L 3 din Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; Messrs David Fisher; Vernon, Marshal}, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BUFACTI OF PRO3TIRF. To conclude with BROWN AND TRE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. 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VIAN, Secretary. THEATRE-ROYAL DRUItY-L .4ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE DIAN OF TWO LIVES: 31r.0 Dillon. o conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Tnis EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe ' Rogers. Bucketone, jnn., Miss Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale. ke. : Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. F o llowed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. 1 , r Fothern. Concluding with MAli E YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TUTS EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATIIE-ROTAL, ADELPIIi. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C MBER WELL : Mr. G. Be:more, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Culotta Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grcy, &e, Ind WHITEBAIT AT GR 14." h NIVIC II : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborongh. 'hits EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with RUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tfirg PVENINa, at 7, MINNIE. or. Leonard's T.ove. At 9. 1 BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWS AND 'IHE BRAHMINS. Messrs. sfarshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Purl stone. J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ell RISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at . and 8 all the year round. ROYALTY THEATRE. Udder the Management of Miss M. Oliver. This EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude w ith THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TIITSEvEniNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c., and the sslamander Hot se. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENTNO, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravulonza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 61 , 00 . J - • SUIT, g _ LONDON, 7 UESDAY, APRIL 13, 1869. Yesterday the Conservative members of the House of Commons duly assembled at Lord LONSDALE'S residence, the appointed place of rendezvous. Be tween 150 and 200 Tory or Constitutionalist M.P.'s were there brought together. The Ex-Premier, as a matter of course, was the mast conspicuous person present at this great political gathering. The deli berations, such as they were, occupied about an hour and a half altogether, the result being the collective resolution of the party to abide by a long string of amendments, copies of which amendments were formally placed on the table of the 'House last night by the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Leader of the Opposition. The pro gramme by this time, therefore, is sufficiently clear. On Thursday next, the 15th instant—that is only the day after to-morrow—the House will form itself into Committee on the Bill, for the purpose of TH'E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, If O. + examining it in detail, and considering it, clause by clause, with the utmost possible deliberation. Un less the hon. gentleman the member for North War wickshire shall previously have consented to with draw his proposal, there will be no need then, as there otherwise must be, to drive the House, or rather the Committee, to a division upon the very thres hold. Whether it will be constrained to act thus or not, in any way precipitately and prematurely, and for no conceivable good whatever, rests entirely at this moment in the hands of Mr. NEWDEGATE. Supposing that gentleman should give way, the course, then lying before the Opposition, will be suf ficiently clear, straightforward, and comprehensible . One after another the proposed amendments will be moved in committee. To what end, is it asked ? Clearly and obviously to the end—if possible—of snatching some of the property of the Irish Church back out of the rack of the threatened and (as many are disposed to consider) inevitable absorption, or ap propriation to the numerous and carefully defined purposes of benevolence. Having, probably, in some few instances, with varying fortunes, run through all the clauses and all the amendments while it is sitting in Committee—thellouse will then, after due prepara tion and deliberation, finally divide, on the root principle of the whole measure, at the time of the third reading. After which, the bill will have to run the gauntlet, through all the prescribed stages, in the House of Lords. Such, in brief, are the tactics proposed to themselves by the Conservative or Con stitutional party, in the matter of this Bill for the immediate disestablishment and eventual disendow raent of the Irish Church, as hitherto, at least for some three hundred years, a State institution. Mean while, in the arguments set forth by the prin cipal organ of all those anywhere setting forth the opinions of that party, meaning, of course, in the political article in the new number of the old Quarterly, it is still resolutely insisted upon that what has been called, for want of a better phrase, "levelling up" is the only policy that would satisfy the claims of justice. " Every statesman of etuinence,', says the reviewer, " from the beginning of this century down to last year has openly advocated or secretly approved" this now rejected policy of supporting the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland by the State of the United Kingdom. The Quarterly insists that Mr. PITT inaugurated it, that the Whigs and Tories alike adopted it and enforced it : and it goes on to speak of it as, upon the whole, " The only recognised policy of justice to Ire- I land ; the only remedy for some of its worst evils." Adding, that "It was condemned on its merits in the recent. debate only by the avowed destroyers of all Establishments." Mean ing by this, of course, such men as Mr. Mum. or as the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade. The argument thus raised, and thus resolutely avowed by the Conservative Quarterly, realizes more clearly than ever to poli ticians of all classes, and of either side, that there is really no medium course whatever that could be in any way reasonably adopted ; that, in other words, Parliament and the country have to make their choice at once between the supporting henceforward by the State of all religions or of no religion whatever, be tween the project of levelling up and the policy of absolute and uncompromising disestablishment. THE decision of the Hudson's Bay Company to accept Earl GRANVILLE'S terms for the surrender of their territory to the Canadian Dominion virtually settles a most important Imperial question. The last of the great monopolies which have figured so largely in our colonial history is trans formed into an ordinary trading company. 21 vast and fertile region, hitherto kept as a hunting ground in the interests of a few indi viduals will now be oven to colonial enterprise. The Canadian Dominion, consolidated by the addition of a territory more than two-thirds as large as Europe, will form one unbroken empire from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Henceforth North America will be virtually divided between Canada and the United States. And not only is a vexed question of such great moment now set at rest, but the company have secured a bargain which, although concluded under a protest, can hardly fail to prove a good one. There can be no doubt that the company has a claim over the territory which bears its name, but it is clear that the value of this claim has been greatly over rated. The absolute dominion of Rupert's Land was handed over to the company in virtue of a principle which has long become obsolete. The original charter was granted by the exercise of a prerogative which has long ceased to belong to the Crown. •It is now nearly two centuries since a party of adventurers trading to Hudson's Bay obtained from CHARLES 11. a charter, granting them "the sole trade and commerce" of the seas and lands on or near the coast of the great expanse of water which has been called after the obscure navigator who perished on its shores. There is nothing to be gained by reopening the vexed question as to that legality of this charter. It is clear, however, that it will not bear the extensive construction put upon it by the company. It is exceedingly questionable how far the right to trade over the territory means the right to possess it abso lutely. It is very doubtful whether this charter transforms a few individuals into the arbitrary rulers of a great country. And supposing that it was the intention of King CHARLES to grant all this power, it is more than questionable whether this wholesale alienation of British territory came within the scope of the royal prerogative. But even granting that it was within the KING'S power to make over this country to the Hudson's Bay Company, and that he actually did transfer it, certain it is that the charter never could include the vast expanse of the earth's surface over which the company claims dominion. By no stretch of the imagination can the monopoly • of commerce on the shores of Hudson's Bay be made to reach a point 2,000 miles inland. But to this point have the pretensions of the company extended. Its fishing and hunting charter has been construed as a• - warrant to found kingdoms and States. The company claims territo rial rights over some eight hundred millions of acres, one section of which, the Fertile Belt, consist ing of an unbroken expanse of the finest soil, watered by important rivers, is as large as the whole of Great Britain. In the early days of the company some suspicion of the disparity between the charter and the pretensions founded upon it seems to have troubled the adventurers. They attempted to transform their charter into an Act of Parlia ment. They partially succeeded, and an Act was passed, but its effect was limited to seven years. When it expired Parliament refused to renew it. Since then the company was ruled by virtue of the royal decree. The most eminent lawyers have given their opinion that the charter will bear only a limited interpreta tion. But the corporation hasbeen in no wise daunted. It has governed with a practically despotic sway ; the territory which might have supported millions of the human race has been devoted solely to enriching a few score shareholders; and now that the end has come, the company accepts a fairly good bargain under protest that it is being plundered. If the company is not to be complimented upon an over-good title, the nature of its administration gives it still less claim to consideration. Against the present race of shareholders there is nothing to be said ; but it is matter of history that the rule of preceding generations was deplorably bad. Civilisation has been efficiently cared for in the shape of dividends to the amount of CO or 70 per cent., but in no other way. The company discouraged colonisation. The Red P►iver settlers were harshly treated. The company at times exer cised a descreditably despotic authority. The condi tions of settlement, according to the colonists, were violated, taxes were imposed at the will of the corn pang, there was nothing like freedom of trade, for nothing was brought to or taken away from the Red River except in a ship belonging to the corporation, and even property was not secure. But for English and Canadian charity the settlement would have been destroyed by famine. In 1857 Sir GEORGE SIMPSON, for many years governor of this private empire, was examined before a com mittee of the House of Commons as to the fitness of the territory for colonisation._ He declared that no part of the company's possessions was fit for cultiva tion, repeating the censure when requested by the amazed committee, who had before them a book written by Sir GEORGE himself in which the territory is described as " a perfect Eden !" This policy of denying the fer tility of Rupert's Land was kept up until it became perfectly useless. The company wanted no colonists to curtail its gigantic preserves. Moreover, during a considerable portion of its history the cor poration had other employment. The routine of hunting was varied by the excitement of a civil war. A rival body of hunters had commenced operations within the territory, and against these the Hudson's Bay Company waged deadly strife. Pitched battles, in one of which twenty-two persons were killed, ensued. At length the rival corporations united, and the new corners, who had fiercely inveighed against the charter, sud denly discovered that it was a perfectly legal and praiseworthy ordinance. These specimens of the results of the monopoly principle are no argument for depriving the com pany of compensation for invested capital; but it is clear that the time has arrived for this large district to be placed under a regular government. The com pany, indeed, freely acknowledges that its rule over an empire is an anomaly which oughtno longer to continue. But whilst the Canadian Government offered very low terms, the company wanted a money payment of one million sterling, and to retain, in addition, their stations. Lord GRANVILLE has offered a medium compensa tion. The company is to have £300,000 in cash, is to retain its stations, and will be allotted a percentage on the sale of lands. The sum is as much as the land is worth, for though immense in extent, it is yet an unsettled wilderness. It is not as if the company were being bought out absolutely. Their own agent certifies that their trade can be carried on as well under the altered state of things as under a monopoly—until, indeed, the remote period when the whole region becomes inhabited. And it is clear that the land which the company still returns will greatly increase in value as the country becomes colonised. Had the company not ac cepted Earl GRANVILLE'S offer, a long law suit, the result of which would have been doubtful, and which would n o t h ave prevented the in corporation of the territory, would have been necessary. Decidedly the acceptance of the bargain is wise ; and it is none the less so because it Will be of great advantage to British colonisation, because it opens an unbroken field of fertile land to the settler, and because the Territory will now become a great State. g4' T i. --;' „:„.„-• eve ,„..,,, ,,, Tovlst ''*4 - 1:-.--: Oral:far. to ~...i.,_ I/ER MAJESTY. ••••r:•• WINDSOR CASTLE, April 12. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out in the grounds this morning. Princess Beatrice went out walking. LATEST INTELL LUNGE (IZEU''ER'S TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, Alma 12. The result of the elections is larzely in favour of th C ovornmcnt. A rumour is current that the Marcrtis de Sada Bandeira intends tendering his resignation, owing to the cal ingression made by the Govornment telegram communicating to Madrid the refusal of the ex-King DJIII Fernando to accept the Spanish crown. HOMEWARD BOUND (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, April 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera leaves at nine this morning for Southampton, where she may be looked for about the evening of the 16th inEt. FRANCE. PARIS, April 13. The Journal Official, which Was pu bli s h e d un usually late this morning, contains a letter of the Emperor to M. Rouher, dated yesterday, referring to the 15th August next, the centenary anniversary of the birth of Napoleon the First. The Emperor says :—The best mode of celebr a ti ng t hi s nat i ona l jubilee would be to give some aid to our veteran comrades who served under the E m p eror . I pro pose to charge the Bank of Deposits with the pay ment of increased life annuities to aged soldiers ; p l a ce at the di sposa l o f t h e B an k and, in return, to the credit allotted for that purpose by the Chamber for the number of years required t o rep l ace the amount advanced. The estimates of the Budget will therefore in no wise be altered. The Emperor proceeds to say, he wi~hes that from the 15th April every soldier who had served under the Republic and under the Ist Empire should receive an annual pension of 250 francs. His Majesty expresses a hope that the the Le patrioticgislativeßfoedeyling which animates th a t assembly.will receive this prop os ition with The Emperor concludes by saying :-- , 4 The Le gislative Body will think with me that at a time when every one complains of the progress of scepticism, it is fitting to reward patriotic devotion and to revive its memory in the present generation. To reawaken great historical recollections is to strengthen faith in the future, and to render homage to the memory of great men is to recognise one of the most striking manifestations of the Divine will." In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body Marshal Niel, after defending the necessity of large military commands, proceeeded to state — Within eight or nine days we s h o uld always be able to have 600,000 men under arms. However, 28,000 men of the regular contingent, together with 11,000 volunteers, have been allowed to return to their homes. Only so ldi ers on six months' fur lougb, and belongin g to the conscriptions since the year 1863, have b een req uired to join their regiments. Lree o'clock—The market CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAT, April it M. de Lavalette's speech_ has been very favourably received by the Paris journals. Almost unanimously they concur in praising the clearness of the Foreign Minister's statement, and the sincere spirit which animated it throughout. All agree that so far as the statement of an irresponsible Minister can be accepted as a guarantee for the future, the speech of M. de Lavalette is all that could be wished. It is impossible that any Ministerial declaration could be more explicit and circumstantial. Under parliamentary Government the assurance would be final and conclusive. No responsible Minister would dare make such an exordium on behalf of peace, and at the same time contemplate speedy war. AS it is, the Emperor can change his Ministry and his policy at will, without consulting anyone ; and, as the Temps remarks, there must always be a certain element of doubt under such a regime. But at the same time it is evident that nothing more definite than the speech of Saturday can be hoped for. As an oratorical dc'but, too, the Marquis must be congratulated upon a success. An extraordinary election expedient- has just been adopted here. A day or two ago a great crowd was assembled before the great ready-made-clothing depot in the Rue du Pont-Neuf. Aboutahnndred "individuals" in blouses were ranged in military order on the pavement, and every quarter of an hour twenty "gentlemen" issued from the shop clad in a new suit, and each with a bundle under his arm. No sooner had one party of twenty emerged than another entered en blouse and came out' at the end of fifteen minutes arrayed in a new suit. What was the meaning of this strange operation ? It appears that a certain personage thought it necessary, in view of coming events, to conciliate a certain number of his fellow citizens, who, though of .no great social standing, were yet the possessors of the suffrage. This genius longed for a new mode of indirect bribery. Dinners and the like were stale and unprofitable ; why not array the free and independent electors in a new suit? But a diffi culty presented itself. Where was the establishment that could receive a large number of worthy citizens of different ages and stature, and provide them all with ready-made suits ? The "personage " applied to the great house in the Rue du Pont-Neuf. " Send ten thousand," was the reply, " and they shall be served, and each have a selection." The "personage" did not send ten thousand, but he sent in 160, who were all metamorphosed in the course of two hours. It is said that charity is ingenious, but personal interest is still more so. The journals which report this occurrence do not say that it was an electoral manoeuvre, but there can be no doubt that such was its object. But who is the candidate ? M. de Montalembert has been in a very serious condi tion for some time past. The latest bulletin is very unfavourable. A very heavy case of embezzlement has just been deter mined before the Assize Court of the Seine. It will be remembered that an agent de change, Banes, committed suicide last January, on discovering that he bad been swindled by his cashier, and that he had lost the enormous sum of £130,000. The affair created much excitement at the time. The cashier, named Allotte, has just been brought to trial. It seems that he had a share in the business, and enjoyed the confi dence of M. Ban Zs. He, holiever, launched into a num ber of ill-advised speculations, so that in the space of four years be had squandered this large amount. £68,000 was sunk in oil works at St. Denis ; £25,000 in a manufactory of perfumery at Puteaux ; £1.0,000 in a soap boilery at La Briche ; and £9,000 in a water company at Cadiz. Other sums were lost in various smaller specula. tions. The deficits were made up by the sale if securities left by customers-and by the appropriation of a sum of £32,000, deposited by a M. Br6on for purposes of speculation, and concerning which a fictitious account was furnished every month to the owner by the accused. The sum, however, had never been regularly entered on the books of the firm, and the consequence is that Br6on is entirely ruined, as he has no claim to any share in the assets of the bankruptcy. Allotte maintained in his defence that he had only borrowed money from the firm of which he was a partner. Against this plea there was not sufficient evidence, and accordingly the cashier has been acquitted. The Rue Saint Jacques was the other day the scene of a family tragedy. M. S- was a discharged soldier, who had vainly sought employment for three years past. His wife kept a boarding-school for young ladies. The two lived on the best of terms, but a double misfortune at length drove them to despair. M. 5- appliedfor asitua tion in the offices of a railway company, and was rejected on the plea of age. At the same time a rival establishment was set up in the neighbourhood, and half the scholars of Madame S- left her. The two resolved to die together- The husband shot Iris wife with a rifle, and then com mitted ..I.:il e . Both werc, found immediately after th e rcpurt of the weapon quite dead, and horribly mutilated. THE SCANDAL IN 'HIGH LIFE. With regard to the so-called "Warwickshire scandal," the Leamington Courier has the following :—" Some ill-founded rumours Inve found their way into print with regard to the unfortunate scandal case, with which the name of one of our oldest county families is mixed up. In the interests of truth, and not for the gratification of any prurient curiosity, we may state on the best authority that the whole facts will speedily be brought before the legal tribunals of the country, all rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. We would gladly have passed the case over is silence, but for the honour of one who has suffered Eo much, but who commands the sympathy of all, we may state that there is no foundation for the rumours of condonation, nor for the other reports of a similar tendency which have been put in circulation." CURIOUS INDIAN DIVORCE' CASE'• A curious case connected with the obligations of the marriage tie, and bearing upon our divorce laws, is at pre sent pending in the law courts of North-West India. When the Queen-Mother of Oudh went to England to appeal to the Queen, in person against the annexation, she had with her (says the Indian Daily News) as her Prime Minister one Masihood-dean, ft Mahomedan noble. This men had two wives iu this country, but when he reveled England, ho contract d another marriage with one, probably, of that class of ill-taught, ill-Ira:nod Englishwomen, who have no more of jection to Mahomedanism, for the cake of wealth or rank, than to go to the Fe ejee Islands, if required to be matched. They were married according to Dtahomedan forms, but tbe lady was soon left behind in England, and he returned. She has followed Lim, and, as he asserts she was divorced before ho left England, she claims her dowry according to Mahomeelan law. Tho case was brought up in the Benares Courts, and decided in the lady's favour; but an appeal has been made to the Iligh Court at Allahabad.—Bomball Ga zette. WIFE MURDER AT MANCIIESTER. A shocking murder was perpetrated in Miller-street, Manchester, bttiveen twelv,; and one o'clock on Saturday. Bet.jarnin Craw haw, a tailor, met his wife, Susan, about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, on her return from mar keting, and induced her to accompany him to a public-house in the neighbourhood. lie there met with some associates, and asked his wife to give Lim money to .pay for drink, which she refused to do. Ile threatened her with violence if she did not comply with his request to - .pay for drink which ho had ordered, and on her lcav:ng the house he followed her to the street, knocked her down and kicked her in a most brutal manner. A crowd was atttracted to the scene, and the poor woman was rescued from the violence of her husband, but. not befLid he had in flicted such injuries as. caused her death. A p o li ce constable cane up, an'', finding that the woman bad been badly injured, had her conveyed to the Ro3 al Infirmary, where she died in a little more than half an hour after her Omission. Crawshaw- was subsequently taken into cus tody, and he was to be brought before the magistrates this morning. • Great preparations are being made at Woreley hall, the sqat of the Earl of Ellefinero for the entertainment of the Prince of Wales on the occasion of 11:43 visit to that (list rief. The Liberals of West Staffordshire are taking steps lo retrieve the daeat they suffered at the general election. Liberal Registration Association has ken started, with its head-quarters at Wolverhampton. Another application for the Attcrney-General's fiat for a writ of error in the CASO of Slieward, the Norwich murderer, was made on Irm.day afternoon, and ordered to stand over until to-morrow. The mvnibers of the late Council of the Reform League intend to hold a meeting on Wednesday i❑ order to decide as to a banquet or soiree to be given to \lr. Edmond Beales, "in grateful acknowledgment of 11:s s rv:ces president." The new Liberal candidate for the Breeknock Foroughs will probably be Lord Hyde, though Mr. Wyllie, who was unseated at Hereford, is also mentioned. Amongst the Conservative candidates named is the Marquis of Wor cester. Ills Royal Highness Prince Arthur has accepted the invitation of Lord O'Neill to pay him a visit at bhane'a Castle. His loyal Highness will proceed thither on Satur day, the 80th inst., and will remain at the Castle until the following Tuesday. Ilis Royal Highness will, it is ex pected, pay a visit to Belfast, and a special meeting of the inhabitants is to be held to-day to make arrangements for AIM him a fitting reception. BOURSE, April 12.— TE closed as follows :-- 4} per Cont. Bank Shares Itils.an Fives End of month — _ Moxiean Loan Do.. Bonds Spanish Threes Homo Debt — -- Deferred — Lii o y r o ln or e tn a hse s li2o and m e , ~..• liter" " ''''''' 1080.985 Southern.... . "caa 5 Western . , , 61 6771 Eastern • • — Sardinian Austrian 6671 Lombard 473f North of Spain 571 Saragossa Roman s2} find of month._ 3 por Cent End of month 7O 40 Credit Mobilier End of month 270 Crodit Foncier ...153U 50 End of month_ - RAILWAYS. General Rosecrans is said to have had several private interviews with Juarez, and to be urging the Mexi can Government to acknowledge the French debt. THE NEWSPAPERS' REPEAL ACT. The bill prepared and brought in by Mr. Ayrton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just been published. It seeks to repeal certain enactments relating to news papers, pamphlets, and other publications, and to printers, typefounders, and reading-rooms. The Acts which it repeals, either wholly or in part, reach back to 36th George 111., and are mostly quite obsolete. The second schedule of the bill contains several enactments to be substituted in various Acts of the reigns of George 111., William IV., and Victoria 2nd and 3rd, and 9th and 10th. The chief proviso is that printers shall keep a copy of every paper they print, with the name and abode of their employer. The name and address of the printer is not required to be put to bank notes, bills, or any paper printed by authority, but must be printed on every other paper or book, under penalty of The disclosure of proprietors, printers, or publishers of newspapers may be enforced by bill. No actions shall be commenced except in the name of the law officers of the Crowr DISTURBANCE IN A CHURCH. On Sunday last a disgraceful scene took place in Sefton Church, near Liverpool. A great deal of ill-feeling has been occasioned in the neighbourhood, in con sequence of the appointment of a new curate who had introduced Ritualism. After the sermon had been concluded on Sunday, the greater part of the congregation assembled in crowds near the communion - table, and created such a disturbance that the curate, Mr. Hawes, could not read the prayers with which he intended to finish the service. Mr. Martin, the superintendent of the county police, had great difficulty in maintaining order while the clergyman read a prayer. The confusion was, however, renewed in the churchyard, and the services of the police were called into requisition, in order that Mr. Hawes might reach home in safety. The majority of tho'se present seemed to regard these violent proceedings as commendable conduct instead of realising their true character. THE COLLECTION OF ASSESSED TAXES AND LICENSE DUTIES. It appears from a document just issued from the Treasury Chambers that payments will have to be made in respect of assessed taxes and license duties, and house duty, land tax, and income tax will be collected under the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as follows, viz. :—After April 5, 1869, last payment of in come tax, land tax, and house duty for 1868. 69, and of assessed taxes in 1867-68 ; October 10, first payment of assessed taxes on 1868-69 ; January 1, 1870, income tax on schedules A B D, for the financial year 1869-70, and also on schedules C and E, paid by deduction in each quarter of the fiscal year: January 1, payment of land tax and house duty for 1869-70 ; also on same date, the license duties for articles to be kept in the year ending the 81st December, 1870 ; April 5, payment of the second moiety of the assessed taxes, 1868-69 ; January 1, 1871, the same payment as in January, 1870. CAPTAII4 MONCRIEFF'S INVENTION. The report of the committee appointed to consider Captain Moncrieff's letter of the sth December last was issued on Monday, but the decision of the committee award ing Captain Moncrieff £15,000 for his invention has already been made known. The report, however, concludes as follows :—" Captain Moncrieff having applied to the War Department for advice as to the manner in which he was to meet the overtures of foreign Governments, was at once informed that he was free to use his own discretion. He has, therefore, not been debarred in any way whatever from any advan tages he might have derived from the adoption of his system by foreign Governments, nor is it the opinion of the committee that he should hereafter be so debarred. Although the committee recommend that Captain Moncrieff should have full liberty to use his own discre tion, and derive every advantage he can from theadoption of his system by foreign Governments, they consider that her Majesty's Government cannot, from the very nature of the invention, undertake to keep it concealed from those Governments, or not to allow foreign officers to examine the carriages, and guns mounted on them, or to witness experiments with them after their adoption into the service ; nor can they undertake to prevent the dis tribution of photographs or drawings of the guns mounted on Captain Moncrieff's system. They recommend, how ever, that copies of the working drawings from which the carriages are made should not be given out of the Royal Carriage Department for other purposes than those of her Majesty's Government, without Captain Moncrieff's con sent having been first obtained." THE SLAVE TRADE IN EGYPT. Some interesting details of the efforts being made by the Viceroy of Egypt to extinguish the slave trade have just been published. Great praise is due to the Viceroy for his consistent and resolute endeavours to repress this inhuman traffic, although it is sanctioned by the social and religious traditions of his people. The Koran acknowledges slavery, and the true Mahomedan cannot, therefore, con demn it. N evertheless, the Viceroy has succeeded in abolishing it, at least in name. Any slave who can escape t o a police post may claim and receive his or her liberty, and every slave becomes free after seven years of bondage. A. real slave trade, however, goes on in the Nile Basin, where unscrupulous dealers, who call themselves merchants, systematically trade in human beings ; armed bands of ruffians, or, in some cases, the native chiefs, are incited by these merchants to seize their unfortunate victims, and carry them off into slavery. The Viceroy has, as yet, found himself unable to reach these offenders, who sail up and down the Nile under European flags, which they use for their own protection. Sir Samuel Baker, in a recent conversation with the Viceroy, stated his views on the Central African slave trade, in which his Highness con curred, and before the Prince of Wales started for the Nile, the Khedive expressed his wish to have Sir S. Baker's personal assistance in putting an end to the traffic. The only effectual means to do this, it is thought, will be to equip a corps of horse and foot, to provide steamers and boats for the navigation of the great lake, and to organise a regular expedition. Our adventurous English traveller is to be put at the head of this troop, with carte blanche as to materiel and personnel, and with power of life and death. The wild and savage tribes which inhabit the Nile Basin are constantly fighting among themselves, but they are not able to oppose a regular force. The Viceroy has a nominal authority over the whole of the Nile Basin, but it will probably be necessary to employ some force to secure its practical recognition. The Prince of Wales, we understand, has interested himself in the matter, and has obtained the promise of handsome remuneration for Sir Samuel Baker, who is to enter the Viceroy's service on the Ist of April. The expedition, whose success is so much to be desired, is to start on its adventurous journey in the month of August. Sir Roundoll Palmer's speech delivered in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Irish Church Bill, is published as a pamphlet by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION PETITION.—At the Judges' Chambers, an application has been made to Mr. Justice Blackburn, in reference to the petition against Mr. Russell Gurney and Mr. Hoare, "for particulars" on both sides. His lordship made an order. It was stated that the trial was to be held on the 20th inst. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. —ln the town of Bishop Auckland there are only four master printers and stationers, and the Auckland papers of the 9th inst. re corded only four births. Singularly enough, the four mothers of those four babies were the four wives of those four printers, namely, Mr. G. E. Briggs, Mr. W. J. Cum mins, Mr. M. Braithwaite, and Mr. S. J. Cherrett.— Northern. Daily Express. The Cork Examiner describes a scene which oc curred at the meeting of the Mill -street Board of Guar dians, caused by the extraordinary behaviour of Mr. Cooper, who delivered a series of highly eccentric speeches. In the course of his remarks he prophesied the death of one of the guardians within six months, and declared that several similar predictions of his had been verified. GREAT FIRE IN THE BOROUGH.—DESTRUCTION OF 250,000 WORTH OF HOPS,—About eleven o'clock on Monday n i g h t one of the largest fires that has occurred in the metropolis for several months past broke out in the extensive hop warehouses of Mr. Frith, situated at the bottom of the Spur Inn and King's Head yards, in the High-street, Southwark. It is not knoWn how the fire originated, or whether Mr. Frith was insured, but the property destroyed is estimated at over £50,000. PROFITABLE NEWSPAPERS. —Some of the most profitable newspapers in the kingdom are those which scarcely anybody sees, and nobody reads. The London Gwette costs about £3,000 a year to produce, including the handsome salary of £BOO given to the editor; it brings in a revenue of over £24,000, so that there is a profit of £10,215. Even the Edinburgh Gazette, which probably no mortal eye has seen South of the Tweed, has a profit of more than 100 per cent., costs, that is, £1,453, and brings in a gross revenue of £3,118. The Dublin Gazette is a less valuable property, and the profit is only £604. Altogether the Government may he 'congratulated upon the results of its efforts at journalism, for it netted £18,484 lak , t year. gTELKE IN TILE MANCTLESTER - BUILDIP TBADE. For some time past great differences have existid i 4 the Manchester building trades, and on Saturday the greater part of the stonemasons connected with the gat' chester lodge struck work. The main question dispute concerns the reduction of hours, the wishing to make the day's work nine hours 113 ; instead of ten, while the rate of wages, 335., rerasdo eu the same. The masters refused this proposal, and in lat t October the men gave the required six months' notice of tbe il resolution. This notice expired on Saturday last, and severf d attempts at conciliation having failed, the strike was resolVed upon. The employers, who had not expected this, aske d for a week's extension of the notice with the view of fur' ther negotiations, but to this the men refused to accede. Tho masters allege that tho men are opposed to the use of machinery and of quarry-dressed stone, but tits workmen state that they have no such objection s. The carpenters and joiners also demand a reduction of their hours of labour, while the employers sock to apply the hour syBtem, and a six months notice is now pending betwcee them, which will exp.° on the Ist of May. It is 11°1) 61, howcv, r, tl.at the dispute in this branch of the trade Wi ll be arnicab'T sAthql. SERIOUS LABOUR RIOTS IN BELGIUA As announced by telegraph, a strike, accompanied hi disturbances, has taken place amongst the workmen, pudd' lers, and colliers of the extensive coalworks and machined establishments of Messrs. Cockerel], near Liege, in Del" gium. The details given by the Belgian papers m ake it appear that the cause of this great strike was the unpor l ; larity of the manger. On Friday the men congregatia together near the workshops, and seem to W e given the masters considerable alarm. They wer e , quiet, however, until a party of ten gendarmes k elavai was seen approaching. These soldiers were hooted hi some of tile workmen, but the rest remained q uiet. Another small party of soldiers arrived and wer e , hooted, but still no disturbance of consequence too l ' place. But during Friday night a great number of the workmen assembled, and assailed Messte' Cockerell's establishment with stones, breaking windosil and doing other damage. The burgomaster, the pollee , and the soldiers ran to stop this attack, and wer e greeted with a shower of stones, several of the part, being very severely wounded. Three battalions of troopo were then summoned to Scraing, the name of the village. During Saturday the men on strike assembled in greyt we re : numbers, and attempted to prevent others going to Wit work. They then hooted the soldiers, and assault ed them with stones. The soldiers made a som e without using their weapons, but ultimately * regular fight took place. Most of the gendarmes wer e wounded with stones, and many of the workmen sustain,; severe injuries. The accounts agree in stating that tie ll causes of the'strike were very.triN ial, but it is, nevertheleA increasing in proportion. THE NORTHALLERTON ELECTION PETITION. In opening the .I.Vorthallerton election petition agsl the return of Mr. John Hutton, Mr. Serjeant O'Bri claimed the seat for Mr. Johns on the ground that Af t . Hutton had obtained a colourable majority at the l 0 election through bribery, undue influence, and intimidF tion. The constituency numbers about 800, and beiu somewhat of an agricultural borough there are villages rounding it, in which live hand-loom weavers, who cove t nothing so much as a small patch of land on which r grow produce for family use. The system of provid4 such.pieces of land for poor voters appeared to have bee:: first introduced by the agent of Mr. Miles in 1865, air nothing (the learned counsel. said) could be so temptia to these humble men. Offers of such land were eagerlil sought after, and off ers o f th a t ki n d h a d b een m ade 1 5 1 Mr. Hutton's agents. O ne i ns t ance o f suc h b r ib er y WI alleged against Mr. Hutton himself. Another branc h : Df the case was undue influence, but the learned serjealP was not able to lay the evidence of agency before the court" Mr. and Mrs. Causfield were the first witnesses examined' ~ and they proved an offer of a bit of land for a yeti Joseph Barker, the rag-gatherer said t o h ave b ee n cot; rupted, described how he had resisted th e t em pter, and ... voted for Mr. Johns. Potter Roberts appeared for a lee% time to have been living rent free. He said he had alwal l understood he was to pay no rent so long as he voted blue' rh6 judge remarked that the whole thing was too obscull to found a charge of bribery upon.. Thomas Lazenbi l , ease was one of the most serious the petitioner relied upon. He voted blue and voted early, having _never been inclined to the yellows ; and the will Df his evidence went to show that he had vo te ; honestly, and that he had not been bribed with £s' s''. alleged by the petitioner's counsel. 'William Henry Waltopt brother of Mr. Hutton's agent for election expenses, al l in assistant surgeon, was the person s a id to have giv e° Lazenby, the last witn ess , £5 on th e n i g ht b e f or e t ll° election. He was called by Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, and ii said he took no interest in the last election, and he had P °. paid Lazenby anything for his vote. Several workmen 0 . to have been intimidated were examined, and the effect the evidence upon the judge's mind was that the opcuil Df the petitioner's counsel had not, so far, been provar When it had, his lordship said, there would be an emit °, the election. The Rev. W. Stubbins, the minister of a small Baptl • congregation, deposed that he had lost numbers of his 00 gregation because he voted for the Yellows. The bill brought in by Mr. Charles Reed, g r a ' Bazley, and Mr. Graves, to exempt Sunday schools ou ragged schools from rating, contains two operative clan s°3 which the first is indicated in th e titl e , an d the secoo provides that the act shall not extend to Ireland. A movement has been proposed in the Blackbu rn and Preston districts to obtain a repeal of the customs dt ll _.. of 5 per cent. levied in India on cotton cloth imported fr ° ' Europe. It is asserted that this duty is about equal to tb o cost of weaving tho cloth, and it is urged that the remissio° of the duty would greatly improve the condition of the 02t4 ton trade. The Irish Court of Common Pleas having held 0)0 Mr. Weguelin was responsible for the acts of bribery ° °l ; mitted by him between the period of Lis arrival in Yong l `,, as a candidate and the dissolution of Parliament and isst d°l ' of the writ, has pronounced his election void, Sir JoseP ll I+l.Kenna has proceeded to Ycughal and commenced t 0 canvass the constituency. From a return issued on Monday we learn ill At on tae Ist July, 1868, the number of paupers of all clas se d relieved in 655 unions in England and Wales was 071,3 8711 1 compared with 925,544 on the Ist July, 1867, on increaso 45,843, or 5 per cent. The number of adult able-iod ic paupers relieved on the Ist July, 1868, was 155,208, an crease of 10.543, or 7.3 over those relieved on the Ist 1867. A parliamentary return has been issued giving t l3e i names and sentences of those Fenian convicts whom i t not proposed to release. Of those convicted in Ireland, elusive of military convicts, there are now twenty-three C oll ; fined in the United Kingdom, and nine in .Australia. f ull ! of the former and one of the latter are under sentenc e .° penal servitude for life, and the others for periods v a rying fr °4 twenty to five years. There are also in the convict lor ,o l ' sons sixteen persons who were convicted in England, t111::6 of whom are under sentence of penal servitude for life, e 7, for fifteen years, one for ten years, and the other for sere. and five years. A destructive fire took place early on Monday rit° l ; l3 n ; ing on the premises occupied by the members of the .1 ,115 ' 1 , Carlton Club, in Lower Regent-street, and adjoining the 65 lery of Illu s t ra ti on. Th e po li ceman on d u t y saw 0151 Co issuing from the basement, and ho immediately gave alarm. The fire engines w e re soon in attendance, and the inmates were, after considerable difficuly and clanger , the rescuers, soon in a place of safety. Notlyi t i standing the efforts of the firemen the flames coraple te t f o consumed the interior of the building, from the basemen t the attics. The damage done is very considerable, and 14 loss will fall on the Royal Exchange Fire and other age' The cause of the fire is at present a mystery. A Conference convened by the Standing Cora r l3l O tee of the Yorkshire Board of Education on Middle 0111 i, Ed uca tion, for the purpose of eliciti ng th e op i n i on o f solv :)° , l t ma sters on the provisions of the " E n d owe d S c h oo ls 13/ ",:i was held on Saturday, in Leeds. The Rev. Canon ga s 0 , York, presided, end ther e was a goo d atten d ance of gel)-,1.0, men connected both with public and private s c ho o l s . Thel: t j visions of the bill whi c h a ff ec t th ese sc h oo l s were discussed to considerable length, and opinions were expressed adver t , the exclusion of the sev e n p u bli c sc h oo l s ment i one d in 4161 tion three from the proposed examinations; and in fav 011 ;1 1 0 some modification of restriction which requires that ; 0 1 masters of endowed scho o l s s h ou ld b e i n h O l y orders, 513: the constitution of the Educational Council. The feeli" t ,l tiro masters of privat e sc h oo l s appeare d to b e very getleol9 in favour of the examinations being extended to the se ll° in which they are interested. The. Liverpool C'ourier s t a t es th a t t h e fi rs t ' e f f t, steps have been taken to set aside the will of the 16t° t Samuel Holland Moreton, whereby the whole of 1 11° • r vf , perty, to the computed value of £30,000, is bequeathed °, Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool. The cite stances under which th e w ill was d rawn b y a l oca l pr iest' fir : our contemporary, app ear fully to justify the allegation OW ic os Moreton was not of disposing mind when the docume nt bi f thrust upon him as he lay, apparently unconscious, 00 0 3 6, deathbed. A c aveathas been lodged against the 10 3 ! 11 , Air. District Court of P ro b a t e , an d th ere i s every rea son 1. 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