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CITY ESTABLISIIIIE'ST, 155, MINORIES MINORU'S 157, ➢MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGAT I. 85, A IDG ATE 86, ALDGATE 87, ALD(}ATE 88. ALDGAT is 39, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET ¶O7, NEW OXFORD-STREET NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT -110 AD BRANC n. /- „7, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283. EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDI4E-STRE ET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDOB-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. lIIIEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buck tone. THIS F.VENI NG, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE: Bnckstone, jun., and sa Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley. fie.: Megdames Cavendish, Burke, 11111, • With A RE(.; LIAR FIX. Mr. Sothern. And lIIGEI LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Messrs. Duel:stone. Howe. Kendal, Clark, Gordon, &e.; Mesdames Lawe, Wright l; Wynn, * oleman, Box-office open daily. _ . Commence at Seven. rHEAT It E It YA L, AI)ELP II I. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Allred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART. Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Belmore, Stuart, IL Philips, Ashley, Romer; Mrs A lfred Miss Nelly Harris. &c. ATTRACTIVE SPECULATIONS. UNRIVALLED SUCCESS. You coul,l never meet with a more advisable opportunity to try the favours of Dame Fortune. With a S7ngle Stoke of £1 you can realise £20,000!! with £2 .£27,000:! with £8 £4?,C00! with £lO £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Week of the Season. THIS EVENING, a New Drama, by Dion Boucicault, entitled PRE',UMPTIVE EVIDENCE, in which Madame Celeste, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss Emma Barnett, Mr. W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore. Mr. G. F. Neville, ',lr. Moreland, Mr. Parselle, and Mr Dominick ,Iltirray will appear. To be preceded by THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE, in hich Madame Celeste will give her celebrated impersonations .Ernest de la Garde and Zambaro. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. THEATRE-ROYAL. HOLBORN. 11 Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Legitimate Success!—Fourth Week of " 110 NET." THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY. Parry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur. and El Dyas; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs: Charles Horsmau ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Fwanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX Y. GOOSE. Messrs. ',nuke and Belford, Mesdames Bufton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Niessrs Thorne. .Tsrees, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlains: Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Kith HUE AND DYE ILOBE THEATRE-1 - ?OYAL. 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As the Cell will be actually made by the deduction of a corresponding amount from the dividend Coupon payable on the Ist July, 1869, it will be necessary for all share holders to present their provisional Share Certificates with the Coupons for July, 1869, at one of the before-mentioned Offices, that the receipt for the Call may be stamped upon the Certificate. _ _ Dy order of the General Coupe. Vienna, 26th May, 1869. THEATP,E-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'fins EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE : Buckstone, jun. ; Visa F. Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. &e. Followed by A REGULAR FIX: • r. !'othern. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs.Buckstone, Howe, Clark, &c. Commencii at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIM EVENING, at 7. THE 110ITE ON THE BRIDGE: Madame Celeste. Coneludimr with PRESUMPTIVE EVI DE • CE: Iladame Celeste. Louisa Moore, &c.; Messrs. Riguold, Shore, Dominick Murray, &e. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. Tnis EvENTNG, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. A t 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, Mt Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr G. Belmore, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Sce. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborouzh. This EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: • estlames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with RUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. This EVENING, at 7. NAVAL ENT/AO EMENTS. At R.lO, the new bur!esque Tlf It CORSICAN ROT II ERS. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstene, J. Clarke; Slesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne TITEATLE- ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVE•INfi, THE JITSTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: N'r. Barry Sullivan, Mn, Hermann Vezin, Mr. U. Honey, li rs. C. Horman, ROYALTY Tll EATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. TITTS EYF.NING. at 7.:10, IN FOR A II( WID AY. Followed by A 'ROVING COM ‘IISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. FP.INCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. tinder the 'Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tiffs EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE !SLUE. The Only Leon ! CIIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's llall, Every Night, at. Wednesdays and Saturdays, at %and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALITA.MBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Convert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. le. Box-ofliet open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd. Children under twelve, Ad g I r Zt 4 SUIT LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1869. The Opposition Deputies already elected number only three more than in the last Corps Legislatif. This—out of 290 elections. As many as fifty-nine of those elections having been abortive, a fresh ballot is necessitated. It is almost certain therefore that several additional Opposition Deputies will, in conse quence, be returned. The advocates of responsible Government are therefore 'clearly gaining strength, are gradually winning their way at any rate to larger importance within the walls of the Imperial Legisla ture, A betise, however, has in the thick of the elec tioneering contests been perpetrated by the fore most of all the leaders of the late Opposition. M. TRIERS has blundered. Evidently he has been ill advised. We sincerely regret this, but the fact is undeniable. The suspicions of M. THIERS having been aroused as to whether the ballot boxes, or electoral urns, had been tampered with, the his torian of the Empire, on Saturday night, accompanied by two persons, went at eleven o'clock, it appears, to the Mairie of the Seventeenth Arrondissement, that of the Eatignolles, and there demanded permission to examine, for himself, the condition of the se same electoral urns or ballot boxes. The keenest scrutiny was applied to the seals—without, however, the de- tection of a single flaw. The sacred depositories of the voting papers were found to be intact. The self-appointed scrutineers one of them the most illustrious of all the candidates of the Opposition baffled in their search, in one sense, even, disappointed in their expectations, with drew. I rpon the Place de la Makin a considerable throng had—hearing of M, THIEP.S' visit—assembled together. Hearing of what had occurred, no wonder I that, on the following morning, the outraged because the suspected Mayor of the arrondisament wrote thus indignantly to the great author and statesman— " I learn, sir," wrote M. BALAGNY, " that you called at the Mairie of the Batignolles last night to examine the room where the electoral urns were deposited. Without raising any questions as to the ille gality of that visit, male in my absence, and without previous notice, I way observe, with all the . deference due to you, that your proceeding, besides being unusual, has deeply wounded me, inazmush as it would imply that my delicacy or my attention THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1869. ought to be suspected. lam convinced that after a little reflection you will regret the step you have taken." Than this remonstrance nothing surely could be more dignified or more temperate. We shall be curious to observe how it will be responded to by its distinguished recipient. Not only has the indignation of M. BALAGNY, the mayor of the arrondissement of the Batignolles, been excited by this extraordinary pro ceeding on the part of M. THIEns, but the incident is said to have produced an exceedingly unpleasant impression (and no wonder 1) upon the National Guard on duty at the Mairie. Bear in mind, more over, the fact, that the result of the first ballot has so far proved unfavourable to M. THIEP.S that, although placing him at the head of the list of candidates voted for in the Second Cir cumscription, by reason of his having obtained 13,333 suffrages out of the 32,683 electors making up the aggregate of the constituency, it still leaves him 3,009 below the required absolute majority of 16 ; 342! Bear that in mind, and it may be under stood at once how very iurliscrectly M. THIERS has acted. With a fresh ballot before him, he has wan tonly and evidently quite causelessly awakened this angry feeling, not simply in the mind of the Mayor of Batignolles, but among the National Guard of the arrondissement. It is to be hoped that it may not prove fatal to his interests in the new election now immediately impending. 'Whatever may be the numerical strength, or rather weakness, of the Oppositio❑ in the Corps Legislatif, there cannot be two opinions as to its force in tellectually, any more than there can be an in stant's doubt as to the formidable character it de rives from the glaring fact that it is a direct emana nation from Paris and from the other leading consti tuencies. This is a fact which we are certain is thoroughly appreciated throughout Europe, and by no one in Europe more thoroughly than by his Ma jesty the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. THE word of command has been given, and meet ings are being held up and down the country in order to screw the courage of the Peers up to the fighting point. The meeting at Belfast has just been succeeded by one at Birmingham, and both were distinguished by a fine display of Kentish fire and bad logic. That very respectable nobleman the Earl of HAnnowßY presided at the English gathering, and he was followed by Mr. NEWDEGATE, M.P., Mr. CHARLEY, 111. P., Mr. LLOYD, and Dr. EVANS, the defeated candi dates at the general election, and a certain Mr. BREWIN GRANT, who is just now the hero of a storm in a teacup. One member of the Upper House, two members and two would-be members of the Lower House, and a Dissenting minister who has quarrelled with his co-religionists, are not a very formidable phalanx. The Lords are scarcely likely to mistake this " demonstra tion " as the voice of Birmingham, still less as the voice of England. If the Opposition cannot do better than this they will be wise in refraining from any further demonstrations. The only thing they demonstrate is the smallness and the insigni ficance of the Opposition. " LOST, somewhere between Mercury and Saturn, a balloon., Any comet giving such information as will lead to the recovery of the said balloon, shall be handsomely rewarded." Did our readers chance to notice this announcement in any of yesterday's papers ? A " captive balloon " has for some days past been soaring above the chimneys of London. Every afternoon it has been cheated with the pretence of freedom. It has been allowed to rise to a certain height, but its upward progress has always been checked by ropes. On Tuesday, favoured by a strong wind, it burst its bonds and shot aloft. All night it went joyously careering through the heavens like *" a rejoicing native of the infinite," to quote " Testus " BAILEY. All night it cleft the clouds, and laughed at the rain, and went dodging about through the constellations, taking care to avoid collision with meteors, and to escape entanglement in comets' tails. There was no one in it, n o one to check this triumphant march by pulling at valve-strings. What fun it would have been if there had been just one person inside, or say two—a pair of lovers, for instance— blissfully ignorant of balloon management, and carried hither and thither among the planets and tho stare, whither they hart nn nf ten gnareil together in imagination. Only fancy their feelings in being thus transported beyond this sordid, mun dane, commonplace region into the infinite abyss of light and joy. A little cold, perhaps, now and then ; but it is only to go a few thousand miles nearer the sun to get warm again. Rather hungry work, do you say ? Who would think of eating and drinking when listening to the music of the spheres ? Or supposing it had been Mr. CARLYLE who, tempted by the near proximity of the captive balloon to his Chelsea home, had seated himself in the car. What an opportunity for making acquaintance with the " silences " and the " immen sities " and the " eternities "—and what a story he would have had to tell on his descent, supposing he ever did descend ! Even his German-English would be inadequate to the telling of it. He would have had to invent some new linguistic combina tion compared to which " Sartor Resartus " would be easy and pleasant reading. What an opportunity has been lost ! If poor EDGAR ALLAN POE had been alive he would not have lost it. „__, ,!•:,,,_ twwialtat it t ii,V HER MAJESTY. BALXORAL, May 24. This being her Majesty's 50th birthday she spent it quietly with the Royal Family. Her Majesty invested Prince Arthur with the Order of the Thistle, and Prince Leopold with the Garter. The Prince and Princess of Wales went to Epsom races yesterday. THE LATE SIR WENTWORTH DILKE.—We be lieve that the remains of the late Sir Wentworth Dilke will reach London, from St. Petersburg, on Friday, and that the interment will take place at the lionsal-green Cemetery, on Monday, at 12 o'clock. It appears that the report last Saturday of the arrival of the Essex from Australia with £72,000 was erroneous. She has been 88 days out, detained most probably by the easterly winds lately preva lent. ROSSINI'S LAST WORK.—AII the world, musical and otherwise, are crowding, in Paris and London, to listen to Rossini's last great work, the "MesseSolennelle." In regard to this sublime production (the farewell to his divine art by its illustrious composer), there has, for ob vious reasons, been fierce contention. All the music pub lishers have been iu the field about it. Very large sums are spoken of as having been paid even for limited copy right. The important house of Rieordi and Co., music publishers of Milan, triad Ullman (another well-known speculator), whose large ventures, and larger success, are well known, have competed. Sums like 7.5,000 f., 95,000 f., and 170,000 f. are mentioned as paid for proprietary rights in different directions. It is now definitely understood that this great work is secured for England, the proprietor of the copyright (for purposes of publication in England) being Mr. Thomas Chappell. Rossini's Mass has been produced by the directors of the United Opera, London, in a locale (St. James's Hall), that will lend to this "Mess() Solennelle," its due effects of fullest majesty. Nothing will therefore exceed tho interest that will attach to this great production when illustraaed by the talents of the first' vocal artistes ; when the choruses are sung by a body of choristers who are unrivalled ; , and when the grand orchestral effects rest in the hands of the fine band belonging to the Royal Italian Opera. We really think that we supply (in the above) must welcome news to all music loveYs'in this country. Aud such we are sure will be admitted. LITERATURE. Familiar Quotations. One Vol. Pp. 524. George Routledge. The compiler of this very excellent gathering to gether of Familiar Quotations, Mr. John Bartlett, may be congratulated. It is beyond any question the best collection of the kind wehave ever examined. It is the most copious, the most accurate, and the most admirably well-arranged compendium of " Familiar Quotations," to our thinking, that has ever yet been published. "Passages and Phrases in Com mon Use" is the sub-title of the book. The words, in effect, here given in inverted commas, are taken from Mr. Bartlett's title-page. To say that the volume embraces within it all such phrases and passages would be, of course, to write an obvious absurdity. An absolutely complete collection must always remain a result to be aimed at, never to be accomplished. Supposing the work to run through any number of editions, each edition being revised and added to with every conceivable amount of care—something, we may be certain, must still remain forgotten or over looked, in spite of all the energy and all the caution of the original compiler or of his successors. One distinguishing peculiarity of the collection here under notice is this, that it is accompanied by an Index so considerable that any passage or phrase in the volume can be turned to at once with the utmost facility. How consi derable the Index is, may be best indicated perhaps by our mentioning the fact that out of the 524 pages making up the book, nearly i'oo are devoted simply to that same Index. In point of fact, there are 174 pages of Index to 350 pages of Quotations. Whenever a reader wants to trace home to its right author any familiar phrase, any familiar line, any familiar passage, whether of prose or poetry, he has but to turn to the alphabetical Index here pro vided for him by Mr. Barlett, and the page in the book in which it may be found wid be indicated upon the instant, The volume is as acceptable an addition to any library in the laud as the new number of Bradshaw, with all its faults, is to a Railway Traveller, or as Ahirray is to any tra veler on the American Continent. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations in effect is a handbook to all that is best, or at any rate, to all that is most epi gramatically felicitious in English Literature. GOLDEN LEISURES—CasseII, Petter, and Galpia. —A graceful little brochure, so entitled, compris ing within it ten harmonious fragments of verso, and numbering altogether less than thirty pages of letterpress, here brings to us, evidently enough, the first effusions of a sensiti ye and poetical tern petatnent. It is a promise, not a fulfilment. It is a harbinger, like the earliest budding of a young tree in spring. The writer disdains to appear anonymously, a❑d therefore unaffectedly inscribes his name upon his title-page, as William Gordon Smythies. The superscription he has chosen is explained by the very motto on the title-page—namely, these three melodious lines from Longfellow : " 0 my songs! whose ;velcoma measures Filled my heart with secret rapture ! Children of my golden leisares !" A. beautiful green nook in Gloucestershire gives its name—" Bisley"—to the first piece in the little pamphlet; a poem inscribed, under date 29th July, 1863, to the widow of the venerated author of "The Christian Year." The sorrowful atnr2sphere of death breathes throughout the remainder—as evidence the very titles of some—" Take Them !'' " Adteul" " Gone Home !" " Consolation !" again, is the heading to some lines on the death of J. H. G., dead in Australia. Another, the second piece, is an eulogistic memento of Charles Kean, the Tragedian. "At Last" has reference to one beloved but long passed away. " Springtime," apparently a more hopeful title, in its penultimate stanza utters the lamentation— " I see again that sunny Spring When with suspended breath, I saw her spirit take its wing Into the realms of death." " The Old Letter," also, is suggestive of the ejacu lation—. " Oh, thou dearly loved old letter, Thou art crumbling into dust ! As the hand that wrote thee has done As the hand now writing—must." Even when the writer chauntsa Hymn, to the re frain " Trust in God," one of his earliest adjurations is to the effect— " "When the friends you love and cherish, In your heart's deep inmost core, Die or let their f riendship perish, And are friends to you no more— Trust in God." Death, or rather the sense of death, so pervades the whole, that, vernal though these lines are, it is as if there were the canker of death upon each of them. 'There is enough of pron"*." Future, however, in them all, to admit of our hoping for happier re sults from the next budding, or, better still, from a later efflorescence. 7HE RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA. away to the southward. This finding and sentence were ordered to be read on board all her Majesty's ships in commission. If such is to remain the law, I can only say that the seas will not be navigable.—Yours obediently, WILLIAM STIRLING LACON. London, 25th May, 1869. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 26. The National Steamship France arrived out to- COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1391 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1401; the lowest, 1391. Sterling Exchange on London lO9B. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188' ) 1 .311. " 1885 ll7l. 4t " 1867 llBl. 10-40 64 Illinois Erie 2Bg. Cotton—Mid. upland 2 B llc. Petroleum—Standard White 3lc. Flour, extra state, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, 96c. QUEENSTOWN, May 27. The National Steamship Company's steamship Helvetia, from New York, arrived here at 7 a.m to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. The Guion steamship Idaho arrived here from Liverpool at 8 a.m. to-day, embarked passengers, and sailed at 11.30 a.m. for New York. All well. BOMBAY, May 25. Official reports from Peshawur state that the Ameer Badukshau was collecting an army of 4,000 men in the interest of Shere Ali, hoping to subdue Turkestan without the assistance of the latter. Shere Ali reached Cabul on the 10th inst., and had au interview with Yakoob Khan in the presence of all the Sirdars and the army. Rumours have come from Bokhara to the effect that the Russians were moving against Kokhand and Colub (?) day. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The two letters of Mr. Gray and Admiral Sullivan on the " Fresh Stearn hip" collision ought not to go unchallenged, although they will be satis factory to the public, as showing what the authors of the existing rules have to say by way of ex planation of the subject. It is quite evident that some competent tribunal must now be appointed to take this question into consideration. Will you in the meantime permit me to observe that the authors of these regulations have no power to put an authoritative construction upon them — but that we must look to the construction that is put upon them by the decisions of the Admiralty Courts, and their general acceptation by the public. The meaning of " end on" is, I presume, on a line with the keel, but the meaning of "nearly end on" is indefinite and incomprehensible. In the case of the Louisa and the City of Paris, brought before the Admiralty Court in Ireland, Judge Kelly said—" But when it is recollected that the order to hard-a-starboard was given by the steamer when the tug was but two points on her starboard bow, it seems clear that the proper article to apply to the position is the 13th ;" and again, " We attribute the collision to the City of Paris for not having ported, slowed, and reversed in time, when she had the tug two points on her starboard how." In the case of the Thames v. the Stork the Court said, " In order to excuse her from porting, it must be quite clear that there are three points of differ ence, and not less ; for surely it would never do to contend, where they were so nearly meeting end on, that if the evidence should be that it was only one or two points only in the direction they were meet ing, that that would be sufficient to dispense with the observance of this rule." _ And in the case of the Printer v. the Fingal the Court said, " Part of the evidence says that they were within two points of meeting end on. I should consider that if they were within two points of meeting end on, they would fall in with the latter part of the statement nearly end on.' " Now what is the plain English of this construc tion of the law, but that if two steamers are meet ing, instead of keeping:out of the way, they shall adopt the only cou"se which will endcinge'r a collision, and, as Sir John Hay in his letter to Mr. Bright very truly says—" It must be recollected that two ocean atcarnera probably may not see each other's lights until within two miles of each other, and that each steaming 12 knots they pass each other in five minutes. The attempt for two long ships to cross each other under such circumstances must be hazardous, and if any hesitation arises on the part of the officer in cliarg,e of either ship, a colli sion is almost sure to ensue. How much better then that the officer in charge should know that in all cases, he will do right by turning the ship's head away from the approaching vessel," &c. With reference to Admiral Sullivan's explana tion of the collision between the Amazon and the Osprey, the officer of the watch was cashiered, not for whatafterwardshappened—but because "he put the helm of the Amazon to starboard, instead of to port, when first sighting the light of the Osprey— in contravention of the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea"—the ships being then five miles apart. and as the sails of the Amazon were lifting, it was more convenient for her at that time to bear SPAIN. MADRID, May 26. In to-day's sitting the Constituent Cortes closed the discussion on the Constitution by the adoption of the remaining clauses. There will be no sitting to-morrow in consequence of its being a fete. On Friday, however, the solemn promulgation of the Constitutional Charter will take place at the meet ing of the Cortes, when the leaders of the different political parties will make speeches appropriate to the occasion. The Republicans of the four provinces of Anda lusia, Estremadura, Alicante, and Murcia, intend to hold a meeting on the 4th inst., when they will sign a federal pact. May 27. The introduction of an additional article to the Constitution suspending the clause organising the j u di c i ar y until the organic law regu lating the tribunals shall have been sanc tioned has been the cause of disunion among the majority of the commission. The matter has been settled by a compromise, but Senor Romero Orbz, the Minister of Justice, has given in his re signation. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 27. The Imperial Commission for the Control of the Public Debt publish their report for the period end ing December, 1868. The corsolilated debt amounted to 2,558,229,378 florins, bearing an annual interest of 101,898,023 florins. The amount of the floating debt not chargeable to the whole of the Empire was 118,711,221. Total amount of the public debt 269,206,316 florins, bearing an annual interest of 106,368,170 florins, and showing if com pared with the total amount in the previousa year the follow reduction Coutolidatd debt reduc tion, 26,&60,750 florins ; floating debt reduction 20,112,141. The floating debt chargeable to the whole of the Empire is given as 307,924,761 florins. FRANCE. PARIS, May 27. The official journal of this morning publishes an Imperial decree, dated the Bth inst., approving on grounds of public utility a telegraphic line to be established between Ponlizar and Brest, the same to serve as a land line in continuation of the sub marine cable between France and the United States. The decree gives full powers to Baron Erlanger of Paris, and Mr. Julius Reuter of London for the acquisition of the land necessary for the construc tion of that line. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde re ceived Mr. Washburne, the New American Minis ter, yesterday. BOURSE, May 26.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4/ per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 821 Credit Mobilier 56 25 End of month._ 255 Credit Foncier 1625 End of month — - RAILWAY Bank Shares ......2 990 It&Pan Five 5....... 57 85 End of month.. Mexican Loan Do. Bonds ...... 161 Spanish Threes ... 20 75 Home Debt...... Deferred ......... 28 s. Cash Orleans .....................................912k Northern ...............................»...... 1076 i Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 945 Southern.... ................................. 6171 Western ....................................... b 771 Eastern .. ........................ Sardinian .................................... 50 Austrian ....................................... 760 ........... Lombard ........ .................... 481 i _ . North of Spain .............................. -• Saragossa .................................... 72 Roman .......................................... 63 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived.—Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp; Aurora, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Argos, and Velocity, steamers, from Calais; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. Sailed.—Oriana, steamer, from Hamburg; Runnymede, for Hobart Town; Bury St. Edmunds, for Mauritius; Blonde, steamer, for Dunkirk; Cologne, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed.—William Garvin, of St. John's, front London, for the west. Sailed.—Elutstone, for Hongkong. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Among the most interest ing cighte of the metropolis during the Whitsuntide holi days none appeared to be more generally patronised, and gave greater satisfaction to the sightseers, than the re nowned and popular wax work galleries in Baker-street, The exhibition has been crowded with visitors ; and the sombre chamber of horrors, containing, as it does, models of most of the notorious cri►ninals who expiated their crimes on the gallows, appeared to be not the least attrac tive to the sightseers. The tratlie of the Grand Trunk Railway of Ca nala for the week ending the Bth instant was £32,605, being £5,149 more than in the cone • sponding week of last year. F A.DVERTISEMENT. I- Holloway's Pills.—Liver Com plaints and Disorders of the Bowels.—lt is impossible to exaggerate the extraordinary virtues of this mrdicine in the treatment of all affections of the liver or irregularities of the bowels. In case of depraved or superabundant bile the Pills taken freely have never been known to fail. In bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, but they should then be taken rather more sparingly, for every me dicine in the form of an aperient requires caution when the bowels are disordered, though a gentle or more genial aperient than these Pills , in moderate doses, has never yet O r been discovered. If take tt ccord ing to the printed in strustions,they not only the complaint, but improve the whole sfiteui, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Except on the supposition that amusement must be pro vided for the Whitsuntide recess, the Times cannot per ceive what advantage can be gained by the "great demonstrations" which are being just now organised against the Irish Church Bill. The Times has too high an opinion of the prudence and political discernment of the House of Lords to believe that they will allow them selves to be influenced by such demonstrations as have been got up on this subject. There is an intuitive judgment, a political instinct, among people con versant with affairs which tells them when the country is in earnest, when resistance is useless ; and the most dignified course is to yield gracefully. The Lords have thrown out bills year after year which had the support of the educated Liberals, because they felt there was no strong popular feeling to back the measures. Such, for instance, was the bill for permitting Jews to sit in Parliament, which lingered on for eleven years, and until a Conservative Government shrank from the responsibility of opposing it further. The Lords will not shrink from asserting their liberty, even at the cost of provoking highly respectable classes ; but when the deliberate verdict of the country has been taken as in this matter of the Irish Church, they will, we are sure, respect it. We should have, indeed, to go back to the rejection of the Reform Bill in the autumn of 1831 for an instance of such blind imprudence and its consequences as would be involved in the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. In those days the Lords, as it were, turned at bay. They were led by the great soldier and the great lawyer of the time to try the policy of daunting agitation by the display of patrician firmness. The result was a lesson for ever. It might be thought ominous if we were to do more than allude to the events which in a few months made it absolutely necessary the bill should pass. Do the organisers of Protestant demon strations really desire the Lords again to place themselves in such a position, and bring the State into such danger? Do they believe the prudent peers of England will shout " No Surrender ! " at the bidding of men uniformly irresponsible and generally obscure ? Even Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Whalley must see that the Lords cannot reverse the verdict of the country and its representatives ; they ought, then, also to see that the present agitation is too late, that it should have been addressed to the constituencies six months ago, or at least to the Commons before they accepted the present measure by a majority so decisive. The Herald observes that the present Government must, as it has more than once pointed out, consent to be judged by their Irish policy. This is their own chosen ground. Upon that scheme they went to the country, and pre vailed. It does not, therefore, lie in their mouth to say that the evils of Ireland are chronic and incurable ; they pledged themselves to cure them. If they fail to do so, they have ousted Mr. Disraeli on false pretences. It is not for them to palliate the extent and severity of evils which have certainly increased and assumed an aggavated form since. February 1868. They are bound to "conci liate " Ireland or to confess themselves wrongdoers and usurpers. And so far conciliation has certainly proved a signal failure. It is not only that the peasantry have taken up wilder notions and are enforcing them by more indiscriminate atrocities than usual ; that agrarian dis content is more formidable than ever, and has assumed a more Socialistic character. It is that all the doubtful and disloyal portion of Irish society is more offensive, auda cious, and deliberate in its seditious demonstrations than ever ; that it has received the release of the Fenian pri soners as a testimony either to the fear or the sympathy of Ministers—either to the strength or the goodness of their cause ; that it bas accepted the sacrifice of the Irish Church in the same spirit. Is it at all probable that these things will mend ; that a sacrifice which is anticipated without thanks will be received when complete with earnest gratitude ; that evils which have been exasperated by the promise of a Liberal policy will be healed by the performance? The Standard thinks that the agitation against the Irish Church Bill is increasing in intensity. Even while the bill is on the eve of passing through its third reading its opponents are demonstrating with renewed energy their intention to resist it to the uttermost. There is scarcely a town in the United Kingdom which has not sent up its protest to the House of Commons, and this week we have had to record a series of imposing manifes tations in several of the leading towns of Yorkshire, at Birmingham, at Belfast, and at Armagh. The meeting at Belfast, both as regards its character and its numerical strength, was one of exceptional importance. It is a striking commentary on the taunt about the "handful of Protestants," that in a single town in Ireland it should be possible to array a body of persons estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 strong in opposition to the bill. It is constantly told that in all Ireland there are not more than 700,000 of the popu lation who are in any way interested in the Irish Church, yet here we find considerably more than a tenth of the sum total assembled at one spot to give a practical refuta tion to the fallacy. It was the fashion in the earlier days of the bill to protest against its abstract principle ; but the Protestants of Bradford, Wakefield, and Birmingham feel that the time has come when more emphatic language is needed, and hence we find them uniformly memo rialising the House of Lords to reject the bill, en bloc. It has already pointed out the grave embarrassments which might arise from such a course of conduct, but it can hardly wonder that English Protestants should not shrink from recommending it. The Star, in remarking that the first parliamentary work to be done after the holidays is to dispose of the bill embodying the proposals of the Budget, says that pro bably the House of Commons, even were the proposals of doubtful utility, would not be disposed to examine in a very hostile spirit the arrangements of a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has brought forth a surplus out of the most unpromising materials. The reforms, however, are in themselves both reasonable and beneficial. Upon the adoption of them depends the reduction of a penny on the income tax ; and indeed the abolition of the fire insurance duty, the duty on hackney carriages, the license duty to let post horses, and the Customs' duty on corn. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not disguise that his surplus was obtained by the re arrangement of the times and modes of paying the assessed and income taxes, and the economy expected to result therefrom. We thus cannot receive the benefit of the reductions permitted by the surplus, and at the same time attack the mode of obtaining the surplus itself. The House must make up its mind either to enjoy reductions of taxation, or to lose them by refusing to carry out the necessary re -arrangements. We have no doubt of the result, which will be to set the seal of approval to the first Budget of a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has proved himself capable of grasping both principles and details, and raised hopes of a brilliant financial career for the Ministry of which he is so important a member. The Daily News remarks that the parliamentary session of 1869 is already half finished. A good deal of work has been put in train for accomplishment. How much of it will be actually done, he who survives to the middle of next August will be in a position to say. Practically, the Irish Church Bill has passed the House of Commons. The Conservative party will formally take the sense of the House—it wishes there were any means of communi cating a portion of it to them—on the third reading of the bill next Monday. To Mr. Holt, the member for North Lancashire, the task has been seriously confided of moving that the bill be read a third time that day six months. The Liberal party can have no objection to making another signal manifestation of their strength, at the particular request of their Conservative friends, on that day. Their unanimity and force have been sufficiently displayed before. But if Mr. Disraeli, or any other member of the Conservative party, thinks that the Lords will approach the consideration of the Irish Church Bill in a more rational temper if they are spared the necessity of looking back over the Whitsun tide recess for an overwhelming declaration of opinion and purpose, by all means let them have the desired reminder. It does not think they need it. The Lords will shew their patriotism as well as their prudence in not protracting a losing battle. The more sensible and influential organs of Conservative opinion admit that the peers are bound in common sense to accept the bill. Of course they have a constitutional right to reject it. But some constitutional rights continue to exist only because they are prudently exercised. Eco nomy in the use of them is an essential con dition of their endurance. The Lords are not asked to take any course which is humiliating or ignoble. A disap proval of the Irish Church Bill in the abstract is compa tible with a recognition of the fact that now that the country, at the polling-booths and by the votes of its inrepresenta tives in the H ouse o f C o mmons, has declared favour of it, regard to national interests requires that i▪ t should be accepted. In a sense of public duty, the egotism of per sonal opinion will be swallowed up. The Lords will silently pass a self-denying ordinance ; and in sodoing will shew that the unerring instin ct which Alr. Disraeli attributes to the Commons is no t monopoli▪ sed by the Lower House. The Herald looks with disfavour on the County Administration Bill, which it considers gives no new power to the ratepayers and only hampers the magistrates The ratepayers, in fact, looking at it minutely, will find that they are complimented by being introduced upon the boards in a hopeless and permanent minority. The pretence was that a power should be granted to tho ratepayers. The fact is that no such power is granted. But the most mischievous feature of the scheme consists in its supplemental arrangement. Under this the new board is made a nullity altogether. Its juri-.diction is Idt entirely undetermined, It upy, or it may not, kept in conflict with the court of quarter sessions; Th . Legislature absolutely refuses to say how far, or in whs t lirections, its powers shall extend. It provides, instead , a. complicated system of appeal. It sets the board , beforehand, deliberately at variance with the court. I t even leaves elections open. It creates a vast machine/ Df affidavits, proofs, and allegations. Public And private expenditure, upon a wasteful scale, follow, as a matter of course. Whatever is " properly" incurred must be paid by the county—and here we may sugges t that the counties should feel particularly grateful to teir new taxing masters ; whatever is not properrY incurred must be defrayed by the board, or, the rate' payers, under another name. And, as if the embarrass' ments created by the bill did not suffice, the Board of Trade is made a court of appeal on questions of bounds* Not only on those questions—on disputed amounts of rental also. The lawyers will find some employment if ever the " County Administration Bill" of 1869 conies into operation. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) "FENCE."—SweII (screwing himself up for the contest): "how much ?"—Cabby (with a rush) "Five shillings , sir !"—Swell : " Oh, nonsense ! I don't want to buy your horse ! What's your fare, I mean !" Cabby gives in. A.M. on P.M. ?—" The royal train arrived at Perth at 8.30 on Saturday evening. . . The royal party break' fasted in the station refreshment rooms." How ex hanateci . the royal party must have been, going without the ir breakfast until half-past eight at night ! Or is this 11 ° the fashionable hour for that meal? (From Fun.) CHARLIE IS MY DORLING.—He who trusts his fortunel to Royal Oak will, like King Charles, be up a tree. SPECULATIVE.—The Deptford Racing Spec is a thing the past. When shall we be able to say the same of another speck—or rather foul blot—on our social system—the vg li nigh chronic distress at the East-end? LESSON FOR LANCASHIRE. - Unimpeachable intelli' gence, from the north, apprises us that " Gladstone WI defeated by a short head ;" so, perhaps, Messrs. Cross JO Turner are not, after all, such very long-headed fellovel' On second thoughts, though, the informant quoted is not likely to be a Liberal, for he malignantly adds, " third." Note by our betting P. D.—" Please, sir, Lb ° gents' been and mistook the Times's report of the D° ll. caster races for a plitical article." (From Judy.) THE FIRST BOOK OF EUCLID--His Primer, we presume, for he must have made a beginning. .. STRANGE, AT FIRST GLANCE.—There is perfect unl l ; nimity among the Conservative members of "the Hulse, although they are " Diz "-united ! LORD SYDNEY AGAIN.—We announced that this noble' man had determined to give Mr. D. O'Sullivan a "dre g. sing." His lordship has written to say that it is to Oki the form of a "cork-jacketing !" ECCLESIASTICAL.—Everyone has heard of the ch mouse ; and as Mr. Gladstone has, in the last year orbs' altered his views of ecclesiastical matters so materially' may fairly be called the Church Rat I THE MONSTER BALLOON. This balloon, which started from Ashburnham Fo rl4 adjoining Cremorne Gardens, on Tuesday afternoons and for the safety of which considerable APP re i d pensions were entertained, has been secu re ' though not without some injury, near AylesburP The balloon came on Tuesday afternoon from tbl direction of Aston Clinton and Tring, and passed a litt i 'e to the north of the town of Aylesbury, going westward; Many persons assembled in the streets, and telesca ° : were `brought to bear upon the monster, the general op ial°- of the persons who viewed it being that there were t iti° persons inside. It bore for the Waddesdon and 'Michell:l don range of hills, and by Tring House, Hogshaw, North Malston, past the Grandborough-road Station, °' the Aylesbury and Buckingham line of railway, to of o rl : occupied by Mr. Hornby, in the parish of Bot°lll., Claydow. The balloon, after passing the Winche nde ' Hills, shelled signs of partial exhaustion, and for four tbe five miles the thick rope attached to it flapped along fields and against the hedges. It then proceeded °: again, coming into contact with some large elm trees °s Bernwood Farm, on the estate of Sir Harry Ver i l with which, after tearing away some large brans stiff, became entangled. By this time some fifty or sixty rus tle : who had followed the ballon, had assembled, and attenl e were made to secure it by lashing the rope round 14 : ..4 trunks of the trees, which was eventually done. Sir 1 0 "7, 4 Verney and Colonel Pratt were among the earliest arri/ 1 1 and under their directions precautions were taken topre' re % the balloon being injured ; Colonel Pratt placing fif tee i men belonging to the Bucks Militia, of which he is co lon e": and who happened to be present, to keep guard ove ri. during the night. Upon seeing the account in the mornitit papers of the escape of the balloon from Ashburnham on Tuesday, Mr. Field, watchmaker, of Aylesbury , te'e f graphed to M. Fou, and received a reply in the course , 1 the afternoon asking him to take care of the balloon, 611 ,, that he would send down some men for it in the evevote: M. Fou's men arrived at Aylesbury by the 5.20 P °l o train, and proceeded to Botolph Claydow to take che' rg of the balloon. There have been 200 patents issued at tbC Patent Office,Washington, for velocipedes during the O s twelve months. Some idea may be formed of the state of ea tie :; tion in a village in Hampshire, when it is stated that ° lc of thirteen jurymen summoned at an inquest last wee only four could write their names. PROPOSED WELCOME TO MR. MOTLEY AT 1.4 11°134 root.—At the monthly meeting of the Chamber a Co , l merce it was agreed to present to Mr. Motley an s ad r , e s i on his arrival as the American Minister. It is exP ec " that there will also be a grand banquet. The cotton spinners in the district ranging f : ° 0 1 Hyde to Glossop and Hadfield, and embracing those port' 0 of Cheshire and Derbyshire which lie on the south-eof borders of Lancashire, have decided to reduce the Nvag e° , r the operatives 5 per cent. in all branches of the cotton u3to facturing business on and after the 19th of June next. es CURIOUS STATISTICS.—SOnIe curious statietl have recently been issued in Paris. In that city (s42E°io the report) the entire population amounts to 1,70 0 1,, vv- 0 00 750,000 men, 700,000 women, 250,000 children; 40ut, of these men, women, and children live 00 An ij o ° oo own income (rentes) or are professional. l uv ' itt e are in schools, hospitals, and charitable Wt, tions, 200,000 are wholesale and retail trae`aro" 1,000,000 are mechanics, 35,000 are s o ldi ers . There 1.- j 416,811 individuals who repr esen t th e manu factur e d ° what are called " articl es o f P ar i s. " Th es e " E ta workers" consist of 285,861 men, 105,410 women, 25 ' children. THE NEW OFFICIAL ASSlGNEE.—Arrange u have been made for the appointment of Mr. Philip F l4 ; r 3 who for many years was chief clerk to Mr. V:Aol Watkin Edwards, the late official assignee, to he an e w— r, assignee until further order. Since the dismissal of '-.01 Edwards, Mr. H. H. Stansfeld, who, from the retire of Mr. Sturgis, acted as provisional assigne e w, insolvent matters, has superintended the business of Edwards's office ; but this has been found to Pr' t be great inconvenience, and Mr. Paget will now receili e jo s temporary appointment, foregoing all claim to a Pe ne te i as official assignee. It may be added that the Bankr l/13 f oce Bill before Parliament proposes the abolition of t he ° of official assignee.—Post. A case which is likely to lead to some euriotlO doff closures was before Lord Penzance in the Probate Colu: " t, Wednesday. The will of a Mr. Dickenson, farmer, late 01.4 Albans, is disputed on the ground that the signatures to it 1 " 0 forgeries. For some short time after the testator's des tjl ..., t ; 3 o will could be found, but ultimately a will was discovered IP," chefioneer, bequeathing the property to the wife d uris q , lifetime, and directing at her death it should be equi'll/0111 v ided amongst the children or their issue. The 1111 ' f a pparently duly attested by two witnes se s, who we re P. ,,f6 mers in the neighbourhood. The plaintiffs, h o wever, P . T e s that the signatures of the testator and the two wit i/e ,,;al are forgeries. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey are 0 1 0 for the plaintiff ; and Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Dr. Tris l4- u „,,g for the will. A witness was call e d who deposed to Os -- the will in the manner men ti one d . H e a l so s tated tbs A ° • 1141, of the attesting witness es was b e li eve d t o be in Cali fon but the whereabouts of the other was not ascertained- AN EX - EMPRESS.—The French journals t ell t i iainful story. A f ew d ays b ac k a l a dy, e legantly dress; ; and wearing many diamonds, drove up to the hou se t• gentleman at Enghi en , a v ill age nea r Paris, and , Pre:lllp ing herself as the Queen of Spain, said that she clesir L'.de rent his house, and wished to be allowed to visit it. proceeded to shew her over it, but her manner Was strip and after awhile she addressed him as "Sire !" came to the conclusion that she was a lunatic, but was e. "O rassed as to what he should do. Presently , however;tej well-dressed men arrived. The lady at first d _ theY on seeing them, but followed them quietly, ash bslt w as took her away. They told the gentlem an that a very great lady, that her mind was affected, 1 : t ee o: she had escaped frt,m Paris on her way to the rl llll en . where she had been ordered by her physicians. °le,gon• tleman subsequently learned that she was no less me te r'" age than the sister of the King of the Belgians, t he en in-law of the Emperor of Austria, the cousin of the Q tle ro i of England—she was the widow of Maximilian, raq.e Q# Mexico. Bhe is, kappep t p, bPPOiIIY-Mets4- NONE COMMEM The directors rated without in minimum. According to day, the Freni decided. Consols have for money; ditt Cent. Reduced 921 ; Exchegt £2OO, and £5O( per Cent., India Stock, 1 ditto 5 per Cent Ceni., Oct., 181 per Cent., In the Foreig 1861 have imp Spanish New 'I 1868 4, Argenti the Honduras I ex coupon ; tl 79 ; Nicolai Argentine Six Seven per Con p r Cents., 921 1 868, 764 to 76 57 t - ; Mexican, Cents., 78i to 28f to 284. In the Rail lows Brightc 77 ; Great Ea 484 to 424; 1071 ; Lancasl London and Chatham, and 98 ; Midland, Eastern, 75f become in fav 98 I. Colonial Gt Bank and M changed. 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