The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-09 00:00:00

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To the Committee of the Six Associated Australian Banks, as Agents for the Government of Victoria. Gentlemen.-- hereby tender for £ Debentures of the Victoria Government, according to the annexed notice of the Ist instant, and undertake to pay £ for every £lOO in Debentures, and to accept the same or any less amount that may be allotted to , and to pay for them in conformity with the terms of the said notice. Name... • Address 1 ate ... . M arch, 1869. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, HENRY IV. (First Par.): Falstaff, Mr. Phelps; Hotspur, Mr. Dillon; Messrs. Ryder, Sinclair, Wil son, M‘lntyre, &c.; Miss Stuart and Mrs. Vandenhoff. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled BE DA. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET, Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish. Burke, Hill, &c. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY: Messrs. Buckstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, Weathersby, White, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Gwynn, Wright, &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. 'WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, a new farce, entitled A. DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Be'more, Mr. C. H. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. Al 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling Mr. G Belmore, Mr. It. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. , Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R"2" PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama. in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Bignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (dye Years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr, F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. Co conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA Mdlle. Beatrice. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open ROYAL S TRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30 THE WIDOW HUNT . M essrs 'lake. Belford, Joyce. Mesdames Bithen and Maitland. After Which, THE FIELD OF TL E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James and Robson Mesdames M. loOng more, F. Hughes. L. 'Maitland, 4:c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. oTAL A.IIPHITHEA rRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN The world-renowned ONRA, whose extraordinary feats on the PLYING TRAPEZE perfectly electritled the Metr polls last Autumn, will appear ;VERY FVF \ IN(' • • .. —ma's performance is now, more thin ever, nnquestionably sniper:or to that of Lco tard. or any other rcrrormer on the t rapeze. Ills double comer- Faults fr.= the (lying bar are incr.dib:e, and, to nee a hackneyed phrase, twist he seen to he believed. Onra challenges the WITH. The matchleFs SCENES In the ARENA, as neual. inch-X. in r , Herr OSCAR C A BRE and his magMfleent : bud of Performing Horses, end the Star Company of Equebtrlans, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and Clowns. " Such a varied entertainment, so replete with excite ment, amusement, and evidence of refined shill, has never before been introduced to the metropolis."—Daily Telegraph. Oct. 30. Doors open at Seven, commence at half pust. 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At a quarter to 8, MARIE ANTOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore, Mr. Dominick Murrby; Mdlle. Beatrice. Conclud ing with A. CUP OF T r:A dile. Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING - . Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster.A. Stirling, G. Belmore, li.. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &e, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanboronzh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Burton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THE.kTRE-ROl-Ak. Trus EVENING. at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. OM, BROWN AND TTIE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Ifurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar aold, and Stephens QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. THIS EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY : Messrs. J. L. Toole. L. Brongh , IT. Irving, S. Emery. Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tilts EVFNING, AUNT CHARLOTTES MAI 1 1 . Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weatherby. After which, FETTERED: Messrs. Cowper. eyille, Porsehe, Drew, Brunton, W. A , thur, Bartleman. and George Honey: M es dames Lydia Foote , Turner , Marlbro, Hodsnn, and F a nny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIs EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and ravnideent Stud f 50 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, cte THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H. Ne ille, E. Atkins, 11. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson: Mesdames Furtado, Schavev, N. Harris, and st. Henry. After which, THI•i YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville, H. Neville, Atkins. Taylor, Taughan, G. Vincent, ex.; Miss Fur : ado and Mrs Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver. TTITS EVENING, at 7.30, A OVI Vti CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. T o he followed I by ' CLAUDE DUVAL ; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of NI iss Marie Wilton 'fats EVENING SCHDOL • Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagtp, Addison, Glover' and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. M iss C. Addison, and 'Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entortainmpnt: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GIiAND DUTCH—S RIS'TY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturd a y s, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promonade Concert. B an d of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, R egen t' s - par k , OPEN d a ily (ex cept Sundays). Ad mission, under twelve, 6d. is.; on Mendays, 61; Children ( ITjt .Lll • Sint 5 LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1899. Mr. CHILDERS' explanation yesterday, in Com mittee, of the Naval Estimates, cannot but be re garded as having afforded a complete justification of the choice made of him by Mr. GLADSTONE, last D e . cember, as the new First Lord of the Admiralty. His reduction of those estimates, within the brief interval which has since then elapsed, is, to say the least of it, something remarkable. It is a reduction amounting upon the current year, as compared with its immediate predecessor, of upwards of a million sterling. A n d the reduction effected is one quite clearly at no risk whatever to the efficiency of the national service. On the contrary, we cannot but recognise in many of the changes which have been effected or are in process of being effected, guarantees for the better manage ment of the department in future, by means of a concentration of hitherto scattered sections of that department, and by means also (because of that) of an extraordinary and very obvious simplifi cation of heretofore exceedingly complex arrange ments. The total of the Navy E , 3tirnates, as now planned, will be, as Mr. CHILDERS tih us, some £9,996,000, viz., £8,101,000 for effective services, £1,515,000 for non-effective, and £316,000 for trans port services, which is a reduction of £1,027,000 on last year, and £1,300,000 from the year 18G7-GB. This reduction being effected by means of the following departments, meiteepmasrt £199,000nt; for wages, £73,000 victualling £127,000 dockyards, £57,000 stores, £331,000 contracts, and £21,000 transports. Ex plaining thi3 very clearly, the First Lord of the Adm iralty went on last evening to recount first of all the THE SUN, LONDON, TCESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1869, changes effected in the Admiralty Establishments, secondly the policy decided on by the Government in regard to the organization and distribution of our various fleets, and lastly the programme sketched out in the matter of shipbuilding. As to the first point, namely, the changes made or to be made in the Ad miralty Establishments, he surprised many by the announcement that he was altogether against the abolition of the Board, and consequently against the notion of either reviving the old obsolete post of Lord High Admiral of England, or the creation of a new Secretary of State, a Sixth Secretary of State, for the conduct of the Maritime Department of the Administration. Instead of adventuring upon either of those last-mentioned courses, he had resolved, as he told the Committee yesterday, upon simply rearrang ing the Board of Admiralty. His plan of rearrange ment, including within it, in point of fact, princi pally this notablechange—that the Controller, hence forth to be seated at the Board, will have the direc tion of the materiel of the navy, that the personnel will be in the charge of one of the Junior Lords, and that the Secretary of the Admiralty will have the control of the financ2s. Coupled with this, he has already contrived—with a saving of some £20,000 a year in the process, and this moreover, without inflicting injury upon any single individual by so doing-- he has already contrived, as he explained, to concentrate all the administrative de partments of the Admiralty about Whitehall—leaving only the accountants' work to be still done within the precincts of Somerset-House. Another of Mr. CIIILDERS' extraordinary announcements was this, that he had reduced the South American, Pacific, China, Indian, and African squadrons from 80 ships and 11,600 men to 64 ships and 8,500 men; having besides that arranged that the Indian Government should pay £70,000 a year towards the expenses of the vessels kept in Indian waters. A flying squadron, he also described as about to be despatched, consist ing of some of the finest vessels in the service— the object of which squadron is to visit in turns one or another of the Foreign Stations. Together with this, he has a plan for despatching a few of the Coast Guard vessels on a cruise. The reduction of men and boys effected in the Estimates he ex plained as from 66,700 to 63,000, honorably adding, however, that to the credit of this the late Board of Admiralty was chiefly entitled. With a view to the reduction of the unnecessarily enormous list of officers in the Royal Navy—a list altogether out of proportion to any conceivable require ments of the service—he announced that his colleague the Chancellor of the Exchequer would shortly bring in a Bid for commuting the half-pay of a certain number of officers, thus enabling the Ad miralty to recast the list according to the actual and undoubted requirements of the service. Coming, in the end, to the last subject upon which he had to offer his official explanations to the Committee, to wit, the matter of the Shipbuilding Programme, he gave the welcome information to his hearers that, by the end of the financial year, nearly all the ships now in hand would be completed, an I, if possible, the still more welcome intimatio❑ that, at Pembroke and at Chatham respectively, there are about to be laid down at once two Turret Ships which will be the most powerful afloat ! They will be 4,400 tons, double screws, lii knots speed, plated with 12-inch and 14 -inch armour, carrying four 25 -ton guns, and costing £286,000 each. Adding that, when the existing and immediately projected arrangements were actually carried out we should have nearly Fifty (47) armoured vessels afloat, carrying close upon Six Hundred (598) guns, and that these, with Sixty six efficient unarmoured vessels, together with a large number of vessels of the old type, will give England a Navy stronger than that possessed by any other na tion in the,world. Agreeable news, surely, that— conplel with an appreciable reduction in OUT naval estimates at the very same time of fully one million sterling ! TIIE Irish Church Bill seems to have completely taken all the heart out of the Opposition in Ireland. Irish Churchmen are passive, and the Orange journals in vain appeal to them to " awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." The truth is, the clergy, who should of course lead any agitation, are very well satisfied with Mr. GLADSTONE'S scheme. They expected one far less favourable. They know, as well as Mr. DISRAELI knows, that the Church as an establish ment is doomed, that nothing can save it, and that it is simply a question of terms. Those which the PREMIER offers are not only liberal, but very hand some, and they think they may do much worse than accept them. The landlords are no less satisfied than the clergy. The opportunity afforded them to buy up the tithe rent charge at twenty-two and a-half years' purchase, and to spread the payment over forty-five years, suits them exceedingly well. Therefore, instead of seeing any longer in disendowment an invasion of the rights of property, they see only an occasion for increasing their pro perty, and that while scrupulously respecting the rights of others. So, while a few ultra Orangemen are writing angry letters in their organs, and calling the PREMIER every bad name that can be found even in the fertile Irish vocabulary, the great body of Irish Churchmen are indisposed to offer any serious opposition. There is another reason why they should not do so beside the satisfactory nature of the compensation offered to them. Experience has taught them that if they suffer themselves to be made the tools of a political party, they are likely to fare very much worse than they would fare under Mr. GLADSTONE'S bill. The Irish Church occupies exactly the same position now that Parliamentary Reform occupied prior to 1807, so far as the Conservative party are concerned. The maintenance of a Conservative Administration before that date was impossible until the question of Reform was got out of the way. Similarly, the maintenance of a Conservative Administration is impossible now until the Irish Church question has been settled. Two years ago the Conservatives deter mined to remove the first obstacle, and granted a measure far beyond that which the Liberal party proposed. Irish Churchmen shrewdly suspected that if they gave the Conservatives the opportunity, the same course would be adopted with regard to their Church—that it would have to take a leap in the dark, such as that which the Constitution was compelled to take two years back. They have no desire to witness that feat. They think that on the whole they will do much better by accepting the annuities which Mr. GLADSTONE offers, or by settling down in undisturbed possession of their parsonages and churches. True, they will be disestablished ; but is that so very great an evil which involves their representation in a Church convention ? True that the one archbishop and the three bishops will no longer be entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but is that a matter concerning which the country parson, who has never travelled fartherthan Dublin, need feel very acutely ? Every consideration combines to make the present terms acceptable. If Mr. GLADSTONE be the foe to the Church he is reported to be, he is at least a by no means inexorable one. Moreover, there is high authority for agreeing with an adversary quickly while he is in the way, lest he deliver you to the officer, and that functionary (in the person of Mr. DisnAELI) deliver you to the judge (the great Conservative party), and the judge c:lst you into prison, in the shape of a " Tory-Radical" measure. IT will be seen from the news which we give in another column that the Duke of BUCKINGHAM did wisely in refusing to grant the prayer of the Nova Scotians for the dissolution of the North American Confederation. Instead of Nova Scotia seceding, Newfoundland has acceded, and we may expect to hear every day that the little adjacent settlement of Prince Edward Island has followed the example just set by the oldest of the British colonies. The accession of Newfoundland is important in itself and for the results which it will have. It will necessarily involve that of Prince Edward Island, and thus complete the Confederation up to the Rocky Mountains. So long as these two islands remained aloof they afforded opportunities for illicit trade. In fact, it was these very opportunities, offering, as they did, a lucrative business, which induced Newfoundlanders to remain apart from the Confederation until now. We do not know what inducement has been offered to them to change their determination. We know only that they have changed, and that, by a large majority, a decision has been given in favour of union. From another source we learn that the negotiations with the Hudson's Bay Company are progressing satisfac torily, that company having yielded some important points which will render the transfer of their terri tory easy and certain. In all probability British Columbia will shortly follow the example just set by Newfoundland, and the Confederation will be complete from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This done, it is to be hoped that material results will follow. It will be of small advantage to have a Union of this kind unless it is strong enough to initiate measures that would not have been possible so long as British North America was split up into seven provinces. The merging of the Heptarchy into one Government ought to be• succeeded by the construction of a railway from ocean to ocean, which should make the New Dominion the great highway between Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The produce of China and Japan ought to reach us yid the Intercolonial Railway. LATEST INTELL LGENCE (REU'^ER's TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, March 9. M. Devienne has been appointed Chief President of the Cour de Cassation. Judgment was pronounced yesterday on the pri soners concerned in the case of wholesale infanti ci le at Montauban. Two women were sentenced to the galleys; Delpech, the chief culprit, for life ; and Coyne for ten years ; the other sentences were Barriere, two years; Veru, four; Pauline, three ; Eu'alie, two; and Planta-1c one years' imprison ment. The woman Boyer was acquitted. CROATIA. AGRAM, March 9. The Emperor and Empress arrived here last evening and were received with much enthusiasm by the people. The town was brilliantly Illumi nated. Count Beust has also arrived here. The Empress will take her departure for Pesth on Sa turday next. A USTRIA. VIENNA, March 9. The New Free Press of to-day announces that the French Ambassador, the Duke de Gramont, is about to leave for Paris. The same paper states that Miinif Effendi has been definitively appointed Minister of the Porte at Athens, and that Server E ffen di is appointed Turkish Ambassador here. CrEvrit tf4Ati., • IIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 8. The Queen, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, a!so went our. THE ATTACK BY CHINESE ON THE CREW OF THE COCKCHAFER. The following details of thin occurrence are given by the China Mail :—" It appears that the boats of her Majesty's gunboat Cockchafer were exercising in a creek about four miles beyond Swatow, when their crew were stoned by some natives, the missiles striking several of the men. The latter landed and caught one of the assailants, whom they detained with the intention of handing him over to the native authorities, and retreated to their boats. A large mob of Chinese, however—some 400 or 500 —suddenly ma d e th e i r being appe well armed with gingalls, opened a galling fi re on thearance from the village in the nei g hb our h oo d, an d boats' crews. The latter returned the fire with their Snider rifles, but were obliged to retreat, twelve of their number being wounded, and two, the boatswain and gunner, not being expected to live. The loss on the Chinese side is said to be fourteen killed and several wounded. From n are, especially in China. A private information we learn that th e mo b w h o fi rs t partly of men and partly tnilg composedthe Cockchaf er ' s b oats was wounded of be l g br a :o n ysst the— everyu attack ino man abno wsia e gaerig a more or less severely; and even the man who brought the despatches on board the Kwang-tung, although on duty, had his arm in a sling. The gunner and boatswain are rather dangerously hit—one having been shot through the upper part of the body (back and breast), and the other in the uenaaal entertained of the possi bility HO far from the reach of shoulder, the ball having lodged in the c h es t. I n th e l a tt er Y tcbasee,the surgeon's bul probe, l et i fos that rt fears of its being removed ; and if, as is gener a lly the case, the ball be an iron one, very serious consequences ma y result. All the wounded men are in h os pit a l, an d are being carefully attended to by D r . S co tt. Th e gunner, who is a go od marksman, is said to unfortunately re have fired no less than 400 rounds of Snider ammuni tion before he was hit—so that the estimate of the loss on the part of the rascally natives may probably be under the mark. Th e gallant commander (Lieutenant Kerr) was of course exposed to the fire as much as any of his men ; but it is satisfactory to know that he is unhurt. He had at least two ve ry narrow escape for his life, one bullet, passing over his head, grazed or went through his cap, and another found a lodgment in the breast of his coat." Gladstone, and stat e d that in In addressing his constituents at Taunton, Mr. conducting the petition henry Ja mes avowe d hi m self a staunch su pp or t er o f Mr. against Sergeant Cox he was anxious to avoid hurting the feelings of their opponents by proving more than was neces sary to secure the seat. Another attempt has been made to upset a train on a railway passing through Shropshire. In the present in stance, broken chairs were placed upon the rails, near New port, over which the 6.15 p.m. train from Stafford was ex pected to pass. Two men, named Darlington and Bott, have been committed for trial at Shrewsbury Assizes upon the charge. Ireland, appear s i n A Protestant d ec l aration, w hich is being signed in the Dublin papers. It declares the contemplated Ch urch legislat i on t o be a perfidi ous violation of the U n i on and a spoliation o f p ro p er ty secure d by the faith of t reaties. The documen t i s p re p are d by the Defence Association, and has the signatures of the Duke of Abercorn, Lords Ormonde, Bandon, and Crofton as vice-presidents for the four Irish provinces, together with the names of forty-two other noblemen and a number of deputy-lieutenants and magistrates. At the Cheltenham County Court a chemist sought to recover from Mr. J. T. A gg -Gardner, the defeated Con servative candidate at the last election, the sum of three guineas as remuneration for loss of time in attending as a witness for three days on behalf of the petitioner. Mr. Stroud, who appeared for the defendant, took an objec tion, in support of which he cited cases to Chow that a wit ness could not claim for lose of time for attending a court in his own town. His honour concurred, and the plaintiff was non-suited. At a large meeting of the electors of the borough it has been resclvtd t o i nv ite Sir Harcourt Johnstone to offer himself f or the vacancy i n th e representa tion of Scarbro', caused by the death of his father, and a requisition asking him to offer himself is to be presented on an early day. Resolutions were also passed, expressing on behalf of the constituency which for twenty eight years Si John represented, their deep sympathy with Lady Johnstone and the other members of her family at the heavy and sudden bereavement they had suffered. The writ * was issued on - Friday night, so that the election will probably take place tiup Week. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, March 8, In the absence or positive news rumour is unusually active just now.] Never, it is affirmed, has the Empire had such a narrow escape of a great, and perhaps dangerous, Ministerial crisis. Had, it is said, the Third Party pos. aessed a leader equal to the occasion, M. Rouher would have fallen, and a new Ministry and a new regime would have reigned in his stead. The enemies of the Minister of State have bad their chance, but the invincible Rouher bas once more proved triumphant. It is asserted that Prince Napoleon—who always turns up in the nick of time—urged his cousin to change his subordinates, as the only means of preserving internal peace ; and some go so far as to assert that an announcement containing the dismissal of all the Ministers was sent to the Journal Ude& Where there is smoke there is fire. It is evident that the Empire has been rudely shaken by this City of Paris debate. There can be no doubt, too, that the most deadly antagonism has sprung up between M Rouher and Baron Haussmann. [t is officially announced that M. de la Gu6ronniize, the Imperial Ambassador at the Court of Brussels, is about to leave Paris. There is to be no change. Why, then, people ask, did the Minister leave Brussels, and why has he remained here so long? It is affirmed, and, it must be added, with great show of truth, that the Government is not only greatly annoyed by the action of the Belgian Government in the affair of the railways, but is yet making it the sulj ect of serious diplomatic communications. The nature of these communications is, of course, warmly disputed. Some affirm that the Imperial policy will not hesitate to threaten the independence of Belgium ; others content themselves with the supposition that the Luxem bourg line only will be dealt with, and that the Government will attempt to dissuade the Bel gian Cabinet from forbidding this single concession, without infringing upon the general principle of the bill. The official papers, on their side, affirm that the affair is settled, and no longer occupies the attention of the French Ministry. But, however wide of the mark the more alarming hypotheses may be, few persons believe that the difficulty is at an end. The proof that it is still the subject of epistolary interchanges between the two tour tries is all but positive. Although it is usual for American Presidents to com mence their term of office by a clean sweep in diplomatic representation, there is reason to believe that this incon venient rule will not be followed in the case of General Dix. General Grant is said to have requested the American Ambassador here to retain his credentials. Th offer has been accepted. The injury wrought by the late storm has been really phenomenal. The damage done on the whole of the west coast is very great ; but at Saint Malo and the neighbour. hood the effects of the hurricane have been calamitous. Five hundreds yard of dyke were swept away, and a large district inundated. Houses have been demolished, cattle drowned, trees uprooted, and all hopes of the approaching harvest destroyed. In a few minutes the labours of 30 years were annihilated, and the scientific men who havevisited the scene of the disaster declare that at least five years will be required to repair the damage. No lives were lost, but numerous families have lost all they possessed. A murder has just been revealed in a strange way. So far back as the 22nd of October a young man was found murdered in the wood of Vincennes.. Fruitless attempts were made to discover the perpetrator of this deed. At length a sailor, who was charged with a trifling robbery, confessed to various offences of the kind at Nice, Lisbon, and other places. Happening to hear of this murder, this candid criminal volunteered the opinion that it must have been perpetrated by a baud of thieves known as La Bande Noire, giving at the same time such precise indications that suspicion fell on the narrator himself. The following day he was recognised by a person who had seen him, on Oct. 22, not far from the place where the body was found, and the testimony of this individual induced the sailor to confess the crime. Strange to say, the same man had saved, at the risk of his life, two children from the fourth storey of a burning house, and an official certificate to that eflec was found upon him. An odd case has been heard before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. This was a suit brought by the manager of the principal theatre in Brussels against Madame Carvalho, the well-known opera-singer. The plaintiff engaged the defendant, but, as I believe I told you, she declined to fulfil her part of the engagement, alleging that as an epidemic disease was raging in the Belgian capital her life would be endangered. The court has now declared the plea to be insufficient, and decided she must go there within a fortnight, under penalty of paying £24 a day ; it reserves M. Letellier's right to recover further damages, and grants him £4O for the injury which he has already sustained. The epidemic - has now ceased, so that doubt less the cautious lady will avoid these severe forfeitures by at once setting out for the,Belgian capital. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. maropoioclCAL RETORTS. Extreme Sea Tuesday, r..? i F. I 0 March 9, B. T. W. Ito F. D. W to 8 a.m. 12 9 Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields Scarborough 29•62 f. 34 33 N.N.W. 3 1 1 2 N.E. c.f. 2 Yarmouth 2 9 .55L 36 36 S.W. S.S.E. c.f. 2 Cuxhaven _ Bkudesnses _ Ardrossan Greencastle 29'69f. 38 36 N.N.E. 4 6 N.N.E. r.sc 0'26 Holyhead Liverpool Valcutia 29'B4f. 40 38 N.N.E. 7 8 N.N.E. r.hc' o'l6 6 Cape Clear - _ Roch a's Pt 29'7of. 37 36 N. 5 5 N. 0. o'o9 3 Penzance Plymouth Pembroke Portsmouth 29'54f. 37 35 N.E. 2 2 W.S.W. 0. 10'02 1 London , C'peGris Nez 2951 f. 34 34 S. 4 5 S.W. r.0. 1 0'03 2 Brest L'Orient 29 . 53 f, 39 39 E. 3 4 N.W. o.c. o'o2 2 Rochefort Biarritz Corunna — Brussels Paris Strasbourg — Heart's Con tent (9 a.m. local time) , _ xxPLANATION Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f, falling ; s, steady—indicates direction emotion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed is shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather ; b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f. - fog 11.—hail ; I.—lightning ; m.—minty, hay,' ; o. —overcast, dull r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Since yesterd‘y morning a considerable decrease of barometrical pressure has occurred at all stations, amounting to nearly (Van. in the N.W. of France, and nearly o'3ia. in Scotland. This change has made readings this morning rather low, and very uniform. (The great and sudden fall reported at Scarborough yesterday afternoon, and which was the cause of the issue of warnings to the E. coast, arose from an error in the telegram.) Temperature also has decreased, except in W. France and S.E. England, where it has recovered a few degrees. Thermometer readings are very uniform. Winds generally have veered to the N.E., and during the night have become strong at Valencia elsewhere they continue light to moderate A light S. wind still holds at Yarmouth and Cape Cris Nez. Snow has fallen in the north and east, and some rain in the west. The sky this morning is a little cloudy, with fog on the east coast, but weather fine. The sea has got up at Valencia, It is said that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is really very seriously ill. lie Seems to have injured himself by overwork. his physician says he must have rest, and prescribes a long stay abroad for the recovery of his health The revolting murder at Wednesbury continues to form the all-absorbing topic of discussion throughout the Black Country district. The prisoner's wife—his second wife, wedded only thirteen months— and his four chil dren by his first wife, had an interview with bim in the cells, before his removal to Stafford, and the parting scene, so far as the woman and children were concerned, is described as a most harrowing ono. The prisoner himself, either by force of will orlack of feeling, carried himself almost unmoved through the scene. His wife, with tears streaming down her cheeks, exclaimed before she left, " Ob, lad, if you know aught about it, do tell me." His only reply was a brief denial of all knowledge of the affair. The President of the Board of Trade has just re-_ ceived a deputation from Birmingham asking him to use his influence to close the Enfield Rifle factory. Mr. Bright Peplied to the effect that he was afraid the applicants would find very great difficulty in in ducing the Government to reduce or abolish the exist ing Enfield factory, and pointed out that, even if it were abolished, a very large number of men would he thrown out of employment, and they would naturally go to Birmingham to seek work, and thus be competitors quite as much there as they wero at the Enfield factory. Tho Go vernment might, however, prevent the extension of the fac tory. The hill to amend tlw law with respect to the pro perly of married wcroeu Las keen prepared alid brought in by Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Headlain, and Mr. Jacob Bright. By the provisions of this bill it is enacted that a maried wo. man shall bo capable of holding property, of contracting, n i suing, and of being sued as if she were a femme sole. Pro perty acquired by the act shall be held by them as if unmarried. A husbanl shall not be liable for the debts of his wife before marriage. Questions between husband and wife as to the title to, or possession of, personal property are to be decided in a summary way, by a petition to any judge of Chancery or the County Court of the dis. trict in which either party resides. This act does not affect :the right of any husband to hold his wife's real estato as OnantlY coin te~y. CATTLE DISEASES BILL. The bill for preventing the spread of contagion! diseases among cattle has been brought in by Mr Dodson, Mr. Forster, and Mr. Secretary Bruce, It is enacted that every local authority shat appoint inspectors to carry out the provisions of this bill, and that both the local authorities and the inspectors shall make reports to the Privy Council frog time to time. The Privy Council may have power tc prohibit the landing of foreign animals, or subject their to quarantine. If any person attempts to land at animal in contravention of the order of the Council, the animal shall be forfeited, and the person so offending shaU be liable to penalties. Upon receiving information of the existence of cattle plague in his district the inspector shall at once proceed to the place and discharge the powers and duties conferred on him by law. The certificate of an inspector to the effect that an animal is affected with disease shall be conclusive evidence in all courts of justice of the matter certified. An inspector shall declare those parts of his district where disease has appeared tc be infected places, and such declarations shall be sent to the Privy Council. Any constable may apprehend any person found committing an offence against the rules of this Act, and may require that any animal or thing moved out of an infected place be taken back. If any person exposes infected animals for sale, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence under this Act, and the same shall apply to any person turning out diseased animals on unenclosed lands. Steamboat and railway companies are bound to disinfect carriages and boats that are used for the conveyance of animals. If the railway company should make provision for the supply of water and food to animals carried by them, they may charge the same to the owners. This Act shall not extend to Ireland, but part of it applies to Scotland. INDIA. The following are the principal items of news by the Bombay mail, just arrived:— The accounts from the famine districts are somewhat less alarming than hitherto. A good deal of rain has fallen in the North-West Pro vinces, which has had the effect of I.werin g the prices of corn throughout the webLern part of those provinces. The contemplated interview between Lord Mayo and Shere Ali, at Peshawur, has been abandoned. The Bishop of Calcutta has put forward a scheme for the establishment of a Christian mission at Mandalay. the King of which does not object to Christianity. Dr. Douglas, Bishop of Bombay, presided at a public meeting in Bombay, for the first time, on the occasion of the anniversary gathering of the Church Missionary Society. A bill has passed the Bombay Legislative Council em powering the Government Commissioners appointed to inquire into the recent fatal accident on the Bhore Ghaut incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The Bombay creditors and contributories of the Com mercial Bank Corporation have unanimously adopted the compromise proposed by the official liquidator. A bill is to be introduced at the next meeting of the Legislative Council of Bombay for the prevention of the adulteration of cotton and the better suppression of frauds in the cotton trade in the Bombay Presidency. The bill also provides for the expenditure of part of the revenue derived from cotton, on the improvement of the growth of cotton, and of machinery applicable to the pre *Thration of cotton for export. 4 .N EXECUTION AT CONSTANTIONPLE. Another of these locally rare sacrifices to justice occurrea on Wednesday morning in a street near Ak-Serai. The victim in this case was a Mussulman Albanian, named Hassan, who about a fortnight ago violated and then mur dered a woman at Scutari. He had entered the house, in a lonely quarter of the Asiatic suburb, in the daytime, and, finding the woman alone, perpetrated his double crime, and afterwards decamped with what light valuables he could carry off. The police, for a wonder, succeeded in tracking him, and, as he was identified by some one who had seen him enter the house, he finally confessed the crime during his second or third examination at the Zaptieh. From the first there was no chance of his escaping capital punish ment, but his sentence was, as usual, concealed from him till the last. The execution had been delayed for some days owing to the difficulty of finding a gipsy—the usual finisher of the law in Stamboul—to undertake the job for the modest fee offered by the authorities. The Zingaree, however, holding out for better pay, a policeman was at length induced to do the work, and, without previous hint of his fate, the murderer was roused from his sleep at sunrise on Wednesday to go down, as he was told, to a steamer for exile to Trebizonde. On reaching the spot selected, the party of police escorting him halted, and the first intimation the wretch had of his fate was the question if he desired to say his prayers. He replied in a negative. and the executioner then advanced and attempted to throw a looped cord over his head. Manacled though he was, he resisted for some minutes, struggling fiercely, and screaming in a manner which, early as the hour was, speedily gathered a crowd into the previously empty street. At length the cord was got round his neck, and, after a further short resistance, he was strangled into insensibility. This done, the body was hitched up to a hook in the door-post of a neighbouring butcher's shop, with the feet barely off the ground, and left to die out thus, under watch of a single zaptieh. As usual, there was no excitement among the spectators, and in less than half an hour after the murderer was dead only some three or four loiterers lingered near the spot. About 1 p.m. the body was cut down, and carried off in a sack for burial.—Levant Herald, Jan. 24. Mr. Hatton Hamer Stansfeld, who for many years filled the office of official assignee in the court of the late Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, and who for some years has acted as provisional assignee in the winding up of old insol vency cases, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the post of official assignee in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's court, vacant by the dismissal of Mr. Edwards. At the Derby Assizes Mr. Hugh Brookes surren dered to answer a charge of "practising intimidation, on the 13th of July, 1868," upon George Thornley, a voter for the southern division of the county of Derby, by means of a threatening letter, in order to in duce him to give his vote. After a long inquiry, his lord ship expressed his opinion that the indictment had not been maintained, and a verdict was returned for the defendant. Mr. Shirley Brooks, in writing in the Illustrated London News, says: " Good Friday has been selected by certain Reformers of the less-considered sort for a proces sion in honour of the late Ernest Jones. One reads that some kinds of hymns are to be sung, and that a meeting is to take place in Trafalgar-square. I suppose that it is of no use to ask such persons to reconsider their intention ; but could Ernest Jones have foreseen anything of the kind, he would have declared it, both in regard to the choice of the day and the ridiculous ceremonial, detestable. Mr. Ernest Jones was a gentleman." THE NEW TRADE MOVEMENT.—The adjourned meeting of ironmasters and ironworkers was held on Mon day at Darlington, when the committee of five masters and five men presented rules for the formation and guidance of a court of arbitration and conciliation. Most of the works in the North of England were represented by the masters and by delegates on the part of the men, and the discussions were of a harmonious and promising character. The meeting, which occupied several hours, discussed the rules, a code being ultimately adopted. It was decided that the board of arbitration should consist of one operative and one employer from each firm, the ope ratives to select their representative by ballot ; that a president and vice-president, one from the operatives and one from the employers, be elected annually ; that the board meet once a quarter at Darlington, Stockton, New castle, and Middlesborough, alternately. The question of an advance of wages was again raised by the men, who pressed their claim, and said the ironworkers were almost ready to strike in some of the districts. It was decided' that the board of arbitration should meet at an early day, and consider the demand. THE TOWER HAMLETS CONSTITUTIONAL Asso- CIATION.—BANQUET TO MR. COOPE.-- On Monday night the first anniversary of the Tower Hamlets Conservative Association was celebrated by a banquet at the Cannon street Hotel, in honour of the candidature of Mr. Coope The chair was taken by Mr. R. Wigram. There were about 300 persons present, amongst whom were Mr. Mow bray, M.P., Mr. Fowler, M.P., Mr. Round, M.P. , Mr. Pell, M.P., Mr. Charrington, Major Holt, Mr. Fairclough, Mr. Morgan Howard, Mr. J. Fletcher, Mr. Ashton, Rev. Mr. Bray, &c. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, the chairman proposed the toast of the evening "Mr Coope, our Friend and Future Member." The cir cumstarces under which Mr. Coope stood for the Tower Hamlets were peculiar, and he looked upon the amount of support he received as a sign that the tide was turning in favour of Conservatism in this country. The result in South Lancashire did not afford stronger evidence of tho feelings of the people of the country than (lid the last election in the Tower Hamlets. The To wel was a working men's constituency, and their supi.ort, of his friend Mr. Coope—a support which was nearly crowned with success—shewed that they were begin ning to see who were their real friends. He had now, on behalf of the Tower Hamlets Constitutional Association, to present Mr. Coope with an address. Mr. Coope said when he heard of this banquet he was afraid at first that it might be regarded as an offer of condolence under defeat, but when he recollected that in the most Radical borough in the kingdom, and possessing one of the largest constituencies, he was only defeated by the small majority of 400, he felt that the result of the dectio4 of the Tower klAreWe wp4 rely tritlawbi SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that Mr. Childers, in moving th e navy estimates, had a double advantage—first, in coining before the House with all the energy of a new adrain ie ‘ trator ; and next, in addressing an audience, a la r g e number of whom heard the naval estimates moved for the first time. The fact that he could announce a reduction of more than a million was also in his favour, though lunch of this reduction was settled before his predecessor left office. But, after making every allowance for the tard l zeal of the late Ministry, Mr. Childers deserves the praise of great energy and success since he has been at WhitebslL He has recast the supreme administrative machinery. I le has devised a plan of freeing the navy from the congesti on of elderly officers, under which it constantly suffers. lie hiel revised the mode of distribution and relief of the foreig° squadrons. He has determined upon a distinct polity r ' l2 be followed in shipbuilding. He has just touched, byway of beginning,"the management of the dockyard; and giv es fair promise of doing much more in the same portion of hi e department. Experience only can shew how far his refoun e are salutary, but there seems to begood reason for everyone of them. It is impossible that economy can be pursued hi a Government without some complaint on the part of t hc ', se who find themselves affected by re t renc h men t ; but tir" kind of remonstrance raised against the reductions of I\ ll. ' Childers on Mondaynight was particul ar ly f ee ble. Sir 1 Elphinstone, in his double capacity as a member of the Opposition and representative of Portsmouth, denounced the savings effected in the dockyard there ; but th e conclusion of an unpredjudiced bystander would be rather in favour of encouraging Mr. Childers to further economy than of holding his hand. The principle of extravaga nt „ has been defined as " m a ki ng thi ngs pl easan t a ll round , and the practice of economy must make things " sant all round ;" but Mr. Childers has not been inc °/1 , siderate in his course, and the inevitable inconvenie nce has been mitigated in every possible way. More mk t ' indeed, be done, for of little more than eight rcilil° rie ' forming the total cost of the effective service, more tha n _ three millions are consumed in the dockyard, na r, 7 stores, and new buildings. The Third Lord and ~, , ;4t ° 6 Controller may find in a careful examination of expenditure ample employment for their own energl'' and the means of enabling Mr. Childers to appear ga ll : as an efficient economist in moving the estimates le x. year. The Daily Hews declares that when Mr. Childers down on Monday evening after speaking without a moment's halt or hesitation for two hours and ahalf ,b : was heartily and deservedly cheered on both aides of , House. From first to last the attention of the committee neither flagged nor wandered. He had, in the cours e ° an exposition as remarkable for its order and method e ' e s for its exhaustiveness and perspicuity, traversed th whole range of the naval administration, touching sii points with equal firmness and precision, omitting none and leaving none obscure. The House of Commons lit „, to listen to a Minister who shews himself a master of subject, who can give a reason for every one a acts, and has a distinct policy to announce. 1 :; Childers announced and explained his policy on the internal reconstitution of the Board of Admiralty ; 0 7, 0 revision and reduction of the Admiralty Offices ; " the concentration of the dockyards ;' the class' the tion of stores and material ; the reorganisation of civil, and particula r ly th e me di ca l, es t a bli s hments ; ni t redistribution and reduction of distant squadrons ; ' P o formation of what may be called a normal flying squ saf f, 6 to visit all the stations in turn ; the maintenance of Channel Fleet in the most perfect training; the reduco of non-efficient men in order to keep the blue . iac l ‘ e 4 at their full strength ; the annual exercis e b ' y sea of the coastguard and training ships to way of convenience and encouragement to naval reserve ; the preparation of a comprO ellel c e scheme of retrenchment, so as to let light and air a t on into the highest and the lowest ranks of a professl°lloo which the number of officers is out of all proportion h° probability of their employment ; the construction of On; armoured ships and of such unarmoured cruisers as in sustain the relative and absolute superiority rather quality than in quantity of the naval power of Eng ie f or On all these points Mr. Childers announced such a c ' and positive policy as only a strong Governrnen t ' n j Government de longue halcine, sure of its existence 1/ confident in its capacity, can presume to initiate or pretend to execute. into The Star considers that Mr. Childers's speec h in clueing the navy estimates has justified the expectatlera. that were formed of his economising policy, without O c o f ing any opportunity for adverse criticism on the P art .t those who would willingly establish, if they could, wito the navy is likely to suffer in efficiency while und er to present management. It is, fortunately, more ea f f prove in naval matters than in many others that econawet and efficiency go together, and Mr. Childers's stat en yte of the present state of the navy list may be apPead e t t as a satisfactory illustration of the sc o p e there is a ibe Admiralty for a reformer who will attack evils broil° tile and who is capable of reducing establishments in tw e direction of efficiency instead of in the dir ee ' te e . of false economy and waste. There is not in any co ns to in the world a navy with so enormous a proportion° excess of officers over men as exists in the navy of Or e ; Britain. Of our vice and rear admirals, of whoa' c o re one in ten is employed ; of our post captains not r° fe /ler° than one in five is employed ; and of the commas - t ee the list only one in four is employed. The condition of der junior branches of the service is, of course, tin ge these circumstances most deplorable. Ther e list, actually 446 names on the sub-lieutenant s' and their state i s s p o k en o f b y Mr. `-i r t b cle ielo with a sort o f vas t an d poignant pity is significant of th e i r p ros p ec t s in the lrc'eeee which they hav e c h osen . C an an ythi ng be lesse e Tihiell mical ? But ca n an ythi ng b e l ess e ffi c i en t? Mr• v ets' tells us that th e s y s t em wor k s very b a dl y i n three 0 ate ways. It renders the officers disgusted, for theS ate receiving their full pay only occasionally, they so always grumbling i n consequence , w hether thl e r on full or h a lf-p a y. Th e f act th a t thi s gre at nnw ee t t ° , unemployed officers exists encourages the Governer 'lilt favour the discovery of utterly unnecessary, encir ee 'P for them. A n d th e navy , b e i ng officered in this efficiency is to a great extent out of the question. ge The Stand a rd re f ers t o th e di scuss i on r aised 31t Sclater.Booth respecting the appointment of • safer;iht Stansfeld and says that no one will grudge him 114 or his rank. His party is in power, a nd he had a r l o b e fici expect, on the score of his ability, his previous of th e e services, and the confidence which the extreme Wing in thf Radical party reposes in him, an important positio e c e chi!, new Government. Had he been called to one of t' eo eo; offices of State, with a seat in the Cabinet, his 01 3 1 1 ta i t iotw might, indeed, have considered the appointment ani / e uee one; but they would have frankly admitted his c 0 % 0 such an office in a Radical Government, and the i f e ho surprised that his name did not appear io t sajel of noblemen and gentlemen submitted to he r tb 130_ for offices which give a place in the Cabinet.a Mr. Stansfeld's abilities are one thing auk, ag e expediency of creating a Third Lord of the Tres°, Th altering the constitution of the board are anothe' a ' e , who ee question is not whether Mr. Stansfeld is an able t e e of I , is worth a salary of £2,000 a year, but whether t f any necessity to create the post as the occupan t °. L 0.% he enjoys that income. And this was what am,j wi th utterly failed to shew. Mr. Ward Hunt exposelie thee much power, the danger of the precedent s et oftic appointment of the Marquis of Lansdowne to a ee ll without salary, and Mr. Cardwell made a v i e "e e e dit defence for it. The Secretary for War claimed c e ," ettitle the Government for respect to the decision of a c° l - ii of the House in not assigning a salary to the Six Teal of the Treasu r y. B u t if re f us i ng a sa l a ry to Lement i ,; ) o downe is respect t o th e H ouse , w h a t is the Pais o a £2,000 a year to Mr. Stansfeld? Tried by be four i e f standard, Mr. C ar d we ll an d hi s co ll eag ues must 0 0e guilty of gross disrespect to the decision of the Commons, that • The Telegraph, in discussing the same subject► sa3ls • eel; st it imputes to want of sharpness to the impatient_lbcblecit°, in remarking how natural it was that he shou ld pa l the necessity of the appointment. Not only ha' s or eent, e f usually excelled rather in the handsome disburs in its it capital, than in a plebeian parsimony ; but eve ri e e out;f t e occupation of office it most consistently caolourse each principles and went beyond its means. Of C o e Booth was not the man to discover either , yet which he had helped to accumulate, or the world ve t created for the coming pioneers of retrenchment44,cod simply thefact, that the task is in its very n ature pre plex, and arduous. Hence the call for fresh assistanssim tro p ' s o was there a more palpably reasonable businev.e, action, nor had we ever better ground for helieeget; the aides were well selected. Some portions of I s p ro fi to be done especially demand a statesman wh?. e d, *Wee cally acquainted with the abuses to be correubjeot to oe j honest beyond suspicion, who is too indePaw ee 0 6 . to • drawn aside from his duty by the most insidious st y Ol d blandishments, and who puts his heart ear c i e le cool l .(e, whatever work he undertakes. In other words, t wanted at the particular post exactly such ho oe ty. roe James Stansfeld, long known for spotless _ nt bet a distinguished for zeal in the cause of retren-chine.street its pursuit became the fashion in Downingoooth ° its profitable victories a puzzle to the Sclater the day. ,„s qter The Post thinks that the bill which Mr. l' c - ee epet e ", oo troduced to " amend, consolidate, and inal°,,, o is °l e it the Acts relating to infectious diseases in ca", oe which the importance cannot be overrated, for iefetif deals indirectly with no less a matter the ecte dir e e eo• supply of animal food to the country, it aj. ic itO roe the interests of a large class of the commurY:evoe e l! visions may be summed up by saying that act al. ) 0 11e0; Privy Council almost unlimited power 01 the eni bill eases where there may be any risk-even no t oo e —of the spread of disease ; while it e o it down to restrictive measures when there Is_ r su e co4 . such a calamity. This is certainly the prof to il, sensible way of proceeding, and it 1 3 i" e n ad.C_Pel tinuance of a policy which has hitherto oe,, i , io rv o_ supplemented by increased power of carry 1 ; 1 0o th e immediate and effective execution. The great m ost 7 0 0 the cattle imported at ordinary times from are P e r ef4 o ; countries which supply the English market _ th i s is, t ee , free from disease of any kind, and when or! c ee e eo etear d eo° blished it is not only advisable, but highly l'" e elY l i fe t o they should be allowed to enter the country as t ar to he a l bi Bible. On the other hand, it is no less importan_edies apply instantaneously in time of peril the reu 4 l . o sta v ed, experience has shewn are alone e fficient t " 0 ,etain rf e! plague, and both these objects the bill seetn°___.eu the completely. It proceeds, as we have said, e u r tj tfu es s f o l o i principle of providing for extraordinary resb t e ppea' it does not apply in ordinary times, and l e cu eitY__ calculated to give a certain and permanent sr_„,eetion.i the scourge which for want of thes e res ee le. 414411 played p_uch )44you with 00 "'" Bu Bois a mark firm inqui tent. three 2i to In • t)11 75 1 t Grea 90 ; 501 ; 1071 771 100 In 111 natio a rise 25, b, Atlas i ; ax Th terda Gibra contei Austr and it can h which Of a d erpla/ and u may t Profit land t posed, and I tion f. Th( Bond; panic; Alorg l comp] Premi ThE for thi trolac B,lhtni, Turkic 1021. On stock luny to cm Titan termit Th( Great £2,50 Th, Railw Bth o f from other the n I and ei Lake (Lirai their 25th °ellor Th ( &ant Thurs. clo se d Th( polita th e 1 Thi of A y c 3 nfir Trim] Th of the rna nu th at i under ti es , 4118et.9 11-.7 . woad 411ter.. 11. India Ar. ol , Do. nri kujj. Co count New prove Vitet 0 1 11 1865, Egyr 75i1 1