The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE ktIBLIO JOURNALS The Times, in commenting on the recent outrages in Ireland, observes that when a very great evil is to be traced to its source in order to extinguish it, it is not plea. sant to be met by a continual succession of negatives. The real source of the Irish mischief is not land, it is not religion, it is not money, it is not this, it is not that ; it is nothing that can be touched, seen, named, or described. The writers and orators who reprehend British obtuse :less or shortsightedness when it attempts to inves tigate the mystery may succeed in stopping us at every point, but they do not mend the matter. They only make it worse. They only succeed in proving that any _man may shoot any other man for anything in Ireland, and that the presumption of justice will always be in his favour. The worst aspect of these outrages is that which regards the people themselves. That landowners should be made miserable, unsympathetic, and harsh, and that now and then their fears should prove too well-founded, bad as it may be, is yet a less evil than the moral debasement of a whole race. England, as the leading part of the Empire, has been held answerable, in proportion to her power, for the moral condition of the Irish. "Are they murderers? Then whose fault is it ?" With regard to the past, it has been too much overlooked that Ireland has always been unable to do much for itself, but able to do a good deal to spoil the work of others. There never was any states man or class in this country who could do much for Ire land, whatever their intentions might be ; and the difficulties have always been as much from Ireland as on this side. We hope for the best when we repair manifest grievances and redress palpable wrongs. But even here philosophers tell us we shall have to pay up arrears in the injurious effects of a triumph justly extorted from us. A time will, however, come, and we trust it will come soon, when the Voice of Imperial law and the hand of Imperial justice will be alike strengthened by the possession of a better conscience, and then possibly they will be better respected in Ireland. The Standard says that an impartial and delibera comparison of the speeches delivered by the leaders of the Opposition on Friday night, and the replies of the mem ber.; of the Government in the two Houses of Parliament, will convince every man that the allegation against the policy of Mr. Gladstone has Leen fully sustained, and that the answer is most feeble and insincere. The case against the Government is this. They secceeded to office with Ireland more than usually tranquil and contented. The Fenian conspiracy had been effectually suppressed by the prompt and vigorous measures of the Conser vative Government. The principal leaders of the movement were in prison, and the neck of the rebel lion was broken. So peaceful and orderly was the state of Ireland that one of the first things promised by Mr. Gladstone was that he should not ask for a renewal cf the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. We ask every man not blinded by party prejudices to consider whether the result has verified these predictions. The Liberal Governmen% with its programme of heroic remedies, hes been in existence for barely six months. In those six months what has been the condition of Ireland ? One of the first acts of Mr. Gladstone, who had some reason for trusting that . the Fenians would no longer be his enemies, was to Jet loose a batch of the principal criminals, whose apprehension and trial bad cost the country so much trouble, anxiety, and expense. The effect of this nitable piece of clemency we are all able to perceive in the acts and words of the released prisoners and of their fr:ends. Is nut Air. Cladstune's hill intended to administer to the relief of the Irish discontent? But, if so, it is not too early to look for come signs of the coming amendment in the Irish con dition. In what perverse spirit are the Irish breakFeg out into a new and more violent course of disorders, precisely when the axe is being laid to the root of what we are told is the great national evil—the one immediate and pressing abuse? The herald, referring to a recent article by a c,ntern porary, says what Mr. Gladstone means by " justice to Ireland" he has already told us, and failing any other definition by our contemporary, we must needs fall back upon it. Justice to Ireland, iii. Liberal parlance, means governing Ireland according to the wishes of the majority of the Irish people. What the wishes of . the majority of the Irish people are, now that they have been fostered and abetted by Mr. Gladstone's and our contemporary's policy, our contemporary spews plainly enough that it knows. As we have said, it looks forward to an "imminent and deadly struggle with Ultramontane aggres sions, repeal agitation, agrarian crime, and Fenian madness." In other words, after ericcuraging "repeal agitation, agrarian crime, and Fenian madness' into open revolt by our own gratuitous legislation —or rather by the gratuitous legislation of one party iu the State, for its own mere party purposes—bayiag granted them what they never asked for, pretending that we did so because we were afraid of them, and thus goaded them into asking for what they do want and we never intend to grant, simply because we are in reality not afraid of them at all, let us exterminate theta and drench the island in blood, in order to extricate ourselves from a difficulty of our own creating? And this is—justice to Irelatal It is the most extraordinary form of justice, per cv, ever presented to a people. Where the people happen to c ignorant and impetuous, it is sure to bring about the results for which it professes to be working. The Telegraph thinks it is useless to conceal a feet which everybody is repeating— Mr. Bright's speech of Friday night was scarcely felicitous. That remarkable address chews the price which we must pay for the luxury of having in the Cabinet a man who, while gifted with rare political genius, has not been trained in the restraints and trammels of official life. Mentally, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Hardy might have rubbed their hands with the fierce glee of faction when they heard Mr. Bright declare that, not the Prime Minister, but he, was ready to propose a plan by which justice might be done to the cultivators of the Irish soil. Later in the evening Mr. Hardy scornfully asked who was Prime Minister of England—Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Bright ? And in a blast of rhetorical indignation the Tory lieutenant in aired whether Mr. Bright was so assuredly the dictator of the Cabinet as to possess the right of speaking in the name of the Government, when he announced that lie would pro pose a scheme for the settlement of the Irish land dispute, and when, with no uncertain finger, he pointed to that scheme with which his name is specially identified. Mr. Gla.dstone's answer was a curt "Na." To Tory ears the monosyllable must have been s:ngtilarly sweet, since it seemed to indicate that the unanimity of the present Cabinet is not proportioned to its intellectual and oratorical strength. Look ing to Mr. Bright's training, we cannot affect wonder at the indiscretion of his unguarded statement; nor can w e suppose that he deliberately intends to act in defiance of hi s co ll eagues. We simply that the r priit unlucky s en t ences involved no more nli serions f au lt th an a slip of the ton gue . Neve rtheless, it. t . w .. .s , an uvnitoward slip that should n o t occur again. l greatest INTi ' n' ' ti:y l e s see, that to str eng th en the doubtles country has known for a generation President ac o t f th at e of Trade mas t i n practice rem, there is a time for sil ence as well as for Speech. The Star defends Mr. Bright from the attacks made upon his recent speech on I re l an d. A ll that Mr. B r i g h t . did on Friday was to repeat his confession of faith in reply to one of the grossest :e .tacks ever made upon the civic probity and disere'_ion• of a statesman. We do not believe any member of the Cov,rornent was offended. It is not members of the Government who will complain of these reiterations of Mr. Bright's notorious opinions. They understand each other thoroughly, and will agree upon an Irish land measure without more difficulty than they experienced in framing the Irish Church Bill. It is quite true that Mr. Gladstone said "No" when Mr. Hardy asked whether Mr. Bright had authority to an uounee the policy of the Cabinet; but considering that he had made no announcement whatever, and that the firm and avowed resolve of the Government was that no announcement should be made, there was nothing remarkable in this incident. Office is a thing for which Mr. Bright would never sacrifice a conviction, but he is the last man while in office to be insensible to cor porate responsibility or to be wanting in loyalty to his leader. A competent statesmen will always be as capable of explaining why he agrees to something short of the policy which he has theoretically supported as he is of elucidating that policy itself. But office would be spurned by the highest order of public men if the bare possibility that they may have berefter to concur in a compromise were held to require such a concealment or suppression of their present opinions as would darken, starve, and enfeeble the public mind which they are bound to enlighten and to invigorate. of _Mr. Sumner against The nine, says that if the speech ,or,e,, AC a niere t!,e Alal)raria Claims Treaty rill t • it %%mild have deserved less ►'Presion of personal opinion, notiiy. When indictments tit . this k ale or:•wn tip by nil individual, on hk own responsibility, ngailn,: a whole nation, they are best answered by a dignified siknce. Mr. Sumner, however, fills no ordinary position in the United States Legislature. Ills speech. Secret Session, wa s forthwith though delivered published by order of the Senate, and has already been republished this country. His sentiments were not only adopted expressly by several of his colleagues, bnt afterwards received an apparent ratification from an almost unanimous vote. 'Whether Mr. Sumner has suc ceeded in reaching a point of view from which he can see the question itt its rpal proportions the v. - orld must now des,iue. To he seem; to have greatly weakened the case onginaily pr,sented by Mr. Adams. Before that ease is again considered, it will nee d to he carefully stripped of .7 . 1 r. Sumner s passionate argnmenta in aggravation of damages. Thus limited, it will be entertained by the British Government and people with a sincere desire to eatisfy any legitimate demands which can be established against us either in a Court of Equity or in a Court of honour. E. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday (sittings in )arrce, before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Mellor, Lush, and Hayes), the case of " The Queen v. Madame Rachel" CAM eonnpon a writ of errcr to quash the convic on. Madamo Rachel, it will be remembered, was tried , efore Mr. Commissioner .1 err, at the Old Bailey, con :ictod, and sentenced to penal servitude for her frauds mon Mrs. Borredaile. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr. Gibbons appeared for the :irisoner; the Solicitor-General, Mr. Archbold, and Mr Poland appeared for the Crown. Mr. Mellish said that this was a writ of error differing from these which usually came before the court, because it did. not depend upon the indictment or the Endingof the rnry, but entirely upon the constitution of the courtbcfore :hem she was tried. 'the Act under which the Criminal l!ourt was constituted made it imperative that two judges should preside at the trials and determine them. Three questions arose. The first and principal one was, vhether the Fame two judges should not sit throughout he:trial, no matter how wary days it lasted, or whether nie could change each day; secondly, whether the Act uthorised different courts to he held, or whether it con ititued only the establishment of one court ; and, thirdly, '.hether the office of judge of the Sheriff's Court (Mr. Malcolm Kerr) was not abolished by the numerous 'lets that bad teen passed in reference to sheriff's ;ourts. It appeared from the writ of error that Mr. "Jommissioner Kerr sat throughout the three days' trial nit the other judge the alderman changed each day. The Lord Chief Justice : So that there never was the LIMO two judges each day. I see a strange expression in he case that Mr. Commissioner Kerr is called the " judi• president." Mr. Mellish : It seems to be a new creation. I know of zo presidency amongst the judges of the superior courts. they sit according to seniority, but they have equal juris liction and authority. The Lord Chief Justice : I took it as being something leculi.or to the constitution of the court. It is a term rnknown to the law. 31r. Mellish said that in the celebrated trial of the seven )ishops the four judges summed up and laid down liffercnt Taw:, and left the poor jury to find out the law ;he Lest way they could. He was told that in Small 3Trien's case for high treason that more than one judge vho tried the case made remarks to the jury. The Lord Chief Justice said that in a trial at the tar, f. one judge differed from what another judge said, he was sound to express his dissent. Mr. Mellish, in continuation, read the first section of he 4th and sth William IV., c. 36, which constituted that ventral Criminal Court, and named the justices—viz., the ford Mayor for the time being, the Lord Chancellor, he Second Keeper of the Great Seal, and all the judges or the time being of the Court of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the Commissioners in 3ankruptcy, the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, the Dean of Arches, the Aldermen of the City of London, :he Eecorder, the Common Serjeant, the Judge of the Sheriff's Court of the City of London for the time being, u- any person or persons who bath or shall hare been Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or judge of any of the inperior courts of Westminster, togetlur with such oer3ons as might be from time to time appointed by any eneral commiss7o,,. The Lord Chief Justice asl:ed what there was to show - hat UI alderman cou:d sit at all ? Mr. Alt: said the Act stated the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London were on the list of judges n that Act, and any two or mere of them were to form a 111o:tar. The. Lord Chief Justice said he might take this oppor noity to Elty that should the recommendations of the ruclicatme Commission be carried out all the necessity for ;;;rnmissions would be abolished. Mr. Justice Mellor asked whether if two superior .edges were sitting with three aldermen the three latter lould overrule the. decision of the judges. Mr. 'Me:lish : Certainly. Mr. Justice Mel:or : Then all I can say is that it would )e the last time that they would officiate. Ido not {mow how it is with other judges, but I never remember to alderman interfering in any way with the actual •cntence. I have always refused to pass sentence in •he absence of an alderman. But there arises this pestion—whether an alderman in another part of the )wilding may not be considered " constructively " )resent? Mr. Mellish: That is the common-sense view of the mase. Air. Justice Lush : In the case of two arbitrators they must sit together dories- the whole inquiry ; otherwise Their decision would be invalid. The Lord Chief Justice: In practice the superior judges to not consult the alderman, but proceed to deliver the diarge as though they were not present. Mr. Mellish: But the question is whether that practice s to override an Act of Parliament when the contrary is aid down as law. The Lotd Chief Justice: If your argument is carried silt, the judge would have to consult the alderman before proceeded to ,tste the Is w of fle ease. Mr. Mellish said I e siarcely I.ktd to 31sEne the power if the ahhrtnan. In the Court of Criminal Appeal to Vasil or atlirm a conviction tiara were 'nary judges ; and he urged this as showing the intention of the Legislature in this particular court. He questioned that there was my power given to divide the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court ; for it was expressly stated that the cases were to be tried in "a, court.." He very much questioned that the power of the court could he divided. In the case of the Recorders, there was a statute passed for division of courts for doing business, and there was also a special Act to divide the jurisdiction of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer ; but he nowhere found that any thing had been done as regarded the Central Criminal Court. At assizes serjcants and Queen's counsel sit under a com mission. Here the Act constitutes a court, ul.:ch is called "The Central Criminal Court"— a material dif ference. There was no power given to the superior jades to nominate who was to sit in the City as at commis sion of assize. Mr. Justice Lush : If your argument is right, the two ;edges at assize would have no power to relieve each other by. dividing the criminal business between them when the civil had been disposed of. Mr. Mellish: I know that nothing could be morerevolu tionary than what I propose to'establish. But the ques tion is raised, and I am here to argue it ; and it is well that this should ha definitely settled. The Lord Chief Justice raid that at the Old Bailey th'e superior judges sat in one room, and either the Recorder or the Common Serjeant in the other, and they sat both in the morning and in the evening, so that there was a division of the Old Bailey into two distinct courts. The Solicitor-General replied to the arguments of Mr. Mellish. He said there were two questions—first, as to whether the two judges were always to be time same; and, 'econd, whether the court could divide itself. He should put forward this 'proposition: That the commission was directed to persons as component parts of a court, and .Inless there be such difference as at a quarter sessions where it seas necessary to have a quorum—the power resided in each member of the court, and the juris diction to be exercised by each meta er of the court. It was not likely that there should have been a continual breach of law by the judges who had attended the City of Loudon for so many years. The practice had inod remain, been th at although the judge' who tried the case had alway s b een the same, yet the officer arranged hw ge he to pleased, a a l n th d ou it gh it was tiloootk ntewcoestso form arYf a quorum. or the second He contended that under the commission each member of the court i s c l othed with the whol e p ower o f t h e court. Each person is supposed to represent the whole caner, who are supposed to be constructively present. This NV as a highly technic a l Objection, and Is 7 argued that his learned friend should shew that the letter of the Act of Parlia ment had been violated. The Lord Chief Justice : The argument of Mr, Mellish was that, by a statutory Act, th e cause is to be tried judges, who are to s it an d try it ; and if one of before them should be absent, the question is whether there can be that concurrence which the statute r«isires. The Solicitor-General : This was the well-known prac tice of the court at th a t ti me ; an d ' contend that theframers of the Act would have stated that the sitting of one would have been invalid. But for the second section every mem ber of the court would be clothed with the fttnctions of the whole court. - The Lord Chief Justice : The framers of the Act might have said one member would constitute a court. &pp m° that an alderman came as second commissioner on the first day, and another alderman on the second, mind so on, would not that second or thirl person- be guilty of gross miAconduet if he slieuld proceed to address the jury when he had nit heard all the fret 3of the case? I think the tran.cr IntaLt ti have two persons tinting the whole time. The Solic:!_or•Gcneral: In that ca.:e the ahlorman would be guilty of gross miecondnct. Dot your h d- chips would overrule that, just in the same way as was done when Mr. Justice Keating- was called upon to address the court at ten o'clock at night, it then being held that he could not do justice to his client. The learned Solicitor-General then went on at great length to shcw that the objection taken to the jurisdiction of Ilfr. Commissioner Kerr, on the ground that he wsss u,lise of the Sheriff's Court, was not well founded. In . , ion, be said there had not been a single case where had been t4cd for a capital offence that this ~f 11r.. MeLiait would not apply to, and they bad i:.:1 - efore, hung -without the slightest authority. He, however, thought ho had already shwa that there ought. to be a . verdict for the Crown. _ Mr. Mellish then replied on the whoincase: Ife said the cone THE St - N, .I]6N-D )N, MONDAY EVENING; MAY 3, tni' consi.ruction of tue Act of Parliament was that two judges should sit during the whole time 't and this not having been done, he contended that Madame Rachel had been wrongly convicted, - there being this error upon the record. The Solicitor-General said before their lordships consi deredl their verdict he wished to intimate that as the Central Criminal Court sat on Monday, it would be con. veuient to have a decision on the second objection, viz., the right of division of the jurisdiction of the courts. The Lord Chief Justice said they had come to the con clusion that the Central Criminal Court might sit and divide itself as it bad done heretofore, and therefore Mr. Commissioner Kerr bad not been superseded by any statutory enactment. They, however, reserved the pint whether he could sit when the Sheriff's Court, of which he was judge, had not been abolished. JUISCELLA.NEOUS NEWS. 869. persons to buy more things. The third point is that foreign nations Are evidently coming for money while they can get it. They see that the end of the full time is come, and they are not sure but that a scarce time may soon supervene. Accordingly they think they will come while they have yet a chance, and before a more difficult period renders borrowing by a questionable Government impracticable. IRISH TERRORISM. A letter in the Manchester Guardian say 3 :—" It is useless to d ny thtt Mat in, nhvoys contagious and sure to be exa gcrated uy political Leling, pervades the proprietary class who are connected with Ireland. One - instance has comp to my knowledge of a Roman Catholic, of noble family, who, having purchased in tho Encumbered Estates Court some property, which is situated in oho of the disturbed counties, has for some limo Leen laying out a large sum of money in improvements. Last year he gave notice to quit to a tenant of a small grass f rm which ho wished to include in Lis park. The mau Las been in con sequence' dispossessed, and the life of the proprietor haS been threatened in such a manner that his family have insisted on Lis r , l'unuishing the idea of a residence in Wand." THE FIJI CANNIBALS. The following is an extract from a letter dated .fppor Ilewa River, Fiji, January 18, 18G9:—" There has been a dreadful outbreak with the natives and two white men who lave a largo plantation about seventy miles from us. The natives have burnt .E5„000 worth of cotton, killed a half caste boy twelve years of age, b,lon:;ins to ono of nem, and ate Lim, killed and ate five horses, stole X5OO worth of pro perty, killed four labourers (Sandwich men) belonging to the white men, cooked them, and, as' a mark of contempt, gave the bodies to the pigs to eat. They afterwards killed and ate all their pigs, poultry, Jec. ; and Anything they could not use they broke np and throw into the river. They have totally ruined Messrs. Burt and Underwood. Tho boy they ate belonged to the last named." ANOTHER FRENCH POISONING CASE. Another remarkable poisoning case has just teen tried by the Assizes of the Marne. The following is an outline of the affair :—ln 1852 Millie. Louise Lebobe was married to iNT. Jean Baptist Brissot, a well-to-do agriculturist. Shortly after the nuptials the wife took a great dislike to her husband, probably owing to the great disparity of their ages, she being only IG, while he was getting on for 40. One or two children, however, were born, and it was not until 18GG that the family of both parties discovered the irregular conduct of Madame Brissot. At this epoch it waavliscovered that she was too intimate with the tutor, who came to the house to teach her dair,, liter music. From that moment she appears to have decided on getting rid of her husband, which praiseworthy object she succeeded in effecting by giving him chocolate mixed with sulphate of .copper. M. Brissot died on the 23rd May, 18G8, in the most fearful agony. The doctors suspected nothing, and he was buried. Having disposed of her husband and inherited what fortune remained, she determined on giving her uncle his quietuS, in order to come into his property. She therefore sent her sister-in-liLw a box of dragas (sweetmeats). accom- Parried by a letter, in which she said : " The moment has arrived. I shall feel greatly obliged if you will give these bonbons to M. Lebccq ; they will do him so much good." It is hardly necessary to state that these sweetmeats con tained the same delicate mixture as had sent M. Brissot to his tomb. Fortunately, however, the suspicions of the family bad been aroused, and the bonbons were destroyed. A Kvnion de famille took place, and it was decided not to accuse Widow Brissot publicly, in consequence of the disgrace it would entail on the family name. The affair, however, oozed out, notwithstanding all the care bestowed on keeping it secret. The guilty widow decamped to Switzerland, and after spending the money she had inherited from her poisoned husband, returned to France, and was taken into custoily on the 22nd Janaary last. At the trialshe stoutly protested her innocence, and preserved a sang-froid remarkable even in a woman of 32 years. The jury, how. ever, found her guilty, and she has been sentenced to iteatb. LAW AND POLICE. D.OIAGE DONE ET RABBITS. —ln Vice-Chancclior Stuart's ('port, on Saturday, the case of " Harrington arrin 6 tou " was heard. A n appaation Lad Leta mad:: on behalf of seine tenants on Lord Harrington's estates, in. Derbyshire, fur compensation for damage done tolheir falms by rabbits turned out on the property by order - of the late earl. The aggregate a:uonut of the claims was £1,305 9s. The natter was brought before the Vice-Chancellor some time since, but he directed it to stand over until the young earl reached his majority, when he hoped some arrangement might be come to. Unfortunately V:e earl died six months before he came of age. The Vice-Chancellor said that the claim of the tenants was preposterous, in some cases exceeding half a year's rent. As there was no contract their case must fail, especially as the earl's mother, who was bis guardian during his minority, said that the tenants had leave to kill the rabbits. The application would be refused, but without costs. TEE LAW OF EVIDENCE IN CASE OF DICAIIT.—The Cuurt of Criminal Appeal, on Saturday, quashed the con- viction of Mrs. Lumley for bigamy. It will be remem bered that, having lived with Colonel Lumley for many years as his wife, he had charged her with bigamy on the ground that her first husband, one Victor, was alive. Whatever the legal rights of the matter were, it was felt to be a very hard case for Mrs. Lumley, and no doubt she will have many sympathisers in her escape from so pain ful a position. CARL ET COUNCIL—At the Cabinet Council held at Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl de Grey. and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right .Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. The following circular was issued on Saturday by Mr. Glyn to Mr. Gladstone's supporters in the Home of Commons :—" The Irish Church will Bill be proceeded with on Monday, the 3rd of May, and will be the first order of the day. On Tuesday, the 4th, the House will meet at two o'clock, and the Irish Church Bill will be taken at that hour. On Wednesday, the bth, the Uni versity Tests Bill in committee. Your attendance and support on those occasions are very urgently requested. Divisions of great importance are expected upon the amendments upon the Irish Church Bill." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT ST. HELEN'S.—AII :.ecident of a most painful description Las just occurred at the works of the Union Plate Glass Company, Pocket nook, St. Helen's, by which three young lads, named William Towers, Francis Devenport, and Isaac Thorpe, all of them aged between 16 and 18, lost their lives. At the works there is a large reservoir for the purpose of supplying water for the various stages of the work. For conven raft is nrovided. During the breakfast hour, a day or t . .. 0 Gael, three unfortunate lade, together with another named Prescott, got on the raft and amused themselves for some time by cruising about, until at last Prescott either fell or jumped into the water, and in doing so so far destroyed the equilibrium of the raft as to throw the other three into the water. Pres cott got out of the water iu safety, but the other three, not being able to swim, seized hold of each other, and, struggling, sank almost immediately. EoLLY LODGE, lIIGHGATE.—Saturday was a b er?, being all the hands mr.ii;osialitll:ll:va.o.yrrlip,,renadeynl'f'3,nlnlstitiolly Lodge. Miss Burdett Coutts g av e ti n airn;fternoon p.tty to 600 of Messrs. Cubitt's the past ::vc years in the of Columbia-squ a .• Market. Afessrs. Edgington Dad erected a large tent and covered the ground with v c- Z.l c4 el: llu N t \r m l :en teol obtolltdvt?l:asusb:::nnm:l rowby, K.G., addressed the iiys Coats, am presented a silver teapot from her to Mr. Henry Wheeler, the forema n Market, and th e lik e to Mr. lfe ry IVelrsrali t ( e A C• l t n i n l- l'i' ; rd the works there. Th e. - comrade%el„,.. c ,i 11, m they came up to rece i v .• th e i r pre. ,nts. AL the otle;;;;: received a "Lo o k o f Common P.. - ayer" i n good laver. type. The men seemed highly pleased, and remained after dinner enjoying the grounds until a late hour, their own volunteer Land playing lively airs. The . Rev. C. B. Dalton, of Highgate, and the Rev. G. S. dam, of St. Anne's, the Queen's Advocate, Sir C. Wheat tone, Sit W. Bodkin, the Right Hon. J. Parker, Colonel Wilkin son, erc., also assisted in making the entertainment pie:want to these " excellent fellows." Saturday was said to la: An active, busy, market day at Columbia Market, and Ciu whole sce.ie there bore the mark of enterpriseand activit). The market closed at a quarter before 12 p . izt• , According • to the excellent bye-laws. - LArnun DISTURPANCPS IN THr. -:,7E'rrri--;nr„kNps, A. riot hes taken place in the island of 1 1 / a cheren between Dutch and Belgian workmen. The latter have stcwn themselves willing to work for low wages, and the Dutch accordingly resolved to drive them out of tl►e country. A detachment of 300, armed with divers tools, attacked the Belgian men in their quarters, but tl outnumbered, prudently retired. Severn{ however, wounded, but the information of the Nationale, to the effect that five had beenkilled, is not con firmed. NAVAL AND MILITARY ITEMS. The Army ond Navy Ca:otte says that the inten tion of appointing; Pear-Admiral Loring to Ports mouth dockyard is abandoned, and that a successor to Rear-Admiral 'Wellesley will probably be found not. very far from Whitehall. The same paper A SCLAVONIAN CONSPIRACY. believes that it is not -true that Sir Edward According to intelligence received by the Posen Journal, Wetherall has relinquished his command to take the Russian Government has discovered the existence of command of a division in India. The Brood Arrow a widespread Sclavonian conspiracy. The object of this states that Lord Clarence Paget, Commander-in-Chief plot is the establishment of a Sclavonian Federal Republic, of the 'Mediterranean squadron, struck his flag on the with Moscow, Warsaw, Wilna, and Kiew for its capitals. 28th, and left Malta for England rid Naples. These cities are at such distances that the territory LITERARY NEWS. I.tcr, *including them would comprise the greater part cf Russia The old-established publishing business of Virtue in Europe. Many arrests have been made. and Co., includinc, St. Paul's Mafia:lac, but not the Art thurnal, is to be transferred to one of the youngest, and quite the most energetic, of the London publishing firms, Messrs. Strahan. This firm, it will be remembered, lately bought the copy right of Mr. Tennyson's works for a large suns. The relation between the two houses has long been very close. THE "ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION" IN EGYPT. There can now be no doubt that the attempt to assns• sinate- the Viceroy of Egypt was a complete farce. The director of the theatre found the Government subvention too small to keep his head above water, and he therefore determined tolncrease it by earning a reward for "saving the life" of the Viceroy. The bomb and its admirable arrangements under the Viceroy's chair was only a plot to be revealed by the plotter. The director himself carried out all the details, and so completely did he arrange the mist en scene that the danger of an accident converting the plot into a reality was by no means slight. THE IRISH LAND LAWS DEBATE. NATIONAL SPORTS. ~--~ The last day of the Newmarket First Spring 3leeting presented one or two noteworthy incidents. The most im portant event, the N ewmarket Stakes, throws rather a curious light on the Two Thousand running. Standard Bearer was last but one on Tuesday, beaten 'it least 100 yards from Tasman: but he defeated this horse in the Newmarket Stakes, though odds were laid upon Tasman. tilueskitt's easy triumph for the £2OO plate made JEgean a firmer favou rate for the Chester Cup, a trial between these two having proved very favourable to lEgean. The Field fears thut Tasman is nothing better than a good looking impostor. The,next, event, of importance is the Chester Cup.. This race may produce a field of about IS, of whom six have been distinctly established ahead of the rest as the leading favourites. These are Paul Jones, the winner of the Cop last year, 2Egean, Knight rat the Garter, St. Mungo, Romp kg Girl, and Fairwind. Up to Fritby evening 2Egean bad a slight advantage over Paul Jones in the struggle for first place in betting, each being at 3 to 1, but the younger horse Unproved a little upon this figure in consequence of Blue skin's easy victory. Nothing came near these two. Knight of the Garter stood at 7to 1, but though backers would have accorded support at a point more, they could not obtain it. St. Muncto and Romping Girl are each at 9 to 1, and Fairwind at 10 to 1. The training reports are favourable in the cases of all these horses. The owner of Paul Jones has declared himself quite satisfied with what the horse is doing, and he himself j appears perfectly sanguine as to the result. No horse could be doing better than the 7Egean. During most of the week be has been led by Distaff in two- mile gallops, accompanied occasionally by Birthday. With his very light weight it is believed that he can scarcely lose. Knight of the Garter is also doing well. Of Romping Girl the Sportsman says: The accounts which reach us of this filly are .of the most flattering description. From the work she has been put through during the last week or two she is evidently " meant," and the public may rest assured that her owner will leave nothing untried that will secure succesi. Fairwiud is in comparatively quiet train ing, and little is known of his doings, but the reports speak well of him. The statement that Dalby has broken down is not correct. It may be taken for certain that he is the selected horse of the staLle. _ _ Undoubtedly the two subjects which now require the gravest attention of Parliament and the country are the Alabama claims and the state of Ireland. The latter was before the house of Commons on Friday night, and forms the topic of the principal leaders in the journals. No one can be surprised that the subject was pressed on the attention of the Government; but the Daily .2Vews charges the Opposition—unjustly we cannot but think—with using the subject simply for the purpose of delaying the Church Bill. The Times, on the other hand, not only justifies the debate, but demands a positive statement of what the Government intend to do. Individual members of the Ministry may give their opinion, but what is wanted is a concrete policy. The Spectator is very severe on Mr. Bright for giving out that he had a scheme in embryo "This curious and irregular independence of his chief on one of the most delicate and difficult questions of the day must, we should fear, lead to misunderstanding, if not disputes, in the Government. Mr. Bright always feels too little of the sense of corporate responsibility belonging to his station, and of the loyalty which a col league owes to a leader." The question whether the land-laws have led to the disturbances and the general insecurity of the country is still fiercely debated. Quite a discussion has been taking place in Ireland as to whether the murder of Mr. Bradshaw was agrarian or not. Leaving this out of the question, the Derry riots are distinct:y religious the murder of Mr. Anketell has no reason assigned, and he was not a land lord. The Mayor of Cork manes no re ference to the land-laws, but deatands sepa rate nationality, and the general feeling of mis trust may be in part ascribed to panic; caused by so many sad events happening in the same week. Underlying all this, however, there can be no doubt that the laws of property are much disliked. There is a .universal feeling that they must be altered. Of these competitors the Field pronounces in favour of 2Egenn and Knight of the Garter. Mandrake, it think., will be Leaten by Fair.vinft, who may put iu an appearance amongst the lead.-rs. S'. Mango, too, commands the Field's respect. The Sportsman makes the tame selection. The -" Wizard" thinks that Paul Jones is very favourably treated. "He is literally 'chucked' into the handicap, and how Mr. 'Popham let off with 7st 91b an animal that cat.tered away with the race last year, and afterwards, when heavily backed, ran second for the St. Leger, I cannot imagine. 'Ou paper,' the race appears a gift for bite, and yet two three year olds who have been overlooked may prevent him from repeating the Delby and Leamington triumphs." The 2Egean has a capital chance, being decidedly better than Birth day, who, ran second in the City and Suburban. The Sportsman, therefore, goes in for Ecr,ean and Knight of the Garter, and with all respect for Paul Jones, selects St. lingo for a place. For the Derby, Pretender is the favourite, Pero Gomez being friendless at 3to 1. . The highest offer on Cambridge platform wasl,ooo to 400 against Pretender, 3 to 1 could not be bad ; 3to 1 would not be taken about Pero Gomez. But more sensat'onal have been the proceedings in connection with Belladrum. He was laid against at 20 to 1 imair - diately after the Two Thousand,-but he very sp.edily came down to one-fourth that price. On Tuesday night he was backed for all the moues obtainable down to 9 to 1, and next day be was so heavily supported at 8 and 7 to 1 that a "monkey" was in one case invested at 6to 1. A point less was afterwards taken to at least ~£1,001; but after this the opposition broke out strongly, and he has since receded. The Field still believes iu his chance for the great race. MONEY ,IiND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield 14trbiican, April 17.) Tho money marl:et at New York has been fluctuating and uncertain during the week, but the general : and un mistakable tendency is towards lower rates and greater abundance of loanable funds. To prevent this situation combinations of operators have been twice effected, within the last few days, which have produced an artificial strin gency and a scarcity of money. The unnatural result existed however but for a few hours, only long enough to prove the inevitable course of the market and the im possibility of resisting it. Money is flowing into Wall-street from the West, and the increased activity in the late spring trade will swell the accumulation. The great outlet for money at the present time is in the South. and it is esti mated that within the last few mouths that section cf the country has drawn from all portions of the North over fifty millions in greenbacks. Politically as well as finan cially this is most desirable, for the money has gone South to etay, and a great portion of it, ultimately, to the pocks is of the freedmen and labourers who raised the crops for which it was paid. The demand from the South has lately been chiefly made on the New York market, and the recent statement (April 10) of the Wilke of that city shows the effects of the movement—they now hold in excess of their legal reserve only $5,913,010 against $14,814,221 a year age. The South prefers greenbacks to national notes, and until some pin for the redistribu tion of the currency is perfecte I will probably retain this preference. The Boston money market responds closely Lithe situation at New York, while at the West there is art un usual ease, and Chicago reports, for a wonder, more money than sufficient to meet the legitimate demands. In Cin cinnati, however, there is greater stringency and greater still in New Orleans. The public funds have been firm and advancing, though the business in them has net been large. The foreign houses are ready buyers, an I cannot meet their orders. Although the Senate has rejected, 51 to 1, the arrangement which Reverdy Johpson called his Alabama treaty, Five -twenties advanced in London on the reception of the news, and there is no prospect thet the foreign demand for our securities will be diminished. Wednesday's steamer at New York from Liverpool brought a large quantity of five -twenty interest coupons for collec tion, and it is said that the greater portions of their pro= coeds will be immediately re-invested in securities of the United States. Secretary Boutwell has ordered the anticipation of the July coupons on a " rebate" of six per cent. interest only on interest not yet duo being deducted. The plan does not, however, seem to work very extensively. Hardly a " baker's dozen" of heavy bondholders have thus far applied at the Boston sub treasury for their interest in advance, an 1 in New York, up to the beginning of business Wednesday morn : ing, the assistant treasurer had disbur.sed on account I of the May interest only $332,446.08, on w hi c h th e amoun t saved to the Government by rebate amounted to but $1,305.67. The situation of the gold market and its pro spects for the future are supposed to produce this reluct ance of the bondholders to receive their interest in al va.nce. Tho improbability that gold will be lower than I at present, or less than 130 before July 1, renders the holders of coupons more desirous to hold oe and receive the full amount of their interest. The gold market d .es not relax, and the range of its quotations has been hieliee than for the first week in the month. A sharp stock-job bing trick by the bulls on Saturday, which involved the credit of the Bank of New York, producel considerable excitement iu the market, and gold advanced 1 to 11 per cent., but the effect was only temporary, and on Mo eday morning things were in their no:m:11 condition. The ex ports of specie for the past week were light, $320,350, while the inverts were much larger. The. City ofßrooklyn, from Liverpool, Monday, delivered $1,400,000, and the Java, from the same port, Wednesday, $410,000. It is said that still larger amounts are to conic, and that not less than seven millions in gold is now on its way to our shores. In spite of those receipts, however, cash gold still continues scarce, and the expected decline in price is not realised. There is a loud clamour at New York that the Secretary of the Treasury should s 11 some or all of the large amount of gold, which ho now has on hand in the Treasury vaults, amount ing to more than a hundred million of dollars, brit he shows no indications of such action. The Govern ment receipts will pay its current expenses, and Mr lbut well is known to be in favour of applying this balance to the purchase and cancellation of Government bonds, without the intervention of the greenback or currency medium. The effect of such an action on the public secu rities would be immediate, and some guessers -interpret the increasing price of Five-twenties of 1862 as an indi cation that the Secretary is about. to put his theory into practice. The exports to foreign countries continue light, while the imports are enormous. The total at New York for this week foots up neatly $8,000,000, or about double those for the corresponding week last year. The stock market has had an up and down motion for the last few days, and at the latest dates, with the exception of the Vanderbilt' roads, the tendency of the speoelatiou seemed to be generally upward. The uncertainty of the action of the New York Legatture upon the extensive issue of 80 per Cent. Certificates on 01 , 3 Central stock, last fall, and the report that the legalizing Act has been linked with that of the Broadway Railroad Bill, and that both will fail, depressed the Central on Wednesday, and the Hudson River and Harlem subsided with it. The prospect, hi spite of the report, is still good, that some way will yet be heeled by which the sharp practice of the directors will be legally con firmed, and full poseession of the spoils insured to the ring. The stock of the shore roads front Buffalo tm, Chicago was helped by a. report which is credited in the best informed circles that all the muds now composing the line from Buffalo via Erie, Dunkirk, Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago will be consolidated under the general title of the Lake Shore Railway. The stocks of all the components will go in at their par value, making the aggregate capital $53,000,000. Consolidation of the Now York Central, Harlem, and Hudson Liver -a union which has long vir tually existed, is also:talked of. The Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton (0.) Road having backed out of its lease of its line to the Erie, and thus deprived the latter of its terminus at Cincinnati arid southern connections, the Erie has advertised for proposals to construct an independent line from Dayton to Cincinnati, 60 miles, and threatens to begin operations immediately. Fisk and Gould are also reported to threaten Mr. S. S. L'Hommedieu, president of the Hamilton and Dayton Road, with a suit for $1,000,000 damages for not keeping his contract with them, but the Cincinnati papers recommend the railroad Napoleons to think twice before beginning either their now line from Dayton or their suit for damages. Both would probably cost a good deal and amount to very little. Pending the settlement of the quarrel, the Erie enters Cin cinnati by the Little Miami road, the narrow gauge rival of the Hamilton and Dayton, and on the other side of the city. Western railroad stocks are generally strong, and the tniscellaneous market tends in the same direction. Mariposa preferred and Western Union telegraph are mak ing the most decided advances. The season is still back ward in the dry goods market and there is considerable anxiety to sell, which has been generally taken advantage of. In nearly all descriptions of cotton and woollen goods there has been a falling off in prices, but an improvement is hoped for, as the depression is considered the result of temporary causes. The flour and wheat market has also been unsettled and fluctuating in consequence of advices from Europe, and prices are generally lower. Cotton is heavy with a decline of prices in the northern markets and an advance at the South. The cattle markets at Brighton and Cambridge had a better feeling than for several weeks, but at New York the supply was greatly in excess of the demani and the decline was fully 25c. per hundred. The New York Tribune reports as follows: -Friday, 'April 16, p.m—The Gold market was higher on an active demand for cash gold for delivery. The opening transac tions were made at 1321 with sales at 1331 closing 137-i bid. Cash gold loaned as high as 1-16 per cent., the ave rage rate was 1,32 per cant. for the use of coin. The clearings at the Gold Exchange Bauk were $50,895,000, and the , b'alance $1,125,650 18. The payments on ac count of the May interest amounted to $50,189 73. Go vernment Bonds were strong and active, with:a good de mand from the German bankers; '628 sold at 1201; the new bonds sold at 1151. This is the, highest price ever made. There was a good borrowing demand for bonds, '62s loaning flat, and '67s at 6 to 7 per cent. interest for carrying. The market closes: strong and active, but with few bonds offered at quotations. State bonds were higher. New Tennessee 6 per cents. sold at 661; North Carolina 6 per cents., 611; new bonds, 541; Missouri 6 per cents., 861 ; •Virginia New (.per cents., 60. Railway bonds were firm at quotations. Western Union Telegraph was strong at 411 to 41i; Mariposa sold at 22} ; Mariposa Preferred, 391. Pacific mail was active, with heavy transactions. The opening sales were made at 921, with sales at 94i to' 931, closing at 941 ; Mariposa Trustees' certificates are offered at 68, including the accrued interest at 10 per cent. pet annum since Ist of July, 1808. The holders of these certificates (of which there are about $3,000,000 issued in exchange for Mariposa bonds) are the real owners of the Mariposa estate and must receive 10 per cent. per annum, beside leaving 5 per cent. more in the Treasury, before any divideud can be paid . on the Preferred stock. If the interest on the certificates 'should remain unpaid for two years from last July, the ti ustees have the right to sell property and apply the proceeds toward the redemption of the certificates et par and accrued interest, before anything can be p lid on the stuck. Express shares were higher; Adams sold at 59 to 591 ; United States, eel. C an t on was buoyant, seli:ng at 61, closing at l'3l t o 64. Railway shares were buoyant, with a continued de mand from operators for an advance. The desire to buy was general, and prices showed an improvement. New York Central sold at 1651, Hudson 150, Harlem 145, Read int? 941 Michigan Southern, 991 Toledo and Wabash 72, Toledo and Wabash Preferred 80, St. Paul Common 80, St. Paul Preferred 861, Fort Wayne 1321, Ohio and Missis sippi Common 338, tileveland and Pittsburgh 911, Lake Shore 99, Rock Island 1381. The market continued buoy ant until just previous to the 1 o'clock Board, when there was a sudden decline in New York Central to 161, which had the effect of depressing prices from to 1 per cent. on the general list. The transactions in Erie continue to be light, the price was 331 to 331. At the 1 o'clock Board the market was lower, declining 1 to 11 per cent. from the highest prices of the day. At the decline there was an active demand. At the close the market was strong, the TIIE YOUGHAL WRIT. The proposition-of the Government to issue a new writ for the borough of Youghal was opposed by several Liberals. Those who voted against the motion wer e M r . A. H. Brown, Mr. 11. C amp b e ll , Captain Chol me l e y, M r . DiE:c, Mr. Dill w y n , M r. Fawcett, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Hon. 11. W. Fitzwilliam (Wicklow), Mr. W. Fowler, Sir Henry Hoare, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, Mr. Marling, Mr. Monk, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Steven son, and Sir David Wedderburn. The majority was composed entirely of Liberals. Mr. Glyn and Mr. Adam acted as tellers for the Ayes, and Mr. Collins and Mr. Raikes for the Noes. MR. ROEBUCK ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Roebuck has. changed his opinion on one question. He canna say with justice that he is the same now as he was when younger in all political points. He has admitted that he now regards the House of Lords in a very different light from what he did formerly. The Eastern Post reports a speech of his, givenattheLondon University College Debating Society. The question to be discussed was "Is an llereditary I louse of L cgislature desirable." The meet ing was evidently disposed to vote in the negative. Mr. Roebuck, however, came to the defence of the Legis lative Chamber he has so often assailed. He said he thought the House of Lords as perfect as any human institution could be; his long experience bad taught him that the Peers invariably acted with dearness, dignity. justice, and impartiality, and that if we attempted to disturb the st a h tB quo, we should raise a devil it would be found impossible to quell. It was tree that in earlier years he had said bitter things o 7 the House of Lords, but his long life had taught him that he had been wrong, and he bitterly regretted what he had said. Mr. Roebuck seems to love " independence " for its own sake, and not for the sake of the truth. Which ever way the majority takes, th a t way th e l a t e member for Sheffield eschews. While most people were for retaining the hereditary principle, Mr. Roe buck was its bitterest opponent. Now when the greatest Tories are allowing a reform to be made without opposition, Mr. Roeb,t - ek opposes it. Is this a cruel fate, or is Mr. Roebuck wilfully fond of opposition ? ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE BISHOPS. Archdeacon Denison writes in the John Bull a vigorous letter upon the conduct of the bishops with regard to the extension of the Episcopate, He fully concurs with the Guardian and ourselves in con demning their lordships for the line which they took up with reference, to. Lord Lyttelton's bill. Ile says the bishops very well know that if the three new sees proposed were created, they would supply in no appreciable degree the lack of epis copal strength. He reminds the bishops that when they c bject - to " two sets of 'bishops," no rersons have done so much to bring about this innovation as their lordships have by the introduction of ex?colonial bishops into their sees. He contends that there is no diocese in England the work of which can be half done by its diocesan, though he be iu the fullest health and vigour a body and mind. His severest remarks are directed against the right rev, bench for having made their worldly position the most prominent subject in the late debate. lie thus winds up a very vigorous letter : " The secular questions of income and - position, social and political, are forced by the Parliamentary Episcopate into the first rank, awl are allowed to hide from their own eyes the question of the spritual necessities of the Church, and all the real facts of the case. The world laughs, and the Church mourns. We have a bill introduced by the Primate into the House of Lords, on the part of the home Episcopate, for ' Discipline of Clergy.' There is not a word in it about ` Discipline of Bishops.' The world laughi, and the Church mourns. I have some times doubted whether the conclusions of a pamphlet of mine which went through three editions in 1851—' Why should the bishops continue to sit in the House of Lords?' —are sound. I have no doubts now. I think them alto gether sound." THE LATEST EPISCOPAL ARRIVAL. The Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) has arrived in this country. It is scarcely three years ago since Dr. Alford was consecrated. lle has been in his diocese about two years, and as it is a tolerably long and costly journey to Hong Kong, his lordship is not likely to return thither just at present. THE RITUAL COMMISSIONERS. The John Bull is authorised to deny the statement of the Record that the Bishop of Oxford met with no supporter in his motion that no change should be made in the rubrics without the sanction of Convo cation. " The Bishop really moved, and was sup ported by other commissioners, a resolution to the effect that a proviso should be added to the Orna ments Rubric, enabling alterations to be made 'by Convocation, if authorised by the Crown. His lord ship's argument was that Convocation was the best body, because it so intensely represented the laity." THE HAYMARKETNIGHT-HOUSES. The Saturday Review has a very pungent article upon the manner in which the Middlesex magistrate! overruled Mr. Knox's decision with regard to the Haymarket night-h o uses. Sir William Bodkin's dictum, that some overt act must be committed, is treated with abundant raillery. "Meanwhile, high revelry reigns in the night-holises, and Sir William Bodkin's name is precious to the chaste sisterhood which patronises or is patronised by them. () Justice ! as Madame Roland remarked when speak ing of the sister virtue Liberty--:0 Justice! what very remarkable things are done in thy name." TNT MONEY MARKET. The Economic.` says that there are three things clear about the money market. The first is that w e are at the end o f th e pl e thora period. Since 1860 there has been a time in which no one cared or thought about the money market; for the rates were so low that those who had to borrow did not think about them. But now Lombard-street has got back to its normal state, and our loanable capital is not likely to be too much for our wants, so that the , tats of the nmrlcet is once more a matter of interest those who borrow and to those who lend. The econd Point is a considefable increase of internal rade. Comparing the week ending fast Friday with •!le corresponding, week of 1808, the returns of the Jlearing-houie chew an increase of over seven millions. This change the _Economist attributes to the fact that the reduction in the price of cornits. =Wine A CHAMPION OF IVO,II-AIV'S ItIGHIS. A murder, as deliberate as ever perpetrated, was committed on Saturday, the 10th April, at Jarretts- Tine, Maryland. Nicholas M'Comas hal ridden to that town from I3ellair to attend a meeting of a company, and he was standing with some companions at the back porch of a bAr-room, when a Miss Cairns rode up and disnounting fastened i'et horse se atrely ; then she entered the ladies' apart • meta, where she removed her riding-skirt and al that would encumber her movements, when she walked through the crowd in the bar-room to withie ten paces of where M'Comas was standing, and raising her hand, in which was a revolver, fired at him with careful aim. Struck in the breast by the bullet, he reeled against a pillar supporting the perch, when she as deliberately fired two more shots, while he, clasping the pillar, endeavoured to sustain•himself, but, fainting from the loss of blood, fell, though neither of the other shots had taker effect. Miss Cairns on this walked directly up, and fired the two reinaining bullets ilto his body. She then, with the revolver in her hand, passed through the paralysed throng to the ladies' apartment, where, as if engaged in the most ordinary occupation, she resumed her riding-habit, mounted her horse, and cantered home. Mr. Jarret rode after her, and on his coming up she asked if M'Cotnas was dead On receiving an affirmative answer, she re marked, without showing the least signs of regret, that she had told him what she was going to do. It appears that Miss Cairns had been seduced by M'Cotnas over a year before under a promise of marriage, which she had in vain importuned him to keep. Last January she gave birth to a child whose misfortune it now is to liave its mother the murderer of its father for the crime of its own ille gitimacy. Some time ago a suit for breach of pro mise was brought by the lady against M'Comas ; but she did not give it time to come on for trial. Both parties moved in a good social circle, the woman being about 30 years of age and the man about 37. On the day following the deed she gave herself up to the authorities, satisfied, we presume, as she has good reason to know, that public opinion would sustain her. In Hartford county the excite ment is high, and, of course, on the side of the lady What "Rights" women in America can require that they have not got it is difficult to imagine, as they can with impunity do " any mortal thing." The only woman that we know of who has ever come to grief is Mrs. Surratt, and the nation never ceased to deplore it, and to lay the blame on the head of that universal scape-goat, Andrew Johnson. There is something brutal beyond expression in the cold blooded cruelty with which the murderess walked up to her victim to empty a revolver into bis body; and in the deliberate, unrelenting way in which the crime was perpetrated. Considering that she will only excite public compassion, have a subscription raised for her, and be made the heroine of the day, she ran little danger in an act which, as her hate was cold-blooded and her nerve strong, was easy of accomplishment. General Butler is sometimes called " Spoons." This we have long known, but wo did not know he had any particular objection to being called spoons. It ap pears, however, that a woman clerk employed in the Treasury had the folly as well as the impropriety to term that influential leader of the dominant party "spoons" as she was leaving a car in the Pennsylvania-avenue, in which Butler was seated. Her words were, " Look out for your spoons," which had the singular effect of making Butler look our for her, for he immediately followed her, tracing her ho:ne, when he discovered she was a clerk, and she was at once discharged from the Treasury, and to fill up her cup ho got her place supplied by a negr6ss. It is just possible, unless she has a father or brother employed in a Government office, she wit employ the rest of her life' in slioutinv spoons after him, for it she could not refrain with an office to los it is reason id,le to suppose that she will now thus indu'g•+ herself, unless who,' means are used to achieve the Herculean task of W, pping a woman's tongue. The course we w.mld re commend the lady to pursue is to qualify, and if Mr. Jetickes' Reform Bill passes she may recover her place iu spite of the General. It is now a law in New York that any man who will keep and maintain a public watering trough on the highway shall have an abatement of $3 from his taxes. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAlR.—Ntrts. S. A ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first applicanon a beautiful gloss and do ligbtful fragrance is givon to the Hair. It stops the Hair from failing off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandri.ff. It contains _neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers. Depot 266, High Holborn North . Western - shares were hammered with great vig il ` and heavy sales were made for speculative account upon rumour of a passage of the dividend which had no folio" dation in fact. At the close the sellers at low Pr" ; were active bidders fo r th e st a c k . Th e e arnings c° °- tinue to show an increase over last year. The Fie ferred stock has been absorbed to the extent of fully one third by foreign i nves t ors, an d purchases con tinue to . made on a liberal scale for shipment. The market closed active and buoyant upon the increased supply of non e l s ; Money was in good supply at legal rates to all first-cl3s, borrowers. Som e f ew l oans were ma d e at coin interest early in the day, b ut a t th e c l ose t h e offerings 'T er ry ° i j o excess of the demand, and the market closed easy s . Berths report that the flo w o f currency is steadily i ncrea n ing, and is in exc ess o f th e s hi pments. Commercial 1 33 Pr `. passes more freely at 10 and 12 per cent. for best nBnl° _, Sterling exchange was dull, and steady at (potations • London, 60 days, 108 ; L ou d on, s i g h t, 108: ; Paris, lot 5.221 to 5.215: Paris,• short, 520 to 5.18:1; Antwern to 5 22i; Swiss, 5 25 to 5 221; Hamburg, 351 to 351; 21 4i sterclarn, 401 to 40k; Frankf or t, 401 to 401 ; Breing':•,o 78 t 1 ; Berlin, 701. to 701. The tra nsac ti o ns at the 0 P of the Assistant Treasurer were :—Recei pts for Cti s : toms, 8103,000 ; for gold notes, $59,000 ; t o tal rec 4" $734,803 05 ; t o t a l payments, $55 9 110 56; 1013uee' $80,952,223 16. The Palle Ledger, Phil a d e l p hi a, A pr il 16 , says:Ml: bee it stated that th e P ennsy l van i a Central has obtainvua controlling interest in the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, 31) , Lafayette Railroad by the purchase of a majority of stock. Good for Philadelphia and its increase of trade. Messrs. Drexel an d C o., Phil adelph i a, repor t that °s 0 April 16 the latest sales in Pennsylvania Railroad Sli are .. were 59: 593.; Sixes, Ist Mort gage , 99 ; 2 d 31°rt gage, 94 95. Government Bonds closed as follows : Sixes, 1861, registered 1 112 to 1 to 1 1 5 1 ti Sixes, 1881, coupon 1 Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific R a il roa d .. lO3 to lu „ " - 2 1 Five-twenties, 1862, coup on Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, now 5 ° : tt to ° 11 1 : Five-twenties, 1867, coupon 1 5 1- k . 1134. U.S. 5-20 Coup ons , 1868 ll3l to - Ten-forties, coup on l O6 to 1 01 Seven-thirties, 2d series .. Seven-thirties, 3d series .. Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 .., CLOSING QUOTATIONS F N. Y.Central 6s, 18S3 90f N. Y. Central Gs, 1887 90 N. Y. Central 6s, h Est 88 N. Y. Central Gs, Sub'n 88 N. Y. Central 7; 1876 -- N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 • Erie 7; 3d Mort, 1883 B9 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880._ Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E. Ist M, '77 BB tru 1. B. 7s, Ist M, '69 1001 Hud. li. 7s, ed M, '75 99 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 102 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 ll2 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 115 Mich. So.; 7 p. c. 2d M 93 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98-.3 111. Cen. p. e, '7O Alton &T. H. Ist 91 Alton & T. H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc 79i Han.& S t.J LandUrantslo3 Han. & St. J. Con 112 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M - Chi. & N. West, S. F 95 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 97 ('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B — )R. RAILROAD MORTGAO.SS.„nt Chi. & N. W. Ist M..•••• 86 Tot. & Web. 2d 141 Gt. Western 2/1 '9 3 ..• - Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist 3.1.. Gal. & Chic. Est ........•• Gal. & Chic. 2d M......••• 97, Chi. &R. I. Ist ......... 91 .Chi. R. I. & Pacific Clove. & Tol. S. Fund... /9)8 N: J. Central Ist M.••••• N. J. Central 2d ...... Pitts. Ft.W., &. Ch. Ist M. 997 Pitts. Ft. W , & Ch. 2d 31 . q Pitts. Ft. W. & Ch. 3J M. " Cleve. & Pitts. 2d bi 99 Chic. & Alton, S. F. I n „, c ',oo Chic. & Alto; S.F. lstiu':o3 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M...A 8 0 Mil. & St. Paul 2d 1 1 / 4 1 ! .. Marietta & Ist M... OU Morris -& Essex Ist It.. ,01 Morris & Essex 2d 31 Joliet & Chic. Ist M-••• Chi. & Gt. East'n N. Y. & N. R. 6s . ... Dubuque &S.Citv,lstM . Sj Peninsula Ist ......... Ohio & Miss. Ist Ohio & Miss. Con.. .•••••• ToL P. W. Ist M. E. P.;' Atlantic & G. W. Ist•l‘`" • Charles Snowden F a i r f ax di e d i n Baltitnore, on to Sunday, April 4, age d 40 . H e was descended fr" 1" last Lord Fairfax, and might have claimed the poslti° ll erl; tenth Lord of that name. Ho served five years as ..Ott t of the Sup reme C our t o f C alifornia. The follow i ng e t appeared in the Times last Wednesday, from .the ed il°. i o e s " Debrett' s P eerage :"—"Sir,—The death of C h3l o l St:owdeu Fairfax, recently announce d as h av i ng ocrni . at Ba.lt;more on the 4th o f thi s mon th , deserves tn ol.°l , o b- .- a passing noti ce . H e was tenth Lord Fairfax in ths ,0 age of Seo - land, and was a lineal descendant of the c " , bated Pa r li am n t ar i an G enerals Ferdivando and Th°,4lo Fairfax. The latter, it .may be remembered, return e " the Royalism, and .helped to establish Charles IL 011 0 ,,w throne. The fifth Lord F a i r f ax marr i e d C a th e rine '"" 10 pepper, wh o b roug ht hi m as a dowry immense estategro-, England and America, the latter situated between f ll° .o tomac and Rapp a h annoc k. Th e i r son Thomas (t. llO °ls e r lord) having vi s it e d hi s A mer i can property, was s° .ocl chanted with it th a t h e reso l ve d t o li ve and die t h e re, " iier having transferred hi s E ng li s h property to h i s be es, afterwards the seventh l or d, b u ilt hi msel f two res idt' lic- i, I which he entitl e d r es p ec ti ve l y Greenway Court no ( ' Be pt voir, resided pri nc ip a ll y a t the former, wh.re open house with true baronial hospitality, an d a baeltelor at a green o'd age. His brother, "° f succeeded hin t , di e d w ith out In 1800 the l lc° lof Lords decided th a t th e R ev. B ryan Fairfax, a kiustas; 0 the late lord's, was entitl e d to the barony, an d the Lord Fairfax was hi s great grandson. An anecdote of ' ,is , late lord, which I can vouch as being authentic, is so P l yt l l inn to our common humanity, and shows FO Pr °l/141 , 8 , ° 5 the innate geod ness o f t h e lute lord, who, deeming eof wounded unto the death by an assassiu, yet for the 5: 0 ' 1 ° 0 . his wife and child s p are d hi m, t h at I trust you will 1 %, 1 of me to extract it from my ' Peerage':—' In the 1859 Lord Fairfax was walking h une, accomran ie „a4, the Chief J ust i ce o f C a lif orn i a and two other 11-i'ri when he was met by a re p or t er o f t h e Court name d 1 0 4 Lee. Le-, having thought Lord Fairfax had in some. bard triad t) injure him, accused him of so doing, a Cba aia which his lordship denied. To this denial Lee rei'' ine ,tbo an insolent and offensive manner, substantially givi o g ir o; lie, evidently desiring that Lord Fairfax should strik',„e , he effected his object, his lordship striking him on t h° . t b r its Lee, in return, struck at him with a light cane, wl , l ,,ibt' which was concealed a long dagger. Lord Fairfa% call the cane in his left hand ; .Lee sprang back, d r ,. e „,..ribl! dagger quickly from the cane, and inflicted two 11 , 7 1 wounds, one through the left breast, and the other; ell side. Lord Fairfax had drawn a 'Derringer' Pis t° 'ibiP; presented it, cocked, in time to prevent Leo making opt thrust. In a moment Lee threw up his arms and cra' irr 'Don'tkill me, lam un arme d !' (Al this occurred X ll Ole credibly s hort space of time, before any one ha d Del to interfere, or even realize that a deadly a ssault 10 1, 0 3 1 made). Standing pe r f ec tl y s till , L ord Fairfax ( a sl? fee mo shot), who had hi m covere d at not re than s ' distant, and could h a v e kill e d hi m b eyon d an y P°' t, h,tfe doubt, thus replied, 'You miserable coward, 5',1 murdered me—you h ave assass i na t e d me — a na your worthless life in my hands; but for the sake ! 1-) sat', wife and child I shall spare you.' Cries, at th i s' raised from the crowd of Shoot him, Fairfax.' ` l l l ,oki°l 'Don't spare him.' and the like. Standing erect, .." - yor" Lee full in the face, and holding the pistol as before'o, IVY Fairfax answered, 'No, I won't kill him ;' and 0 10 dressing Lee, said, 'Recollect, I have your life in mill , 00 and I spare it; not on your worthless account, for Y. fe o o t an assassin and a coward, but because of your 14 0 ° 0 child.'" I am, sir, your o b e di en t servan t , Tim En a l/ Ao l3 ' " DEBRETT'S PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, AND ICS ICI-1 Office; 65, Ludgate-hill, E.C. FS' LADVERTISEMENT.I—goIIoway's Pills.— Enfeeb le , istence. —This medicine embraces every attribute r ecl4 ,, i . r t 6 ioe s' ,.. general and domestic:remedy ; it overturns the feat"' b ore' t disease laid by indigestible food tend impure air. ° odi e tions or congesti ons o f th e li ver, l ungs, bowels, o r any r oe 1 organ, these pill s are espec i a ll y serv i ceable and Online° a re eessful. They should be kept in every family, as Ife' V' t , medicine without a fault f or young persons and thos e 0 5 e 1,5 , constitutions. They never cause pain or irritate the tive nerves or m os t t en d er b owels. Hollows 'a p ills are ' D ort; known purifyers of the blood, and the best promoters a t :01 0 ' tion and secretion, which removes all poisonous and °/'-- particles from both solids and fluids. LA.DVERTISEMENT.]—HeneefOrth no one will doubt the ra.,g4 Iropertirof Du Barry's health-restoring Revaleaqi b i e se' . O At ^t A lie Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of it has already received from Invalids whose position 1- „,1%r o l deemed hopeless, we may now add th a t o f hi s H o liness whose health has been perfectly restored liy it after thilXyeiliolf unsuccessful medical treatment. W e ote from the '''); t be Midi," July 25i,h:—"Rome, July 21,1866. The healtill t i o r 11 00al '0 Father is excellent, especially since, a b an d on i ng all dies, he ins confined himself entirely to Du Barry's er y w o o} Arabica .7ood, of which he consume s a pl a t e f u l at scith, A ire It has prodaced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his i1 1y, 6, 0i his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too Rig 5s ;last extract a few out ofmore than 63.003 cures:—Cure No% o op 4 0, the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous P',ljo , ", Cl 6 year' 'i , sP el' s o all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tii' st oar' s io• tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lori aysP er s o Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of man y No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony Iran "Jos Sr nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulenl',q7o: 0 , sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 4 1° 10 . : James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' disc ? es• t osi', spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial des l ' lo o4P portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury iin t : ro sloppy imitations to which, without authority, 133”. pit IDS name is most audaciously attached. - In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 23 931: 2tbs 4s 6,1; 5 lbs 1 1 s; r oe? 4 •?4 lbs 4 Oa. Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARADIVA • - i or POWDER is packed in ti n can i sters: for 12 cups at opo " t es t at 3s (ki, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, f , ,r 6 7 7. 0 ar e c iet.l —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 5 50 4 0 Or t}i; free or carriage in England on receipt of Poszt - Ct o aoli; BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, P all Grocers and Chemists. P I3IRTIM. , 0 ) 11. ' CIIAPMAN—On th e 30th u lt ., a t 90 , Eaton-Pe' pe , t f IL Chapman, of a &twiner. c., _,,,,,.1 ,, . c NORIIIS—On the 27th ult. at 25, Eccleston -b q 5 ,,0 wife of Harry C. Norris, 'Esq., a son. Captain, Bth 1111, of dI I A ,„ o° c t DARE - KERR -On the 29th ult., Viscount Ana." li. th. Earl o f D unraven, t o Mi ss Fl orenc e Kerr, -43" s of Lord and Lady Charles Lennox Kerr. gor t m lUNTER—STANLEY -On the 29th ult., a t Armagh. 0 1 3 Charles F. Ifunter ' 72d Highlanders, to A",-, g ' 11) daughter of John Stanley,Es .' o f Abbey the Pavilion, Armagh. q 9 D E A TBS. hirer BOONE—On the SOth ult at N4.,.atli, OlninOrgAnS ward Boone, aged 54.. r -1450 CuAcE—On the 30th alt., at Cowper-road. 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