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A Railway commencing in the parish of Cilybebill, in the County of Glamorgan, by a junction with the Swan sea Vale Railway, at the north end of the platform of the Ynys-y-Geinon Station of that Railway, and terminating in the hamlet of Colbren, in the parish of Ystradgynlais, in the county of Brecon, by a junction with the authorised line of the Neath and Brecon Railway, at a point in the ficld numbered 42, on the plan of the last-mentioned Railway; and also for an Extension of the time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway Act, 1865 (which expires on the sth of July, 1870), for the completion of the Railway therein described, as follows, viz : A Railway, commencing in the parish of Ystradgynlais, by a junction with the authorized line of the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, at a point in an enclosure, numbered 165 on the plan deposited in respect of that Railway with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Brecon in the month of November, 1863, and terminating in the same parish, at or near to the bridge carrying the tramway or trammed belonging to the Aberciare Colliery and works over the river Tawe. D. HOWELL MORGAN, Secretary. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY - ON FIRE INSURANCES. 'HE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE -I-t OMPANY, in antic'pation of the above, beg to intimate that on all new I , surances now effected there will only be payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES: Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool, and Lombard-street, London. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING. Important Announcement. Increased Share of Life Profits. ALL NEW INSURANC rS, with Participation, EFFECTED AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. JOHN H. McLARF.N, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. 3IUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORE , I ruRl4: POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. 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And yet from the very circumstances of their really appalling and revolting character, it is incumbent upon the journalist that they should not be passed by in absolute silence. Conspi cuous of late among these themes of horror have been two indescribably detestable murders—one of them committed eighteen years ago—the other only very recently. In each instance the victim was a woman. In each instance the murder was of the most bruta l character. Prior to the murder in one instance the victim was foully outraged. Subsequent to the mur der in the other instance the body of the victim was got rid cf by a revolting series of mutilations. The last-mentioned crime was the one perpetrated nearly a score of years ago down at Norwich--the murdenr, in his seeming respectabi lity, resembling TAIVELL, in his infernal inhumanity resembling GREENACRE. The wretched criminal, is this case, was self-accused. Ilis confession of his long-secreted guilt was extorted from him by the tardy agonies of remorse, and the result has been that he has expiated his atrocity upon the gallows, at the hands of the public, or we ought rather to limy THE SUN, LONDON, 7 SDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1869 now, perhaps, of the private hangman. Up to the •ime of SHEWARD'S strangulation in the prison yard at Norwich, it was a matter of the greatest uncertainty whether, after all, his life might not have been spared. Not—observe !—be cause of the discovery on the trial or afterwards of anything like mitigating or extenuating circum stances. Nothing whatever of the kind. But simply and solely because a morbid interest was aroused in the wretched murderer's behalf, because, forsooth, he , had been found guilty, after these eighteen years of unsuspected guilt, exclusively on his own confession, on his own self accusation ! Simultaneously with the announcement of the fact of his having been hanged, in fulfilment of the terms of the sentence pronounced upon him by the judge in open court, there appeared a detailed account dictated by the murderer himself on the eve of his execution, an appallingly minute description of the tieredmode c u h d hlt g e ut u r d i d u ft mutilated pieceme h te body d such c o h h f us i s mar- t t u h s e a p y ar t t h i e cu r l e a r r y s surely, narrated,fr o d m e m t u h u e stra te especialthe atrocityutter follyof, least of it, o f th e mor bid sympathy apparently felt in his behalf only the other day by a considerable number of certainly very weak-minded individuals. As to that other murder already referred to as hay. ing been committedAonly very recently by a miser able wretch of the name of WILTSHIRE, we all know now that in that instance there has been a terrible failure of justice. The man was tried and, l most the e e a a t r r e o s e t i oue evidence, o u f po th n e t murdersw . a e s v e f o r u p n e d rp guilty e d o f. Thee jury found him guilty. The Judge sentenced him to death. Subsequently to his condemnation the felon all ~tlAlaual murdered of thG fut;itini - tniS, there was a commutation of the sentence by reason of the in terference of the right hon. gentleman the Home Secretary. There came a reprieve—the sentence of death was changed into penal servi tude for life. Immediately the fact that it was so became known, there was not un naturally awakened in the minds of many people a sense of burning indignation that, without any apparent reason whatever, justice should thus have been allowed:to miscarry, in the instance of a criminal whose atrocity was notoriously, almost, one might say, preternatural, in its character. Mr. BRUCE was challenged to explain in the House of Commons the reasons which had actuated him in interposing thus between the murderer WILTSHIRE and the gallows Immediately the Home Secretary's reasons were given it was understood at once that the responsibility of this astounding transformation of the sentence of death to penal servitude for life devolved, from himself, upon the Judge and the Jury. Upon second thoughts both judge and jury appeared to think that the ver dict ought not to have been Guilty, and that the sen tence ought not to have been Death. 4 ' Second thoughts," according to the ungrammatical old pro verb, are said to be " best." They were certainly not, in this instance, for hardly had they been thrust upon the attention of the Home Secretary, hardly had they constrained him (as they, of course, did) to decide that WILTSHIRE should not be hanged by the neck until he was dead —when that inhuman mur derer made a cold-blooded and most deliberate state ment of the circumstances under which the crime had been committed, such as leaves now not one shadow of doubt that never was verdict of guilty more justifiably arrived at than it was in this instance, and that never was sentence of death more jusifiably pronounced. There are crimes that hanging is said to be too good for. And this was one of them. Yet, having been found guilty, having been sentenced to death, having been set aside for execution— the murderer is saved from the gallows at the eleventh hour, because of some bewildering second though's, both on the part of the judge who tried him, and on the part of the jurymen before whom he was tried. What were the j'idge and jury about in this instance ? F or , h ere , i s th e criminal I making bad worse by the very manner in which he volunteers his hideous statement, and hugging him self with delight at the same moment because of his having had his life thus spared in a manner th most unexpected and the most astounding. THE elections which have taken place since the great conflict of last autumn have by no means altered the verdict which the country then gave. The question before the constituencies then was, Will you have your rulers men pledged to do justice to Ire land and to reduce the public expediture, or men pledged not to do the first, and not pledged to do the second? The result we all know. For the first time within the present generation a Minister did not venture to meet the Parliament which he himself had called. Since then the new Minister has fulfilled his promise. He has brought in the first of the measures which is to restore justice to Ireland, and he has effected a saving of over two millions sterling in the army and the navy estimates. The Opposition find themselves beaten night after night in the House of Commons, and with no other resource but protest against what they are pleased to term a " brute majority" and assertion that if the country were appealed to again, it would, now that it has become acquainted with Mr. LADSTONE'S Irish Church scheme, pronounce against him. Facts do not bear out the prophecy. We say nothing of the circumstance that all the Ministers who had seats in the House of Commons were re re-elected without a contest, and that seats were found for the two who had been defeated in November ; for these elections took place before the Ministerial measure was introduced. But we can appeal to the other elections, which have been caused either by death or by the unseating of members. Seventeen members have been returned since Parliament assembled, and instead of the constituencies having changed their minds, they have so far ratified their former decision that the net result is again of one seat to the Liberal party. We do not attach parti cular importance to the cases in which a change has taken place. Wareham returned a Liberal at the general election, simply because two Conserva tives opposed each other ; and when the Liberal died, the Conservatives made up their quarrel and won back the seat. In London the death of Mr. BELL deprived the Conservatives of the minority seat; in Taunton, the Conservative having been unseated on petition, a scrutiny seated a Liberal. In Brecon, which is no doubt a really Liberal constituency, as almost all the Welsh boroughs are, Lord lIYDE was returned by a large majority over Lord C. HAMILTON, because the disturbing influence of Mr. HOWEL GwyN's gold was no longer felt. Only in Dumfriesshire can much importance be attached to the alteration of representation which has taken place ; and there it was due rather to territorial than political influences. As for the other constituencies, they are as they were, save that some of them,like Beverley and Cashel, have probably witnessed their last election, and will speedily joiio g u a s t c e o . m p Thean y o s n L v a l n e c f a a s c t t er r , e a a n m s o t u h t a h t , n t n the es, and g o R r the country which chose Mr. GLADSTONE upon trust has, since it made acquaintance with his policy, rati fied w uch el a l polleaagsnecilENt magnificent t fl i e le d t p li n at m c i o l i i i .: fi ri de t n o ce r .. lo T il l l ic it n g at a l lon i . majority. THERE does not seem at first sight to be much connection between volunteering and the " Quarto deciman heresy." Some of our readers who have undergone the discipline of the goose-step may never even have heard of the heresy. For their informa tion we may mention briefly that it was the custom of observing Easter on the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, which was adopted by the Eastern Church. It gave rise to a bitter controversy, and, toge ther with a dispute about the " double procession;" it led to that ruptureristendom which s eparated East from West, and 1 still keeps them apart. " A Volunteer " now ts in where theologians may fairly fear to tread argues, in the Daily .News, in behalf of a changeate for the celebration of the chief Christian fest The final cause of this change is the hurricane whick place on Easter Monday, and which exposed son,ooo volunteers to the pelting of the hail and theses of the COMMANDER-IN CHIEF. But thew has other reasons. Easter at present is a movealeast ; it may occur as early as March 29, as late as April 25, and thus great fivenience is caused. More over, when it occursrly, we are still often in the depth of winter, abgh the sun has touched the Southern tropic, aril travelling back from the 1 goat to the crab. sie earlier period breaks up the schoolboys' and tstudents' terms too early ; it divides the parliamery session unequally; and then the Volunteer Revi—that in itself is sufficient reason for the chang, Against it he can imagine no possible argunienxcept " the mere moonshine of sentimental feelir---the sentiment that England is keeping Easter athe same time as the great majority of Christencn. We suspect that " Volunteer " will find "senti ment " a rather more )werful obstacle than he sup poses it to be. Most us are Christians, very few of us are volunteers. lost of us like to feel that the Western Church, an , we would fain think the Eastern Church also, wl celebrating the greatest event in the world's history s nultaneously. The modern tendency is rather toards finding some means by which Easterns and Westerns can be united, than towards setting up a nw use of our own. Perhaps in this desire " A Volnnter " may see the opportunity he wishes. Why should he not be sent to the forth coming (Ecumenical Council charged by the Th'";- 1 --v4 and the bishops of the United with the Sovereign PONTIFF and the A RCH BISHOP of Moscow for the transference of Easter Day to St. Mark's Day ; or why not say the Festival of St. Philip anl St. James—Mayday—itself ? We must make one stipulation, however ; he must arrange that Good Fridty shall not occur on a Mon day; that might be axliward. It would be more puzzling even than finding out the "golden number." 46113nt HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 26. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out this morning, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold went out. LATEST INTELL MENCE (REuTER's TELEGRAMS.) AHERICA. NEW YORE, April 26. Gold closed at 1331. The highest quotation during the day was 1331 ; the lowest 1331. Ster ling Exchange on London, 1081 ; Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1882, 1211 ; ditto, 1885, 1181; ditt04,1867, 1151 ;,Ten -Forty Bonds, 1061 ; Illinois, 1431 ; Erie, 331. Cotton —middling up land, 281 c. Petroleum—standard white, 321 c. Flour—extra State, $5 70c. to $6 30c. Corn—old mixed, 82c. PORTUGAL. LISBON, April 26. . _ The King opened the session of the CortA to day. In his speech from the throne, his Majesty said that the Budget as presented would require important alterations. Alluding to the mutiny which occurred lately in the regiment under orders to embark for the coast of Mozambique, the King stated that the Government had promptly restored order. In reference to the state of the finances his Ma jesty said that it demanded the serious attention of the members since the excess of the expenditure over the rerenue was a source of anxiety. Effica cious measures for the Payment of the floating debt, for the reduction of the deficit, and for a just and equal distribution of the burdens arising from taxation would be introduced by the Government. CHINA. SHANGHAI, March 31. A despatch from Sir Rutherford Alcock to the British Consul at this port has been published on the subject of the introduction of railways and telegraphs into China. Sir Rutherford says that notwithstanding the promises made by the Bur lingame mission to Europe and America, the Central Government of Pekin show no desire for progress, but, on the contrary, will not yield to the introduction of any such projects except under pressure and coercion. GALLE D April 21. Contradictory private advices have been received from Java reporting the outbreak of a general in surrection 12 miles from Batavia. Some Europeans are said to have been killed. The Batavian newspapers have been prohibited horn publishing particulars of the outbreak. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 26.—Three o'clock —The market closed as follows :- 4 per Cent. End of month Y . Italian Fives 56 20 3 per Cent End of month 7l 35 Mexican Loan ... Credit Mobilier End of month... '255 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —1328 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred ... RAILWAY& Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 6lO Western Eastern Sardinian .................................... 51i Austrian ...................... 695 Lombard ........................................................ 477 f North of Spain 59 Saragossa Loman THE FRENCH PLAYS. - AO The French plays commenced last night at the St. James's Theatre. The house was filled by a brilliant and distinguished audience, who appeared to be justly satisfied with the entertainment pro vided for them. The piece selected for the oc casion was the comedy of "Le Marquis de Villemer," by George Sand, which some years since attracted such popularity at Paris, when brought out at the Odeon. The plot is of the simplest character. 'There are no striking or sen sational incidents or situations ; but the dialogue is brilliant and witty, and the acting was entitled to the highest praise. Without any other aid than the sparkling wit with which it charmed, and the talent of the performers, who played their parts, the attention of the auditory never flagged, while bursts of laughter w e r e produced by the acting of Mr. Brincleau as the Duc d'Aluca, a wild spend thrift, who, although arrived at the solemn age of forty, laughs, and makes all who hear and see him laugh too, at his impecuniotity and the hopeless prospects before him. Ile, however, finally comes " all right," by marrying an eccentric young and rich heiress, who chivalrously determines to bestow her hand and fortune only "on a ruined man." We must congratulate Mr. Raphael Felix on the happy commencemen t o f his third seaso n , which we cannot doubt, from the talents of his company, will prove as attractive and profitable as his best friends could desire. MR. BENJAMIN HIGGS The select committee of the House of Commons ap. j pointed to inquire into the various bills affecting the gas companies of the metropolis resumed their sittings on Monday. Mr. Chatteris, the auditor of the Great Central Gas Company, was again examined at great length. He said that Mr. Wyld was the chief accountant, and Higgs was the subordinate clerk. It was the duty of the accoun tant to enter the sums paid into the bankers in the ledger ; but Higgs managed, some way, to get the cash from the clerk. Since Mr. Chatteris last made an audit Higgs had abstracted £4,561 from the residual products' account. In cross-examination the witness said: If the system of bookkeeping had been properly carried out by the clerks of the company, the frauds of Higgs would have been detected. The system, if properly carried out, was perfect. The frauds were no fault of a deficient audit, but of the manner of keeping the books. Mr. Higgs appears to have relieved other gentlemen in the works of their duties, and to have kept the boobs in many cases himself. It never struck me until after iliggs had absconded that the balan ce of "arrears'' was becoming very disproportionate, and I never heard any remark made on the subject byany one connnected with the company. In the discharge of my duties I examined the whole of the principal books of the company. These frauds have arisen from the manipulation of the subsidiary books which were kept in the accountant's office, and which my colleague and mySelf could not check. If the attention of anyone had been particu• larly directed to the gradual growth of the " arrears,' and an examination had taken place, the frauds must have been detected. At the end of the year 1862, which was the year in which Higgs commenced his opera tions, the total consumption of gas was £74,180, and the arrears £30,966 ; for the year 1863, rental, £74,180, arrears £31,953 ; 1864, 277,643, arrears £38,281; 1865, £82,690, arrears £40,750 ; 1866, £78,708, arrears £46,559; 1867, £84,041, arrears £65,287 ; and for the year ending the 31st of December, 186 S, the rental was £85,765, and the arrears £65,507. For the year ending 1860, before the frauds commenced, the total rentals were £63,489, and the arrears £29,003. It did not strike me that an increase of £ll,OOO in the trade of the company increase us zO4,VVV-11l guy gringo., - it any part of my business to question the propriety of the directors, or their correct judgment, in giving such largely-increased credits.—Mr. Wyld, the accountant, was also examined, and then Mr. Alderman Dakin was called, and his examination was not completed when the committee adjourned. RECENT MURDERS. Murders seem to have come, all at once, in a batch ; and some of the papers seem to be full of them. Two most sickening cases are reported. The aspect of the Tipperary tragedy has changed somewhat. At the inquest there was a hint that the case was not agrarian at all ; but that it arose out of jealousy and unhappy domestic rela tions. But the question was not investigated, for fear that it might frustrate the ends of justice. The jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. A dreadful murder has been committed at Derby. A man named George Wiggin Ingham, a porter at the Mid land Railway Station, lives at Barrow-street, Litchui ch, Derby. He was married about four years ago, his wife, Annie Ingham, being 27 years of age. They had two little boys—one three years and one nine months' old. The father went to work as usual on Monday morn ing, leaving his wife and ycuagest child in bed. Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning the wife got up, secured her husband's razor, and deliberately cut the throat of her youngest child. She then went downstairs, and told the next door neighbour what she had done. Mrs. Ingham was then taken into castody. It is stated that the accused, who confessed to having cut the child's throat, has been in a low desponding way for some time past. An inquest was held the same afternoon. The evidence proved that the murder was committed by the child's mother, although it was pretty conclusive that at the time of doing so she was mentally derang,rd. The jury found her guilty of Wilful Murder, and she was committed for trial at the nextDerbv Assizes. A murder of a very brutal character was committed at a solitary farmhouse, on the borders of Breconshire, between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The farm is called Nant-y-Derri, and the unfortunate victim was a widow, who was generally known to her neighbours as Mary Nant-y-Derri, but whose proper name is Mary Morgan. She was last seen alive in a shop at Hirwain, the nearest village, at six o'clock on Saturday night, and on the follow ing morning, a neighbour going into the house, found the deceased lying on the floor quite dead, her body burnt, and the slumbering embers of a quantity of hay which had been piled on her body. Her head was covered with a piece of carpet, and when this was removed there was seen a deep bole on one side of her head, and the other side was com plete!y charred from the effects of the fire which had evi dently been ignited for the purpose of destroying the body, and probably the house also. The deceased was of miserly habits, and was reputed to have a large sum of money in the house. This, no doubt, tempted the murderer, but he must have been foiled in his hope to secure it, for the sum of £'3s was found concealed between the bedstead and mattress. The murderer, who is at present undiscovered, must have entered the house through the window. No clue has been obtained to his identity. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) OF BRAD FORD.—The death of the Dowager Countess of Bradford, took place on the 22nd inst. at Cannes, where her ladyship had been passing the winter. The lamented Countess Helen was the second daughter of Mr. Aneas Mackay, of Scotstown, and married, first, January 12,1819, Sir David Moncrieffe, of Moncrieffe, Perthshire, Bart., and was mother of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Bart. She married, secondly, October 1849, George, third Earl of Bradford, who died in March 1865. SIIERE ALI AND ENGLISII WOMEN. —During the visit of Shere Ali, of Affghanistan, to British India, a certain military civilian, Captain G., went out to receive the Ameer at the edge of his district. As he returned to the station with his Highness, Captain G. looking up, per ceived Mrs. G. and another lady seated on an elephant, and watching with curious eyes the illustrious stranger. The Ameer saw the ladies as soon as Captain G., and, turn ing round to the latter with a knowing wink, looking towards the two ladies in question, said, " I see, you are lust like us ; you leave all your pretty ones at home." A PRISON GOVERNOR ON PRISON DISCIPLINE. — The following letter has been addressed to the Howard Association, London, by the governor of one of the largest and best-managed prisons in Great Britain :—" What can he more agreeable to the position of a governor than a situation where prison labour is discountenanced rather than otherwise ? He has no anxieties as to profits, no trouble in the procuring of labour, or in the buying of materials at the cheapest rates, and in the selling at the most profitable prices, nor any disagreeable duties in the coercion of the idle to do their work. The question then naturally arises, are persons to be kept in their cells, like canaries in a cage, merely to be looked at, to eat their meals, take their exercise, go to chapel, and do just as much work as is agreeable to them selves, or are they to be made to work for their living, and the habitually lazy (who half fill the gaols) to be taught habits of industry, which may turn to good account after their discharge? I, for one, say the latter should be enforced. Why should the refuse of society, who are in many respects the terror of the respectable part of the community, be pampered, while the honest labourer has to work hard for the support of his wife and family ?" A DISAPPOINTMENT. —A very hard-working pro fessional man, careful, prudent, abstemious, but somewhat eccentric, retired from busy life with £30,000, in order, as he said, to enjoy himself, and pass the evenings of his life in the mild radiance of the setting sun. It could mot be said of him that he had no resources in his mind, for he was learned, witty, fond of books, music, and p'ctures, and he was happily married. All his friends (and he had many), to whom his harmless eccentricities and real kindliness of heart, concealed under a brusque manner, were sources of attraction, anticipated for him many years of learned leisure and calm domestic happiness. But it was not to be. A serious, and as it proved, a fatal illness overtook him, before, as he expressed it, "he had been three months out of business." He did not suffer much, and by no means anticipated a fatal ter mination to his malady. After ten days' confinement to his room, he was somewhat alarmed by the grave face and demeanour of his usually hearty and cheerful medical attendant. " I think," said the latter, "th a t i t is myyoly d rl u d ty to affairs Thee torecommendpatient settle,to y sprang t z i u , tp no you have not t.ys;i settle the." solth, trustou mean nos a t i o d t t e h l e l c m i o e e , t 0 ( 1. 1 c o i n r , d ly, "I u a s i r n e e s i s n fo s r t oyroeu if f t o o r se 3 t rO tl il e . , set t t i l l e l, t t l h ia er t e ra is an a y l : y a m P at y t e r oe years b s Life is always uncertain ; and it is best to b e n prepared for ou t "Doctor,'' hini, s a a m id d t y h i e n g s , ic a k d n3,aonu'd‘o‘ "you all can contingencies." deceive. ngen i e s . like to tell me the truth. W e ll! I have t oil e d , '- and struggled, and screwed, and saved, for forty years, and thought that at the last I was going to en j oy myself for a little while before the end. And now you tell me lam dying. All I can say is that it i s lig2lo a added two words that were very tragic, very comic,.' He 132 re --D' : Sage Ivr !ainentable l y .. Fry unrepeatabl e ; turned his face to the y5ll ; an4 ... aLtex , *dada MISS SHED.DEN AGAIN. In the Court of the House of Lords Appeals on 11Monda3), the appeal of William Patrick Ralston Shedden and Anna bella Jane Shedden, appellants, and the Attorney-General and others, respondents, was taken by the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Chelmsford and Lord Colonsay. The Solicitor-General (appearing for Miss Shedden) applied that the case might be postponed till after a motion had been made to Lord Penzance in the Matrimonial Causes Court relative to the alleged mutilated documents and other matters. The learned counsel stated that Miss Shedden was in a very weak state of health, and that the present case was one of life or death to her. He trusted that the case might be postponed till after Whitsuntide. Their lordships, having consulted together, refused the application. TUE STRIKE AT PRESTON. About 2,500 operatives were paid at the Weavers' Institute, in Lawson-street, on Monday. The business was commenced about eight o'clock in the morning, and concluded between seven and eight in the evening. The two-loom non-union weavers receive , ' each, the three and four-loom non-union hands ss. each, and the union members Cs. With the exception of a few slight disturbances outside the institute, got up mainly by excited women, the general proceedings were very orderly. The subscriptions for this week from the various districts on behalf of the unemployed weavers amount to about £330, a sum sufficient to pay all bands and secure a balance for next week. An effort has been made to amicably arrange matters at one of the mills between a number of spinners and their employers. The Manchester Typographical Society has, it is reported, made a grant of a substantial character to the Preston operatives. A meeting of delegates repre senting the associated spinners and minders of Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire was held in Man chester on Sunday. There was a numerous attendance ; all the chief districts were represented ; good subscriptions on behalf of the Preston operatives were banded in, and a distinct determination to support those operatives was evinced. On the same day a meeting of delegates repre- Looineriandwels ihiakiTegl ~S.oucleutLo.,f the proceedings it was determined to assist the Preston operatives connected with those departments. With respect to the proposed reduction of 5 per cent. in East Lancashire, the operatives' executive have agreed upon nothing definite, and the various districts will have to be consulted before any definite action is taken in the matter. THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACIES. An Italian correspondent, writing to a contemporary on the 21st instant, says it was proposed by the Milan conspirators to assassinate the Prefect and leading authorities, and amidst the confusion and terror thus caused to proclaim a republic. Amongst others, a Mr. Nathan, an Englishman, has been arrested ; very compromising docu ments were found in his possession. At Ancona, also, the police have been active, and arrested two of the reputed leaders of the Mazzinian party. Several houses have been searched for arms and incendiary documents, with partial success. The proclamations clandestinely circulated by the Republicans dwell much upon the heavy taxation to which the country is subjected, and hold out the prospect of few or no taxes as an inducement to the lower• classes especially to join them. The troops are undoubtedly faithful to the Government, with trifling exceptions, and any rising would be promptly crushed. A dastardly attempt was made on the night of the 18th to upset the special train by which the King of Italy was travelling to Naples, but fortunately it was thwarted by the vigilance of one of the men employed on the line. A large quantity of stones had been piled up across the rails, within a tunnel through which the train had to pass, near the station of Foggia. The signalman stationed there discovered the plot, and stopped the train before it had reached the tunnel. After the obstruction had been removed the train proceeded on its way. It is stated that the Government have come to a resolution to oppose Mr. Selwin Ibbetson's bill for the sup pression of beerhouses, which stands for second reading next Tuesday, on the plea that this is a subject which must be dealt with more comprehensively, and they intend to look at the whole question of licensing when they have less on their hands. We regret to announce the death of 11Irs. Charles Cavendish, which took place at her residence at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Sunday afternoon, after a lingering illness of several weeks. The deceased lady was the only daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Cockburn, and was married in June, 1863, to Mr. Charles William Cavendish, son of General the Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish. The lamentable scenes witnessed recently at Sefton Church were repeated on Sunday, when the church was again made the theatre of an inch corons exhiLition, and the officiating minister was hooted -while on his way b orn e. While these manifestations against ritualism are being displayed at Sefton, at Ilaydock, another rural Lancashire parish, the clergyman vpp( ars to be giving offence by modifying the extreme ritualistic practices ob served by his predecesfor. The New York limes reports that the policy of the Government with regard to the North-west territory will Le to organise a Territorial Government with its seat at Red River, giving it for the present only local and municipal ma chinery and representation in the House of Commons. As the population increases a Provisional Government will be orga nised, and a certain portion of the territory allowed to come into the Union as a province. It is expected that $200,000 or $300,000 will be voted this session toward the oompletion of the road from Fort William to Red River. The Rev. Dr. Massingbam lectured at Warrington a few days ago on the Irish Church end Mr. Gladstone's The reverend gentleman said, in the courke of his ob serv,tions :—"Mr. Bright had a brother-in-law, named Mr. Lucas, who was formerly a Quaker, and went over to tLe Church of Rome. His wife also went over to the same Church, and we have four Quakers, intimately con nected with Mr. Bright, who have all deserted Protestant princip'es and gone over to the Church of Rome." Mr. George Crosfield, of Walton Lea, Warrington, county magi strate, inquired asto the truth of this,and Mr. Bright replied : " No brother-in-law of mine Las Leccrne a Catholic, but these old falsehoods need not be refuted." A case of unmitigated barbari,m has just been investigated by the magistrates of Pennal, North Wales An old man "tramping" visited the house of John Pugh, at Corris, where he found Mrs. Pugh in bed, weak, and just recovering from an attack of fever. Ho collected some plunder, and finally attempted to commit an outrage ui_on her. She ran out of the house, pursued by the scoundrel, who overtook Ler, knocked her down, and again attempted criruinal violence, until the arrival of a working man put him to flight. lie was apprehended, and has been committed for trial fez the more serious offence. For the robbery ho has beon sent to prison for three months. ANOTHER FIRE IN THE NEVADA MINES.— Advices from San Francisco, dated the 12th inst., states : "A fire broke out in the Kentuck Mine on the seven• hundred-foot level this evening. It was found necessary to close the shaft again in order to smother the flames. It is supposed that the fire is still burning in the Yellow Jacket Mine, as the steam and vapour from that mine are much hotter than from the Crown Point Mine. A partial examination of the mines to day disclosed that consider able damage bas been done to the Kentuck and Yellow. Jacket. The list of the trustees of Maynooth College, moved for by Mr. Newdegate, has just been issued among the parliamentary papers. The list extends from June 1795 to April 1869. In each year from 1795 to 1800 there were ten lay and eleven ecclesiastical trustees. In each year from 1800 to the present date there have been six lay and eleven ecclesiastical trustees. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland were trustees during the first five years. There are at present seventeen trustees, among whom are Cardinal Cullen, appointed in 1850, and Dr. Mac Hale, appointed in 1834. --- Mr. Frank Buckland, in this week's issue of Land and Water has an article on " Whitebait," in the course of which he makes the following appetising state ment :—" The whitebait dinners eaten by us Londoner, consist of a very heterogeneous collection of fish, whict consist of—first, herrings ; secondly, sprats ; thirdly, sticklebacks ; fourthly, gobies ; fifthly, weavers ; sixthly, sand-eels ; seventhly, pipe-fish ; eighthly, white shrimps ninthly, buntings ; all these fish being in the form of fry in different stages of development." Mr. Buckland add: that the fish " was first introduced to the London market, by mie Mike Murphy, not fifty years ago, and the place where it was first eaten was the Artichoke Tavern at Blackwall." THE You GHAT. ELECTION. - Mr. Montagne Guest, the new candidate for Youghal, has issued an addres. He declares his intention to support the present Goverment so long as they continue to legislate in accord. ante with the wants of Ire'an 1, but considers himself at liberty to take an independent course should the necessity arise. Ife approves the Church Bill, except so far as relates to the compensation of Mavnooth, which le thinks ought to be taken from the ConsolidAted Fund. He w:11 support " any satisfactoiy measure which may be brou;ht forward to improve the rela . .ions between landlord and tenant," and he also advocates Cenom . national education. No other car.didate has yet ad :ressel the electors, though 't in ,rn.hL.,.. 11191 1 Egalui TIE.; PORTSMOUTH REVIEW. All accounts agree in stating that the Portsmouth Review was a pretty sight. Lovelier weather for any out door fete and spectacle could not have been desired or imagined ; nor, all things considered, was there much to repine at on other scores. It is true that the whole affair was diminutive ; the narrow field of action being lined with a sparse muster of spectators, and the military evo lutions being performed by fewer men of all arms than could make a very imposing show; but gaiety and pretti ness took the places of grandeur and pomp, and the Inn' nificent gave way to the jolly. CONFLICTING JUDGMENTS. There will be conflicting; judgments, of course, passed upon the review, and we may be sure nothing connected with it will escape blame from some sort of criticism nt other. Ordinary people will remember the day with delight, and declare, with justification, that it was a rare display of its kind. Those who affect a knowledge of military tactics will—also with some shew of justification —laugh and sneer at plans which they will term absurd , and at a chew which they will speak of as undignified. If People will insist upon looking at life from different stand points, we must expect divergence of opinion. If the intention of the planners of the day's proceedings wn s to give the volunteers and their friends a, nice gala day, and a little holiday work, they have done it, and sent thousands of men and women home gratified. If the wish of the scientific visitors was to have a keenly consistent military programme carried out with martial rigour, they have a right to grumble to their hearts' content, for they had neither the one nor the other. THE FIELD AND THE OPERATIONS. The Common on which the review took place is in its entire length barely nine furlongs, and is so narrow that anything like manoeuvring is out of the question. As for the sham fight, it was perhaps not more absurd than All sham fights must necessarily be. Military criticism of such things is entirely misplaced. No commanding officer has ever thought of handling his force on such occasions as it would really be handled in action. Certain contin gencies are assumed, in order that certain movements lia3't with a certain show of purpose, be carried out ; and that is all. Fortifications are, as a matter of course, taken ..,...—.Ao.v, I,llUUati vliey would 111 Lc6.ln. prOCCCIUTO with' stand a fortnight's siege. Who dreams of objecting? A 5 well might one say these are blank cartridges that the men are firing when they should be ball ; or declare that Hamlet in the tragedy is not a Daniels prince, but An American tragedian. THE MARCH PAST. The march past was a pretty sight, and was commend able from a military point of view. Uniforms of regular troops were in sufficient quantity to enliven the whole extent of the scene, the ground being kept by the 33rd and 35th Regiments, and two companies of the 46th. There were in all nearly 3,000 of the Queen's soldiers on the ground, and the volunteers numbered rather more than 5,000. The march past began at three o'clock , pretty punctually, General Buller's staff being joined at the saluting point by a mounted party of distinguished visitors, among whom were Admiral Sir James Hop', Lord Bury, and Colonel Lindsay. Though the ground was, unfortunately, more uneven in the front of the staff than in any other part of the Common, all the men con trived to avoid breaking, even when they marched in grand divisions. THE SHAM TIGHT. The sham fight was of course the spectacle whiCh excited the most enthusiasm. To describe it is to describe all unreal, but interesting, scene. The fleet representing the enemy opened fire upon the Castle, which soon surren dered, and was invested by the volunteers. Having polished off this strong work in the brief space of fifteen minutes, the victorious enemy pursued their career of success forcing back the defenders in the direction uk toeir works, while the flotilla, set free, by the fall of - Southsea Castle, steamed along, hugging the shore, covering the flanks of their friends, and firing with admirable rapidity at the works of Portsmouth. The sight of the day, for beautiful precision of movement, was an advance in line by the Royal Marine Artillery, who were warmly cheered as they passed the grand stand in pursuit of the defenders. Having forced back the reconnoitring party. to their works, theY deployed at short range, and opened a tremendous fire of rifles and artillery, backed by the fire of their fleet. T" defenders, manning the long line of their ramparts, re turned the fire with interest, the volunteer artillery doing splendid service at the guns on the seaward faces in rep!'" to the flotilla. After a fiercely contested battle, the hi' vaders succeeded in so far reducing the fire from the works as to give the hope of a successful as' sault. During the manoeuvres which attended the advance and retreat the field-pieces were wheeled about with much rapidity in the thick of the crowd, and that there should have been no serious accident seems almost incredible. The effect of men ran d boys and women mingling with, and in some cases leading on, the attacking force, was ridiculous. The people wer e so close to the volunteers engaged that had one of then' by mistake fired away his ramrod it must have spitted some of them like larks. It appeared to he :Tr)" goo d fun, and did not much hinder the advance of the invaders, although it did turn order into confusion. By and byc the sham fight neared its end, and the tide of battle gathered close tinder the walls of the town. The big gun s shook the air, the pit pat of the Sniders sounded like the throbbing of a hundred engines, the bayonets gleamed like lightning when the smoke lifted a little, and the clear occasional note of the bugle v: 3l never drowned by the other sounds, howeve r combined and reverberating they might be. - -6 1 the r garrison now - made an attempt to recover. -1 sortie was made, and for a while the fight was doubtful; but the fury of the garrison daunted the invaders, crushed by the overwhelming rapidity of the fire from the breechloader, now fairly retreated. THE MORAL. The Herald thus sums up the result of the review: " Taken all in all the review was perhaps the pret' tiest spectacle yet pre sen t e d i n connection vitu" the volunteer movement ; but in many respects it was highly indifferent as a military lesson, and if tb e volunteers are to learn from the regular officers, as th e y . ought, at least the lesson should be worth learning. 'Th ere was some improvement in the bearing of the volunteer° to be observed, and it was no doubt due to the fact that while they retained their own battalion officers they ha practical soldiers as brigadiers. But there would ha.ve b een no less pleasure in the spectacle had there . a little more probability in the programme. It failed in the basis upon which it rested—the original landing' it failed in providing for such a speedy capttire of Soubfisea Castle ; it failed in taking into account that, to say nothing of the Castle, the guns of the Portsmouth lines would have swept the Common clot' during the advance ; and it failed in supposing that th ° fleet could have done any such work as it was set to ( I ' 3 ' But the review did not fail as 1, series of battalion more' ments; it fully succeeded as a spectacle, and it amPli proved the expediency of thus smiting volunteer tx001 )8 and regulars whenever practicable on a plan which would be none the worse if it v. ire somewhat elastic, and if a little discretion were left to Was:red divisions or brigad e 6 and even battalions." THE SECRETS OF THE OCEAN.—A few (1 3 0 ago Mr. Colley, of Filey, found on the sea coast, nea r Filey Brig, a beautiful gold ring, in which was set a blood' :tone bearing an engraved boar's head. About a mile fro" the same place a row of artificial teeth, set in gold, was lately picked up. A story is going the round of the Indian al la China papers that the young Emperor of China, bein s curious to judge for himself of the effect of opium, tried 0 ' pipe, and of course suffered severely. The Queen Mother made inquiries, and having found out that one of the chi d eunuchs had supplied his Majesty with th e o pium, I ' 3 ' i him beheaded, as an example to the rest of the household' and a fresh proclamation against the use of the chug ‘ ll ' 4 sent through the empire. SHOCKING SCENE AT AN EXECUTION IN IC° r4t SCOTIA.—HALIFAX, N.S., SATURDAY, APRIL 10,—Doria the execution of Dowey, who was convicted of wurc le at Charlottetown, Prince Edward's Island. the rope brok. twice. The third time he was hauled up by the sheriff and his assistants. li e h ad previously sP°l4e— ri for three•quarters of an hour with great feeling and 0133 ; posure. The horrible scene was witnessed by abou t 2,000 people. A WONDERFUL RIFLE.--We have received il l " formation, from sources upon which we can rely, that l 4 new breechloading system is under examination the French authorities. From all we hear it is likely to prol a most formid a bl e weapon. The principle, which is ° American origin, can b e app li e d to many of the ex i s ting systems, but, as yet, it has only been adapted to tile Chassepot. By slight modification, the present C 1,355e. rots can be a lt ere d to take a metallic central fire car" ,.. -idge, which they are to fire in the ordinary manne r ' On an emergency, when it may be required to deliver a large number of shots in a very short period of time, simply turning a b u tt on th e converte d Chasscrct becomes a repeater capable of firing eight rounds withou t reloading the magaz i ne . Th e act of drawing b ac k tli o bolt to open the b reac h th rows out t h e old case, the fr esh cartridge comes u p f rom b e l ow , an d t h e clos i ng of the j breech pu s h es it i n t o t h e c h am b er. We un d er sta . n". that the wh o l e con t r i vance i s a tr i umph of mec hanica l skill, and that the cost of conversion is nevertheless extremely small. The French authorities are preservi ng e. more than ordin ar y secrecy a b ou t th e w h o l e affair, for ;hey are oblig e d t o con f ess t h at i n the matter o f railitt ri breechloader s , at least, they are behind the agc, s w u m Asa - 11.1m.1 ( N COMMI Consols ac count, 931 New Tkree 11,000, Bank of En; India Sto, ditto 5 per ( Cent., Oct., Cent., 991 ; The Fore a nd Egyytia two s t oc k s to 551 and per cent. low American 8 01 to 80i ; Atlantic Boi Railway prices show lower, at 99 109 ; and tern, at 49 t Continent Great Luxes Lombardo-1. There wer terda Y. The Neva £ 17 3,000, th and the Hai The mail tance of £l,: debt of Ecua The Syria pore, £30,00 and R,237 00 , To do aw' A great, I 7 welcome, ch at the Admi luercial busi navy carried interminabli to prevent f being expos which has o [service. It is state loft , Railwa ) line will be a CORtinUati r eceipts of N rOtibleB, ar roubles. The—Stoc the Scr i p of Railway Lo At a me , Cole et Inc the ehairma c ommittee si claims of I IlgYpt. It bad adopte( structions insist upon terms as th( Office, stank Sha and prices Foreign (iovERN: 3 .. Per Ceht. ( Ditto for A 5 per Cent. I 11°17 3 per ( Now 21 per ( Do. per Annuities, Do. for 30 Do (Red S E xhequ?.r Do Do. Bank of Eng D.. openii Canada 4 pei Inter-Coloni - ---. iNDIA.II India took, Do. Openii Do. 5 per , Do. 4 per I Do. CortH Do. Enfao Do. 5 per Do. sir per D) 5 per DO Do. D. 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