The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-22 00:00:00

1 - 1 O Y A L CHRISTY'S. GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL. UT:CZ:ST-STREET. Licensed by tho Lord t EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements. in addition to the most powerful Fti,iopian Troupe in the world. Mr. Harry Leslie, the 0 44-brawl Anter'can l' , median, appears nightly. Pro nounced by the Press to he the genuine eGnsation, and the of ly Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangern.nts for the Easter week : • CETAINT:E OE , ' :PROGRAMME. New SonS , A, 51:e.:4•1,, Burl , 1 7 Ntr.v,tranza. THE VERY 01-;:‘ ND MITel• 1 -S. ADMI:':SION ONE SHIE.T,ING. Thivate Pox , s, 25.; :tars, f 3F. ; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s :int] ,ontinued sueez , ss of the Acting-manager, 31r. ANDREW NIMMO. THE "SUN" N EWS PA PER.-G. R. G LENTE _,re the L TE F.DITTON at Chelsea, 7.10; Kilburn, : 8; Woolwich, 7.10; Uxbridge, 9.f.'0; Watford, T II F' L vrvsT EDITION of "THE U " IT iLME!.I legs to in'ortn his frienll and the prth'ie rtrttra.ly that he starplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE 13C-\ " as soon as published.—No.lo, llaropstead-road T `fl E " S UN" NE WSPAPER.--G. R. GLENIE, - Sporting Library. 4, Connaught-terrace, it:dgeware-ro ad , .leliyers the LATs: febrrioN of " TIT SUN; "at the e:lrl , est vssible moment after leaving the press. He iR able to 001' cer ...I , pies in Town, the Suhnrha, and in many parts of the ccuLtry c•omparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 wile& by 1•1 'clorb 'Orticrs by port rlinettiary attonded to HE lA'! ES I EDITION of "THE SUIT" tuipplied r s.o3n as published, r ,ntaining all the LATEST 1 %VS and SPORTING INTELLIGE.' Mr, by 11 W HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blankfriara-road,l4ondon, 8. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Msnager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tuts EVENING. at 7. THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD. At 7.45 HAMLET: Hamlet, Mr. D.11on; Mr. Bp: J.Ronse, Miss Heath, and Mrs. H. Vandenhoff. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. 'fins EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. , Rogers Clark, Gordon, White; Mho' Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. Mr Sothern. Concluding with MAhE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Vining. This EvEntio, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Walter Lacy, Mr. D. Leeson, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. F2 IOSES and EON. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. EVERY ARTICLE of CLOTIIING, DEADY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, FOIL ALL CLASSES. DRICES BASED ON k SYSTEM READY-MONEY AN UNEQUALLED in EVERY DEPARTMENT. STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY SI YLE AND MATERIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to /5. acid SHOES. HOSIERY and DPAPERY. AND HATS and CAPS, IN GREAT VARIETY. BUCKSKIN OVAL CRICKETING BOOTS, N. W. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES A-11,TICLES NOT APPROVED OF -EX CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. MOSES and Son. has served to extend Eteir connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. • IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-mrasure, ▪ Patterns and Fashion-sbeet, gratis and post-free. ,RATCSEs and SON'S ESTARLFIIMENTS • are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Paturrlay Evening at sunset, when business is resumed. until 11 o clock. EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, 'Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and eov•— CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MTN ORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, A LDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 6, ALDGATE , ATE 83. ALD' +AT E ALDGATE OXFORD-sTrxEr BRANCH. NEW OXFORD-9TM; KT ';O7, NEW OXFORD-STREET NEW OXF3RD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM- CO 171ZT -12 ( 1S D BILINCII 1.)7, TOTTENHAM-COUI T-110AD 138, TOTTENHAIT-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STEEET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre t entations, B. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and thut their tmy Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F. B. Cho tt.rtnn. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD, a Musical Folly. At 7.44, HAMLET: Hamlet, Mr. C. Dillon: Mr Ryder; liessra Wilson Barrett, J. Rouse, Barrett O'Neill ; Mesdames Death, Mari e O'B erne, and 11. Vand enhoff.. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-cMce open from P.) till 5 daily. T HEATRE ROYAL, II AYMAR KE T. Sole Le9Ren, Mr. 11nel:stone. THIS I.VFNING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Titv7ers. Cla Cordon, \\ldle & - e.; Mi.; Fanny - Wright and Miss. F. Gwynn. Aft: r Messra. mlale, Cutup ion, A stley. &e. Mesdames Cil,V( ndisL. Parke. •E c. Followed 1 y CAPTAIN OF 'I I-I I. 'Messrs Sotltern, Chirpcialale, Vincent, Sc ; Yettivtres CaN e. Concluding with MANE YOUR WILLS rthAzstone. Josepl, B: s', Mr Box-office open daily Cc:l:mem - T.IU Seven. Ti 1-1 E A it ETt() Y A AI)FI.I'fII Sole PropCoor n.ml to.ityr. AVERSTEri. D;roctr.ss. t r Alf NePon. EVENTNGI. at 7. MO Toll 1.7.11TF. TO ( WELL: Bel:, ‘t 15 t. 8. :In], sAirrE. l'r reeh , rr ar'ott.l Leol , req, Mr Arthur ,Stir'inz, Mr It. ;MPH/as, Mr A kin:; , `lTuarz. Mrs. T, 3Tinra7 \li: a Lan , r, Crev. &e. rt`, conolndo with INIIITE.VA ' IT bir A tkiiy, and Mrs Leigh. Murray VER SEND YOUR II , OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining r t Tais EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which, Dion Boncicanit's Crest Drama, entitled AFTER TARE: a Tale of London Life. Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick rurro.y, Mr D. Leeson ; hiss Emma Barnett, and Miss hose Leclereq. ronclud;n- , with THE SECRET. hurtly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bou ci , :tu t. )oors open at, half-past 6, commence at 7. 414 from 10 tirl 5. Box-office open lIOLBORN THEATRE.- BAERY SULLIVAN, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE- OPEN ON SA TURI , AY, IsT OF "IAY. with Lerd Lytton's Great Play, in Five Acts, entitled MONEY. art .ported by 1.1 , c following. celehrt o l Irtistes. viz.: Tarry Sul lly t-t, J. C. Cowper. eorge Honey, W. H. Stephens. Clis.ries Co 4. 1.1. E. D.vas. Lin rt,yne, A. Tama . 41, W. W. Mt - len I A. Stuart, L Sargent, C. Vc lent' _ie. V. Ft.ines. J. Blythe, b. Blanscome, aul ll..:elson: 3Trs.l3....rrnann Vezin. Miss * Jane Eignold, Miss Amy Fawsitt. Miss Rosine Power, Miss Thorne, ]Sias Malborough. and Mrs. Charles florsman. Principal Scenic Artists—Mr. Wiliam Calcott and Mr. Albert Calcott. A cting Mar ager—Mr. Barry Sala -an. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Role T e.ssee and Manageress, Mrs Fwanborough. TIM EVENT' G at T, A. V . IDOW BUNT. Messrs. 'Ante. Belford, .Tevee; Mesdames Britton and Maitland. Atter which. :MAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. .Tames, Fen ton, Turner, Chamber!sine; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t" e Last Six Nights and Farewell appearance of the CARRE TROUPE and the Won'erful PERFORMING HORSES. During the week a number of novelties will be pro duced. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as the troupe leave London on the Beth. Tuere will be an entire chance of programme each even in-r.—The best and only entertainment of the kind in the me tropolis. No other Theatre in 1 ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, aniusern mt, and excitement - The most complete combination of equestrian talent ever brought to gether. Doo^s open at seven, commence at half past. Morning Per terms aces Wednesday an , i Saturlay, co:nmeneing at Bait-past Two. 1 LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor aml Mana7er, Mr. Sefton Parry. _ - . ..,- .1t 7, IL J. Pyron's new and original Drama. MINNIE : or, L^onard's Love: Miss 13dis. Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; Niessrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. - Ai - 6, A BRFACFf OF PRO3II,F, To cOnelutle with BROWN A:+:DI . :FIE BRAHMIN'S: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, llurlston, and J. Clarke; resdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. LATEST EDITION of THE SUN " I supplied, as soon as published. Every Evening, by W AL EXA • D i.:R (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, o. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street. THE THIRD EDITION OF 4, THE SUN," giving all the SPORTIA G NEWS of the day, may by seen at EM AY M A NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. sPANISII GOVERNMENT THREE PER CENT. LOAN, 180. For Fifty Millions of Della] s tffective, in Bonds of the Consolidated Three per Cent. Debt. Authorised by Act of the Cor es under date of 31st March, 18t49. Messrs J. S. MORGAN and CO. are authorised by the Contractors to RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS for £8,000,000 nominal (part of the above Loan). Tho Bonds for this Loan will be to bearer, and will be simlar in amounts and form to the existing New Three per Cent. Spanish Bonds; they will bear interest at 3 per cent. per annum (from 31st December, 1338), payable half yearly, on the 30;h June and 31st December in each year ; in LoLidon, at the fixed exchange of 4s. 3d. sterling, and in Paris at sf. 40c. per dollar. The subscription price in London is 291- per cent. of the nominal amount, and will be payable as follows:- 5 per cent on Application. 5 „ „ Allotment. 6 „ „ 25th May, 180. 8 fLess Coupon of per 1 77 30th June I cent. less income-tax. 5 „ „ 2d August, 1869. 291 Taking into consideration the accrued interest and the payment by instalments, the return to the subscribers, at the fthova issue price, is equal to about 10i per cent. Subscribers may, on allotment, or on any of the days fixed for payment of the instalments, anticipate the future payments under discount at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Subscriptions will be received-on the 22d and 23d April (instant). A wications from the country posted on tho 233 instant will to vcc,iv-,d. In casca where no allotnwut is made the deposit will be returned without deduction, anti u here an allotment is made of an amount smaller than that applied for, the sue phi of deposit will ho applied towards the amount pay able on allotmvut. In default of payment of the respective instalments at their due dates all previous payments will be liable to for kiture. Scrip Ctllificates to bearer will ho exc . ianged against Allotment Letters anti RF ceipts as soon as possible. 'l' Lese Scrip Certificates will be exchangod fur Bonds to bearer as soon as practicable after payment in full. Applications mud be made on the annexed form, which may be obtained of Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., No. 22, Old Broad-street, E. C. Subscription lists for the loan will be. opened simulta neously in Paris, Madrid, Am-ter.'am, liamburgh, Frank fort, Brussels, Antwerp, and Vie., a ; but Scrip Certificates issued iu respect of London Allota:euts can only bo paid on, and exchanged for Bonds, in Lond.m. 22, Old Broad-street, London, E.O , 2 tst April, 1869. SPANISH GOVERNMENT THREE PER CENT. LOAN, 1869. The definitive Bonds will, as in the case of the existing New Three per Cent. Spanish 80nd..4, be in amounts of £42 10s., £B5, £l7O, £255. f5lO, and £1,020; allotments can therefore be made for any of the sums specified below : Total cost at 2.9! , per cent. if paid by instalments. £4 5 0 ... .E"25 1 6 810 0 ... 50 3 0 12 15 0 75 4 6 17 0 0 100 6 0 21 5 0 125 7 6 25 10 0 ... 159 9 0 29 15 0 ... 175 10 6 34 0 0 2001 . 2 0 38 5 0 ... 225 13 6 42 . 10 0 ... .250 15 0 48 15 0 ... 275 16 6 51 (1 0 200 18 76 10 0 ••• 451 7 U 101 0 0 ... 16 0 153 0 0 902 14 0 201 0 0 1,t)03 12 0 155 0 0 1,501 10 0 3u6 0 0 1,805 8 0 1 357 0 0 2,101 6 0 408 0- 0 ... ?AO"; 4 0 459 0 0 ... 2,708 2 0 I 510 0 0 3,009 0 0 1,020 0, 0 6,018 0 0 1,530 0 0 ... 9,027 0 0 2.040 0 0 ... 12,036 0 0 2,550 0 0 ... 15,045 0 0 Amounts that cart Deposit 5 per cent. to allotted. XB5 370 255 935 1,530 s,i'Bil C. I'?i) 7,14 J 2 4 ,11.0 9,1F,0 10,200 20,400 30,600 40,600. 51,000 No. SPANISH GOVERNMENT THREE PER CENT. LOAN, F 69. FORM OF APPLICATION. To be left with Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., after pay ment to them of the preliminary derosit of 5 per cent. on :he nominal amount applied for. Gentlemen,— Having paid the sum of £ I hereby request that you will allot me £ of the above Loan on the terms of the Prospectus issued by you, and 1 hereby agree to accept that, or any smaller amount which may be allotted to me, and to pay the further In stalments according to the terms of Om said Frospectus.— I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Signature Address (iu full) Date To Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE OMPA7 , Y, 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. Irnpor!ant Announcement, Increased Share of Life Profito. ALL NEW INSURANCF.S, with Participation, EFFECTED AFTER Ist JANUARY, 18GS, will become entitled to an INCREASED SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution placed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. JOHN H. MCLAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. „^11"0 - 11,TING.—JOHN ROBERTS npplies fir L - 7 LATEST EDITION of "THE SUZI” as soon as pub .l.had.-4, Bath-6tmet, City-road, E.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to J- be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBEUT Britannia, Kensal New-town. rrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at 4. JAMES SPEEDTS, "The Wellington," Wellington-strcct, Strand. H O'S GRAINGE R.? LICENSED Y T VICTUALLERS' TOACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. 'i he SPOBTIN G EDI UO ‘; of "THE SIIN " can be seen at GE %I? GEB'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at 1. J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. rrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at I, W. SMITH'S "Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. R. GLEN lE. of the SPORTING LTBR.ARY. kT• 4, Connanght-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to inform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general, that he has been appointed Agent to the above-named paper addition to his agency for the Sporting Edition or Tin eSUN," and can s upply the same en Friday evening, if req,iited, in town or country. O. R. (-; begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the LATLST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier than any other man in London or Country the evening of publi cation. No connection with any other penous. Baily's, Ruff's, Wright's, and M•Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Magazines, and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent for the Joint-Stock Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELNU. Tins EVENING. st 7. DID YOU EVER -END youn WIFF TO C 4 MBERWEI.I.: Mr. C. IVitu.re, MIT. L. Murray At IS to 5, BLAB K D WHITE: MeNFrs. Fechter, A. Stirling? R . , Phinins. Stuart: ekrlotto, Leclereq, Miss Lennox Grey, And WHITEBAIT AT GR NWICH :Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. ;,Ifs EVENING. at 7.30, THE 'WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Buftcn. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; s esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS FVENINO. at 7, MINNIE, or. Leonard's Love. At 9„k PREACH OF PROMISE. After wh;eh, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. NI srshall. David Fisher, .Andrews. stone, .7. Clarke: Mesdames Lydia. t oote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EvENIXO, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLM tY. Followed by CLAUDE DTTVAT,: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers. 'Miss M. Olivet. &c. To conclude with TITE BOARDING SCITOOL. NZINCE OF WAIFS'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the M:lnnitement iss Marin "Wilton TUTS EVENING, SO [TOOL: Hare, H. J. Montagne. I.4ldison, (=Hover. and Dim-I,n Buckingham White. misr, C. Addison, and Miss V arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME Excusr.. Messrs ROYAL AMPIIITTTEATRE AND CIRCUS, DOLBORN. TIFIS EVENING, the Great Cane Troupe and magnificent Stud or tic) Horses; also Alfred Bradbury. 0. and A. Carre, etc. u nnTsrry MINSTRF,I.S. St. JameCs Trail. Every Night u. S Wednesdays and !•att!nlays, at Bands all the year round. ST. G EoR GE'S THEATRE, REC ENT STREET. THIS EVENTNA, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL. CHRISTY'S :‘TINSTIIELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: And tae Burlesque Extravaguaza, THE VERY GLAND DITTCH—S ROYAL AL [JAMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET i Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. 10. Box-ollict open from 11 to 4. -~- _-,., THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1869. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regetife-park, OPEN daily (es cort Sundays). Admission, is.; en Wendays, Gd. Children under twelve, Pl. t-±v.,,,N sun-, -2, ~,_,,,,,„ (itilit ; f,.J- 4:s 4 ''': - A referee. the Courts of Chancery, Queen's Bench, Cc mmon Pleas, and Exchequer will give their names to these chambers, whilst the Courts of Admiralty, Prctate, and Divorce will form one division. But though the old names will be retained, the special func tions of these tribunals will disappear. Every division of the Supreme Court will form a complete tribunal of justice. Any suit may be commenced in one of these divisions and completed there, whe ther the trial be based on law or equity. In short, all the powers of the Supreme Court will be united in each of its divisions, all of which will be on the same footing. The present judges, too, both of the law and equity courts, will be competent to sit in any chamber. By the trenchant scheme of which this igwthe main feature the Commissioners propose the greatest change e - ..er made in English judicature. But Lord CAIRNS, Lord HATHERLEY, Sir ROUNDELL PALSIED, and the ablest of their colleagues, were not likely to take the initiative in such a revolution unless there was much to be gained by it. All readers of news papers, even those who have never had the mis fortune to appear in a superior court, must know ho - .v great are the inconveniences arising from a divided jurisdiction. It not unfrequently happens that a plaintiff with a good . case loses his suit be cause, by a mistake of his lawyers on some point of jurisdiction, it has been begun in the wrong court, and the whole proceeding must be commenced afresh. Under the new system, the chambers of the Supreme Court will have jurisdiction in all branches of law, and no annoyance of this kind will be possible. If one legal procedure will not suffice to deter mine a case, another may be applied by the same tribunal. Again, at present the Court of Admiralty may decide a claim for damage to cargo, but a Common Law Court is required to hear a counter claim of the shipowner for freight. Tie Supreme Court would set these two claims one against the other, and decide upon both at once. Still more injurious anomalies have recently arisen out of joint-stock company legisla tion. The report of the Commission notices the extraordinary complication which arose out of the legal proceedings between the sellers and jobbers of railway shares. One plaintiff commenced a suit at common law, and another opened litigation in equity against the same defendants. Both courts gave a similar judgment. The defendants appealed from one decision to the Exchequer Chamber, and from another to the Chancery Court of Appeal. Each of these courts, without means of communica tion, reversed the decision which was sub mitted to it. Thus there were two suits and two appeals with precisely similar results. Under the consolidated system of judicature half this expense and trouble might have been saved. In fact, the powers and procedures of our courts bye by the process of natural development merged in complete chaos. The ever-increasing legal trail%actions of modern life demand that this crfus;on should be reduced to order. This fundamental change by no means exhausts the reforms suggested by the commission. Not only is the jurisdiction of the tribunals divided and confused, but almost every step in the hearing of a cause at equity differs from corresponding procedures at common law. Forms of trial, the mode of pleading, and of ta.kincr evidence are all dis similar. The complexity is merely the result of custom, and the Commissioners see no diffi culty in making great changes. The forms of procedure are to be much simplified, and to be made as uniform as the variety of cases will adtnit. The multifarious ceremonials now necessary at the commencement of suits will be materially cut down. In the systems of pleading the Commission has found much to reform. Equity pleadings are neellessly prolix; those at common law mix up law and fact, often raising useless issues and obscuring details of moment. The com parative brevity of common law pleadings will be combined with the pure statement of-. facts customary in equity. As to the mode of trial, the Supreme Court will have great discretion : a ques tion may be tried in any chamber by judge, jury, or The courts are to have power to sit at all timis, and lio distinction is to b 3 made between business in term and out of term. The division or the country for legal busi ness is no longer to be by county, but several counties are to be united in convenient districts. Lastly, instead of the Exchequer Chamber and the Court of Appeal in Chancery, ono Court of Appeal, ruled by the LORD CHANCELLOR, will form part of the Supreme Court, the House of Lords being in no wise interfered with. Changes so important and so complicated must, of course ; be made with every care that the transition be not too violent. But the advantages of the new judicature, when once in working order, are self evident. Instead of the semi-barbarous complications which now hamper the business of the country, the suitor will have a comparatively simple, cheap, and, above all, direct remedy at law. LATEST INTELL IGEN CE (REIrElt'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 22. The official Vienna Gazette of this morning pub lishes the law, which has received the sanction of the Emperor, for the organisation of a Supreme Court of Justice for the Empire. The Presse publishes a telegram asserting that the English Government has recently offered its media tion in the Franco-Belgian question. LCADUJV, 'ffiURSDAY, AI'BIL 22, 1869. Something practical, it may now reasonably be hoped, will be done in regard to the Ballot—that Qiestion having passed at length into the hands of a distinguished Politician, a mm thoroughly in earnest and thoroughly consistent. lo Sir HENRY BULNVER has been confided, by the unanimous deci sion of all the more conspicuous supporters of this long-looked-for reform, the reTonsibility of bringing it, in a sub.tantive shape, under the consideration of the popular branch of the Legislature. It is almost needless to say that this trust has been placed in the safe keel lug of the sight hon. member for Tamworth unreservedly and unconditionally. To his own better judgment, in his capacity as the now recognized and acknowledged Leader of the Ballot Party, has been committed the selection of what may appar to himself the right time and the aptest season for the re. ventilation, so to express it, of the principle involved in this great and (as we for one cannot but think) vitally important measure, in the House of Commons, under circum stances more propitious than have ever yet presented themselves to a Ballot adv3cate in Parliament. Epi tomising the auguries of success in a very few words what are they ? They are, among others, these— 'l he possessi,n of power, to begin with, by the Libe ral Party in overwhelming numbers The conduct of that party by a body of Ministers who, as innova tors, arc as daringly adventurous as have ever yet been seated upon the Treasury Bench ! The recog- nitiou among those ministers of several known and eminent advocates of Ss , cret Voting—one of them (and that, too, a Cabinet, Minister, as eminently placed in the ranks of the Government as the first of the five Secretaries of State, meaning the Secretary of State for the Home Department), being a very recent but by no means half-hearted convert to, and advocate of, the Ballot. With friends of the Ballot numbered up, and numbering up, in the ranks of the Liberal Party, as well as in the inner ranks of the Govern ment itself—precisely at this happy juncture in the history of the lengthened agitation of this great reform, the leadership of those avowedly in favour of it, passes, by the happiest gaol chance coneeivab:e, into the hands of one pre-eminently well qUalified to con.luot this great project of reform to a fortunate is sue. Sir HENRY BeLWER, as the cham pion of the Ballot, has, we cannot hut think, the ball, now, fairly at his foot. To his own better judgment, as we also cannut but conceive, must be left entirely and absolutely the sel..!el ion of the Ville at which he will bring the matterthus frankly entrusted to his safe keekiug finally and with all due deliberation under the consideration of the Commons, and under the con sideration simultaneously, of course, of her MAJESTY'S Government. _Mr. LEATIV , 3I'S motion of a few weeks back leading, as it d'd, to nothing save an empty discussion of a matter already, as we all know, only too often merely discussed, has in no way precluded the acknowledged leader of the Ballot Party from reviving the deliberate recon - ideratiou of the matter, in a substantial form, during the present session of the Legislature. Sir HENRI' BULWER has his name down in connection with this subject on the papers of the house—on the scsirnial programme, as it might be called, without much extravagance. It remained yet to be seen in what shill e, and when and how, the qu?stion will be brooght forward anew this session—if that eutry already referre 1 to is in fact, in other words, to come to anything. Earnestly, and we believe in no way extravagantly, we are hopeful, now, in regard to the .prospects of the 13 allot. The hour is apdroachincr. The I:in is There was somethi g propitious, as it appears to us, in the very tone aril manner of the meeting held List night in our immediate neigh- Lowhood—the first meeting of the LIal!ot .Associa tion, presided over (at the Arundel Ii dl) by the Right Hon. the member for Tamworth. CO;n0. Nowa'EßE is there to be found more melancholy evidence of human weakness than in the imperfec tions of human laws. The wisest of nations have failed to reconcile strict law with the even-handed dispensation of justice. All systems of legis!atiOn I have left certain inequalities to be filled up, certain deficiencies to be provided for as occa sion requires. Va r i ous causes have been in operation in different countries, but the result has always been the same. Wherever courts and laws have existed, it has been found necessary to build up by the side of the written and unwritten law a more flexible system of judicature to which recourse may be had whenever the common law is found deficient. What we call Equity is, therefore, not peculiar to any I nation. Sometimes, as in the case of Roman law, attachment to old customs and traditions has brought about strange compromises with the necessities of a growing society. Thus the barren maxims and theatrical ceremonies of the Twelve Tables were pre served in theory, but another system was perfected by which they were set aside in practice. Some , times the possible defects of the law were provided for beforehand. The old Prussian code laid down. that whenever a judge could find no law to decide a case he was to settle the affair to the best of his judgment, the defect in the statutes being after wards attended to. In England it is certain that some principles of equity have prevailed ever since the time of EDGAR. Suits which the judges could not solve were referred to the King; and after the Conquest he referred them to his chaplain. This functionary gradually developed into the Lord Chancellor, and out of his jurisdiction gra dually arc se the Courts of Equity with their cumbrous procedure and multifarious precedents. But whilst we thus only obeyed the common necessity of nations, we managed, as usual, to differ from all others in our system of equity. In other countries no difficulty is found in making one court answer the purposes of both law and equity. When the principles of law fail, the same tribunal applies the principles of equity. Thus one court possesses all the power necessary to finally dis pose of any suit. But in England the two systems of j u di ca t u r e are kept quite distinct. In no case can a court of common law settle a question in equity. Suits commenced in the Queen's Bench have often to be . continued in Chancery. In this division and confusion we stand alone, the amazement, but not the admiration, of the civilised world. It is obvious that our system must be attended with great disadvantages. So serious, indeed, have they become, that some time back it was resolved to consider the means of reform, and a very power ful Commission, consisting of the first lawyers of the day, was appointed to iuvestigatethis important . matter. After two years' deliberation the commis sion has declared our system of leg'l jurisdiction to be so bad that it must be, in a ma.nuer, Americanised, and a very radical change is proposed. Separate Courts of Equity and Common Law are to exist no more. All the superior tribunals, together with the Courts of Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty, are to be united in one great Supremo Court. The different powers of these tribunals will be con solidated into one jurisdiction. In the Supreme Court there will be no ch: mbern for separate classes of suits, such as the Court of Admiralty for mercantile maiine cases. The Supreme Court will be divid d into as many chambers of justice as public busnrcss taa v require, and for the sake of facilitating the c flange of system, INDIA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GIBRALTAR, April 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, from Southampton, 17th inst., arrived at five, and leaves for Alexandria ac eight thi4even ing. A:1 well. AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 21. The Cunard steamship Russia arrived out at 5 p.m to-day. COMMF.IIe IA L INTELLIGENCE. CLOBING PRICES. Gold closed at 1341. The highest quotation during the day was 13411 ; the lowest 1341. St2rling exchange on London, 1081. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1482, 1211 ; ditto, 1885, 1181; ditto, 1867, 115/ ; Ten-Forty Bonds, 101. Illinois, 145 ; Erie, 34. Cotton—middling upland, 281 c. Petroleuia—standard white, 32ic. Flaur---ex,;ra State, $5 70c. to $6 30c. Corn—old mixed, 82c. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 91 .—Three &clock—The market closed as 7 °Howe 4i per Cent ..... lO2 End of 3 per Cent ....... 7 t 12 En.l of month... 71. 10 Crr+ditMobilier 953 75 End of month... 25: 75 Cr. Poucipr l497 End of month.,. Bank Shares 2930 Itt.l'an Fives 56 15 End of mouth Ile xiean Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred ...... ' Cash Orleans . .... ......... ........... !fls Northern. ....... ............................ Lyons and Mediterranean Southern,.... 615 Western. . 580 Eastern ............ Sara , ian .. • • Allati ian ........ Lor ............ ......... N. rth of Simi), Sara ;ossa Roman ......... RAILWAY' 5'2 , 1 678 k 478 k 75i 521 RoMFORD CATTLE MARKET.—Trade ruled active at market yesterday, at the following prices, at per stone and sinking no offal :—Boasts, 40. 4d. to ss. 4d.; sheep, 4s. 841. to Gs. ; calves, 4s. to ss. 84.1.; pigs, 40. 4d. to 58. 2d. ; store pigs, Us. to 23k. a bead. BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES AND 0 TWO DEANS ON CHURCH TOPICS. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 'The time is nowtast approaching when country Men and provincial Dissenting ministers invade the metropolis to attend the well-known " May meetings."_ In the principal streets of London the white necktie, usually scarce enough, seems suddenly to be worn by half the pedes trians. Before these meetings set off in good earnest there are the numerous local benevolent institutions and less-known societies to hold their meetings. Some ten of these held their annual reunion on Wednesday. A list of them may be mentioned : THE GOVERNESSES BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. — Lord Denman presided at a dinner—the anniversary festival — of this institution, and announced that the subscriptions to it amounted to £1,253. This institution embraces in its objects temporary assistance to governesses in distress, given privately through t he ladies' et li.mittee ;an annuity fund which provides annuttics to aged governesses; a pro vident fund, including a savings bank; a home for gover nesses during the interval between their engagements ; . a system of registration free of expense ; and an asylum for the aged. Some 2,000 governesses have availed themselves of this means of relief. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATI:JIM—Of this society the Bishop of St. David's is president, though he did not pre side at the annual meeting. His report sheaved the society to be in a flourishing condition. ItErorawronv CIIILDREN.— One of the most interest ing of the many meetings was that held under the presi dency of the Earl of Shaftesbury, in Exeter Hall. The occasion was the annual gathering of reformatory children, under tl:e auspices of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, and the attendance of the friends and supporters of themove meat was so great that to accommodate all who came would probably have required more than twice the space afforded by the building. The noble carl presided; and amongst the gentlemen present were Sir Stafford North cote, M.P., Mr. Baron Pigott, Mr. Hodgson Barrow, M.P., Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., Judge Payne, Dr. Mackenzie (Provost of Inverness), and many of the clergy. Both before and after the speaking portion of the proceedings a choir of 700 children from the various refuges and homes of London delighted the audience by singing a number of pieces under the direction of Mr. J. Proudman, and accompanied Ly the organ. The Earl of Shaftelbury, referring to the children, said it would not be easy to forget the sight they presented, and he asked Lis hearers whether their minds could be more pleased, their hearts mere gratified, or their natural aspirations more satisfied, than by what they had seen and beard. Let them then go tomorrow to the slums of Bethnal Green, Slit rediteh, Westminster, and the Mint, and they would discover from what degradation these happy children l.ad been rescued, and the vast field there remained for the labours of those who were engaged in this good work. Be shuddered to think what England might have been now had it not been commenced some five-and-twenty or thirty years ago.---In the course of the evening Mr. Ford, the secretary of the union, read a statement, exhibiting its progress, and referring to the good likely to result from the conference now being held in London. During the past year the union bad made grants to the extent of over £2,000, and,,in addition to the training-ships at Newcastle, Southampton, Glasgow, and Liverpool, which had been opened this year, three others would shortly be placed at Bristol, Dundee, and Edin burgh. Reformatories had also been established in Jamaica, and, under the influence of Miss Carpenter and Lord Lawrence, at no distant date they would be extended to India. The Marine Society, the City of London Truss Society, the Solicitors' Benevolent Society, the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, the Tailors' Benevolent Institution, &c., held meetings. At 'Willie's Rooms a drawing for an album for the benefit of the Dramatic College at Alaybury took place. The halipendance Edge reports that the Emperor of the French las been bitten in the cell of the leg by a small dog. The wound does not signify, but his Majesty is reported to have remarked in a jocular way, "It is a Lad sign." A man respectably dressed, and believed to be A foreign sailor, was found dead, with his skull terribly fractured, on the railway between Cork and Mallow, yesterday morning. The circumstances give rise to a suspicion that be has been robbed and murdered while Le velling over the line. The Duke of Abercorn, wLo is now on the Conti tinent, has written stating that should the health of his daughter, Lady Mouut-Edgecumbe, permit of Lis coming to England ; will consider it his duty to protest, publicly against the Irish Clinch scheme, which, while it will not have the smallest effect in araying diecentent, Nvi3 i n fli ct impart/Ith injury uj on Ireland. • The rtrike in the South YeiksLiic coal trade still c:r.ntiutles, and tLo between the unionists and non-unionists seems to be increasing. At the Dent:by Main COliiery they have again Lem in eoll's'on. As two of the latter were proceeding to their l.ernes ou Mtnday evening they n ere attacked by a body of the mcn locked out, and very lautal'y ill-treated. Thr( e men are in custody on the charge of being imi heated iu the assault. Two boys, the elthAt Lot over 12 years of age, were charged at the Liverpool Police-court on Tuesday with having set fire to a stable in Northumberland-street, Liverpool. The your ger prisener, it appeared, evggested to his companicn the idea of setting fro to the stable, and inforn.irg the cm ner, wilh the view cigetting a reward. They accordingly-threw a belted match among the straw, and then went to the owner and told him leis stable was on fire. The latter, to their astonishment, gave the lads into custody. They were remanded. In the Court of Divorce on Thursday Mrs. Godrich applied for permission to filo another petition against her husband for judicial sop tratien. She stated that she was prosecuting for perjury the women rpon whose evi dence she had b. en found guilty of adultety in the suit instituted against her by Ler husband, and Met she obtained true bills against two of them, end v.aq indicting a third. She had no means, Ler Lubber . d having made her no allowance fur four months, and one of her objects in filing the petition was to obtain alimony. Lord Penzance informed her that he Lad no diecretion in the matter. It was quite open to her to file a fresh petition, but he could give her no advice. Mrs. Godrich thanked his lordship and retired. Domestic scandals in high life seem to multiply now-a-days. The London correspondent of Saunders's News Letter announces a fresh one. He taus describes the parties to it :—"A gentleman well known in the upper circles has eloped with the wife of a friend, a lady wl o has for the last few years taken a prominent part in the beau monde. The former is a near relative of a naval Baronet, not long deceased; the latter comes of a sporting race, and abandons not only an estimable husband and an enviable position in the world, but leaves also a youthful family to, ono day, blush for her disgrace. I fear it to be but too true that proceedings are taken for bringing before the Divorce Court the cad case of matrimonial infidelity which society has been of late so generally discussing. It is asserted that the eldest son of one of your earls has been selected as co nspondent." A tabulated account of the gross public income and expenditure for the year ending March 31st, 1869, has been • published as a Parliamentary paper. With the fact that the total ordinary expenditure was £2,905,824 in excess of the total income, the public is already sufficiently fami liar, but on account of the balances of the public money, given on the same sheet, is more novel. At the comrnet cement of the last financial year the Exchequer balance was 21,781,845. The money raised by additions to the fended and unfunded debt, by annuities and Exehequerbonds, as well as by Bank advencee and repayments on account of advances for public works, Jtc., brings the sum up to £10,696,081. This has been so far disposed of by the paying off of Exchequer bonds, by repayment of Bank ad vances, by advances for public works, and by meeting the 4eliciency of income, the.t the remaining balance in the Banks of England and Ireland on the 31st of March, 1869, was .£4,707,258. THE WEDGWOOD MEMORIAL INSTITUTE AT BURSLE3I.—The Wedgwood. Memorial Institute at Burs lem, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Pre mier several years since, was formally opened on Wednes day by Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord President of the Council. The Free Libraries and Museums Act had been adopted by the inhabitants in connection with this institution which will also include a echool of art and other educational agencies. The building itself is constructed entirely of ceramic materials, and the design of the architect, Mr. It. Edgar, of London, has been to illustrate in the facade the mode in which terracotta and other enrichments may be introduced, not for the mere purpos e of ornamentation ; and veneering, but re peels of the actual structure of edifice. In this particular the b u ildi ng i s cite of ex tional interest and value. The i ns tit ut i on is inaugurated P gu e re c t e jd . liberal o f Science f o r a o n e ra d n by an art exhibition, which will pro b a b ly remain Artf or have sever made tl a months. very rich The aand contribution Department the South Kensington Museum. There Herbert, is a fine collec tmi o i n lla o i f s oil n a n n s d a water-colour / t o e n r h - c e o n l r o , u r paintin gs Turner,Trci'u iy Dyce, t I n lunt, N ew . ton, Gastineau, Leighton, Copley Fielding,: De Bruycker, and many o th er artists of rainwbite' em the history of British p o tt ery i s illustrated inence ; and by examplesof the Celtic or Ancient British, the r om i ano-British, the Mediezval, the Seventeenth Century, periods. There is a superb collection nafultvthe Wedgwood dgwood's own productions of every description. Earl. de Grey was honoured with a public reception at the Town Hall, where an address was presented to his lordship inhabitants. At a luncheon held subsequently, under the presidency of Lord de Grey, addresses suitable to the occasion were delivered by his lor • dship, the Right Hoe ti2 " eYl Mil ) " 4 S-4 WWI ggamsp, a * li '', i. -,-, - the Dean of Ripon, in addressing a meeting last week, said that Popery was employing " sappers and miners" all over England, and that some of our statesmen were the dupes of Manning and Cullen. England should he aroused to the danger, and an effort was needed to rouse the Protestant feeling of the country. The Dean of Carlisle presided at a Church Missionary Society's meeting on Monday, and called attention to a remark of the Bishop of London's, that the triumph of the missionary cause was the most entire refutation of scepticism. He thought the acts of the missionaries were the best refutation of the errors with which the Church was plagued. It had been said that civilisation must go before Chris tianity; but this was not true, they must have Christianitv first, and education Lite: w,Jets. THE REV. A. H. 31.4.CICONOCHIE ON THE CHURCH CRISIS. On Tuesday evening an address was presented at Leeds by the Yorkshire branch of the English Church Union to the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, incumbent If St. Alban's, Holborn, thanking him for the part he had taken in up holding the catholic teaching and Ritual of the Church. In reply, Mr. Mackonochie, after stating that be was wholly unworthy of the enlogium which had been passed upon him, spoke of the catholic movement of the last 3G years. He said that of old the hard working men of England were the strength of the Church, and then day after day the church doors stood wide open, and the men who worked in the field or in the towns entered them and knelt down to pray to God to help them in their work before they did it. He hoped and believed that the day would soon come when the same people would act in that manner, and become united again with the Church. It was with that hope that the Church Union existed. Mr. Mackonochie went on to combat the idea that the Church Union was an aggressive or a persecuting body. It was neither, nor did it even originate In a panic. It was in the days when he and soine others were accustomed to dread the very sound of the church bells of St. George's-in-the- East ; whe,n, in one sense, they would have given anything to have stopped those bells, and gone to worship in some peaceful country church, instead of being at St. George's, standing often in the face of a howling mob, being insulted in going through the worship, and scarcfly able to perform the commonest parts of it with decetCy ; it was in those days that the English Church Union began. It was then that men's hearts were stirred up ; they tried to get the common protection which an English citizen was entitled to ; they asked that they should be protected against those outrages, from which a Mormonito would have been protected. A man might hold any faith he liked, however monstrous it might be, and still be protected against outrages upon his liberty of conscience ; but when they asked the Home Secretary or the police authorities, not to be supported in anything that belonged to their church, but that their property might be protected, and their liberty of conscience in worshipping as they maintained the Church of England intended them to worship, as they had a sight to ask until such time as the authorities of the Church had declared it to be not its worship, there were, it was true, plenty of policemen sent to the place, but they were told not to act. It was their not obtaining that protec tion for which they asked that led to the formation of the English Church Union. It was at its beginning, and had been ever since, a defensive society, and nothing more ; and it never came into operation until there was an assault made upon the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. Mr. Mackonochie concluded a very animated speech by exhorting his hearers not to be discouraged by the recent judgment. All the events which seemed at first to make against the Church had only made for her and strengthened her. In the speeches which were made subsequently,the Rev. J. Eddowes stated that he had asked Mr. Mackonochie to preach, but that the Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Bickersteth) had inhibited that gentleman from preaching anywhere in the diocese. The Rev. J. W. Hunt then delivered an address on "The duty of English Catholics at the present crisis," in which he exhorted them never to leave the English Church unless their doctrine was assailed, and then they should throw up the Establishment, or establish a Free Church, not go to Rome. THE COMIC PAPERS. From the OW; The Law Courts should certainly be on the river site, as most suited to Sittings in Banc-o. We suppose that the directors of the Metropolitan Rail way find a difficulty in sorting their passengers, because they have not received a class-ical education. If Mr. Sykes's hill passes, protection is to be given to sea birds on the Ist of April. April "fools" will thus by law give place to April "gulls." BRUCE'S NEW CRIMINAL LAW.—AII convicted murderers shall be entitled to the clemency of the Crown if their crimes have been committed within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. If, however, no one can remember the crime except the criminal himself, he shall, on claiming hi s right, be entitled to immediate execution. (From Punch.) AN EQUITY DRAFTSMAN.—A lawyer who sketches. EASY FOR THE DRAFTSMAN.—Iie bill which has been laid before the House of Commons relating to Post Office Savings Banks is about the simplest ever drawn, con- sisting entirely of Saving clauses. TO SEVERAL HABITUAL CORRESPONDENTS.—If Sir Samuel Baker is going to the Nile Basin, that is no reason why you should rout out a grey old joke, and ask us whether he will afterwards proceed to the River Plate. THE GREATER CONTAINS THE LESS.—Miss Burdett Coutts has withdrawn her name from the list of candidates for election as guardian of the poor of Bethnal Green. Mr. Punch cannot regret this. The smaller office is included iu the larger one —which Miss Burdett Coutts already holds for life —that of Guardian of the Poor of all London. CAN re BE So?—The Right Hon. John Bright, speak. ing as the President of the Board of Trade, lets fall a word or two at times which may lead one to the notion that, what with deputations in the day-time, and questionings at night, he himself in his own person, without mention of his colleagues, unfortunately consti totes the Bored of Trade. (From Fun.) TERII FOR PEOPLE IVIIO QUARREL IN THEIR Curs.— Can-tankard-ous. A THOROUGHLY INDEPENDENT Mizr.—One who depends on an inn for his living. THE SERVICE Is GOING TO THE DEUCE !—Will it be credited that at Dover on Easter-Monday experiments were made with a "flash-system " of telegraphy? NOTTS— SO BAD !---There is every reason to believe that Mr. Disraeli is still engaged in completing the " educa tion "of his party. An item of provincial news statee that in Nottinghamshire "the young wheats have changed colour, but no app re h ens i ons are felt as to any harm done to them." Harm done to them ! Not a bit, rather the reverse in our humble opinion. (From Judy.) A " Sir "Trize—Tin,ghthood / Odd Indeed—That a Sovereign should be under / Crown. EXTREMES AIEEnNo.—A fast man finding himself in the company of a Slonian I JUST SO.—When a boo'-maker buys a newspaper, he should always ask for the lust edition ! To LORD SYDNEY.—Ought authoresses to dress in tool:- muslin? ALL IS LOST Now !—Our last hopes of Mr. Lowe have been most ruthlessly "nipped in the Bud "-get. Farewell address of Mr. C. Weguelin to his late consti• tuents—Good-bye to Youghal (you all)! QUITE SUITABLE.—Were w.) to entertain the Premier at dinner, we should treat him to his pet three courses—i.e., Course 1, his gruel ; Course 2, " the cold shoulder • ; Cours 3, his desert Her Majesty's journey to Jerusalem is said to be quite decided upon. The Sheffield magistrates bad before them cn Tuesday another bad meat case. The defendant was ono Michael Farrell, a pig jobber, of Doncaster, and it was pro v d that ho had brought from that town the carcase of a pig in wLich mortification had actually begun to set in, and had offer ( dit for rale to sey( eel lutcLers. lie asked Cl. l x r :tone, the curt. at price being about Ps. He was sent to prison for two months. On Tuezday morning "I llamas Wallace Wilson, rag grind, r, 24 years of ego, met Lis death in a shocking manner lit the Poitland Mills, Lindley, Huddersfield. Shortly after seven o'clock be was found dead on the floor, his body being frightfully mutilated. Both arms bad been torn from the body; one was found on the roe m floor, and the other was susgeuded from the shafting by which the unfortunate young man had been caught. acccAtut of the deposits received and paid by the Post-cffice Saviu,ss Ranks during the year 18:8 has just Leen issued, and plove that those institu tions still retain their bold on popular favour. The cash received from del ositors front Ist January to ',list December, 1868, amounted to £5,333,638. An account of the sums received and paid by the Commissioners for tho Reduction of the National Debt, on account of the Backs fund, is 4.d.dedt9llto Palanev_4eet 91 tlao Wish A=.ll-4 7 v 1111 HER MAJESTY. OsnonNE, April 21.,, Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, Prince Leo pold, Princ(ms Beatrice, and Piince and Pr:n ee ' s Christian, arrived yesterday afternoon at half -Pa s 6 o'clock. The Queen, ac,:omptnied by Princess L'3 ll i°' walked and drove in the grounds this inoruitg. VOTE BY B.ILLOT. Lest evening a meeting, convened by the Me ll.° i politan Ballot Society, was hel 1 in the Alm ici Hall, for the purpose of promoting the adoption of vote by ballot. Sir H e nry B u l wer , M.P., occuPie t on th e the chair. The following gen tl emen were platform :—Mr. Jacob B r i g ht, M.P. , Col. Fro cl '' M.P., Professor Rog ers , M.A., L or d C am pbell, 3 1 c' Jelin Morley (late candidate for Blackburn) , 3 l c ' I),Avid Buchanan (late member of the Legi,lati" Assembly of New South Wales), Mr. J. F. Bontein3l C.C., Mr. John Richardson, C.C., Mr. Win. 1 113° ' Mr. C. H. Elt, and Mr. C. A. Murray. Sir HENRI , BULIVER, M.P., on taking the said he was very happy to have been asked to Ore• side over that meeting. He fresinned that tb ° compliment was paid to hi m o n a cco u n t of h is fidelity to the principle which they were all th ere to advocate. (Ch eers .) Th oug h L e h a d a great respect for all men who honestly changed th e ': opinions, he would ra th er k eep hi s op i n i ons. It w 3,. very agreeable to ke e p th em w h en one f oun d thet the views he entertained in his youth, thoug h with a few, were participated in in his advancing yeats by the ma n y. (Ch eers. ) Ti e remem b e red that at the commencement of his political career he said to himself, if he wished to be con sistent and successful Le ought to be just, be cause justice was always the same, and justice was always triumphant. (Cheers.) Therefore be was in favour, when there were very few with hin t ' of the total abolition of the corn laws, because h ° thought it unjust to tax the poor man's food in order to increase the rich man's rental. He was in favour of altering the position of the Roman Calb°: lies in Ireland, but he thought it was unjust to trea t as privileged and superior a body of 500,000 of his fellow-countrymen when there were 4,500,000 who did not possess the same privileges. (Cheers.) I.l° , was in fav our o f vote b y b a ll ot, b ecause be thought it was unjust to give a man a vote without enabling him to exercise it safely and conscientiously' (Cheers.) He bad lived to see the co rn laws totally repealed. He had lived to so 3 innjolity of 118 members of the Horse of Cony mons vote iu favour of !lacing men of all religious on au equal footing—(loud cheers)—and lie hoped to live to see vote by ballot established for the fu tune election of members of Parliament. (Cheers.) Those men who were thoughtful would have ob served how, within the last 25 years, reason ba j been ripening, how exaggerated prejudices had he' ll disappearing, and how all opinions and all classes had been, by a gradual but most certain process, corning to one common centre. As soon as be took his seat in the House of Commons he inspected the book of notices to fled whether anybody had given n 0" t:ce of a resolution o• 1 ill: subj.:et of the ballet, and not having found such notice he -put down his name for a resolution on that subject. (Cheers) Almost immediately afterwards Mr. Berkeley, who had moved many resolutions with reference to this question, told him that he was desirous of doing so, and lie (Sir Henry Bulwer) placed the matter en tirely in his hands. Not very long after, the G - verntnent gave notice of a committee fur the pur pose of iuquiring lute all electoral matters, and in' eluded vote by ballot in that inquiry. (Cheers.) He was at that time absent from the (louse of Commons, Laving to defend Lis seat against a petition which proved unsuccessful. Almost inediaely after his r.eurn to the House be found that Mr. Leatham had. given n otice of a motion, which was to the e ffect that the committee of which he had spoken shoul be instructed to inquire into the various modes 01 voting by ballot. That did very well as a peg 00 which to hang a speech. Mr. Leatham delivered vety able speech, but when it came to the practice' question of voting upon his motion, there were many objections. Its the first place, suppose they earl i Mr. Leatham's motion, they did 'ma lug, because the committee which had been appointed to in quire into the propriety of: , stablishiug election by ballet was obligt d to inquire into the various modes of voting by ballot. On the other hand, if Air' Leatham's motion were lost, he (Sir Henry Bulv;er) felt that it would be considered to be a general failure of the cause of the ballot. Moreover, he found that many Liberal members of the House of Commons who were iu favour of the ballot were not in favour of Mr. Leatham's motion. Therefore 1 1 ° ventured to ask Mr. Leathern to withdraw Ili° motion, as he had effected his purpose —namely, the raising of a discussion upon the subject' Leatham at once complied with his re quest. He was not in favour of having the queS. tion of the ballot left in the hands of the Govern runt, because he thought, as he said in the House of Commons, that the country had been in com mittee on this question, that it hal been so much discussed by the people that we did not re: quire the opinion of a n y comm itt ee M r. B ruce m ight appoint., to suggest what :should be done. But a committee having been appointed, an opportunity was afforded for shunting certain gentlemen from one line of political opinion on to another lino —from the line of opposition to the ballot to the line iu favour of it. He thought the best course to pursue was to let the committee make its re port. If that report were favourable, they' would be able to effect the object they desired with the aid of the Government. If that report were unfavourable, why, then, they would effect their object by the aid of public opinion. (Cheero In the meantime it was thought expedient to hold meetings of this kind, so that they might keep public opinion alive, and be able, whatever hap pened, to nave the public behind them when they came forward in the people's cause. (Cheers.) This was one of the most important movements ever made for the achievement of political liberty in this country. (Cheers.) &Professor MOULD RoGEns said there was great reason for the friends of the Ballot to congratulate themselves upon the progress their cause had made. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT, M.P., said that although lawyers, election agents, and the retailers of beer and spirits might be very glad to have a genera electi n, there was another class of persons in the couutiy who regarded the approach of such an event with far different feelings. On behalf of those per sons he demanded the Ballot. Mr. BUCHANAN, formerly a member of the House of Assembly in New South Wales, detailed the working of the Ballot in Australia. It was often urged that the Ballot was un-English ; but it W never urged that bribery and corruption were un- English. (Laughter and cheers.) Lord CAMPBELL moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, and observed that few deserved it rnoi e than 11,2 He believed the question of the b a llot would soon be finally settled, and urge.] on the meeting the necessity of cncouraging Sir H. Bulwer at once to challenge Parliament ou the subject• (Hear, hear.) He thought the question of the ballot ought to be associated with his name in the House cf Commons. Mr. BONTEMS seconded the motion, and assured the noble lord that his suggestion would be carried into effect as soon as possible. The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, the pro ceedings terminated. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 171 e. per £1 sterlin:. 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