The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-30 00:00:00

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AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in Lottles, as. each ; also Os., 7s. 6d., and I. each. including brush. Red Boil Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. A GENTS WANTED - EVERYWHERE to introduce conimodbies Valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, .Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. THE EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAIL WAY COMPANY. Incorpontvd by 27th and 28!h Vict., Cap. :85, 29th July, 1864. NOTI - E IS HEREBY GIVEN, tl.at an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors will be held on FRIDAY, the 14th day of May next. at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, at N 0.4. Old Palace-yard, West- Ininster, pursuant t...) the "Railway (Extension of Time) .Act, 1868," for the purpose of obtaining their assant to, or dissent from, au application to the Board of Trade for the following purposes, that. is to say:— To extend the time for the purchase of land, and the construction of works for the railways, authorised by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864, and "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1866," except the whole of railway No. 4, and that portion of railway No. 1, which lies between a certain turnpike road is the parish of Fair ford, in Gloucestershire, leading from Fairford to Lech lade, and numbered 102 on the deposited plans for the said railway No. 1, and referred to by the East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864, and the proposed junction of railway No. 1, with the said railway No. 4 at its commencement, in the parish of Lechlade, for two years from the time limited by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1867," tor those purposes. By order, GEO. BROOM, Jun., Secretary. Secretary's Office, 80, Coh-man-Etrect, London, 27th April, 1869. THE RAILWAYS (EXTENSION OF TIME) ACT 1868. THE SWANSEA VALE AND NEATH AND I_ BRECON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. 1, Westminster Chambers, Victoria-street, London, S.W.. April 23, 1869. NOTICE IS HEREBY TLat , in accordance with the Railways (Extension of Time) Act, 1868, an Extraordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at their Offices, as above, on MONDAY, the 10th day of May next, at Three o'Clock in the after noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving of an application being made to the Board of Trade, pursuant to the said Act, for an extension of time granted by the Swansea Vale and Nen th and Brecon Junc tion Railway Act, 1864 (which expires on the 28th of July next), for the completion of the Railway therein de cribed as follows, viz.— 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 Ystradiynlais, in the county of Brecon, by a junct'on with the authorised line of the Neath and Brecon Rail way, at a point in the field numbered 42, ou 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, 18t55 (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 tramroad belonging to the Aberciare Colliery and 1901 ks over the river Tawe. ..D. ROWELL MORGAN, Secretary. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate that on all new 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 INSURA.NCJ:S, with Participation, zrFEcTxt. 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. MCLAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. ON-FORF ITUE PI POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBI It of PAYMENT:4. PROFITS may he APPLIED so as to make. POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETI B RITISH EQUITABLE COMPANY. ASSURANCE 4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, EC, NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies issued. In Weeks. l'Ai 1g69 eG -114,250 108 - 18,481 Fxces. In 52 weeks enclinr April 7th, 1,A9 22 1,231 3,105 -£539.443 1 1 HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. 31r. Rnekstonc. THIS F-VF.NING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers, Clark, Gordon, White, &c.; Miss Fanny Wright and Miss F. Gwynn. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp lon. A stley, &e.; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, fic. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF TH F WAT'II : Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rn lIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI A. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. - • THIS EVENINri. at 7. DID YOIT EVER SEND YOUR WIPE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Delmore. I5!to 8, 28th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Yr Fechter Miss Carlotta Leclereq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. To conclude with WHITE.B 'IT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN, BARRY SULLIVAN, Sole Lessee and Manager. On SATURDAY NEXT, $1 A Y•.'l, At 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MI L L. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play, entitled MONEY. supported by the following celebrated Artistes, viz.: Parry Sul livan, J. C. Cowper, 14 eorge Honey, W. H. Stephens. Charles Coglan, A. Bernard. W. Arthur and E. Dyas Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs. Charles Horsman. Principal Scenic Artists—Mr. William Calcott and Mr. Albert Calcott. A cting Manager—Mr. Barry Sulli- an. • D OYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole I essee and Manageress, Mrs Sivanhorough. THIS EVENISG. nt 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. '2lLrke Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Baton and Maitland. _ After which. .Tt )AN OF ARC: Jtessrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Cha.mberiaine ; liesclames Button, L. 313.itland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. `1 LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. N....A Sole Proprietor awl Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama, MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss 1.3 dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan Messrs L avid Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BREACH OF P 0 311g . F. To conclude with BROWN %ND THE BRAH3[INS: Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; 3lesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. THE SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLEIsIE deliv2rs the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn. 8 ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 2.20; Watford, 9.45. THE LATEST RDITION of " THE SUN " 1 . 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AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. ITOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDER.S by POST promptly and carefully attended to. lIST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, J Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. Ll MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS A. are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. FMOSES 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 'ION • CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, A LDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 88. ALDGAT E 49, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET *9B, NEW OXFORD-S'TR LET 1, HART-STREET ' 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 253, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOI ICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre entations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their my Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. 'NTS EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers Clark, Gordon. White; Mis. Fanny Wright. &e. After which. HOME: ssrs. Sothern, Chippendale. &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. r `others. Concluding with 3IAttE YOUR WIT LS: Mr Buck stone. Commene.s at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tll7B EVENING. at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Walter Laev, Mr D. Leeson, Miss Rcse Leelereq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. • ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING. TWICE KILLED After which, Dion Pouticault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; •Miss Emma Barnett, and 3liss Ro se Leclen-q. Concludinz with THE SECRET. N.B.—Shortly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bon eicault. )oors open at half-past C, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. THIS EVENING. at 7, DID YOU EVER !'END YOUR WIFE TO C MBERWELL : Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to S. BLACK A'D WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Cijlotta L&lereq, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. &ud WHITEBAIT AT GEE , KWIC II : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDt►W HUNT. Messrs. Bel rerd, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; ‘l esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with fluE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING. at 7. MLN)4IE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. This ETENING, at 7.n0 IN FOR A HrLID AY. Followed by CLAI7DE DUVAL: M r: Dewar. Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver. &e. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THISEVENiNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Baneroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss NI :Iris Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. OFIRISTY ➢IINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and `aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DITTCII—S ROYAL AL Ff AMR A PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-ofllct open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's - jig, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6cl. Children under twelve, 6d. R , lfor . ~, \ S %lteleas efl) ' f 'l 6 - fig. ) LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1869. Constitutional Govcrnment was a few years ago said to be on its trial--and the dictum was that of no less illustrious a personage than the Consort of the reigning Sovereign. Imperialism, ever since it was revived in France, by NAPOLEON HI., is, off and on, declared to be on its trial among our neigh bctus, Nay, for tl.at matter, fr l / 4 .,m the time when, upwards of a score of years since, France placed her destinies within the grasp of the heir of the First NArottoN—that heir of the Great Fu• PERU?, has been regarded by his implacable enemies as in a manner standing perpetually arraigned at the bar of Public Opinion. From his first adv,mt to power he has been treated by them as though he were a criminal ingrained. Long before the _coup d'clat it was thus that he was reviled—namely, as a heinous political offender. It was as though he were tainted by a sort of - political Original Sin—and a - political Original Sin that nothing could wash out. It was, as ono might may, in the blood of the Isaaams., THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1869. But in his blood especially, as the living chief f the race of the BONAPARTES. The memory of Strasburg, and the memory of Boulogne, enhanced his guilt, but the guilt was there long pre viously, ever since the death of his two elder bro thers. And yet, in point of fact, the fault commit ted by 11.1. H. Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON, first of all at Strasburg, and afterwards at Boulogne, was only the fault of being a very few years too soon. France showed that, afterwards, directly the younger branch of the BOURBONS ceased to reign. No sooner was a Republic established amidst the ruins of Louts PHILIPPE'S Government, than the electoraof France in half-a-dozen different directions returned the exiled Prince as the representative of so many distinct de- part ments. The Provisional Government was j, alous of him ; and, for a while, in obedience to the dictates of a really noble sense of civism the Prince ab s'ained from accepting the trust conferred upon Lim by the electors. Those electors, however, insisted upon returning him again, and upon the Fccond occasion he deciled— that time with the assent of the Provisional Government —upon taking his seat in the National Assembly. A brief interval, as we all know elapsed after that time, when, with the ballot-box held in the safe keeping of his enemies, headed by his prin cipal and most formidable rival the then Republican Dictator of France, General CAVAIGNAC— Louis NAPOLEON was returned by nearly 6,000,000 votes as President. Even after this, he was said to be on his trial. And the Legislature of two or three years later, came to regard him as so heinous an offender against the laws that the national representatives were upon the eve of transferring him summarily from the Elysee to Vincennes, when, with an astuteness and courage, for which his foes evi- dently gave him little credit, he anticipated their coup cretat by a coup daat of his own—making them prisoners instead of allowing them to make him one, and at the same moment gathering up firmly within his own grasp the whole reins of the Government. The PRINCE PRESIDENT, as he was then called, admitted himself, on the morrow of the coup daat, that he was then undeniably upon his trial, lie openly ap pealed to the country to pronounce him Guilty or Innocent. The appeal was answered. The verdict given iu his favour—again by Universal Suffrage, again through the ballot box—being cne subscribed by not merely 6,000,000, but by very nearly 7,000,000 votes. Afterwards came the triumphal progress of the PRESIDENT through the French provinces—during the course of which he was hailed everywhere with shouts of Vice L'Einpereur. Again—in answerto those acclamations—he appealed to France, and was pro claimed EMPEROR, under the title of NAPOLEON 111., by not merely 7,000,000 but by very nearly 8,000,000 votes. Still, throughout all this protracted interval, during all these twenty years and more of power, hi s enemies declare him to be distinctly and recognisably upon his trial. Those enemies are consistent to th e last. They say he is on his trial now. His Legisla ture has been dissolved by reason of the time of its existence having run out. There is consequently to be a new appeal to the constituencies. And—as the result—•the world is soon to see what it shall see ! Meaning that the EMPEROR'S person is doomed. It is a very old story, and one that has been already, as we have recalled to remem-. brance, conspicuously and even flagrantly falsified Our conviction is that it will be falsified again— a s it has been hitherto, whenever NAPOLEON 111. has appealed, either directly or indirectly, to the Public Opinion of France. POSSESSING that simplicity which is allowed to be the perfection of genius, the work of Mr. BENJAMIN HIGos must be deemed eminently artistic in its way. Like all great men he reduced his operations to one uniform rule, and concluctel his swindling on the broadest of general principles. The inquiry into the affairs of the Central Gas Company has not yet revealed all that it is desirable to know, but enough has been told to illustrate HIGGS'S power of generalisation, and to furnish another instructive cxan-ple of the style in which the business of com panies is managed by directors. The system of accounts at the Central Gas Company was originally quite unexceptional, and if conducted properly, a sufficient safeguard against fraud. The sums due from the company's customers were gathered in by collectors, who received their account books from the accountant and his subordi nates. As money was paid to the collectors it was handed over to the bankers, never going thro-agh the office of the accountants at all. Nothing could be more secure than such a system. The clerks knew how much was due, for they supplied the accounts to the collectors. They knew how 1 1 much had been received, for a list of sums paid was furnished to the accountant's office by each collector. The balance that ought to stand to the company's credit at the bank could thus be seen at a glance. But in 1862 }I IGG s, who was a clerk in the accountant's office, managed to alter this system, at least so far as he was concerned. Whilst the accounts and the cash were dealt with by different parties all was safe ; the genius of Mr. IhoGs blushed unseen. But he persuaded the collectors—we have yet to learn how he succeeded—to pay the money to him, and " he would pay the money into the bank." Whether the collectors had any inducement to do this, or whether their confiding simplicity alone led them to such an act of folly, is as yet an open question. Certain it is that they consented, and for years Mr. IlioGs was in the habit of receiving the lists of sums collected and the cash itself at the same time. He abstracted any sum he thought proper, paid the balance into the bank, and " arranged" the lists so as to conceal his peculations. He continued these frauds from 1862 to 1860, robbing the company to an average extent of £B,OOO a year. Of course there was one defect in his system : the sums originally due from the customers were largely in excess of the total collected. The item of " arrears" rolled up to an alarming extent. But in this respect the books of the company were ill-kept ; it was impossible to tell whether any one customer had paid fox: all the gas he had consumed. The arrears were put down in a lump sum. It is true that this sum at length reached the total of £60,000, but such a trifle—one-sixth of the company's capital— passed unnoticed. get into debt, and un ea n re o ci tic t e o d. invir Peo e ple do why the company's cus tomers were so exceptionally bad. It is with a feeling of relief that the world at last learns the grand total of these robberies—£7l,2l4. The business of the company was so supervised that it might have been twice as much. It remains for the directors to convince the shareholders that this long series of frauds was so skilfully managed that it might reasonably have escaped their detection. With every desire to be charitable, we fear that the task will be a hard one. The directors knew that the company's arrears were excessively high ; but they made no attempt to inquire whether this enormous deficit was due to any exceptional cause. Of the fit that might have aroused their suspicion —that the col lectors paid their receipts to Hums instead of to the bankers—they were utterly ignorant until the great discovery was made. The natural inference is that their acquaintance with the mode of conducting the com pany's business was not remarkably intimate. Of course it is possible that the very simplicity of limos's contrivance secured him against detec tion. A more complicated fraud would have broken down with its own weight, but this impudently plain expedient flourished unchecked. Unfortunately for the directors, it ivas . inatter of notoriety that HRles; an ordinary clerk, lived like a lord. He had a large 13914 e aid grQuads at TeddipgtQn, kept flume rous servants, - indulged himself will such a luxury as a -" model farm," lis table was liberal, his parties numerous, and he gaze private concerts at which first-class singers appeared. Had he hoarded his gains, the directors might lave found a more hopeful plea, but it is impossible to get over the fact that the stolen money was openly avished in riotous living. The slightest attention to thecompany's business would have shewn that HIGGS hal changed the system of accounts, and very little father inquiry would have been needed to discover the origin of the yearly deficit. The only conclusion is that the business was allowed to take care of itsel. • ** l * "1 1 , 1: • CDT 4... lIER MAJESTY. _ OSBORNE, April 29. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday after- noon. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, walked out in the grounds his morning. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REU'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN PARAGUIY. The following telegram has been received by the steamer La Plata, from Lisbon, dated April 28 : " Count d'Eu, General-in-Chief of the Allied Army, bad left Rio for Paraguay. His appointment to that post was cordially greeted by the Allied Governments. " Lop z was at Ascurra, in the mountains, within reach of the Allies ; he was to be attacked in the beginning of April." " Navigation and commerce of the rivers Para guay and Parana thoroughly free. " The defeat of Brazilians on the Luque Railway by Paraguayan forces completely false." FRANCE. BOURSE, April 29.--. Three. o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 671 Credit Mobilier End of month 255 Credit Foncier 1542 50 End of month Bank Shares 2885 Itaran Fives 56 60 End of month Nlexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 30 50 Home Debt Deferred Cash. Orleans ... 915 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6l3k Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard 490 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 52 RAILWAY POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -7 his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT.—Robert Nunn, an elderly man, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk, and assaulting Police-constable William Alexander, 154 C. The constable said that, seeing the prisoner lying against the railings in Park-lane last night in a state of intoxication, he requested him to go away. The prisoner declined to go, said he was a Fenian, and did not care for all the police in London, and struck him across the nose with his stick, making his nose bleed. The prisoner said the constable came up to him and said, " Daddy, get up, and let us see if you can walk," and then shoved him down. He told the constable he was unwell, and asked him to see him home, but he would not do E); and he thought it very unkind of him. Mr. Knox said the prisoner had no right to strike the constable, and fined him 20s. or 14 days. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. tFROVI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. THURSDAY, April 29. There is some probability that the coming elections will be conducted more fairly than any of the preceding general contests. But previous appeals to the country have been such utter shams that the Government may introduce a good deal of improvement, and yet fall far short of perfect impartiality. For instance, the directors of the Post Office, on an appli cation from M. Dejouve-Denuncques, a candidate for the fourth circumscription of the Eure, has replied that voting-tickets may be sent as a single packet with election circulars, if placed under one band with the address of the person for whom they are destined. The charge will be fixed according to the weight of the packet. But though this " concession " is made, the official candidates can distribute their propaganda wholesale at no cost for postage whatever. The postage tells very heavily upon the unfortunate aspirant to the Left of the Corps L6,gislatif, but the candidate who will take his seat on the Right may declare his obedience to Imperial decrees by circular, record his servility in print, and distribute it to all the world, without incurring any debt to the postal department. Again, M. de Forcado la Roquette, Minister of the Interior, has issued a circular recommending the use of ballot-boxes, shutting up with a lock and key. This is a much-needed change, for previously the voting-rapers have been thrown into an open receptacle called an urn, but much more like a small cauldron, and in consequence there has been no real secresy. Unfortunately the change is not compulsory. The Minister of the Interior recom mends, not enjoins, the use of proper boxes. The 7,500 communes are not obliged to change the existing soup pot, and in all probability they will not. It is amusing to note the change which has come over the policy of the Constitutionnel. As I noted in my last, this semi-official paper has commenced to teach the Government its duty. Its editor has been changed with the understanding that it was to cease semi-officialism and start constitutional opposition. But it scarcely seems to have done this. It preserves its semi-official smack. It contains to-day some information which none bu' an Imperialist organ could readily obtain. At the same time it is strongly recommending the independent dynastic candidates to the favour of the Government. It is proud to state that in the Pas-de- Calais an independent candidate is likely to beat the offi cial representative. At Boulogne another inde pendent is fiercely combatted by the Government ; but the Constitutionnel is able to inform the public that the efforts of the Administration will be of no avail, the chances are heavily in favour of the Independent. This is certainly a curious way of doing semi-official busi ness, and excites the wonder, not to say the admiration, of everybody here. It seems to confirm the advancing impression that the Emperor is feeling his way to a change of policy. Meanwhile the prospects of the Left become more gloomy. An attempt has been made to settle the difference between the Liberty and the Siecle by a jury of honour. But nobody can be found to serve on tais jury. Hence the differences remain unhealed, and M. Emile de Girardin announces that he will only support two of the Paris candidates. This is not the way to win. It is not often that one meets with a man of the calibre of Count de Waldeck, the artist. Although no less than 103 years of age, he has sent to the Paris Fine Arts Exhi bition, which will open on Saturday, a picture representing not fewer than 255 persons. The veteran artist enjoys excellent health, and takes strong walking exercise every day. He is married to an English lady of 40, and has a son aged 18. Blessed is the man who bath his quiver full ; but twice blessed is he who can commence refilling it at the age of 85. Dr. Epstein is nearly out of danger. The state of industrial affairs in the Netherlands seems to get worse. The Avenir Nationale publishes a vague telegram stating that a workmen's riot had broken out on the island of Walcheren, and that five men were killed and several wounded. Nothing is said as to the cause of this affair, but it may be set down as a continuation of the industrial outbreaks which are spreading throughout Poland and Belgium. The strike of colliers in the Borinage, the district round Mons, has now lasted ten days, and there are no signs of a speedy termination. So extensive is this strike that even in this short period of time it has cost the workmen the sum in wages of £15,000. The International Society of Workmen, to whom the turn-out is owing, may congratulate itself upon having at least achieved some thing. It cannot increase the wages of its adherents, but it is very likely to end their troubles by starving them outright. _ The ball given on behalf of the British Charitable Fund has proved very successful. A sum of nearly £560 has been cleared for the benefit of the Fund. THAMES. UNnEWAIIDED SERVICES.--William Dewberry, a poor man, of No. 34, North-street, Limehouse-fields, came before Mr. Paget, and said that at half-past one o'clock in the morning of Wednesday' last he was on his way home, and i❑ passing a fish shop in Stepney, in the immediate vicinity of that court, he discovered that the place was on fire, and flaalis and smoke were issuing from the shop. He knocked loudly at the door and shutters and alarmed the inmates of the house, five in inumber, whom he assisted in extinguishing the fire, which was con fined to the place where it broke out. He asked the inmates for some compensation for his trouble and the interest he bad taken in saving their lives and property, but they refused to give him anything, and said he had no right to interfere that they were in sured, and he had better go to the fire insurance office. He thought this was very strange treat ment, but as the people knew the value of their own lives and property best he went to the insur ance official and related what he had done. The clerks in the office told him they could not enter tain the application. Mr. Paget thought -the inmates of the house ought to have rewarded the applicant for the trouble he had taken, and that he had done a very meritorious act in saving life and property. He could not interfere. The Applicant—Can't you compel the insurance office to reward me? Mr. Paget—No ; I have no power whatever to compel a fire insurance to give you compensation. I don't think you have any remedy. The Applicant—Thank you, sir. He then departed. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John Turner, aged 17, was brought up on remand before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a purse containing £1 10s. 6d. in money from Mrs. Jane John son Bourke, a lady residing at No. 5, College terrace, Tredegar-square, .Mile-end. A few days since the prosecutrix was passing along the Mile end-road with two small parcels and a puree con taining 30s. 6d. i❑ her bands, when the . prisoner impudently demanded the purse, and on its b.dng refused be snatched it from the lady. She seized bins aul struggled with him as well as she was able, but he managed to break away from her, and ran along Longfellow-road, running parallel with the Regent's Canal. There was no thoroughfare at the bottom of the road, and the prisoner was compelled to turn back, and was run down by an officer of Volunteers on horseback, who captured him and gave him over to the police. Tae purse and money were not recovered. The robbery was effected at half-past 5 o'clock in the day time, in a public and much-frequented road. Several witnesses, who saw the robbery and out rage committed, gave evidence, and said the lady made a determined but ineffectual attempt to pre vent the prisoner going away with her purse and money. Mr. Paget committed, the prisoner for trial. WESTMINSTER. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—A very young man, giving the name of Alfred Lusty, was placed at the bar charged with robbing a gentleman of his watch. Mr. Samuel C. Hall, civil engineer, said that at one this morning he was in Winchester-3 reet, Pimlico, when the prisoner and two other men came up and asked him to treat them to beer. He toll them he should not, and expostulated with them upon the demand. Iu about a minute or so they all three hurried away taking different directions. Immediately after this prosecutor found his watch had been detached from hii Albert guard. Pri so❑er had been close to him. A pursuit was made and prisoner was taken in Sussex-street, and near the same spot the watch was subsequently discovered in the portico of a house there. Prisoner denied the robbery, and said he was re spectable. He and prosecutor and the other had all been " larking" together. Trismer Was rema4ded. CUBA. The Pall Hail Gazette publishes the following information from a corresi,ondent at llavannah, elated April 10: " Affairs it. Cuba are very confused. I fancy ;hat the insur gents will make no immediate brad without ext , rnal aid; but it is not to be denied that the total surpression is not yet over ; and this is especially true es regards the eastern district of the island. The idea here is that for the last three weeks the insurrection has not made progress. Duke is a well-meaning, vulgar, ignorant Spaniard, with a creole wife and the possessor of 1,200 slaves. Dulce's dukedom, and his wife's slaveholding pro clivities, do not make either of them more popular with any class in this place." FIRE IN A CARTRIDGE FACTORY. An explosion took place at Turin a few days back in a cartridge factory. In one of the workshops seven teen women were occupied round three tables, on which a quantity of loose gunpowder was lying, when one of them let a pair of scissors fall, and a spark, by some accident, was elicited. In an instant her clothes caught fire and her companions were speedily involved in the disaster. Several of them jumped out of window into a canal which runs close by, whilst the burning dresses of the others were extinguished by persons who hastened to their assistance. They were all more or leis burned, but only two are considered in danger. The exertions of the fire men were successful in confining the conflagration to the room in which it originated. GOLD IT V AUSTRALIA. The month of February, 1869, has been memorable in the colony of Victoria from the discovery of the largest nugget ever yet found in Australia. When cleaned it contained not less than 2,268 oz. of pure gold, its value being computed at £9,534. Strange to 54y, it was found within two i ches of the surface by two fortunate Cornish miners, who named it the " Welcome stranger." The nugget next in size was the " Welcome," valued at £8,376, which was exhumed from a depth of 180 feet in 1858. The total amount of gold exported from Victoria this year is some 125,000 ounces lees than in the corresponding period last year. The • drought has probably something to do with this, for it seems that in Queensland the Gympie goldfield had suffered from it. It is again reported that gold has been found in Tasmania, and in Now Zealand the search for gold is being actively prosecuted. The Government of Otago has offered a re ward for further discoveries. On the West Coast of New Zealand a nugget weighing 92 ounces was lately found. It is stated that the rescue of the miners at Brierley Hill cost the Earl of Dudley £25,000. His Royal Highness the Field-Marsbal Command will hold a levee at one o'clock on Monday, the 3d of May. There was a further prosecution of Denaby Main miners at Doncaster on Wednesday, five men being charged with conspiracy and assault. The case against one man, whose wife lay dead, was withdrawn, the bench dismissed the case against a second, and the others were find 20s. and costs for the assault. An accident occurred at Scarborough on 'Wednesday whereby one man was killed and four others very seriously hurt. The men were engaged in some alteratious being made to a house, when most of the scaffolding on which they were working gave way, precipitating them to the area below, a depth of 30 or 40 feet. One man died soon after reaching the infirmary. lie has left a widow and family. The others worn severely cut about the head. It is reported that the council of the Evangelical Allianco is agitated, and the very existence of the alliance tudab E ,Er,A, ty a, contrc.vorsy whicli Las ariien uf.on th 6 doctrine of "universal restoration." The Dev. T. li. Birks, in one of his latest crorks, expresses his belief that the language of holy scripture warrants a hope that the whole human rues may bo restored, and this has been resented by some of Mr. Ilirks's colleagues in the management of the Allian e. Mr. Birks was second wrangler in 1834. The Conservatives of Leamington some time since sent a memorial to the Bishop of 'Worcester requesting him to authorise the clergy in his diocese " to pray to Ahnight3 God during the morning and evening services on behalf of the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland, at present in deep affliction." The Bishop re plied: "Although I value and respect the feeling which Los prompted - the•mernorial, I havd 110 polier to authorise the introduction of any elditi:)nal prayer into the order pre oy.aillq Act mi lIPLEAYS GALLRRY, HA YMARKE7I The gems of art which at present adorn the splendid gallery of pictures now on view at Mr. M'Lean's, in the Haymarket, has been rendered still more rich by the addition of Mr. Church's last grand picture, entitled " Damascus." As a work it is perhaps one of the most extraordinary efforts ever accomplished by any artist, and an inspection of it will certainly delight and enchant every true lover of painting. The spectator, with his back to the setting sun, stands upon the rocky slope of a spur of Anti Lebanon. At the left is a gorge in which—but not visible—lies the Diligence road to Damas cus frc,m Beyrout. Through the same ravine flows the river Barada—the ancient Abana— also invisible—although just efore the gorge opens into the valley, a portion of the water of the river may be teen diverted into an artificial channel for the purposes of irrigation. This canal perforates the rocky slope of the left hand mountain, flowing through a tunnel of ancient construction. On the sunlit portion of this mountain stands a wely or tomb, which is the celebrate 1 stand-point chosen by travellers for viewing the valley and city. The mountains sweep down to the valley, thtir barren flanks contrasting strongly with the rich verdure of the plan, which is bountifully watered by thousands of little canals, distributing the waters of the Barada in all directions. The city lies in the midst of this verdure, and catches the last rays of the setting sun. It would be superfluous to add another word in praise in aid of the great work, beyond saying how deeply indebted the public are to Mr. M'Lean for his exertions in procuring for their delight and pleasurable inspection the most celebrated pictures ever painted by the hand of man. There is another very in teresting addition, viz., the perfected chromo copies of Bierstadt's extraordinary pictures, "'The Rocky Mountains" and " The Storm in the Reeky Mountains," which we must pronounce as the finest specimens of colour printing yet produced. The announcement that these splendid chromos are ready for delivery to subscribers will be received with great pleasure by a very large number of persons. LIFE PEERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln the year 1830, a pamphlet upon this subject was printed for private circulation, bearing the title of a " Letter to the Duke of Wellington, on the Propriety and Legality of Creating Peers for Life, with Precedtnts." A copy of it was for warded to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, who reviewed it at length. See vol. 100, part 2, p.p. 109-112. The anonymous author argued in favour of the propriety and legality of the measure, in order " that the House of Lords may profit by individual talent, and in particular be supplied with those various degcriptians of legal talents and acquirements which it so much requires." The edi tor highly favoured the proposition, and observed that " the commencement of a new reign is a proper era for its adoption ;" but it seems to have been re served for Earl Russell in the evening of his useful life to be the chief instrument in actually causing this desirable improvement in the Upper Chamber to be adopted. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Clin. COOKE. London, April 30, 1869. AST A TE OF 7 RADE. MANCHESTER, Thursday, April 29.—Beyond the fact that buyers have rather more choice in both cloth and yarn than they had a few days since, no alteration in the market has taken place since Tues day. A few inquiries have been made for India and China shirtings, but in order to sell producers have had to submit to prices which they declined a week since. BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The reports brought to Birmingham to-day from the various ironworks were even less satisfactory than those of last week. On most hands the proprietors of mills and forges are getting short of orders in nearly every depart ment. The foreign trade has not yet revived, and sales on home account are for small lots. Masters are ready to accept orders at prices lower than they have quoted for many years, but makers will not be s im u'ated. In the pig iron department, where old contracts have run out, vendors experience diffi culty in inducing consumers to give fresh orders. There were some very trifling sales to-day. Alike at the ironworks and the collieries there is a super - abundance of labour. Hardwares are unchanged. Most of the railway works have enough to d ), and so.ne of the tin-plate workers and jaranners are fairly off; but at the great foundries, and at the bridge and girder making establishments, there is hardly anything doing, except in the machinery departments, which are moderately engaged. BRADFORD, Thursday. —The wool market con tinues very quiet. The purchases made are mostly in the better classes of lustre wool, for which staplers are able to command full rates. The busi ness done in middl e and inferior sorts is about as meagre as it has been forsome timepast, and it is only where a concession in price is yielded that sales can be effected. 'I he presen t genial weather promising to accelerate the time of clip has also the effect in some measure of creating apathy on the part of con sumers. There is little change in yarns. A steady business continues to be done on home account. The foreign trade remains stagnant. The change in fashion on the continent, and the introduc tion there of yarns spun from German wool have greatly interfered with the bulk of the trade hitherto done for that quarter in this mar ket, and especially in 30's single. The business now doing in twofold yarns is very unimportant. Genappe yarns are also exceedingly quiet, and carded yarns are not in much request. Stocks in the hands of some spinners are on the increase, especially in middle sorts and 30's single. In the piece market, several foreign buyers have been pre sent, and have occasionally placed orders for the autumn trade. The home merchants are satis fying their requirements by picking up . from stock odd lots of light fancy and plain soods suitable for the season, but they do not place any important orders for the autumn trade. The continental business continues small. Few orders are placed for America. On the whole, a better feeling prevails, and manufacturers might in many cases get orders, if they were in a position to accept the low offers made by merchants. Busi ❑ess, though only small, is healthy. Prices in both yarns and pieces are not much changed. SHIPPLVG INTELLIGENCE. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, April 29—Treltje, from Groningen. Sailed, April 30—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne ; Velo city, steamer, for Calais ; Lord John Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk ; Lazereff, steamer, for Odessa DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed, April 29.—Isabella Ridley, for Hongkong ; Martlett, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Queen of the Clippers, for Bathurst —all from London. Passed, April 30.—Sarah Princep (of Dartmouth), from the north for the west; Lazareff, screw steamer, from London : for Constantinople. ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—The annual general meet ing of the subscribers and friends of the Asylum for Idiots was held yesterday at the London Tavern, when the report far the year was presented, and thirty-five candidates elected to the institution. The present number of inmates is 478. In the cases of twenty-one of whom the term of five years, for which they were elected, has expired, so that by yesterday's elections the number was raised to 492. Satisfactory progress has been male in the erection of the new building, the need for which is proved by tho fact that about '2OO are seeking admission to the asylum. About £12,000 is still needed to compete the plan projected, and it is hoped that this wid, ere long, be supplied. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.--mris. S. A tILLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to luickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do rightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from 'ailing off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all landrtlff. It contains neither oil not' 4y - O. In large Bottles -- oi-ice-Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers depot THE MAY MEETINGS. A lig Is published of the May meetings, so Val °t which have been held out of the month which has gice a them their general name. The following are some of the principal :—On the Ist of May the Mendicity Society will meet at Red Lion-square, Earl-Grosvenor presiding' On the 3rd the Archbishop of Canterbury will preach 1 4 St. Paul's on behalf of the British and Foreign Bible Society ; the National Temperance League, the Wee ' ley an Missionary Society, and the Home and Co lonial School Society will hold meetings. On the 4 th the United Kingdom Alliance, the Aged Pilgrims Fr iends' Society, the Sunday School Union, and the Wesleyan HomeHom e Mission will meet. On the sth the British and Fo reign Bible Society, the Book Society, the Liberation Society, and the Ragged Church and Chapel Union Society will meet. On the 6th the Sunday School Union, the Landes City Mission, the Church Home Mission, and the Church Pastoral Aid Society will meet. On the 7th the Gover nesses Benevolent Institution and the Religious Tra ct Society will meet. On the 15th the British and Foreign School, under Lord Russell's presidency, will be held at the Borough-road Schools ; and the Ragged School Union, under Earl Shaftesbury, at Exeter Hall. On the 11th the Irish Church Missionary Society will meet, under the Bishop of Ripon, at St. James's Hall. On the 12th the various meetings will be held on behalf of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy. On the 13th the Royal AsYin nit of St. Anne's will meet, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury. On the I,Sth the Vnite cl Kingdom Band of Hope and the Tract Society meet. On the 20th the Sailors' Home and Destitute Sailors' Asylum meetings are held at the Sailors' Home, Wells-street (nea t . the Tower of London.) On the 25th the Childrens. Refuges and Chichester Ship Society is held at Exeter Hall, under Lord Shaftesbury ; and the Field -lane Refuge will be held at the institution, under the same noble lord, on the 26th. The British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females meet on June 2, at Clapton. under the Bishop of London. EXPERIMENTS WITH PERCUSSIOY CAPS. The railway and other carrying companies, including the steam-packet companies, have recently raised objections td the conveyance of percussion caps. Several cases hav e occurred lately in which the transmitters of these articles have been summoned before the magistrates at Birrning" ham and elsewhere for the purpose of enforcing penalties. In consequence of this, the Chamber of Commerce at Birmingham took the matter up, with the view to bring about some public test as t° the explosive or non-explosive character of these . materials if struck in bulk. Accordingly, it was arrang ed that there should be a series of tests at the Ammunition Works of Messrs. E. and A. Ludlow, in Belmont-row, i° that town. To witness them there were present Captain Sherard Osborne, as representative of some of the pubb e , departments ; the secretary of the - Underwrite rs Association at Liverpool ; the London and Nor th. Western, Great Western, Midland, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and other princiPal railways were also represented ; there were also present about 100 other persons variously interested. The firs t experiment made was that of placing a tin box containing 250 caps in an ordinary fire, it remaining until all Os charges in the caps were burnt out. The result was that all the caps gradually burnt, without so much as the lids of the boxes being blown off, although the lids were well nigh melted. The second experiment was that of placing a half cwt. of caps in a red-hot muffle ; the result vis e a kind of fizzing at intervals, but there was d ° explosion. In the thi r d ex p er i men t, 50,000 ca ps were p ut into a packing-case in the ordinary way for transit ; thes e were placed in a furnace ; gradually the wood burnt away ' but not the slightest explosion occurred ; the caps re ; mained stacked in pyramidical form exactly as they 133 " been fixed. A fourth experiment was that of Plan b3g within an iron pot, 10in, in diameter and 10in. deeP , lump of red-hot iron, weighing 21b., on this 20,000 loose calls were poured, and the pot was filled up with cotton vs'n el; gradually the caps exploded, and the cotton wool became charred, but no flame whatever arose. A lucifer match put to the wool, which ignited instantly. In the fifth an ° sixth experiments, brown paper parc e ls c on taining s ,° °° caps were struck by a mass of iron weighing one civt.' and falling from a height of 12ft. ; in one of these thel Ox was surrounded by cotton wool, but no explosion occurr ed " In another instance an almost needless experiment `vas made, gunpowder being substituted for the cotton vrn eb and, as might have been expected, an explosion occurred; but the mere dropping of the weight on gunpowder a lone did not cause an explosion. In the seventh test tb parcel containing 5,000 caps was placed in a be with a quantity of cotton wool. This was struck by ° block of iron, weighing 15cwt., falling from a height 4ft. ; the caps were crushed up, but again there was uo plosion. Another experiment was that of placing 410 ca r d ridges for Remington gu ns i n a b ox, gunpow der vr''' placed within the box, and a fuse applied to one a t b j e cartridges ; it alone exploded, the others in the box remain e perfect. The scene of the experiment was then changed t° the London and North-Western Railway, whither the conitoi pany adjourned. A bag cont a ini n g 20,000 ca ps was plac e on a rail ; one or two wheels of a locomotive passed o'er the bag without causing any explosion, at the passage e t the third wheel there was a small explosion, but t hat occurred only to the few caps which were absolutely crusl' e Here, again, there was no explosion in bulk. In the fli nt and last special experiment two wooden packing cases O n ; taming 50,000 caps each, put up in the ordinary waY 1 , 4 , ° transit, were submitted for concussion by attaching thew": the buffer (not a spring buffer) of an engine ; in this tea v there were employed an engine and three trucks with t s° ,, break vans and three trucks ; the engine and tend e. weighed 40 tons. When the b oxes were s t ruc k the eng ine was travelling at the rate of twelve miles an hour; boxes were, of course, crushed, and the pieces flew 4 about, but it was in i s ol a t e d i ns t ances on ly that the C A '', exploded. The result of the series of experiments We l regarded as demonstrating completely the non-explosil tendency of percussion caps if struck in bulk. The death of Robert Scott Lauder, R.S.A., one of the best-known Scotch painters, is announced. A French paper asks the following riddle " Why is the Prince of Wales like fifteen shillings ? Because he wants a crown to make him a sovereign." Three velocipedists were on Monday brought 11 3 before the magistrates at Ashton-under-Lyne, charg e s with having obstructed the public footpath by rilrin il l o velocipedes upon it. The case was proved, an d it e also shewn that the road had been cut up by the action the the popular new vehicles, but as it was the first case , ti l e defendants were only ordered to pay costs. Lovers Of the bycycle will, however, do well to take warning from tb case. THE BEWDLEY ELECTION PETITION.—The sc tiny was resumed at Bewdley on Thursday m o rning. . 4r j ; Cunliffe started with a minority of f o u r , su cceeded / 0 striking off ten votes from Major Anson's poll, and t ll/1 0 placed him se lf i n a ma j or i ty o f six. Alajo • Anson proceeded to strike off votes from the Conservative V f with such eff ec t th a t i n a s h ort t i me the sitting mew.ble abandoned the case , ar 4 M a j or Anson was declare dau'' ,9 elected. At the polli ng i n N ovem b er the Tory maP rite,„ d was 100 ; in March it was 14 ; an d t h e result of the Beal l petition is that a Lib,ral member has been seated. MR. CHARLES DICKENS.—The public Will le 3r f with satisfaction that Mr. Charles Dickens has alr e3 r o l ,l profited by cessation from work during the brief Pe r ` t 0 which has el a p se d s i nce hi s arr i va l i n t own . It i s eaSl understand the causes which had led to his indisposit ioll° Ever since his return from America he has incessant; taxed his powers of both body and mind in the delvn ti t b made upon him, especially byhis " readings," till at lag he became fairly prostrated at Preston. The arrival 0 Mr. F. Carr Beard, his medical attendant, at Presto n 't few hours before his reading there in the evening, was l:°° b opportune. Mr. Dickens was quite unfit to go thren° o the fatigue of a public reading, which might have be lie followed by grave consequences, considering that : - 1 , 6 complained of much giddiness ; but his desire to meet I— to. wishes of the public would no doubt have induced hi ° - 0 attempt it had not Mr. Beard happily arrived in tim e forbid the effort. Mr. Dickens has an admirable C '; stitution, and has always taken care of it. He ha n e tt h ll y settled down to his usual country life and some el ," - t0 literary pursuits, and will no doubt be rapidly restored "J health ; but we understand that Sir Thomas Watson Mr. Beard have de eme d it necessary that for some 1n °73 , 1 -b to come he should c ease f rom hi s h eav i er literary Inb°;--,14; Perhaps it will be necessary f or hi m to avo id the fa'Pti of railway journeys for some time longer.— Ike Lancet. e ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOC I ET Y ' S MEDAL. — °ll , lo of the highest honours which it is in the power of Royal Geographical Society to bestow is about to fa ll or the share of a lady. Mrs. Somerville, whose w° rJ '',, l " Physical Geog ra phy" i s s till by f ar th e b e st id"' I :,'‘ have on the subj ec t, w ill h ave awar d e d t o h er , at the n ti t io versary meeting of the s oc i e ty on th e 24th instant, 11 Victoria Gold Medal. Two medals are yearly giv er ; c g the Crown, and are adj u d ge d by th e R o y a l GeograP ij; i ie e Society to two p ersons w h o have b een distingn is by their promotion of the interests of geographical aci e , l3 o4 Of these two, the F oun d ers ' Medal ranks first, a nd lit Victoria Medal next. This year the Founders' 111et0 ik to be given to M. Nordenskiiild, for his explorationew Arctic regions, particularly in Spitzbergen ; an d er, Victoria Medal i s to be g i v en t o Mrs. Somerville „p cially for her " Physical Geography." Lady Fran f t some years ago received one of the medals e ts . nc ri Geographical Society on account of her hn e ' t ii4 travels ; but Mrs. Somerville is the first lady to wh el33 , Iro2F b;_exptccinikd fiaryorksi2,o ae DI 0 COMA Consols count, 93 New Tlare £l,OOO, 2 ' 2 7 prem. India S ditto 5 per Cent., Oct 5 per Cent In the Cents, and t, to 29 20 are also at 14 14g 55} 56. 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