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Montague, Addison, Glover, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS ErzsiNO, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extrasavnza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hail, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and z•aturdays, at 3and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL ETAMBR A PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open frOm 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfs-Datk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mendays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. LOA DOS, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1869. The New Law Courts' Site is still undetermined. The advocates of the rival sides of the Strand are equally enthusiastic in their preference for the North and for the South, for the Carey-street Site and fit the Thames Embankment. Apropos to this amicable contention them has recently come forth the Report made by Mr. F. W. L'HIELDS, Civil Engineer, " on the subject of the site for the New Courts of Justice and their Approaches." It has been printed in Return to an order of the house of Commons, und. r date the 4th inst., an]. is addressed, itself (i.e. l the Report, not the Return), under date the 17th ult., to the Right Hon. the ChancAlor of the Exchequer. Mr. Lour - ,; having been given to understand that Mr. F. W. SHIELDS, C.E., had de vokd considerable attention in his profes sional capacity to the question of the New Ltw Courts and their approaches, had invited the latter gentleman to favour him (the Chan cellor of the Exchequer) with rome deliberate opinion, in writing, upon the matter referred to. In compliance with that request Mr. SHIELDS draws ' up his report—a copy of which is, in due course, fo7-, shortly after the meeting of Parliament, by Mr. DJDDS, the newly-elected member for the newly-created parliamentary borough of Stockton. A copy of that report is now lying before us as we write, and brief though it is-- occupying, as it does, only four pages of blue-book letter-press—it is at the same time all-sufficient. Mr. SHIELDS subdh ides his subject at starting under four heals—those under which he enumerates what he term public requirewents. First the archi:ectural effect afforded by the site, whether to the north or to the Bluth of the Scran 1, w t.etl:er between the Strand and Carey-street or between the Strand and the lhlimes anbinkluent. Secondly-, the unifor.nity of level of its surf tee. T.iirdiy the ee..)no ny of its aciiisiziin. Fo.trAly—lts act - ;e:isibiliti or t'a 3 colv,mielce of public ap . roaelle.i. I InnediatAy upon starting he frankly a.Lnits " obvi ins sap,Tiori - y" of the riv.2r frontage when e-itn,) twu sites in regard to the arc'iit::•:tar:tl eff.:ct of the projetel new elii e. Acknowledgi ig tLat much, Mr. SIIE.IL'is d rt:c ly atfterwards ad,l6 that upon the second puint, na!nely, the and relative to the uni formity of level, there is a nearly cilually o')vious disaivanta,ge on this side of the Thames E!nilvikm,•nt. Neither site Lt. .‘ level" it s!ioald be said. But whercai the level of Carey-street is 1G feet higher than the &Irani, the level of the Strand is 30 feet big ;or than the Thames Embankment ! If NV3 remember rightly Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN regards this latter difference of level as a matter for exultation and rejoicing when singing the praises of his pet site —that sec)nd thought which is proverbially said to be best—the site of the Thames Eari')a rkineat. He c.mceiies, if our memory upon this point is not in error, that the absence of uniformity in level opens up many advantages in the way of providing suitable officcs in connection with the Courts thcm , selves. Not so Mr. SHIELDS, who has an engineer's objection to the consequent necessity of so many flights of st a ir s — an objectiou certainly al most insuperable, when the ag,3 of our judges is taken into consideration. 'Then comes the comparative cost of the rival sites, showing an ex cess on the river site of so;ne £725,000 altogether. the fourth point—that is as to the approaches- , --is the most difficult of all to decide upon ; and upon that point, consequently, Mr. SHIELDS expatiates in his Report with a sort of gusto, considering' it to the right and to the left, in front and in rear, all round it in fact. Upon the Strand side, he says, both sites are of course upon an equality. With this difference only, that in the one case the Strand would be the front, in the other the back of the new Palace of Justice. " The Carey -street site, however," he adds, " has no main thoroughfare on its northern side, which is inacces sible to any large amount of traffic, so that virtually it would depend for public ac cess upon the Strand alone. The other site, on the contrary, has, in addition to the Strand, the new and capacious street on the Du ; banktneut running along its river front. This street will extend from Westminster to the Mansion house ; it will be traversed by the Metropolitan Dis- 1 trict Railway; and it will be in direct communiea- 1 tion with the landing piers for the river steamboat Ipassengers. It follows therefore that, in respect of the aproaches, the Embankment site has great advantage over that of Carey-street." Mere than that, he says very lointedly that, " whichever site be adopted, the question cf its apvroaches requires the most careful consideration." When he takes occasion to remark, however, that "if the Carey-street site be selected, the Strand and Fleet-street must be the principal acccrs to it; and if the Embankment site be pre ferred, the carne thoroughfare, before more cen tral than the Embankment road, will have much traffic to the not only to convey Law Co: rtE, but will be cross ed and b i l i o d ck i e l d oi bL a. ve: , hides p: ssing between the Courts a When Le not only says this, but adds, " The narrow portion of the Strand and fleet-street for a consi derable d:stance adjoining the proposed sifts has lung been inadequate for the public accommodation:" And further goes on to say, " But with the great addi tional traffic which will he cans •d by the et:11- cent ation of the Law Courts oil that narrow and crowded street, I can foresee - no other re sult than to render the Courts extrAiiely difficul. of access, and to create such a blockade of the mos, , tssentia.i thoruu,lif ,re of London as will prove, into lerable to the palic."—Mr. SHZELDS appears to forget that the blockade thus certain in either case to in vade the Strand will necessarily be far more serious": THE SUN, LONDON, IV ONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1869. if the Strand be relieved only in the ❑orth by Carey street than if it be relieved in the south by the Thames Embankment. Everything points, as we still con ceive, to the latter as the far more preferable site of the two for the new Palace of Justice. DunING the interval between the introduction of the Irish Church Bill and the discussion upon it three great questions have been brought forward in Parliament, each of them more important than, though none, perhaps, so politically pressing as, the measure which will be debated this week. Crime, pau perism, and ignorance are the three great evils which weigh down the British nation, and any one of these might be the subject of the leading measure of a session. With the first and the second Government is prepared to deal during the present year. Lord KIMBERLEY, in the Upper House, and Mr. GOSCIIEN, in the Lower, have brought forward measures which will, it is hoped, palliate the two evils against which they are directed. But more important than either, because it is to a large extent the source of both, is that which Mr. MELLY brought forward in a very able speech on Friday night—the ignorance of our juvenile population. The facts which he stated, and which were supported by Mr. DIXON and other members, are simply dis graceful to such a country as ours. For instance, in the three towns of Liverpool, Man chester, and Birmingham, 29,128 children out of 94,502 were found to be neither at work nor at school. They were for the most part in the !streets, serving their apprenticeship in crime. So far as these and other great towns are concerned, this lamentable fact is certainly not due to any want of educational provision. In Liverpool there were about 8,000 places vacant in schools intended for the working classes. In the rural districts the position is, no doubt, very different. For instance, it was stated by the Royal Commission of 1861 that out of 14,800 parishes 0,700 did not receive one farthing of assist ance from the Government, which is only another way of saying that they were inefficient. It is need less to go through the statistics of education on the Continent. It is sufficient to say that whereas in most of the German States and in Switzerland it is rare to find a child who cannot both read and write, in England the percentage of the ignorant is fear fully large. When we come to discuss the remedies we find considerable difference of opinion upon the main point, shall education be made compulsOry ? One large class of objectors no longer exists. The voluntary party have frankly confessed that volun taryism cannot be applied to secular education, that the State is bound to assist in teaching its subjects, because, to use Dr. CHALMERS'S old argument in favour of Established Churches, the supply must precede the demand. Those person who objected to any infringement of the liberty of the subject have also become silent. The principle of State inter ference was admitted in the first Factory Act. It has been extended to print works, potteries, and numerous other manufactories; it will, in all proba bility, be extended to agriculture. But hitherto we have stopped short at this point. The law has stepped in to protect children against the greed of masters and parents, by ordering that children who earn wages at work shall receive a certain amount of education. But the law does not protect children against the neglect of parents, does not come to the relief of the children in the streets, far worse off than the children in the factory. For these no one cares ; no one is responsible. They will not be sent to school unless the State sends them; they will grow up to burden us with heavy rates, and to inflict far more serious losses, in the shape of stolen property, unless the State will take them in hand and convert them from dangerous into useful members of society. As Mr. MELLY well said, the question is no longer what shall we do with them ? but, what will they do with us ? They will be our masters if we do not master them. It was argued that compulsion had failed in the United States. The " failure " was merely this, that there was no need to resort to compulsion. Of late, however, the large immigration of ignorant Irish has led American statesmen to consider is they must not use this weapon. In Germany and S witzerland there is almost as little need for compelling a parent to educate his child as there is fur com pelling him to clothe it. Ignorance would be thought as disgraceful as nudity—the nakedness of the mind as disgraceful as the nakedness of the body. Of course, compulsory education means non denominational schools and local rates. No Govern ment could undertake to compel the attendance of children at school if it were met by the " religious " objection on the part of the parents. The objec tion might be a mere excuse, but it would not the less have to be admitted, and it would be fatal to any great scheme of national education. This by no means implies that religious teaching is to be neglected. It will be left to proper times and per sons. Hitherto religious education has, no doubt unintentionally, stood in the way of secular educa tion. There is no reason to fear that secular education will stand in the way of religious. Hitherto children have too often not been taught at all be cause rival theologians could not agree by whom they should be taught. Let them once learn to read and write, and the theologians will be able to teach them theology. A knowledge of the Church Cate chism or the Westminster Assembly's Catechism must follow—not, as we have hitherto supposed, precede—a knowledge of the alphabet. The rating difficulty is not likely to prove so chronic as the religious. It is true that there is just now a great and a just outcry against a large increase of local burdens. But an education-rate will, so far from increasing, decrease them. It will prove one of the best investments ever made. Every shilling spent in teaching our ignorant childr€ n will come back to us with compound interest in our diminished gaol and poor rates. No doubt secular teaching does not necessa- rily keep the taught from crime ; some crimes, in fact, require a very high education ; but it does this— it takes the child from the streets, where h is being trained for wickedness, where he is enlisted and drilled for the Devil, and places him among other associates, under other influences, where he has at least the chance of going right. The street Arab has no chance. This is so well known, the numerousness of the class is so fully established, that, agreeing with all Mr. MELLY said, we do not . _ see of what use could be his proposed committee. It would simply delay that which must be close at hand, which is merely a question of months, of this session or the next—a comprehensive scheme of national education introduced by a responsible Ministry. A contemporary says :—" Though the Bishops are almost unanimously opposed to the Irish Church Bill, it is be lieved that when the division is taken in the House of Lords they will not record their votes, being content with simply speaking against the measure. One or two of the right rev. prelates are opposed to this course, but it is ex pected that they will yield to the wishes of their colleagues. The 7 cadet says, with reference to the fiftieth anni versary of the Pope celebrating his first Mass, that every diocese in this country is sending addresses of congratula tion, and that the magnificent gold medallion of the Imma culate Conception, designed by Vichtd, and engraved by Messrs. hunt and Rookell, the largest gold medallion in the world, is being purchased by them for presentation to his Holiness upon thy, same occasion. Mr. Bentiuck will ask the First. Lord of the Trea sury on Monday next uhether he will lay upon the table an est;mate of the sum of money w hick will be rt quired to pur ehat e the sites of the ecclesiastical res'denet s t.nder the pro visions of .the 27111 clause c f the Irish Church Lill. Aud whether he will also lay upon the table a return of the num ler of ecclesiastical residences referred to in the said 27th clause, specifying the buildir:g charges affecting such resi dences respectiv ly. The new district superiritendents of the Aletropo iit,,, pal e ° began the performance of their duties on Friday Their salaries are fixed at .C6OO rising to .£BOO per annum. Their chief duties will be to hear complaints against the constables, which have hitherto been adju dicated upon at Scotland-yard by the Commissioners, and to visit the stations in their districts. They will supply the missing links between the commissioners and superinten dents, and hold a rank somewhat similar to that of majors in the army. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FROIVUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, March 14. Of the Belgian railway difficulty the chief news is that it has given birth to a lively infant. A Dutch railway difficulty has arisen. The Dutch Government, says the Public, refuses to ratify the provisional treaty concluded between the French Eastern Company and the owners of the continuation line to Amsterdam. According to the letters received by the Public, the directors of the Eastern Company have received notice of this rejection, which, like the Belgian affair, will produce " explanations " between the Governments of France and Holland. As to the original difficulty—that with the Belgian Government —opinions are divided, some believing in the remedy of a commission, others in that of arbitration. It will be strange indeed if the Brussels Cabinet refers the operation of one of its own internal laws to a commission ; but the world has seen stranger things, and perhaps the expedient may ward off trouble until the next difficulty—there seems to be an average of one a week now—arises. Since the Turco-Greek affair we have had a Persian difficulty, a question about the neutrality of the Sporades Islands, a Belgian quarrel, and now the phlegmatic Dutchman becomes the subject of a dispute. It cannot he said that war is averted by not stirring up the sediment of European politics. The Pope's letter in M. Emile 011ivier's book is not yet ctone with. The book, like everything in Paris, has lived its day, and is now amongst the things of the past; but the effects of the letter, we are told, remain. It is asserted, on what I must accept as good authority, that the French Government is seriously disquieted by the Absolutist doc- trines put forth in the epistle to Mgr. Darboy. The letter chastises the Archbishop for treating the supre macy of the Pontiff with less consideration than is demanded by extreme doctrines. The French Government, on its side, is alarmed because the supremacy of the Holy See is put forward too strongly. The Emperor, it is said, through M. de Lavalette, has desired that no question likely to cause division amongst the French clergy should be brought up at the Council. As this question between his Holiness and Mgr. Darboy, is likely, perhaps, to divide the French clergy, this despatch by M. de Lavalette is evidently directed at the letter in II 011ivier's book. The abduction case to which I alluded in my last has been concluded. An old woman, aged 81, was indicted with Plovicr as an accomplice. It transpires that Plo vier was in embarrassed circumstances, and had offered to be married to the elder girl in order to obtain her fortune. The parents rejected him, owing to his having been twice bankrupt and leading an immoral life. Plovier then, by presents of money and promises of future aid, interested in his behalf the woman Millet, who was then the inmate of an asylum, and who, as a distant relative of the parents, had access to the young girls. This old wretch induced both girls to leave their parents, under the pretence of placing them in a convent until the consent to the marriage could be obtained. Mdle. &lie being decidedly attached to the fellow, Plovier, however, instead of placing the girls in a con vent, took them to different hotels, and basely endeavoureo to compromise Znie, so as to render a marriage necessary. In this attempt he happily did not succeed. The girls, after three weeks' romantic wandering,were found with the man. Plovier has been condemned to two years' imprisonment, and the old woman to one. There is a budget of horrors of various degrees of magni tude. At Lyons a gentleman nearly cut his wife's head off, walked quietly - out of the hotel where he was staying, and is now " wanted." In Paris a man discharged the contents of a revolver a fellow tradesman who had seduced his wife, and lodged enough lead in his victim to kill two or three people. That the injured husband will get off scot free is almost a matter of course. M. Marais, Councillor of Prefecture in the Ain, has been killed through his horse taking fright at a velocipede. Finally, there are one or two items of the old familiar character, which had bette.' be passed over in silence. world." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times discusses at some length the financial per plexities which threaten the new Chancellor of the Ex chequer. It may, perhaps, be safely assumed that next year would shew a surplus of a million of normal income over normal expenditure, supposing the deficit of the expiring year could be neglected, and that no further demand on account of the Abyssinian War should arise. The deficiency of 1868-0 must, however, according to the calculations to which we have referred, be taken at five millions in all, and the unsatisfied balance, after applying, the receipt of arrears of income tax in discharge of Ex chequer Bonds, at four millions, and we have intimated that it would be wise to anticipate another Abyssinian vote. Mr. Lowe might thus be called upon to supply from three to four millions by extraordinary means. The exact sum would be four millions, the balance of last year not provided for, plus the further Abyssinian vote threatened, and minus the one million surplus of normal income. Continuing the war income tax at sixpence in the pound would be insufficient to provide .this sum, and there is a substanti , 4 reason why the deficiency of the Exchequer, if it prove so large as we have reason to apprehend, should not be met by an aggravation of the existing income tax. The resolution of the House of Commons last year that the cost of the Abyssinian war should be paid by an additional income tax, and by that alone, was one of doubtful policy. We protested at the time against a course which formally threw the cost of the war on one half of the community to the exoneration of the other, and subsequent reflection has confirmed our assurance of the justice of the protest. A. proposal now to increase the income tax still more in order to get rid at once of the balance of Abyssinian liabilities would aggravate the original error. It is easy to see how such a proposal would work. The tax would be levied, the cost of the war would be paid, and the Chancellor of the Ex chlequer in April 1871, and again in April 1572, would have a surplus to give away. That surplus would infallibly be applied in the diminution, if not abolition, of some items of indirect taxation. In other words, the income tax would be swollen this year in order that indirect taxes might be taken off next year. According to the alterna- tive plan, the payers of income tax would have paid an additional twopence in the pound for the two years and a half from October 1867 to April 1870, and the rest of the cost of the war—a comparatively small proportion—would be met by deferring the reduction of indirect taxation. Some recognition of an equitable adjustment of national burdens would be thus secured, though it would still be a matter of regret that the expense of an expedition in which the whole nation was deeply interested had not peen visibly charged from the outset upon all classes of the people. The Standard thinks that Mr. Chichester Fortescue has been sufficiently condoled with on his ill-luck in being selected as the special recipient of Lord Russell's epistolary confidences. We are inclined to think it a still hardat grievance that the right hon. gentleman should be utilise4 by Bishop Moriarty as the medium for promulgating the views and requirements of the Roman Catholic hierachy, in regard to the Irish Church Plunder Bill. We have very little doubt that this is the light in which Mr. Glad• stone and his colleagues will regard this well meant but most unfortunate demonstration on the part of Bishop Moriarty. One can readily understand that the Roman Catholic prelates are delighted with the bill as it stands, but why say so publicly at a moment when it is especially important not to alarm the susceptibilities of Protestant England ? It is equally a matter of course that, being hugely pleased with what the bill gives them, they should desire to appropriate still larger advantages ; but where is the use or the good sense of putting forward their new claini when Mr. Gladstone is about to be taxed with Laving given them infinitely too much already ? The game on hand requires wary playing, and neither Mr. Gladstone nor the Roman Catholic bishops can afford to shew their cards at the first round. And this is the sort of blundet of which Bishop Moriarty has been guilty. Can anyone suppose that the Irish Church Bill will stand a better chance of passing the House of Commons for being weighted with the publicly-expressed enthusiastic apprA bation of a distinguished member of the Ultramontane prelacy. Yet here we have Dr. Moriarty shouting across the Channel to the unhappy Chief Secretary that the bill is " a message of justice and peace," that " it satisfies the mind of the country," that " it keeps the promise within the power of _performance," and that " we all have good reason to rejoice in hope." Was it wise to proclaim all this by sound of trumpet in the ear of Protestant England? The Daily News says that a Scotch member on Friday night propounded an etymological theory. A faggot, h* informed the House, was a bundle of sticks tied together for the fire ; and faggot voters, by analogy, were a-number of men bound together by a political tie in order to carry fire and destruction into bona fide constituencies. The dictionaries tell us that in the time of Addison the name faggot was applied to a person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. A faggot voter is, therefore, a fraudulent voter. The word implies personation and duplicity. The spirit of this etymo. logy suits the system of faggot-voting in Scotland to which Mr. Craufurd on Friday night called the atten tion of the House of Commons. An attempt was made to find a parallel for the action of the Conservative party in the matter in the conduct of the Anti-Corn Law LNiguc. But Mr. Bright very clearly pointed out the distinction, and exposed the subterfuge uuder which things so different were confounded. The Anti• Corn Law League advised and promoted the purchase of real properties, conferring a vote under the 40s. freehold qualification. In the case of the Scotch faggot votes, there is no real purchase or possession of property at The whole transaction is an evasion of the law. The true parallels of the faggot -voters in Scotland must be looked for across the Atlantic, in the enterprising citizens who were known as the Border Ruffians of Missouri, These gentry used at election time to sally across the frontier of their own State into Kansas, take possession of the polling-booths, and elect the pro-slavery candidates, The conduct of the non-resident faggot-voters in alb Scottish counties differs from this only as the trickery which evades the law differs from the violence which openly breaks it. Political honour ought to bring this pettifogging system to an end. The Telegraph complains that on behalf of England not a word is spoken. The Thistle and the Shamrock aro having it all their own way. The Rose is at a sad discount. Can we obtain a moment's audience for the most ill-used nation on the face of the earth? The people of England are the victims for whom we plead. They are not Scotch men ; or else, of course, they would have several bills brought in by the Duke of Argyll and the Lord Advocate to improve their condition. They are not Irishmen ; if they were, voluminous leading articles and speeches four hours long would be devoted to conciliate them and to arrange their affairs. They are onll Englishmen and they can wait. We hear of meet ings of Scotch members in tea-rooms to "represent" this, to " discuss" that, to " insist " on the other conces- sion. We hear of deputations of Irishmen to pro; test against this grievance, to demand that loan. But who hears of anybody's standing up to propose a reform, or loan, or a grand measure cf justice for England? Wehavl all been writing and talking for years, and very urgentls during the last year, about national education ; and when Parliament met we all expected something great from a new Liberal Ministry ; we predicted new schools blos- soming like the desert rose in the dark places of our l.nd. But, instead of any such measure, we got on Friday night a mere debate on the lack of education in large towns. On the other hand, the session had not long begun when up rose a Scottish duke to propose a splendid scheme of education'. for Scotland ! What comfort is that to us ? Because barefooted lads and lasses in the Highlands will have learning brought to their doors, is that any solace to us English as we see our poorer children grow up in an .. ignorance felt alike in overcrowded towns and rural disi tiicts? M r . Gl a d s t one h as a magn ifi cen t majority, and . we hope that no new election will for years disturb the even tenour of our lives ; but whenever that event recurs the hustings cry must be "Justice to England," the Irish and the Scotch yoke must be broken, and, emancipating itself from the thraldom of Dr. Cullen and Dr. Candlish, the Parliament of this country must teach us how to read, must give us the means of punishing our rascals, and must endow with some measure of rational manhood those docile hinds of . Dorsetshire, " the finest peasantry in the The Star examines the details of the two bills just sub mitted to Parliament by Mr. Buxton and Mr. Hughes for the reform of the local government of the metropolis. Of the principle of local ancl municipal organisation upon which both measures are founded it heartily approves, and it considers the practical methods employed by the authors of the bill to carry out their theory both well. directed to attain their immediate ends, and open to few strong objections. To al the detai's of the bills it would • certainly be unwise to give an unqu - Llitied approval until w e have heard what may be urged by the various interests hostile to the scheme; but the measures, as they were entrusted to Mr. Mill by the as so • ciation of v.hich Mr. James Beal has been the most energetic promoter, and as they were bequeathed by Mr. Mill to Mr. Buxton and Mr. Hughes, were care. fully framed, so as to combine the largest liberty of, efficient action for the new niunicipalities with the smallest shock to vested interests. It will be seen that the rights and prescriptive privileges of the City are tenderly dealt with ; and though we anticipate not a few objections in matters of detail, we hope these may be removed by judicious compromise and negotiation. The principle of these bills is a wholesome and logical one, and its ad o pti on will go far to introduce something like decency and o r d er into the worst administered of European capitals. W e have much confidence in the representation and working of municipal institutions in London. It is better to reform our metropolitan government by that expedient than by .l ie Cu; and dangerous process of Haussmannising ; and . , ~,, , r ~ t her of these methods of reform we must make :.• • •.,• :::iiiil to come at last. TRADE AND FINANCE. The past week, on the whole, has presented some not unfavourable features. The fact of the failures of the Turkish and Victorian loans chew that more dis- cretion is being exercised in placing moneys on investment, and that capitalists have come to the conclusion that more favourable outlets for employment of this capital will soon present themselves. The failure of the Turkish loan is easily accounted for. The various securities offered had, one and all, bout, specially hypothecated for the payment of the interest anc' sinking funds of former loans—especially referring to the Five per Cent. Consolidated Loan of 1865 —and, in point of fact, Turkey Las no power whatever to hypothecate any of the reserves of the country existing prior to 1865, the only moneys applicable to such a proceeding being the taxes imposed since that date. To this cauie is to be attributed the great delay in the int' ()auc tion of the loan, and, it is to be observed, that no direct agent appeared in the London market, Messrs. Devaux and Co. acting, we believe, as agents for the Soci6t6 Gjn6rale only. The fact of the revenues offered having been already mortgaged is not the only objection raised to the new loan. Turkey is in discredit, and is apparently getting more and more cash-bound, which will eventually prove the cause of her downfall. Application had already been made by the Danube and Black Sea Railway Company to the committee of the London Stock Exchange, asking them to refuse a quotation to the loan on the official list, and, taking the treatment that th e company h ere received at the hands of the Ottoman G overnmen t in respect of the guarantees o f th e l atter, it is difficult to see how the committee, if they act up to the spirit of their rules, can refuse the application. Notwithstanding the total col lapse of the loan here, we understand that the amount has been covered in France, Amsterdam, and Constanti nople. The Societe Generale, however, has notified that subscribers in France will receive all the bonds they ask for—a piece of news that the subscribers will probably not be grateful for. In the case of the Victorian Government Railway Loan the failure is to be ascribed to the high estimate placed upon this credit by the Victorian Government themselves. The price was fixed at par (100), at which quotation few applications were sent in, for it was scarcely right that the Victorian Government should presume that English capital would be placed at their dis posal at less than half the Victorian rate of interest. A somewhat discreditable feature has been noticed in connection with the loan. No deposits were demanded with the appropriations for allotments, a course open to great objection and one to be much deprecated. The contractors should have seen the necessity of putting a check to purely speculati ve applications, for which the issue of a n y new l oan prese nts such a f avoura b le opportunity, and by i nv iti ng , as they apparently h ave d one, the co-ope ration of th e c l ass r eferred to, they she we d t h e li ttle faith that th e y h a d th emse lves in the succ ess o f t h e new loan to which th e y were i nv iting public subscripti ons. Anxious to take advantage of the present state of the money market, those two old borrowing States, Italy and Spain, are about to make their appearance with a new loan. It is most likely, however, that they will be raised in the Paris market, as being more suited to that atmos phere than to ours. After the collapse of the present loan, it i s pro b a bl e t h at t h e large loan f or T urkey—osten . sibly for railway purposes— about which Daoud Pasha has. been so long in Paris, will be indefinitely postponed. Trade generally [thews few signs of amination. Cotton has maintained the recent rise to some extent, although there is positively nothing in the present position of the markets, for both raw and manufactured goods, to justify the high prices now current. On the strength, however, of the high rates, large speculative purchases have been made by middlemen in foreign markets, and we notice that, n otwithstanding, the arrival of unusually heavy shipments, prices in China of cotton goods have been on the advance. Corn has continued in the same dull, inanimate state which has characterised it for some time past. The accumulation of produce in Ame rica is enormous, and as the bulk of this is evidently intended for the British markets, prices here must be seriously affected when shipments commence. The present ►nonth will probably see a heavy decline in the value of wheat. III?. MIALL AND THE LADIES OF BRADFORD. 111 r. Afiall's success at Bradford is perhaps partly ex plained by a paragraph which appears in so:ne of the local plpers. He had th e support of the women. B e t ween 4,000 and 0,00) of all ran k s i n li fe, i t i s subscribed small sums amounting in the aggregate to £3lO. They held a meeting the other niet to determine what should be done with the money. Upon this occasion, we are told, " the meeting was crowded with females of all ages and all ranks in life, but all neatly dressed and very respectable in appearance, some of the married women bringing their babies. The speeches made by the ladies were to the point, and one of them was an excellent speci• men of the powers of the ladies for public speaking. There was the usual running accompaniment of hear, hear,' 'cheers,' and 'laughter,' the latter predominating, the ladies appearing to be on excellent terms with one another, and highly relishing the novel treat they were enjoying. One lady recited a poem on the election, in which it was stated that, while their opponents said how much Mr. Ripley had done for Bradford, they forgot to say what Bradford had done for him.". THE LATE BRADFORD ELECTION. The election at Bradford terminated apparently in a much more conciliatory spirit on the part of both victors and vanquished than was the case at the contest in Novem ber, as indicated in the more considerate tone manifested on both sides, on the part of those gentlemen who took occasion, at the close of the poll, to speak in tl:e name of each party—a gratifying augury for the future peace and well-being of the town. At the declaration of the poll the Mayor complimented his fellow-townsmen on he orderly and peaceable manner in which the election had been conducted, adding that there had never been an election in Bradford better conducted. On Saturday eight men, who had been apprehended for thr,w:ng stones on the day of nomination, were brought up at the Borough Court, and held to bail to appear. Many of the persons injured are in the infirmary, and it is uncertain how their injuries may turn out. Six or seven men were also brought up for personating voters. Two or three were discharged, and the rest were held to bail to appear on another day. On Friday evening th• following telegram was received from Mr. Forster, M.P., who during the day had been made acquainted with the state of the poll at intervals :—" Mr. W. E. Forster to the chairman of Mr. Miall's committee. My most hearty congratulations and thanks to the 9,000 for the colleague they have sent me." An address has been issued by Mr. Miall, M.P., thanking the electors in wasm terms for the result. The hen. gentlemen says : " Important questions now before the House of Commons preclude all hope of my coming to Bradford before the approaching debate on the Irish question, when I shall esteem it my happy privilege to return you my thanks in person. Meanwhile, as member for your borough, and as colleague of your universally esteemed senior member, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, let me ask that you allow the excitement of recent election struggles to subside as quickly and as entirely as possible. For my self, whenever I can render service to any of you in my parliamentary capacity, I shall know no difference between supporters and opponents, and by giving earnest and dill gent heed to your local affairs, I trust to make up to you any disadvantage it may be supposed you must sustain from my not being a townsman," ELECTION PETITIO2c The stories told of Blackburn during the general elec tion—stories of intimidation and violent undue influence— do not seem to have been much exaggerated. Managers seem to have used all their influences on either side ; mer were divided, and seemed to have hated one another cor dially, and mills became party ones. In reply to the judge, it was stated that ill-feeling existed among the popu lation generally on account of political differences. Mr. Justice Willes expressed himself surprised and shocked at the statement. He said if such a system prevailed generally in a place there could not be a legal election, and he should have to report upon it. He did not say at present he was prepared to do so. A number of witnesses were called to prove that before the municipal elections in No vember last they were in the employ of Conservative mill owners, and that as they voted for the Liberal candidates at the municipal election they were, when they returned to their work on the following morning, ejected by their fellow-workmen. In one or two instances the witnesses said the masters were present, and when remonstrated with upon the conduct of their work men, replied that they could do nothing, but they told the men to come to work as usual on the following clay. Some of them declined to do so, and became the recipients of a relief fund, established by the working men for such as were ejected for maintaining their Liberal principles until they could obtain work elsewhere. The judge said it was his impression ti at under the circu lar which had been put in on the previous day all the mill owners, managers, and overloolzers in tile mills, were agents, and the candidates would be responsible for any illegal acts they committed. The respondents, Messrs. fiornby and Fielders reply that the municipal and parlia mentary elections were entirely distinct. In all the mills there was a considerable amount of clanship, and that at the last municipal election there was a strong feeling of partisan ship and a considerable amount of excitement. The munici pal elections were decided by personal feeling, whilst in the parliamentary election there was comparatively no personal feeling excited, and the decision was founded upon political principles. There were about sixty or seventy mills altogether in the borough, employing 35,000 operatives, and he should shew that in twenty-nine of the Conserva tive mills not a single person was forced out of employ ment on account of his political principles or votes. There was not a single instance of intimidation, or of turning a workman away for the vote he gave at the election of parliamentary representatives. The sitting members protested as strongly as any men could protest against any system of intimidation, and they had endeavoured to prevent any single act occurring that could in any way affect the election. At Hereford the petitioners re:y in some measure upon various cases of treating, but they seem in cases to have found out mares' rests. Mr. Jol,n Ilarrison, timber merchant, was examined at some length as to the circumstances ender w b:ch lie gave a breakfast at his house at Holretr on the morning , of the poll. He stated that he was married on the 25th August, on which occasion a presentation was made to him by his men, and a brooch to his wife by the railway men with whom he was connected in business. On his return home on the 14th September he intimated his intention to give the men a feast in return for their present. 'there was nothing to prevent his giving the feast before November 17, but he fixed that day because he knew it would te an idle day in Hereford. He told the men they might bring a few friends with them. He expected about 40, but 70 or thereabouts came. Beef and mutton, brandy, rum, and half-a-dozen of wine were supplied for the feast. Among the guests three voted for the Conservatives. On his oath bedeclared that the breakfast was not given to influence voters to vote for Clive and Wyllie. He was a Liberal, but was not on the Liberal committee, and only attended at the committee room on one or two occasions for the purpose of making some inquiries. Ile gave Edwards, the cleric to the Liberal committee, a list of his men for him to see who were voters, but he (witness) did not use it for canvassing. The book had been destroyed some time ago with other waste paper. The municipal an l parlia• mentary elections at Hereford, as well as at Black burn, seem to have been mixed up. Mr. W. Russell, a member of the town council, said he gave a treat to the burgesses in acknowledgment of their having elected him three days previously to the council. After the first two gallons bad been served a complaint was made that the beer was bad, and he then ordered some gin —three quarts. It was, he said, a custom in Hereford to pay burgesses at municipal elections a day's pay on voting, and be elk! so on the last occasion when he was returned for the Mon mouth ward. He paid between and £5. There was no actual contest. After the meeting of Clive and Wyllie's friends at the Greyhound Dog, on the sth November, some of the burgesses and their wives asked him to stand treat, and he did so. Was a " captain" of the district. The two bills brought in by Mr. Buxton and Mr. Hughes, ono for the creation of a Corporation of London, the other to provide fcr the establishment of municipal corpora tions within the metropolis, have just been published. The first constitutes the whole metropolis " the County of London," and makes the Corporation of the City of London " the Corporation of London." The second divides the metropolis into municipal boroughs. CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council on Saturday there were present—the Right Hon. W. E, Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. The stipendiary magistrate at Hull has had a case before him which made patent the fact that there are more hippophagists amongst us than most people are aware of. A butcher was recently detected removing from a knacker's premises a sack full of dainty morsels of horseflesh, which he intended to work up into " polonies." He declared he purchased the meat for beef, but this the knacker denied, and blurted out the statement that he held a commission to supply the " polony man" with three dead horses per week, and that once he added to the bargain a large dead dog. He was sent for trial. THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN NOVEL.—The Modern English novel, which is in everybody's hands now. a-days ; which gives employment to crowds of workpeople, almost qualifying itself to rank amongst the great indus tries of the day ; which keeps paper-mills going, and printing-machines, and has its own army of dependents and retainers, as if it were cotton or capital--the English novel, we say, arose not with any gush, as from a foun tain, but in a certain serene pellucid pool, where a group of pretty, smiling, eighteen-century faces, with elaborate "heads," and powder and patches, were wont to mirror themselves in the middle of George ll.'s reign ; while Pope was singing his melodious couplets, and Chester. field writing his wonderful letters, anal Auson fighting with the winds and seas, and Prince Charlie planning the '45. From all the confused events of which the world . was full—bewildering destruction of the old, still more bewildering formation of the new—the spectator turns aside into the quaintest homely - quiet, the most domestic, least emotional, of all household scenes, and there finds Samuel Richardson, a good printer, a comfortable, affec tionate, fatherly tradesman, kind to everybodyabout him, and very much applauded by his admiring friends, but with no special marks of genius that any one can see.— IllaclarooW.s 411acazine. m • , p.ppz,-,-ii , ;ll-1 , , /0.1• ) 111 t 4 IV HER AIIAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 14• The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise , and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentle men in waiting, attended Divine service this nlor il. ing in the private chapel. LAMEST INTELL /GINO (REU - ER'S TELEGRA3IS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, March 1 4 . The Inman Roy a l M a il stermer City of Ba . more has arrived here. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, March 1 5 . The North German Lloyd steamer Main, fa ll New York, has arrived short of coals. She briog 6 74 passengers, 46 sacks of mails, and 3,300 Pa ck ' ages of cargo, but no specie. On the 14th, off the Eddystone, she spoke the schooner I'aroqueta fa il Bremen. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, March 15• The Peninsular and ()dental Company's sta ll ship Ceylon, with the above mails, 48 passenge rs ' £1,098 in specie, and 1,191 bales of silk, val ue 110,000 sterling, has arrived here. During h er passage the Ceylon spoke the English ships EP . minondas and Britannia, the barque Flying Sc"'d the schooner Elbe, the brig Demetrius, the steam er Saunders, and seven English war ships standh i g no: th-east. GIBRALTAR, March 9• The British bark Pride of the Wear, front $llll - has put in here, with her foremast sprung and other damages. Exchange on London, 491 to 49!. On P ari* sfr. 21c. THE CAPE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON', March 1 5 . The Union Steampship Co.'s steamer Br iton ' with the Cape Mails due to-day, put into Vig o °II Saturday short of coal, and was to sail on the ev en ing of th e same d ay. She is expected to land the mail at Plymouth on Wednesday. THE BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, March 15. • The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate ( . 3 ° 3 ; pany's steam er L a Pl a t a, C apta i n Hanby'', sil3 at Lisbon on the 13th inst., from the River Plate' bound for A n t werp . Sh e reports the to tal I ° B of the Pacific Company's steamer Santiago, from i Valparaiso to Li verpoo l , i n t h e Stra i ts o f Abge:: lan. Three li ves wen lost. The Alhambra 11 '; arrived here from P ernam b uco, an d rep orts t" the Liverpool and Brazil Company's steamer Sala' din was off Pernambuco on the 15th ultimo. HOMEWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND O S ' TRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, March 1 5 . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera sailed at 10.45 a.m., and the Poonah at 3: 011 yesterday. The former may be expected at Marseilles on th i : 20th, and the latt er a t S ou th amp t on a b o ut the 2 3 instant. FRANCE. The Trans ttlanti c Company's has arrived her e . Sh e b r i ngs 115 . pa N ny A , Z s A s i t u ea E, ine ll r lazh ui l si s. l 13,613,522 f r a n c a i n specie. Her d p a a t s e s s en a g r e e rs l lriel:s Cruz 17th of F e b ruary ; H -- St. avanna, 22 ; an Thomas, 27. BOURSE, March 13.—Three o' c l oc k.—The ru 3rlat closed as follows : ti per Ceut. 6 0 80 End of mouth — I t& F an Fi ve 5....... 55 3 per Cent E 2 .- 7 nd of mout_ 70 85 Mexican Loan •.. r J Credit Mobilier h End of month '2B3 75 Spanish Threes ••• 29 29 -.- Credit Foncie.r 1495 Horne Debt ...... ...- End of month — Deferred ......... RAILWANS. Cash962i Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard 47 8 i64 North of Sp a i n 81 Saragossa Roman POLICE IN TEL LIG EN C 11A- STTToRRENEEbitaTp. - -.0103:u:1'101.a oGea:01; j o g d i d .11E RACH A E R L LB AN O .D RO . L u G Lewis, A M ji, o ., o f Ely-place, attended before Air. 'il l ' . f g t. this morning, and said that he appeared on the Part ° , e , Joseph Haynes, solicitor, of Palac Chambers, St• j°3o3 an application having been made against that gr a t rpe a ; on Saturday before Mr. Knox for a summons, an d r eef of t ( lle . x pz e i w le is a ) pp w li r c o a t t e io t n o hoaavintgulatpp the red in the P r a s he • utterly groundless, and more say that of t selandePr: adoar:oo.o Rachel had charged Mr. Haynes with receiving 'Toes of her money, and the matter was full/ charge . tigated by the Master, who said that the ll at o utter against Mr. Haynes was fiction, groundless. Madame Rachol a had though t Pr lr. to cause similar applications t o b e made en h e ci fo : r ru bli p: Knox, namely, for a summons for wilful perjury wtou to be made at Guildhall and Boer-street' oio tama slander going w o o ) ( M k i r h . r n L o t e t i " i e s e ' c s aa ' object in attending was to Pr eTelit ftohr a teh nd ,u h o a ol d ol t t h ut e d n ie c t o d me to that cou rt ' tor wou ld W °ll. understand Ttayoid-whhoiwtt it t ai a d that he was a su . re the reportersor ii pp ha i p ca p t e i n o o n d , a a n ue d r t w ha h t at b e e had so u one of the parties in that coirt. NIGHT CAB-HORSES.—Henry Newman, keep e r a horse- was charged by th e R o y a l S oc i e ty for the Pre ven not Cruelty pia Animals with working a horse in an 11- ti°n of state. Joseph Dobie, officer of the Royal Society for the F r ; v ention of Cruelty to Animals, proved seeing the attached to a night cab. The horse had broken knee:, a b n la d ck w e a n s e y d tro,h o tva v i e li i t s t u o anifid h t i d fo e r th w e ca s .k or . es, it could scar cel y sten Mr. Tho supposed such a horse Was Selected for night work. The officer said it was. wa O s t as he l r ee evidence w c •a a s b, gainvdent,hsahtohweinhgad not the defend rangy Mr. Tyrwhitt sa id it was c l ear that such arthittntlY° as nsr ibo ee; fit to be trusted with a horse, and also that the horse /I not fit for work, and he should fine him 20s. ATTEMPTED SUICIDEWES T M IN IN A S TrEotcs C ELL E b e eu Andrews, a strong, hearty young woman, who has it b for years leading a most depraved life, was charge d 1 t c . 0 6 tboaisntgrarnigotleouhserasnedlfdinisothrdeeprloyl,icaencdefau.rther with attelriP-1 d the A policeman stated that on Saturday night he foun vita defendant brawling in Queen-street, Chelsea. s b o _, to o desired to desist and to go away, but refused, and - then taken into custody. A reserve man at the police station said that soul° after the def e ndant h a d be e n locked up he was attrsete, bi the cell by cries for assistance , and then was inforraea ict another woman that she had -attempted to commit sut,ielzael; Witness e ntered the cell and found her lying dosvol bo ,t in the face from strangulation. She had tig htl y tied vl.OlO appeared to be a garter round her throat. After 00 she ll r r e . c S o e v l e fe r — ed D . id she say anything.tha Witness She said she was sorry I had conic, and , t he !f she did not strangle herself in the con she would la prison. Defeudant—And so I will,. 00 3 Mr. Selll shall require you to find bail for Y ou ' behaviour for the next throe months. ; n do' Defondant, with the mos t shoc ki ng imprecations'd ared she had made up her mind to destroy ber6o, would. THAMES. ; f a Of BAD WIVES.— Elizab e th Lee, aged 50, the W- h e, greengrocer, of No. 298, Cable-street, St. George"/1r Solom houso assault Botl faces drinks plaine br, alb him a wound knock( second down 1 who w beaten bruise: The Mrs. been a her hu: goof h often f her ho for sor habits, Lest n active. perien main 1 prices the do house under ACCI FrencL Con count, New? £I,OOC and £,Z per Ce Indi ditto Cent., per Ce In t presen 55f to . Span is 15 to 1 tiue, Three Vitehsl le G rl r i3 l e: l at 4 l] 108 i ; to 151 Great I Bright( to 17 ; Metrop North York, ! Eastert Arne: 1865, 8 Erie, 2, Great I Seven 1 The Charter to i ; I Stock, Natioul 44 45 ; 37 i ; A sui from th The £104,1( A ge parry (I receive The pation next of appears holders, sent int debentu bearing subserik holders Accoi nation ( effected be seem Co l: p i a s i and she by tbe ( a decree X500,0C is only went, b fiscated holders confirm market that Po, bility of at an er It is Compat the Ifni of Corn In Brist West of Advic Spanish general] about £ Seven pi Rent( rustled tl general earned becemb this sum already a furthe distribu come to The I the failu facturer 20,000 Pension the Hat amount. The 11 a report BLIE.ApelaSi Gla sgow clesignat is under to the s; dieliou 1 to be pe Cior " ICP Ce Dlttof ,Per (Am b p Nutt/ 21 i Do. 6 Aunuitie Lu. 1o.; Do (It( Exc.:hug:l D o Do. 'auk of ] • acl Pric