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Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. :71a.rke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Burton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude pith HUE AND DYE. OTAL AMPHITEIEA fRE AND CIRCUS HOLBORN Positively t e Last Week but One of the Equestrian Season.-- Last appearances of the Won.erful PERFORMING HORSES. The S4LAMANDER HORSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the .metropolis. No other Theatre in I ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, amusem.nt, and excitement The magnificent stud of FIFTY Pi , RFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 2Gth of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formauces Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. LOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. ‘_A Selo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama. MINNIE : or, Leonard's Love: Miss L 3 dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; Messrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and T. Clarke. At 9,A BREACH OF PROMF , P. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and T. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. OY A L C II I-t GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET, Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. FASTER NOVALTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. Mr. harry Leslie the celebrated American Comedian, appears nightly. 'Pro nounced by the Press to be the genuine sensation, and the only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week: CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH -S. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Boxes, £2 28.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. _ Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW N 131310. DOG LIC ENSES.—CA UT lON. MITE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is required forthwith to take out a new License. The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings. The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five Pounds. A License is not transferable from one person to another. 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THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at IL JAMES SPEEDY'S, “The WeLington," Wellington-street, Strand. W II O'S GRAING E R? LICENSED VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, StrEpßEßD•s_Bus,. he SPORTI• EDITIO N of "THE SUN " can be seen at GR A INGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight J'cl ack. rHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. AN:O7 4f• ,)qt LOADOLV, FRIDAY; APRIL 16, 1869. The discussion provoked last evening upon the Irish Church Bill by Mr. NEWDEGATE was alternately dull and uproarious, tedious and effervescent, gran diloquent and ludicrously common-place, often utterly nonsensical and, for the most part, weari some beyond all possible endurance. The result was a majority more overwhelming than any that has yet pronounced in favour of the immediate disesta blishment of the Irish Church. Instead of support ing the member for North Warwickshire's proposi tion, for the bill being committed that day six months, or, in other words, for its being altogether shelved the House by a clear majority of 126, out of a total of 589 members, Speaker and Tellers included, decided upon the course of legislation in the matter being no longer, in this frivolous and preposterous way, inter rupted. An air of the ridiculous was imparted from lb : the the grandiose t ni s dn e i t c t , the sh o ies znseapntin idiscussionecrhriarli which ;h o o f : e t hs h , e i‘ti b or i . l a l last Nn ntDnEGe evening AtThEe determinationwith stand d this sacrilegious of himself onslaught and his u followerspon the Establishment in Ireland by the Leaders i mighty t i h n i n his l i k way e f e o e f i i s n a g y s i o n f g a this, thatmoamo ng g JESTY'S Government. He wasso f t t" - kr IA EIVDEGATE only the more i,rototewstiatnht an a s insteadhisi ca 1 hearers, ye f abo h r i feegrrehsxlN, andlA i i A t r . effectually appealed to their sense of the ludicrous ; and instead of eliciting cheers called forth occasional shouts of laughter. For one nour auo _ ...... Loy ,i. 00-osoo ........_____ - __ _ 1 Warwickshire tru m p e t e d f ort h hi s ' indignant pro tests against the measure with the lungs of the BOANERGES. By a fantastic contrast thegentle tones of the gallant Colonel, the memberfor Dungannon, gave out with an, if possible, droller effect, still, the hope less cry of No Surrender. Then followed the mem ber for Kirkcaldy with his previously baulked protest in regard to the compensation proposed for Maynooth College. This interpolated harangue, the House could hardly muster patience enough to even affect a disposition to tolerate. The House for a while became, asthephrase is, as tumultuous as a Bear- garden. It was a complication of noises, the hub bub excited by M r . A YTOUN ' S speec h, amoun ti ng t o what is termed on the other side of the Channel a charivari. The tumult at last became simply intolerable. And having been still further enhanced by the uncalled for interposition of the mem bers for Fermanagh and Shoreham, who were both of them sharply rep.imanded by the Speaker as distinctly out of order—the Bar had eventually to be cleared, at a most unusual mandate from the chair, by the noble lord the Sergeant-at-Arms. The continuation of the debate assumed afterwards something like a show of decorum up to the taking of the division. Fre quently-- there is no doubt of it—with a sense of tediousness amounting to absolute desolation. A maiden speech, that would have otherwise been a success, was delivered at a great deal too much length, though with considerable fluency and self-possession, by Mr. 'lola - , the newly elected member for North-East Lancashire. So vio lently was Mr. GP.EENE, the member for Bury St. Edmunds, opposed to the innovation sketched out by the Government Bill, that in a sort of desperation, as one may say, he frantically talked of the necessity for another General Election being passed through be fore the matter under discussion were finally de cided. The fanatical member for Peterborough indulged himself with unmeasured denunciations of Maynooth, what though himself, as a Liberal repre sentative, numbered among the supporters of Mr. GLADSTONE . S measure for the disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Inland. A worthy contempo rary of Mr. WHALLEY, to wit Mr. CHARLEY, the member for Salford endeavoured immediately after wards in what appeared to be, as one may say, a foreshortened speech to fulfil his own extra Parlia mentary announcement, that he would himself carry retribution home to Mr. GLADSTONE in the sight and hearing of the assembled House of Commons. Somehow in spite of all this Mr. GLADSTONE seems to have weathered the storm of the member for Sal ford's wrath just as Mr. DISRAELI has failed to be extinguished by the pitiless influence of the new member for the city of Ox ford, Mr. VERNON HARCOURT, who Was supposed by some people to have entered the House of Com mons for the express purpos . e of sweeping out of view the political existence of the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. About the only rational speech last evening against the bill was the one de livered by the noble Iris c wc o oa u us 7 de t i , e h oa e nri m iyy e t rr n ee b tvo e i r r vti f n o ug r p L ow i n v h e e r n t thoseh pool,e but the member f f o o r rc c e o o le f r f a o i l n l e y who groaned under the infliction of his speech by comparing theircries of " Oh, oh," to the like monosyl lables uttered years ago in Vauxhall-gardens on the soaring and explosion of the fireworks. It was with a profound sense of relief that the House became aware at last that Mr. GLADSTONE had risen to his feet for the purpose of rapidly winding up a singu larly discursive and perfunctory discussion upon a measure about the eventual passing of which through Committee, orindeed through the house,there are not entertained seriously two opinions. Mr. DISRAELI'S observations were still briefer than those of the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition plainly enough intimating his preparedness for a result on the approaching division even worse than that arrived at through the division on the second reading. An anticipation fully justified by the clear majority last night of 126 on the side of the Go vernment. IN interesting scene was witnessed on Tuesday at the London Terminus of the Midland Railway. Three hundred and twenty-seven men, women, and children, London artisans, labourers, and their fami lies quitted a capital which can furnish them no subsistence, and started on the journey to Canada. Their passages will be paid, they will not be landed penniless, and everything has been provided to give them a fair start in the labour market of the New World. The benevolent ladies and gentlemen who are trying this experiment are applying a practical remedy to a practical evil. The East-end of London has for some time past been under a cloud. For the idle and the drunken there is no hope, either in the metropolis, in Canada, or elsewhere; but un doubtedly many thousands of the vast population inhabiting the Tower Hamlets have suffered from sheer want of employment, The late commercial crisis injuriously affected the labour market. More than this, the industry of East London has for some time been in process of decay. It was only in the nature of things that the shipbuilding and some of the manufactures of the Tower Hamlets should dis appear from a district where coal is very dear, and flourish only where the staple commodity is cheap. The decline of manufacturing industry in East London has of late been accelerated by strikes, collapse in the money market, and the like ; but a natural law beyond human control would have brought it to pass in the end. A large surplus population, desirous of work, but unable to find it, has been thrown on the poor„rates. It is with this good labour in the wrong place, and not with paupers proper, that the emigration scheme proposes to deal. The' movement is popular in East London. It is not un natural that the honest poor should prefer to live in a strange land to starving in the mother country; and hence the applicationa f9r a passage to the WW have greatly exceecletthe number at the disposal of the committee.. Glad, we - are told, have the poor seized the opportunitand joyfully have they left their overcrowded col try for a land where there is, at least, hope for all. There is reason to I believe that these charitable efforts will prove bericial, because the committee have carefully attendi to the cardinal condition of success. Much ofthe pauperism in England is owing solely want of work, and for this portion c the poor emigration is the best resource. IT, as we have previously seen, a great deal of poverr is to be attributed to other causes. And as all >auperism is not the effect of scarcity of labour, so a pauperism is not to be got rid of by emigration. Thre is no probability that a man whose failure is owing o his own vices will thrive in a colony. There is no lason why lie should be trans ferred to a young coutry because he is an incum brance here. It is nither just nor practicable to land our vagabonds, ciluinals, idlers, and drunkards on the other side o the Atlantic because we find them a sore brden in England. Chari table emigration, n. order to do good, must be confined to workmen, whether skilled or unskilled, who have suffered from causes over which they have n) control. The emigrants who left their old holies on Tuesday, and others who have preced e d them, h ave b een judi ciously selected on leis principle. Applications from really unfortuna.D working-class families only were considered ; and when a selection had to be made, the best were elosen. Canada, in all proba bility, will receive a body of workmen who will creditably fill some of the many places which are now vacant. Conducted on this principle, charitable emigration cannot fail to be useful, and may be advan tageously extended. When Rupert's Land is joined to the Canadian Dominion the emigrant will find a . . . not much more distant than Canada, and surpasses it in other respects; for whereas Canada is mostly forest land, which must be cleared, the Fertile Belt• consists largely of soil which is now waiting for the husbandman. Australia, too, may receive some attention. The great distance of this colony is a serious objection ; but labour is sadly needed there and the reward ought to be proportionate, A NEW SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND. * The increasing importance or shorthand as a practical art is abundantly shewn Ly the multiplication of books designed to teach it. Shorthand has for some time past ceased to be a purely Professional acquirement. As a means of recording the words of a speaker, whether for newspaper or other prrposes, a vastly' abbreviated mode of writing has long been indispensable. But the usefulness of the art is now being extended to the ordinary purposes of life ; it is becoming more and more an aid to the student or the literary man. No one who is much in the habit of writing can fail to observe the serious inconvenience arising from the disparity between the timerequired to invest thou g ht with the form of language, and the much longer period required to transform sounds into written characters. To the professional reporter some means of reducing this difference is absolutely necessary, but to the general community the art of shorthand cannot fail to prove of the highest utility. Th e a d vanta ins to be derived from the power of recording sPee:h as fast as it is uttered are palpable. But the art is difficult. Shorthand is nothing more than a means of eapressing the complicated letters of the alphabet in the simplest characters, such as strokes and curves. These simple letters are joined together in the same way as th e ordinary manuscript characters. Much practice is of coarse required before the hand can be trained to trace these simple letters as naturally as the familiar combinations of hooks and curves. But the chief di%culty is to decipher the abbre viated writing after it has once been committed to paper. The liability to error is great. If, in the hurry of writing, a character which should be upright is sloped at an angle, it represents something- quite different. If a dot be accidentally converted into a dash, the result is the same. Everybody has read the amusing account of David Copperfield's experience as a shorthand writer who could not read his not es ; and instances of laughable blunders would fill a volume. The great aim of a shorthand system should be to ensurelegibility without making the characters so complex as to prevent rapid writing. This is the object of Mr. Young's new system, and there can be no doubt that so much yet remains to be done in this direc tion that no apology can be needed for the appearance of another elementary work. Mr. Young does not aim sr ecially at rapid writing ; indeed, his system may have to yield the palm on this score to one or two others. Per fect legibility is Mr. Young's watchword, and it is one which must sound grateful to all who have practically realised the miseries of unreadable stenography. In one or two systems of late years the principle of thick and thin characters has been adopted, a stroke representing one letter when thin and another when thick. But this distinction is very difficult to keep up in practice ; stroke which should be thin very often becomes thick, and rice versci. Mr. Young has rejected this principle, and has devised his characters regardless of their thickness. This, though it reduces the avilable number of strokes, and ren. ders the sign for the less common letters more complicated, is yet a decided gain on the score of legibility, Mr. Young's system possesses another grea t mer i t, one which we have long thought indispensable to perfect shorthand writing, but which has never, to our knowl e d ge, been adopted before. The in ven t or o f " Readable Shorthand " has so devised his vowel symbols that they can be written con tinuously with the consonants. The general principle has been to express the vowels by means of dots, which are- placed side by side with the consonants. Each vow e l th us necess i ta ted a lifti ng of th e pen, and if, as was generally th e case , many were omitted, th e leg ibi l i ty of the writin g b ecame seriously impaired. B y joining his vowels to the consonants gr. Young saves time, increases legibility, and y e t i s a bl e to omit th e vowels at pleasure. Dots are u se d on l y to express entir e words, when the brevity of the symbol compensates for the lifting of the pen. By reserving his dots for complete words, Mr. Young secures a very full assortment of phraseograms. Besides the dot words, every letter represents a word also, so that abundant facilities for contraction are provided. Affixes and suffixes receive ample attention. Mr. Young' s is a stenographic system ; that is, he follows the English alphabet exactly as it stands, whilst phonographic shorthand is based on the prin c ipl e o f g i ving every ar ti cu l ate sound a separate symbol. It i s a decided improvement on many previous systems in resp ec t o f l eg ibility ; a n d, though one or two swifter modes o f wr i t i ng might be n amed, there is no reason to app re h en d that M r . Young's system is lacking in this particular. Greater legibility is well worth having at the cost of a little speed. --------_______, " " Read a bl e Sh orthand, Self-taught.„ BY Murdo Young. London; E. Stanford, Charing-cross. THE LORD CHANCELLORS I?.ECEPTION. Thursday being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Hatherley), according to the usual custom, gave a breakfast at his private residence to the Judges, Queen's Counsel, and Serjeants, previous to the opening of the different equity and common law courts. Afterwards the judges went in procession to Westmin ster Hall, the time occupied in the journey being much shorter than usual, as the house of the Lord Chancellor is in Great George-street, in the immediate neighbour. hood of the courts. The hall Was filled with people who had assembled to witness the judges pass along in their full robes, and accompanied by their different officers and attendants. Nearly all the judges, both in law and equity, Were present, and amongst the other gentlemen who assem. bled, some of the earliest arrivals were Mr. Huddleston, Q.C. ; the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals ; the Hon. G. Denman, Q.C., M.P. ; Sir J. Karslake, Q.C. ; Mr. K ars . lake, Q.C. ; Mr. Jesse], Q. 0., Mr. H. Palmer, Q. 0,, M.P.; Serjeant Payne, Dr. Deane, Sir Travers Twiss, Mr, Staveley Hill, Q.C., M.p , ; Sir Richard Baggan a y, Q.C. ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C. ; Dr. Stephens ; Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., M.P. ; AL.. T. Chambers, Q.C., bi.P. ; Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., &c. Dr. Petermann, of Gotha , has been informed that two English expeditions will leave during the pressnt year for the Polar regions. The Blackburn Standard states that the cost of the recent Parliamentary elections to the ratepayers of Black burn will amount to £1,119. This amount is exclusive of the cost to the candidates, and of the election petition, and the whole of the above amount will have to be chargeable to the rates ! Thu Mayor (Mr. John Smith) was put to an expense of £2OO in entertaining Mr. Justice Wiles.. Many parts of the North of England were visited on Wednesday with a thunderstorm of unusual severity. Early in the day it broke over the neighbourhood of Manchester, and in the afternoon and evening Huddersfield, Leeds, and the intervening and surrounding districts were similarly visited. At Burton Salmon, between Leeds and York, the lightning struck and did great dama g e to two 414130 the =Mt , Phi NA Mimed Ohark. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, PARIS, THURSDAY, April 15. The Corps Legislatif has had an Algerian day. M. Jules Favre proposed an amendment to promote the sub division of property amongst the natives as a means of guarding against famine. This is considered by the best authorities to be indispensible to the prosperity of the colony. Amongst the Kabyles property is subdivided to an indefinite extent, and the effect is remarkable. Whilst the Arabs are sluggish, indo lent, and indifferent, the Kabyles are manly, intelligent, and active. Whilst the former suffer dreadfully from famine after a deficient harvest, the energy of the latter preserves them from the worst consequences of scarcity. The tenure of land, and not native peculiarities, are held to be the cause of this difference. The Algerian Chamber of Commerce hag declared that the non-subdivision of property is the real cause of the retrograde march of the Arabs and of the dis tress in the country. But Marshal Niel thinks differently. He believes that the miserable failure of the Arabs and the success of the Kabyles is entirely owing to differences of race. The inhabitants of Kabylia differ entirely from the Arabs in manners and physical constitution. Amongst the latter woman is a slave ; with the former she holds ler place and authority in the tribe. The Kabyles cultivate the soil and live on their own resources; their habits more nearly resemble those of Frenchmen, and this was the cause why they did not suffer from the famine. This is all very well ; but it seems to me that the best plan is not to refuse the Arab a better land tenure because he is inferior to the Kabyle, but to grant a better land tenure, and thus leave him a fair chance to equal the Kabyle. So thought a great many deputies. The division which followed, like some others of late, was remarkable for a large defection of Imperialists. The Government got 129 votes, but:the Opposition presented an unusuallyforrnidable minority of 80. Truly the palmy days of Imperialism— majorities of two or three hundred, and minorities of a score—are passing away. Forty members of the Right voted with the Left. It seems, therefore, that the 400,000 Arabs Ni f iePrOitie GovernMentfogmkave caused forty sup cessary in Algeria. The Libertd puts the followin ro bi If ten thousand Arabs killed by hunger convert one deputy, how many must be killed before the Corps L6gislatif presents a majority in favour of a good system of colonial government? M. Gassaud, a merchant of Nice, has become bankrupt and fled. His liabilities would be nothing in England, but they are deemed somewhat considerable in France. The total is only £72,000. THE VOLUNTEER CAPITATION GRANT. Mr. Cardwell's answer to the memorial presented last month by Lord Elcho in:the name of a number of peers and members of Parliament who are volunteers on the subject of the capitation grant is printed among the parliamentary papers issued this morning. It is as follows:—" War Office, March 17, 1863.—My Lord, —I am d'r.•cted by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d inst., enclosing a memorial on the sub ject of the capitation grant of the volunteer force, agreed to . at a meeting of volunteer peers and members of Parliament, and 1 am to request that you will have the goodness to in form the memorialists that the question, whether any increase of the present grant ought to be asked for from Parliament, shall receive the careful con sideration of her Majesty's Government, in connection with the question, which is now also receiving their serious at. tention, as to what measures it may be expedient to take for the better organisation of the reserve force as a suppo r t in time of emergency to the regular forces of her Majesty. --4 have, dc. (signed) NORTUBROOK.—Tho Lord Elcho." MANNERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. A correspondent who dates from the House of Com monP, and signs himself "A Bloated Aristocrat," sends the following letter :-1 read with great interest yes terday your ingenious article on "Manners in England and America." It pleased me so much that I shall take care to send a copy of it to a gentleman, a member of the House of Commons, who was lately seen, in the reading-room of that assembly, to take his hoots off preliminary to the enjoyment of his newspaper. Lounging in one chair, with his feet reposing in their stockings upon another, he made in the sunshine a very striking if not quite an agreeable figure. To be suro, Tuesday was a very warm day; but that, I venture to think, is no excuse for this particular breach of good manners. Sir, pray print my letter as a hint to the gentle man in question ; otherwise, when the dog days come in, he may be encouraged to strip himself still further—and that would really be offensive. Besides, bad manners are contagious, even (though you might not think it) in so august au atmosphere as ours. -0.-- The Paris correspondent of the Post has obtained an interesting document. The mandarins in Paris are collecting valuable information, and being men of no ordinary intelligence, it is curious and interesting to hear their remarks cn what they see around them. Mr. and Mrs. Burlingame and the natives of the Chinese mission have given a grand ball, at which what is called " all Paris" assembled. One of the mandarins has written home an account of this fete, and the correspondent has been favoured with a translation of the hieroglyphics, and is permitted to publish the same. Some of the facts and objects conveyed were drawings, the basis of the language, the origin of those horizontal and perpendicular lines with which we barbarians arc made familiar by tea chests. The l4ter commences :—" To my honoured and well-loving brother at Pekin, from his affectionate Te-to-Tum,--My thoughts are borne tracings. g s and ße flighttten n w o i N t v h I w i s n e g n s d a n y d o u a r s e o o n . o i e n sta sheetsnt 13 , t o a f k i N n v g r happy ! how shall I begin ? Our mission, all of us, have been well received by the powerful Emperor, by the Empress, by the mandarins of the bamboo stick or Government." The eating characteristics of the French nation first came under criticism. "We have dined," he says, " at their tables, where the stomach is expected to receive with pleasure some thirty different objects of food, and perhaps ten different liquids. The French and other foreigners eat until they feel very uncomfortable, and require much medicine drugs, as may be seen by the many chemists' shops of this city. They have the same capacity as our pigs. Had you been here the other night and observed how these people rudelyscrambled for the food at the supper table when we gave our fête ! They put their hands violently on the dishes and disputed with each other most roughly." This leads to some remarks on European manners. "The civilisation of these Chris tians is far behind ours in manners. We shall have to teach ' the most polite people of the world,' the French, the very elements of good breeding ; we shall also have to correct their vanity and selfishness. I have witnessed much rudeness at the palace of the Tein-tsye, or Emperor's home, where balls and suppers are given also. Our rooms would permit 500 men and women to circulate with ease, but we invited 2,000, because to make fashionable people in Paris happy you must make them uncomfortable by crowding them thickly. They do not wear fans, and look hot and sulky ; this originates, I think, in their wearing light boots, and gluttony. The men generally are very ignorant. The women look at each other with envy and jealousy. The best -mannered people are the waiters and the servants ; the best dressed people the footmen. Heaven forbid that we should import any French social habits." The women, also, and the marriage system, come in for great denunciation. "Oh ! if you had seen the women at our ball. They came half undressed ; that is to say, the upper part of the body was wholly exposed, but they are jealous of shewing their feet, and seem to desire to hide the floor also, as each woman drags about with her a long robe, on which it is not etiquette to place your shoe, Their eyes are painted round (not all of them), and they use colouring for the lips and a pearl powder for various exposed sections of the frame. They purchase the hair of the dead, and artists work it into various designs; then the women put it on their heads with flowers; and yet they are not a dirty people. The high caste women are allowed every license. At our kte they were clasped round the waist by men they knew not, and danced with painful vigour, for it was hot. These females go about the streets alone, and at the age of 15 have lost all modesty. The immorality of the men is deplorable. Whereas we have the one mother wife and the two or three `travelling wives,' these French have no limited number of wit es. With us all the wives live together, but the Frenchman's wives live in different houses, thus causing great immorality and expense. Society is a puzzle you can never put together and look at as a whole. The travelling wives get all the jewels and best things," Th e religion is criticised. " The religion of the Christians is mainly used for form's sake ; few believe in its divinity in the mandarin class, but no one dares express their infidelity. Why should not their missionaries remain at home and convert their own people. Never, I hope, shall we import English and French commercial immorality. Here great banking mandarins combine and get together millions from the pockets of the people. They then make the company bankrupt, and retire with their riches without the bamboo correction. These robbers are at Courts, wearing the Legion of Honour. Here in England the small thief alone is punished. We have very little to learn from the barbarians of Europe excepting their mechanical inventions. God forbid that we should import their manners and customs. They have much to learn from us, especially in manners. I must finish my written speech by telling you this civilisation is now mainly en gaged in inventing warlike instruments, which will enable people to kill each other to extermination. Unhappy men ! why are you not satisfied with frightening each other ?" won On Tuesday it became widely known in Birming ham that Mr. George Solomon, who has carried on business as George Solomon and Sons, 61, Constitution-hill, in that city, had absconded. Late last Friday ho was released from War. wick Gaol, where ho had been confined for debt, and it is believed that he sailed on Saturday from Liverpool fcr Ame rica. A large number of forged bills manufactured by Solo man have been put into circulation, to the amount, it is be lieved, of at least £1,500 or £2,000. The forgeries are on several well-known Birmingham firms, thelogitkingpri4- - • jr,„lhrinultiwak, THE YACHT RACE.—The New York Herald, which writes with some authority on yachting matters, has some comments on the hitch which has occurred in the proposed Anglo-American yacht race across the Atlantic. The point in dispute is this : By New York measurement the Dauntless, which is to compete with Mr. Ashbury's yacht, is about the same tonnage as the Cambria, whereas by Thames measurement she is double the size. Mr. Ash bury, taking the measurement of his own country, is therefore called upon to compete with a vessel which he believes to be heavier in tonnage than his own. The two modes of measurement ought to be equalised, but this cannot be done in time for the proposed race, and Mr. Ashbury has referred the whole dispute to the. arbitrament of the yacht congress. The Herald—in other ds, Mr. Bennett —admits that Mr. Ashbury puts Imself handsomely in the attitude of a man who desires only fair play." At the same time it warns American yachtsmen not to expect easy victories this summer o ver their English cousins. The English yacht is built on fine lines, while the American yacht is broad and avoids depth. The writer observes that both models may have been sug gested by different waters and different winds. " May not our model be the best in our own broad rivers, or in the long sweep of the ocean, and the English model beet in such chopping seas as the Channel?" The forthcowiDg C- 2 ggita _ll4 P9X414 #49IY light Qll t aunt/stn. TIIIE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at SMITH'S "Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. R. 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THE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN," giving all the SPORTIG NEWS of the day, may be seen at .TEM Y 311 NTON'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ( 2 ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tars Evssrfcci, at 7. THE GIRLS 0F THE PERIOD. At 7.45 HAMLET: Mr. T. C. Ki ng; M r. R y d er, Miss Heath, and Mrs. H. Vandenhoff. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. This kv-ENING EASY SHAVING: Messrs:Rogers. Clark, Messrs. Sothern, Chipp endale. &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, Gordon, Whit e; Mi R9 Fanny Wright. &c. Afier which, HOME: &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. Al r Sothern. Concluding with MALE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. CorameneA at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. This EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK : Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Ros© Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPH-E. THIS EVENING ; at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO 8. CBL MBERWELL to ACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. 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Montagne, ddison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Bnekingham White. Miss Addison, and Miss V arie "Wilton. After which, A WINNING _17.1 RU. And INTRIO TIE. ROTAL AIsIRIIITITEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENTNG, the Groat Ca rre T roupe and magnificent Stud - also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &0., and the Salamander Hots°, crIRTSTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every I , Tight, at 8 N7ednesdays and t'aturdays, at :3 .and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tats EVENTNG, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL 61111ISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Eztraraginza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box_ofa c , open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex. r"cept Sundays). ' Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d, Children tUidU tllreire? R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of After " THIS EVENING. TWICE " KILLED. Dark. After which, Dion Boucicanit's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK : a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclereq. Concluding' with THE SECRET. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS Op WALES IN TURKEY. Several correspondents write giving some interesting particulars of the visit of the Prince and the Princess of Wales to Constantinople. The arrival of the royal party and their visits to and reception of the Sultan have already been described. Among other incidents it is mentioned that their Royal Highnesses visited the bazaars incognito, and, after purchasing many articles, were surprised to find that the Sultan had given orders that no money should be taken from them, but that he should be cre dited with the full amount. But the great event of the week took place when the British Ambassador :. , nd his lady gave a ball, which will long be remembered in Pera. This is described as a most mag nificent affair. The Embassy itself, we are told, was deco rated with an excellence of taste that could not well have ;;:en surpassed. Outside, a gas illumination of a large Prince of 'Wales's feather, flanked on either side by a crescent, and below by the letters "V. R.," shed a flood of light from the entrance gateway, which, but for the double file of troops and police who lined the way, and for the dense crowd behind them, would have made every stone visible in the street down to Galata-serai. Within, the avenue from the gateway to the palace was lit by huge iron braziers filled with resi nous pinewood, which threw their murky light with most picturesque effect on the crowd of rapidly moving chair bearers, cavasses, and Turkish servants who clustered round the doorway. Here, under a canopy of British bunting, that stretched far across the place, a guard of the Ariadne's marines stood ready to render military honours to to the illustrious guests of the evening, Inside, the glass-roofed quadrangle was draped with British, Ottoman, and other national flags, the royal standard of England and the star and crescent inter changing in friendly folds across the opposite entrance to the court, and above, pendent over all, the personal escutcheon of the ambassador centring a banner of red and white. The floor of the court itself was richly carpeted and bordered all round, except at the doorways, with a thick fringe of flowers and choice exotic plants. The fine band of the Ariadne formed a circle which nearly filled the eastern half of the enclosure, while another strong detachment of her marines and marine '--"- a—L-1 the opposite end lead -1..6 to the grand staircase. Here, again, on the first land ing, and up and all round the corridors, a further abundance of the choicest plants, half hiding the many lamps which lighted up the whole a giorno, perfected the floral decora• tions. A very large company was assembled, including all the diplomatic corps, and Turkish pashas in abundance. The Sultan was received by the Prince and Princess, attended by Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and Aali Pasha. The Sultan gave his arm to her Royal Highness, while the Prince similarly honoured Mrs. Elliot. Passing through the georgeous drawing-rooms, the royal party reached the grand saloon, where a dais had been erected. Leading the Princess to the dais, the Sultan sat down in the centre chair, with the Prince on his right. After a short pause a number of diplomatic presentations were made, and then the dancing began, the Prince opening the ball with the Hon. Mrs. Elliot, with the Ambassador and the Princess for their vis-a-rig. The dancing was kept up till after daylight. The supper which had been given is glowingly described ; and it is j mentioned that up to the last, the Princess still seemed wonderfully fresh, while the Prince was overheard to declare himself "good for another couple of hours at least." A second supper, or rather breakfast, brought the ball to a close, the general company at once separating after their Royal Highnesses retired. The ball was with- out comparison the most . brilliant given within living memory in the Turkish capital. The opera was also intended to be a very grand affair. Preparations—but preparations scarcely worth the two thousand pounds which had been paid for them -had been made to receive them. A royal box had been pre pared expressly for the occasion, and the exterior of the theatre was illuminated with stars and crescents. Illumin- ations, however, extended all along the Grand Rue of Pera, the barracks were lighted up, and soldiers guarded the footway and the entrance. The opera was the " Afri- Caine," but it scarcely deserves mention. A CHINESE MANDARIN IN TILE WORLD OF PARIS, THE CHURCH CONPERENCE AT DUBIO The Dubli n Ch urch Conference oi, Wednesday devo te d itself to criti c i sms of the details of the Irish Church 1311' That which seemed most to grieve the hearts of the speakers was th e great power to be given to the come' stoners. The Earl of Courtown moved a resolution declaring that to give such arbitrary power was tyrannica l and oppres s i ve . H e denounced very energetically tha t part of the bill. The complaint was then put by the seconder of the resolution. " Every communion table anc ll ° plate, every church Bible and Prayer-book, everything t° which any one of them had subscribed, and invested i° Government stock for the purposes of the worship of Ge el ' would be all swept into the net of these commissioner e * The function with which they were invested was to list en to the humble applications of the members of the Church when they came to ask for their own ; and not by 102 but at their own discretion, and without any possibility of appeal, these commissioners shall decide whether they shall give back property or keep it for the Of poses of the Act. He drew their attention specisil to those words, ' the purposes of the Act.' In ever/ other court of justice the judge stood unconcerned between the litigants, but here the litigants were the clisPe e. sessed claimants on the one side, and on the other the judge, who was also a litigant. In every British court of justice, the judge, in deciding rights of property, wa s bound to respect th e pr i nc i ples of Magna Charts, 1)11k these commissioner s were not required to know the law °' the land. And whether they knew the law or not, they were at perfect liberty to trample it under their feet. No court could interfere to prevent or redress th e grievances which their discretion might inflict upon the Church." The LORD PRIMATE did not allow any of these unadvis . able denunciations which have so repeatedly been Oi l. L demned in the mouths of defenders of the churcbi In a speech by M r . J ames S paight, J.P., the Dublin Mai reports : " The memory of the statesman who framed the bill would yet, wherever Protestantism was known, 1)8 , covered with execrat i on, but the principle he had attacked would survive. Mr. Gladstone migh t , succeed—it mi g ht b e d ecreed in the providence °l' God that he ''should—but he would be called upon t 0 account for his conduct to this country. He might leave sad and ghastly monument behind him, but he would be called to his great Account. and it would require no mural tablet to—." The speaker had got so far when the Archbishop of Armagh interfered, declaring that the oh' serva,tions were irrelevant, and hinting to the hon. gentle• man that he might sit down. Then came a Mr. AnthonY Trail], who wanted to add to the resolution a declaration that the Church would refuse to form itself into a governing body to treat with the commissioners. This als° the Archbishop thought could not he well passed by the meeting. It would be taking a leap in the dark, Oa• mately the motion was withdrawn. In the course of the discussion the Primate declared authoritatively that the rumour that the bishops were not going to vote agains t the bill in the House of Lords was untrue. The resolution being passed, another was put to the meeting, that " the proposed plan 0! con pensation was harsh and inequitable, disregarding, as it does, present rights and future pros' netts." Lord 0 RANMORE and BnowNE, in declaiming against tue interference with vested interests, denounced in very strong language the party in favour of the bill. lie characterised it as the democratic party. " The conduct of the Ritualists, who had undertaken to teach Protestants the worst errors of the. Church of Rome, had alienated many► who confounded their teaching with that of 01; Church. These parties unfortunately were united with Socialists,with philosophers, and with the Ultramontane party, who joined them only for this common purpose, the separation of Church and State, and the abrogation of those rights which were guaranteed by every treaty and every bond which could bind taan to man and country to country. These men were led by Mr. Bright, whose avowed object was to carry on our institutions until they became Americanised." In conclusion, the noble lord said that if the Protestants of Ireland were to be brought under foreign domination—if the attempt to submit them to the insulting and degrad ing rule of the Ultramontane clergy were successful 2 —theY would be alienated from their present attachment to the British Crown. In closing the Irish Church Conference on WednesdaY evening, the Archbishop of Dublin said that they might be vanquished, but at least they would not be accomplices in their own overthrow. A CONVENIENT ARRANGEAIENT. —lt is said that two of the most popular Independent ministers in London —the Rev. Dr. Raleigh, of Canonbm y (who is reputed to be in the receipt of a larger professional income than any other Dissenting minister in England), and the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Camden Town —have hit upon a device for mitigating the labour of their preparations for pulpit duty. It is proposed that each should preach in the morning in his own pulpit, and in the evening in that of the other. Thus each preaches twice, but only prepares one sermon. PRINCE LEoroLD.—We have it on the best authority that the state of Prince Leopold's health is by no means so precarious as the public have been led to believe, from the especial care taken in conveying his Royal Highness to Windsor. There had been last week a slight return of the internal hemorrhage from which the Prince had recently suffered, and it was thought there would be less fatigue in a journey by the road than in a broken one by rail. The Prince has not sustained any relapse since his return to Windsor, and is now ergjoying his usual health. —The Lancet. GOVERNMENT .AND THE TELEG.RAT On Thursday Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Pattitionr Mr. Harrison, the referee and arbitrators appointed s et decide up on th e amount that ought to be paid Oct. the Telegraphs Act of last year by the F: d s , master-General to Reuter's Telegram Company (Lilni t met again in one of the committee-rooms of the Sou se b. Commons. Mr. R eu t er i s at present possesse d of Ig marine tele grap h f rom L owestoft to Norder, in IsThrio Germany, whi c h i s ca ll ed the Norderney Cable. I n 400 nection with thi s h e h as en t ere d i nto an arrangemen t w el l l e the Electri c T e l egrap h Company, by virtue of 101°1,4. latter have l a id d own a li ne of telegraphic wires from don to Lowestoft, and are to work them for ten ye a h The chief ques ti on f or t h e arbitrators' to deal with r eg , to the Norder ne y C a bl e, t h e agreement made e by the . Post Office proposing to pay to Reuter twenty ye as purchase of th e amoun t o f t h e net profits derived 11 :zecured to the company from the transmission of messag e through the cable, such profits being based on the O i ; rience o f th e mont h o f M arch of last year, and to PaY3:llO twenty years' purchase o f the profits determined by arbitrators to be the probable profits to be derived by t he company under its contracts with the Indo.EuroP O Telegraph, is cot yet a t wor k, or even ent i re ly e c ii ir 'tructed. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Denison, ( 2 Nix% Scrjeant S argoo d, an d M r. Simpson ap pea rs f for the G overnmen t ; and Mr. Vernon Ilarc°% t ; Q.C., Mr. Pollock, Q.C., and Mr. / 3 ° 1 1; for Rcut er ' s T e l egram Company. Mr. Irs'l.l; fo r the well-k nown e l ectrician, was called this morning '- the purpose of being cross-examined by M r . Denie rj. As engineer of the Direct English-Indian Telegraph parry, he expressed the opinion that when cornraer% confidence was gene ra lly esta bli s h ed in the city shares of the company would be briskly taken u p. If belle' ) the control of the line throughout in his own hands li f e would undertake t o sen d a message through in Weil minutes with ease. T o M r . P o ll ock, the witness sa id th at not only bad not the whole of the shares in his con*/ been sub scr ib e d for, but the deposit money had been paid had been returned. In his opinion J' jv messages per clay would be sen t d a il y b e tween this country and India by the Direct English-Indian line' according to calculations which had been carefully san de. The origtrua aer.oment signed by Mr. Scudamore for th e Post Office, and Mr. Vernon Harcourt for Mr. Rent er ' was formally put in. It was in consequence of this agreement that the opposition of Beater'', Telegram Company before the committee which sat WI year, was withdraw n . Al ong argument was then addreee c`l to the referee and arbitrators by Mr. Denison, to shel f that a sum less than that representing twenty years' Pu t ' chase would be sufficient for the Government to p a y to Reuter's Telegram Company. 1. ~ 1 . .4 STORY FOR THE CREDULOUS. A clever swindler has been rusticating in the neighbour hood of Manchester. In September last he took lodgings in the village of Barton, and contracted a debt of £65 with his landlcrd. He represented himself to be a traveller, said his name was Ford, that he was in the Abergele accident, and that he sustained serious injuries, for which he claimed of the railway company £4,000, but for which they offered him only £1,500. He was attended regularly by a medical man, ordered liberally of the neighbouring tradespeople, got largely into debt, and then took a fine house in one of the best districts of Eccles. He ordered furniture of Messrs. Heaps and Harrison, of Manchester, to the extent of £lOO, and, in answer to their inquiry as to references, he said the bill would be paid on its presentation. Notice was given him that the money would be called for on Tuesday, but on Monday the furni ture was removed and the house deserted, Ford and his wife having absconded without paying the £65 he owed to his previous landlord, the rent of the house he took, the £2OO for the furniture, £6O which he owed his doctor, £lO due to his tailor, and a host of other small accounts. It is rumoured in the neighbourhood that the furniture has been sold to a broker, that Ford has received the £1,500, and that he has left the country.—Manchester Courier. A BRUSH WITII CHINF,SE PIRATES. On January 11th the Algeriue, British ship, on the Chinese station, started in search of a missing French man ot-war. After a long cruise amongst the Chinese islands a boat, with the letter "31" upon it, was found. As "Le Monge" was the name of the vessel, t hi s bo a t was pre sumed to belon g t o h er. Finding a nestof pirates on Tonqua Lieutenant Grey, Commander, attacked them, and burnt f our l arge sunk) boats. Th e nex t d a y h e landed at another place and burned four more snake boats. Nothing more was done until the sth inst., when just as the Algerine was getting under way, with the intention of going to Mace, two Chinese in a small sampan hailed the gun boat, and informed the mandarin that they had only just got away from some pirates, who had captured thoirjunk on the north-east side of the island. The Algerine went round to the spot where the junk was supposed to be, and on arriving there Lieutenant Grey put a party of men into the junk last released, and, proceeding on shore, soon found two jurl:;t, froui which the pirates ran away as soon as the Algerines came up. Leaving a few men in the released junk, Lieut. Grey pursued the fellows up a small creek, but tho water soon became too shoally for him to proceed. The next morning (6th inst.) Lieut. Grey again went up the small creek with his party. They had not proceeded very far, however, before they observed men running before them as if watch ing their movements, and shortly after this the 'pilongs' opened a smart and somewhat heavy fire from the front. Sniders were again called into recognition, and a few of the rascals were seen to tumble over. The pirates, who were evidently fighting for something good, were bold enough to advance on the little band of Algerines, but they soon turned tail when a few more rounds from the Sniders had been administered. The party and Lieutenant Grey then ad vanced up the creek, found some heavily-armed snake boats, which were, of course, destroyed, and the party returned on board the gunboat. This cruise of the Algerine has perhaps been as fruitful as any which she has made. The results have not been accomplished without much severe work and danger. It is stated that Mr. Train, the Liberal member for Caithness, intends to resign his s , at, and that the Liberal party will bring fo-ward either his nephew, Mr. J. Trail), barrister, of London, or Sir J. G. T. Sinclair, of Ulbster. Mrs. Cooke, the lady at Old Trafford, Manchester, who was injured by an explosion of gas in her house, died on Monday. The lady bad lighted a candle to examine a gas pendant where there was an escape, and the explosion was the consequence. At the Salford Assizes on Wednesday Roger Wilding, 43, rate collector, was charged with embezzling at Oldham, .£lO5 155., and the sums of £lOO and £2OO, received by him on account of the corporation of Oldham. The sentence was that the prisoner should be kept to hard labour for 12 calendar months. A further return relating to Maynooth has been published. It shows the account from 1866 to 1 867. OA the 31st of March, 1866, there was a balance of £232. The receipts were £31,356, of which £26,272 is derived from the annual grant and about £5,000 from estate; farm and other sources. T4e paynwAtufrero £BllB7 produce, , leaving A DAlNaggit 1 M 0 N COMMIE: ed2£lol4.sltu : tn;o on:3dt, Co nsols i s ;t9 o p.t i 3:6 B :tur a coknr r ee( ( (: New Three 3 prem. ; Bat Cent., Oct., In the Fc Turki s h Fi ve quotations ar , 1411; haliar Three per Cel 401 ; I ; R ussi Railway Loa: is quoted 1 0 The Danut 1 prem. In the : Great Erster ditto A • Midland, 4;' --all lower. donian, 781 Great E as t er ditto A, 1 08 i 103 4 ; ditto Sheffield, 56J 35 ; North 1024 31; So Dover, 17 f, American coupon ; the Ten -Forty I Shares rernai: changed at 9 Atlantic 7 the Eight pc 3 1 34, and 22/ 224. No transac yesterday. The arran passed off in in the day tb A remarkabl which chang the last forty significant cl part arrange) the easiness ( to be temper ...__ The coma Dover Bill h next. Then among the affair sometl professed to regards a few sense of the any one who professional Tha returt week ended results when Rest PuWe deposit Other deposit On the other Government ties Other securit Notes uuempl The amount being a dec bullion in bo a► decrease 1 preceding r , Subjoined of the Bank and French last year : Bullion .... Reserve ... Notes in el] Rate of disc Consols ... French Rey The folio and bills el( the week er Thurs, Friday Saturd Monde T uesd Wecia, We are ii miles) of ii Atlantic T, the ensuing the United Telegraph pany's wor A consi pared by t pany, arriv bourne. A prosp4 has been amount is 500 d., bee scription burnable a and both the Dutch be receive Monday, i A divid the credit eurance C It is sta commerciz posed red Prussia al blished a Austria, 1 the Unite which eou very mod, Prussia tc high rate via Oste] letters se: Prussian Calais, a' gros ch en of that a to Loath a letter o Loudon I land 6d. 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