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ORYSTAL PALACE.—A Grand Combined V DRAMATIC FETE, PRESENTATION OF PURSES, and magnificent Display of FIREWORKS and SPECIAL ILLUMINATION OF FOUNTAINS, will be given in Aid of tho ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE, On SATURDAY NEXT, July 24, 1869, Which will be honoured with the presence of their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES, and other distinguished Patrons of the College and the Dramatic Art. The arrangements of this greate Fete will be on an en tirely new plan, and will be so arranged as to admit of the grandest aed most pleasing and varied effects. Combin ing varied first-class Dramatic Entertainments with all the principal features of a Great Crystal Palace Fete, it is anticipated that all previous efforts will be surpassed on the present occasion. A RRANGEMENTS. 12. 0 Palace open at ... Dramat'c Entertainment on Great Stage, by all the principal Artistes, commencing at ... 2. 0 Presentation of Purses to the Princess of Wales in aid of the College, on Dais in front of Great Stage ... 0 Imperial Troupe of Japanese on Great Stage 7.30 Military Bands and Promenade until Grand Display of Fireworks and Illumination of Fountains, which will be of unusual gran- DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENTS. 9.30 The Dramatic entertainments will comprise selections from the most favourite plays and pieces playing at the principal theatres. Among these may be named:—." No Thoroughfare," Midsummer Night's Dream," " Sergeant Busfuz's Address." "Military Billy Taylor," "School for Scandal," "Good for Nothing," "Joan of Arc," "Turn of the Tide," " La Grande Duchesse," "Sarah Gamp," J. L. TOOLE'S Lectures and Imitations. Supported by Mdllo. SCHNEIDER (her first and only appearance in England, ex cept at St. James's Theatre), Mrs. STIRLING, Miss AMY SEDGWICK, Mrs. MELLON, Mrs. HERMAN VEZIN, Mrs. FRANK MATTHEWS, Miss E. FARREN, Miss M. OLIVER. Miss C. SAUNDERS, Miss LYDIA. MAITLAND, Miss AMY SHERIDAN, Miss E. BUFTON, Miss CLAIRE, Miss H. HOD SON, &C., &C. ; Messrs. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, C. SANTLEY, J. CLARKS, J. L. TOOLE, BARRY SULLIVAN, E. MATTHEWS, D. JAMES, J. THORNE, J. C. COWPER, W. H. STEPHENS, J. MACLEAN, JOSEPH ELDRED, R. SOUTAR,&C., &C. PRESENTATION OF PURSES In the Centre Transept to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of `Vales. As it is anticipated that very many friends and suppor ters of the Dramatic College will be anxious to evince their appreciation of the gracious patronage bestowed upon this important Fete, it is confidently anticipated by the Council that the number of Ladies presenting purses (of Two Guineas and upwiards) will be very considerable. Each lady may be accompanied by a gentleman at the presentation, and seats in the South Gallery, opposite to the Royal Boxes,will be provided forbearers of purses. To ensure regularity, a ticket of admission to the gallery will be issued to each purse-bearer, on application at the Palace, Exeter Hall, or the office of the Dramatic College, 20, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. MAGNIFICENT FIREWORKS AND SPECIAL ILLUMINATION OF FOUNTAINS. The Ureat Display of Fireworks will be of unusual magnificence. In addition to the Special Features intro duced into the grand display for his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, special devices, appropriate to the occasion, will be exhibited. A grand lighting up of the Terraces and FIERY SALUTE by the largest and most powerful MAGNESIUM LIGHTS yet exhibited. The illumination of the GREAT JET of the GRAND FOUNTAINS, the water playing 240 feet high, combined with the LIGtIT ING up of th WATER TEMPLES while playing, and other novelties. 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HUSBANDS BEWARE. The Stable Scene from Tll E FLYING SCUD. And MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Mr G Delmore, Sir Arthur Stirling, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, ttc. ) 4r i, 7 Gl it tvi.f LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1869. We all seem to be at cross purposes. Her MA JESTY, even, to begin with, when she is most wanted, must needs go off at a tangent as far as she conveniently can from London, at the height of the season, in the midst of this critical juncture, away from 'Windsor Castle, down to Osborne in the Isle of Wight. The Lord Chan cellor, again, a gentle hearted and profoundly religious man, must needs—immediately,beforea most anxious division, upon the result of which the whole political situation is clearly dependent—spring from the woolsack and, losing his temper for once com pletely, indulge in the most violent language of taunt and vituperation. The Prime Minister, himself, strong in power, with an overwhelming majority at bis back—having introduced to Parliament one of the m ost just and generous measures ever proffered by Pro testant England to Catholic Ireland—must needs, also, in his turn, put himself clearly in the wrong, and his antagonists as clearly in the right, upon a mere matter of Parliamentary courtesy or legislative consideration, by sweeping aside, as with a haughty wave of the hand, the whole of the more important of the Lords' Amendments. The Lords, being men, and naturally enough resenting a studied con tumely, insist—not by any means as curtly as Mr. GLADSTONE insisted the other day upon the rejection of all their graver Amenitnents, but firmly, and deliberately, aed spite unhesitatingly upon the restoration of their Amendments to the Preamble. After a debate of six hours' duration, last night, the restoration of the Lords' Amendments to the Preamble,, was carried by 173 against 9:5, otherwise by a clear majority of 78 in a House of 268, or by more than three to one. The debate which preceded this momentous division was cer tainly, from first to last, one of extraordinary inte rest. It seemed to illustrate once more, in a rather remarkable manner, the intellectual capacity of the leading members of that very Branch of the Legis lature which, only very recently, had been vulgarly taunted with " unwisdom," and with " childish tinkering," by one of the most cmspicuous and distinguished of the responsible Ministers of the Crown. Allowing that the result of last night's division is about as grave as it well could be —involv ing in it, as it does, the falling through of the Irish Church Bill, for the time being, altogether, and con sequently the utter waste of the session, so far as that Bill is concerned—matters have been so arranged, not by the Opposition, let us say, but by the Govern ment, that the responsibility of having brought about that most grave result devolves, not upon the Lords, but upon the Commons! It being traceable, in fact, to nothing else than the contemptuous decision to which the Commons were invited in words of as scant courtesy as could possibly have been—the rejection in other words en masse, almost en bloc of the Lords, amendments. Several considerations spring to our mind at once immediately thereupon—considera tions illustrative, one is nearly tempted to say by the reductio ad absurdum, of the fact we are chiefly desi rous, here, of insisting upon, namely, that this sudden collapse of the Bill, this abrupt failure of the session, this lamentable fiasco, or anti-climax, or however else we may term it, might, as we conceive, have been readily enough avoided by an exceedingly moderate display of a little more tact and a little more temper. A little more, do we say ? Might we not rather, in the light of these later incidents in the history of the session, might we not far rather have said, just now, point-blank—" an exceedingly moderate display of any tact or of any temper ?" Supposing, then, for the sake of argument, that this Bill, that any important Bill, had been introduced, not as the Irish Church Bill was, in the House of Commons, but had originally been introduced in the House of Lords !• And supposing, then, having been introduced in the House of Lords, and passed through its various stages, there, and then sent down to the House of Commons, it 'had there (in the House of Commons) been carefully considered, elaborately manipulated, and after a series of brilliant discussions and important divisions, modi fied, here and there, at this:point and at that, by a variety of amendments of more or len importance ! And supposing after having been thus, at any rate most painstakenly, interlined by the Commons' ansendments,ithe Bill bad been, thereupon, sent back again to the House of Lords—to have the whole of those amendments scratched out as by one angry sweep of the pen, and the Bill thus restored to its original shape sent back again instanter for accept ance, upon second thoughts, and to be swallowed holus-bolus, at one nauseated gulp, by the House of Commons ! Would not, we ask, the House of Com mons, in that extraordinary contingency, act pre cisely as the House of Lords acted only last night, namely, by declining, by an immense majority, to accept that offer, to swallow that bitter pill, to eat that leek, to obey that haughty mandate, and to do this in the most public and in the most igno minious manner possible? Why, as a matter of dead certainty, put the House of Commons in the same position, subject the House of Com mons to the same treatment, and they would, infallibly and undeniably, go and do likewise ! We say this out of the bitterness of our chagrin at the waste of this session, at the failure of this great measure of justice and beneficence to Ireland—the falling through of which, upon . the verge of its trans formation into an enactment, we cannot, in reason, hold the House of Lords responsible for under the actual circumstances. Fling the amendments back in the face of the Lords, and the Lords naturally re sent it. They decline to stoop down, and pick them up, and meekly accept what they regard as a wanton and a most uncalled-for outrage upon their dignity as a great legislative assembly. The Lords are utterly wrong, as we conceive, in their amendments. But in declining to allow those amend ments to be flung back in their face, they are acting in no way whatever, as we think, unreasonably. They are acting in obedience to the dictates of their ow❑ sense of self-respect. The Bill is a noble Bill, accord ing to our view of it. It is simply delayed now. Eventually it will be passed into a law. But, mean while, the responsibility of its postponement rests not upon the Lords, by reason of the decision they arrived at overnight, replacing their amendments upon the preamble, but wholly and solely upon the course pursued by the Government in so casting back their amendments in their teeth, as to leave the Lords no alternative, but simply to decline to be treated thus contumeliously. With such a Bill carried so far towards completion as an enactment—with a Session so memorable and so laborious, closely approaching the natural term of its existence—with a Prime Minister, as gifted, as popular, and as powerful as Mr. GLADSTONE at the head of her MAJESTY'S Go vernment—with the Liberal Party in their serried ranks at his back in such overwhelming numbers— and yet with the necessity of awakening after all this, to the fact that the Bill is lost, that the Ses sion is wasted, that the Premier is denied the glory of accomplishing in full his one great promised achievement, and that the dominant Majority is, in this matter, as helpless as the most contemptible Mi nority could possibly have been—awakening, after all this, we say, to the realization of these most unwelcome truths, cannot but render the result for us--how shall we express it ?—a baulk, worse than a defeat ! 'What is, in fact, worse than a crime, ac cording to TALLEYRAND'S witticism—a mistake ! What is for ourselves, as Liberals, a source—we con fess it—of bitter and of angry disappointment. THE Times is too hard upon the Peers. Having led them into a quagmire, the leading journal is now shouting at them with a vehemence that might have been more advantageously displayed earlier in the day. It is not only with regard to the chief measure of the session that the limes is now threatening their lordships with all kinds of condign punishment if they venture to do what the Times was ten days ago recommending them to do ; the same threat is held up to them for rejecting the University Tests Bill. Now let us consider the facts with regard to this measure. In the first place, it is not a Govern ment measure at all, though it is brought in by a member of the Government. It is simply a private bill concerning which the Cabinet has so little made up its mind that it will not undertake to place upon it the Ministerial imprimatur. Therefore, to talk about the Lords being disrespectful to the Commons for postponing the consideration of the subject for another year is sheer nonsense. In the next place, it must be remembered that the bill had never been before the _House of Lords until Monday night. True, a measure bearing the same name has been rejected by the Peers previously; but that was fundamentally different from this. That dealt only with the universities ; this deals with the colleges. That the Lords would be willing to pass at once ; this, they say, requires at least some consideration. Surely the most extreme Radical cannot expect the Peers to give way at the first summons, and without having had any oppor tunity of counsel or parley. A legislative body which did that would be simply an effete institution, whose extinction should be instantaneous. The very essence of the Upper Chamber is that it should give time for the consideration of great and important changes. This is the more necessary at a time like the present, when we are moving with a vastly more accelerated pace than we ever moved before. No doubt the Lords will always have to give way when its pro posals have been rejected by the nation. But to take away the power of making amendments is prepos terous. In the third place, the Peers have not rejected Sir Jonx COLERIDGE'S bill ; they have simply postponed a decision upon it till next year. The Earl of CARNARVON, who undertook to recommend this course, has devised a compromise which, he believes, will satisfy both parties. Whether it will or not is nothing to the question; he and many other peers believe that it will, and as this is the first time they have had the opportunity of offering it they have a perfect right to make it. Lord CAMPERDOWN'S objec tion that Lord CARNARVON'S amendments were not before the House would have been valid if Lord CARNARVON had moved the rejection of the bill; but it had no force when he simply moved the pre vious question in order that there might be time to develope his scheme, and lay it before the country next year. To speak frankly, we do not think this scheme has the least chance of being accepted ; but the majority of the Peers think differently, and they have a perfect right to try the experiment. A GOVERNMENT of economical spirit is a useful novelty worthy of every encouragement ; but though a policy of retrenchment must, with certain restric tions, meet with approval, there are certain reductions which can be regarded only as calamities. The estimate for the cost of national education for instance, is an item which we are always glad to see creep up from year to year. The education vote cannot well be too large so long as the money is well spent. And we have at least the assurance that, though the increase is not large and though it is very gradual, it nevertheless repre sents substantial results so far as it goes. A few years ago public money was granted to schools in proportion to the average number of scholars who attended, and not according to their efficiency. Thus, though the yearly estimate went up with admirable perseverance, it did not appear that we got much in return for the ever-augmenting expenditure. The new system inaugurated by Mr. LOWE, though by no means perfect, did at least rigidly enforce the principle of paying only for results. It is not now a question of how many children attend a school ; the number who can read, write, and cipher determine the amount of the grant. It is, therefore, safe to conclude that the additional £OO,OOO which Mr. FORSTER asks for this year represents a considerable increase in the number of British boys and girls who are proficient in the elements of education. So far, then, there is real ground for satisfaction at the progress of the esti mate. It represents the progress of national intelli gence. But, judged relatively, our annual education account appears in a much less favourable light. Though the estimate rises from year to year, it is yet a trifle compared with the millions invested in the army and navy. A very small order for rifled cannon would swallow up the small sum, and it would do very little indeed in the way of ironclad ship building. If our status as an educated nation were satisfactory, if the money voted effectually accom plished the work to be done, the dispro portion between our investments in the means of combating ignorance and in the means of combating our fellow men would matter little. Unfortunately, if we are to accept the almost despairing accounts of Mr. MUNDELLA and Mr. MELLY—andth.ere is too much reason to fear that they mud be accepted —our intellectual . progress is very small, and the net result deplorably bad. Mr. MUNDELLA has been consulting the reports of the school inspectors, and he comes to much the same conclusions as those we have already expressed. Small comparatively as is the English education vote, it is as large or larger than that of any other country. The education grants in Great Britain amount to one shilling per head of the whole popu lation. In Saxony the cost is only sevenpence, and in Prussia fivepence per head, and yet the result in those countries is far superior to anything that we can shew. In Germany a youth beyond a certain age who cannot read and write well is a phenomenon. Here half the population is in various degrees of intellectual darkness. Mr. MUNDELLA quoted a case where of 1,094 youths above the age of 15, only 080 had been to school for more than three years ; not half could write moderately well ; not much more than half could read fairly. More general statistics bear out this proportion. Other authorities in the House of Commons dis puted this mode of calculation. Mr. BUXTON and others maintained that we were making gradual progress—of which there can be no doubt ; but nothing was brought forward to repel the hard facts which establish the conclusion that the present system is inadequate. It works well, so far as it goes, but it is simply not large enough for the wants of the country. There can be no doubt that the improvement shewn year by year is very con siderable; but, unfortunately, the progress, though substantial, is not nearly sufficiently rapid. It is doubtful whether the existing system can ever—im prove as it may—be fully equal to the wants of the nation ; but it is quite certain that, if it ever is the present generation will not live to see the happy consummation. This is the plain conclusion which was established by the con versation in the House of Commons on Monday, which, indeed, has been established over and over again. The yearly trifle of improvement ought not to blind us to the immensity of the work which remains unaccomplished. For these reasons we sincerely trust that nothing will be allowed to interfere with the bringing forward of the Government Educational Bill next year. No question can be of equal importance. No question, therefore, ought to be allowed to stand in the way. So far as the interests of the nation are concerned, no more flagrant injury could be inflicted than that of delaying this much needed reform any longer. As far as political con siderations go the Government could :not perpetrate a greater mistake. The country has clearly set its heart upon a great educational change, and its forbearance in waiting until another great difficulty is got out of the way deserves no little praise. The present Ministry has shewn its ability to deal with great political questions. It has yet to win its laurels in the field of social reform, it vndcannotpossibly have a greater opportunity. PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. TUESDAY. The one event of the day is the resolution of the Emperor to continue the prorogation. This resolution is final. It is not quite certain when the deputies will see the inside of the Corps Ldgislatif again —in all probability not before the end of October. The deputies themselves, however, believe that their services will not be required very soon, for they are all getting ready to leave Paris. Soon the " Parliamentary Chronicle" will vanish from the columns of the newspapers. In order to make our political situation, which is assuredly a grave one, quite clear, I think it well to resume the facts up to the present time. The new French Parliament was called together towards the end of last month for an extra session, to be devoted to the "verifi cation of powers," or confirming the elections. You in England take every member's return for granted, unless a petition is presented against him. Here there are no petitions. No deputy is accounted a 10;41 fde member of the House, no deputy is allowed to vote, until he has been" confirmed." In order to do this, the whole House is divided into nine committees, and these report on the various seats. If a return is not disputed, little difficulty arises ; hut if the invalidation of an election is claimed, lengthy examination, often involv ing a row between the different parties, is the result. This time the Chamber had got through all the undis• puted returns, and had come to the fifty-five deputies whose seats were contested, when the Emperor's INlusag came announcing divers const:tntional reforms. Tv.% things were necessary in order to carry colt these reforms. There must be a change of Ministry. and a session of the Upper 1101130 or Senate - for it is this body, the members of which ore nominated exclusively by the Emperor, that examines and settles all constitutional changes. The Corps Ugislatif cannot diScuss the Constitution. Well, the Emperor set the work upon the first of these ess. - eitia7e—recon. stituting the Ministry. In the meantime, he prorogued the Corps L6gislatif, on the ground, apparently, that the House ought not to sit whilst a Ministerial crisis was going on. This decision caused loud complaints. The deputies—and especially those who had not been " con firmed "—were greatly discontented. They pleaded that the Chamber was not doing any regular business, it was merely deciding upon the election:,, and this work might be done without Ministers. .... - However, the prorogation was passed over with much grumbling, on the understanding that the Chamber would soon be convened again. Now we learn that it is to be dismissed altogether—with fifty-five elections un settled—until next October. The Emperor has got his new Ministry, and it is now necessery that the Sen a t e should be assembled to discuss the reforms. His Majesty has determined that the Corps L6gislatif shall not sit whilst this discussion in the Senate is going on, and the proroga. tion is, therefore, continued until October. No doubt the Lower House might have proved troublesome, and no doubt the Emperor, by shutting it up, will save a good deal of comment on what the Senate may do. But is it right that the elected of the people should be thus hustled out of the way because they • may talk Is this in the spirit of a new refo rm po li cy ? It is argued, and very justly, that the Corps Ldgislatif was convened for a special purpose, and that its mission ought to have been fulfilled before it was dismissed. Scarcely any journal attempts to defend this proceeding Most of them furiously condemn it. The Temps, one of the most moderate and able of the Liberal papers, says that "Personal Power " consents tomake concessions, but he will not allow the chosen of the people to shave any share in their elaboration, "He 'wishes it to be seen that he alone rests master of the nature and extent of these concessions. He does not wish any dis cussion. He does not even care what the majority think, that majority which he has caused to be elected, and which his agents and his organs present to us as the **pre:salon of the national will." This is bold writing ; but not unnatural. The Emperor has clearly succeeded in undoing the good work of his message. The Moderate Liberals are holding a meeting this svening to decide upon the measures to be taken in consequence of this continued prorogation. It is believed that the party will support the Government, and make no movement until we see what the Senate will do with the Emperor's reforms. The Left is contemplating a manifesto in the newspapers, protesting against the prorogation. This party is very angry indeed, and well it may be, for the Moderate Liberals carried off all the honours of the session so far as it went. The Moderate Liberals, with their demand for Ministerial responsibility, drew forth the Emperor's Message ; but the members of the Left have accomplished nothing beyond eating dinners, of which these irreconcilables dispose of more than any other political section. Young men do not find much favour with French con stituencies. Reds may be chosen, but they are invariably Reds of experience. The oldest man in the new Corps L6gislatif is the most revolutionary. It is Bence]. Fifty-six of the deputies are over 60 yearEcof age ; 104 are between 50 and 60; 89 between 40 and 50. Only four are under 30. The Empress and the Prince Imperial have made a journey to Berck, for the purpose of inaugurating a hospital for children. They met with a reception of remarkable enthusiasm. Twenty triumphal arches adorned the road from Montreuil to Berck. Some of these were very substantial affairs. Real live fisherwomen, engaged in making nets, were posted on the top of one, whilst facing them, in endearing attitudes, some of the best specimens of the young men of the district were supposed to be paying their court to the netmakers. Berck is a fishing village near the sea, recommended for the purpose of this hospital by its great healthiness. Eight hundred children can be accom modated within the walls of the new institution. The eccentricities of an Italian countess resident here are just now the talk of Paris. This lady is a rich and ')eautiful widow, dwells with her son in a very fine hotel, and amuses herself with an endless variety of extrava gances. She is fond of breakfasting at caf6s, and not seldom has a meal brought to her in her carriage, where she solemnly eats amid the wonderment of the passers by. Bhe recently paid a visit of ceremony in a pair of Albanian with a VantriilYer:iliitgiAZZCZAUCk..th-thaidarta. THEATRE - ROYAL, HOLB 0 RN. TIT'S EVENING, at 7.30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Cowper, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin, Mrs. C. Horsman, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; NI esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland. Button. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D. James, ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A ROVING COMMISSION. After which CHECKMATE. Followed by THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss Saunders, &c. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Ernder the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TEM EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and 3liss 31arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME, EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET?. Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-wok, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. A special meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh has been held, for the purpose of considering the Lords' amendments on the Irish Church Bill ; Mr. William Balfour, Holyrood, moderator. Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff moved the following resolution : " That this Presbytery, taking into consideration the clause introduced ,into the Irish Church Bill by the House of Lords, in favour of concurrent endowment in Ireland, and the resistance by the House of Commons to this clause, and taking further into consideration the principle always held by this Church, that the endowment of a Church can be justified only as a testimony to religious truth, hereby resolve to petition both Houses of Parliament against the clause referred to." Mr. A. Mackenzie seconded the motion, which was, after some conversation, agreed to. It was resolved that a petition, signed by the moderator, in terms of the resolu tion, be forwarded to Earl Granville for presentation in the House of Lords, and that another be sent to the Lord Advocate for presentation in the House of Commons. A crowded meeting assembled on Tuesday at the Insti tute, Plymouth, under the presidency of Mr. H. Brown, chairman of the Liberal Association, for the purpose of supporting Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill, when three resolutions were carried unanimously. The first was pro posed by Mr. F. Ilicks, and seconded by Mr. Rooker ; the second was proposed by Mr. J. N. Bennett, secom'e I by Mr. F.W. Collier, and supported by Messrs. Balkwill, Freckle ton, and Williamson ; and the third was proposed by Mr. Eldred Brown, seconded by Mr. R. Rundle, and supported by Mr. M'Carthy. One of the resolutions was as fol lows :—" That this meeting affirms its entire approval of the action of her Majesty's Government with reference to the Irish Church Bill, and expresses its desire that the measure approved of by the House of Commons, involving the immediate application of the surplus funds of that Church, may be adopted by Parliament in its integrity." Petitions to both Houses of Parliament will be forwarded. SALMON FISHERIES. - The select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the operations of the present Salmon Fisheries Laws resumed its sitting on Tuesday, Mr. Joseph Dodds in the chair. Mr. James Patterson, one of the Commissioners on Salmon Fisheries, was examined. He thought that power for the removal of natural obstacles in contributory streams at the upper end of the main streams should be vested by the Legislature in the Board of Conservators. He did not see how they could injure the millowners. He should in every such case give proper damages. He would leave the control of the engines to be used in close time to Conservancy Boards, subject to some restrictions. No doubt it was much more important to clear away obstacles and allow the fish to pass through the dams in the larger streams than to attend to the smaller streams. He certainly held that no legal rights should be taken from the owners unless they were paid for. With regard to the making of bye-laws for the regulation of dams, inquiry should be made by commissioners, who should go into every district and consider what regulations were best suited to each. He adhered to the statement Viat his representations to the Home Office were not attended to. There ought to be an appeal to a higher tribunal than at present. In the event of such an appeal being granted, it would tend greatly to the advantage of this question of salmon fisheries. Some of his recommendations related to the pollution of rivers. The committee adjourned. THE VIVIAX-W ATERFORD SCANDAL. It will be fresh in the recollection of our readers that considerable excitement was manifested in upper circles when it was found that I,lrs. Vivian, wife of the lion. Captain Vivian, M.P., had eloped with the Marquis of Waterford. Proceedings were at once commenced by the War l4ord of the Treasury for a divorce, and the cause Vivian v. Vivian and Waterford," was put down 10Sth in the list for this term, and on account of its occupying such a low position it was thought that the cause would have to stand over like many of those which affect poorer persons to next term. On Tuesday,, however, an application was made in reference to the putter, which will doubtless prove interesting. Dr. Swabey, addressing the court, said: The cause of " Vivian and Vivian" stands rather low on the list, but as your lordship intends to sit on extra days it will prol,ably come on for this term. I have, therefore, to ask that it may not be taken before the sth proximo. The Judge: I really cannot make any arrangement as J taking a ease cut of its turn. It must take its chance. Is there any evidence for the defence? Dr. Tristram : my lord ; but there is a traverse. Lord Penzance : And that may take a long time. Dr. Swabey : But I don't think it will. Lord Penzance then intimated that the cause could not be taken out of its turn ; but we learn that it is most likely that it will be before the court in its proper order on one of the "extra" days. The cause is to be tried by the Judge Ordinary without a jury. The Chester Chronicle says there is residing at Paley a.person named Elizabeth Howell, who has this month entered on the one hundredth year of her age. CLOSING OF THE THAMES TUNNEL.—On Tuesday night the Thames Tunnel, so long accounted one of the sights of London, was finally closed as a public footway. The Nottingham election petition was again before Mr. Baron Bramwell on Tuesday. On the part of the sitting member a motion was made for the names of the agents alleged to have committed bribery. After some discussion the learned judge ordered the particulars to Lo given. Tho petition is to be tried. on the 29th. - - An American paper says :—"ln our communi cation from Boston about the Peace Jubilee, published in yesterday's edition, the following words should have occurred: 'Mozart's Twelfth Mass.' One of our com positors, evidently not a musical man, set it up in this way: ' Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts,' and it so ap peared in the paper." THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The Freeman's Journal publishes the following paragraph :—" A widely spread report prevailed in Dublin City that O'Donovan (Rossa), the Fenian convict, had succumbed to the hard ships to which he was subjected in his English prison, and died. The report wants confirmation,-and we sincerely hope that years of He and liberty are yet in store for this enthusiastic, though mistaken, Irish nationalist." WOMAN.—An American writer says "A woman will cling to the chosen object of her heart like a 'possum to a gum tree, and you can't separate her without snap ping strings no art can mend, and leaving a portion of her soul on the upper-leather of your affections. She will sometimes see something to love where others see nothing to admire ; and when her fondness is once fastened on a fellow, it sticks like glue and treacle in a bushy head of hair." A LONG PRAYER.. —Deacon Barnes, a very pious man, was noted for his long prayers, especially in his family. One morning the deacon and his wife were alone, and, as was his usual custom after breakfast, a prayer was offered. There being an unusual amount of work that day the deacon's prayer was short. He seized his hat and milk-pail, and started for the barn. His wife, being very deaf, did not notice his absence, but supposed him to be still engaged in prayer. On his return from milking, he was surprised to find her still kneeling. He stepped up to her and shouted "Amen," when she immediately arose and went about her work as if nothing had happened.— American Paper. TfIE PUBLIC HEALTII.—Last week the rate of mortality in London, as well as in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom, and also in Paris, was 22 per 1,000. The rate in Dublin was 17, and in Edinburgh 34. In the metropolis 2,051 births and 1,313 deaths were registered. The latter were less by 103 than the estimated number, but exceeded those of the previous week by 34. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 404, the corrected average number being 449. Two persons died from smallpox, 35 from measles, 77 from scarlet fever, four from diptheria, 77 from whooping-cough, 14 from typhus fever, 17 from enteric fever, and 11 from simple continued fever. The deaths of 96 children and six adults from diarrhoea were recorded, and several persons died from simple cholera, or choleraic diarrhoea. The mean temperature during the week was 66'9, or 4'6 above the average. The hottest day was on Saturday last, when the thermometer registered 89. Between that and the lowest night temperature there was a range of nearly 40 degrees. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT ST. PETERSBURG. —A suicide has just been committed under extraordinary circumstances at St. Petersburg. Colonel Hunnins, an Esthonian by birth, was lately engaged in discussing with the Czarcwitch a financial operation concerning the arma ment of the troops, and the Grand Duke, considering the terms proposed too high, exclaimed, " With Germans one is always sure to be cheated.'' On the colonel civilly requesting his Highness to withdraw so offensive an expression, the latter forgot himself so far as to strike the officer in the face. The colonel immediately applied to the Emperor, who ordered his son to apologise, but this he positively refused to do. Despairing of ob taining any satisfaction, and smarting under an insult he was unable to resent, the unfortunate officer committed suicide by blowing out his brains. The Emperor is said to have been most painfully affected by the sad even t , z 1 luilltulAUktCgmaitla attonslinthe Lunerak; 15.11. ,ff1)ciAz,,.,)„,„ti 1 ,,,,,A-7,..1,7-I,t: tri), ~._,: '.l_,v i , : .11 1 1 ``-- . - -,r,-- (o.l ,l lllfAt ~ ,,_,„: „ ..0 . 7 7, ‘ .., ~) 3) ' 1 ~) . HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 20. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds yes terday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, anl Princess Beatrice, left the Castle this morning at five minutes before nine o'clock for Osborne. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 20. The steamers which leave to-day for Europe take out 1;325,000 in epecie. The Britannia el the Anchor line) arrived out yesterday. The Guion steamship Idaho and the Hamburg and American Company's steamer llolsatia arrived out to-day, the latter at 7 a.m. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 135 a ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 135 a ; the lowest, 135. Sterling Exchange on London llok. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1238. cc " 1885 l2ll. it " 18G7 . .. 1201. 10-40 cc 110 k. Illinois l39g. Erie 2BB. Cotton—Mid. upland 34Bc. Petroleum—Standard White 32c. Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, 100 c. SPAIN. MADRID, July 20th (Evening.) A plot has been discovered to assassinate the Regent Serrano, General Prim, and Senor Rivero on a certain day. A judicial inquiry is being ac tively pursued. Tranquillity has not be en disturbed. The Regent Serrano has left for the former Royal summer residence at La Granja. FRANCE. PARIS, July 21. An Imperial decree, dated yesterday, appoints M. Rouher President of the Senate for the session of 1869. A meeting of the members of the Tiers Parti who signed the interpellation was held yesterday, when the following resolution was unanimously adopted "The signitaries persisting in the views and prin ciples laid down in their proposed interpellation adjourn until the re-assembling of the Corps Le gislatif." BOURSE, July 20.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month... —Fan Ifiveg 55 30 3 per Cent End of month 7l 821 Ottoman Loan 327 5 0 Credit ISobilier End of month — Spanish Threes 30 25 Credit Foncier —1612 Dome Debt — End of month... Deferred 2B 7 0 Cash RAILWAYS. Orleans ... 9571 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern__ 6lBl Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa. 2 Roman 5O 53 570 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. ROBBERIES .&';.;lXllO2EL.—Cleorgeif:ylor, formerly' porter in the employ of Mr. John Og'e, proprietor of the Grosvenor Hotel, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, 105 charged befcre Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing about 18 15s , the moneys of his master, and also with stealing £2O, the moneys of John Andrews, servant at the same hotel. Mr. Ogle said that the prisoner, who bad been his porter for about thirteen months, absconded on the 25th Jun e ' having broken open a desk in a private room and taken from it two bags containing about £8 15s. in silver. •A• few days after the prisoner had gone away he sent bite (Mr. Ogle) a letter admitting that ho had broken open the desk and taken the money, and stating that he was going to have a trip in the country for the benefit of his health , and that he would while there drink his (Mr. Ogle s) health. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said the desk was broken open with a chisel. Wm. Cane, 35 C, said that on approaching the prisone r in Pall Mall yesterday, from a description he received fronl Mr. Ogle, he denied that his name was George Taylor, but on the way to the station he said that he had cool" mitted the robbery, having had some words with 31r• og le, and having had something to drink on the day of the robbery. r 9th John Andrews, porter to Mr. Ogle, said that on the inst. ho missed from a drawer in his room £2O in note° and gold, the drawer being always kept locked. John Cook, 133 0, said that at the station the onsri admitted taking the porter's money, stating that he c limbs' over the railings, dropped into the area, obtained a ecru'" driver from the tool-box, and then opened thedrawei Wl`o it and took the money. The prisoner also said tha t the ; was a cash-box, but as he did not think there was Inuchl it he Pit it in the coal cellar. Cane said a small tin box belonging to Andrews virso found at the prisoner's lodgings No. 19, Wych-stree t. The prisoner was committed for trial. THAMES. ROBBING STEAM-TUGS ON THE RIVER. —William Tar'r" ner, aged 20 years, of No. 2, Grove-street, Poplar, vr ate men's apprentice, and James Walls, 19, a labourer, of 14°. 14, St. Ann-street, Limehouse, were brought up on N ew mend, charged with stealing a large quantity o f proPur t i from the steam-tugs, called the Paul Pry and the 1 101 ; e : b. Bruce, on the river Thames. On the night of the I`. instant Mr. Daniel Smith, an Inspector of Thames Poll; and his boat's crew were on duty upon the river 0 0 t City Canal, Poplar, and fell in with the prisoners hied small boat. They stopped them and found so me clot ' in the bottom of the boat. The prisoners were also Wt ing other apparel under their own clothes. Th e pro Peri; was identified by Mr. Samuel Schooner, th e master o f 1 , Robert Bruce, the first and second mates of t he Paul Fl."; oe ° an d others. The Thames police described the prit3o a s regular associates of waterside thieves who had be in T h ctody before. aid us e prisoners pleaded guilty, and the magistrate e they had committed very serious robberies, and had g°l3., out at midnight to prey on shops and boats and steal AN; thing they could lay their hands on. Ile sentenced the to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. ri The prisoners had some of the stolen property ta 10 0 them, and the magistrate orde re d that it should be from them and their own .substituted, which vas il32lll°' diately done. WESTMINSTER. Hennessey, DEPREDATION.—MichaeI Connor and rri li g h . stealing boys h Y alfa bushel about of 14 potatoes, years v ol a d l , ue were 2 s . 6 c d h . a , r t g b e e d g : o l do of John Cotou. Dou ses The prosecutor, a gentleman, resides at Clifton of Old Brompton, to which is attached about t wo acrecsuit land. The prisaners and others have stripp ed Lis fruit ee cl rees, currant, and gooseberry bushes, as well as dr 9 to 6 ' g e t up and stolen his potatoes. To do this they 11, i - ha lf ft over a 10-foot wall, and yesterday they dragg ed UP by bushel of potatoes, part of which were taken aW3Y three boys, wLo escaped. ll t° They botlht had beaustatedth thrown there,attheyclimbed o ver the Fa d to get a cup but aPPegTpo have a perfect knowledge of the number of trees an tato M es that we re there. el 6 • pay 55., an d 20. Mr. Arnold ordered them each to damage, or 14 days. ____—..... - A _ LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL 11A1R..--DIRS' : 0 to ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAUL R E STORER OR DRESSI NG never lA' - Lo a quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colourci de' beauty, and with the first application a beautiful g the 105 , 611 froin light' ul frace is to Hair. It stops Pair ou , falling off. It gran prevents given baldness. the It promotes It g, a il it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. 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