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ii ir lOß THE RACES. - VCSTPROOF and WATERPROOF COATS, sandy made or made to rue,-512r .. 5 gr'eai varietYf. —E. MOSES and 60. N. F t or nij a n d s ge a s il s Y es lo s w ee P fo r l e aing advertisement. RAPE COMBINATION. A _ J The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CIIEAPNESS will be fount in e - very srticle sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occupations, and all classes. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting adjoin the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and arversitied stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders trom persons who are not known to the firm should accompanied by a remittance, or a London reference. Any article not approved of will be cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be re turned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from n Lich no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Booth and Shoes, is unequalled for magnitude, variety, and cheapness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Satur • day evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, • Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and Ge neral Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISIIIIECT. 153,. , MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MLNORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 87, ALDGATE 88. ALDGATE 49, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET 13RANCII. 506 NEW OXFORD-STREET ¶O7, NEW OXFORD-STREET ,OS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 288, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnekstone. THIS F.VENING, BLUE DEVILS: 37essrs.Huw6,Buckstone, jun.. an 11I; SR Fanny Wright. Aft.-r which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale, Comp lon.H. Vincent..te.; Mesdames Cavendish, Dalton, IIIII„te. With A RFIITTLAR FIX. Mr. Sothern. And IlI . ; II LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Mess (9. Buckstone, Hovre, Kendal; Mesdames F. Wright, and F. Gwynn. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. cIIEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs. Leigh 31urray. At 8 o'clock. EVE Mr. Benjamin Webster; Messrs. Henry Neville. J. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, 3liss Lillie Lee, and Mrs Alfred Mellon. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER WELL: Mr. G. Belmure, Mrs. L. Murray. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Four Nights, THIS EVENING, nt Eight o'clock. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: Shylock, Herr Formes; Portia. Miss Franees lion verie: Messrs Bignold, R. Ellis, G. F. Neville. Robins, Fenton, Moreland, Gresham, and Cathcart; Miss Kemp and Miss Emma Barnett. N.B.—During the Summer Season the doors will be opened at half-past 7, and the performance commence at 8 precisely. TrHEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY StLLIVAN. Legitimate Success!—Sixth Week of " MONEY. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTIZE'.'S OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lcrd Lytton's Great Flay (in five acts) of MONEY. far Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, 1 , eorge Tic nry. W. IT. Stephens. Charles rogian. Lin Bayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E Dyas; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs Charles Horsman p) OYAL STRAND 'I'IIEATItF,. 1 Sole T.essee and sTa.nagerega. Agra wanborough. THIS EVENING. nt 7.nn. FVX v.•nOr SF. Messrs. lirke ana Relfort : Mondani": Tly.f ton ,r.oi ITughes. After which. :MAN: OF ARC: Nfev., Tborio. Irmo , Fen ton, Turner, CharnberlainP: IVese.inesEufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Rith HUE AlkID DYE GLOBE THEATIZE-110YAL, Sole Proprietor aul Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. IRIS EVENING, at 7. N VAT, 1.7N(1A GEV ENTS A t 11. J. Pyron's new grand Burlesque. entitled THE CORSICAN R t I'TIERS:" or. The Troublesome TW!LS. 'I o eonclude with T. W. Robertson's Comic Drama. A BRFACII OF P 0311 , F : Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen. Yntrhes. Stephens. Perend, C Thorne. ‘lessrs Vernon, I avid Fisher, Marshall, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlston, and J. Clarke. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. 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TOH N ()SNELL and CO.'S CHERRY P. , TOOTH PASTE is greatly superioeto auy tooth powder: gibes the teeth a pearl whiteness, prot ec t s th e enamel from deem. and imparts a plParant fragrance t o tho breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames.street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. 4GP k AMARELLA restores the Human Hair a to its mi.; ine hue, no matter At what JNO. 008N1.1.1. and CO. have at length. with the ,tie !01 , 0 of ow troqi. eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect- ing this weaylrlfill liquid. tis now I ATered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at n lower Trice. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also be., 7s. Gd., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames 'street London. E.C. MACNIVEN & CAMERON'S ENOWNFD WAVFRLEY, OWL. PECK wicr,-, end WAVE - 111,1W BA PEEL PEN, ON A NEW PRINCIPLE. " The Owl' pen is suitable f.r fine writing, and glides over the paper in the most easy and graceful manner. This is par excellence the lady's pen. The 'Pickwick,' from its flexibility, is well adapted for business purposes. The Waverley 'is sure to become a favourite ; its flexi bility is so great that it will entirely supersede the use of quills, and to professional men will be invaluable. The Waverley Barrel Pen' possesses the same qualities as the foregoing." — Court Journal. VELOCIPEDE ASCOT RACE.—THIS (WEDNESDAY) EVENING, C. 30. PRIZE, a Handsome CUP, value .£los. 10s. AIIATEURS only. The slopes above the course will accommodate 20,000 viiturz_Sard_pf_the--Races, with names and earitits OThinipetitors, on sale on the ground: N OTT% —The Grounds now most beautiful. The sudden setting in of the hot weather renders an evening spent in the grounds most enjoyable. Garden and other Entrances open - until Eight in the Evening. Mr. and Mrs. Crad dock's Life-Preserving Experiments in the Lake also This Evening. ASCOT RACES.—CALLAMIAN'S BACE GLASSES will he found the best and cheapest.) 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodi ies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commi- sion 'o Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stumps to R. MARRI,SON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. JAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The COURT of DIREr.TORS of the East and West India Dock Company HF. RES Y GIVE NOTICE, That the Transfer oks of the said Company will be Shut on Wednesday, the 16th day of June, and Open again on Friday, the 2d day of July, 1869. By order of the Court. EORGE COLLIN, Fecretary. East and West India Dock House, Billlter-square, Bth June, 1869. ADMIRALTY, STH JUNE, 1869. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. TN future notification will not be sent to parties whose Tenders for Suppli s may be declined; but every information as to acceptance or otherwise will be given on per sonal application at the Contract Department, Admiralty, Whitehall. ANTONIO BRADY, Superintendent of Contracts. CLERICAL. MEDICAL, AND GENERA L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, £220,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, £1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who effect Policies on the Participating Scale before June 30th, 1869, will-be entitled at the NEXT BONUS to one year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrants. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of _ . GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORE I . ITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. B RITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.O NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies In Weeks. issued. 1 , 63 3 ... .„ 86 —X14,250 18 6 9 ... 3 108 1,1,481 Excel 22 £4,231. In 52 weeks ending April 7th, ISO 3,105 —£539,442 AMY LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet street, London, E.C., May 31, 1869. . . _ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life As surance Society will he held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, en THURSDAY, the 24th day of June next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect MI Auditor in the room of Philip Loogmore, Esq., who has re&gned; to elect six Directors and one other Auditor; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who ro out of office by ro tation, will be proposed for ro-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH DAVIES, Actuary. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KINL', may be secured by a Policy of the 'i t A LWA Y PASSENGERS ASAURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of 3 to .£6 ss. insures I'l,ooo at Death, and an Allowance et the rate of £1; per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCT. ENTS ALONE may he provided against `ty Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at-the Offices, 54, COaliniLL and 10, REGENT t 'MET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. TO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES. —HART, 79, New Bond-street. has introduced some of the lizhtest, handsomest, and roomiest CARRIAGES that ever were seen. S. H. is still prteressing with others on the light scale, the style of carriage which has so long been wanting in this country. as thousands of horses get bent over wi'h their fore legs and knuckled over behind, and sore shoulders, through having a csrriage 3 cwt. too heavy. Persons wanting a carria:ze have only to describe the size of the horse. and one will. be made suitable: the horse will go with ease and the riders with com fort, as he has introduced a sprint only one inch wide, made of patent steel, not half the weight of the ordinary springs. A visit is solicited. Testimonials to be seen. See opinions of the Press —The Sun, Mornim.7. Post. Observer, Pell's Life, Globe, New York IT' raid, and Anglo-American Times. One on view at Crystal Palace. ►piiE "SINGER" SEWING MACIIINES% TUE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-I,TITCH AND TIIE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Ha' d awl Troa lie. and iu a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The peculiar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to acquire their perfect use in a few hours. 11l- s!ra ed Price Lists post free. TUE "SINGER" MANUFACTITRING COMPANY. Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 147. eIIEAPSIDE. Branch Der6ts or Local Agents in every Town. A TTR ACTI V E SPECULATIONS. UN RIVAL LE D SUCCESS. You coal never meet with a more advisable opportunity to try the favours of Dume Fortune. With a Single Stake of you can realise £20,020!! w ith £2 £27,(00!! *with £S £4a,COO! ! with CIO £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TI LOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. TITEATnr.-ROY %L. ITAY3IARKET THIS Lvt:NiNo, BLUI.: DELI! S : MeF:Fr.4. Howe, Duck tone, jun. ; Min- F. Wright. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale. ka.; Mesdames Cavendish, Ell!. Ite. Followed by A REGITLA '? FIX: r. othern. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS': Messrs. Duekstene, Howe, Kendal; Miss P. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. TITEATIIE-POYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, I OMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel m°, e anti Mrs Leigh M urray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web to R, LIVE FOR LI Miss Neil,on. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr ster, Mr H. Nev lle, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. fir. A nd DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Man tger, Mr. THTS EVENING, at 8, SHYLOC Shylock, Herr Formes ; Portia, Miss Frances Bourerie. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swauborough. Tins EvENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conelude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TIIIB RV - ENING, at 7, N A VAL ENGAGEMENTS. At R. 30, the new burlesque TIE CORSICAN KOT U ERS. A nd BREA C OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke;, Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: 31r. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, 2drs. C. Horsman, &e. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tins F.rr.Nuco. at 7.:t0, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A POVINCr COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THISEVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Puekingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhieh, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Trris EVYKING, at 9, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CIIIIISTY'S 3TINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ROYAL AL !lAMBI{ A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert`s•patk, OPEN daily (ex. cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Afendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6,1 "rIW , • cti • ,1: 1t . fr (21- • CS.) _ Z 1.4 ij.ONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1869. Although the Marquis of SALISBURY was, accord ing to his wont, shrewdly sarcastic in his answer last night to the arguments set forth by the Duke of ARGYLL, we cannot but think that for once his Grace had decidedly the best of it. It is all very facetious, no doubt, talking, as Lord SALISBURY did, of " the extraordinary ru.ninating power of the noble duke, causing him after such a long process of digestion to chew the cud" and so forth. It is all whimsical enough his suggesting that because the Duke of ARGYLL bad found occa sion only yesterday to refer to a speech delivered a _es month previously, that, therefore, as Lord SALIS BURY says, " What I ought to do would be to move that the debate be adjourned fora month, by -which might ; perhaps, be able to produce an.anssisez."- All this is purely idle jocularisy—entirely beside . the mark—and is little better than frittering away the time of Parliament and giving provocation to so much senseless laughter. As to the real drift of the argu ment set forth by the Duke of ARGYLL, the noble marquis, as it seems to us, almost disingenuously affected to misapprehend it. The tendency of the whole of that argument was towards the rational vindication of the independence of the House of Lords as a distinct branch of our Legislative system, as a separate portion of our com plex Constitutional Government. Insomuch was this the case that when Lord SALISBURY said last night, addressing himself to his Peers, " I quite be lieve that this House is subordinate to the nation ; I do not believe it is subordinate to the House of Commons," the Lords cheered, and the Duke of ARGYLL joined in the cheering. In so doing his Grace was perfectly consistent. Yet the Marquis of SALISBURY commented upon the remarks of the noble duke as though they advocated the abso lute subordination of the House of Lords to the House of Commons. What the Duke of ARGYLL had been especially insisting upon in his observations, apropos to the consideration of the Life Peerages Bill in Committee, was, and it must be said quite reasonably, this, that the measure he was referring to is one that will submit the con stitution of the Lords to the discussion of the other House, and, " though this may be necessary and ad visable," said the Duke, "for grave reasons, no man can deny that it is iu itself an evil, and to raise a dis cussion upon the abstract principles of the Constitu tion and of the constitution of this House before the other House always involves a certain amount of danger." That danger he, the Duke of ARGYLL, considered greatly increased by allowing the measure to be sent down to the House of Commons based upon arguments like those delivered in its favour by two noble lords of such distinction as the Marquis of SALISBURY and the Earl of CARNARVON. The whole force of their reasoning in its behalf, as an innovation, was indubitably to the effect that the Bill was desirable, was, indeed, for that matter requisite, as a means of increasing the strength of the I louse of Lords as a political body. "1 bus," said the Duke of AIIGYLL, " the argument of these two distinguished members of the House is that the bill will add political strength to this Ilouse, and in such a degree as materially to alter the present relative position of the two Houses, and to place your lordships on a footing, not merely of legal equality, but of influence and authority equal to the House of Commons. Nov, lam con vinced," said his Grace, " that for such a purpose the bill is not worth the paper on which it is printed." An emphatic declaration, which —it is noticeable—elicited cheers, not from the Ministerialists, but from the Opposition ! The fact is that the Bill is unquestionably inop2ortane at this moment, as it submits the constitution of the House of Lords to open and direct discussion in the House of Commons, and that it does this, according to the reasoning of the Marqu;s of SALISBURY, to the very end, and with the avowed object of so far strengthening the hereditary branch of the Legisla ture as to render it independent of, and a fitting rival to, the popular House of Parliament. 'WHILE the organs of the Orange fanatics are openly suggesting a resort to civil war, and the clever literati of London and young Oxford are looping on with quiet but eager interest at the impetus which is being given to Republican ideas by the second estate of the realm, it will be won for those who sympathise with neither extreme to consiib r well the present critical position, with the view, if possible, of warding off results that they world not de:Are to see. The first thing to be noticed is the very un constitutional course of the politician who claims to be Tar excellence the leader of the Constitutional party. As we have before said, no one can blame the Lords for having thrown out the Suspensory Bill of last year. The subject of the Irish Church had not at that time been referred to the nation, and it was impossible to say what would be the result of such reference. The then Prime Minister appealed to the people—the people whom he had enfranchised—and the result was an answer so emphatic that it could not be misunderstood. Mr. DISRAELI himself said the nation had declared against him. But while Mr. DisnAlmi recognised this fact by resigning office, Lord DERBY will not recognise it. He counts the ordinary constitutional reference to the people, the ordinary constitutional reply at the polling-booth as nothing ; he protests against the decision of the householders, and appeals from them to the " residuum." He is dissatisfied with household suffrage, and appeals to universal suffrage. The logical result of this course would be to abolish the House of Commons, an d t o summon th e w hole nation to give a vote on Salisbury Plain. Nor is this the only unconstitutional act on Lord DERBY'S part It is a recognised principle of the unwritten Constitution that when the nation has unmis takeably decided in favour of a certain course, the Lords shall give way. It is not only the Marquis of SALISBURY of to-day who asserts this, but the Duke of WELLINGTON of forty years ago. No man had a higher sense of duty than he had. Duty was the governing motive of his life. No man was less influenced by considerations of expediency. Nevertheless it was he who brought in a bill to emancipate the Roman Catholics in 1829 ; it was he who counselled the Tory peers to stay away from the second reading of the Reform Bill of 1832 ratherthan havetheir House swam ped by a num ber of new peers. It was he who, when Lord DERBY broke with Sir ROBERT PEEL, and preferred to incur all the horrors of a famine rather than tamper with the Corn Laws, told his fellow peers that they were bound to carry out the wishes of the nation in this matter. Who can doubt that he would have taught the same lesson at the present crisis ? On the other hand, we have Lord DERBY, who has always been obstinate, who has always carried out the policy of " No surrender," except on one memorable occasion, who opposed Free Trade, the admission of Jews into Parliament, the abolition of church rates, and who now that those changes have been made in spite of him, recognises them, and would do nothing to reverse them—we find him proposing a course which, if he can persuade his followers to adopt it, will be as useless as it proved on all former occasions, and whose unwisdom he himself will hereafter tacitly admit. But Lord DERBY, in spite of the obstinacy which he has usually displayed, cannot be depended upon to remain firm. He may resist to the last, as he did in the case of the Corn Law s ; b u t h e may g i ve way, as i n the case of Parliamentary R e f orm, and a measure infinitely more sweeping than he opposes. If he do not, what other course can he take ? Level up ? Grant con current endowments ? That policy is even more odious to his Orange friends than Mr. GLADSTONE'S bill. Adopt the suggestions of the Irish Church Commissioners, and knock a few bishops on the head ? But that scheme fell dead from the first, and Lord DErins:'s chief ally on that commission —Lord STANIIOPE—has openly condemned Lord DERBY'S present course, and declared his preference for that which the PREMIER has taken. Put it is needless to discuss these alternatives. Lord DERBY will take neither, for the simple reason that the country will not place him in the position to take either. No event that has yet taken place can be more certain than that, if the Lords reject the bill in the summer, they will have to pass it •in the autumn. But what a sacrifice THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1869 this short- -clelAy will involve. It will prove, in the first place, that some 250 gentlemen think they have - aright to reverse the decision of the nation. In the second place, it rill manifest to all the-world the fact, which it would be much wiser to conceal, that the Peers are capable of being overborne when their resistance is prejudicial to the State. If that event should be brought about, as it was in 1832 by the threatened creation of peers, it will further prove that though the Conser vative Peers are prepared to run the risk of revolution in behalf of the Church, they are not prepared to have their individual influence destroyed. The conflict will, moreover, familiarise the public mind with the idea entertained in many influential quarters, that an hereditary House of Legislature is an anomaly and an anachro nism, and that the sooner it is abolished the better. Finally, this opposition will not only not save the Church, on whose behalf all these manifold perils are encountered, but it will probably lead to a more stringent and sweeping reform, which will not be stopped by St. George's Channel. There is one speck of blue sky in this cloud-laden horizon which bids us hope that the storm may yet pass away. The rejection of ths Irish Church Bill is now no longer a question merely between Con servatives and Liberals, between the Upper House and the Lower, but between Conservative peers and Conservative peers. No one can question either the Conservatism or the Churchmanship of such men as Lord DEVON, Lord SALISBURY, Lord CARNARVON, Lord STANHOPE, Lord NELSON, and Lord LIME RICK, and yet they are all strongly opposed to the course which Lord DERBY has advised the majority of Peers to take. More than this, it is no secret that the present leader in the Upper House, Lord CAIRNS himself, was originally opposed to it, and that both Lord STANLEY and Mr. DISRAELI view it with dislike and alarm. The Conservative journals reflect this difference of opinion clearly enough. While the evening organ upholds the policy of "No Surrender," the morning organ represents that of "prudence and concession." It is within the range of possibility that the emphatically expressed opinions of the eminent peers we have mentioned, and the known, though not expressed, opinions of the influential statesmen in the Lower House, may prevent the conflict which we should alike deplore and dread. It is for these able men to make use of the short time that has to elapse before the die is cast. It is for' them to counteract the mischief which may be done during the next few days by incendiary orators spouting treason under the auspices of the quondam leader of the " Constitutional " party. 6-7-V?-ifr-,- i t. -7' '22q,414:341,11b ki..74 1 );Pl.l f t . ! , 414 COT 4 s HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE } June 7. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High. nesses Princess Louise, Prince Christian, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with their suite, attended Divine service yesterday in the parish church of Crathie. FUNERAL OF LORD BROUGHT ON THIS DAY. This morning the mortal remains of Lard Broughton were removed from his late residence in Berkeley. square, and finally deposited in his family vault at Kensal-green. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. T. and W. Banting, upholsterers to her Majesty, St. James's-street. The p incipal mourners, the It, v. Lord. Thomas Hay, M.A., the Rev. F. Fane, 1`.4.A., Marquis of 'I weed: Lori William Hay, Colonel the P. Carleton, Colonel the Hon. S. Jocelyn, Thornai Ilobhouse, Eq., besides a number of miblemen. The coffin was covered with superfine black c'oth, and silver gilt ornaments. Inscription plate bore the following Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hob house, Baron Broughton of Broughton, Giffard Co., Wilts, P.C., G.C.13., Colonel Royal Wilts Militia. Borne June 27, 1786. Died June 3, 1869." THE AT CORK. A Cork correspondent telegraphs that a Fenian demon s:ration took place in the Athenaeum last night on the occa sion of a lecture and recitation being given. Seditious poet) y was recited by a person named O'Connor, who criped himself as "an Irishman hoping and trusting for the day when The significant rause was r. ce'vt , cl with loud cheers, and the audience stood up and uncovered while the lecturer recited "Who fears to ep ak of ninety-eight?" and received the opening line of "God's curse upon the Saxon" with a vigorous "Amen." At the close of the proceedings the whole assembly sang the Fenian anthem, "God save Irelend." A vote of thanks to the lecturer Ives proposed by Mr. O'Mahony, a releasel Fenian. Some detectives in the room were de nounced and threseened. IRISH CHURCH DEMONSTRATIONS. On Monday a demonstration in connection with the Pem berton District Constitutional Association was held at Orrell-Mount. A resolution in favour of a petition was passed, and the chairman was authorised to forward it to Lord Derby for presentation. The expression of opinion at the meeting was very Strong. One of the speakers said the relative position of the Roman Catholic party and Mr• Gladstone bore a striking resemblance to that of the re ceiver and thief. On the same night a meeting, to which admission was given by ticket, was held in the Assembly-rooms, Halifax, in opposition to the Irish Church Bill. The Rev Prebendary Cross, vicar of Eyrecourt, county Galway, Ireland, in a long address, replete with the stock arguments against th• bill, proposed a resolution urging it as the duty of English men to support the Lords in rejecting the bill. The Rev. W. R. Bowditch, M.A., of Wakefield, in seconding the reso lution, made some rather singular statements—such as that Mr. Gladstone never intended that the bill should pass, and that, if it did pass, it would cause rebellion in Ireland, and sympathetic action in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Scotland. The resolution was, of course, carried. THE CONFERENCE ON THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC LAWS. -610- This conference was resumed on Tuesday, at the Society of Arts, Adelphi. Sir Harcourt Johnstone, M. P., occupied the chair, and most of the gentlemen present on the for mer day again attended. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the members of the con ference on the passing of the third reading of Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson's bill on the previous night, and described the bill as the first nail in the coffin of the old system. With regard to what the conference had done on the previous day, he scarcely thought a licensing board of ratepayers would be the licensing power authorised by the House of Commons. No doubt some change now was needed in the present system. The subject left for discussion from the day before would be continued, namely, "The relative advan tage of one uniform license for all excisable liquors, as recommended by the parliamentary committee of 1854, or of separate licenses for beer only, wine only, beer and spirits, beer, spirits, and wine. Also the expe diency, or otherwise, of entrusting licenses to houses of a low rental and rating," and to that would be added the subject selected for that morning, viz., "The functions of the licensing power; whether the trade should be open, as recommended by the committee of 1854, or restricted. It the former, under what conditions?" The discussion was then continued. Mr. T. ITEmor spoke in favour of pale ale as a less 41coholic and injurious Leverage than those generally con sumed. Mr. FRANK TorrEn advocated one uniform license, with s ower to the holders of public-houses to enforce order and trevent drunkenness. Earl Spenc::r left Dublin on Tuesday for London. The General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church commenced its annual deliberation on Monday, and the Bev. Professor Smyth, Magee College, Derry, was elected Moderator for the ensuing year. In his address he condemned the disendowment of the Church. There was a larger attendance of elders than at any former meeting. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REU'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) ANILRICA. NEW YORK, June 8. The Cunard steamship Scotia arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday. The Anchor steamship Britannia, the Allan steamship Nestorian, and the National steamship Denmark arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 139-; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 139-1; the lowest, 1381. - Sterling Exchange on London lO9B. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 " 1885 ll3. 44 " 1807 l2O. 10-40 44 Illinois Eric 29a. Cotton—Mil upland 3lc. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra sta'e, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, $9.7c. PLYMOUTH, June 9. the ship Lansdowne, from Melbourne for Lon don, arrived off this port this morning. She landed three passengers by pilot boat, and proceeded. SOUTIIA3IPTON, June 9. The North German Lloyd steamer Hansa, from New York, on the 29. h ult., arrived here this morning with 48 passengers, $ 1 .15,451 in specie, and a large cargo for Bremen. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS. MEssiNA, June 9. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Fera passed Messina at 2.30 this morning en route for Marseilles. INDIA. BOMBAY, June 8. The outward mail arrived to-day, having suffered a break down on the passage through the Red Sea. News from the north state that Nizam Khan end Abdooe Kahinan have further proceeded into the interior of Persia, and arrived at Tehern, despair ing, as it is asserted, of being able to mend their fortunes. The reforms Shere Ali intends to introduce in Afghanista❑ are very important. The army is to be remodelled, and a regular police established. Citizens will be forbidden to carry anns. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, April 25, (T'ia Brindisi.) The mails of February were delivered here en the 16th inst. On the opening of Parliament after the Ester recess the members were occupied with a discussion on the report of the Bribery Committee. The re sult is, that Mr. Jones, late Minister for Railways, has been expelled the Houte, and also Mr. Butters, the ex-Mayor of Melbourne. Others are expected to follow. A conference of members of the various Colonial Chambers of Commerce will take place on the 3d of May, with a view to establish a customs union between the Colonies, and ultimately to bring about inter-colonial free trade. The Liverpool ship Hurricane arrived in this port on the 22d inst., and whilst in charge of the pilot grounded at the entrance of the bay. She foundered about an hour afterwards in six and a half fathoms of water. There were no lives lost, but it is feared the ship will be a total loss. The underwriters, however, have resolved not to aban don the cargo, which will be raised and forwarded to the consignees. The s!eamer Investigator, with the Sarniajan Telegraph Cable, arrived o❑ the 15th instant, and proceeded on the 22d to Wes ern Port, where she landed the Victorian shore end, and started on the same day. When, however, 130 miles had been submerged a storm came on, and it was found necessary to cut the cable and buoy it. There is every prospect of its speedy recovery and completion. There is no news of importance respecting the New Zealand war, but the rebels are being very hard pressed by the colonial forces. Her Majesty's ship Galatea, commanded by hii Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, sailed from Sydney on the 3d lust. for Wellington. The drought has broken up all over the colony, and has been succeeded by some beautiful growing weather. The first quarter's revenue returns shows an in crease of £50,000 over the corresponding period last year, or a total increase for the year of £90,000. The Roman Catholic bishops have held a Pro visional Council in Melbourne during the last fort night. Eight bishops and a large number of priests were present. It is understood that the laws re lating to marriage and education were the subjects of consultation. Captain B. R. Mathews, Lloyd's agent at this port, is dead. Exchange on London is one per cent. premium at 60 days. Discount is unaltered. In Sydney the Parliament was prorogued by pro clamation in the Government Gazette on the Ist of April. The revenue returns of the first quarter show a decrease of £32,592 from the corresponding quarter of last year. The wool market is depressed, and shipments of tallow have ceased. The Government promises extensive retrench ments during the recess. At Brisbane the Queensland Parliament has been prorogued. There have also been discovered extensive defal cations in the Government Department. The steamer Himalaya has sailed from Adelaide for London with the 50th Regiment on board. Arrivals at Melbourne—The Liucolnshire, Borro daile, Great Britain, after a journey of 63 days; also the Derana, Investigator, Gulins, Hurricane, Kent ; at Sydney, the Esmeralda, Shathden, Queen of the Colonies, Flying Spur, Scythes, Araby Maid ; at Adelaide, Prince Arthur, Terpsichore, George SLottou, Fontenaigne. Departures from Mel bourne— City of Vien na, An g lesea, and White Rose. FRANCE. BOURSE, June B.—Three o'clock--The market elmed as follows : Bank Shares 2900 Itr,Fan Fives ; -)7 40 End of month.„ Mexican Loan Do. Bends Spanish Threes 3G 50 Dome Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans 41 per Cont. En iof month.- t• Gent End of month 7l 50 erndit.Mobilier TEnd of month 255 Crodit Foncier 1625 End of month — orthern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 617 k Western 585 Eastern .. Sardinian Austrian Lombard 515 North of Spain :Saragossa Utoman 65 TILE GEATERAL ELECTIONS IN TRANCE. ',FROM OUR OWN coursroNDENT.) PARIS, TrESDAY, The battle is finally over. VVith the exception of a few re-elections in cases where one deputy has been returned for two constituencies— and these cannot in any way affect the relative strength of parties—the great contest is at an end. The returns are complete, and the relative terms on which the Emperor and his foes will compet efor the next six years may now be estimated. The second balloting has greatly increased the strength of the Opposition. Nevertheless the victory has not been so com plete as was expected. The Government has snatched a good many seats from the fire, and the corpse of many a stout Opposition candidate strews the field of battle. The Liberals have to regret the defeat of M. Lavertujon in the Gironde, M. Cranieux in the DD)me, MM. Taxile Delord and Gent in the Vaucluse, M. E. Pelletan in the Bouches-du-Rhone, M. Jules Simon in the Herault, and of others whom it expected to secure as members of the Corps Legislatif. But there is much consolation even in some of these unexpected reverses. If the Liberals have not gained seats, they have won votes. All over France the contest has been remarkably close and desperate. In places where the Government won with scarcely an effort in former years, the utmost tightening of the screw has but just enabled the prefects to save their men by the skin of their teeth. 16,086 and 15,800 ; 15,457 and 15,088 ; 13,085 and 12,638; 10,394 and 10,357 (won by five !) ; 13,798 and 13,079 ; 13,189 and 12,926 are some, but not all, the respective numbers which will give you an idea of the desperate strait to which Imperialism has been reduced. The numbers polled, even more than the increase of the Opposition deputies, decisively prove that France has-really awakened from her long slumber. The votes given at the first balloting were largely in excess of former years, and it is noteworthy that fully the same large proportion of electors have pre sented themselves at the second ballot. In England the rule is that a second re-election shews a falling off in the number of votes recorded. Here there has been no falling off, in several cases rather the other way. On the whole the proportion which the electors polling bear to those inscribed on the register has been larger than the same proportion in England. This settles the question as to the popular interest felt in the contest. What has been the net result of the fifty-nine circum scriptions in which the second balloting has been found necessary ? The Government has carried twenty-four. The Opposition has been successful in thirty-four cases. From one. of, the Finisterre circumscriptions the result is notyet arrived. These figures, you will doubtless perceive, do not quite accord with those published by the authorities ; but, as I have before said, the authorised figures are to be taken with salt. The official organs state that so many candidates supported or not opposed by the prefects, and so many candidates opposed, have been elected. This is not a satisfactory mode of calculation. For instance, in Paris two battles were fought between Rochefort and Jules Favre, and Raspail and Garnier-Paes, the Government not opposing any of these, simply because it was useless to do so. The question is, how many Imperialists and how many Liberals have been returned ? and to this question I answer 24 and 34. To estimate the full strength of the Opposition in the whole House is more difficult. Several deputies who have been elected have been claimed by both sides. One very fair calculation gives 24 Opposition deputies and 37 hide pendents or Third Party men, as the number returned at the first balloting. Add to these the number 34, just elected, And the full strength of the Oppo sition of all shades amounts to 95 ! But, as I have said before, all these are not to be relied on to oppose the Empire on a great many questions. But some highly important reforms will be supported by the entire strength of this formidable minority, whilst the Opposi tion proper can seldom fail to fall below eights votes. This is, indeed, a great change on the state of things prevailing in the last Chamber. The triumph of the Liberals is great, and it is all the more satisfactory, because the ultra-Republicans will not muster so formidably as was expected. The people of France deserve all credit for their decision at this juncture. The disagreeable topic of riots once more intrudes itself upon notice. There were some serious disturbances on the boulevards last night, and the authorities did not fail to make the most of them by arresting a large number of persons—about 130 altogether. I have no desire to diminish the gravity of these disturbances, but undoubtedly the police have behaved badly. The tumults were not such as to warrant 130 arrests. Too much intervention has again produced the ordinary effect. It appears that the tumults chiefly broke out in the Quartier Latin—the circumscription in which Jules Favre and Rochefort contended. Many of the supporters of the latter, irritated at the defeat of their candidate, gathered round the office of the Rappel—the journal which supported Rochefort—in the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre. They undoubtedly did indulge in cries of " Vive Rochefort !" and "A bas Jules Favre !" but the Patric states that they entered the cafjs and indulged in personal conflicts with the occupants, which I think hardly likely. The police en deavoured to keep up the circulation of the crowd, and their ordering and pushing seem to have brought about some little struggles, of which the result was 130 arrests. Considering that all the districts in which the contests took place were crowded to excess with people, a little excitement might have been expecte'l. Certainly cries of " Vive Rochefort !" cannot be held to justify this wholesale incarceration ; and be yond these cries the mob really did nothing. There were disturbances is other parts of Paris, but very slight. The Quartier Latin was the great centre of the effervescence. At Bordeaux and Nantes there have been some outbreaks. 7.11 E LORDS AND THE BILL. 11 , - The Globe says that the Times is mistaken in supposing that there is any wavering on the part of the peers who determined on Saturday to vote against the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. The Globe contends that the question of disestablishing a Church is widely different from a Reform Bill ; for while the House of Commons was entitled to have its decision respected with regardtoits own constitution, the Lords are bound to defend such an institution as the National Church. The fact that the Liberal journals have already declared that any amendments made by the Lords will be rejected by the Commons, renders it useless for the Upper House to amend the bill in com mittee. "The Peers are told they must yield; the hymn of triumph is already shouted over them, and they wish at least to meet the danger in front, and fall, if fall they must, like men." The London correspondent of the Western Daily Press telegraphs that should the Lords persist in their deter mination to throw out the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Glad stone intends, by the end of the month, to ask the Queen for leave to prorogue Parliament, and to give him power to create, if necessary, new peers. In the event of being refused he will resign, and Mr. Disraeli will be sent for. It is intended, on the rejection of the bill, to move to limit the supplies to two months, so that Disraeli could not dissolve the House ; then a vote of no confidence could be immediately moved. Mr. Gladstone would not exercise the power, supposing the Sovereign accedes, to call the younger sons of Liberal peers to the Upper House unless the Lords throw out the bill a second time. The same correspondent says the Marquis of Salisbury will speak for the second reading of the bill and vote against it. A rumour is afloat (says the Echo) that the Archbishop of Canterbury has advised the members of the Episcopal Bench not to resist the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. TILE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICUL• TUBE. A meeting of the Central Chamber was held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., in the chair. Among those present were Lord Egerton of Tatton, Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., Hon. G. W. Milles, M.P., Major-General Herbert, M.P., Mr. Corrance, M.P., Mr. W. M'Combie, M.P., Mr. W. D. Fordyce, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett, M.P., Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Mr. S. W. Clowes, M.P., Mr. D. Chadwick, M.P., Mr. W. Parker, M.P., Mr. Cornwall Legh, M.P., Mr. W. Hodgson Barron, M.P., Colonel Brise, M.P., Mr. Edmund Turnor, M.P. Mr. W. J. Leith, M.l'., Messrs. Clay, Duckham, Masfer, Blich, Varden, Captain Craigie, R. J. More, H. Neiht, Myott, Long, Jabez, Turner, Stratton, &c. After the usual preliminary business, Sir MAssEv LOPES, M.P., read the report of the Local Taxation Corn• mittee, of which he is chairman. A sum of upwards of £2OO had been promised to carry on the agitation ; and the utmost interest in the object of the committee had been manifested from all parts of the country. MAsFEN (Staffordshire) proposed---" That this Chamber re-affirms its resolutions of April Gth as to the provisions essential for tendering the Contagious Diseases (Animals) (No. 2) Bill acceptable to the agriculturists of the kingdom ; and considers that, if the moderate amend ments of which Mr. C. S. Read has given notice should fail to be carried, the most determined opposition should be given to the bill." Mr. WILLsoN (Leicestershire), in seconding the motion, expressed his entire approval of it.—The resolution was passed, as was also one authorising a petition to be pre seated in favour of Mr. Clare Sewell Read's amendments to the bill. An attempt to make preaching legal in the public krlo of liiTerPo9l Lao been defeated by the Town Council THE .ENGLISH CHURCH UNION AYD ITS OPT OXENTS. to The English Church anion has been making overtures the Church Association, which, if accepted, would have Pipe d together . the rival societies in a crusade against ration alise]. The Eon. C. L. Wcod recently made a proposal to the Council of tho Church Association that the societies should jointly raise the sum of £l,OOO to present to the Archbishop of York to assist in defraying the expenses of the suit instituted against Mr. Voysey. This joint action, it was urged by Mr. Wood, would be "a token 093 wbotever d.fferonce may unhappily have divided our t," societies we recognise in them only an additional inc entive for united action where it may bo had in the hop e that such co-operation in defence of truths common to us both, may tend to allay the strife and soften those differences which are so infinitely hurtful to th e Church of Christ." The chairman of the Church Association in reply expresses his "opinion that as the Church Union has been actively engaged in promoting the errors and Per versions of our Reformed Church which the Church Asso ciation was instituted to resist any idea of co-operation between two societies having such opposite objects see ra e, nndavisable, and adds for himself "that with every feelelg of personal respect" for Mr. Wood he " should decline e e a loyal Churchman any association with the body e /e . i r which he regrets that Mr. Wood presides. The Council of the Church Association, when the matter was brougbt be : ford them, agreed in " the views expressed in their chain -012' letter.' When the idea of joint action was found to be ir tl. practicable the Council of the E.C.U. offered for themeel lee the sum of £5OO to the Archbishop, but his grace writes in reply, "Calling to mind the proceedings of the ChUrch Un l°/1 . Society, and of some of its members who appeared to r eprese; it, and have not been disowned, towards me in my diffielll office for two or three years past, I find myself u nable °, accept as an appropriate sequel to them this largo gift ot money. I will therefore beg leave to decline with than. the liberal proposal of that society." PARLIAMEA TA RY AND MUNICIPA.I ELECTIONS COMMITTEE. At the sitting of this ciiilmittee on Tuesday, some interest' ing evidence was given as to the employment of troops, Irish elections, by Lieuten an t-G enera l M c M u rdoch. 13 said according to law a soldier was not allowed to 11Je his arms on any provocation without the C Oni . ; mand of his superior. Believed that in TiPP erl " if there were no troops a great many persons would r efrsio from voting, that was supposing the ballot did not exist. Believed the priests could do a great deal towards keeping . the mob quiet if they liked. The police might be pear away with if people had an opportunity of voting 13e L f their own homes. It was not always that the attscs, were made in towns ; it often happened in the countri: Did not believe there would be mob violence and intl6l 2 . dation if people voted near home, though there would° landlord intimidation still existing. Bringing the ini lll3ll ll to an election was like holding a red rag to a 1) % It was the feeling of the voters when being convele under escort that they were being taken like prisoner:. When called out to a riot the soldiers acted as eitizen b ; but as soldiers when escorting voters. There was no d °u n that soldiers were placed in a "cruelly false P° si l l° , - ; The attacks on convoys during late years had " e ",,, exceedingly well organised, and they selectedproper pas from which to attack the troops which were acting ' were convoys. He believed the majority of voters coerced. He believed even with the Ballot persons 011°12 vote near home, By Mr. Bright : Was a Protestant. By Sir Michael Beach : Some of the voters were W ive Irish miles from the polling places. POINT OF DIVORCE LAW. AO. A case which, as Baron Penzance observed, s hould "la ve the greatest publi c ity g i ven t o it, came on in the Disc°e A Court on Tuesday. A man had successfully petition% the court for a dissolution of marriage on the ground e t. ll ,: t wife's adultery. The decree nisi had been pronounced' between that period and the time wheh it should bavel)Aeene made absolute, the petitioner was married, after giving notice of banns, &c., to another woman. The Attorner, General appeared for the Queen's Proctor, an d alleg e(' adultery that by his action the petitioner had committed and bigamy, and was therefore not entitled to have h is deere i: made absolute. Mr. Inderwick, for the pe titioner, s 3idj) client was an ignorant man, and appeared personalbr.% the trial, and when the decree nisi was pronounced,,ne imagined that his first marriage was fully ann ulled. acted with perfect bond fidesin the matter,and did uot con-egie his second marriage. Lord Penzance said th at as 3 ignorance was no excuse for an illegal act, and the P e c ; tioner had no doubt committed adultery. The Div°l. Court had certainly a discretionary power and the p etition !) appeared to have acted perfectly bona' fide, and he (th e f t ell" :e thought that his decree should be made absolute. t t- same time the Queen's Proctor was right in bringieg, t) matter before the court, and too much publicity cold ( ' " be given to the proceedings. THE ABYSSINIAN MASSACRE The Times publishes " the only authentic accoulitt' the massacre in Abyssinia. It is contained in t wo letteros, the one signed "A Meazett," and dated from efris. Bagos,Abyssinia, May 3, and the other signed The first corare zinger,'' . and dated Massowah, May 7. is as follows :—" I take the pen, munication • in consequence . of very sad news which have reaelle us in the last three days, and which have tijr0 • 1111 us and the village of Kerim into consternatie; I beg . you will inform M. Macerer that his brothe r 11 ,.. g h i s 800, ul been killed, as well as Mr. Powell, his wife servant, a Swedish missionary just arrived from I • ll.° lL iie r : and . three Abyssinians, whom Mr. Powell had ta-e 's with him in passing through Kerim, to Pu rlitle A b b v i e ight elephant hunt. There only remain seven or sinian servants who have been spared, two of Avh °w : reached Kerim wounded, bringing us this painf ul 'll Celli' at 00 ,0 flo gence. It appears from the version given by these Macerer . had had a dispute with some people of the 1331 :: ‘ , 1 0 14 tribe (about four days from this place); that the,' "' ter advantage of his going to reconnoitre a place where Nc a ' was found, in company with Mr. Powell's servants and hearts() a the Swedish missionary, to effect ' their murder, witli°llo/ their being able to defend themselves. Being fearful afterwards that Mr. Powell would punish them , " - ne t came and slaughtered himself, his wife, his son', e three Abyssinians, in his tent. They, then Pi l ts. all that they could find ; having spared some kfi-eti, sinian servants, they sold two mules and five t We await from day to day the servants, who are st"'; Konnamat, for more precise details. At his molv e t Munzinger, the Consul at Massowah, has no know- of this affair ; he will hear of it in three days' tinie't,l3•llll he will not be astonished, for, from his acquaintance the country, he had dissuaded Mr. Powell from -111-013 i no there. The Bazaine tribe is in rebellion. The EgYPt iall° „ol o ravaging now to bring it into subjection, as thesePelis un t Europeans incur neither acco wish to belong to Abyssinia nor to Egypt' Munzinger, having advice of this event in his caP 3cit L o a consul, will be obliged to repair to the spot with °' is great danger. We think that of escort.. I shall not be behind in following him' fcir our interest as Europeans to avenge severely these 11- f° 43 tanate victims, or there would be Abyssinia. Macerer was wrong in persuading Jr.l been to the elephant hunt in this country as he 133 ",,,Pa1it advised to go to Ailette, a day's journey from INlD' ss ., - ber o a quiet country, where there are at this moment lit'i,ots of elephants, lions, rhinoceros, &c • only the el e P il ia - its anendofall secuviti have small tusks, while in the Bazaine count,* t he)? -11 enormous." THE BIRTH OF THE COUNT DE FrAII"' VV C; Brussels letter in the Journal de Liege g ives the ' 0101 - i details on the birth of the Belgian prince:-111 caused to the Royal Family by the safe deliverY the Co untess de Flandre has been all the greater tr. accouchement was a difficult one. The labour lotedtv;etlitlie four hours. The high dignitaries summoned to a tt i - n - r of birth had been waiting for a long time when the s the patient's chamber suddenly opened, and the ‘ 4 . 0 53 e 0C came out with a radiant countenance, exclaiming , via happiness, ee gentlemen, it is a boy !, Her goj esl ., for b g t e ob e e . thFeofirrsttheperson moment to only p rOVS. o unce t'n o 01 tUn n at a e n i x n iu t o el intel li gence. he process -verbal was drawn up ; but the Act declarivga-ge6 birth was subsequently prepared by the same Pers(ftde that had been invited to the palace o f the Cotw"ii,lll Flandre. The young prince is to tae for his 1 1 , : ilt cls na me that of Baudouin, and his title will be the ti Hainaut." 'f he difficulty between the President of the 1 3 °, r , n oi iin T a r t a e d d e . and the Liverpool Local Marino Board t er' examination a o t s i e o , n i t fo l r y illlllahtee.renuleitolLienreeindb, c o l u s t o o f f t t h li e e i c ,o . °o allowed 3' examinations to ho conducted the °_ ll , !„ c examiners, and struck out the words "in our prOe.n``:. „os the certificates. hey were paid for their attendance a t ttt' iit .nsib ations, and for this reason (so it was stated)3lr. Pribbe l I'ted that they should attend the examtnations. 51. ofrefused and r es i g ned. It now appears that the 12 Mein:l3/ the board have £lO4 divided amongst them. r°r° years the payment was declined altogether, and only accepted on the repeated urgings of the Board of '; Mr. Bright now acknowledges that he was in error, al:1"o presses a hope that they will resume their function. to the Local Board remain upon their dignity. They ele ctiv e accept accept their offices again—those of them who fro e , e ho rn members, except at the hands of the electors froni be, they received_ the trust. A fresh election. therefore vi'L necessary, at leng