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Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. . ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfel.aik, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Wnclaye, 6d. Children under twelre, 6d. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1869. A discreditable letter has recently appeared, under the signature of JOSHUA FIELDEN, in which the sin of the late member for Oldham, the some time col league (in the representation of that Lancashire borough) of WILLIAIt COBBETT, makes a spiteful but utterly futile attack upon the fair fame of the generous-hearted nobleman, long popularly known under his courtesy title as Lord ASHLEY, but for the last eighteen years as the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. The occasion selected for this attack is, everything con sidered, rather oddly meal-a-propos. It is in reference to that speech of Lord SHAFTEssuny's on Saturday, the 15th inst., upon which we have already com mented—the speech delivered by him on the in auguration or uncovering of the statue erected to the memory of RICHARD OASTLER as one of the well known champions of the famous Ten-Hours' Factory Act of Parliament. Now, if anything whatever was conspicuously remarkable in that, in every way remarkable, speech of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S, it was most certainly this—that the noble lord went out of his way to award full honour and credit to every individual, by name, who had in anyway participated in thelabour of furthering and advancing i during a pro tracted series of years,through good repo rkand through evil report, that, memorable and beneficent measure. Lord SHAFTESBURY in noway arrogated to himself the reputation, we might even say the veneration, which, in its regard, is very assuredly his due. Everyone else he had a good word for, but in respect to himself, and his awn labours, he was—as best became him— scrupulously silent. The enormous audience be was then addressing, were there simply to do honour to the memory of one man—RICHARD OASTLER. Lord SHAFTESBURY was there as the most fitting person to give utterance to the popular feeling in regard to the name and fame of that histori cal benefactor of Factory Labourers, and espe ci.illy of Factory Children. To do honour to Rtc HARD OASTLER'S memory alone, how ever, was not enough for the generous heart of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. And, hence, as we have said, during the course of his anything but egotis- tical speech on the 15th instant, the noble lord most carefully enumerated, one after another, with earnest words of commendation, more or less appro priate to each of them in turn, all those who, in the good work referred to, had co-operated in bringing it eventually to its successful completion. Among others, Lord SHAFTESBURY mentioned, with suitable words of praise, the name of the late Mr. JOHN FIELDEN, formerly M.P. for Oldham, in Lan casbire. And for this—with a very singular dis play of filial zeal—Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN, the writer of the letter we aro just now referring to, has fallen foul, not merely of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, but of his former self, that Lord ASHLEY with whose honoured name more intimately than another name that could be mentioned, not even excepting RICHARD OASTLER'S, certainly not except ing the late Mr. FIELDEN'S, the triumph of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill will henceforth be always asso ciated. What appears to have prculiarly excited the ill feeling of Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN, inducing him, there. upon, to make this indecorous attack upon the Earl SHAFTESBURY, is this, that the Earl, in the course of his speech on the 15th inst., remarked that JOHN FIELDEN was ever with him, and that in consequence of his being so, a certain joke was passed upon him, which he, Lord SHAFTESBURY, would relate his hearers. "JOHN FIELDEN," said the Ea s rl oPSHAFTEs- BURT, " invariably followed his propositions on the Ten Hours' Bill; he (the noble Earl) was, therefore, to a certain extent, a leader, and had, to a certain extent, a following ; and the remark was this is Lord SHAFTESBURY, he has got no tail, he is like a rabbit, be has only got a scut !' That was the irreverent way in which his excellent friend was spoken of, but his services were invaluable." That harmless just, it is—not Lord SH AFTESBURY'S remem ber! but one which years ago had been bandied about at the Clubs and in the lobbies of the House of Com mons—thatitis which bas so irritated Mr JOSHUA FIE L- DEN! That is what sticks in his gizzard—that is what stinks in his nostrils ! That little good-humoured joke about the scut of the rabbit Witnessing, what we have already designated, the really discreditable on- slaught which thereupon, made by Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN upon the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, one can't help remembering, upon the instant, that succulent couplet of POPE'S in his Imitations from Horace— " 0, blast it, south winds ! let a stench exhale, Rank as the ripeness of a rabbit's tail." The flavour of the joke, to Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN'S palate, is not only intolerable, it is:for all the world like a nibble at the " insane root" sung of by the poet—it seems to have had an effect upon his judg ment little less than maddening. Reading his com ments, thereupon, one might almost be disposed to believe, if Memory, and Hansard, and History were not here to tell us very distinctly otherwise—one , night almost, but for that, be disposed to believe, for the moment, that the 'very last man to have had any. thing to do with the furtherance, much more with the ulterior triumph of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill was LiOrd ASHLEY, otherwise Lord SHAFTESBURY ! That he Author of the Bill, in point of fact, was he late Mr. JOHN FIELDEN ! That the Enemy of the Bill—that it's arch-antagonist —was Lord THE SUN, LONDON, M)NDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1869, RYSTAL PALACE.—The GREAT DISPLAY J of FIREWORKS and ILLUMINATION of the FOUNTAINS will take place at Nine o'clock precisely THIS EVENING. Reserved Stalls may bo secured by telegram to the Ticket-office, Central Entrance, Crystal Palace. CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY and EVEN ING.—COMBINED FETE and GRAND DIS PLAY of FIREWORKS, and magnificent ILLUMINA TION of FOUNTAINS, THIS DAY (Monday), May 24. The Dragon Troupe of Japanese, having met with such marked success, will give a Special Evening Entertain ment, including all their principal feats. This troupe can oily appear in England up to Friday next, and this will also be the only opportunity for witnessing their great feats late in the afternoon. The Palace will be opened as usual at ... ... 10. 0 The Orchestral Band, the Coldstream Guards Band, and Organ, at intervals up to ... . 4. 0 Mr. E. T. Smith's Burlesque, " Blue Beard," at 4.30 The Great Dragon Troupe of Japanese horn 6.30 until 8. 0 Grand Fireworks and Illumination of Fountains 9. 0 Palace Brilliantly Illuminated for Promenade until . 10.30 The Fireworks will be on the most unusual scale of splendour. Particular attention may be directed to the newly-erected immense Fire Cascade—nearly 211,000 square feet of the most brilliant and dazzling golden fire, falling from a height of 120 feet, surmounted by a brilliant " chevaux de frise" in silver. The Illumination of the Water Temples while in full play will be found a feature of peculiar.interest, present ing a favourable contrast to the architectural temples and devices prepared with so much cost for the Italian Fetes last year on the Marriage of Prince Humbert. The Sister Magnesium Balloons, lighting up the Palace and landscape in the most extraordinary manner. The Golden Birch Tree, an entirely new device. Its introduction for the first time on this occasion may be looked for as introducing an entirely novel and pleasing effect in pyrotechny. The Spiral Star and Gold Piece, another novelty. Saucissons, gold and silver rain shells, mammoth parti coloured shells, with new colours, fiery comet from lofty water tower, and grand illumination of fountains while playing to their fullest height, intermingled with batteries of Roman candles, and terminating with a bouquet of 2,000 rockets and shells, will present a spectacle of un usual magnificence, taxing to the utmost the success f u l efforts of Messrs. Brock and Co., of Nunhead, the, Com pany's able pyrotechnists. These displays are always more beautiful, as well as more enjoyable, when the foliage and verdure are in their freshest condition ; the Park and Garde ns were never i n a more l ovely state than now. Extra railway trains on all lines leading to the Palace ; but visitors should avail themselves of early trains. Spe cials from Kensington at 7 and 8, returning at 10 and 10.30 to Kensington, where specials to Moorgate, Euston, clic.. will meet them. 1a...1130 ttnlus depal Ltli Admission by payment, as. ; guinea season tickets free. -TA N ► SUIT. ' ASHLEY, DOW t/3 Earl of SHAFTESBURY! Nay, all this is so fiaiantly set forth, in apparently sober serioumesso Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN'S astound ing letter, that tha gentleman has actually the effron tery to say, towrds the close of his preposterous vituperations, " I annot complain of Lord SHAFTES BURY for doing hoour to the memory of RICHARD OASTLER, but it shall have been done in sackcloth and ashes I" Now, the i:decency of this attack upon Lord SHAFTESBURY is oiy matched by its absurdity. To deny him the honor of having been the first and for most amon2;all;thepDmoters of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill, would be abort as nonsensical as it woald be to deny to Mr. CoBD:N the glory of having achieved the triumph of Free Trade ! As it would b 2 to gain - say WATT'S right b be regarded as the pirfect er of the Steam Engie ! As it would be to discredit Old GEORGE STEIHENSON'S claim to be looked. upon as the fabricator of the It )cket Locomotive ! Ask tie factory population—Who was the Victor in the ight for and against the Ten Hours' Factory lill ? And nine hut - Orel and ninety nine out o every thousand will tell you —Lord ASHLEY, Ileaning Lord SHAFTESBURY ! Not RICHARD OASTLEA, not JOHN Fr ELDEN —strenously and iobly though they and others laboured in the caust—but Lord ASHLEY, now (as he has been for eighteenyears past) the Earl of SHAFTES BURY. That is the popular conviction. And—as JUNIUS said in the last century—" The people are seldom wrong in their opinions —in their sentiments, nerer !" The sentiment cherished throughout the factory districts is certainly this, that to Lord SHAFTESBURY more particularly than to any other individual is attribttable the triumph of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. A witness as to what the sentiment wa?, in that particular case, beforo the triumph While the parliamentary battle w as still raging —a dispassionate and a perfectly credible witness, it is really worth while, at this moment, that we shouldadduce. We turn to one, therefore, who speaks —not expost facto,but—at the time, now three and twenty years ago. A popular novelist of that day, then writing in the early bloom of youth, and speaking out of the earnestness of a gentle heart, in tensely sympathising with the over-worked factory folk, but especially with the poor little children, wrote, in 1846, thus—the words occur at p. 220, in volume ii., of " Evelyn Stuart ; or, Might versus Right," writ ten under the pseudonym of ADRIAN, a three volume novel published by Mr. BENTLEY— " Sir James Graham's New Factory Bill had now come to the third reading ; but before it passed that stage, Lord Ashley made another impressive appeal in favour of his Ten Hours' Bill. He was now certein of defeat, yet he spoke with confuknce of victory. It has often, been his to tail on for man y years of dtijiculty and disappointment, yet he has always con quered at last, and knowing this measure to be really good and beneficial, he jilt sure of a like success, though perhaps at a distant day." And so on ---not only at that particular portion of the narrative, but throughout " EVELYN STUART," passim, in regard to Lord ASHLEY and the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. The date of the novel, as legibly printed at the foot of the title-page of the copy now lying at our elbow, being-1846. And yet, now, in 1869, three and twenty years afterwards—Mr. JGSHUA FIELDEN has the effrontry to talk of Lord SHAFTESB URY clothing himself in " sackcloth and ashes" when inaugurating the OAsrLER monument ! Sackcloth and ashes, for sooth ! Those symbols will henceforth bo only associ ated in this matter of the Ten Hours' Factory Act with the hitherto honoured name of FIELDEN. While the Palm of Victory will be recognise] as, more securely than ever, in the grasp of LDrd SHAFTESBURY—to whom (all these years after his most memorable success as a philanthropist) " GOD bless you !" was called aloud on the 15th inst., by so many of the factory labourers, men and women, and —sweetest of all in his ears—by the tender voices of the little factory children he, more undoubtedly than anyother individual whose name coul I be mentioned has had the great happiness of helping to emancipate IF we were to credit some of our contemporaries, there is a sort of general conspiracy on the part of our rulers to prevent the lower classes from gong to ll' , antY.S. It is urged that we have been tyranni cally interfering to prevent the drunkard from getting drunk, and now we are displaying our despotic tendencies by putting hindrances in the way of the better ruining himself by gambling. All this shews great cruelty ; the more so because it is only the weak that we venture to. treat in this harsh manner. We dare not rescue the patrician from the devil. It is only the plebeian who has to submit to that wrong. And yet we call this a free country—a country in which the rich and the poor , are equal. The latest grumble of this sort is to be found in the Daily Telegraph. Our contemporary, after turn ing out the encyclopaedia in order to give the history of gambling, goes on to complain of the recent police raids upon certain betting " specs." These " specs " are really lotteries. Lotteries are forbidden by law, and that law the new Metropolitan Chief of Police is determined to enforce. But, says the Telegraph, why not interfere with TATTERSALL'S ? The " Corner" is as much a beting-place as any City or East-end public-house. The reply that the law gives power in the one case but not in the other does not satisfy the Telegraph. This reply means only that the law is made by the rich for the benefit of the rich, that benefit being, as we have said, the right of the rich to ruin themselves. The Tele graph would have the htw altered ; ,would have it made the same for all. Apparently, our contem porary would level up, rather than level down---- would put the City clerk and the small tradesman in the same desirable position as the Guardsman and the peer plunger. In this land of liberty every man ought to be at liberty to ruin himself in the best and shortest way. There must be no unfair obtstacles put on the steep incline down to the Lake of Avernus. We should scarcely be prepared to accept this theory under any circumstances. If there is to be a levelling movement of any kind, we would rather see it in the opposite direction—would rather shut up TATTERSALL'S and the Grand Stand than open an unlimited number of "Deptford Specs." True, the gambling which goes on there is not much worse than that which takes place in the region of the Stock Exchange ; true, the fall of the Marquis of ITASTINGS will scarcely adorn a more disastrous tale than the disclosures just made by that eminent person, Mr. STEFANOS XENOS. But after all, the gamblers of Capel Court and the parts adjacent do get pulled up pretty often, do get punished pretty severely, not only by the loss of their money, but by enforced appearance before the LORD MAYOR and perchance before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Moreover, there is an essential difference between such institutions as TATTERSALL'S and the "Deptford Spec." The first is not a trading institution for the carrying on of betting, as the second is. If gentlemen choose to meet and say that they will pay each other ten thousand pounds according as the nose of a certain horse happens to be one inch before or behind the nose of another, they are arrant fools, but no law can protect them against their folly. If they do not play the fool at TATTERSALL'S, they will do SO 111 their own houses. No braying in legislative mortars will cure them. But the " specs " are funds got up by interested persons as a source of profit. They are lotteries in which, whosoever loses, the pro moters will win. The English Government has for nearly a century refused to sanction such lotteries, saving only in cases such as the Art Union, where can be no harm to anyone in " raffling " for a work of art, except in so far as it encourages the gambling spirit. But lotteries for the sake of getting money, whether by the subscriber or by the promoter, are clearly demoralising, and cannot be permitted without injury to the national character. The principle of which the Daily Telegraph complains is extended 1 to other matters. There is no law to prevent women from offering their bodies for hire; but there is a law to prevent anyone from profiting by this action on their part. There is no law against fornication but there is a law against brothels. The law does not say to the man or the woman " Thou shalt not commit this or that vice;" but it does say, " Thou shalt not profit by the vice of another." The reason is plain. The law cannot restrain the action of the individual when it affects merely himself ; it can and ought to restrain the action of the people who promote vice in order to gain by it. It is for this reason, and not because of any distinction between rich and poor, that the law is now being enforced against the promoters of " specs " while TATTERSALL'S is unvisited. It is for this reason that the law is invoked in behalf of the artisan, while it is not invoked in behalf of the peer. It is for this reason that the SMITHS and the Bnowxs are arrested in their down ward career, while the IlAs-rixosEs and the OLINTONS are allowed to " plunge" headlong. Perh.ips. if the second were asked which of the two has the more reason to be grateful to our legislators, they would reply that it is certainly not, they. COLLIERY MANAGEMENT IN NOTTING• lIAMSIIIRE. feu A r f m te e r n tw k o ill d e a d y h e y ' p t r h o e tr i a n c u t n e d d at s i i e t n tin o g f , t t h h e e l i i n ely u n es e t ux on ee t a h l e . pit, near Mansfield, Notts, on the 2nd of April, has con cluded. The proceedings throughout created thettThepest interest, from the allegations madcrtgainst the conductors of the mine. Mr. IT - annay (barrister, Midland Circuit), represented the Countess of Carnarvon, the lessor, and Mr. J. Boot, the surveyor of the pit ; Mr. Busby, Chesterfield, appeared for Mr. Eastwood, of Derby, the proprietor; and Mr. Cutts, Chesterfield, for the wives and orphans of the deceased men. A great masa of evidence was taken. It was shewn that the pit, into which the water from some old and unused workings burst, had l ong been in an unsafe condition. Besides being ill-ventilated, the water used to come in upon the miners while at work, and they were often completely drenched. Com plaints were made to Mellership, the under viewer, but .very little notice was taken of them, and of the men netually left in consequence. The plan on which the mine was worked was also proved to be wrong in several particulars. The old workings were known to be near, but were improperly indicated, so that the carrying on of the mine was rendered extremely dan gerous. The person who made the plan was Mr. John Boot, and when examined he stated that he did not survey the pit himself, but made it frofti an old plan in the office of Mr. Twigg, agent to Lord Porchester. At the time of the accident, three men who were in the pit with the four who were drowned were kept waiting at the bottom of the shaft nearly four hours before being rescue& The reason was that no night engineman was employed— a direct contravention of the rules. The coroner said a worse case had never come under his notice, and some regret was expressed because there were legal doubts as to the verdict of manslaughter against the managers of the mine. The opinion of the coroner was that the managers wanted to get coal, but how they got it they did not care, even at the expense of their workmen's lives. The jury returned a verdict of "Drowned by the inundation of the mine," but the jurors considered it had not been safely worked either by Mellership the under viewer, or Eastwood, the proprietor, and that Mellership in parti cular was guilty of the most culpable negligence. Had proper bore-holes been made for water, the deceased men would not have met with their deaths. They also thought that the responsibility for the incorrectness of the colliery plan rested with Mr. Boot. The Government Inspector said he should proceed against Mellership and Eastwood for the fullest penalties. THE SPANISH PRESS, An interesting account of the press of Spain has been given by a gentleman whose business avocations induced him to visit every newspaper office in the country. He tells us that in Great Brit a i n an d in America th e . num ber of newspapers published in any town is generally, regarded as a criterion of its intelligence and its prosperity but that if the rule extends to Spain, the Spaniards must no longer be regarded as a retrogressive people. A town which in England would have only one or two papers, in Spain will have three or four ; and whereas in an English country town the papers would be weekly, in Spain they are daily. This is accounted for by the fact that the papers of the capital do not permeate the country. The London morning papers may be purchased in every town in England during the day of publication, but in Spain the communication is exceedingly defective. Even the Correspondencia of Madrid is only procurable on the great railway lines, so that th's news-loving people want their daily paper in every town. There are 225 provincial papers published in 67 towns, all of them daily papers. L'lmprinurie gives a list of S 1 papers, printed at Madrid ; but this is somewhat inaccurate. The general price of a Spanish paper is two cuartos, or a little less than a penny. They are not published on Mondays, or on the day after holy days, as the printers do not work on those days. They are single folios, and the arrange ment is somewhat similar to the French system. The front page is always devoted to news, never to advertisements. The feuillcton is a regular institution, and the papers are always printed in much larger type than our own. Nonpareil is unknown, and the size ranges from bourgeois to small pica. There is a general want of uniformity in the arrangements, which, together with worn type and the old stereotypes, interferes with the effect. The taste of our English compositors is sadly wanting. In comic papers the Spaniards are far behind the French. A Spanish paper of this kind is always a four-page demy folio or quarto, printed in very large type, with illustrations done in chalk. Malaga had a satirical paper printed on green paper, and called by th a t name . O n th e day after the revolution th e green organ was t rans f orme d into pink, and inscribed with the words, " To-day the colour of the rose." All papers of this kind have profited by the revo lution, which has removed the most grievous and oppres sive censorship in Europe. Every publisher had to submit a copy of his journal to the Government officer before he was allowed to circulate it. That officer took his own time to read it and return it, often mercilessly altered. A copy of the Neuva Theria of Madrid presented a melan choly spectacle after it had left the hands of this func tionary. Even the local news was tampered with ; one leader was excised altogether, and many parts were so mutilated that they were positively foolish. By this system late news was rendered impossible, owing to the delay caused by the examination, and the number and extent of the corrections greatly increased the cost of the paper. All is now altered, and it is to the credit of the Spanish press that in the first flush of freedom it has not allowed liberty to degenerate into license. The IVisbeach magistrates are investigating a case of suspected poisoning. Robert Sheckles died suddenly, and his son has confessed in a heerhouse ho killed him and got his money, and then offered a reward to keep the confession secret. The stomach was sentfor analysis, and the eon was apprehended. A FATAL QUARREL. —Two little boys at Masbro' having quarrelled, one gave the other a kick on the left leg. The skin was not broken, and there was little to be seen beyond a slight discoloration not larger than a florin. The injured child, however, was subsequently found to be suffering from lock-jaw, and died in great agony, having been three days without food. VELOCIPEDE RACE.—A race took place yester day afternoon between a velocipede driven by Walter Brown, the oarsman, and a trotting-horse known as John Stewart, on the Riverside Trotting Course, Boston, the velocipede to go five miles, and the horse ten. The veloci pede won, making five miles in 26.20, to nine miles by the horse in 26.35. Brown's best mile was done in 4.29, and the horse's, 2.471. —New York Times, May 12. NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—This festival will commence on Mo nda y evenin g , A ngus Signor 3o, B Theet principal vocalists already en g a ged are Mdlle. Titien s Mdlle. Dina di Murska, Mdlle. Trebelli, Mdlle. Chere; Talbot, Mr. Vernon Rigby , Mr. Cummings, t , Mr. more S aanctt a l ey , s and Signor conductor. The p A p l r r 0 . a l: h e ig festival n n ed ic t wil once l will be the sixteenth triennial musical gathering held at Norwich. The New York papers just to hand contain parti culars of a terrific conflagration that recently occurred in the manufacturing district of Paterson, New Jersey. Tho fire broke out at one o'clock p.m. in the waste house of Michael Morris, on Jersey-street, near the Mnrray silk mill. Tho building was nearly filled with cotton refuse, which ignited spontaneously. The flames communicated to a frame build ing in process of erection, and spread from building to blind ing with alarming rapidity. The burning cinders set fire to the roofs of many houses half a mile distant. The loss of property by the fire is estimated at not, less than 500,000 and in addition to this eighty families were turned into the streets and 350 employ6es rendered idle. AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.—Years ago, a Penn sylvania farmer stabbed his young wife in a fit of drunken insanity, and fled to the West, supposing himself a mur derer. The woman recovered, and after five years of solitary life, married again. Her second husband died in a few months, and she also went West. There she met a prosperous and wealthy merchant, was wooed and wedded, and upon disrobing in the bridal chamber the bridegroom saw upon her neck the scar of the wound he himself had made, and recognised his wife of years „Wm., THE FRE'INA7 AMBASSADOR IN CHINA A day or two ago it was announced by telegraph that a rupture between France and China was imminent. It was stated that difficulties had arisen between the Govern ment of Pekin and the Minister of France, and that a Chinese official had "slapped the Ambassador's face." The Indepenclance Beige, however, states that the report of this rupture has yet to be confirmed. The French Government have received no intelligence of it. But this is quite possible, for the French telegraphic agency is evolorablw bad—more so than that which haw man England. APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENP-ARTF_ The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette at Copenhagen says:—llis Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den mark left Copenhagen oa Wednesday afternoon for Lubeck, en route for London. His Royal Highness will remain in England on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales for a month or six weeks. The 27th of next July is the day fixed for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmlik with the Crown Princess of Sweden. When it was officially announced last year that this marriage had been settled, the news was received with great satisfaction by the Danish people. Tho print shops and illus trated journals were at once filled with portraits of the young Prince and Princess, with allegorical figures of Peace and Happiness crowning them with wreaths of flowers, whilst underneath were prayers addressed to heaven in their behalf. The chief cause of this rejoicing is the the fact that the mar tinge is looked upon as the first step towards the union of the two kingdoms. "Scandinavia," it is said, " will then be an important Power with an army and a fleet which will enable it to hold its own against foreign aggression." Apart, however, from political considerations, the young Princess is good-looking, most amiable, highly accomplished, and possessed of a large private fortune, derived from her mother, who is a Princess of the House of Orange. FOUR VESSELS AND SEVEN LIVES LOST. Advices from St. John's, Newfoundland, announce the wreck of four vessels at the seal-fishery, and the loss of seven men belonging to one of the ill-fated ships. The brigantine Elfrida, Captain Jeffers, belong ing to and bound for Habor Grace• from the seal fishery, was totally wrecked in a snowstorm on the 15th April, at a place called Mosquito Point. Seven of her men were killed by the falling of the mainmast. The second vessel on the list is another brigantine named the Selah Hutton, Captain Batterton, which was dismasted at the seal-fishery during a gale from the N.E. This vessel was driven into Bonavista Bay, where she also became a total wreck. The third vessel lost is the brig Volunteer, Captain Gordon, also belonging to Harbor Grace. She was lost at the seal-fishery, but no date is given. The other vessel lost is named the Packet, Captain Osborne, which was wrecked at the seal-fishery, near a place called Twillingate. ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP. The Prince and Princess of Wales paid two visits to M. Gustave Dore's studio in the Rue St. Dominique while they were in Paris.—lt is stated that the Pope has given M. Gounod three commissions—the composition of a mass, a national song, and an oratorio. The last must be in three parts, and be written for three choirs—a terrestial choir upon the stage, an infernal chorus below it, and a celestial choir behind the scenes.—Mr. Longfellow is prolonging his stay in Florence. During his sojourn the features of the poet have been modelled by the great American artist, Hiram Powers.— M. Sardou, who is now at Genoa with Signor Verdi, has engaged to convert " Patrie " into a five-act librettofor this composer. The Provisional Government at Madrid has con ferred a Knight Commander's Cross of the distinguished Order of Charles the Third upon Mr. Frederick W. Cosens, of Clapham Park. The diploma, signed by Marshal Serrano, wasgranted for services rendered to the literature and arts, as well as to the commerce of the country.— The Prince of Wales will dine with the Royal Geo- graphical Society at their anniversary, on Monday next, when Prince Hassam of Egypt, Baron Hochschild, the Swedish Minister, and other notabilities, (including, probably, Mr. Gladstone) are expected. The Prince is the vice-patron of the society.—By an Imperial decree the Baron Taylor, well known in Paris in connection with learned and charitable societies, has been raised to the rank of a senator.—Mr. J. Bass Mullinger, of St. John's College, Cam bridge, is collecting materials for a History of the University of Cambridge.—lt is proposed to hold a Great International Exhibition at the Escurial at Madrid. A stained glass window, the gift of Dr. N. Rogers, and the work of Messrs. Clayton and Bell, has been placed in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, above the monument to Milton. It is in two parts, each canopied, and containing a figure ; that on the left represents David, holding a pen and scroll, and looking upwards ; the fellow light contains the figure of St. John writing the Apocalypse, and having his eagle at his side. —The Musical Standard hears that the new Grand Opera of Paris is to be opened in 1871.' TRADE AND ELVA-A-CB. -®- _. The return of the Bank of England has amply verifies our remarks that the recent stringency in the money market was caused by an anticipatory demand for dis count, which arose from the belief that an advance in the official rate of discount was imminent. All the move- ments during the week have been of a character to strengthen the position of the Bank, there being a considerable decrease in the note circulation, and in the public deposits. The most important feature, however, is the falling off in the private securities, which is very considerable, notwithstanding the comparatively active demand for discount which has been experienced through out the week. Although no change has been made on the present occasion, there is an evident tendency towarth higher rates, the reserve having now touched an unusually low point. The proportion to the liabilities, however, is, still within the legiti mate b ounds, although the return will scarcely be pleasing to those theorists who aver that the reserve should never be allowed to fall below ten millions. Certainly the Bank stands in a very peculiar position. It holds the reserve of all the other banks, but it must be remembered that the amount it keeps in hand is vastly greater than that retained by any similar institution. A comparison of the position of the banking department with the London and Westminster Bank at the date of the latest available accounts will shew this to be the case. We choose the London and Westminster Bank because we believe it to be one of the best and most judiciously managed private banks in existence : BANKING DEPARTMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Liabilities. Reserve. Public Deposits ... £4,932,228 Notes Private Deposits... 18,004,449 Coin Seven-day Bills ... 457,068 1 £23,393,74 , £8,471,655 . LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK, DECEMBER 31, 1868. Liabilities. Reserve. Deposits, &c....£10,638,000 Cash in hand Acceptances ... 1,074,000 and at Bank of > £2,344,000 -------- England. ----- £20,712,000 I 22,344,000 No one would ven t ure to i mpugn the credit of the London 4nd Westminster Bank, yet we find from the above figures that that institution only retains about 11 per cent. of its liabilities, while the Bank of England can chew a reserve of 3ti per cent. This appears to us to be a very sufficient answer to the advocates of the theory that the Bank should retain ten millions at all times, irrespective of their liabilities. The way in which this sum of ten millions is arrived at is, that the other banks keep an average balance to that amount at the Bank of England, an 1 their reserve is liable to be drawn upon very severely at any time of pressure. Probably so, and this is the principal arguments that the balance of cash belonging to other banks in the hands of the Bank of England is liable to very great fluctuation ; and why not then the reserve of the Bank of England itself ? With regard to the immediate prospects of the money market, there is little probability of the introduction of any foreign loan for the present. Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Egypt, all require money, but it is doubtful whether, in the present state of affairs here, they could make a successful application to our market. The course of the discount rates will, therefore, be almost entirely guided by the home demand, which is not likely to be excessive. We incline to the belief, however, that a full average amount of capital will be required to carry on the trade of the country, owing to the general improvement in the value of most manufactured articles. On the other hand, there is a general absence of speculation, especially in those staples which are peculiarly fitted for such transactions. Cotton, for instance, is very dull, and there is a great uncertainty about the course of the market, while the unsettled state of prices on this side deters operators from speculating in wheat. Nevertheless, so far as the general trade of the country is concerned, there is a good trade going on, and as capital is again forsaking Lombard-street, and returning to its ordinary channels, it is evident that any movement that may take place will be in an upward direction. The " Yankee" correspondent of the Spectator toys nat President Grant will positively not allow Cuba to bo invaded by filibusters. " Our correspondent, who we may add cannot be misinformed on this point, states that the orders issued are most stringent, and supported by ado. : quato Vaysical furccs. which break them will T o 644141:, MR. rogrrn - AND Snrg...E.R: The Times and the Telegraph both accept Mr. Foreleg° ;peech, at Bradford, as a conclusive reply to Mr. Surlad ° nernoraLle address. The Times regards him as an ardel t eriend of the North come to offer his evidence in court with .expect to the famous Proclamation. He says that he exerted himself to procure its issue, believing that it was absolutell necessary in the interests of the North itself. It was 1; 0 Forster, acting in friendship and close sympathy with lifb Sumner, who elicited from Sir G. Lewis the first publics ell Kagement that the Proclamation should be issued. WWI ever the practical result, the Times accepts this evidence as * complete answer to Mr. Sumner's theory, and subluit i the testimony withtonfidence to the judgment of the Arne& can people. Our Government was urged by every influene ° to declare for the South, and the appeal was enforced by the paralysis of our greatest industry, and under these drown' stances the friends of the North pressed for a plain declarr tiln on the part of the Government that they would not ill' terfcre in tho contest. With regard to the privateers the Times reminds the Americans that had they adhered, as thel were invited to do, to the declaration of Paris, prieatcering would have been an act of piracy, and all these complier tions would have been avoided. Mr. Forster wished t° treat the Alabama and her consorts as pirates, but found tO the law of nations would not permit it. Finally, WI regard to the sentiment of the question, Mr. Forster sir servos, with justice, that no words derogatory to Americe have ever passed in this country without remonstrance. Ti l6 , same cannot bo said of the l a n guage uso d t owar d s E n ema , in the United States' Legislature. The Telegraph thito that no part of Mr. Forster's speech is more effective that his reply to the complaint that England sympathised wit h the South. The Americans, says Mr. Forster, complain 0 ' the language used in the clubs of Pall Mall, and ti . drawing-rooms of Belgravia, but is Republican Amens. to judge England by this ? The question is—What di a our Government do ? And the Telegraph thinks Ol t the orator may by and by discover that he has done us O a service by recalling the whole facts of the case to mini Some important matters had dropped out of sight, such es th e conduct of the States themselves tow ar d s th e S out h and towards neutrals, their behaviour to Canada thirty ra il ago, and their more recent sympathy with the Fenian COir spiracy. The Americans themselves, if they fairly review the question, should hasten to place the whole controVerr i l en the broad grounds of public law. THE DERBY OF 1869. The "fall " of Pero Gomez, announced on Saturdsi s became more pronounced as th e evening wore on. ' 11/ : horse opened at 3 to 1, but rapidly declined t o 9 to one speculator offering 90 to 20 several titSe! By midnight his case grew still worse. 7 to 1 7, laid against him a t some o f th e W est-en d resorts ; b u t price was offered only in small sums. It is an explios,v fact that whilst the v er y l ong p r i ce o f 7 to 1 was offelv" investors would have gladly backed the horse to 1 0118 0 amounts at much shorter fi gu r es . It appears f ro m 1 , ', best accounts that Pero G omez b a d b een tr i e d , accordit to the usual custom, with Blue Gown. Pero Gomez iv`" the trial, but pulled up lame immediately aftervair afr ..ut Another account states th a t h e was beaten s'inte attempting to "get ove r " Bl ue G own a t 121 b., an d brs' down. But, up to Thursday, the accounts frl training quarter s were very favourable as to the doings! the horse. On W e d nes d ay h e cantered twice a mile 0.11! , :, half, and then Blue G own an d R os i cruc i an led him aTA swift gallop of two miles. Th e Sportsman, says the tril l took place on Thursday, and though Pero Gomez defeat ed his antagonists, he did n o t d o a ll th at was expec t e d him. On Friday he did work, but less than on the P ceding days. With regard to Belladrum, the "told s 2 say that he was never doing better work. There nothing at Russley capable of leading him. H e h a abel doing the mile-and-three-quarter gall o p a ll th rou gh t il o week, and has pulled up full of mettle. Some rumours4.4 to Pretender going wrong must be dismissed. ED r m , been doing abundance of work throughout the week. Friday he galloped two miles, and on the preceding al more. The watchers represent him to be in the state of perfection. There is nothing specially to rerl of any of the other horses. Ladas is not spoken I'S of. Vagabond, Martyrdom, Perry Down, and I I Y P. worth have all kept up their exercise. The Pall llfall Gazette estimates the position 2rospects of the various candidates in a very imPs' i , article. Bellad rum , it remar k s, h as met w ith ' 45 .A reverses. The reports of his roaring, unsoundness, im er , the like, were found to be false at Newmarket; though very strangely jockeyed in the Two Ti t° 9B sand, he managed to come in a very respects second. He ought to occupy a pronaill_ . „ . e " position, both in the betti ng an d i n the 0 7, Pero Gomez, on the other hand, i s a more d ou btful es' s didate. He has won races without meeting witt j reverse, his health has never failed, and he 13 r , been wisely managed. But he is a very " three . c%, nered" ani ma l t o l oo k at, and by no means lle`. bred. It is true he won the Biennial at the Craven bleu ing easily enough, but even then his fetlock joints W ig very suspicious, and if the ground is hard between ri° , and Wednesday nex t h e w ill cause his backers consiue,"; able anxiety on th e d ay o f t h e race. Pretender is t' Pall Mall Gazette's especial admiration. He has proved rapidly during the last few months, and 0 appearance on the day of the Two Thousand vl es magnificent. On publi c runn i ng h e certainly &s ell ; so the place he holds in the betting. He was not worked death last year, and came out fresh for the great even t o f April. There he had won th e race a l mos t a t an y Part d it. He beat Belladrum a t th e fi n i s h b y t h e superiors Isis stamina and staying p ower , qua liti es w hi c h are es le .j tial at Epsom, and which, in spite of what is often le, s to the contrary, are p re tty we ll t r i e d b y t h e Rowley It Ladas won every race f or w hi c h h e starte d l ast y e ar, the best of his opponents were but moderate ani7, 4l , Ethus is believed to ha ve a very d e li cate cons tits!" l : o . which prevents him fr om b e i ng th oroug hl y trained. 52108 waldsen has no chance so long as Pretender, his P - 1,4 companion, keeps well. Th e D u k e o f B eau f or t is not big companion, enough, nor well-bred enough, to win the Derby- Pall Mall concludes :—" There is every probsb' p that this year's Derby will be contested by vit . o . very good field, both in quality and numbers, and wil ir to duce a most exciting race. General opinion seets l3 ., point to the certai n success o f one o f th e t h ree f a vourP':, but they arc, neverth e l ess , i n d anger o f a Caract o ; springing from the outside division, of whom Marty l4° o The Drummer, and Perry Down are most conspict l° o o Whatever be the result, we can congratulate the r t ht on the fact that, with two exceptions, the course of betting on the race has this year been more free from picion than is usually the case." THE " PROPHETS." tb eif Bell's Life pronounces fo r P re t en d er . J u d ge d 11 beet public form, it appears that P re t en d er, Pero G(1; and Belladrum are justly entitled to th e pos iti o ns tm6 io occupy. After the brilliant performance of Belladre l t o t the Two Thousand Guineas, it is impossible to deny t ;it "on paper" his chance of victory appears to be n f t be one. Rightly or wrongly, however, we have come t° g et opinion that this magnificent colt will fail t ° g ich quite home ; and, both fit and well, the Derby Wo n - det to our fancy, be reduced to a match betweerrPre te " to lot and Pero Gomez. Between these two Bell's Life • tO there is very little to chose, but Pero Gomez is rePer'Do, be in a most precarious state, and he must, therefore' passed by. • to " Harkaway," in Land and Water, gives Pretenr.,,y win, and Per r y D own, D rummer, and Boswort h to OOP for second and third honours. Pero The Field is of opinion that either Belladrum Of o re Gomez will win, P re t en d er b e i ng pre tt y cer t a i n to se e a place. " Vigilant," of the Sportsman, throws over Bellow — o f the ground that he does not think thi s horse esPElD'enje% staying. He expects to see Pretender and Pero e t io finish first and second, whilst Martyrdom is assigned third position. " Augur," in the Sporting Life, exp ec t s t o see Bell or Pretender returned the winn er , w ith P er o Gore y The Drummer fighting out the place battle. et 14 C It may be mentioned that th e P a ddock Tic— to, Epsom is expected to be printed i n B e lladrura ca° This is regarded as a favourable omen. LONDON BETTING. LONDON, Saturda'ro Racing men assembled this afte rnoon i n large nuit e e lit at each of the London sporting cl u b s , an d so me iroP °.- 0 11 speculation took place on th e D er b y , principally cl Victoria, in Wellington-street. Anticipation chiefly to Pero Gomez, wh o , it was f eare d , after the ° lvo treatment of the previ ous evening, might probably rec ' - a. his quietus. But confidence was restored by a large ... .:P e n ig o lator having accepted 450 to 100 in one bet. supported Pretender for upwards of £l,OOO at 9 2. while Belladrum was frequently invested on at 7. t° 4 Perry Down came with a'rusb at 10 to 1, but the EV.l",i was only of short duration, as he retired to 20 to 1, offereLit in thousands. Martyrdom was knocked out to 50 to 1 , 1 / 1 1 , his stable companion Border Knight, was backed to wi ll t large stake at 40 to 1, which was not procurable :0 the close of business. llorna was in great req uest for the Oaks, but the price offered— 3 to I—would not tertierra * ntending backers. Brigantine and Scottish Queen Ato 1 each backed for good mone y a t 9 to 2, and finallyrby was taken kindly a b ou t th e l a tt er . For the French De.eta_ Consul and Glaneur had friendsat 3 to leach' and °if° %t a point more. 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