The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. This EVENING, at 7. MINNIE, or. Leonard's Love. At 9, A. BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone. J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Ei-ery Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. - ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss AL Oliver. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, 6/c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EvExtxn, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Baneroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROTA L AMPH IT II EAT RE AND CIRCUS, H OLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Hones: also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c., and the Salamander 'false. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tuts EVENINn, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaginza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Boa-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, fie„ Mesdames Cavendish. Burke. Hill, Ste. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF TH E WATr H : Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, cte. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill &c. , Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. mt . LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1869. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of "After Dark." THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitledAFTEß DARK : a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Rolston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclereq. Concluding with THE SECRET. r)oors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. Whenever the Emperor NAPOLEON takes occasion to declare himself in favour of Peace, it is the fashion at once among many people to declare that he means War. The Marquis de LAVALETTE, his Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, seized the •opportunity afforded him by the pertinent inquiries addressed to him as the departmental mouthpiece of the Impe rial Government, to give on Saturday last in the Legislative Chamber, so unequivocal and unambiguous an outline of the Foreign Policy of the French Go vernment, that for once we should imagine there will be no such sinister conclusions drawn as to the designs of NAPOLEON 111. Better than any words of comment upon them could possibly be, will be the actual declarations made by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs himself. Referring to Germany, the I Marquis de LavaLErrE denied that there had been any special negotiations either entered into or con templated by France. " This attitude on our part," he added, " shows our sincere desire to maintain good relations, avoiding all interference whatever in affairs that are purely German. Changes such 'as have occurred in Germany are followed, before complete tranquillity sets in, by an intermediate period of aspirations, misunderstandings, and regrets.' As to Italy, while he remarked, on the one hand, that the Italian Ministry had re-entered a path dictated by Conservative principles—" On the other hand," he said, "the Pontifical Government is also progressing in the reconstruction of its forces ; but the moment has not yet anived for us to return, purely and - simply, to the September Convention and to evacuate the Pontifical territory." Refer ring to the Paris Conference of last year, in re gard to the threatened rupture between Greece and Turkey, the French Minister said, and with full reason, that far from having humiliated Greece, that Conference bad afforded the grand spectacle of the whole of Europe calmly waiting several days for the decision of a small country on the momentous questicn of peace or war. " Greece," said the Mar quis de LAVALETTE, "came away from the Confer ence more pow erful than before, for she had inscribed upon her flag respect for the principles cf interna tional law, which are in vogue among all civilised countries." He, moreover, paid a merited tribute o respect to the firmness of King GEORGE, who, be ob served, had abided by his resoluiionr, notwithstanding the revolutionary agitation which prevailLd in Greece. It wrs in the closing passage, however, of the Mar quis de LAVALETTE'S reply to the interrogation of M. JULES FAVRE, that the strongest declarations were made by him, as French Minister for Foreign Affaiis, as to the political designs of the Imperial Govern ment. That passage is worth quoting in its entirety. The Minister said—" Our foreign relations are good. We may say that peace, the object of our wishes, is neither compromised nor uncertain, and that we shall maintain it by all legitimate means. In the West we shall do, under different circum stances, all that which we did to preserve peace in the East. A fearful responsibility would attach to whomsoever, giving way to national susceptibilities should hurl two great nations one against the other: The policy of France is the policy of peace, a policy which we shall uphold with the aid of the great powers of the State and with the aid of Almighty GOD." No wonder that, on the Minister resuming his seat, there arose from all parts of the House loud and prolonged cheering. So satisfactory indeed was the effect pro duced by those statements, that M. TIIIERS took oc casion at once to tender his thanks for them to the Imperial Government. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. at 7. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Belmore. At 15 to Ft, 12th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter Miss Carlotta. Leclereq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart. Mrs. L Murray, Miss Lennox Grey. (tn. To conclude with WHITE.B 11T AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON SATURDAY, IST OF HAY, For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. T) OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Chrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlain; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEA LRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN Positively t . e Last Week but One of the Equestrian Season.— Last appearances of the Wonderful PERFORMISG HORSES. The SAL kMA NDER HORSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No other Theatre in I ondon offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement The magnificent Stud of FIFTY PERFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA. The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. (4LOBE THEATRE-11.0YAL. Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama, MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; Messrs Lavid Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BREACH OF PROM l To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMI \ - S : Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews. Huriston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. 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As Mr. LoWE pro poses to bring forward his resolutions to-night, he leaves very little time for the consideration of his somewhat startling, and certainly novel, proposals. The fact that they are novel should have prevented this unwonted haste. It is easy enough to decide upon the proposals of an ordinary financial statement ; for instance, to say if a sur plus should be devoted to the reduction of direct or of indirect taxation. But the present Budget-is of quite another kind ; its arrangements are so new, and, in some respects, so complex, that they have fairly bewildered both journalists and legis lators. For instance, Mr. BARNETT, a banker, as well as an M.P., thought that Mr. Lown had pro mised a period of nine months during which the payment of the assessed taxes would be suspended ; whereas he meant only that his period of exemp tion should apply to the assessment, not to the collection, of the assessed taxes. As the Times points out, the customary assessment now in process of computation refers to articles kept in the year 1868-9—that is to say, during the last twelve months. The new assessment, conducted under the Excise officials next January, will refer to the year 1870 ; and it plainly follows that there will be no assessment whatever having reference to the nine months from the Ist of April, 1800, to the Ist of January, 1870. If bankers and M.P.'s have thus been misled by Mr. LOWE'S scheme, journalists have been equally at fault. Some of them, like the editor of the Saturday Review, whose forte is not finance, have wisely been content with gene ralities, and with dilating on the coup de:thedtre which surprised the House of Commons on Thursday night. The Daily Telegraph, in a letter on the " Meaning of the Budget," which endeavours to appear a semi-official manifesto, declares " that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER does not intend to levy in advance all or more than a mere fraction of the taxes by manipulating which he gives these unexpected remissions. The sole change in this respect is made in the collection of the assessed taxes, THEATRE-ROY AL , ADELPHr. and affects a revenue of about one million sterling." rms EvExnic4. at 7, DID YOU EVII R SEND YOUR WIFE This explanation itself requires explaining in order 'TO CAMBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 un d e rstand how Mr. Lown hopes to raise the to A. BLACK AND WHITE: Mess rs. P echter, A. Stirling, R. Wiling. Stuart: Cittiatta.Leelßreq. bliss Lennox Grey; &c, And WIIIIESAIT AT GIME: TIP= A.tkina more than R 3 ) 000 ) 0 9 0 which h e - re q ui r es . All r• TrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. 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Orders by post attended to. rrHE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN ' II supplied. as soon as published, Every Evening, by W ALEXANDER (late Br Cavendish street, Oxford-street,ooks), Newspaper Agent, INo. 4, Old THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," giving all the SPORT! G NEWS of the day, may he seen at JEM M INTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1869. this doubt and perplexity is surely a reason why a longer period should have been allowed to elapse before giving practical effect to the Budget. One cannot help connecting this haste with Mr. LOWE'S repeated warning that if the House would not consent to his scheme as a whole, it must reject it as a whole; if it would not sanction the mode in which he proposed to raise his money, it must surrender the remission of taxation which he offered to make. One cannot help suspecting that Mr. LowE was fully -aware of the faults which lie underneath his, at first sight,brilliant scheme, and was afraid that the longer the scheme was delayed the less chance it would have of passing in its entirety. That there is no need for losing the many good features of the Budget while rejecting the bad we shewed in our previous article. We need add only on this point that, by continuing the income tax at sixpence for two years, the taxpayer would scarcely have to pay out more money than he would under Mr. Lowes proposals ; at the same time the first plan would avoid the resort to a per manent objectionable arrangement. The blots we pointed out in the financial scheme are hit also by our able contemporaries the Econo mist and the Spectator. The first paper urges that— " This plan of making all our direct taxes payable at once—this catastrophic taxation; so to s p e ak—i s au offence against a primary canon. Adam Smith said that every tax ought to be paid when it was most convenient to the subject to pay it. But it certainly is not at all convenient to most taxpayers to pay very great sums—to pay all they do pay to- the Government on one day. In January, just when people are poorest and paying off the accounts of the year just ended, th e Government steps in and asks for all its taxes—for income tax, land tax, house tax, and assessed taxes. This may be paid, but it will not be paid willingly or easily. It will cause much grudging and many murmurs." Moreover, Mr. LOWE'S apology for this mode of collecting the revenue is really its greatest condemna tion. He argued that as wars were now very short and very costly, we required a good deal of money promptly. Yet supposing we had a war now, and were suffering under a war income tax of 16d., it would be impossible to collect it all at once— it would be absolutely necessary to abandon this concentrated taxation. Nor does this system of isingle payment suit the w ants of the Government any more than it suits the convenience of the tax payer. " Government is daily paying ; it has to support fleets and armies, to pay salaries, to pay 1 interest de die in diem accruing to the national creditor. By the new system, as Mr. Lo WE with great fairness owned, the Government would be mostly much too poor and once a year much too rich." More than eight millions sterling would be poured into the Exchequer all at once — "And one of two results must happen—either Govern ment would be a great deal too rich, and have a vast sum floating, of which it would make nothing, or, what is more likely, the advent of this sum would have been antici pated. During the autumn, in October and November, the Government would be very poor and be large borrowers of , the Bank of England. Both these alternatives are very objectionable, though in dif ferent degrees. Nothing can be more absurd than to tease the taxpayer to pay up vast money, and then to let it lie as an unused banker's balance. And few things could be more mischievous and unpopular than that Government, in the autumn season of pressure, should be a large borrower of the Bank of England." The Economist goes on to point out another evil result of this scheme, which, from want of space, we omitted to mention on Saturday. So large a sum of money suddenly abstracted from the accounts of the tax payers, that is, from the various banks and passed into the Bank of England, would utterly derange the money market. Every January the Bank might be a tyrant. During the autumn it would have too little weight in the money market, and early in the year it would have far too- much. The argument that a considerable sum would besaved by collecting all the taxes at one time, is, in our contemporary's opinion, of small importance, inasmuch as the money ought to be collected at the time and in the way in which it is most convenient for the taxpayer to pay it. Supposing that Mr. LowE's principle is adopted, it ought at least to be modified, so that the income tax should be collected at one period of the year and assessed taxes at another period, and thus the tax payer be saved from an excessive demand made all at once. Finally, the Economist holds, with ourselves, that it is by no means necesslry to lose the advantages which Mr. LOWE offers, even while rejecting the objectionable parts of his scheme ; and the suggestion Saturday, that the income tax should be continued at Gd., is made also by oar con temporary. The Spectator is loud in praise of what we have considered the commendable features of Mr. LOWE'S scheme the various remissions of taxation and the transfer of the assessed taxes to the excise department, for which last change, by the way, Mr. WARD ITuNT claims the credit. But our contemporary points out that the plan of paying income tax in advance is most objectionable, inasmuch as it may be paid on profits which will never be realised. This objection is the more serious inasmuch as Mr. LOWE does not pro pose to make any alteration in the payment under schedules C and E, but the fundholder and the civil servant will continue to have their income tax deducted from their income at the time that this is paid. Moreover, the concentration of taxes on one month, and that month of all others when men are most short of money, because all their other bills have to be paid at that time, would make January " a month of bitter tribulation and anguish to small traders." The Spectator urges "the excessive inconvenience to the Bank of England of receiving all the Government deposits at one time of the year, and being famished all the rest of the year," and hopes " that the sixpenny income tax will remain as it is for this year, and the proposal for a change in the time of the collection of this tax will be dropped for the present." Altogether, we are well pleased to find the objections we raised to the Budget urged with so much force by journals of the weight and the ability of the Economist and the Spectator. We sincerely trust that Mr. LOWE may be induced to modify his scheme, and that to-night he will, instead of pushing it forward with unnecessary and unfair haste, announce that he is open to argument, and that his scheme is open to improvement. This is his first Budget, and if he will only modify it, it cannot be exceeded by his future Budgets, for it will be as sound as it is brilliant. IT is difficult to contemplate the case of a swindler hoist with his own petard without feeling sorely tempted to a display of unchristian satisfaction. And this feeling is by no means diminished when the victim of his own fraud happens to be a public servant trading at the public expense upon the opportunities of his position. A remarkable story of this kind was revealed at the Central Criminal Court on Friday. The case was one of singular interest, and also of great public importance. An Admiralty clerk, named GAMBIER, and an engi neer, named RUMBLE, were, it seems, in the habit of extorting money from persons who tendered for Admiralty contracts, on the false pretence of using influence in their favour. The business of RUMBLE, who had no connection with the Admiralty, was to conduct negotiations. He informed contractors that the influence of his " friend at the Admiralty " was paramount, and that it was useless to hope for success without his aid. For a fair consideration that influence would be exerted, and the individual who secured it would reap his reward in the acceeptance of his contract. The business of GAmßrEn was to act as the mysterious agent whose assistance was indis pensable to the success of Admiralty tenders. He had really not the slightest influence in deciding the fate of a tender; but he was a first-class clerk at Somerset House, had the earliest informa tion touching the acceptance of contracts, and might readily impose upon tradesmen who knew neither his name nor his position. It is very probable that the system was successful in some instances. But a contractor, named MAXWELL, wiser than his brethren, receiv6,l RUMBLE'S offer of the "influence" with suspicion, asked some leading questions, and finally informed the Admiralty authorities that he had been offered decisive agency in favour of his tender for the sum of £3O. The authorities saw really that RUMBLE must have a confederate at the Admiralty, and in order to discover who the inyste rious medium was, Mr. MAXWELL undertook to make a pretence of accepting RUMBLE'S offer. The trap succeeded. RUMBLE promised the influ ence in return for £3O. On the 22nd of January he told Mr. MAXWELL that his tender would be accepted thenext day, quoting figures of other tenders, and the like plausible details. The truth was that GAMBIER'S position enabled him to know what tenders would be successful, though he had not the slightest control over the decision. Mr. MAXWELL carried out his scheme by paying the money; but, unfortunately for the con federacy, it was paid in three £lO notes, the numbers of which had been recorded. The Admi ralty authorities then speedily found out that 'the (leas ex: mach ina was GAMBIER. lle was seen on several occasions in close conversation with his agent. One of the numbered notes was paid to an insurance company in GA3IBIER'S name. In his pocket-book was found this not very hieroglyphic inscription :—" Feb. 2nd, R. for Mxl., elm, £10," which resolves itself with very small consideration into a memorandum that for his share in the MAXWELL elm business the prisoner had received £lO. The guilt of GAMBIER was as clear as the open agency of RUMBLE; his counsel made no attempt to deny the facts, but only to diminish the inference to be drawn from them. But the just conclusion is that the two prisoners were not harshly punished by a sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment. For this offence was not an ordinary case of fraud; it was also a libel on the public service. Such statements, if believed, must produce the impression that the management of our great departments is tainted with dishonesty, and that the some of its chief ser nprobable y bl b ethat in some instances nation ats. must lt b seemse swindled these false pretences of influence have been success ful. If so, the honest contractors who believed that the Admiralty authorities, like everybody else, had their price,have the satisfaction oi learnirig that their money was thrown away. GAMBIER had no more influence than RUMBLE. The warning ought to be final. Amongst the many fmults of our departmental service, that of being bought and sold for a few pounds is certainly not one. ,;• .„ 331 • " to iitOrinTar. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 11. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein, and the ladies and gentle men in waiting, ing in the private c h apel. attended Divine service this morn- CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROII OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, April 11, The two Houses are hurrying on their business with breathless rapidity. Votes and measures which would have excited a week's wrangling under different circum stances are dismissed without a thought. The Left is dis posed to let anything go in order to bring the session to a close. But there are some important questions which demand attention ; and even the approach of the great contest does not prevent the Left from raising them. Yesterday the Marquis de Lavalette made an official de claration of the highest importance. M. Jules Favre is a Paris deputy. He does not need leave of absence to meet his constituents, and his election, moreover, is as secure as anything of the kind can be. lle has, therefore, found time to bring forward a very exhaustive interpellation on foreign affairs. Tunis, Crete, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Germany were all touched upon. 'What was the Govern• these countries ? The question was a leading one, and M. de Lavalctte gave it a decisive answer. He did not state the intentions of tho Government in some respects meat going to do in respect of its relations with each of so clearly as M. Jules Favre wished, but on the most important points, the unity of Germany and the prospect of peace, he could not have been more explicit. Unam biguously he recognised that events iu Germany were events with which France had no concern. The Germans would be left to settle their own affairs. The " policy of France," he said, "is a policy of peace. And again," he reiterated "that peace, the object of our wishes, is neither compromised nor uncertain. We shall maintain it by all legitimate means." Loud and prolonged cheering from all parts of the House followed this declara tion. M. Jules Favre and M. Thiers both expressed their satisfaction. And the Bourse, for once, has not gone down after a pacific speech. I have no hesitation in stating that this is the most decisive peace declaration we have had of late years. The Left is beginning to shew considerable activity in face of the coming contest. A little more union might have been desirable in face of the desperate nature of the struggle upon the eve of which the country finds itself, hut the indivirinml candidates snare neither time nor labour in counteracting the propaganda of the Government. M. Jules Simon, for instance, has been making a tour of three or four days in the Herault district. During this short time he held nine political meetings, and, in addition, addressed an assembly of 3,000 on Free Trade in the Interior. Not content with this very fair amount of " stump," M. Jules Simon had hardly got back to Paris before ho made his appearance at tho Thatro du Prince Imp6rial, and made another long speech with great success. There can be no mistaking the activity of the campaign, in short, on both sides. Demands for leave of absence abound every day in the Corps L6gislatif, and deputies even depart without leave. The Emperor, lam told, has been advised that no more than 200 deputies remain in the capital, and that if the session go on much longer there will not be a quorum. If a very plausible report is to be trusted, there is some slight difference between the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of State respect ing the official candidatures. M. Rouher is absolute in his demands that the candidates chosen by the Government must support the Government root and branch. The Minister of the Interior is less exacting, and would give more latitude to local predilections, provided the candi dates would support the Government in the main. M. do Forcade la Roquette would not insist upon too compro mising an adherence. POPE P 1 US IX. The Tablet of Saturday contained the following as its first paragraph To-morrow morning at 7.30, according to Roman time, at . 6.40 a.m., ac cording to London, and 6.16 a.m., according to Dublin time, the Sovereign Pontiff will ascend the high altar of St. Peter's in order to offer up the Holy Sacrifice upon this day of the full Jubilee of his Priesthood in union with the clergy and faithful spread throughout the world. On the 13th of May he will have completed his 77th year, Laving been born in Siniga g li a i n 1792, and b ap ti ze d un d er t h e names of John, M ary. On the 16 th of June he will have attained th e 23d year o f hi s S overe i gn Pontificate ; and he is the 256th successor to Peter, the Fisherman of Galilee. The whole Catholic world is celebrating with enthusiastic outpourings of prayers and gifts the Jubilee of their beloved King and Pontiff." From the Univers we take the subjoined :--" On Holy Saturday Pius Ix. assisted at the High Mass in the Sistine, sung by H. E. Cardinal Monaco La Iralate, a greater number of persons than usual being present—inieed, and basili cas of Rome fir,‘ F4ithful from all parts 01 the world. During the week betore day about 40,000 persons arrived in Rome. After tile Mass the Holy Father received a great number; for, although absorbed not only by.th c functions of the Holy week, but by the affairs of the Church, Pius IX. never refuses to his children who have come from dis - tantlands the happiness of seeing and hearing him, and receiving his benediction. Before they all again dispersed he wished to speak to them, and we give the substance of his address as nearly as we can : ' Before we all separate, my children, I wish to say a few words that you may carry away as a souvenir of the pilgrimage you have made to Rome to receive the benediction of the holy apostles SS. Peter and Paul. What shall I say to you? Only what the Church says to us to-day—Christ is risen. The re surr e c tion is the grande s t, c learest,most glorious p roo f o f t h e divi nityof the Catholic Church,and thi s proof fills us with confidence and hope. If Jesus Ch r i st h a d not r i sen, our faith would be vain and without fruit, but, thanks be to God, Jesus Christ is risen. He is in heaven, surrounded by myriads of angels and saints, by martyrs who have offered Him their triumphs, by confessors who have offered Him their penances, and by virgins who have laid their crowns at His feet. In the highest heaven He has inscribed in His memory the names of all now present, the names of all now present, the names of all who have ever lived or are yet to live. He looks at them, he pre sents them to His Eternal Father. He pleads the children, we d m vo y cate with the a ca ll us a e re of ! h sinner=, a h n a d v e s i n a n n ers A , Father, Jesus Christ Our Lord, who calls us and is waiting for us in heaven. There, there will be no more sorrow, or tears, but peace, and joy, this and greateverl grace, my my children, we mu s t merit it.elicity. There we sh a ll h ave per fect happines s in Jesus and by Jesus. To obtain We are all Christians, and yet how often we do not live as Christians. Even those who bear the name of Catholics: do not behave as Christians, and as Catholics when they act in opposition to the spirit of the Church by neglecting the Sacraments, and despising the priests of the Church. I see among you many women, and to you I would say—Be constant in prayer, for from the beginning you were chosen to affirm the resurrection of Our Lord. You were the first to visit the sepulchre, and to bring sweet spices to Jesus. He bad risen as He said, and you were the heralds of the glad tidings. Women, then, are charged to bring sweet spices to Jesus Christ. And what are these? They are good works, fervent prayers, what would you be with out these prayers and good works ? Beauty is vain and deceitful; but the woman who fears God shall live eternally. Work, then ; ald to your merits ; live in the presence of God, and in the hour of death God will take you in His arms and conduct you to paradise to be near to Jesus for ever. To the men before me I say—Be Christians, live like Chris tians, that your souls may praise and bless God through all eternity. Pray, pray always, and I will pray with you. And now I g i ve you all my bene diction, as also to your families and your friends. Ah ! let us pray together for the whole human race, so agitated and so troubled, looking for peace and finding none, for it could only be found in God. All soc i e ., y h as need of prayers, and to it I give my benediction in our Lord for time and for eternity, is we ll as unto you.' Our readers can easily imagine the enthusiasm with which these paternal words were received. Pius IX most benignly allowed those whom he had called his children to press round him, kissing his hands or his vestments. On Easter Sunday the rain poured in torrents during the whole morning, but cleared off by the dine the Holy Father appeared to give the usual benediction. The wind was high, but yet the voice of the Pope was distinctly heard, and not one word lost of the prayers he chanted before giving the triple benediction." Dr. J. Leavitt, of New York, has gained the first gold medal offered by the committee of the Cobden Club for "the best essay ou some public question with which Mr. Cobden's political career had been identified." ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP. For the Roxburglie Library, Mr. Hazlitt has in the press a volume of curious tracts on the Stage and Players of the Elizabethan and Jacobite Times.—A manuscript of Tyndale's translation of Erasmus's " Enchiridion Militis Christiani " has lately been found, but it has not yet been compared with Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1853, or " The Handsome Weapon of a Christian Knight in Englysshe," which, Lowndes states, " is said to have been translated by Will. Tindal."— It is said that Her Majesty's Theatre will in future be dedicated to theatrical performances, and will no longer be used as an opera-house.—As an example of the money which artistes now-a-days are able to pocket, the Orchestra states that Mdll-.... Artot is engaged to sing next winter at Moscow for £4,400. In connection with the same subject, a statement of the Athenceum may be mentioned. Mr. Sims Reeves and M. Blondin, the rope-dancer, each receive a hundred pounds, or guineas, for a performance at the Crystal Palace. Mr. Charles Dickens receives the same sum for each of his readings in London. The Echo says that Mr. Joe Jefferson, of "Rip Van Winkle" celebrity, has just concluded an engage. ment for two seasons in America at a salary o f one thousand dollars (R 200) a week.—The Due de Massa, who is to lead Mdlle. Nilsson to the hymeneal altar, is described as accomplished, a mil lionaire, and possessing a passion for music.-An American r apt, ues L Hap when Mdlle. Christine Nilsson recently sang in London, she lost one of her hair-pins, which one of the scene-shifters found. lle shewed it to one of the young aristocrats who was behind the scenes. " How much do you ask for it ?" said the lord. " Twenty-five guineas," replied the scene-shifter. The young lord actually paid him the twenty-five guineas, took the hair-pin, and said be would preserve it as a precious relic.—A wonderful horse, which rides through the flames from the stage to the flies, with a young woman on its back, is to be a forthcoming attraction at one of the metro politan theatres. DELAY IN FILLING CLERICAL VANCANCIES. foe Pall Mall Gazette calls attention to the delay which now so very frequently takes place in the filling up of clerical vacancies. " Vacant secular offices are, as a rule, filled without delay ; ecclesiastical appointments almost always remain unappropriated too long. Bishoprics, deaneries, canonries, and rectories alike are kept open as if the search for intellect and administrative ability in the Church were very difficult ; the true expla nation of the delay too often being that ecclesiastical appointments are regarded as the spoil of political parti sans, that conflicting claims have to be nicely adjusted, and sometimes that even family relationship enters as an element into such appointments." Our contemporary calls special attention to the neglect to appoint to the vacant living of St. Mary's, Newington. It is valued at £900; and the parish contains a population of nearly 14,000 persons. Surely these have a right to a rector without delay. Then, again, there is the deanery of Lichfield. The Rev. W. W. Champneys, has been installed as dean, has read himself in, and done everything else necessary to the legal and moral possession of the post. Yet because of some uncertainty as to whether he can hold the deanery and the rectory of St. Pancras, Lichfield is practically without a dean. The Pall Mall Gazette holds it certain that by what he has done the rev. gentleman has rendered ipso facto the rectory of St. Pancras void, and that he cannot hold the deanery and that rectory likewise. This also is certain, that Mr. Champneys is not in residence at Lichfield as dean, and that the parishioners of St. Pancras do not know who is to be their future rector. The living of St. Pancras is worth £1,025, with a rectory house ; it is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and involves the spiritual oversight of more than 14,000 persons. Mr. Champneys still holds St. Pancras, although he is really Dean of Lichfield. The Pall Mall Gazette recurs to the delay in filling up the bishopric of Lichfield. .Virhen. a "certain noble lady" desired the post for a well•known theologian and writer, Mr. Disraeli wanted to appoint another clergyman, Bishop Selwyn being afterwards fixed upon as a kind of compromise. The same delay took place in filling up Peterborough ; and the two canonries, one of St. Paul's, the other at Westminster, took Mr. Disraeli a long time to fill up. Mr. Gladstone was much more prompt the other day in making the Rev. J. B. Mozley, of Old Shoreham, canon of Worcester Cathedral. The rapidity with which that appointment was filled up seemed altogether exceptional. " Cabinets are made up in less than a fortnight ; surely a less time is required to settle the appointment of a bishop, dean, canon, or rector." The Sporting Gazette states that M. Nanquette refused 2,000 guineas for Nuage, four years old, after his easy vic tory in the French Grand National, at Vincennes, last Sunday. Nuage is by Marignan, and ran twice in England last season—at York and Doncaster—and at the sale of M. Lunel',4 horses, in Paris, in the autumn, was bought by Ide prei!ent owner for 75 guineas.—Ndlusko broke down at exercise on Saturday last.--The members of the York and lAinsty Hunt have subscribed 1,000 guineas for the family of Orvis, their late huntsman, in addition to a further sum of 400 guineas for the Warreners. The Nottingham Express states that the Lo,-liea of the unfortunate men who were no doubt drowned by the inundation of the Molyneux pit in that county, still lio entombed in the mine ; and, owing to the im mense quantity of water which has yet to be pumped up, it is not expected that they can be recovered before Sunday or Monday next. All hopes that the poor fellows may, by having rt ached the higher working; be still alive, have now disappeared. Another engine has been got to work to assist in pumping up the water from the pit. At present it is estimated that there is a depth of seven or eight yards to be removed, and it occupies nearly twelve hours to lower the water one yard. The new engine pumps klairatund A aiati.rt... THE -,LIVERPOOL BANQUET WO MR. CHARLES. DICKENS. The banquet to Mr. Charles Dickens, given on Satur day evening, seems to have been a most successful affair. The Mayor presided. Ladies as well as gentlemen were present, the number of those who sat down being upwards of GOO. Among those present, invited guests, in addition to the guests of the evening, were the Right Hon. Lord Dufferin, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; M. Alphonse Esquiros, Lord Houghton, Mr. C. H. Dudley, United States' Consul at Liverpool; Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon, Mr. G. A. Sala, Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Andrew Halliday, Mr. H. F. Chorley, Mr. G. Dalbv‘ and Mr. C. Dickens, jun. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given. That of " The Houses ofParliament " was responded to by Lord HOUGHTON. Speaking more particularly of the House to which he belonged, his lordship said : I may say it has struck the members of that assembly which I represent with occasional pain and regret that amidst the life-like and admirable portraitures of the class of society in Mr. Dickens's works, the members of the House of Lords appear in a not very frequent or flattering character. In faCt, ladies and gentlemen, I can hardly speak aloud the designation which Mr. Dickens has bestowed upon us. (Mr. Dickens: " Oh, do.") I do not know—in fact, I will not attempt to interpret the secret of litera ture which has iof permitted this class of society to appear in a more agreeable phase. My friend, Mr. DiJkens, has shown little or no interest in the matter of our political life. If he had chosen, or, perhaps, conde scended so far, he might have acceded to the honours of Lord Macaulay and Lord Lytton. It may seem sr,me. what ungenerous to say that any one man who has done 5.) much could have been w-lied to do anything more ; tlieeefore I feel we have here -to express but the deepest gratitude which we owe to Mr. Dickens. Gratitude is the genius of this meeting, and to it I give my entire In proposing the toast of the evening, Lord Di FFEBIN passed a very high enlogium upon the eminent novelist. Ire had intensified the love of the mother to the child and entered into the feelings of both. " Mr. Dickens has shown us how the alchemy of genius can convert the commonest paths of life, the most common. place and vulgar regions of society, into a perfect kingdom of romance. Under his large-hearted leadership we have come to regard the love affairs of Mr. Sniveller and his Marchioness with greater interest than any elevated ideal s of high life. and to look upon the round little figure of Mr. Pickwick with the same loving reverence which we are accustomed to bestow upon the most chivalrous paladin of antiquity. Not only so, but Mr. Dickens has conferred a still further benefit upon us. Ile has tanght rich and poor, the educated and the simple, to recognise their com mon humanity not merely by the characteristics of their physical nature, but by their mutual susceptibility to thoac idgrier and purer influences which constitute the poetry of life. Our children may become our rivals, and perhaps our enemies ; but whatever maybe the convulsion which our dominion may be destined to undergo, there is one empire which will never suffer disruption ; there is one alle,gianee which will never be abjured ; there is one despotism which will never provoke revolt, and that is the sway and the supremacy which Mr. Dickens's writings are destined to exercise over every English speaking community, whether they be inhabitants of an American republic, of an African or Indian colony, or of a future Australasian empire." Mr. DICKENS in reply to the toast, which was enthusias tically drunk, after dwelling upon the honour that was done him, and the pleasure it gave him, went on to say : " Let me assure you that whatever you have accepted with pleasure, either by word of pen or by word of mouth, from me, you have greatly improved in the acceptance. As the gold is said to be doubly and trebly refined which has seven times passed the furnace, so a fancy may be said to become more and more refined each time it passes through the human heart. You have, and you know you have, brought to the consideration of me that quality in yourselves without which I should but have beaten the air. Your earnestness has stimulated mine, your laughter has made me laugh, and your tears have overflowed my eyes. All that I can claim for myself in establishing the relations which exist between us is con stant fidelity to hard work. My literary fellows about me, of whom I am so proud to see so many, know very well how true it is in all art that what seems the easiest done is oftentimes the most difficult to do, and that the smallest truth may come of the greatest pains —much as it occurred to me at Manchester the other clay the sensitive touch of Mr. Whit worth's measuring machine comes at last, of Heaven, and Manchester, and its mayor only knows how much hammering. My companions in arms know thoroughly well, and I think it only right the public should know too, that in our careful toil and trouble, and in our steady striving for excellence—not in any little gifts, misused by fits and starts—lies our highest duty, at once to our calling, t o one an other, to ourselves, and to you. Ladies and gentlemen, before sitting down I find that I have to Clear myself of two very unexpected accusations. The first is a charge preferred against me by my old friend Lord Hongliton. that I have been somewhat unconscious of the merits of the House of Lords. Now, ladies and gentlemen, seeing that I. have had some few not altogether obscure or unknown personal friends in the assembly, seeing that I had some little association with, and knowledge of, a certain obscure peer lately known in England by the same of Lord Brougham, seeing that I regard with some admiration and affection another obscure peer wholly unknown in literary circles, called Lord Lytton, seeing also that I have had for some years some slight admiration of the exraordinary judicial properties and amazingly acute mind of a certain Lord Chief Justice Popularly known by the name of Cockburn, and also seeing that there is no man in England whom I respect more in his public capacity. whom I love more in his private capacity, or from whom I have received more remarkable proofs of his honour and love of literature than another obscure nobleman called Lord Russell ; taking these circumstances into consideration. I was rather amazed by my noble friend's accusation. When I asked him, on his sitting clown, what amazing devil possessed him to make this charge, lie replied that lie had never forgotten the days of Lord Verisoplit. Then, ladies and gentle men. I understood it all. Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly min:Aural character was invented there was no Lord Troutzhton in the ITouseof Lords, and therewas in therfouse of Commons a rather indifferent member called Richard i r,ltipm ell to ennehitit., I close will' the other charge of my nol.le friend, and here I am more serious, and I may be allowed, perhaps. to express my seriousness in half-a-dozen plain words. When I first took literature as my profession in Englaml, I calmly resolved within myself that. whether I succeeded or whether I failed, literature should be my sole profes sion. It appeared to me at that time that it was not so well understood in England as it was in other co entries that literature was a dignified profession, by which any man might stand or fall. I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand, and by itself, of itself, and for itself ; and there is no consideration on earth which would induce me to break that bargain. Ladies and gentlemen,.finally allow me to thank you for your great kindness, and for the touching earnestness with which you have drunk my health. I should have thanked you with all my heart if it had not so unfortunately hap pened that, for many sufficient reasons, I lost my heart at between half-past six and half-past seven to-night." Mr. Sala and others afterwards spoke. Mr. Dickens himself proposed " The Ladies." THE PRESTON NTRIKE.—The latest news from Preston shows that the strike there continues, and that there appears to be little chance of any satisfactory arrangement being made between masters and men. The emigration movement continues, and several men who have won a passage out by balloting will leave England this week. It is said that at present the men on strike receive considerable support from the surrounding districts. THE SOUTH WALES IRON TRADE. —At the pre sent time the total number of furnaces in blast in Mon mouthshire and South Wales is 111, and some of these furnaces produce over 200 tons per week of pig iron ; but it is only where the latest improvements in smelting have been adopted that this large weekly yield is secured. The average make of each furnace is calculated at 7,000 tons per annum, or about 140 tons per week; consequently, the aggregate make of the district reaches a total of over 700,000 tons. The furnaces in blast are as annexed : Abernaut, Aberdare Iron Company, 5 ; Abersychan, Ebbw Vale Company, 4 ; Beaufort, J. and C. Bailey, 6 ; Blaenavon, Blaenavon Company, 8 ; Cwrnavon, Governor and Company of Copper Miners, 3 ; Cyfartwfa, R. T. Crawshay, 10; Cwmbran, R. S. Roper and Co., 2; Dow lais, Dowlais Iron Company, 16 ; Ebbw Vale, Ebbw Vale Company, 3 ; Gadlys, Wayne and Co., 2 ; Llynvi, Llynvi Vale Iron Company, 4 ; Nantyglo, J. and C. Bailey, 6 ; Pentyrch, Booker and Co., 2; Pontypool, Ebbw Vale Company, 1 ; Plymouth, Plymouth Iron Company, 6 ; Rhymney, Rhymney Iron Company, 9 ; Sirhowy, Ebbw Vale Company, 3 ; Tondu, Brogden and Sons, 2 ; Tredegar, Tredegar Iron Company, 7 ; Victoria, Ebbw Vale Company, 3 ; and Ystalyfera, Budd and Co., 0 ; The Blaina and Cwmcelyn works are likely to be soon started again, the negotiations for a sale to some Lanca shire capitalists being nearly completed. At Peny darren, also, there is a probability of some of the furnaces being shortly re-lit. The position of the Welsh iron trade generally is considered to be far more promising than at the commencement of either last year or the year be fore; and before the close of the year 1869 it is believed that there will be a substantial advance in prices. The names of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Lord Claud Hamilton, and the Hon. Mr. Plunkett are among those men tioned as the probable choice of the Conservative electors of Brecon as the successor of Mr. Gwyn, who has been un seated by Baron Martin. The Irish bishops are losing 110 time in filling up the livings that fall into their gift. It is announced that the Bishop of Kilmore has given the living of Kiltoghert to the Bev. S. Lewis ; and the Bishop of Derry has conferred that of Drumachose upon the Rev. P. Hearne, A.M. Kil toghert is worth £6OO a year. and Drumachose, .Dl5O. Much anxiety was caused last Reek by an un favourable account of the Bishop of Carlisle's health. From a report. just received, however, it appears that his rcpt at night has improved, and other symptoms aro less serious His lordship remains at Paris, being unable to proceed fur- , ther. Pr ayers are now general in the churches o f his diocese, on his behalf. The subscriptions to the Gladstone Testimonial Fund (which was suggested and has been carried out by the prop ieior of the Lirerpool Mercury) are now announced as to close at the end of the present month. About £9OO has been collected, mostly in pence, and it is hoped to raise the fund to over a thousand pounds before the subscriptions are stopped. The Corporation of Manchester were defendants in an action for damages, tried at Chester Assizes on Friday, in which a manufacturer having a mill on the bank of the river Ether° w sued for damages sustained through the failure of the defendants to send down the river the supl)ly of water contracted for by Act of Parliament. After the case had been partly opened, it was agreed, upon the sug gestion of the judge, to take a verdict for the plaintiff, sub ject to a reference. MR. LOWE'S BUDGET SPEECH. __.,~. rrul The London correspondent of the Manchester Nal" says that, as a speech, Mr. Lowe's bud ge t e ff us i on was t ' . w worst he has ever delivered. It was indescribably rol l ', and spoilt, says the writer, "By the vaistar' ascribable to his defective sight. The r eports the morning papers give no idea of the extent t° which the details of his varied calculations were O r : meted as ho wont along by the interjaculations of attentive audience. I can liken it to nothing but the readil of an uncommonly bad proof, which entails th e ne cessitY° endless emendations as you go on. There is something ineffably painful and pitiable in the spectacle of an off° rl marred by the consequences of mere physical impotency People go about saying that the ideas of the plan ire r6 ,, supplied by Dir. Gladstone ; and mine words that f°' from Mr. Lowe in the course of his peroration seem to l'O r ' rant the belief that ho did not until very late in the day 0 1 how anything effective or popular could be d on e. We sha lj probably not soon, if we ever, know the real history of t' plan. Tho question is of more interest in a party sense than° a national one. If the Budget which already pay o 'l treated as a great success, should really bo the resuft Mr. Lowe's individual powers of invention, there would al urea be established a third alternative for the office °I Finance Minister. Whereas, since the death of Sir Georg ° Cornowall Lewis there were but two, ono eminent Whig , and one eminent Tory. In any case the prestige of &In n ,' cial ability now acquired by Mr. Lowe must be regardo u as a new quantity in the gam of power, and he is 0 the man to suffer the fact to bo forgotten. So little 1,14 the eventful and striking character of the present Budget anticipated, that, contrary to all precedent on occasions ° t the kind, many scats in the Speaker's gallery were unclaime d during the evening; and there was not the slightest sysq tom of excitement in the lobby and the avenues leading t ° the house, beyond that which takes place whenever an ial" portant debate is anticipated." PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The first order for the day this evening is the consider s ' tion, in committee, of Mr. Lowe's Budget; after 1010' if there is time, Mr. Cardwell will try to get some votel granted for the army. When the House r eac h es this point Mr. Banbury Tracey, Lord Elcho, Captain F. Beaumon t . ' Sir James Elphinstone, Sir Mich ae l Hi c k s B eac h, S i f, Henry Hoare, Mr. J. D. Lewis, and M r . O'R e illy Mu each bring forward some special grievance of their owl! concerning the modus operandi by which the army i e governed. Mr. J. B. Smith intends to ask the First Lora of the Treasury whether there is any prospect of the metric system of weights and measures coming into o pera' tion ; and Sir Massey Lopes will inquire of Mr. Gladston e whether his attention has been drawn to the expediencY of making some adequate provision for the retirement of bishops who have attained an advanced age. The adjourned debate on the Libel Bill will be resume d to-morrow evening, and, curiously enough, the adjourne d debate on the motion to reduce the fire-insurance duty t O , 6d. is also fixed to c ome on . Of course , a ft er t h e p ro posal of Mr. Lowe to repeal the duty altogether, the motion o f Mr. Sheridan will be withdrawn. Mr. P. A. Taylo r will call the attention of the Home Secretari to the case of three children being convicte d for stealing rape greens at Salisbury. Mr. TO' velyan has given notice to bring in a bill to mak ° better provision respecting Greenwich Hospital ; and 3- 11. ' Goldney intends to introduce a bill Co amend th e las/ relating to the appointment of county coroners. Two bills which are down for second reading on Wed' nesday are likely to be stoutly opposed. The Married Women's Property Bill will meet with the strenuota' opposition of Mr. Lopes, the member for Launceston, wil e will move that it he read a second time on that day 51 months. Mr. Raikes will try to shelve the Burial° Regulation Bill by moving a similar amendment. INlr' Thomas Hughes's Sunday Trading Bill is fixed for cola' mittee, but Mr. Brady intends to suggest that it shall not go so far as that stage, and will propose a motion to 4.1 i 3 t effect, The Irish Church Bill comes on for consideration on Thursday, when Mr. Gladstone will move that it be cony mitted. Mr. Newdegate has an adverse amendment oa the paper, but it is doubtful whether the hon. member for North Warwickshire will persist in dividing the House on the question. Mr. Sinclair Aytoun's " instrue' tion " is likely to give rise to a short debate, and probabli a division. When the House gets into committee, several amendments will be moved by Sir George Jenkinson, Charley and others. The most important " order " for Friday, is the second reading of the Trades Union Bill, and the Valuation e t Property Bill is also fixed for that stage. Sir George Jenkinson has given notice that on this evening he wil l ask the First Lord of the Treasury a question relating to local taxation. TRADE AND FINANCE. .The unexpected nature of the Budget caused a most favourable impression in city cli-t.deb *ud Mr. Lowe 's c/d)ftt as a financier was regarded as triumphant. It vr 3/ felt that the new arrangements will, if carried , inaugurate a national system of taxation in 1 )10 1 of the cumbrous levy which is to be superseded , and which has only custom to plead in its defence. Til e fact of the Government having determined to remit taxa to the extent of £3,060,000 was taken as a prod of their feeling of confidence in their strength, and as a Wren tha t the economical reforms so long talked about wtuld be seriously carried out. Home stocks have accordingly been very firm, and the general tendency of prices has bees favourable. Mr. Lowe's choice of taxes for repeal al 4l modification has been favourably commented upon. The fact of his having selected those particular impost s against which the most vehement attacks have of late been most perseveringly directed, shews that the Government were fully convinced that the taxes il l question had little to recommend them. The tax on fir e insurance, like all other taxes on prudence, is absolutell indefensible, and the marine duties are also doomed to be repealed at an early date. The corn duty, althoug h trifling, was a great burden upon the lowest classes. I t was the last remnant of a barbarous protection, a protee; tion doubly barbarous when applied to the necessaries 9 life. As we pointed out in a former issue, the action of tll O Bank directors, in raising the rate of interest 1 per cents has caused a considerable loss of business to the establieb e meet. The Bank return shews the charges incidental t° the payment of the dividends, but, apart from this, it is I . very weak one. The reserve of the banking depart . meat has fallen unusually low, while the liabilitie s are up to a full average. This, too, has happene d in a time of comparative ease. Thus O di have a most anomalous state of things —a weal' position of the Bank of England, coupled with a strong feeling in the open money market, where the general tendency of the discount rates is decidedly downwards' The last return of the Bank, however, fully justifies a 4, per cent. rate, but it i s pr o b a bl e th a t thi s s t a te a things will soon right itself. A large portion of the rata and coin withdrawn by the payment of the dividends wil l speedily return to the Bank, while the dearness of money here, as compared with the rates on the continental bourse , will certainly attract such a supply of capital as will cans ° the bank rate and the rate in Lombard-street to be more in unison with each other. The probability is, therefOle that the Bank directors will have to retrace their step' An important fact, however, militates against this theofP The rate of exchange at New York on London has lately been subject to the most incomprehensible vagaries. Aftet recovering to 108, we find that it has given way cent., at which price it may draw considerable amount° . of gold from thi s s id e. Sh ould t hi s b e the case, it is e V dent that the general money market would become stria' gent, and the anomaly above referred to would b . , rectified by the rate in Lombard-street approaching tt" Bank minimum. Trade generally has shewn less animation during the past week. Cotton has given way in value, b u t the quotations at Liverpool are still utterly disproportionat e to those current at Manchester, which offer no 'induce' ment to merchants to ship. Consumption is steadily O S the decrease, and although the remedy is heroic, it appea r° the only one that will meet the necessities of the ease' We do not mean to affirm that there is no justification for the rise in the value of the new material which has tak en place, but it is evident that it has no connection with t llB legitimate requirements of the consuming trade. Neve r theless, we fi nd that the visibl e supp l y of cotton for G r es" Britain shows an excess of 3,j per cent. over last Ye ar ' while the stocks in the interior of the 'Unit e ; States have in c r ease d t o an almost slings' extent. Prices of the raw material have gi vc° way to Id. per lb., on the week ; but tho r edoe' Lion should be m uc h h eav i er b e f ore merchants sbetahl enter into any exten s i ve o p era ti ons. As compared 0..; the quotations here, the returns from the foreign marl°, are ridiculously low, and they are likely to continue 44 . .; until the excess stock s an d th e h eavy i mports, w hi c h daily coming to hand, are got rid of. Advices from Be °• hay state that 811 b. shirting s ne t on l y 10 s. per Pie°. against lls. 3d., their present nom i na l va l ue i n IVranchl ter. Evidently the consumpti on h ere must b e restrieme to the narrowest limits, in order to compel a rafli , etiol 3 , the range of quotations at Liverpool. Her Majesty the Queen, with the members of . 9 • 3 1 Royal family who hav e b een s t ay i ng w i t h her MaJa.titL'oi B uzk ugh am Palace, l e ft L on d on on S a t ur d ay a t t en m inn' , ono o'clock by spe c i a l t ra i n on th e G rea t Western 1P41f4 The train was timed to reach Windsor at half-pa/A i ° Prince Leopold, whose India tion occasio 0 r to prolog _halts M 0 : COMA] Business Consols ha self in the have, i n s together tE to-day, an Improverne Ccniols count, 931 I Cewn•ree 1885, 11 ; ditto £lOO England S India St ditto 5 pei Cent., o c , ditto under In the feature is per Cent. (1865) are is flat at Six per C e (1864), 86 ditto \ricer 78i to 79, Cents. of ] to 82 ; ditt to 65i ; d Cbarkof A per Cents., In the follows : to 1151 ; land, 119 87 to 89 ; to 48 ; so 107 to 10 A, 109 to don, Chat' The Am United Sta of I, beit shares are to 97. The onl3 of in 1.. K 3 1; Union Oriental, 63i to 64i peiial Ott 1 5 ; Agra Hudson' 12i ; G ene ternational American, The sun Bank on S The Deli The Rip £140,000 £60,000 in The hal foreign 'idol day") and It is state the Central and that on be recovere Proposal; London of tralian Gol Winter's F Great Nor t A telegra intelligence by Messrs. Manacles-r crew saved from Plym as 696 tom The ace( out the prc barley, it i vious year. The dir, Company state the prietors of in full by 5 10 of th mice 'with caries, d at; GOVERIS 3 per Cent. Ditto for 8 per Cent. New 3 per I New 2 per Do. 6 per .A.nnuities, Do. for 30 Do (Red S Ezehoqur I Do Do. Bank of EnE Do. openi Canada 4 pe Inter-Colon INDIAN Indio. Mock, Do. Openi Do. 5 per Do. 4 per Do. Corti! Do. Enfac Do. 5 per Do. Si pe: D,3 5 per Do Do, M. Deb., Do, Bondt Do. under Argentine It Anitrian Do., Serif lio Do, Brazilian 5 Do. II pc, d( Do. d ( Do. d( D °. 5 per Do A • 11 -" .enoB A vr Do 2 ror ( Crtha, C; per o,dittn 6 pe , r ) 0.4!. p oi L ' ° • 3 'per I, ° . Per 1. 0 . 7 lo au sh 3 I) art.* Lcati -D " Igbr luLdor N, • E qZ . Vtian, Llo Seto, .tout, Do. .fl Ok) DO. £5OO Uo. 41 0 e El:1w Fth Do G overall: %Veit b per