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Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, AN ALAR MING SACRIFIC E : Buckstone, jun. M Fanny Wright. • A 0 ,, r which, HOME.: :Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale, Comp ton. 11. Vincent. &c , .: Mesdames Cavendish, Dalton, Hill, &c. With A REGULAR FTX. Mr. Sothern. ' And HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Messrs. romp'ou, Ken dal, Gordon: Mesdames Fitzwilliam, F. Wright, and F. hwynn. Boa-office open daily. Commence at Seven. TIIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WERSTEIt. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. - THIS F.YENINtI. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr a Bel more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At t, 4th time. EVE Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs. Henry Neville. J. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, ,%iss Lillie Lee, and Mrs Alfred Mellon. ' And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER WELL: Mr. a Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: Shylock, Herr Formes; Portia, Miss Frances liou-- verie; Messrs Rignold, B. Ellis, G. F. Nevil!e, Robins, Fenton, Moreland, Gre3ham, and Cathcart; Miss Kemp and Miss Emma Barnett. N.B.—During the Summer Season the doors will be opened at half-past 7, and the perf,)rman-o commence at 8 precisely. THEATRE -ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Legillinate Success!—Fifth Week of "MONEY." THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At S o'clock, Lcrd Lytton's Great Play (In five acts) of MONEY, • Par Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, Lin Payne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur, and E Dyas; Mrs. Errmann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs Charles Horsman D STRAND THEATRE. Sole 1 escee aria Manageress, Nirs Pwanborough. TATS EVENING, at 7.30, Fi av. (10CSF.. Messrs. `2l3,rlze and Belford: Mesdames B.:non and Irughes. After which. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life As surance Society will he 11 , 1 d at the Society's Office, _Fleet street, London, on THURSDAY, the 24th day of June next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect an Auditor in the room of Philip Longmore, Esq., who has resigned; to elect six Directors and one other Auditor ; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who go out of office by ro tation, will be proposed for re-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH DAVIES, Actuary. OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CIIERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleaaant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. 4GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age._ JNO. GOSNELL and CO. h%vo at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARK ET. 'THIS EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE : Buckstone, jun. ; Miss F. Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. etc. Followed by A REG ITLA R FIX : tt r, ,‘sothern. Concluding with HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE: Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Gordon; Mrs. E. Fitz ,villiam, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHT. Trns EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Del more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web to 8, LIFE FOR LIRE: Miss Neil-on. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr ster, Mr H. Nev lie. Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. &' And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUtt, WIFE TO CAMBEF-VELL Mr. G. Belmore. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manlger, Mr. Vinim,. • Tins EVENING, at 8, SHYLO. Shylock, Herr Formes; Portia, Miss Frances Bouverie. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee an• Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ;Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with Li HE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At 8.30, the new burlesque TH U. CORSICAN BOTHERS. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. U. Honey, X rs. C. Horsman, &P. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EvENING, at 7. , z0. IN FOR A ID iLID %Y. Followed by A ROVING COM VISSION. And THE MILI VARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRTNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL TITEATRE. Under ale Man arennemt of Miss Marie Wilton THISEVENING, SCHOOL: '•Mfessrs Hare, H. J. 'Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; 31r, ittickinghain Whit., Anse C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After ' , hien, A, WINNING 11AZAUD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARRE BLUE. The Only Leon! CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL iTAMB TA PALACE. BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. le. Box-offic( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, ed il l 7 " ‘ IZ- 1 6. 3 ``,--1111 Jr LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869. . With evidences hero and there of considerable reluctance on the part of several noble lords to inter ' fere so radically with the general organization of the hereditary branch of the Legislature, there are suffi ciently plain indications that the Life Peerages Bill will be eventually accepted by the llouze of Peers. After a rather interesting and at times animated dis cussion, it was by half-past eight o'clock last evening passed through Committee. The principal altera tion in regard to it was this, that the amendment proposed by Earl STANHOPE was in the end withdrawn by the noble lord in consideration of Earl RUSSELL'S assent to another modified amend ment, in accordance with which only two Life Peers are to be created in any one year, and that the total number are never to exceed—for some reason that we cannot divine—the mysterious and scholastic aggre gate of twenty-eight. A maximum number of twenty five, otherwise a quarter of a hundred, one might comr)rebend readily encuzh. Thirty, even being a spare number, one might also readily under- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1869. stand. But why twenty-eight, by preference has been selected, as the precise aggregate which is never to be exceeded, fairly goes beyond the limits of our conjecture. however this conclusion may have been arrived at, so it has, in simple point of fact, been definitely arranged. And remembering that a limit of some kind must, in every case, be marked out, that indicated by a total of twenty-eight will do, as a matter of course, quite as well as any other that might have been suggested. It seems rather a nice distinction, that one which was drawn by the Earl of CARNARVON last evening, during the course of the discussion, when, after deprecating the awarding of life peerages to men of great ability, a large propor tion of whom would, he said, probably be poor— those men themselve3, he argued, being thereby placed in a false position, and their coronets being of the value of a sham—the noble Earl immediately afterwards admitted that it would he a great and obvious gain to the House of Peers if they could secure men of great eloquence and ability, su.Ah men being brought into the House with a mininurn of disturbing effect. So arranging matters, that is, with a minimum of disturbing effect, that they would have— observed Lord CA RNA RYON —hereditary peers who were not lords of Parliament, and lords of Parliament who were not hereditary peers. A powerful argument in favour of this proposed innovation in regard to the construction of the house of Peers, as a whole, was well introduced in an earlier portion of the thought ful and carefully-considered address delivered by the noble earl in the very midst of last night's discussion. The argument here referred to being simply this, that there was scarcely any institution in the country that had changed oftener than the House of Lords. Their lordship's House, he said, had upheld distinctly the character of every successive age or epoch in the history of the country. It had done so from the feudal age of the Barons to the purely oligarchical age, which was immediately subsequent to the date of the Revolution. Even, he insisted, and with a force of reason perfectly obvious to us all, because it is, so to speak, actually within our own remembrance, bringing us down to a time mtnediately contemporary—even, said Lord CA NARVON, after the moving of the first Reform Act. still adapted itself to the circumstances of the period iu which its lot, as with others, had been cast. The House Of Lords, in effect, has shown itself to be, in other words, throughout the whole of the manifold phases, developments, or transformations of our his tory, anything but a fossil institution. It has kept pace with the changes of the times. Once, and once only, it sank to a level of degeneration—this was in the days of the STUARTS—and (remembering the charac teristics of that epoch) one is almost tempted to say to a level of degradation. Otherwise, upo❑ the whole, it has more or less contrived, all through our history, to hold its own nobly side by side with the popular, Jr, in other words, the representative branch of the Legislature. Representative, of course, the House of Lords is, essentially, itself, but not representative iu the popular acceptation of the phrase. As the noble lord last raised to the peerage under the title of Baron PENZANCE, very happily took occasion to remark in a maiden speech not unworthy of his forensic and judicial reputation, " the House of Lards in its constitutional aspect represented the favour of the SOVEREIGN and the power of the land." Adding at once very truth fully and very sententiously that " the favour of the SOVEREIGN constitutionally exercised was the reward of the subject, and the power of the land was nothing but the accumulated frugality of the people." In that sense it is that the House of Peers is represen tative, and always has been representative —re- presentative of the power of the land and of the favour of the SOVEREIGN. It is represeuiative and always has bees representative, also, in another character, that is to say representative of the the valour, the learning, and the enterprise of the people of Englaud--as signalized generation after generation by heroes like NELSON and MARLBOROUG by authors like MACAULAY and LYTTON, by pro 'ound lawyers, and by the mere illustrious of the promoters and developers of the Coin merce of England. It is in this latter elpae!ty as a representative institution that the House of Peers s now about to be enhance], namely, by the admis sion within it of men of distingqishA ability whose comparative poverty— meaning thereby whose posses - sion merely of a very moderate competeneemust other wise preclude them from the overwhelming honours of a peerage of a hereditary character. By accord ing to men like these a peerage of an exceptional kind, the dignity appertaining to which will to simply applicable to themselves during their lifetime, whatever difficulty there has been, hitherto, denying honourable recognition to them, and the advantage of their talents to the House of Lords, will be at once and entirely obviated. A growing sense of this is influencing, (in regard to their deliberations upon the Life Peerages Bill) the opi nions of a very considerable majority of the heredi tary branch of the Legislature. Those among their lordships who were at the outset disposed to be averse to the notion of any change such/ as the one formally indicated by the provisions of the measure, f pow under their legislative consideration, the change originally attempted to be introduced by a surprise in the instance of Lord WENSLEYDALE, have already realised distinctly enough that the advan tages ensured to the house of Lords are in this matter of the Life Peerage, in no way counterbalanced any valid or even it may be said any recognisable, or in the smallest degree appreciable, disadvantages, ONE of the soundest and safest lawyers in the kingdom has pronounced against the Patent Laws. That is a great fact. The " leading journal" has pro nounced against them. That is another great fact. But neither Sir ROUNDELL PALMER nor the Times will desire that aleir verdict shall be re ce i ve d with out examination, truth is, the ques tion at issue is neither so simple nor is its solution so near at hand as these authorities believe. There can be no doubt that many—that most—of the charges brought against the Patent Laws by Mr. MACFIE and his distinguished seconder are well founded. Patents do interfere with trade most seriously; the original inventor too often derives no advantage from his discovery ; a large number of patents ought never to have been granted, so minute is the improvement which the inven tion patented confers. On the other hand, we attach very little importance to the protective argument used by Mr. HOWARD and Mr. MUNDELLA. To suppose that invention will be killed because inventors are not protected, is a supposition akin to the belief which prevailed thirty years ago, that farmers would be ruined if the corn laws were abo lished. Clearly invention will go on as the necessary result of competition. Every manufacturer wishes to economise labour, and if he can discover any process for doing so he will discover it, although his competitor should benefit to the same extent. In fact, there is no protection under the present system so far as the manufacturer is concerned. The only protection is for the inventor, who sells his invention indifferently to all who choose to pay for it. If the manufacturer should himself be the inventor he still need not want protection. The fact that he is the first to discover and to apply an invention ought to be sufficient for him. It will give him a priority in the market, and a reputation, which ought to be sufficient recompense. But—and here lies the difficulty inventors are not always manufacturers nor capitalists. Very frequently they are working men. This is but natural. The manufacturer has a variety of subjects to occupy his mind. Ile has the markets to think of; he is a merchant as well as a manufacturer, a buyer and a seller as well as a producer. His thoughts are not sufficiently concentrated upon the purely mechanical part of his business to have time for inventions and discoveries. It is the mechanic par excellence, the man whose whole life is given up to mechanical employments, that is most likely to hit upon new ideas. Yet if the Patent Laws were abolished, what protection would he have ? What reward of any kind would he have ? It may be argued that at present he gets little, since knowing well his inability to engage in a law suit to protect his invention if it were pirated, he usually sells it for a small sum to his employer. But at least he gets something, and the sum which we may consider insignificant will not appear so to him. Moreover, working-men inventors do: some times obtain fair and equitable terms. Yr. 11Iux- DELLA mentioned an instance in which a capitalist and a working man had entered into partnership, and the latter had received 4000 as his share of the profits of an invention. Considering the improve ment that is every year taking place in the position which the employed occupy towards their employers, it is probable that such terms as these are likely to become more and more common. That working men themselves value the Patent Laws is proved by the fact that the representatives of some of the most important working-class organi sations in the kingdom presented Mr. MAcFIE with a series of eight reasons why his resolution for the abolition of the Patent Laws should not pass. The fact is, the question at issue is one between private rights and the public benefit. The Patent Laws are unquestionably a public nuisance, and the majority of the community would benefit by their abolition. But this, through a strong, is not a conclusive argument against them. It would have been unquestionably for the public benefit if all the land required by the railway companies at the time that their lines were constructed had been taken from the private landowners and handed over free to the companies. Yet is anyone prepared to say that this would have been just ? Sir ROUNDELL PALMER attempted to shew that property in inventions is per se undesirable and unsustain able on philosophical and economical grounds ; and when the very obvious argument suggested _ _ _ _ itself to him that his reasoning would lead to the abolition of copyright, he attempted to draw a distinction between the two—between ideas of one kind and ideas of another, which we utterly fail to comprehend. For instance, what difference of principle is there between a history of England and a printing press ? The writer does not create his facts any more than the inventor creates the metals with which he constructs his machine. Both deal with things that already existed ; both invent new combinations of old materials ; yet Sir ROUNDELL PALMER would protect the first but not the second. The argument that the one is not necessarily a public benefit, or that the world can do without it, and suffer no loss, while it cannot do without the other, tells against the open system. The greater the boon conferred upon the public, the greater cause has the conferrer to expect a reward. The exceeding value of an article is scarcely a reason why we should have it for nothing. The House of Commons has declined to adopt Mr. MAcFin's sweeping resolution. It has preferred to resort to the not very satisfactory expedient of a select committee. Considering that the question has been already thoroughly examined by a royal com mission, we can scarcely expect much result from this new tribunal. At the same time we cannot be surprised that Parliament should take this course. The proposed change is so revolutionary that it was hardly possible for it to be taken at once. Perhaps some via media may be discovered whereby the public shall be relieved from the burdens and restraints of the Patent Laws, while the inventor is saved from the threatened confiscation of his pro perty. But the only suggestion in that direction— Government rewards to inventors—does not lead us to be very sanguine on that point. For some time to come the whole matter must be one for discussion. A deeisionappears to us comparatively remote. POPUL,4IZ SONGS OF ITAT,Y. Almost all Italian songs are songs of the affee tions ; cradle songs, serenades, and dirges, which have ben handed down—may be with alterations --from generation to generation. Evc•ry yretty girl has her poet-laureate ; every village has its improvisatore. Many, many ballads relate to brigandage ; some few to hunting and the delights of the table. Wine, gambling, and a dis graceful kind of gallantry are the themes of a thou sand songs. I❑ Calabria it is the fashion to idolise assassins and write songs about them, which the girls and young men sing at harvest time. In Cor sica it is the fashion to sing Voccri (or Vendetta songs) when any one dies a violent death. Hags are hirei for the purpose (called Voceratrici) ; it is their duty to dance and brandish knives around the coffin of the deceased, and to drink wine (some say blood) to his memory. Of all the songs of Italy the songs of Tuscany are the most poeti cal and the least tainted with sensuality. BJing written in pure Italian, they have a strictly national character and serve as models to the rest of the peninsula. The Stornelli or Pastoral Odes, and a ,d the Nanne or Cradle Songs, are all Tuscan in their character. They become corrupted in the dif ferent villages int) which they are introduced, but in print they are nearly always the same. Scratch the patois with your pen, and you will find the pure Tuscan underneath. Venice is famous for its serenades ; Naples for its love songs, properly so called ; Rome for its Novelle or Sacred Ballads-- the epics of the saints, the only tracts tolerated by the Church of Rome. The Maggi (Songs of May) are sung in every village in the land from the bor ders of Istlia and Tyrol to Cape Pesaro.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (molt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, June 3. The other day I reproduced a statement that all the electors' cards which had not been claimed had been collected from the different mairies at the Prefecture "for a use," said a Radical Election Committee, "which it is not difficult to explain." This hint that the authorities meant to distribute these cards in order that they might be given in favour of official candidates by surreptitious electors, is denied by the Journal °Skid. It states that the cards have been left at the mairies for the disposal of the electors, who have been invited, by bills posted up, to claim them before the second ballot. I hasten to give the authorities the full benefit of this contradiction, which, however, is by no means so unambiguous as it might be. But though the authorities may have been guiltless of this flagrant act of electoral dishonesty, the evidence of sharp practice of other kinds is not to be act aside. An instance may be quoted in the sixth circumscription of the Nord. There the official candidate and two Liberals went to the poll at the last ballot. None of them obtained the required majority. The Liberal candidate who received the least support gave way to the other Liberal, leaving him, as he thought, to fight on the most advanta geous terms. But no sooner had this Liberal withdrawn than the official candidate withdrew too, leaving the field clear to the other soi•clisant Liberal, who has been openly proclaimed by the authorities as worthy of their support ! I might multiply instances of this sort of trickery. So merciless has been the application of the " screw " this year, so discreditable the devices of the prefects, that even the oldest servants of the Empire revolt against their instructions. I notified to you the resignation of the Make of Lormont. Another instance of the same kind is to be recorded to-day. M. Delcussot, Garde General of the Forests at Soulac, has resigned. He says that the instructions he has received were so contrary to his senti ments of independence as a citizen, and dignity as an Imperial officer, that he could not comply with them. As soon as this determination was known, he was ordered off to Angouleme on a " temporary mission," clearly for the purpose of getting him out of the way. He refuses to go. He will not consent to a step which has been taken on the principle of transforming an Imperial officer into an " electoral serf "—a high pressure machine for the manufacture of official deputies. He accordingly resigns his post, which he has held for twelve years. What is the use of the official papers publishing denials of the complaints against the authorities, when old ser vants of the Empire, who have everything to lose by giving up their posts, enter their protests in this fashion. Some of the culprits who were arrested for taking part in the provincial riots during the elections have been brought to trial. One young fellow at Lille has earned twenty days' imprisonment by his folly. He bad paraded through the streets with a gun on his shoulder, followed by about fifteen other individuals singing the " Marseillaise," and raising seditious cries. His appearance in a court of justice, however, dissipated the courage which had caused this display of gallantry, and he was constrained to plead that his Republican effer vescence was merely the effect of his being drunk. A few wretched cases like this are all that has come of the frightful disturbances which brought out regiments of troops and sent the Patrie into paroxysms of horror. Something is to be done, it appears, in the way of patching up a Constitution for Algeria. The Emperor has approved a proposal to appoint a commission to be charged with the examination of all fundamental questions concerning the Constitution of Algeria, the result of wl,ieh inquiry will be submitted to the Senate at the commencement of the next legislative session. That body, writes the Marshal, would have to conciliate the aspirations which the colonists have just manifested in the agricul tural inquiry, with the interests of the natives, in order to realise gradually the progress indicated in his Majesty's letter on the 20th June, 1865. The Temps does not approve of this commission. It is all very well to examine into things, but the examining body must be so constituted as to allow a fair hope of reform. This commission is not likely, in the opinion of the Temps, to secure this end. Two of its members hold high office in the Algerian department of the Government. Much reform cannot be expected from a commission led by red tape. The Consul of the Argentine Republic at Marseilles has issued a circular, which shews that his Government actually intend to hold an international exhibition at Buenos Ayres in 1870. This evidence of vitality in the South American State is very cheering ; but it can hardly be expected that manyproductsof European manufacture will find their way to Buenos Ayres. The wonder is that an international exhibition has never been held at New York. A very interestingarchceological discovery has been made at Lambessa, in Algiers. This is an ancient inscription in Latin, of no less than eighty-one lines. It describes the construction of an aqueduct to convey water to Bougia through a mountain, which was pierced on both sides at the same time. The plans drawn up must, however, have been defective, or the work carelessly executed ; for, according to the text, the two tunnels did not meet, and the engineer had to return twice to repair the errors committed. The inscription also mentions the names of three legates of Numidia, and three procurators of Mauritania, who lived in the time of Antoninus Pius. The construction of the aqueduct consequently dates from the reign of that Emperor. The inscription further contains an account of a robbery by brigands. lATERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT HAMBURG. An International Horticultural Exhibition will be held at Hamburg from the 2nd to the 12th of September, con temporaneously with the Congress of German Botanists and Gardeners. The scope of the display will be wide, for it will include raw, forest, and agri cultural produce, as well as garden furniture, machinery, implements, heating apparatus, and garden tools and cutlery, besides, of course, fruit, flowers, and vegetables. The list of guarantors and committee of management include many of the chief political and com mercial men of North Germany. The site of the exhibi tion has been well selected, and will be carefully laid out. The river Elbe flows through the grounds, and a light suspension bridge will be thrown across it. The situation commands a magnifi cent prospect of Altona and Hamburg. The prize list is very high. The King and Queen of Prussia have offered two prizes of great value ; and £75 is to be given in open competition as the first prize for fifty plants of new hybrids in the highest state of cultivation, one half, at least, to be in flower. The other money prizes vary from £37 10s. to 155., and the gold, silver, and bronze medals are very numerous. There are gold, silver, and bronze medals for new hybrids, £l5 for the best -arranged group of 200 plants, not in the trade, in flower. There are numerous prizes for ferns, lycopodiacea, and cactea. Fruits are like wise amply provided for, and both nursery stock and green house plants. Gold medals and other prizes are offered for the best designs of paths, drives, iron bridges, ferry boats, &c. A very influential sub-committee, comprising the I well-known names of Veitch, Fleming of Clieveden, Hen derson, Osborn, Dr. Hogg, Thomson of Dalkeith, Macnab of Edinburgh, and Dr. Moore of Dublin, has been formed to represent the United Kingdom on this occasion. The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, rector of Sibbertoft, Market liar burouch, ha. been .rvoint. ,l her Britsmil. Majesty's Commissioner, and Mr. George Eyles, of the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, acts as secretary. Amateurs, botanists, and gardeners are invited to compete. THE CHARITY CHILDREN AT ST. PAUL'S. The annual gathering of the charity children of the metropolis at St. Paul's Cathedral took place yesterday morning. About 5,000 of them, in their many coloured dresses were ranged round the terraced platform, which enclosed the entire circumference of the dome. The whole of the western nave, the vast space under the centre of the dome, and the galleries in the eastern nave wore crowded by a highly-respectable congregation, number ing not fewer than 9,000 or 10,000 persons. The Lord Mayor and the corporation also attended the cathedral. The whole of the children, rising el masse, at once commenced singing the hymn "All people that on earth do dwell." In spite of the efforts of the conductor, Mr. Shoolbridge, who directed the singing from a very elevated stall, the performance was not so smooth as might have been desired. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Landon, The musical portion of the service was of an elaborate cha racter, embracing the "Coronation Anthem," which was sung before the prayer for the Queen, and the "Hallelujah Chorus," with which the service terminathd. Mr. Goss pre sided at the organ, and the gentlemen of the choir assisted the children in rendering the psalms and hymns. The Free Assembly of the Church of Scotland has :greed unanimously to petition Parliament against the bill f'pr legalising marriago with a deceased wife's sister. A proctocol relative to the rights of British sub jects in Turkey has just been published. It stipulates that foreigners may hold real property throughout tho wholo of the Ottoman Empire provided that they conform to the laws and police regulations which govern real property in Turkey and pay all charges and contributions. Property may be disposed of by gift or will, but if the owner dies Intestate it will be clinued of amain t 2 942tuan law, THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The Archbishop of York has consented to preside at a conference which is to be held in London on Monday next, in connection with the laws relating to the liquor traffic. The object of the conference is to find c. basis on which earnest men of different views can agree for promoting such amendment of the liquor laws as shall be equally removed from the evils of the present sysrem and from the extreme measures advocated by those who despair of a remedy from any less stringent enactments. Several members of ur Parliament have engag.a tv uti,eua tn. con ference. Marshal Prim opposes the reduction of the Spanish army, on account of Carlist conspiracies and the intrigues of Isabella's partisans. The former were not formidable, but the latter had brave and able generals. On Wednesday the construction of new docks at Fleetwood, which will cost about £50,000, was commenced, the first sod boing cut amidst great rejoicing. The dock will bo 600 feet by 400 feet, and will cover about six acres. The Birmingham Board of Guardians, after a pro tracted discussion . on Wednesday, determined by a majority of 39 against 9 tc refuse permission to nuns to visit the workhouse. The Manchester City Council, after a good deal of discussion, decided DnWednzeday to contribute three-fifths of tho sum required for the erection of two industrial schools —one of a general character, and the other for the reception of Roman Catholic children. The grant in oach case is not to exceed £3,000. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Rome, says the Vatican, though affecting indifference, is seriously collet-riled at the obstacles raised by the Catholic (lovernments to the Meeling of the (Ecumenical Council. It now seems certain that the Council will not attract the same number of bishops as attended the centenary of St. Peter. The sitting of the Spanish Cortes on Tuesday was marked by a tragic event. About half-past four in the after noon Don Enrico O'Donnell was attacked by congestion of the brain. lie was carried home and died at half -past nice. Don Enrico was the brother of the late Marshal O'Don nell, Duke of Tetuan, who played such an important part in the reign of Queen Isabella. ----- LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and With the first application a beautiful gloss and de • tightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Pric, , Zix Sold by most Chemists and Perfanaora,, Depot He, Ifigh.LEolborn WAGES DISPUTES. The strike of colliers in the district of Bolton has already erminated. The employers and workmen met on Wed tesday, and agreed to a compromise which fixes the eduction at 3Ad. per ton, instead of 41d., as was at first ,roposed by the masters. The dispute in the cotton trade at Oldham has been ettled by the arbitration of Mr. Rupert Kettle, of Wol 'erhampton. The masters asked for a reduction of ten )er cent., and the arbitrator decided upon allowing a eduction of five per cent., to commence from\Vednesday. LETTER FROM THE SON OF THEODORE. The Birmingham, Post publishes a letter which has •eached Wolverhampton from the son of Theodore, the ate King of Abyssinia. Young Theodore is now in the Isle of Wight, and the note is addressed to a former schoolfellow. It will be seen that the interesting "charge" s not only acquiring a knowledge of the English language, )ut likewise a love for British sports. "Afton 7. "My dear ---,---You got plenty butterfly in the school ? no got in here. too much cold. Did you see mow and make snowman, me like it very much. me ride one pony oh so very nice. One day me go to hounds. the fox run away and dogs kill him Give my love to Charlie Good bye " ALAMAYA SIMIEN." THE ALABAMA CLAIMS, A digest of the correspondence respecting the negotiations between England and America has already been published. There are, however, one or two other items in this remarkable narrative which are worthy of note. As before stated, two treaties were drawn up. One of these was signed by Lord Stanley, under the full impression that Mr. Reverdy Johnson was entrusted with sufficient powers by his Government, and that he was acting in conformity with them. This convention was, however, rejected by Mr. Seward, and another drawn up, which in turn was rejected by the Senate. Now it appears that before the first of these treaties was made out Mr. Reverdy Johnson called at the Foreign Office, on September 25th, and a long con versation ensued on the subject of the " claims." Before suggesting the principle of arbitration, Mr. John son proposed that the difficulty should be settled at once by the payment of a lump sum of money or a cession of territory by Great Britain. Both these offers were declared inadmissible by Lord Stanley. That Mr. Reverdy Johnson made them shews either that he was in the habit of making unauthorised propositions at random, or that the cries for annexation in the United States were not disregarded by the Government. The arbitration proposition, as at first drawn up, was revised by Lord Stanley, the Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Disraeli, in private conclave. It may be added that both treaties were based entirely on suggestions made by Mr. Johnson or Mr. Seward, and that the English Cabinets, both Conservative and Liberal, refused to submit the proclamation of neutrality to arbitration, though it is doubted by some whether the terms of the last Convention would not have allowed this point to be dragged in. DEAN STANLEY AND THE ALTIA2I - SIAN CREED, A correspondence is published between the Rev. William Heffill and the Dean of Westminster on the subject of the Athanasian Creed. The first-named gentleman writes to the Dean under date, St. Mark's Vicarage, Dukinfield, Cheshire, April 26,1869, as follows :—" Very Rev. Sir,—l have read in a book to-day 'by James Grant,' `The Religious Tendencies of the Times," the following:— "Dean Stanley boldly proclaims that not one clergyman believes in the Athanasian Creed.' Will you have the kindness to inform me if it is true that you have made the statement as above remain, yours faithfully, Wm. HEFFILL." To this Dean Stanley replies :—" What I have stated, and which is probably the statement to which the author whom you quote refers, is, that no clergyman of the Church of England believes that all members of the Church of England shall without doubt perish everlastingly,' and that, therefore, no clergyman of the Church of England accepts the condemnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed in their obvious literal and original sense." The following is the retort of Mr. Heflin :—" May 14, 1869. Rev. Sir,—l consider your reply as most unsatis- factory ; it is simply an evasion. I would hope, when you truly reflect on the statement made, you will feel ashamed of the slander, and be ready to make a suitable apology. —I remain, yours faithfully, Wm. lIEFFILL, Dr. Stanley, the Deanery, Westminster." On dit that in the not improbable event of the defeat of Mr. Salt, ono of the Conservative candidates for Stafford, that that gentleman will become a candidate for the vacancy caused in the representation of Nottingham by the death of Sir It. Clifton, Bart. Disraeli on evening dress has recently been quoted as an authority. Here is what the ex-Premier says on the subject :—" Evening dress is a style of costume sanctioned by societyfor enabling ladies to display their natural beauties, with a profusion worthy of a Grecian statue." M. de Lesseps will shortly start for Corfu, in order Personally to invite King George of Greece to honour the inauguration of the Isthmus of Suez Canal with his pre sence. It is said that M. de Lesseps will "seize the occa sion" to inspect the Isthmus of Corinth with a view to the future cutting across of that neck of land. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OP GAS MANAGERS. — During the past three days the members of this associa tion have been holding their sixth annual conference in Liverpool, under the presidency of Mr. Goddard, C.E. The president, in his address, on Tuesday, alluded at length to the various improvements, inventions, and modifications of gas-producing apparatus which had taken place during the year, and also to the effect of the Metropolitan Gas Act of 1868. It was decided that the next conference should be held in London, opening on flit 31st May. In reply to a memorial in favour of a revision of the colonial tariff the Manchester Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from Earl Granville stating that in the principal British colonies, and not least in Canada, it rests with the Colonial Governments to determine on what principles the revenue is to be raised. Her Majesty's Government are fully alive to the advantage which would accrue to the commerce of this country by a reduction of customs duties, and the colonial governments cannot be unaware of the views entertained by the Govern ment and the people of this country on this subject ; and, as indicating those views, copies of the present correspondence with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce will be sent to the Government of Canada, the colony to which the memo - rialists make special reference. THE FORTHCOMIN G INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. —A rumour of great interest to all who care for boat races comes from Bala. There is a possibility that the great contest between Oxford and Harvard may be rowed on the lake. Sir Watkin, says rumour, has offered the use of the lake, and some of the men high in boating autho rity want to accept the offer. The course is a splendid one, both for crews and spectators. Countless thousands could line the shores of the lake and see the race. Then, it is neutral ground, in the sense of not being familiar to either crew ; and it is easy of access from all parts of England, and it is not far enough from London to prevent eager lovers of the sport with little time at their com mand from running there and back in one day. Besides, there is the beauty of the neighbourhood to throw into the scale, and the bracing atmosphere.—Osicesery Advertiser. MR. PEABODY'S ‘‘FRIENDS." —N ow that Mr. Peabody is no longer in England, the begging-letter writers will h ave t h e opportunity of concentrating their attention on some other victim. If Mr. Peabody chose to be communicative upon the subject, he could set before the world a moving picture of the miseries of a philan thropist. Everybody thinks he has a right to persecute him for money. The man whose goods are about to be seized for rent, the broken-down actor who wants ten pounds till next Monday, the gentleman who has gone into a rash speculation and burned his fingers— these, and a thousand others, think that a man like Mr. Peabody is bound to help them. The world has no grati tude and no sympathy for the benevolent. Its cry is ever " Give, give," until at last it is strange if the philan thropist does not turn into a misanthropist. Nine-tenths of the letters he opens arc applications for money. Whenever he appears in public he is followed by importu nate cries for relief. If he goes out to dinner the lady whom he takes down pesters him about that very deserving family in whom she takes an interest. He dare not have many personal friends, because they are sure to ex pect him to do something for Tommy or Annie. When people are attentive to him he knows that they expect to be well paid for it. Mr. Peabody has given away £350,000 to the poor of London. and about £200,000 for the establishment of schools and charitable institutions in the United States, besides large sums in private charity. But all this only encourages the harpies, who would rather do anything for a living than work. The abject, fawning, worthless set who hang upon the skirts of those who are reputed to be rich give him no peace. It would be useless to appeal to 'their better feelings, for they have none, but we wish it were possible to place some of their names before the public, eyek p i Caution to the redAtheix_tribe,---Zal/ MallSazate 0 7 - 'hlf-, UJ AV: r 4 - is 44, CUD I ''''''''. eirnilat it T. A. 74. :4•:, HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 2. They Queen , accompanied by her Royal High• ness Princess Louise, walked out yesterday morn• ing. Her Majesty drove out in the aftenoon with the Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Dowager Ductless of Athole. LATEST INTELL LGENC (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. PLY3IOUTII, June 4. The Hamburg and American Company's steam' ship Hammonia, from New York, arrived here this morning with 175 passengers, 48 sacks of mails fir England, and 8 for France and 21 for Hamburg . She lauded five passengers and the English mails and proceeded for Cherbourg. The, mails were for warded by the 6.45 a.m. train. The Ilammonia experienced moderate weather throughout the passage. Fourteen miles off CAP° Race she passed several icebergs. On the 27th she spoke the steamer America, on the 28th the Main, and on the Ist June the Germania. Among the passengers is Major-General Anderson, who commanded Fort Sumpter when the late war began. HUNGARY. PESTII, June 4. In yesterday's sitting-of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet the draft of the address as proposed by the committee, in reply to the Emperor's speech, was adopted by 355 votes against 142 after a de bate which has lasted for 11 days. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS• SL7EZ, June 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Mohan, from Calcutta, arrived here at 6 p. yesterday ; and the Sumatra, from Bombay at silc this morning. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 4. The Presse of this morning states that the en deavours of the Ticeroy of Egypt to bring about a mutual undertaking among the European Powers guaranteeing the neutrality of the Suez Canal, have met with support from the Governments of Austria, Prussia, and England. The proposal was, however , opposed at Paris. The same paper asserts that the question of the neutrality of the Suez Canal was initiated by Eng' land. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 3.—Three o'clock—The mar ket closed as follows : Bank Shares 2920 Ital'an Fives 57 OC I End of month — Mexican Loan 25 2 '! Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred s. Cash Orleans ... 920 Northern •••• loBBi Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.. • .. 6l7i Western Eastern , • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. per Cont. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 55 Credit Mobilier ~ 232 50 End of month 255 Credit Foncier 1620 End of month — RAIL WA' 50} 765 495 •. . • 64 A NEW LIFE SAVING APPARATUS• EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTS. That part of the Thames immediately in front of Cremorne Gardens was the scene of an exciting spectacle yesterday evening. What is said to be a wonderful triumph of Atnericm invention wag exhibited in the presence of several thousand per sons, who lined the river from Battersea -bridg e up to Cremorne Gardens, and plied little craft of every conceivable shape while the experiment , which was the cause of the gathering, was being made. The apparatus, which was first brough t under the notice of the English public last evening, is intended for the rescue of shipwrecked persons' The inventor, we are told, is Captain J. B. Stonnrf of New York, a gentleman of independent fortune , who served througho u t th e grea t c i v il war , a nd his object, it is said, is not to make money, but t 0 perform a truly philanthropic work. Two Amer'" cans—a gentleman and his wife—have been coin: missioned to explain the nature of the apparatus and the way in which they are obliged to do so is cer tainly novel and interesting. Theyfirst slip their arn3e through cork jackets, and then insert their persona in a loose india-rubber overcoat, which covers the . whole of the body, except the hands and face, around which it is tightly secured. India-rubber we ight& are then attached to the shoes, so as to enable the wearers to maintain a perpendicular position and perfect equilibrium, and being thus equipped they jump into the water. They carry with them 5 tin . case, in shape somew h at li ke a buoy'. Phis article is divided i n t o two compartmen ts ' Ind in the upper one they manage to pac k , uscuits, a flask of b ran d y, a revolver, Betio' lights, Roman candles, and some Liebig's sausages. invoking and newspaper reading are not luxuries which a shipwrecked individual would probably en' joy in a " life on the ocean wave ;" but American originality provides for them, and adds cigars and a iewspaper to the tiny freight. The lower compart' .nent of the case contains about six quarts of water, which is drunk through an indiarubber tube, closed `)y a metal screw top. The provisions which ate thus carried are supposed to last eight days, an d f a shipwrecked person should fail to be rescued lefore the end of that time, he has the consolation' vhen dying, of knowing that his body cannot siniro i hat his will, papers, and jewellery are safe, and that his friends will know he quitted the world. Che invention has been patented by an America!' !ompany with a capital of $300,000, and the price ixed for each suit is V. The public will not hal e an opportunity of investing in the apparatus for iome months, inasmuch as a series of expert' :vents in most European countries are contern plated with the view of testing the success wit h which the invention is likely to be attended* Ile Prussian Government have, it is stated, el" oressed their determination to adopt the apparatus' and it is said that in consequence of the encourage' neat received in France, America, and elsewher e ' 50,000 suits are now in process of manufactur e • dr. and Mrs. Craddock—the two Americans to vhom we have referred—remained in the river iearly half an hour y es t er d ay even i ng, an d s howed ..ery little exertion beyond what was required a using little india-rubber paddles which form .art of the apparatus. The experiment was COn; lucted under considerable difficulty, Mr. an d , Irs. Craddock being prevented from moving in the vater by the clustering of the boats, whose occupan t :: vere deaf to earnest p r ot es t a ti on . They hot 'pened the buoy-shaped case, helped themselves te . ome of the contents, fired a revolver, and exhibi ted „ ghts, and a red flag bearing the word " Eureka. :'he time occupied i n d onn i ng th e d ress is thre e Minutes and a half. C ap t a i n St onor h o p e s to pro ide all passenger s hip s w ith th ese ex traordina r y , resses, being ready t o l en d th em f or V. each f° ;very voyage, and to p rov ide e ac h s hip with a rain capable of explaining their utility. ivi oisT i COMMERC Consols are du ditto, for Ac.:oul duced, 921 ; chequer Bills £l,O and £5OO, par 4 per Cent., 244. India Stock, l ditto 5 per Cent Cent., Oct., 188(c. per Cent., —; di In the Foreigt have declined t 121 16 ; and Nel 3-16 lowcr, at 29 unchanged, at 56 The Honduras In the Railwa better, and She ditto A Lanea; North West Caledonian, 764 Eastern, 37 ditto A, 1061 to 123 to 123} ; Me Atlantic Telegi the Eight per Ce and Anglo-Atneri Five -Twenty 3 and Ten-Forty I B pectively, at 78; Shares have rece Centrals are 1 loi The sum of £ Bank yesterday. The Ruahine, brought £70,000, 11£21.,600. The Bank of I cre ase of £460,00, total now held £3,000,000 below in August last. The activity of tinues to increag goods landed at t first four months against £17,000,0 and £11,700,000 The Royal Cal 'which reference 1 head, has suspel however, state t li abilities, and it lo sses, the capita] they hope to resu believed that th The stoppage is Al `lionald's circt barrassed previot The London, traits return, in, Biwa and branches £ 1 ,235, compare( of last year ; th ratitly, a decreas Yorkshire, a di Eastern, au incr Chester, Sheffield, £1,782. At the meeting and Brazilian Bg the reconstructioi duction of the Hal With only oue di: The stoppage c greaves, a firm a nnounced, ()wink Clients. The liabi Chester Stock Ex The fullowing Sir: The susp Chant, of this ci bilities amountit4 v ery uufavourabl failure is also rep , ford, with liabilit The directors way Company (1 lOs per share on 2 9th i nbt. 'rhe ordinary Islands Telegrap 25th inst. Tha return fro! week. ended the results when com met =gills deposits..,„ ther deposits On the other side liovernnient occur t ies ............. Othe r securiti es Totes unemployed. 11ull110 amount of r "lug an in crease b ion in both de $.4 increase of Preceding return Subjoined is a of the Bank of E an d French Rent l kit year :-- teserv e Notes in oiroulat] tete of discount C onsol s Fre neh Beate! The following Ittd bill e cleared t he Week ending 1 111r/idly.— Friday (Saturday... Monday Tuesday Wednesday. BRITISH UOVERNMENT a Per. Cent. Cousol NDitto for Amon! Per Cent. Reduce 6, 7 3 per Cent .Lievr per Cent.. 4. , pr Can Inuitios,e 30 Ws, Do, for Do (Red Sea 30 yrs Tel L., "'xql.equor Bills, A U o 15 44 k of Enzhnd r, opening 1-Attad 4 per Vent 44ter-Colonial On GOVE. 1441 lock, 104 P' Do. opening, f °l Do. 5 per tient. Do. 4 per Cent" O. C ertificates Do. 0. Enlaced P al 5 per Cut, Do. 54 per Cent Da 5 per Cent., /Do Do. Do. Deb., S per Bonds, 4 Pcn Do. under XL 0( roREIGN I roune Republ n itria ti u Bo nds 1 ___ • DO. Drkzilian 5 per C‘ no. 4/ per Con' o. Do do. do. Do:do., 6 per Cont Do Account tiettOS Ayres 6 p D o °S per C on t.( Uobix, 6 per Cent. eetilian 6 per Con Do: li pt,r per Cent. Lo. 6 per coot. 0 l o n aDo. 7bia per Cent. n, 6 per ba nish, 8 per Cen bh" bin Princip Do 8 per Cont., nnitclor New Cie '(44Yrtian, 7 per 0 b e Second les Do. Loot, Bond] Do. RlOO Bondi 1.0. DD.