The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

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John Robert _Mowbray, M.P. DEPt TY-CHAIRMEN. William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S. Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L., Extracts from the Report of the Directors, presented at the Annual General Meeting held on the 27th November, 1868 : 1. The snm of £112,345 was proposed for Assurance, of which £307,395 was completed at Premiums pro ducing £10,067 per Annum. 2. The amount paid under Claims by death was .£100,853, being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of management and all other outgoings were even less than for many years past. 3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769, notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by abatements of premium which did not take effect in the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on the large sum paid as Bonus in 1867. 2. The Surplus income was very considerable. It amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than £B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four years of the Society's existence. 5. 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To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner. David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone. J. Clarke; Mesdames llenrado, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Af aold, and Stephens QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager. Mr. W. H. Liston. THIS EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILT Y: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Lionel Brough , H. Irving, S. Fmery, Miss Hodson, &c. Concluding with THE BIRTH PLACE OF PODGERS: Mr. Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tins EVFNING, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Cowper, Ne • ♦ille, Parselle, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, &c. After which, LUCRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, and George Honey. To conclude with AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, lIOLBORN. This EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud f5O Horses ; al s o O nra, Alf re d B r adb u ry, A. Carre, &c THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. Tuts EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. R. Wigan, H. Neville, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson : Mesdarn.. Furtado, Schavey. N. Harris, and St. Henry. After which, THE YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville, H. Neville, Atkins, Taylor, Taughan, G. Vinc-ent, &C.; Miss Fur ado ,and Mrs Caulfield. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tars EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dew ar, Miss M. Oliver. To b e followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie 'Wilton 'Tuts tVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins ErENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaginza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and .Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET., Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-011104 open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. .4 r ,4 ) 11 8, ily, to , i 41 t-':, - ,4.-.--;` 0 - V)44 , -.-1 , 0- - ;„ Its LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1869. If only for the good humour of the thing, we ought to have the Ballot. It seems, somehow, to have an inexhaustible power of exhilaration. Its ap parition, annually, before the House of Commons, is very much like the appearance of a first-rate low comedian before the footlights. The House no sooner becomes conscious of the "presence," than there is —incontinently—a burst of laughter. No matter what the garb assumed for the occasion by the old joker, or the old joke (which you :please) the laugh comes readily enough, in recognition of it or of him. There is no disguising it. 'Hitherto there has, for a considerable number of years past, been uo possibility of mistaking the droll identity—coming before us as it has done in no "questionable shape," but with evidence in the very manner of its coming that responsive shouts of laughter were really looked for. And it has been, thus, simply because the member for Bristol has appeared, year by year, as its advocate, with an aspect of jocularity so unmistakeable that it has been, as one may say, quite LISTONIAN. He has come before us sessionally heretofore as a sort of Pc - Mica' PAUL Pity, with a " Hope I don't intrude !" so manifest in 1):s very manner that one has almost seemed to hear the familiar words aril actually to see, upon the veteran come,lian, the hessian boots, and the baggy nankeen breeches, and the verdant cut-away coat, and the hat with-curly brims turnea up with green, and the big umbrella—the umbrella being hip annual motion on the adlot. Just now, however, the matter would seem to be past a joke—now, when Cabinet Ministers are becoming converts to secret voting, when the Home Secretary openly avows his conversion to it, and when he and his colleagues evidence their readiness to commit the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1869. was "passed on." Ihppily, in spite of this, we have, for once, no oc casion to feel disappointed by the result, or rather by the upshot, of the discussion provoked yesterday in the House of Commons by a motion in itself, of course, simply beside the question, and nothing whatever to the purpose. We are satisfied, especially with the drift taken by the discus sion, as a whole, because all points more and more clearly to the conclusion that—at length—after all these years of delay—the Ballot is at last coming. Its approach was more than hinted at in the very Speech from the Throne on the opening of Parlia ment. The admission that it is very probably close at hand was, as one may say, accentuated rather pointedly in the course of a recent address to the house (of a recant confession to the House, it might almost be called) delivered manfully enough by the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the home Department. But it was especially and peculiarly satisfactory, this otherwise frivolously introduced discussion of last evening,because of thepart taken in it successively by the Right Honourable gentleman the member for Tamworth—Sir HENRY BULWF.R—and by his friend the First Minister of the Crown. Himself one of the most consistent Liberals in the House, Sir HENRY BULWER, on this particular question of the Ballot, is one of the most staunch and devoted of its advocates. As the Prime Minister said of him last evening, be is not merely a friend, but a veteran friend of Secret Voting. As such he spoke yes terday, briefly, but very pointedly and effectively. Effectually, we should, perhaps, rather have said, seeing that it was in obedience to his earnest suggestion, backed by a similar and equally earnest recommendation from the lips of the Prime 'Minister, that the motion, the really futile and purposeless motion, of the member for Rudders field, was eventually withdrawn. S 1 far, at any rate, it should be added, that motion hasinot been.futile—see- ng that it has in a manner rendered audible agai❑ for the first time, for we know not how many years a voice always welcomed during the earlier Parliamen tary career of Sir HENRY BULWER in the House oi Commons, before the legislator gave place to the diplomatist—and seeing that it has also elicited from the Prime Minister in the very act of wav- ing it aside (idle motion as it was intrin sically) the distinct assertion, uttered with consi derable emphasis last evening, that Mr. LEAT}IAM, the hon. gentleman bringing forward this motion " has the strongest assurance any man can have that the thing he desires will unquestionably be done"— namely, that this matter of the Ballot, or otherwise of Secret Voting, will be ezzarninecl in all itg nhazna , ~cay huaginable point of view, by the Select Committee. THE politicians who would nationalise our universi ties made a great step in advance on Monday night. For the first time they obtained the assent of the whole House of Commons to the principle that the universities are the property of the nation, not of the Established Church. In fact, it is difficult to under stand how the matter could have been in doubt for so long. Everyone who knows anything of history is aware that the universities are nearly as old as the nation, and have undergone the same changes with respect to faith as the nation has. It is equally well known that most of the colleges were founded before the Reformation ; and that, nevertheless, at the Reforma tion these foundations were transferred from the Roman to the Reformed faith. At that time the Church and the nation were co-extensive, and it was therefore inevitable, as well as desirable, that the religious teaching should be that of the Esta blished Church. The two institutions have long ceased to be identical, and there is, therefore, no reason why the dignities and emolu ments of the universities should be reserved for Churchmen. Nevertheless, Churchmen have long claimed an inalienable and sole right to them. Little by little they have been driven from their position. First they had to admit non-Churchmen as students; but they would not allow them, even though they carried off the highest honours, to take their degree. Then they were admitted to the lower dignity of Bachelor, but were forbidden to become Masters. Cambridge, the more Liberal of the two universities, removed that restriction, but, while admitting dis senters to the honours, kept them out of the emolu ments of the university. Religious scruples had yielded so far as to allow youthful Churchmen to be exposed to the heresy of Nonconformist under graduates, nay, even of Nonconformist tutors, for the Dissenters who had obtained the senior wran glership set up as private " coaches." But when it came to dividing the revenues with Dissen ters, orthodoxy was inexorable. Heretics may learn and teach, but they must not get any portion of the money. The whole private teaching of the univer sity may pass out of Church hands, but not a farthing of money shall pass. Of course the resolution was not expressed in this naked form. This selfishness was so decently disguised that even those who were most influenced by it did not suspect An oxiotenee. They put forward other arguments altogether. The teaching of the university—meaning by that term so much of the teaching as is given by the professors and the college tutors—would, they affirmed, become untrustworthy. Infidelity would creep in ; in fact, it had already crept in, for it was notorious that certain fellows and professors were infected by Positivism. How could any one be so cruel as to expose youths of immature minds to the seductions of English Comtists? It would be almost sufficient answer to this ques tion that, according to the questioner's own showing, they had not, with all their restrictions, succeeded in keeping out the dreaded enemy. According to their own statement infidelity has already obtained a foothold in the universities. This fact alone shews the worthlessness of tests. But after all an ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory; and we turn frOm all these lugubrious prophecies to a simple history. Dr. LYON PLAYFATR, in an admirable maiden speech, explained what had been done in the Scotch universities. Scotland is always one or two decades before England in educational matters, and some sixteen years ago a bill was brought in to abolish all tests at the northern universities. That fine old Tory, Sir ROBERT INGLIS, objected that this course would weaken the bonds which bound the the question, as to 'the advisability:or not of its adop tion, to the deliber:lte but immediate consideration of a Select Committee. Still more does the' probability seem imminent that at last the important question of the Eallot will be introduced to the consideration of the House of Commons with something like befitting seriousness, when it comes to be known that the member for Bristol is precluded by physical infirmi ties from renewing the yearly exhibition of his capa cities as an interpreter of Broad Comedy. Not a bit of it ! Nothing further from the thoughts of his suddenly appointed delegate or representative ! The member for Huddersfield, in lieu of the member for Bristol, brings forward a motion— not the motion, observe, but a motion—in regard to the Ballot only last evening: and there is, after all, very much the same kind of facetiousness. There is simply a change of voice and of stature. The mot ley is still there, but it is worn, this once, by parti cular desire (whose, except his own, we can't for the life of us conjecture), by Mr. EDWARD LEATHAIII instead of by Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. There is no misapprehending any intended drollery on the part of Mr. LEATIIAM, by the way, under any, the most ordinary, circumstacces. his métier is jocu larity. His epigrammatic sentences are like so many digs in the ribs to his audience. It was thus, there fore, almost as a matter of course, last evening. Mr. BERKELEY was silent for one session, but the joke univei'sity to Christianity'; and Mr. NEWDEGATE ' declared that the bill was simply one for filling the profesors' chairs with Roman Catholics and infidels. Neveitheless the bill passed, and one of the minor consetuences was that several of the chairs were filled by Dissenters, that is, by Episcopalians from Oxford and Cambridge, who are, of course, Dissenters north of the Tweed. The major result was fir more important; for whereas previous to the A:t of 1853 the Scotch universities were losing their hold on the affections of the people, Free churchmen, numbering one half of the Scotch people, were erecting rival institutions directly the Aft was passed ; the old universities became once more identified with the people and frequented by all relgious parties. In England, the old system of exdusion has prevailed, and the working of the two systems is clearly set forth in a very few figures. In Scotland, where the universities are in sympathy with the nation, there is one student for every 900 of the population ; in England there is only one for every 4,400, a lower proportion than is to be found in any European country except Russia. And yet the wealth and the prestige of the English universities are infinitely greater than those of the Scotch A single year's revenues of Oxford would buy up the whole capital of the University of Edin burgh mid all the salaries of its professors at 20 years' purchase ; and yet Oxford has only 200 more s;udents than Edinburgh. ,f4fv e CID il •".*--- ~ ,_-_.--7iiiLs, Emu HER MAJESTY. - WINDSOR CASTLE, March 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon. To-day being the anniversary of the death of the lamented Duchess of Kent, her Majesty and the Royal Family paid a visit to the Duchess's mauso eum at Frogmore. LATEST INTEL►L WINCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March 16. A resolution authorising the President to re cognise the independence of Cuba has been intro duced by the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Navy Department has ordered heavy rein forcements to be sent to the United States squadron in the West Indies. WEST COAST OF AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, March 17. The West Coast of African mail steamer Ethiope, arrivel here this morning. Her dates are Bonny, Benin and Brass, Jan. 28 ; Lagos, Feb. 1 ; Accra, 3 ; Cape Coast Castle, 4 ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Madeira, March 1. Her news from the different stations on the coast is entirely devoid of interest. TLe Ethiope experienced strong head winds from Madeira. COMESPONDENCZ FROX PARIS. (FROli 017 R OIVN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, March 16. The Belgian affair still preserves its miserably disquiet ing existence. The two Governments are settling, settling, but the settlement is not yet consummated. The " authorities " are all on the side of peace, but there are one or two disquieting rumours flying about to-day. The most serious is that England is likely to wash her hands of the business. The intervention of the British Government has not met with a very cordial reception at the Tuileries, and the Gladstone Cabinet will therefore retire, leaving the disputants to settle their own quarrel. Even if, as is not unlikely, the Commission should not be able to agree upon a decision, England will not consent to act as arbiter. It seems to me hardly probable that England, having once decided to interfere, will withdraw from the question so readily, but I give the rumour for what it is worth. The elections will take place during the fortnight follow. ing the 15th of May. The candidates aro increasing rather than diminishing in number. In few places are there less than than two or three; in many five or six are to be found. In declining an offer just made to him to stand for the department of the Vaucluse, M. Louis Jourdan, of the Siecle, observed : " Suffer me to think that it may be good for our country to possess Frenchmen, who are neither deputies nor candidates for seats." There was some justification for this remark; but this great multiplication of political candidates is not by any means an unhealthy sign, for it must proceed in great measure from an awakened interest in public affairs. Men of ability formerly did not care to be elected to the Corps L6gislatif. There were some exceptions, but most Frenchmen of mark came to the conclusion that it was both a waste of time and a humilia tion to sit in a Chamber which was virtually the creation of the Government, and to take part in debates which ended in nothing but talk. But a change has come over public opinion. There is now some hope that parlia mentary government may be a reality ; and there is a very general belief that united action on the part of a powerful Liberal party might soon make it a reality. Hence this preparation. All parties are active—the Government in particular. The list of official candidates is complete, and the efforts made to counteract the growing influence of the Liberal party are more vigorous than ever. The Democratic Com mittee of Paris is also ready, and its list contains several representatives of the most important journals. M. Emile 011ivier is now preparing, I am told, a reply to the severe criticisms which have been passed upon his book. This will be a sort of electoral manifesto-- a supplement to the " Apologia pro Vita Men," which has already been published. The prospects of the Legitimist party are not of the most favourable kind. There is a division in the camp, and the Legitimists are split into two sections, the Abstentionists and the Party of Action. What sort of action the latter section meditates lam not able to clearly comprehend, nor can the hopes of the leaders themselves be very strong. The Legitimists may have their chance, but it will not be during the life of the Emperor. Amongst the chief candidates who formerly received official aid, but who will now stand on an independent footing, is M. Haentjens. The Prince Imperial is 14 years of age to-day. Paris will be reminded of the fact by an illumination at the theatres and public places. The little relics left by Rossini have been sold off at the Hotel des Ventes. They were of little interest, and did not attract a great attendance. A gentleman who had on the first day purchased a watch, believing it to be gold, brought it back on the second, declaring it to be brass. On the other hand, an object in the more valuable metal was sold as being of the baser ; the eagerness with which an amateur bid leading to the discovery of the error. A similar mistake occurred with respect to a pistol of the Louis X.V. period, the mount ing of which, announced as copper, was in gold. The sum realised was small, and one may, perhaps, be disposed to question the taste of disposing of the souvenirs of the great musician in this way. The fortune that he left will not be largely increased by this sale. We have just read about the Vivian scandal in the London papers. The pair are living at the Hotel West minster, but the Paris journals do not seem to have heard of the affair, or, at least, do not notice it. Perhaps the large stock of home scandal now on hand keeps this remarkable occurrence out of sight. Otherwise, we should speedily have been favoured with a column of fiction interspersed with half•a-dozen lines of fact, accord• ing to the wont of the French papers. It is worthy of note that out of thirty papers which are published in Madrid, just one-half are now in favour of the Montpensier candidature, five still hold out for the Iberian union, six are for a Republic, two for Don Carlos and two for Isabella. MONSTER CRIMINALS. A young girl, named Itonchart, has bec n accused of mur dering both her sisters by means of arsenic. It ap pears that sho is further SUR/It - PiPa of havin g killed her father in the same way. The body of M. Ronehart has been exhumed and sent for examination to MM. Kupper, Schla gor, and Franck. A custom-house officer who was inti- mate with the girl, wag arrested for assisting; this series of crimes, but it turned out that it was the girl who accused him, and that she did so for the purpose or being able, to see him. The parties are natives of Trognee, in Belgium. A man named Bract, a native of Bruges, has been brutally murdered by three Italians, named Bovo, aged 32; Lapitina, 19; and Lapiti, 19. There were circumstances of a most revoltine character connected with the murder. FRANCE. PARTS, March 16. Contitutionnel of this morning states that the French and Belgian Governments are agreed as to a solution of the pending controversy, which shall be satisfactory to the interests of all concerned. A terrible explosion took place last night at the chemical works of M. Pelletier, at the Place de la Sorbonne. Seve n persons were k ill e d . Bo LUISE, March 16.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. 4 lOO 75 Bank Shares 2870 End of month... ItaPan Fives 56 10 3 per Cent End of month 7O 80 Mexican Loan Credit Mobilier 280 Do. Bonds End of month... 280 Spanish Threes Credit Fonder ...1482 50 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred ...... Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean RI Western ....................................... 5 9.) Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman RAILWAYS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-17tis Day. IVESTUINSTER. INGRATITIME.—Ann Conner, a respectable-looking woman, was charged with stealing 25., the monies of Mr. S. S. Danwiks, cowkeeper, Fulham -road. This morning the prisoner went into the shop of the prosecutor, and, in the absence of the shopwoman, stole a 2s. piece. She was followed, and admitted the theft, giving the money up. The prosecutor, it appeared h a d b een a t different times very kind to the prisoner, giving her pecu niary relief. Mr. Mansfield, after reprimanding the prisoner for her ungrateful conduct, sentenced her to one month's hard labour. MARLBOROUGH - STREET. TI'S ALL OWING TO TUE BOAT RACE .—Anne Stan more, a young woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with annoying gentlemen in Lower Regent -street. Windobank, a plain clothes officer of the C division, said that about one o'clock in the morning he saw the prisoner annoying gentlemen. She was dressed in light blue, and was shouting at the top of her voice, "Cam bridge f orever, " an d was far from bei ng so b er. Mr. Say er , f rom t h e office of Mr. Ed war d Lewis, Great Marlboro ug h- s t ree t , w ho appeared for th e p r i soner, sa id that he wa3 instructed that she was a Cambridge woman, and her enthusiasm on behalf of her county had led her into the difficulty she was in. Mr. Tyrwiitt fined her 20s. The prisoner said it was all owing to the boat race. THAMES. THIEVES )N BOARD SHIP.--Robert Neale, aged 41 years, a ship-keeper, and John Georgeson, L a seaman, were brought before Mr. Benson charged with stealing 16 yards ,of catvas and some new twine, the property of the owners of the ship William Allen, lying off the patent ship Limehome. A police constable named Robert Newstead, 41 K, met the prisoners, 9ach carrying a bag. That in the possession of Neale contained a few rags of no value, the one Geor geson was carrying contained 16 yards of new canvas and a ball of new twine. Georgeson said that Neale gave him the canvas and twine to carry, which Neale admitted to be true, and said he was going to take the rags up to a ma rine storeshop and sell them to obtain a drop of beer. Captain James Wallace, the master of the ship William Allen, said there were 20 yards of canvas, not 16 as stated by the police-constable, in the bag carried by Georgson, and it was worth 14d. per yard. He valued the twine at lc. 6d. The sb;p l ., wro.2e, naa no right whatever to take away anything out of the ship. Neale pleaded guilty, and the magistrate, after remark ing that the offence was really a very serious one, and that the facility offered by a marine-store shop, as it was falsely called, wa3 no doubt the cease of the theft, sen tencel Noah) to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. George said ho 'vas gnilty of carrying tho bag contain ing the canvas anc twine for Neale. Mr. Benson said that was not a plea of guilty of steal ing, and the prisorer had a perfect right to refuso to plead it if he thought prcper. He committed Georgeson for trial. SIR HENRY BtLWER'S SPEECH LAST EVENING in the House 41 Commons," on Mr. Leatham's motion about theßallot—is thus described by the Parliamentary sumearist of the Daily Telegraph, who says that—' Acting on the special stimulus given by the ndile lord [meaning Lord Claude Hamilton] twenty members started up, from whom at once the house selected Sir Bulwer, who, speak ing with a clear, but not powerful voice, with a certain crispness of elocution, as a friend of the ballot, pointed outthat he was placed in a difficulty by the motion which involved an instruction to the committee, and referred a direct resolution in favour of vote by ballot ; and on this suggestion went on to deliver an argument, of great lucidity and power, on the side of that mode of voting, which was none thi less effective because the speech was brief." AN EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND. Earthquakes have during the last year or two been unusually frequent and violent in tropical regions, but it is something very new to hear of them within the limits of the United Kingdom, yet the inhabitants of East Lan cashire and West Yorkshire have been frightened from their propriety by a positive vibration of the earth. A resident in Teneriffe-street, Manchester, felt a sensible shock, which shook his windows and upheaved his house. In the suburbs and in the lower level of the city the same convulsion was felt, and in the Rochdale-road the furniture was shaken and the bells rang. At Blackburn great alarm was felt at the shock and the rumbling sound. At Buinley and Middleton a great deal of crockery was broken, while on the railway lines between Rochdale and Shawforth the waggons ran suddenly against each other. In all these places the inhabitants were naturally much terrified, and ran into the streets by hundreds. At Raven stall the sensation experienced was compared to a shock from a powerful electric battery. No actual damage appears to have been done beyond the fall of a chimney at Newchurch, and a crack in the wall of the Hastingden railway station; but the novelty of the occurence makes it remarkable. Accounts differ as to the precise time, br it seems to have taken place about six o'clock. The correspondent of the Inverness Advertiser at Fort William writes as follows :—" About eight p.m. on Tues day Lochaber was visited by a severe shock of earthquake. There is scarcely a man to be met with here who has not felt it, and each gives a different description of its effects. A gentleman who was at Strone, a distance of seven miles from here, states that the noise he heard was as loud as the report of a cannon, and that the whole earth shook violently around him. Another gentleman, who was at Munessie, about twenty miles in the opposite direction, says the house in which he was at the time was like to fall down upon them. Your correspondent himself happened to be standing by the sea at the time, and the unpleasant sensation he expe rienced can hardly be described. The sea, which was perfectly calm, suddenly appeared in such a commotion as if hosts of small fish were sporting on the surface, and shore vibrated .0-perceptibly that we thought our feet were touched by what is known as pins and needles.' Then came a heavy rumbling noise, not smart enough for thunder, but whether from above or beneath me it was scarcely possible to tell. This lasted about forty seconds, but, short as the time was, a pleasant feeling of relief was experienced when it was over." Jslichael Crowley, the poor man who was so fright fully burned with paraffin oil thrown upon him by his wife, at Liverpool, continued on Monday in a most agonising con dition. He was not expected to live the night out. The woman was taken before the magistrates on Monday, and re manded. THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD LEITRIM'S BAILIFF. —The latest reports from Donegal state that Murphy was fired at in mistake for another bailiff, who had been serving ejectment notices on the tenantry of a portion of Lord Leitrim's estate. It seems that Murphy and the intended victim were riding on one horse, and Murphy being the hindmost received the shot intended for his companion. Three shots were heard, and three men have been arrested on suspicion and remanded for inquiry. THE AUSTRIANEMBASST.-- The Austrian Ambas sador and Countess Apponyi received at dinner yesterday, at the Austrian Embassy in Belgrava-squaro, the Princess Mary Adelaide and the Prince of Tock, the Earl of Claren don, the Swedish Minister,the Saxon Minister, the Nether lands Minister, the Belgian Minister, Viscount and Vis countess Sydney, Lady Herbert, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Sir Alexander and Lady Mellott, Count Kelnoky, Count Wolkenstein, and M. de Riefler. EXTRAORDINARY ESC_4I 3 E OF THE EARL OF BANTRY'S .DAUGHTERS. _~___ The other day three ladies, the daughters of the Earl of Bantry, had a singularly narrow escape from fearful in jury, if not from death. They had driven out on a side car, from 31nel-corn Castle, the vehicle being drawn by a young and spirited horse, driven by the family coach man. When crossing the bridge to the east of the town, near Mr. Harding's mill, the horse became restive and, swerving violently, attempted to leap the parapet. This ho would inevitably have done and borne his burthens with him but for the skill and firmness with which the coachman held him in. As it was, he half accomplished his object, end lay balanced on the parapet, his fore legs dangling over the river. In this position the horse remained until some persons, who had witnessed the occurrence from the mill, hastened to the spot, and by cutting the traces, released the animal from the car and his dangerous position at once. The ladies were, of course, very much terrified. Had the horse cleared the parapet of the bridge the vehicle and its oc cupants would iu all probability Lave followed, and the height front the bed of the t iv,r (very Ehallow at that part) being considerable, the fall would, almost to a certainty, have involved destruction to all or some of the party. ACCIEEXT TO THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. • The Lord Chief Justice of England has, we regret to announce, met with an accident, though it is hoped not a very serious one. It appears from inquiries that were made that his lordship was riding from the Hayward's Heath Station, on Monday afternoon, accompanied by his marshal, across the Downs to Lewes, and as they were crossing Lewes racecourse, across a portion of which chains are fixed to keep off trespassers from the course, the horse the Chief Justice was riding stumbled at the chain and threw him. He was unable to remount, but did not consider that he was much injured, and he was able to walk to the judge's lodgings at Lewes, where a medical man was sent for, who expressed an opinion that the learned judge had received more injury than he imagined, and he advised him at all events not to leave the house for a day or two. The commission was consequently opened by Baron Bramwell, and business was proceeded with yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., presiding in the Crown Court, and Baron Bramwell on the Civil side. There are twenty-four prisoners for tried in the Crown Court, and ten causes are entered on the Civil side, six of which are marked to be tried by • special juries. PENSIONS TO MINISIERS. Yesterday morning the text of a bill was published having for its object the amendment of the law which enables her Majesty to grant pensions to persons who have held, under the Crown, certain high civil offices, hence forth to be designated " political offices," and which are usually held by members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. For the purposes of this measure such offices are to be divided into three classes, the first containing the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, and all other political offices remunerated with a yearly salary of not less than £5,000 ; the second those for which the salary is less than £5,000, and not less than £2,000 ; and the third, those for which thesalary is not less than £2,000 and more than £l,OOO. In the first class the pension, which is not to exceed.£2,ooo a year, will be paid in respect of a service of not less than four years or its equivalent in an office of the first class. The second class pension is not to exceed £1,200 and the third, £BOO a year, the term qualifying the recipients in both cases being not less than five years' service. The mode of calculating the term of service is prescribed as follows :—Two years' service in any office of the third class shall count as one year's service in an office of the second class, and two years in the second shall count as one year in the first ; but no person shall be entitled to a first class pension who has not actually served two years in the first class, nor to a second class pension unless he has actually served three years in that class. The service may be continuous or at different times and in different offices of these classes, but no pension under the Act shall be granted in any class while four pensions of that class are subsisting. It is also provided that no person receiving a pension under this Act shall be entitled to hold any superannuation allow ance granted under any other Act, or any compensation or allowance in respect of offices abolished or regulated under any public Act of Parliament. The bill is endorsed by Mr. Dodson, Mr. Gladstone, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. RELICS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.. An interesting bequest to the Queen was despatched on Saturday from Wishaw House to Windsor Castle, which her Majesty, from her acknowledged love for Scotland and everything Scottish, will, no doubt, highly prize. It would appear from a letter written and left by the late Lord Belhaven, that the relics, of which the bequest is composed, were placed at the disposal of the Queen, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify her acceptance of them. Relic No. 1 consists of a cabinet made of ebony, richly ornamented in front with designs in toitoiseshell, height Mt. 2in., width 4ft. 2in., depth lft. Oin. The front opens with folding doors. In the centre also are two small folding doors, which, on being opened, reveal a small recess, with tesselated pavement and roof with side mirrors. The inner folding-doors are also surrounded with drawers. The Scottish Queen brought this cabinet with her from France on her return to Scot land to begin her eventful career. This souvenir of the ill-fated Mary must therefore be some 300 years old, but it is in wonderfully good preservation. Queen Mary presented it to the Earl of Mar. The Earl afterwards made a gift of it to a favourite granddaughter, who mar ried one of the ancestors of the late Lord Belhaven, and the cabinet has continued in the possession of the Bel haven family ever since. Relic No. 2 is a purse (the work of Queen Mary's own hands), beautifully wrought with a crown, sceptre; and sword, in gold, with the words " God save King James." Relic No. 3is a piece of unleavened bread, to which no authentic his tory is attached, but is traditionally Lnderstood to have been a fragment of what Queen Mary bad used when participating in the most solemn rite of her religion. There is also a lock of Mary's hair, which is of a light colour. The original letter addressed by the late Lord Belhaven, placing these interesting souvenirs at the dis posal of the Queen, was locked up in one of the drawers of the Cabinet. Her Majesty commissioned Mr. Matheson, of the Board of Works, to superintend the packing of the precious relics, which were duly forwarded to - Windsor Castle, per Caledonian Railway, on S aturday night.— North British 111 ail. The death of a veteran journalist is announced. Mr. Henry Cooke the founder of the Oxford Chronicle, died at his residence in Oxford on Sunday morning, after a short illness. He started this paper more than thirty years ago, and was over 70 when he died. We regret to hear that Miss Carrenter—the suc cess cf whose educational work at Bombay we recently an nounced—has been very dangerously ill. An attack of inflammation of the lungs has caused serious alarm to her physician. The last telegram received in London states that tshe is "much better." The Dublin Fenian Amnesty Committee have published an answer to Cardinal Cullen's letter refusing per mission for a collection in the churches for the bonefit of the released political prisoners. They ray that the liberation of the Fenions was treated by them as an object of national interest, and the collection as a work of merey.and charity. They do not wish to commit themselves, or any one else, to any political opinion; and they still feel confident that "by whatever machinery the subscription may be carried out, the Irish peoplo will respond to the appeal." LORD DERBY IN AMERICA.--A correspondent having asked in Notes and Queries of March 6 whether Lord Derby was not the only English Premier who bad ever visited America, and given a very erroneous account of his voyage, Lord Derby replied to the inquiry in the last number of Notes and Queries by the following letter:— " I can hardly suppose that the details of my voyage to America in 1824 can have much public interest ; but as your correspondent T.' has given an account of it, to which he invites `eirreetion,' I am ready to gratify him, on what, I suppose, he will admit to be good authority. The only fact for which there is any foundation is that I did sail for America in company with the present Speaker of the House of Commons ; my other companions being the late Lord Wharncliffe and the present Lord Taunton, then Mr. Labouchere. He says that I was in Hali fax, N.S., some 44 years ago. I never was there in my life. That I sailed from England in the Fahnouth packet, a brig of 250 tons, commanded by a lieutenant, with 8 quaker guns and 35 men.' My friends and I embarked at Liverpool fur New York on board the Canada, a ship of 600 tons, belonging to the well-known Black Ball line of packets, admirably furnished in every respect, and which left on our minds no recollection of homely fare or rough trvelling.' It is added that I visited Nova Scotia with the present Speaker of the House of Commons ;' and that the two distinguished gentlemen sailed from Halifax, for the second time risking their lives in the old Falmouth Dragon.' When, at the close of our tour, my three companions wanton to Halifax, I quitted them at New York, and returned by the same line of packets by which I had gone out, without the least apprehension of loss of life. lam aware that these details are wholly unimportant ; but as an entirely incorrect statement has appeared in N. and Q. , CIA will perhaps think it worth while to set .ynnr correspondent #Bl4 aB. to 4 14 4014 f k0&t.—....14414P1r!-: LIBERATION SOCIETY. Yesterday morning the annual parliamentary break• fast of the Liberation Society took place at the Cannon . street Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. C. REED, M.P. Among those present were A. Illingworth, M.P., IL Richard, M.P., Alderman Gourlay, M.P., J. Candlish; M.P., McCarthy Downing, M.P., Sir John Gran M.P., IL Miall, M.P., C. Reed, M.P., D. M`Laren, Robert Macfie, M.P., S. Courtauld, the Hon. Auberor Herbert, J. Crum-Ewing, M.P., Mr. Shaw, M.P., S i ' George Young, Hon. George Brodrick, R e v. :Norway Hall, Rev. Mr. Rogers, Mr. Wm. Shaw, Mr. Charles Miall, Rev. Dr. Brock, Rev. T. Binney, and Mr• J. Colman (Norwich). The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting in highly con• gratulatory terms, and expressed his belief that the Non• conformist bodies would give their hearty support to 3 .1 r. Gladstone's policy on the Irish Church. Mr. 11. Richard, M.P., Mr. Duncan M`Laren, MY Mr. Crum-Ewing, M.P., and Sir John Gray, Tl•P'' spoke especially on the question of the Irish Church. The University Tests Bill was opened by Sir GEOBGB YouNG (Trinity College, Cambridge), in a lucid and able speech, fully explaining the disabilities under which Non. conformists now labour, and the extent to which they would be removed by Sir John Coleridge's bill. The necessity of a still more Radical measure was warmly urged by the Hon. George Brodrick and the Hon. Auberon Herbert. Mr. CANDLIsII, M.P., in the absence of Mr. Hadfield' M.P., addressed himself to the Burials Bill. The Rev. P. W. CLAYDEN, in the absence of gr• Michael, M.P., congratulated the meeting on the Di' dowed Schools Bill, which was characterised by the Ee' l ' Mr. Rogers and the Hon. G. Brodrick as a very insuta* cient measure in its not throwing open the head maste r. ships of the schools to Nonconformists. The proceedings terminated by a vote of thanks to 02 0 chairman, moved by Mr. Illingworth, M.P. TII.E PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS 011 WALES. • It seems from Dr. Russell's letters to the Times that the progress of the Prince and the Princess of Wales up t he Nile is, on the whole, rather slow. " The procession of steamers winding in and out of the channel, and twining ribandwise along the bends in the river, led by the elegan t Faad Rabanie, and the royal barge with the roya l standard and the Prince's own flying, while the sun flashes at every turn from the white sides and gil t mouldings of the ships, and is reflected back from the mirrors and burnished garniture of the saloons through the open ports, would surprise by its n ovelth though it would not reward the most patient to g o on watching it day after day. One cannot, says the doctor, sketch, or write, or read, or lounge for ever. One d ate palm is like another, each water-wheel is very much the same as its neighbour, and the shadoofs vary only in t he number of lifts and of the men who work them, and as to the men—well, unless we go very close they are all uncommonly similar in hue and dress or want of it, though their rich brown is now and then diver. Billed by the i n t ense bl ac k ness o f th e Nubian' s epidermis. No won d er , th en, if i n th e interva l between tubbing in the Nil e wa t er an d th e wa lk on dec k there is a longing fo r b rea kf as t , an d th a t w h en that is ove r the hour of lunch bec omes o f i ncreas i ng i mpor t a nce, an d that towards the close. of th e d a y di nner ti me gradual l y asserts its claims, and the halt at sun d own , w hich allo ws every one to go on shore—i.e., th e nex t fi e ld on the bank" is looked for with pleasure, th e crown i ng j o y o f the day if it be not a bull to say so —b e i ng th e so ft, cool ho urs when the stars twinkle and th e moon s hi nes a loft, and 511 are invited to the hospitabl e sa l oon o f th e royal Yae b, " where a generous welcome awaits them, and a durbar is held till it is time to walk the plank, and seek each one his ship by the blazing torchlights, and sink to sleep, num °. lested, be it noted, of mosquito or nightly depredator for the most part of us." One day, the 22nd of February, seems, however, to have been a " jolly" one for all parties. It is thus described A day of small misadventure and of fatigue and toil for i the Prince and P r i ncess . It was arrange d th a t her Boy d Highness should proceed in a boat as far as the foot of the First Cataract, about th ree m il es a b ove Assouan, where donkeys were to be in waiting, in charge of Abd-el-li.ader, the Viceroy's aide-de-camp. The Nile above Assouan breaks into several streams, and meanders through rocky, barren islands of sandstone and granite. The Princess took a wrong branch of the river, and ea n:le t . o to a bank of lo ose , d ee p san d drifted a bed of craggy, g li s t en i ng roc k s . Th e P r ince, after his visit to Lady Duff Gordon, went to another point belosit, the Cataract, but where were the Princess and her Par t y' Abd-el-Kader, who had posted far-seeing Arabs o n the , rocks, was in d es p a i r a t th e news th a t the Prince ss boat was ascendi ng ano th er c h anne l. H e d as hed roa n ' with his corps of donkey-boys to meet the Princess at 3 place to which the boat appeared to be bound, sendi n g the camels by a long detour, as they could not make °1 by the rocky banks o f th e r i ver , b ut w h en the ass es arrived the Princess was not visible. By some I ° l4 accident two very wretched donkeys wer e e spied n ear the spot where the Princess landed. They had neither saddle nor bridle, but on the back of each was a p ad without girths, and ou these anim a l s the Princess of W ales and the Hon. Mrs. Grey had to poise theniselVes,' and to plod u n d er a b urn i ng sun towards The Princess laughed at her novel situation and a , , 1). peared to enjoy he r new ly-f oun d proper ty of balan cing herself on a pad with ou t any g i r th s t o k ee p it in its P lace with intense lightheartedness. In an hour or so s t hey came up with the P r i nce an d Si r S. B a k e r, who had c, small experience of the pleasures of the day, havi s li i waited for their donkeys for an hour and a h alf, the whole party now provided with animals enjoYed th e wonderful perfor mance o f t h e A ra b s who swimdown theh boiling current of th e Fi rst C ataract f or t h e benefit o f t tourist in the hope o f backsheesh.' It has be en often described, but it must be seen by those who want to for an idea of savage man—why should I call him sn'vetge, re though ?—as he battles with a mountain torrent W .° , civilisation h as was h e d t h e energy of hi s native fortleie out of him ! A na ti ve A ra b i s never d ro wned in 13, whirling, boili ng rus h o f waters. S evera l we were told, had tried it, and all bad peris hed ; an spectators stand on rocks a t th e end of the f all, distance lends decency to the blacks fellows, who lea Pent from a ledge high up one after the other, and in a P3,n, i a are seen bobbing like th e b uo y s o f a fi s herman's neL;hiris then, with arms rai se d a l o ft a lt erna t e ly, are born e 000 ing through the w hiti s h f oam t o t h e f ee t o f the ePe c , and scramble up in their waistcloths to fight for nc','i3. sheesh.' Whil e th e P r i nce an d P r i n cess were v). tinuing their ride over parched desert sa n i d , s s the wards the green pat c h o f t rees which oa r ' a si, site of Mike from afar, th e r est of th e CO P IOO I consisting of Lord Staff or d, L or d A. L. Gower' Jr. Stanton, Major Alison, the Hon. 0. Montagu e'dirent Sumner, Sir H. P e lly, an d myse lf , w h o h a d r idden °y er n ins; from Assouan—a route seven miles long over country, in a sun which would almost have cooked l ) a Thereo steak—arrived at the little village below the island. r , s under the foot, but not the shade, of two castle -like "b, a m ost tr . .Y eef. of rock, we found pitched a large tent in three 0513 o f ments, handsomely carpeted, a dinner tent capable the receiving forty guests, and a couple of tents for the accommodation of the servants. Close at hand We . 1 13 0, be vessels to which the royal party were to be t'_ oon ferred, and long strings of camels were to be fu b rtd , coming over the Desert with the stores and t ture and baggage for the voyage to the Second Cat iv al it t ; The orders had been given to send on some refresh:its to the island on which stands the Temple, lovely ' aire d ruin, and thither, heated, sanded, and thirsts,' r e P fr o the weary rid e rs o f s ti rru pl ess d o nkeys all the iva_iies Assouan. It does not sound much, but the Seven sa al,' were, under the peculiar circumstances, the longest.:yalado travelled. A rude bark ferried us over, and our IN .iiic h were naked little boys who floated on logs of svood;cty_'ll as they propelled by foot or hand with great ease, b v jn the wood on which they lay in happy securi t y. _ s of the blazing heat we wandered about over the the town of a few centuries old, and the P r .,-,.. s iati d. slabs and columns of the temples of the Sacred -Lb a _ sed The royal party came not, and hour after hour P an s c _ A away amid the increasing uneasiness of guard, and, just as they had taken boat again and a , oy returning to the opposite bank, the loud shrill crs:enntkeJ3rs, of the Nubian women was heard, and a, group 1 on and among whom the Prince and the Princess of wale s Mrs. Grey soon became discernible in the rays c't the shs chilling sun, came in sight, making their way toward a landing-place of the ferry-boat—a rough slope' thi u.n g_ of the ad v vire e r t e ; field of pulse. The visit of the royal party to the r t i . 5 "'Mix. was limited, of course by the want of dayligh ruin THE LADIES OF THE PERIOD.—At a Paris Cm" concert it is written up, "Lc«lies are requested n ot t° smoke in this room." „ k ing Mr. Dykes, secretary to the Glasgow Vi Moil's Conservative Association, has received a letter frc"'d, Lord Stabley, intimating Lis willingness to recoive dress au from the Conservative working men of Gl as g ow durnafi his visit to that city next month. A PEEP INTO FUTURITY. —There is in the yard attached to Maudlin-street Chapel, Kilkenny, 5116.1 stone, erected since October 18Q8, bearing the folio of inscription :—" Erected in memory of Patrick Power,:s Maudlin-street, who died in 1839, aged 73 years. M 3 Y,7 1 , 1 ,, soul rest in peace. Amen." This stone is erected by w" said Patrick Power, who is still living in Maudlin-street; and confidently asserts that he is to die in the month June next, or thereabouts. Meanwhile Pat regularly visits the graveyard, says his prayers at the Ilead st l &c. ; but beyond this he seems very little concerned Abe% the near rppreach (accordinj to his owu account) aissolutiou.,rAttb/in 111 1 Busi Foreig the ea' prices can & rate fc 2 to Com count, New '1 £l,OOO and V Per Ce Indi ditto tj Cent., Cent., prem. Iu tl] a rise c In ti Caledoi 37i ; ( Stock, 48k; Ditto F of Can 48/ to to 1131 17; L Metrop 1161 ; ditto 1' South ] Arne to 831 the Tex Bank 31 to 3: County Orienta 37; ; at follows per Cen to I; I structio Then terday. The brought have al for En g The Friday, shares Govern] A ciri Gas Coi formi ng been sy, cipal de for hi s are e nv account Tho d aunounc of 34 pe respond] The ) this wee Mane Mr. Jon Farnwoi ing from Horsfall W. and it is beli, The r be prese] line fror, is expect seut yea The • (Limiter issued. Secured each. rj table, al chase a: at Trou lady the the soul the dist] benture reports, of the cl nobility Ville my Folkesto havre. distant I be paid 1 G On • Per Cen Toittoi; 8 per COE lie w 3 p, m • vr 21 p Do. 6 i lattnuitiei Do, io; Do (Re Exchocs: Do Do. Bank of / De. ac( Canada 4 Inter-Col INDII India Ito , Do. Op Do. 5 p Do. 4 p Do. Cei Do. En Do. 5 p Do. Eii Da 5 p Do D e Do, Bo' De. tuu Ar k lentin( Do., Sc Au Arian Bra.ailian Oa. lk Do. 5r !Jo Ace ;enos A Da 2 pc 9, 1 154., 6 LLit p i an 6 no. 4 Do. 3 p 10.6 p Uo. 7 p o 10 abi4 Dan sh, 3 Dan.hian Do 8 pe rquador Do Sec Do. £5( Do. £1( Li D D. fot Do. 411 English Do Govan TROUVILLE SUR MER (NORMANDY) S T. GEORGE'S HALL, Regent-street. LOAN of £400,000, SECURED by MORTGAGE DEBEN- FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. TURES of the TROUVILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited).— Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Issue of 40,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of £lO each. 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