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NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET ' , OS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTE,ATHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STVET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre- Fentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their my Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattorton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, BELPHEGOR : Mr. O. Dillon; Messrs. Rouse, Barrett, F. Charles, Webb, Warner, Moreland; Mesdames Heath and Stuart To conclude with DON CASAR DE BAZAN : Mr. C. Dill ; Messrs. Wilson Barrett, Rignold:; Mesdames Heath, IL oveney, and H. Vandenhoff. Doors open at half-peat 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, Sole Lessee, Mr. Bncks YMARKET. r THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING: tone. Messrs. Rogers, Clark, Gordon, White, &c.; Miss Fanny Wright and Miss F. Gwynn, After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern,_Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, e. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WAT , II : Messrs Sothern, Chippendale; Vincent, &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, Concluding with MAKE YOITR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. --- Box-office open daily. Conamance at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WrBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: ,Ms G. Bettmore: • NA 15 to 8, 20th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Pechter Miss Carlotta Leclerc% Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. To conclude with WHITE.B IT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager,Mr. Vining it THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which. Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclerrq: (7oncludinz with THE SECRET. N.B.—.shortly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bou cicault. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. T HE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at I_ JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. SPALIVISR GOVERNMENT THREE PER CENT. LOAN, 1869. For Fifty Millions of Dollars effective, in Bonds of the Consolidated Three per Cent. Debt. Authorised by Act of the Cortes under date of 31st March, 1869. Messrs J. S. MORGAN and CO. are authorised by the Contractors to RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS for X 8,000,000 nominal (part of the above Loan). The Bonds for this Loan will be to bearer, and will be similar in amounts and form to the existing New Three per Cent. 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Principal Scenic Artists—Mr. William Calcott and Mr. Albert Calcott. A cting Manager—Mr. Barry Sullivan. ROYAL STR A N D THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlain; Mesdames Buf ton, L. Maitland, itc. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND C IRCUS, HOLBORN the CARRE L Positivel' TROUPE rie Last S ix and Nights aWonderfulnd Farewell PEUFOR appearance of XING HORSES. Dung the week a number of noveltie s will be pr duced. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as the troupe leave London on the 26th. Tuere will be an entire chanoe of programme each even ing. —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the -tie tropolis. No other Tbeatre in London offers a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement - The most complete combination of equestrian talent ever brought to gether. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7, H. J. Byron's new and original Drama. MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss L 3 dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and bliss Brennan; Messrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. To conclude with BRAWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. ROYA L CHRISTY'S. GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET. licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EAS TER 'NOVELTIES, Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. Mr. Harry Leslie, the celebrated American Comedian, appears nightly. Pro nounced by the Press to be the genuine sensation, and the only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed by express command before her Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week: CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Burlesque Extravaaenza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH-S. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private Boxes, £2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NISIMO. rpHE sUN" NEWS PAPER.—G. R. GLENIE deliTers tho L ATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn. 3 : Starch-Breen, 8; Woolwich, 7.00; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, THE .TATF.ST EDITION of " I'IIE SUN" Ir T. If 51.,7,1ts begs inform hiq frientlA anvil the public 7Pturally that he 7 , lrplies the LATEST EDITION of " TUE BaN " as soon as publi,:hc(l.;—No.lo, Hampsteati-road THE "SUN" NE WSPA PE R.--G. P. ULENIE, Sporting Library, 4. 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G. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier than any other man in London or Country the evening of publi cation. No connection with any other persons. Bally's, Ruff's, Wright's, and M`Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Magazines, and Periodicals as soon as publislied. Agent for the Joint-Stock Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. THEATRE -ROTA L DRURY- LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F, B. Chatterton, THIS EVENING, at 7. BELPHEG,OR: Mr. Charles Dillon; Mr. hones, Mr. Barrett Mr. Webb. 34.1'74,771er; Meadanva Heath and Stuart. To conclude with DON C.iEtel.s.l{. Dg BAZ& Mr. C. Dillon; 31ias Heath, THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. This EvitwiNa, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers Clark, Gordon, White; Miss Fanny Wright. ite. Mier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale. &c.: Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. 5. r Sothern. Concluding with 31AliE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. This EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: ISIr Walter Lacy, Mr. D. Leeson, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And TUE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. Tuts Eviorm, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C A MBERW ELL : Mr. G. Belmore, Hrs. L. Murray At t 5 to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart: Caslotta Leclerc% Meg Lennox Grey, Rze, And WHITEBAIT AT GRE t NWICH : Mr Atkins, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborongh. This EVHNING. at 7.30, TDB WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton: v esdamea Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tun EvExtrio, at 7, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tars EVENING, at 7.30, IN FORA HOLIDAY. Followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Mold:Ague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ROYAL AMPHITFIEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tnis EvENING;the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, 0. and A. Carre, &e. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EvzNixu, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S ROYAL ALRAMBRA PALACE.— THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-oific( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex. cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, cd. Children ander twelve, 641. itik k 4 • mit 1 . 1111- i , Nsi 4+444 LONDON, SA7 URDAY, APRIL 24, 1869. Majorities, in monotonous succession, of 112, 102, 100, marked out last night again, in sequence, the pro gressof thelrish Church Bill through Committee. The modifications actually introduced are simply infinitis simal. No substantial gain of any kind is secured to the conscientious antagonists of the measure by the laborious pertinacity with which they are vainly en deavouring to obstruct its advance through the House of Commons in defiance of the overwhelming preponderance of numbers on the side of the Govern ment. Clause 23 was the last dealt with yesterday in Committee, before the adjournment of further progress in the Bill until Monday evening. The number of that clause will serve, to a considerable extent, to mark the advance made in the steady working of the 'Committee through the Bill. What though that advance is delayed at every turn by a cheywrx de frise of Amendments. Nevertheless, there are—it should be remembered at the same time—several intermediate clauses, appa rently passed over, which have been simply post. poned. So that it must not be supposed for an in. stant, because the twenty-third clause was consi dered and satisfactorily dealt with last night in Com mittee, that therefore it may be considered (which it 1 1 certainly may not) that twenty-three clauses have THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1869. already passed the ordeal of Committee in the Com mons. Even if the House could say, what unhappily it cannot, that " much has been done" in the matter of this Bill, it would have to complete the quotation with all possible emphasis, by adding, " but, more remains to:do." As yet, however, " much" has not been done : and therefore the " MORE" would have to be given in Brobingnagian capitals to express the emphasis of it in any way adequately. There is little doubt of it that, let the Opposition in their conduct towards the Irish Bill but persist in their present course of proceeding, namely, in the obstruction of its progress as hitherto at every conceivable turn, and the energy, and the patience, and the industry of the Commons first of all, and of the Lords after wards, will be taxed to the very uttermost to enable them to get this Bill transformed into an Enactment before the customary sign tl for the breaking up for the Legislature, the commencement of the grouse shooting. Considerable excuse is afforded by the unnecessary and really idle, because utterly hopeless delays, placed in the path of this one great measure of the present session by the Opposition—e,msiderable excuse, we say, is thereby afforded to her MAJESTY'S Government for what would be otherwise only flagrantly reprehen sible, namely, their setting aside altogether, as in no way to be touched upon this year, the imminent, and formidable, and vitally important question in regard to the land of Ireland. Ministers may now argue with some show of reason that it is as much as Par liament can do to grapple with the work actu ally before it without complicatin g its already herculean toils by opening up in the Irish Land Question another of those grand radical innovations in not only existing but long-existing constitutional arrangements. Ministers now so argue with some show of reason, while the legislative labours already taken in hand are being lengthened out to no conceiveable purpose by every species of ob struction in the wayof printed amendment and spoken argumentation that can possibly be hit upon iu the exercise of the utmost ingenuityon the part of her MA JESTY'S Opposition. The right hon. gentleman, the ex- Premier, as the responsible Leader of the Conserva tives, is constrained, of course, by considerations of party, to marshal the ranks of his followers at every reasonable opportunity, and to bring all his forces into the field at those times against the serried ranks of the well-disciplined and overwhelming numbers of the followers of the Government. The right hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford, and with him the hon. and learned gen tleman the member for Richmond, are fired with zeal in their resolute opposition to a measure which they regard in their conscience as subversive of so much they hold dear in the Constitution. It still remains for them to show, nevertheless, that by doing precisely as they are doing now all this while in the Committee, they are furthering in any, the smallest possible degree, the objects they have a t this moment the most nearly at heart, as opponents of the very Bill now under the consideration of Parliament. Fon a body quick to discover lions in the path, commend us to the House of Lords. There is no body which will compare with it except the Houses of Convocation. Lord LYTTELTON on Thursday night brought in a bill to increase the Episcopate of the English Church by the voluntary action of Church men. It was not denied that such an increase was urgently required ; that the bishops cannot properly fulfil their functions even when in vigorous health, that far more is expected of bishops than used to be expected a generation back, that if the Episcopate is to be a living reality it ought to be greatly extended, and that it would have been a good thing if Lord RUSSELL had constituted three new bishoprics instead of the one which he erected twenty years ago. While all this was admitted, no one ventured to affirm that either of the two great political parties was prepared to deal with the matter collectively.. Since the Manchester bishopric was formed we have hack four Admistrations of the party which claims to be the special friends of the Church. Yet Conservatives have done as little as Liberals in supplying an acknowledged want. The truth is, that neither party will venture in the present state of the relations between the .Church and the State to ask Parliament to sanction the erection of new bishoprics, each of which, if the Archbishop of YORK be correct, will cost at least £70,000. The inference seems natural that Churchmen should be allowed to establish these bishoprics voluntarily out of their own contri butions. But such a proposition meets with the strenuous opposition of those devoted friends of the Church, the Duke of SOMERSET and Lord PORT3IAN. The second of these peers is sure that a bishop cannot properly fulfil his duties on £2,500 a year; albeit, men of the SELWYN stamp have fulfilled theirs in the colonies on a fifth of that amount. The Duke of SONIERSET opposed the bill for exactly the opposite reason. He thought that the Commons would urge that the episcopal revenues were already sufficient for supporting a good many more bishops, and he seemed to think that there was a good deal to be said for the proposition that these revenues should be divided into incomes of £2,500 a year, and applied to the support of as many prelates as the quotient produced. Moreover, a happy thought struck this eminent Churchman. Lord LYTTELTON'S scheme would in volve the creation of " subscription" bishops ; still worse, of " subscription" peers. " S. G. 0." never said a wittier things and it was not only witty, but effectual, for their lordships were horrified at the prospect which the heir of all the SEYMO uns set before them. It was bad enough that they should have life peers sitting among them—the thought of sub scription peers was intolerable. The Lords must be protected, even though the Church should suffer. In vain did the Earl of CARNARVON point out that there was not a single colonial prelate who was not a sub scription bishop. Arguments' and facts were alike unavailing against the fearful thought of the Upper House being contaminated by the presence of peers supported by voluntary contributions. But while we have small sympathy with these objections to Lord LYTTELTON'S bill which were prompted by the arrogance of the temporal peers, we are by no means certain that the -bill was a wise measure. There can be no doubt that the - present deplorable state of the southern dioceses has greatly diminished the respect felt by the laity for the episcopal order. Laymen, when they see diooese after diocese without responsible epis copal government, argue either that the Church can get on very well without bishops, or that bishops are very selfish men ; either that they are costly luxuries, whereof we have more than enough, or that they care so little for the good of the Church that they retain their positions when they are unable to per form the duties attaching thereto. Let the most sanguine of us ask w h at c h ance there i s t h a t a sum at all approa c hi ng £70,000 would be raised in any one of those dioceses, or, indeed, throughout the whole of England. It is quite true that we have abundance of " subscription " incumbents ; that the endowment of an incumbency by private liberality is such an every -day occurrence that it attracts no attention. But then Churchmen believe in the incumbent, because they know that he earns hifi £3OO a year, and a good deal more. They strongly suspect that a bishop does not earn his £5,000 a year, even at the best of times, certainly not when he is an octogena rian and paralysed. In a word, the friends of the Church believe that they can lay out their money to much better advantage fur the Church than in found ing bishoprics. What is to be done ? We must find out a class of dignitaries who earn their money even less than the bishops. Archbishop THOMSON has dis covered them—the deans. These are simply orna mental functionaries, who hold sinecures as the reward of past services either ecclesiastical or political—mostly the latter. With them are asso ciated the canons, who are in much tie same position. Dean and canons together enjoy aa income which would be a very handsome endowment for a new bishopric. There is the Chapter of Exeter, for instance, whose functions consist, for the most part, in appointing their friends to chapter livings, and whose income would form an admirable endowment for a bishopric of Corn wall. There is Westminster again, a wholly abnormal institution, which might be converted into a bishopric that should have jurisdiction south of the Thames, to the relief of overgrown Winchester. And at the same time that we get rid of deans and canons we might make some changes in the arrange ment of the episcopal duties. The archdeacons might be empowered to consecrate churches, the parochial clergy might administer the rite of confirmation, and would be much better fitted to do so by their acquaintance with the candidates than the bishop, who is an entire stranger to them, and cannot possibly take any interest in them. The bishops would, even when relieved of these duties, have plenty of work to do, if they desired to be really what they are in name, overseers—if they resolved to be the father, friend, and counsellor of their clergy, and the chief source of Church life through out the diocese. THE Peers are closing their ranks ; the great houses are sinking their ancient differences, in order to be prepared to withstand the assault of democracy, which they believe to be imminent. VENUS is called in to aid BELLONA j MARS has entered into an alliance with HYMEN. One after another the rival ruling families are intermarrying. A STANLEY has wedded a ti ILLlEns—the brother of a Conservative with the daughter of a Liberal Foreign Minister. A Tory PERCY has married a Liberal CAMPBELL, and has thus united the ducal houses Of NORTHUMBERLAND and ARGYLL ; and now within this present week, the heir of the Whig Lord HALIFAX has taken to wife the daughter of the Tory Ear lof DEVON. Unions of this kind would have been impossible fifty years ago. As well might the Roundhead and the Cavalier of the Commonwealth intermarry as the Tory and the Whig of the Georgian era. But the Peers are grown more sensible since then, and also more pru dent. Of old the spoils of office used to be divided between the rival houses; but in these de generate days new claimants have sprung up, and the rivalry is now between the commoners and the Peers What can be wiser than for the second to make corr mon cause against the "hungry people drawing nigher," just, as men who had fought as foes on the high seas would join hands and fight together as friends against the pirate or the savage ? By unions of the kind we have mentioned the ruling families can be sure, at least for so long as they con tinue ruling families, that some of their members will be in office. If it is not the Tory father, then it is the Radical son-in-law; if A is not the Whig brother, then it is the Conservative brother-in-law. Thus " we," of the "upper ten thousand," are always " in," no matter who is " out." In all the great departments of State " we " are represented, if not by our kith, then by our kin . ; if not by our relatives of consanguinity, then by our relatives of affinity. This is one result of these matri monial alliances. Another is that, so far as the Peers are concerned, party spirit must become les! vehement. They cannot find it in their hearts to 133 very bitter against the Ministry which contains their daughter's or their sister's husband. Thus it is not only their lordships who will profit by these unions, but the whole nation. May they increase and multiply. veA ,ANtt 6E1311 IIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon. her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Leopold, drove out this woriiing. Princess Louise, Prince Beatrice, and Prince and Princess Christian walked in the grounds. LATEST INTELL LGENOE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. Nzw YORK, April 23. Gold closed at 1331. The highest quotation during the day was 133! ; the lowest 1331. Ster. ling Exchange on London, 1081 ; Five-Tweuts United States Bonds, 1882 , 121; ditt o , 1885, 115 i ;;Ten-Fo r ty B onds, 1061 ; Cotton—middli ng up . I l l l ii B n i ols, di l t si to 4 ,l ; lB6 E 7 r , ie, 33i. laud, 28ic. Petroleum—standard white, 33e, Flour—extra State, $5 70c. to $6 30c. Corn—ok mixed, 32c. CROOKRAVEN, April 24. The Cunard steamship Saxonia, from New Yort on the 14th inst., is now passing Browhead signal station, en route for Queenstown. ITALY. FLORENCE, April 24. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties Signor Ferrara asked the Government when the general debate on the financial statement would commence. Count Cambray-Digny replied that the general debate could not commence until the conventions for financial operations were presented to the House, which would be on the 9th or 10th of May. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, ritILJA f, April 23. ti The Progress of France under the Imperial Govern ment " is chiefly a collection of statistics shewing the advance of the French nation in every department of social and commercial life since the Emperor ascended the throne. Some of this information is interesting enough. We learn that since 1851 the surface of the country under cultivation has been extended by above one million acres ; that the corn crops and wheat crops have increased by some 90 millions of bushels, that the wine of 1868 far exceeded the produce of 1851 by many millions of gal lons; that several thousand miles of railway, imperial roads, telegraphs, and a few miles of canals and minor works have been made. Commerce has grown beyond precedent. The tonnage of the ships entering and leaving the ports of France is greater by more than 6 millions and a half than in 1851. The tonnage of French steamships has been augmented by 115,339 tons. The State receipts have risen to the tune of 30 millions sterling—l find very little about the expenditure in this delightful "progress." The number of scholars attending I the primary schools, the number of scholars gratuitously edu- cated, the sums expended in support of religion, and chari table institutions have all risen very greatly. Lastly, we are favoured with a comparative review of the state of the capital in 1851 and in 1869. Its population is greater by 772,0J0 souls. Eleven bridges, 21 squares, 5 theatres, 34 religi)us edifices, &c., have been made. In the hospitals the number of beds has been augmented by 1,077, and so of as immense variety of other details. These statistics of Paris are something to the purpose; forthough it is diffi cult to imagine what the Imperial Government has done td increase some of the items which are so triumphantly enrolled, yet no one will doubt that the Emperor has doze much for Paris. The unfortunate denizens of the carital have had to pay very dearly for all they have got; but still the improvements have been effectual, and it is merely a question whether the value received is equivalent to the price paid. But surely the publication of all these figures relative to France, and the use of them as an electioneering argument, is very foolish. What has the Emperor done to- increase the production of wine and corn? IWhat has the tonnage of merchant ships to do with the policy of the Imperial Government? Would not the 'commerce of France have prospered under another form of Government than that of an irresponsible Ministry and a Chamber of Deputies without power? Above all, what has been the Emperor's share in the increase a the population? To compile such a collection, and then say of it, as the semi-official or;ans do, that "it defies criticism," is sheer nonsense. Bit no doubt the country voters will swallow it all. The good people of Roumania have made Mr. Glad stone, M. St. Marc Girardin—he of the Debats—and M. Übicini citizens of their State. The reason of this pro. ceeding is not quite clear, but the English Premier at all events will have a ready-made asylum when he becomes the victim of the revolution which his opponents declare him to be preparing. RATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and tle Cape of Good Hope amounts to 56,692 tons, and that fir Australia and New Zealand to 45,962 tons. The ships on the berth for the East are loading witn Setter despatch, but most of the berths are fully supplied with tonnage. East India and China coal freights are dull, more espe. zially from the North ; £23 per keel is offered from the North to Madras, under the contract just taken for that port. From Wales 255. is offered for a ship to Singapore. 445. Shanghae, 335. to34s. Hong Kong, 255. Galle. From the Rice Ports for next season's account 628. 6d:is offered ; and whilst Java freights are unchanged, those ruling from Manila are somewhat weaker. Some slight improvement is observable in coal freights to the West Coast, a slight advance having taken place in those for Callao and Valparaiso. There has been during the last few days a good deal doing in guano chartering, and ships are taken up freely for the Continent at 70s. From the Nitrate Ports there is but very limited inquiry for tonnage. A vessel has, however, been taken up during the week at 60s. for United Kingdom, and 655. for Conti- nent, and there is room for another at the same rate. For the United States vessels are in good request. West Indian coal freights remain firm at the last advance. A ship is required from the Tyne for Bermuda at Hs. per ton. . Brazil coal freights generally continue firm. Bahia and Maranham are the p •rts for which ships are in most request. The rates for ccal.s to the River Plate are well maintained. In Mediterranean business, the most noticeable feature is the inquiry for Alexandria for coras and coke at £l7 and £l5. There is less inquiry for all coals, several vessels having been taken up this week at £lO 10s. to £2O per keel. Grain chartering is, if anything, quieter than last week. Lord Chief Justice Bovill has been prevcntca by indisposhion from presiding in the Court of Common Pleas during the present week, and the business of the Court has been thereby much impeded. The London and North-Western Railway Com pany have made compensation to the extent of. £52,000 to the family of Major Edwards, of Fixby Park, Yorkshire, who, with his son, was killed in the lamentable catastrophe at Abergole. Isaac Chamberlain, the herbalist, of Hertford, with Caroline Judd and Anne Hutchinson, who are charged with forgery on the Bank of England under the circumstances reported a day or two since, were on Friday committed for trial. The Weekly Register, referring to the inhibition of Mr. Mackonochie by the Bishop of Ripon, remarks that in the Roman Catholic Church " a bishop would not forbid a priest to preach in the diocese unless he had been guilty of some immoral act, and certainly not if ho had faculties from his own bishop." The London correspondent of the Western Daily Press says that should the House of Lords refuse, as it is expected they will, to concur in the proposal to issue a Royal Commission to inquire into the alleged prevalence of corrupt practices at the last election for Dublin, the Government have determined to move that tho writ be suspended, and to bring in a bill to disfranchise freemen• The inquiry into the s alidity of Mr. Birley's eke tion for Manchester will bo opened on the 3d of May. There is no allegation in this case of corruption or undue influence of any kind ; the sole question is whether, at the time of his election, Mr. Birley was interested in a Government con tract. Sir Sydney Waterlow's case, which turned upon a similar point, was tried before a committee of the Louse of Commons. Mr. B:rley's IN ill go befae one or Inc re of the judges. A requisition will in a few days be presented to Mr. Daniel Grant, who unsuccessfully contested Marylobone in the liberal interest at the last election, requesting him to put himself in nomination in the event of Mr. Harvey Lewis resigning his seat. There is no doubt Mr. Grant will stand for the borough if Mr. Milner Gibson declines to come for ward. It is thought that Mr. Roebuck will not respond to the overtures which aro understood to kayo been made to him. The following telegram, dated Brussels, Friday, and referring to the Belgian railway difficulty, is published by the Standard :—A council of Ministers is now being held, under the presidency of the King, to deliberate upon the report -addressed by Di. Frere-Orban, and to which are appended the counter proposals of the French Govern ment. The latter maintain the principle of the conventions with the Eastern Belgian and French lines, while stipu lating reductions of tariff very advantageous to both coun tries. Those reductions are said to afford bases to a sort of commercial alliance between France and Belgium. It is considered probable that t o Belgian Government will per sist in disapproving of the railway treaties. The will of Sir William Clay, Bart., formerly M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, of Fulwell Lodge, Twickenham, has been proved under £120,000 personalty. He bas left issue three sons and five daughters, to all of whom be has made a liberal provision.—The will of Sir Chas. Slingsby, Bart., of Scriven Park, Yorkshire, was proved at Wakefield under £lB,OOO personalty. In default of any lawful issue of his sister Emma Louifa Catherine Slingsby, the testator devises his estates, after her decease, to the Roy. Thomas Atkinson, vicar of Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire, and to his hoirs.—The will of Sir Joseph Francis 011iffo, M.D., physician to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, was proved und er £ 16,000 per sonalty.-- The will of Mr. John Horro c k s , Esq., was proved, at Lancaster, under £90,000 personalty.—lllustrated London News. An entirely new and original version of a famous romantic drama, entitled "The Corsican Brothers; or the Troublesome Twins," by Henry J. Byron, is i❑ active preparation at the New Globe Theatre. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS arc decidedly the best remedy for all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the liver and kidneys. They act with so decided an effect, and yet so gently, that people of the most delicate constitutions may take them with the most perfect confidence. They do not contain a single grain of mer cury or other noxious substance, being composed exclusively of rare balsams. They aro therefore equally safe and efficacious, and as a family medicine nothing yet invented or discovered can be compared with them for a momeat. With these inestimable pills at hand, together with the printed directions affixed to each box, no other medical advice or assistance can be needed in any ordinary on of picknese INDIA. BOMBAY, April 23. Tho Ameer of Badakshan, and all the Sirdara of Turkistan have given in their allegiance to Shere Ali. • The son of ex-Ameer Azini Khan has fled across .he Oxus. The Ameer, having expressed his warm thanks to Lord Mayo, left the British territory greatly elated at this news, which he attributes to the Umballa Conference. An the heads of the- - Rtrber tribes accompanied Ameer from Jamrood. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 2 3.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 41 ver Cent. ...... 101 End of month_ 3 per Cent ......... 71 15 End of month... 71 15 Credit hlobilier 253 75 End of month... 253 75 Credit Foneier ...1500 End of month... Bank Shares 2950 Its Pan Fives 55 i 0 End of month... Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Cash. 910 ... 970 610 575 RAILWA' Orleans ............... . . Northern Lyons and Mediterranean • Southern..... Western Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian LomLa rd North of Spain Saragossa R0man........ 54 6871 477 59 75 52i NEW MATcir.— Count F. de Lagrange's ch c Eole, by Gladiateur out of File de l'A ir, Bst 10Ib, against M. de Montgomery' s c h f Toucques, by Monarque out of La Touclues, Bst 71b , b oth then two years o ld ; three-quar ters of a mile ; 500 sous Houghton Meeting, 1870 . , 100 ft. To run at the Nowmaiket DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the woria. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or experta.• tion. Quotations on application 'to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.Q•-',A.d- Tettlatlllelit. THE GRAND SWINDLE. The case of the Central Gas Company was before a select committee of the House of Commons on Friday and Mr. Denison applied for powers to raise an additional capital of £lOO,OOO for new works. The requirements of the company since its formation had necessitated the erection of additional works, and at the present date £36,000 was owing under that head, The company would have been enabled to have discharged the debt of £36,000, to which he had alluded had it not been for the frauds of Mr. Higgs, the late secretary of the company, which were a matter of common notoriety, his defalcations having amounted to twice that sum, or something over £70,000. Higgs had carried on this system of fraud since the year 1862, and the result had been the astound ing defici ency named. It would be asked where was the system of audit under which such operations could have taken place. Higgs had been in the service of the company for seventeen years, and the directors had considered that they could place great confi dence in him ; and, with reference the auditing of the accounts, there was an act of Parliament of 1851 which empowered the Corporation to appoint auditors on their own behalf, such officials to be paid by the company. Directly the Act came into operation they appointed two gentlemen, namely, Mr. Chatteris and Mr. Begbie, who were both members of eminent City firms, for the purpose, and those gentlemen had continued in that office ever since, so that the Corporation were as much to blame in that matter as the directors. These frauds went on under a system of running audit, and under the super vision of auditors appointed, not by the company, but by the Corporation. He did not know how his learned friend would deal with this matter in opposing the bill, as he declined to chew him (Mr. Denison) his cards ; but at present, at any rate, he thought that the Corpora tion of London did not come forward to oppose the bill with cleaner hands than did the directors who were pro moting it. Mr. Henry Chatteris was examined. He said :I am a member of the firm of Chatteris, Nicholls, and Chatteris, public accountants, and I was appointed an auditor of the Great Central Gas Company in 1851, in which office I con tinued till the end of 1860, being annually reappointed by the Common Council. At the end of 18601 became an auditor of the company, appointed by the directors, and have continued so up till the present time. Mr. Begbie, of the firm of Begbie, Robinson, and Hockley, was my colleague. He was appointed in the same manner as myself, and has continued so up till the present time. The Corporation never appointed us after the year 1860. I knew Mr. Higgs, who was a clerk in the accountant's office of the gas company. There were six or seven clerks in the office. Ido not know whether he held a leading position. I believe he had been in the company's employ for sixteen or seventeen years. It was one of the rules of the office that the accountant should receive from the company's collectors their lists. The collector was to take the money he received direct to the bankers, and then take the list and receipt to be passed into the company's books. I have ascertained since Higgs has absconded that that course was not pursued since 1862, but that Higgs persuaded the collectors to take the lists and money to him, and he would pay them into the bank. The accountant has told me he did not know of this pro ceeding. The late investigations sbew that Higgs was in the habit on some occasions of keeping the whole of the money, and in other cases making out smaller lists, and then paying in the smaller sums. After some further important evidence had been taken the committee adjourned. THE ACCIDENT AT THE DELABOLE SLATE QUARRY. The fearful accident to the Delabole slate quarry which took place on Wednesday, and which we have already mentioned, is described by the Western Morning News. The Old Delabole Quarries, which have been famous for centuries for the slate which they produce, are situated in the parish of St. Tenth, about two miles and a half from Camelford, and give employment to between 300 and 400 men and boys. The quarries form one huge pit, which has an area of fifteen or sixteen acres, and is in parts 350 feet in depth. From the surface of the ground to the top of the immense slate rubble heaps which surround the quarries, is over another 100 feet, so that the workings extend nearly five hundred feet perpendicularly. The slate and refuse is raised from the bottom by draw- ing engines, each of which is in connection with a wooden framework overhanging the pit. These frameworks are called poppet-heads, and have pulleys in their upper por tions, over which the drawing chains work. Beneath these pulleys are tables communicating with tramways, which are moved backward and forward by means of windlasses. On these tables truck carriages, or "cradles," are run, and they are then pushed out to the extent of the framework, in order to receive the material drawn up. On Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock. the largest poppet-head on the works gave way, with scarcely a minute's warning, the tremendous era,-11 being heard at a very great distance. In its fall the 1 cad carried with it all who were at work upon it, and buried several men who were in the pit beneath, about 300 feet below. Several persons had very narrow escapes. One of the men who fell from the top had only a broken arm and a few other slight injuries, and was able to walk home with the assist ance of two of his fellow-workmen. Another escaped with his life, but is seriously injured. A little girl who had come with her father's tea also fell into the pit with the debris, but was very slightly hurt. A Mrs. Wallis, who had brought her husband his tea, was likewise on the poppet-head when it gave way, but, fortunately, was standing just where the ground opened, and saved her life literally by climbing up the falling rubbish. There were sixteen men working just under the head on a level in the side of the cliff. One of them heard something.above, which he describes as a " crack," and called out to his comrades, "For God's sake run, the cliff is coming.'' They accordingly ran to a projecting rock or shed, and were all saved. A minute later and they must have all been buried alive. Up to a late hour on Wednesday evening the following had been dug out of the rubbish, dead :—Thomas Courtis, Thomas and William Henry Langdon, two brothers aged respectively six and nine years, who were on the poppet-head, having come there with tea to their brother. Their father was killed some years ago in the same works. William Langdon grandfather to the boys—this old man some time since was discharged from the pit, and had only begged himself on again last week—William Toms, Joseph Hosken, and Thomas Avery. William Prout was taken out alive, but died while his comrades were taking him to his home. James Penfound was also very seriously injured, and there were many others who were more or less hurt. The con tinual falling of the rubbish greatly delayed the operations of the men who were working to rescue their fellows, and they had to desist from operations for the night. Meantime every assistance was rendered to the injured by Dr. Pearce, the medical man of the company, and his assistant, who were quickly on the spot, and were kindly aided by Messrs. King and Newsom, of Camelford, and Mr. Wade, of Boscast le. At the time of the cessation of operations on Wednesday night very wild rumours pre vailed as to the number killed. It was known that there were several more to be accounted for, but amidst the con sternation which prevailed it could not be certainly ascer tained who who were missing. Among those thought to be killed were a young woman named Fanny Wallis, who, having come to the pit with tea to her father, fell in with the poppet-head, and was supposed to have had a child in her arms ; a young man named John Henry Bone, a shoemaker by trade, who was performing his first day's work in the quarry; and Matthew Mitchell, of Catnelfcrd. The scene at the pit was most heartrenei . I g —parents weeping over their children, and children over their parents. Too much cannot be said in praise of some of the men, who risked their own lives to save those of their fellow sufferers, especially of a workman by the name of James Kellow, and two companions, who worked with a will amid the falling of large stones and rubbish, and thus succeeded in saving at least one life. Two of the men killed belonged to Wadebridge,- and lad only begun to. work in the quarries the same day. A large number of men were again at work by daybreak on Thursday, and had not laboured long before they heard some one groaning b enea th t h eir feet. They went to work more heartily than ever in the direction from which the sound proceeded, and in the course of an hour they came near enough to hear the man speak, and to recognise him as William Rowe. A message was at once sent to hit almost broken-hearted wife, informing her that her hus band was still alive, and it was hoped not much injured. It should be stated that the system of working the quarry by poppet-heals has for some time past been under going a change; some that were formerly worked have been abandoned, and in a short time the whole quarry wil. be worked by means of inclines and tramways, whici have been constructed, and found to be safe, efficient, ane economical. Late accounts say that no less than sixteen person. have lost their lives through the accident. These include thirteen men, two boys, and one woman. One man is reported to be dying through the effects of the injuries which he received. Four bodies have not as yet beer recovered. HARD NAMES.—For some time there has been a reaction in America against the early custom of the English settlers in superseding the Indian names of places The process of restoration, however, does not promise tc be an unmixed good. A newspaper published in the region of Lakes Memphremagog and Winnepesauket remarks that " the fish in Lake Holleyhunkemunk Maine, are superior to those of either Lake Weeleyobacool or Moosetockmegantuc. Those of Oh auhungogungam aun, were very fine, but they all got en ked to death in tryin i to toll whozo_tim SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC) JOURNALS. The Saturday Review regrets that when the reasons for the remission of any capital sentence are made known, they will remain, as they must do, open matters for com a ment, criticism, and possible objection, or even proper condemnation. Neither the Home Secretary nor the public ought to occupy this sort of relative position. it is unfair both ways. The carrying out of the extreme sentence of the law ought not to be left in this a ccidental and unknown stat e . A s it i s, a f ter every so l emn trial of justice, accompanied by the most impressive details, we are all pretty muc h w h ere we starte d. The accused to be sure is condemned to death ; bu t whether he will be hanged, imprisoned for life, or pardoned, depends upon a whole train of matters, con' ducted by nobody knows who, and settled for reasons nobody knows what. Sheward is condemned and executed; Wiltshire is condemned and imprisoned for life ; Smethurst is condemned and pardoned ; Constance Kent, five years after committing murder, gives herself up t° justice, is convicted, condemned, and not executed; Sheward, eighteen years after committing murder, gives himself up to justice, is convicted, condemned, and executed. In each and all of these cases a fierce and mis chievous controversy arises. If Parliament happens to be sitting, we get, as we have just got in Sheward's case, a satisfactory explanation from the Home Secretary ; but that explanation is, of course, open to exception and criti cism. If Parliament is not sitting, the newspapers take their sides, and the public follows suit, and we hear great deal of the caprice of the Home Office, the undue severity or the undue leniency of the Secretary, all of which may or may not be justifiable. But what remains is a reasonable objection to the uncertainty of criminal justice. It may be all right, but we have no ground& upon which to be satisfied ; it may be all wrong, but We can never prove it. The Spectator says that, according to his own account of the matter, Mr. Lowe on Tuesday night sprang a min e upon a new Tower of Babel, which the lawyers have been conspiring to build on the rather prosaic site of Carey' street, Lincoln's-inn. The proceeding, however, resembled more closely a new attempt to found a Cave—and this time, it would seem, in the heart of the Government, not merely in the Liberal party. Government after Govern ment has submitted the policy of which Mr. Lowe made such fun on Monday night—the policy of concentrating our Law Courts so as to introduce the highest degree of unity and efficiency into our distracted modes of procedure—to select committees and commissions, and notably to the commission called Sir George Lewis's Commission, 0 1 which the present Lord Chancellor, Lord Hatherley, was a most active and important member, and every report so made has insisted on the vast importance of the policy of which Mr. Lowe makes so light. The report of the Judicature Commission just issued, the importance of which, supported, as it is likely to be, by the legal authorities on both sides of the Houses of Parliament , cannot be exaggerated, insists on this policy of conceal's' tion as the central point of all our legal reform ; and it cannot, indeed, be carried out without such concentration. The "frenzy for concentration," over which Mr. Lowe makes so merry, has been shared by persons not less prudent and cool than the late Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord Hatherley, Sir J. Coleridge, and an almost indefinite number of other Ministers and lawyers, who are not usually supposed to be given to wild and extravagant freaks of humour or caprice. No doubt it is contrary to all true principles of economy to leave the execution of such a scheme as this to irresponsible commissioners, who have no motive for economy and efficiency, because they have nothing to lose by extravagance and inefficiency. So fat we go with Mr. Lowe. But we do earnestly protest against the penny-wise and pound-foolish counsel which proposes an irretrievable policy of insufficient accommoda tion on the most inconvenient sites, in the hope of saving for the moment a sum far short of what we shall certainly have to spend in repairing our error in future years. It is all very well for a responsible Minister to say, "I am responsible for this ; if I am in error you will have me to blame, and I can pay the penalty." But by the time we are feeling the consequences of such an error as this seems likely to prove, Mr. Lowe will probably no longer be Minister; before we can feel the worst consequences of his blunder, it is scarcely possible that he can any longer be Minister ; he will have the satisfaction of saving a million or two sterling now, and the next generation will have the satisfaction of paying many more millions as a fine for his error and a penal tribute to his memory. The Examiner and London Review, in discussing the professional beggar, remarks that it is very hard to induce people to abandon the cruel kindness of promiscuous aline' giving. They will not look to the fact that the professional beggar absorbs the money which ought to go to the really destitute. The ordinary complaint is, "We have no means of telling whether a beggar is an impostor or not; and under the circumstances it is better that we should be cheated nine times if on the tenth we gain the chance of relieving some abject creature's misery." That is to saY , for want of information we are compelled to spend nine shillings in fostering deceit, that the tenth shilling may& a work of charity. What we should like to see done would be the spending of the nine shillings, or part of it, in obtaining the required information, and the consequent extermination of the professional beggar. Now the Society for Preventing Pauperism, Mendicity, and Crime offers an admirably simple method of achieving this desi rable end. The means are not expensive; they involve but little trouble ; and they have been found thoroughly comps tent in an experiment which has just been made, we learn, at Blackheath. It is proposed to apply the same principle to the metropolis, but there will obviously b 3 great difficul ties in the way of working the system satisfactorily in London, for without general and concerted action it would be comparatively valueless. But that such a system would multiply the chances of real destitution being re lieved and greatly reduce the chances of successful impos ture, is apparent at the first glance. Among the deserving poor there is frequently a great disinclination to make public their poverty by seeking workhouse aid. A society which could prudently and efficiently investigate such cases of genuine distress as are not relieved by our present methods of affording charity, would do a most humane and deserving work. The system, if applied to London, would have to be wholly decentralised, and there must be offices in various districts, within easy reach of the majo rity of the inhabitants' houses. Cases of hardship and injustice must, unquestionably, occur; for officialism, when it comes in as the protector of philanthropy between the charitable and the applicant for charity, invariably assumes an attitude of suspicion, and is apt to become too zealous and too literally exact in its demands. But these cases would bear no proportion whatever to the alarming injustice at present inflicted by the method in which we dole out our private charities. It is the really deserving poor who have no chance. It is the bold and obstinate beggar who invariably carries the day. The John Bull thinks that the debate in the House of Lords on the increase of the Episcopate will, at first sight, be very disappointing to Churchmen, and loud murmurs will no doubt be heard against the conduct of the bishops. No one can fail to sympathise with Lord Lyttelton. He has devoted himself with such earnestness to bringing about some practical measure for the increase of the EPle* copate, and he has been so frequently unsuccessful, that every peer and Churchman reg.] e' s to oppose him. Never theless, it does seem unfortunate that he should not have communicated with the Episcopal Bench. The noble lord may well complain that in whatever shape he brings forward his bill, their lordships cavil at its details. But the real lesson to he learnt from this debate that Parliament, while admitting the necessity for an increase in the number of our dioceses, will laot give its consent to anything but a definite tangible scheme. Their lordships were only ones roused to enthusiasm during the debate, and that was when reference was made to the probability of an! endowment being seized on by a Government which, al Lord Westbury said the other night, talks of not breaking the law as if it was a virtue. But we think the endow ment might be secured from the most sacrilegious spolia- tors, and, therefore, if wealthy Churchmen will find the means, a moderate increase in the number of our ale° pastors may at once be attained. But the House of Lords will not encourage subscription or cheap bishops., certainly open to the abuse pointed out by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and the rota system is universally condemned. The Archbishop of York hinted at a scheme for making deans coadjutor bishops; but we warn those proposing this scheme that, whatever its merits, it will undoubtedly have very different and more extended results than they imagine. Let us hope that the delay, tanta• lising and disappointing as it is, may result in some defi nite and practical scheme being adopted. The questioe cannot remain in its present position. Tlie Emperor of Ail Aria is likely to visit Cone stantinople during the summer. The Ga. tt.! announces the appointment of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart to the Lord-Licutenancy of Eev frewshire, in the room of the late Earl of Glasgow. MR. NEWDE G ATE AND DR. MANNING.-1110 Tablet says : " For onrselves, we are bound to say that Mr. Newdegate always edifies us, and we have taken pains on nis occasion to gather from authentic sources the particulars which his modesty declined to give. It appears that the Archbishop of Westminster really had been in the tea-room with a friend, who, being inspired, with mischief, said, 'There's Newdegate; shall I intro duce you to him?' With all my heart, if he likes it, afi, once,' replied the Archbishop ; and his friend went ovg, to the godly man, but soon came back laughing, saying, It's too strong, it's too strong.' Mr. Newdegate had eacapedi i c snare of the fowler, and 'no doubt fled away, reflect. ; 0!! :mother victory over gin, a victory over the p 31.4 of sin.' 1 4 0 N : COMMEI There was n Exchange, bu Yesterday. 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