The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS. HOLBORN Positively t' e Last Week but One of the Equestrian Season.— last appearances of the Wonderful PERFORMING HORSES. The SAL All A NDER HORSE, the greatest Equine Wonder of the day —The' l / 4 est and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. No ' , her Theatre in London offers a programme so replete with vasty, amusement, and excitement The magnificent stud of FIFTY PFRFORMING HORSES, and the matchless SCEMIS in the ARENA. The most com plete combination of equestri an talent ever brought together. Those who have not yet seen the beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at halt 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. Ryron's new and original Drama. 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VTAN, Seer Marv. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Cole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tnis EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C Dillon. '1 o conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. 'fns EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., Miss Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale. &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAI NT OF THE WATCH. N. r Fothern. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Comment', at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIPS EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: MrVining, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPFIL THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C 4 MBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmure, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Cvlotta Leclercry, Miss Lennox Grey, &c, &nd WHITEBAIT AT OR E h NWIC :Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanboronsh. Tins EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; ' esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9. A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Eurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under jhe Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tms EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. 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. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL A3IPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 40 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c., and the Salamander Hot se. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. TIT'S EVENTVG, at 8, THE ROY AL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALITAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 64. Children under twelve, 6d. cf/ a, r ..„ 1 ... 0 7 , r -7 $!!.. 41 ' l ' , Slllt LONDON, 7 UESDAI; APRIL 13, 1869. Yesterday the Conservative members of the House of Commons duly assembled at Lord LONSDALE'S residence, the appointed place of i endezvous. Be tween 150 and 200 Tory or Constitutionalist Al.P.'s were there brought together. The Ex-Premier, as a matter of course, was the rtipst conspicuous person present at this great political gathering. The deli berations, such as they were, occupied about an hour and a half altogether, the result being the collective resolution of the party to abide by a long string of amendments, copies of which amendments were formally placed on the table of • the House last night by the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Leader of the Opposition. The pro gramme by this time, therefore, is sufficiently clear. On Thursday next, the 15th instant—that is only the day aftcr to-morrow 7 -tbe House will form itself into Committee on the Bill, for the purpose of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1E69 , examining it in detail, and considering it, clause by clause, with the utmost possible deliberation. Un less the hon. gentleman the member for North War wickshire shall previously have consented to with draw his proposal, there will be uo need then, as there otherwise must be, to drive the House, or rather the Committee, to a division upon the very thres hold. Whether it will be constrained to act thus or not, in any way precipitately and prematurely and for no conceivable good whatever, rests entirely at this moment in the hands of Mr. NEWDEGATE. Supposing that gentleman should give way, the course, then lying before the Opposition, will be suf ficiently clear, straightforward, and comprehensible. One after another the proposed amendments will be moved in committee. To what end, is it asked ? Clearly and obviously to the end—if possible—of snatching some of the property of the Irish Church hack out of the rack of the threatened and (as many are disposed to consider) inevitable absorption, or ap propriation to the numerous and carefully defined purposes of benevolence. Having, probably, in some few instances, with varying fortunes, run through all the clauses and all the amendments while it is sitting in Committee—the House will then, after due prepara tion and deliberation, finally divide, on the root principle of the whole measure, at the time of the third reading. After which, the bill will have to run the gauntlet, through all the prescribed stages, in the House of Lords. Such, in brief, are the tactics proposed to themselves by the Conservative or Con stitutional party, in the matter of this Bill for the immediate disestablishment and eventual disendow uent of the Irish Church, as hitherto, at least for some three hundred years, a State institution. Mean while, in the arguments set forth by the prin cipal organ of all those anywhere setting forth the opinions of that party, meaning, of course, in the political article in the new number of the old Quarterly, it is still resolutely insisted upon that what has been called, for want of a better phrase, "levelling up" is the onlypolicy that wouldsatisfy the claims of justice. " Every statesman of eminence,', says the reviewer, " from the beginning of this century down to last year has openly advocated or secretly approved" this now rejected policy of supporting the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland by the State of the United Kingdom. The Quarterly insists that Mr. Pm inaugurated it, that the Whigs and Tories alike adopted it and enforced it : and it goes on to speak of it as, upon the whole, " The only recognised policy of justice to Ire land ; the only remedy for some of its woist evils." Adding, that "It was condemned on its merits in the recent debate only by the avowed destroyers of all Establishments." Mean ing by this, of course, such men as Mr. MIALL or as the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade. The argument thus raised, and thus resolutely avowed by the Conservative Quarterly, realizes more clearly than ever to poli ticians of all classes, and of either side, that there is really no medium course whatever that could be in any way reasonably adopted ; that, in other words, Parliament and the country have to make their choice at once between the supporting henceforward by the State of all religions or of no religion whatever, be tween the project of levelling up and the policy of absolute and uncompromising disestablishment. THE decision of the Hudson's Bay Company to accept Earl GRANVILLE'S terms for the surrender of their territory to the Canadian Dominion virtually settles a most important Imperial question. The last of the great monopolies which have figured so largely in our colonial history is trans formed into an ordinary trading company. A vast and fertile region, hitherto kept as a hunting ground in the interests of a few indi viduals will now be oven to colonial enterprise. The Canadian Dominion, consolidated by the addition of a terrilu..r , nnre than two-thirds as large as Europe, will form one unbroken empue nU.L. Lue Atlantic to the Pacific. Thenceforth North America will be virtually divided between Canada and the United States. And not only is a vexed question of such great moment now set at rest, but the' company have secured a bargain which, although concluded under a protest, can hardly fail to prove a good one. There can be no doubt that the company has a claim over the territory which bears its name, but it is clear that the value of this claim has been greatly over rated. The absolute dominion of Rupert's Land was handed over to the company in virtue of a principle which has long become obsolete. The original charter was granted by the exercise of a prerogative which has long ceased to belong to the Crown. It is now nearly two centuries since a party of adventurers trading to Hudson's Bay obtained from CHARLES 11. a charter, granting them " the sole trade and commerce " of the seas and lands on or near the coast of the great expanse of water which has been called after the obscure navigator who perished on its shores. There is nothing to be gained by reopening the vexed question as to the legality of this charter. It is clear, however, that it will not bear the extensive construction put upon it by the company. It is exceedingly questionable how far the right to trade over the territory means the right to possess it abso lutely. It is very doubtful whether this charter transforms a few individuals into the arbitrary rulers of a great country. And supposing that it was the intention of King CHARLES to grant all this power, it is more than questionable whether this wholesale alienation of British territory came within the scope of the royal prerogative. But even granting that it was within the KING'S power to make over this country to the Hudson's Bay Company, and that he actually did transfer it, certain it is that the charter never could include the vast expanse of the earth's surface over which the company claims dominion. By no stretch of the imagination can the monopoly of commerce on the shores of Hudson's Bay be made to reach a point 2,000 miles inland. But to this point have the pretensions of the company extended. Its fishing and hunting charter has been construed as a warrant to found kingdoms and States. The company claims territo rial rights over some eight hundred millions of acres, one section of which, the Fertile Belt, consist ing of an unbroken expanse of the finest soil, watered by important rivers, is as large as the whole of Great Britain. In the early days of the company some suspicion of the disparity between the charter and the pretensions founded upon it seems to have troubled the adventurers. They attempted to transform their charter into an Act of Parlia ment. They partially succeeded,and an Act was passed, but its effect was limited to seven years. When it expired Parliament refused to renew it. Since then the company was ruled by virtue of the royal decree. The most eminent lawyers have given their opinion that the charter will bear only a limited interpreta tion. But the corporation hasbeen in no wise daunted. It has governed with a practically despotic sway ; the territory which might have supported millions of the human race has been devoted solely to enriching a few score shareholders ; and now that the end has come, the company accepts a fairly good bargain under protest that it is being plundered. If the company is not to be complimented upon an over-good title, the nature of its administration gives it still less claim to consideration. Against the present race of shareholders there is nothing to be said ; but it is matter of history that the rule of preceding generations was deplorably bad. Civilisation has been efficiently cared for in the shape of dividends to the amount of 00 or 70 per cent., but in no other way. The company discouraged colonisation. The Red River settlers were harshly treated. The company at times exer cised a descreditably despotic authority. The condi tions of settlement, according to the colonists, were • violated, taxes were imposed at the will of the coin pany, there was nothing like freedom of trade, for nothing was brought to or taken away from the Red River except in a ship belonging to the corporation, and even property was not secure. But for English and Canadian charity the settlement would have been defitroyed by famine. In 1857 Sir GEORGE SIMPSON, for many years governor of this private empire, was examined before a com mittee of the House of Commons as to the fitness of the territory for colonisation. He declared that no part of the company's possessions was fit for cultiva tion, repeating the censure when requested by the amazed committee, who had before them a book written by Sir GEORGE himself in which the territory is described as " a perfect Eden !" This policy of denying the fer tility of Rupert's Land was kept up until it became perfectly useless. The company wanted no colonists to curtail its gigantic preserves. Moreover, during a considerable portion of its history the cor poration had other employment. The routine of hunting was varied by the excitement of a civil war. A rival body of hunters had commenced operations within the territory, and against these the Hudson's Bay Company waged deadly strife. Pitched battles, in one of which twenty-two persons were killed, ensued. At length the rival corporations united, and the new comers, who had fiercely inveighed against the charter, sud denly discovered that it was a perfectly legal and praiseworthy ordinance. These specimens of the results of the monopoly principle are no argument for depriving the com pany of compensation for invested capital; but it is clear that the time has arrived for this large district to be placed under a regular government. The corn pany, indeed, freely acknowledges that its rule over an empire is an anomaly which ought no longer to continue. But whilst the Canadian Government offered very low terms, the company wanted a money payment of one million sterling, and to retain, in addition, their stations. Lord GRANVILLE has offered a medium compensa tion. The company is to have £300,000 in cash, is 'to retain its stations, and will be allotted a percentage on the sale of lands. The sum is as much as the land is worth, for though immense in extent, it is yet an unsettled wilderness. It is not as if the company were being bought out absolutely. Their own agent certifies that their trade can be carried on as well under the altered state of things as under a monopoly—until, indeed, the remote period when the whole region becomes inhabited. And it is clear that the land which the company still returns will greatly increase in value as the country becomes colonised. Had the company not ac cepted Earl GRANVILLE'S offer, a long law suit, the result of which would have been doubtful, and which would not have prevented the in corporation of the territory, would have been necessary. Decidedly the acceptance of the bargain is wise ; and it is none the less so because it will be of great advantage to British colonisation, because it opens an unbroken field of fertile land to the settler, and because the Territory will now become a great State. 01194 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 12. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out in the grounds this morning. Princess Beatrice went out walking. LATEST INTELL MENU (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, AFil 12. The result of the elections is largely in favour of the Government. A rumour is current that the Marquis de Sada nanueira intends tendering his resignation, owing to the bad initission made by the Govornment telegram communicating to Madrid the refusal of the ex-King Doni Fernando to accept the Spanish Crown. A HOMEWARD BOUND G (BIItIAELc,N:RI:)AApirAi l IL2S. . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera leaves at nine this morning for Southampton, where she may be looked for about the evening of the 16th inst. FRANCE. PARIS, April 13. The Journal Official, which was pu bli s h e d tin _ usually late this morning, contains a letter of the Emperor to M. Rouher, dated yesterday, referring to the 15th August next, the centenary anniversary of the birth of Napoleon the First. Th e E mperor says :—The best mode of celebrating this national jubilee would be to give some aid to our ve t er an co whocomrades sr e the served Emperor. I pro pose to hag with the pay ment of increased life annuities to aged soldiers ; Bank underof Depositsthe and, in return, to place at the disposal of the Bank the credit allotted for that purpose by the Chamber for the number of years required to replace the amount advanced. The estimates of the Budget will the re f ore i n no wise be altered. The Emperor pr ocee d s to say, h e wishes that f rom the 15th April every so ldi er w h o had served under the Republic and un d er t h e I s t an annual p ens i on o f 250 E francs.nlpire should ts receive majesty expresses a hope that the Legislative Body will receive this proposition with the patriotic feeling which animates that assembly. The Emperor concludes by sayin g The Le gislative Body will think with me that at a time when every one complains of the progress of scepticism, it is fitting to reward patriotic devotion and to revive its memory in the present generation. To reawaken great historical recollections is to strengthen faith in the future, and to render homage to the memory of g rea t men is to recognise one of the most strikin g man ifestations of the Divine will." In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body Under arms. - able W it 11 to i n e Marshal Niel, after def en di ng t h e necessity of large military commands, eight or nine days have 600,000 men However, 28,000 Iv pr e o eseheoeudie should al to w a s y t s a t b e men of the regular contingent, together with 11,000 volunteers, have bee n allowed to return to their homes. Only so l d i ers on s ix months' fur lough, and belongin g to the conscriptions since the year 1863, have b een requ i re d to join their regiments. BOURSE, Alma 12. --Three o'clock —The market closed as follows :-.. V I per Cent. End of month... ItaFan Five' , SG 3 per Cent End of mouth 7O 40 Mexican Loan ... 10 2:4 5 - 0 Crodit Mobil Eud of mouth_ 270 31 `ls Credit Foncier —1530 50 Rome Debt End of month... Deferred — Cash, -- RAILWAYS. Orleans .. Northern ............ p .ll . 1 ... h :11 :o ' Bo Lyons and M e dit erranean Southern... GIS Western ................................... Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman General Rosecrans is said to have had several private interviews with Juarez, and to be urging the Mexi can Government to acknowledge the French debt. VORRESPONDEFCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. MONDAY, April IIP. M. de Lavalette's speech has been very favourably received by the Parts journals. Almost unanimously they concur in praising the clearness of the Foreign Minister's statement, and the sincere spirit which animated it throughout. All agree that so far as the statement of an irresponsible Minister can be accepted as a guarantee for the future, the speech of M. de Lavalette is all that could be wished. It is impossible that any Ministerial declaration could be more explicit and circumstantial. Under parliamentary Government the assurance would be final and conclusive. No responsible Minister would dare make such an exordium on behalf of peace, and at the same time contemplate speedy war. As it is, the Emperor can change his. Ministry and his policy at will, without consulting anyone ; and, as the Temps remarks, there must always be a certain element of doubt under such a regime. But at the same time it is evident that nothing more definite than the speech of Saturday can be hoped for. As an oratorical debut, too, the Marquis must be congratulated upon a success. An extraordinary election expedient has just been adopted here. A day or two ago a great crowd was assembled before the great ready-made-clothing depOt in the Rue du Pont-Neuf. Aboutahundred "individuals" in blouses were ranged in military order on the pavement, and every quarter of an hour twenty "gentlemen" issued from the shop clad in a new suit, and each with a bundle under his arm. No sooner had oneparty of twenty emerged than another entered en blouse and came out at the end of fifteen minutes arrayed in a new suit. What was the meaning of this strange operation? It appears that a certain personage thought it necessary, in view of coming events, to conciliate a certain number of his fellow citizens, who, though of no great social standing, were yet the possessors of the suffrage. This genius longed for a new mode of indirect bribery. Dinners and the like were stale and unprofitable ; why not array the free and independent electors in a new suit? But a diffi culty presented itself. Where was the establishment that could receive a large number of worthy citizens of different ages and stature, and provide them all with ready-made suits ? The "personage " applied to the great house in the Rue du Pont-Neuf. " Send ten thousand," was the reply, " and they shall be served, and each have a selection." The "personage" did not send ten thousand, but he sent in 160, who were all metamorphosed in the course of two hours. It is said that charity is ingenious, but personal interest is still more so. The journals which report this occurrence do not say that it was an electoral manoeuvre, but there can be no doubt that such was its object. But who is the candidate ? M. de Montalembert has been in a very serious condi tion for some time past. The latest bulletin, is very unfavourable. A very heavy case of embezzlement has just been deter mined before the Assize Court of the Seine. It will be remembered that an agent de change, Banes, committed suicide last January, on discovering that he bad been swindled by his cashier, and that he had lost the enormous sum of £130,000. The affair created much excitement at the time. The cashier, named Allotte, has just been brought to trial. It seems that he had a share in the business, and enjoyed the confi dence of M. Banes. He, however, launched into a num ber of ill-advised speculations, so that in the space of four years he had squandered this large amount. £68,000 was sunk in oil wolks at St. Denis; £25,000 in a manufactory of perfumery at Puteaux ; £lO,OOO in a soap boilery at La Briche ; and £9,000 in a water company at Cadiz. Other sums were lost in various smaller specula tions. The deficits were made up by the sale if securities left by customers and by the appropriation of a sum of £32,000, deposited by a M. Brtion for purposes of speculation, and concerning which a fictitious account was furnished every month to the owner by the accused. The sum, however, bad never been regularly entered on the books of the firm, and the consequence is that Br4on is entirely ruined, as he has no claim to any share in the assets of the bankruptcy. Allotte maintained in his defence that he bad only borrowed money from the firm of which he was a partner. Against this plea there was not sufficient evidence, and accordingly the cashier has been acquitted. The Itue Saint Jacques was the other day the scene of a family tragedy. M. S- was a discharged soldier, who had vainly sought employment for three years past. His wife kept a boarding•school for young ladies. The two lived on the best of terms, but a double misfortune at length drove them to despair. M. S- applied for asitua tion in the offices of a railway company, and was rejected on the plea of age. At the same time a rival establishment was set up in the neighbourhood, and half the scholars of Madame S- left her. The two resolved to die together- The husband shot his wife with a rifle, and then com mitted suicide. Both'were found immediately after the report of the weapon quite dead, and horribly mutilated. THE SCANDAL IN HIGH Ille.E. With regard to the so-called "Warwickshire scandal," the Leamington Courier has the following :—" Some ill-founded rumours hive found their way into print with regard to the unfortunate scandal case, with which the name of one of our oldest county families is mixed up. In the interests of truth, and not for the gratification of any prurient curiosity, we may state on the best authority that the whole facts will speedily be brought before the legal tribunals of the country, all rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. We would gladly have passed the case over in silence, but for the honour of one who has suffered so much, but who commands the sympathy of all, we may state that there is no foundation for the rumours of condonation, nor for the other reports of a similar tendency which have been put in circulation." CURIOUS INDIAN DIVORCE CASE. A curious case connected with the obligations of the marriage tie, and bearing upon our divorce laws, is at pre sent pending in the law courts of North-West India. When the Queen-Mother of Oudli went to England to appeal to the Queen, in person against the annexation, she had with her (says the Indian Daily News) as hor Prime Minister one Masihood-dean, a Mahomedan noble. This man had two wives in this country, but when ho reached England, he contracted another marriage with one, probably, of that class of ill-taught, ill-trained Englishwomen, who Lave no more of jection to Mahomedanism, for the sake of wealth or rank, than to go to the Feejee Islands, if required to be matched. They were married according to Mahomedan forms, but the lady was soon left behind in England, and he returned. She has followed him, and, as he asserts she was divorced before he left England, she claims her dowry according to Mahomedan law. The case was brought up in the Benares Courts, and decided in the lady's favour ; but an appeal has been made to the High Court at Allahabad.—Bombay Ga zette. WIFE MURDER AT MANCIIESTER. A shocking murder was perpetrated in Miller-street, Manchester, be twoon twelve and one o'clock on Saturday. Benjamin Craw s h aw , a t a ilor, met his wife , Susan, about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, on her return from mar keting, and induced her to accompany him to a public-house in the neighbourhood. Re there met with some associates, and asked his wife to give him money to pay for drink, which she refused to do. Ho threatened her with violence if she did not comply with his request to pay for drink which he had ordered, and on her leaving the house he followed her to the street, knocked her down and kicked her in a most brutal manner. A crowd was atttracted to tho scene, and the poor woman was rescued from the violence of her husband, but not before ho had in flicted such injuries as caused her death. A police constable came up, and, finding that the woman had been badly injured, had her conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, where she died in a little more than half an hour after her admission. Crawshaw was subsequently taken into cus tody, and he was to be brought before the magistrates this morning. great preparations are being made at Worsley hall, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere for the entertainment of the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his visit to that district. The Liberals of West Staffordshire are taking steps to retrieve the defeat they suffered at the general election. A Lib .ral Registration Association has ben started, with its head-quarters at Wolverhampton. Another application for the Att. roey-Geneittra fiat for a writ of error in the caso of Sheward, the Norw.t h murderer, was made on Llei.day a:tornoon, and ordered to stand over until to-morrow. The members of the late Council of the Reform League intend to hold a !meting on Wednesday in order to decide as to a banquet or soiree to be given to Mr. Edmond Beaks, "in grateful acknowledgment of ha s rv:ces president." The new Liberal candidate for the Brecknock Loroughs mill probably be Lord Hyde, though Mr. Wyllie, who was unseated at I.loreford, is also mentioned. Amongst the Conservative candidates named is the Marquis of Wor cester. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has accepted the invitation of Lord O'Neill to pSy him a visit at Shane's Castle. His Royal Highness will proceed thither on Satur day, the 30th inst., and will remain at the Castle until the following Tuesday. His Royal Highness will, it is ex pected, pay a visit to Belfast, and a special meeting of the inhabitants is to be held to-day to make arrangements for ivino him a fitting. reception. THE NEWSPAPERS' REPEAL ACT. The bill prepared and brought in by Mr. Ayrton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just been published. It seeks to repeal certain enactments relating to news papers, pamphlets, and other publications, and to printers, typefounders, and reading-rooms. The Acts which it repeals, either wholly or in part, reach back to 36th George 111., and are mostly quite obsolete. The second schedule of the hill contains several enactments to be substituted in various Acts of the reigns of George 111., William IV., and Victoria 2nd and 3rd, and oth and 10th. The chief proviso is that printers shall keep a copy of every paper they print, with the name and abode of their employer. The name and address of the printer is not required to be put to bank notes, bills, or any paper printed by authority, but must be printed on every other paper or book, under penalty of £5. The disclosure of proprietors, printers, or publishers of newspapers may be enforced by bill. No actions shall be commenced cxc 2pt in the name of the law officers of the Crown DISTURBANCE IN A CHURCH. On Sunday last a disgraceful scene took place in Sefton Church, near Liverpool. A great deal of ill-feeling has been occasioned in the neighbourhood, in con sequence of the appointment of a new curate who had introduced Ritualism. After the sermon had been concluded on Sunday, the greater part of the congregation assembled in crowds near the communion - table, and created such a disturbance that the curate, Mr. Hawes, could not read the prayers with which he intended to finish the service. Mr. Martin, the superintendent of the county police, had great difficulty in maintaining order while the clergyman read a prayer. The confusion was, however, renewed in the churchyard, and the services of the police were called into requisition, in order that Mr. Hawes might reach home in safety. The majority of those present seemed to regard these violent proceedings as commendable conduct instead of realising their true character. THE COLLECTION OF ASSESSED TAXES AND LICENSE DUTIES. It appears from a document just issued from the Treasury Chambers that payments will have to be made in respect of assessed taxes and license duties, and house duty, land tax, and income tax will be collected under the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as follows, viz.:—After April 5, 1869, last payment of in come tax, land tax, and house duty for 1868. 69, and of assessed taxes in 1867-68 ; October 10, first payment of assessed taxes on 1868-69 ; January 1, 1870, income tax on schedules A B D, for the financial year 1869-70, and also on schedules C and E, paid by deduction in each quarter of the fiscal year: January 1, payment of land tax and house duty for 1869-70 ; also on same date, the license duties for articles to be kept in the year ending the 81st December, 1870 ; April 5, payment of the second moiety of the assessed taxes, 1868-69 ; January 1, 1871, the same payment as in January, 1870. CAPTAIA MONCRIEFF'S INVENTION. The report of the committee appointed to consider Captain Moncrieff's letter of the sth December last was issued on Monday, but the decision of the committee award ing Captain Moncrieff £15,000 for his invention has already been made known. The report, however, concludes as follows :—" Captain Moncrieff having applied to the War Department for advice as to the manner in which he was to meet the overtures of foreign Governments, was at once informed that he was free to use his own discretion. He has, therefore, not been debarred in any way whatever from any advan tages he might have derived from the adoption of his system by foreign Governments, nor is it the opinion of the committee that he should hereafter be so debarred. Although the committee recommend that Captain Moncrieff should have full liberty to use his own discre tion, and derive every advantage he can from theadoption of his system by foreign Governments, they consider that her Majesty's Government cannot, from the very nature of the invention, undertake to keep it concealed from those Governments, or not to allow foreign officers to examine the carriages, and guns mounted on them, or to witness experiments with them after their adoption into the service ; nor can they undertake to prevent the dis tribution of photographs or drawings of the guns mounted on Captain Moncrieff's system. They recommend, how ever, that copies of the working drawings from which the carriages are made should not be given out of the Royal Carriage Department for other purposes than those of her Majesty's Government, without Captain Moncrieff's con sent having been first obtained." TLIE SLAVE TRADE IN EGYPT. Some interesting details of the efforts being made by the Viceroy of Egypt to extinguish the slave trade have just been published. Great praise is due to the Viceroy for his consistent and resolute endeavours to repress this inhuman traffic, although it is sanctioned by the social and religious traditions of his people. The Koran acknowledges slavery, and the true Mahomedan cannot, therefore, con demn it. Nevertheless, the Viceroy has succeeded in abolishing it, at least in name. Any slave who can escape to a police post may claim and receive his or her liberty, and every slave becomes free after seven years of bondage. A real slave trade, however, goes on in the Nile Basin, where unscrupulous dealers, who call themselves merchants, systematically trade in human beings ; armed bands of ruffians, or, in some cases, the native chiefs, are incited by these merchants to seize their unfortunate victims, and carry them off into slavery. The Viceroy has, as yet, found himself unable to reach these offenders, who sail up and down the Nile under European flags, which they use for their own protection. Sir Samuel Baker, in a recent conversation with the Viceroy, stated his views on the Central African slave trade, in which his Highness con curred, and before the Prince of Wales started for the Nile, the Khedive expressed his wish to have Sir S. Baker's personal assistance in putting an end to the traffic. The only effectual means to do this, it is thought, will be to equip a corps of horse and foot, to provide steamers and boats for the navigation of the great lake, and to organise a regular expedition. Our adventurous English traveller is to be put at the bead of this troop, with carte blanche as to materiel and personnel, and with power of life and death. The wild and savage tribes which inhabit the Nile Basin are constantly fighting among themselves, but they are not able to oppose a regular force. The Viceroy has a nominal authority over the whole of the Nile Basin, hut it will probably be necessary to employ some force to secure its practical recognition. The Prince of Wales, we understand, has interested himself in the matter, and has obtained the promise of handsome remuneration for Sir Samuel Baker, who is to enter the Viceroy's service on the Ist of April. The expedition, whose success is so much to be desired, is to start on its adventurous journey in the month of August. Sir Roundell Palmer's speech delivered in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Irish Church Bill, is published as a pamphlet by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION PETITION. —At the Judges' Chambers, an application has been made to Mr. Justice Blackburn, in reference to the petition against Mr. Russell Gurney and Mr. Hoare, "for particulars" on both sides. His lordship made an order. It was stated that the trial was to be held on the 20th inst. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—In the town of Bishop Auckland there arc only four master printers and stationers, and the Auckland papers of the 9th inst. re. corded only four births. Singularly enough, the four mothers of those four babies were the four wives of those four printers, namely, Mr. G. E. Briggs, Mr. W. J. Cum. mins, Mr. M. Braithwaite, and Mr. S. J. Cherrett. Northern Daily Express. The Cork Eva»ziner describes a scene which oc curred at the meeting or the Mill-street Board of Guar dians, caused by the extraordinary behaviour of Mr. Cooper, who delivered a series of highly eccentric speeches. In the course of his remarks he prophesied the death of one of the guardians within six months, and declared that several similar predictions of his had been v eri lied. GREAT FIRE IN TirE BOROUGH.—DESTRUCTION OF £50,000 WORTH OF ITOPS.—About eleven o'clock on Monday night one of the largest fires that has occurred in the metropolis for several months past broke out in the extensive hop warehouses of Mr. Frith, situated at the bottom of the Spur Inn and King's Head yards, in the HU-street, Southwark. It is not known how the fire originated, or whether Mr. Frith was insured, but the property destroyed is estimated at over £50,000. PROFITABLE NEWSPAPERS. —Some of the most profitable newspapers in the kingdom are those which scarcely anybody sees, and nobody reads. the London Gazette costs about £B,OOO a year to produce, including the handsome salary of £BOO given to the editor; it brings in a revenue of over £24,000, so that there is a profit of £113,215. Even the Edinburgh Gazette, which probably no mortal eye has seen South of the Tweed, has a profit of more than 100 per cent., costs, that is, £1,453, and brings in a gross revenue of £3,118. The Dublin Gazette is a less valuable property, and. the profit is only £604. Altogether the Government may be congratulated upon the results of its efforts at journalism, for it netted _ £18,484 latt year. BTIZIK_E TIIE MANCgESTEK 13.ZULDINO TBAD - E, _Per some time past great differences have existed in, the Manchester building trades, and on Saturday the greater part of the stonemasons connected with the Man cheater lodge struck work. The main question in dispute concerns the reduction of hours, the Dien wishing to make the day's work nine hours in instead of ten, while the rate of wages, 335., remained the same. The masters refused this proposal, and in last October the men gave the required six months' notice of their resolution. This notice expired on Saturday last, and several attempts at conciliation having failed, the strike was resolved upon. The employers, who had not expected this, asked for a week's extension of the notice with the view of fur ther negotiations, but to this the men refused to accede. The masters allege that the men are opposed to the use of machinery and of quarry-dressed stone, but the workmen state that they have no such objections. The carpenters and joiners also demand a reduction of their hours of labour, while the employers seek to apply the hour system, and a six months notice is now pending between them, which will expire on the Ist of May. It is hoped, however, that the dispute in this branch of the trade will be amicably settled. SERIOUS LABOUR RIOTS IN BELGIUM. As announced by telegraph, a strike, accompanied by disturbances, has taken place amongst the workmen, pudd lers, and colliers of the extensive coalworks and machinery establishments of Messrs. Cockerell, near Liege, in Bel' gium. The details given by the Belgian papers make it appear that the cause of this great strike was the unpopu' larity of the manager. On Friday the men congregated together near the workshops, and seem to have given the masters considerable alarm. They were quiet, however, until a party of ten gendarmes a clieval was seen approaching. These soldiers were hooted bY some of the workmen, but the rest remained q uiet. Another small party of soldiers arrived and were hooted, but still no disturbance of consequence took place. But during Friday night a great number of the workmen assembled, and assailed Messrs. Cockerell's establishment with stones, breaking windows and doing other damage. The burgomaster, the police, and the soldiers ran to stop this attack, and were greeted with a shower of stones, several of the party being very severely wounded. Three battalions of troops were then summoned to Seraing, the name of the village. During Saturday the men on strike assembled in great numbers, and attempted to prevent others going to their work. They then hooted the soldiers, and assaulted them with stones. The soldiers made a sortie without using their weapons, but ultimately a regular fight took place. Most of the gendarmes were wounded with stones, and many of the workmen sustained severe injuries. The accounts agree in stating that the causes:of the strike were verEtriN ial, but it is, nevertheless, increasing in proportion. THE NORTHA:LLERTON ELECTION PETITION. In opening the isTorthallerton election petition against the return of Mr. John Hutton, Mr. Serjeant O'Brien claimed the seat for Mr. Johns on the ground that Mr. Hutton had obtained a colourable majority at the last election through bribery, undue influence, and intimida - Lion. The constituency numbers about 800, and being somewhat of an agricultural borough there are villages sur rounding it, in which live hand-loom weavers, who covet nothing so much as a small patch of land on which to grow produce for family use. The system of providing inch pieces of land for poor voters appeared to have been first introduced by the agent of Mr. Miles in 1865, and nothing (the learned counsel said) could be so tempting to these humble men. Offers of such land were eagerly, sought after, and offers of that kind had been made by Mr. Hutton's agents. One instance of such bribery was alleged against Mr. Hutton himself. Another branch A the case was undue influence, but the learned serjeant was not able to lay the evidence of agency before the court. Mr. and Mrs. Causfield were the first witnesses examined,, and they proved an offer of a bit of land for a vote. Joseph Barker, the rag-gatherer said to have been cor rupted, described how he had resisted the tempter, and voted for Mr. Johns. Ittter Roberts appeared for a long time to have been living rent free. He said he had always anderstood he was to pay no rent so long as he voted blue., the judge remarked that the whole thing was too obscure to found a charge of bribery upon. Thomas Lazenby'a ease was one of the most serious the petitioner relied upon. He voted blue and voted early, having never been inclined to the yellows ; and the whole A his evidence went to show that he had voted honestly, and that he had not been bribed with £5, AO alleged by the petitioner's counsel. William Henry Walton, brother of Mr. Hutton's agent for election expenses, and an assistant surgeon, was the person said to have given Lazenby, the last witness, £5 on the night before the election. He was called by Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, and he i mid lie took no interest in the last election, and he had not paid Lazenby anything for his vote. Several workmen said to have been intimidated were examined, and the effect a the evidence upon the judge's mind was that the opening A the petitioner's counsel had not, so far, been proved. When it had, his lordship said, there would be an end to the election. The Rev. W. Stubblns, the minister of a small Baptist congregation, deposed that he had lost numbers of his coil' ;regation because he voted for the Yellows. The bill brought in by Mr. Charles Reed, M'• Baxley, and Mr. Graves, to exempt Sunday schools and ragged schools from rating, contains two operative clauses' of which the first is indicated in the title, and the second provides that the act shall not extend to Ireland. A movement has been proposed in the Blackburn Ind Preston districts to obtain a repeal of the customs duty of 5 per cent, levied in India on cotton cloth imported front Europe. It is asserted that this duty is about equal to the cost of weaving the cloth, and it is urged that the remission of the duty would greatly improve the condition of the oofr ton trade. The Irish Court of Common Pleas having held that , Mr. Weguelin was responsible for the a c t s o f b r ib ery corn'' milted by him between the period of his arrival in Youghal as a candidate and the dissolution of Parliament and issuing of the writ, has pronounced bis election void. Sir Joseph M'Kenna has proceeded to Youghal and commenced to canvass the constituency. From a return issued on Monday we learn that on tLe Ist July, 1868, the number of paupers of all classes relieved in 655 unions in England and Wales was 971,387 0 compared with 925,544 on the Ist July, 1867, en increase of 45,843, or 5 per cent. The number of adult able-bodied paupers relieved on the Ist July, 1868, was 155,208, an hi' crease of 10.543, or 7.3 over those relieved on the Ist Julys 1867. A parliamentary return has been issued giving the names and sentences of those Fenian convicts whom it fO, not proposed to release. Of those convicted in Ireland, eV I elusive of military convicts, there are now twenty-three cool fined in the United Kingdom, and nine in Australia. Fold of the former and one of the latter are under sentence a penal servitude for life, and the °therefor periods varying frore twenty to five years. There are also in the convict pri' sons sixteen persons who were convicted in England, three of whom are under sentence of penal servitude for life, one for fifteen years, one for ten years, and the other for seVe4 and five years. A destructive fire took place early on Monday mortal ing on the premises occupied by the members of the j u nior Carlton Club, in Lower Regent-street, and adjoining the gale lery of Illustration. The policeman on duty saw flame o issuing from the basement, and ho immediately gave al l alarm. The fire engines were soon in attendance, and the inmates were, after considerable difficuly and danger to the rescuers, soon in a place of safety. Notwith standing the efforts of the firemen the flames completely consumed the interior of the building, from the basement to the attics. 'The damage done is very considerable, and the loss will fall on the Royal Exchange Fire and other oiliGe°' The cause of the fire is at present a mystery. A Conference convened by the Standing Commit' tee of the Yorkshire Board of Education on Middle Cle o 4 Education, for the purpose of eliciting the opinion of school" masters on the provisions of the " Endowed Schools Bill ,, was held on Saturday, in Leeds. Tho Rev. Canon Hey, 9, 1 - York, presided, and there was a good attendance of gentle% men connected both with public and private schools. The pr°''' visions, of the bill which affect these schools wore discussed at considerable length, and opinions were expressed adverse t ° the exclusion of the seven public schools mentioned in se c : tion throe from the proposed examinations ; and in favour 01, some modification of restriction which requires that the / masters of endowed schools should be in holy orders, and 4 , the constitution of the Educational Council. The feeling _°; the masters of pilvate schools app eare d t o b o very gen erP. in favour of the examinations being extended to the schools, in which they are interested. The Liverpool Courier states that the first leg - steps have been taken to set aside the will of the late bi t ' Samuel Holland Moreton, whereby the whole of his 1 31.°: perty, to the computed value of £30,000, is bequeathed to D" Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool. The cirett ur stances under which the will was drawn by a local priest, 61 4 our contemporary, app ear f u ll y to j ust i fy the allegation that Psi Moreton was not of di s p os i ng m i n d w h en the document thrust upon him as he lay, apparently unconscious, 0 7 4 deathbed. A aveat,has been lodged against the will in t h e District Court of Probate, and there is every reason to 9 11 ,1 ticipato—unlep the Roman Catholic Church abandons pretensions voluntarily7--ltaillu"1, liiiiiiilllol-I?je litization. rti VI CO,llllE] Bisire ß : u h a Tt i o n kn e r s e s h ae se ttlenaen th t e do v r altered.ttzt our iinraloeidaneoaedt,fnotolicihivy2emitoonanooftLdt,ne Forehr io t ae , 1 andecasdfooonit ltouudeltenonookwttill,issn4o,Caledoniathe3;h perils are graph : per ( India Stock Cent., Oct., £l,OOO , 15 yr In the R a 37 4 to i ; Bri t ° 76 ; Metrc 107 to 108• 81 I ;. ; I‘i ct 3 li s d eo Lilian of 1865 E g, Yptian of ] 76 1 to i ; of 1 868, 84 1 of 18 65, 781 91, ex div. : 77 i ; ditto Cl 301 to i• Tu i 1 862, 6 71 to American Railway shay In Bankl ni previouslye market, Exchange e l ] .xrbr The ,h h i i t al s e e4ornam Antwerp,B f traffic The March, i _e Were Brighton, an( The numb The ship Z Cargo andrg i Al`Gill, 0 dia Dock f ror ea ing vessel, I b oard 161 b a ] Pro'n a stagy value of th e v past y ear was 186 7, and on l value in 1867, and . band, her 8 £4,400,000, £ 3 ) 72 0,000 it The Bright week a decre t responding p c The traffic of Canada, shows an incr Messrs. 13; £ 1 1,110,000 of 63, redeem years, with a A second c is to be paid Gas Compan: The twent Cape Railwa: instant. 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