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MUSES and SON. • EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. EVERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING, _ , _ READY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, FOR ALL CLASSES. pRICES BASED ON READY -MONEY SYSTEM AN UNEQUALLED STOCK in EVERY DEPARTMENT. A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY STYLE AND MAT RIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. T) 00-1 S and SHOES. H OSIERY and DRAPERY. JND HATS and CAPS, IN GREAT VARIETY. A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS , at unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURE: ARTICLES NOT he APPROVED OF EX CHANGED or e MONEY RETURNED. eagY and seem-ate System of Self - measure , 51 introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. LIST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS E• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. MOSES and SON. Ready-made and Bespoke F,4 Tailors, Habit Maters, Woollen Drapers. Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 15C,, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, A LDG ATE 84, ALDG ATM 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 83, ALDGAT F. 39, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 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, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL ?OTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre sentations, 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. TROUVILLE SUR BIER (NORMANDY) LOAN of £400,000, SECURED by MORTGAGE D BEN TURES of the T I{OI7VILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited). — Issue of 40,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of LIO each. Annual interest 7 per cent., payable half-yearly, in London and Paris. The First Half-Year's Interest will be payable the Ist September, 1869 These Debentures will be redeemable by annual drawings to begin after the third year at 112, thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent. Applications for Debentures, accompanied by a deposit of £2 per Debenture, will be received in London by Messrs. Ferries, Farquhar, and Co., Bankers, St. James's-street, London; Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street. London. And in Paris, at the offices of the Association, 51, Rue de Cardi nal Fesch. The affairs of the Association are under the direction of The Right Hon. Viscount Bury. M.P., Director of the London and South-Western Railway, 66, Prince's-gate, London, Presi- dent. The Hon. William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's Palace, Lon don. Monsieur Jacques Adolphe rordier, Ancien D6put( l . 124, Boule vant Haussman, Paris, and Chalet Cordier, Thniville, Nor mandy. Algernon W. B. Greville. Esq., 43, Sussex-gardens, London 3 Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles H. Lindsay, 'M.P., Winch field, Hants. Monsieur Dumond de Montcelz. Administrateur des Mines de Zinc de la 41, Rue de Luxembourg, Paris. Sampson Lucas Sanville, Esq. (Messrs. S. Oppenheim and Sons), 13, Old Broad-street. London. Debentures, £l.O each. The Subscription is payable, £2 on ap plication, f 2 on allotment. 12 on the Ist of May, £2 on the 15th June, and £2 on the let August. Or the whole £lO may be paid up at once, in which case dis count at the rate of 7 per cent. will be allowed. +THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. L Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING at 7. k AY'S FISHING: Mr G. delmore. kt 11 to 8, 4th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. To conclude with WHITEB LIT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray. DOY AL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. '..71 krke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlaine ; Mesdames Balton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude pith HUE AND DYE. BANKERS. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, Loudon, BItOKERS. Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn, 387flirogmorton-street, London. ABRIDGED STATEMENT. ADVANTAGES OF THE DEBENTURES. Mortgage taken in the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Debenture-holders. Each 1l Debenture: - Will be secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypothe cation. Will be redeemable at £l2 per bond (thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent.), by annual drawings, after the third year. Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum attached, and — Will be accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the holder (in addition to the above bonus) to a distributive share in half of the surplus profit arising from the ultimate realisation of the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled.to priority of allotment. If no allotment be made the whole of the deposit will be re turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future payments due upon such number as may be allotted, but interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be allowed and paid as above thereon. An opinioi of the soundness of this security, and of the value of the distributive share of surplus profit nffered to the Deben ture-holders, may be formed from reports annexed to the printed particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is me of the choicest marine resorts in France, where the noblesse spend their Emmet'. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, directly south of the Isle of Wight, and possesses one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in France, public rooms, gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. From London Trouville may be reached via Doves and Calais, For lkestme and Boulogne, or via outhampton and Havre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half distant by railway. Plans of the properties and reports of architects and sur veyors may be obtained at the Offices, or will be forwarded by post. Full printed particulars of the Loan and forms of subscription may be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and at the Offices of the Association. namely :-26, Old Broad-street, E.C.; 6, Whitehall. Westminster, London; and Paris, 51, Rue do Car dinal Fesch. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE . Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattsrton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse, F. Moreland, Barrett. F. Wilson, Barrett: Mesdames Heath, Edlth Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Great Combination of Attractions for th 3 Faster Holidays. A New Romantic Drama and the Grand Pantomime of "Puss In Boots. -- THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 4th time) a new romantic Drama, in three acts and a prolog 2e, enti'led THE MAN OF TWO LIVES, founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel, "Les Miserables," 'adapted by Bayle Bernard, adapter of •` Faust." Principal character by Mr. Charles Dillon, supported by the entire strength of the company. To conclude with the Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the grand Transformation Scene. Stage Manager, Mr Edward Stirling. Musical Director, Mr W. 0. Levy. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o clock. Boa-office open from 10 till 5 daily. piIEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- 1. SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE ON SA TVR f)..A.Y, A pril 3. t Two' o'clock, the Royal Original ChrYsty's Minstrels (from the St. George's Hall) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PIT-S IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. A t half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS ()F THE PERIOP: At Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundr.d Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Five. Doors open at half-past One, commence at Two o'cluck. Children and .nchools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz., First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. T HEATRE ROYAL, II A MARKET Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FILET DEVILS: Mos- Euckstone. jun., and Mis3.Fanny Wright. Altar which, HOME: Messrs. Sother n, Chippendalo, Comp ton. - :A stley, ; 'Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF TH F. WATCH : 3lessrs Sot.hern, Chippendale, Vincent, to ; 3lcsdames Cavendish, Hill ;;ors. ITowe, Rogers, etc. . Concluding with MAIiE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buctstone." Box-oftica open daily. Commence at Seven. /-; OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE -41 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of "After Dark." THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Viniug, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leelereq. Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open dal,' from 10 till 6, GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING. at 7, THE HAPPY FAMILY. At 8, H. J. Byron 's new and original Drama, MINNIE : or, Brennan;Leoard's Love: Miss dia. Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss n hlessrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes , and Stephens. I, U Y A L C II It I S T Y'S . IN GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT-STREET. Licensed by tho Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. harry Leslie. 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 Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH-S. GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCES. Wednesday (this thy) at 3 and 8 ; Thursday at 8 ; Fri day at 8; Saturday, Anril 3, at 3 and 8. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. _ Private Boxes, £2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; -lalcony, 2s. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. SUN" NE WSPA PER.-G. R. 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Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to S. BLA( AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, B. Phillips, Stuart; Carlotta Leelereq, Miss Lennox Grey, &o, And WHITEBAIT AT Gild NW IC 11 : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborongh. This EVENING. at 7.20, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Buftcn. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To cow:ludo with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tuts FAMNING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.15, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews.Huristone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY TREATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tins ETENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CLIP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To bo followed by CLAIIDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with TIIE BOARDING SCHOOL. PTtINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Mies Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. liar°, 11. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THis EvgNiNo, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, al Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Boz•offici open from U to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-Talk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6cl. CLildren under twelve, 6d. •- lilt LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1869 To-day we have the Revenue Returns, and upon this day week we shall have the Budget Speech of the Chap mellor of the Exchequer. To the former, therefore, the national regard will be turned with eagerness, as to a set of figures reasonably foreshadow ing, to a certain extent, the financial scheme about to be set forth in the latter by the right hon. member for the University of London. Glancing rapidly down the- official Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, it becomes obvious at once that the results arrived at upon the quarter are satisfactory., but upon the year anything but satisfactory. During this last Quarter the Revenue of the Country has ap preciably improved. There is a net increase upon it of £731,000. But—exclusive of an increase upon the Property Tax of £204,000, and under the head Mis cellaneous of £179,000 —the actual net increase may be set down at £ 410 , 000 . That, we repeat, is the net increase upon the Quarter. The gross increase amounts to £472,000, or not far short of half a mil lion sterling. And that gross increase has been ob tained by an improvement to the extent of £l,OOO on the receipts from Crown Linds, of £17,000 from the Taxes, of £44,000 from Stamps, of £lOO,OOO from the Post Office, and of £248,000 from Excise— altogether, as we have slid, £172,000 as the gross increase on the Quarter. Deducting, however, f, om this total of £472,000, as the gross increase upon the Quarter, under the heals just mentionel, a falling off upon the Cuitoms to the extent of £62,000, we arrive had been murdered, and the ill-fated woman must, therefore, have been a foreigner. The relatives of s l iEwAnn's wife accepted his vague, and certainly not satisfactory, replies as to her disappearance; the police never searched his house ; he appears to have miraculously escaped suspicion altogether. The tragedy naturally excited more than usual attention, but, like all other events of the kind, it ceased to be thought of. Justice slept from 1851 to January 2, 1800, when SHEwArtn supplied a clue to the mys tery by a confession that the body was that of his wife, and that he had murdere 1 her. He gave himself up to the police of Walworth, London, made his statement, had it read over to him the next morning, and adhered to it. In Richmond-street, Walworth, was the house in which he and his murdered wife first met, and the sight of this place' had aroused the voice of conscience beyond the power of control. But when brought before the Norwich magistrates SIIEWARD denied the truth of his confession, pleaded not guilty, and on that plea has been tried for his life. Did he commit the murder ? The arguments are certainly not wholly on one side, and in part the mystery seems incapable of solution. It is remark able that SIIEW ARD'S confession disclosed no new facts. His voluntary acknowledgment after eighteen years' concealment is, indeed, weighty evidence, but he withdrew and denied his confession, and it is notorious that false self-accusations are by no means uncommon. Then the medical evidence unhesitatingly held that the body was that of a very young woman, whereas SHEWARD'S wife was 54. No blood had been noticed on the prisoner's clothes, or about his house ; nor had any incrimina tory circumstances directed attention to him at the time the fragments were picked up around Norwich. It has not been shewn that he and his wife ever did meet at the house in Walworth. But, on the other hand,the pieces of flesh were so small that it was difficult, if not impossible, to determine the age of the woman of whom they had formed part. Mrs. SIIEWARD disappeared, was never heard of again,and a woman's body was found in the neighbourhood of her residence. If it be impossible to prove that the body was that of Mrs. SHEWARD, it is equally diffi cult to prove the contrary. Identity must always be established in cases of murder, but the con fession was held to supply the place of the necessary evidence on this point. The whole testimony is slight, and had it not been for the avowal, must have been held insufficient ; but the confession could not be got over. The evidence points on the whole t o the justice of the verdict; but the enigma in many respects is still insoluble. We know nothing as to the motives which actuatedthe crime or the manner in which it was committed, and equal doubt exists on other points which, without the confession, must have been deemed material. at the net improvement upon this last Qiarter of £410,000 as already mentioned. Upon the Year, and not simply upon the quarter, the result appa rent is in no way so gratifying. 03tensibly, no doubt, there is a gross increase upon the whole year of £3,555,000, an 1 an actual net increase o 2,991,000. But—how attained? By an in crease upon the Property TAX to the extent of £2,411.000, and by the additional sum of £769,000 obtained through the higher rate and the arrears left from the previous twelvemonth. The lamentable fact being only too apparent, when we come to examine the regular and ordinary sources of revenue, that there has been a falling off upon the whole year to the extent of £15,000 in Taxes, of £226,000 in Customs, and of £323,000 in Stamps. Against this diminution there has to be balanced, of course, an increase upon the whole year to the extent of £15,000 on the Crown Lands, of £30,000 on the Post Office, and of £300,000 on the Excise. Altogether upon the financial year just expired there is a total loss of £564,000 — deducting from which the total increase upon the three items last-mentioned, amounting to £345,000 shows a net falling off upon the year of £219,000. The fact is, that the result of the monetary panic of 1866, beginning upon the ever-memorable Black Fri day, has been bitterly felt during this last past twelvemonth. Besides which the deplorably un favourable returns of the first two quarters are very far from having been as yet tided over. Comparing the year just gone with its immediate predecessor— whereas upon this last year we have bad, as just now remarked, a net loss of upwards of £2oo,ooo—upon the previous year we had had a net gain of somewhere about £BOO,OOO. Happily, the ebb has—slowly, it may be, but perceptibly—com menced. So that we may hope : and what is more, hope reasonably. However unsatisfactory the year has been financially as a whole, the two first quarters of ' it were bad quarters— the two last quarters of it have distinctly and obviously evidenced improvement. The worst of the matter, at the same time, is this, that looking at the annual income upon the year, and comparing it with the income anticipated by Mr. IVNRD HUNT in his Badget Speech, delivered a year ago, the result is really lamentable. In that speech the late Chancellor of the Exchequer estimated that the receipts upon the ensuing twelve month would be as nearly as possible £73,150,000. They have, in point of fact, been £72,591,000. The actual deficiency happens to be £559,000. But it would have been as much as £784,000 only for a wholly un looked for improvement, under the head Miscellaneous, to the extent of some £225,000. The late Chan cellor of the Exchequer, to , descend to par ticulars—calculated upon having £22,800,000 from the Customs ; whereas there have been, from that source of Revenue, £376,003 less than that anti :ipat►on of Mr. llcyr's, the return being no more than £22,421,000. t corn btarnps he expcted we should have £9,650,00. We have had £432,000 less or £9,218,000. He loakel for £3,510,003 from Mixes. The receipts from Taxes have been £46,000 less, or £3,401,000 altogether. From the Property Tax, he thought the country would have derived £8,700,000. It has obtained, in point of fact, £82,000 less or a total from Property Tax of £8,618,000. The entire deficiencies, when we come to look back upon Mr. Huyes anticipations, amount to the chief part of a million —at any rate to £936,000 sterling. Taking into account, however, the advance upon his conjec tured receipts on the three items previously named, that is to say, on the Excise, Post Office, and Crown Lands, amounting, upon the year, all tiaem together, to £152,000, the gross deficiency just now mentioned of £936,000, is so far diminished to a net deficiency of £784,000. Remembering that Mr. BUNT in the midst of all his favourable anticipations, calculated at the same time upon having to encounter at the end of the year a comparatively small deficit of some £278,000 one recognises the some what startling fact that he was actually out in his calculations, as a whole, by somewhere about a round million, as the humorists have it, a " cool million" sterling! The Revenue Re turns are such, in point of fact, that we cannot but look forward with more than ordinary solicitude to the Budget about to be unfolded, npoa this day se'nnight, by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. IT was hardly possible, under the circumstances; hat any jury's verdict could set the public mind al rest respecting the Norwich murder. It would be, perhaps, too much to conclude that the evidence given was sufficient to admit of anything more than a Scotch verdict of " Not proven." But it is clear that the evidence has not been able to dissipate the whole mystery in which this extraordinary case is involved. Many of the circumstances remain unexplained ; and in all probability will so remain to the end. The story is almost un paralleled. Remarkable criminal trials have been curiously abundant of late, but the Norwich murder is the strangest mystery of all. In the year 1851 a series of suspiciously concurrent circumstances occurred at Norwich. The wife of WILLIAM SIIEWARD, a woman considerably older than her husband, suddenly disappeared, and was never seen again. The pair had not lived on good terms, Mrs. SHEWARD had paid the too common penalty of marrying a young husband, but their relations were not obtrusively bad. SHEWARD gave it out that his wife had gone on a journey ; he after wards asserted that she had left him and would not return. When one of her relatives died, SHEWARD refused to have the share of the property which fell to hiM. His statements were believed, or at least not questioned, and the missing woman gradually ceased to excite attention. But about the time when she first disappeared a fearful discovery was made in the neighbourhood of Norwich. A human hand was found in the suburbs, then other pieces of flesh were discovered, and at length diligent search enabled the police to gather up a human body, which had been sawn and cut into fragments, and scattered in every direction—in ditches, meadows, and plantations—around Norwich. The hideous work of dissection had been performed by an unskilful hand, and this, as well as other indications, pointed to the conclusion that the person had been murdered. But all efforts to identify the mangled fragments utterly failed. Nobody seems even to have thought of accusing SHEWARD. The evidence, such as it was, was in his favour. The doctors decided that the body was that of a woman, and they agreed that she could not . have been more than 26 years 'Of age. 'The police firmly maintained that no giabelonging to the town or neighbourhood THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APED, 1, 1869. THE REVENUE, I.—The following is an abstract of the gross produce of the Revenue of the Unit e d Ki ng dom in the undermen tioned periods, endin g M arch 31, 1869, compared with the corresponding periods o f the preceding sear Quarters ended June 3n, S e pt. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, 1868 1863 1868 1869 £ £ £ £ 5,453,000 5 18,:,000 5 ; 998,000 5,485,000 4 837,000 4,1-4,000 5,431,000 5,990,000 2,3:2,000 2,081 000 2,!20,000 2,542,000 1,476,000 30n :000 1,287,000 431,000 2,269,000 1, 6, ,,000 2,0.8,000 3,27 ,000 1,12 ,000 1 90,,.00 1,1q1,000 1,2 'O,OOO 73 , 0 00 7:3,000 12,000 1. 2,00 661,003 740,00) 833,1 93 1,C8',838 18.284 003 15:1 .9,0 3 , 19,0: 9,( 95 20, - 09 888 15 ,1 . 9,0 ), 19,0: 9,,.95 Quarters ended Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax c Crown Lands Mtscet aneous Total+. Customs Exclie Stamps Taxes Proin rty Post-ofh e Crown Lauds Tutals Cust )m ,e 1 e Stain Ta • Proper y Pax Pus -Office Cruw,i Lands Mtsee 1 neous Tot-tl 17,525,9 Year e 166 J. 22,421,003 20, , 62,000 3,491,000 8,. 18,0 0 ,000 NCO, iOO 3,3 5,9.+1 7 2,591,991 9,6'i0,219 11.—Increase and Decrease in the peri)ds ended March 31, 18G9, as compared with correspondin g periods of the preceding year : Cu I oms Excise Stamps Taxes .... I'rup. rtv Tax Post-Othce Crown Lands .. fdiscAlaneous Totes . Net Increase.... Quarter - ended March 3., 1813:►. Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Property T A X Post Oflico rown Lands Miscellaneous ...................... , Totals 3, 55,772 :2,991 772 561,00) Net Increase .. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Re ceipts in the ,Quarter ended March 31, 1869, the issues out of the same, and the Charges on the Consolidated Fund at that date, and the Surplus or Deficiency of the Balance in the Exchequer on March 31, 1869, in respect of such Charge : Income received, as shown in Account I. 20,109,8 8 Amount receives as advances in aid of Ways and Means Amount raised by Excbequer Bonds, issued per Act 31st Victoria, cap.,37 .. • • • • • . • • Amount raised on Account of Fortiacations, per Ac 3 th and 31st Victoria, cap. 141 Amount received in repayment of Advances for Public Works, &c. 28 ,BCB DltLo, ditto, for Now Courts 01 Justice • • • • 600,00 I,' 00,000 600,000 20,000 £22,255,696 Excess of the Sums charged on the Consolidated Fund on March 3 , 1 69, payable in June Quar ter, 1-69, above the Balance in th , Exchequer at that date, viz : Excess of Charge in Great B r it a i n •• £ ?,210,673 Surplus over Charge in Ireland 361,7.-6 Net deficiency • • - *1,845,918 •Charge on March 3 , , 18 9 Paid out of Growing Produce in March Quarter, 1869 . - .. 781,(05 Portion of the Charge payable in Juno Quarter, 1869 .. .• 6,553,176 • . To meet which there was in the Exche quer on March 31,186) 4,707,253 Net tleilcieticy ac above .. £',845,918 X 24,101,014 Deficiency brought forward as Excess of Charge on the Consolid a t e d Fund above the Balance in th e Ex chequer in Great Britain £1,562,375 Surplus over Charge on ditto i n Ire land .. Per last Account, viz. ... Net delc'ency brought forward - £3,625,487 Amount applied out of the Income to Supply - Ser vices (including £2,00 ~0 ,e on account of the expedition to Abyssinia, and Liu ,000 for Exchequer Bonds pail off ) Amount Ad vauced for New courts of Justice Ditto for Greenwich Hospital .• • • Charge of the Consolidated Fund on March 31, 156), viz. : In terest of the Permanent Debt £5,235,767 Terminable Annuities 1,03 ~ - 76 Interest of Exchequer Bonds 41,7:,0 Interest of Exchequer Bills 21,51 i Interest of Anvauces on c , mut of Deficiency. • • • Principal of Exchequer Bills The Civil List Other Charges on Consoli dated Fund 594,094 Advances f orPublieWorks,&c, 253,66 Paid out of Growing Produce in )1 arch quarter, 186 £ 7 81• 005 Payable in Junequarter, 1 B'3 6,553,176 936,688 .. 13,033,941 8,00) 10u,000 2,603 15, 0) 10 1,285 7,334,181 £24,101,611 Messrs. Churchill have announced the speedy publication of a series of photographs illustrating the various diseases of the human hair. The work will b© edited by Mr. Ba'mann° Squi:rei ens of the surgeons to the Hospital for Skin Diseases In Great 3darlborough- street. Each of the photographs will be cOlOtted froni 18.284 003 1 June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, 1867 1867 1867 1868 - X X X £ 5,499,0( 0 5,502,000 6,102,000 5,547,000 5,028,000 4,30 ~ 000 5,0.+2,000 5,742,000 2,547,000 2,2 0,000 2,296,000 2,49.,000 1,506,000 172,000 1,17,000 414,000 1,577,000 (4 ,000 88 ,000 3,067,000 1 15 0 ,000 1, 04 ,000 1,180,000 1,100,00 ) 7I 000 7 3. 72.0 v 0 : 00,000 101,000 17,781,021 'll,‘.l', 4) 19,373,5.4 !tided M irch 31,180). 22,65',000 2 ,16.!,00:1 9,511,000 3,5 '9,090 6,177,01.0 4,630,000 3 5, ,, 00 2,5b6,219 Increase. 248, 00 44,001 17,000 204,000 100,001 179,3 4 I 793 314 £73 ,314 Year enc 31, 11 Increase. 3(0,000 '2,441,000 • 0,000 13, 0) :4772 Decrease. 62,000 - 1 6:,0j0 led Mar,h Decrease. X 226,000 3r.. 00 15,000 CORRESP P ARO. ( FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDtNT:) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, March 31 There is an abundance of rumours in circulation here to-day—in fact, there always is—but nothing worth men tioning. Perhaps lam in error. I ought probably to mention the extraordinary statement respecting Count Bismarck, which has just got into circulation. It is reported that the Prussian Chancellor projected, not the incorporation of the Southern States in the North-German Confederation, but the abrogation of the treaties already existing ! Count Bismarck has considered the matter very carefully, we are told, and he has come to the deci sion that the help of the Southern States in case of war would be more than counterbalanced by the greatly extended frontier which would then be open to attack. The whole frontier of North and South Germany would be much more difficult to defend than the line of the Main. Hence the astute Prussian has resolved to " cut " the South. I mention this extravagant conception, not because there is the slightest trace of probability in it, but simply as a curiosity. There are likewise some war reports, but I shall trouble you with none of them. The Parisians appear to be ter ribly afraid of war, and there can be no hesitation in affirming that the vast majority of them sincerely desire peace. This may appear a strange statement to make of the most bellicose nation in Europe, but it is undoubtedly accurate. I have already mentioned the unanimity of the election addresses on the subject of peace. Speakers and writers, except M. Emile de Girardin amongst the latter category, are equally in accord. Let an orator but take up the theme of universal peace at a Paris public meeting, and he is sure of a hearing, even if he be the vilest elocutionist that ever mistook his calling. The word " peace" touches a chord of sympathy in any French audience. The phenomenon has been too often re peated to be at all doubtful. The clergymen, too, preach peace with inexhaustible energy. This is, perhaps, only natural, but they return to the subject so persistently that the only rational explanation is the sympathy with which pacific sermons are greeted. During this week two of the leading Parisian divines have delivered sermons, not merely pacific, but directly and specially hostile to war. Truly, if the French people want war, I have been unable to detect any indication of such predilection. A rather neat career of swindling by a man named Rollet has just been terminated by a sentence of ten years' imprisonment and £2O fine. This individual seems to have practised a new line of business for a period of about sixeeen years, varied only by occasional visits to prison. His system was to travel about from parish to parish, calling with a grave demeanour on the clergy, and expressing a desire to confess. He presented himself as a fresco painter, and under the pretence that he had broken his leg by a fall from a scaffolding' and was unable to kneel, he induced the priests to hear the avowal of his sins at their residences, which places he found more convenient for his ultimate purpose. His dress of a decayed gentleman, his apparent penitence, and the superior language in which he expressed himself, rarely failed to make an im pression on his hearer ; and then a plausible story of his distress and his want of a temporary loan of £1 followed. In most cases his appeal was not made in vain. At length, however, this traffic on the sympathy of priests came to an end. One curs who had advanced the usual loan suspected that he had been im posed upon, and Rollet was arrested just as he had been successful with another priest. His hypocrisy was such that he had rarely failed, but his genius must be suspended for the next decade. The population of Paris is rapidly increasing. It had risen to 1,830,000 in 1866, and must doubtless be getting very near two millions by this time. But though Paris contains nearly two-thirds as many people as London, it is observable that it barely covers one-fourth as much ground. The area of London is about 79,000 acres, that of Paris only 19,500. This gives a population of 100 to the acre in London, but of not less than 233 to the acre in Paris. The number of inhabitants to each dwelling is from seven to eight in the English capital, but it is from 40 to 50 in Paris. In spite of its vast open spaces, Paris is, there fore, the most thickly populated city in the world. The annual report on crime in France shews an increase of offences. During the year 1867 there was a marked decrease in the offences against public morals, indecent assaults, &c., which fell from 1,064 to 954 ; on the other hand, there was an increase in nearly every species of the graver accusations ; murder, 191 to 226 ; poisoning, 23 to 27 ; parricide, 6to 10. The cases of man slaughter, infanticide, and abortion were almost unvaried. The educational statistics are the most interesting. Of the whole number of accused 36 per cent. could neither read nor write, 45 per cent. could do so imperfectly, 14 per cent. well, and 5 per cent. had received a superior education. A singular fact is, that while there was in the last ten years a decrease in crime in the two extremes, in 4.-- cent., ;Intl ha taili e uuteiy ignorant. of 7 per cent., among the intermediary classes there was an augmentation among those who read and write a little of about 2,i, per cent., and of those who write well of more than ,q per cent. Nevertheless, the mt,..her of educated persons accused of crime still remains very small. For the entire total of murders, parricides, &c., only 25 persons were sentenced to death, and of these eight were reprieved. TWO CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS. Two meetings of Conservatives, which were held on Tuesday, had members of tho House of Commons to address them. Ono of them a banquet, held at Buxton, to commemo rate the victory of Captain Arkwright at the North Derby shire election, was presided over by Lord John Manners. In his speech after dinner, Lord John spoke most feel ingly of the crisis which the nation had now reached. Wo had come, ho said, to the point where two roads meet, one leading from the glorious past of monarchical, religious England, to an equally glorious future; the other branch ing off, to some unknown form of purely secular Democratic government, in which the State is to be dissolved from reli gion, and liberty to ba lost in licence. At the commence- ment of the late general election attempts wore made to m:nimiso the issue, to localise it to Ireland; but those attempts have signally failed. Principles such as those that aro now promulgated in high places, dominant to day in Ireland, m us t, and will, to-morrow rule the empire at large. The borough elections had been won by the Liberals ere this fact bad been fully recognised; but when that series of political orations delivered by Mr. Gladstone in a neighbouring county, and the replies to those speeches with which the hustings and the press fortunately teemed, became as it were the property of the public, then indeed those great and weighty political bodies, the county constituencies of England, appeared to recognise the immi nence of the issue, and the momentous nature of the crisis. Congratulating the meeting on the local victory which had been won, he counseled the Conservatives to unite all con stitutionalists, Whigs and Tories, Liberals and Conserva tives—and they might yet prevent the overthrow of the in stitution they loved. "I may be asked—Who are you, to come among us and give advice of this nature ? You who come fresh from a crushing defeat in the House of Commons — how is it that you make use of language which cannot be called the language of submission and acquiescence ? Nn, gentlemen, I preach no counsels of despair. My voice is nut for surrender. Nothing, gentlemen, in my humble opinion, is yet lost but the character of those public mon who, on the hustings, and before the election, promised that the Church of Ireland and the College of Maynooth should alike be disestablished and disendowod, and who now are proposing to establish and endow the latter on the ruins and out of the spoils of the Church of England is Ireland. In my of iuion the campaign is only beginning. Our enemies have called up all their forces. Our reserves have yet to come into play. The country now, for the first time, begins to see what is the real meaning of those bastard English words disestablisment and disendowment. They now know that disestablishment means the separation of Church and State ; and that disendowment means the endowment direct and indirect, of the Church of Rome out of the funds of the Protestant Establishment. That being the case, I believe the country will steadily and perseveringly re-assert its opinion is favour of the ancient institutions of the country." Lord John went on to complain that the private endowments are now to be declared by law to be only those which were given to the Irish Church since the year 1662 ; and the plainest facts of history have to be falsified in order to pillage her of her undoubted rightful property. These being, I won't say the only, or the most important, facts of the great case as it is now submitted to the country, I can not; and will not doub', what the ultimate result will be. Another Conservative misting was held on the same evening at Ardwick, the lion. A. Egerton and Mr. Birley being the speakers. Mr. Egerton spoke out the old cry of "No surrender." if the Irish Chinch went, so must the English. He did not believe that that disestablishment of the English Church w..u'd exile soon, but he would say that the disestablislonent of the Irish Church was a step towards it. Mr. Bir:cy rom'mltd the meeting that Sir Roundell Palmer, the greatest English jurist. was op posed to disendowment, ho bolieved that almost every ir an well qualified to judge—that was to say, our great jurists, our grcatest judges—would be, speaking dispassionately, of the same opinion. They would say that it was a great injustice. They had the best lawyer on the other side taking a view opposed to disendowment ; and even Sir J. Coleridge, the Solicitor-General, had been, according to the admission of his own party, unable to answer him. A CHURCH DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.— A telegram from Havannah, dated March 16, and re• cei ved-via- New York, states that the cathedral church in Zacatecas•was struck by lightning on the sth instant an 4 tßrYiPg_hundreds of ittruins..4;°"- THE HAUNTS T IN LONDON. "N. A. W." writes another letter, apparently.the last of the series, on the haunts of criminals in London. He calls attention to the queen of the Bluegate-fields in the East-end. " She is known in the neighbourhood by the soubriquet of Cast-iron Poll.' She is a celebrity, having been convicted, as was proved at her last trial, no less than fifty-three times. Of course nearly all these convictions were light ones, varying in duration from 14 days to 3 months ; yet, from the time that this infamous woman was 15—and she is now near 50— she has seldom been much more than a month at a time out of prison. We were not gatified at the sight of this strange heroine of the place, as one of her companions (who, our detective assured us, had herself been convicted nearly twenty times) said that Poll, who at her last sentence got three years' penal servitude for a daring robbery from the person, would not be `out on the spree' for nearly another month. The police of the district almost dread the release of this woman, so much trouble does she give them. She has got so accustomed to, and apparently enamoured of, the gaol life that she will literally do anything after a short spree' to get back to it. She will go 0 a police-station and insist on being locked up ; but, of course, as there is no charge against her, her unusual request cannot be gratified. No charge,' she says, well, I'll soon make one,' and out s'ae goes and attacks with teeth and nails the first man or woman she meets, or breaks the windows of a public-house, or, as she has done over and over again, the windows of the station-house itself. Then when she is brought back she cooly asks the inspector why he did not lock her up when he knew she was going to commit her offence, and the same question is likely to occur to many of your readers." But though the East-end is bad enough, "N. A. W." considers the South of London worse, especially those parts around the Mint and Kent-street in the Borough. Murderers are not tolerated in the haunts, as they create too much stir ; but every criminal short of these has a refuge in the house's of the neighbourhood. "There is hardly a grade in crime the chief representatives of which may not be met among the purlieus of the Borough. It is the greatest error to suppose that all, or even a majority, of the criminal classes are continually passing through the hands of justice. Griffith, the bank-note forger, who was tried, I think, in 1862, stated in prison that he had car ried on the printing of counterfeit notes for more than fifteen years. Of course this man was sedulous in conceal ing his occupation from the police, but there are hundreds of others who almost openly follow equally criminal and far more dangerous pursuits with whom the police cannot interfere. Our present business should be to look up these vagabonds, and our future vocation to destroy their re cognised haunts. It is no good killing one wasp when we leave the nest untouched. Thieves, it must be remem bered, are a complete fraternity, and have a perfect organisation among themselves. The aspect of the quarters is low, foul, and dingy. Obscenity of language and conduct is, of course, common to all parts of it, but it is not, as a rule, a riotous neighbourhood. Thieves do not rob each other, and they have a wholesome fear of making rows, lest it should bring the police into their notorious territory. These haunts are not only the refuges and abiding-places of criminals, but they are the training colleges for young thieves." It is on this latter score more particularly that "N. A. W" would suppress these haunts. "If the police were only some night to make a cordon round Kent-street and the Mint, in the -Borough, and take all they found within their lines —man, woman, or child—l can't help thinking from what I saw that they would do great good to the metro polis and its ratepayers." The position of the public-houses in the neighbourhood also demands attention. Here are houses of ill-fame, notorious for coining, card-sharping, skittlersharping, and hocussing—but the police can do nothing. They might search the house, but would find nothing. "The Excise is to all intents and purposes the landlord of these places, and a landlord knowingly re ceiving for his rent stolen property would be answerable to the law. Is it not, then, a delicate refinement to say that he shall not be equally liable for receiving money which is by public repute derived from the, open en couragement of fraud and theft. In this matter I am afraid the Excise cannot be said to be not guilty." "N. A. NV." goes on to describe one of these South Lon don. haunts. They were much the same as those of the East-end, only the writer seems to have thought them to be viler. " The first house we entered was at the end of a narrow, villainous-looking alley off Kent-street, and at the door of the house were some half-dozen ' roughs.' Before we entered my conductor told me that I should see nothing but the most notorious and convicted thieves. Had he sworn to me that I should see nothing but honest men, I could not have believed him. We passed down into a sort of cellar, or underground basement floor, which had been turned into a kind of kitchen, and here were assembled, to the number of about thirty or forty, some of the worst types of the most criminal classes London. There was not one of all those present whom a respectable person would not instinctively have shrunk from meeting in the day or night. They were mostly young men and young women —or, I had better say:young girls. Not one single one, from first, to last, could give any account of himself as to saying where he worked, what he worked at, or who had ever employed him. Some said they lived By odd jobs,' some said they worked `Down the river.' The girls said they sold snatches, some said they sang in public-houses, some that they begged ;' but not one man or woman. could name an employer, not one could name a single piece of honest work he had been engaged in, and there was not one who did not deny that he had got a penny that week. And this was Friday night, and the men were all smoking and drinking beer, and the women, I was told (it was then past 1 o'clock), had had their suppers more than two hours ago. I spoke to many with a view of ascertaining if they had ever been in casual wards or refuges. Of the scores that I questioned, I only met with one who had ever been in a refuge, and this was the conversation that passed in the presence of my friends and my conductor. My witness waS a young man of about 25, a convicted thief, a known rough, and an associate of regular thieves. I asked him had he ever been in a casual ward. He said, as all the rest said, No,' and I believe quite truly, that he liked getting his own living, and not going to a work'us.'—' Have you ever been to a refuge, then? Yes ; I tried to go once.—Did you stay there ? No, I didn't ; they asks too many questions, and they asks them over and over agin, and when you forgets what you've said first, out you goes.—But if you tell the truth first, you surely can't forget that? Oh, yes, you can, though, when you are asked over and over again.—What questions did they ask you? (A very long pause). They asked me if I had a father of a mother alive.—Well, have you ? No ; they're both dead.—Well, if you were asked that a dozen times you would not forget it, would you? Yes, I did, and they turned me out. The truth is you cannot get your beer and pipe at the refuge ? Yes, that's it (a great laugh at this ; and they makes you say prayers, and this was said with a spit of intense disgust) they makes you wash.' This was the only case where I met any who had among these criminals been at either a refuge or a casual ward. The house in which this thieves' jubilee is held makes up some 120 beds, and the lessee, if I may so call him, pays 1:10 a week rent for the place. In this place men are charged 4d, a night for their beds, and men and w omen is In most other houses married couples are only charged Gd. I was so much struck with this discrepancy that I asked the reason plain and pointedly, and the reply was equally plain and pointed. Bless you, sir, I should no more think of asking if the people who come here are married than I should think of asking if the men who come here are thieves. So long as they pay their money and are quiet I asks no questions.' After this I need not further explain what the house is, nor need I dwell upon the class of female childrenwhom I saw there, and who, though living on their infamy, were more fit for a nursery than a notorious thieves' house of ill fame." In conclusion, "N. A. NV." says : " I do not pretend to offer suggestions as to the prevention of all crime, but this I do say, that unless the low beershops, the low pawn. brokers, and the low leaving shops are put under the entire control of the police, it is idle to talk of diminishing crime in the metropolis or bringing in bills for its better suppression." The infant child of Prince and Princess Christian was christianed at Windsor Castle on Wednesday afternoon. The • Dorset Chronicle states that the Solicitor- General has returned his fees in the Saurin case, believing that the plaintiff's friends cannot afford to pay them. The Guardian is glad to learn that there is an itu provement in the health of the Bishop of Salisbury. His lordship's condition is still very precarious, but there is much greater ground for hopes of his recovery than there was a week ago. The New York Tribune says that Miss Van Lew, who rendered the Stete SOlll3 service as a Union spy for General Grant, in the Potomac army, is to ro eive the appointment of Postmistress at Richmond, Virginia. This is looked upon as a big thing for the women's rights people. From a return published on Wednesday it appears that the total number of sick poor attended by the medical officers of the metropolis during the year ending 29th of September, ISGB, was—indoor, 79,375; outdoor, 268,135. The amount of remuneration paid to the medical officers, inclusive of salary fees, dc., was £28,609 is. 9d. The Prince of Wales is expected to arrive at Coa stant-itiople to-day. Mr. Elliott will go to meet him in the Dardanelles on board the Caradoo. The King of Italy has placed the Palace Cepo-di-Monte, at Naples, at the disposal of the Prince of Wales, who is expected to Agin kinktly in South Italy. 7 , E t r& - •• ytto. HER MAJESTY. ^ • - WINDSOR CASTLE, March 31. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove to Twickenham yesterday afternoon, and visited the Countess of Paris. Prince Arthur accompanied her Majesty on horseback. Her Majesty returned to Windsor by a special train on the South-Western Railway. LATEST INTELL IGEN OE (REU - ER'S TELEGRAMS.) TIIE BRAZILS. PLYMOUTH, April 1. The London, Belgium, Brazil, and River Plate Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamship City of Limerick, from the Brazils, has arrived at Fal mouth this morning with 20 passengers, the mails, £15,000 in specie, and a general cargo. Ifer dates are :—Buenos Ayres, February 18th ; Montevideo 23d; Rio, March 3d; and St. Vincent 18th. According to Brazilian advices brought by the City of Limerick Lopez still continues to repel the advance of the allied army into the interior of Paraguay. The appointment of General Asorio as Comman der-in-Chief had met with general approval. LISBON, March 31. The. Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steam ship Oneida from Brazil, &c., arrived here to-day at 9 a.m., and left for Southampton at one p.m. with 70 passengers, specie, £8,475, 2,862 bags of coffee, 1,147 rolls of tobacco, 854 packages (cocoa), and 370 packages of sundries. The La Plata, with the oatward mail of the 9th March, was at St. Vincent (Cape Verds) on the 20th of March. ITALY. BRINDISI, April 1. The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer Principe Tomasso has arrived here from Alexandria, after a passage of 82 hours. She brings 40 passen gers, 27 of whom are English. FLORENCE, AI ril 1. The King arrived from Turin this morning to give audience to General Moering, who has been specially charged by the Emperor of Austria to thank his Majesty for the complimentary visit of General Della Rocca at Trieste. General Moering has been received since his arrival here with great official distinction. The administrative delegates have been charged to arrange an understanding between the different railway companies for the establishment of a direct accelerated service between England and Italy, via Ostend and the Brenner Pass. The delegates are to meet on the 14th of April at Stuttgard. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31. A telegram from the Dardanelles was received here this morning, announcing the arrival there of the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness is ex pected here to-night or to-morrow morning. The English Ambassador left here yesterday in the steamer Caradoc to meet his Royal Highness at the Dardanelles. Raouf Pacha and Kiamil Bey, from the Sultan, leave also this afternoon for the same purpose. The English colony have prepared an address to be presented to the Prince upon his arrival, and it is proposed that they should go outside the port in an expre. , :s steamer to welcome him. An official banquet, balls, and reviews are being prepared. On the first day of Bairam the Sultan made the Grand Vizier a present of a magnificent diamond. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 31.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 2860 Ittd'an Fives 55 95 End of month — Mexican Loan 24} Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Rome Debt Deferred ... s. Cash Orleans Northern 7170 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern._ Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 473k North of Spain Saragossa Roman.. 4i pot. Cont. End of month -- 3 por Cent End of month 7O 37i Credit Mobilier End of month... 280 Credit Fancier ...1481 End of month... RAILWAY' 78 55 WESTMINS7 ER ABBEY AND ST. PA UL'S CAMEDRAL. If the Cathedral has not, like the Abbey, been he growth of centuries, the site and adjacent ground has seen and testified to the growth of the nation. True, the Cathedral has few of the augue4 associations which crowd around the Abbey ; true, that while the Abbey has witnessed the coronation of all our Sovereigns save one, the Cathedral bas not witnessed even that one ; true, that while most . . of our Kings, from the last of the Saxons to the second of the Brunswicks, were buried in the first building, only one Royal bead bas rested in the second, and he, " old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster," never wore crown ; true, most of our __ _ statesmen, from John of Waltham to Palmerston, most of our poets, most of our warriors, most of our philosophers and men of science, repose in the Abbey, not in the Cathedral ; yet while the Abbey has seen more of the solemn and of the gorgeous pageants of history, the Cathedral has seen more of the every-day life of the nation, with all its stir and deep emotion. St. Paul's has been, shame to say, the exchange of London's merchants, the resort of its profligate men and women, the haunt cf the theocf h Church the beenr c thief hai peoplee the plottingnf doeState fo u r t in n England. robbery for gtt pleaded t h he o n e e s s id n i r i p i ng g e b h a y u t . s y But o it e f hasawvehich con time when journalism w as not, when m e e tings meant popular ri o t s , St. Paul's was at once the factions d e a b : f ro and pulpit, the press, and the platform of the nation. If history consisted only of the coronations of kings and the funerals of conquerors, the Cathe dral Church of St. Paul would bear no comparison with the Abbey Church of St. Peter. But it is the thoughts, and words, and deeds of the people which constitute the true life of the nation, and in these the Cathedral will bold its own against the Abbey. Nor is the fancy strained which would make the one structure symbolical of the Constitution of England, and the other of the character of Eng lishmen. The Abbey, standing opposite the tif° Houses of the Legislature, flanked by the depart' clients of Government, and itself the work of cep' turies, fitly represents the slow and gradual growth of our institutions in Church and State. The Cathedral, standing in the heart of the wealthies p and most populous city in the world, and, though so vast a work, built in a little over twenty years; conceived, begun, and completed by the sahle architect ; with equal fitness represents the con ; centrate I purpose, the unflagging energy, the vas e schemes of the English merchant. The first 'env bodies the traditions of ages ; the second is t" achievement of a single generation.—Art. on "Mi l ; man's Annals of St. Paul's" in the new number 0' the London Quarterly Review just published. DEATH OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ROTHSCHILDSI On the 16th instant Baroness Babbette Beyfus Von V.°o Rothschild died at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, aged 85. O A was the only surviving sister of Baron Anselm Itothsel l 7 l the founder of the celebrated banking house of L. A. Y Rotholnkl and eon. 11OYAL AMPHITHEATRE ANp CIRCUS, HOLBORN EAST ER HOLIDAYS —Entire change of performance.- New Acts, fresh novelties, and additional attractions.--The beat and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. Town and country holiday-makers will find no other Theatre in London offering a programme so renlete with variety, amusement, and excitement - THIS EVENING, 3rd appearance of the greatest wonder of the day—the Salamander Horse! ONRA, the world renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinary double so mersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING TRAPEZE. The magnificent , tud of Fifiy Performing Horses, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA, by 3I A. Bradbury, ( scar Carre, Salamonsky, Adolphe Carre. Maltrejean, and Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, A malia, and Krembser, The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together, Positively t e Last Four Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— Thoge who have not yet seen the w owierful and beautiful horses s should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for Continent on the 26th of April. oors oen at Seven, co mmence at half past. M orn ing Per flrDmances p Wednesday an d Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. i