The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-19 00:00:00

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY • TOOTtf PASTE is greatly superioi - to any tooth powdor ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Ball Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA. AI4IARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It-is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. THIS EVENING will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; OR, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS, IND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magnificent Scenery Dy Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. D , wnr. M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. 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. TE/TS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. MIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. 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, ed.; Children under twelve, ad. • THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. e Lessee. Mr. stone. THIS EVENING Sol RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Bnckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp km. Astley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. Messrs. Comp ton, Kendal, Weathersby, liuckstone, jan., &c. ; Mesdames Caroline Hill, Saott, Gwynn, &c. Box-office open daily. town. egg, z 1112 7 - • z 44 ~,4 4 434 LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 19, 1869. We are very glad to find that so important a ques ion as the reform of our mercantile marine is not ,o be altogether overlooked this year. Even at this early stage of the session a notice has been put upon the books of the House of Commons, by Mr. CAN DLISH, of an inquiry to be put to the President of the Board of Trade respecting the revision and consoli dation of the laws which affect our merchant ship ping. On Monday next, therefore, we may hope to learn something of the Ministerial intentions on this subject; but in any case we hope it will not be for gotten. If the pressure of the other measures to which the Cabinet stands pledged should prevent Mr. BRIGHT from undertaking an additional re form, the task is one which is fully within the scop e of private members. There are not wanting men of sound practical knowledge and extended experience in the House who are well qualified to deal with the question, and it must not be forgotten that the delay of its settlement will not only occasion expense and inconvenience, but will actually cost many lives. The details of the casualties which yearly occur to our shipping supply us with startling intelligence. A large proportion of those disasters, which fill many homes with mourning, and swell our list of wrecks and disasters at sea to such a fearful extent, are plainly and undoubtedlypreventible. The sea is stronger than . man, and in its wayward moods defies his skill and strength ; but we can no longer say with the poet that "the wrecks are all its deed," for the painful truth is that man has a large share in them. What with unsea worthy and insufficiently equipped vessels, with over loading, with neglect of a proper supply of nautical instruments, with incompetent and careless com manders, and equally incompetent and insufficient crews, the real history of many a maritime tragedy might be summed up in a verdict of " wilful murder against some persons unknown." The culprits of course have no thought of whole sale destruction of human life. They are sinap7y in different and careless, thinking only of how to make money in the fastest and easiest way possible. Accord. ingly they send out ships in the condition we have referred to, and the result is shown in the startling fact that in the year 1867 (the last for which we have the full record) the number of shipwrecks on our coasts was 2,090, or an average of nearly six for every day in the year. The noticeable thing about these figures is that the increase in the number Of casualties is out of all proportion to the increase of our shipping. When the figures are corrected, according to this increase, there remains a surplus of 600 casualties. It is, there fore, quite time that the appalling loss of life thus represented should attract the careful consideration of Parliament. When we turn to the Wreck Regis ter we find that the 2,090 casualties of 18,17 occa sioned no less than 1,333 deaths, as well as a loss of property estimated at about three millions sterling. What we know of the disasters of 1868 gives us little reason to hope that its history will be a different one, while 1869 has already been conspicuous for its frequent and boisterous gales. An ex-President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has addressed a letter to the 7intes on this subject, suggesting various plans for the mitigation of an acknowledged evil. For reform of the bad condition of the ships, and the lack of proper instruments, he looks to the Legislature. If the clause of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, which provides that no steamer carrying passengers shall proceed to sea without official survey, and cer tificate, were extended to all British vessels, much would be gained, and the principal causes of the wholesale destruction of our coasting vessels would be altogether removed. The insurance of unsea worthy ships is another fruitful source of evil. Ships that are lost in ordinary rough weather, almost im mediately after leaving harbour, have manifestly been insured under false pretences, and it is no great wonder that the underwriters, suffering from such repeated losses, are constantly raising their rates of premium. It is to the interest of all shipowners, who send their ships to sea in the bona fide expectation of reaching port, to see that others less scrupulous should no longer be able to risk men's lives and merchant's property with abso lute and unquestioned impunity. The correspondent, whose letter we have referred to, enters at some length upon the question of securing a regular and sufficient supply of candi dates to recruit the officers and seamen of the mer cantile marine. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, the once popular profession of seamanship is going out of fashion. While in the seven years from 1858 to 1865 the increase in the tonnage of the mer chant service was 25 per cent., the increase in the number of seamen was only 11 per cent. The appren tices and boys had decreased 18 per cent. The num ber of foreigners serving on board British ships had in the same period increased at the rate of 76 per cent. It is also stated that our British re seamen have dete r i orate d in every respect, and that many shipowne r s now t hi nk foreign saileocrts, to be the more able and efficient. There is a want of sympathy between the men and their employers, and the comfort and health of the crews are very little considered. The Merchant Shipping Act pro vides for proper accommodation, but Dr. LETHEBY has deliberately affirmed that the great prevalence of fever, scurvy, and epidemic diseases in vessels trading with the port of London is directly referable to defec tive sanitary arrangements. Dr. WARD, a physician of the floating hospital, gives similar evidence, and it is not therefore to be won lered that the men suffering from this cruel indiffen ace to their well-being grow dissatisfied with their occupation. The system of training boys for sea is a very excel lent one, and it is a pity it is not more largely ex tended. The member of the Liverpool Cham ber, though highly approving of the employ ment of training ships as reformatory agents, and as means of employment for the destitute, re minds us that it will not do to depend exclusively on such a source of supply. All boys are not fitted, either morally or physically, for a seafaring life, and, as in such institutions there is no power of selection, all thus trained may not prove efficient recruits. Such ATHENS, Feb. 18. Commence at Seven R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Oscar Carre and his Fifty wonderful performing Horses, and the incomparable Scenes in theArma, including A.Bradbnry, Eng land's Champion Equestrian, A, Salamoneky, A. Carre, Mdlles. Montero, Schwartz, Kremser, and Salamonsky, in a series of unparalleled acts of horsemanship. Casteloai and the Brothers Girardes in their Thrilling Ladder and Trapeze evolutions. The Clowns Burgess and Loyal, the greatest grotesque of the day "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per t N•mances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Balf-past Two. iILOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. • Sole Proprietor an'i Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 0. 0, BROWN AND TB E BRAHMI S : Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurleton, and J. Clarke: Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Be rend,•Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GEORGE'S HALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided nit. Every song was encored on the first night of performance. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs. WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Christy's who have had the honour to appear, by special command, before THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and EIGHT. .Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur day night at eight. 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SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. rinHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at t W. SMITH'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY- L A NE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7. MY WIFE S OUT. Followed by the Grand Fantomime, PUSS IN BOOTS. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER, Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon- THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOTTR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore. Mrs. L. Murray. !fit 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G. Delmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Viss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, anew Drama, in four acts, Milled MARIE ANTOINETTE Louis XVI., Mr. Vining; Count Fersen, Mr. William Rignold (his first appearance in Lon don) • The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Beatrice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. T. G. Shore, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. .Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily .from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.10, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs f..3ake. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TL E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude /rah HUE AND DYE. THEATRE-ROYAL. HA YMARK ET. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale. &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Compton. Kendal, Buckstone. jun., Weathershy, &c. ; Mesdames C. Hill, Scott, Gwynn, 837 Commence at 7. • PRINCESS'S THEATRE. • Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to conammie with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE AN TOINETTE : Mr Vining, Mr, W. Rignold, Mr. Dominick 31urrity: Millie. Beatrice. Concluding With A CUP OF T e:A : Mdr e. Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPH(. • THis EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMB::RWFLL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling. G. lielmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart ; • Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. TAN P.VENT7C3, t 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, UYEIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMTNS: Messrs. M arshall Warner, David Fisher, Andrew, Hur:stone, J. Clarke; Sfesdsmes Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar told, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Nfanar:Tressi. 3lrs.Swanlioroneb. THIS EVENINO. at 7.30, THE WIDi W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke: Miss 13ufton. THE FIELD OF THE 0, OTH OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; V esdames Maria Longmore. B. Goodall. I.yclia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conelude with DUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston Tins EVEVING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole. L. Broneh • Ti. Irving. S. POD GE -Finery. RS: Mr Toole. Miss Hodson, i.e. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. • THIS EVFNINO, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S bfAI ^. F, P r i m Mesdames Larkin, Weather..by. After which, FETTER t..D: Messrs. Cowper. eville. Porsche, Drew, Bronton, W. A thur, Bartle:mom and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Joseph s. TO eonelurie with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Arse Fanny .Tooephs, George Honey. THEATRE-ROYAL. OLYMPIC. THIS EVENTNG, at 7, SL SHER & CRASHER : Messrs. Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which. at 7.45, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan , H.Nerille, E. Atkins, H. Vaughaty H. Cooper, and Smithson; Mosdaruss Furtado,' SOharey, N. Harris, awl iSt.Heug.. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1869. training-ships as the frigate Conway of the Mersey, and the Worcester of the Thames, are, be thinks, invaluable agents for the manning of the mercantile marine. Mr. GREY, Secretary to the Marine Depart ment of the Board of Trade, speaks highly of these ships, and says that they are settling the great ques tion of recruits for the merchant service. The Inde fatigable, of the Mersey, which educates and trains for the sea the orphans of seamen and others, is fitted to receive 300 boys, but, owing to the lack of funds, has only about half that number. Surely this is a case in which Government aid might wisely and economi cally be afforded ? To suffer so good and service able a work to languish for want of money is not prudence, but short-sighted folly, and we hope that the method of assistance which has been suggested— a capitation grant—will be decided upon by the Go vernment. THE first list of notices of motions issued from the parliamentary printers, and containing nearly fifty entries, is remarkable for the almost entire absence of foreign topics. Seven years ago probably one half of the notices would have referred to the con cerns of other nations. Seven years ago Lord PAL3IERSTON was Premier, and the most frequent interpellators were men like Mr. KINGLAKE, who hated NAPOLEON ; Sir GEORGE BOWYER, who hated VICTOR EMMANUEL; Mr. GREGORY, who hated the United States ; Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE, who hated Russia ; and Mr. ROE BUCK, who hated everybody and everything. Lord PALMERSTON is dead, and with him has departed that interest in foreign politics which that most Conservative of Ministers fostered in order to divert attention from domestic reforms. A new epoch has begun ; a new regime is in force. The working class 'has obtained the franchise, and the working class cares very little about the affairs of other persons, a good deal about its own. VICTOR EMMANUEL may be the truest patriot or the most treacherous conspirator that ever sat on throne, but that is nothing to the new electors. They are quite indifferent to the Eastern question, and care absolutely nothing whether PRIM becomes Pre sident of the Spanish Republic or King of Spain. On the other hand, they do care a good deal for education, the poor law, the ballot, the. protection of married women's property. So it comes to pass that out of the whole list of notices only three refer ever so remotely to foreign topics, and in two instances we have a personal interest, since they involve the cost of the Abyssinian expedition, and the relations between the Indian and Affghan Governments. The remaining subjects may be divided into two sections ; those which are more strictly political, and which will give rise to party divisions ; and those which are social, and have a good chance of being decided upon their own merits. Holding, as we have always done, that theformer class has encroached too much upon the latter, we rejoice to see that the l:st lof social questions is unusually large. Attention is to be directed to the operation of the Poor-laws in each of the three great divisions of the kingdom. Mr. CORRANCE will call attention to pauperism and vagrancy in the United Kingdom, and to the general principle upon which the Poor-laws are now adininis t3red. Mr. CRAUFURD will move for a select com mittee to inquire into the operation of the Poor law in Scotland, and Mr. M`MmioN will ask if it is intended to assimilate the Poor-law of Ireland to. that of England by enlarging the area of rating. The whole question of local taxation will be raised by several members. The Royal Speech has already given promise of a Ministerial measure on the subject, but several hon. members are anxious to have the credit of raising the subject. Sir MASSEY LOPES moves on Tuesday for the appointment of a Royal Commission "to inquire into the present amount, incidence, and effect of local taxation, with a view to a more equitable readjustment of these burdens." Sir GEORGE JENKINSON is content with a tardier and less decisive step. On March 2he will " call the attention of the House to the subj ect of local taxation, with a view to a remedy of the injustice of the present system by legislation." Mr. CLIVE, unwilling to wait for the promised Ministerial measure, will on March 17 ask leave to introduce a bill for the establishment of county financial boards. The law of licensin , 4 is another subject likely to o b n which e considerably e r t y lninds o exercised, se f d o as n w m el e l m th b e e y rs m a a r y e , be. Mr. IBBETSON will ask the HOME SECRETAIIY if he means to bring in a bill for amending the present law, and will, no doubt, get the usual answer that while the Government attach great impor tance to the subject, they greatly fear that thepdl ah public present business with s mm iat i t ) t r e e r s t s h u e r t ne during otof a p th er e o r t not a s r t e session. ll)l WILFRID LAWSON will signalise his return to the House by reintroducing the Permissive Bill next Monday. Mr. DALRYMPLE, the newly-elected member for Bath, will, in the event of Sir WILFRID obtaining leave, move that the bill be referred to a •select committee--we presume with the • view of shelving it. Mr. HUGHES is going to reintroduce his Sunday Trading Bill. Mr. THOMAS CHAMBERS will once more take up the subject with which his name is i dentified —marriage with a deceased wife's sister—in the hope that the Reformed Parliament will give him greater support than its predecessor gave. Mr. GURNEY, who, though a strong Conservative, is one of the most radical of politicians so far as women's rights are concerned, will introduce a bill to amend the law with respect to the property of married women, which will no doubt be based upon the report of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE'S select committee. To these matters, introduced by private members, we must add Mr. FORSTER'S " Bill to amend the Law relating to En dowed Schools and other Educational Endowments, and otherwise to provide for the Advancement of Education in England and Wales," which measure will be introduced this evening. The political questions - already started are • numerous. First in importance, though not in date, is Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure for dealing with the Irish Church. The notice is as follows :—" That the Acts relating to the Established Church, Ireland, the Acts relating to Maynooth, and the first resolu tion of the House of Commons in the session of 1868 relating to the Established Church, Ireland, be read : that this House will immediately resolve itself into a committee to consider the said Acts and resolution." In connection with Irish questions it may be added that Mr. MAGUIRE has given notice of a resolution for the appointment of a Royal Com mission to inquire into the management of the Irish estates of certain London companies, with the view of considering the advisability of annulling their charters and selling their estates, with the right of pre-emption to the occupying tenants. This will scarcely please the Ulster Orangemen. On the other hand, Sir THOMAS BATESON'S notice for repealing the Party Processions Act will not please the Ulster Romanists. The Reform Bill and cognate topics give rise to a variety of notices. Mr. 11. SHERIDAN, a private member, will ask to introduce a " Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1868," which would seem to be taking out of the hands of the Government its reso lution for getting rid of the rating franchise. Mr. LEAruAm is to be entrusted with the duty of intro ducing the Ballot, and he will, no doubt, do the work much better than Mr. lIENIty BERKELEY would have done it. Mr. FAWCETT will endeavour to re affirm the clause, so unfairly got rid of in the last House of Commons, for throwing the expenses of elections upon the ratepayers. Mr. PETER TAYEon will go still farther, and ask that members shall be paid, thinking, perhaps, that if the Conservatives have already granted one point of the charter—the abolition of the property qualification— and are not indisposed to grant a second--vote by ballot —they will grant a third also. The SOLICITOR GENERAL will renew his attempt to get rid of religious tests at the universities, and this time will have the official support of the Government. Mr. LOCKE KIND is once more going to—not " abolish primogeniture," but alter the law of primogeniture ; so that, in the event of intestacy, real property shall be divided among all the children, as personal - 151.6ferty is, a measure that is nearly certain to pass the Commons and to be rejected in the Lords. Mr. FAWCETT is desirous to carry the competitive prin ciple still further, and apply it to all branches of the civil and diplomatic service. Lastly, Mr. GLADSTONE . has given notice of a motion for next Monday, which sounds very formidable, though we candidly confess we do not know what it means, " That the House do resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to consider the Acts enabling her Majesty to recompense the services of persons holding, or who have held, certain high civil offices." Is the present Government going to abolish pensions, or to sacrifice the salaries of its own members upon the altar of economy ? LITERATURE. Mr. Hepworth Dixon's New Work, Her Majesty's Tower. By W. Hepworth Dixon. One Vol. Pp. 406. Hurst and Blackett. Dedicated by Express Permission to the Queen — Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new work is worthy of him as a lettered Englishman. The subject he has chosen is thoroughly national. The very title of his book is like a blast upon a trumpet. Opening his pages we see at a glance that Her Majesty's Tower is no other than the grand old Tower of London. The " Towers of Julius." The Tower sacred to us by so many heroic memories. The Tower around which the whole of our historical annals wind like some gorgeous and tragical procession. " White with age and wrinkled by remorse," Mr. Dixon describes the structure as being externally--and as we read the picturesque epithets, the ancient building starts up before us with the distinctness of a photograph. Often as it has been written about before now—the historian of Bacon, and Penn, and Howard, and others of our English worthies—the luminous delineator of New Ame rica and the Holy Land—biographer, critic, tra veller, archeologist, all in one—has made "The Tower of London," or as he prefers to call it " Her Majesty's Tower," all his own from this time hence forward. He has traversed it through and through. He has examined it as an antiquary, as a student of history —as a writer at once of profound re search and of vivid imagination. Externally and internally —upon the walls, and the leads, and the crumblingbattlemente—subterraneously, among the very foundations—in cells so gloomy and hidden that they are like so many earth-pits or excavations in the solid rock, damp with the river ooze, black ened by time, rivelled over with the mural inscrip tions of prisoners dead and vanished (even the dust of them centuries ago)—inside and outside, above and below, to the right and to the left—literally, as we have said, through and through, Mr. Dixon has ex amined " Her Majesty's Tower" searchingly, and, having thoroughly mastered his theme, he has then described it—he has then descanted upon it. Aud he has done so, as it seems to us, in the wisest manner possible. He has not noted its history in any way consecutively. His narrative is not sketched out chronologically. He takes the building exactly as it is in its entirety. He reviews the mass of its grand old associations. He selects from among these the salient incidents—the most memor able personages being grouped in the foreground, and the times in which they lived being recalled to existence on his pictured page. There is but a single illustration in the whole ponderous volume— a folding frontispiece, presenting to our view at one glance " Her Majesty's Tower" as it was when it acquired that name for itself—namely, in the great reign of Elizabeth. There we recognize upon the instant the Inner Ward and the Outer Ward, while the eye loiters at will inter-mediately along the Wall. Lettered around the circuit of the inner Ward, we perceive from A to L inclu sively—the White Tower, the Wardrobe Tower, Cold Harbour, St. Peter's Church, the grimly Block on Tower Green, the Officer's House, the Lieutenant's House, the Garden, the Queen's Apart ments, the Queen's Garden, and the Gunner's Quar ters. Lettered from Ato P inclusively—On the 11 all we note—Beauchamp Tower, Prisoner's Walk the Belfry, Raleigh's,Walk, the Bloody Tower, the Lantern, the Salt Tower, the Broad Arrow Tower, Constable Tower, Martin Tower, Northumberland's Walk, Brick Tower, Bowyer Tower, Flint Tower, and Develin Tower. Numbered from Ito 16 again inclusively we observe on the Outer Ward— Postern, Middle Tower, Byeward Tower, Gate way under Bloody . Tower, Hall To wer , G rea t Hall, Queen's Stairs, Traitor's Gate, St. Tho mas' Tower, "%Veil Tower, Galleyman Tower, Iron Gate, Brass Mount, Legge Mount, and Soldiers' Quarters. Twenty years ago, as Mr. Dixon tells us in his brief one-page of Preface, dated New Year's Day, 1869 —twenty years ago he wrote some chapters on the Tower—" especially on the human interests which cling around it." Si nce then, during this last score of years, he has casually, it may he, but evidently very carefully, noted, now in State Paper, now in Printed Volume, whatever passage threw, acconling to his view, light " into the cells once occupied by the heroes and heroines of English story." Hence, as the fruit of a long and loving search—this goodly volume now given to us in its ripened maturity—as Mr. Dixon modestly calls it himself "a book of identifications." It is more than that, or at the least we may be permitted to call it so—speaking of it, as we are fain to do, as in many respects Hepworth Dixon's masterpiece. In the bold, manly eloquence of its Saxon English-- he has done nothing finer than this. It is the work ef a thorough Englishman. It describes the grey old Tower, but under a glory of magnificent colouring. History rolls hack to our view as we turn the leaves of this noble volume. And in demonstration of the fact, we would, without further parley, let the author speak for himself in his own radiant language. A panoramic view will thereby be spread out before the reader very vividly indeed by means of a few almost haphazard quotations. As for example thus—where Mr. Dixon discourses in the manner following upon the venerable antiquity of " Her Majesty's Tower" : Set against the Tower of London —with its eight hun dred years of historic life, its nineteen hundred years of traditional fame— all other palaces and prisons appear like things of an hour. The oldest bit of palace iu Europe. that of the west frent of the Burg in Vienna, is of the time of Henry the Third. The Kremlin in Moscow, the Doge's Pa lazzo in Venice, are of the fourteenth century. The Seraglio in Stamboul was built by Mohammed the Second. The oldest part of the Vatican was commenced by Borgia, whose name it bears. The old Louvre was commenced in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; the ,Tuileries in that of Elizabeth. In the time of our Civil War Versailles was yet a swamp. Sans Souci and the Escurial belong to the eighteenth century. The Serail of Jerusalem is a Turkish edifice. The palaces of Athens, of Cairo, of Tehran, are all of moderate date. Neither can the prisons which remain in fact as well as in history and drama--with the one exception of St. Angelo in Rome —compare against the Tower. The Bastile is gone ; the Bargello has become a museum ; the Piombi aro removed from the Doge's roof. Vincennes, Spandau, Spilberg, Magdeburg, are all modern in comparison with a jail from which Ralph Plarobard escaped so long ago as the year 1100, the date of the First Crusade. Then again —just in the same way as Coleridge compared Edmund Keau's acting to " reading Shakspere by flashes of lightning"—one might say of the following rapid record of Richard M.'s crimes in the Tower of London, that it resembles the glitter of murderous steel, to and fro, in the gloom of the past—. Thanks to the great poet, no name is stamped so darkly on the Tower as that of Gloucester. Richard seems t haunt the pile. If the word Tower crops up in talk, nine persons out of ton will throw his figure into the front. They see, in their mind's eye, Gloucester with his knife at King Henry's throat; Gloucester denouncing Hastings at the board; Gloucester in ru*y armour on tho wall. Men picture him as drowning his brother Clarence in the butt of wine ; as murdering his nephews, King Edward and the Duke of York. The localities of his crimes, and of the crimes imputed to him, are shown. He stabbed King Henry in the Hall tower, now the Jewel house. He accused Lord Hastings in the Council chamber, and struck off his head on the terrace below the keep. He drowned his brother in tho Bowyer tower. He addressed the citizens from the terrace, now known as Raleigh's walk. Brackenbury was kneeling in Bt. John's Chapel, when he received the King's order to kill the princes. The boys were lodged by him in the rooms over the en - trance gate, then known as the Garden tower. They were interred in the passage, at the foot of a private stair. The bones of these royal youths were afterwards dug out from behind a stair in the keep. Thus is it that Mr. Dixon, by a word or two, re calls to life the gentle and venerable form of Cardinal Fisher—. Cardinal Fisher, eighty years old,was seized as a plotter, tried for his offence, thrust into a barge, and pulled down the Thames. When his boat slipped under the archway of the Water-gate, ho toddled on shore, and turning to the crowd of guards and oarsmen about him, said, "As they have left me nothing else to give you, I bestow on you my hearty thanks." Some of the rough fellows smiled, though they must have felt that hearty thanks from a good old man who I was about to die could do them no harm. Lodged in the Strong Room ho suffered much from chill and damp. The Belfry not only stood above the ditch, but lay open to the east wind and to the river fog. Fisher told Cromwell, in piteous letters, that he was left without clothing to keep his body warm. Yet the fine old prelate never lost either his stoutness of heart or his quick sense of humour. One day, when it was bruited about the Tower that he was to suffer death, his cook brought up no dinner to the Strong Room. "How is this ?" asked the prelate, when he saw the man. "Sir," said the cook, "it was commonly talked of in the town that you should die, and therefore I thought it vain to dress anything for you." "Well," said the bishop, " for all that report thou seest me still alive ; therefore, whatever news thou shalt hear of me, make ready my dinner, and if thou see me dead when thou I comest, eat it thyself." • Another, but a very different form indeed, is that which is thus glowingly pourtrayed—the heroic form of Sir Walter Raleigh— . Raleigh was a sight to se; not for his fame and name, but for his picturesque and dazzling figure. Fifty-one years old ; tall, tawny, splendid ; with the bronze of tropical suns on his leonine cheek, a bushy beard, a round moustache, and a ripple of curly hair, which his man Peter took an hour to dress. Apparelled as became such a figure in scarf and band of the richest colour and costliest stuffs, in cap and plume worth a ransom, in jacket powdered with gems ; his whole attire, from cap to shoe-strings, blazing with rubies, emeralds, and pearls ; he was allowed to be one of the handsomest men alive. The Council got alarmed at the crowds who came down to see him. Har vey was thought too careless ; and a stricter gaoler was appointed to abridge the few liberties which Raleigh then enjoyed. Lady Jane Grey is depicted with a pencil of subtle and delicate appreciation—the White Roses bloom again —the Goad Lord Cobham comes back once more to life—Anne Boleyn passes twice across the scene, to her bridal, and to the block—Henry VIII., our English Blue Beard, is there, with roses in his shoes and the George upon his breast —we are in the White Tower, we are in the Beauchamp Tower, we are one in the Pilgrimage of Grace. The book is a world in little—it is a microcosm of our English History. It is the Tower—it is London—it is England. And, throughout, it is penned with an eloquence as re markable for its vigorous simplicity as for its lumi- nou3 picturesqueness. It more than sustains Mr. Dixon's reputation. It enhances it. ?c, r -‘ r,,,1111.1 ; HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty went out again, accompanied byPrincess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended by Miss Macgregor. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. EJECTION OF THE ALABAMA CLAIMS CONVENTION. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to day agreed almost unanimously to recommend the rejection of the Alabama Claims Treaty. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations have reported adversely on the treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the settlement of the Alabama claims. Die same body has reported favourably on the St. Juan treaty. The second Cuban telegraph cable has been recovered, and is now working. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. The Guion steamer Nevada arrived out to-day. Closing Prices—Gold closed at 134 k; the highest quotation during the day was 134 k ; the lowest 134 k. Sterling Exchange on London, 108 k ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1141 ; ditto, 1885, 112 f ; ditto, 1865, 1104 ; 10-40 United States Bonds, 1098 ; Illinois. 144. Cotton, middling upland, 29. Petroleum, standard white, 37. Flour, extra State, $6 45 $7 05. Corn, old mixed, $1 02. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Paris, from New York on the 10th inst., arrived here at 9.40 a.m. to-day, and having landed mails and pas sengers she proceeded for Liverpool immediately. All well. She brings no specie. CROOKUAVEN, Feb. 19, 6.30 a.m. The Cunard steamer Russia is now passing Browhead signal station en route for Queenstown. TIIE LAST SITTING OF THE CON FERENCE. PARIS, Feb. 19. The answer of Greece was read in yesterday's sitting of the Conference, and the adhesion of the Cabinet of Athens to the principles laid down by the Conference was formally recorded. The . Conference declared the diplomatic rela .. tions between Greece and Turkey ipso facto re established, and instructed the President to thank the two Governments in the name of the Confer ence for the deference shown to its counsels. After this the Conference declared itself dissolved. SPAIN. MADRID, Feb. 18 (Evening). The Cortes will not be definitely constituted be fore Saturday, when it will at once proceed to the election of the permanent Committees. The members of the Provisional Government will forthwith resign their posts ; and marshal Serrano, on receiving formal authority from the Cortes, will, it is believed, in the same sitting, announce the names of the members of the new Cabinet. GREECE. The Emperor of Russia has telegraphed to the Ring congratulating him upon his adhesion to the declaration of the Conference. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, Feb. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delta, arrived at 7.45 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY. The performance of "Elijah" was most successful. Mr. Lander, whose favourable debut in "Judas" we noticed, gave the music assigned to the hero of Mendelesohn's sacred drama with great effect. Be has all the requisite material to become an excellent oratorio singer. Miss Arabella Smyth acquitted herself admirably ; while Miss Lucy Prauklain sang excellently the contralto solos, and Mr. Perren was quite at home in the tenor music. The secondary parts were undertaken by Mesdames Barrett and Sheridan, and Messrs. Mason and Newton ; while the choruses seemed to give the fullest satisfaction to the audience. At this concert Mr. Martin reverted to the pitch which he had previously condemned. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-builelings, Strand, Louden. W.Q—[Ad ! vertiaement] CORiItES:CONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, February D 3. It is evident that the Belgian controversy is collapsing. Such a result was from the first inevitable, for, unless France meant to invade Belgium, there is but little scope for the continuance of a dispute which is confined almost entirely to one side, and the facts of which are very simple and meagre. The disturbance, therefore, is coming to an end. The official papers are evidently modify. ing their tone. The Con,stitutionnel assures us, with a sort of Olympian dignity, that such a " trifling affair" could not be allowed to trouble the peace of the world—a consequence which few, except some of the most violent, apprehended. The Memorial Diplo2natique says the Belgian Ambassador here has had an interview with the Marquis de Lavalette, at which he read a despatch justifying the attitude taken by the Belgian Government. M. Van der Stichelen, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, dwells particularly on the circumstance that his Government, several weeks before the conclusion of the arrangement between the two companies interested, had duly warned them of the impossibility of giving its con sent. But as the companies did not take any account of the difficulties imposed on the Belgian Government, the fusion had to be interdicted by a special law. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a letter to the Prefect of Police, in which he announces that all excesses at the public meetings held under the new law shall be rigorously repressed. This is intended not to interfere with, but "rather to promote" all just freedom of expression. On the whole, in this paternally governed country such a resolution is wise. The right of public meeting is becoming of great importance, no fewer than nine being announced for this evening. If rational politics were allowed to be discussed it is less likely that these violent socialist doctrines would be promulgated, and the interferenc e of the law would not be needed. Re pression on the one hand produces excess on the other. But if the Government forbid politics it certainly ought not to tolerate socialist nonsense. Most of the Paris papers say something about the Queen's Speech, but few of them deem it of any impor tance. The absence of allusion to foreign matters, which you noted in your leader, proves that England cares less about foreign politics than formerly, but this fact has itself the effect of making England's influence in foreign policy of less moment. Years ago no question could be mooted without grave considerations of the course which England would take ; now Continental statesmen trouble themselves to a much less extent about the tight little island. In truth, they find very little encouragement in a nation which is more and more withdraw. ing itself from external affairs. England has enough of her own business to attend to, and it would be well if other States would make a similar dis covery. Hence the comments of the journals hero are very little noteworthy. The Etendard complains of the vague generalities in the Queen's Speech--rather neat from a paper which supports the sovereign who makes the vaguest and most general of speeches. The Opposition journals draw the usual contrast, highly flattering to Englishmen, between the two countries. I see the Genii, a Spanish paper published in Paris, con tradicts absolutely all statements respecting an amalga. mation of the interests of Don Carlos and Queen Isabella. The denial is worth notice, for the Genii is the organ of Don Carlos. A prisoner on trial in Paris, being asked the usual ques tions, said he objected to the judges, and strengthened his objection by including in it all the judges in France. These were prejudiced against him, he knew they were. They had already condemned him five times ! In the Meurthe department a schoolmaster has founded an association for the preservation of birds' nests. Every one of his pupils is enrolled. Last year, out of 347 nests, the young broods were perfectly hatched and brought up in 318. The example might be advantageously copied in England, not only because the destruction of young birds in country districts is great, but because of the moral effects of such training. At St. Petersburg the Russians seem to be going mad about Patti. A box at the second representation] was paid for at the rate of £l2B, and an arm-chair in the twelfth row cost £24. These are merely specimens c' extravagant prices. A strange case of abduction is reported from Berlin. A little girl, 9 years old, was being conducted along the street by her governess, on her way to school, when she was suddenly snatched up by a well-dressed man, and thrust into a carriage in which a veiled female was seated. Before the governess could recover her presence of mind the vehicle was out of sight. The affair took place in the heart of the capital. TILE TEEATILEA TABLE -THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme Sea Friday, 1...... F = . ; F. 1 Feb. 19, B. T. ' ' W. I. to F. D. WR. to 8 a.m. ' 12 ----- --- -- I -- 9 Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields .. Scarborough 29'9fr. 39 38 W.S.W. 2 2 W. c. I 2 Yarmouth 29'B7r. 37 36 W.S.W. 2 3 S. r.f. ;o'l3 2 fielder - Cux haven Skudesna3s Ardros san Greencastle 29 98r. 45 ,44 N.W. 1 4 W. c.r. 111•09, — Holyhead i — Liverpool Valentia Cape Clear — —I —__ Roch c's Pt 3o'o7r. 42 41 N.N.W. 3 3 N.N.W. b. -- 1 Penzance Plymouth . Weymouth 30'05r. 41 40 W.N.W. 1 1 S.W. c.f. 2 Portsmouth 30'02r. 39 38 Z. 0 3 W.S.W. o f.,0'03' 1 London ~. 30'01r: 36 36 W.S.W. 1 4 S.W. obf o'o2 '-- C'peGrisNez 30'03r. 43 41 W. 4 7 W. c.b.l 1 Brest _r. OL2O .... 7 L'O den t Roche fort Biarritz Corunna — _ _ _— Brussels ... • _ __ Paris Strasbourg. . _ _ _ _ .... _ _ Toulon 2 3o'2of. 50 E.N.E. 7 5 S.S.E. r.o. 6 Heart's Con tent (9 a.m. local time) __ _ .... _ ..... XXPLA NATION Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 der , . at .., 1......., Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. Thy letter r, ris i ng ; f. falling ; s, steady—i n di cates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Ther mometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; e.—clouds, detached ;f. - fog h.—hall ; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o. — overcast, dull r,-- ra i n ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, ,w or hail melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance, REMARKS. Since yesl - erday morning pressure h as continued to increase at almost all stations, the change being more rapid in the west than elsewhere. In the SW. of France (at Biarritz) a decrease has occurred. Readings are very uniform. Temperature has decreased. generally in Great Britain and France, but has iisen sligh tly in Ireland Winds this morning are light and variable. They are south-westerly in the east, but have veered to N.W. and N. at western stations ; and easterly winds have appeared in the west of Prance, producing a thick fog in the Channel. A little rain has fallen in places, and hail at Greencastle . The sky this morning is partially cloudy, with f og on ecoast. VAGRANCY AND CRIME.-DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECNETARY. The Home Secretary yesterday received a deputa- tion from the county magistrates of Surrey, who presented to him a memorial agreed upon by the justices at Epiphany Sessions on the subject of vagrancy and the relief of the casual poor. The memorial complained that the present system of indiscriminate relief tended to in. crease the number of paupers, and to give encouragement to vagrancy. The deputation was introduced by Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., and amongst others present were the Hon. F. Scott, the Hon. W. Brodrick, M.P., and Mr. George Cubitt, M. P. The HOME SECRETARY, in reply, assured the deputation that he felt with them the importance of the subject, and that it was one that ought to be dealt with. He and Mr. Goschen had had the matter under their consideration, and had been considering how best the evil, which was admitted to be a great one, could be remedied. More than this he could not say; They saw the difficulty, they felt it must be grappled with, and would do what was possible in the matter. The Hon. F. SCOTT complained that that was the usual reply. The late Government bad given the same assurance, but had not fulfilled its promises. Mr. BRUCE hoped what he had said would he sufficient, for further he could not go. At the same time he hoped at the end of the sessions there would be no cause for complaint. Lord Hartington will be returned without difficulty for the Radnor boroughs. lie has agreed to purchase, says a contemporary, the residence of the vacating member, Mr. Green Price, wLo was elected last time without a contest for this greatest of rural political retreats. Judgment s given yesterday by the Judicial Corn mate° of the Privy Council in the case of the Rev. J. C. Edwards v. Moss. This Ns as an appeal against a sentence of fivo years' suspension inflicted on Mr. I Edwards by the Court of Arches. Lord 'Westbury gave the judgment of their lordships, and after de ciding that two legal points raised were untenable, ho proceeded to consider the facts of the case as to Darnel Martin, and after a careful view of evidence, held that a criminal nnection had taken place between them. As to his con duct with the other young woman Hyam, it was open to great scandal. But on the other case tho judgment would proceed. It was a case of great enormity and aggravation, and their lordships would recommend that the sentence of the Dean of Arches be confirmed. Tho Appeal woulci bo dismissed with cots. POLICE .1.:A1 .TELLIGENCE—Y7tis Pay. MARL BOROUGH-S TREE T. Morris Cowan and William Fiber, the former giving his address at Whitechapel and the latter in Marylebone, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a watch and having another in their possession. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners. WESTMINSTER. ORVEL ROBBERY.—Mary Jackson, an elderly- woman, was placed a t th e b ar charged with robbing Maria Coc k" rell, 3G, George_street, Chelsea. Prisoner was remanded. THAMES. ATTEMPT TO 3/11;RDER A POLlCEMAN.—Frederick Rote' a stout, powerful man, employed by the Great Northern Railway Company at Poplar, was brought before Paget charged with assaulting and wounding a policeman named Alfred Sturgeon, 90 K. The constable stated that he was on special duty this morning at two o'clock in Reeve-street, Poplar. The pri soner passed him in company with two men and a wen ia ' and said to Lim, " There's a - stop ; are you watching . me ?" He requested the prisoner to move on, and n ot interfere with him or the duty he was upon. The prisonoL. immediately struck him on the eye and knocked hi m tlevvoi He got up an d stopped the prisoner, who made US° of throats, and flun g hi m on t h e ground. A struggle t°°,l place, they roll e d over eac h other in the mud and dirt, an the prisoner took a clasp knife from his pocket and tempted to stab him. The struggle continued, and the prisoner cut his finger. By a violent effort he got the knife from the prisoner, and assistance being rendered the p ry soner was taken into custody. The constable then e ,; * hibited his clothes, w hi c h was covered with bloo d an' filth. He lost a good deal of blood, his rattlo was brolie ll, and he was much hurt. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week. THE DOUBLE MURDER AT POPLAR• It is believed that the police are on the track of ill man Cooper suppo se d t o b e th e murderer of his w if e and an old man named Pearson. On Sunday afternoo n man answering to his description, went to the rackrset office at Dover, an d t r i e d to o b tain a cheap passage to "1,,a- Nis, but was told he could get a ticket on board. did not, however, apply on board, the police being in waiting for him. He is believed to be the same O n who applied to a steamer from Rotterdam bound t) -Afr iny e ti for a berth as e ng i neer, b ut h i s services wore declined. lA° had come from Folkestone, as he was seen there on ill. Thursday, and had a conversation with a man who noticed that the thumb of his left hand was gone. Tho police, coast guard, railway stations, and shipping offices in Essex, Mi nts ' Kent, and Suss ex h ave h a d i n f ormation sent to them o f the supposed whereabouts of the murderer A NATIONAL ARMY. Mr. H. Cole, C.D., h as rea d a paper on the "Efficienci and f Economy of a N a ti ona l Army " at a meeting o f the SonietY,4° Arts. He maintained that at least ono-half of our milit a a expenditur e was unnecessary, and that nothing could Ocus, the size cf our great standing force. Notwithstanding tia - failures which had t a k en p l ace in the Crimean war we 'wer e not much better off now, and ho did not think that the cent success of tho British forces in Abyssinia qualified 111 : assertion, for that was a sc i ent i fic expedition. War ni us now be looked upon as a word and a blow, and the victor/ would bo to those who were ready first with tb f e best arms. Mr. C o l e a d vocated the desirability " having trained men, and to effect this end ho would make "drill" a part of the national education. Sir Charles l're velyan said that the question was, whether a standing or f popular army was the hest ? France fully proved the vantages of the latter system, and we must determine till making groat chang es i n our m ili tary arrangements. 610 W. Denison exp resse d hi s di sapprobation of Mr. C o lefi scheme, and the discussion was brought to a close. FIGHT BETWEEN LEOPARDS. Manders' Menagerie is becoming famous for sensationl'i encounters with wild beasts. A terrible fight bet We e:: two of the la rges t l eopards took place the other night . is usual bef ore f ee di ng to place large moveable elides to separate the animal s w hil e f ee di ng. While preparing t°ds this the keep er had difficulty in keepin g th e two 1 1 8 0 leopards fro m engag i ng i n a combat, and no sooner ha d turned his ba c k t o b r i ng up t h e slide, than there W 3/ O To howl, and the t wo h a d commenced to fight. Both anin 3li , boldly confront e d eac h ot h er; crouching down, lashing their sides with th e i r t a il s, and, making a spring, t hey fell hea v ily, l oc k e d i n each other ' s ' embrace. struggle that followed was long and fierce. Mr. Man used every endeavour to separate the infuriated combata nt ' but all with no avail. He then procured a long s crap er and dealt each a blow, which had the effect o f se parati tl g them, only to renew the fight with greater fierceness. .3 131{i 6 asecond spring, they both fell with a fearful crash on the floor; the larger one seized the other by the shoulder, hr et ti ing the fore foot ; the other laid hold of the fleshy pa rt i s the back. The struggle was still great, and the anima rolled together over and over. Mr. Manders by this WO had had the slide brought, and, dealing one a blow wi th large piece of iron, and causing it to release its hold an slouch to the other side, the slide was placed in P ° , ll - f i. tion. One was left prostrated on the floor and badly hurt, the blood flowing freely and the fore leg being broken in several places, and beyond recovery. Mr. Alm l , ci m e . o then procured some prussic acid and poisoned it. I— fe leopard had received a compound fracture of the near fc) . A . leg and the scapula ; in fact, all the bones were sinaa ll ' - ' the largest piece being only two inches, and the flesh W ill into ribbons, and one of the claws was torn off. The Marquis of Bute has received the sacrame of confirmation in the private chapel of the Pope. Mr. Drag, M.P. for Wareham, is at present VI so ill at hi s t own res id ence that the most serious fears 9:" entertained as to the result. The Royal Court House at St. Helier's, i: 'Terse/6' has been broken i n t o f or t h e purpose of obtaining 13005 e sion of an import an t d ocument referring to a case nor ". foro the Court. The attempt was not successful. General Renard has left Brussels for Paris. li t : is the bear e r o f an au t ograph letter from King Leopold the Empero r o f th e F renc h , explaining that the bill o n to Belgian ra il ways h as purely a financial bearing and 71°.t • strategical one. The investigation of the charges against 31t. Haynes, the former attorney to Madame Rachel, if° 1 ; sumed yesterday b e f ore M aster Maule Smith, a t the i r gt ho ing Master' s Offi ce , Q ueen ' s Bench. Representatives o f press were excluded. So large was the amount voluntarily sent ill to o the committee to which the management of Mr. Gladstone re-election for Gr eenw i c h was entrusted, that it has b°8 0 decided to return to subscribers of 10s. and upwards, three' sevenths of the amount of their contributions. The London correspondent of the MandteSte Guardian has the following:—" I am sorry to sa y tha t have seen very unfavourable letters to-day from Wasbin,g; ton and Bo s t on regard i ng the probability of the ratif i ca ti! by the Senate of the Clarendon-Johnson Convention. I t I am afraid, too true that the President Elect o uterl o strong opinions on th e i m p rac ti ca bl e question of E n glau concession of belligerent rights to the South." On Wednesday the Leeds Corporation offered for sal: a portion of some land which they had purchased but did 11 : t require. The site at the corner of Albion-street, at Pro se e , occupied by Mr. Alfr e d L ea, was purchased by that g°lltlte man for £53 per sq uare yar d . The property on the ePP°,,,-i side, occupied by Mr. Strickland, realised £4O per yard; was purchased for Mr. Holmes, of the Mercantile Bank' A declaration recording the accesssion of Af ec n ic ; lenberg-Schwerin, Mecklenberg-Strelitz, Lauenbergt ° 5, Lubeck to the t rea t y o f commerce of May, IS „ 6 e s between G rea t B r i tain and the Zollverein , , has w" - 00 published, as w e ll as a d ec l arat i on recording the nec essi of Mecklenburg -S c h wer i n t o t h e treaty of navigat i o n sign ed between Great Britain and Prussia in August, 1865 . t , In a case b ear d a t th e B r i stol county c ourt a I v i l a floss was called w h o o bj ec t e d to b e sworn. On 13 ,, 1 1 0 asked by the cou r t w h a t hi s re li g i ous denominat i on wi, llo said ho was a mem b er o f an American sec t called of Christos Adelphos." H e b e li eve d h o was t h e o nly o ne' thg t the denominati on i n E ng l an d . O n assuring t h e co urt via he conscientiously obj ec t e d t o t a ki ugan oat h , h e w as allo ° to give his evidence without doing so. On Tuesday mo rn i ng th e b o d y o f a man , oo o 0, parently about forty y ears o f age, was f oun d on the if near Ramsgill, in Nidderdale. The features were 6ca i t he recognisable. It i s su pp ose d th e man may h ave lain tiott place where he was f oun d f ur upwards of a f or t n ight ; cute he had been trying t o cross th e moor l an d f or a s horter r ° into Lancashire in search of employment, and in doing had gone astray and perished in the wet and cold. The newly-married wife of the Duke of Letic hteli t ; i berg, son of the Grand D uc h ess M ar i e Ni co luievuni s so receive for herself and descendants the title of Collets ae of Beauharnais. The decree sets forth that bY of organic law of the Empire the Duke's title came pass to his childr e n, nor can the title of Duc h es s be took by his wife. It a dd s, however, that the marri a g e be place with the full consent of the e EmP erur. Thi s is .11 first time that a morganatic marriage h a s been l orvi rls l sanctioned in Russi a , an d i t i s thought now that Ire F ed. recognition will be given to other unions of the paw kip reds Ing Shal Wit' Sub of th e . and I „ , 144 t p, titl ut Bra I n o * 4 AT ot ! llttt;`, '0*1( Pei Yet Pel £1; Rol ritl ; Z 6( Leo