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The COURT of DIRECTORS of the East and West India Deck Company II Ii.!REISY GIVE NOTICE, That &Half-yearly Court or General Meeting of the said Company will he held— pursuant to the directions of kct let and 2nd William IV., cap. 52—at the Deck House No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the 1. th day of July next, for the purpose of choosing and appoint ing Directors in the room of those going out of office by rotation. The Directors retiring by rotation on the present occasion offt.r themselves for re-election. At this Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the Half-yeas ending the 30th June. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Eecretary3 East and West India Dock House, Billiter-square, 6th July, 1869. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at two o'c'.ock precisely. p UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital.. Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN Frederick H. 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THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL This EvimNd, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo 13e1- more and Mrs Leigh 111 urray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web ster, Mr H. Nev:lle. Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. fie. A nd DID YOU EVER SEND YOUtt WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Edmore. THEATRE-ROYAL, lIOLBORN. • THIS EVENING, at - .3n ' THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Con per, Mr. G. Honey, Ir. C. o.oghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin, Mrs. C. Ilorsman, &c. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Ins EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss B&W:a. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; 1. esdames Goodall. Lydia Maitland. Buftnn. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF TIIE CLIANNEL. Mr. D. James. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TmM EVENING. at 7. GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS, 7.45, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 1^.15, Mahnle Scene from the "Cor sican Bothers." 10.;5, The Owl's Roost, from "So iety." ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tnis EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLID A Y. Followed by A ROVING COM SiISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Dancers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALE•S'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TIIIS EVENtNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss 111arie 'Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CRRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and :2aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL II AMBICA PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offic( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL A G A.RDENS, Regeres- - paik, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Adwission, le.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6(1 ' 8t... v4 4 44 . ,* . o . • - ._pf Q lag, 44-1144 LONDON, SATVRDAY, JULY 100869. In the midst of the most exciting and the most contradictory rumours in regard to the Irish Church Bill—namely, as to whether, after all, there will be any legislation whatever in regard to it this session— it seems really pitiful to note the frivolities in the way of small-talk occupying the attention of the House of Con.mens last evening. An extraordinary meeting of Irish Conservative Peers takes place this day at the Duke of BERCOP,N'S. •An ominous silence is - maintained by our two chief morning Liberal con teinporaries—Jupiter Tonans and Jupiter Junior— in respect to the intention; of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment. Another leading, contemporary, the fashion able Conservative-Liberal organ, is silent, almost as significantly. The mouthpiece of the Ultra-Liberal Independent Member of the Cabinet, simul taneously comments, with sinister derision, upon the tinkering recently applied by the Lords- to a tiny little pet scheme for the addition of two Life Peers annually to the collective wisdom of the Upper House, at the very time when changes of a '2l irk° THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10, ic.69. rather more comprehensive character are being seriously meditated, in regard to the thorough and radical reorganisation, if not transformation, of that hitherto, as our contemporary regards it, fossilized or mummyfied, high and dry, section of the Legislature. While the Cabinet's liberal supporters among the morning newspapers are either dumb as to the actual " situation," or simply suggestive of what is brew ing in the way of a Ministerial retaliation upon the Lords, en revanche for their Amendments, the Daily News speaks right out, goes manfully to the point at once, without the smallest attempt at or affectation of anything whatever in the shape of circumlocution—insisting upon it that, the Peers having declined point blank, and very peremptorily, to bow to the decision of the House of the Com mons, a House elected upon this very question of the Irish Church, and therefore directly represent ing the opinions entertained in respect to that pre cise question by the great mass of the poi ulation, one course, and one course only, is at this mo ment before the Chiefs of the Party now in power, as the members of Mr. G LADSTONE'S Administration. That course, it maintains, is simply the popularizing of the House of Lords, appealing for justification while so doing to the people out of doors. A collision between the two houses many are beginning to regard as at length a result quite inevitable. The Conservative Peers are angered at heart to the extent at least of being altogether unconciliatory. The Ministerialists are, on the other hand, indignant be yond measure at the utter transformation of the Bill by the introduction of the Lords' Amendments. Rather than accept these, it is conceived that the Cabinet, relying upon the support of the country, will signalize their rejection in the way already some time since proposed—namely, by abruptly closing the Session, calling the House together a little later on , rein troducing the Bill, and swamping the Lords by pouring into it a very considerable number of Liberal Peers. At amomentous juncture like this, when rumours of the most ominous character are filling the air, it seems simply preposterous that the llouse of Com mons should be frittering away its time, as it was last evening, over such a frivolous discussion as the one provoked by the member for County Kerry in regard to a vitally important question as to whether there shall or shall not be henceforth a grating to the Ladies' Gallery. Scanning, however cursorily, the ridiculous and fribbling talk there was over night upon this topic, one cannot but recognise in the whole thing—so much "excellent fooling." Fooling so nonsensical of its kind that those who took part in it, somehow, seemed incapable of opening their lips without blundering into some extravagantly absurd gaucherie. Thus, the very proposer—or as he deemed himself probably but most mistakenly, the chivalrous proposer—of the motion " That in the opinion of this House the grating in front of the Ladies' Gallery ought to be removed," while complaining that the said gallery was very dark, very hot and very low roofed, observed indignantly, that " The temperature there was always nearly four degrees higher than in the rest of the House." At which everybody laughed—when the hon. member replied with some warmth, " It was all very well for hon. gentlemen to laugh, but they were there for their pleasure—(renewed laughter)—while the ladies came to listen to them ; and" added Mr. HER BERT, with an absurd lapsus, " it was a very poor compliment to the ladies to put them in a place in which they were to be confined— (great laughter)"—and so forth ! With no less preposterous extravagance of diction or of farcical phraseology, Mr. JOHNSON, in seconding the motion of the member for Kerry, declared that the present Black Hole of Calcutta, (meaning of Vv'estininster) was worse even than the stowing of the ladies, as of old, away in the ventilator—backing up la's preference by the coincident evidence of " his predecessors of both sexes," at which the house roared again, the honourable member ad ling a cor rection hardly less laughter-moving by reason o! i's naif gravity—" by thos3 of a former generation then if th 3 House preferred that expression ! " Mr. BERES F ORD HOPE rendered himself hardly one jot less absurd, in his turn, whether by his serious inquiry as to what was, in point of fact, the object of a Ladies' Gallery at all—" Was it," he asked, " to enable a certain number of ladi , s to add one more to the number of evening parties, and come down here in their - best dresses, or was it to allow ladies to enjoy one or two hours of ra tional, intellectual enjoyment in their morning dresses and bonnets, without being molested by impertinent glances? (Indignant cries of "Oh !)" Mr. BERESFOIhD HOPE closing his serio-comic address by deprecating the notion of their adding " a flirting lobby" to the House of Commons. The younger Mr. SAM UELSON, the recently-elected member for Chelten ham, thereupon added his quota to the nonsense, intentional or inadvertent, contributed upon this matter last night to the debates in Parliament ! Actually, in the course of his maiden speech, bungling into the statement that " With regard to the assertion that ladies would not come if the grating were removed, because they would have to appear in evening dress, he did not think that argu ment applied for a moment, because it was the custom for ladies and gentlemen to appear in full dress or neither. (Roars of laughter.)" "Hon. gentlemen might laugh [he, too, exclaimed indignantly, while precipitately correcting himself], bat he believed he was quite correct in what he had stated—(renewed laughter)—anfl it was no more necessary for a lady to come in full dress than for any hon. member to appear in evening dress." Such being the frivolous, fribbling, frittering small talk applied to the discussion of this momentous question, upon the eve of a political crisis, that, by bringing the Lords and Commons into actual collision, may necasitate or prepare the way for a radical change in the Constitution ! AT the last moment the Lords have come to the ' same opinion of the Life Peerages Bill as we expressed at the first moment. The bill is at once too large and too small. It is both revolutionary and " tinkering." To pass a measure altering the constitution of one branch of the Legislature, and at the same time to restrict that alteration to the ludicrously minute minimum which the bill proposed, is most unwise and unstates manlike. Lord Russzu. wished to surrender the principle of an hereditary peerage, and to introduce life peers. This proposal may be wise; but if it be so, why restrict it to two peers a year ? If it be unwise, two peers are two too many. The idea that the introduction to the Upper House of the two most popular men living would popularise such an aristocratic assembly as the House of Lords, simply shews how far removed from popular sentiment are the peers who entertain the idea. If, as seems too probable, the Lords determine to throw out the Irish Church Bill rather than give way upon their principal amendments, what would two life peers—what would the maximum number which can exist at any time—twenty-eight—avail to prevent that decision ? The recent majorities in the Upper against the bill, as large as those in the Lower - House for it, have been composed of professed Liberals as well as professed Conservatives. The truth is that when Liberal politicians get into the Upper House they undergo so great a change under the aristocratic influences which surround them that they unconsciously imbibe ideas alien from those held by the great bulk of the nation. In any assembly, therefore, in which the hereditary element prevails there will always be a strong bias on the side of Conservatism, et whole sale creation of Liberal peers may correct that bias for a time, and enable a great measure to be carried; but it will not permanently alter the character of the assembly, and each fresh enlarge ment will render even a temporary alteration more difficult. No doubt a large infusion of life peers would be of more avail ; but then it must be a large infusion, and not the homoeopathic proportion sug gested by the Lords themselves. There is another reason why Lord RussimL's bill should have been thrown out. If it had passed the Lords it would have gone down to the Commons at a time of all others most unfavourable for the con sideration of this question. Assuming that the Lords insist upon having their way with regard to the Irish Church Bill, the question will then arise, not in an abstract, but in a very practical and pressing shape, Which House is to give way when the two cannot agree ? To have presented this Life Peerages Bill at such a serious moment would have been not only to provoke a very strong manifestation of feeling, but to invite the embodiment of it in a sweeping measure. It is quite possible that a great constitutional change like that which the Peers have had under conside ration cannot be brought about except under pressure and excitement. But we have not yet had proof of this ; and as we would far rather see so serious a matter discussed with freedom and calmness than decided with heat and haste, we would have it postponed to a more convenient season. It is still possible that the wisdom which the Peers shewed in reading the Irish bill a second time may cause them to see the absurdity of destroying the measure whose principle theyhave sanctioned. Should that be the case, there will be abundance of time for deliberation upon this other great constitutional question. Should a different result unhappily take place, it will be no time for considering trivial reforms like this. Pills will not avail to cure earth quakes. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUBIN.TALS. The Times observes that notice has been given of at least two attempts to modify the provisions of the Irish Church Bill before it is returned to the COMMOUL There will be an attempt to take another vote on the principle of the Duke of Cleveland's proposal. Our opinion in favour of the policy of that proposal remains unchanged, and it has beenindeed confirmed with singular unanimity by persons of free and independent thought, yet we cannot conceal from ourselves that the suggestion will probably meet the same fate as it expe. rienced last week. We have reason to believe that the Cardinal• Legate convened the leading members of the Roman Catholic Church, and intimated his opinion that gratitude to the Government for past favours should con strain all Catholics to vote for the Ministry on this issue, and it need not be added that an opinion from such a quarter is equivalent to a command. If the Ministry themselves saw in the Duke of Cleveland's proposal the means of reconciling their own promises with religious equality, the Catholic peers would support them in accept ing it, as otherwise in rejecting it. But, whatever may be the result on Monday—and Lord Russell declared on Friday that he had not given up hope—we shall have the satisfac tion of knowing that our testimony has been given on the side of reason, policy, and justice. The Daily News declares that it would have been well for themselves if the Peers had considered whither the path leads in which, in spite of prudent advice, they persist in marching. Like some incautious mountain travellers, they may find it narrowing as they advance, until it leaves them with an abyss at their feet at a point whence they cannot move forward. The only course then open to them will be a retreat, which cannot be dignified, which must be difficult, and which may even be dangerous. Into such an impasse as this the Lords are blindly hurrying. Lord Clanricarde sees it to be abso lutely impossible that the Government, the House of Commons, the country should accept the bill which the Lords have substituted for the original measure. The Upper House will, then, have two courses before •it. It must acquiesce in the rejection of its own amendments ; or it must throw out the bill. The result will be a new bill, possibly of a more stringent character than that now before Parliament, and a new House of Lords devised for the express purpose of passing it. The constitutional obstacle in the way, not only of one particular measure, but of the harmonious action of the two Chambers, will have to be removed by the creation of new peers. Considerations of wider range than those arising from the controversy of the present session point to the necessity of some such step as this. The Star says that the Government are pledged to nothing, unless the royal grant glebes of Ulster are treated by the Peers as part of the general property of the Irish Church. The discussion made a great impression on those who heard it, and it left wounds, the rankling of which may, perhaps, affect the temper of the discussions in the House of Commons. Be this as it may, it will greatly cheer the spirits of the country. Lord Denbigh's decla ration shed new and welcome light on the concurrent endowment question, for one thing ; and for another, Ministers have repelled with indignation the overtures of those who would induce them to re-endow the minority Church with millions of money sacred to the use of the whole Irish people. Opposition Peers have confessed, by their excitement on the subject of the Government promise, that they do not rely upon their numerical strength to secure for the Church any advan tage whatever. After all their vapouring, their only hope lies in a few and slight concessions which the Government have made. The Telegraph thinks that the advocates of "concurrent endowment" cannot read the signs of the times. In the name of the Irish Roman Catholic Prelates, Lord Denbigh bluntly told them that no scheme of indiscriminate endow ment would be accepted by the Irish Roman Catholic Church. At another stage of the bill he expressed a dif ferent opinion ; but, as explained on Friday night, he bad then been misinformed, and a council of the Roman Catholic prelates, which was held the other day, has set the matter at rest. As for the country, the Commons, and the Government, their minds are finally made up on the subject. On no condition will they sanction religious inequality, and on no condition will they sanction " concurrent endowment." To borrow an expres sion from Mr. Gladstone's speech on the first reading, that decision is written with a pen of adamant. The more sweeping the changes which the Peers make in the bill, the more imperatively are the Commons called upon to restore the original outlines of the measure. It is asked, says the Saturday Review, what is to happen if the Lords insist on their amendments, and whether it would not be better to have a bill embodying a compro mise than no bill at all. What is to be done if the Lords insist on these amendments may .be discussed if it turns out that they do insist on them. But the first thing is to decide whether the bill shall be restored substantially to its former shape, and be dropped if the Lords will not accept it in this shape, or whether a till answering none or scarcely any of the purposes for which Mr. Gladstone introduced his measure shall be got through, in order that it may be said a bill of some sort has been made law. There can, we think, be no hesitation whatever in the minds of those who approve the bill as orig:nally framed. Let the bill be dropped altogether for this session rather than have a bill not worth having. If the Lords wish, when pressed, to give way, something may be done very easily to smooth the path of retreat for them. Many concessions were made by the Government through Lord Granville while the bill was in committee, and the amendments which the Lords would have to withdraw are not at all numerous. They might be allowed to seem to have done a few good turns for their clerical friends, provided they quietly reverse such decisions as that respecting the Ulster glebes, which in the twink ling of an eye puts a million of money into the pocket of the disendowed Church. But there are clear limits to the possibility of compromise ; and if the Lords really mean to maintain their theory of the bill against the theory which has found acceptance with the Commons, the Government, it is to be hoped, will not waver for an instant, but will face all the consequences of the bill being dropped, rather than see their measure deprived of the greater part of its power of doing good. Mr. Gladstone's bill must become law if the constituencies support it. The only question is, whether the issue shall again be taken directly or in a special autumn session, or early next year. This is only a matter of detail, although it would involve some difficult questions which the Ministry could only decide after ascertaining, as they best could, the temper of the country. But, at the worst, it could only involve a delay of a few months, and it would be much better to wait than to hurry through a bad measure now, in order to have the poor pleasure of saying that an Irish Church Bill was really passed before July was over. The Spcctator declares that the Lords must yield in conference nearly all they have taken ,in committee, and so surrender precisely the thing for which they were most interested, their own appearance of power as an indepen dent House. Nor can they wrap themselves up in their dignity, and say that wisdom and statesmanship have been defeated by prejudice, for they have brought their defeat entirely upon themselves. Never was there such a muddle as their management of business on Friday se'nnight. The majority changed their leaders half•a dozen times in one evening, now voting with Lord Gran ville, then with Lord Salisbury, then with Lord Cairns ; took half an amendment and rejected the other half ; con. sidered every proposition on the plan of the simpleton who took about a brick as a specimen of his house; and generally behaved more like a mob than a great party acting at a grave crisis. They would neither say what they wanted, nor let anybody else say it ; would obey no general, and follow no standard ; but kept making undisciplined little rushes whenever they saw a fair chance of plunder, or of flaunting even for a moment the standard of ascendancy. And all this, while they are fighting a leader whom they dread at least as much as they dislike, and who, as they are never tired of saying, has drilled his army into an obedience almost abject. The scene in committee has destrDyed all the moral force the Peers had obtained from the debate on the second reading. That, no doubt, was a great achievement ; but it was an achievement carried through by the officers, whom the rank and file immediately after refused to obey con sistently. The Lords who speak may be able revisers of the Commons' decrees, but the Lords. who vote seem incapable of conducting business so as to secure the results they themselves at heart desire. At the last moment they would not have the very compromise they wished, and cannot be either surprised or offended if they , obtain no other. The John Bull says that the great question of the day is concurrent endowment. To deny the difficulties of the : l uestiun would be childish. On principle, of course, we, who object to the alienation of Church property at all, and who thereforq wish to defeat the bill, do not approve of it. But having been defeated on the second reading, the question is, What is the Lest course, on - moral and religions grounds, now to adopt? We conscientiously believe that the amendment of the Duke of Cleveland would have done far less to advance the interests of the Church of Rome than the scheme of the Government. For while the bill proposes to devote the money to purely secular uses—which we believe sacrilegious—it really places the whole'control of the money in the bands of an irresponsible priesthood. For who will manage the hos. pitals, lunatic asylums, and other similar institutions? Practically the Roman Catholic priests. It is surely pre• ferable to provide them with suitable residences, and at the same time to maintain the great principle that money °nee applied to religiaus use shall not be secularised. From a purely party point of view, the division on the Duke of Cleveland's amendment was, no doubt, a fortu• 1140 0114 ; for an APPLALlQAkecontryin_likyour . ot Cone mrrent endowment would, we admit, have been disastrous. From a political stanilpoint we sympathise to a great !xtent with the Protestant feeling of the country, to which the House of Lords would have given effect had ~hey rejected the bill. We believe that the practical iffect of the measure will be to establish the Church of Rome still more firmly in Ireland, and that to leave the existing Church of Ireland in poverty will still further sid her. The division on Friday week, no doubt, shews that the No•Popery cry is still a power in the country, - sompelling statesmen, for their own purposes, to act against their convictions ; but when men are induced to reflect calmly, they willbe convinced that in reality the Government scheme is more favourable to the secret and unrestricted influence of Rome than some such scheme as the Duke of Cleveland's. The Economist thinks that the prospects of a ne Bankruptcy Bill becoming law are at length very good. Another important stage in the progress of the measure has been completed by its second reading in the House of Lords ; and the bill ought now to be substantially safe. Whatever alterations the Peers may make, they are not likely to go against the principle—the adoption of the Scotch system as the English mode of bankruptcy pro cedure. This was the principle of the last abortive bill introduced into the House of Lords, and it is so strongly demanded by the commercial world that there is nothing else at present that would satisfy those interested. The bill, as it now comes before the Lords, is also substati. tinily what it has remained through all the amendments. The machinery for administering estates in bankruptcy, and the regulations for the bankrupt's discharge—the peculiar points in bankruptcy law—are very much what they were. We retain the doubts we have several times expressed as to whether the Scotch system will answer here ; but we are glad to see that the experiment will have a fair chance under a good working bill. Among other fortunate circumstances, the new bankruptcy statute has not been appreciably lengthened in its final progress through committee, and it will be a compendious piece of legislation. The steps necessary in bankruptcy after the bill becomes law will be few and simple. The first meeting of the creditors follows immediately the adjudication of bankruptcy, and the trustee and committee of inspection are appointed at once. There is no delay of any sort, but the creditors enter into possession and appoint their administrators almost as soon as the bankruptcy has been declared. After that there is no other legal intervention until, the assets having been collected and distributed, an application is made to close the bankruptcy. The bankrupt it is true may apply for his discharge, but that is a separate matter. The creditors will also know whom to look to for their dividends. They have first of all the trustee ; but the trustee's duty to call a meeting of his committee every three months to audit his accounts and have a dividend declared, imposes a responsibility upon the members of that committee too. It seems impossible, under a regula• tion like this, that the scandal of estates neglected for years can occur. The matter perhaps will not be wholly dependent on the creditors. The trustee must forward every three months to the accountant in bankruptcy the accounts which he submits to his committee. If the accountant's audit is not to be a sham, irregularities will be quickly detected and removed. Of course no such official supervision will prevent extravagant or careless management, and it remains to be seen whether English creditors will shew unwonted vigilance about small money under the stimulus of the present law. 771 E WIMBLEDON MEETING- The business of the meeting commenced yesterday with most delightful weather, a brilliant sunshine, and a nice breeze from the south-west, which rendered the whole scene very agreeable and interesting. The final range in the first stage for the Queen's Prize was begun at 600 yards. After this all further com petition for the prize will be limited to the sixty who make the highest aggregate score in the three ranges of 200, 500, and 600 yards. In consequence of a noncompliance with the regula tions, the council seem determined to take the most energetic steps for putting down a most irregular pro ceeding, and with a firm hand. The following additional notice has been issued : "The scores made by Captain Hislop, 39th Middlesex ; Sergeant Hervey, 39th Middlesex; Sergeant Evans, Glamorgan ; and Private Holmes, Cambridge, for the Martini Prize ; and Captain Woods, 40th Middlesex ; Lieutenant Eddison, 7th West York ; Ensign Ford, 40th Middlesex ; Sergeant Hervey, 3rd London ; Private Tebbutt, sth Lincoln ; Private Morris, Ist Hants ; and R. Wright, sth Lancashire, fir 200 yards, Queen's Prize, have been disallowed on account of light pull of trigger." The following notice was also issued yesterday "The Whitworth Rifles and the National Rifle Associa tion Badges will he ready at the concert tent to-morrow (Saturday) where the qualified competitors can apply for them." For the Queen's Prize, up to twelve o'clock Colour-sergeant Sherlock, 20th Middlesex, had made an aggregate score of 42, but soon after that it was surpassed by Sergeant R. W. Witham, London Rifle Brigade, who made a total aggregate score of 43—via., 14 at 200, 15 at 500, and 14 at 600 yards. The highest score at this time made at the 600 yards alone was made by Sergeant Roberts, 38th Middlesex (Artists'), who scored 16 points. The next highest score at this range was that of Sergeant Hunt, of the 22nd Middlesex (Queen's Westminsters) who made 15 points. As the day advanced the wind became almost hushed, and the shooting improved. Private Andrews, of the St. George's, had made an aggregate of 45 points for the Queen's Prize, and it was considered almost certain that he would be the winner, and many of his comrades of the St. George's were almost ready to congratulate him upon his success. This feeling continued up to almost the last shots of the day, when the announcement was made that Private Kirk, of the Ist East York, had made 46 points. This was shortly before gunfire, and of course the news soon spread that he was the winner of the silver medal and silver badge of the association, besides the pleasant addition of £6O. The competition for the Windmill Prizes was re sumed and concluded, and at 200 yards Captain Madden, of the 18th Devon, NI ho made 20 points, took the first prize of £1!, and the following also took prizes of E 5 each :—Colour-sergeant Clews, Ord Renfrew,lo points : Sergeant Lane, Ist Gloucester, 19 ; Sergeant Mackenzie, Gth North York, 19; Private Chapman, 12th North York, 18. The following took prizes of £4 each :--Lieut. Cameron, 6th Inverness, 13 points ; Lieutenant Murdock, Ist Edinburgh, 18 ; Ensign Greve, 4th Roxburgh, 13 ; Sergeant-instructor Gilder, 18th Middlesex, 18 ; and Lieutenant Idell, 17th West York, 18. Amongst the well-known shots, Leete, of the Queen's Westminsters, has made an aggregate score of 39 for the Queen's Prize ; and at GOO yards Private Andrews, of the 11th Middlesex, made 16 points, and Lieutenant Angell, Ist London Engineers, made 17 points, SINGULAR FORTUNES OF A CONVICT. On Thursday, at the Birmingham Police-court, a sin gular case was brought before the magistrate's, illustra tive of the manner in which penal sentences are carried out. At the Warwick Assizes in March, 1851, before Mr. Baron Alderson, a man, named Joseph Marshall, was sentenced to death for a daring burglary and attempted murder committed in October previous. Heeley, a nephew of Marshall's, was imp!icated, and re ceived a like sentence. The carital sentence was commuted to one of transportation for life, and Marshall and Iloeley wore sent to the convict settlement in Western Australia. The former behaved well, and after working in a gang for four years he received a licence available only within the limits of the colony. After many vicissitudes of for tune Marshall saved some money, and returned to Eng land in 18(313. Ile had been earning an honest livelihood, and has kept clear of the police till this week, when some alleged misdeeds were laid bare, and he is now liable to have the sentence of imprisonment for life carried out. He will be committed again to take his trial in the same court where eighteen years ago ho received sentence of death from a judge whom ho has survived some years. Two children were poisoned to death in Liverpool on Thursday by eating mussels which they found on the bottom of a flat. The amount subscribed to purchase an annuity for the "Ex-Railway King," Hudson, has reached the sum of £1,500. The Suez Canal Company give notice that on And after the `2lst of November the charge for passage will be 10f. for each passenger or for each ton. The Globe attaches great importance to the state ment that the Government intends to create new peers to pass the Irish Church Bill. An inquest was held on Thursday at Islington on the body of James Nevill, aged twelve days, the illigitimate child of a domestic servant at Iluxton. The father is said to be Mr. Wallace, in whose service the mother was. Mrs. Wallace, having no children herself, had the child put out to nurse, and on Monday evening last, whilst tho nurse was from home, the child was stolen from its bed and shortly afterwards found dead on the pavement in Canon bury-place, having been violently suffocated ALLEGED MURDER AT SEA.—A Danish seaman named Jorenson has been landed at Great Yarmouth from a Danish vessel, charged with having caused the death of a lad, one of his shipmates. The circumstances have been reported to the Danish Consul in London. AIUSICAL ITEMS. Balfe has gone to Paris. Faure, the baritone, is ill, and has gone to drink the waters at Luxenil. Offenbach's "Porichele has been given at the theatre ih Rio de Janeiro. —Musical Standard. FORDHANI.—A misunderstanding took place between Capt. Machell and Fordham after the race won by Prince Imperial at Newmarket on Thursday. It appears that Captain Machell, not being satisfied with the running of Pericles, who was ridden by Fordharn , and having claimed Prince Imperil], expressed his intention of trying him With Pericles again ; and Ford Lam, considering that this would be an imputation on his character, felt justly very much annoyed, and has, for the present at least, deter mined not to ride for the stable. Mr. J. Farrer's colours are : —Blue, and amber-cross belts. The following assumed names have been registered:— Mr. J. Farrer, Mr. A. Barton. Tumult broke down while running in the Welter Plate at Sutton Park on Thursday. Achilles, the winner of a Selling Sweepstakes at New market yesterday, was claimed by Mr. Burcham. At the beginning of this season, Sunshine had twenty nine engagements, the forfeits of which amounted to £1,330. THE .ABYSSINIAN INQUIRY. The select committee of the Hulse of Commons, appointed to inquire into the causes of the large expendi ture incurred in the conduct of the Abyssinian war, resumed its sitting on Friday, Mr. Candlish in the chair. The other members present were—Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir John Hay, Mr. Sealy, Mr. White, Major Anson, Sir P. O'Brien, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Grant Duff, Sir James Elphinstone, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. Baxter, and Mr Holm. General Jamieson, auditor of home accounts at the India Office, General Pears, military secretary, and Mr. Seccombe, financial secretary at the same office, took their seats at the table together. General Jamieson was first examined. He said he was consulted in 1867 by Sir Stafford Northcote as to the expenses of the expedition. Witness obtained from the War Office the number of troops it was proposed to send out, and accounts of sums already spent in the military depart- Inuit ; he then calculated the expense of war rations and the cost of feeding the animals to be employed in the expedition, and by putting all these items together arrived at an estimate. He consulted nobody, but relied on his own judgment. His estimate up to the end of 1867 vas two millions, and an additional one million and a half to the end of the expedition. lie had had no means of comparing his estimate with the ultimate expenditure. lie esti mated in March that the expenditure would be in round numbers £600,000 per month, exclusive of the pay cf troops, that item being charged to the Indian Government. Ire calculated, in the first instance, that it would cost 2 millions to place an army fully equipped on the soil of Abyssinia, and that if this display of force was sufficient to bring liim g Theodoie to reason, that amount would include all the expenditure; but that if the army found it necessary to go np to Magdala there would be. an additional expenditure of 1:3 millions up to the end of A pril. The first estimate was made by witness, and in that the transport service was set down at £150,000 ; but ill the second estimate the item was increased to £400,000. The Chairman : Will you tell us on what date you made this calcu!ation? Witness : In the first instance very few transports were engaged ; we had not the slightest idea of the extent of the transport service until the return arrived. The Chairman : Then the first " estimate" of transport expenditure was a guess? Witness: No, not exactly. It was founded on the best information we could get. The Chairman: But we are told that although it was a rough estimate, it was made carefully. Witness : It was as careful as he could make it. It was, however, merely an attempt at an approximation to the amount. The witness, in further examination, said he thought the word " estimate" had been improperly applied to the early calculations, and it would have been better to call the first vote of Parliament a " vote on account." He never contemplated the responsibility of presenting the first estimate to Parliament. Mr. Ward Hunt appeared to be very much surprised at the amount of the second estimate. It was only as a matter of official courtesy and con• venience that he gave the information which was embodied in the form of estimates. By the Chairman : A much larger number of animals was landed on the coast than he esti mated. Want of water, the excessive fatigue, and the want of arrangements and of proper attendance led, moreover, to an enormous destruction of animals. Thirty-six thousand animals were landed at Annesley Bay. He estimated nothing like that number. Only 7,400 animals left. the bay at the close of the expedition. Thus the loss of animals was far in excess of what could reasonably have been estimated. About 29,000 animals died, for which he should be expected to receive £2O apiece. THE RIVAL PAUTIES IN IRELAND. —Placards have been posted at Cork, advising the Orangemen of the North to sick party differences, unite with the people of the South in the common cause, and wear orange and green. SUPPOSED MURDER, AT 'USK. —The man Thomas [tosser, who stands charged, on his own confession, with having murdered a woman named Jane Edwards, at Usk, in June 1867, has again been brought before the magistrates of the Usk district. The prisoner's state ment was read over, and Superintendent Davies stated, in addition, that on the same evening prisoner signed this statement he said, " I did it on a Saturday night following Whitsun Monday, two years ago." The prisoner was per fectly sober at the time. Anumber of witnesses were called, and deposed to having seen the prisoner in the Whitsun week of 1867 within a few miles of Usk. Arthur Day, whose parents keep a public-house at Llangibby, about three miles from Usk, saw a tall young man like the prisoner, with a short woman, in his father's house on Saturday before the Usk Trinity Monday Fair. A piece of the dress worn by the supposed murdered women and taken from the body at the time it was exhumed was identified by the witness as being similar to that worn by the woman he had referred to. The prisoner, who now denied having ever been in Usk, was committed for trial at the assizes. NEW MODE OF CREAPENING PIG IRON.— Mr. Richard Brown, of the Shotts Iron Company, Glasgow, hiss provisionally protected tin expedient for cheapening the production of pig iron, which has been well received by the Scottish ironmasters. Ironstone, after being calcined, according to the usual cuetom, is allowed to cool down, and in many instances is permitted to lie in heaps till the grass grows over the mound, while the time the char is absorbing moistur from the atmosphere of from 10 to 20 per cent. What Mr. Brown proposes is to remove the ore in as hot a condition as possible, and, at all events, before it reaches the temperature of the atmosphere. If removed in an incandescent state to the blast-furnace, it enters on its further stages as a protoxide instead of a peroxide of iron, is much lighter in weight, and a consequent saving is effected in the lordship, and also in its transmission by railway. Less fuel will also be required to convert ore so removed into pig-iron. There are other improve ments, and the saving from allAoliroes is estimated at from --_ Os. t0.51._fi10n.7.-Zuilder. ' zi e , .fe„.1,,, 4,•.__.„,__,..,„ Cilia A rin/i3 --... --c. ,, ,, ~...„„, :.) ..„.... HER, MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 9. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High. drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. nesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, went out this morning. The Queen held a Council this day at half-past one o'clock. LATEST INTELLMENGE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, July 9. The Prussian Consul-General at Havana has issued a ci►cular, through the German Consuls in the United States, cautioning Germans against joining the filibustering expeditions to Cuba, and stating that the insurrection in the island is rat idly subsiding since the enforcement of the neutrality laws by the United States. The Dacian (of the Anchor line) arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 136 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1361; the lowest, 1358. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1214. " 1885 ll9. 64 " 1867 ll7i. 10-40 Illinois Erie 2Bl. Cotton—Mil upland Petroleum—Standard White 3*. Flour, extra state, $6.20e. to $6.80e. Corn, old mixed, 100 c. QUEENSTOWN, July 9. The National Steamship Company's steamer Pennsylvanii, from New York, arrived off here at 1.30 p.m. to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. July 10. The Inman Royal mail steamship City of Washington, from Halifax, arrived here at 2.40 a.m. to-day. She landed mails and passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool All well. PLYmouTri, July 10. Her Majesty's ship Helicon, from Lisbon, arrived here this morning. She landed 32 bags of mails at Devonport from the flying squadron and the Bermuda dock flotilla. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, July 10. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Rangoon, from Bombay 22d ultimo, arrived here at three yesterday afternoon. FRANCE. PARIS, July 10. The Constitutionnel of this morning says : " The Counsellors of the Crown are discussing the question whether it would be advisable to reply to the interpellations which have been an nounccd,and thereby divulge the programme of the Govern ment. No decision oa this point has yet been ar rived at, and therefore yesterday's report of the in tentions of the Government are premature." BOURSE, July 9.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 4 per Cent. End of month... Its Pan Fives - 54 75 3 per Cent End of month 7l 221 Ottoman Loan 326 Credit Mobilier 243 75 Do. Debt 43 75 End of mouth... SpaniA Threes 29 25 Credit Foncier ...1630 Home Debt End of month... Deferred raILWAYS. Orleans Northern. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5284.' North of Spain Saragossa Roman 541 Cash ~. P4O • ... 1072i 958 k 611 t 590 STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, July B.—The market is even quieter to-day than on Tuesday. This is partly due to the arrivals in the Mersey of overdue cotton, of which 32,000 bales came into port yesterdaYr and 21,000 bales this morning. It is also due in part to the continued failures. The sus pension is announced of Mr. Burne, of Brindet Preston, in addition to those of mr. G. Smith , of Inver-bank Mill, and Messrs. Jackson. They are all large manufacturers as well as spin' ners, the machinery of the three mills consisting 01 82,000 spindles, and nearly 2,000 looms. Th e market is slightly but very little easier under thes e circumstances, but buyers of cloth do not hesitate so much owing to prim as from the circum stances that, besides having lately purchased largely from stock, they have a goof many con tracts placed in the hands of manufacturers O r future delivery. It is hardly expected that cotton will be much cheaper, though the price may b ,_ ° , affected a little temporarily by the heavy arriv als of cotton. The prospects of a future supply of cotton are unpromising, and the quantity is likely to bed inadequate for some time to come. Spinners a n manufacturers here and on the Continent are a go ° deal disappointed at the little progress made in thi s respect since the close of the American civil wa r ' It was thought that nearly all cotton-produc ing countries would make an effort that would soon make up the deficiency of supply when certain of ib market, but India and North and South Ameri ca ' which were mainly depended upon as the thr ee principal sources of supply, appear to have rare; graded rather than advanced, and the mills in tb United States, like those in Europe, have been 111:1- 0 able to keep their mills going full time at the P rie s to which cotton has risen. We scarcely lay hold I a trade circular in which the inadequate supp l y ° cotton is not adverted to. BRADFORD, Bth.—The wool market has und er ; gone no appreciable change during the week% steady consumptive demand is still going on wool, and the transactions are, on the whole, sat' t, factory. There is no speculative feeling aPP 3r , e .,O and spinners are only just replenishing for the ac",e, orders taken. There is great languor in th a mand for alpaca, and mohair continues very c lrn us in prices. In the worsted yarn branch the A n or of, spinners are lower than they have be en . fns some time past, and an advance of quotati e fjo has been made. There is still a steady busincir, doing on home account. The season is fairclire able for the piece trade, and manufacturers h3of booked a fair amount of orders. Some makers is of plain goods have lately entered into contr tt er . th it will keep them fully employed for a coual u tbe able time. Several furagn buyers have been in re market, and operated to some extent. Stock s of rather on the decrease, and pries following l'r, and cotton are extremely firm. ManufacW however, find greater difficulty in realising an vance. Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B. , ;:ts- Admiral and Naval Commander-in-Chief at 15c)-evi mouth, yesterday officially inspected the ,ierf3,, frigate Octavia, Capt. John 11. J. Alexander, at Spithead, where she arrived on the previons.:7o from the East Indies. The frigate w ill g° 4o , Portsmouth harbour this morning to be digllo' of Pa so: I Qr( 1 I