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Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TITIS EVENING. at 7. MINN TE. or, Leonard's Love. At 9. A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which. BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Nrarshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain ; and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Tinder the Management of Miss M. Oliver. THTS ECENING, at 7.10, A LOVIV(; CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, IL J. aionta g ue, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss 1; arie Wilton. After which, A. WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITBEATRIe. AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, and the Salamander Horse. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays. at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagmza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-om open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cent Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d. SlutkJ,l4llit LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1869. Whether the House of Commons, in Committee on the Irish Church Bill, will tolerate the accumula tion of threatened obstructions in the way of legisla tion in regard to that particular measure will be rendered apparent now very speedily. The proceed ings of to-night will indicate the mood in which the I serried ranks of the majority are prepared to meet their antagonists. It is not simply that, in his capa city as Leader of the Opposition, the ex-Premier has `laid upon the table of the House an extraordinary variety of minute amendments. Upon the very threshold of anything like a duscussion in Committee there are other impediments lying right in the way— placed there by one or another of that, to a certain extent isolated class, the class of independent repre sentatives. One of these the member for Kirkcaldy, 1 Mr. ROGER ArrouN, is lying in wait in readiness to start forward immediately on the issuing of the order of the day for the Committee on the Irish Church Bill, to move—" That it be an instruction to the com mittee that they have power to dissolve the corpora tion of the trustees of the College of Maynooth, and to provide that no money be paid over to the said trustees, but that only compensation fairly due to the professors and students consequent on the loss suf fered by them by the withdrawal of the Maynooth giant be paid to them by the Commissioners ap pointed by the Bill, in the same manner and accord ing to the same principles as is provided by the Bill with regard to the incumbents of the Anglican Church and the recipients of the Regium Donum." That is obstruction No. 1 prepared by the hon. member for Kirkcaldy. There is another threatened by Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, the member for North Wilt shire, in the shape of an amendment to Mr. AYTOLTN'S Instruction to the Committee. And, added to these two, there is a distinct deter mination on the part of the irrepressible champion of the cause of No Surrender, the member for North ' Warwickshire, to -more no E hilly-shally amendment whatever, but point-blank, "That this House will upon this day six months resolve itself into the said Committee." Now, in the presence of all these more or less formidable obstructions in the way of the Committee, it certainly behoves the immense Liberal majority at the back of Mr. GLADSTONE and his colleagues to see that there shall be be no merely frivolous lengthening out of the labours of the House in Committee to the frittering away - simply of the time of the imperial legislature without any conceivable advantage being thereby secured to the cause or to THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1869. the interests of the Opposition. Mere waste of time ought on no account to be tolerated. The Irish Church Bill, already read a first and second time in the House- of Commons, has to be examined in detail there, clause by clause, in Committee, to be read a third time afterwards, and then, on going up to the Lords, it has to pass through all these various stages, one after another, in that hereditary branch of the Legislature. Obstruction, for mere obstruction's sake, is not to be heard of. The Government is suf. ficiently strong in its majority to secure the nation we should conceive, from any such intolerable vexa. tion. The Irish Church is doomed. There is no possibility of its being saved. And, knowing that, the most energetic supporters of that Church, as it is constituted at the present moment, ought to recognise that the obvious course before them is to make the best of things, in so far as they may mitigate the shock to the whole system of the Irish Church as it has been hitherto, as it is still to this hour, to make the best of it in the way of breaking its fall, of lowering it gently as it were both in regard to its disestablishrrent, and in regard to disendownment. No gag does any one want to have put, of course, upon the conscientious express sion of no matter how obsolete opinions. Orange men of the most prolamine NI views, have as perfect a right as any one else to give to those views of their's free utterance. And, in that sense, there is no one who would for an instant be desirous of closing the discussion of these matters prematurely at any stage of the bill now before Parliament. Whether it be in the Lords or in the Commons, whether it be at the first, second, or third reading, or in committee. It is especially one of those vitally important measures that ought to be argued right out, if, indeed, it has not been so argued already. But, while it should in reason, and in fair-play, and in common honesty, be regarded thus as a matter essentially requiring, by reason of its very character, the most full, fair, and deliberate rediscussion and reconsideration--it should also, at the same time, be felt that on no account ought Legislature in regard to it to be un necessarily delayed by means, or through the medium, of a series of simply vexatious obstructions. To the course pursued by the House in Committee, the country will look, therefore, with eager solicitude. From it we shall be enabled to see at once whether the powerful majority on the side of the Government will so far exercise their preponderating influence that the heart of the session will not be allowed to be eaten away by a succession of speci ously lengthened discussions, now upon this, now upon that, really and truly impossible amendment. " TIIE Lord hath delivered them into my hand " were the words of CROMWELL which Mr. BRIGHT put into the mouth of Mr. DisRAELt when the Liberals decided to let the Conservative Reform Bill go into committee. " The Lord hath delivered them into my hand" may Mr. BRIGHT say for himself now that Mr. DISRAELI has given notice of the amendments which he means to move when the Irish Church Bill goes into committee. While Archbishop TRENCH and the Irish Protestants generally are shouting "No surrender," " No com promise," and are giving it to be understood that rather than accept disestablishment they would con sent to be beggared of all their endowments, Mr. DISRAELI quietly proposes a series of resolutions which involve disestablishment and concede the principle of disendowment, but only in order to re-endow the Church with nearly all the revenues which, theoretically, she is to lose. We are not in a position to say if there is any secret understanding between the Irish bishops and the Oorosition chief. Yet we can almost fancy we see the first winking at the second in token of a private understanding, by which the spiritual defenders of the Church are to adopt the high, heroic tone of victims and martyrs to the sacred union of Church and State, without which all gold is but dross, al] endowments but encumbrances, while the politica] defender is to keep a sharp look out after the said endowments, and to secure as much as possible of the said dross. It is in accordance with this under standing that Mr. DISRAELI means to ask Parliament to let the Church have the episcopal residences and the parsonage houses free, to make her a present of four times the aggregate of the net annual incomes of all incumbents as a sustentation fund for main taining the worship of the Free Church, to give her £200,000 for defraying the ex penses of the committee of management of the church ; also fourteen times the average cost of repairing, heating, and lighting churches, and fourteen times the average aggregate of salaries of parish clerks and sextons, as a second fund for main taining worship. It is in accordance with the same supposed understanding that Mr. DISRAELI means to persuade Parliament, if he can, that all private endowments made to the Church at any time, even prior to the Conquest, and all the grants of confis cated lands made by ELIZABETH and the STUARTS, shall be retained by the Church. Mr. DISRAELI is not particular about establishing the titles to those grants. It is enough for him that the evidence, whether historical or legal, or of any other kind, satisfies three unpaid commissioners whom he proposes to appoint, and two of whom, being strong Conservatives and Protestants, will not be likely to err on the side of stringency ; will, for instance, be quite willing to accept the statement that St. PATRICK was an Orangeman. The Pall Mall Gazette well remarks that " all public endowments since the Reformation, and all private endowments, whether before or since, would not make a bad provision for the shorn lambs of Irish Protestantism." Yet these are by no means all the provision which Mr. DISRAELI, in the abundance of his generosity, would bestow upon the Church. Mr. GLADSTONE'S bill proposes that an ecclesiastical person may, after January 1, 1871, apply to the commissioners to commute his life interest, and the commissioners are thereupon to pay the estimated value of his life interest at the time of commutation to the representative body of the Church charged with the payment of the annuity so long as it is required. By Mr. DISRAELI'S amendment, the representative body may at any time during 1871 apply to the commissioners to commute the life interests of all ecclesiastical persons, and the commissioners shall thereupon pay to the representative body, not the then present value of such life interests, but a capital sum equal to fourteen times the aggregate amount of the yearly income to which such persons are enti tled, charged with the payment of the annuities so long as they are required. In fact, Mr. DISRAELI is so generous that he leaves actually nothing wherewith to compensate the college of Maynooth and the recipients of the Regium Donum. They must look elsewhere. If they are to be paid at all, it must be by the English taxpayer, not by the Irish Churchman. This excellent pecuniary bargain which the Con servative leader hopes to make for his clients is not the only benefit that he seeks to confer upon them. He propOses to continue the present archbishops and bishops in their dignities during their lives, and to permit the Crown to nominate prelates on and after January 1, 1872. In other words, having secured for the Church the whole, or the greater portion, of the funds she now enjoys, he would continue the connection between the Church and the State by allowing the State to appoint the chief officers of the Church. In other words, he would first of all accept the two principles of disestablishment and disendoav ment, and then seek to stultify them by retaining the endowments in another shape, and by maintain ing establishment in a disguised form. The conces sion to inevitable circumstances was wise ; the attempt to withdraw it is wise only after that fashion described as too clever by half. It is satisfactory to know that we are now acquainted with the tactics which the Opposition leader means to adopt. The House of Commons will certainly defeat them,: CORRESEONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.' PARIS. WEDNESDAY, April 14. Tho " Ilaussmann Battle," as re-enacted in the Senate, has greatly resembled another struggle in which the French took no very glorious part—the Battle of Spurs. Baron Haussmann's senatorial antagonists, if he had any, have taken to flight. It had been fondly hoped that the severe attack in the Corps I,4gislatif upon the system of getting into debt, lawfully and unlawfully, for the purpose of rebuilding Paris, would be repeated, though in a milder key, in the Senate. Some of the senators, it was affirmed, looked very gravely at the debt of eighty millions sterling, all contracted for the sake of beautifying Paris. Many were still more indignant at the illegal way in which the money has been raised—at Baron Itaussmann's expedient of spending many millions first, and getting legislative sanction afterwards. Great hopes were entertained of the "youthful party," as it is jocularly called. They would surely do something. M. de Maupas, at least, would attempt another charge. But yesterday, when the famous City of Paris Loan came on for ratification, it was ratified without demur. The malcontents were all silent ; the law was adopted by a majority of 110 to—one ! Baron Haussmann's speech was of a piece with the entire proceeding. It was the mildest of harangues, and had clearly been devised with great care and for the express purpose of " getting out of it." If any errors had been committed, said the Minister, they were the effect rather of miscalculation than of intention. The city of Paris had, in fact, been suddenly pulled up in the course of the works. In the construction of new streets and boulevards unforeseen obstacles had presented themselves. Unfore seen obstacles entail unforeseen expense. It was necessary either to go on spending or stop the reconstruction, which latter alternative Baron Hauss mann thought "would have produced a humiliating spectacle in the face of all Europe." If this were the most humiliating spectacle which France has of late pre sented, Europe would have very little cause for criticism —but never mind. The money, continued the Minister, had therefore been spent without authorisation. Of the fierce debate in the Corps Legislatif Baron Haussmann said little ; of the manner in which he had been sold by M. Rouher—nothing. It will be remembered that the Minister of State acknowledged the cul pability of the Government in spending money without authority, but he maintained that the Emperor could not look after City of Paris affairs. Baron Hauss mann was answerable for it all. In answer to this, Baron Haussmann yesterday said that he was "eternally grateful to the Minister of State for the energy and warmth with which he replied to certain offensive observations in the Corps L&lgislatif !" There ends this affair. As I have previously remarked, the Left display the most laudable activity in face of the coming election, but their unanimity is not all that could be wished. The Liberte and the Siècle are quarrelling . . M. Emile de Girardin supports M. Emile 011ivier as one of the candidates for the City of Paris. The Siècle will have none of the author of "Le 19 Janvier," and accord. ingly another Opposition candidate, a Republican of advanced views, is to be put up. M. de Girardin laments this policy. He urges that the Se icle maylegitimately differ from M. Emile 011ivier, but that both stand on the common ground of hostility to despotism. If liberty is to be won, there must be unity. The last election in Paris was carried by unity ; this is in danger of being lost by discord. M. de Girardin further states that M. Havin, the late proprietor of the Siecle, promised his support to M. 011ivier, but that now the Siècle is actuated by a different policy. A desperate attempt to escape, with a tragic ending, was made the other day at Besancon. A prisoner, named Zacher, awaiting his trial, succeeded in filing the bars of his cell, and scaled the walls of the arsenal where he was confined. The sentinel perceived him as he was dropping into the street outside, and fired, but without hitting the man, who ran off to the ramparts, pursued by the guard and some police agents. One of these latter overtook him just as he reached the terrace, but the prisoner, who was of herculean strength, suddenly turned round, and seizing his pursuer, named Roberts, hurled him over the parapet on the rocks below, a depth of about eighty feet. A second agent shared the same fate. Then the desperate man, seeing the military rapidly surrounding him, threw himself down the precipice without hesitation. lie was found dashed to pieces, so was Roberts, but the other agent was alive with both legs broken, Algiers has been visited with a hail storm of re markable severity. The country was in a few moments covered with a layer of hailstones, in some places from four to six inches deep, several being as large as a nut. The fruit trees were much injured, but not the wheat and barley fields. All accounts agree that the long season of misei-y in. Algeria will probably cease. A most favourable !iarvest is confidently anticipated. THE COMIC PAPERS. From the Owl. 'EAL AND WoE.--By a curious inversion of the usual reed the cabman's aspirations are fixed not on above, but on B-Lowe. GRANT-ED, The Alabama Claims. The Disintegration of lesser The Annexation of Cuba. Britain. Our Dominion of Canada. And the Presidentship of The Cession of Gibraltar. John Bright. The Absorption of Belgium. —sew York Herald. (From Punch.) HIS FAVOURITE DlSH.—Lamb is now in perfection. There is no one so likely to enjoys Mint sauce as—Mr. Freemantle. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLTGENCE.—We rejoice to hear Mat the musical services of St. Paul's have been much improved by Canon Gregory. Congregations will doubt lees be attracted to the cathedral by its Gregorian music. AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE.—Mr. Lowe will go down to posterity as the author of a S urpr i se B u d get. Ho may be said to have surprised everybody by Lowe-ring taxation. THEIR GUARDIAN ANGEL—Miss Burdett Coutts has been nominated one of the guardians for Bethnal Green. office Of c: andl: e titleslle in will ill be notbe'elected new by acclamation. But the to her, for she has long been the G uar di an o f the Poor. HATTENTLON !-111embers who find it a sell to discover some other M.P.'s hat on a favourite scat, and who wish to know how to act under the circumstances, are recom mended to go into the Library and consult "Hatsell's Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons." Dr they might take the opinion of the law officers of the Crown. (From Pun.) Poisson D'Aviiir,.—To land a pickled salmon one would naturally use a " rod in pickle," but how, ye pisca tors, may a smoke-jack be brought to bank ? FURTHER PATTI-CULARS. - Adelina Patti is making such 3. stir in the Russian capital that it is not improbable that 't will be re-christened St. Pattisblirgh. HARE -BRAINED. congratulate Lord Elcho on his selection of the month of March for the introduction of his Bill about Scotch bares." He should be created Earl )f March (hares) in the Scotch peerage. GREAT G UNS. —We see a good deal of discussion going )n about the " Fraser guns." Well, guns may be good ?hrasers, but we should like to know how they will speak 'o an enemy, when required to do so. THE CASE OF THE TORNADO. There issued from the Foreign-office on Wednesday copies of a correspondence respecting the seizure of the Tornado off Cadiz, by the Spanish frigate Gerona, the reason given for the seizure being that she was a Chilien privateer. The correspondence consists of sixty-five letters, most of which relate to the claims of the Tornado's crew to receive compensation from the Spanish Government for the loss they sustained by reason of the seizure of their ship. These letters range in date over the period between the 7th of March, 1868, to the 26th February, 1869. Lord Clardendon wrote on the 12th of February the sixty-fourth letter of the series, in which he instructs Sir John Crampton, British Minister at Madrid, to "speak seriously to Senor Lorcnzana, in the name of her Majesty's Government, on this long protracted case." To this Sir John replies, under date Feb. 26th, that he has executed his chief's behest, and that Senor Lorenzana promises that so soon as the Minister of Marine has pronounced his decision upon thequestion of !he appoint ment cf a special tr:bunal to try whether the Tornado was, or was not, "a good prize;" that decision shall be communi cated to her Majesty's Government. So the matter stands at present. The ship was se:zed en the 22d of August, 13G. THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS COMPANY FRAUDS. Some misapprehension seems to exist with rererence to Higgs and the amount of his frauds and de ficiencies, which have been stated at £50,000 and even £BO,OOO. It is now feared that £150,000 will hardly cover the full extent of his depredations upon the company and the public. Not only have large sums received for coke never found their way to the company's bankers, but forged debentures to a considerable amount, it is said, are afloat, upon which Higgs regularly paid the dividends as they fell due in order to keep their issue from the company's knowledge. These debenture bonds, it is affirmed, although issued fraudulently, bear the bond fide signatures of the directors and the common seal of the company. On the eve of his departure, Higgs offered to pay a wine merchant in Coleman-street an account of £3OO, and for this purpose drew a cheque for £6OO, and it being past banking hours, he got the wine merchant tc cash it and give him the balance. His estate will realise, it is said, about £30,000. This the creditors have sought to appropriate for the benefit of all concerned ; and the gas company, it is said, are willing to abandon criminal proceedings and go in with the other creditors and share in this sum. It is believed that Higgs has sought refuge in Spain. At the Judges' Chambers, on Wednesday, before Mr. Justice Keating, a case relating to Benjamin Higgs, the absconding clerk of the Central Gas Company was heard. The Guarantee Society has seized his property at Teddington, where he kept a well-appointed esta blishment ; and the plaintiff in this action, Mr. Krill' issued an execution and put in an officer. There were several other claimants to the property, but the chief point at issue was the dispute between the Guarantee Society and the execution creditor. The case was ordered to stand over till Monday, when the several claims would be heard. (From Judy.) The long run—Mr. Benjamin I-1 iggs's—to America! Can the fork of a river be considered as part of the Myer 'late? When a promise is binding, is it Russia leather or lorocco ? NATURAL !—Some youthful friends of ours, during the Easter vacation, have been taken to see the dramas of Mr. Robertson. They are unanimous in preferring " Home " nd " Play " to " School." LOST ! One evening last week, in the House of Corn nous, during a discussion with Mr. Ward Hunt, a Temper. Apply to W. E. G., Downing-street, where a portion of _ m ost reverend and ri g ht he lost article will b e bestowed upon t h e fi n d er. QUITE RIGHT, Too. The •everend memb ers of the bench of b i s h ops " laugh in their •Iceres" at the idea that they are not going to oppose Mr. - ;ladstone's bill in the House of Lords ! THE NEW P EER . — The reason w h y M r . Gl a d stone has •aised Judge Wild e to the peerage i s, t h at h e may take an active part i n th e h earing of the great Irish Divorce Case —that, namely, of Church and State—which is likely to )e brought, at no distant date, before the House of Lords ! 'Wednesday being the twelfth anniversary of the :,irth of her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, the y oungest child of her M a j esty, th e occas i on was celebrated a t Wi ndsor in the usua l manner. P r i ncess Beatrice Was b orn on the 14th Apr i l, 1857. At the Bristol County Court, on Tuesday, an sc ion was brought against Sir -G. Smith by Mr. - Watkins, solicitor. The complaint was that hares from tho Intendant's grounds injured the plaintiff's property. rho Judge, Mr. Lloyd, Q.C. ) said that the law did not re :ognise hares as property,. and the plaintiff's remedy would 70 to destroy them when they camo on- his land. He iirect2d a nonsuit. Colonel William Henry Vicars, who died at Cheltenham on the 4th inst., was 27 years in the Glst Regiment, from which he retired in 1854 with with the rank of lieut.-col. He served in the second Sikh war, and was present in the battles of Chillian wallah and Goojerat, and in the actions of Ratn nuggur and Sadoolapore, for which he received a medal And two olasps. VELOCIPEDE RIDIN G-SCHOOE3 The Daily 11 ewes publishes an amusing article on velo cipede riling-schools. These abound in London just now. East, west, north, and south of the metropolis are lessons being given to men of all ages, with a decided run upon bald heads and grey hair among the pupils. It is on record that Faraday toiled up Hampstead-bill on one of the lumbering, old-fashioned velocipedes, a picture of which used invariably to illustrate the letter V in nursery alphabets. But that was when the philosopher was young, and one of the marvels of the new apparatus is the fascination it seems to exercise over the old. About midway between Moorgate station and that Goswell street which has become classical ever since the embarrassing scene which took place in it between Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell is one of the best-known of the velocipede schools. From ten in the morning till six at night it is very busy. A couple of broughams and several handsome cabs are waiting at the archway leading to it. Past these, and up a sort of court, and we are in a large factory, with crowds of mechanicians busily at work. Velocipedes in various stages of progress ire to be seen everywhere. Long lines of wheels unvar nished and unpainted are seasoning, while handles, seats, axle-trees, and smaller wheels are being manipulated, or lie ready for use. There is as much scope for fancy about the decorations of a velocipede, as in aught else. The guiding bar is one of the things upon which extravagance is expected to centre. Already we were shewn a very handsome one in burnished steel and with ivory handles as an " extra," and that "we shall have to bring them out in silver before the season's over," is an opinion confidently expressed. Beyond the manu factory is the riding-school, full of life and vigour. Here is a stout country gentleman who has come up from a distant province fel- the sole purpose of receiving les sons. A stalwart attendant walks with him round the room, holding him on his velocipede, by keeping an arm firmly round his waist. Round and round the vast bare chambergo the twain, the attendant walking slowly under his double task, and giving out instructions rather dis jointedly for lack of breath, " Give a looser hold to the handles, sir— (puff)—don't grip 'em as if you were afraid of tumbling off—(puff, pant, puff). I'll take care of that. (Pant.) Just feel 'em like ; the lighter and gentler the better— (puff)—and whenever you feel you are going over on one side, just turn the opposite handle, and you'll right your self directly. (Pant, puff, puff.)" After a little time the novice is told to use his feet, and he then turns the wheels slowly for himself, being still held on by the attendant instructor. There are no fastenings for the foot—simply a rest, which projects out from the axle-trees ; and when over the handle is mismanaged, and the centre of gravity lost, the rider comes to the ground on his feet, and so stands up in a very comic way. It is as if a very tall man were on a pony so small that he can at any moment allow it to run between his legs. Two such lessons as we saw given would, we were assured, enable the gentleman before us to manage a velocipede for himself, and from this stage to its complete mastery is a mere question of practice. Several other pupils were at work. One gentleman was taking his secund lesson, and confined his attention to moving the velocipede slowly, and to learning how to stop it at will. Others were prac tising various methods of mounting and descending. The true thing is to jump on while it is in progress, and to then push away merrily with hand and foot. The experts who had gone through their lessons, and were now merely, Indulging in an hour's practice, played a variety of tricks to skew their proficiency, or to extend their experience. {ere was a man standing on the saddle—which is far broader and more comfortable in the seat than it appears--and balancing the velocipede by his dexterous management of the guiding-bar. There was another cutting in and out among the rest, end describing various figures on the floor. Skating on a large scale, or skimming over the ground by means of wings, was what it reminded one of most ; and very exhilarating and delightful the rapid motion and entire mastery seemed. Many of the gentlemen before us had rushed in from the City for an hour's practice in the intervals of business — the Stock Exchange contributing a considerable contin gent to the amusing and animating scene. There were plenty of young men, too ; and the practice we saw, ranging, as it did, from the inexperienced novice to the skilled expert, made it clear that the use of the velocipede is easily, safely, and quickly learnt. There has been no accident at any of the schools since they have opened. It seems certain that the fashion of using velocipedes will increase if riding them be really as harmless a n d agreea bl e a s it appears. The fatigue being slight, and th e p rogress —though not reaching the proposterous promises of some of the a dvertisements — rapid, it seems reasonabl e t o ex pect that this peculiar form of locomotion will i ncreas e, and that it will in time be no more singular to keep a velocipede than to carry a walking-stick. Already the best makers are as busy as they can well be. Her Majesty, it is expected, will leave Windsor for Osborne about Monday or Tuesday next. Commercial circles in Birmingham and the neigh bourhood have again been startled by more extensive bill forgeries. Mr. George Solomon, who has hitherto occu pied a respectable position in the town as a wholesale stationer and paper dealer, absconded en Saturday. The discovery has since been made that he had forged bills to the value of £1,500 or £2,000. Amongst others he has made use of the name of the Mayor of Worcester. Be is said to Lave gone to America. ,THE DRINKING CUSTOMS OF A3I ERICA. —An eminent American physician has published some interest. ing statistics concerning the drinking habits of that coun try. Taking the population at 40,000,000, he finds that of every 300 men 122 do not drink at all, 100 drink mode rately, 50 are occasional drinkers, 25 drink periodically (" spreeing "), and three are habitual inebriates. To every 178 who drink three are confirmed inebriates, 25 are periodical and 50 ephemeral drinkers. There is 1 confirmed inebriate to every 591 men. Of 700 women, 600 never drink, 30 taste wine occasionally, 17 taste ardent spirits, 36 drink beer regularly, 14 drink spirits periodically, and 3 are habitual inebriates. There is, he declares, 1 female inebriate to every 333 women ; for, though fewer women drink than men, more of those who do drink become habitually intemperate. THE MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT.—TIie tenth annual meeting of this society was held on Wednes day in Hanover-square Rooms. General Walker pre sided, supported by numerous friends of the institution. . It appeared from the report, read by Mr. John Stabb, the secretary, that various meetings had been held in different parts of the metropolis, and that no meeting had been zonvened without several women and girls having been induced to leave their life of shame. The report, in its conclusion, referred to the fearful traffic which is carried on to keep up a supply of young girls for immoral purposes, and contended that the fact should be pressed upon the attention of the Legis lature until more stringent means were adopted for its suppression. The receipts for the past year were £1,401 11s. 2d., and there was a balance in hand of £25 19s. 2d. Speeches in support of the society's object were delivered by Mr. George Williams, Rev. J. Davis, Rev. J. H. Wilson, and other gentlemen, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. The value of glass in the cultivation of fruit will, no doubt, be amply exemplified in the forthcoming season. Speaking generally, we believe the orchards and wall fruit-trees are as yet perfectly safe. Pear-trees that were whitening in February are now quite brown, but this is the result of th e di scoloration of appear pp e a o l u . ter to be s c u a a r m a nd edbractsPeach-walls ; t e mva le i i ls are unopenedfor the most buds part, even in southern parts, only just acquiring p first v e d b blush somewhat c colour, they appear a s r i n t c o e h t e h the safe.weather Nevertheless, their we apprehend that those who grow n orchard-houses will have the best of it inru.. that is, of course, so far as their skill will carry 1869, them ; at present, at all events, well-kept orchard-houses have plenty of fruit to show, but what will be seen upon their on the walls is matter for a forecast, in attempting • which taken into account that the trees have probably to endure many hardships ere summer will smile nectarine crops. There was nothing like leather for the defence of the town besieged ; assuredly there is nothing like glass for the defence of peach and n • trees from the treacherous assaults of a British itr fmsh swelling ii nmb;ge spring, —Gardenef's ROBBERY BY A CLERGYMAN: The Rev. Charles Robert Henry James, n.A., was brought nir) on remand befoae the Cambridge borough magistrates on Tuesday, on a charge of stealing three spoons from a woman with whom ho was lodging in Park-street. He graduated at Trinity College in 1829, and after taking his de gree, and receiving ordination, was appointed to the curacy of Shefford, in Bedfordshire. He had not been heard of in Cambridge from that time until very recently, when he came up and took lodgings with the prosecutrix, upon the pretext of his having com) into residence for the purpose of taking pupils end cccasional Sunday duty. His landlady missed several articles after be had lived a short time with her, including the spoons the had supplied for his breakfast table, and such like, and upon giving in formation to the police it Ni as found that he had pledged three spoons with a Jew pawnbroker in the town for a shilling each. Nothing was known of him upon the first examination, but since ho has been under remand the police have discovered a ticket-of-leave among his papers, which show that he was convicted of swindling a shopkeeper at Northampton, in October, 1864, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude in Dartmoor prison. A copy of the depositions taken at his trial was found at his lodg ings, together with his deacon's and priest's orders, duly signed and sealed. The bench sent him for trial at the quarter sessions. THE ARERGELE RAILW AY ACCIDENT. The report of Colonel Rich to the Board of Trade on the Abergele disaster (which was issued with the parlia mentary papers on Wednesday) is not without interest, although the legal proceedings resulting from the accident are at an end. Colonel Rich's observations upon the gene ral subject of railway management are anything but reas suring to the public. Having remarked that the station master at Llandulas and the two breaksmen were seriously to blame, and that their neglect was the imme diate cause of the accident, Colonel Rich says, "Olen of that class cannot be expected to do their duties well if the railway companies do not give them the most convenient and best appliances, and do not look after them strictly and enforce their own regulations." If the block telegraph system had been in use (the report proceeds) and strictly carried out, this accident could not have occurred. Colonel Rich goes on, " The London and North Western Railway Company appear to have a very lax system of supervision. The company appear to have no person in the office of travelling or stationary inspector to look after the guards, instruct them in their duties, and to see that they perform them. lam of opinion that explosive and inflammable goods, such as gunpowder and paraffin oil, &c., should be sent by special trains, at special times, and under special guards, with special instructions. They are now sent by ordinary goods trains, subject to all the risks of shunting and the breakdown of such trains. The guards and station-masters confess that they do not think any more about these dangerous mate rials than of any other goods in the train." Having very strongly condemned the practice of locking carriage doors, Colonel Rich proceeds :—" I fear that it is only too true that the rules printed and issued by railway companies to their servants, and which are generally very good, are made principally with the object of being produced when accidents happen from the breach of them, and that the companies systematically allow them to be broken daily, without taking the slightest notice of the disobedience." Colonel Rich, in conclusion, disavows any intention of taking advantage of this sad calamity to be severe on the London and North-Western Railway Company. He believes their line is one of the best in the country, and that its general management and arrangements are as good, on the whole, as those of any of the other lines. THE MAY MEETINGS. The "May Meetings" have already commenced. On Wednesday the eighteenth anniversary of the South American Missionary Society was held at the Hanover•square Rooms, the Earl of Shaf tesbury presiding. The progress of the organisation was described as having been of an encouraging character. SUPERSTITION IN THE LAND OF PROGRESS. Would it not be well for the United States, before acquiring more States to try and civilise one or two which they already possess, but have hardly assimilated? Thus we read of the people of Lebanon, Indiana, passing in file through a church, each in turn touching a corpse laid on the communion table, the object being to discover at whose touch the corpse would bleed. The corpse gave no sign, and thereby the absence of the murderer was sup posed to be proved. NARROW ESCAPE OF TIIE GRAND DUKE OF RUSSlA. — Advices from St. Petersburg relate that the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, when lately proceeding by railway to Odessa, had a narrow escape from destruc tion. The imperial train contained, besides the prince, the English Ambassador, Lady Buchanan, and several persons of high distinction. It had just passed at full speed over the bridge of Seirn, between Koursk and Kiev, when the whole structure fell in, and another train which followed, full of passengers, was precipitated into the river. The number of victims is declared to be con siderable. A WRIST DEVOTEE.--There is a well-authenti cated story of Lord Granville's devotion to whist. In tending to set out in the course of the afternoon for Paris, he ordered his carriage and four posters to be at Graham's at four. They were kept waiting till ten, when he sent out to say that he should not be ready for another hour or two, and that the horses had better be changed. They were changed three times in all, at intervals of six hours, before he started. When the party rose, they were up to their ankles in cards, and the ambassador (it was reported) was a loser to the tune of eight or ten thousand pounds.— "Whist and Whist Players," in Fraser's Magazine. A FREAK OF BROUGHAM.—The following anec dote is in the words of Professor Pillans, a distinguished classical scholar, who was born the same year with Brougham, was in the same class with him at the High School, was for some years head -master of that school, and now worthily fills the Humanity Chair in the University of Edinburgh, having been a public teacher above forty-six years. By way of explanation I must state what Professor Pillans reminded me of, and what I myself perfectly well recollect—that in the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, whenever there was a dinner party, after the ladies had withdrawn, the gentlemen continued giving toasts at every round of the bottle, tillat last the:toast of "Good Afternoon " was given, apon which she party broke up and left the room. " While we were under Fraser together a new play was to be brought out at the Edinburgh Theatre, written by Robert Herron, a very foolish fellow. It was called, I think, 'The Jolly Toper.' I went by myself to the shilling gallery, where I met very good company. I hope you know that we modern Athenians consider that we have a very delicate taste in the drama, but are very tole rant to a new piece till we can fully judge of its merits, and then we are very decisive. This piece was exceedingly absurd and dreadfully dull, though intended to be witty. The first four acts were heard out, though with a few groans and hisses. When the curtain drew up for the fifth act, the stage was occu pied by a large party at table, with bottles and glasses be fore them. The gentleman in the chair then flourishing his glass, said, All charged ! Give us a toast !' when a tall stripling in the pit stood up and exclaimed, `I humbly propose Good Afternoon.' He then made for the door, waving his hat for the rest of the audience to follow him; and the cry of ' Good Afternoon' being repeated by the boxes, pit, and galleries, there was a general dispersion, and the piece was damned. This stripling was Henry Brougham, the future Lord Chancellor."—Lives of Lord Ll,ndhurst and Lord Brougham. By the late Lord John LLA, 1,148 E! , •-1 • • 41;444#NPV"V Li MI 1 l lEN4l ' ll ° 4lllft - 1 - ki,t,36.4,,,,• lIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 14. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Alexander Gordon. Princess Louise walked in the grounds, attended by Lady Churchill. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning• The Queen held a Council this afternoon. Mr. Michael Costa arrived at the Castle, and was introduced to her Majesty's presence by the Lord Chamberlin, and received the honour of knighthood. LATEST INTELL CGENCE EU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) HOMEWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUS TRALIAN MAILS. MESSINA, April 14. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria passed Messina at 7.30 this morning en route for Marseilles. PLYMOUTH, April 15. The Russian frigate Dirnitri Donskoi, from Rio de Janeiro for the Baltic, has arrived here. QUEENSTOWN, April 15. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of NO York, from New York, arrived here at 7 a.na• to day, and, having landed mails and passengers, proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. She brings no specie. WASHINGTON, April 14. The appointments of Mr. John Lothrop Motley as United States' Minister to Great Britain and iNfr. John Jay as United States' Minister to Austria have been confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Freeman Morse has been nominated to the post of Consul in London. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 14.—Three o'clack—The market closed as follows :- 11 per Cent. End of month... —.— Italsan Fives 56 20 3 per Cent End of month 7O 8 2} Mexican Loan ... -- .2 , Credit Mobili er End of month 268 75 Spanish Threes ... -- Credit Fonder 1535 Rome Debt —-- End of month... Deferred —-- RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans ... 9231 ; Northern ..,. 1095 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6131 Western Eastern GIB Sardinian Austrian Lombard 482 I North of Spain Saragossa Roman POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE.—IIenry Thornton, a young man, vas charged before Mr. Knox, with :stealing a purse containing money and stamps from the pocket of a ladY named Prynne, while in Oxford-street. Wm. Sherer, a young man, said that while in Oxford street, he saw the prisoner place himself be tween two ladies, who were looking into a shoP window, and suspecting the prisoner he watched him, and saw him place his left hand i n the lady's right hand pocket. He told the lady to remain where she was, and went after the prisoner, who ran do' Green-street into Marlborough-mews, close to the station , whore he turned round and showed fight, but Richard Kent, a constable of the C division, being at the station came up and took the prisoner into custody, the prisoner at the same time throwing the purse under a van in the mews. Herbert Reeves, a warder at the House of Correctiov said there were several convictions against the prisoner. Mr. Knox said they could be proved at the sessions. Mrs. Ellen Prynue, of Shepherd's Bush, having identifies the purse as her property, Mr Knox committed the prisoner for trial. THAMES. MAGISTERIAL DENITVRATION OF LEAVING SHOPS."' Frederick Charles Ayris, aged 12 years, was brough t before Mr. Benson charged with stealing two chemise ° and a pair of drawers, the property of Annie Robertson , of No. 4, Brighton-terrace, Rhodeswell-road, Stepney. The prisoner has been in custody several times, and 1 ° an incorrigible young thief. The prosecutrix, dwelling in the same house as the boy's parents, had lost maul things, and on Monday evening last missed from her bed" room the articles in question. Her father discovered Wl' o had taken them, and upon making inquiries, Mrs. Robert" son found her property at a "leaving shop" kept by Marl Walden, No. 11, Catherine-street, Limehouse-fields, no t Stepney Old Church. The "leaving shop" keeper said that she gave the boy ls. Gd. for the articles, and that b e told her a woman named Nash sent him with them P t sale. Sho never saw the boy before. James Bridon, police sergeant, No. 4 K, said the "160' ing shops" wore numberless in the poor districts of Lime" house-fields, and were a great nuisance. They were re" ceiving shops for stolen property, and a greater nuisance than marine store shops, which were bad enough. Mr. Benson —lt is to ma incomprehensible how those leaving shops are allowed to multiply and exist. The should be put down by the strong arm of the law. Tb ° leaving shops foster half the crime in the metropolis, par" ticularly among the juvenile population. The boy's father said he had only been earning frog Bs. to 10s. per week, and he could not afford to give 06 boy an education. Mr. Livingston, the chief usher of the court, said ther e wen, plenty of free schools in Limehouse and other plaee e where a penny and twopence per week only was charge for children. Mr. Benson despaired of any decrease of crime while leaving shops existed. Ho should commit tho prisoner t ° the Feltham I n d us t r i a l S chool until he was 16 years r. age, and compel the father to pay ls. 6d. per week for hi maintenance. We are requested to announce that in cense: quence of the domesti c b ereavement susta i ne d by 1116, Royal Highness the P r i nce Ch r i st i an, t h e annual fest ival of University College Hospital, which has been advertise d for the 20th inst., has been unavoidably postponed to the 23d of June, when his Royal Highness has graciousii consented to preside. TIIE DUKE OF GENOA.—The Duke of Geno a (Prince Thomas of Savoy) has just entered at Harre l School. While there he will be in the family of A lr. Matthew Arnold, who is residing at Harrow. The youl i Prince brings no suit e w ith hi m o f any ki n d , b ut he w.l' be at liberty on S un d ays to attend Roman Catholic servo in London. THE IRISH CHURCH BlLL.—After consideratio n of the amendments which Mr. Disraeli, with the sanctioo of the Conservative party, intends proposing on the G c ; vernment Church Bill, Ministers confidently b e li e ve a il ' by Whitsuntide the measure, without any material altere; tion save what may arise from concession on tbe l f part, will be ready for presentation to the House ° Lords. The Owl. T HE EAST-END EMIGRANTS.—The party of 3 20 emigrants from the East -end of London left Livere ° yesterday in the Allan steamer Germania for Quebec. Yesterday a notification was received at Cbs t i ham from the Admiralty, announcing that any the hired workmen employed in the dockyard, well as those recently discharged on the reducti on of the number of hands, after two years' servic e ; may be considered eli g ibl e can di dates to be seat, out to Canada at the expense of the Governme ° Only those men who bear a good character, bre ° 0 sound health, and are provided with a miniuttl sum of £2 155., will be deemed eligible. Alrea d y a number of the workmen recently di,seharg e b from the dockyard have made application, throat, the Captain-Superint e nd en t, to b e sent out t Canada. Yesterday the 7th Dragoon Guards, at Al det i lhott, under th e comman d of L i eutenant- C o ll- , 0 R. Clarke, were i ns p ec t e d an d manoeuvre d at tcir North Camp, by Li eu t enant -G enera l the Eon. ' t i e James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding division. 6' 4)UNVILLE anti] Co., Belfast, are the isr o v„. holders of Whig 'sIEY is isky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky commended by the medical pr o f ess i on i n pr e f e r e nce to Fr e "; Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exP ° o o ., Lion. Quotations on application 'to Messrs. Danville allarAt. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-b u ilrli ngs , St ran d, L ou d on , vl,O --1— vertioement. MoN COME Governm( sequence of l oan• Forei Notwithstan the principa; There has b shares at inn for loans is Consols a count, —; New Tkree 1885, 11 is. ditto £.lOO, England Stc India Stoc ditto 5 Per Cent., Oct. £l,OOO, 10 In the 1' gone down Egyptian of Vitebsk an( now as fo ; Chillian of 1864, & 76 i to of 1868, 83 of 1865, 78 91, ex div. 82i • m )soo, Itisio i e i d rist a l th a ;ee n r t rn d h n, , e AB R S: 7 : A ov i a nd i Dover id I a : on the contra North W este Brighton, 4 - 4 Metropolitan to 108 ; ditt, 79i ex div. ; 17i to 18i. American Erie Railway 96i to 97 ; tures, 31 to Bonds, 30 to 63 Lo 8:11:11, to 644- s j6 e k e t 4o g o e li rSi Joint and Imperial better, at 1:3; General Cred: dilantie Telegr: to ; and An There wer( terday. The Week since th( balance a witl Telegrams loan for a net contracted IV i I Messrs. S u ] z b on e - fourth of al most immed cipal m ar k ets t ! br o . fourths .r he operati on two of the Pa The telegra i Piguerola, the unif y the p u b yearly interest added to the c Would appear next half- year would b e (lac default could 11 neceksity, 1 is apparently new loan, n hi, o . f its hntuedia In question. At a tneetit dividends upoi stocks were de At the ann Agra Bulk (I The ineedui , 14 Y, woolstapl whose liabiliti been adjourne Poaal made of The failure i CO. ) fancy dre liabilities are s At an adjo Messrs. R. w a turers, of Chu offer by the f pound, the pro bankruptcy wi. The report i has been iaue4 net profit for t cember last of the preference 2i per cent. pe commended, le carried forwat At the meet tins (Limited) 25th ult. were The annual tional Provinc the 13th of Mm With referet Railway Comp praying the co runt between to be heard bei Ist of May. BRITISI 3 per Cent OVERNMEr . Cons Ditto for Acco 8 per Cent. Reck New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent Do. 5 per Ceu Annuities, SO yr Do. for 30 yrs, Do (Red Sea T Exc.:hop= Bills, Do Do. Bank of England Do. opening .., Canada 4 per Col inter -Colonial INDIAN CrOV India stock, lot Do. Opening, f Do. 5 per Cent Do. 4 per Cent Do. Certificate Do. Enfaced Do. 5 per Conn Do. 54 per Or DJ 5 per Ceut, Do Do. IL. Deb., 5 pe] Do. Bonds, 4 pc Do. under ££l,C FOREIG/ Argentine Repub Do. Scrip £45 Austrian Bonds Arazilian 5 per C Do. 41 per Cen Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. 5 per Cent Do Account..... B ;enos Ayres 6 p U Do 2 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Ce n t. dilian 6 per Con Do, 41 Per Cent Do. 3 per Cent, Po. 6 per coot. Po. 7 per Cent. C lombiau, 6 per Danish, 3 per Cen Datrbian Prineip Do 8 per Cent.c, Equador New C E3yptian, 7 per C, Do Second lss Do. £sot, Bond; Do. £lOO Bond