The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The TimEs asserts that a wonderful announcement was circulated on Thursday evening through the lobbies of the two Houses with all the particularity of detail that could give it credibility. According to this statement, it has been decided that the Irish Church Bill shall be rejected on the motion to read it a second time in the House of Lords. 11 , e-. feel the utmost reluctance to entertain for a moment the belief that the Conservative party has arrived at so portentous a determination. What, indeed, would happen supposing the policy attributed to the Opposition were really pursued by them? The Government have an unshaken majority in the House of Commons of 115—to put it moderately—pledged to abolish the Irish Establishment. The majority was elected on this issue. It has the power of enforcing its will. It must do what it was elected to do. One means of accom plishing the end would be to call up to the House of Lords a sufficient number of heirs-apparent or commoners to convert the minority into a majority, and the history of a similar crisis recommends the resolution to adopt such a plan, The control of the supplies furnishes, of course, another and perhaps more constitutional method of assert ing the power of the representatives of ilia people. But there is a third line of action which could be followed. An immediate prorogation, followed by an immediate • convocation of Parliament, would give us another session in which the bill could be pushed forward with the certainty of- success. Ent if we thus glance at what would be done if the Lords were so ill-advised as to reject the bill, we do so only because we find in the precision with which these extreme steps have been already detailed the most striking proof of the determination of the Ministry, Lacked by an over whelming majority, that the bill shall pass. We cannot say that the report upon which these speculations are founded is absolutely worthless, but if we may not peremptorily reject it, we believe it has been circulated rather to test the possibility of resistance than as an indi• cation of a fixed conclusion. But what an appreciation of the issues of the time and of the national judgment it would argue if the Conservative peers flatter themselves that the present crisis could be so dealt. with ! The Standard has it on the authority of a contemporary, who certainly ought to know, that the chief of her Majesty's Government has only just been admitted to Participate in the last occult rites of august Liberalism. Mr. Gladstone Las at length, and only at length, been elected a member of the Reform Club ! For now more years than one cares to count he has been discarded by the Coneerviitive party, and meekly fetched and carried fur Whigs and Radicals alternately ; but it appears that he had not given sufficient proofs of his fitness to con sort in a club sense with the " unto the manner born' among those jealous politicians. It seems a strange fate for a man that he should have been the parliamentary leader of a party and been exelsided withal from some ct its most highly-prized privileges. The time of doubt and of trial, however, is now over. Mr. Gladstone is a neophyte no more. To employ the language of the con temporary referred to, " his valuable party services have now been fitly recognised and rewarded," and he has properly been permitted to enjoy " social intercourse among Reformers." Lucky Premier ! Condescending Reformers ! The Tel( ilraph says that no wise man who can pardon weakness, no good man who is charitable in his judgments, can have read without real sorrow that item of intelligence which was published on Thursday concerning the Duke of Newcastle. Its main public interest lies in the fact that the unfortunate nobleman is but a type of many young in embers of our aristocracy. Plain speech on these matters is the ti nest kindness, even to those to whom it may seem blunt and cruel. We do not hesitate to say that the most serious danger to the hereditary aristocracy of England lies, in our day, in the conduct of such peers as the Duke and others who have followed in the same paths, some of them so fast and so far that they reached a dishonoured grave as the goal of their journey. Never was theie a time when the vast majority of the people were readier to accept, with cordiality and gratitude, any attempt at honest political and social service from the Lords ; and never was there a time when more of the Loids were anxious to ?zing themselves into frank and sympathetic relations with the people. Practical Englishmen, we say, are in no hurry to get rid of the House of Lords. But the Lords must learn to " take care of themselves." If we see, for instance, a noble library, amassed by aristocratic statesmen and scholars, publicly sold to pay the debts of a "plunger"—if we find the fate of a Newcastle following closely on that of a Hastings—it we know, as everybody in Landon does know, that there are other scandals of the same sort -which cannot much longer be kept in the . background—then, we say, the House of Lords is in danger—in danger from itself. Archdeacon Denison, with all his violence, seldom says anything which has not a grain of sharpness and sense in it ; and he said, two days ago, that the heaviest blows against the Church were those dealt front within. The saying holds good of other institutions ; and unlesS the most aristocratic assemblage in the world is the only. one which has utterly lost the esprit de cezps, the Lords will surely come to their own rescue, and will socially enforce that high morale without which their order invites the eeulting reproaches of its enemies. The Star, in referring to the recent riots at Mold, says there are one or two considerations which are suggested by the wretched state of things which has arisen in this Welsh town. The spread of popular education would not necessarily prevent such outbreaks altogether ; but it is only reasonable to assume that the colliers of Mold are an ignorant body of men ; for ignorance, and that condition of mind which begets lawlessness—which, under the influence of a supposed grievance, resorts to the bludgeon, and is incapable of self-control—are so closely allied as to be practically inseparable. If we looked beneath the surface, we doubt not that the exceptional turbulence of these pitmen takes its root in thekalmost• total want of that elementary knowledge which is essential to make men feel the moral and legal responsibilities of their position. When crime is com mitted we are too apt to overlook those remoter causes of its perpetration for which the State should justly be made to bear its share of blame. The State cannot do every thing in the way of social or intellectual amelioration ; but this is no reason why it should almost entirely ignore its duties to the neglected classes, espe cially as these comprehend no insignificant num ber -of men who will work, as well as of those who prefer to live at other people's expense. We know not whether any attempt has been made to establish councils of arbitration and conciliation in this disturbed district. Probably there has been no such attempt, and if so, when masters and men fall out — and in every state of society, however theoretically per fect, such disputes are certain to arise—there is very little of reason, but a great amount of brute passion to appeal to. There roust be something essentially wrong in a com munity in which even so irritating a circumstance as a strike leads to scenes of violence on the part, not of the few, but of the many. Moralists may moralise, and preachers may preach ; but until the evil, is probed to the bottom it will never give place to a healthier industrial life in these distant parts of the kingdom. The Daily News remarks that n fatal riot is happily a rare occurrence in England, and a collision of rioters with the military still rarer. Such an event however, has now to be recorded, with the exceedingly disagreeable feature that it is the culmination of a dispute respecting wages. It appears that for some weeks past the relations between the colliers working at the Leeswood Great Pit, near Mold, in Denbighshire, and their employers have been in an unsettled state. The facts connected with this lament. able loss of life must shortly come under the review of the highest criminal courts of the land, and it is the duty of the press not to prejudge their decision, so far as the responsi bility of individuals is concerned. We are all, however, at liberty to discuss its more public aspects, as it will be our duty to do as soon as sufficient materials for a judgment have been =emulated. Seldom as a sanguinary repres sion of an Outbreak is necessary in this country, and jealously. as Englishmen are accustomed to watch the employment of the military force in dealing with civil tumults, the public will be prepared to uphold the acts of those o have done what appeared best under most trying circumstances. Assuming that the facts are cor rectly reported, it would appear that the action of the magistrates in calling upon the military, and of the commanding officer of the latter in ordering his men to fire, was of a purely defensive character, and was abso lutely necessary, if life and property in Mold were not to become the prey of an inf ur i a t e d an d powerfu l mo b . Tinder any circumstances the loss of life reported must be d ee ply lamented ; but it will be a matter of thankfulness if regret is unmingled with self-reproach. The Herald thinks there can be no doubt that a large proportion of the misery, and even crime, prevalent am ong the rural population due to the di scom f ort and squalor of the labourer's home. It is made hat e f u l to the main by its dirt, its crowded Aate its total want of snugness, and all else that can render a:tenement intolerable. Th e B a th and West of En;:rand Society are conlidering the subj ec t in a practical light, and much - hope may be•derived from their conclusions. Of course no one affect.: to believe we ploughman and hay ma k er can . give to every those little Paradises of" poetry which are go charming in Gainsborough—Ltudllcapes with thick. eaved roofs and showers of jasinin over idyllic porches. • But there is a medium between this sort of eentiment:l hope and the worse than _African barbarity of the hnt in many an Enelish labourer is, with hi,: cramTicd. Alt present thousands of families in the rural districts of this hin:elom inhabit structures which are ni,t houses at all, be ~ . .liius thqt would disgrace a hillside in Connemara. I,- no chimneys, still mr,re•iirneently their floers inad;: of Lea' :arth. o er - sehl.h the rainfall overiiows , ; an entire c!uster of acrn upon a solitary pump, noxious with f a liorse:pDnd ; other arrangements for proi . . t iety aro iitt, , rly•• negketel : and pissing through . villagcs t hardly eiepa.ct crime:di to deserve name, P, pedestrian migl,t imagine him sdi -to bi.:Tisiting one of those primitive hamlets whieb'in tkonineteeutil c.eitory represent a considerable part of thecivilisation extant in France. We are far that this is a general picture of cottage life in thiglatec.,hnt, on the other hand, it is no imaginary picture. We haVe set ourselves earnestly in our large towns to provide improved homes for the artisan. Many great landlo . rds.have given in the provinces examples of a wts_egeneresily in tl;i3 respcot, but it must he retneinberel tli;Lt we ! millions, and it will never be - inae to sk,cLie.; :4ntil . we, can look without shame: upon.thelothes th: -. ,et3 who G at sattila aub eruct !oil of thii - ccv . a;iy,Li - ;,t,••:gef.. - _ . THE LIFE-SA.V.LVG APPARATUS. The experiment of the life-saving apparatus, which took place on the Thames at Cremorne, seems tohave been completely successful. It is thus described. The appa ratus is intended for the rescue of shipwrecked persons. The inventor is Captain J. B. Stonor, of New York, a gentleman of independent fortune, who served through put the great civil war. Two Americans—a gentleman and his wife—have been commissioned to explain the nature of the apparatus ; and the way in which they are obliged to do so is certainly novel and in teresting: They first slip their arms through cork jackets and then insert their persons in a loose indiarubber over coat, which covers the whole of the body, except the :ands and face, around which it is tightly secured. India-. rubber weights are then attached to the shoes, so as to en able the wearers to maintain a perpendicular position and perfect equilibrium, and being thus equipped they jump into the water. They carry with them a tin case, in shape somewhat like a buoy. This article is divided into two compartments, and in the upper one they manage to pack biscuits, a flask of brandy, a revolver, Bengal lights, Roman candles, and some Liebig's sausages. Smoking and newspaper reading are not luxuries which a shipwrecked individual would probably enjoy in a " life on the ocean wave ;" but American originality Provides for them.; end adds cigars and a newspaper to the tiny freight.. The lower compartment of the case contains about six quarts of water, which isdrunk through an india-raber tube, closed by a metal screw top. The provisions Which are thus carried are supposed to last eight days, and if a shipwrecked person should fail to be rescued before the end of that time, he has the consola tion, when dying, of knowing that his body cannot sink, that his will, papers, and jewellery are safe, and that his friends will know how he quitted the world. - The inven tion has been patented by an American company with a capital of 300,00.0 dollars, and the price fixed for each snit is 1.7 . The public will not have an opportunity of investing in the apparatus for some months, inasmuch as a series of experiments in most European countries are contemplated, with the view of testing the success with which the invention is likely to be attended. 31.r..and Mrs Craddock, the two Americans, remained in the river nearly half an hour on Thursday evening, and chewed very little exertion beyond what was required in using little india-rubber paddles which form part of the apparatus. The experiment was conducted under considerable difficulty, Mrs. and - I.Trs. Craddock being prevented from moving in the water by the clustering of the boats, whose occupants were deaf to earnest protestations. They both opened -the buoyshaped case, helped themselves to some of the con tents, fired a revolver, and exhibited lights, and a red flag tearing the word "Eureka." The time occupied in don ning the dress is three minutes and a half. Captain Stoner hopes to provide all passenger ships with these extraordinary dresses, being ready to lend them for £1 each for every voyage, and to provide each chip with a man capable of explaining their utility. INFANTICID.E IN LONDON. On Thursday evening, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for %Antral Middlesex, delivered a lecture on this subject to a large audience, in the Freemasons' Hail of the metropolis. Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., presided, in the absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Dr. Lankester, after a scriptural and historical retrospect, proceeded to deal with the question as it addressed itself to the Christian world, and bore upon the well-being of society in modern times. Infanticide he defined to he the destruction or murder of a new-born child, but under another name the law als , ) took cognisance of the destruction of a child before it was born. He proposed to deal with the former of these crimes, and to draw ui on his cwn experience for his facts, thus following in the footsteps of the late Mr. Wakley, who, like himself, had heen wrongly accused of exaggeration while treating of this matter. In 1863 there were 55 cases of infanticide in his district; in 1864, 56; in 1865, 61 ; in 1866 i 5; in 1%7, 53; and in 1868, 52; but in too many instances he had discevered a tendency to return open verdicts of " found dead" or "still-born." According to the judicial statistics of the H ome Office, the ratio of the crime for the whole of England was 1 in 170,000 of the population, and in Middlesex 1 in 20,000, while for the central and western districts it was 1 in .12,000, confirming him in the opinion that the crime was mainly confined to the domestic servants of the West cud.. indeed, on an average of five years the return for Clerkenwell was 1 jn '0,C00;1 St. Pancras, 1 in 20,000; :Nlarylebone, 1 ,inelo,Coo ; Paddington; lin 8,000 ; and Islington, lin 6,000. Having shewn that the mother was generally aliThW in the murder and disposal of her child, Dr. T.ankester went on to assert that the verdicts returned afforded no indication of the actual number of cases. • He believed Mr. Wakley was right in fixing it at :;00 a year, and as the murderess was generally twenty years of age, and seldom repeated her crime, taking the average life of women at CO, it followed that there were 12,000 women living who bad committed the offence. He next glanced at the deaths occasioned amongst mothers and the effects of " baby farming," observing that half the children upon whom he held inquests were illegiti mate, and that from 40 to 80 per cent. of children admitted into foundling hospitals die within the first year, and concluded by stating his cure for the evil, which was to be worked through the pulpit, an alteration of the bas tardy laws, as not more than one in seventy of the fathers contributed to the support of the child, the substitution of other than the capital punishment for the crime, a certified registration of births, as in Ireland and Scot land, and of still-borns, as on the Continent, and the enactment of punishments for the concealment of preg nancy. LAW AND POLICE. THE CONSOLIDATED BANK.—On Thursday Samuel Marks, coachbuilder, appeared at Bow -street on the charge of having oLtained money on false pretences from the manager of the Strand branch of the Consolidated Bank. The manager, believing his representations, had agreed to discount three bills amounting to 2297 2s. The bills when clue were dis honoured, and the case for the prosecution was that the defendant must have known the persons who accepted them were bankrupt. The defendant was bound over in his own recognisances for £2OO to appear for trial at the Central Criminal Court. ATTEMPTED •MURDER.—A young man, named Levett, was on Thursday examined at the Southwark Police-court, on the charge of attempting to murder his wife on Whit Monday evening. Mrs. Levett was nursing her baby, when ber husband came home intoxicated and asked for money. She told him she had none, upon which he snatched up the poker and struck her on the head. She was for several days in imminent danger, but has since recovered and begged forgiveness for her husband, who was, however, committed for trial. A LITERARY QUESTION.—In the Chesterfield County Court several cases were heard - arising from a dispute with respect to the purchase of 'Works in numbers. The plaintiff was an agent to Messrs. Blackie, of Edinburgh, and the defendants were poor people, who had taken thu first part of a work which, when completed, would cost £7. They had signed the contract-book, but refused the second part on the ground of the expense. His Honour nonsuited the plaintiff in every case, and said he should do all he could to prevent the practice of setting persons to sign such contracts ignorantly. ASSAULT AT S ru..---The captain and the chief mat.. of a passenger ship were on Thursday summoned at the Mansion llouse by a retired armyAyrgeou for assault. The offence was alleged to have been committed at sea cn the voyage from Calcutta on April 17. There appeared, however, to be some qualifying circumstances in the case of the defendants, and in the result the complainant witlidrew the summonses. BURNED TO DEATH IN A PICSTYL—A horrible death is reported from DevenshiriF The deceased was John Chubb, aged 51, woodman, in the employ of Mr. J. A. Knight, of Axminster. On Wednesday morning the pigstye at his house was found to be on fire. His wife, who had two children ill, tried to open the door of the stye, but the fastening was so hot that she had to take the tongs OA° so. In the stye she found the charred reinains of her husband. The body was cc-rched like a log of wood. Deceased had been intoxi cated, and was a great smoker. It is supposed that whilst the man was smoking. the stye had taken fire. At the inquest the jury brought in a verdict of Accidental Death. A NOBLE FrgiitrorAN. —A party of fishermen mi the beach between - Walmer and Deal one day lost week were hauling in their large nits with a copious take of mackerel, and, as iR .nsnal upon such occasions, willing hands were ready to 114 2 to' pull in the nets. A gentle• man who was lool:ing on t ,s•seirg that all available strength was wanted to land the filb; triz.2.l one corner, and v‘ it h .a vigorous tug contributed . in getting the take up the abrupt - beach. Upon opening —the net, preparatory te sorting the fish and packing foftbe London market, all the helping hands were giver: some lalf-a-dozen for their r eady aid, as is the custom, and -the gentleman asked whether he bad earned a share. " Oli, yes," said the worthy master of the boat, " you war a good help ; take four of the finest you can see, and here 's a bit o' twine .tc car' em home with ;" and .threading four of the hand. sourest mackerel at hand, he gave them to the gentleman, who walked off with them there and then to Walmer It was the noble Lord Warden of the Cinque ,Warta -(Lord Grao.ville) 1740 gang kßitAsityza__rned THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 169. THE ASSASSINATION AT• LEGHORN. REPUBLICANISM IN ITALY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, MAY 28. The particulars of the assassination of the Austrian Consul at Leghorn have just reached us. The Count, Field-Marshal von Crenneville, had just left Rome, where he had been sent on a private mission to the Pope by the Emperor of Austria, whose aide-de-camp he was. He had been Governor of Leghorn in 1849, and was anxious to see his old garrison, and also to pay a visit to his friend the Austrian Consul, M. Inghirami. He was recognised on his arrival by several men who had sworn vengeance against him at the cafe kept by the brothers Carradini, aid the police warned him to be careful. He, however, remained two days with Signor Inghirami, walking about the bastions and revisiting his old haents, and on the fourth day took his passage on board the steamer to return to Civita Vecchia. He was accompanied to the quay by the Consul, and just as both gentlemen were stepping into the boat to embark, they were attacked by two un known individuals, armed with: daggers, who stabbed Count Crenneville in the face and the ConsUi to the heart. The former turned rapidly round, and 'suc ceeded in putting his adversary to flight and wresting from him a three-sided dagger with which he had been wounded, and then turned to assist his friend. M. Inghirami was bleeding profusely, and only survived his u ound Suffi ciently long to be carried home, where he died immediately after. The Austrian Embassy at Florence has demanded vigorous justice, and the persons suspected of the crime are in custody. Very little doubt exists in well-informed quarters that the French occupation will shortly be withdrawn. The unpopularity of Victor Emmanuel has reached its height in Italy, and Mazzini's recent manifesto, suppressed by the Government, has had a fabulous circu lation in clandestinely printed broadsheets. The proclamation, "To my Enemies," is a terrible blow for the Italian Government. It will be quoted in every cafe in Italy, and will form an era in Italian politics as the final declaration of war by the sect against the monarchy. Mazzini seems to have decided on passing the summer at Lucerne, where there is a very considerable revolutionary nucleus. Menotti Garibaldi bas left Naples, and was followed to the steamer by a large crowd. As he left he cried, " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele!" to which not a single voice responded. He then cried "Viva Garibaldi!" and the crowd, consisting of many thousands of persons, broke into enthusiastic cheering. A relation of my own was present, and was struck beyond words at the utter coldness with which the King's name was received. To demonstrate this was probably the object of Menotti's ruse. Ire has gone to Catanzaro to meet Achille Fazzari, who is associated with him in a so-called industrial enter prise in the Calabrias, but which is known to cover an organisation of the southern provinces for the proclama tion of the Republic. The army is far from trustworthy. The Piacenza Regiment (Light Dragoons) is said to l t le entirely gained over to Republicanism, and those of Salerno are little better disposed. The ex-King of Naples and his Queen leave for France to-morrow, the youngest prince and princess, brother and sister of the King, remaining in charge of the Count of Caserta. Their Majesties return in October, for the Queen's confinement. The Count of Girgenti was telegraphed for yesterday by Queen Isabella, and left for Paris at once, leaving his wife, the Infanta, in Rome. It is supposed there is some question of an attempt at a regency, and of a fartnal abdication in favour of the Prince of Asturias, which is the project favoured by the Emperor Napoleon. The next decree of the Index will probably condemn Menabrea's pamphlet, "L'Etat and le Concile." The Archbishops of Cologne and Posen Gnessen will probably be raised to the purple shortly, and will receive a fitting income to support the dignity from the King of Prussia. The Prussian bishops will also, it is said, receive their expenses for the Council from the State. Cardinal Bonaparte will leave Borne for Paris after St. Peter's, and will officiate at the fetes in Corsica. Mr. Anthony Waterer, from his nursery at Woking. This nursery exceeds 200 acres, and 60 of them are occupied with American plants alone. The cost of removing them to and from the Gardens must be prodigious. The weather yesterday was particularly fine, and the magnificent spectacle of brilliantly-coloured flowers and scarcely less brilliantly-dressed people was well worth a visit. Only why should modest women be exposed to the annoyance of being brought constantly face to face with women whose extravagant costume and rouged cheeks showed their calling even though they were accompanied by men who had all the appearance of gentle men ? Still speaking of flowers, I may mention that Mr. Layaid has done wonders in Hyde Park. He has laid out the whole of the lawn next to Knightsbridge in beau tiful slopes, which almost hide the hideous houses beyond, and which just now are perfectly gorgeous in their display of rliododendrons. Last evening was luckily very fine, and there was an enormous crowd of persons in the streets gazing on the illuminations. All the chief Ministers of the Crown gave State entertainments, ano so all the night through coronetted carriages were rolling through the streets. For those who had not the entrée to noble and right honourable circles, there were concerts innumerable, as there have been all the week. I. was at at Madame Puzzi's on Mon day, and it was particularly good. We had Monbelli Volpini, Edith Wynne, Rose Hers&., Pyne-Bodda, and Julia Elton for female vocalists, and Gassier and Gardoni among the men. Last night " Elijah" was pei formed by the National Choral Society at St. Martin's Hall. Next week will be a week of concerts. Chief among them is Nilsson's on Monday, and the second performance of :Rossini's " Mes3e Solennelle "on Wednesday. The National Choral Society mean to hold a great concert at the South Kensington Horticultural Gardens on the 26th on behalf of some charity, and there will be 5,000 persons in the chorus. The Princess Louise is to open the new Sailors' Orphan Girl's School and Home early in July, and will plant a tree In honour of the event. Ladies who have collected five guineas are to be permitted to present the amount to her Royal Highness. The White Horse Cellar, well-known to travellers journeying between London and the West in the old coaching days, is becoming almost as famous as it was thirty years ago. Every day there start from it coaches .and four for different parts of the country. The latest of these is a Windsor coach, driven by Lord Carington at from eleven to twelve miles an hour. This coach has been started not by a private speculator, as the Brighton and Tunbridge coaches have been, but by the Four-in-Band Club, whose turn-out May be seen every afternoon in Rotten Row. Gay doings are not to be confined to the West-end. The City means to have its festival. Blackfriars Bridge is all but finished, and its three wide iron arches may now be fully seen from the Embankment. The Holborn Viaduct is also all but completed, and in all probability both structures will be opened with civic state on the same, and that an early, day. By the way, our City authorities are at last copying the example long ago set by Baron Haussmann in Paris, and are laying clown an asphalte road in Threadneedle-street. Bat they had to get foreign workmen to do the. job, and the work is being carried out by a Swiss company. Mr. Street's new design for the Law Courts has been got out in about three weeks, and the ground plans are now exhibited in the library of the House of Commons. The elevation plans are not yet exhibited, but those who have seen the rough drawings say that Mr. Street has done wonders. Mr. Lowe laid upon him a very difficult task, but he has out of the difficulty achieved a real victory. Still on these matters I may mention that Mr. Thorny croft's colossal statue of the Queen is now ready. It represents her Majesty in half-military costume, such as she used to wear when visiting the camp at Chobbam with the Prince Consort. It is fourteen feet high, and will be placed in front of St. George's Hall, Liverpool. • In pictorial art matters there is a little news going. The deficiency in the three exhibitions of the National Portrait Gallery is £1,200, and is provided for' in this year's estimates. I fear we must not look for a fourth. Sir Edwin Landseer is . re ported to have sold his large picture of "Eagles In vading. a Swannery" to the Marquis of Northampton for 4,000 guineas, and Mr. Millais's rather crude "Vanessa" has found a purchaser at £7OO. Miss Escombe's singular picture representing a girl, arrayed in a Chinese robe, painting her portrait from the reflection in the mirror, so that the robe is repeated three times, was intended as a ieu d'esprit, and no one was more surprised at its acceptance by the Hanging Committee than the artist. Mr. Sydney Hodges's portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury is now on view at Graves's, in Pall Mall. The artist, is painting the Princess Mary .of Cambridge ; and is also, I believe, to paint Prince Teck. Mr. Whitworth ought to be well pleased at the result of his noble gift. There are no fewer than . 3,C00 compe titors for the ten scholarships which he founded for the promotion of technical education. The receipts of the Atlantic Cable on the Ist and 2nd of June, at the reduced charge of £2 per message, chew an advance of more than 50 per cent. on the receipts of the corresponding days of last year, the income of the two 'days being £1,534 this year, as compared with £929 on the Ist and 2nd of June, 1868. The literary market is still dull, but is " looking up" a little. A second edition of Mr. Lecky's " History of Morals" is announced already. This is a real triumph for the author. He is but a little over 30 years of age, and has produced two works which, more than any others of late years, are profoundly influencing the thought of his contemporaries. His first attempts at lite rature were made some three or four years ago, and appeared in the shape of a volume of poems, and the " History of Rationalism." The poems had actually no sale, and came back to him as waste paper, but the History took at once, and its success astonished him. Being a man of private means, he is able to devote all his time to reading and writing. He travels a good deal, and a large portion of his latest work was written while he was travelling, I believe, in Spain. Though a man of such varied reading, he is remarkably retiring in society. Several weeks ago I said that if some of our great pub lishers did not secure an account of that wonderful conflict which has been going on in Paraguay for some years, the inhabitants of the Row had better put up their shutters. I may now mention that Longmans have arranged with Mr. George Thompson, C.E., Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers in the Paraguayan army, to publish a history of Paraguay, of the customs of the People, and of the war. The same publishers have just ready the concluding volumes of Froude's History of England. Next to these the most interesting, announcements are that John Murray has a pamphlet by Dean Hook on "The Disestablished Church in the American Republic ;" that Smith and Elder have in the press a new work by Ruskin, entitled "The Queen of the Air ; an Attempt to Interpret the Myths of Athena ;" and that Macmillan has nearly ready a life of Arthur Clough, and a volume of Essays written partly by men, partly by women, on " Women's Culture and Women's Work," edited by Josephine Butler. I may mention, also, among forthcoming works, new novels by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Mortimer Collins, entitled respectively "The Minister's Wife" and the "Ivory Gate ;" " Austra lian Views of England," by Mr. Henry Parkes, late Colo nial Secretary of New South Wales ; the "Seven Curses of London," by James Greenwood ; " The Christian Singers of Germany," by Miss Wentworth'; "Palm Leaves," by the same author ; and Keble's Letters, edited by Dr. Moberly. I have reserved to. the last my notes on political matters. , First and foremost it is now admitted that the Lords have made up their minds not to oppose the Irish Church Bill. I confess I always disbelieved the possibility of their taking any other. course, even though for a few hours it was seriously intended. It is true that there is great wrath among the Irish Protestants, who declare that they have been cruelly .betrayed, and that the English Bishops especially have treated them shamefully, by refusing tO be present at Chesterfield House on Saturday. But wha could they do? To have rejected the bill would bavd been to bring about a most serious conflict between the two Houses, between the Peers and the nation, and between the English Church and the nation. And all these dire events would have been totally without any compensat ing result, because the bill is sure to pass, if not this year, then next year. Of course there are men like Archdeacon Deuieonwho would say, "Let the heavens fall so that justice be done." But, unfortunately, if the heavens did fall " justice'" would riot be done. So the Peers very wisely think that the skies might just as Nell remain where they are. Thus all ideas of serious opposition and of caves and of demands for the " whole policy " of the Government are believed to be given up. The bill will be on for a second reading on June 14, and after a long debate it will be passed without a division, unless some hotheaded man like Lord Reilesclale or the Marquis of Westmeath insists upon dividing ; in that case the Conservative peers will leave the Ilouse. _ The bill was brought up to the Peers in anything but state. A gentleman from the Bill Office was observed making his way through the Lords' lobby with a printed paper tucked up under his arm. This was the embodied revolution which has cast such dismay into the Protestant camp. A few minutes before five, one of the clerks at the table arrived at the bar of the Upper House from the Commons, in n order to hand the bill t o Si r J . S . L e f evre. Th e Clerk of the Par liaments took it to the table, where it awaited the com mencement of business. That was how this important measure was sent from the Lower to the Upper house. I will conclude by contraipting, as I am able to do on the highest authority, the report that Earl Spencer is about to resip. The high Viceroy neither has, nor hai had, but integtion. • MISCELLANEOUS NETT/S. 111E7ROPOLITAiV GOSSIP-7hursday. The town is full of scandal. First of all there is this lament able business of the Duke of Newcastle, which I referred to in a former letter. There is no longer anything to be gained by suppressing the name. The whole affair came before the courts yesterday. That was then made public to all the world which was pretty well known before in West-end circles. The son of an honoured states man bad fallen into hands which, before now, have proved anything but helping hands. Unhappily for him, be had visited a notorious sporting-man in the neighbourhood of one of the most aristocratic squares in London ; at whose house the wines are costly and the viands choice, but where it is the guests who in the long run have to pay—as that poor lad the Marquis of Hastings and now the Duke of Newcastle have:learnt to their cost. It is now seen why it was that the Duke never came for ward to the help of his brothers, who were compelled to pass through the Bankruptcy Court. He, no less than they, had fallen among a class which I nerd not particularise. Fortunately for the Duke, he has a wise wife who, having bad settled upon her the enormot property which she inherited from her father, Mr. Henry Hope, refuses to pay her husband's debts of honour. For tunately, too, he holds merely a life interest in a consider able portion of the property which belorged to the late Duke, and Mr. Gladstone and I ord de Tab', ey have come for ward as trustees to protect the interests of the present Duke's five young children (the eldest of whom is only seven years old) against persons of the Padwick and Beyfus type. It is to be hoped that the Earl, who has fallen into similar straits, brit whose affairs have not yet been made public, will find some deliverers of the same kind. But neither the example of these noblemen, nor that of the Marquis of Hastings, whose ruin was the talk of all the town this time last year, seems to produce the smallest effect upon our jeunesse doree. The marquis who perished at 26, the duke who is ruieed at 35, another duke who had to sell his ancestral estates as soon as he became of age, some three years ago, and all the other young peers and aristocrats who have been more or less hard hit, more or less entangled in the cruel web of sporting "gentlemen"—all these examples have no more effect upon the rest of the peerage and the baronetage than the scorched and lifeless bodies of the moths around a lamp have upon their fellow-moths. However, i is not only the blue blood that thus runs to waste. At the very time that London is full of these miserable stories we are told of a collection being raised to buy an annuity for the unfortunate Railway King, who is in beggary ; and that the Prince of Wales has hired for Ascot week Cooper's Hill, the seat of Mr. Albert Grant, late M.P. for Kidderminster. Mr. Grant as he chose to be called, Herr Gottheircer as his name really was, was one of the great financiers who, having gone up like a rocket during 1865, came down like a stick in 1866. His old constituents did not covet the honour of being represented by him, and so he ceased to he M.P. at the dissolution of the last Parliament. As for Cooper's Hill, I know every inch of it. It was formerly tenanted by Sir J. Cathcart, brother of the general who was killed at Inkermann. It is a most charming spot, about half-way between Egham and Virginia Water. At its foot lies Runnymede, where Magna Charta was signed, and from its summit Sir John Denham—"the majestic Denham," as Pops called him—wrote his poem " Cooper's Hill," which contains that well known couplet in which he expressed his wish that his poetry might he like the Thames : Though deep, yt t clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'ertlowing full. Unfortunately my chronicle of scandal does not end here. There are innumerable rumours of divorce suits, in which some of the highest names will figure. Of these it is safest to say nothing more. But the most grievous scandal is the banquet which was given at St. James's Hall, by a notorious woman of the town, whose photo graph figures in all the shop windows among those of bishops and statesmen. Though the tickets were £lO a head, they were eagerly bought by our young nobles, who crowded to the place where immodesty reigned supreme in the persons of the chief members of the clemi-monde. Tbe hostess bad the audacity on another occasion to seat herself in an opera box just Opposite that in which the Prince and the Princess of Wales were sitting, and the Prince was so indignant :that he declared he would never enter the Opera again if such an insult 'were repeated. • This has been a gay week. While the Queen has disap peared from public view, as is her wont during the height of the season and the sitting of Parliament, the Prince and the Princess of "Wales, invigorated by their late journey, have been attending concerts,theatres, exbibitions,and horse shows with wonderful energy. Londoners may see them any day driving at a rapid pace through the streets, while excited policemen call upon ordinary vehicles to get out of the way, which command, as they were not in the way, the ;rebus very wisely disregard. Yesterday afternoon I Was at a great flower show at South Kensington Gardens. It was a really magnificent spectacle. Thousands upon thousands of the elite were gathered together sitting on the slopes, listening to the two military bands" which played alternately, or strolling through the arcades wherein the .azaleas, roses, and orchids shone forth with many-coloured lustre. But the great sight of all was the huge tent filled with American plants, chiefly azaleas and rhododendrons, in full flower. The ground inside the tent is laid out in miniature hills and dales, and the view seen from one of the eminences is the most fairy-like it is possible to imagine. The whole of the plants were transplanted thither, for the special purpose of the show,. by THE IRISH CHURCH DIVISION. Ministerialists are not quite satisfied with the division on the third reading of the Irish Church Bill. A Liberal vote, they say, was thrown away. A member of the House, who was not able to record his vote, paired, but did so in a mode that has excited the wrath of the Liberal Whips. Said member said nothing to the Liberal Whip about his pairing, but went to Mr. Noel to get his name struck against another. Mr. Noel paired him with a member who was out of town and had no intention of coming up to take part in the division. Mr. Glyn happened to be exactly in the same position as Mr. Noel—he had a vote at command, and could have substituted another Liberal, who had actually come down to the House, but was prevented from voting by the fact that he had been previously paired with an absent Conservative. Thus the defaulter at once disabled a Liberal fellow-member whose vote was in Mr. Glyn's hands, and redeemed from extinction a Tory vote which, but for his interposition, must have been unemployed. TUE MISII LAID LAWS. • A very able letter on the Irish land laws from (‘ special correspondent" appears in the Daily Telegraph. The writer gives the history of these laws and of the social .condition of Ireland during the past century. It was in 1700 that agrarian outrages first became serious, and compelled the landowners to remove the grievances of which the tewints complained. The conspirators took the name of Whiteboys. They committed robberies of arms, killed and . maimed cattle, and even obnoxious persons, and burnt dwelling - houses. Their fury was directed, not only against landlords, but against bailiffs, against the tenants who sub mitted to eviction, and even against those cf their own class who would not join the conspiracy. Tithes and county cess were among the. causes of discontent, but the main cause was the exorbitant rent of land. The Irish Parliament, which was composed almost entirely of landowners, refused to examine the causes of discontent during the forty years that elapsed between the outbreak of agrarianism and the Union. The Attorney-General in 1787, though a member of a High Tory Administration, and addressing a Par liament of landowners, spoke in the strongest terms - of that class. He declared that it was impossible for human wretchedness to surpass that which existed in Munster. He said : " I know that the unhappy tenantry are ground to powder by relentless landlords. I know that, far from being able to give the clergy their just dues, they have not food or raiment for themselves. The landlord grasps the whole ; and sorry I am to add that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate thedistresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack rents already paid !" The Union took place, but it had no effect upon the social condition of the peasantry. Committees of both Houses of Parliament were appointed in 1824. The evidence giveri before them was terrible. Mr. Blackburne, who subsequently held the highest le g al posts under Conservati ve Ad m i n i s t ra ti ons, sa id of county Kerry that there being no manufactures land had become a necessary of life. As the popula tion multiplied the demand for land increased, and at last the rent became so high that the tenants could not pay it. Sir George Lewis, writing twelve years later, found the same condi tion of things, and the commission, presided over by the Earl of Devon, reported that " it is difficult to say what compensation, apart from land, will be adequate in a country where land alone affords a permanent security for food." Then came the Irish poor law of 1839, by which, and by an extensive system of Government colonisation,. Sir George alone hoped to put down agrarian crime. Then came the famine, clearing the estates of their superabundant population. The total population of Ireland in 1847 was over 81 millions; the famine and the exodus reduced it to 91 millions. But it was not the tenants who suffered during that fearful time. The enormous poor rates overwhelmed the landlords, and it became necessary to pass the Encumbered Estates Acts, under which in eight years there were no fewer than 4,413 petitions for the sale of estates. These changes, together with repeated promises to amend the law so as to give the tenants protection, kept the people quiet f o r a ti me. But repeated falsification of pledges has induced them once more to rise against laws which even so high a Tory as Chief Justice - Pennefather declared were " framed with a view to the interest of the landlord, and to enforce the payment of rent. The interest of the tenant never entered into the contemplation of the Legislature. " The letter concludes with remarking . that Englishmen respect the law because under it they have become prosperous and happy. Irishmen, unfortunately, have no such reason. SIR ROBERT CLIFTON. The Paris correspondent of the Horning Post gives some particulars respecting the late Sir Robert Clifton which the kindly spirit that will always prevail with regard to the dead should make as widely known as possible. The correspondent says : " The late baronet arrived in Paris after horseracing and the Jews had consumed a magnificent fortune, and here be lived ten years on a small income, but always exercising great hospitality, for he was of a generous nature. Those who knew the baronet as a Turf man only were little aware of his real character. He took a great interest in foreign politics, and corresponded with foreign statesmen. Soon after the Crimean War he published a pamphlet in French and English on the condition and prospects of the Ottoman empire, and for which he received the thanks of the Turkish Govern ment through the then Ambassador at Paris, his Excellency Vefyk Effendi. Sir Robert had just inherited property, from the death of his uncle, Sir Artlitir Clifton, and only very lately wrote to a friend in Paris saying that he was determined to repair past errors, dedicate his time to parliamentary duties, and do what good he could for the workmen of Nottingham." THE EARL OF CARNARVON ON LORD PALMERSTON. It is, we suppose, a sign of the times that at the unveiling of the statue of Lord Palmerston the principal part cf the ceremony should be entrusted, not to a Liberal, but to a Conservative statesman. No doubt Lord Palmerston was more of a Conserva tive than of a Liberal, and it was, therefore, quite fitting that the Earl of Carnarvon should make the inaugural speech. Lord Carnarvon said that one great cause of Lord Palmerston's popularity was that he .was " emphatically an Englishman — an Englishman .as much in his faults as in his virtues." This is true enough ; but it is to be hoped that we have improved since thed—that we no longer love a statesman because of his faults. One great fault possessed by Englishmen generally, and by Lord Palmerston to an intensity, was insularity—the idea that England was not only better than any . other country in the world, but that all other countries were made for her special advafitage, and must therefore give way to her even when she was wrong. It was this which made him wage- that wicked Chinese war a dozen years ago. It was this which prevented him from seeing that the highest aim of a statesman is to be not a national egotist, but a cosmopolitan. The con trast between the two was typified by Palmerston the "thorough Englishman," and Cobden the "inter national man." Fortunately it is the second, rather than the first I who has now become o ur model. THE PRINCE OF WALES A FREEMASON. .2 The probability has become a certainty; the Prince of Wales is now an acknowledged Freemason. There was much speculation about the matter some time back, and the craftsmen professed themselves in doubt as to what Order h is Royal High h joined in Sweden. But at the quarterly communica tion of the "hilted Grand Lodge of Free and A cc4ted Masons of England, held at the Great Hall,: Great Queen-street, Lincolnn, the Earl of Zetland announced, on 'Wednesday last, that the Prince had joined the fraternity. Her Majestyrk birthday prevented the Prince from attending, 'but, he was immediately promoted to be Past Grand: Master. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT COVENTRY, The Conservatives of Coventry held a banquet on Wednesday, attended by Messrs. Eaton and Bill, the members for the borough. They both denied that the election in the borough was won by a local question ; and both made a great point in their speeches of the French Treaty—the local question itself. They promised t heir constituent s that they wou ld endeavour to obtain a revision of this treaty. This, with the' s t ere otyped denunciation ofwt in the was se muchl Church Bill, made up two avc rage speeches. H r . however, gave an amuSing instance of party journalism. lv He said he read the local Liberal paper, n sur prised by a criticism on his speech and votesaid an matter of Mr. Russell Gurney's Married Property Bill. First of all, the write account of men beating their wives, thernPl'n thatomen's Mr. Gurney's bill was to prevent men beating their w i ves ; "and yet Mr. Hill,' continued the writer, "is against this bill—he is in favour of these men who beat their wives." DEAN STANLEY ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. - ---• Dean Stanley.loves no word better than the won? "national." Hardly a sermon but it occurs, hardly a speech but Ile impresses it upon his hearers Associating party with weakness and division, lie continually enforcing the need of breadth of vii min comprehensive syrup: tap. At an anniversary of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor he is, therefore, eminently at home. Albeit he does not sympathi se w ith th e socictyin the contest it has been waging with Parliament anent the Conscience Clause, he knows well how to sink such disagreements when it is advisable to do so. Preaching at the Triennial Choral Festival of the society at . Westminster kbbey on Wednesday, he took for his subject - Compassion, and laid down that there was hardly a. higher work of compassion than education. We:learn fr3m all history, .he said, that ignorance and the want. of education tend to foster weakness and division 'in States • and that as _ r of that education which binds man to man ana raffia to rank, the same thing might happen• again if national Churches failed in their wide and comprehensive duty. Pupils, he added, are the wings of their teachers, as we could learn from a Socrates or a Paul; and while a mere priest isolates himself, his sympathies, and his caste from the rest of mankind, the true pastor and teacher identifies himself with those whom he in structs, and thereby educates them without lowering his own position. This compassion of the teacher and instructor ought to be as wide as the people among whom one's lot is cast. INDEPENDENT CONGREGATIONS AND THEIR PASTORS. The decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart giving power to a dissenting congregation to dismiss its pastor, has, it is stated, created considerable excite ment amongst the ministers ; and a correspondent of the Star announces that the case is to be carried to the Lords Justices. Meanwhile efforts are to be made "to set ministers thinking of the volcano over which their pulpits are now hanging." TWO-YEAR-OLD RACING. This is the subject of another long letter in the Times writt en .b y Ad m i ra l lions. Rejoicing that Sir Joseph Hawleys motion to the Jockey Club was rejected, he enters once more into a discussion of the whole subject. He still refuses to believe that racers have degenerated. He holds rather that they have much improved. The old Eng racer used to come in exceedingly exhausted to the winning post, so that carriages kept up with him ; he used to be small and poor, now he is fast and powerful, and stands far ahead of all the other horses of the world. In answer to Lord Derby's letter, the Admiral declares that he never knew anyone run simply for sport and not for profit, and that he has done all he can to warn touts off the field. He also denies the excess of gambling on the Turf, pointing out that every lady's maid in London knew that either Pretender or Pero Gomez must win the Derby. How could £lOO,OOO have been won on it? He also repeats his assertion that the Jockey Club has no jurisdic tion. He admits that as long as it acts with modera tion its example will , be followed, but tyranny, he declares, will be resented. • LEVELLING DOWN. An order has just been issued directing that the minimum height for all recruits is to be reduced from five feet eight to five feet seven. This levelling down does not speak well for the physical progress of the race. Cannot Mr. Cardwell follow the example of Frederick the Great, and import some giant grenadiers'? There are plenty of men over six feet high in Southern Norway who would. do admirably for the purpose. THE WEATHER, AND THE HAEVEST. The month of May has been one of cold, wet, and wind. Several tempestuous gales occurred; the rainfall was more than double, and the crops have begun to suffer severely. Mr. •Allnatt, the Times meteorological correspondent, informs us, with regard to the rain, that May is considered a dry month, the ordinary average fall is about 2.12 in. ; in the past month it amounted to 5.22 in., 3.10 in. in excess. The state of the crops is already beginning to excite the attention of the clergy. Archbishop Cullen, in a pastoral letter to his clergy, says :—"As the continual cold and rain are injurious to the country, you will be pleased to say the Litany of the Blessed Virgin on three days next week, after the parochial mass, begging of God, through the intercession of His Holy Mother, to grant us weather favourable to the crops, and to preserve us from the evils of a bad harvest." A PROPHECY. The weather prophets are at it again. We are told now of great storms in October. Captain Saxby, of the Royal Navy, is the informant before the fact. Ile says : "At 7 a.m., on the ensuing October 5, the moon will be at the part of her orbit which is nearest the earth ; her attraction, therefore, will be at its maximum force. At noon the moon will be on the earth's equator—a circum stance which never occurs without marked atmospheric disturbance—and at 2 p.m. of the same day lines drawn from the earth's centre will cut the sun and moon in the same arc of right ascension. The moon's attraction and the sun's will, therefore, be acting in the same direction. In other words, the new moon will be on the earth's equator when in perigee, and nothing more threatening can occur of high tides and destructive storms." CI UTTER, CHILDREN. Miss Rye has many difficulties to contend with in the way of opposition. Especially is her exportation of gutter children looked upon with suspicion. She has been asked whether she is aware that there are gutter children in Canada. She replies in the affir mative ; but declares that there is a vital difference -between the dirty innocents of the two countries. In England they are orphan and deserted ; in Canada their parents still claim, and, to some extent, watch over, them. Miss Rye sets clown as sentimental talk the protests which have been continually raised against parting parent and child ; but points out :that until the law is altered nothing can be done for children such as those of North America. FOREIGN NOTES. MIL SUDINER'A SPEECII. The story goes that Mr. Sumner recently visited President Grant, and was informed that he must wait a quarter of an hour. The bellicose senator furiously rushed off, saying that he would not wait for Napoleon, Queen Victoria, or anybody else. This little tale may be founded on fact ; at all events, the Times correspondent assures us that Mr. Sumner has tried hard to hav e his speech regarded as the basis of future negotiations on the Alabama claims, and has failed. The Cabinet wishes to have it understood that Mr. Sumner's speech was in no sense the opinion of the Government, but merely the utterance of a single senator. OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. Another Atlantic Cable is projected. A bill has been introduced into the Canadian Parliament to incorporate a telegraph company to lay a cable from Montreal to England by way of Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. THE CASE OF THE TORNADO. In an article on the present position of the negotiations in re the Tornado, the Times holds that the Spanish authorities have at least acted in conformity to law. The history of the case is this : The first adjudication of the Tornado was ignored by Lord Stanley as inequitable, and was quashed by the Spanish Court of Appeal on the tech nical ground that prize causes ought by Spanish law to be decidely administratively, and not judicially. The second °Abdication, administrative in character and con ducted by Royal Commissioners, has since been brought to an end, but Lord Clarendon has called for a new trial before a special tribunal, because Messrs. Isaac; the claimants of the vessel, have been denied a hearing before the Council of State, to whom the sentence of the commissioners had been referred for confirmation. Now, the denial of a hearing to Messrs. Isaac is in conformity with Spanish law, but the British Foreign Office claims the privilege on the ground that it was promised on two occasions by the. Spanish Government. The Tornado was seized on the ground that it was destined for the ser vice of the Chilian Government, with whom Spain was then at war, and that Messrs. Isaacs were really agents for Chili. The Times points out that Messrs. Isaacs have never yet succeeded in clearing this point up ; whilst, on the other hand, a similar vessel, the Cyclone, sent out by them, was undoubtedly incorporated with the Chilian fleet. But this suspicious aspect of affairs has nothing to do with the justice of Earl Clarendon's demands. Messrs. Isaacs have not •been heard itx their defence, and the English Goirernment claims that they ought tc be. DEFEAT OF TEE FEDERAL COUNCIL. Count Bismarck and the Federal Council have met with a signal defeat iu the North German Parliament. As was expected, the deputies will not sanction the taxes proposed ,to meet the deficit in the Confederation Budget. One impost was accepted, but the taxes on Stock Exchange business and on the manufacture of beer have been reje3ted by large majorities. In consequence of this vote, the Federal Government has given up the idea of sub mitting the other taxes which m ere in contemplation. The session will be closed in a few days. Countßismarck has been attacked by sciatica, and the Paris journals, of course, attribute the visit of this malady to the irrita tion arising from the attitude of the North German Par liament. THE GEHHAN NAVY. The Petrie, which is always fortunate enough to be in possession of some =favourable news about Prussia, says that the members of the North German Parliament are much disquieted at the new demands for credit made by Prussia on behalf of the navy. This time the Pattie happens to have some foundation for its croaking. According to the original scheme, it was resolved that the German navy should be sufficiently strong to protect German interests in all parts of the world as well as be equal to all ordinary duties at home. For this purpose the strength of the marine force was fixed two years ago at a line of battle of sixteen ironclad frigates, a steam fleet of twenty frigates and corvettes, and thirty smaller vessels. The whole was to be completed in ten years by annual votes.' Since this resolution was taken . Prussia has worked at the . ironclad fleet with great energy. .Already five frigates have been made ready for action, and the Prussian Government would like to finish off the remaining eleven in hot haste, by the aid of extraordinary credits. The deputies are disquieted by this persistence. If the intentions of Prussia are pacific, they see no reason why the construction of the fleet should not be spread over ten years, as originally agreed upon. Some of them urge that Prussia, in her haste to increase her armaments, is neglecting the interests of the smaller States, who see no great necessity for such burdensome expense. ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. gariza ukaatutunummiketiLGauld Uuiyoreal Exhibition will be - held at St. Petersburg next year. 16th of May is fixed as the date of the opening cerengl The Emperor Napoleon will, it is expected, pay a visiS r Russia on this occasion. RAZZINI. According to the Independance Beige, Mazzini has go to Zurich, where the Nathan family, one of whom arrested on the discovery of the plot at Milan, have tx l l up their residence. Many of thit Swiss people are indig loll , at the expulsion of the Republican leader from Lugano,9ll_l" the Societa del Ticino, a very important body, have Tot v " an address to the exile. Mazzini has replied, thanki vg the Swiss Republicans fur their protest against the ba it i' uess of the Government. He says :—" The decision ° your Council is in the highest degree arbitrary and uIiJ I'declare, upon my honour, that not a single vie 3 P ° L l was purchased in Switzerland for introduction in Italy. No meeting or assembly convened for the PIIFP °9I ., of invasion or of any violation of your neutrality ever attempted or intended by us. Neither the prep tions now being made for the pending trial in 'gil l nor your Federal or Cantonal Councils, will ever su cce ' in obtaining—l do not say a proof—hut not e ven indication of a single act on our part leading towards 01 violation of international law, or of the laws, decrees, °I traditions of your Republic." • EARL CRA.NVILLE'S NEW ZEALAND DESPATCH. Sir William Hutt, M.P., is much displeased with PP Granville's despatch respecting the refusal of the Ge 0 1. ,/ ment to guarantee the loan of £1,500,000. The Co lol ' l l Secretary alleges that "a number of Englishmen,wit lo invitation or encouragement from the British Goveriv ment, took on themselves to form one or more settlemelij ti in New Zealand." Sir William Hutt, on the other lA r : o affirms that up to 1839 a number of dissolute men I ) overrun New Zealand, were living in defiance of all P '` c i i ; and were perpetrating outrages. Sir William , conjunction • with other gentlemen, represented 1 Lord Melbourne the advantage of rescuing Zealand from these evils by regular colonis o °, Lord Melbourne's Colonial Secretary approved of t` project, but the Government long remained in acti , ll ; Meanwhile, in 1839, the French Government was .fitt' out an expedition to take possession of the cool; Seeing this, Sir William Hutt deemed that it wou ld useless to wait for the Government any lOnger; was chartered, and New Zealand was taken posses s ' o ' of in the name of Great Britain. Had it not been for tv o promptitude, the fine colony would have fallen French hands. TUE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The " military operations" in Paraguay are at pr e °), confined chiefly to the promulgation of ridiculous Te r , respecting Lopez. The Allies have got a new comnre v o e in-chief, Count d'Eu, a young man, who succeeds Cint " The greatest animation , exists in the allied armies , s t ig extensive preparations are being made for giving death-blow to Lopez, who continues to occupy the ti position, although he is said to have withdrawn mor e the interior with the women, leaving Resquin, general, in the entrenchments of Ezcurra. He coin his cruelties, and is believed to have about 6,000 ! e ll arms, including boys and old men." Several have taken place, the Paraguayans being, of c 0 always defeated. RAILIVAI INTELLIGENCE. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. A committee of 15 shareholders in this coo* a, have just issued a circular to the stock and W oo holders, stating that at a meeting held in Loud° the 12th of May they had passed resolutions to ` iie effect that, as the results of the management of railway had hitherto been so unsatisfactory to tb stock and bondholders, they had resolved the /1 ; selves into a committee, the object of .011 : 10 would be to inaugurate an alteration in 1 ,1 management of the company, both in Eng,l3oo and in Canada ; and asking for the prese ° o and support of the stock and bondholdeo at a meeting to be held in the London Taverl i . o ; Tuesday, the Bth of June, for the purpose of ta ti o , steps towards an immediate reform in the, agement. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. ric o The gross traffic receipts on this companfa t for the three months ending the 30th of April 11150, amounted to $968,786, the working expensek eluding renewals, to $612,176, and the net 0.01 to $356,610, against $914,374 gross traffic eartlivr in the corresponding period of 1868, $549,35 6 frt i3e l ing expenses, including renewals, and $365,0 11 ? earnings, showing an increase of $54,413 in the g io l earnings, of $62,819 in the working expenses 0 1 renewals, and a decrease in the net earning if $8,406. After deducting interest charges, 1 04 t 0 exchange, &c., the net profit for the three 1003 0 in 1869, available for dividends, amounted ro $81,711, against $79,191 in the corresponding tu months of 1868. MONT CENIS. The traffic receipts on this company's line forjf, week ending the 20th of May amounted to 24 11 t o (£964), and from the Ist of January to date £511,098f. (X 20,444). GREAT CENTRAL OF BELGIUM. Dt tj The traffic on this company's lines for the la the of April last amounted to £35,951, and for ; t o month of April,lB6B, to £36,964, showing a dec re : f ( of £1,013. The total receipts from the Ist Jan i u fo r to the end of April amounted to £144,71 1 , alp the corresponding period last year to 8 137 ''' showing an increase of £6,730. BRAZILIAN STREET (LIMITED). t ba The receipts for the month of April ' ll 4 0 Brazilian Street Railway amounted to,. 15 '03 milreis (about £1,547), as compared with 9 ' o rt milreis (about £938) in the same month las t I fot showing an increase of £609. The expenditur4et to April amounted to 8,281 milreis, and the pro 7,201 milreis.. GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. 01 0 The half-yearly meeting of this compani 0 0; held on Tuesday at the office, Surrepstreet, Str the Hon. R, H. Browne in the chair. bicl Mr. Rogers, the clerk, read the report, si ' o ,l , stated that the net receipts for the half-year t o ing the 31st of December, 1837, amounte j £31,042, and ending the 31st of Deee °sl of 1868, to £32,134, showing an i n cress e ,d £1,092. The directors very muc h reare" t i e that Mr. Rogers had signified his °de t he to retire from the office of clerk to company having been in their service upwards, 1 ° oe; years, during 24 of which he had held that e7 iv oe and in consideration of the length and imPe rt c o' of his services to the company, the directors rec, of mended that he be paid a retiring allowa ilci " £BOO per annum. , 0 t lc/ On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the rer -r te o , unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rs t 4f per cent. was declared, being an increase ° per share. • Mr. Webster, Consul-General at Fri'k ft" will take charge of his office about June 15th. a p i le I ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Ointmen 4. . a b e d, will be found the best friend to persons aillield othe4 ulcerations, bad legs, sores, abscesses, fistulas , en a l e painful and complicated complaints. Printe d 3° ,0 plain directions for the application of the Pi t o wrapped round each pot. 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