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FMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke _A• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and liON.— CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 154, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDO AT E 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 83, ALDGAT E 39, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. NEW OXFORD-STREET 307, NEW OXFORD-STREET -.08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH'. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent mtsrepre rentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nly Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- MORNING PzarortmANCEs WE cI DNESDAY. April 7, and SA I URDAY, April 10th.— t Two o` lock s the Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's Hall) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PU-S IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. A t half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE. GIRLS (IF THE PERIOI': A t Five, the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundr,'d Infant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Five. Doors open at half-past One commence at Two o'cl, ck. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz., First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse. F. Moreland, Barrett, F. Wilson, Barrett Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Great Combination of Attractions for the Easter Holidays. -A New Romantic Drama and the Grand Pantomime of "Puss in Boots." THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 6th time) a new romantic Drama. in three acts and a prolog le, entitled THE MAN OF TWO LIVES, founded on Victor lingo's celebrated novel, " Les Miserables," adapted by Bayle Bernard, adapter of 'Faust." Principal character by Mr. Charles Dillon, supported by the entire strength of the company. To conclude with the Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. Stage Manager, Mr Edward Stirling. Musical Director, Mr W. a Levy. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o clock. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH: Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, air Buckstoue. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of " After THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. Dark." After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama. entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Concludinz with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. IIpHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at T. A. DAY'S FISHING : Mr G. Belmore. At 15 to 8, 6th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Pechter. Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, dm. To conclude with WFIITE.B AIT AT GREENWICH, Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray II OLB ORN THE AT RE-ROYAL, Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS ELEGANT THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON SATURDAY, IST OF NAY, For the performance of the highest class of DRAMATIC LITERATURE. j)OYAL STRAND THEATRE. t, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7, A V r EDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bufton and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN EAST ER HOLIDAYS -Entire change of performance.. New A cts, fresh novelties, and additional attractions. —The best and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. Town and country holiday-makers will find no other Theatre in London offering a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and excitement.—THlS EVENING, 3rd appearance of the greatest wonder of the day—the Salamander Horse! 0 NRA, the world renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinary double so mersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING TRAPEZE. The magnificent Stud of Fifiy Performing Horses, and the matchless SCENES in the ARENA, by MM. Bradbury, Oscar Carre, Salamonsky, Adolphe Carre, Maitrejean, and Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, A malia, and Krembser, The most com plete combination of equestrian talent ever brought together. Positively t e Last Four Weeks of the Equestrian Season.— Those who have not yet seen the wonderful and beautiful horses should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London for the Continent on the 26th of April. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. VI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING. at 7, TIIE HAPPY FAMILY. At S. H. J. Byron's new and original Drama, MINNIE; or, Leonard's Love: Miss Lydia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan; Messrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs Marshall, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Hughes, and Stephens. OYAD L CHRISTY'S GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT -STREET, - Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the celebrated American Comedian, Mr. Harry Leslie. Pro nounced by the Press to ho the genuine sensation, and the orly Company of Christy- Minstrels who have performed by express command before Ler Majesty the Queen and the Court at Balmoral, Arrangements for the Easter we,k - : CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued t=ncress of the Builesque Extrnvoganza, TIIE VERY GRAND DLITCir-S. GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCES. Saturday (this day), April 3, at 3 and R, ADMISSION ONE SHILLING, Private Boxes, £225.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. T"E "SUN" NEWSPAPER .-G. R. GLENIE delivers the L-1 TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, S ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. £400,000 LOAN. TROT:VILLE ASSOCIATION (LIMITED). THE Subscription List will be Cl ose d on \VED NESDAY, the 7th April instant, up to, and inclusive of which day, applications for the 7 per cent. Mortgage Debentures will be received by the Bankers, viz. : Messis. HERRIES, FARQUHAR and CO., St. James-street, London, Messrs. ROBARTS, LUBBOCK, and CO., Lombard-street, London. By Order, H. NANSON, Secretary ad interim. Trouvillo Association (limited), 26, Old Broad-street, E.C. pRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Offices-62, Ludgate-hill, London. EXTRACTS front the DIRECTORS' REPORT for the year ending 31st December, 18 , 38. ho Directors have again to draw attention to a year of most remarkable progress. Accustomed as they have been for many years to re port an accession of business larger than any other Com pany in Europe, they have on this occasion to state that the New Premium Income of the year 1868 amounts to the extraordinary sum of £87,748 16s. 11d. per annum—the corresponding amount for 1867 being £54,819 ss. 3d. This income has been derived entirely from the resources of the Prudential, and not from any amalgamation or transfer. The Premium Income at the close of the year amounts to £220,978 Os. 10d., after making allowance for all Poli cies lapsed or surrendered. The claims paid during the year amount to £67,181 10s. 5d., raising the total disbursed under this head since the establishment of the Company to £480,986 10s. 3d. The Assurance Fund at the close of the year amounts to £241,301 12s. 4d., against £170,959 14s. 6d. at the close of 1867, being an increase of £65,341 17s. 10d. It is invested as follows: Victoria Bonds Cape of Good Hope Bonds 5,190 0 0 Land Mortgage Bank of India Bonds South Australian Bonds 5,325 0 0 Queensland Bonds 9,287 10 0 New South Wales Bonds 4,612 10 0 Natal Bonds .. 5,095 0 0 New Zealand Bonds 5,317 10 0 'Mauritius Bonds Turkish Bonds Canada Bond5... Railway debentures stock 3,017 15 3 £Z1,458 17 4 Freehold and Leasehold Estates, Ludgate hill and Belle Sauvage-yard (Of this item, property the amount of £61,500 has been since sold to the City of London.) Furniture and Fittings in Office 1,117 11 5 Mortgages and Loans Loans on Policies within these Surrender Value •... 2365 17 9 Premiums due and sundry Agents' Ba lances (nearly the whole of this since received) Cash 'Balances, viz : City Bank Current Account £11,134 14 4 National Provincial Bank Cash in hand 68,600 14 4 500 0 0 150 0 0 11,784 . 14 0 Total Assurance Fund ............ £241,301 12 0 The Proprietor s ' F un d Account .. . at the. close amounted to .................. 45,449 14 6 Which, added to the foregoing, makes the Total Assets ........................... .V 86,751 6 10 A debtor and creditor account of the assurance fund is appointed hereto with the valuation as at December 31st, 1866, and the surplus now shlwn is of the most at encourag ing 'character, anusties he expctation th at he division of profits d at j end t the end of 1871 e the results will be exceedingly favourable. 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T HE LATEST EDITION of "THE supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by NV ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, o. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street, THE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN," I it TEM giving all the SPORT! N G NEWS of the d ay, may be seen YMAN TON 'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, City, E.C. THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EtrzNizto, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C Dillon. o conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. THEATRE-ROYAL HAYMARKET. 'Fr os EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: MeSen. Howe, Rogers Buckstone, jun., Mies Fanny Wright, &c. Mier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale. &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. %I r. :othern. Concluding with 3 IAKE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Tars EV7CNTNG, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET, At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr JONESr - Walter Laty. Miss Rose Le clerc% &e. And MASTER S BIRTHDAY. - - THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. Tins EVENING, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G, Belmont, Air. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennot Grt Y . At 15 to g, BLACK AND WRITE: Messrs. Ftehtet, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart; Carlotta Lederer!, Miss Lennox Grey, tte, And WHITEBAIT AT GR NWIGH Atkins, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. nsstn. ford, Clarke; Miss Burton. JOAN OF ARC: Mnsstu. ththe, James, Fenton; iesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitlaktd, glitton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS or, Leo nar d' s Lov EVENING, at 7. A HAPPT FAMILY. 7.4.5, MINNIE, e. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fie" z Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clatke: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berm], Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. M. TUTS ErtNl.Wi at 7.30, A LOVING CUR Mr. Dewar, Miss OfiV.P2r. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, ite. To conclude with TIIE 'BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATItt. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVRNING SCHOOL: Messrs, Hare, 11. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. I;nekingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING lIAZ A R I). And INTRIGUE. ROYAL ANTPDITTIF.ATBF: AND CTP.CUS, BOLBORN. THIS EVF:NING, the Great Carro Troupe and magnificent Stud of 60 Horses; also Onra, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Futertainnient : and tho Burlesque F:xtro.vaglnza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CDR ISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Ua El Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at :3 and S all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-olle( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Regenrr Talk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mcudays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. D A t '*l. o t. L t3 t. t" -1 Mt LOA DON, SA? UIWAY, APRIL 3, 1869. The appointment of Mr. FREMANTLE to the double I ht under the consi wpoasst yesterdayo f Deputy-blaster form al and l y br o Comptroller of the Mint, office ee gentle- m de a r n at w io h n o o se f th was m tw oll o s :fold Th o e the nomination House ofO CZ: thus deliberately taken exception to by the hon. member for Surrey, was, it may be remembered, during the last Administration one of the two Private Secretaries of the then Prime Minister, now once more Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Look ing out for a grievance, Mr. BUXTON hits upon this particular exercise of patronage by the late First Lord of the Treasury. The member for Surrey discovers one of the old civil servants of the Crown, whose merits and long services . ho (Mr. BUXTON) conceives to have been altogether overlooked. He recalls to mind at the same time the Treasury minute, dated 30th November, 1868, stat ing that " promotion by merit is the established rule ' in the Civil Service, and to every young man who becomes the servant of the Crown in the Civil Ser vice a way is opened to independence and even eminence." The member for Surrey is fired with . indignation when he considers that the Senior Officer at the Mint-office has, in defiance of that Treasury minute, been passed over by the late Premier, when the latter assumed the responsibility of filling up the vacant post of Deputy-Master of that Establishment, and was passed over —very suspiciously, as Mr. BUXTON evidently conceives--to the end that Mr. DISRAELI might nominate to that very post of Deputy-. Mater of the Mint one of his own official Private Secretaries. Altogether—" not to pat too fine a point upon it"— the member for Surrey hal discovered a mare's nest. And like all mare's nest discoverers he was burning to startle everybody else by the revelation. Conse quently, on the motion last evening for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. BUXTON rises in his wrath and his indignation. Mr. DISRAELI is arraigned, as it were, at the bar of Public Opinion, for inasmuch as he had thought proper to overlook the claims of Mr. ROBERT Mu snET, and had thought proper by preference, in De cember last, to nominate to the Deputy-Mastership of the Mint a " political follower" of his own, in other words, Mr. FREMANTLE, the out-going Pre mier's Private Secretary. " Mark, now, how plain a tale"—last evening, in the hearing of the House of Commons—put down all these insinuated censures and implied suspicions directed by the member for Surrey against the Leader of the Opposition. The Political Follower of Mr. lltss.AELl—turns out to be no Follower at all. Re ferring to the circumstance that any Minister of the Crown, being at the same time Leader of the House of Commons, has the perfectly reasonable pri vilege of appointing two private secretaries instead of one, for the discharge of duties for which two private secretaries are only adequate provision, the right hon. gentleman added that, according to rule in these instances, he had, almost as a matter of course, resolved from the first upon selecting one of the two without reference to politics from the office of which he, as Minister, was the Chief, namely from the highest of, all the offices, that of her MAJESTY'S Treasury. " I appointed" he said, " as ono of my private secretaries, a private friend"._. meaning by that Mr. MoNTAGU CORRY— while, he added, " with respect to the private secre tary who was to be selected from I did not make any immediate appointment." He wished, in fact, as he at once explained, that the opinion of the Trea sury should be consulted on the matter, and the most competent person selected for the appoint ment. Remember, the one who was even tually chosen, namely, Mr. FREMANTLE, was said to be Mr. DISRAELI'S Political Follower. What said the ex-Premier, last evening, upon his point—namely, a 3 to the selection of Mr. FRE - MANTLE ? " Until that gentleman came into my ' room as my private secretary I had not the honour of his acquaintance." And further—" What his political opinions were I did not then know, and do not know now." So much for the statement or in sinuation, or however wo may like to call it, as to Mr. FREIIANTLS being the ex-Premier's Political Follower. So far from his being anything of the kind —he had for six years served as Private Secretary —to whom ? Why, the Right Honourable Gentleman the member for Cam bridgeshire of all men I Mr. BRAND ! The late Whig Whip ! In addition to which circumstance, Mr. FRE MANTLE had held a responsible and important office under the Governments of Earl RUSSELL and of Viscount PALMERSTON. Very like a Political Fol lower of Mr. DISRAELI'S, certainly ! However, to come to the subsequent nomination of Mr. FRE MANTLE to the vacant Deputy-Mastership of the Mint when, immediately before the close of last year, the change of Government, by reason of the overwhelming results of the General Election, be came inevitable. The department in which the death vacancy had occurred, remember, first of all, was in anything but a satisfactory condition. Isolated in a great measure from all the other departments of ad ministration, it was known to have fallen off, both in regard to administrative skill and official energy. " New blood," Mr. DISRAELI was told, ought in reason to be infused into it—the appointment be ing filled up, if possible, by some really experienced Civil Servant of the Crown taken from some great administrative department if possible by a member of the Treasury. "Every claim"--Mr. DISRELI added last evening--" was well weighed"—that is, before the selection was finally made and the appointment filled up. But —such had been the argument of the member for Surrey--the claims of the senior officer at the Mint bad been overlooked ! Mr. BUXTON had better have held his peace. Mr. Mtl - stitr—seeing what now has come of it—might well exclaim, " Save me from my friends!" For, the result to him is, simply, that, by reason of Mr. Box- TON'S insistence upon the fact that his (Mr. Moslicr's) claims had been overlooked, brought down upon that unfortunate gentleman's head some good-humoured but fteering remarks from Mr. DISRAELI that raised the laugh against the disappointed official. " The claims of the gentleman whom the member for Surrey seems to think had been very much neglected, were, I can assure him," said the ex-Premier, " duly considered. They were placed before me by the gentleman himself. (A laugh.) He did full justice to his own claims. (A laugh.) lie is a very respedt able man--a man of sufficient ability to place his claims in a very telling and efficient manner before the Government --(a latigh),-•-itrid they were impartially and anxiously corn,iderea." The result being that the best man was selected eventually for the vacant offiec Of Deputy-Master of the Mint, in the person of Mr. FetItANTI,E, Private Secretary of the late Whipper-in of the Liberal Party, and therefore, It need hardly be said, no Political Follower of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire. Tim Volunteers will not be likely to forget Easter Monday 1869. It was bad enough to be exposed to such a tempest of hail, rain, and wind as would in itself have rendered the day painfully memorable. But still worse has befallen our amateur soldiers. They have been subjected to such pelting, pitiless TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1869. criticism from military correspondents,7 of whom it is not at all certain that they were at the review, and from able editors, who certainly were not there, that even the hard heart of " Ilippophylax" might be melted to pity. The accusation against the Volunteers is very different from that which was made after last year's review at Windsor. Then it consisted of one charge, and one which could not be answered. There is no doubt that the Volunteers on that occasion shewed a most lamentable absence of discipline. But it is by no means clear that the numerous charges now made are just. When officers of the regular army like Major ANSON, V.C., come forward to the defence, it may be assumed that there are two sides to the question, that the accused have at least something to say in their own behalf. We are inclined to think that they have a good deal to say. The charges are manifold. It is complained that the Volunteers dispersed all over the town when they were told that the review would not be held. Whither were they to go ? They had no barracks , there was no place of shelter from the pitiless storm except shops and public-houses and the houses of friends. As a mat ter of fact, how many of the 20,000 Volunteers who should have marched past . failed to do so after the Duke of CAMBRIDGE had caused the assembly to be sounded ? Some, perhaps, were dilatory in their movements, but, as was pointed out at the time, it is not easy to put on thick boots sodden with rain at a minute's notice ; some, too, certainly did not know what the assembly meant. Then it is com plained that the attacking force exposed themselves to annihilation as they marched up the valley, and in real war would have been exterminated. There seems to be no doubt upon this point ; it seems certain that had there been serious fighting we should have had another Balaklava to weep over, " magnificent, but not war." Who was to blame ? Not the Volunteers at all, but the officers of the regular army, who ordered this very movement. Again, it is said, sarcastically, that the Volunteer Artillery got into difficulty with their heavy guns; but they at least got out of the diffi culty, and owed no thanks to the Royal Artillery for the extrication. Major ANSON has seen Royal Artillerymen equally at sea, and getting to land again entirely through the sagacity, not of an officer, not even of a private, but of an elephant. As it is, the Volunteers learnt that they had committed a mistake, and will know how to avoid it in future, and so certainly they did not lose a day. Then there are various stories told to prove insubordination. One man, in rough attire, marched by the side of a corps, and the Volunteers are blamed for suffering this. Were they to stop their march and carry the man bodily off the ground ? Another Volunteer, an officer, behaved impertinently to his superior officer. If so, why was he not put under arrest ? The truth seems to be that those who failed in their duty were, not the Volunteers, but the officers of the regular army. There was no clubbing of battalions ; the evolutions which were ordered were carried out. On the other hand, the manoeuvres shelved culpable ignorance on the part of those who ordered them; there was no attempt to enforce discipline, there was no assistance given to the Artillery, and there was no com missariat. The officers in command had full power to make their own arrangements, and they had the additional advantage of the field telegraph apparatus to transmit their orders. Nevertheless, they blundered seriously, and their friends are now attempting to cast the blame upon the Volunteers. So far as regards the preservation of discipline, there is little reason for alarm. In time of war the Volunteers would be as much under the Mutiny Act as the Regulars. What does alarm us is the possibility of our Volunteers being exposed to annihilation through the ignorance of some general who has failed to take to heart the terrible lesson of Bala klava, (Cavil tcrr HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, April 2. The Queen, accompanied by PrincesE Christian, drovo out yeste r day af ternoon, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. LATEST INTELL IGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAILs.) AMERICA, NEW YORK, April 3. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report the week's receipts of cotton at all United States ports have been 97,000 bales ; and since the Ist of Sep tember, and taken by American spinners direct, 2,045,000. Shipments to England, 49,000 ; to France, 8,000 ; to the Continent, 7,000, and since the Ist of September, 1,020,000, Stock, 390,000. Market dull. And Upland, 11+1, cost and freight per steamer. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 2. The Sultan went in great state to the Mosque of St. Sophia to-day, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Lord Carrington, Mr. Alison, Mr. Russell, and M r. Lione l M oore, Second Secretary at the British Embassy, and especially attached to his Royal Highness during the present stay in this capital, witnessed the procession from the Sultan's Kiosk. Their Royal Highnesses subsequently received a deputation of all classes of British residents in Constantinople, who presented an address. The Prince thanked the deputation on behalf of the Queen, the Princess, and himself, expressing the great pleasure he felt at being able to share with the Princess on this occasion of his second visit the unbounded hospitalities of the Sultan, the Queen's firm ally and friend. To-morrow a State dinner will be given by the Sultan, in honour of his Royal guests. The Foreign Ambassadors and the Turkish Ministers are invited. On Tuesday a ball will take place at the British E m b assy. The Sultan will be present. On Wednesday their Royal Highnesses and the Sultan will visit the Opera in state. The Prince and Princess will leave to morrow week for the Crimea, returning to Constantinople on the fol lowing Friday, then to proceed immediately to Greece. PRANCE. liotffist, April .--Threc o 'clock—The market closed As fdlloWS 4j ter °alt. • lot 25 B an k Shares 2855 Ehd bf ItKl!an Fives 55 50 3 o . i. IC eht .; . ;;; 7j r 4, Etid of pith— 714 End of nionth ;: . 70 121 yfejitan Credit 111 - Obilier ... 270 —.Boilds • 157 End Of month:.. 2ro sp ab i,h Threes 81 75 2" o tt i b p i ebt“,,, 29 Lid of month " , Deterrou 11AILIVAts. Dish Oileol§ •'t;.... • • • • • 1 -, 511 Vtirtherti;;;.;;:;; ... i; .. .. 145 Lyons and Medit erranean Western . Southern..... ................................. 815 • ...................................... O O G-1 Eastern ............ Sardinian .................................. 60 Austrian ....................................... 662 Lombard ....................................... North of Sp a i n 471 621 Faragossa Roman ............................ - • ... Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince and Princess Tack, and suite, honoured the per formances at the Theatre Royal, zwelphi, last evening. CORRES PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, April 2. The great contest relative to purity of elections has terminated. Why M. Jerome David brought up his inter pellation on money corruption it is difficult to imagine. There is undoubtedly little money corruption in France compared with England, but the question could hardly be palatable to the authorities. M. Rouher was able vir tuously to assert that the French were not as other men, even as you in England. The French did not bribe by money. But M. Rouher well knew at the time that if the French did not bribe by money, the authorities scattered favours and offices of every description broad cast in order to carrythe elections. Intimidation, promises, and bribes of every kind are employed to gain votes. The English are certainly by no means a model to imitate iu matters of electoral purity, but if by corruption is meant all sorts of undue influence, then France is the most corrupt country in the world. This debate on money bribery—l have already men tioned its result—paved the way for the interpellation of M. Picard on purity of elections generally, and especially official candidatures. The Left were warmed by M. Jei One David's impudent insinuations respecting bribes. A vir tuous exordium to purity by a member of a majority elected by the most unfair influences was too much for the leaders of the Opposition to tolerate. M. Picard, who is rarely a mild speaker, was unusually bitter in his condemnation of official candidatures, The Minister of the Interior, M. Forcade de la Roquette, replied in a speech, the gist of which was that the Govern ment neither could nor would abolibh official candidatures. The Minister made a shew of reasoning, but this was the Alpha and the Omega of his logic. Official candi datures were necessary, he said, as a measure of self defence ; without them deputies might be elected who would reduce the army to 200,000 men, or ev( n less, and propose all sorts of subvertive mea sures. In short, M. de la Roquette argued that if official candidatures were abolished the Government would be made uncomfortable, and, therefore, it did not mean to abolish them. By pleading that extreme measures would be the consequence of non-interference in elections, the Minister admitted that extreme measures were now pre vented by Government influence, in other words that Government controlled the Legislature. M. Emile 011ivier made a smart speech. He said that the entire system was one of buying and selling. Official candidateships led the people of the rural districts to look on the post of deputy as a Government office, and to consider the candidates of the Opposition as very indelicate in trying to obtain such a place against the will of him who had to bestow it. The whole character of the Administration was impaired by the system. The prefect most approved of was not the man who managed well the affairs of his department, but he who caused the inhabitants to vote with the greatest unison ; and when, as in the Jura, he failed, his post was taken from him. The mayors also lost their influence by acting as election agents. He con trasted freedom of election as in England with "cooked" elections in France. In England every case was submitted plainly to the electors ; they were asked if they wished for electoral reform or not. Did they want to have the Irish Church disesta blished? And the people having pronounced, the matter was decided once for all. It was in that way that free trade had been established, and silectoral reform voted. When once such changes had been effected the most obstinate Tory would not think of going back on them. And why? Because the nation had first been con sulted. In France, on the contrary, every evil became chronic, and nothing was finished. The debate con cluded by a division. The Chamber decided to pass on to the order of the day by 157 to 47. Father Claret has undoubtedly gone to Rome.— Madame Schneider, wife of the President of the Corps Legislatif, is dead. I mentioned yesterday that the Emperor's speech had been very freely distributed—at the public cost, of course.— throughout France. The Etendard is happy to announce that the speech has made the most profound impression upon workmen, for wl om it was intended. In the Allier departmcnt the workmen 1 ave made public manifestations, and at Vichy and Cusset they grouped themselves round the place where the speech was posted up, crying " Vive l'Empereur !" The Etendard is a semi-official paper. I doubt much how many votes the speech will get. The Nabob of Bengal arrived at Marseilles a few days ago. He has dined at the English Embassy, and a very curious sort of ceremonial this was. He sat at the banquet without partaking of anything ; for neither he nor his suite can touch food which has not been prepared by the hands of their own servants. Your readers will remem ber the story of the greased cartridges at the commence ment of the Indian mutiny. A terrible domestic tragedy has happened at Nice. M. Pontlevoy, a boarding-house keeper, had been absent in Paris for some time on business. Whilst away he was informed that his wife was living on terms of intimacy with a jeweller of the name of Bailly. The enraged husband instantly started for Nice, and suddenly entered his wife's apartment towards midnight. His w,:rst Lars be'ng confirmed, he drew out a revolver, fired with fatal effect four shots at Bailly, and a fifth at his wife, who had the presence of mind to feign death. M. Pontlevoy walked straight from his wife's bedroom to the police-office, his wife having meanwhile escaped in her night-dress into the street, where she implored a sentinel to protect her. Her husband will suffer no punishment whatever for this sanguinary act of vengeance, Ile will be acquitted by Thirty-seven men who engaged in the election riots in Monmouthshire in November last, were on Wednes day sentenced by Mr. Justice Keating to imprisonment for terms ranging from four to twelve months. Mr. Charley has given notice that in committee on the Irish Church Bill he will move to strike out the clause forbidding the archbishops and bishops henceforth to be summoned or qualified to sit in the House of Lords. Lord Powerscourt writes to a Dublin paper de precating the no surrender cry, speaking of Mr. Gladstone's bill as reparation for past injustice, and objecting that Irish Churchmen should be represented by firebrands whose object seems to be to raise animosities. Sir F. Gold:mid writes that he, and not Mr. Dis raeli, is the author of the proposal that whenever a member of Parliament is unseated on the ground of corruption the seat should be given to a defeated candidate who should have polled a certain proportion of votes. The Liverpool workhouse committee decided on Thursday to entertain a proposal from Miss Rye to take all their orphan girls for her emigration scheme, each girl being sup plied with £8 by the parochial authorities. Mr. Rathbone: M.P., brought Miss Rye's scheme forward. The Manchester Examiner says that the Court of Arbitration for the settlement of disputes arising in connec tion with any of the trades in Manchester and Salford is now fully constituted, and will in future meet quarterly for the despatch of business. Mr. William 11. Smith, M.P. for Westminster, has presented his legal agent, Mr. John F. Isaacson, of Norfolk street, Strand, with an elegant and costly Cellini silver cup, inscribed "in grateful remembrance of devoted and success ful services at the general election, 1868." A statement has obtained currency to the effect that the Solicitor-General has returned his fees in the cause of Saurin v. Starr, in the belief that Miss Saurin's friends were not in a position to pay them. The Law Times has authority to state that the Solicitor-General has not re turned his fees, and that Miss Saurin's friends calculated the cost before instituting proceedings, and are quite prepared to bear them, should the appeal on points of law reserved terminate adversely to her. Great preparations have been made at Con stantinople for the accommodation of the Prince and Princess of Wales. In addition to the konak at Salihbazar, the Sultan has had Beylerbey Palace also specially prepared for his guests, in case they should prefer the Asiatic side of the Strait. One of his Majesty's state caiqueo is to be placed at their disposal. A grand ball ivill be given by the Ambassador and Mrs. Elliot in honour of their /loyal nigbnessesi ani the example of the English at Cairo will protably be followed by the pre sentation of an address from the local colony. The Athentiarn states, on authority, that Mr. Prendetson i of Motitagu4treet s intends to bequeath to the tritish itasetim (bOath:tient of Prints And Drawings) his hada oelietititing of the 'Works batid Cot and William Muller. The "David ox f ' edliedtioil dote titinsfsts of be tween fifty and sixty important works of richly diVereified subjects. The drawings by Muller comprise a number of studies and sketches made during tours in Rhodes, Lyda, and the neighbouring countries of Asia Minor, England and Wales. Mr, lienderson also intends to bequeath to the yusounl_lj4 fine ccalcetien of bronze, oriental, and ether *essels4 „ The Earl of Shrewsbury has written to the Pbid to eotrect the report of the speech which he made at Worcester 01l Wednesday, He says:—” I did not say I trusted that the bill of Mr. Ciladstone would not be rejected by tho House of Lords; but said I was doubtful whether the House of Lords would reject the bill, bat 'wee certain it would be so altered and modified that it Would be much less injurious to the country. So. condly--I did not say that I was annoyed with Mr. Disraeli Ortassing the Reform bill; but that 1 presumed that Mr. Gladsdn:7; tut?oyed with Mr. Disraeli for passing that mea sure, rei6ji;:.l to Otttbid him, and chose the Irish Church for THE WARWICKSHIRE SCANDAL, A few days ago (says the Birmingham Post) we stated that a report, seriously affecting a family of note in South War wickshire, was curt ant in Leamington and the neighbour hood. The family referred to was that of Sir Charles Mor daunt, and the report seriously affected the character of his lady. Since we noticed the affair, we have thought it our duty to ascertain how much of the report is founded on fact, and we find that tho whole story with regard to the threatened break-up of ono of the great Warwick shire families, has arisen from the incoherent expressions of Lady Mordaunt herself, when suffering from the immediate effects of her confinement ; and that all else that has been based upon this statement is at present unsupported by any corroborative evidence. The lady has not, qs was reported, left her home; and as this is so, it is probable that the threatened legal proceedings will not proceed beyond the stage of inquiry. THE PETITION AGAINST MR. HENRY JAMES. We recently announced that a petition had been pre sented against the return of Mr. Henry James for Taunton. It seems, however, there can be no dcubt that the petitioners are prevented, by the Act of last session, from taking this course. Mr. James was defeated on the poll, and the returning officer returned Mr. Barclay and Mr. Serjeant Cox as being duly elected. Mr. Serjeant Cox was petitioned against, and upon the hearing of that petition Mr. Justice Blackburn declared Mr. James to have had the majority of legal votes, and so certified to the Speaker. The return was thereupon amended by striking out Mr. Serjeant Cox's name, and inserting that of Mr. James. Section 11 of the Election Petitions Act enacts that "at the conclusion of the trial, the judge who tried the petition shall determine whether the member whose return or election is complained of, or any and what other person was duly returned or elected, or whether the election was void, and shall forthwith certify in writing such determination to the Speaker, and upon such certificate being given, such determination shall be final to all intents and purposes." Before present ing this petition, the Conservative Association took the opinion of Sir John Karslake as to their power to do so. His opinion was decisive that it could not be presented, and although this was read at a meeting of the association, the majority of those present determined, at any cost and risk, to proceed.—Telegraph. CHURCH EXTENSION AND RESTORA- TION. The necessity for Church extension seems to be lying on lie hearts of the bishops just now. Two of them have been addressing meetings very recently, impressing upon laymen of the diocese the importance of obtaining more houses of prayer. The Bishop of Lichfield and the Bishop of Manchester are stirring up their respective flocks. Dr. Selwin's predecessor at Lichfield had endeavoured to obtain money for this purpose, and did obtain some £17,000, and the new bishop also seems likely, judging from the men he has around him, to obtain his desires. At a meeting which he addressed on Wednesday, in Stafford, there were present the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and the Earl of Harrowby, both of which supported the appeal for funds. The bishop said that the last century was one of stagnation, and they must in this generation make upwhat the last had omitted to do. The Bishop of Manchester, in addressing his people on Thursday, must needs refer to the Irish Church measure. The extensive measure of of unprincipled spoliation—he did not hesitate to say it was so—which was meditated, led him to feel that he should be cautious in warning them, while he asked them to put their money in jeopardy, as to the next unprincipled attack which might be made upon the Church. But he did not want their money—be wanted themselves. It might be that what they contributed might be sacrificed and taken away by the strong arm of a disappointed, baffled, and self-conceited spoiler ; but they would have the conscientious and deep-seated conviction that they at least had not been wanting in their endeavours for the spiritual consolation of so many sit ting in darkness and the shadow of death. Before the motion for the adoption of the report was put to the meeting, the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, vicar of Spotland, said he protested that the terms in which what he believed to be a great and necessary measure of national justice had been stigmatised did not command his sympathy. There were three bishops present at the service after the restoration of St. Wolfan's Church, Grantham, on Thurs. day— th e late Bishop of Lincoln, now of London, the present head of the Lincoln diocese, and the Bishop of Hereford. Besides these there were present Lord Brownlow, Lord Kesteven, Sir Edward Cust, and no end fo local celebrities. RATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. - e - (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 54,575 tons, and tha' for Australia and New Zealand to 41,344 tons. Berth freights have somewhat hardened, and there has not been much disengaged tonnage in port, but the change of wind will doubtless bring in a good many ships. But little chartering has been done for coal to the eastern ports during the past week, and rates have under gone no change since the last report. A few vessels of moderate size have been placed at 70s. for Java, and more are wanted at the same rate. This quotation would also be given for a ship of 800 tons register from Manilla to United Kingdom or Continent. Iron orders from the Tyne and Wales for the United States and Canada are still in the market, and tonnage is required more especially for New York, Boston, an • Quebec. Grain frieghts home are low, and with difficulty ob. tained. Higher rates are quoted for coals to the West Indies, 17s. being now securable for Havana, and 15s. 6cl. to 16s. for Martinique. Brazil coal freights are stationary at the last advance. From Jamaica to United Kingdom or Continent a ship of 600 to 700 tons register can be placed at about 358. per ton logwood, and for sugar to direct port in United Kingdom 475. 6d. is offered for small vessels. Coal and berth freights to the West Coast remain low, and the same may be said for the rates current for iron in this direction. Guano freights exhibit no alteration. Chartering for Spain, owing to the more settled condi- tion of affairs in that country, is being carried on rather briskly, the orders for coke to Carthagena and for coal to the other ports being with difficulty executed except at rates which shew a good advance on those ruling same time back. The inquiry for the Mediterranean is chiefly restricted to Alexandria, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Constantinople, and a fair amount of tonnage has been taken up within the last fortnight for the last-mentioned port, at about £15 155. per keel coals. Grain chartering from the Black Sea is very slack, and rates have still a tendency to recede. Bishop of Honolulu will preach his farewell sermon at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on Sunday next. Ho will proceed to South America, where he will hold confirma tions, and then go on to hie d;ocese. On Friday returns were published of the sums expended out of the poor rates for medical relief in England and Wales during each of the 31 parochial years ended in 1868 ; of the sums expended under the Public Vaccination Acts during each of 28 years ending at the same time, &o. The sum expended in medical relief has risen since 1838 from £136,775 to £272,341, and the charges for vaccination have increased from £11,664 in 1841 to £50,987 last year. The sum paid out of the item "medical relief" in the form of salaries and extra medical fees in 1851 Was £213,656; in 1868 it amounted to £253,620, showing an increase during tho ten years of 181 per cent. The increase in the 'Vaccination charges during the same period was 23:6 per cent. _ _ On Thursday forenoon, as the Yorkshire down ex presFf duo in Preston at 10.5, was passing through Raptor), a gentleman, who bad been waiting at the station, wag seen, just as the train dashed through, to run across the line immediately in front of the advancing engine, was knocked down and instantaneously killed. His body was cut in a shocking manner, and bis face is so disfigured that personal recognition is almost impossible. The tintorinhate gentleman who has met with such a fright ful death Is a Slr. Whittaker, proprietor of the Starkie Arms Hotel, Padiham. I , To reason can be assigned why he attempted to cro.s the lino when ho saw the train coming, but be must have been ignorant that it was an express, and thought that it was the train for which he was waiting. The express in question was travelling over the rate of 50 miles an hdte. An inquest was held On treirsday at Bow respecting he death of Frederick 'Wood, a child vged two years and tree months. The case excited come interest from the fact that the woman with whom the baby was put to nurso had eleven children under her care, and that five of the eleven bad &Et From the evidence of the various witnesses it ap peared that the deceased child bad een placed with Mrs. Savill, of 24, Swayton-road, Bow, by the mother, who had not time to take care of it for herself. Last October Mrs. Savill slipped in, carrying the child upstairs, and falling upon it, broke its thigh. She put the child to bed, and did not discover the fracture until next day. It does not appear that this fracture caused or accelerated the child's death, which occurred on Saturday night On that night the child was put to bed in an egg-box with a little straw. The egg-box WAS a short one, and was sixteen inches wide. The child could not turn in it. The next morning he was found dead, 'X'ke jury 12_uASI A YOkdiCt 4:4 !!kAill IRA MIMI causes.)! WAR RUMOURS IN PARIS. The Electeur Libre, which is still edited ander the patro nage of .the deputies Jules Favre, lidnon, and Picard, offers the following opinion as to the rumours of war which have caused and, as the depressed state of the Bourse shews, still do cause alarm :—" The week is characterised by many rumours, and no fact. There is great talk of the transport of guns, bombs, and munitions of war to the northern and eastern frontiers, and even elsewhere. We are told that explanations have been required from M. de Bismarck touching alleged armaments in Prussia ; and some go so far as to affirm that special war committees, ordered 0 organise the expedition of troops, are at this moment sitting in every railway station. Many more alarming things are said, and particularly that we are demanding from Bel gium a rectification of frontiers which Prussia is not dis posed to give us. The one thing clear and certain is that these warlike rumours do not displease the Government, because they are propagated by its most devoted organs. The Government evidently wishes to be thought favourable to projects which it all the while denies publicly. That is its own affair. For our own part, we have no fear of war before the elections. War is too unpopular in France at the present moment for a personal Government to dare to assume the responsibility of it, just when it is about to appear before universal suffrage. After the elections, if the in difference of citizens should assure the triumph of the prefect'scandidates—if a majority as docile as that which allowed the Mexican expedition should be returned, then, indeed, we may see a Power, freed from all substantial control, set out in search of new adventures. Till then we shall have nothing but vain rumours and sterile in trigues. It is for the electors of 1869 to ts-lra nue that things do not go further." THE CAREER OF A CRIMINAL. At Bow-street, on Friday, George Roberts, a man about 60 years of age, was brought up on a writ of Habeas Corpus from Wandsworth Prison, where he is now under going a sentence of three months' imprisonment as a rogue and a vagabond, on the charge of being at large before the expiry of a sentence of transportation for life, which had been passed upon him in the year 1842. John Humphreys, the chief warder of her Majesty's gaol of Newgate, stated that he had been a warder in that gaol since 1836. He produced the certificate of the conviction of George Smethurst at the Central Criminal Court in 1837, for stealing from a dwelling-house. He was sentenced to be transported for life. Witness was present at the trial, which took place on the 24th April of that year, before Mr. Justice Littledale, and heard the sentence delivered. The prisoner at the bar was the prisoner so sentenced. Both before and after the trial he was under the care of witness, who removed him from Newgate to Chatham, and placed him on board the Fortitude, receiving hulk for convicts. The prisoner was in Newgate again in 1842, and was tried and convicted, under the name of George King, alias Smethurst, on the charge of being illegally at large before the expiry of the former sentence. He was again sentenced to transporta tion for life. In December 1851 the prisoner was again in Newgate, in the name of George Reid, for burglary. Witness produced the certificate of his conviction on that occasion, which recited that he had been previously con victed of felony. He was then sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. In 1866 he was again charged with burglary, in the name of Roberts. While in prison wit ness recognised his face, but being deceived by the change of name, was unable to remember what were his previous convictions. He was tried at the Central Criminal Court, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. After the conviction witness heard the prisoner mentioned by the name of Reid, and was thus reminded of his former history. Witness had no doubt of the prisoner's identity. Richard Kemp, warder at Wandsworth Prison, state' mat he had brought the prisoner up on a writ of Habeas Corpus from that prison, where he was undergoing the sentence of three months' imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond. Witness was present when the prisoner gave the governor an account of his history. When transported for life in 1837, he was sent to Hobart Town, where he was one of the crew of the jolly boat of Sir John Franklin, the governor of that colony. An opportunity of escape occurred to him, and he made his way home. On his second transportation in 1842 he was again sent to Hobart Town. After some time he obtained a ticket-of-leave, giving him the liberty of the colony. He then joined the Hobart Town police. After remaining some time in the force he again made his escape, and went to America. The first night he spent in that country he was robbed of £5O which he had saved. He then worked his way to France, and thence to England. In 1851 he was again transported for fourteen years, and again sent to Hobart Town. Here he obtained as before a license to go at large in the colony, and once more entered the police. But hearing that his mother, who was possessed of some little property, had died in England, he was again tempted to escape and return to England, in order to look after that estate. Witness knew that he was in England in May 1865, having seen him at that time in Wandsworth Gaol under sentence of three months' imprisonment for larceny under the name of George Simmonds. Mr. Vaughan said it was a most unfortunate thing for the prisoner that he did not remain in Hobart Town, which seemed to be the only place where he had acted with any honesty. The prisoner said that the term of his last sentence had [tiny expired, and he did not think it was legal that a man should be tried several times for one offence. Mr. Vaughan : But in 1842 you were sentenced for the term of your natural life, which sentence has not expired for you are still living. The prisoner was fully committed, but Mr. Vaughan observed that it would be advisable to prove at the trial that as a matter of practice the license for the colony did not justify a convict in returning to England. At theJudges' Chambers on Fridayitwasaseertained that no further notice of bail had been given in Madame Rachel's case, but it was said another application would be made text week. TUE NORWICH MURDER. —The magistrate It clerk at Norwich has received a letter from Brighton pur' porting to have been written at the dictation of Martha Sheward, Sheward's first wife, of whose murder he hag been convicted. The letter is either a silly hoax or a vex/ important communication. A Liverpool paper of Friday says that at one of the largest spinning and weaving establishments in the town, nearly one-half of the whole number of 72,000 spindles, have been got to work at the reductiGn of 10 per cent., together with upwards of 800 looms out of the whole number of 1,420, and the bands are returning to work every day. We are glad to learn (says the Standard) that Morgan Howard, Esq., has been invited to a public banquet on Wednesday, the 14th April, at the hall of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, as a slight acknow ledgment of the gallant and single-handed contest he fought so admirably in behalf of the Conservative cause at the last Lambeth election. The list of stewards is not only numerous but influential, thus evidencing the general interest that was taken in the late election for the borough of Lambeth.' The Liverpool Government emigration officials issue monthly returns of the emigration from the Mersa,' The latest quarterly return shows during the quarter the number of emigrants who left the Mersey exceeded b/ 5,310 the number who sailed during the same period of 1868. A great majority of the passengers who left Liver pool were English, the facilities afforded by the various line% of steamers at Queenstown for Irish emigrants having greatly reduced the numbers which at one time left via Liverpool. Cardinal Cullen, in a pastoral issued in Dublin on Friday, annonnces that all Roman Catholics who attend the Masonic ball, to be given to his Royal Highness Prince i Arthur, in Dublin, shall be excommunicated. The Cardinal, passing into another subject, designates those Protestants who oppose Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill, and who speak of kicking the Queen's Crown into the Boyne, as fanatics. He does not, however, appear sanguine that the bill will pass, because he says in reference to it that the best-considered undertakings of man are - frequently. defeated. MR. DICKENS AND THE THEATRICAL PROFES. SION.—The actors and actresses engaged on the London, stage, desirous of having an opportunity of hearing one of Mr. Dickens's readings, but being prevented by the nature of their avocations from attending any entertaii", ments in the evening, addressed a letter to Mr. Dickens; requesting him to give what in their own parlance would be called a morning performance. To this appeal Mr. Dickens has replied in the following terms :—" To the Ladies and Gentlemen, my correspondents, through Mr. Clarke. Ladles and Gentlemen,—l beg to assure you that I am much gratified by the desire you do me the honour to express in your letter handed to me by Mr. John Clarke. Before that letter reached me I had heard of your wish, and had mentioned to Messrs. Chappell that it would be highly agreeable to me to anticipate it, if possible. They readily responded, and we agreed upon having three morning readings in London. As they are not yet publicly, announced, I add a note of the days and subjects. Saturday, May I.—' Boots at the Holly Tree Inn,' and Sikes and Nancy' from ' Oliver Twist.' Saturday, May The Christmas Carol.' Saturday, May 22.—`Sikes and Nancy' from Oliver Twist,' and The Trial' frog' !Pickwick.' With the warmest interest in your art, and in its claims upon the general gratitude and respect, be• lieve me, always, faithfully your friend, CHARLES 4 DICKENS, Vonloatek Koh adnal . T. liarchit