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Lune. with tzsmgle Stake of £1 you can realise £20,090!! with £2 .C27,(00!! with £S .C 4 ,C 00! ! with tlO £45,000!! -For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE Tii.hOr, General Merchant, Guernsey. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Picts EVENINR, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE : Bnckstone, jun. ; is. F. Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &e. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. &c. Followed by A REGULA FIX: •r. othern. Concluding with HIS FIRST CHAMP 4GV E : Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Gordon; Mrs. E. Fitz%villlam, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: Viss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr seer, Mr H. Nev lle, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. &e. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUII, WIFE TO CAMBERWELL, Mr. G. Belmore. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vininh. , Tr us EVENING, at 8, SHYLOCK: Shylock, Herr Formes; Portia, Miss Frances Bonrerie. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. Its EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Baton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; • esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HI7E AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At P.M, the new burlesque T H H. CORSICAN HOT HERS. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tins EVENTNO, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezln, Mr. G. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. This EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COM 11ISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton This EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNJNG HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tuts EvENtxu, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and ;aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL II AMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenado Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. 18. Box-offici open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-patk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. 6d - •fLu ic - sy _ • dr\ LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1869. A long-cherished day , dream of our own, we have now, at length, the happy prospect of seeing realized. The hunting ground of the Hudson's Bay Company is at last about to be oi:etted up to the influences of modern civlizition. hitherto it has been closed alike against eiviliz ition and against colonization. It is still an tially in the holds alone of the trappers in the scrvics of the Great Fur Company, and in the possession of the Red Indian Aborigines. Virtually, as the foremost Statesman of our day has very aptly exi ressed it, the Iludson's Bay Company has warned off all trespassers from the vast dominion confided to them, up to this time, by Royal Chat ter— has warned them off,so to speak,by a board emblazon& d with the significant characters, "No Thoroughfare!" An end has been brought at length, however, to this monstrously absurd monopoly. Henceforth the Government and Parliament of Canada, the Govern ment and Parliament of our newly-organized North American Confederation, Will have devolving upon THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, ATNE 2, 1869, then, the responsibility of seeing to the energetic and zystcmaticdevelopMent of thcheretofor entirtly dor mant and neglected capabilities of the enormous, and in a great part the wonderfully fertile wilderness constituting the territories known until now as those of the Hudson's Bay Company. By the gradual construction of a great trunk railway from ocean to ocean, across the centre of those huge dominions, the hidden capabilities of the country, now tempting the colonists of the Old World across the Atlantic, the two Canadas, and British Columbia, might readily enough be brought into direct communication with each other, to their own immense advantage . Extending on either hand from that belt of commu- nication by railway, thenceforth connecting the Atlantic seaboard with the Pacific seaboard—ex tending, that is to say, to the north and to the south, the future colonists of the Red River Settle ment might, or rather we will say, at once will, as a matter of course and inevitably, open up all the resources of the country hitherto left to the Red Indian and the fur hunters. That those re- sources are immense, there is no gainsaying. And, although the Prime Minister says with some force that Sir GEORGE SIMPSON, when giv ing his evidence before the Royal Com missioners' somewhat modified the glowing and couleur de rose accounts of the agricultural capa bilities of those vast undeveloped portions of the North American Continent, as they were first of all described by him in his well known Overland Journey Round the World—still there is no valid reason to doubt for one single moment the fact that enormous tracts of land in those central parts of oar North American possessions, might readily enough be made to yield gigantic crops of maiz 3 and and of wheat—other portions of that now neg lected country being elually suitable for transfor mation into, or adaptation as, the richest pasture land. That the wholesale commerce flowing to and fro between Europe and Asia, would thence forth traverse the projected trunk line of railroad between the Atlantic and the Pacific, is, of course, not seriously to be anticipated. The teas of China would still, doubtless, in a great measure' come to us, in one sense circuitously, in another directly, by a single shipment. The advantages, however—apart from any hypothe tic or fantastical considerations of that kind—the certain advantages that must, of necessity, be brought within our reach, within. reach of our colonies, that is, here in the Two Canadas, here in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, require no arguments of an elaborate nature to demonstrate the cartainty of ac cruing in the future. They are advantages affecting the interests of British commerce, and of colonial agriculture, while opening a new, and wide, and glorious field for colonization. An incentive to us is regard to the carrying out at least of the pro ject of a grand trunk railway across the heart of those North American dominions of ours, so soon as the Hudson's Bay Company shall have actually, as they have already vir tually, received their exiquatur —a powerful Mutative to us in that direction has very recently been afforded by the realisation of exactly that same kind of achievement by the people of the United zAates. It is impossible to doubt any longer that a new a:id radiantftiture is just now opening up to the representatives of British power, not only along the eastern and the western shores, but in the very heart and cen're of our great colonial possessions in the North American continent. - MIEN a battle has been won it is both interesting and instructive to ascertain how. In 1866 the Liberal party attempted for the fourth time to pass a meagre Reform Bill, and after some ten weeks of harassing conflicts abandoned the task and retired defeated, but not disgraced. In 1860 we find the same party passing in thrce months by unvarying majori- ties a measure compared with which that of three ago was scarcely more important than a turnpike bill. On March Ist the Irish Church Bill was introduced into the House of Com mons; early in the morning of June Ist it was read a third time and passed. The contrast between now and three years ago is the more remarkable because there was no reason to anticipate it. On the contrary, there was a good deal of reason to expect an opposite event. Nr. GLADSTONE had acquired (undeservedly, as we always maintained) the reputation of a bad leader, and this kind of belief is very likely to bring about its own fulfilment by creating suspicion between the chief and his followers. Again, the Irish Church question was of old the rock on which the Liberal party had split. It was that which broke up the late Earl GREY'S majority of thirty-seven years ago ; it was that which led to the miserable extinction of Lord MELBOURNE'S contemptible Government in 1841. Lastly, it was to be expected that if the Liberal party could not unite upon the Reform question, they were even less likely to unite upon the Church question. There are eminent Liberals who, like Dean STANLEY, believe that the union of Church and State is the great safeguard of religious freedom; and there areLilierals—notably the veteran chief Lord RUSSELL—who are prepared to go to any length in endowing other Churches rather than surrender the Protestant Establishment in Ireland. Yet, in spite of all these adverse circumstances, this great measure— this revolutionary measure—for it is nothing less than that, has been passed with a celerity and with a una nimity among the Liberal party almost unparal leled. It is a great victory. How has it been brought about ? First of all, it is due to the clearly-pronounced decision of the constituencies. There was no doubt as to the wish of the great majority of the nation las t autumn. Lord ELCHO seemed to think that he had explained away that majority when he declared it was due to the Irish vote; and when re minded of his blunder--the blunder that if every Irish member voted with the Government that would not be sufficient to make up the present majority— added the Scotch vote. This argument really makes the other way. Ireland surely, of all divisions of the kingdom, ought to be consulted on a matter so deeply affecting her. And if Scotland which is almost fanatically Protestant, laughed at Mr. DISRAELI'S denunciations of a conspiracy between Mr. GLADSTONE and the " foreign prince," it was not likely that the " No Popery " cry would go down in England. As a matter of fact, Mr. GLADSTONE has a majority in every division of the kingdom; and if all the Roman Catholics (who naturally support the bill) had voted against it, he would still have carried it. This being so, Liberal members felt bound to support their leader. The great majority of them no doubt did so because of the deepest conviction that he was right. They could not but see that the existence of a so-called national Church which was hated by five-sixths of the nation was utterly opposed to the first principles of their policy. Thus it comes to pass that all the prophecies which were so confidently made three t n o months a a g s o s a o s o I t i o a t s he th e q ( t i l e a tr wils hich he Ibv bill l h d a d b e t o sureb be discussed—or, as it w,:s elegantly expressed, as soon as the robbers came to divide their plunder—have been utterly falsified. There never was such a monotonous succession of Ministerial majorities. Political arithmeticians mentioned some time ago that the average majority was 113; the closing majority approximated to this with almost ludicrous precision. Another great cause of the success of the Irish Church Bill has been the thorough disorganisation of its opponents. This disorganisation was manifestly shewn by the varying utterances that proceeded from the left side of the Speaker on Monday night. Only a few days .before five deputations had waited upon the Peers to ask them to reject this measure. But if there is one thing more than disestablishment which the majority of the men. who constituted those deputations would disapprove, it is concurrent endowment. Yet it was this for which the majority of the Conservative speakers argued, and it is this which Ulster and Scotch Protestants would resist to the death. The thing may be good or may be bad, but it shews a want of the most ordi nary discernment not to see that it is impossible, because the nation is steadfastly opposed to it. Lord ELcuo lamented the democratic change wrought in our Constitution, which the Conservative Reform Bill (that he helped to pass) had wrought, and he sighed for the American institutions to the level of which he three years ago accused Mr. GLADSTONE of seeking to reduce ours. Clearly he does not hope much from the action of the Peers, and thereby he confesses the unanimity of the nation, and the disorganisation of the party with which he now invariably acts. Mr. DISRAELI'S absolute silence as to any policy of his own would seem to imply the same thing. It is not worth while to propound a policy which ,there is not the smallest prospect of your being called upon to carry out. But, after all, perhaps the most powerful influence in favour of the Irish Church Bill has been the nature of the arguments urged against it. The futility of these, and the strength of the arguments in behalf of the bill, were brought out in startling con trast by the speeches of the rival leaders which closed the memorable debates upon this mea sure. Mr. DISRAELI'S great argument was simply an assertion notoriously in contradiction to facts. He said Ireland was becoming prosperous and contented, and in twenty years would have been asloyal and happy as Scotland if Mr. GLADSTONE had not been frightened by that purely sporadic disease, the Fenian con spiracy. Mr. GLADSTONE'S reply was crushing. Why, then, he asked, did Lord STANLEY declare that Ireland was the great question of the day ? Why did Lord MAYO, speaking of the conspiracy, say that " in the south of Ireland you find the mass of the people of that lower class deeply tainted with Fenianism, and perfectly ready to sym pathise and co-operate with it to any extent" ? Why did the late Government, after having in the QUEEN'S Speech of 1867 announced that Habeas Corpus would be restored to Ireland, in March ask for a renewal of the suspension, continue its sus pension until they went out of office, and leave to Mr. GLADSTONE, who is accused of having excited wild hopes by his policy, the pleasant duty of ter minating that suspension ? DiScontent up to 1848 Mr. DISRAELI can explain by physical reasons. It was due not to the contiguity to the melancholy ocean, nor to the dampness of the atmosphere, but to over-popula tion. That was cursed by the famine and by the exodus. Unfortunately it was not; for the Irishmen who left their native shores twenty years ago, and indeed ever since, left as the foes of England. , It was th:s f{. which made Fenianism so dangerous. It was the fact that there was an Irish nation on the other side of the Atlantic full of animosity to England, and in constant communication with their friends on this side, that made it absolutely essential to adopt a fresh policy. Spain could not have got up a - Fenian conspiracy, nor could the United States if it had not been for the Irishmen resident there. Mr. DISRAELI imputes to Mr. GLADSTONE that he has been forced into dis establishment by the fear of Fenianism. This accu sation comes with a bad grace from a Minister who was forced into Reform by Hyde Park riots. As a matter of fact it is untrue. Fenianism forced the nation to consider more clearly wherein it had failed to do its duty to Ireland. The first thing it discovered was the ascendancy of the few over the many. That wrong it at once set about to redress. There are other wrongs. The righting of them will come about in due time, and all the more quickly for the success which has attended the first step Well begun is half done. LATEST INTELL [GEM (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, June 1 The Hamburg and American steamship II o 1 tia arr:vA out at 4 a in., and the Cunard steamship Java at 10 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1391 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1391 ; the lowest, 138 k. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 0 " 1885 ic " 18G7 l2ok. 10-40 ti Illinois I4G. Erie 291. Cotton—Mid. upland 3OO. Petroleum—Standard White' Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, $6.96e. SOUTHAMPTON, June 2. The North German Lloyd's extra steamer Nov York, from New York, passel the Needles at 11 a.m. to-day. PHILADELPHIA, June 1. The address delivered by Mr. Motley at Liver. pool has been favourably received here. The New York Tribune says, Mr. Motley has given a right expression to the friendly desires animating the United States, and ventures to hope that England will not underrate them in consider ing the Alabama claims. SUMMEJ DI;INKS, A contemporary raises the question of summer drinks. In New York, where drunkenness abounds so mightily, non-intoxicants have fast been taking the place of the cocktails, gin slings, juleps, chain lightnings, and corpse revivers, with which the citizens were used to refresh themselves in hot days. Instead thereof a peculiar kind of soda-water is now drunk. W e are told that soda-water is consumed daily in New York to the extent ',of 3,000 quarts of the bottled beverage, and 16,000 quarts on draught, and that in the hottest months of summer the latter supply is increased to 125,600 quarts a day. The way this drink is made is the most curious part of the affair. To extract this plea sant summer drink, or its distinguishing quality, from the stony heart of the marble quarries of the States is a trans mutation which science easily achieves. The marble reduced to powder is subjected in a close vessel to the action of a strong acid, and the car bonic acid gas, thus set free, is carried by strong indiarubber pipes, through a filter and cooler which purifies it of every unpleasant taint, from a reservoir of iron lined with tin or faced porcelain to the fountain, when it passes in an effervescing state into the drink that cools but not inebriates the consumer at the counter. This apparatus has multiplied marvellously in New York. One firm uses not less than 6,000 tons of marble annually in generating the gas; another turns out fifty or sixty tons per day of material for the fountains. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 2. The Official Vienna Gazette publishes the Law, sanctioned by the Emperor, which regulates the Army Contingent for the present. year. DR. RUSSELL AND THE PRINCE OF IVALES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. JUNE 1, 1869. Sett,—My attention has just been directed to a passage in your paper of May 31, in which it is said I made a precise statement somewhere or other that I wrote the speeches of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the dinner of the Royal Geo graphical Society. My very words in uttering this assertion are given, and "theamusing but not always discreet" gentleman, on whose authority you quote the story from the Elgin Courant, must apparently have been present on the occasion, for he throws in a dash of local colour and a bit of character meant to be convincing to his readers., The " amusing gossip" is, however, an absolute falsehood. I never did anything of the kind; I hope it is therefore needless to say I never said anything of the kind. Your obedient servant, W. HOWARD RUSSELL. [The report was quoted by us, as Dr. Russell himself has remarked, upon the authority of the correspondent of the Elgin Courant. We are glad to have brought the idle rumour thereby to the knowledge of the former, seeing that it has afforded him the opportunity of giving to it this emphatic contradiction.—En. The Sun.] THE " BRITANNIA" AND MR. ALFRED AUSTLV. TO THE EDITOR OF - THE SEN. Stu,—A. poem, entitled "En nonte," in th June number. of Britannfa; is there ascribed to Mr. Alfred Austin by mistake. As Editor, I beg to rectify , the•error, by which Mr. Austin very naturally feels aggrieved.—Yours obediently, ARTHUR A'BECKETT; Editor Britannia, I)UNVILLE anti Co., Belfast, are the 13ai.ttsd holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whiky commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta— tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., lfa t; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon, C.-04 1- ICIUDeMent.)- THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. The Boston Post of May 17 says :—" Since Harvard's challenges were se n t t o th e t wo grea t E ng li s h universities her men h ave no t b een idl e, b ut M r. L or i ng, w ith his usual judgment and determination, has been out regu larly with his crew, and has about settled whose chances for places upon it are most likely. In the three entire months he yet has before the first day on which the race may berowed, he will have ample time to get them into fine condition. He has concluded to spend as many as five weeks in England before the contest—his crew already, after considering the liberal offers of both the Great Western and Inman lines of European steamships, being booked to sail on the 10th of July, in the City of Paris. We are pleased to know that Mr. Willard, the captain of the University Nine, is daily improving his prospects for occupying one of the thwarts of this important four-oar, as it is reported that he is doing a round dozen miles every day on Charles River in a stout working lapstreak. Elliott, the builder of both the Yale and Harvard shells of last and this year, will have a strong, prac tice four-oar, with coxswain's seat, ready for the crew in a few days, till then their work being done in a six oar, with a heavy sandbag in the place usually occupied by the bow-oarsman. While the question of rowing the English was under discussion, boating at Har vard was almost at a standstill, hardly a boat starting from the houses. But now at practice-hours the river is very lively with six -oars, the four, double, and single sculls. The four to go to England can readily be distinguished from any four of the Union Club by the fact that the Ramer always carries a coxswain, the latter never. Of this crew, Messrs. Loring and Simmons, owing to nearly four years of experience in rowing together, have scarcely anything to learn, while the careful eyes of the former are fast eradicating the few faults that yet remain in the two waist men, Rice and Bass. The question as to who shall go out as coxswain is net yet definitely settled, three men at least being ener to go, each having several qualities requisite for this im portant position, though the only one already named, Mr. Arthur Burnham, of '7O, is the only one who has yet been seen out in one of the long pulls which the crewdaily take. He 'sits high,' is cool, very self-confident, matured as to age, and more experienced than any of his rivals; but is several pounds heavier than one or two of them. Were the choice made to-day, he would probably be taken; e month later, his chances would seem less good. As the crew are only doing practice work now, and will be for weeks to come, little idea can be formed as yet as to their gait, Mr. Loring judiciously restraining them prom rowing fast until they can row well and perfectly ';ogether. Their training, in the strict sense of the word, will commence within ten days, though their daily practice on the river now, and the generous allowances of rations which each man manages to dispose of, would seem to justify the in 'erence that ,they are already in training : and practically they are, too, for the old silly plan of limiting a man to raw beef and bread crusts, with a thimbleful of water now and then, has at last died a natural death at Harvard, after struggling for several years, and n ow a rower, like a farmer in hay-time, can ' eat what is set before them, asking no questions for consci ence ' sa k e. ' Their rowing will increase in speed only, th e di s t ance to be gone over being, if anything, rather shorter than at present. Several men are at work vigorously for the :bailee of going with the crew as spare men.". LAW . AM) POLICE. THE CASE OF COLONEL DAWKINS.—In the Court of Queen's Tench, on Tuesday, the case of "Dawkins v. Lord Frederick Paulet," was again heard. The )riginal action was brought by the plaintiff, who wa3 formerly lieutenant-colonel of the Coldstream Guards, against the defendant, Lord Frederick Paulet, Major-General Commanding the Brigade of Foot Guards, ')f which the Coldstreams formed part. Colonel Dawkins accused Lord F. Paulet of writing a letter or report to the Commander-in-Chief, imputing to him unfitness to com mand, and incompetency. The right of a superior officer to make such statements was argued at some length, and the court took time to consider its judgment. THE COCHINEAL ROBBERY.-At the Tharaes-Police court, on Tuesday, the five prisoners charged with being concerned in the great cochineal robbery were brought up and committed for trial. One of them was the carter ill whose charge the cochineal was when stolen, and two others were oil and colourmen who had been found dealing with the stolen property. SINGULAR CHARGE.—A gentlemanly man, who gave his name as Major• General Haynes, of the Madras army, was charged at the Mansion House with having committed perjury in order to obtain a marriage license, and with obtaining a sum of money under false pretences from Miss Ann Lee, a young lady from Scarborough. The prose cutrix met him accidentally when on a visit to town, and he stated that he was in England on private leave, and asked her to marry him and go out to India. He found out that she had £7OO in the Funds, and persuaded her to sell it out. They were married at Islington, and the prisoner cashed the draft. He afterwards sent her to her friends, and remained in town. When taken into custody he was searched, and it appeared that his name was M'Alpine. He Was re mended, and bail was refused. CHIMNEY SWEEPING.—The clays of` accidents from chimney sweeping are not yet over. A singular misfortune happened at Dundee the other day. A sweeper on the housetop was lowering his Lesom down a certain .himney, but chose the wrong one. There was a fire below, in the one he attempted to sweep. The falling soot caught flames, and spread through the flue in a few minutes. The man was so severely b u rnt that he died almost immediately after. THE WOOLWICH RELIEF FEND COMMITTEE. — )'he Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have offered again the services of her Majesty's troopship Crocodile to the Relief Fund Committee at Woolwich for the convey. ance of emigrants to New Brunswick. The funds of the committee being exhausted, they are unable to take advantage of the offer made by the Admiralty, as they have expended £1,200 in the payment of £2 ss. per head for adults, for provisions on board ship, railway expenses to Portsmouth, and expenses on landing. They, therefore, appeal for funds. A GOOD DESIGN FRUSTRATED.—BY way of making things pleasant to theatre-goers, the managers of the Royal Alfred announced the other day that nursing Inothers desiring to attend their representations without risk of annoying other auditors might leave their babies in the cloak-room, where, for a small charge, the infants would receive all necessary care and attention. A notice from the theatre informs the Daily News that the g oo d intentions of its managers have been ill-requited. Some clever persons have discovered in their offer an oppor tunity which they had no thought of providing, and have turned the Alfred into a foundling hospital. As many as three of the children who were entrusted to the keepers of the cloak-room have not been reclaimed by their pa ren t s or guardians, and are an unforeseen addition to the esta blishment of the theatre. Unless their parents or guardians come forward, which is hardly probable, the children will be sent to the parish workhouse. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—Last week the rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000 in London, and 23 in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom. In the metropolis 1,924 births and 1,276 deaths were registered, the latter baying been 66 below the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 269, the corrected average number being 314. Eight persons died from smallpox, 23 from measles, 45 from scarlet fever, 6 from diptheria, 92 from whooping -cough, 1G from typhus fever, 19 from enteric fever, 5 from simple continued fever, and 5 from diarrhoea. During the last thirteen weeks 1,090 children have died in London from whooping•cough. Seven nonagenarians died during the week, and an equal number of persons were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets. The mean temperature was 511, or 3'4 below the average. Between the highest day and the lowest night tvyapolturt there vrtke axangtof mono Ilion 2S Clqr"l/' THE SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY. A meeting of members of Parliament and other gentle men was convened at the Westminster Palace Hotel, on Tuesday, for the purpose of conferring on the best mode of supporting Mr. Rylands's motion in the House on the 22nd, and also for considering future parliamentary action in favour of stopping the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. The following is the motion referred to : " That in the opinion of this House, it is expedient that any measure for the general amendment of the laws for licensing public-houses, beerhouses, and refreshment houses, should include the prohibition of the sale of liquors on Sunday." The chair was taken by Mr. Bazley, M.P., and amongst those present were Mr. Thomas Whitworth, M.P., Mr. Alderman Carter, M.P., Mr. Dickinson, M.P. Mr. Cawley, M.P., and Mr. R. W. Whitworth. Mr. BAZLET expressed regret at the absence of Mr. Rylands, and hinted at the great benefits that would accrue to the community from the closing of public-houses on Sunday. The question was one of difficulty. All that the Legislature could do was to diminish the means of temptation. Though perhaps comparatively few changes could be made this session, it would be of extreme advan tage that the minds of members of Parliament should be impressed with the importance of the subject. The Rev. E. MATTHEWS stated to the meeting what steps had been taken to get a bill introduced into Parlia ment by Mr. Candlish. In the meantime, Mr. Rylands's motion had been brought forward, and the committee determined to co-operate with him. A discussion in Par liament would, he believed, be of immense advantage, as the evidence taken before Mr. Abel Smith's committee had been circulated through the press to a very limited extent only. Mr. EDWARD JACKSON proposed the following resolu- tions :-1. That a, thorough discussion in Parliament would be most beneficial, and that members be requested to support each other, to prevent the question being shelved. 2. That the Central Association correspond with members favourable to the cause, with the object of attaining united action in Parliament. The resolutions were seconded by the Rev. G. W. M'Cree, who declared as one reason for closing the houses that the influence of Sunday-schools on the young was materially deteriorated by the temptation offered by their being opened on that day. Mr. Alderman CARTER, M.P., thought the bill ought im contain a clause compelling the houses to be opened on the Sunday for ordinary refreshment, though not for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Mr. BAILEY reminded the meeting that it was very possible that the question before them would have to be considered in the bill on the regulation of licenses to be brought in next session by Mr. Bruce. Mr. CAWLEY, M.P., and several other gentlemen having taken part in the discussion, in the course of which it was stated that the report of the parliamentary committee of last session was regarded by a great many as not being in accordance with the evidence, the resolutions were carried unanimously. LONDON CO-OPERATIVE COAGRESS. The Co-operative Congress resumed its sittings at the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, on Tuesday. Mr. A. J. MuNDELLA, M.P., who presided, in opening the proceedings of the day, remarked that he was glad to find that the Congress had been discussing the most important question of how Trades Unions could be utilised for co-operative purposes. He hoped that as masters and servaLts arrived at a better mode of adjusting the rights of labour, the House of Commons would give protection to the funds of unions to give perfect freedom for their investment and outlay; and that when this was accomplished, trades unions, instead of having to waste their millions in disastrous strikes, would have their funds in hand to lay out in some manner by which they would fructify for the benefit of their members and of society at large. He thought that trades unions might, instead of giving their members donations from their funds in periods of want of work, employ them usefully. There might in some instances be something like an interchange between union and union to theirmutual advantage. Anything that he had been able to do in this direction had been to reconcile, so far as he could, the conflicting claims of masters and workmen; and he believed that this very congress was a proof of the progress they were making in the right direction, and that they were not far from solving this important question. A letter was read from Miss Florence Nightingale, expressing deep interest in the proceedings of the con gress. The discussion of the question, "How to utilise the organi sation of trades unionsfor co-operative purposes," adjourned from the previous clay, was continued. Mr. DREwiTT, secretary of the London Operative Tailors' Society, stated his belief that, as trades unions were at present consti tuted, there would be difficulty in utilising them for cooperative purposes. Many of the members were opposed to using the funds for any purpose than their specific object ; and therefore a co-operative movement should be supported independently of a trades union organisation, while members of trades unions might be carefully selected to consider the subject. Mr. BURNS, of Higbbridge, moved a resolution urging upon trades unions the expediency of their entering upon some joint plan of action for the furtherance of co-opera tion, whether generally or in their respective trades. Mr. J. LEIGH, of Oldham, seconded the motion. The HON. SECRETARY (Mr. Pare) at this point asked whether Mr. Allen, the secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers, and Mr. Drewitt would object to deposit the moneys of trades unions in banks for co-operative pur poses, if those banks were established on sound principles and elicited a reply in the negative. The CHAIRMAN observed that the unions required to nave their funds available for the payment of their mem bers, and what they feared was such a lock-up of their money as would prevent them from meeting the demands made upon them at any moment. This difficulty could be met, not so much by their engaging in industrial productions as by combining co-operative societies' funds and trades union societies' funds in a bank. A co-operative bank would be as safe as any undertaking in England. As the unions could not spare their money to be locked up, they could put it into co-operative banks, and draw it out when they wanted it. They would thus have the advantage of interest, which might be 10 per cent., and at the end of the year find themselves all the richer. The resolution was then carried unanimously. The next subject of consideration was " The best means of making co-operative societies mutually helpful ;" and the first point taken was the bringing of the productions of co-operative societies into the general market. Mr. NurrAL, of Manchester, read a description of the operations of the Manchester Wholesale Agency as an 'llustration of the best method to be adopted. A paper was read from Dr. WATTS, of Manchester, suggesting a general scheme of retail stores in every town and village, with wholesale stores, held in shares by a federation of retail stores in large towns. But the grand idea, said Dr. Watts, was to make the consumers of pro duce their own producers. Mr. LLOYD JONES supported the latter recommendation. A lengthened debate ensued, the main topic being the im portance of the smaller societies dealing with the wholesale co-operative stores. Mr. BUTCHER, of Banbury, stated that a co-operative society had been formed in that town, and that ag,ricul tural labourers were ready to undertake cu-operation when the matter was put before them in a proper manner. In the course of the discussion, The Hon. AUBERON HERBERT observed that it would not be desirable for the retail societies to purchase of the wholesale if the goods of the latter were offered at a price above the market value. Mr. Mundella being called away to attend a deputa tion after the adjournment, the Rev. M. Molesworth succeeded to the chair, and the debate was concluded by the passing of several resolutions. The first of these, proposed by Mr. WILKINSON, of Bir mingham. was as follows :—" That in the opinion of this congress it is exceedingly desirable that the committee of the wholesale societies should consider the advisability of supplying the various co-operative stores with the productions of their various co-operative manu facturing societies, and that the delegates present bring before the notice of their respective societies the extreme desirability of purchasing the whole of their goods from co-operative manufacturers, and if established through the medium of the wholesale agency." Mr. LUDLOW proposed resolutions to the effect that it was expedient to establish in London and elsewhere bazaars, warehouses, &c., for the exhibition and sale of the productions of co-operative societies. These resolutions were carried. The charge for telegrams of ten words to Am6iieit was on Tuesday reduced from .£3 7s. 6d. to £2. Itis to be hoped that this reduction will provo as successful as previous re ductions have been. The daily receipts for May, 1869, at a charge of £3 7s. 6d.. per message, have been £692 as com pared with £550 in May of last year, when the charge was five guineas. SHAKSPERE,CRITISITED BY A COUNTRY BUMPKIN. —A curious thing happened lately at a theatre in Saxony. " Hamlet" was being performed. In the great monologue (Act 3, scene 1), where Hamlet says,— " But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns," a country fellow in the gallery exclaimed, " Stupid ! didn't you see your father's spirit last night; Where (1 2 4, 3r9u think he came from I" - NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. The following members of the Equity bar have rea l ; letters from the Lord Chancellor conferring uP° 11 :1 0 , the dignity of the silk gown : —Mr. Eddis, Mr. I t Mr. Fox Bristowe, Mr. Fry, Mr. Osborne Morgan , Illomas Hughes, and Mr. W. C. Fooks. His lorcli w lias conferred the same honour upon eight meruber l the Common Law bar, amongst whom are Mr. L° `lr. Montague Bere, and Mr. Edlin, of the We s ; Circuit ; and Mr. Joseph Kay and Mr. Pope, O. Northern Circuit. TRADE DISPUTES. Another dispute in the building trade bas been seit l' -": arbitration. The Wigan joi ne r s c l a i me d an a d v ance inth o wages of 2s. a week, and were able to show clearly t l° , the rate of payment in that town was below the AO! received in neighbouring places. The disputed was left to the arbitration of Mr. Alderman Cross, it well as a question as to overtime, and another Pe fy the limitation in the number of apprentices. 0 arbitrator's decision has just been given. He a11° 175 :4 0 men an advance equal to l s . 91d. p er wee k, an d the rule as to the ]imitation in the number of appreetl; The deci.-ion is binding, and by its acceptance a strike be avoided. The disputes in the building trade in Manchester A. - . c) , to be so easily settled. The strike and lock-out of the b layers commenced yesterday morning, and the hibele; will cease to work as a matter of course, although their tice has not expired. The men appear quite deterroine d to accept the hour system. THE ENGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK' The directors and the manager of the English 3.61 P; stock Bank were again before the Lord Mayor at Mansion House on Tuesday. The defendants were again represent e d byMr. 111etel l l Mr. Poland, Mr. O r m ero d, M r . M on t agu Williano, so Mr. Straight, barristers. On Saturday the case for the prosecution was conclu aej : o and the court was addressed by Mr. Metcalfe sad! Littler on the part of Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Fi °ll , h - Speeches were now delivered by counsel for the e " ) defendants. Mr. Montagu Williams defended Mr. Abbiss. Abbiss, he said, was a man known and honoured byLI He regretted that it had now become so common to 5 7 1 , criminal proceedings. Dissatisfied shareholders 06 " ) 1 have recourse to the ordinary civil proceedings, but ae ,/ few discontented shareholders rushed into crimbie ll) A i f , ceedings. The opening statements in th e se cases, "", h , Williams complained, were usually made to occulc whole of the first day in order to create an effect. r ev e j ring to the charges against the defendants, he reroltj that the real question was whether the defendant e 4 4 deliberately intended to defraud the public. With r e ° y to the purchase of shares made by the defendan ti oc c reminded the Lord Mayor that it was done to coup ° t e the effects likely to be created by a large lilt s of shares being thrown on the market by 3 ?",4 Laurie and Young, who retired from the With regard to the commissions paid to Weller, Eroli, and Bradlaugh, he submitted that his client nothing about them, and he and the other two dir e e ,O were as much astonished when evidence was regarding them as his lordship was. With refcr e . , r to the advance obt a i ne d f rom th e I m perial . 3 " y . cantile Association of £50,000, it was said entry was made as if the money were a deposit,wher eO f j ought to have been entered as bills payable ; but be at, his lordship whether that entry made any differen ee t 4 the balance sheet? He did not see how it Pe e ") could, and Mr. Kemp, when in the box, also 0 13 it would make no difference. How, then, c° o f it he possible that the directors who were not 5 011 4 that entry could be held criminallyresponsible? Mr. A' 40 held 100 shares. Was it likely that if he had 10° to the bank wa s a b ou t t o s t o p p a y men t h e would _ si t° continued to hold that large number of eb w p o In conclusion, he remarked that the directors bad ° i d way benefited them se l ves ; on th e con t rar y, they bad to their money ; and he called upon the Lord Mar e dismiss the charge. Mr. Poland then addressed the bench on behalf of C" r o tain Mangles, and asserted that that gentleman, el' beginning to end, had acted i n th e i n te r e s ts of the P holders, and it never had ent e red into his hea d act in a fradulent or dishonourable way. He coroPi s lif, of the course that had been adopted by Lewis. At the first examination, when Mr. Firma ° ; le , was charged, he said the directors were equally 113 0 1 and that he would apply for summonses against them , er e eight days were allowed to elapse before they 11/g 111 . be summoned, and this was only done after • twitted by Mr. • Straight as to bringiug jjo charge of conspiracy against one man. wanted to know why Mr. Abbi ss , M r . Brade;:o; and Captain Mangl es were se l ec t e d, f or h e wo uld s i te , that if they were guilty, there were others also ge w ;f Mr. Poland then entered at some length upon a h i°t :jil of the case, and ref e r re d to th e hostility that was br °° ;i4 lo bear against the bank by Messrs. Laurie and S r ° llll ,,, ° oo Zonsequence of the withdrawal of the London b us ' - c ro from the City Bank, in which these two gentlemen Ifire, interested. Messrs. Laurie and Young and their relo t l o i held 640 shares, which, upon their retirement, t,,0 immediately threw upon the market, and they were tsi`to up by the defendants in order to prevent the bank fr° o being injured, and without any intention whato rer os defraud. Passing to the charges with reference t ° omission of certain entries from the minute booli ro b observed that all the commissions paid to Weller, 13 rie t laugh, and Howard were entered separately in the l ed yo and vouchers kept for them, so that there wg to concealment, and the directors were not bony' enter every payment in the minute book. to The Lord Mayor announced that he would tak e be consideration the points that had been urged by te i learned counsel in connection with the voluminous 112 0 0 of the evidence taken by Mr. Oke, and give his decis iell Monday. THE BRECKON ELECTION PETITION. petition against the return of Lord Hyde for Brec c :i t jt appointed to be tried before Mr. Justice Wiles on th e instant. COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. H. T. Irvi n" , 4 1 E. E. Rushworth, and Mr. G. W. des Vceux are 0 2 :„ . c i, Colonial Secretaries for Ceylon, Jamaica, and St. P" 0 1 respectively. Mr. S. J. Prescod is appointed a J ude the Assistant-Court of Appeal at Barbadoes. MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY AND PROBABLE DER AT ISLINGTON.—A mysterious affair has been 131 4 0 0 to light by a discovery made by the police at Islingt° l3 o 4 , Monday afternoon last. In the front garden of an g cupied house was found a paper parcel, w hi c h, on b e h i :il opened, proved to contain the foot of a female, which Fat been severed from the leg a t th e an kl e j o i nt. The l* also contained a letter hinting at a murder. tift A story is told that during a concert recall when the organist was " exhibiting the full power of ', O instrument," a lady was enthusiastically conversing si her neighbour about her household arrangements. bal suited the tones of her voice to those of the orgaus_di " reckoned without her host " this time. The (Ogre made a sudden transition from " fortissimo " to " P: t if issitro," without giving the lady warning; conseque;pl the audience were somewhat amused at being inforn3eu her, in a shout, that " We fried ours in butter !" tste ° A telegram from Southampton in the Times 0- t io that according to advices from Lisbon, dated May 29 ', 0 1 financial Bills of Count Samodaes have given g ev- be satisfaction throughout Portugal, and there is very P r° ; e 4 bility that the new taxes (about £900,000) will be aPP r° t re by the Legislature. The total reductions in expe n 7:oo, made by the present Ministry, amounting to about .£s oo ' d ill give an additional assurance that a financial equilibria ° ; r 1 be attained by another year's perseverance in th e P° ;:cl‘ inaugurated by the Portuguese Cabinet. Portugues e ! was at 361 to 36j. Exchange on London, 90 days', °"‘ SUPPOSED MADNESS.—An eminent mernb et g, the Irvingite Church was deputed to visit a doctor a t " it :if who had expressed a desire fur information cone etli t - p the tenets of that sect. Unfortunately there were 1'",, 5 e two doctors of the same name, and the divine, of 6 ' 11 , - 4: went to the wrong one, who kept a private mad -V.-elf He was shown into the sanctum, and announcing as the angel of the Catholic Apostolic Church, 80, c ; l i 10 sent by the apostle to Dr. T., h e p rocee d e d to uni ° ':,ef mission. Dr. T., accu s t ome d t o t h e var i ou s forr l3° l mental delusion, sa w , or th oug h t h e saw, i n the ang e o o scheme promising patient, and entered into the convere°""os orto w o ith great warmth, drawing out his unfort_,oe visit his heart's content. At length the time for the ang e l me t ap h or i cally to use hi s w i ngs , fol d ' a i L t r : . fessing the greatest anxiety f or D r . T.' s spiritual we" - e r; he rose to go. N ow was t h e t i me f or th e doctor to eX o f his skill in det a i n i ng hi s pa ti en t. H e mu st not tllionDel going yet ; he must tarry there that night. The ; pleaded important engagements elsewhere, and even bA n it o at the possibility o f m i ss i ng hi s t ra i n . After an irl6 l,t• amount of fencing and coquetry by both, and sortie'to tering and felicitous allusion on the part of the &etc:Prole the honour which would accrue to his humble roof by an d entertainment of an angel, and finally to the rarity a do infrequency of angelic visits, the patient in despair ta t o a rush at the door ; the doctor touched the be ll ' a it• warders entered the room, and, in spite of every ment, carried the poor man off to a cell, whence. t° the story short, he was rescued on the moan'' , 131 friends.-7 Notes am? Querim 11 0 14 comm: CouEois ditto, for duced, 02 j chequer Bil £5OO, 5 dis Cent., —.' India St ditto 5 per ( Ceut., Oct. Per Cent., Bonds mule; In the Fc support Fo of 1865 are Cents., Cents., Vic Cents., 9')A -1869, 771 561 to SGI per Cents., Cents., 28} 43i to 411 ; the Bonds of In the rai from the el ; 76i to 771 Western, 49 108; Lanc London and don, Chathc tan, 98 to British, 34 South Easte American to 801 to 80 the Ten-For Railway Sin 9 51 to 66i ; bentures ha in Bank 32 ; Consol County, 50 323 ; Londc tional, 40f In the mil lower, but I better :— . Mediterrane 21 to 22 ; d to 3j Cred 2 tol dis. tional num] tion, 17i to "he sum yesterday. The L;go £6,014 ; the the City of the Sobraon "flaking a tot Creditors of England particulars c 25th inst., by Vice-ChE theirs. The direc Pany (Limit £2 on the nc The annul Pany is cony dend will be The annu Company wi The emir] ern Railway tion have iii they have tt tuents. 'l'h( new trustees place of INIe have, after Court of Cl th e new dee and only a' company, foi to America. laud have be new trustees co nanittee ai a distributioi made amonc , also contains hue to the state, ie bell( o ut force i n / low promote serve that t debenture he which are in factorily reps and they th tolder s to co The corm menti on the t ioho and having eurred of M of Para, fc assets, A , P . A. Kiefft a nd n the cap %zeroe s . The advic( Mail are to nothi ng of ec gentine lute] had touched Messrs. Ki 4nnounc3 ttu la ne, Lornba , b uilding of t lane. BRIT] 2 (i OVERNM: Pe4 Cent. Ca Ditto for Ac Per Cent. Re N ew 3 per Ce -New 2 per CE Do. 5 per C A.nnuities So Do. for 30 y DoCanadah:( :ußp4r iri r e ,e d ei Sea irg Eltuk of Engl D Icier -Colonial