The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-30 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE. LOND!it::, CUATRASI, AND DOVEII eSte.-lay the Parliamentary Committee re gnlned its sitting on the bill ; Mr. I.),:nt, M.P., in the chair. ;111r. YENABLES, Q. 0., who appeared for the rail way company, stated that the interval since the adjournment on Friday had been spent by the directors in carefully considering what course they would adopt, and he thought that if the committee consented to the proposition he was about to make there would no longer be any opposition on the part of any considerable body of persons in terested in the company's affairs. The clause which, with the consent of his learned friends, the company now proposed was as follows :—" The Board may forthwith issue the A debenture stock by the Ar rangement Act, 1867, authorised, for the Furposes therein described ; and if it shall eppear to the arbitrators that it is expedient, for the payment cf pressing claims against the company and for satis fying any rights, claims, or liens on land by general creditors, that the amount of A debenture stock should be increased to any sum not exceeding, together with the £600,000 of that stock authorised by theArrangetnent Act, 1867, the sum of £950,1)00, and the arbitrators shall issue a certificate or certi ficates to that effect under their hands, the Board shall create and issue A debenture stock to such further amount as shall be directed by such certifi cate or certificates, and in that event all the enact ments and provisions of the Are angement Act, 1867, with reference to A debenture stock shall be read and construed, and may be acted upon by the Board, as if £050,000 and not £600,000 were the amount of the said stock by that Act authorised to be created and issued," &c. Although that increavdille total sum which the arbitrators might authorise, it Must not be forgotten that the lands when freed would realise about £250,000, when the A debenture stock would be recouped by that amount, so that the ar bitrators would practically only have the power to authorise an additional £lOO,OOO beyond the £600,000 authorised by the Act of 1867. The principle was agreed to, though he was not quite sure the clause was drawn to meet that view. He hoped that, as the proposal the company now made was agreed to by all parties substantially interested, the committee would adopt it. Mr. MERE\VETHEIt, Q.C., on the part of the city lenders, stated his approval of the proposal made by Mr. 'enables. Mr. RODWELL, Q.C., on behalf of the mortgagees and creditors, and Mr. Fry, on behalf of the Gene ral Credit Companies, likewise intimated their con sent to the arrangement. Mr. BRIDGE, who appeared for the trustees under the rolling stock deed and for certain mortgagees, and Mr. Littler, who represented Metropolitan Extension debenture-holder, dissented from the company's proposal. Mr. Littler's ground of oppo sition was that though his clients had every confi dence in the arbitrators, they could not consent to their having power to raise more capital ever the beads of the Metropolitan Extension debenture holders. Mr. Hodgkinson and Mr. Forbes were examined on the part of the company in support of Mr. Venables's statemen', and the committee then ad journed until to-day. BI.::FALO AND LAKE lICP.ON. The a ljourned half-yearly meeting' of this com pany was held yesterdAy at the Ci y Tainnus Hotel Cannon-street ; Mr. E. liesAtile in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adqtiai' orthe . report, said that their relations with ihe Greed Trunk Company were not very satisfac•ory. The portion of the traffic to which they were entitled for the half-year endino on the 31. t of Dec: either last was about £20,000, and they had not yet received ir. lle thought it hard that the Grate! Trunk Company should have been in recaipt of the joint traffic from July to December last, and new it was April, without having paid them. Accoritiog to the agreement of the sth of November last, the Buffalo Company were to be d with .£l,OOO fur interest on additional capital, and credited with £5OO fur office expenses. In the Grand Trunk ac counts the former item was inserted, hut the latter ittm was omitted. That was the way of doing hit i nev. agreement ef the di of Noveinb,r list was for the settlement of past differences, but all the tuoney was not yet pail, there being a bill for £lO,OOO ilue, together with the £20,000 he had mentioned. llehad expressed great reluctance to entertain any new agreement until they were settled with fer the past. Mr. Cox seconded the motion, which, aft r a short discussion, was carried unanimously, and the other ordinary business was adjourned. The special meeting was then held, to obtain the opinion of the proprietors in respect of the heads of agreement, dated the 19th of Noven3br last, fur a lease of the line, commencing at a rental of £42,500 a year and gradually rising to £65,000 a year, in additioa to which the ordinary shares of the Buffalo Company were to rank with the ordinary shares of the Grand Trunk Company, The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors had entertained the matter so far as to bring it before the proprietors because they believed that some of the large shareholders were favourable to it, but it subsequently appeared that meetings were held in Liverpool, and memorials representing one-third of the capital were sent to the board against the - A gree= ment. lie then moved a formal res:olution to the effect that the heads of agreement of the 19th of November, made between this company and the Grand Trunk Company, be approved and adopted. Mr. Cox, a director, said it was his duty, as a matter of form, to second the motion. A discussion ensued in which Mr. Villesboisnet, Mr. Wright, Mr. Healey, Dr. Rose, and Mr. Ash ton took part, and it resulted in the unanimous re jection of the heads of agreement. It appeared that proxies representing 37,054 votes were recorded against the heads of agreement and 3,230 votes in favour of them ; majority, 33,824 votes. On the motion of Mr. STITT, seconded by Mr. HEALEY, a resolution was passed to the effect that the company was prepared to receive any other pro posal that might be made. The ordinary business was then r surnel, and, in compliance with the desire of the Liverpool sh:AN holders, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Stitt, Mr. Ashton, and. Healey were unanimously elected directors of the company. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts for the week ending the 10th inst. amounted to £32,095, against £29,991 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £2,104. The total receipts from the Ist of January to date amounted for a hundred days to £386,461, and for 102 days in the c , rresponding period of last year to £353,688, showing a decrease of £17,219. 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But in truth, as Mr. Sumner is well aware, the wrong alleged to have been done by our Government consists in acts which are the main topic of dispute, and must be the main ground of arbitration. To require from us an acknowledgment of moral liability beforehand is to prejudge the whole controversy, and not only so, but to stultify the proposed settlement. Coming to the next great point of the speech, it is wholly erroneous to assert that our right to recognise the Confederates as a belligerent Power can only be justified, if at all, by the casual use of the word "blockade" in President Lincoln's proclamation, and that if he had chanced to use the words "closing of ports" instead, our plea would have been barred. This is a most lawyerlike, and not altogether ingenuous, perversion of the position taken up by those who uphold the course of the British Government. That course has invariably been defended on the broad ground, adopted by Mr. Sumner himself, that belligerency is a matter of fact, and that belligerency did, in fact, exist when it was recognised by Great Britain. Mr. Lincoln's proclamation has been properly quoted as conclusive evi dence that it was known to exist by the United States Government, which claimed, by virtue of its existence, to exercise rights which nothing but its existence could war rant. The British Government has always takenits stand on the simple fact of belligerency. What Mr. Sumner calls " a mere technicality " has, indeed, been imported into this grave question of international law, but it has been im• ported by himself, and not by the advocates of Great Britain. Upon Mr. Sumner's principle, all this anti-English feeling, which finds vent, too, in the encouragement of Fenianism, might be proved in aggravation of damages against the United States in the event of arbitration. Against any such principle we protest once and for all, not only as beneath the dignity of great nations, but as inevitably barren of any practical result. Let atonement be made •Cr the insulting language of individuals, whether in England or America, by the retrospective verdict of public opinion, and the cultivation of mutual respect in private relations. Nations as such can only deal with overt acts, and overt acts are the only possible subjects of pecu niary compensation. The Star says that when Mr. Sumner rises from the contemplation of the Alabama case with a determination to make us pay, not only for the losses actually inflicted on individuals, but for the accruing damage to the nation by the sale of merchant ships to the neutral flags, the war rates of insurance, and all the in cidents damaging to commerce which necessarily occur during war, we must express our amazement at the character of his demands. The extravagance of the propositions must strike everyone who knows bow anxious the British Government in the main was, during the war, to deal fairly and justly by the United States. Blunders there may have been, and there were, but considering how the passions of mankind were aroused by that vast conflict of the powers of dark ness and light, the British Government kept a course remarkably free from any exhibitions of unfriendly feeling towards the United States. France, the old ally and sworn friend of the Republic, was ready to recognise the rebels as a nation ; we, its old opponents and chief competitors, refused to do an act which might have been the crowning event of the war. Since the war has closed we have shewn in every way a desire to arrive at an understanding with the sister nation. We have waived our objections to arbitration, we have waived our objections to have the recognition of the belligerent rights discussed, we have conceded almost every point in favour of the special envoy lately sent to negotiate a treaty ; but if all these concessions are merely to be used as the standpoints for farther, and till now unheard-of, demands, we must care fully consider our own position, lest we establish a worse precedent than even the burning of ships on the high seas, by admitting a discussion of demands which are utterly untenable and ought to be resisted. The Standard says that the debate which closed a' seven o'clock on Mr. Disraeli's amendment to the 28th clause of the Church Spoliation Bill marks, as we are in clined to hope, the beginning of a new phase in the present aspect of politics. Mr. Gladstone informed the committee that he had reconsidered the matter and peremptorily refused to consent to any modification of his proposal. A more animated debate than has lately taken place upon the bill was the result. The more independent and con scientious Liberals were hurt and affronted at the slight put upon them, though the memory of Mr. Laing, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Horsman, of the unseating of many and the humiliation of more who dared last year to have an opinion of their own upon party questions, and the fear of Mr. Glyn's vengeance at a future election, restrained them from giving vent or effect to their irrita tion. The friends of the Church were justly indignant at a flagrant breach of faith, and were subject to no such restraints. The result is not of much direct importance. The sum at stake is not a very large one, and it is quite c-rtaiu that the bill will not pass until the decision of Thurs day has been reversed and the proposal of Mr. Disraeli substituted for it. The Church will receive her parsonages, and she will receive them on the same terms on which Maynooth retains her college buildings, free of all charge whatever. But the impression of bad faith which this transaction will make on the minds of all persons jute rested in the question will not soon be effaced ; the deliberate repudiation of Liberal promises will long be remembered against the party and its leader ; and the Protestants of Ireland will feel none the less resentful and hitter against Mr. Gladstone and his Roman Catholic allies because the heavy fine with which they were threa tened, if they should insist on retaining the ancient residences of their clergy, will not be actually enforced. The Telegraph observes that by a majority of 91 the House of Commons has declared that the disestablished Cl:urch of Ireland shall not get the parsonages for nothing. After the question had been hotly debated on Monday night, the settlement was postponed until Thursday., and by many members of the House it was fondly hoped that in the interval the Ministers would make up their minds to "be generous with other people's money." At the outset of Thursday n ight's labours Mr. Gladstone rudely dispelled the delusion by announcing that the Government was resolved to abide by the hated clause. None of his decisions in committee have been so unequivocally challenged by members of his own party ; and as one Liberal after another implored .him to have mercy on the poor Irish Protestants, it might almost have seemed that a new " Cave" had been dig covered. Ultimately, however, the defections were few, and the majority in favour of the Government reached the usual proportions. Tory gentlemen say that the Prime Minister and the President of the Board of Trade have not kept faith with the country. The truth is, that they would have broken faith with the country if, under totally altered circumstances, they had acted in accord ance with the letter, while they violated the spirit, of their original intentions. The Herald considers that the condition of Ireland is per• fectly appalling. Murder succeeds murder with abnormal rapidity. The assassination recorded by the press on one day is thrown into the shade by the greater brutality of that perpetrated on the next • and those who committ them in every instance escape discovery. It would be unfair to attribute the law's failure to the inertness or the inca pacity of the police, for it is evident that those who com mit such atrocious crimes act upon a system which renders detection almost impossible. It may be asked, how are we to account for such an outburst of crime when there is in office an Administration ele vated to power in a great measure by the votes of the Irish pea.seantry themselves, some of whose members have promised more f or what istermed their advantage than it will ever be possible for any Ministry to effect, and who, to maintain their popularity, are hurrying through Parlia ment a measure designed to remove a badge of ascendancy which is said t o woun d t h eir feelings, although it does not touch their pockets? The answer, we think, is readily given. The discontented Irish count largely on the par tiality of their professed friends, and take liberties which they would not venture to indulge in under the rule of those represented to be their political enemies. The Post thinks the _general idea that "everybody should do as they like,' is s uificiently an d d angerou s when contentment; applied it a is l simply f ruinou s . orclorder But the fact is applied e(i t to o e n l g a l n a d in that now that statesmen have opened their eves th 4 those have a b t : i d t f t a llltre Ireland n n d t o canth e existence of real grievances in Ireland, and ad dressed themselves to the consideration or grievances may be removed, they to be denied plums strange hallucination of suppzin be petted back into loyalty by giving whenever it cries. Nothing spoilt child now ; Irish rebels are released after to the brief, very brief captivity ; Irish assass i ns are left a u punished and Irish agitators are allow e d to spout atrpealipun wherever and whenever they please. Thi s which can attain no good end; it must di sgus t the orderly and loyal ; it certainly will not pacify th e di sorderly and disloyal portion of the population. We trust that it will soon be succeeded by more vigorous measures ; and it ie to he remembered that no more favourable time could be . found for resetting to unusual severity against the criminal and the seditious than the time when the claims of tht Irish people for the redress of some real grievance are meeting with such calm and generous consideration. The Times asserts that the Ministry were in some per plexity in dealing with the glebe-houses. The Opposition, supported by Sir George Grey, Mr. Martin, a n d M r . Bagwell, urged that they should be surrendered gratui tonsly, and appealed to Mr. Bright's language as implying a pledge to leave them in the hands of the clergy. The choice was one of pure and, considering it. as such, it was impossible, with. rat denying the principle of the bill, to accede to their requests. Mr. Bright ex plained on Thursday night that when he suggested the propriety of allowing the clergymen of Ire. land to retain their residences, he coupled it with a proposal to allot a million for the purpose of buying glebes and erecting houses on them for the Romar Catholic priests. These proposals could not be dis severed one from another. It would, perhaps, have beer wisest to adopt both, but if one be impossible, Parliament cannot stilt cling to its fellow. Religious equ a lit y i s t h e be-all and end-all of the Irish Church Bill, and this mus t be secured at whatever cost to kindly feelings,which would. indeed, have been most gratified by leaving things entirely as they were. The deci,ion on the question of glebe-houses was important because it was a test of the thorowdiness of the House of Commons in adhering to the principle of the bill ; but we regard the controversy whi c k subsequently raged over the (late from which private endowments shall be traded as of much less intrinsic value. THE SUN, LONDON, MIDAY APRIL, 30, 1869 LAW AD POLICE, OVEREND AND GURNET.—In the Court of Ofiantery, on April 29, an appeal by the official liquidator of -the Land Credit Company of Ireland, against an order made by the Master of the Rolls in last July, admitting a claim made by the old firm of 0 verend Gurney and Co., to prove against the estate for a sum of £158,000 and interest, was heard. The claim is made upon bills accepted by Lord Fermoy, the chair man of the company, on their behalf, for the late David Leopold Lewis, and by him handed over to Overend, Gurney, and Co., to whom he was indebted for £500,000. The questions raised were whether the bills were fraudu lently obtained, and whether the company was bound by the act of Lord Fermoy. The evidence is very voluminous, and the case only partially opened. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. (LIMITED) V. GURNEY AND Orurns.—ln the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Thurs day, Sir R. Malins said that upon this demurrer, which he overruled the day before, he had reserved the costa. He had since considered that question, and thought that the demurrer ought to be overruled simply. TEE CONFEDERATE ARMY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the case of the " United States v. Tait" was heard. The United States sought to recover a sum of about £4,000 from Sir Peter Tait, the army clothier, in respect of cloth supplied to him by the Confederate States to be made up into uniforms for their army. The motion was, on the part of the defendant, that the plaintiffs might be called upon to answer interrogatories. Mr. Justice Mellor said that as it appeared to be entirely a matter of discretion as to the nature of the interrogatories to be allowed, the better way would he to grant the rule, and then discuss and settle the principle upon which the interrogatories in such a case should be allowed, leaving it to a judge at Chambers to settle the terms.—Rule THE CANDIDATE FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—III the Court of Queen's Bench, on April 29, an appeal was heard from Mr. Young, the unsuccessful candidate for Cambridgeshire at the last election. It will he remembered that a person at Wisbeach had had his windows broken, and obtained da - ma,7;el 'against Mr. Young at the local county court, on the ground that he had tacitly sanctioned the riot. After hearing, the arguments of Mr. Young's counsel, Mr. Justice Mellor said that it was proper that there should be a rule nisi to remit the case to be restated, in order to afford an opportunity for seeing if the case was as sup- Posed. THE GREAT CORATHILL WATCH ROBBERY. In the Cour o Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the case of " The Queen v. the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London came on. In this case a rule had been obtained by Mr. Walker, watchmaker, &c., of Cornhill, calling upon the Corporation of London to shew cause why a writ of restitution should not issue, commanding them to restore to Mr. Walker the sum of £270, the proceeds of the sale of certain goods stolen from him between Saturday night the 4th February, and Monday morning, the 6th February 1865. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Archibald, shelved cause against the rule. He said the only evi dence that the money and property in qUestion were the proceeds of Mr. Walker's robbery was the statement of one of the burglars that they were, and of another that they were not. This was a question of fact to be decided. The Corporation were willing that it should be decided. Yet he did not think it was right to allow this court to assume a jurisdiction which it clearly had not. The old rule of law was restitution on an indictment in the place were the party robbed brought his appeal of robbery. The 21st Henry VIII., and the statutes of George IV., and 24th and 23th Vic., c. 96, sec. 100, provided that the court before whom any such felony, &c., should be tried should have power, on conviction, toaward writs of restitution of the said property, and order restitu tion thereof in a summary manner. The Solicitor-General, with whom was Mr. Crampton Hutton, appeared in support of the rule. He said the City had a right to say that this was not the right way of getting this property out of their hands, but the ques• tion their lordships were asked to decide was whether they had power (and he hoped it would not be considered an offence his saying so) to make the Corporation of London disgorge. He contended that the sta tutes referred to did give their lordships juris diction. He contended that the statutes referring to restitution were given at common law without appeal of robbery, and further that the court before whom the robbery was tried should also have power to order a writ of restitution, which clearly it had not the power to do before the passing of the statutes. Mr. Mellish said that four persons had presented peti tions to the Corporation, giving the strongest reasons why the property should be restored to them. Mr. Justice Mellor said the court were of opinion that the rule must be discharged. The statute of Henry left untouched the process that then existed with reference to the jurisdiction of the Queen's Bench, but gave the right also to recover by action on the declaration, and also power by the judge who tried the case to award writs of restitution on application to them, the came as flie Queen's Bench had in case of judgment on an appeal. TliP other learned judges concurred. Two APPOINTMENTS.—Dr. Andrew . Inglis has been appointed Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Aberdeen.--Mr. Francis Headlam has been appointed stipendiary magistrate at Manchester in the place of Mr. Fowler. We understand that it is the intention of the Government to refer the question of the extension to the civil population of measures for the repression of conta gious diseases to a select committee of the House of Commons.—British _Medical Journal. TUE MURDER OF A CONSTABLE AT BRISTOL.-- The inquest on the body of Police•constable R. Hill, who was stabbed by a young man named Pullin, was con eluded on Thursday. EllzAbeth Paddock said she heard the deceased ask prisoner to go quietly with him, and the latter replied with au oath that if he did not unhand him he would stab him. He had a knife in his hand at the time, and she saw him strike at deceased. The coroner summed up, and a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned. - A FACT FOR THE PEACE SOCIETY.—Dr. Hub benet, of the University of Kiew, and who was present at the siege of Sebastopol, publishes some details of that memor able defence. He says that out of 169,000 men who suc ceeded each other in the town and fortress down to the Ist November, when the typhus broke out, 30,000, or less than one-fifth, remained valid and intact ; more than 76,000 were wounded and 15,000 killed ; 46,000 fell ill, and of these 8,500 died. The Wesleyan Methodists commenced their tnnual gatherings on Thursday, and as usual a large number of members of the connection have come from all parts of the country to attend the various services in Lon don. They met this morning in the large room of the Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate-street, where an address was delivered by the Rev. J. Romilly Hall, president of the Con ference. It was announced that Dr. Raleigh, minister of Hare-court Congregational Church. Islington, will preach in Great Queen-street Chapel to-morrow morning, and that on Saturday morning Mr. John Napier, of Manchester, will preside at a breakfast meeting to be held at the City Ter minus Hotel, Cannon-street. The annual meeting will he _ held at Exeter Hall on Monday. THE MErADEIt IN IRELAND. -With regard to the murder near Athlone, a Dublin correspondent telegraphs as follows :—" Captain Tarleton, who farms ninety acres near Athlone, but is not a landlord, was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon in a lane on his own farm. He had just left his workmen in an adjoining field, and was last seen alive by them at half-past one o'clock, but the body was not discovered till five. The shot took effect in the head. No one confesses to have heard the shot. Eight persons have been arrested on suspicion, two of whom have since been discharged. The deceased was 35 years old, and well liked. He had received some threatening letters, which he could not trace, since he discharged a herdsman six months ago. He has latterly carried a re• volver regularly on his person, and it was found in his belt when the body was found." VELOCIPEDES.—We have lately had an oppor tunity of examining velocipedes and seeing them in use. Our attention was especially directed to the character of the muscular exercise, and the degree in which the use of this carriage might be open to the charge which was freely brought against the old velocipede, of inducing hernia. So far as our investigation went, the results were very favour able. It seemed to us that the muscles of the body generally, not those of the lower limbs alone, were brought easily into play, and the mode of locomotion promised a very agreeable method of taking useful and healthful exercise. The position of the body and the mode of wing the legs do not seem likely to produce that violent action of the abdominal muscles which was necessitated by the old velocipede, and which was liable to cause pro tusion of the intestines. We should, however, add that. the exercise, like all gymnastic feats, requires for safe'• that it should be carefully regulated, that a high rate .uf speed should only be gradually acquired, and that gres t efforts should be studiously avoided. With these limits - Cons, we cannot see any probability of danger to health in the employment of the velocipede. No doubt it is best fitted for the young and active, for very few learner 4 escape a considerable number of falls, which are not easily borne by those in whom age has diminished the elasticity of the frame. Indeed, the most ardent volocipede ridgru (and the pursuit has become quite a passion in France) do not recommend it with any earnestness to those who hay . p3ssgd f9yty years.—The 421cet, lIIETROPOI,ITAN GOSSIP,-7 T.ursday. . _ I believe there is no doubt that the Lords have decided not to divide upon the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. The truth is, the unanimity of the Liberal party— the determination on their part that no differences of opinion on minor points shall endanger this measure—has taken the Conservatives by surprise. It was but a few months ago that Mr. Bouverie declared that the Liberal party consisted of leaders who could not lead and followers who would not follow, and yet now Mr. Gladstone is at the head of a majority, not only larger than any Minister has had since the Reform Bill of 1832, but infinitely more compact. All chance, therefore, of serious modification of the bill in the Lower House is hopeless, and the work of resisting it en bloc in the Upper would now be so perilous that their lordships have wisely resolved to let the bill pass a second reading, and to modify it so far as they dare in committee. How far they will dare, is at present a question which remains to be solved. There are indica tions of Adullamy in the Upper House. Lord Grey, who keeps a Cave permanently for his own special use, Lord Grey, the hermit of the Legislature—the Troglo dyte of politics—is now seriously distressed at the thought that he may have to make room for other persons ; that there may be two or three peers who will agree with him. Clearly there must be, in his lordship's opinion, something very wrong when he finds himself at the head of a party of as many as three or four peers. There is need of great searching of heart, of strict examination to see if he has not fallen away from his creed, if he is not in danger of holding the same opinions as other persons hold. And then, too, the company in which he finds himself ! Lord Westbury, the hero of such reputable adventures ; the Duke of Somerset, whose zeal for the Church is so conspicuous ; the Marquis of Clanricarde, whose admission to the first Palmerston Cabinet added so greatly to its stability ; these are allies of whom Lord Grey has such reason.to be proud. Proud of them, or not, they are evidently bent upon mischief ; evidently resolved that as they have not been consulted in the matter they will give.- opinions which shall be as unpleasant as possible. Lord Westbury has already taken up the banner which Mr. Disraeli waved for a night or two and then cast contemptuously aside. He has already spoken of Mr. Gladstone as making Ireland a province of Rome ; so you may be sure that when their lordships go into committee on the bill there will he some lively fighting. There will unquestiorably be another sharp fight about the site of the new law courts. There is a very prevalent impression that Mr. Lowe is taking the wrong course in this matter. In the first place, his courts will, if he adopts the Howard-street site, be buried out of view so far as the Strand side is concerned. In the next place, the ground is of such a character that an enormous expenditure will have to be incurred in digging out for the foundations. 'Then, again, it is believed that a large sum will have to be paid for ' approaches," or else the narrow streets which now lead down to the proposed locality will be completely impassable by reason of the large traffic that will he brought into them. It is argued further that even if a smaller building than that originally contemplated is adopted, that is no reason why it should not be erected in Carey-street, but all the more reason, as the present vacant ground will then prove sufficient. Moreover, it is contended that we have so few ornamental buildings in London that it is too bad of Mr. Lowe to deprive us of the opportunity of getting one worthy of England's capital. Finally, it is pointed out that economy in this matter, if carried beyond a proper financial vigilance, is a great mistake. It may be well enough for us to economise our income, but the money to be spent upon the law courts will come out of capital, and there can never be a time at which the expenditure would be more judiciously made than at the present, whin money is so " cheap " and labour so superfluously abundant that we are compelled to send it to the colonies. That Mr. Lowe hates spending money there is no question. It is notorious, for instance, that he would like to throw up the scheme for the Government purchase of the telegraphs. Indeed, it is believed in well-informed quarters that he intends to ask the House of Commons to concede a telegraphic monopoly, in the belief that the House will refuse to do so, and thus give him,an opportunity of abandoning the purchase. I cannot reconcile this with the fact that the arbitration is still going on, and that Mr. Scudamore has made arrangements, which seem to imply that the matter will be carried out. Another matter of the same kind has arisen to vex the equable Chancellor of the Exchequer. The strongest pressure is being put upon the Government to make them buy up the Irish railways. This is a very big matter indeed, and both Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright are resolved not to have anything to do with it if they can help it. But when pretty nearly a hundred members of Parliament (commoners and peers) unite to memorialise the Government on the matter, it is clear that the idea cannot be treated with contempt, especially as that emi nently logical people, the Irish, have a disagreeable habit of opposing Ministerial measures which they approve, they cannot get that which they want. The Marquis Townshend's bill for extending the pro visions of the " Contagious Diseases Act 1866 " to London, is causing agreat deal of discussion in " sociological circles." As I anticipated, it is looked upon as the " thin end of the wedge," and a memorial against the introduction of any measure calculated, as the memorialists think, to import the Parisian use into this country has been drawn up by members of the Midnight Meeting Society, the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution, the lloxm s of Hope, the British Penitent Female Refuge, and the Rescue Society, all associations in London, having for their object the prevention of what is euphoniously called the Social Evil. The memorialists allege that the system of police surveillance has failed in Paris. St. James's Hall is to witness some stirring meetings next week. On Monday there to be " a great demon stration" against the Irish Churca Bill. Lord Harrowby will preside, and the Dukes of Marlborough and Abercorn, Sir Joseph Napier, the Hon. D. Plunket. and Mr. Cross, M. P., are expected to be present. On the followingday the supporters of the Permissive Bill will have their innings. Archdeacon Sandford will take the chair, and among the speakers will be Archbishop Manning and the following M.P.'s :—Sir W. Lawson, Dr. Brewer, Mr. Dalway, Mr. Whitworth, and Mr. Morgan. Apropos to the liquor traffic there is a rather curious story going about in upper circles. At \Vest-end dinner parties a handsome dashing girl has been noticed by the people who "know everybody," but wh) don't know her. They, especially the men, are curious to learn who she is. Her name is Miss W—, is the reply. " Who is Miss \V--?" they ask ; and if they get hold of the right person they will learn that she has inherited from her father a large amount of public-house property in the East-end of London, and, being very wealthy, has paid a needy dowager £2,000 a year to intro duce her into society. Many more stories of the kind might be told of men getting "shamefully rich" at the West-end on the misery and the crime of the East-end. There are two men well known in Pall Mall for the splendour of their attire and their equipages. These men draw their revenues from the gin-palaces and the brothels of Shoreditch. Here is a third case. A clerical friend of mine was called to see a dying woman in one of the low public-houses of Hagger ston. After attending to her, he spoke to the woman who kept the hone, and made some remarks upon the sad scenes that she must witness. She replied that all which he :; said was true enough, that the trade caused a vast amount of misery among the poor ; " but what are we to think of those who get rich upon it ? This very house, and a number more in the neighbourhood, belong to a gentleman 'living in E— square," naming one of the largest and most fashionable squares in Belgravia:' The Times has a curious piece of antiquarian lore in one of its leaders to-day. It says that the " Checkers," which are the frequent sign on a country inn, " represent the arms of the ancient family of Fitzwarren, the head of which house, in the daysof the Henries, was invested with the power of licensing ' the establisments of vintners and publicans." "The Henries" is rather a vague term, consider ing that it applies to 450 years. But let this pass, for there is another point onwhich an explanation is desirable. The same sign is to be seen outside the taverns in ancient Pompeii. Were there Fitzwarrens, • and "Henries " 1800 years ago, and did they live under the shadow of Vesuvius? The difficulty with respect to the Roman Catholic cathedral which is to be erected in. honour of Cardinal Wiseman has beerro . veicome. The contract for the pur chase of the site had to be completed before May Ist, and it was signed by Archbishop Manning this week. It was doubted at first if the Board of Works had power to sell land for the erection of a building which would not con tribute to the .poor rates, so counsel's opinion was taken, and it was favourable to the sale. _ _ _ The marriage banns of the Rev. Benjamin Speke, whose disappearance caused so much commotion a year ago, were read for " the first time of asking " last Sunday at the little church of Corsham-Side, near Chippenham. Mr. Speke is about to marry Miss Fuller, of that neigh bourhood, a lady who is well known for her works of charity. If women may not teach in public, there is no reason why they should not read. Many of them are well quali fied to do this. At the present time two ladies, the Misses Lisle, are attaining considerable reputation in Lon don by their readings of poetry. Among other pieces are the sleep-walking scene from " Macbeth," Mr. Morris's poem, " Atlanta's Race," Poe's "Neils," and "The Maid of Bregenz." I believe these ladies are willing to make engagements to give readings in the provinces. An amusing letter which I have just received from India describes the visit of the Ameer of Afighanistan to Lahore My correspondent describes the Ameer as a tall, large man, of much lighter complexion than that of the native Indians, with a hooked nose, and a somewhat Jewish, not to say evil, expression. He despises the gay clothing in which the rajahs and great men of India delight, and appears in a long brown coat, and a tall sheep-skin helmet-shaped hat. He said, " I am not a woman. I do not want fine clothes." His idea of women is not favourable. Noticing all the ladies assembled to see him as he entered Lahore, he said, "We like our wives as well as you do; but if they were to come out as your ladies do, we should cut their heads off." This, however, was not nearly so severe as the remarks which he made on his first crossing our frontier at Peshawur. Observing the ladies there, ho said, " I suppose you do as we do, keep your pretty women indoors." The procession into the capital of the Punjab was very pic turesque. At the bridge of boats the Ameer alighted and took his place in the carriage of the Lieutenant- Governor, who had gone to meet him. These two digni taries, together with the two officers who had accompanied the Ameer since he entered British India, drove in a car riage and four. They were preceded by the band of the 7th Hussars, on white horses, and who were greatly ad mired for the skill with which they held their instruments in one hand, and held the music and guided their steeds with the other. In the second carriage and four was the Ameer's son, a child of seven years old, and in the third were divers great British functionaries. They were fol lowed by aprocession on horseback, and between every two Englishmen rode a grand native in the most picturesque costume. The durbar in the Montgomery Hall has already been described in the Indian and English papers, and my correspondent speaks of it in very high terms. About 350 persons had to he presented to the Ameer by the Secre tary to the Government, and while the latter got hoarse, the former looked decidedly bored, until the pipers belonging to a Highland regiment marched past. At sight of these the Affghan's eyes lighted up, he became greatly interested, and the chief piper had to explain the construction of his instrument. The ceremony concluded by the Secretary sprinkling the company with attar of roses, a native custom on state occasions. After the ceremony he com plimented those who had conducted it, but spoke contemptuously of the Indians, saying, " They are a poor set ; they look as if the sun had burnt all the energy out of them." 'Then came the ball and the illuminations, which the Ameer took very quietly, as though determined to be surprised at nothing ; yet I doubt if he had ever read Horace. He was then escorted to the railway, en route to Umritsur. At the station he was unable to maintain his nil admirari rule. It was the first railway he had seen, and he was greatly delighted. After he bad departed he was pretty well criticised. The general impression was that he was a savage, an intelligent one, no doubt, but still a savage. Very shrewd and observant he certainly is, and everybody believes that he had some great object in visiting India ; but he took very gond care nut to betray it. Of course it is important to both parties that there should be friend. ship between him and, us; but the impression seems to be that he would not give us his without ample con sideration. The Water Colour Society has a capital exhibition this year. It surpasses that at the rival Institute, just as the Institute's winter exhibition surpassed the Society's. The place of honour is given to Dirket Poster, who has a large and admirable picture of "A Meet." Holman Hunt, who was recently elected an associate, has two small, but remarkable, pictures, " Moonlight at Salerno" and " Interior of the Cathedral at Salerno." Branwhite has six pictures ; several of them snow pieces, one particularly good, and a really nobal sunset scene on a mountain river. There is but one other landscape which will compare with this—" The Shades of Evening," by Alfred Newton. Carl Haag has one very fine picture of a Samaritan High Priest reading the Pentateuch. Burne Jones is unusually strong, and has actually learnt that curves are more beautiful than angles in the human body. There is scarcely one of his figures requiring surgical aid for a dis location. The publishers complain that this is .one of the very worst seasons ever known. Consequently they are holding over their books, and very few new works are announced. Everyone, of course, will read " George Eliot's " poem in the new number of Blackwood. The June number of the Churchman's Shilling Magazine will have an article by Mrs. Broderip, the daughter of Thomas Hood, and another by Miss Plues, the botanist. The Victoria Magazine, just out, has one by Mr. Spender on the Temperance question. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett are bringing out a novel by Lady di Beauclerk, sister of the Duke of St. Albans. It is called " True Love." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LAW AND ITS EXECUTION. The law is now repeatedly defeated by its own strictne7s. The rule that everything must be abso lutely proved against a defendant has made nugatory two most important statutes within the last few months. The Middlesex magistrates have allowed the night-houses in the Haymarket to run their course of iniquity unreproved ; the Court of Common Pleas has virtually made useless the law prohibiting the sale of liquors on Sunday during certain hours. The magistrates arc required to have proof furnished t . hem that the man who has been served with drink c• a traveller. The difficulty of getting negative evidence is proverbial, and so nearly all prosecu tions now-a-days against erring licensed victuallers fall to the ground. Mr. Ingham, the sti pendiary magistrate of Hammersmith Police court, has told the police that he is comparatively powerless to convict, and that if the law is to be carried out there must be fresh legislation. .There can be no injustice in setting aside the decision of the Court of Common Pleas. A publican is sum moned for serving during prohibited hours. He pleads that the person so served was a traveller. lle can have no difficulty in proving it. The law as it now stands is its own overthrow. TIIE TRADES UNIONS DILL. The Trades Unions Dill of Messrs. Hughes and Munclella seems to find general favour amongst the trades unionists. Another meeting of delegates, in which the ironmoulders, engineers, carpenters, plasterers, masons, coach -wheelwrights, twine spinners, miners, ropemakers, coopers, ironfounders, compositors, and smiths were represented, has just been held, and the bill was unanimously approved. THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS COMPANY. We have already announced that the select com mittee of the House of Commons has refused to allow the Great Central Gas Company to make up for its deficiencies, caused by the defalcations of Ifiggs, by acquiring more capital. The committee have now made a special report to the House. What they say will hardly be satisfactory to the share holders. The committee state that they are satisfied on the evidence of the promoters that for many years there has been no sufficient audit or supervi sion of the accounts of the company, and that defalcations have occurred extending over a period of six or seven years, and exceeding in amount £71,000.. FOREIGN CATTLE. • Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., has issued to the members of the Chambers of Agriculture a letter, in which he expresses his regret at the failure of the agricultu rists to get a provision inserted in the Government Cattle Bill for keeping out diseased beasts. "I believe (he says) that the alterations we propose making in the bill regarding our own stock will meet with little opposition from the Government, but I am grieved to add that I find a most determined resistance will be made to those amendments which aim at providing separate markets for foreign stock. We stated our requirements on this head in reasonable and moderate terms, and have made every concession save those that we regard as essential for the exclusion of foreign diseases. Without these separate markets at all the ports where cattle from Central and Eastern Europe are landed, the other p ro visions of the bill will be almost valueless. I therefore deem it my duty to respectfully call upon every subscriber to our local Chambers to urge upon all members of Parliament within his district the necessity of support ing these amendments, which, if carried t will increase tt as rof y e s ra ther than decrease the supply of foreign meat, and which, I believe , offe r the most permaonck of h permanent means, ti short a ctual prohibition, of keepingthe stock free from imported diseases." Is it protection against disease, or against competi tion, that Mr. Read and his friends are really trying to obtain ? Are they not very zealous in the former because they know that what they propose will include the latter? INCREASE OF THE EPISCOPATE. The Guardian has a very pungent article upon the recent debate on Lord Lyttelton's bill for the increase of the Episcopate. Our contemporary (whose zeal for the Church none can doubt) is very severe upon the bishops. It says "they have made more converts among Churchmen to the policy of disestablishment in this one debate than all the hired propagandists of the Liberation Society have brought over in twenty years." It rebukes the Bishops' worldliness because their outward pomp and handsome incomes are of more importance in their eyes than spiritual life and efficient Church organisation. It accuses them of negligence in allowing year by year to go by w ith ou t any rea l effort in Convocation or elsewhere to supply "the notorious deficiencies now existing in episcopal ministrations." It exposes the absurdity of the objec tion that under Lord Lyttelton's bill there would be two classes of bishops, by pointing out that there are already two classes, the Bishop of Sodor and Man constituting the second. It declares that those who opposed the bill used arguments which were " evi dently insincere." It then goes on to speak of the " one sufficient answer " to Lord Lyttelton's project the lailduam iauDre,d. but miaicb is " Mai freely enough out of doors' the " absence of episcopal oversight in four or five dioceses," and the general conviction that the Church can get on very well without bishops. This conviction is expressed with an abundance of scorn by "persons who write in the all but avowed interests of unbelief," but is, the Guardian holds, as little justified as a landsman's assumption would be that because he had seen a ship sailing along the coast without accident while her commander was on shore, no commander was needed. Finally, the Guardian says, with reference to the dioceses in which there is an absence of responsible episcopal government : "There are obvious reasons why Churchmen should be slow to proclaim the evils resulting from the infirmity of bishops who have been zealous and efficient perhaps in former days to the extent of their power. It does not follow that they are insensible to the serious evils which such an abeyance of episcopal oversight must, from the nature of the case, entail. At all events, the argument proves too much. If four or five dioceses are really as well off without bishops as with them, the true conclusion is, not that more bishops are unnecessary, but that bishops are not wanted at all. It may be that the delicacy of Churchmen has been misplaced, as it certainly has been misunderstood. They endured more in this matter than anyone had a right to expect them to endure. If their patient silence is miscon strued, it will be necessary for them to speak out. When they do speak out, it will be too late for the bishops to complain of unpleasant truths. Bad their lordships been candid and reasonable, when fair opportunities for their co-operation were given, unpleasant truths need not have been published to the world at all." THE COLONIAL CHURCH. Dr. Farrell, Dean of Adelaide, is dead. He was OG years of age. The Bishop of Sierra Leone is to be added to the " colonial episcopate resident in Eng land." Dr. Deckles had but very recently returned to his diocese, and after a few months stay there comes back in ill health. It is not stated if he means to resign his post. CANON MILLER ON THE OFFERTORY. Canon Miller writes that he has been misrepre sented as to what he said with regard to the offertory. He does not disapprove of it, but doubts if it would be a good substitute for church rates. He admits that he was rightly represented in attaching impor tance to the " surplice " difficulty. He would like to get over . it by wearing the surplice in the pulpit, and will do so when it ceases to become the badge of a party. In order to chew that he is not a party man, he says that he has been asked to promote the better observance of Ascension Day, " a point on which I have always felt strongly. But, while I have expressed my warm sympathy with such a move ment, I have not thought it becoming in a private clergyman to make any public suggestion or appeal to his brethren." In other words, Canon Miller is so little of a party man that he will not adopt two reforms which he thinks to be right because he is afraid of appearing to separate from his party. How such reforms as these are to " cease to be badges of a party," when men whose opinions are so well known, and whose influence is so great as Canon Miller's are, we do not quite see. VAGRANCY IN THE NORTH. In consequence of many complaints being made by tho people of Cumberland and Westmoreland as to the robberies committed by tramping vagrants, it was determined at the end of 1867 to enforce the Vagrant Act strictly. The result has been that in the year ending Michaelmas 1868, 524 persons were apprehended in the two counties for begging, and 374 were committed to prison. The chief con stable has reported that the course adopted has been attended with most beneficial results, and he feels convinced that if the law were generally carried into r effect tramping vagrancy as a trade would be speedily stopped. ller Majesty's Inspector of Con stabulary for the Midland District is in favour of the system of ticket-of-way passes, and he notes the difficulty of impressing upon the . public that they support crime by giving indiscriminate relief. This is an obstacle in the way of reform. Mendicancy will exist as long as the public encourage it. THE IRISH RAILWAY QUESTION. There is great disappointment in certain circles caused by the refusal of the Government to purchase, this session, at least, the Irish railways. The real supporters of the scheme are disappointed because they thought that Mr. Gladstone would take it up as another measure of justice tolreland. The speculators are in agonies, because having bought in stock, under the idea that they would soon have to sell to the Government, they.find it now to be altogether unsaleable. And the very companies themselves are in despair because they are being ruined more com pletely as week by week passes on. Mr. Gladstone does not absolutely refuse to deal with the matter. In reply to the memorial so largely signed, the Premier writes to Lord Clanricarde : "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and the enclosure, which contains so strong a manifestation of Irish opinion on the subject of the railways of that country ; and though I cannot say whether the circum stances of the present moment will allow of our giving the question at once the full and definite consideration it deserves, I will lose no time in bringing those consider? tions under the notice of my colleagues," RIOTS IN DERRY. Prince Arthur's visit to the South of Ireland passed off happily and peacefully enough. In the land where nationality might be expected to clash with royalty, the people have been warm in th e ir reception of the young Prince. It has been reserved for loyal Ulster, for enthusias tically loyal Derry, to mark the visit of his Royal Highness with riot and bloodshed. Not even the presence of the Queen's son could cause the postponement of the feud between the Montague's and the Capulets. Having been fortunate enough to withstand the siege of James some ISO years back, the Protestant Orangemen of Londonderry have ever since loved fighting. The rival mobs fell to it on Wednesday night, first attacking each other, then the police. How it came about the report hardly explains ; but we learn that in the ?iteMe one man was shot through the head, one severely through the neck, and two others seriously wou n d e d. S evera l o f t h e po li ce were slightly wounded. Some houses were wrecked. The military were at last called out, and put an end to the disturbance just before midnight. THE RELEASED FENIAN PRISONERS. While this was going on in the North, equally alarming proceedings were taking place at Cork. Tinder the presidency of the mayor the released Fenian prisoners, Warren and Costelloe, were being serenaded. Mr. O'Sullivan quite sustained his repu tion. He hoped the day would soon come when no strange nation would be dominant in the land. He attributed the spirit of concession which had been shewn by the dominant race either to Fenianism or to the barrel of gunpowder at Clerkenwell. The " Manchester martyrs" he lauded to the skies. O'Farrell, the attempted assassin of the Duke of Edinburgh, was placed among the famous. The name of the young prince now in Ireland was received with cries of "He be damned." Warren promised to turn up again some day with compound interest, And England came in for some pretty abuse. All this will hardly strengthen the sentiment which was recently so prevalent that we might melt the hearts of the convicts by shewing that England can be strongly generous. THE O ' FARRELL CONFESSION. The _Dublin Evening Mail publish es in full the con• fession with which O'Farrell amused the credulous Colonial Secretary at Sydney. It occupies some three columns, but is not particularly interesting. O'Farrell contradicts the rumour that the Duke of Edinburgh was shot at in revenge for some affair of gallantry, so that scandal is disposed of so far as this precious document can dispose of any thing. It contains some very uncomplimentary allu sions to the Prince of Wales, and it declares that the intention of the Fenians was to found a republic in the three kingdoms, with a confederation of fifteen States, three for Ireland, three for Scotland, two fot Wales, and seven for England. O'Farrell is also represented as saying that Mr. Gladstone was induced by fear to take up the Irish question. MR. DISRAELI A HOMCEOPATH. At the annual dinner of the London Homceopathl4 Hospit , ll Lord Eleho presided, and contrasted the feeling with regard to homoeopathy thirty yeais agc and at t Ile present time, when the bust of Hahnemann had become quite common in the streets of London. It was known that within the last few days Mr Disraeli had had an attack of gout, and it wad alleged—whether rightly or wrongly he would not say—that the right hon. gentleman had been, through homeopathic treatment, enabled to put in an appearance an d t a k e par t i n the discussion on the Irish Church question It is a pity that Lord Elcho did not take the trouble to verify his on dit. He is on such excellen terms with the leader of the Opposition that he nigh; have obtained anyamount of information, might have learnt, for instance, if " Pulv. Cret. Prep." hao been given, by way of getting rid of challistoncs Lord Elcho's other informatioii was more precise He said th a t th ere was a h omoeopa th ic hospital 111 Vienna, a prof essors hi p o f homeopathy at the Paris Sorbonne, and that in the Brazils homoeopathy was the orthodox medical faith. TIIE LATE ELECTION FOR BRADFORD. The return of Mr. Miall, the great Nonconformist champion, for Bradford, is to be celebrated in practical manner during Whitsuntide. Mr. Forsto and Mr. Aliall are both expected to pay a visit to fill borough, when a grand presentation will be made to the latter gentleman by the ladies of the town Since his return they have been engaged in getting up a handsome testimonial in honour of the victor 3 he achieved a few weeks since. It is now announces that the softer sex of Bradford have purchased : handsome timepiece and candelabra for Mrs. Miall, piano for Miss Miall,and the rest of the money is II be laid out in a library of reference for Mr. A public banquet is also expected to be given to both hon. members. The course of exchange at New York on London for bilis at 60 days' sight was on the last date about 1 8f per cent At this rate there is na profit on the ircq.octation of gold row the Milt cd States. FOREIGN NOTES, ala BELGIAN DIFFICULTY. The Belgian railway dispute is not a question of great political importance, and properly it ought to bac° had no political significance whatever. But it is likely to attain a matchless fame for the duplicity and confusion of the negotiations respecting it. It was at first reported that Belgium had given way. It was next solemnly announced that France had found the bullying P° lll hopeless, and had mitigated her demands. So far the balance of evidence is in favour of the latter supposition. It is certain that the interview between the French Emperor and the Belgian Minister settled the matter ooe way or the other, and the semi-official papers of Paris con fess that the chief concession insisted upon byFrance—the ratification of the leases—has not been granted. According to the Journal de Paris, the terms agreed upon are (1) that the Belgian fares shall be lowered to the tariff of the Eastern Company ; (2) that two trains a day shall ru n from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, both to be conducted 11 French railway servants, and the Customs inspection in crossing the Belgian territory to be mad e 11/ French agents. These concessions are cert ain,/ not equal to the ratification of the leases. As t , h : Journal de Paris remarks, they are "less radi clu % The Independence Beige, too, observes that the settlemov, is more nearly in accordance with the wishes of Belgil lel than the demands of France. The little State, then, has fought its own battle bravely, and has come triumphant. The Daily Nam, however, supports the inforrnAti en .' given by the Independance Beige. This is to the eff ec " that the Belgian Government should assume possession of that portion of the line from Arlon to Brussels which el' Great Eastern of France had contracted to purchase , a n il should then lease it to the French company upon tarn s and conditions to be arranged by a joint French and Del . gian commission. This arrangement would be equival ent to a surrender by Belgium. It is certain, in any c age ' that a mixed commission has been agreed upon for the settlement of details. The Paris correspondent of th e Telegraph says that it will consist of only two reP r4l sentativee. THE SPANISH THRONE. The Spanish Cortes are quietly debating over the que ° ' tion of a State religion, as if the sovereignty°of the counts"! were settled, and no such problem remained to be s olved ; But the revolutionary leaders cann o t th us keep out °: sight this all-important difficulty. The Directory seb e f i i seems to make no progress. The Ministry is 13 " on the look out for a king, but unfortunately its mem berS are unable to agree upon a candidate. The correspon desi of the Constitutionnel says that the Liberal Union, at the head of which is Serrano, is strongly in favour of goo!' pensier. The Progressists are strongly opposed to thso prince, but they have no candidate to set up in his place. 1-.°l some days past the unity and the concord of the Union 10: 6 given rise to the impression that it will triumph. Pr ini ' says this writer, is known to be actively engaged in PI: . tiations Du ke. , and these are believed to refer to the D'' Nothing is said as to Prince Leopold of liohenzoll eW Sigmaringen. THE MARY LOWELL. It is to be hoped that the seizure of the Mary Lowell bi the Spaniards will give rise to no diplomatic imbrogl ic4 The dispute is rather c ur i ous , an d i nvo l ves the th ree Governments of Spain, En g l an d, an d the United t , States. The Mary Low e ll i s an A mer i c an 811 V and was seized off Rag ge d I s l an d, one of t-e Bahamas. The vess e l was t a k en t o H avanna h, a nd th er a ° condemned as a leg a l p r i ze f or carry i ng contra of war. The Americans, nevertheless, demand het surrender to them, alleging th a t s h e was captured on the high seas six miles from Bag gy Island. On the other hand, the British authorial require her surrender to them, as it has been prol e that the capture was effected within two miles of ° 1 small dependency, and therefore in British waters. remains to be seen, therefore, whether our represen t/ 1 i tions will produce any effect. But we want no o° i ° Tornado affair. It i s a grea t pit y th a t th ere exist s L international tribunal by which these small affairs can settled without years of diplomatic haggling. CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES. A little while ago the belief was current in the trP r ite l States that the G o v ernmen t, y i e ldi ng t o the pressti.e ; popular opinion —or pop u l ar p re j u di ce — wou ld, in 6° 4. way or other, recognise the Cuban insurgent G o vernta e m i , The Times Philadelphi a corres p on d en t , h owe ver, t e : graphs that General Grant' s C a bi ne t w ill interfere ow' for the protection of American interests. Intelligenc e b ,l been received that the insu rr e c ti on ca n no t be maint3l-e without foreign aid, and as recognition might in c° ' De America in a war, any idea of interference seems t°, 6 l abandoned. It is satisfactory to learn that the ITI'" States Government will hold aloof from this con te n s g e Unfortunately, it seems that self-interest, and not s e- o f of justice and consistency, has been the ruling nlotro this abstention. So a t l eas t th e Ti mes Philadell i ' m correspondent suggests—not that he is very friendly American Government. ITALIAN PROSPECTS. The Times Florence correspondent has little th at ._,4 hopeful to s a y o f th e It a li an B u d ge t. S e ld om, indeed, P'; a nation been con f ron t e d w ith suc h a melancholy: est ir ' i ri f't e d of financial prospects. Thirty millions sterling are n ee ~c 1 before Italy can pay off her arrears and bring revena e'-ce expenditure to an equilibrium. The Italian Fi °ll l,B Minister himself does not hope that this canoe accomplished before 1874. But there is a bright sia th e the prospects of the Italian nati on . I n ma ny respectellf country is flourishing, and the lower classes are gell e , r : well off, especially in the ru ra l di s t r i c t s . The subventions are now a ver y h eav y c h arge , but these "A be lessened by the completion of the Mont Cenis to whilst the prosperity of the country must be augment ed of these facilities for communication. The constructiontii mercantile shipping in Italian dockyards has g re° ' o f increased, and has become an important source prosperity. In short, with good harvests, and, a t r o ° all, peace, Italy ma y ge t ou t o f h er diffi cu lties P!_ it , l distant date. The army has a l re ady b een re duced. / 7 6 1 not still further lessen it ? English people will be st n° ;e ll to learn that it is the Italian Chamber of Deputies scwto, stands in the way of economy in the military departnleo. Besides wasting time in n ee dl ess d e l a y s an d by ina tt o . tion to business, the deputies hav e comm itt e d the u n ' „ . ' tr i donablc blunder of voting more mone y th an the demanded. THE SULTAN AND HIS ARMY. lle* Letters from Constantinople, by way of Ala" e 1 01 contain a very odd piece of intelligence. " 5°1 ,0 Powers," it is said, have recommended the Su to to raise an army of half-a-million of men in or“ . „ e- igt) be fully prepared for eventualities. The Turkish eovow-e0 replied that such a force was utterly beyond his res° tl/ : but that he had done all in hi s p ower by orga nising reserve force. It appears, then, that his Sublin 3 "; d anxious to realise the worst, and hasten the bankruP te 'd his State as much as possible. Whoev e r the "B esre a d PoWers" may be they could not have given their fr' the Sultan worse advice. The Indian troopship Serapis, Capt. J. C. Sosc 11 : at Portsmouth, y es t er d ay em b ar k e d Lieut. 10b„1,100 son and 40 m en o f t h e R oyal Eng i neers, a lso ti ll soldiers' wives and four children. To-day sh e embark several military officers to join their ret, ments, as well as a number of the discharged vO r t.4 , men from the different Government establishm e° o o who with their families are about to be sen t : o cl under the auspices of the Emigration Societi and private resources. The Serapis will sai l morrow for Canada. 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