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Mr Ashley, Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Minnie Sydney, &c, &nd WHITEBAIT AT GREI..NWICII : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Burton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROT AL. Tills Fvrsixo. at 7. 'MINNIE, or, Lronard's Love. At 9, PREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. hlarshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain • and Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN, Tuts EVE , ING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. U. Money', I's. C. Uurkunan, ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss 11 Oliver. TINS EYENING. at 7.:!O. IN FOR A lIOLID Y. Followed by A ROVING COM tIISSION. And THE 1%1 ILI VARY BILLY TAYLOR. 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To-day Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON hi:s resigned his position, herr, as . the United States Representative. Ilis Excellency bas bad his farewell interview with Vie Earl of CLARENDON, and has left the affiths of the American Legation in the hands of Mr. BENJA MIN .MoRAN, as Charge d'Affaires, until the arrival of Mr. MOTLEY, the newly-appointed Ambassador. THE SUN, LONDON, rnuns.b.A.Y EVENING, MAY 13, 1869. All the fair promise of Mr. REvElanvJomrsoN's-conaing hi 8 been disappointed. According to his way of putting it, immediately on his coming, and consistently, or perhaps we should say, persistently ever since everything was couleur de rose in these (as he declared them to be) easily adjusted matters of ditedu'e be tween the United States and the United Kingdom. The song he has been singing all the time of his stay in England—but the most sonorously at dinner-tables, has been a poem —an anticipative item over the ia evitable sweeping aside of all differerces. Never was there such an anti-climax as the close of Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON'S mission, when contrasted with its com mencement. his fair promises have proved altogether illusory. The two Governments, instead of being brought together in amity, are " wide as the poles asunder." The claims for compensation have in creased and multiplied. They have been coolly ex tended from individual loss to national loss. With those long since intolerable names of the Alabama and the Sumter—names repeated, or rather dinned into our ears, with " damnable iteration"—are coupled the names of other rebel cruisers, such as the Florida and the Shenandoah. The rough estimate, as to the probable loss by capture and burn ing, set down originally by Mr. COBDEN at some where about £3,000,000, has come to be regarded of si etmspolmyahng as the first item in .a stupendous amount very much more like £400,000,000. As the time has been running on, the implied demand has mounted higher and higher like the value of the Sibylline leaves. Meanwhile, there has occur red a change of Government at Westminster and there has occurred a change of Government at Wash ington. As PuEsIDENT of the United States, Gencral ULYSSES GRANT has replaced Mr. ANDREW JOHNSON. As Prime Minister of England, Mr. GLADSTONE hai assumed office in succession to Mr. DISRAELI—the post of Foreign Secretary being handed over by Lord STANLEY to its present occu pant, Lord CLARENDON. Subsequent to which poli tical transformations on either side of the Atlantic, there has been delivered that outrageous speech of Mr. SUMNER'S, through which, claims of so porten tous and preposterous a kind are made upon the Bri tish Government, that the only possible reply to a demand so utterly extravagant will be, can be, must be, a direct negative. And this is the result of the fair speaking of Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON—theadvancement against us of claims so huge that they are like the bill of costs in a burlesque ! The more quietly after this the ex-Ambassador from the United States can take his departure from our shores and return (after the going forth upon something very much like a fool's errand) to his native country, the better. The whole incident of his embassage has proved to be nothing more nor less than a fia.ico, linking together a comparatively diminutive and an eventually enormous imbroglio. The "situ ation," before he came over here, was by no means satisfactory. Now that he is going back again, it is still more decidedly 'unsatisfactory. The knot of the difficulty, sufficiently complex to begin vii h, has by this time, been entangled into a maze of involutions, so inextricable, that it comes to be suggestive at last of that old mythical Gordian-knot that could only be loosened by the edge of the sword. Of course, Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON is one of those in tolerably excellent people who have all along " meant well." Ile has been all smiles and suavity during his stay amongst us. His speeches have been run ning over with jocularity. Representing a great nation at the Court of an European Sovereign, has been treated by him, throughout, as, in its way, a capital j )ke. And, in his appreciation of the rich humour • of the thing, he has been poking his fun at us during the whole interval of his sojourn in England. What ever excellence there has been, thus, in the coaduct all this while of his E:tcellcncy can only be accu rately described in two words, as" excAleat foaling." But—with Gur sides aching, a ith the risible muscles of the face tied into knotsi.as by the tartness of crude gooseberries—we have had enough of it. We are not sorry to be rid at last of this fair-speaking humorist. Never, perhaps, has a country had lucre reason to "welcome the coming, speed the going than England has, now, when Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON is making way for the advent amongst us cf Mr . MOTLEY, as the repres.mtative of the United Staves at the Court of St. James's. For, at the least, Mr * MOTLEY is in serious earnest. lie is coming to us not as his predecessor did, namely, as a diner-o It, bent upon repayin; the hospitalities of Ilia host with bad jokes and over-blown compliments. That was ` really the position hell, herd, in Eagland, by the ex- Ambassador, during the entire period of Embassage. Between the rational acting' s of Mr ADAMS, and what we feel certain beforehand will be the eational acting also of Mr. MOTLEY—it has been like a broad faro;, an Adelphi screamer, a depressingly clinic interlude , this happily brief interval of Mr. REVERDY JOIIN NO,Ne' S cannot in Engla nd as the A an yeven te m m e p r o ic r a ar n y A d tuss s b t a ppo ad in o t r. _ ment, now that the curtain has been rung down, and the farceur is no longer before the footlights. WHEN one of Rossma's operas was hissed he sent to his anxious mother a drawing of a bottle, the Italian word for, which—fiasco—has a double signifi cation. On a subsequent occasion, when the com poser had an only partial success, he drew a fiaschetto, a little bottle. Mr. DANIEL O'S umavAN has, we trust, sent a full-sized bottle to Cork. Anything more comic thanthe termination of the mayoralty tragedy it would be impossible to conceive. If Mr. O'SULLIVAN were a Frenchman he would be wholly extinguished. But there are Celts and Celts. There is the French Celt, with whom laughter is fatal; there is the Irish Celt, who cares for the light arrows of raillery as little as he cares for the blow of a substantial shil lelagh. So we have not yet heard the last of the great butterman. He is not going to surrender the fame which he has already attained by discharging drunkards and by eulogising O'FAnnEr.L. For such a master mind as his there must be other even greater deeds to do. _For a Corkof such dimensions as this there must be other "bottles" of the Italian kind, even larger than this of Tuesday. And yet surely that fiasco was big enough. When a man has the eyes of three kingdoms upon him ; when a Queen's messenger is sent in despatch of him ; when the first legislative assembly in the world is asked to pass a special bill relating to him ; when eminent counsel are retained to prosecute him and others to defend him; when there are murmurs of rebellion among the Ministerialists, and " Whips" are anxious and the PREMIER is gloomy ; when no one can tell but what O'Sura dvAN i s to lead to the return of the c l process ess of and the a Tori es as Onsna led to their return eleven years ago; when, i n fact, piece possible suddenly pa c r r e i r i everything is ready for a great politi a b to tte h k a i : i r g e the out, collapsing, evaporating—the thing is too absurd, at least it would be if it were not so thoroughly Irish. Farcical as the whole performance is, we may learn a lesson from it. It appears that the Frenchman's ideas as to the supremacy and the power of the Lonn MAYOR of LONDON were not so extravagant after all. In fact, his greatness is shared in some measure by the mayor of the smallest borough in the three kingdoms. It seems that there is no means of removing a mayor for misconduct, except, indeed, he should be guilty of murder, when he would be removed by Mr. CALCRAFT. But if he committed any minor offence, such as inciting to the murder of a prince, he would not be removable, except by a special Act of Parliament. The LORD CHAN CELLOR can strike off a magistrate by the stroke of his pen ; a judge can be removed on the petition of both Houses of Parliament ; but a mayor, a person • holding magisterial office for only two years, Cannot, 'however outrageous his . conduct, be disposed of unless the Three F./states of the Realm concur in dealing with him. This is really as needless an expenditure of force as setting a steam-hammer to crack nut 3. Besides, it involves a serious delay, during which the delinquent might be outdoing his previous proceedings by still more monstrous achieve ments. Mr. EASTWICK very properly asked if the Government intended to legislate for such a cases wnissus as this. Mr. Bnucl; not very happily replied that the Government had no such intention, for " legislation ought not to be influenced by passing events." This seems to us very like an absurdity on the part of a Government which was prepared to take so extreme a course as legislating against a particular person. We now know that the law is defective ; we know that in consequence of this defect the Government may be exposed to an unpleasant dilemma. It would seem to be but com mon prudence that, in order to avoid falling into that dilemma again, the defect in the law should be sup plied. We did not know of it until " passing events " brought it to light. Not to profit by the lesson which they have taught us would be unwise, would be unstatesmanlike. Mn. KNATCHDULL-MTGESSEN'S bill for the esta blishment of County Financial Boards is superior in some respects to previous measures of the kind. In the first place, it possesses the charm of simplicity, consisting of only twenty clauses; whereas no legis lator has hitherto been able to elaborate a Financial Boards Bill with less than six times that number. Previous measures have dealt with a great variety of complex details, but the Government reduces the reform to one of general principles. In the next place, it is not designed to apply the per missive prhiciple to the case of County Financial Boards, as was done by Mr. WYLD, and in this respect the course adopted by the Government is probably the best. Thepermissive principle is one that may be adopted with great advantage in numerous in stances, but in all legislation affecting jurisdiction and government it is desirable that there should be one uniform rule. A Permissive Financial Boards Act would undoubtedly give rise to fierce county disputes touching the advisability of adopting its provisions ; and as the Act might be accepted in one county and rejected in another, an in jurious diversity of county government would not improbably be the result. In legisla tion of this kind, it is better that Parliament should act directly, and give a final decision which would be applicable throughout England and Wales. At present the functions of the county magistrates at quarter sessions are of two kinds—the trialof prisoners and the administration of the county finances. The Government proposes that the justices retain their judicial power precisely as at present, but the administration of the county is to be taken out of their hands and entrusted to a Financial Board, con sisting partly of magistrates and partly of repre sentatives elected by the boards of guardians. To all these provisions no exception can be taken. But at this point the merits of the Government bill terminate. In the most important particular—the constitution of the Board—the measure is thoroughly unsatisfactory, and, indeed, worse than any of its pre decessors. The bill proposes that the representatives be elected in proportion of one to every union with a rental of £30,000 ; two when the rental is between 50,000 and £100,000; three when the sum exceeds this last figure; and four when it is over i:150,000. No union, whatever be its rental, can return more than four members to the Board. The result of these stipulations will be that, on the average, the Finan cial Boards will number five magistrates to every single representative chosen by the guardians. This is simply ignoring the whole principle for which the advocates of the reform contend. Mr. KNATCII UGESSEN does not believe that the boards will be able to govern the country more economically than do the justices ; the select com mittee, too, was of opinion that there is no great practical hardship to complain of in the present system.. The question of economy is one which only the actual trial of the board system can settle. But looking at the matter purely from Mr. KNATCHDULL-ii 1G ESSEN'S point of view— that the ratepayer has a right on principle to a voice in the disposal of his own money, even if it be well spent now—it is clear that the present bill only concedes this principle in theory to withhold it in practice. The mag)strates will be as absolute on a board of which they number five-sixths as they are now. With a minority of one-sixth, the ratepayers will be as powerless as ever. Mr. KNATCHBULL - lIUGESSEN argues that the magistrates will not be opposed to the ratepayers in the great majority of cases ; but this plea, if worth anything, is equally valid The reform is deemed necessary be cause county government, unlike every other British institution of the kind, is not self-government. Under the provisions of this bill, the magistrates, if they choose, can set the ratepayers at defiance ; and it is no argument in favour of such provisions that this power will probably be used with moderation. The proposed constitution of the Board is such that, for all practical purposes, the new system will not differ from the old one. As this is the vital element of the reform, the Government bill must be deemed unsatisfactory. 11ONV. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REIi'"ER'S TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, May 13. The Ministerial reply to the speech from the throne was voted to-day unanimously, and with out discussion by the Chamber of Deputies. In a few days the discussion of the bill of in demnity will commence, which will be immediately followed by that on the new loan to be concluded with Messrs. Fruehling and Goschcn, of London. SPAIN. MADRID, May 12, Evening. In this evening's sitting of the Constituent Cortes several amendments opposing the hereditary priu- eip!e were rejected. Articles 32 and 33 of the Constitution will be discussed and voted upon jointly. Twelve mem bers will steak on the 'ciliation. • M. Mercier is making great efforts to bring about a decision on the regency question. CHINA. AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. AIALTA, May 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tanjore arrived at noon to -day, and leaves at six o'clock this evening for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 21st inst. _ _ The Delta, from Southampton Ist inst., reached Malta at five o'clock on Monday morning, and left for Alexandria at six o'clock the same evening. QUFENSTOWN, May 13. The Guion Steamship Nebraska, from Liverpool, arrived here at 9 a.m. to-d ty• She embarked pas sengerd and proe.e.led at Doan for New York. FRANCE. Lb UItSE, May 12.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 43, per Ceut. End of mouth... ItAl'an Fives iJG 95 3 per Cent End of mouth.., 71 85 Mex ican Loan — Cre,dit Mobilier ._ 948 75 Do. Bonds 160 End of month... 255 Spanish Threes 29 Ortmlit Fonder —.1577 50A Home Debt — End of month... Deferred 2B 75 Cash Orleans , ............................ .• . . , Northern 106 8 9i Lyons and Mediterranean ......... . 94li Southern._ .. Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 475 North of Spain • 55 Saragossa Roman 541 RAILWAYS. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM on OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. WEDNESDAY, May 12, The homely proverb which relates that the leading men of a city met to consult as to the best 'Beans of fortifying it, and that each tradesman advocated the adoption of the material in which he dealt, is especially appli cable to political affairs. The Emperor, in his speech at Chartres, delivered his customary exhor tation that different parties should conciliate each other for the common good. The various journals of Paris have replied by each urging the adoption of its special policy as the only means of conciliation. In the opinion of the itveitir IVational, the Republic alone can unite all parties ; the Debats believes that a parliamentary regime would suffice to effect that object ; the Gazette de France does not think such a combination possible with the existing Government ; whilst the Union considers that, without the Italian campaign and the half-abandonment of the Temporal Power, the Empire might have been able to attain the result in question, or at least approach it. The fact is, it was a mistake to make such a speech on the eve of the great political contest. If the Emperor had any great change to announce, any liberal concessions to make, he might fairly have asked for conciliation in return. But he makes no pro mise of meeting the Opposition half way. It is absurd under such circumstances to ask the different grades of French politicians to give up their differences just at the time when rivalry is most strongly excited. More than this, the Emperor's condemnation of all forms of opposition, as "subversive passions"—for thus his remarks are interpreted—has given great offence. It is almost universally agreed that the Emperor has not done well in delivering this address. The Imperial Court of Douai has just given a very fair decision in a case involving a point of international law. Some time ago a Madame Sluys was detected, at Valen ciennes, in an act of importing from Belgium into France some 400 copies of the famous La Lan• t, e, several other newspapers objectionable to imperial taatca, a few equally objectionable books, andone or two publications described in the information as " erotiques," All this cheap literature was found under the lady's crinoline, which had been expressly provided with pockets capable of bearing this extensive ballast. She was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Just at the same time four other women were sentenced to short im prisonments for newspaper smuggling. They were accom panied by a Belgian, named Puissant, who was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment and £l2 fine. It was proved that he was guilty, for it was known that he was manager of Madame Sluys's business, which business was nothing less than an agency for the exportation of forbidden lite rature into France. Moreover, all the four women were employed by Madame Sluys. But the Imperial Court decided that his sentence was unsound. No papers had been found upon him. He was in company with the women, but be carried nothing. It was, indeed, true that he carried on a regular contraband business, but this business was centred in Belgium, and a French court could not try a prisoner for an offence committed across the frontier. Hence, though there was no doubt that Puissant was a worse offender than any of the women, yet, in point of law, it was necessary to annul his sentence. This decision is quoted with great satisfaction in Belgium. A message from Agram says that General Gablentz, the only Austrian officer who had any success during the war of 1866, has met with an accident. lie was paying a farewell visit to Prince Napoleon, who was departing for Trieste, when his horse fell, and the General's right leg was broken. The papers are full of long reports of those remarkable crimes half•a-dozen of which accumulate in this city every week. One case has excited great interest. A silk-dresser, named Peteau, has just been tried for the murder of a mar ried man, named Bailleux. Between the last-named and Peteau's wife there had been compromising relations. The husband, on discovering the misconduct of the woman, waited for Bailleux in a cafe, and dis charged at him three shots from a revolver, wounding him mortally. From the evidence of the wife, the conduct of Peteau appears not to have been irreproachable, as he had encouraged the attentions of Bailleux in order to obtain pecuniary aid from him ; she even declared that her husband was aware of her relations with the deceased, and had tolerated them. It is a very lamentable fact that pleas of this kind are constantly being raised in these days, especially in divorce cases. The wife gave evidence againSt her partner with great energy, and seemed to be appre hensive of his escape. The evidence of other witnesses,. however, sustained her miserable narrative ; but so tole rant is French law of this sort of homicide that" Peteau was only condemned to be imprisoned for five years, and to pay £BO damages to the widow. The storms in the south of France are still very nume rous and severe. In the Aube department twenty-five communes have been ravaged by showers of hail. The damage amounts to many thousand pounds. Great injury has likewise been inflicted in the neighbourhood of Toulouse. THE COMIC PAPERS. From the OA FROM COUNT BLOWMYNOSOFF. Well, here we are, pretty well at the end of that curious affair, the debate on the Irish Church Bill ! Singular nation this! The object being to conciliate the Irish people, one set of politicians think of nothing but how to prevent the Catholics being satisfied, and the other of nothing but how to make the Protestants dissatisfied. The only sympathy manifested is for landlords, who are to get one half of the Church property on account of their liability to be shot, and lunatics, who are to get the other on account of their able personification of the Rid' character. Strange story about a mayor, who administers justice in the Queen's name, and says it is a noble exploit to kill her Majesty's sons. His friends say he is not a patriot but a butterman, and that the more treason he talks the more butter he sells. He is soon to come into Parliament on the great butter principle. Much excitement about Mr. Bright, who, in proclaim ing his zeal for the rights of property, explains that a gentleman will be richer by giving up to his tenants half his estate. The sentiment not being popular amongst gentle men with estates, they are told that the indiscreet speaker, though mature as an orator, is a baby as a Minister ; but that if he is only allowed to remain somewhat longer in office, and really means what he says, he will never again say what he means. I was much struck by the admirable address with which my friend Granville spoke for half an hour with an exube rance of frankness without saying anything. The American excitement balances itself between Sumner's speech, which menaces instant war, and a letter from Motley to a friend whom he asks to engage him a house for five years. Betting to a ssume a definite cha racter after Sir Henry Bulwer's speech on the Ist of June. All the ladies who have credit or money are rushing to Paris to refresh their morals by the last French novels, and their persons by the last French fashions. I feel inclined myself to make an effort, and have written to take the entrcsol at the Hotel Bristl. But it is a great fatigue ; and aft er all—" Je m'ennuie quand je m'amuse." (From Punch.) VICTOR Huco's NEW NOVEL.—L'HOMMe qui Fit is addressed to L'Howne qui reads. HUMBLE PIE (?)—(A Yankee presenting a dish labelled £800,000,000 to Reverdy J o hnson).—Jonathan (as inter preted by Mr. Sumner) : " Waal, Reverdy ! Guess this lot'll about du for your friend John Bull thar." Reverdy Johnson : " Ha ! I've dined with him a good deal lately, and he won't eat that, I promise you." MOST REFRIGERATING. —In the Royal Academy (the new " Palace of Art ") there is a grand landscape by Mr. Mac Whirter, entitled " Loch Cornisk, Isle of Skye." In the hot summer with which the weather-seers again threaten us, his will be a most refreshing picture to stand before, seeing that it not only represents the Loch, but also the Cuchulin (Coolin') Mountains. THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF CORK.—Under the head ing of " Extraordinary proceedings at Cork," the Globe states that " on Sunday the Mayor of Cork went to the Bridewell, and discharged the prisoners confined there.' Did the Mayor of Cork really talk the treasonable Thug gery that he is reported to have vented at the Fenian dinner ? Did he countenance the Fenian dinner at all Then there is no wonder in his having gone to the Bride well, and let all the scoundrels loose. But it is to be lamented that he went to Bridewell on a Sunday of hie own accord, instead of having been sent there upon a working-day by lawful :tuthority. (From Fun.) NOTIIING SO VERY STRANGE !—The Spiritualists make a great deal of fuss about what they call" levitation," and count it a miracle that Hume has been floated in the air. In our city experience we have seen humbugs just: as notorious—a joint•stock company and a whole board of directors " floated "—and as in the case of the Spiritualist, without any visible means of support. As for the writing of names on pieces of paper, wh:ch the Spiritualists seem to think so wonderful—ask any magistrate, and he will tell you it is not, unfortunately, very uncommon. 171. e remain of ex-Chief Justice Lefroy were or Tuesday n moved from Iti6 country residence New Court, Bray to Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where thPy wore iu tcrrcd in the 'tunny vault. OPENING OF THE NEW CHAPEL OP ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. On Wednesday this anxiously expected event took place, and was the means of attracting a very large number of old members of the college to Cambridge. Among those present were the Earl of Powis, LL:D.; High Steward o: the university ; the Bishops of Lichfield, Gloucester and Bristol, and Hereford ; Sir Thomas Watson, Bart., M.D.; Canon Selwyn; his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chan cellor of the university; Lord Lyttelton ; Dr. Merivale, Chaplain to the House of Commons ; the Bishop of Oxford; Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P.; and the Right Hon. S. lI.Wal. pole, M.P.; the heads of the various colleges, and the Dean of Hereford. The new chapel, which was erected from designs of Mr. G. G. Scott, R. A., will probably take the second place in ecclesiastical architecture at Cambridge, for with all its beautiful buildings, with the exception of King's and Jesus Colleges, there is not a single college which possesses a chapel worthy of the attention of the archxologist. The ground plan is copied from that of Merton College, Oxford, a cross church minus the n ave with a pinnacled towerat the intersection and an organ chamber projecting to the north-east. It is in the early decorated style, which was the original style of the old chapel. The east end of the chapel forms a five•sided apse, the windows of which are the gift of the Earl of Powis. They are filled with richly-stained glass, the subject being " Passages from the Life of our Lord." The tracery of the various windows is varied and rich, and the carving which em bellishes their exterior and interior is well executed, and has a most pleasing effect. The ceiling is a coved one of wood, decorated with various colours. The stall work is handsome, the east end of the choir being furnished with those removed from the old chapel, but the new ones are finely conceived. The dimensions of the chapel are as follows :—From the exterior the extreme length from east to west is 193 feet 1 inch; its breadth, from north to south, 52 feet ; the ante-chapel is 89 feet long and 50 feet wide. The exterior height is 50 feet to the top of the parapet, and 80 feet to the ridge of the roof. The total cost of the chapel, exclusive of the organ and the painted windows, is estimated to exceed £53,000. A procession was formed at 11.13 in the morning. After singing the processional hymn, the company took the places assigned to them, and the service of consecration was read by the Bishop of Ely, the visitor of the college and diocesan. At its conclusion the Bishop signed the sentence of consecration, and ordered it to be recorded. The service then proceeded by the choir singing the Hundredth Psalm, and after the lesson, 'taken from Ist Kings, chap. viii., v. 22-62, the " Te Deum " was sung, During the service a new anthem, composed for the occa sion by Professor Bennett, was performed. The com munion service was next celebrated, after which a most excellent sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield (Dr. Selwyn). The offertory was collected, and the Holy Sacrament administered to about 300. The scene was a most imposing one, all the members of the college being habited in surplices, with the hoods of their respective degrees. The doctors wore their scarlet robes, and the light and shade cast through the stained glass windows disclosed a spectacle which can never be effaced from the memory of those who took a part in the service. After the service the Master and Fellows entertained the members of the college and the guests in a most sump tuous manner. THE MAY MEETINGS. THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. The 215th festival of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy was held on Wednesday. There was, as usual, a special service at St. Paul's. An eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. T. J. Rowsell, rector of St. Mar garet's, Lothbury, from St. Matthew x., 9, 10 ; and the collection amounted to £173. In the evening the Merchant Taylors, in accordance with their custom, entertained the supporters of the Corporation at their magnificent Hall ; in Threadneedle-street, the Lord Mayor in the chair. There were also present the Archbishop of Canterbury, Earl Fortescue ; the Bishops of London, Llandaff, St. David's, Ripon, and Norwich ; the Sheriffs of London ; Aldermen Carden, Gabriel, Rose, Philips, and Sidney; Sir W. W. Wynne, Bart., M.P., Mr. Barrow, Sir R. Baggallay, Q.C. ; Archdeacons Hale, Bicktrsteth, and Clerk, and about 160 other guests. The Lord Mayor having proposed the health of the Archbishops, as President of the Corporation, the most rev. prelate, in reply, denied that such institutions as these could be charged with mendicancy ; for in every great profession there must always be some who, in a worldly point of view, were less successful than others, and whose families needed help from the more fortunate. This corporation annually assisted 262 poor clergymen, 457 widows, 403 single daughters, and 202 children, making a total of 1,324 who every year participated in its benefits. It was said that there was not now so much harmony amongst the clergy as used to prevail. No doubt when men were in earnest there ap peered to be more difference of opinion amongst them than in times of greater apathy and darkness but he be lieed that in a hearty desite to do their Master's service there was more unanimity amongst the clergy than had ever before been known. For his own part he believed that the Church of England was likely to be long-lived. He did not think that even the peculiar institutions of the Church were likely soon to expire, but even if they died he felt confident that the Church would long out-live them ; for he believed it was deeply rooted in the affections of the people of England, and that because the community saw it was honestly striving to do its duty. The other cus tomary toasts followed, and donations were announced amounting to the liberal sum of £1,186. SCOTTISII REFORMATION SOCIETY. A large meeting in connection with this society was held in the large hall of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon•street, under the presidency of the Earl of Har rowby. The Rev. G. Ladenock read an abstract from the report, which said that the efforts of the society in London during the past year have been very widely extended. At least 1,000 young men have come under instruction in the several classes which have been conducted by the Rev. R. Maguire, the Rev. J; Ormiston, and others. Protestants classes have also been held at Hull, Beverley, Plymouth, Sheffield, Bristol, Cheltenham, Bath, Eastbourne, New Maldon and Coombe, Stourbridge, Bury St. Edmunds, Southsea, and Carlisle. The results of these classes are thus stated :—Above 2,000 young men and women—a larger number than are attending any single college in the kingdom—have come under the system of instruction during the year. The society will not rest satisfied—if funds are only placed at their disposal—till they see these classes established in every town. The chairman said it was essential to make the people acquainted with the - differences between Romanism and Protestantism, and this information was given by the Scottish Reformation Society. SHOEBURYNESS EXPERIMENTs.—The first prac tical trials of some of the new projectiles for the Indian bronze field guns were made on Wednesday at Shoebury ness. Those tried were 9-pounder common, segment, Boxer's Shrapnel, and double common shells. Fired against a wooden house the shells passed throngh the walls and burst inside with great destruction ; fired against earthworks in the open very few of the dummies repre senting troops placed in them were hit, thus shewing the value of such works in actual warfare. THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL.--It is under stood that an application will be made to the Home Secre• tary for a commutation of the sentence of five years' penal servitude passed on Madame Rachel, now that the Court of Queen's Bench has given judgment in favour of the Crown on the writ of error obtained on her behalf. Under the Bail in Error Act, by virtue of which the defendant was some time at liberty, it is provided that the time a defendant is at large on bail shall be added to the imprisonment on the court affirming ' the judgment Madame Rachel will return to Millbank. THE - MAYOR OF CORK • DISABILITY BILL.—It is said that bad the House of Commons proceeded on Tues. day to hear evidence in support of the preamble of the O'Sullivan Disability Bill, and bad the Attorney-General for Ireland relied upon the speech of the Mayor of Cork at the Warren and Costello supper solely, the case for the Crown must have broken down, by reason of the absence of the only witness who could have, from his shorthand notes, proved the ipsissinza verba used by the Mayor on that occasion. At the banquet or supper referred to there were but two newspaper reporters present, and of these the gentleman in question alone took a verbatim note of the particular expressions of the Mayor which have made so much noise during the past fortnight, and afterwards dictated it to his fellow pressmen, in whose paper, the G"orl.: Kam iger, the report of the proceedings alone ap- Peared. The orniAsion of the report from the Cont Herald, whose representative took the note of the Mayor's obser• vations, would have been explained at the bar of the , House in a way corroborative of the remarks cf Mr. Maguire, 111.1 ) , on Tuesday, with respect to the immateriality of some after-dinner speeches. When the reporter of the Iluald submitted his report to his editor and proprietor, the latter, having read the now well-known words of the Mayor, interrogated the gentle man of his staff touching the amount of exhiliration of I spirits evinced by the chief actors in the farewell festivity to the Fenian convicts during the delivery of the speeches. The result of the replies given by the reporter was the immediate consignment of the report to the proverbial editorial waste-paper basket ; and thus, but for the inter , change of .courtesies between inembeis of the press, the world would never have heard of the after-supper speech 9f the Mayor of Cork. Car l a CIMUNT• HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 12. ller Majesty, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, with the ladies and gentle men in waiting, left Buckingham Palace at 8' quarter-past four o'clock for Windsor Castle. TO THE EDITOR 01 TLIE TIMES. Sir,—l am sorry to trouble you with so trifling a matter as the mistake by your reporter, who attri butes to me the use of the word " dearest" when reading the letter addressed to me by the Mayor of Cork. That letter commenced in the usual man ner, "My dear Mr. Maguire," and as it was mitten so was it read by me. The explanation of the laughter is a very simple one. I had been asked in that imperative manner very commonly employed when the house desires to bear vbith accuracy to " speak up," and on my rather emphatic compliance with the manifest desire was rewarded with a good humoured burst of laugh ter, with_ which I certainly coild not have made objection. I trouble you, however, in this trifling matter more in the interest of another than myself.—l sir, your obedient servant, May 12. JOIIN FRANCIS MAGUIRE. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. WESTMINSI ER. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—SamuoI Darnell, a mail-cant driver, and John Day, a horse-keeper in the employ of Mr. XVNamara, contractor for horses to the General Post- Oflice, were charged, tho former with cruelty to a horse, ana the latter with the same offecce. Mr. Thomas Beard, of Basinghall-street, defended. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Norman Leslie Melville, a gentleman of independent tneass, that ou the 24th of April at half-past five he saw a mail cart, No. 23, with a horse in it, dead lamei, and evidently in great pia; he took tie number of the mail cart, and wave information to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Joseph Dolie, an officer of the Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, sail he was sent to the s table where the horses etood that were driven in the mail carte attached to the South-western District in Pimlico, and asked what were the luirses driven in No. 23 cart on the 24th of April, and a horse was shown him. Mr. Cheri the police veterinary-surgeon was him. The horse we'" lame all round, with large spavins on both hind legs. Mr. Arnold dismissed the summons. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING A LADY'S SHAWL.—Frederick Lloyd, a half' starved-looking man, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncour t with stealing a shawl of the value £2O, the property of Lady Leigh, who ro,ides in Portman square. From the evid nee of Edward Leader, footman to Lord Leigh, it appeared that on the previous evening he $ O5 sitting on the box of Lord Leigh's carriage, which $ Ol6 standing in Grosvenor-square, when the coachman, w h ° was sittirg I y h:s side, ca!led his attcution to the p , '" sober, who was makiag off with a shawl belonging t° Lady Leigh, of the value of £2O, and whore it had bee" e few minutes before safe in the carriage. He ran after ti° p:•Is merotnd on Gate:Aug hint the prisoner said that ho h ad commit:ed the robbery through want. The prisoner said he was hungry when he took the shawl. He had worked at Birmingham, Liverpool, Car diff, at d other places, and only came to London yesterday' Ile was guilty. Mr. D'Eyncourt con:mitted the prisoner for four ment he with ha:.d labour. DAMAGING TREES IN KENSINGTON GAEDENS. —A WO named Richard James Elliott, was charg'd with damaging a May tree, in Kensington-ga-dens. The case having been proved by p'tlice-constable 305 A, who said that great damage was at the presen t time 'Mug done to the trees in the gardens, Mr. D'Eyucourt cautioned the boy, and fined him 25.6 a THAMES. APPREHENSION OF COINERS.—IMPORTANT DISCOVE III OF COINING INtrj.EmENTs.--Jeremialt King, aged 24 ye 3ll aad Robert Tegg, 27, both described as painters, were brought before Mr. Bens o n ch a rged with c oining an d being in possession of a large quantity of implements f materials for the manufacture of base coin, in the house °f John Barnard, No. 6, Eltham-place, Church-path, StepreY' not more than 200 yards from the Thames Police-court . Police Sergeant Briden, 4 R, and other offl•zers, arrested the prisoners, and seized the coining implements and Ins" tenets last night, and Mr. James Brannan, a retired police Impector, and engaged by the Solicitor of the Tressul to prosecute offenders against the coin laws, described tile at tieles seized, which included ; a large quantity of pls't er of Paris moulds in fragm3n6. The moulds had bee n used for the purpose of castinir counterfe t money. There was a dual of other plaster of Paris dissolved, plaster of Paris, white metal bottles containing acids, tooth brusheg• to polish the base money, a galvanic battery, " g ets" as overflow of metal iu the channels of the moulds, and vari ous of her things for making and perfecting base menef' Charles Osborn, also called Osson, a painter, who WAS 3 . 11 accomplice of the prisoners, and who appeared to be ter m ' fled at Lis own misdeeds, made out, a strong case agaia the prisoners, who had been engaged in co7nieg brio mond for some time. The witness had gone out with TegS t° pass base coin the prisoners made. He also deposed t 4 t!lt ) purchase of plaster of Paris for the moulds. He saw Nif: s using a galvanic battery on Tuesday, and electro-plat ia _spurious money. John Barnard, landlord of the house in Elthatn-P I AI said that he let a room to King on Sunday night last, A n s t did not know what the prisoners were about until l a ; night, when Sergeant Briden entered the house. T e g occupied an spat ttnent at No. 3, Church-path, close bY• t Mr. Brennan asked fur a remand until Tuesday a l when the solicitor of the Treasury would attend. The request was immediately granted. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE EXHIBITIOS' On Tuesday an interesting ceremony took place d Staffordshire, when the Wolverhampton Exhibition 15 ; opened. It is by far the most comprehensive of kind that has ever been held, and there is Sc'st e ,, i t an industry in the Midland Counties that is 11 ; ti represented. The building, which is of in and glass, forms a central nave 150 ft. long by 6 0 f t ":i s width, and 18ft. high at the spring of the roof, wh ich 1 , 6 semi-octagonal, and rises to a height of 45ft. from floor. Around the building is a Fine Arts Gallery, ' taining nearly 800 oil and water-colour paintings. Granville performed the ceremony of opening the exhibi tl° '' and delivered a speech which was received with great ! 1 : plause. He said that fifty years ago it was a queew 4 whether those who worked with their hand s s h o uld leP" to write and read ; but times were changed, and in vena tions had altered the condition of the world. Tvie l l years ago it began t o b e f e l t t h at certain shll/4-; tapes of art were benefiting other countries, and t h it was important w ith regar d to sc i ence an d ar t t o edne°, te t the working cl asses as we ll as t h e i r mas t ers . H e tboug' it was a good idea to shew to the world what the manufaleu; tures of Stafford s hire re a lly wer e . Coming then into t ';,l hall for the first time, he was quite surprised at the before him ; he considered that they had realised ° la words which were placed on the door—that they sill y give use, art, and recreation each their part in the un ti e taking. lie concluded by declaring that anything wh i like that museum and exhibition, was calculated to soft'" the manners and elevate the minds of our fellow connl i i men, was a helping-band towards a holier existence. Pid who examined the exhibiton confirmed the judgment yo lt o Granville passed upon it, and it is believed that wh en as is completed it will be.one of the best that has been 1131' e out of London. A luncheon took place in the Excb slls j; at which Lord Lichfield presided. Lord Granville 110 some appropriate remarks. Lord Lichfield gave s ° o f interesting particulars in replying to the toas t " Prosperity to the South Staffordshire Exhibition." The new chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge/ was opened on Wednesday: It is reported that the Government intend ouv" to introduce a bill for the registration of trade marks.. The Church News states that among the Da — mentioned in Montreal in connection with the abi l : bishopric are the R ev . D r . liessey and the Rev. F. MeY r4 At Croydon 760 frequenters of St. Savic )tir a Church petitioned the patron to present the curate 14° 0 . undertaken all the work during the illness of the lato iPcj bent. Though the church was built principally by the rd cli'l rialists th e p a t ron h as d ec li ne d t o t.cce d o t o th e ir ' twice* c/ The Church News has a leader on the election of bishops, and says—. Till the Church recovers her riglit nominating her own chief pastors, we must not expect t re it governed by bi s h o ps whose sympathies are with the Ch i ll i ic —nor can we hope to find the laity intorested in bishops, or the clergy regarding them as 'Fathers in 0 ' of Two lives were lost on Tuesday in the upper P art 0 ,1 the Southampton water at Redbridge, where the Test a i 0 Eling rivers meet. A gentleman named Wheeler , his niece ip servant, :enda sailor named Weaver, were on the ricer a sail-boat, which was suddenly capsized by a sq uall ' 6 o.ta i el four were thrown into the water. A small boat near res' Mr. Wheeler and his niece, but the other two bodies bec c :: to ing entangled in the sails wore lost, and up to last night '" had not bef a recovered. coun New £l,Ol Ban' that - I'ayi lieve COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY RIND, may be secured by a Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. 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