The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-14 00:00:00

EMIGRATION PROSPECTS: The official documents in reference to the prospects of the dockyard artisans and others who emigrate to Canada chew that there is not that large demand for mechanics which ought to exist before an indiscriminate deportation of unemployed takes place. The Governor-General of Canada has distinctly warned the home Government against raising " undue expectations " with regard to the facilities which can be afforded to emigrants. A grant of land is of no use at all to a man who cannot sell it and has no means of bringing it under cultivation. The artisan cannot lay down his tool and turn himself at once into a successful farmer. In New Brunswick land may, indeed, be had almost for nothing ; fifty acres may be had for ten days' labour on the roads. The agricultural poor, with sons able to work, would find this an advantageous opening. But to the town-bred artisan fifty acres of land would too often prove a " white elephant." He would be very much puzzled to get his living off them. The Government of the prorinre of Toronto have sent a special commission over to England for the purpose of giving working men all the information they need. THE MAY MEETIKGS. THE CHURCH REFORM SOCIETY. The Church Reform Society held its meeting this year at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of Lord Ebury. Its object is fourfold:—The amendment of the Book of Common Prayer, under proper authority; the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; the reform of abuses connected with patronage; the modification of the Acts of Uniformity, and the complete revision of the Book of Canons. In addressing the meeting, Lord Ebury said that he regretted that no alteration had been effected in the service for the Burial of the Dead, which caused such great scandal. The objects which had been gained by the trial of Ritualism might be traced (though not directly) to the operation of the society, and here, again, was great encouragement to continue persevering against apparently insurmountable difficulties. His lordship urged the members to go on in the new association hopefully and judiciously, and they might be assured of success; and concluded by calling upon the secretary, who read the report and balance-sheet for the past year, which chews the receipts to be 2379 2s. 6d., and the expenditure £378 2s. 10d., thus leaving a balance of 19s. Bd. The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. C. Glyn, Messrs. T. Chambers, C. Bushton, and other gentlemen, and an illuminated address was presented at the close to the chairman. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY, At the annual general meeting of the friends of this society Admiral Sir W. Bowes presided. The report stated that the issue of the Scriptures during the past year had been 11,821 bibles and 4,177 testaments. 10,241 bibles and 1,660 testaments were free grants. The total cost of these grants was £626 16s. 4d. It was proposed to reduce the admission to membership to 10s., and it was hoped that the ranks of the society would be recruited by a number of young officers of both services. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD STEALING. - t -- At the Manchester City Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. IL W. West, Q. C., M.P., recorder, Margaret Smith, 40, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with having, at Liverpool, in December 1860, feloniously and unlaw fully enticed away one Mary Ann Welsh, a child of the age of two years. It appeared that the child at the time she was stolen away, in December 1860, was two years and nine months old. The prosecutrix kept a stand in St. John's Market, Liverpool, and one Saturday night, in December 1860, as she was leaving the market, in com pany with her child, she was accosted by the pri soner, who asked her for some bread. The prosecutrix took her into a vault and treated her to bread and cheese, and beer. The child at this time was outside waiting for her mother. The prisoner, while the prosecutrix was en gaged in conversation with a friend, took the child away. Information was given to the Liverpool police. The pro secutrix bad spent seven years in search; and after visiting every town and village in the three kingdoms, recently obtained information respecting the child. She then came, to Manchester, and found the child, and also the prisoner, who was given into custody. The child was brought into court, and, in reply to the Recorder, stated that while she was living with the prisoner she spent her time in begging and stealing. The learned Recorder, in passing sentence, said he thought this one of the worst cases he ever heard. It was an offence which he hoped was not a likely one to be imitated by many persons, as it was a very cruel and wicked one. The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. LAW AND POLICE. --0--- FRAUDULENT DEED.--The International Contract Cor poration have succeeded in getting a fraudulent deed set aside. They sued a chemist, of Southampton-street, Strand, in the Exchequer Court, for £370, due on calls made by the official liquidators of the company. The defendant pleaded a composition deed. That deed the plaintiff said was fraudulent. It appeared that on the making of the calls in 1868, the defendant offered to pay the liquidators, first a sum of £2OO, then £250, and lastly £3OO, in lieu of all de mands, threatening that if the last offer was rejected he would execute a composition deed under which they would only receive 2s. in the pound. The liquidators refused to accept unless they were first allowed an oppor tunity of examining the defendant's books. Thereupon the defendant executed the deed. Amongst the assenting creditors were his mother for £3OO ; his brother for £O5 ; a Mr. Knight Salter, between whom and himself there had been mutual financial arrangements, £240, principally for money lent ; and a Mr. Phillips, on' behalf of a benefit society, for over £4OO. Mrs. Dart was stated to be too ill to come to court to support the validity of her claim against her son ; and Mr. Phillips, although called on his subpoena, was not forthcoming. 'I he jury, after hearing this, immediately found for the plaintiffs. LIBEL.—An Isle of Wight contractor ini3 succeeded in obtaining damages of £2O against the proprietors of the Isle of Wiyht Chronicle. The defendants had called some public works of the plaintiff, made in the construction of a sewer, " perfectly disgraceful," said the plaintiff had been cruilty of a " shameful act," and had " perpetrated a job." ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT AGAIN.—A collector in a limited liability coal company has been charged at the Clerkenwell Police Conrt with embezzlement. There was no doubt that moneys received for the coal company had not been accounted for ; but as the defendant, who held 28 shares in the concern, was remunerated solely by com mission, the magistrate held that he was an agent rather than a servant, and that the case was one for a civil tribunal to deal with. ANOTHER EMBEZZLEMENT CASE.—On Thursday, at the Brighton Police-court, Alfred Treble, late cashier at the Brighton branch of the Hampshire Banking Company, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling the sum of £lOO, paid into that bank to the credit of Mr. Mannington, of Middle-street, Brighton. On Wed nesday last prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of embezzling the sum of £147 ls. lid., and this case . was remanded in consequence of the absence of Mr. Mannington. It appeared that on the 26th of August last, Mr. Mannington, who keeps an account with the bank, deposited with the prisoner a bank post bill for £lOO, to be credited to his account. The prisoner receipted Mr. Mannington's pass-book, but entered the amount in the bank cash-book in such a manner as to make it appear he had merely cashed the bill. Of course the amount was not entered to Mr. Mannington's account, and when the books were compared the discrepancy was discovered. After carefully investigating the case, the bench com mitted the prisoner for trial, deciding that both charges should be included in the same indictment. RIDICULOUS CASE.—At the Limerick City Police i!ourt, the other day, a man named Hilton was charged by a grocer named Synan with stealing a lucifer match. From the evidence it appeared that Hilton took a match from a box on the counter to light his pipe with, a pro ceeding to which the grocer objected. The magistrates dismissed the case, after severely cautioning Hilton. The grocer had to pay a shilling for the summons, Hilton observing that that shilling would have bought, if advan ageously laid out in the way of trade, twenty-four boxes of lucifers. SALE OP BEER IN THE STREETs.--The proprietor of a brewery, and the possessor of a retail license to sell beer, was on Thursday charged at Bow -street Police -court with having caused .the sale of beer, other than in a licensed house. It appeared that defendant had sent out a potman with a cask of beer to sell to any customer who came to ask for it. The defendant was fined £5. The cash-box of another large company in Paris has been robl , ed. A young man, relative of one of the direc tor, Ills diappeared, aviug a deficit of £12,000, a sum which has mostly been expended on behalf of an acrtess. Lora Adelbert Cecil, who has been conducting revival services in Ottawa, the legislative capital of Canada, is stated by the Guardian to have received an autograph letter from her Majesty requesting him to return to England. All the gutta peicha core of the new French Atlantic cable has been completed. The total length of the line manufactured is 3,30 miles, of which 2,700 miles have been shipped on board the vessels appointed to take part in the expedition, which is expected to start in June. THE REPRESENTATION OF STAFFORD.—It 15 stated that Mr. Whitworth, late M.P. for Drogheda, and Mr. Evans, late member for South Derbyshire, are likely to be the Liberal candidates for the seats just vacated for this borough THE DITIZTOY ON THE PERMISSIVE 1. •- BILL. As already announced in our Paritamentary report, the second reading of the Permissive Bill was rejected on Wednesday afternoon by a majority of 106, the numbers being : For the second reading, 87 ; against, 193. The following is a list of the members who recorded their votes in favour of the bill : Arehdall, Captain M. Downing, M'Carthy Mundella, A. J. Backhouse, E. Finnie, W. O'Neill, Hon. E. Baines, E. Fletcher. I. Palmer, J. H. Beach, W. W. B. Gavin, Major Pollard-Urquhart, W. Beaumont, H. F. Gourley, E. T. Potter, T. B. Birley, H. • Grieve. J. J. Price, W. P. Blake, J. A. Hadfield, G.: Reed, C. Bourne, Colonel Hamilton, Lord C. Rebow, J. G. Brewer, Dr. Hamilton, Marquis of Richard, H. Bright, Jacob Hanmer, Sir J. Richards, E. M. Brown. A. H. Hoskyns ' C. Wren- Robertson, D. Burrell, Sir P. Hughes, W. B. Rylanda, P. Callan, P. Johnston, A. Sartoris. E. J. Candlish, J. Johnston,' W. Scott, Sir W. Carter. Mr, Alderman iCinnaird, lion. A. F. Smith, J. B. Cavendish, Lord G. Kirk, W. Stanley, Hon. W. 0. Chadwick, D. Knox, Hon. Col. ki, Talbot, C. R. M. Chambers, M. Lewis, J. D. Tite, W. Chambers, T. M'Arthur, W. Tollemache, J.. Cnolmeley, Captain M'Clure, T. Tomline, G. Cholmeley, Sir M. MI aren, D. Tracy. Hon. Hanbury- Cowen, J. Msgniac, C. Trevelyan, G. 0. Crichton, Viscount Meyrick, T. . Vivian, H. H. Dalrymple, D. Misll, E. "Wedderbuin, Sir D. Mislay, M. R. Miller, J. Wnitwell. J. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Milton, Viscount Whitworth T. Davies, R. Mcorc, C. Willyams, E. W. B. Dawson, R P. Morgan, G. 0. Winn, R. Dickinson, S. S. Mod, y, S. Young, A. W. The pairs in favour of the bill were—Sir James Stronge, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Mr. Macfie, and Sir Gibson- Maitland. The tellers for the Ayes were Sir Wilfrid Lawson (Carlisle), and Mr. T. Bazley (Manchester) ; and for the Noes, Colonel Jervis (Harwich), and Mr. Staveley Hill (Coventry). THREATENING NOTICES POSTED IN lI?ELAIVD. A threatening notice found posted in two places in the town of Kells, county Meath, has caused some agita tion in the neighbourhood. It is of an unusually elaborate kind-, and possibly not " genuine." It runs : " Notice— Important to landlords and oppressors. You are hereby requested totake notice that each county in Ireland repre sented itself at a congress lately convened, where it was decreed by 63 Ayes, in a house of 85, that Irishmen are bound by this act of congress to prevent any further oppres sion inflicted on them by you. Since we cannot find protec tion by constitutional means we must only have recourse to the revolver to protect ourselves. Had we taken such a course twenty years age, we were not exiled to-day. Let it be clearly understood that for the future we will not suffer to be evicted or trampled on in any way while one ounce of lead is sufficient for any tyrant. Guarded landlords will not deter us from this course. We trust there will be no further cause given in this country by evictions, land jobbing, or other wise, as we would regret to have to take the defensive.— By order." SHOCKIA a COLLIERY FATALITY. On Thursday morning a colliery accident occurred at the No. 1 Worthington Pit of the Norley Coal Company, near Wigan, where for some time past sinking operations have been in progress to reach the cannel coal. This should lie at a distance of :IGO yards from the surface, but the workmen have now descended 600 yards, and the seam has not yet been found. The work, however, has been progressing vigorously ; two parties of labourers, known as the day and night shifts, being emplcyed, and until Thursday morning they had proceeded most satis factorily. The day shift men, seven or eight in number, descended the shaft at six o'clock, and a little before eight all preparations were made for the firing of a shot. The bulk of the party were drawn to the surface, and three others, named Richard Manson, William Ince, and Nathaniel Mather, were left below to superintend the ignition of the fuse. The hoppett or bucket was being lowered to bring these also above ground, when suddenly the crank of the engine snapped in two, and the rope thus released from all control rushed down the shaft with amazing velocity, and then parting from the drum fell into the pit. Preparations were at once made for ascer taining the extent of the damage below, but a long time passed before they could be completed. Two of the men had been recovered alive. One of them bad been covered by the first coil of rope which fell, and was so saved ; the other crawled into the bucket. AMERICAN LEGISLATOES. -~ - The Stock Exchange (says the Pall Mall Gazette) may take comfort from reading the New York Herald of the 28th ult., in which they will see that America has internal dissensions which appear to occupy at present much of her attention. A great part of that journal is taken up, not with the Alabama claims, but with the details of what is called the " Sprague Excitement," arising from a scene in the Senate House at Washington, and a very interesting and instructive narrative it is. Senator Sprague, who is familiarly called " Little Rhody," made use of the expression " puppy dog," which Senator Abbott took to himself, and, according to the New York Herald, threatened in private life to " wallnp little Rhody from the Capitol to George Town Height." It is not, there- fore to be wondered at that, when Senator Abbott came to the Senate House with these bloodthirsty intentions, Senator Sprague took an early opportunity of leaving it ; this made Senator Abbott more angry than ever, and he expressed his intention of having satisfaction outside the Senate. And here we must express our deep regret that Senator Nye thought fit to add fuel to the fire by shouting out, " Spank little Spraguey ; spank him and send him tobed." The New York It eralcd states that this incident led to a great sensation in Washington ; some had it that Senator Abbott had cow hided Senator Sprague ; others that he bad pulled his nose, boxed his ears, and otherwise heaped indignities upon him. On the other hand, Sprague's admirers cir culated stories precisely the reverse, giving all the prowess to " little Rhody," and annihilating Abbott, "the rotund and muscular, as did David the gigantic Goliath." It is therefore with intense relief tb:,t at the end of four closely • printed columns devet,l to minute details of the affair, we read the foli,,wing The Abbott- Sprague Imbroglio adjusted—No Faces slapped—Nobody spanked —No bloodshed Wounded Honour readily healed." It appears that Senators Sumner, Sherman, and Pool, after negotiations which occupied nearly four hours, adjusted the difference ; Senator Sprague explained that the term "puppy dog" was not intended for Senator Abbott, who accepted the apology, and it is comforting to read that at 11.30 p.m., April 26, " Abbott is jolly, ditto Sprague." Mr. O'Sullivan, ex Mayor of Cork, is lying ill in London from " over anxiety and mental excitement." Some property in Westmeath was put up for sale in the Landed Estates Court, Dublin, on Tuesday, but the biddings were so low that the sale was adjourned. The landlord's solicitor attributed this weakness of the land market to " the depression caused by the late agrarian outrages." A RIGHT REV. PRIVY COUNCILLOR.—At a Court held by her Majesty at Windsor on Thursday the Bishop of London attended, and, in accordance with the practice observed towards the holders of the metropolitan see, his lordship was sworn as a member of the Privy Council. ANOTHER COTTON MILL BURNT DOWN.—At two o'clock on Thursday morning a destructive fire broke out in the cotton mill belonging to Messrs. Little and Smith, at Belmont, near Bolton. There was, unfortunately, no fire-engine in the village, and none arrived until four hours after the fire had been discovered. By this time the flames had entirely destroyed the building, causing damage to the extent of £20,000. MORTALITY FROM SMALL-PDX IN GLASGOW.— In 1787, when Glasgow contained about 50,000 inhabitants, and when the aggregate mortality reached 1,759 persons. small-pox carried off not fewer than 484, being nearly one out of every three and a half deaths, whereas now the t l eaths from small-pox have fallen, during 1808, to six, and In the other seven chief cities and towns of Scotland cora. bined they only amounted to five ; thus, in an aggregate 'own population of above 800,000, the deaths from small• pox did not exceed eleven—all infancy.—British Medical Journal. LONDON WORKS AND BIPROVEMENTS.—At a meeting of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, on Thursday, reports were received from two committees relative to the progress of Blackfriars Bridge And the Holborn Viaduct. With respect to the former. It was stated that although a considerable amount of work yet remained to be done, there was every reason to believa that the structure would be opened towards tie end of July. The committee asked for powers to make arrange ments for a public ceremony on the oreasior, and these were granted. The committee ; - nder hose superin tendei.ce the Holborn Viaduct ha,- he:•!t raked expressed a hope that her Majesty would inlugnrate that important work. CnAln-DANCING.—Th e following, signed "Veri tas," appears in the Northerit Daily Express:—" CiiEar dancing and chair•flying seems at present much in vogue among the believers in spirit• rapping, &c. Permit me to inform you that chair-dancing occurred in a cele brated house in Sunderlar'd one afternoon last week. Tha proprietor and a toy being engaged in the kitchen, a chair, without any visible agency, commenced dancing into the middle of the room on one leg, and returned again, after going through a variety of capers, to its original place in the kitchen.. Both patties became alarmed, the proprietor so much so as to be unable foie some time to follow his usual employment. Can an, of your readers or_believers in spiritualism _explain Os .. , . phenomena?" . THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14 1E69. lIIISCELLANEOus NEWS. STATE OF =LAND. Quite a panic seems to prevail as to the state of Ireland. Lord Stanley said .the sense of insecurity there was never greater than at present. That, though open to question, was bad enough. But in being repeated over again, it has been transposed into a very different thing. The state of Ireland, say the alarmists, was never worse than at present. This is simply absurd. The sym pathy of the people with crime, the amount of crime, and the general unquietness are alarming enough. But they have existed in much greater proportion in days that are past. Sanguine people thought the disestablishment of the Church would immediately put an end to bad feelings which have existed more or less for centuries. Sanguine people are generally the most frightened and now they are scared by the non-fulfilment of ill-grounded hopes. Yet it they will only turn to the statistics of crime for the last thirty years they will find a marked improvement. As the Dublin correspondent of the Times puts it : "What would be thought now if a return were fur nished to the Government by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Tipperary stating that 556 murders had been perpetrated within two years and live mouths? That was a great increase compared with former years. It was regarded as highly satisfactory that in 1831 and 1832 the total number of homicides in Ireland did not exceed 458. If such figures appeared in our annual calendar now they would indicate a terrible increase of crime. Let the aggregate number of crimes committed in 1835, 1836, and subsequent years, as appearing in returns furnished to Parliament, be compared with the catalogue of the last assizes, and it will he seen how vast an improvement has been effected in the moral condition of the country. Scarcely a county was then exempt from murders and agrarian outrages of various kinds ; they are now confined almost exclusively to two counties. Tranquillity is now the general rule ;_ it was then the rare exception. Contrast the calendar for Tipperary at the last assizes, unsatisfactory as it was in some respects, and manifesting an increase of crime, with that for March 1837. At the last March Assizes there was one charge of murder ; in March 1837 the cases numbered 44." Still the present state of things is opposed to prosperity, and, if possible, must be altered. It may, if measures be not taken, spread and become more serious. The budget of news for to-day, for instance, is by no means reassuring. We are told that two men named Murray have been arrested on suspicion of being accomplices in the murder of Mr. Anketell. Informations were sworn against them by a Mrs. Brown, who lodged in their house. She was hooted and threatened by a crowd in Mul lingar, and the police have been obliged to remove her and her husband to Dublin for safety. The next item is of another attempted assassina tion. A mau named Brady, agent of Dr. Fitzpatrick, is stated to have been fired at near Virginia, county Cavan. Two persons were with him, who reported the occurrence. He was found lying insensible on the road, but is expected to recover. Then there is the item of stealing a revolver. Three men have been arrested on a charge of forcibly taking a revolver from Professor O'Leary, of Queen's College, Cork, on Sunday evening. There is a story of the arrest of a Ribandman. TUE NEW MAYOR OF CORK. The ➢layor of Cork has indeed resigned, and there seem to be no signs that he will be re-elected. The candidate of the ultra:Liberals is to be named by Mr. O'Sullivan ; and as he will hardly put himself in nomination, the danger of his reappearance is averted. The Fenians, by advertisement, call on the populace to insist upon the town council giving O'Sullivan the choice of his successor, and by this means secure the election of a mayor who will carry out his policy and vindicate his acts. Deng: a, biliectitt ft in . roiTed teo Inticii Work. llealul Alford, of Canterbury, Stanley, of Westminster, and Close, of Carlisle, spoke, and the general result was that they declined to accept the archiepiscopal sug gestion that reforms were desirable. Thereupon the Archbishop proposed that a committee should be appointed to meet at Lambeth Palace to-morrow (Friday). The committee appointed consisted of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Deans of Canterbury, York, St. Paul's, and Westminster, and it was afterwards arranged that any of the deans who might be in town and dis posed to attend the meeting should be considered as belonging to the committee. It was stated at the meeting that a scheme for suppressing two canonries in each cathedral fur educational purposes or the increase of small livings has been resolved upon by Mr. Gladstone's Government. The proposition made by some leading Churchmen a short time ago was that the revenues thus obtained should be devoted to increasing the number of bishops. DEBATE ON APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE (Prom the Anglo -American Timm) Perhaps the last debate in Congress was on Se nator Carpenter's resolution calling on the heads of departments to furnish to the Senate, on the firs day of the next session of Congress, the names, age. and compensation of the clerks, employes, and in ' ferior officers; from what States respectively they were appointed ; how long they have held office. and at what places they resided in the States from which they were respectively appointed ; and on whose recommendation they were appointed. It war urged in support that the distribution was unfair, some States getting a lion's share, while others were overlooked ; that the number of employes should be diminished, and the pay of those who remained increased. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, held in his band la Blue-book containing the information condensed the Senator sought in a more diffuse form, giving the names, salaries, and other information regard: ing the 45,000 office-holders, 99 of whom out of every hundred were appointed on verbal recom mendations of influential friends. Mr. Sumner answered Mr. Abbott's proposition to distribute posts as far as practicable according to representa tion and population, who had stigmatised the undue proportion to certain States as unjust and injurious, Sumner pointing his remarks with a striking illus tration. The Executive was bound to take the best qualified ; these were not spread geographically, and the President had no more right to nominate them from certain States than he had to choose generals on such a principle. If he had correctly read history the army before Vicksburg was com manded by three Ohio generals, viz., Grant, Sher man, and M'Pherson ; and if that State furnished the three generals who there so well upheld the honour of the country, why should not the same State supply three eminent civil servants? The dis cussion brought out the radical defect in the exist ing mode of filling offices, and the necessity for the reform proposed by Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island. Mr. Trumbull regarded the system of removal from and appointment to office, as one of the greatest of evils, calculated to sap the very foundations of the Government. The experience of thelast six or eight weeks admonished all that something should be done to effect a reform. A great change had taken place, and Senators and Representatives had be come mere solicitors. Time was when members of Cong t r ia e ni s rs d i i .t3 d or n op o ttir t occ h ei a irrs n e. g t ah,rreoi appointment p n ep d ow t i. a l o l s e t m a ll n .eh t ne e tn - or they h o c el n ey r r s kw o s f oau t n l l the sign the pape rs o f appl i cants. He now gave S n o t o e h e t e r h notice o t l h a a o a t t r o t d h o e c n o e a x t bill, s i a o n n d , f r g nobody else passage, ss ag e , did, to o housemak e i t t a g o p e to o a 1 t h e ff offence a r for tn i nat s ib o t r i n o g f oemem ffish e e r . Mr. Fessenden evidently thought the Senator from Illinois hard on those attending in ante-rooms to solicit appointments for their constituents. Senators who refused would ‘N p o r u e l j d udice their future, for re presentatives constituents o w e o n u t l s d do , what unfavourably t e o d , themand contrast these exertions, and endeavour to promote the one at the expense of the other. It was a melan choly truth that they were mere agents to get office for their constituents, and as matters stood they must look out for these offices. As to hanging about in I n n To b t e h , risintgyetnhtalet yearstn e ca n hgao t i l n i h e be r e e rN if a c as o ni n do s u ll : lh t r e aa d sth t ti h ioj e cg, i y- r t t o o h w o e • r:a though e o s e c g s b complained of as having grown up lately was com mon at that time. But the most extraordinary state tnialeenotthwears dmayadtehebyp7orsidCototmt eseroont,isovismomsaeibdody" or —Only fa foreign mission, and one of the Senators had great trouble to convince the Committee on Foreign Affairs that he was an improper person to be con firmed, and it now turn e d ou t h e was a constitu tional drunkard. The man was good enough in other respects, but not fit for the place at all. Neither of the Senators from Pennsylvania would have recommended him for the position. Some time ago, within thelast few days, a man from Penn sylvania was nominated for a Consulate, without consulting either of the Senators. It turns out that be was a constitutional thief, and his name on the preceding day was wthdrawn." The custom was for applicants to send in their cards to Senators, who, in the ante-room, rather than waste time in argument signed their papers. Need it surprise that the Executive make mistakes when Senators insist upon applic tilts from their Etates working through them, while such is all the trouble they take to ascertain fitness. Several errors have occurred, and in every instance the objectionable persons were found to be recommended by the whole dele gation from the State. Special Commissioner Wells asserts that $75,000,000 of the revenue is annually stolen by the functionaries thus appointed, and a good authority calculates that $25,000,000 will, during the next fiscal year, be added to this sum, owing to the change from the old to the new hands. Nor will Congress be able, in the end, to keep all the patronage, for powerful interlopers are appearing on the stage. Nearly all the great jour nals were represented by their leading men during the scramble, and the editor of the Evening Post, the Tribune, or the Times speaks with a tremendous power at his back ; one, indeed, which the Presi dent, or the Secretary, cannot help seeing behind the individual. Why were these gentlemen in Washington, and what business had they to be dis cussing the merits of candidates with the Executive and the Senate, and putting their fingers into the very pie from which they ought most carefully to have abstained? Let the public become convinced that editors, that is, the public censors, *are -them selves personally interested in the appointments, and their criticisms will have no weight. How is it at this moment that the American press write so forcibly and openly in denunciation of corruption, yet with so little effect? THE EXPLANATION OF SENATOR ROSS. Senator Ross made a long statement when the Chamber met on the 20th April, regarding his in terview with General Grant, as reported in the newspa'pers, which he termed grossly incorrect and slanderous, being spread with a view to injure him throughout the country, particularly in Kansas. He (Ross) sought the interview, and was astonished and pained to learn from the President that he considered it to be presumptive evidence of a Johnson-man, that the office had been held for the preceding eighteen mouths. This condemned half the officials, though earnest and intelligent Radi cals. In one instance a gallant soldier eminently qualified for the post bad been displaced by a man who had never left his fireside during the war, and was a pro-slavery sympathizer during the Kansas Border.disturbanecs. The Senator continued these instances, sketching a lamentable picture of the reward of those brave fellows whose only fault it was to have accepted a favour from him, their friend and fellow-soldier. (Our readers must remember that Mr. Ross was one of the seven " recreants" who voted against Impeachment.) It redounds to Andrew Johnson's honour that they, though Re publicans, were appointed, and it would not tell well for a Republican President, himself a soldier, if from personal pique or to gratify the animosity of others he ostracised them. As for himself for twenty years it had been his pleasure, but not his profit, to belong to the advanced corps of Radical Republicans. No man endured such revilings and maledictions as he in his efforts to secure Grant's nomination. He had hoped all from this election, and although this belief was shaken it was not de stroyed. " A combination of my colleagues from Kansas in Congress has been formed to drive me from political life, because I have dared to defy the dictation of party when I be'ieved that other oh jeets than the country's goo.l were sou g ht t o b e subserved thereby ; and I fear the President has been deceived into giving that combination his powerful aid. Hence the sweeping and unjust re movals from office of ° id' - chiefly Republicans, and soldiers, threatened s o i r e l irrelnovals accom p!ished merely because they are my friends, and as an im portantpart of that party machinery which is being used for my destruction. I neither court nor shun that contest." In the interview he had with the President no word inconsistent with the —strictest rules of propriety and decorum had been uttered by either. Mr. Pomeroy, his colleague, saw nothing to complain of or to censure in the President or in the Administration, the removals referred to being those of office-holders who had run on the Demo cratic ticket last year, and ought therefore on Re publican victory to be discharged. THE AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND, Perhaps few things will contribute more towards contentment, peace, and quietness in Ireland than a good harvest and a fine potato crop. It is, therefore, most satisfactory to learn that Irish agricultural prospects were never brighter at this season than they are at present. The most favourable accounts are received from all parts of the provinces as to the extent of cultivation and the state of the crops. The grass lands have benefited immensely by the rains, and the potato and cereal crops are healthy-looking, and promise an early and abundant yield. COLONEL IIEND ER EON. The new Chief Commissioner of Police is doing; hii Wbrk well. He is initiating prosecutions on ail hands against the abominable persons who wiring Sir Richard Mayne's later and feebler years were allowed to violate the law with impunity. A woman living . in Rowland - street h as j us t b een c onvicted of selling indecent prints, and has been sen tenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard lab our , a punishment she is not likely to forget. The sei zure of the " Deptford Spec" has had one unfortu nate result. A tailor who had invested in it has, in consequence of the funds being seized, committed suicide. If he had lost his money in the ordinary course of the " Spec,' he would, no doubt, have committed the same crime. The best way to pre vent such tragedies in future is to suppress the came of them. TIDE UNIVERSITY OP LONDON. No University examination is stricter than that of the University of London. Nearly one-half the candidates at the last trial for degrees failed, only 772 obtaining honours out of 1,430 who tried. There were, of course, many grumblings; the students complained that the subjects of examina tion had not been accurately defined, and that the line adopted for awarding places had been too hard and faSt. Earl Granville, the Chancellor of the University—whose speech at the annual meeting is generally looked forward to—this year occu pied a great deal of time in defending the course adopted. He explained the large number of rejections by saying that a great many of the candi dates had endeavoured to qualify for them by read ing at night after their other occupations. He did not think that they could compete with others who gave their whole time to education. The educational status of the country, moreover, was very unsatisfactory, and this had caused a great many of the failures. In one matter the London University had been foremost and successful. It had solved the subject of Ltdies' degrees. At the first examination it was estimated that not more than three ladies would present themselves, but it was satisfactory to find that the number who came up and passed was one that was equally classical and suggestive, viz., 0; and the fact had been established which had been questioned before, that the female sex were quite as capable of qualifying themselves as the male. THE mums ASSOCIATION. The Church Association has just held a conference at Willis's Rooms. It lasted six hours, and a large number of subjects was discussed. The meeting ex pressed its confidence that Sir R. Phillimore's judg ment in the Bennett prosecution case would be reversed as it was in the Mackonochie case. Convo cation was denounced as a sham by some of the members ; others thought that the Low Church party bad erred in holding aloof from it. Synods excited different expressions of opinion. According to some, these gatherings would increase the power of the bishops, which was very undesirable. According to others, synods would, especially in the event of dis establishment, give the laity an opportunity of making their voices heard in questions of Church policy. Then came the crucial question of the meeting. The Rev. E. Garbett moved that the operations of the Church Association should be extended, so as to include doctrinal errors other than those involved in Ritualism. In the course of his speech he mentioned that the Archbishop of York had asked the assistance of the association in prosecuting Mr. Voysey. This matter gave rise to much discussion, some of the members thinking that the Association ought to confine itself to the object for which it was formed, that of opposing Romanism, and should leave Rationalism alone. Eventually a resolution, em bodying Mr. Garbett's recommendations, was carried with nine dissentients. A Mr. Lovell proposed that a memorial should be presented to the archbishops praying them to enforce the decision of the recent Ritual judgment in churches where (such as Mr. Lowder's and Mr. Le Geyt's) it is disregarded, and that Convocation should be called upon to condemn the recent manifesto of twenty-one clergymen in favour of the Real Presence. The Rev. Sydney Gedge strongly opposed the first part of the proposal. He pointed out that certain acts of Ritualism had been condemned, not because they were Roman, but because they were contrary to the rubrics; and that if the archbishops were asked to enforce the rubrics in this respect, the High Church party would be sure to ask them to enforce the rubrics in matters that they (the Association) might not at all like. Eventually he Withdrew his opposition, and even agreed to sign the proposed memorial. A general statement was then made as to the work accomplished by the Association. It numbered on January Ist 7,022 members, and its monthly organ had a circulation of 7,000. The number of papers circulated had been nearly 300,000. Mr. Martin then asked the assistance of the members in support of the middle-class schools which had been started by way of counteracting Mr. Woodard's. TIIE DEANS. The deans don't see it. The Archbishop of Can terbury has had a gathering of them at Lam beth this week. About a dozen were present, and the Archbishop represented to them the absolute necessity of doing something in " these perilous times " to " correct existing anomalies." But his very reverend audience, as we have said, could not see it. Dean Duncombe, of York (for whom, upon his appointment by Lord Derby, the income of the deanery was raised from £l,OOO to £2,000 a year, by way of acknowledging the valuable political support of Lord Feversha.m and his relatives), declared that the present decanal system was unimpeachable. Deans Boyd, of Exeter, and lloxvson, .of Chester, were of the same opinion. Dean Mansel, of St. Paul's, seemed to think -that so far from a .dean's roost IMPORTANT TO AIWITZOLOGISTS. Two items which will interest the archfeologists are published by the 'Times. Some further traces of Roman London have been discovered. A beau tiful tesselated pavement has just been unearthed in Bucklersbury. An invention for restoring, or rather for cleansing, bronze statues has been made, and is being used on the tombs in Westminster Abbey. THE DUFZE OF CAMBRIDGE ON THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. The Duke of Cambridge, presiding at the anni versary of the Metropolitan Lock Hospital, on Wed nesday, spoke very decisively on the subject of the Contagious Diseases Act. Though wide and a delicate question was opened up by the suggestion that this legislative measure should be applied to the civil community, and though the moral feeling of a very numerous and respectable class might be offended by such a proposition, he would not shrink from the avowal that he himself regarded with favour a careful and well-planned scheme of the kind. Sir Hope Grant, G.C.8., 1)r. Dickson, Lord Lifford, and Mr. Mitford also spoke of the good effects of the new law. EXPERIENCE DOES NOT TEACH. The gullibility of a seet,ion of the British public is somewhat surprising. One would think that no trick was more worn out, more certain to fail, than the one of card-sharping in railway carriages. The pretended strangers, the dirty pack of cards, the exciting game, the invitation to join, the first gain and latter loss, the discovery that the confederates have been swindling, are all too well known to anyone who reach a newspaper. And yet hardlya week passes but we have a casein the police courts in which the story, wearisome in its sameness, is told over again and again. The North British Railway Company has at last hit upon an expedient, whereby it is to be hoped the fool will be protected against himself. The com pany has a bye-law prohibiting gambling in its car riages. They announce, a propos to a recent very bad card-sharping case, that they will in future prosecute all the players other than the sharpers. With a knowledge that, if be escape being swindled, he has a chance of being fined, the most simple traveller ought to be strong enough to resist temptation. FOREIGN NOTES. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The New York correspondent of the Post repeats, "on authority," the statement made in so many quarters, that Mr. Motley, the successor of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, will be furnished with no instructions concerning the Alabama claims other than very general ones. lie will be authorised to say that the speech of Mr. Sumner in the Senate ex presses not only the popular feeling, but the opinion of the Government, on the matters at issue; but_as that speech proposes nothing, and leaves it for England to take the next step in the affair, Mr. Fish does not anticipate that anything more will be done for some time to come, THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. According to a telegram in the Standard, the project of a Government with Serrano as regent and Prim as head of the Ministry is notlikely to be matured. But a despatch in the French papers states, not only that the scheme is seriously entertained, but that the Ministry has been formed. Figuerola, Sagasta, and Lopez de Ayala, of the present Cabinet, will retire, and their places will be filled up by others. Figuerola is Finance Minister, 130 his policy inspires the people of Madrid with great distrust. Nothing, however, will be officially announced until the 33rd Article of the Constitution, providing for the form of Government, is passed. The Cortes is now at the,32nd. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. The Piedmontese politicians have united with General Menabrea's supporters, and a coalition Cabinet is now in course of formation. The union of the two parties was accomplished very satisfactorily, but the construction of the Ministry involves great difficulties, and it is hardly necessary to state what these difficulties are. General Menabrea's party does not want the new comers to obtain too much power, and the recruits will either have what they call a fair share, or they will retire again. Signor Ferraris, leader of the Piedmontese, demands the Portfolio - of the Interior, and this the Tuscan, Menabrea's, party are very unwilling to give up. Signor Mordini, too, was mentioned for a place, but the King is opposed to this politician on account of his Garibaldian antece dents. Things like these must always be when states. men attempt the work of conciliation. OUTBREAK IN PORTUGAL. Irmo mysterious details of a conspiracy at Lisbon are given oy tne I'ortuguesc journals. It is to be presumed that this plot was concocted by some discontented spirits who conceived that the deplorable state of the national finances, and the recent very unpopular proceeding of the King in reducing the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, afforded an excellent opportunity for an insurrection. The conspirators attempted to get - the army on their side. Some regiments seem to have been really disaffected. One battalion was actually landed from a vessel on board of which it had been embarked. The railway and telegraph lines were cut in all directions. But all this mischief came to nothing. The ringleaders ss ere arrested, the disaffected troops were disarmed, and the battalion which had been landed was again conducted on board ship, and placed under the guns of a corvette. An inquiry is to be insti tuted, and, considering that nobody seems to know any of the origin or the nature of the plot, it is certainly zeeded. A "RAILWAT THROUGH SWITZERLAND. The question of a railroad across the St. Gothard mann. tain interests more or less all the States of Central Europe. North Germany is anxious for a direct route through Switzerland to Italy. Italy is not less desirous of a straight line to North Germany. But Austria has lines round the east of Switzerland, and France has the Mont Cenis line on the west. Both these would be injured by the great work through the centre of the Alps, and a cer tain agitation has therefore been raised in France and Austria against the St. Gothard project. But the new line is favoured by the Swiss Government, and it is likely that it will be made. A FRENCH CONSUL IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA• The German journals labour under the apprehension of a serious dispute between France and Russia. The French Consul at Odessa is President of the French Benevolent Society. A ball was recently given by this society. A Russian count presented himself, and being accompanied by a lady who was not his wife, but whom he was desirous of passing off as such, the consul, in his capa city of president, felt it his duty to exclude him. For this offence the Correctional Tribunal at Odessa has just sentenced the consul to a week's imprisonment. The German papers which report this story say that under certain conditions such an incident would amount to a casus belli, but they do not state that these " certain con ditions" are involved in the present case. ARCTIC AFFAIRS. Another German expedition to the North Pole will start on the 7th of tJune. It will consist of two vessels, which will endeavour to force a passage east of Greenland through the barrier of ice surrounding the Pole between the seventy-fourth and seventy-sixth degrees of latitude. If the expedition do not succeed, it will not return, but winter at Spitzbergen, and try again next year. There is some probability that the scheme of a north-east, in opposition to a north-west, passage wiN be revived. The Russians have discovered that warm currents flow along the north of Siberia, between Spitz. Bergen and Nova Zembla, and that, perhaps, a passag may be found along the north of Europe and Asia to Behring's Straits and the Pacific. Unfortunately, thi: route would be so lengthy that it could never be of much use, DuNvit.T.E and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports lion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort buildings, Strand, London, W.O ---[Ad- Tvrtisement. The Ancient Order of Foresters has forwarded an additional contribution of £l4O to the National Life boat Inst . tutiou on account of :heir second lifeboat, which is to be launched in Sunderland in the beginning of August n xt, in the presence of some thousands of Foresters, who are to assenale-on the occasion from all parts of the North of England. I ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— A Word of Promise.—All sufferers from sores, ulcers, scor butic :affections. and ekin diseases may confidently com mence the treatment of their several infirmities with those licalirg and cleansing remedies. Under Holloway's well tried medicaments the worst cases will soon assume a more kindly- aspect, and in tlts progress of the cure the filleted will neither be embarrassed by difficulties nor disbie by failures. A little perseverance and mode rhte att,ntion to the "direction for use"enveloping each packet of Ointment and L'ills will enable every invalid to cure himself, and to conduct his complaint to a success ful issue; and he may feel assured that by following this simple, but searching treatment, his skin will bo made souud, severe suffering spared, and health restored. GRNERAL CUSTAR'S INDIAN RAID. General Custar, with his command, reached Fort Hays, Kansas, April 12. His expedition has been attended with great hardihip ; the men living on horses and mules, and the animals on the bark of the cotton-wood trees. In this way he scoured the Staked Plains, and the Red River, moving far into Taxas. After ten days' continuous march he sur prised 290 Lodges, who, imagining Custar was in a totally different direction, Lad dispatched their scouts the wrong way. The Indians were struck - lumb with amazement when they beheld the dense troops of cavalry riding down on du ir camp, but they proved themselves, in the trying position, cl ver actors. Mounting in hot haste, they rode out to welcome their white brethren, exhibiting the greatest pleasure at the sight of their dear friendq, to whom they tendered a warm invitation to camp down beside them. General Custar, between the Head Chief and the Medicine Man, became the centre of a circle of chiefs, plying him with the pipe of peace, and going through a long ham angue, which assumed a sacred character; and this was followed by a grand parade of mounte I warriors, who, bedizened with painted trickery, passed in single file, each blowing a flageolet. All the while the squawa were packing up with the utmost speed. The Indians, finding the General impatient, then attempted to parley for their captives, Mrs. Morgan and Miss White, of Kansas. The former was taken by the Sioux in the late raid on the Solomon River, her husband being killed and she was sold to the Cheyennes, a party of whom in the previous August had captured Miss White on the Republican River after killing her father. Gen. Custar seized three chiefs, and giv ing them till the next day to deliver these ladies he let them understand that as sure as the sun shone they would hang as it dipped below the Western ho rizon if the captives had not been brought in. The ropes were ready, the trees selected, but the women came in time to save the lives of the chiefs. The ladies had been the slaves of the savages, their hewers of wood and drawers of water, beaten with sticks, an 3 living on dead dogs an 1 wolves. Once they tried to escape, having one night walked twelve miles, and their agony may be imagined when they heard the rush of a drove of buffaloes coming down on them in the dark. Next day they were discovered by an Indian who fired a shot above their heads to frighten them, the first notice they had of his presence. After the battle of Washita their treatment changed much for the better. For the last winter the tribes have had a hard time of it, being routed about from place to place by these incessant cavalry raids, and they must have ardently longed for summer. One of their greatest chiefs complained that he had not time to make his seat warm before he was driven away by the whites. IMPERIAL 2ARLIA HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his saat on the woolsack et five o'clock. The Civil Service Pensions Pills was read a third time, and the Adjutants (Jury) Exemption Bill a second tirrm On the motion for adjournment. Lord RUSSELL, in a speech which was repeatedly cheered by the Opposition tenches, asked what course the Government intended to pursue in regard to the increase of crime and to the laws relating to the tenure of land in Ireland. Lord GRANVILLE replied that the Government were enforcing earnestly all the powers they at present pos sessed, and that they were intending to introduce a mea sure for facilitating action by the Lord-. Lieutenant under the Peace Preservation Act. On the question of the land, he denied the obligation on a Government to produce a catalogue and account of measures which they did not intend to introduce. Ile repeated his statement that the Government were not responsible for Mr. Baight's plan, on the merits of which they declined to give any opinion, but he again defended that scheme from the reproach of being an attack on the rights cf property. Lord DERBY thought the justification for having brought this subject for the third or fourth time before the House was that the House had never been yet able to obtain an answer from the Government. He referred to his own experience as an Irish landowner for five-and forty years. His tenants had hitherto paid their rent contentedly; but a feeling had grown up in the district that no more rent was to be paid after 1870. After observations by Lords Cowper andrandon, Their lordships adjourned at a quarter past 9 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS -LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. METROPOLITAN STREET TRAMWAYS RILL. On the consideration of the bill as amended. Mr. PEASE moved the insertion of a clause allowing all vehicles to - . - un on the tramways other than the company promoting the bill. The amendment also empowered par ties running vehicles for hire also to use the rails, pro vided they had the lieonse horn the Board of Trale. Captain GROSVENOR opposed the clause. He thought the resolution cf the committee ought to be supported by the house, the more especially as they had heard the whole of the evidence that could be procured against the pro moters of the bill. Mr. SOLATER-DOOTH, as chairman of the committee to which the bill was referred, denied that there was any monopoly of the road, but only a monopoly as fir as re garded the use of the rails. They had fully considered the question of monopoly, and the resolutions the com mittee had come to' fully showed that. They had also taken precaution against the rails becoming a nuisance, because in such case provision was made for the removal of the rails. It was desirable that an experiment should be made to try the merits of a very important arrange ment. He thought the committee had taken every pre caution with respect to the public convenience; and there fore he hoped the hon. member would not divide the house. Mr. BRIG UT said the carrying of these clauses would be tantamount to overthrowing the bill. He thought the Chairman of the committee had quite settled tho matter with respect to -the consideration of the interests cf the omnibus proprietors. Mr. PEASE could assure the house he had not the slightest desire to push the omnibus interest forward ; all he wished to do was to promote the public convenience as far as was in his power. After the observations of the right hon. gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade, he would withdraw his amendments. The bill was further considered and ordered to lie on the table. THE. PATENT LAWS. Mr. MACFIE gave notice that, on the house assembling after the holidays, he should move for leave to introduce a bill to abolish the patent laws. SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY. Mr. RYLAND gavo notice that when any bill was in troduced for the improvement of the licensing of public houses, he should move tho insertion of a clause prohibiting the sale of liquors on Sundays. FINSBURY PARK. Mr. LAYARD ; in raply to Mr. Torrens, said he had re ceived a very large deputation with respect to the sale of twenty acres of land which had originally ben purchased for the laying out a park in Finsbury. He was sorry to say he had no power to prevent the Metropolitan Board of Works from selling the land, although it would be detrimental to the park. The bon. member for Bath had done all it was possible for him to do, but he had un fortunately failed. Th e r i g h t to sell of the Board of Works was, however, very questionable, and he was afraid the parties protesting against the sale would be compelled to enter into legal controversy with the Board. He had no power in the matter, and if they proceeded the length of going into a court of law the memorialists would have his best wishes and sympathy for their success. Mr. TITE said he had done all in his power to prevet t the sale, but he had been deftiated in the board on a divi sion by 24 to 16. The supporters of the proposed sale were the representatives of large parishes, having parks of their own, so he supposed they thought nobody wanted parks but themselves. The greatest portion of the money with which the laud was in the first instance purchased, was taken out of the rating money, and not the coal duties. THE TORNADO. Mr. OTWAY, in reply to Mr. C. Bentinck, said it was quite true that the Spanish Government had declined to reopen the case of the Tornado before a superior tribu nal. They had given their reasons, and those reasons had been submitted to the law officers of tha Crown. Ile had also laid papers relating to tha matter on the table. INCREASE OF PROTECTION IN IRELAND:— Mr. U. FOILTESCUE said some additional constables had been appointed in the south-west districts, and those districts would be charged with the additional cost. THE CRYPT. Mr. LAYARD said the cost of embellishing and fitting the Crypt amounted to £1,95?. The baptistry was quite ready when required—(loud laughter)—but he could not say to what use the Crypt was to be devoted ; the archi tect, ho believed, intended it as a place of worship for the resident in that house. VICTORIA PARK. Mr. ()OWPER asked whether it was truo that a public- home for the sale of "spiritttais—(lotti langhter)-110° I was to be erected in this park ? Mr. LATARD said he was glad to answer the question The working classes resorted to the park in great Duo' Lers, and he thought it would be an advantage if tbd could get something better than the sour ginger bee r and stale buns which were now the only things they con obtain. He had therefore thought it desiab!e to have house in the park at which they could get some sub' stautial refreshment without going to the low pot-houses which abOunded in the neighbourhood. He had take; precautions that would effectually prevent tke sale "spiritual " (laughter)—liquors. IRISH CHURCH BILL. The house then proceeded to consider the new clause s proposed to be inserted in tho bill. Sir R. PALMER moved a clause providing that the A n ' nuities granted under the Act shall 11 ,, t be forfeited becal o the annuitants do not consent to alterations which mat made in the Articles of the Church. Mr. BALL supported the proposition. Mr. GLADSTONE suggested that the point should left to the House of Lords to settle, to which Sir R. Ps lol agreed. - Various unimportant alterations wore made, and th° third reading was fixed fur May 31, Mr. Gladstone es plaining that it would be necessary to recommit the bill t° introduce a stamp clause. d rn The house then went i n t o C omm itt ee o f Ways - Means on the postponed Budget resolutions. The complicated details of the resolutions were ttn a°f discussion until after midnight. Various srggestions made to modify the proposed duties on servants, carriage° and armorial bearings, but none of them were p r essed ° a division. In the end the resolutions were a g reed t ° ; with no alteration but one proposed by the Chancellor e ' the Exchequer, raising the weight of the four-wheele rg, under the 15s. duty, from 3cwt. to 4cwt. The house adjourned at five minutes past one o 'cloc ) until Thursday, the 27th. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, May 1.3. The following is the return of the Bank of Franc e for the week ending to-day, together. with the cot' responding figures of the previous account :--- DEBTOR. May 7. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1837) 7,014,776 02 7,044,77 60 ' Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of lantled pro perty 4,000000 4,000,0 00 Notes in circulation 1,335,865,500 1,314,871,35 0 Bank notes to order and receipts payable at sight • 35,968,571 52 36,237,6 51 2:7 Treasury account cur- 1 6 rent creditor 156,170,591 22 163,776,57 1 6 1 Current accounts, Paris 275,643,596 99 520019611 Do. branch banks 42,627,710 32,737,01 0 "", Dividends payable 766,980 760,91 1 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 933,790 85 93_3, 7_6°_ Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries May 1 3 . fr. ' 182,500,000 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 11 Total 2,08!,662,302 68 2,304998,6 91 CREDITOR. May 7. Cash in hand and in f r . c. fr. May Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- 1 counted, not yet due 275,052,158 41 417,495,8 03 , 2 Do. branch banks 236,708,019 2 7 8 ,3 05,726 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Du. branch banks Do. on Credit Fonder 16,098,300 - 2,333,000 - 13,663,900 - 6,619,38 U - 1.3,436,200 5 2,369,300 20,007,7 00 5 6,90,8J0 38,5313,700 -- 27,782,6J0 -- 42,720 00 5 29,327,600 Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re-- • 985,600 - 965,200 - 1,143,7 00 1,049,10 60,000,0 00 12.980,750 14 19 980 , Kn 4 80,627,187 21. 80,6?7,181 serve Do. disposable lientes Immobalisdes (Law, June 2, 1850 10,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bbnk and landed propel ty branches Expenses of manage- 100,000,0 00 '" 9,012,628 - 9,042 7 629 ' 1,586,299 21 1,628,?'" ,et 8,091,697 26 10 , 126, 040 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the J 3 of France. went Sundries (Signed) RouLANP. Bank of England Returns. An Account, pursuant to t; cap. 32, for the week ending 1 .he Act 7th and Bth Victerici Wednesday, 'flay 18t;9. P AILMENT. Govcrnmt. Debt £l.l 015,1,c0d Other Securities 3'961, 9 " - Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion X30,391,' "3 ISSUE DE Notes issued —.X30,394,745 £30,394,745 BANKING Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. 'ARTMENT. Goverumt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) Other Securities 19,3 03, , Notes Cold and Silver Coiu Acco . unts 5,680,831 Other Deposits 17,465,098 Seyen Days and other Bills 467,187 £41,3 1, i" E For.BES, Chief ClasLier. .411,31.8,038 GEORI Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton."... May 2 ; l ' Ditto, via D'Arseilles ....••••. 00000 MaY 11 , Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Vid eo June ' Ditto, by French packet . Cape Verds, by Brazil pacact 1 June .... . Cape of Good El,Jpe. Ascension, and St. Helena...- MO' i s , China, Penan g , and Singap o re. vi a So ut h ampton May • bibraltar. via Southampton • MaY 1 ' India.via Southampton unto, via alarseil.es Malta, /Cgypt, &c . M a l I" , Ditto, Marseilles MaY Newioundia Lb .... ...... ...... .. •• May 19 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Scutum:4 ton Ditto, Marseilles June 16 Portugal June 4 ' United States, ( anada, California, &a, by British packet Ditto dill( (Baltimore) Ditto. by L sited States packet Ditto, by Inman packet MaY 1 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and T en e r if e ......May 11 lithamae, via New York . West Indies and Pazitic (except Mexico and Baha. 1 4 mas) .... „May 29 Cub t and Mexico Bermuda, via Dalifax...... The armour-plated screw ship Warrior, CaP tA n ill Henry Boys, will leave Spithead on S un d a y in c)fr : ing. There are various rumours as to her destiti; tion ; nothing definite is known, but it is pro she will be sent to Ireland. et , LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR. —AI RS. g t o ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTO RER OR D RESSING neve r fa fi quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair t o its y ou thf u l c olour o de beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and „ i s tightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair ( fr o; falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant groW p ll It causes the Hair to grow thick and sfrong. It remov es dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottle3rst Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and peel° Depot 266, High Holborn LANGHAM—On the 12th inst., B IRTILY at Afaestlweh Castle, of 0 norshire, the Hon. Mrs. Langharn, prematurellf daughter, stillborn. SOTHEBY—On th e 12th inst. at 100 Park-street , — a r ofr nor - square, the wife of Rear-Admiral Bothell/ son. ILLII?RIAGES. s Oit CI lALDECOT—ILLINGW ORTII —O n th o 12 t h i n st., ni ; 0 0 George's ' Hanover-square, Capt a in M ar k A. Chad $. R.A., to Lucy Marianne, secoud daughter of henry 1 11ingworth, Esq., of Arlington-street, Piccadilly. It, VANDERVELL —TitoRNToN—On the 12th inst., at Pi oldce to Yorkshire, floury E. Vandervell, Esq., of Lor' d° "' a Fanny, seventh daughter of Joseph Thornton, , Edge House, Paddock. DEATES. ioso l ALDOI7B—On the 12th inst., at Worthing, Lieut .-vO.- William Aldous, 11. M. Inian Army, aged 76. si r., BROWNE -On the 12th inst., at 20, Victoria-squar e, S. James Browne, Esq., aged 69. iz o bt• BOWER —On the 11th in s t., at Weiham, near Malt"' Bower, Bower, Esq., aged 71. London: Printed and Publi s hed by VTLLIA3I AND`'r,tvirS," of No. 112, -Arand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of 3.llddlcsel' Friday, Way 14, 1869. ~~ T 1 priz( 01 ban• pat Mu ha , mo - cei ciao