The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-26 00:00:00

MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. ON-FORF kITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMB ER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS May , bei APPLIED so.as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIM E BRITISHH - EQUITABLE COMPANY._ 4, Queen-street-plac e , Southwark Bridge, E.O NEW POLICIES LisuED. New Policies issued ASSURANCE In We eke, 3 1868 3869 86 -Z14;250 108 - 18,481 Excess! . 22 £4,231 3,10.5 -£:;39,442,. In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1869 JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY t TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decky, and imparts.a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper 'Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its prietine hne, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid ,of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower trice. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., is. ed., and 15s. each.. Including bruFla. Rod 801 l Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. F.C. LIEF IG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT —Paris and Iravre Exhibition Gold Medals. CAUTION. None genuine without Baron Liebies (the inventor) signature being on every jar, accompanied by full printed directions. About 70 Pints of excellent beef tea for Ils., the present reduced retail price per pound. Finest, most convenient, and by far the cheapest meat-flavouring ingredient for 'soups, made dishes, and 'sauces. Sold by all Italian warehosemen, chemists, grocers, ship chandlers, and provision dealers. WROUGHT -IRON FIREBRANDS, Sheep and Sack Marks, Stencil Plates of every kind, Timber Hammers, Steel Stamps, and all kinds of Cutting and Orna- Dnental Punches made to order on the lowest terms, and delivered carriage paid for sets --It. HARRISON, Manufacturer, Orford street, Norwich. Established 1815. THE RAILWAYS (EXTENSION OF TIME) ACT 1868. rrHE SWANSEA VALE AND NEATII AND 1 BRECON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. 1, Westminster Chambers, Victoria-street, - London, S.W., April 23, 1869. NOTICE IS 11EREBY GIVEN, That in accordance *with the Railways (Extension of Time) Act, 1868, an Extraordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at their Offices, as above, on MONDAY, the 10th day of May next, at Three o'Clock in the after. moon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, 'approving of an application being made to the Board of Trade, pursuant to the said Act, for an extension of time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junc tion Railway Act, 1864 (which expires on the; 28th of July next), for the completion of the Railway tliarein....de cribed as follows, viz. A Railway commencing• in the parish of Cilybebill, in the County of Glamorgan, by a junction with the Swan sea Vale Railway, at the north end of the platform of the Ynys-y-Geinon Station of that Railway, and terminating in the hamlet of Colbren, in the parish of Ystradgynlais, in the county of Brecon; by a junction with the autnorised Rue of the Neath and Brecon Rail way, at a point in thl) geld numbered 42, on the plan of .the last-mentioned Railway ; and also for an Extension of the time granted by the Swansea Yale and •Neath and Brecon Junction Railway Act, 1865 (which expires on the sth of July, 1870), for the completion of the Railway therein described, as follows, "ViZ :- A Railway, commencing in the parish of Ystradgynlais, by a junction with the authorized line of the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, at a point in an enclosure, numbered 165 on the plan deposited in respect of that Railway with the Clerk of the Peacs for the County of Brecon in the month of November, 1863, and terminating in the same parish, at or near to the bridge carrying the tramway or trammed belonging to the Aberciare Collieiy and works over the river Tawe. D. HOWELL 31ORGAN, Secretary. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Le . ssie, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers, Clark, Gordon, White, &c.; Miss Fanny Wright and Miss F. Gwynn. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, Astley, &e,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &e. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF TH E WATCH: Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c.; Me . sdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. 'Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Belmore. &t 15 to 8, 20th time, BLACK AND WHITE. Mr Fechter Miss CarlottaLeclercq. Mr Arthur Stirling Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, Fze. To conclude with WHITE.B IT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Leclereq. Concluding' with THE SECRET. N.B.—Sh , lrtly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bon• cicault. Doors open at. half-past G, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open • r r TT 3; A - T) it 'V AT. IT /1T D ARRY SturvAN, Sole L essee an d M anager. On SATURDAY NEXT, At 7.20. THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play, entitled MONEY. supported by the following celebrated Artistes, viz.: Parry Sul livan, J. C. :Cowper, neorge Honey, W. H. Step'aens. Charles Coglan. A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E. Dyas ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss touisa Th ,, rue, and Mrs. Charles Horsman. Principal S'eenic,Artists--llr. William Caleott and Mr. Albert Calcott. keling Manager—Mr. Barry Sullivan. OYAL STRAND THEATRE JI ‘, Sole 'Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. '3l arke. Belford, Joyce; 'Mesdames Button and Maitland. After Which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chainberlaine ; Mesdames Button, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. GLO'BE THEATRE-ROYAL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. 11. J. P.yron's new and original Drama. MINN. IE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss I3dia Foote, Mrs Stephens, and Miss Brennan: 'ltte:Tra l'avid Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. 4 At 9. A BRFACTI OF PROMI;IP. To conclude with BROWN AND THE BRAHMIN'S: 3 , Tessri Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Hurlston, and J. Clarke Mesdames Lydia Peote, L. Horgan, Brennan, and Stephens: Fountain. Hughes - 1) 0•Y A L C-111tISTY'S. _Ex GREAT ST. GEORGE' S HALL, REGENT -STREET, Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. • ----- EASTER NOVELTIES. Fresh Engagements. in addition to the most powerfn Ethiopian Troupe in the world. Mr. Harry Leslie, thf celebrated American Comedian, appears nightly. Pro nounced by the Pres,: to be the genuine sensation, and thf cmlY Company of Christy Minetrels Nvho have performer. I.y express conimazA before her Majesty the Queen am] the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week: CEIANGE OF PROGRAMME. New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued succens of the Ilttrh.potte Extravaganza, TILE VERY-GRAND DUTCR-S. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Private BOxes, .42 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; Balcony, 2s. Actltg-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. THE " bUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. R. GLENIE deliv2rs the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn. 8 • Starch-green, S ; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford. 0.45. ITHE LATEST EDITION o f "THE SUN" t J. IMMES hegs to inform his friends and the public "TenCrally that he s'applies the LATEST EDITION of " THI BUN "as soon as published.—No.lo, Hampstead-road N.W. THE "SUN" NE Vi T SPAPER.—G. 11. GLENIE . Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road 3eliverx the LATE TeDITION of "THE SUN" at the earlies possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver .copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the countr3 at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles 133 9.45 o'clock 'Ovders by post punctually attended Lo T" LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied }l.i3 Soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and.SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W HARRIS •Temspaper Agent, 4, Blacyjriars-road, London, S. PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies tht LATES C }:Diriox of " TTIN SUN " as soon aa pnb ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " tc be seen Every Evening by 8 10 at Mr. ROBERT 31zAcocr. Britannia, Kensal New-town. ;1 1 /IE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN,' ft giving all the SPORTING NEWS of the day, m a y be seen .JEM +sY MA N TON 'S home, "The Swan anti Horse shoe,' Little Britain, City', E.C. 117 11 O'S G I?, AINGER? LICENSEr VICTUALLE3S . TODACCONTST, SIMPHERTY S-BUAR. I . be SPOIITIN G Kan lON of "THE SUN " can be seen a UR UNGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eigh J'cl)ck. rrilE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN ;Li soon as publi,,Led, E'rery Evening, by AL - F.X.A , Dtql (late Brooks), Newspaper agent, o. 4, 0] Dtrendish street, Oxford-street. LATE EDITION of "'I'IIE SUN " a J. SMITIT..3. 8(Y77-St! , :so.t, Covent-g-anicn. • + T 11 LATE FDITION of "THE SUN" f 1 carmlon Store 3," 7S;Park-street, Camden ,fErII CENSED VICTUALLF,IIS' GLI.‘IIDIAN. IL QI,ENIE, of the SPORTING LIBRARY (2; •4. Connaught-terrace, Hide-park, London, W., begs t infr,rm hiS:cnStomers, and the Licensed Victuallers in genera: that he has been appointed Agent to the above-named paper i. addition to: his agency for the Sporting Edition of " THE SUN,. and can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town cr country. G. It (I. begs to inform the .Ttade that he is Agent for the LATEST EDITION of THE SUN," and can supply it earlier than any other radn in London or Cemintry the evening of publi cation. No cor.necticn with any other persons. Baily's, .Rttff's WriYht's, and M'Call's Guides. All the DaEy Papers,Magazlnes and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent far.the Joint-Stock Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. LO2VDON, MONDAY; APRIL 26, 1869. Because the Emperor NAPOLEONAII. intimated very recently his intention to celebrate the Cen tenary of the birth of the wonderful,Founder of his Dynasty, by bestowing an additions 'pension of ten pounds a year upon each of the veteran soldiers still surviving from the wars of the First, French Empire tnd from the wars of the First—French Revo- lution—£lo a-piece per annum to the war riors of the Great Emperor and of the Great Revolution—simply because of this the announce ment thus made by his Imperial AIAJEs - ry has been received by very many people almost with derision. For ourselves we cannot but regard the derision thus xpre.i.sed as in itself exceedingly- contemptible. It is certainly carrying to an extr, adinirari prin ciple. Ingratitude is notorioisly the basest of vices, even among individuals. Ingratitude on the part of a whole nation is simply detestable. And cer tainly, if another man might say, apres moi le delude, NAPOLEON the GREAT might haVe said, in regard to France, avant moi le deluge. " Chaos," before his ap pearance upon the public scene, had " come again." With all Europe in arms against Revolutionary France, NAPOLEON, on first assuming power, had to build order up,'once more, from the very foundations. By means of the Concordat, lie raised anew the altars of GOD, desecrated, until his advent, by the orgies of infidelity. By means of the immortal Code, with which his name is identified, and which constitutes, in fact, his securest passport to immortality, he was enabled at once to ensure again the just administra tion of the law, first of all throughout France and afterwards, accordingly as his conquering armies ad vanced from one European country to another, ' throughout the chief part of the natioas of Christen dom. Wars were forced upon him by Coalition after Coalition. Two only of the NAPOLEONIC wars were distinctly of his own creation—the war against Spain, nto which he was tempted by the discreditable and even disgraceful degeneracy of the then reigning family at Madrid, the fatuous CHARLES IV., his profligate Queen, their contemptible and faithless son FERDI NAND VII., and his mother's frivolous paramour EMANUEL GODOY, Prince of the Peace—the other wantonly - provoked war being the one ad ventured upon, in 1812, against Russia, the .)tie commenced by the triumphal advance across the Neirnen, and drawing towards i - s close in the di..eaatrons retreat a'21033 the Borodino. Uthorwise than in those t7,.0 instance, it is dir.otly :Jntrary to the teachings o? history to assrt that the First NAPOLEON was the tlggressor in that long series of wars in which the provecation always came from one or anotbt - r of the great anti-Gallicaa Coalitions. Co charge NAPOLEON with all the bloodshed, therefore, of those sanguinary tiwcs, is simply an absurdity, is simply a contradiction of notorious facts, is simply a vio!ation of common-sense. He wielded the sword of France as a great warrior, as the greatest of all warriors. lle ruled Prance, he ruled Europe from his imperial throne, as a great monarch, as a new SEsos- TFIIE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at L JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wehington,"Wellington-street, Strand. sPANISII GOVERNMENT THREE PER CENT. LOAN, 1869. For Fifty Millions of Dollars effective, in Bonds of the Consolidated Three per Cent. Debt. Authorised by Act of the Cortes under date of 31st March, 1869. Messrs J. S. MORGAN and CO. are authorised by the Cohtractors to RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS for .£8,000,00G nominal (part of the above Loan). The Bonds for this Loan will be to bearer, and Fill be similar in amounts and form to the existing New Three per Cent. Spanish Bonds; they will bear interest at 3 per cent:lserannum (from 31st December, 1868), payable half yearlyi on the 30th June and 31st December in each year ; in London, at the fixed exchange of 4s. 3d. sterling, and in Paris at 5f.40c. per dollar. The subscription price in London is 291 per cent. of the nominal amount, and will be payable as follows : .5 per cent. on Application. 5 „ „ Allotment. 6 „ „ 25th May, 18e9. „ „ 30th June { Less Coupon of 1} per cent. less income-tax. „ 2d August., 1869. a 71 Ml Taking ilito consideration the accrued interest and the pnytrn.nt by instalments, the return to the subscribers, at the above- issue p-iee, is equal to abut 101 per cent. S:;bseriters may. on allotment, or on any of the d•tys fixed for payment of the instalments, anticipate the future payments under discount at the rate of 5 per cent. par annum. Subscriptions will be received on the 22d and 23d Apri (instant). Applications from the country posted on the 23d instau will be received. In cases where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned without deduction, and where an allotment is made of an amount smaller than that applied for, the sur plus of deposit will be applied towards the amount pay able on allotment. In default of payment of the respective instalments at their due dates all previous payments will be liable to for feiture. Scrip Certificates to bearer will be exchanged against Allotment Letters and Receipts as soon as possible. These Scrip Certificates will be exchanged for Bonds to bearer as soon as practicable after payment in full. Applications must be made on the annexed form, which may be obtained of Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., N0..22, Old Broad-street, E. C. _ _ _ Subscription lists for the loan will be opened simulta neously in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Frank fort, Brussels, Antwerp, and Vienna ; but Scrip Certificates issued in respect of London Allotments can only be paid on, and exchanged for Bonds, in London. 22, Old 13road-street, London, E.O , 21st April, 1869. I No. -- SPANIIOII GOVERNMENT TIIREE PER CENT. I LOAN, 1.69. FORM OF APPLICATION. ' To be left with Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., after pay ment to them of the preliminary deposit of 5 per cent. on :he nominal amount applied for. Gentlemen,—Having paid the sum of I hereby request that you will allot me .£ of the above Loan on the terms of the Prospectus issued by you, and I hereby agree to accept that, or any smaller amount which may be allotted to me, and to pay the'further In stalments according to the terms of the said Frospectus.— I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Signature Address (in full) It I Date To Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAY3fARKET. TH4.4.yENrNo, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers. Clark, Gordorr,ite ; Miss Fanny Wright, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. S4thern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, ex. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. A. r Sothern. Concluding with MARE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Comiikoinee at 7. PRINCESS S TIIEATRE. .80.1 e Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THra EtTNTNO, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK : Mr Waiter,Lacy, Mr D. Leeson, Miss Rose Leeiereq, Sc. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C 4MBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to El, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart; Cgilatta Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grey, &c, And WHITEBAIT AT qRE l• NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL 4TRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Miciageress. Mrs. Swanborough. Tills EVENING, at 7.30, TkIE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton: JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; % , esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with RUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TTrIB EvitNnce, at 7, MINMB or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAH3IINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of:Misa M Oliver. .Tilis EVENING, at 7.30, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver. &c. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Sties Marie Wilton TUTS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at S Wednesdays and sturdnys, at 3 and S all the year round ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. TUTS F,VENTNG, at 8, THE ROYAL 011iVINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DI3,TQH—S ROYAL AL !IAMBI? A PALACE. EE BALLET -; Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. is. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfri,mk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mend4yp, 6d. Children under twelve, 64. .5, • t 1111 r, s s :llN f 3) ., 4 ~, ~,~+,F,~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1-69 MIS, as a later CHARaMAGNE. As was said in the Legislative Chamber duritig the reign of Louis ['ilium, immediately before the return of the re- mains of the great Emperor from the Island. of S Ilelena, as was then said in the French Legislative Chamber by the responsible Minister of the Orleans King— ,4 He, NAPOLEON the Great, was the legitimate Sovereign of France. He was both Em peror and King." He was Emperor of the French and King of Italy—to say nothing of his being Lord Paramount or Suzcraine, during the first three lustres of this century, over the majority of the rest of the kingdoms of the European continent. And it is the centenary of the birth of this wonderful being that the reigning sovereign of France, the successor to his name, thi heir to his empire, proposes, surely in a very modest, in a very moderate, manner to celebrate, by bestowing a small addi ti_)nal pension upon the last survivors of his veterans when the ine:norable day shall have c)ine round! In this we can see nothing to derile. In this we can only recognize what, upon the instant, cormnaatls at once our profoundest sympathy and respect. Granted that NAPOLEON the GrtEAT was politically, and in arms, the foe of England. Still, for all that, he was a glorious foe. Twice he went out of his way to address himself personally by letter to the Sovereign of this country, entreating that war should cease and that peace should be established between the two nations. His advances were graciously, and frankly, and mag nanimously made—but they were in no way responded to. When those gigantic wars were at last closed by the final crash at Waterloo, NAPOLEON wrote again to the then Royal head of our Government— not to the King, who was by that time mad, but to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent—saying, among other things, that he mop to him like THEM - STOCLES. [Fancy, talking of THEMISTOCLES to Fam the Fourth !) And basely was.thatconfidence—reposed in "the most generous of his enemies"--falsified by those six purgatorial years of insult to which the Captive of Saint Helena was, thereupon, infamously subjected. That Captive of St. Helena being, in reality, all the the while—despite all those miserable and wanton humiliations—not merely one of the greatest men who ever lived, but, if we for one, out of our Eng lish heart and julgment, might say so, the greatest ! BEEANGER—but then he was a Fronchman —has called NAPOLEON, emphatically, " le plus grand poete du monde." How, again, has Lord BYRON, who was, on the contrary, intensely an Englishman, how has Lord BYRON spoken of NAPOLEON, when, inci dentally, in his noblest poem, celebrating the event of NAPOLEON'S fall at Waterloo ? " There fell the greatest, nor the worst, of men !" how, again, was NAPOLEON spoken of by the Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES Fox--one who knew him personally, one who, among our English states men, might have personally stood forth as the very type of JOHN BULL? Why Fox, speaking of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, when he was First Consul, said with all possible emphasis and deliberation, "1 believe him to be the best, as 1 am certain he is the greatest of men." Aud it is this pre eminently Great Man, this Soldier among Soldiers, this Lawgiver among Lawgivers, this Conqueror of the nations of Europe, this author of the Code Napoleon, this Founder of the Reigning Dynasty of France, the hundredth anniversary of whose birth on the 15th of August - , 1769, now rapidly ap proaching on the 15th of August, 1869, NAPOLEON 111. now proposes to commemorate by bestowing an additional ten pound pension upon those of his veteran warriors who are still surviving ! Surely, we say, in any such proposal, so far from there being any provocation to derision, there is only reason, on the contrary, for what we ourselves have here already expressed in its regard, namely, for the profoundest respect, and the profoundest sym pathy. Foun or five years ago London was so scandalised by the outrageous immorality of the Haymarket and adjacent streets that it compelled Parliament to pass a measure for the closing of the refreshment houses between the hours of one and four in the morning. The Act was so effectual that it was extended " per missively " to other towns. It was too effectual for the Persons affected by it. They have never ceased to struggle against it. First they tried stealthy evasion ; when they were found out they tried wholesale corruption ; and it is but a few months ago that a whole division of police had to be drafted off to another part of London because they had been utterly demoralised by the denizens of the Haymarket. But valour is sometimes the better part of discretion, and so it has proved in the present case. The impunity which they could not secure by secrecy nor by bribery they have secured by openly defying the law. The ► whole of the infamous crew which live upon vice have waxed bolder and bolder, and now it seems that they need fear nothing so long as they obey the injunction peeect fortiter. When the authorities at Scotland-yard discovered that their men had been tampered with, they at once set to work energeti cally. They sent the offending constables to another part of London where they would not be exposed to temptation ; they instituted prosecution after prose cution against the keepers of the night-houses ; and as the stipendiary magistrate always convicted - these people where he had evidence to justify a conviction, he struck terror into their hearts. But suddenly they found new allies. The wisdom of our Legislature has decreed that there is an appeal from the magistrate who is well acquainted with the matter he has tried to the magistrates who know nothing about it. It has decreed that if the borough magistrate, who must know the requirements of his own town, decides that no fresh liquor licenses shall be granted, the applicant may appeal to a bench of magis trates fifty miles away, and these, though they may never have set foot in the town, may revise the decision of their, brethren. It has decreed that if the stipen diary magistrate, a lawyer by profession, and a judge long practised in the art of weighing evidence and sifting facts, convicts the keeper of a brothel on what he deems ample testimony, the county magistrates, who know nothing of the law save what their clerk tells them, who may be landlords of the tenants who have been convicted—it decrees that these irrespon sible and comparatively ignorant persons may set aside the conviction of the trained professional magistrate. Thus there came to the aid of the Haymarket haridans help from Olympus at a time when they were driven to despair. The dens ex machind on this occasion was the Middlesex bench of magistrates, who reversed the decisions of Mr. KNOX, the Marl borough -street stipendiary. These gentlemen declared that before there could be a con vic tion that a h ouse was a brothel there must be clear demonstration that prostitution was carried on there. We do not know if their Worships were joking. If they were, the joke was a very " smutty " one. But it had its effect. There was hilarity in the Haymarket ; there were pans in Manton-street; and the lecherous crew shouted for joy, and determined to shew their grati tude to their deliverer s by more flagrant and out rageous indecency than ever. Thus it came to pass that w i den one day last week one of the chaste pro/eyes of the Middlesex bench was brought up before Mr K2:ox, charged with harbouring harlots, that magistrate said he could do nothing. True, the evidence was suffi ciently complete to satisfy ordinary persons; but his superiors had required evidence so extraordinary, so almost impossible to obtain, so demoralising to the police if they did obtain it, that it was useless for him to convict. Thus the reform of the Hay market is suddenly arrested in full course, and the Three Estates of the Realm are stultified. Frankly, - we do not regret that this event has happened, It will call ouch attention to the present 9 magisterial system as would never have been obtained otherwise. The Middlesex bench have now given us the " frightful example " which was needed to illustrate the evils of conflicting jurisdiction, and the utter unfitness of country gentlemen to pre side over the morals of our large towns. The advo cates of a reform of the licensing system could not desire an event more favourable to their cause than this ; the supporters of the Permissive Bill could not ask for clearer demonstration of their principle than this. Fortunately this thing has not been done in a corner. It has been done in the metropolis, within a mile of the Houses of the Legislature. It must be patent, glaring, to countless M.P.s. Equally flagrant acts of this kind have been done elsewhere at the extremities of the kingdom ; but Haymarket revelry and devilry at two o'clock in the morning will prove too much even for our by no means squeamish legislators. IT seems only too probable that the friends of Free Trade will be once more called upon to fight the battle which they so hardly won a generation back. The hope that Protection would be gradually confined to those young nations whose experience has not been great enough to teach them commercial wisdom has proved vain. A contest in which the selfishness of the few is enlisted against the good of the many is not to be disposed of so easily. In England, as we have seen, the cause of Protection is not altogether friendless; in France its advocates form a very powerful party. When the treaty of commerce between the two countries expires, its renewal will, on the other side of the Channel, at least, be strenuously opposed. For some time past the old cry has revived. Certain manufactures, and especially the cotton trade of Normandy, are not in a flourishing condition at present. The communities inte rested ascribe their misfortunes to the injurious effects of commercial treaties, particularly that with England. Before the Treaty of 1860 was concluded, the cotton spinners of Normandy entered their protest against it. In reply, they were promised improved communication—canals and other advantages. But after nine years' experience they have found their case hopeless. Bankruptcies have been very frequent of late, many mills have stopped altogether, and those which still struggle on only work half-time. They have found themselves unable to compete with the industry of countries more favourably situated, and they pray for a protective tariff to restore the balance. This party has its representatives in the Corps Legislatif, and it is not altogether reassuring to find that the champions of Protection are chiefly to be found amongst the Liberals, and are headed by M. TIIIERS. The majority, indeed, is in favour of Free Trade, as it is in favour of everything Imperial. But the Left has contributed to mix up this commerial question with the great political dispute of the day ; it unites the cry for parliamentary government with the demand for a high tariff. It is just possible that the EMPEROR, compelled to yield some thing, may prefer his own prerogatives to industrial progress. He may, to avoid political liberty, concede Protection. The enemies of Free Trade in France have found no new argument with which to uphold their position. Inde e d, w h en a politician of M . T inEns ' s intellectual stamp can do no better than revive the old fallacies of thirty years back, it is clear that the case is not one for logic. The essence of Protection is the sacrifice of a whole nation to the interests of a few producers; and M. TRIERS seeks to do this, not because the pleas in favour of such a policy are sounder than formerly, but simply because he imagines that the producers will be benefited. He complains that the price of textile fabrics is so low that French manufacturers cannot profitably produce them, forgetting, as Protectionists always do forget, that the minions of Frenchmen gain, if the few suffer, by every centime struck off the price of any commodity. England can manu facture cotton goods much more largely and more cheaply than France, but the result of this is beneficial, not to England only, but to all the world. For one manufacturer who may suffer by an influx of cheap goods, a thousand general consumers gain. Nelclier .yeech, nor the debate .f which it formed part, were creditable to the political economy of the Corps Legislatif. M. TIIIERS quoted the prosperity of America as a triumph of Protection ; when the truth is that the manufactures of America are not prosperous. The most rigid and special protection fails to promote manufacturing industry in the United States, whilst to the general community the high price of necessaries is becoming insupportable. The day after this debate some of the worthy deputies were fiercely inveighing against the American Government for imposing such a high duty on French brandy that the exportation had greatly fallen off ! Such is government on the prin ciples of self-interest. If selfish considerations be set aside, and the Anglo-French Treaty judged by its fruits, there can be no fear as to the result. Since 1860 the increase of commerce between England and F rance h as b een so immense, so exceptional, that there can be no hesitation in ascribing, it to the influence of the Treaty. It came into operation in 1860. During the three years immediately preceding this date our imports from France were of the round value of 12, 13, and 17 millions respectively. In 1865 they reached 31 millions ; in 1866, 37 millions ; in 1867, 33 millions. We exported to France 11 millions in 1857, 0 in 1858, and 9 in 1859. In the years 1865-6-7 the numbers were 25, 2(1, and 23 millions. It will be seen that the figures have not uniformly increased year by year. Sometimes an early year gives better results than a later one. But since the Treaty the trade between the two countries has far more than doubled. We take from France five times as much silk, twice as many clocks, three times as many eggs, fifteen times as much butter, two and a half times as many gloves, and twelve times as many hats and bonnets as before the treaty. On our side our sales of textile fabrics to Prance have increased ninefold. Surely the two nations have gained by an interchange of this magnitude, by an increase of commerce which is quite as great on one side as on the :other. Surely such results are not to be set aside because things are dull and bank ruptcies frequent in Normandy. Nobody can desire that a trade which has prospered alone`timeslidiild fall off ; but commercial success is not kept up by State aid. It is quite impossible that the Anglo-French Treaty can be wholly repealed, and the old system resorted to. This is not what the Protectionists hope or expect. They will be satisfied with small things at first. But it is this first in sidious attack upon the great principles of commerce that, with these results before them, Freetraders must guard against. INTERNATIONAL HORTIC ULTURA L EXHIBITION. A grand exhibition of flowers, fruit, vegetables, garden architecture, machines, and implements, plant houses, and garden furniture, will be held at Hamburg from the 2d till the 12th of September, 1869, contemporaneously with the congress of German botanists, amateurs, and gardeners. The exhibition has been warmly taken up on the Con tinent, and a very influential committee has been formed to represent the United Kingdom of Great Britain on the occasion. The Hew. M. J. B,rkelry, rector of Sibbertoft Market, Harborough, has been appointed by the Government her Majesty's commissioner, and Mr. George Eyles, of the loyal Horticultural Society's Gardens, South Kensington, act: as secretary. The committee have sent out invitations to all our lealing horticulturists and others to exhibit, anil steps are iu progre-s' to secure the saf e conveyance of the English contributions to Hamburg. The prize list is a very rich one, as much as 500 tinders being offered in one of the classes open to public competition. :We doubt not but the Eng li3l.l horticulturists will do their best to maintain the high reputation they have to the present time enjoyed, and that an exhibition of unusual magni ficence will be the result of the united exertions of the variotte committees here and abroad. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, April 25. The miserable Belgian railway dispute has for a long while past lingered in abeyance. The two parties have been unable to come to terms. France will have the two Belgian lines leased to the French company, and Belgium will not consent to this. It was therefore considered certain that the negotiations would fall through, and that M. Frere-Orban would return to his native heath, leaving this dangerous quarrel unsettled. But the Inclependance Beige hints that this is not to be. Its Paris correspondent, who has hitherto been so well informed on this question, says that the departure of the Belgian Minister from Paris has been delayed, and that there is yet a chance of coming to terms. It would appear, however, that this chance has been created only by M. Frere-Orban giving way. He has made a proposition, the Inchipendance is assured, which gives ground for the hope that the difference between the Belgian and the French proposi tion may ultimately be split. What, then, are the terms of the new offer made by M. Frixe-Orban ? The Ind tpendance believes that the Belgian Government will take the Luxembourg Railway, and will allow the French company the lease of part of the line. We are nut told how large a portion of the line will thus be given up ; but it is clear that the little State is finding the pressure too great. The Opposition are very confident in face of the great and rapidly-approaching struggle. Predicting the result of an election is always the most hazardous of prophecies ; but the Opposition believe that they can safely count upon a certain gain. They do not hope to overturn the majority, but they are confident that their minority will look less deplorably small than at present. Some candidates of the Third Party are thought to stand particularly well. Who "L'Homme qui Rit" may be, the readers of M. Victor Hugo's book must wait to learn ; but everybody agrees that " L'Homme qui ne Fit pas " is M. Emile 011ivier. Truly the way of transgressors is hard. The man who tries to serve two parties at once must expect to get into trouble straightway. M. 011ivier is supported and opposed by both the Government and the Oppo sition. He is candidate in the Var department, where the Government do not want him, and where the Opposition do. The Imperialists hope to get in an official candidate, whilst the Liberals cannot hope to return any-body more Liberal than M. 011ivier. On the other hand, M. 011ivier is candidate for the third circumscription of Paris. Here the Government would be glad to see him returned. No official candidate is likely to do much good in Paris, and the authorities, therefore, prefer a moderate man to a Red. But for the Republicans M. 011ivier is not advanced enough, and therefore they are starting an ultra to oppose him. Why this complexity ? Simply because M. 011ivier believes that liberty is compatible with the Empire ; and in 1867 he made the famous overtures for a Liberal Government—overtures which M. Rouher so successfully bucked. The unfortunate deputy stands, therefore, in the common, but unenviable, position of trying to please both parties, and pleasing neither. M. Lesseps has arrived at Marseilles, and is fairly en canipagne. The 23rd and 24th of May are now spoken as the most likely date for the elections. The Corps L6gislatif presents a woeful aspect of desola tion. The deputies are few, melancholy, and languid. They are agitated, as one may suppose condemned men generally are, but it is not a healthy, business-like agita tion. The last sitting or two has been remarkable for the number of ladies who were present. Never have I seen so many there before. They were come, said one wag, to hear the " Song of the Swan ;" but, whatever may be the attraction, the few deputies who occupy the deserted benches are lost in their audience. It looked like sionary meeting. The sittings have lately been very long, but everything, it is hoped, will be finished on Monday. M. de Montalembert is much better. A lamentable accident happened to a legerdemain performer at the Cirque Napol6on on Friday. The unfortunate conjuror, Dr. Epstein, was commencing a trick in which he made use of a gun, which he himself charged with a kandkerchief thrust into the barrel by means of a ramrod. He then offered the weapon to a spectator, with directions to take good aim and fire it at the doctor, promising to receive the charge on the point of a sword. The man refused, but another person accepted. The word to fire was given, but the moment after the piece went off the doctor staggered and fell to the ground, exclaiming, "I am a dead man !" Several persons hastened to his assistance, and a surgeon being sent for, the unfortunate performer was removed to his own residence in a very dangerous state. It appears that the thin piece of wood used in ramming down the charge had broken in the barrel, and that a piece of it perforated the conjuror's tight lung. The excitement was, of course, very great, though few of the spectators knew the danger of the wound. The poor doctor is hardly likely to recover. Il TER,NATIONAL YACHT RACE. _.......- Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the celebrated yacht Cambria, has thrown out a challenge to America for a race across the Atlantic, to compete for the cup which was carried of by America some time ago. Some correspondence has taken place respecting the conditions of the contest. The Cambria has arrived off Brighton to take in stores preparatory to a short experimental cruise, and Mr. Ashbury entertained a party of friends on board. In the course of some remarks which he made, ho declared that neither trouble nor expense should be spared to uphold the character of the country in yachting matters. For seventeen years no one had had the pluck to compete for the cup now in the possession of the Americans. He thought it would be better for the vessel he competed with to be of the tonnage of the Cambria, and not double. He had, however, submitted the question of measurement to the Royal Yachting Club and a Yachting Congress, and he would abide by that decision. He had thrown down the gauntlet in a perfectly fair manner, and it was for the Americans to take it up. GALL ANT RESCUE The Jornal do Contniercio of Lisbon, of April 8, gives an account of an act of extraordinary gallantry performed by Lord Walter Kerr, commander of H.M.S. Hercules. It seems that, when sending down topgallant yards at sunset, on Sunday, April 4, a man fell overboard from the maintopgallant yard. The commander, Lord Walter Kerr, who was on the poop, carrying-on, the instant he saw the man fall into the racing tide of the Tagus, at once flung off his cap and jacket, and plunged after him, Had the noble and gallant officer taken time to think, he might have, without prejudice to his courage, well have hesitated before placing his life at the mercy of a current of such well-known danger. The man was at some distance from the ship when Lord Walter jumped overboard, but after considerable exertion, he reached and supported the unfortunate man until both were rescued by a boat from the ship. We heartily concur with our Portuguese contemporary in the warm eulogium which it passes upon this singularly fortunate act of daring humanity. The chances for any man overboard in the Tagus are few enough, and, but for the gallantry of his commander, the man had no chance at all, having become insensible from a blow. The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction of Henry Jenkin, sentenced to death for murder at the last Bristol Assizes. Mr. Charles Dickens was seen. by Dr. Watson on Friday, who declared that the novelist must betake himself to entiro rest, and must do so at once. Dr. Watson has for bidden his patient to read any more. The Rev. H. Wix, of Swanmore, Isle of Wight, has been served with the Bishop's monition, forbidding him any longer to continue the Ritualistic practices for which his church has become noted. A man named 13e1Iis, master of a small vessel, was drinking at a public-houso at Connor's Quay, near Chester, the other day, and he quarrelled with and fought a man named Jones. Bellis's mate, named Hughes, thinking the captain in danger, interfered, but Bellis turned upon him, knocked him down, and kicked him on the ribs. The result was that both stripped and fought, and in the second round Hughes struck Dellis on the neck, bursting the jugular vein. On being picked up the latter was quite dead. Hughes is in custody. On Friday, a conference, called by the Yorkshire Board of Education—the first of a number of similar ga therings it is proposed to hold in various parts of the county—took place at Sheffield, to ascertain the opinion of the public of that district., as to the best course to adopt in order to get at the large numbers of children who aro at present living with little or no education. The Mayor pre sided, and the Rev. Canon Sale and other gentlemen took part in the discussion, the general opinion expressed heir , favourable to the introduction in some form of a con' system of eclucatior. A correspondent at Douglas, Mc of Man, sends to a contemporary an account of a scandalous outrage prpetratod by a body of miners at Kirk Michael. It seems that a dispute has arisen between Mr. Tetley, who is a very largo shareholder in the Kirk Michael Lead and Copper Mining Company, and tho directors of that concert); and in consequence work in the mine has been almost completely suspended. The men aro under the impression (rightly or wiengly—wrongly, the writer of the letter says) that they have been deprived of employment by Mr. Tetley, and in rivenge they have on two c c asio Is bombarded his residence With large stones, smashing the windows and placing the lives of the inwates in jeopardy. They have also sent to 31r, Todoxilottoriltriatomilm WAILUaia, PUBLIC PETITIONS. The fifteenth report on Public Petitions displays some interesting features., The opponents of the Sunday open ing of the British Museum and similar institutions have marshalled a formidable array of names, 53,320 persons having signed their petitions. In favour of the change 3,861 have petitioned, but a few officers of the East London Free Sunday Society have petitioned the House to disre gard the protests of "persons residing in country dis tricts " against the removal of the axisting restric tions, as they cannot possibly represent the feelings and opinions of residents of the 'metropolis. The Irish Church, as in the former reports, fills a promi nent place. Against the bill there are 293,000 malcon, tents, while it has 50,000 supporters. Coming to details however, it is more popular. For disendowment there are 144,000 names, against it only 18,000. The protests against disestablishment are apparently recognised as ineffectual, since there is but one petition with three signa tures with this object. The Temperance party continue to send in petitions for prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, in favour of the Beerhouses Bill, (signed 1,3%20,000 persons), and for alteration of the licensing laws. The friends of Sunday and Ragged Schools have bestirred themselves in their favour, the petitions for the bill relating to them having more than 22,000 signatures. The bill for abolishing imprisonment for debt is not popu lar; only one petition with an official signature is in its favour, while 10,154 persons have signed the 119 petitions for an alteration of the bill. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND AT THE GOLD DIGGINGS. The John o'Croal Journal says :—" Ms Grace the Duke of Sutherland arrived at Dunrobin Castle on Monday night, and passe d Helmsdale on Tuesday on his visit to the diggings at Kildonan. About a mile from Kildonan-house, he was met by a large assemblage of diggers, etc,, who took the horses out of the carriage and dragged it in triumphal pro cession for a considerable distance. His Grace finally alighted, and walked at the head of the procession, which was led off by a couple of pipers, to the tent village. Arrived at the tents the diggers clustered round his Grace, who ex pressed the pleasure he felt in seeing around him so many good-looking, stalwart fellows engaged in such a novel and interesting occupation. Ile hardly knew how to thank them for the splendid and enthusiastic reception they had given him on that his first visit to the Kildonan diggings—a reception which was on his part totally unexpected ; but in order to reciprocate in some measure such an expression of their good-will, ho would have great pleasure in ordering an ox and a cask of beer to be sent down to them from Dunrobin, and he would take the liberty of suggesting, at the same time, that Mr. Gilchrist, the discoverer of the gold fields, should be elected to the post of carver. The Duke also referred to the rapidity with which the village had sprung up, and the gratifying symp toms he saw around him of its continued success. Loud and prolonged cheers greeted his Grace's address. The Duke then visited the scene of the diggers' labours, taking an active personal part in the washing out of several dishes, in ono of which he was fortunate enough to find a pretty respectable nugget, weighing a pennyweight, which, ho said, he would have made into a pin as a memento of his first visit to the gold fields of Kildonan Before leaving, the Duke was presented by Mr. Gilchrist with the gold collected by the diggers some time ago, as a mark of their appreciation of his Grace's kind ness in allowing the gold-fields to be worked so long without let or hindrance, or restriction of any kind. Dr. Rutherford also presented the nugget of '2 oz. 17 grains which was found in the Suisgill burn. It is said that a gentleman connected with a London mining firm met the Duke on the ground, and made an offer which sounds almost fabulous for the whole right of working the gold fields." It is said that a French company is upon the point of undertakingthe construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. The mean height is about 80 foot above the sea level, and the width about four miles. At a special meeting of the Manchester City Council on Friday, a resolution was adopted fixing the salary of the stipendiary magistrate to be appointed in suc cession to Mr. Robinson Fowler, who has resigned, at £l,OOO. The police have captured Jenkins, one of the men who recently escaped so cleverly from Dundee prison. He bad not been able to leave the town. His comrade is still at large. The County Court Clerk of Bishop Auckland has embezzled £lBO, chiefly belonging to the Highway Board, and has disappeared from the country. A reward of .£lO is offered for his apprehension. The alleged excessive ritual at Sefton Parish Church, where the disgraceful disturbances have lately taken place, seem likely to be about to be invostigatcd by some legal tribunal. The churchwardens have forwarded com plaints of the practices to the bishop, praying fur an inquiry. The Jaw o' Groat Journal understands that a requisition to Mr. James Trail], requesting him to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Caithness on his uncle's retirement, is in course of signature through. out the county. Mr. Traill has been visiting Caithness, it i s alleged with political views, although this is contra dicted. lie will probably be opposed by Sir John G. Sinclair, who is an advanced Liberal, an advocate of the Ballot, and in favour of the assimilation of the county and burgh franchises. SPITE AND INFL UENCE. —The London corre spondent of the Elgin Courant writes : " There are noblemen and noble men. There is a certain notorious Scotch duke, whose name is well known in sporting and other perhaps less creditable circles, whose application to be admitted a member of the Jockey Club has been refused by a majority of that tolerably latitudinarian body. I believe, however, that the refusal is based more upon the workings o f a private spite than upon public grounds, however strong the latter might be. This is not the first occa sion that this young gentleman has been served in the same manner, and the hostility on both occasions is said to be traceable to the active efforts of a gentleman whose turf career was on a very colossal scale, but who has recently, on being elected M.P. for a division of an English county, sold off his stud and relinquished the turf. The duke in question is rather given to the display of the muscular powers with which Dame Nature has gifted him, and on one occasion, I have heard, his fist came in unpleasant contact with the gentleman in ques tion, an application which was followed up by another from the toe of his boot, and the remembrance of this cas tigation has, it is said, operated unfavourably on the claims of the youthful peer to an entrance into the exclusive circle of the Jockey Club." The Boston Pilot publishes a correspondence that has passed between Mr. John Foley, an Irish artist in America, and Mr. G. F. Train. The artist presents to Mr. Train, whom he styles the future President of America, a picture of himself in the presidential robes. Mr. Train graciously accepts the gift, and is compli mentary in return. He recounts also his inviolable deter mination to achieve the freedom of Ireland. Both the writers express themselves with the degree of inflation which is customary when patriots of that stamp give vent to their intentions. Mr. Thomas llalliwell, postmaster of Leigh, was on Friday charged at the Leigh petty sessions, at the in stance of the Postmaster-General, with embezzling the sum of £2O. Mr. Jennings, solicitor, of Manchester, who con ducted the case, said the money was paid over to Mr. Halliwell by a Mr. Wilkinson, on behalf of the Well intended Benefit Society, for deposit in the Post-office Savings Bank. It was the duty of Mr. Balliwell, on receipt of the money, to have given one of the Savings Banks books to Mr. Wilkinson, with the sum de posited entered therein. Instead of that he gays Mr. Wilkinson a common receipt for the money. Subse quently Mr. Wi:kiuson sent to London, unknown to Mr. Balliwell, to have the interest added, and the fraud was then discovered. Mr. Halliwell was apprehended, but was admitted to bail on Tuesday last, and since then he has absconded. It was supposed that there would be several other charges agai!ryiaim. On the application of Mr. Jennings, a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Mr. Halliwoll. E l‘ b r e °ll af d t a e Y rno l o a n s A G three l ; O nt 51it....,0 abort 3 t , , an th a e mu l s 9 in th g incident occurred in the British Museum. It appears that three young ladies, apparently sisters, and of the respective ages of from 19 to 22 or 23 years, were passing along, taking the greatest interest in everything they saw. At length they chanced to come upon a sleeping Cupid. There he lay, with a most delicious dream-smile on his face ; they gathered round him, and, with the true sym pathy of wotnan, soon began to smile also. " What a sweet child !" exclaimed one. " What a dear, lovely boy !" sighed another ; and they gozed and revelled in silent ecstasy over this embodiment of the sculptor's genius. But the eldest of the three certainly put the climax on the whole, for, without any idea of the possibility of the thing, or the logical sequence of what she was about to say, she breathed forth, " What a handsome man he would have made !! !" They all looked silently at each other, and at the dreaming marble before them, when, with that touch of nature which is said to make the whole world kin, they each bent over the sleep ing god of Love, kissed him in turn, and went away with lingering looks behind. Like most other mundane joys, it had, however, its shadow. A young art student waS quietly esconced behind a group of statuary sketching something before him, and perfectly hidden from* sight of the ladies. When he saw the unusual turn ‘vhich affairs had taken, he crouched down, and almost /Andra self in his boots. .Poor fellow, what a - Barmer,ide feast was 141,3_1---AUJW6ro STATEMENT OF THE CONVICT WILTSHIRE. The convict Wiltshire, now that the commutation of his sentence is secure, has made a long written statement to the Rev. H. G. Layton, chaplain of the Gloucester County Gaol. In it he tells how, after leaving the public house on the Saturday night, he and Milsom found the woman lying in the mud, and he pulled her hair, and said he thought he knew her. He accuses Milsom of inciting him to the first offence, and then brings against him 3 much more serious accusation. The two, he says, left her after the first abuse of her, but returned almost at once and pulled her about to see if she had any money. During the operation, he alleges, Mi!som's dog caught hold of either her clothes or her flesh, and Milsom kicked the dog aside, and then bitched his fingers in the woman's gown , and tore it down to her breast. The two lifted her on the bank, and then, fearing some one was approaching , went away to the convict's brother's. On the way there, as Wiltshire alleges, Milsom wiped blood off his hand on the grass. The most important part of the statement is the convict's admission that when he left his brother's be went back to the woman, us to which there was no evidence at the trial. He says : " I went on down to my home, and when I come some way down the lane I heard something, and thought upon the woman. I went along about ten yards farther, and I heard it again shout ' Murder !' I stopped, and looked about, and went in through the gate after a bit of hay for my donkey, and there I saw the woman with her head hanging down inside the railings, and her hands down. She was lying across the palings on her stomach, with one foot caught by the shoe in the thorn, and the other foot on the rail, and her clothes all down over her head. I asked her to get up. She did not seem to move. I pulled her shoe out of the thorn, and let her fall over. She cried 'Murder three times, and I went away and left her, and went on to ref home. He then makes further accusations against - Milsom. Most of the details of his confession are so revolting that they cannot be published. .We are told • that he has not denied throughout that the woman died from suffocation, but that when asked whether he placed his hand on her mouth he replied that he couldn't say, and would rather talk about something else. On Saturday his wife received a letter from him, in which he says, " I am thankful to the Almighty ,that my life is to be, spared, but am very sorry to think I shall be parted from you as long as I live. The chaplain tells me . I am to be sent into penal servitude for life, but I am very thankful I have got this instead of being hung. Everything was got ready for me to be hung last Monda3r, and on Friday I gave up all the world to die, but I couldn't get my wife off my mind. I cannot tell you how very thankful I am for my life being spared till God shall see fit to call me." He then says he thinks the trouble fallen upon him is a punishment for his desertion of religion. MURDER AT BRISTOL. A most brutal murder has been committed at Bristol. It became known on Saturday night that Police-constable Hill, No. 273, of the St. Philip's division of the Bristol police force, had been brutally murdered, whilst engaged in the execution of his duty, by a young man of between 1 9 and 20 years of age, named William Pullin, who works at the Steam Saw Mills, Redcross-street. At about nine o'clock on Saturday night, Pullin, who resides in Brick-street, was in company with a young fellow about a year his junior, who resides near him, and the two began illusing a donkey in West-street. Their conduct was viewed by Mr. Curtis, a master baker, residing in the same street, and that tradesman went into the road and remonstrated with then.). They were very abusive, used bad language towards him in the street, and went into his shop and created a great disturbance. He threatened to give them into custody, and followed them with that intention into Gloster-lane, where it happened that th 2: murdered constable was on duty. Pullin became Violonts -- and assaulted Mr. Curtis in the presence of the officer, who then arrested him. The prisoner, instead of going quietly to the station-house, resisted and assaulted the officer, and a severe struggle ensued, in the course of which the two parties got into the passage of a public house called the Three Horse Shoes. When there Pullin used a knife, and stabbed the constable desperately just above the knee on the left leg. The injured man called out • that he was stabbed, and began to bleed profusely ; and some of the bystanders, who had previously sent to the station-house for a reserve force, despatched messengers for medical assistance. Mr. Davis, surgeon, arrived, and a cab was procured to remove the constable to the infirmary, but the medical gentleman, seeing that the wounded officer was fast sinking from the effects of the bleeding, ordered that he should be driven to the station-house, which was very much nearer. Before he reached that place he had breathed his last. It is believed that the wound, which was some four inches long sloping upwards, had divided some of the large blood vessels. The alleged murderer, Pullin, was arrested before his victim had expired, and lie has been remanded on the capital charge, to await the result of the coroner's inquest. Allen has also been appre hended upon a charge of assaulting Mr. Curtis. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. For several months past Philadelphia has been excited by a tragedy. On a Sunday night in November last, Mrs. Mary E. Hill, an elderly widow lady, was murdered in her own residence, by a blow from a poker, and her body thrown out of a window. Her son-in-law, George S. Twitchell, and his wife, Camilla (Mrs. lE ll ' 3 daughter), who lived at and were in the house at the time, were arrested for the murder. Twitehell was a young, weak, and inoffensive creature, while his wife -several years older than he—was a termagant whom he had been forced to marry by his father, whose mistress the woman had been. Twitchell and his wife were arraigned, and were allowed separate trials. The evidence against them was purely circumstantial. The husband was tried first, and found guilty after nearly two weeks' trial ; the wife was then tried, and the prosecution abandoning the case, she was liberated. Twitchell was sentenced to be hanged on the Bth of April. To save Twitchell every device known to the law was resorted to. His case was carried through the courts. The Governor was besought fox pardon, but would not interfere in the case. TwitcheLra wife occasionally visited him in his cell, but treated him with coldness, and evidently was anxious to get rid 01 him, but dreaded the revelations he might make. FinallY they quarrelled, and Twitchell made a confession, in whict he charged his wife with committing the murder; said hi knew nothing of it until she woke him from sleep on the night it occurred and she told him of it ; that he took aP oath never to tell. This statement was believed by sonic and doubted by others, popular opinion setting a brand upon the wife. The day of vecution app r oached. and Twitch e ll' s con diti on eac h c l ay b eto k ene d his fear of death ; he was broken-hearted, nervous, and terribly agitated. On the 7th of April he was so pros , trated as to need stimulants. He took leave of his father and friends, his wife not coming near him, and finally had an interview with a fellow-culprit who was to he executed with him. They were locked up in separate cells for the night, but on the morning of the Bth of April Twitcher was found dead. H e had killed himself by taking prussic acid. At noon Eaton walked out to the gallows alone' pitying the weakness of the other, and protesting bis innocence of the crime for which he was to suffer. CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT IPSWICIL—Mr. J. 0. )obbold, who for many years represented Ipswich in the Conservative interest, will be entertained at a dinner next week in that town, by his political friends. Mr. Gathornf Hardy has been invited to attend. An action was brought in the Court of Queen'! Bench last week against a telegraph company for recovery of a loss occasioned by a mistake in a telegram. Some amusing stories were told in the course of the trial 0l mistakes of a similar kind, such as " Your wife is deliverec of five girls," an alarming announcement, which should have read " a fine girl." " Wanted, two hund. bouquets, an expensive order, which, literally construed was " Wanted, two hand - bouquets. " O n ly the other day a case of this kind came under out notice. A lady living in London received one evening the following telegram from Scotland :—" Your sot cannot live for long." In an agony of despair the lady took the next train for Scotland. To her great joy she found her boy alive and well, and about to start oul shooting. The son was as much astonished as his mother "Oh ! wonderful son, so to astonish a mother." An( this should have been the message :—" Your son canna leave for London."— Britannia. THE MALLOW MURDER. —lt seems more pro bable daily that the man who was found dead on Wed neaday, on the railway near Mallow, has been the victia of a foul murder. The b o d y has been identified ae that of an Austrian sailor who was discharged from a 'rose at Passage last week, with the intention of going to America The carriages of the train in which the deceased if supposed to have travelled were examined, and blooi stains were discovered in one of the compartments. Jul door of the comparttnent was locked, and these circurn stances, together with the position in which the body la) on the line, strengthen the suspicion that the deceasec was thrown through the window of the carriage. It is stated that he received £lO when discharged from hi' vessel ; but no money was found on his person, and hi: pockets bear evidence of having been rifled. The surgeox who examined • the body gives it as his opinion that the wound on the head, from which the brains protruded, wa f . not caused by a fall, but must have been inflicted by some palm A. ingiumsnti X Ci COMM The subsc loan are sta ticipated. The sum Bank on Sat The Avocl Point de G £160,000, th England. E With £165,5 and the Wa from Melba from Otago announced, E of that by tl this country. The follom warded to u you, with rel Canadian Go report of thi , ceived a cabl dian Parlian tions confirm to carry the; Matter of cc STONE BAKER The traffic Kingdom for 13,496 miles lug week in showing au ii the receipts. pal lines in t week on 9,81 responding 1' £613,855, shc £ 1 7,992 in th other lines II 8 ,680 miles t( of last year of increase of 19 The total rest those of the r 44 increase of The report pany (Limite states that th suffice to pay The failure American me ehester. The Letters fro; has been gran that place, b Prussia, to co junction at 1 Railway, and, te rminating a With the Pali; d eu Railway. and most dirt flushing, A Hamburg, Ha of Germany. The Banga £131,400, chi The Masa B ombay. The report pany, to b e p; no dividend c aion, and that the earnings f dicing profit a bag account, tentage for £10,796 avail; fleet for depre BRITI. GOVERNME: ' Per Cent. Con Ditto for deo tper Cent. Red ...Amy 3 per Con Herr 21 per Con Do. 5 per Ce Annuities, 30 y Do. for 80 yr( Do (Red Sea Eicohoqu:r BIM Do Do. Bank of Englan De. opening . Canada 4 per CI 'alter-Colonial India oci 1 ; 40 D 6 i ppo : ecoot c ri enu a ig, D Do. Oertificat Do. Enlaced I Do. 5 per Con 0 0. 51 per CAF D-) 5 per Cen Deb. 5 p, Do. Bonds, 4I Do. under £l, FOREIG .tixetitine Rapti] Berip £4 knitrian Bonds Is t 1)0. a•Zlll(kri 5 per 00 . 4 1 per U 1)0 . do a Do. d o. 1)°- do 1 - ) 0. pf. , r 10 Acc ount... e _, no s Ayres 6 "vn. C p utt ,'}perC e n tn 6 per C e • 4 1 per C oi e 4.:;: por en kdor N C ow t ( "u D 0 8 3Yrtian 7 per SeeOfiti .16 1)0. £soi, Lion DO. 4100 Boni Do, Do. Do. 4560 Bon Do. 41043 Bon, English Scrip Do