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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Reser t:e-paik, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. LeNDuN, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, P 469.: The spectacle presented to view last evening by I the Ilouse of Louis was certainly magnificent. Deese.ly thronged i n every par t , t h at h a ll of the Up per branch of the Imperial Legislature was—as the noble Earl, the leader of it, took occasion to observe towards the close of his opening address. " Crowded with the representatives of wealth—of great social position, and of eminent services rendered in public and private life : the precincts of the chamber crowded with Privy Councillors, with b mern ers of the other House, with the representatives of crowne.] heads and great republics—the very galleries," re marked Lord GRANVILLE (With an allusion, as one might say almost gracefully, certainly graciously unparliamentaty) " the very galleries adorned with a portion of the human race not altogether with put influence on public opinion." And as the Leader of the House hesitated not to. add—" A more magnificent platform never, perLai s, was erected in this world on which men by their wisdom, their eloquence, and their knowledge could influence the opinions of their felloenaen." Earl GRANVILLE, ob serve ! speaking of his Peers, and speaking to his Peers alluded to their influencing the opinions of their fellowmen "by their wisdom, their eloquence and their knowledge." Giving precedence, in this enumeration, to the Vs:lm of the Lords a compared with their eloquence and with their know ledge. By a singularly infelicitous discourtesy on the part of one of the most distinguished members of the present Cabine, of one of the mcst illustrious of the Ministerial colleagues of Lord GRANVILLE, that quality, that endowment, that gift of wisdom is curtly described to be the very one in regard to which their Lerdshifs display—if is Mr. BRIGHT, of course, who says this--a glaringly manifest cl:ficieney. The THE SUN, LONDON, UESDAY_ EVENING, JUNE 15, 1869. assertion is, to say the least of it, discourteous on the part of any one so eminently placed as a leading Minister of the Crow N, as a responsible member of the Cabinet, as one of the sworn —no, we must say, of course, exceptionally in Mr. BRIGHT'S instance, as one of the affirmed —Privy Counsellors of the SOVEREIGN. The ccca sion of this gratuitous rudeness on the part of Mr. BRIGHT is singularly malapropos. Lord GRAN VILLE, as he himself remarked last evening to the House of Lords, has but just now been earnestly entreated in his bearing towards the House of Lords, to be " conciliatory." Precisely at the same juncture. Lord GRANVILLE'S colleague goes out of his way to be—instead of that—signally and flagrantly insolent. To do this, as we have said, he goes out of his way, and he does so in a manner the most cool and deli berate. He writes a Letter to the S:.cretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association, in the second paragraph, in the second sentence of which he says, with inimitable impertinence—he a leading member of the House of Commons, he a leading member of the GLADSTONE Government—" The Lords are net very wise, but t here is sometimes profit to the people in their unwisdom." Now, in a discourt. sy like that, there is something partaking of the character of the lowest type of American candour, as betrayed not infre quently among the occupants of the back benches of the Congress at Washington. A poiet blank ass r tion of that sweeping and comprehensive kind, directed against the whole body of an as sembly as unquestionably august, and as undeniably ancient and (as the phrase is) time honoure a as Lam I.An . an arrogance on the part of any speaker or writer indulging in such words, such as entitles him, no matter what his position, no matter what his indi vidual capacity, no matter what his indubitable consci entiousness, to anything but our respect. An assertion to the effect," The Lords are not very wise, but there is sometimes profit to the people even in their unwisdom," is one in every way just as paltry, just as absurd, and (there is really no other term for it) just as vulgarly arrogant as that uttered by a Liberal (liberal, save the mark !) to the effect that the" stupid" party was the party of the Conservatives. "0 Liberty," exclaimed Madame ROLAND, when standing at the foot of the scaffold, " What crimes are done in thy name ! " 0, Überalistn —it might just as appositely, often and often of late years, be exclaimed how many a Lease, how many a narrow-minded, how many an illiberal proceeding is done in thy name—insomuch that we, as Liberals, some times read our own party designation almost as though it were applied to us all ironically. " T:Je Lords are not very wise," says Mr. BRIGHT in his twofold capacity as a member of the House of Com mons and as a Cabinet Minister, addressing his remarks, as we • have seen, to the Sec retary of the Birmingham Association —" The Lords are not very wise, but there is sometimes profit to the people even in their unwisdom." The Tribune of the People turned Privy Councillor, thereupon reads to the " stupid" Tories—indeed, it must be said, to the Lords in their aggregate " unwisdom"—a pretty sharp lesson, couched in the severest language of reproof and comprehensibly enough, even, we are left to presume, by " stupid" Tories and " unwil e" Lords, filled (in every sinister sentence of it) with only half-hidden threats. "It is possible," says one of these rhetorical brickbats, " that a good many people may ask what is the special value of a Constitution which gives a majority of 100 in one house for a given policy, and a majority of 100 in another house against it." Another of these, as we may otherwise call them, taps on the thick head of the house of Lords, as ni It a bludgeon, is th's—" It may De asheu aizv, quite as significantly " why the Crown, through its Ministers in the lions?. of Commons, should be found in harmony with the nation, whilst the Lords:Ll e gene rally in direct opposition to it." But, as if this were not enough, the great self-a prointed arth-arraigner of the Lords goes on to advise their Lordships—through the Secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association by the way—in the same tone of contemptuous and arrogant impertinence, that" Instead of doing a little childish tinkering about Life Peerages it would be well if the Peers could bring themselves on a line with the necessities of our day. In harmony with the nation," adds Mr. BRIGHT very authoritatively, " they may go on for a long time ; but throw icg themselves athwart its course, they may meet with accidents not pleasant for them to think of." Significant enough—all that—surely ! But, then, as the old proverb has it, " a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse !" And the Lords are—as Mr. BRIGHT and all such ultra-Liberals assert—so blind, so stupid in their unwisdom— that it seems hardly worth the trouble nodding and winking at them vicariously through the Secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association. Nevertheless, it has its value— this extraordinary letter of Mr. BRIGHT'S—as the last specimen, we presume, of the conciliatory policy adopted towards the leaders of the Opposition and towards the majority in the House of Lords by the more Liberal members of her MAJESTY'S present Go vernment. WHILE the Government have adopted thefortiter in re with regard to the Irish Church, they are skew ing the suaviter in tnodo with regard to the Endowed Schools Bill. Mr. FORSTER, who was supposed to be the least malleable member of the Government, has carried concession quite as far as is consistent with the fundamental principles of the reform whereof he is the propounder ; perhaps a little farther. It is to be regretted, for instance, that he should have so far yielded to the old -fashioned preju dices of old-fashioned people as to make, the rearrangement of the doles and other similar demoralising charities dependent upon the will of the trustees. Anyone who knows the kind of per sons who hold that office in the small country towns of England will have very little hope of any initia tory movement from them. Doles are to a certain extent a substitute for the poor rates, and it is too much to expect of human nature that the rate payer should voluntarily increase his contribu tion towards the maintenance of Widow SMITH in order that Orphan SMITH may receive a proper education. So far as these bequests are con cerned, there is little hope that the education of our lower classes will benefit by the organic reform which is now being originated. There are other portions of Mr. FORSTER'S bill, or rather of that half bill which is all that he seeks to pass this session, which are as open to favourable, as the point above mentioned is to unfavourable, criticism. For instance, there is no reason to object to the concession whereby the trustees of edu cational endowments worth more than £l,OOO a year shall be permitted to draw up a new scheme for the application of the funds. It is one thing to sly that there shall be a new scheme, and that the trustees shall have the right of propounding it, sub ject to the approval of the Charity Commissioners; it is another thing, as in the case of the doles, to permit the trustees to say if there shall be any new scheme at all. Moreover, as a rule, there is none of the inducement to retain an inefficient arrangement with regard to schools that there is with regard to doles. No one profits by the first; . as we have seen, a good many persons may profit by the second. There is another decided im provement of the same kind. As the bill originally stood it was left to deans and chapters to apply por tions of the cathedral revenues to the improvement of cathedral schools. It is scarcely to be expected that cathedral dignitaries would spew themselves very ,eatkusiastio in this matter, and so it has been wisely determined to give the initiatio to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A third manifest improvement is the better provision of schools for girls. Hitherto the gentle and Greekless gender has been shame fully overlooked. There is many an instrmce in which endowments have been left for the education of boys and girls, and yet note single girl is nom' pro vided for. This is the case ewe though the funds are so large that they are, as at rerkhampstead, in Hert fordshire, used to bribe peents to send their sons to school. But after all, the most important portion of the Education Reform is postponed. The appointment of a central body, the examita tion of schoolmasters, the arrangement of schools into the three proposed grades upon a general plan—these, the bolder features of the recommeidations made by the Royal Commissioners, are deferred until next year, if not to the Greek Kalends. And yet a scheme of reform whiCh doesnot include these changes will scarcely be worth the hating. They are essentially the constructive portions of the main scheme, and it loses the greater portion of its value and efficacy without them. No system d education can be other wise than seriously defective so long as anybody is allowed to turn educator Vithout proof of fitness. The revelations made before the Royal Commis sioners shew how large is the number of grossly incompetent persons in the profession," and there can be no great improvement in the quality of instruction until such men are forbidden to be teachers. Then, again, at present there are often schools largely endowed in two closely contiguous towns, while be yond them is a large district absolutely destitute of any such provision. This defect ought to be remedied, and must be before we can greatly con eratulate ourselves upon what has been done. Mr. FORSTER seems to cave iLUt- r ic slowly," hoping to disarm oppositibn by taking one step at a time. This may be prudent, but prudence sometimes involves impatience on the part of those who have very little respect for stupid adherence to antiquated abuses FRoM our New York telegrams our readers will have learned that the Republicans have had it in contemplation to take party issue at the next elec tion on the Alabama question. Some of the leaders proposed that the Republican " platform" should be based upon Mr. -SUMNER'S demands. It is yet uncertain whether this idea first originated with Mr..SUMNER himself, who is said to have been greatly disappointed at the refusal of General GRANT to take his famous effusion as the groundwork of Mr. MOTLEY'S instructions; but the more moderate men of the party have speedily seen the folly of such a procedure, and the scheme has been abandoned. Its adoption would, in all probability, have destroyed the ascendancy which the Republicans now possess. To employ a great national dispute, involving a question of peace or war, for party purposes must surely have improved the position of the Democrats, who have already announced their intention of falling back upon the policy of peace and conciliation. Mr. SUMNER'S speech, taken as the programme of the dominant party, must inevitably• have led to war. It would have bound the Republicans to insist upon re paration for our " premature " recognition of belligerency, for it was upon this head and front of England's offending that Mr. SUMNER chiefly founded his claim. The injury inflicted by the Alabama was trifling compared with the disastrous effects of our unfriendliness as a nation. And yet it' now transpires that even the highest American authorities are of opinion that no demands based upon the QUEEN'S Proclamation of Neutrality can be substantiated. Dr. WOOLSEY, one of the leading exponents of international law in the United States, fully believes that damages can be exacted for the depredations of the Confederate cruisers, but he decides that Mr. SUMNER'S theory of demands founded on the recognition are wholly untenable. It finnears. too that. PreAident GRANT'S Government has been lookingl into the sulum., same result. On the 21st of June, 1831, Mr. ADAMS informed Mr. SEWARD that a desire to be perfectly neutral had inspired the Proclamation, and the latter, in reply, whilst regretting that the belligerency of the South had thus been admitted, virtually acknowledged that it furnished no special cause for trouble. Other procla mations of the kind followed, and were passed over in silence. If they were not complained of then, the PRE- SIDENT'S advisers, we are informed, cannot conceive how one of them is to be made the foundation of huge demands eight years afterwards. We have - probably heard the last of this claim. It was solely on its account that the unfortunate treaty of Mr. JOHNSON was rejected, and it appears, after all, that the Americans will be constrained to accept similar terms. SIR MORTON PETO. AND THE NATIONAL BANK. An application was made at the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday to Mr. Commissioner Winslow for leave to prove against the separate estate of Sir Morton Peto, Bart., for £150,000. The claim was made on behalf of the National Bank, and a question arose as to whether it ought to be admitted against the joint estate of Peto, Betts, and Crampton, or against the separate estate of Sir S. M. Peto, and it was also contended that the proof was not in proper form. After hearing Mr. Bagley on behalf of the National Bank, and Mr. Mayard for the assignees, his honour decided that the bank was entitled to prove against the separate estate of Sir S. M. Peto, and admitted the proof accordingly. LA :EST INTELL LOA Ut (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, June 14. The Cunard steamer Heela arrived at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Inman steamship City of London and the Gnion steamship Minnesota arrived out to-day. The Allan steamship Prussian arrived at Quebec to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1381 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1391; the lowest, 1381. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 122.1• 44 " 1885 ll9ll. , t 1867.. 119 i. 10-40 14 Illinois. Erie Cotton—Mid.' upland 32e. Petroleum—StandArd White 313-e. Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30e. Corn, old mixed, S9.lc. WAsuiNuTox, June 14. The President has ordered that the differentia duties hitherto levied on merchandise imported in French bottoms should be discontinued, thus re ciprocating the action taken by France in reference to American vessels. According to a report of Secretary Boutwell, published this day, the cash in the Treasury ,A i &1 g,l .000, 0 0 0 , showing an increase of $10,000,000 since ti.; ;„ t . vi 111;6 .dill $107,000,000 are in coin, and $27,000,000 in cur rency. SOUTHAMPTON, June 15. The North German Lloyd steamer America, from, New York, has arrived here, with 170 passengers 42 sacks of mails, and $94,681 for London. QUEENSTOWN, June 15. The Cunard Royal mail steamer Malta, from New York, arrived here at 3.30 a.m. to-day. She brings 95 passengers, of whom she landed 23 and despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool imme diately. All well. HUNGARY. PESTI!, June 15. In yesterday's sitting of the Lower house the members of the delegations were elected, all of them belonging to the Peak party. The bil introducing a gold coinage with the franc as unit was agreed to. CANADA. OTTAWA, June 14. The House of Assembly has to-day reconsidered its votes of Saturday refusing to grant an additional subsidy to Nova Scotia, and has rescinded that re solution and granted the subsidy iu question. NOVA SCOTIA. lIALIFAx, June 14. It is asserted that the Repeal League, established in this city, has resolved to'make annexation to the thiited States the platform of their policy. FRANCE. PARIS, June 15. The Gazette des Tribunaux, published this morn- ng, says : At Belleville some persons who had collected in groups, shouting " \rive Rochefort !" were arrested as late as Sunday, and were handed over to the sergents de ville by the inhabitants themselves. Yesterday (Momlay) complete tramr.,i‘-, vaned everywhere. Strong bodies of sergents de vine, however, are still traversing certain quarters. LIT.tRATURE. --,+:~- POEMS BY Loan CARLISLE (Moxon).—A charm ing collection of the poetical effusions of the late Earl of Carlisle, selected by his sisters, and in scribed on the title-page In Memoriam IlJatris, comes to us in this little volume of 137 pages very acceptably. It begins with the Earl's prize poem on " Paestum," and ends wih his paraphrase of "The Second Vision of Daniel." The best piece in the whole volume, to our mind, are the noble lines "On Niagara," every word of which we have known by heart for years past, a piece worthy of its theme, and one by which Lord Carlisle's name as a poet may yet be long remembered. COOLING CUPS AND DAINTY DRINKS (Routledge) appears refreshing at the approach of midsummer. Wines, liqueurs, syrups, cordials, bitters, aerated and effervescing drinks, cups of all kinds, from cider to champagne, sherry cobbler, gin-sling, mint julep, brandy smash, pick-me-up, tickle-my-fancy, apple toddy, whisky cocktail, shandy gaff, ale posset, birthday syllabub, egg-flip, Billy Dawson's punch, claret granato, brandy sangaree, cam multis aliis--here they all are, making us thirsty even to read of them, giving us a relish only se cond to that derivable from the lip of horn, glass, tankard, goblet, or wassail bowl. The collection of these anything but " unconsidered trifles," of these recipes for those wonderfully compounded tipples, is 30 much of a benefactor that he deserves at the least the mention of his name, being that of one 'rerrington. STAMFORD'S MAP OF THE LONDON RAILWAYS — published, as the title indicates, by Stamford of Charing-cross--is, beyond any question, the com pletest, and iu every way the best Special Map of the Railways and Stations in Loudon and its environs. It is a folding map, of considerable size wben opened out, but wonderfully compact and portable when closed. It is accompanied by a very ample, but at the same time a very succinct 1 1 guide to the routes of all the trains running from every terminus in the metropolis. Besides which the same little handy guide embraces within it the routes of all the metropolitan and suburban omni buses, with the routes also of all the Thames Steam boats. The map is beautifully engraved, excellently printed, and brilliantly coloured. PALMER'S INDEX TO TIIE TIMES NEWSPAPER (Samuel Palmer). —This really masterly Index to the History of Nowadays appears no longer, we are glad to see, experimentally. It comes forth now at regular stated intervals—that is to say, as a quarterly publication. It was at the outset a luxury. It has grown since then into a necessity. It enables any one consulting it to turn so readily to the page and column of that great record of contemporary annals, the Thunderer, the Jupiter Tortans of Print ing-house-square, that the non-appearance of the periodical issue, now, would be felt as seriously •as, let us say, a cab strike, or as the non-appear ance (monthly) of Bradshaw, or as the non appearance (annually) of Kelly's Post-office London Directory. Politi&ans, journalists, city men, anyone and everyone, who may have got into the habit of using Palmer's Index to the 7 i InCS cannot contrive to do wit'lout it other wise than with the greatest inconvenience. So far as we have carefully examined each successive vo lume, we have noticed a steady and appreciable improvement in the condensation of the refeeecus and in their symmetrical arrangement alphabeli Bally. The compiler is evidently as assiduous as -ver in the care—the minute and yet comprehensive care—applied by i&ni to the Ilerculean task wh. ! ,, he first undertook its detailed accomplishment, now that he won his way by practise through all the windings of the labyrinth. We so fully realize this, as a commendation to which ha is justly entitled, that we hesitate not to offer him, at one and the same time, our congratulations and our acknowledgments. Ketileholder, while ruuuing for the First Class Woking barn Stakes at Ascot on Friday, broke a b:oodvessel, and Parry dismounted before reaching the post. THE PURCBASE OF THE TELEGRAPHS. The terms which the Post Office have agreed to pay to the British and Irish Magnetic Company are stated in a circular just issued to the shareholders. Th? price is £1,243,000, and is calculated, as agreed, upon the net profits of the half-year ending June IS6B. If the Government now had to purchase upon the same terms, and were compelled to take as their basis the net profit . ; on the half-year ending December 31, 1868, they would have to pay £1,452,000. The receipts of this company for the fist four months of 1860 are £10,250 more than for the corresponding period of 1867, thus sheaving improvement equivalent to £30,000 per annum. A large Portion of this increase is, no doubt, owing to the more moderate rates which have prevailed of late years, anl which have induced a habit of telegraphy that may be still further encouraged. It is satisfactory to find that under the arrangements proposed by the Telegraphs Bill the State will profit by all future developments. MR. BRIGHT OA TILE HOUSE OF LORDS. ---4--- The following is the text of Mr.' Bright's letter which was read at the meeting in Birmingham on Monday evcning " London, June 9, 1569. " Dear Sir, I mast ask my friends to excuse me if 1 am unable to accept their invitation for the meeting on Monday next. " The Lords are not very wise, but there is some• times profit to the people even in their unwisdcm. If they should delay the passing of the Irish Church Itill for three months they will stimulate discussion on important questions which, but for their infatuatiw', might have slumbered for many years. "It is possible that a good many people may ask what is the special value of a Constitution which gives a ma• jority of 100 in one house for a given policy, and a majority of 100 in another house against it. "It may be asked also why the Crown, through its Ministers in the House of Commons, should be found in harmony with the nation, whilst the Lords are . generally in direct opposition to it. " -"" ,1 ";^3 a little childish tinkering about Life .Peerages, it would be well if the Peers could briny: selves on a line with the opinions and necessities of our clay. In harmony with the nation they may go on for a long time, but throwing themselves athwart its course, they may meet with accidents not pleasant for them to think of. " But there are not a few good and wise men among the Peers, and we will hope their counsels may prevail. " I am sure you will forgive me if I cannot come to your meeting.—Believe me always, very truly yours, " JOHN BRIGHT." ELECTIONEERING AMENITIES. An action for libel was brought in the Court of Exche quer on Monday—" Jackson, M.P.,v. Bell." The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff, Mr. Ralph Ward Jackson, was the founder of West Hartlepool, and when the Hartle pools were constituted a borough under the last Reform Act, he presented himself to the constituency as a candidate in the Conservative interest, a Mr. Richardson being the Liberal candidate. Political feeling ran very high during the election, but on the declaration of the poll Mr. Jackson, who had been returned by a small majority, offered to shake hands with his oppo nents and make up all differences. On the following Saturday, viz., the 28th November, 1868, there appeared in a paper published by the defendant, Mr. Bell — the South Durham and Cleveland Mercury—a letter signed by "A Liberal Member of the Liberal Committee," referring to Mr. Jackson's offer, and containing the fol lowing passage :—" If the most disgraceful bribery and corruption paralleled only in the worst days of Notting ham or Yarmouth or bloated pot•wallopers' of York ; if beerhouses thrown open and drink scattered with lavishlibe rality to all ; with strangers dexterously retained at all the dirty work, and then retreating under cover of the night to escape identification ; if drunkenness and debauchery of the grossest quality, constitutes titles to your consideration and esteem, then, indeed, is Ralph Ward Jackson en titled to the position he assumes. The writer went on to say that on the day he took his seat in the House of Commons he would find a petition against his return, and that before many days were over they would pull him down from his pedestal, and return him back upon his clerical and Tory friends for consolation and sympathy." A petition was presented against Mr. Jackson's return, but when it came on for trial before Mr. Justice Black burn, the counsel for the petitioners confessed that he had no case, and consented to pay the expenses of Mr. Jack son, who was consequently declared duly returned. In opening the case, Mr. Huddleston said, as the defen dant had refused to apologise for these serious allegations 44 v-,laintiff. he claimed heavy damages. Mr. Baron Martin suggested that the case was one ror amicable settlement ; and, on the application of the lead ing counsel on each side, his lordship granted them a private interview with a view to an arrangement. Mr. Davidson, on returning into court, said the letter nad been written during the heat of the political antagonism that existed in the borough, and did contain libellous matter, of which Mr. Jackson had every right to complain ; but immediately after the decision of Mr. Justice Black burn, the defendant published an ample apology In his paper. The defendant now entirely retracted the charges, which, he said, was without foundation, and expressed his regret at having circulated them, and apologised to the Mr. Huddleston, on the part of the plaintiff, accepted this apology, and, subject to a private arrangement, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff, damages 40s. The Leeds Mercury announces the death of Mr. Josiah Lewis, of Edge Rll, Duffield, near Derby, one of the oldest directors of the Midland Railway, in the 64th year of his age. THE FIRE AT PENTONVILLE.—At the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the three persons who lost their lives in the fire at Pentonville on Saturday week, the jury has returned a verdict of Accidental Death, accom panied by a resolution declaring that the Board of Works had neglected to provide Clerkenwell with sufficient protection against the loss of life by fire. A Cork correspondent telegraphs that on Sunday a policeman was savagely attacked. Two constables came to his assistance and endeavoured to take the assailants into custody. A mob collected and furiously assailed the police with stones. The constables took refuge with their prisoner in Shandon barracks, when the mob attacked the barracks, hurling volleys of stones, and smashing the doors and win dows. The police, on being reinforced, sallied out, and got several prisoners to bridewell. Three policemen were severely wounded. NINE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.—A negro named James Wilson, 25 years of age, arrived here on Tues day evening, 25th inst., in the steamer Rising Star, from Aspinwall, who had existed during the entire passage without eating. He was employed at Aspinwall in receiving the cargo, and after supper on the lith inst. fell asleep in a secluded part of the lower hold. At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th the vessel sailed. The man, on awakening, perceived that she was at sea, but the hatchways being closed, he was unable to make himself heard from the depth where he was situated. The cargo in his proximity consisted of wool, indiarubber, mother-of-pearl shells, and hides, and offered no means of sustenance. The hold was by no means crowded with goods, and he enjoyed locomotion, but weakness and the confined air finally overcame him, and be slept profoundly until the hatches were reopened on 'Wednesday morning after arrival. The fresh air revived him, and, as the stevedores descended, he was discovered, but was unable to stand. He had been nearly nine days without eating. Tea was administered, but he could not retain it. Sherry wine was tried with better success, and he gradually became able to absorb food. He was taken to the Coloured Home, at the foot of East Sixty-fifth-street, and will be returned to Aspinwall after recovery by the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections, in whose charge he remains.— New York Times, May 29. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY. — Seven out of the eight directors of this company have just issued a circular to the shareholders and mortgagees, with the object of obtaining their assent to the bill now before Parliament, in order to chew that the great majority of the holders are favourable to the scheme of arbitration prc•posed. Remarking upon the recent Chan- • cery proceedings, the directors state that the persons moving the court did not derive their authority from the shareholders and mortgagees whom they professed to re• present, and whom they had on no occasion called together or consulted with respect to the bill ; and they add that the result of the polls at the half•yearly meeting were :—At the shareholders' meeting, 17,115 voted for the bill, and 361 against it ; at the mortgagees' meeting, 7,384 votes for the bill, and 1,291 against it. The circular then goes on to state the reason which induced the directors to apply to Parliament fur the bill, and points cu`, certain provisions in the bill which they do not consider altogether free from objection, but they add that they believe the main principles of the measure are approved by a very large majority of both shareholders and mortgagees, and that they will obtain such modifications of its details as they deem desirable. In conclusion, the directors say they look forward to the passing of the bill as the most sure, just, expeditious, and least expensive mode of putting an end to the present disastrous state of things, and rendering the net income of the railway available for those to whom it ri htfully inlogek THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. • The New York Times of the Ist inst. says that a state- ment made not long since by Mr. 11. J. Perry, American Secretary of Legation in Spain, to the effect that the Government of Spain had resolved, at one period of the civil war, to commence war against the United States, has excited a good deal of attention and curiosity. The Times proceeds :—" From informa tion that has since reached us, we are inclined to believe the statement well founded. The determination of Spain was brought about by the intrigues of the Emperor of the French, and Was based on a complaint that our Government bad been guilty of a violation of neutral rights. The 9th of October 1863, was fixed upon as the day for commencing hostilities, orders to that effect having already been sent out by the Spanish Government. But through the active efforts of Liberal Spaniards, devoted friends of )ur cause as identical with their own, counter orders were sent out by the steamer from Cadiz of September 15, 1863, and the whole affair was suppressed. In ;he present condition of Spanish politics it would be highly imprudent to disclose the names of the persons who rendered us this service. They are all now, since the revolution, prominent public men, and their poition and influence would be seriously compromised by a premature disclosure of their agency in this transaction But the time will probably come before long when their names can be made known and we can award them the acknowledgment their friendly services deserve." Mr. Whalley,M.P., is rapidly recovering from the effects of his bit) accident, which had confined him to his room. lie has arived at Plasmaduc from London. At a meethg of the Edinburgh Presbytery Established °birch) on Friday, it was agreed, by a majo rity of 13 to 3, t) petition tho House of Lords to reject the Irish Church Bill Me finance and revenue accounts for India ar, pubPshed amc'ngthe Parliamentary papers. The gross re e'3oB in India 1 r the year 1867-8 were .£=18,534,412 ; the total charges agenst income were £5,305,617, and iu Eng land .£275,381—tie net receipts being £39,576,918. A Board 01 Trade inquiry, held in Liverpool, relative to the toss of the ship Golden Light, which was abandoned in th Atlantic on the evening of the 15th ult. when she was n a sinking s'atc, terminated on Saturday. 'The court acquired the master of all blame and returned his certificate. News has ben received (says the Manchester Guar dian) that one c the missing boats of the Blue Jacket, from New Zealand, mrned at sea, has been picked up. There were cnly save , people in it, and no mention is made of the 4,000 sovercia which were ptit in the boat when she left ,the Blue Ja,cke. IRELAND. PROTESTANT MEETING AT DUBLIN. The Conservative papers lay great stress on a meeting held on Monday evening at Dublin. The demonstration against the Irish Church Bill was announced to take place in the Dublin Exhibition Palace only two days previouslY;, yet above 30,000 tickets were issued, and it is said that the building was crowded in every part. The number present is variously estimated at from 15,000 to 25,000. Three platforms were spoken from—in the Concert Hall, in the Great Transept, and in Leinster Hall. Resolutions were passed with " unexampled demonstrations of enthu' siasm" and repeated cries of "No compromise !" "N° surrender !" earnestly calling upon the Lords to throw out the bill. Sir Edward Grogan presided at the principal platform• Among the speakers were--The Hon. David Plunket, Mr. Falkiner, Q.e., the Rev. Dr. Foley, the Rev. Dr. Griffin, and Mr. Alexander Boyle. The meeting lasted over three hours, during which the excitement increased; hut all was quiet. The demonstration was an unparalleled success. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AT CORK. A supposed attempt at assassination was made at Cork on Monday. A shot was fired into the Constitution office. The bullet passed through a space where a member of th e staff had just been standing, breaking the windows, ari l striking the opposite door. A similar thing occurred a few days ago. The Constitution is supposed to be ob noxious to the Fenians, hence the outrage. OTHER The two persons named Murray who were recently arres'ed on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr. Anketell, have been again remanded by the magistrates• It is stated that additional evidence has been obtained, and that the authorities entertain some hope that th e y may ultimately be enabled to bring the murderer to justice. A small farmer, named Flynn, residing at DruincolloP, County Leitrim, four miles from Mohill, was killed on Saturday night in a dispute with a person named, Cassidy, about cutting turf. His skull was fractured With a spade. THE FRENCH THIEVES. The Daily News has an interesting article descriptive or the thieves of Paris. The facts are taken from a paper 10 the Revue des Deur Mondes, by M. Maxime du Cal l W' who classifies his subjects as a botanist would his Pla ntg ' The thieves (he declares) form a clan, separate and OP tinct,. and divisable into some twenty groups. They hale a dialect of themselves. The language of the gipsies for is a large part of this strange patois, into which No r 6 from other foreign tongues enter. The chief of action, °III. pany of thieves is called meg or mek, by contra according to M. du Camp, from the Latin magus, A ra t b b ie melek (king) ; the executioner is tollard, fro m Latin tellere, quia tollit e vivis. In the thieve s ' argot, the word for pardon is redam, from the Latin rediniere, t° berg redeem. In it years are berges, from the German (mountain), symbolising the difficult ascen t of thei 111° arduous life. Other metaphors are more ob vious• speak is balancer le chiffon rouge, "to w ave , t , 11 : red rag "—that is, the tongue. To peach 111.;,,r a comrade is judacer, to play the Judas. an odd concession, the Court of Assizes is /cc Pi s ' (the just one). The Legislative Body is "t;11: Tower of Babel ;" an omnibus, " the common oceige the grating of the prison windows is " the harp." gendarmes are the "dealers in lace " (or, by an ambigulu; snares—marchands de lacets. The guillotine was Abbi* de monte-a-regret, or, as we might say, thefivAebbesTub°; placed R h o i ctu t e h t e te, mi i d t dl i e s Sorrowful Ascent. Now, from the of f all t e h d e o f the Stones. To deny (nier) is, by a mere play 1 1 1 1 ° r1 "to go to Niort." The bench on which the accused s it 1 0 the courts of justice Lis known as the planche the bread-plank ; a phrase which, as Id. ail C 3 1% observes, strikingly paints the ordinary destitutn of 1 . ttaeveAntietnety oaf the Place e occupants. In the hierarchy of the thieves clan o tt l ici e highest place is occupied by the faisscurs, or, as we 911 1.1 1 , 0 call them, swindlers. Next follow "free burgesses," 11..'e obtain entrance into houses by professing to belong W profession of the occupant, and who are ready to ' the up anything that comes to hand. " The actor who 1 1 been ruined by the burning down of his theatre, ww humble and mendicant ecclesiastic wh o is under a vo wo go on foot to Rome, the man of letters who has beer, fatally involved in the failure of his publisher, tbe _ chant who has been unlucky in business, the old tutor whom family misfortunes and his own virtue WI reduced to distress," belong to this class. s.ll eil e e have their counterparts in England, as have a lso ,'„ r chineurs, who sell stuffs to women from door to o°" s. which they are able to offer at inconceivably low P ri f e e r , ic The vol a h u apotihni thief's career the theft generally from thebeg begins, I P . s e r r " o c riry: from a drunken man under pretence of assisting bin"' Cretzr is our pickpocket., who haunts crowds at theatr " e' doors, exhibitions, and railway stations. He is g enera tle accompanied by three or four lads—mouclicr eas, l ,lhe gnats, who indicate likely subjects to h im. l is triumph of this art is to nu:le the tire chicane, that is, with the back turned to the Pe r l i gl i who is being plundered. Its greatest adept was ' l\ ra . e Lepreuil, who had acquired the honourable 113.0.. of " the hand of gold." M. du Camp gives an illustroA.l of his skill. An immense crowd being assembled clurrii, the time of the Republic on the Place de la B° llree '•,-ed police agent on duty recognising Mimi Lepreuil re(1111" him to take himself away. That illustrious roan r efus zi e d taking his stand upon his right as a citizen. Leav:ge d alone," he said, " with your Republicans ; I have 013 / 8 - 0 , 0 in five hundred pockets, and have not found a sing ie ic , is Other forms of theft are the vol a la Wtourne, -0711. practised by female shoplifters, and the vol ret a d ' ay ; which is theft of goods exposed for sale in the oPeu.till is the vol a la rode or au radio, in which the sh °l 4 t he carried off bodily; and the vol ala vrillee 1 4 the la bearings of the shop having been taken in the day tim e, boy. hole is pierced in the shutters, thief, enters, and admits his comrades, svb t a re and "the rat,' o 0 , 3 1ce short work of its contents. The cassevr3 O r s e cell our housebreakers, and often break head° Lions as doors. The carreurs have their field of heads pera nes wit h jewellers' shops. "He examines the precious st . o that he extreme attention, closely, very closely—so closely _ ear ed touches them with his nose. His nose has been .011. ch are with virgin wax ; some diamonds stick to it, ot het slipped promptly into the sharper's sleeve• out at practitioners use their tongues, shooting th em ] , w ith the jewels like certain insect-catching an bli fi le pail - ° an „ ar rear , u ll rapid and precise aim, or fix th e stones to of the hand with gum adraganth. T he Fee s v " ° throwing a couple of sous to accomp v eld' acts the street beggar, often throws with th is p ia able diamond. A single jeweller in the Faiaiff goaloolty ale to have lost property to the value of iuggag6 operation of two carreurs. The roulotier s ee s_:_ ev egre• from trucks, and completes the category of the ses, b or inferior thieves, whom M. du Camp th °l l gli descrii,itte p ore there are many other varieties of it. To the "- _ .O f r oto (the word pigre comes through the oldie Italian Pe . g io r , l2 ' 7 . , et the Latin piger, slothful) belong am& " 5 t he chamber-rifler, caroubleur, or robber with false lteYs the sorguer, or man of the night, who stops carriaeu sod high road, and regulates his labours by the rising c lose l / setting of the moon ; and the scionncur, to ° _ o rder resembles our garotter. None of these shrink fros4tods as an accident of plunder. At the bead of them 11 the escarpe, who is assassin by profession. ---------=----- A pauper lunatic in the Garlands 1 near Carlisle, named Ann Cook,has become entitled to 0 1, A relative died recently, and left her and her sister 00,v" between them. .L. ilitml CHARGE OF LIBEL—An action against, a 111 Pita" officer for libel was heard in the Court of Commr i‘iili• on Monday. Captain Brooke, riding master at the _ .„, tary College at Sandhurst, sued Colonel Peel, forraerlYi '174 officer in the 11th Hussars, for having libelled hiniiiet, Asylllll c 000. letter which he had written to Lord Williatn Pa bow . Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards. The court', the ever, held that the communication wasp rivileged, au" plaintiff was non-suited. TWENTY SHILLINGS COMPENSATION FOP' - t o OF FROMISE.---A. woman, named Alitchell, bel°Pg- the parish of Leslie, has just sued William Oldriaalsc'oo. tailor in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, for £l2 damages, con' sequence of defender having engaged to marry Pu'"hifj and failed to do so. Oldman is over 70 years of a i g n e t : !ho g would-be wife between -10 and 50. Before V ing merits the sheriff gave defender a last chance of closlo,, the case by taking th e lady. The ~ 01d gentletnoll . He declined the offer, and the sheriff found for the Purs ue r• thought 20s. would cover all the loss she had sustaine that MASSACRE IN ABYSSINIA.—The stateuic.lol law's visit object of Mr. Henry Powell and his brother -1 sufficient force to Egypt is " to obtain from the Vic erclY -: the force to enable them to mete out justice murderers of their kinsfolk," is emphatically n CO' l dieted. Their purpose is, it is stated, to obtaia an adequate escort from the Egyptian governor at : 1 ‘ 13 .,. sowah to proceed as near as practicable to the localiO, o . f the reported massacre, and to ascertain by Per 5° ,, 1 7,3 1 inquiries on the spot the fate of their relatives. 511°ha their worst fears be realised, they will probably leave the of the assassins to the only available instrir mentality, namely, the Egyptian forces, who are noW ° II should active service in that territory. On the other haild' it prove that the unfortunate party are retained as hostages by the wild Bfisena,h tribe, negotiations will be set on foot and every conciliato r y means.used to eff ect &ix kbera#9l3,_