The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. I The Times asserts that wonderful announcement MS circulated on Thursday evening through the lobbies of the two Houses with all the particularity of detail that could give it credibility. According to this statement, it has been decided that the Irish Church Bill shall be rejected on the motion to read it a second time in the House of lords. We feel the utmost reluctance to entertain for a moment the belief that the Conservative party has arrived at so portentous a determination. What, indeed, would happen supposing the policy attributed to the Opposition were really pursued by them? The Government have an unshaken majority in the House of Commons of 115—to put • it moderately—pledged to abolish the Irish Establishment. The majority was elected on this issue. It has the power of enforcing its will. It must do what it was elected to do. One means of accom plishing the end would be to call up to the House of Lords a sufficient number of heirs-apparent or commoners to convert the minority into a majority, and the history of a similar crisis recommends the resolution to adopt such a plan, Tl:e control of the supplies furnishes, of course, another and perhaps more constitutional method of assert ing the power of the representatives of the people. But there is a third line of action which could be followed. An immediate prorogation, followed by an immediate convocation of Parliament, would give us another session in which the bill could be pushed forward with the certainty of success. But if we thus glance at what would be done if the Lords were so ill-advised as to reject the bill, we do so only because we find in the precision with which these extreme steps have been already detailed the most striking proof of the determination of the Ministry, backed by an over whelming majority, that the bill shall pass. We cahoot say that the report upon which these speculations are founded is absolutely worthless, but if we may not peremptorily reject it, we believe it Las been circulated rather to test the possibility of resistance than as an indi cation of a fixed conclusion. But what an appreciation of the issues of the time and of the national judgment it would argue if the Conservative peers flatter theinselves that the present crisis could be so dealt with ! The Standard has it on the authority of a contemporary, wh,s certainly ought to know, that the chief of her Majesty's Government has only just been admitted to participate in the last occult rites of august Liberalism. Mr. Gladstone has at length, and only at length, been elected a member of the Reform Club ! Fur now more years than one cares to count he has been discarded by the Conservative party, and meekly fetched and carried for Whigs and 'Radicals alternately ; but it appears that he had not . giVen sufficient proofs of his fitness to con sortin a club sense with the " unto the manner born' among those jealous politicians. It seems a strange fate for a man that he should have been the parliamentary leader of a party and been excluded withal froM some of its most highly-prized privileges. The time of doubt and of trial, however, is now over. Mr. Gladstone is a neophyte no more. To employ the language of the con temporary referred to, " his valuable party services have now be en fitly recognised and rewarded," and helias properly been permitted to enjoy " social intercourse among Reformers." Lucky Premier ! Condescending Reformers The Telegraph says that no wise man who can pardon weakness, no good man who is charitable in his judgments, can have read without real sorrow that item of intelligence which was published on Thursday concerning the Duke of Newcastle. Its main public interest lies in the fact that the unfortunate nobleman is but a type of many young members of our aristocracy. Plain speech on these matters is the truest kindness, even to those to whom it may seem blunt and cruel. We do not hesitate to say that the most serious danger to the hereditary aristocracy of England lies, in our day, in the conduct of such peers as the Duke and others who have followed in the same paths, some of them so fast and so far that they reached a dishonoured grave as the goal of their journey. Never was there a time when the vast majority of the people were readier to accept, with cordiality and gratitude, any attempt at honest political and social service from the Lords; and never was there a time when more of the Lords were anxious to bring themselves into frank and sympathetic relations with the people. Practical Englishmen, we say, are in no hurry to get rid of the House of Lords. But the Lords must learn to " take care of themselves." If we see, for instance, a noble library, amassed by aristocratic statesmen and scholars,. publicly sold to pay the debts of a " plunger "—if we find the fate of a Newcastle following closely ou that of a Hastings—it we know, as everybody in. London does know, that there are other scandals of the same sort which cannot much longer be kept in the background—then, we say, the House of Lords is in danger—in danger from itself. Archdeacon Denison, with all his violence, seldom says anything which has not a grain of sharpness and sense in it ; and he said, two days ago, that the heaviest blows against the Church were those dealt from within. The saying holds good of other institutions; and unless the most aristocratic assemblage in the world is the only one which has utterly lost the esprit de corps, the Lords will surely come to their own rescue, and will socially enforce that high morale without which their order invites the exulting reproaches of its enemies. The Star, in referring to the recent riots at Mold, says there are one or two considerations which are suggested by the wretched state of things which has arisen in this Welsh town. The spread of popular education would not necessarily prevent such outbreaks altogether ; but it is only reasonable to assume that the colliers of Mold are an ignorant body of men ; for ignorance, and that condition of mind which begets lawlessness—which, under the influence of a supposed grievance, resorts to the bludgeon, and is incapable of self control—are so closely allied as to be practically inseparable. If we looked beneath the surface, we doubt not that the exceptional turbulence of these pitmen takes its root in their almost total want of that elementary knowledge which is essential to make men feel the moral and legal responsibilities of their position. When crime is com mitted we are too apt to overlook those remoter causes of its perpetration for which the State should justly be made to bear its share of blame. The State cannot do every thing in the way of social or intellectual amelioration; but this is no reason why it should almost entirely ignore its duties to the neglected classes, espe cially as these comprehend no insignificant num ber of men who will work, as well as of those who prefer to live at other people's expense. 'We know not whether any attempt has been made to establish councils of arbitration and conciliation in this disturbed district. Probably there has been no such attempt, and if so, when masters arid men fall out— and in every state of society, however theoretically per fect, such disputes are certain to arise—there is very little of reason, but a great amount of brute passion to appeal to. There must be something essentially wrong in a com munity in which even so irritating a circumstance as a strike leads to scenes of violence on the part, not of the few, but of the many. Moralists may moralise, and preachers may preach ;. but until the evil is probed to the bottom it will never give place to a healthier industrial life in these distant parts of the kingdom. The Daily News remarks that a fatal riot is happily a rare occurrence in England, and a collision of rioters with the military still rarer. Such an event, however, has now to be recorded, with the exceedingly disagreeable feature that it is the culmination of a dispute respecting wages. It appears that for some weeks past the relations between the colliers working at the Leeswood Great Pit, near Mold, in Denbighshire, and their employers have been in an unsettled state. The facts connected with this lament able loss of life must shortly come under the review of the highest criminal courts of the land, and it is the duty of the press not to prejudge their decision, so far a . 9 the responsi bility of individuals is concerned. We are all, however, at liberty to discuss its more _public aspects, as it will be our duty to do as soon as sufficient materials for a judgment have been acctimulated. Seldom as a sanguinary repres sion of an outbreak is necessary in this country, and jealously as Englishmen are accustomed. to watch the employment of the military force in dealing with civil tumults, the public will be prepared to uphold the acts of those who have done what appeared best under most trying circumstances. Assuming that the facts are cor rectly reported, it would appear that the action of the magistrates in calling upon the military, and of the commanding officer of the latter in ordering his men to lire, was of a purely defensive character, and was abso lutely necessary, if life and property in Mold were not to become the . prey of an infuriated and powerful mob. Under any circumstances the loss of life reported must be deeply lamented ; but it will be. a matter of thankfulness if regret is unmingled with self-reproach. Tie Herald thinks there can be no doubt that a la proportion of the misery, and even crime, prevalent amo rg 4 the rural population is due to the disconifort and squalor of the labourer's home. It is made hateful to the man its dirt, its crowded state, its total want of snugness, and all else that can render a tenement intolerable. The Bath and 'West of England Society are considering the subject in a practical light, and much hope may be derived from their conclusions. Of course no one affects tc believe we can give to every ploughman and haymaker those little Paradises of poetry which are so charming in Gainsborough—landricapes with thick caved roofs and showers of jasmin over idyllic perches. But there is a medium between this sort of sentimental hope -and .the wors e than A frit:a:l barbarity of- the hat in which Many - an Eteelish labourer is, with hie familV cramped: 7 ' At-present thousands of families in the rural.' districts of this kingdom inhabit structures which are not houses at all Mitt ea. - bins that would disgrace in connernara. Many:have no chimneys, still more frequently their iloors are only made of beaten earth, over which the rain-fall overflows ; a n entire c'eseter of them depende upon a solitary pump, noxious with the . filterines of a horse-pond ; other arrangements for jeeipii et y aro utterly neglected ; and passing tlireneli seine a. hardly compact enough to deserve the name, a peklustrian imagine him self to be visiting one of those. primitive hamlets which in the nineteenth century represent a considerable. part of the civilisation extant in: France. We are far from implying that this is a general pietrire of cottage life in England,' but, on the Other hand,. it .i 4 no imaginary picture. - 'We have set oiirServeseeaok.Stlyiii OtirTlajjse towns to provide improved homes fort heartiiittie - M'auy great landlords have given in the provinces examples of a similarly wise generosity in this respect, but it must be renlembered that we Lave to provide for millions, and it will never be time to slacken our efforts until we cal; look without shame upon the homes in which those who late the • logedal THE LIFE-SAVING! APPARATUS. The experiment of the life-saving apparatus, which took place on the Thames at Cremorne, seems to have been completely successful. It is thus described. The appa ratus is intended for the rescue of shipwrecked persons. The inventor is Captain J. B. Stonor, of New York, ft gentleman of independent fortune, who served through. out the great civil war. Two Americans—a gentleman and his wife—have been commissioned to explain the nature of the apparatus ; and the way in which they are obliged to do so is certainly novel and in teresting. They first slip their arms through cork jackets and then insert their persons in a loose indiarubber over coat, which covers the whole of the body, except the :ands and face, around which it is tightly secured. India rubber weights are then attached to the shoes, so as to en a'ile the wearers to maintain a perpendicular position and perfect equilibrium, and being thus equipped they jump into the water. They carry with them a tin case, in shape somewhat like a buoy. This article is divided into two compartments, and in the upper one they manage to pack biscuits, a flask of brandy, a revolver, Bengal lights, Boman candles, and some Liebig's sausages. Smoking and newspaper reading are not luxuries which a shipwrecked individual would probably enjoy in a "life en the ocean wave ;" but American originality provides for them, and adds cigars and a newspaper to the tiny freight. The lower compartment of the case contains about six quarts of water, which is drunk through an india-rubber tube, closed by a metal screw top. The provisions which are thus carried are supposed to last eight days, and if a shipwrecked person should fail to be rescued before the end of that time, he has the consola tion, when dying, of knowing that his body cannot sink, that his will, papers, and jewellery are safe, and that his friends will know how he quitted the world. The inven tion has been patented by an American company with a capital of 000,000 dollars, and the price fixed for each suit is 5:7. The public will not have an opportunity of investing in the apparatus for some months, inasmuch as a series of experiments in most European countries are contemplated, with the view of testing the success with which the invention is likely to be attended. Mr. and Mrs Craddock, the two Americans, remained in the river nearly half an hour on Thursday evening, and shewed very little exertion beyond what was required in using little india-rubber paddles which form part of the apparatus. The eXperiment was conducted under considerable difficulty, Mrs. and Mrs. Craddock being prevented from moving in the water by the clustering of the heats, whose occupants were deaf to earnest protestations. They both opened the buoy-shaped case, helped themselves to some of the con tents, fired a revolver, and exhibited lights, and a red flag bearing the word "Eureka." The time occupied in don ning the dress is three minutes and a half. Captain Stoner hopes to provide all passenger ships with these extraordinary dresses, being ready to lend them for El each for every voyage, and to provide each ship with a man capable of explaining their utility. IIVFANTICIDE IN LONDON. On Thursday evening, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Oentral Middlesex, delivered a lecture on this subject to a large audience, in the Freemasons' Hail of the metropolis. Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., presided, in the absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Dr. Lankester, after a scriptural and historical retrospect, proceeded to deal with the r i tiestion as it addressed itself to the Christian world, and i;ore upon the well-being of society iu modern times. Infanticide he defined to be the destruction or murder of a new-born child, but under another name the law also took cognisance of the destruction of a child before it was born. He proposed to deal with the former of these crimes, and to draw upon his own experience for his facts„. thus following in the footsteps of the late Mr. Wakley, !tclio, like himself, had beer. wrongly accused of exaggeration while treating of this matter. In 1863 there were 55 cases of infanticide in his distri,t ; in 1864, 56 ; in 1865, 61 ; in 1866, 75; in 15'.(77, 53; and in 1868, 52; but in too many instances he had discovered a tendency to return -open verdicts of " found dead" or "still-born." According to the judicial statistics of the riomeOffice, the ratio of- the crime for the whole of England was 1 in 170,000 of the population, and in Micidiesex 1 in 20,000, while for the central and western districts it was 1 in 12,000, confirming him in the opinion that the crime was mainly confined to the domestic servants of the West end. Indeed, on an average of five years the return for Clerkenwell was 1 in 30,000 ; St. Pancras, 1 in 20,000; Marylebone, 1 in 10,000 ; Paddington, lin 8,000 ; and Islington, lin 6,000. Having shewn that the mother was generally alone in the murder and disposal of her child, Dr. Lankester went on to assert that the verdicts returned afforded no indication of the actual number of cases. He believed Mr. Wakley was right in fixing it at 300 a year, and - as the murderess was generally twenty years of age, and seldom repeated her crime, taking the average life of women at 60, it followed that there were 12,000 women living who had committed the offence. He next glanced at the deaths occasioned amongst mothers and the effects of " baby farming," observing that half the children upon whom he held inquests were illegiti mate, and that from 40 to SO per cent. of children admitted into foundling hospitals die within the first year, and concluded by stating his cure for the evil, which was to be Worked through the pulpit, an alteration of the bas tardy laws, as not more than one in seventy of the fathers contributed to the support of the child, the substitution of other than the capital punishment for the crime, a certified registration of births, as in Ireland and Scot land, and of .still-borns, as on the Continent, and the enactment of punishments for the concealment of preg nancy. LAW AND POLICE. THE CONSOLIDATED BANS.—On Thursday Samuel Marks, coachbuilder, appeared at Bow-street on the charge of having obtained money on false pretences from the manager of the Strand branch of the Consolidated Bank. The manager, believing his representations, had agreed to discount three bills amounting to £297 28. The bills when due were dis honoured, and the case for the prosecution was that the defendant must have known the persons who accepted them were bankrupt, The defendant was bound over in his own recognisances for £2OO to appear for trial at the Central Criminal Court. ATTEMPTED MURDEII.—A young man, named Levett, was on Thursday examined at the Southwark Police•court, on the charge of attempting to murder his wife on Whit Monday evening. Mrs. Levett was nursing her baby, when her husband came home intoxicated and asked for money. She tad him she had none, upon which he snatched up the poker and struck her on the head. She was for several days in imminent danger, but has since recovered and begged forgiveness for her husband, who was, however, committed for trial. . - A LITERARY QUESTION.—In the Chesterfield County Court several cases were heard arising from a dispute with respect to the purchase of works in numbers. The plaintiff was an agent to Messrs. Blackie, of Edinburgh, and the defendants were poor people, who had taken the first part of a work which, when completed, would cost 27. They had signed the contract-book, but refused the second part on the ground of the expense. His Honour nonsuited the plaintiff in every case, and said he should do all he could to prevent the practice of• getting persons to sign such contracts ignorantly. ASSAULT AT SEA.—The captain and the chief mat:. of a passenger shit) were on Thursday summoned at the Mansion House by a retired army surgeon for assault. The offence was alleged to have been committed at sea on the voyage from Calcutta on April 17. There appeared, however, to be some qualifying circumstances in the case of the defendants, and in the result the complainant withdrew the summonses. BURNED TO DEATH IN A PIGSTYE. —A horrible death is reported from Devonshire. The deceased was John Chubb, aged 51, woodman, in the employ of 11Ir, J. A. Knight, of Axmi n st er. On W ednesday morning the pigstye at his house was found to be on file. Ills wife, who bad two children ill, tried to open the door of the stye, but the fastening was so hot that she bad to take the tongs to do so. In the stye she found the charred remains of her husband. The body was scorched like a log of wood. Deceased had been intoxi cated, and was a great smoker. It is supposed that whilst the man was smoking the stye had taken fire. At the inquest the jury brought in a verdict of Accidental Death. A Norm , . FISHERMAN. —A party of fishermen on the beach between Walmer and Deal one day lnst week were hauling in their large nets with a copious take of mackerel, and, as is usual upon such occasions, willing bands were ready to help to pull in the nets. A gentle• man who was looking ou,seeing that all available strength was wanted to land the fish, seized one corner, and with a vigorons tug contributed in getting the take up the abrupt beach, Upon opening the net, preparatory to sorting the fish and racking for the London market, all the Yelping hands were givc: some half-a-dozen for their reply aid, as is the custom, and the gentleman asked whether he Lad earned a share. " oh, yes," said - the worthy master of the boat, "you war a good help-; - take four of the finest you can see, and here's a bit o' twine tc. cii'TernThenyie With ;" - and' - threading four - of. the hand somest'Macketel at hand, he-gave them to the gentleman, who walked off with them there and then to Walmer Castle. It was the noble Lord Warden of the Cinque vto iliztglerzediard Gra4ville) whiihAti PFOicOLOYJA era THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, I. W. THE ASSASSINATION AT LEGHORN. REPUBLICANISM IN ITALY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, MAY 28. The particulars of the assassination of the Austrian Consul at Leghorn have just reached us. The Count, Field-Marshal von Crenneville, had just left Rome, where he had been sent on a private mission to the Pope by the Emperor of Austria, whose aide-de-camp he was. He had been Governor of Leghorn in 1849, and was anxious to see his old garrison, and also to pay a visit to his friend the Austrian Consul, M. Inghirami. He was recognised on his arrival by several men who had sworn vengeance against him at the café kept by the brothers Carradini, and the police warned him to be careful. He, however, remained two days with Signor Inghirami, walking about the bastions and revisiting his old haunts, and on the fourth day took his passage on board the steamer to return to Civita Vecchia. He was accompanied to the quay by the Consul, and just as both gentlemen were stepping into the boat to embark, they were attacked by two un known individuals, armed with daggers, who stabbed Count Crenneville in the face and the Consul to the heart. The former turned rapidly round, and suc ceeded in putting his adversary to flight and wresting from him a three-sided dagger with which he had been wounded, and then turned to assist his friend. M. Inghirami was bleeding profusely, and only survived his wound suffi c'ently long to be carried home, where he diedimmediately after. The Austrian Embassy at Florence has demanded vigorous justice, and the persons suspected of the crime are in custody. Very little doubt exists in well-informed quarters that the French occupation will shortly be withdrawn. The unpopularity of Victor Emmanuel has reached its height ia . Italy, and Mazzini's recent manifesto, suppressed by the Government, has had a fabulous circu lation in clandestinely printed broadsheets. The proclamation, "To any Enemies," is a terrible blow for the Italian Government. It will be quoted in every caf6 in Italy, and will form an era in Italian politics as the final declaration of war by the sect against the monarchy. Mazzini seems to have decided on passing the summer at Lucerne, where there is a very considerable revolutionary nucleus. Menotti Garibaldi has left Naples, and was followed to the steamer by a large crowd. As he lift he cried, " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele!" to which not a single voice responded. He then cried "Viva Garibaldi!" and the crowd, consisting of many thousands of persons, broke into enthusiastic cheering. A relation of my own was present, - and was struck beyond words at the utter coldness with which the King's name was received. To demonstrate this was probably the object of Menotti's ruse. He has gone to Catanzaro to meet Achille Fazzari, who is associated with him in a so•called industrial enter prise in the Calabrias, but which is known to cover an organisation of the southern provinces for the proclama tion of the Republic. The army is far from trustworthy. The Piacenza Regiment (Light Dragoons) is said to be entirely gained over to Republicanism, and those of Salerno are little better disposed. The ex-King of Naples and his Queen leave for France to-morrow, the youngest prince and princess, brother and sister of the King, remaining in charge of the Count of Caserta. Their Majesties return in October, for the Queen's confinement. The Count of Girgenti was telegraphed for yesterday by Queen Isabella, and left for Paris at once, leaving bis wife, the Infanta, in Rome. It is supposed there is some question of an attempt at a regency, and of a formal abdication in favour of the Prince of Asturias, which is the project favoured by the Emperor Napoleon. The next decree of the Index will probably condemn Menabrea's pamphlet, " L'Etat and le Concile." The Archbishops of Cologne and Posen Gnessen will probably be raised to the purple shortly, and will receive a fitting income to support the dignity from the King of Prussia. The Prussian bishops will also, it is said, receive their expenses for the Council from the State. Cardinal Bonaparte will leave Rolm for Paris after St. Peter's, and will officiate at the fetes in Corsica. Mr. Anthony Waterer, from his nursery at Woking. This nursery exceeds 200 acres, and GO of them are occupied with American plants alone. The cost of removing them to and from the Gardens must be prodigious. The weather yesterday was particularly fine, and the magnificent spectacle of brilliantly-coloured flowers and scarcely less brilliantly-dressed people was well worth a visit. Only why should modest women be exposed to the annoyance of being brought constantly face to face with women whose extravagant costume and rouged cheeks shewed their calling even though they were accompanied by men who had all the appearance of gentle. men ? Still speaking of flowers, I may mention that Mr. Layard has done wonders in Hyde Park. He has laid out the whole of the lawn next to Knightsbridge in beau tiful slopes, which almost hide the hideous houses beyond, and which just now are perfectly gorgeous in their display of rhododendrons. Last evening was luckily very fine, and there was an enormous crowd of persons in the streets gazing on the illuminations. All the chief Ministers of the Crown gave State entertainments, and so all the night through coronet ted carriages were rolling through the streets. For those who had not the entree to noble and right honourable circles, there were concerts innumerable, as there have been all the week. I was at at Madame Puzzi's on Mon day, and it was particularly good. We had Monbelli Volpini, Edith Wynne, Rcse Hers&, Pyne-Bodda, and Julia Elton feu• female vocalists, and Gassier and Gardoni among the men. Last night " Elijah" was performed by the National Choral Society at St. Martin's Hall. Next week will be a week of concerts. Chief among them is Nilsson's on Monday, and the second performance of Rossini's " Messe Solennelle" on Wednesday. The National Choral Society mean to hold a great concert at the South Kensington Horticultural Gardens on the 26th on behalf of some charity, and there will be 5,000 persons in the chorus. The Princess Louise is to open the new Sailors' Orphan Girl's School and Home early in July, and will plant a tree in honour of the event. Ladies who have collected five guineas are to be permitted to present the amount to her Royal Highness. The White Horse Cellar, well-known to travellers journeying. between London and the 'West in the old coaching days, is becoming almost as famous as it was thirty years ago. Every day there start from it coaches and four for different parts of the country. The latest of these is a Windsor coach, driven by Lord Carington at from eleven to twelve miles an hour. This coach has been started not by a private speculator, as the Brighton and Tunbridge coaches have been, but by the Four-in-lland Club, whose turnout may be seen every afternoon in Rotten Row. Gay doings are not to be confined to the West-end. The City means to have its festival. Blackfriars Bridge is all but finished, and its three wide iron arches may now be fully seen from the Enbankment. The Holborn Viaduct is also all but completed, and in all probability both structures will be opened with civic state on the same, and that an early, day. By the way, our City authorities are at last copying the example long ago set by Baron Hauesmann in Paris, and are laying down an asphalte road in Threadneedle-street. Bat they had to get foreign workmen to do the job, and the work is being carried out by a Swiss company. Mr. Street's new design for the Law Courts has been got out in about three weeks, and the ground plans are now exhibited in the library of the House of Commons. The elevation plans are not yet exhibited, but those who have seen the rough drawings say that Mr. Street has done wonders. Mr. Lowe laid upon him a very difficult task, but he has out of the difficulty achieved a real victory. Still on these matters I may mention that Mr. Thorny croft's colossal statue of the Queen is now ready. It represents her Alajesty in half-military costume, such as she used to wear when visiting the camp at Chobham with the Prince Consort. It is fourteen feet high, and will be placed in front of St. George's Hall, Liverpool. In pictorial art matters there is a little news going. The deficiency in the three exhibitions of the National Portrait Gallery is £1,200, and is provided for in this year's estimates. I fear we must not look for a fourth. Sir Edwin Landseer is re ported to have sold his large picture of " Eagles In vading a Swannery " to the Marquis of Northampton for 4,000 guineas, and Mr. Millais's rather crude "Vanessa" has found a purchaser at £7OO. Miss Escombe's singular picture representing a girl, arrayed in a Chinese robe, painting her portrait from the reflection in the mirror, so that the robe is repeated three times, was intended as a g'cit d'esprit, and no one was more surprised at its acceptance by the Hanging Committee than the artist. Mr. Sydney Hodges's portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury is now on view at Graves's, in Pall Mall. The artist is painting the Princess Mary of Cambridge ; and is also, I believe, to paint Prince Teck. Mr. Whitworth ought to be well pleased at the result of his noble gift. There are no fewer than 3,000 compe titors for the ten scholarships which he founded for the promotion of technical education. The receipts of the Atlantic Cable on the Ist and 2nd of June, at the reduced charge of £2 per message, shew an advance of more than 50 per cent. on the receipts of the corresponding clays of last year, the income of the two days being £1,534 this year, as compared, with £920 on the Ist and 2nd of June, 1868. The literary market is still dull, but is " looking up" a little. A second edition of Mr. Lecky's " History of Morals" is announced already. This is a real triumph for the author. He is but a little over 30 years of age, and has produced two works which, more than any others of late years, are profoundly influencing the thought of his contemporaries. His first attempts at lite rature were made some three or four years ago, and appeared in the shape of a volume of poems, and the " History of Rationalism." The poems had actually no sale, and came back to him as waste paper, but the History took at once, and its success astonished him. Being a man of private means, he is able to devote all his time to reading and writing. He travels a good deal, and a large portion of his latest work was written while he was travelling, I believe, in Spain. Though a man of such varied reading, he is remarkably retiring in society. Several weeks ago I said that if some of our great pub lishers did not secure an account of that wonderful conflict which has been going on in Paraguay for some years, the inhabitants of the Row had better put up their shutters. I may now mention that Longmans have arranged with Mr. George Thompson, G.E., Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers in the Paraguayan army, to publish a history of Paraguay, of the customs of the people, and of the war. The same publishers have just ready the concluding volumes of Froude's History o f England. Next to these the most interesting announcements are that John llurray has a pamphlet by Dean Hook on " The Disestablished Church in the American Republic ;" that Smith and Elder have in the press a new work by Ruskin, entitled "The Queen of the Air ; an Attempt to Interpret the Myths of Athena ;" and that Macmillan has nearly ready a life of Arthur Clough, and a volume of Essays written partly by men, partly by women, on." Women's Culture and Women's Work," edited by Josephine Butler. I may mention, also, among forthcoming works, new novels by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Mortimer Collins, entitled respectively " The Minister's Wife" and the " Ivory Gate ;" " Austra lian Views of England," by Mr. Henry Parkes, late Colo nial Secretary of New South Wales ; the " Seven Curses of London," by James Greenwood ; " The Christian -; Germany," by Miss Wentworth; "Palm Leaves," by the same author ; and Keble's Letters, edited by Dr. Moberly. I have reserved to the last my notes on political matters. First and foremost it is now admitted that the Lords have made up their minds not to oppose the Irish Church Bill. I confess I always disbelieved the possibility of their taking any other course, even though for a few hours it was seriously intended. It is true that there is great wrath among the Irish Protestants, who declare that they have been cruelly betrayed, and that the English Bishops especially have treated them shamefully, by refusing to be present at Chesterfield House on Saturday. But what could they do? To have rejected the bill would have been to bring about a most serious conflict between the two .Floises, between the Peers and the nation, and between the English Church and the nation. And all these dire events would have been totally without any compensat ing result, because the bill is sure to pass, if not this year, then next Tear. Of course there are men like Archdeacon Denison wl o would say, "Let the heavens fall so that justice be done." But, unfortunately, if the heavens did fall " justice" could not be done. the Peers very wisely think that the skies might just as well remain where they are. Thus all ideas of serious opposition and of caves and of deminds for the " whole policy "of the Government are believe' to be given up. The bill will be on for a second sealing on June 14, and after a long debate it will be passed without a division, unless some hot=headed man like Lord :Zedesdale or the Marquis of Westmeath insists upon dividng ; in that case the Conservative peers will leave the house. The bill was brought up to the Peers in anything le, i t state. A ge l tl em a n f rom th e Bill Office was observed mr,_r,ipg his way though the Lords' lobby with a print,d paper tucked ur under his arm. This was lie embodied revolution which has cast such - dismay into the Proestant camp. A few minutes before five, one >f the clerks at the table arrived at the bar of theupper House from the Commons, in order to band the lilj to Sir J. S. Lefevre. The Clerk of the t'r liaments tok it to the table, where it •aWaite.d, th e eoiin . mencemen of -busine s s, Th a t wa s .how thi s - import a nt measure Nits sent from the Lower to the--UWer -House: I will cnclude by contradicting, as am able to do on the highest authority, the report o .dat Earl Spencer is about to esign. The Irish Vicerok neither has, nor has had, EU;lilittlitioll l Sa;,"rl 111ISCELL.4NEOUS !VET'S. THE IRISH CIIURCH DIVISION. Ministerialists are not quite satisfied with the division on the third reading of the Irish Church Bill. A Liberal vote, they say, was thrown away. A member of the House, who was not able to reoord his vote, paired, but . did so in a mode that has excited the wrath of the Liberal Whips. Said member said nothing to the Liberal Whip about his pairing, but went to Mr. Noel to get his name struck against another. Mr. Noel paired him with a member who was out of town and had no intention of coming up to take part in the division. Mr. Glyn happened to be exactly in the same position as Mr. Noel—he had a vote at command, and could have substituted another Liberal, who had actually come down to the House, but was prevented from voting by the fact that he had been previously paired with an absent Conservative. Thus the defaulter at once disabled a Liberal fellow-member whose vote was in Mr. Glyn's hands, and redeemed from extinction a Tory vote which, but for his interposition, must have been unemployed. ME7 ROPOLITAN GOSSIP-7hursday:- The town is full of scandal. First of all there is this lament- I able business of the Duke of Newcastle, which I referred to in a former letter. There is no longer anything to be gained by suppressing the name. The whole affair came before the courts yesterday. That was then made public to all the world which was pretty well known before in West-end circles. The son of an honoured states. man had fallen into hands which, before now, have I proved anything but helping hands. Unhappily for him, be had visited a notorious sporting-man in the neighbourhood of one of the most aristocratic squares in London ; at whose house the wines are costly and the viands choice, but where it is the guests who in the long run have to pay—as that poor lad the Marquis of Hastings and now the Duke of Newcastle have learnt to their cost. It is now seen why it was that the Duke never came for ward to the help of his brothers, who were compelled to pass through the Bankruptcy Court. He, no less than they, had fallen among a class which I need not particularise. Fortunately for the Duke, be has a wise wife who, having had settled upon her the enormot property which she inherited from her father, Mr. Henry Hope, refuses to pay her husband's debts of honcur. For tunately, too, he holds merely a life interest in a consider able portion 'of the property which belorged to the late Duke, and Mr. Gladstone and Lord de Tab:ey have come for ward as trustees to pre tect the interests of the present Duke's five young children (the eldest of whom is only seven years old) against persons of the Padwick and Beyfus type. It is to be hoped that the Earl, who has fallen into similar straits, but whose affairs have not yet been made public, will find some deliverers of the same kind. But neither the example of these noblemen, nor that of the Marquis of Hastings, whose ruin was the talk of all the town this tha e last year, seems to produce the smallest effect upon our jeunesse .deree. The marquis who perished at 26, the duke who is ruined at 35, another duke who bad to sell his ancestral estates as soon as he became of age, some three years ago, and all the other young peers and aristocrats who have been more or less hard hit, more or less entangled in the cruel web of sporting " gentlemen"—all these examples have no more effect upon the rest of the peerage and the baronetage than the scorched and lifeless bodies of the moths around a lamp have upon their fellow•moths. However, it is not only the blue blood that thus runs to waste. At the very time that London is full of these miserable stories we are told of a collection being raised to buy an annuity for the unfortunate Railway King, who is in beggary ; and that the Prince of Wales has hired for Ascot week Cooper's Hill, the seat of Mr. Albert Grant, late M.P. for Kidderminster. Mr. Grant as be chose to be called, Herr Gottheimer as his name really was, was one of the great financiers who, having gone up like a rocket during 1865, came down like a stick in 1866. His old constituents did not covet the honour of being represented by him, and so he ceased to he M.P. at the dissolution of the last Parliament. As for Cooper's Hill, I know every inch of it. It was formerly tenanted by Sir J. Cathcart, brother of the general who was killed at Inkermann. It is a most charming spot, about Halt-ray between F.eham and Virginia Water. At its foot lies Runnymede, where Magna cnarta was and from its summit Sir John Denham—" the majestic Denham," as Pope called him—wrote his poem " Cooper's Hill," which contains that well known couplet in which he expressed his wish that his poetry might be like the Thames : Though deep, y, t clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Unfortunately my chronicle of scandal does not end here. There are innumerable rumours of divorce suits, in which some of the highest names will figure. Of these it is safest to say nothing more. But' the most grievous scandal is the banquet which was given at St. James's Hall, by a notorious woman of the town, whose photo graph figures in all the 'shop windows among those of bishops and statesmen. 'Though the tickets were £lO a head, they were eagerly bought by our jiouig" nobles, who crowded to the plaCe 'where immodesty reigned supreme in the persons of the chief members of the demi-monde. The hostess had the audacity on another occasion to seat herself in an opera box just opposite that in which the Prince and the Princess of Wales were sitting, and the Prince was so indignant that he declared he would never enter the Opera again if such an insult were repeated. This has been a gay week. While the Queen has disap peared from public view, as is her wont during the height of the season and the sitting of Parliament, the Prince and the Princess of Wales, invigorated by their late journey, have been attending concerts,theatres, exhibitions,and horse shows with wonderful energy. Londoners may see them any day driving at a rapid pace through the streets, while excited policemen call upon ordinary vehicles to get out of the way, which command, as they were not in the way, the Jehus very wisely disregard. Yesterday afternoon I was at a great flower show at South K ens i ngton G ar d ens. It was a really magnificent spectacle. Thousands upon thousan,ls of the elite were gathered together sitting on the slopes, listening to the two military bands which played alternately, or strolling through the arcades wherein the azaleas, roses, and orchids shone forth with many-coloured lustre. But the great sight of ail was the huge tent.filled with American plants, chiefly azaleas and rhododendrons, in full fl;)wer. The ground inside the tent is laid out in miniature hills and dales, and the view seen from one of the eminences is the most fairy-like it is possible to imagine. The whole of the plants were transplanted thither, fox the special puilme of the show, by THE IRISH LAITL% LAWS. A very able letter on the Irish land laws from" special correspondent" appears in the Daily Telegraph. The writer gives the history of these laws and of the social condition of Ireland during the past century. It was in 1760 that agrarian outrages first became serious, and compelled the landowners to remove the grievances of which the tenants complained. The conspirators took the name of Whiteboys. They committed robberies of arms, killed and maimed cattle, and even obnoxious persons, and burnt dwelling - houses. Their fury was directed, not only against landlords, but a g ainst bailiffs, against the tenants who sub mitted to eviction, and even against those of their own class who would not join the conspiracy. Tithes and county cess were among the causes of discontent, but the main cause was the exorbitant rent of land. The Irish Parliament, which was composed almost entirely of landowners, refused to examine the causes of discontent during the forty years that elapsed between the outbreak of agrarianism and the Union. The Attorney-General in 1787, though a member of a High Tory Administration, and addressing a Par liament of landowners, spoke in the strongest terms of that class. He declared that it was impossible for human wretchedness to surpass that which existed in Munster. He said : " I know that the unhappy tenantry are ground to powder by relentless landlords. I know that, far from being able to give the clergy their just dues, they have not food or raiment for themselves. The landlord grasps the whole ; and sorry I am to add that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base as to Instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack rents already paid !" The Union took place, but it had no effect upon the social condition of the peasantry. Committees of both Houses of Parliament were appointed in 1824. The evidence given before them was Wrible. Mr. Blackburne, who subsequently held the highest legal posts under Conservative Administrations, said of county Kerry that there being no manufactures land had become a necessary of life. As the popula tion multiplied the demand for land increased, and at last the rent became so high that the tenants could not pay it. Sir George Lewis, writing twelve years later, found the same condi tion of things, and the commission, presided over by the Earl of Devon, reported that it is difficult to say what compensation, apart from land, will be adequate in a country where land alone affords a permanent security for food." Then came the Irish poor law of 1839, by which, and by an extensive system of Government colonisation, Sir George alone hoped to put down agrarian crime. Then came the famine, clearing the est a t es o f th e i r superabundant population. The total population of Ireland in 1847 was over 81 millions ; the famine and the exodus reduced it to GI, : millions. But it was not the tenants who suffered during that fearful time. The enormous poor rates overwhelmed the landlords, and it became necessary to pass the Encumb ere d Estates Acts, under which In eight years there were no fewer than 4,413 petitions for the sale of estates. These changes, together with repeated promises to amend the law so as to give the tenants protection, kept the people quiet for a time. But repeated falsification of pledges has induced them once more to rise against laws which even so high a Tory as Chief Justice Pennef a th er declared were "framed with a view to the interest of the landlord, and to enforce the payment of rent. The interest of the tenant never entered into the contemplation of the Legislature. " The letter concludes with remarking that Englishmen respect the law because under it they have become prosperous and happy. Irishmen, unfortunately, have no such reason. SIR ROBERT CLIFTON. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post gives some particulars respecting the late Sir Robert Clifton which the kindly spirit that will always prevail with regard to the dead should make as widely known as possible. The correspondent says : " The late baronet arrived in Paris after horseracing and the Jews had consumed a magnificent fortune, and here he lived ten years on a small income, but always exercising great hospitality, for he was of a generous nature. Those who knew the baronet as a Turf man only were little aware of his real character. He took a great interest in foreign politics, and corresponded with foreign statesmen. Soon after the Crimean War he published a pamphlet in French and English on the condition and prospects of the Ottoman empire, and for which he received the thanks of the Turkish Govern ment through the then Ambassador at Paris, his Excellency Vefyk Effendi. Sir Robert had just inherited property, from the death of his uncle, Sir Arthur Clifton, and only very lately wrote to a friend in Paris saying that he was determined to repair past errors, dedicate his time to parliamentary duties, and do what good he oould for the workmen of Nottingham." TIIE EARL OF CARNARVON ON LORD PALMERSTON. It is, we suppose, a sign of the times that at the unveiling of the statue of Lord Palmerston the principal part of the ceremony should be entrusted, not to a Liberal, but to a Conservative statesman. No doubt Lord Palmerston was more of a Conserva tive than of a Liberal, and it was, therefore, quite fitting that the Earl of Carnarvon should make the inaugural speech. Lord Carnarvon said that one great cause of Lord Palmerston's popularity was that he was " emphatically an Englishman. — an Englishman as much in his faults as in his virtues." This is true enough; but it is to be hoped that we have improved since then—that we 110 longer love a statesman because of his faults. One great fault possessed by Englishmen generally,. and by Lord Palmerston to an intensity, was insularity—the idea that England was not only better than any other country in the world, but that all • other countries were made for her special advantage, and must therefore g ive way to her even when she was wrong. It was this which made him wage that wicked Chinese war a dozen years ago. It was this which prevented him from seeing that the highest aim of a statesman is to be not a national egotist, but a cosmopolitan. The con trast between the two was typified by Palmerston. the "thorough Englishman," and Cobden the " inter national man." Fortunately it is the second, rather than the first, who has now become our model. THE PRINCE OF WALES A FREEMASON. The probability has become a certainty; the Prince of Wales is, now an acknowledged Freemason. There was much speculation about the matter some time back ; and the craftsmen. professed themselves in doubt as to what Order his Royal Highness had joined in Sweden. But at the quarterly communica tion of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England, held at the Great Hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn, the Earl of Zetland announced, on "W e dnesday last, that the Prince had joined the fraternity. Her Majesty's birthday prevented the Prince from attending, but he was immediately promoted to be Past Grand Master. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT COVENTRY, The Conservatives of Coventry held a banquet on Wednesday, attended by Messrs. Eaton and Hill, the members for the borough. They both denied that the election in the borough was won by a local question ; and both made a great point in their speeches of the French Treaty—the local question itself. They promised their constituents that they would endeavour to obtain a revision of this treaty. This, with the stereotyped denunciation of the Irish Church Bill, made up two average speeches. Hr. Hill, however, gave an amusinginstance of party journalism. He said he read the local Liberal paper, and was much surprised by a criticism on his speech and vote in the matter of Mr. Russell Gurney's Married Women's Property Bill. First of all, the writer put in an account of men beating their wives, then said that Mr. Gurney's bill was to prevent men beating their wives ; " and yet Mr. Hill," continued the writer, "is against this bill—he is in favour of those men who beat their -Wives." DEAN STANLEY ON NATIONAL EDI:CATION, Dean Stanley loves no word better than the won) unational.7 Hardly a sermon but it occurs, hardly a speech but he impres ses it upon iviskn his ht 2 A er 4 continually enforcing dit Associating party with weakness t l '2" - ts need of b rea dth of, vitt ana comprehensive t:011 - t iathy. At an anniversary of the NationA !Sorjjet for P • yPromoting the Education of the Poe: he is, therefore, eminently at home. - A l bel t;i iie does not sympathise with the societyin the e.:;ntcst it has •bceii waging with Parliament anent the Conscience Clause, ho knows well how to sink such disagreements when it is advisable to do so. Preaching at the Triennial Choral Festival of the society at Westminster abbey on Wednesday, he took for his subject Compassion, and laid down that there was ha r dly a hi g h er work of compassion than education. We learn from all history, he said, that ignorance and the want of education tend to foster weakness and division in States; and that as thetil4maa.2raDiraldl...mumluatiliktant of that education which binds man to man ana rang to rank, the same thing might happen again if national Churches failed in their wide and comprehensive duty. Pupils, ho added, are the wings of their teachers, as we could learn from a Socrates or a Paul ; and while a mere priest isolates himself, his sympathies, and his caste from the rest of mankind, the true pastor and teacher identifies himself with those whom he in structs, and thereby educates them without lowering his own position. This compassion of the teacher and instructor ought to be as wide as the people among whom one's lot is cast. INDEPENDENT CONGREGATIONS AND THEIR PASTORS. The decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart giving power to a dissenting congregation to dismiss its pastor, has, it is stated, created considerable excite ment amongst the ministers ; and a correspondent of the S?a,• announces that the case is to be carried to the Lords Justices. Meanwhile efforts are to be made "to set ministers thinking of the volcano over which their pulpits are now hanging." TWO-YEAR-OLD RACING. This is the subject of another long letter in the Tinier; written by Admiral Pouts. Pejoicing that Sir Joseph Hawley's motion to the Jockey Ulub was rejected, he enters once more into a discussion of the whole subject. He still refuses to believe that racers have degenerated. He holds rather that they have much improved. The old English racer used to come in exceedingly exhausted to the winning post, so that carriages kept up with him ; he used to be small and poor, now he is fast and powerful, and stands far ahead of all the other horses of the world. In answer to Lord Derby's letter, the Admiral declares that he never knew anyone run simply for sport and not for profit, and that he has done all he can to warn touts off the field. He also denies the excess of gambling on the Turf, pointing out that every lady's maid in London knew that either Pretender or Pero Gomez must win the Derby. How could £lOO,OOO have been won on it? He also repeats his assertion that the Jockey Club has no jurisdic tion. Tie admits that as long as it acts with modera tion its example will be followed, but tyranny, ho declares, will be resented. LEVELLING DOWN. An order has just been issued directing that the minimum height for all recruits is to be reduced from five feet eight to five feet seven. This levelling clown does not speak well for the physical progress of the race. Cannot Mr. Cardwell follow the example of Frederick the Great, and import some giant grenadiers ? There are plenty of men over six feet high in Southern Norway who would do admirably for the purpose. THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. The month of May has been one of cold, wet, and wind. Several tempestuous gales occurred; the rainfall was more than double, and the crops have' begun to suffer severely. Mr. Allnatt, the Times meteorological correspondent, informs us, with regard to the rain, that May is considered a dry month, the ordinary average fall is about 2.1 9 in. ; in the past month it amounted to 5.22 in., 3.10 in. in excess. The state of the crops is already beginning to excite the attention of the clergy. Archbishop Cullen, in a pastoral letter to his clergy, says :—" As the continual cold and rain are injurious to the country, you will be pleased to say the Litany of the Blessed Virgin on three days next week, after the parochial mass, begging of God, through the intercession of His Holy Mother, to grant us weather favourable to the crops, and to preserve us from the evils of a bad harvest." A PROPIIECY. The weather prophets are at it again. We are told now of great storms in October. Captain Saxby, of the Royal Navy, is the informant before the fact. Ile says : "At 7 a.m., on the ensuing October 5, the moon will be at the part of her orbit which is nearest the earth ; her attraction, therefore, will be at its maximum force. At noon the moon will be on the earth's equator—a circum stance which never occurs without marked atmospheric disturbance—and at 2 p.m. of the same day lines drawn from the earth's centre will cut the sun and moon in the same arc of right ascension. The moon's attraction and the sun's will, therefore, be acting in the same direction. In other words, the newmoon will be on the earth's equator when in perigee, and nothing more threatening can occur of high tides and destructive storms." GUTTER CHILDREN. - ---- - Miss Rye has many difficulties to contend with in the way of opposition. Especially is her exportation of gutter children looked upon with suspicion. She has been asked whether she is aware that there are gutter children in Canada. She replies in the affir mative ; but declares that there is a vital difference between the dirty innocents of the two countries. In England they are orphan and deserted ; in Canada their parents still claim, and, to some extent, watch over, them. Miss Rye sets down as sentimental talk the protests which have been continually raised against parting parent and child ; but points out that until the law is altered nothing can be done for children such as those of North America. FOREIGN NOTES. MR. SUMNER'S SPEECH. The story goes that Arr. Sumner recently visited President Grant, and was informed that he must wait a quarter of an hour. The bellicose senator furiously rushed off, saying that he would not wait for Napoleon, Queen Victoria, or anybody else. This little tale may be founded on fact ; at all events, the Times correspondent assures us that Mr. Sumner has tried hard tohave his speech regarded as tlie basis of future negotiations on the Alabama claims, and has failed. The Cabinet wishes to have it understood that Mr. Sumner's speech was in no sense the opinion of the Government, but merely the utterance of a single senator. OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. Another Atlantic Cable is projected. A bill has been introduced into the Canadian Parliament to incorporate a telegraph company to lay a cable from Montreal to England by way of Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. THE CASE OF THE TORNADO. In an article on the present position of the negotiations in re the Tornado, the Times holds that the Spanish authorities have at least acted in conformity to law. The history of the case is this : The first adjudication of the Tornado was ignored by Lord Stanley as inequitable, and was quashed by the Spanish Court of Appeal on the tech nical ground that prize causes ought by Spanish law to be decidely administratively, and not judicially. The second adjudication, administrative in character and con ducted by Royal Commissioners, has since been brought to an end, but Lord Clarendon bas called for a new trial before a special tribunal, because Messrs. Isaacs, the claimants of the vessel, have been denied a hearing before the Council of State, to whom the sentence of the commissioners had been referred for confirmation. Now, the denial of a hearing to Messrs. Isaac is in conformity with Spanish law, but the British Foreign Office claims the privilege on the ground that it was promised on two occasions by the Spanish Government. The Tornado was seized on the ground that it was destined for the ser vice of the Chili an G overnmen t, w ith w hom Spain was then at war, and that Messrs. Isaacs were really agents for Chili. The Times points out that Messrs. Isaacs have never yet succeeded in clearing this point up ; whilst, on the other hand, a similar vessel, the Cyclone, sent out by them, was undoubtedly incorporated with the Chilian fleet. But this suspicious aspect of affairs has nothing to do with the justice of Earl Clarendon's demands. Messrs. Isaacs have not been beard in their defence, and the English Government claims that they ought tc be. DEFEAT OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL. Count Bisniarck and the Federal Council have met with a signal defeat in the North German Parliament. As was expected, the deputies will not sanction the taxes proposed to meet the deficit in the Confederation Budget. One impost was accepted, but the taxes on Stock Exchange business and on the mam.facture of beer have been rejected by large majorities. In consequence or this vote, the Federal Government has given up the idea of sub mitting the other taxes which Were in contemplation. The session will be closed in a few days. Countßismarck has been attacked by sciatica, and the Paris journals, of course, attribute the visit of this malady to the irrita tion arising from the attitude of the North German Par• 'lament, THE GERMAN NAVT. The Patric, which is always fortunate enough to be in possession of some unfavourable news about Prussia, says that the members of the North German Parliament are much disquieted at the new demands for credit made by Prussia on behalf of the navy. This time the Pattie happens to have some foundation for its croaking. According to the original scheme, it was resolved that the German navy should be sufficiently strong to protect German interests in all parts of the world as well as be equal to all ordinary duties at home. For this purpose the strength of the marine force was fixed two years ago at a line of battle of sixteen ironclad frigates, a steam f leet of twenty frigates and corvettes, and thirty smaller vessels, The whole was to be completed in ten years by annual votes. Since this resolution was taken Prussia has worked at the ironclad fleet with great energy. Already five frigates have been made ready for action, and the Prussian Government would like to finish off the remaining eleven in hot haste, by the aid of extraordinary credits. The deputies are disquieted by this persistence. If the intentions of Prussia are pacific, they see no reason why the construction of the fleet should not be spread over ten years, as originally agreed upon. Some of them urge that Prussia, in her haste to increase her armaments, is neglecting the interests of the smaller States, who see no great necessity for such burdensome expense. ANOTIIRR INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. UniYergal Exhibition will beheld at St. Petersburg next year. 15th of May is fixed as the date of the opening ceretal The Emperor Napoleon will, it is expected, pay a visit. Russia onhis occasion. ISAZZINI. According to the Independance Beige, Mazzini bas 0 1 , 1 to Zurich, where the Nathan family, one of whom vir arrested on the discovery of the plot at Milan, have takeit up their residence. Many of the Swiss people are iirclio lll at the expulsion of the Republican leader from Lugaigh:A the Societa del Ticino, a very important body, have an address to the exile. Mazzini has replied, thanW' the Swiss Republicans for their protest against the bl ness of the Government. He says :—" The decision your Council is in the highest degree arbitrary andurijilsti I declare, upon my honour, that not a single WI: was purchased in Switzerland for introduction iII Italy. No meeting or assembly convened for the pur e ; of iavasion or of any violation of your neut rality ever attempted or intended by us. Neither the prel ) . / , l* lions now being made for the pending tri al in nor your Federal or Cantonal Councils, will ever slic in obtaining--I do not say a proof— but not eve n indioathin of a single act on our part leading towari:W",„ violation of international law, or of the laws, decrees, " traditions of your Republic." EARL. GRANVILLE'S NEW ZEALAND DESPATCH . Sir William Hutt, M.P., is much displeased with GranvilPs despatch respecting the refusal of the Go y' went to guarantee the loan of 21,500,000. The Colo oi l Secretary alleges that " a number of Englishmen,w itb °o. invitation or encouragement from the British a(riet;l went, took on themselves to form one or more settleineslio in New Zealand." Sir William Hut t, on the other') affirms that up to 1839 a number of dissolute We ll overrun New Zealand, were living in defiance of all i; and were perpetrating outrages. Sir WOO , conjunction with other gentlemen, represents l i o Lord Melbourne the advantage of rescuing Zealand from these evils by regular colonies Lord Melbourne's Colonial Secretary approved of project, but the Government long remained in 9 1 0 / Meanwhile, in 1839, the French Government was vd, out an expedition to take poisession of the COII,IIA-ii Seeing this, Sir William Hntt deemed that it vit'nji useless to wait for the Government any longei; was chartered, and New Zealand was taken p ose to of in the name of Great Britain. Had it not been for ts promptitude, the fine colony would have fallen French hands. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The " military operations" in Paraguay are at pt confined chiefly to the promulgation of, ridiculous re e , respecting Lopez. The Allies have gotia new c omn 3sl l), in-chief, Count d'Eu, a young man, who succeeds 0';0 " The greatest animation exists in the allied arraie g ' s y extensive preparations are being made for givi °s o o l death-blow to Lopez, who continues to occupy th e 0 0 position, although he is said to ha ve withdrawn 10r . e lot the interior with the women , leavin g Resquin, 131 e l id general, in the entrenchments of Ezcurra. H e eontlo his cruelties, and is believed to have about 6,00 0 r a !,b(l arms, including boys and old men." Several sknoi have taken place, the Paraguayans being, a always defeated. RAILWAI' INTELLIGENCE. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. aof A committee of 15 shareholders in this coceP have just issued a circular to the stock a nd b° l3 oo holders, stating that at a meeting held in Lond °s o l the 12th of May they had passed resolutions t° t he effect that, as the results of the managemen t 0f t y railway had hitherto been so unsatisfactory to stock and bondholders, they had resolved t b „ e o selves into a committee, the object of Ifrthe would be to inaugurate an alteration i ° 130 3 management of the company, both in Eng o o and in Canada ; and asking for the Pre3iejer9 and support of the stock and boo 0 4 at a meeting to be held in the London Taverlikipg Tuesday, the Bth of June, for the purpose of tavgi, steps towards an immediate reform in the 11'' agenient. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. ~ 110 The gross traffic receipts on this company for the three months ending the 30th of AP' io' amounted to $968,786, the working expensef3,ipfl eluding renewals, to $612,176, and the net esrvive to $356,610, against $914,374 gross traffic e 31 1 1 0 4' in the corresponding period of 1868, $5490:710 ing expenses, including renewals, and $ 365, 0 1 ec 9 earnings, showing an increase of $54,413 in t be :oli earnings, of $62,819 in the working expell se o - renewals, and a decrease in the net ear o t e $8,406. After deducting interest charges , Iv- To , exchange, &c., the net profit for the three 111 : 1 in 1869, available for divid , ?ndo, amountediree $81,711, against $79,191 in the corret - pond iog months of 1868. --- MONT C ENIS. The traffic receipts on this company's line -°lO, week ending the 20th of May amounted to 2 4, to (£964), and from the Ist of January to (It'. £511,098f. (X 20,444). GREAT CENTRAL OF BELGIUM. 0001 The traffic on this company's lines for the ° tbe of April last amounted to £35,95 1 , auc l , f eG reo 4 ,, month of April,lB6B, to £36,964, showing 3 u l 0 00 of £1,013. The total receipts from the Ist ° p a fci f to the end of April amounted to £144,71 1, 1 , 7 0 1 ' the corresponding period last year to showing an increase of £6,730. the BRAZILIAN STREET (LIMITED). „ The receipts for the month of April 49`;,(10 Brazilian Street Railway amounted to 1 05 5 milreis (about £1,547), as compared Myth sv oreo milreis (about £938) in the same mouthy a ro for showing an increase of £ 609 . The ex p en to April amounted to 8,281 !thirds, and the P 7,201 milreis. s tiO GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. The half-yearly meeting of this cotnPscl3loo held on Tuesday at the office, Surrey•str eetlP the Hon. It. H. Browne in the chair. Mr. Rogers, the clerk, read the f a"' rep ort ' stated that the net receipts for the half-Ye7 e a t o ing the 31st of December, 1837, anaoa u £31,042, and ending the 31st of Dee e m 1868, to £32,134, showing an incress;tte £1,092. The directors very much r e g r desie that Mr. Rogers had signified h is t, 1 1) ' 3 to retire from the office of clerk s o f 7 company having been in their service upwa r ° fie,' years, during 24 of which he had held tha t- r oe and in consideration of the length and imP ° ,cor- l i of his services to the company, the directors ‘l"ce mended that he be paid a retiring alloicaP £BOO per annum. nI 4 On the motion of the CHAIRMA N the r 4 ra te° unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the_ o f Y• 4, per cent. was declared, being an i ncreas' per share. i;•f°rtf Mr. Webster, Consul - General at Fray will take charge of his office about June 15th. od pitu ADVERTISEMENT. - Holloway's Ointme nt will be found the best friend to persons sw - pcl ° WY ulcerations, bad legs, sores, abscesses, fistulas, ° ios (l • t ie painful and complicated complaints. Printed, t oeP t iili 4 plain directions for the application of the Ou t ife t‘i wrapped round each pot. Holloway's s hell" etir„'re should be taken throughout the progress of tb o a to ry maintain the blood in a state of perfect puritn il ,, P r dis ed ael vent the health of the whole body being ject r " - ie lo „t l° J the local ailment ; bad legs, old age's greatest P., o sti e ",o l) are thus readily cured, without confining th e 'aiet,eti' bed, or with dr a win g f rom him the nutritious .ores',o' generous support so imperatively demanded viae.lio ea ing diseases attack advanced years or constitutt° ing premature decrepitude. f i reet ,l4l.4. HILL—On the Ist inst ,at 11, Weymouth-s of - Berkeley Hill, of a son.. Wi f° 4 oJ Hurrox—On the 2d inst , at Belair, Dulwich, t''jdou ' Charles W. C. Hutton . , Esq., Sheriff °f Middlesex,of a son. . ,p, MARRIAGES. C111,"08 BANNISTER —WAY—On the 2d inst., at Borell 3nl t o ~ .- f e • Captain George Bannister, of Bombay Artil , . 0 00 Frances, daughter of the Lev. C. J. 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S UTUAL LOA aneorre , r , •ted 11, RUSSET,I.-RTREE And 01 LATYVANCES MONEY lin Liold or Tenßeholcl Propel 11 ' 70 ',Pekly, monthly. Ircr ms free on receipt or of n o l'll. \1 S Froprietc Istr IMMENSE. SUCCE ThatTly mcKARD! lk ir PRET) NE. the .11r T.,SR 1 TM, the lfush (1E011(', LEYTIOTT I Ills A NTT;AD. , kII.S. ti Mis s s EMINTA A LFORD. t 111 RATM BELT, th IfACLAGAN, TILE Gil WORLD, Full BA Mr. P. G MADA ME TI (ot —.kr , -street. —A 7 tiissi J.NTorwieh) has been a on, ; Chamber o' the reerainz until 10 at n ARGYLL ROO3 Th-e extordinary sue or the Sha ra dow Dance. eelectric, light on the ~,,e in it, combined w' selections presen ...°4ve had th e gra tif y i ng st extenvly patroni celebrated si Orc e hestra, ut chet, a sig nor Curti. R iiions of all ditingni Rsio led to the eminent W„„. G raves, L. Silberberf. somas Pitts. Professc Admission pATI THE abo ve P as t e eon, Brettld . or deviling Legs of Turl CIII GINAL AND SUE To be obtsil JOHN pPB. 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THE LIVERP GLOBE 1, Dale-8f Clan ti The Invested Fun ',re Revenue to £836 Th e Moderate rates o B eans for the Life I 1' , 41110 as SPECIAL cs lider them Partici' 'eav e i s gran t e d on re tili rtS days after admi JOI NATIONAL 01 Richmond, Stir tiller the ,iatrona7o of l'he, ehY home has 1 (lirle of all ages, the ki,gdorn. classe The oble't of the Chin .18 11 enlucation, and Pra alara laundry, to tit then Mae Provided for v:-he Stiitithle situations for t The Conlnl:tte,e en o'•.i sus tained h 7 °!ftee, 121, Pall-mail, SA.M_ EEN'S off Greenwich, f T i h Na, off who are reel receipts from 47 9 less than the e • SUBSCRIPTION Willi ams , London,, Deacon ai th e Secreta at the E.C. Qu alification for Governor £lolos. 111RITISH Mackenzie-pail P atron-11er McFor the ph gratuitm destitute orans frc Drd of all denomin osPerous circumst: Otte hundr e d an d na itution, etitntion ; amle root Increased supporl , c'dowed, and is in ' Its'istance. Subscribers and t „d ita Peculiar claims. The last Report ca I%eretary. AIM OM .A b eta, 73, Cheap la ' a tikers -4 0 , --essrs„ and Messrs. I ITEALTFI RESTORE]) bu BARRY'S' and Infants' ] att,es fift THE R y ties its IN) rfect digesti on stx refreshing sl ee p, fur Most disordered of t'ffeetually incligesti, fkreption, habitual tatgeroonts, brerno rrerpon„oBB, bilioue tatarrbot c o ld s , hal t( Aunatism, gout, tai h R i a, irritability, -eartburn beadael ktusea an d sickness fit,s, bronchitis, scrc the pit of tbo atom the Most digestible I for do ids and infi IttpoRTANT °Art and more than 61 0 1 tity, Baron Liebig'E tieneeforth none s already receiv 1154 RinfarrYant'ss' 1 3 deemed hope] pen the Pope, Y 4 whc it after thirty Food, VVe 8 quote from th 1,,413) —t, Borne, Father is ex other remedies, he " r rs Revalenta fateful at every rr bsleficial e ff ec t or klise this excellou (ju re N o, 58,216 Yeara' liver e.ompl 11? ea, irritability Ny p,gestion, constant srvons agitation. Cure N 0.78. of tuart de Decies, I fo r( ' h aw , d e d . - -STu Waterford."AnT DE C ure No. 46,81 fsrom dye.popsia, ne of lA sparms. ynn Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121 tt ' rv i!nisness, IndiE Voss fancies. Cure No. 56,814 Yest ra diarrho ea . The Pond is sol 'b., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b. anisters, carriage 13 „ Irry s - Reveler t a uazisters Pox t1 ,1:.8 at 6s. for 281 ' ,c unt one penny] Ire° of carriag e in 11I tRY DTI BAli also At Tortnum 9,t aC4chut ea-st-si irkelr Borth-ruil4 (Cor CTIA;