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Herr Grosse -G: and Duet for cornet and ern - qv).- n:um, by Yessr.. Reynolds and Phasey. SPLENDID ORCHE STRA of SIXTY Eminent Perfotmers. Conducted by Mr. C. J. ILittnirr. Promenade, One Shilling. OR THE RACES DUSTPROOF and WATERPROOF COATS in great variety, prices made or made to measure, at un usually low prices —E. MOSES and SON. For addresses, see following advertisement. ARARE COMBINATION. The RABE COMBINATION of EXCELLENCE with Cr EAFNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to men sure, for all ages, all occupations, and all classes. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting ad join the spacious and elegant Show Booms, which con tain a very large and eiversified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompli' Sing they Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentle men's Clothing. 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AIN LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet street, London, L.C., May 31, 1869. _NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life As surance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on THURSDAY, the 24th day of June next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect an Auditor in the room of Philip Longmore, EFq., who has resigned; to elect six Directors and one other Auditor ; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who go out of office by ro tation, will be proposed for re-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH DAVIES, Actuary. oliN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a plearant fragrance to the Lreath. Price is. ed.—Red Bull Wharf, 83, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. 4 AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. lied Bull W hart, Angel-passage, C 3, upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE-110YAL, HAY3IARKET 'i" HIS EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE : Bnckstono, jun. ; is F. Wright. A fter which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chiprendale, &c. Mesdames Cavendish, Rm. &a Followed by A REG ITLA FIX: r. °thorn. Concluding with HIS FIRST CHAMP AGN E : Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Gordon; Mrs. E. Fitz William, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. This EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8. EVE: Mr Benjamin Weh to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: Nliss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr eter, Mr H. Nev•lle, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon. &e And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR, WIFE TO CAMBERWELL Mr. G. Beimore. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Vins4, - . This ETENnici, at 8, SHYLOLK: h:flock, Herr Formes; Portia, Miss Frances Bouveric. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Stile Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. lifts EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conelude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TINS EVENING, et 7. N VAL ENGAG EMENTS. At 9.:30, the new burlesque TH CORSICAN I•OT HERS. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Matshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstnne, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, lIOLD 0 P.N. Tins EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF TIIE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, Mrs. C. llorsman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. This Evimisa, at 7.20, IN FOR A 111)LID Followed by A ROVING COM 0 ISSION. And THE MILIVARY BILLY TAYLOR. To cor.clnde with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENiNG, SCHOOL: Messrs. Here, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss 0. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Afterwhieh,A WINNING HAZARD. Aud A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARGE BLUE. The Only Leon! CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and l_ , aturdays, at I and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALTIAMBI; PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert, Band of GO. Begin at 8. is. Box-ofllct open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Bogert's-Talk. OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d, Children under twelve, 6d et - „no AUL , W)1 . LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869. With evidences here and there of considerable reluctance on the part of several noble lords to inter fere so radically with the general organization of the hereditary brunch of the Legislature, there are suffi ciently plain indications that the Life Peerages Bill will be eventua'ly accepted by the House of Peers. After a rather interesting and at times animated dis. cust , ion, it was by half-past eight o'clock last evening passed through Comm:ttee. The principal altera ticn in regard to it was this, that the amendment proposed by Earl STANHOPE was in the end withdrawn by the noble lord in consideration of Earl RUSSELL'S assent to another modified amend ment, in accordance with which only two Life Peers are to be created in any one year, and that the total number are never to exceed—for some reason that we cannot divine—the mysterious and scholastic aggre gate of twenty-eight. A maximum number of twenty five, otherwise a quarter of a butyl' ed, one might comprehend readily enough. Thirty, even 13::ing a square number, one might also readily under-, THE SUN, LONDON, FIIIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1869. stand. But why twenty-eight, by preference has been selected, as the precise aggregate which is never to be exceeded, fairly goes beyond the limits of our conjecture. However this conclusion may have been arrived at, so it has, in siteple point of fact, been definitely arranged. And remembering that a limit of some kind must, in every case, be marked out, that indicated by a total of twenty-eight will do, as a matter of course, quite as well as any other that might have been suggested. It seems rather a nice distinction, that one which was drawn by the Earl of CARNARVON last evening, during the course of the discussion, when, after deprecating the awarding of life peerages to men of great ability, a large propor tion of whom would, he said, probably be poor— those men themselves, he argued, being thereby placed in a false position, and their coronets being of the value of a sham—the noble Earl immediately afterwards admitted that it wonld be a great and obvious gain to the House of Peers if they could secure men of great eloq , :,..nce and ability, such men being brought into the House with a minimum of disturbing effect. So arranging matters, that is, with aminimum of disturbing effect, that tbeywould have— observed Lord CARNARVON —hereditary peers who were not lords of Parliament, and lords of Parliament who were not hereditary peers. A powerful argument in favour of this proposed innovation in regard to the construction of the House of Peers, as a whole, was well introduced in an earlier portion of the thought ful and carefully-considered address delivered by the noble earl in the very midst of last night's discussion. The argument here referred to being simply this, that there was scarcely any institution in the country that had changed oftener than the House of Lords. Their Tordship's House, he said, had upheld distinctly the character of every successive age or epoch in the history of the country. It had done so from the feudal age of the Barons to the purely oligarchical age, which was immediately subsequent to the date of the Revolution. Even, he insisted, and with a force of reason perfectly obvious to us all, because it is, so to speak, actually within our own remembrance, bringing us down to a time mmediately contemporary—even, said Lord CAR NARVON, after the moving of the first Reform Act, it still adapted itself to the circumstances of the period in which its lot, as with others, had been cast. The House of Lords, in effect, has shown it self to be, in other words, throughout the whole of the manifold phases, developments, or transformations of our his tory, anything but a fossil institution. It has kept pace with the changes of the times. Once, and once only, it sank to a level of degeneration—this was in the days of the STUART3—and (remembering the charac teristics of that epoch) one is almost tempted to say to a level of degradation. Otherwise, upon the whole, it has more or less contrived, all through our history, to hold its own nobly side by side with the popular, or, in other words, the representative branch of the Legislature. Representative, of course, the House of Lords is, essentially, itself, but not representative in the popular acceptation of the phrase. As the noble lord last raised to the peerage under the title of Baron PENZANCE, very happily took occasion to remark in a cr • maiden speech not unworthy of his forensic and judicial reputation, " the House of Lords in its constitutional aspect represented the favour of the SOVEREIGN and the power of the land." Adding at once very truth fully and very sententiously that " the favour of the SOVEREIGN constitutionally exercised was the reward of the subject, and the power of the land was nothing but the accumulated frugality of the people." In that sense it is that the House of Peers is represen tative, and always has been representative—re presentative of the power of the land and of the favour of the SOVEREIGN. It is representative and always has been representative, also, in another character, Ghat, is to say representative of the geuitv, the valour, the learning, and the enterprise of the people of England—as signalized generation after generation by heroes like NELSON and MARLBOROUGH, by authors like MACAULAY and LYTTON, by pro_ found lawyers, and by the more illustrious of the promoters and developers of the Com merce of England. It is in this latter capacly as a representative institution that the House of Peers is now about to be enhanced, namely, by the almis sion within it of men of distinguished ability whose comparative poverty—meaning thereby whose po3ses sion merely of a very moderate competence must other wise preclude them from the overwhelming honours of a peerage of a hereditary character. By accord ing to men like these a peerage of au exceptional kind, the dignity appertaining to which will be simply applicable to themselves during their lifetime, whatever difficulty there has been, hitherto, den) ing honourable recognition to them, and the advantage of their talents to the House of Lords, will be at once and entirely obviated. A inv upon on e growing sen se o f t hi s i s i nfluenc i ng, (in regard to their deliberations of a very considerable ifePeerages majority of Bill) t h e the here opi nions !it no tary branch of the Legislature. Those among their lordships who were at the outset disposed to be averse to the notion of any change such as the one formally indicated by the provisions of the measure, now under their legislative considera•ion, the change originally attempted to be introduced by a surprise in the instance of Lord WENSLEYDALE, have already realised distinctly enough that the advan tages ensured to the house of Lords are in this matter of the Life Peerage, in no way counterbalanc e d by any valid or even it may be said any recognisable, or in the smallest degree appreciable, disadvantages. ONE of the soundest and safest lawyers in the kingdom has pronounced against the Patent Laws. That is a great fact. The " leading journal " has pro nounced against them. That is another great fact. But neither Sir ROUNDELL PALMER nor the Times will desire that their verdict shall be received with out examination. The truth is, the ques tion at issue is neither so simple nor is its solution so near at hand as these authorities believe. There can be no doubt that many—that most—of the charges brought against the Patent Laws by Mr. MACFIE and his distinguished seconder are well founded. Patents do interfere with trade most seriously; the original inventor too often derives no advantage from his discovery ; a large number of patents ought never to have been granted, so minute is the improvement which the inven tion patented confers. On the other hand, we attach very little importance to the protective argument used by Mr. HOWARD and Mr. MUNDELLA. To suppose that invention will be killed because inventors are not protected, is a supposition akin to the belief which prevailed thirty years ago, that farmers would be ruined if the corn laws were abo ltrioes s h t e iel c ct l 0 . no fo e nc l i e ariseo mcompetition. invention a will nd i go on as the necessary Every fe manufacturer can i discover process for doing so h e w ill di scover it, although his competitor should benefit to the same extent. In fact, there is no protection under the present system so far as the manufacturer is concerned. The only protection is for the inventor, who sells his inventicn indifferently to all who choose to pay for it. If the manufacturer should himself be the inventor he still need not want protection. The fact that he is the first to discover and to apply an invention ought to be sufficient for him. It will give him a priority in the market, and a reputation, which ought to be sufficient recompense. But—and here lies the difficulty inventors are not always manufacturers nor capitalists. Very frequently they are working men. This is but natural. The manufacturer has a variety of subjects to occupy his mind. He has the markets to think of ; he is a merchant as well as a manufacturer, a buyer _and a seller as well as a producer. His thoughts are not sufficiently concentrated upon the purely mechanical part of his business to have time for inventions and discoveries. It is the mechanic par excellence, the man whose whole life is given up to mechanical employments, that is most likely to hit upon new ideas. Yet if the Patent Laws were abolished, what protection would he have ? What reward of any kind would he have ? It may be argued that at present he gets little, since knowing well his inability to engage in a law suit to protect his invention if it were pirated, he usually sells it for a small sum to his employer. But at least he gets something, and the sum which we may consider insignificant will not appear so to him. Moreover, working-men inventors do: some times obtain fair and equitable terms. Yr. M rzN DELLA mentioned an instance in which a capitalist and a working man had entered into partnership, and the latter had received L'2,000 as his share of the profits of an invention. Considering the improve ment that is every year taking place in the position which the employed occupy towards their employers, it is probable that such terms as these are likely to become snore and more common. That working men themselves value the Patent Laws is proved by the fact that the representatives of some of the most important working-class organi sations in the kingdom presented Mr. MACFIE with a series of eight reasons why his resolution for the abolition of the Patent Laws should not pass. The fact is, the question at issue is one between private rights and the public benefit. The Patent Laws are unquestionably a public nuisance, and the majority of the community would benefit by their abolition. But this, through a strong, is not a conclusive argument against them. It would have been unquestionably for the public benAfit, if all the land required by the railway companies at the time that their lines were constructed had been taken from the private landowners and handed over free to the companies. Yet is anyone prepared to say that this would have been just ? Sir ROUNDELL PALMER attempted to shew that property in inventions is per se undesirable and unsustain able on philosophical and economical grounds; and when the very obvious argument suggested itself to him that his reasoning would lead to the abolition of copyright, he attempted to draw a distinction between the two—between ideas of one kind and ideas of another, which we utterly fail to comprehend. For instance, what difference of principle is there between. a history of England and a printing press ? The writer does not create his facts any more than the inventor creates the metals with which he constructs his machine. Both deal with things that already existed ; both invent new combinations of old materials ; yet Sir ROUNDELL PALMER would protect the first but not the second. The argument that the one is not necessarily a public benefit, or that the world can do without it, and suffer no loss, while it cannot do without the other, tells against the open system. The greater the boon conferred upon the public, the greater cause has the conferrer to expect a reward. The exceeding value of an article is scarcely a reason why we should have it for nothing. _ _ _ The House of Commons has declined to adopt Mr. MACFIE'S sweeping resolution. It has preferred to resort to the not very satisfactory expedient of a select committee. Considering that the question has been already thoroughly examined by a royal com mission, we can scarcely expect much result from this new tribunal. At the same time we cannot be surprised that Parliament should take this course. The proposed change is so revolutionary that it was hardly possible for it to be taken at once. Perhaps some via media may be discovered whereby the public shall be relieved from the burdens and restraints of the Patent Laws, while the inventor is saved from the threatened confiscation of his pro perty. But the only suggestion in that direction — Government rewards to inventors—does not lead us to be very sanguine on that point. For some time to come the whole matt3r must be one for discussion. A decisionappears to us comparatively remote. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, June 3. The other day I reproduced a statement that all the electors' cards which had not been claimed had been collected from the different mairies at the Prefecture "for a use," said a Radical Election Committee, "which it is not difficult to explain." This hint that the authorities meant to distribute these cards in order that they might be given in favour of official candidates by surreptitious electors, is denied by the Journal Officlel. It states that the cards have been left at the mairies for the disposal of the electors, who have been invited, by bills posted nP, to claim them before the second ballot. I hasten to give the authorities the full benefit of this contradiction, which, however, is by no means so unambiguous as it might be. But though the authorities may have been guiltless of this flagrant act of electoral dishonesty, the evidence of sharp practice of other kinds is not to be set aside. An instance may be quoted in the sixth circumscription of the Nord. There the official candidate and two Liberals went to the poll at the last ballot. None of them obtained the required majority. Tho Liberal candidate who received the least support gave way to the other Liberal, leaving him, as he thought, to fight on the moot advanta geous terms. But no sooner had this Liberal withdrawn than the official candidate withdrew too, leaving the field clear to the other soi•disant Liberal, who has been openly proclaimed by the authorities as worthy of their support ! I might multiply instances of this sort of trickery. So merciless has been the application of the " screw " this year, so discreditable the devices of the prefect; that even the oldest servants of the Empire revolt against their instructions. I notified to you the resignation of the Maire of Lormont. Another instance of the same kind is to be recorded to-day. M. Delcussot, Garde General of the Forests at Soulac, has resigned. He says that the instructions he has received were so contrary to his senti ments of independence as a citizen, and dignity as an Imperial officer, that he could not comply with them. As soon as this determination was known, he was ordered off to Angouleme on a " temporary mission," clearly for the purpose of getting him out of the way. He refuses to go. He will not consent to a step which has been taken on the principle of transforming an Imperial officer into an " electoral serf "—a high pressure machine for the manufacture of official deputies. He accordingly resigns his post, which he has held for twelve years. What is the use of the official papers publishing denials of the complaints against the authorities, when old ser vants of the Empire, who have everything to lose by giving up their posts, enter their protests in this fashion. Some of the culprits who were arrested for taking part in the provincial riots during the elections have been brought to trial. One young fellow at Lille has earned twenty days' imprisonment by his folly. He had paraded through the streets with a gun on his shuulder, followed by about fifteen other individuals singing the " Marseillaise," and raising seditious cries. His appearance in a court of justice, however, dissipated the courage which had caused this display of gallantry, and he was constrained to plead that his Republican effer vescence was merely the effect of his being drunk. A few wretched cases like this are all that has come of the frightful disturbances which brought out regiments of troops and sent the Patric into paroxysms of horror. Something is to be done, it appears, in the way of patching up a Constitution for Algeria. The Emperor has approved a proposal to appoint a commission to be charged with the examination of all fundamental questions concerning the Constitution of Algeria, the result of which inquiry will be submitted to the Senate at the commencement of the next legislative session. That body, writes the Marshal, would have to conciliate the aspirations which the colonists have just manifested in the agricul- tural inquiry, with the interests of the natives, in order to realise gradually the progress indicated in his Majesty's letter on the 20th June, 1805. The Temps does not approve of this commission. It is all very well to examine into things, but the examining body mu s t be so constituted as to allow a fair hope of reform. This commission is not likely, in the opinion of the Te»zps, to secure this end. Two of its members hold high office in the Algerian department of the Government. Much reform cannot be expected from a commission led by red tape. The Consul of the Argentine Republic at Marseilles has issued a circular, which shews that his Government actually intend to hold an international exhibition at Buenos Ayres in 1870. This evidence of vitality in the South American State is very cheering ; but it can hardly be expected that manyproductsof European manufacture will find their way to Buenos Ayres. The wonder is that an international exhibition has never been held at New York. A very interesting archaeological discovery has been made at Laroessa, in Algiers. his is an ancient inscription in Latin, of no less than eighty-one lines. It describes the construction of an aqueduct to convey water to Bougia through a mountain, which was pierced on both sides at the same time. The plans drawn up must, however, have been defective, or the work carelessly executed ; for, according to the text, the two tunnels did not meet, and the engineer had to return twice to repair the errors committed. The inscription also mentions the names of three legates of Numidia, and three procurators of Mauritania, who lived in the time of Antoninus Pius. The construction of the aqueduct consequently dates from the reign of that Emperor. The inscription further contains an account of a robbery by brigands. lATERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT HAMBURG. An International Horticultural Exhibition will be held at Hamburg from the 2nd to the 12th of September, con temporaneously with the Congress of German Botanists and Gardeners. The scope of the display will be wide, for it will include raw, forest, and agri cultural produce, as well as garden furniture, machinery, implements, heating apparatus, and garden tools and cutlery, besides, of course, fruit, flowers, and vegetables. The list of guarantors and committee of management include many of the chief political and com mercial men of North Germany. The site of the exhibi tion has been well selected, and will be carefully laid out. The river Elhe flows through the grounds, and a light suspension bridge will be thrown across it. The situation commands o, magnifi cent prospect of Altona and Hamburg. The prize list is very high. The King and Queen of Prussia have offered two prizes of great value; and £75 is to be given in open competition as the first prize for fifty plants of new hybrids in the highest state of cultivation, one half, at least, to be in flower. The other money prizes vary from £37 10s. to 155., and the gold, silver, and bronze medals are very numerous. There are gold, silver, and bronze medals for new hybrids, £l5 for the best -arranged group of 200 plants, not in the trade, in flower. There are numerous prizes for ferns, lycopodiacea, and cactea. Fruits are like wise amply provided for, and both musery stock and green house plants. Gold medals and other prizes are offered for the best designs of paths, drives, iron bridges, ferry boats, &c. A very influential sub-committee, comprising the well-known names of Veitch, Fleming of Clieveden, Hen derson, Osborn, Dr. Hogg, Thomson of Dalkeith, Macnab of Edinburgh, and Dr. Moore of Dublin, has been formed to represent the United Kingdom on this occasion. The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, rector of Sibbertoft, Market Har borough, has been appointed her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner, and Mr. George Eyles, of the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, acts as secretary. Amateurs, botanists, and gardeners are invited to compete. THE CHARITY CHILDREN AT ST. PAUL'S. The annual gathering of the charity children of the metropolis at St. Paul's Cathedral took place yesterday morning. About 5, 000 of them, in their many coloured dresses were ranged round the terraced platform, which enclosed the entire circumference of the dom e . The whole of the western nave, the vast space under the centre of the dome, and the galleries in the eastern nave were crowded by a highly-respectable congregation, number ing not fewer than 9,000 or 10,000 persons. The Lord Mayor and the corporation also attended the cathedral. The whole of the children, rising ez masse, at once commenced singing the hymn "All people that on earth do dwell." In spite of the efforts of the conductor, Mr. Shoolbridge, who directed the singing from a very elevated stall, the performance was not so smooth as might have been desired. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of London, The musical pen tion of the service was of an elaborate cha racter, embracing the "Coronation Anthem," W hi c h was sung - before the prayer for the Queen, and the "Hallelujah Chorus," with which the so-vice terminated. Mr. Goss pre. sided at the organ, and the gentlemen of the choir assisted the children in rendering the psalms and hymns. The Free Assembly of the Church of Scotland has agreed unanimoualy to petition Parliament against the bill for legalising marriage with a deceased Wife's sister. A proctocol relative to the rights of British sub. jects in Turkey has just been published. It stipulates that foreigners may hold real property throughout the whole of the Ottoman Empire provided that they conform to the laws and polico regulations which govern real property in Turkey and pay all charges and contributions. Property may ha dif-posci of by gift or will, but if the owner die§ intestate 5 will ba_dionog o AMILlin 1 Citt9/4414.1k POPULAR SONGS OF ITALY. Almost all Italian songs are songs of the affec tions ; cradle songs, serenades, and dirges, which have been banded down —may b 3 with alterations --from generation to generation. Every pretty girl has her poet-laureate ; every village has its improvisator°. Many, many ballads relate to brigandage ; some few to hunting and the delights of the table. Wine, gambling, and a dis graceful kind of gallantry arc the themes of a thou sand songs. In Calabria it is the fashion to idolise assassins and write songs about them, which the girls and young men sing at harvest time. In Cor sica it is the fashion to sing Voceri (or Vendetta songs) when any one dies a violent death. Hags are hired for the purpose (called Voceratrici) ; it is their duty to dance and brandish knives around the coffin of the deceased, and to drink wine (some say blood) to his memory. Of all the songs of Italy the songs of Tuscany are the most nil and the least tainted with sensuality. Being written in pure Italian, they have a strictly national character and serve as models to the rest of the peninsula. The Stornelli or Pastoral Odes, and a d the Nanne or Cradle Songs, are all Tu , .c.in in their character. They become corrupted in the dif ferent villages into which they are introduced, but in print they are nearly always the same. Scralch the patois with your pen, and you will find the pure Tuscan underneath. Venice is famous for its serenades ; N a ples for its l ore songs, properly so called; Rome for its Novelle or Sacred B.llads— the epics of the saints, the only tracts tolerated by the Church of Rome. The Maggi (Songs of May) are sung in every village in the land from the bor ders of Istria and Tyrol to Cape Pesaro.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The Archbishop of York has consented to preside at a conference which is to be held in London on Monday next, in connection with the laws relating to the liquor traffic. The object of the conference is to find a basis on which earnest men of different views can agree for promoting such amendment of the liquor laws as shall be equally removed from the evils of the present sysrem and from the extreme measures advocated by tLoso who despair of a remedy from any less stringent enactments. several members of both Houses of Parliament have engaged to attend the con ferenc;3. Marshal Prim opposes the reduction of the Spanish army, on account of Carlist conspiracies and the intrigues of Isabella's partisans. The former were not formidable, but the latter had brave and able generals. On Wednesday the construction of new docks at Fleetwood, which will cost about £50,000, was commenced, the first sod being cut amidst great rejoicing. The dock will be 600 feet by 400 feet, and will cover about six acres. The Birmingham Board of Guardians, after a pro tracted discussion, on Wednesday, determined by a majority of 39 against 9 to refuse permission to nuns to visit the workhouse. The Manchester City Council, after a good deal of discussion, decided onWednseday to contribute three-fifths of the sum required for the erection of two industrial schools —one of a general character, and the other for the reception of Roman Catholic children. The grant in each case is not to exceed £3,000. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Rome, says the Vatican, though affecting indifference, is seriously concerned at the obstacles raised by the Catho!ic Governments to the meeting of the (Ecumenical Council. It now seems certain that the Council will not attract the same number of bishops as attended the centenary of St. Peter. The sitting of the Spanish Cortes on TueElty Was marker] by a tragic event. About half-past four in the after noon Don Enrico O'Donnell was attacked by congestion of the brain. lie was carried home and died at half -past nine. Don Enrico was the brother of the late Marshal O'Don nell, Duke of Tetuan, who played such an important part in the reign of Queen Isabella. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—SIRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty;, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In largo Bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists sad Perfumers. Depot 266, gigh_ficilborla WAGES DISPUTES, The strike of colliers in the district of Bolton has already erminated. The employers and workmen met on Wed- Imlay, and agreed to a compromise which fixes the eduction at 30. per ton, instead of 40., as was at first imposed by the masters. The dispute in the cotton trade at Oldham has been ettled by the arbitration of Mr. Rupert Settle, of Wol ►erhampton. The masters asked for a reduction of ten )er Cent., and the arbitrator decided upon allowing a .eduction of five per cent., to commence froni\Vedneaday. A LETTER FROM THE SON OF THEODORE. The Birmingham Post publishes a letter which has •eached Wolverhampton from the on of Theodore, the ate Ring of Abyssinia. Young Theodore is now in the [sle of Wight, and the note is addressed to a former ichoolfellow. It will be seen that the interesting "charge" s not only acquiring a knowledge of the English language, DLit likewise a love for British sports. "Afton 7. "My dear —,—You got plenty butterfly in the school ? no got in here. too much cold. Did you see mow and make snowman. mo like it very much. me ride one pony oh so very nice. One day me go to hounds. the fox run away and dogs kill Lim Give my lovo to Charlie Good bye " AL.4.IIATA SIMYES." THE ALABAMA CLAIMS, A digest of the correspondence respecting the negotiations between England and America has already been published. There are, however, one or two other items in this remarkable narrative which are worthy of note. As before stated, two treaties were drawn up. One of these was signed by Lord Stanley, under the full impression that Mr. Reverdy Johnson was entrusted with sufficient powers by his Government, and that he was acting in conformity with them. This convention was, however, rejected by Mr. Seward, and another drawn up, which in turn was rejected by the Senate. Now it appears that before the first of these treaties was made out Mr. Reverdy Johnson called at the Foreign Office, on September 25th, and a long con- versation ensued on the subject of the " claims." Before suggesting the principle of arbitration, Mr. John. son proposed that the difficulty should be settled at once by the payment of a lump sum of money or a cession of territory by Great Britain. Both these offers were declared inadmissible by Lord Stanley. That Mr. Reverdy Johnson made them shews either that he was in the habit of making unauthorised propositions at random, or that the cries for annexation in the United States were not disregarded by the Government. The arbitration proposition, as at first drawn up, was revised by Lord Stanley, the Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Disraeli, in private conclave. It may be added that both treaties were based entirely on suggestions made by Mr. Johnson or Mr. Seward, and that the English Cabinets, both Conservative and Liberal, refused to submit the proclamation of neutrality to arbitration, though it is doubted by some whether the terms of the last Convention would not have allowed this point to be dragged in. DEAN STANLEY AND THE ATHANSIAN CREED. A correspondence is published between the Rev. William Heffill and the Dean of Westminster on the subject of the Athanasian Creed. The first-named gentleman writes to the Dean under date, St. Mark's Vicarage, Dukinfield, Cheshire, April 26,1869, as follows :—" Very Rev. Sir,—l have read in a book to-day 'by James Grant," The Religibus Tendencies of the Times," the following : " Dean Stanley boldly proclaims that not one clergyman believes in the Athanasian Creed.' Will you have the kindness to inform me if it is true that you have made the statement as above ?—I remain, yours faithfully, War. HEFFILL." To this Dean Stanley replies :—" What I have stated, and which is probably the statement to which the author whom you quote refers, is, that no clergyman of the Church of England believes thatallmembersof the Church of England ' shall without doubt perish everlastingly,' and that, therefore, no clergyman of the Church of England accepts the condemnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed in their obvious literal and original sense." The following is the retort of Mr. Hellill :—"ay 14, 1569. liev. Sir,—l consider your reply as most unsatis factory.; it is simply an evasion. I would hope, when you truly reflect on the statement made, you will feel ashamed of the slander, and be ready to make a suitable apology. —I remain, yours faithfully, WM. HEFFILL, Dr. Stanley, the Deanery, Westminster." On dit that in the not improbable event of the defeat of Mr. Salt, ono of the Conservative candidates for Stafford, that that gentleman will become a candidate for the vacancy caused in the representation of Nottingham by the death of Sir E. Clifton, Bart. Disraeli on evening dress has recently been quoted as an authority. Here is what the ex-Premier says on the subject :—" Evening dress is a style of costume sanctioned by society for enabling ladies to display their natural beauties, with a profusion worthy of a Grecian statue." M. de Lessors will shortly start for Corfu, in order personally to invite King Goorgo of Greece to honour the inauguration of the Isthmus of Suez Canal with his pre sence. It is said that M. do Lesseps will " seizo the ()tea sloe to inspect the Isthmus of Corinth with a view to the futuro cutting across of that neck of land. THE BRITISII ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS. — During the past three days the members of this associa tion have been holding their sixth annual conference in Liverpool, under the presidency of Mr. Goddard, C.E. The president, in his address, on Tuesday, alluded at length to the various improvements, inventions, and modifications of gas-producing apparatus which had taken place during the year, and also to the effect of the Metropolitan Gas Act of 1868. It was decided that the next conference should be held in London, opening on thi 31st May. In reply to a memorial in favour of a revision of the colonial tariff the Manchester Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from Earl Granville stating that in the principal British colonies, and not least in Canada, it rests with the Colonial Governments to determine on what principles the revenue is to he raised. Her Majesty's Government are fully alive to the advantage which would accrue to the commerce of this country by a reduction of customs duties, and the colonial governments cannot be unaware of the views entertained by the Govern ment and the people of this country on this subject ; and, as indicating these views, copies of the present corrospondenee with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce will be sent to the Government of Canada, the colony to which the memo_ rialists make special reference. THE FORTHCOMING INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. —A rumour of great interest to all who care for boat races comes from Bala. There is a possibility that the great contest between Oxford and Harvard may be rowed on the lake. Sir Watkin, says rumour, has offered the use of the lake, and some of the men high in boating autho• rity want to accept the offer. The course is a splendid one, both for crews and spectators. Countless thousands could line the shores of the lake and see the race. Then, it is neutral ground, in the sense of not being familiar to either crew; and it is easy of access from all parts of England, and it is not far enough from London to prevent eager lovers of the sport with little time at their com mand from running there and back in one day. Besides, there is the beauty of the neighbourhood to throw into the scale, and the bracing atmosphere.— °swear?, Advertiser. MR. PEABODY'S " FRIENDs."—lsi ow that Mr. Peabody is no longer in England, the begging-letter writers will have the opportunity of concentrating their attention on some other victim. If Mr. Peabody chose to be communicative upon the subject, he could set before the world a moving picture of the miseries of a philan thropist. Everybody thinks he has a right to persecute him for money. The man whose goods are about to be seized for rent, the broken-down actor who wants ten pounds till next Monday, the gentleman who has gone into a rabh speculation and burned his fingers— these, and a thousand others, think that a man like Mr. Peabody is bound to help them. The world has no grati tude and no sympathy for the benevolent. Its cry is ever "Give, give," until at last it is strange if the philan thropist does not turn into a misanthropist. Nine-tenths of the letters he opens are applications for money. Whenev er he appears in public he is followed by importu nate cries for relief. If he goes out to dinner the lady whom he takes down pesters him about that very deserving family in whom she takes an interest. He dare not have many personal friends, because they are sure to expect him to do something for Tommy or Annie. When people are attentive to him he knows that they expect to be well paid for it. Mr. Peabody has given away £350,000 to the poor of London, and about £200,000 for the establishment of schools and charitable institutions in the United States, besides large sums in private charity. But all this only encourages the harpies, who would rather do anything for a living than work. The abject, fawning, worthless set who hang upon the skirts of those who are reputed to he rich give him no peace. It would be useless to appeal to their better feelings, for they have none, but we wish it were possible to place some of their names before the publie eye aft . 4 auti9 GHQ % , ,114 . • PAIV, „ , . HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, JURC 2• Thei Queen , accompanied by her Royal Hig h ' ness Princess Louise, walked out yesterday Worn' ing. Her Majesty drove out in the aftenoon with tb° Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Dowage r Duchess of Athole. LATEST INTELL EGENO (REU'''ER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. PLYMOUTH, June 4• The Hamburg and American Company's steam' ship lla►ntnor.ia, from New York, arrived hero tbill morning with 175 passengers, 48 sacks of mails f ir England, and 8 for France and 21 for Hamburg' She landed five passengers and the English mail s and proceeded for Cherbourg. The mails were for' warded by the 6.45 a.m. train. The Ilammonia experienced moderate weath er throughout the passage. Fourteen miles off CaP e Race she passed several icebergs. On the 27th she spoke the steamer America, on the 28th th e Main, and on the Ist June the Germania. Anlo the passengers is Major-General Anderson, 101° commanded Fort Sumpter when the late w ar began. lIUNGARY. PESTII, June 4• In yesterday's sitting of the Lower House of th e Hungarian Diet the draft of the address as propooe a by the committee, in reply to the Emperor's speee b ' was adopted by 355 votes against 142 after a d e ' bate which has lasted for 11 days. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS' SUEZ, Juno 4 . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steame r Mohan, from Calcutta, arrived here at 6 P' yesterday ; and the Sumatra, from Bombay at 6LI this morning. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 4• The Presse of this morning states that the e ll ' deavours of the Ticeroy of Egypt to bring about 14 mutual undertaking among the European rowers guaranteeing the neutrality of the Suez Canal, have met with support from the Governments of AustriAl Prussia, and England. The proposal was, however, opposed at Paris. The same paper asserts that the question of the neutrality of the Suez Canal was initiated by B D i r land. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 3.—Three o'clock—The marke t closed as follows : Bank Shares 2920 vy Ital 4 an Fives 57 End of month Mexican Loan 23 25 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred s. • Cash Orleans ... 920 Northern ... lOBBl Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6171 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman If per Cent. End of month._ 3 per Cent End of month_ 71 55 Credit Mobilier 52 50 End of month 255 Credit Foncier - 1620 End of month —• RAILWAY 501 765 495 A NEW LIFE SAVING APPARATUS• EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTS. of That part of the Thames immedi a t e ly in front Cremorne Gardens was th e scene o f an exciti °l: o spectacle yesterday evening. What is said to b o a wonderful triumph of Americ in invention 113 exhibited in the presence of several thousand P er; sons, who lined th e r i ver f rom B attersea -bridg e up to Cremorne G ar d ens , an d p li e d li t tle cra ft of every conceivable shape while the experime v which was the cau se o f th e gat h er i ng, wa s he iv ,, g t made. The appar a t us , w hi c h was fi rs t brotig" under the notice of the English public last eveni a ' is intended for the rescue of shipwrecked pei s° The inventor, we are t o ld, i s C a pt a i n J. B. Ston ° _ l. ' of New York, a gentl eman o f i n d epen d en t fortur; who served througho u t th e grea t c i v il war , an d to object, it is said, i s no t t o ma k e mone y, but perform a truly philanthropic work. Two Auer cans—a gentleman and his w ife—have been e0'.„,5; missioned to explain the n a tur e o f th e appar3tilr, and the way in which they are obliged to 3o so is e e tainly novel and interesting. Theyfirst slip theiraralo through cork jackets, a n d th en i nser t their pers e in a loose i n di a - ru bb er overcoa t, w hi c h covers the whole of the body, except the hands and face, ar° lll3 which it is tightly secured. I n di a - ru bb er weigh ts are then attached to the shoes, so as to enable b t ' , an d wearers to maintain a perpendicular position s° perfect equilibrium, and being thus equipped tbel jump into the water. They carry with them tin case, in shape somewhat like a buol• This article is divided into two comp a rtmen ts ' and in the upp er one t h ey manage to Ocil biscuits, a flask of b ran d y, a revolver, 13°43 lights, Roman candles, and some Liebig's sausag es : Smoking and n ewspaper reading are not lux urie" which a shipwrecked individual would probablY erj• joy in a " lif e on t h e ocean wave ;" but Amerila-s originality p rov id es f or them, and adds cigars Out. newiTarer to th e ti ny f re i g h t. T he lower com Parr, ment of the case c on t a i ns a b ou t s i x quar t s o f orate a which is drunk th roug h an i n di aru bb er t u be, elese,.o by a metal screw t o p. Th e p rov i s i ons which thus carried are supposed to last eight days, °/1 „a if a shipwrecked pers o n s h ou ld f a il t o be rescu e before the end of that time, he has the consolati°l,73' a when dying, of knowing that hi s b o dy ca nnot si n that his will, papers, and jewellery are safe, 1 1 d. that his friends will know he quitted the vl° r The invention has been patented by an Amer y oo COMf any with a capital of X 300,000, and the P ri ve fixed for each suit is £7. The public will not 119 ; an opportunity of investing in the apparatus ler soma months, inasmuch as a series of exp ert' inents in most European countries a re conte' l : plated with the view of testing the success w l d. which the invention is likely to be attend ° The Prussian Government have, it is stated, e l s ' pressed their determination t o a d op t th e a pp e , and it is said that in consequence of the encoursg ment received in France, America, and elsew here ' 50,000 suits are now in process of manufacture. Mr. and Mrs. Cr a ddock—the two Americans to whom we have referred—remained in the riir e c ; nearly half an hour yesterday evening, and 8 11 ° We ,a very little ex er ti on b eyond what was requ i % in using N rl little iudia-rubber paddles which part of the apparatus. The experiment was c °ti c i ducted under considerable difficulty, Alr. °l3 llO Nlrs. Cr a dd oc k b e i ng prevented from mov i n g t to water by the clustering of the boats, whose occupOth were (I.2af to earnest protestation. They b f t o opened th o buoy-shaped case, helped then3selv e .' ted some of the contents, fi r ed a rev ol v er, and lights, and a red flag bearing the word Eure,r'eo The time occupied i n d onn i ng the dress is " 4 minutes and a half. C a pt a i n St ono r hopes to . P ..o_ i . .., vide all passe nger s hi ps w ith th ese extraordi o ' dresses, being ready to l en d th em for £1 caoh for au every voyage, and to provide each ship with a capable of explaining their utility, O COMMEIt Consols are d ditto, for Acx duced, 921 ; N chequer Bills £1 and £5OO, par 4 per Cent., 24- India Stock, ditto 5 per Ce] Cent., Oct., 18 per Cent., ; In the Forei have declined i f , 12 } 16 ; and N 3-16 lower, at 2 unchanged, at 5 The llonclura In the Railv better, and S ditto A i, Lanc North We , Caledonian, 761 Eastern, 37 ditto A, 1061 t , 123 to 123 f ; 117 Atlantic Tele, the Eight per C and Anglo-Arne Five-Twenty and Ten-Forty spectively, at 7. Shares have re 4 Centrals are 114 The sum of Bank yesterday The Ruahin4 brought £70,00( £21,600. The Bank of crease of £460,0 total now held £ 3 ,000,000 belo in August last. The activity ( Unties to incre goods landed at first four month against £17,000, and £11,700,001 The Royal C which reference bead, has susp however, state liabiliti es, and losses, the capit they hope to res believed that t The stoppage is Al`Loonald's cir( barrassed previc Th e London, traffic return, i ;lion and branch, £1,235 conapar( Of last year ; t rat*, a decrea Yorkshire, a ( Eastern, an inc Chester, Sheffielc £ 1 ,782. At the meetin and Brazilian I the reconstructi( duetion of the lh with only one d] The stoppage greaves, a firm announced, owin Clients. The Hal Chester Stock E. The following tier : The sus, Chant, of this c bilities amountin very unfavoural failure is also rei f °rd, with liabili The directors 'way Company ( 10. i. per share o 28th inst. The ordinary Islands Telegrai 25th inst. The return fro 'week ended the results when con Nest ............. Ll ic deposits Other deposits Ott thti other aid Soren:uncut seew ties ............. Other securities Notes unemployed The amount of being an iucreael bullion in both dc au increase of preceding returi Subjoined is a of the Bank of I and French Ben 44 year :.__. Iteservo Notes in circulat itnte of discount Consol s k roach Routes The following and bills cleared the Week ending Thursday... Friday Saturday... Monday Tuesday Wednesday, BRITIS 2 OVERNMENT per Cent. Consol A 'Ditto fur ACCOM New 3 per cent per Cent. Reduce ever D o. 51 2 per Cent per Oen 4.44nities, SO yrs, 1)0. for 30 yrs, a L , 0 0 (Red Sett Tel DO a•Xltecm...r Bills, £' I Lik of England .5. r , 'l4. opening i'-ada 4 per Cent 'Xttor-Colonial Om 11.;DiAN GovE] 411(lia. Ztock, 1 0i pl 00 . 0 pening, f 6 I DO. 5 per Cent O. per Cent., ;;'O. Certificates Enfated Pal 5 per Cent., OQ. 5 4 Per .133 :0 5 per Cent., 0 Do. p o eb., 5 per o. Bonds, 4 per "0. under £l.OO FOREIG 4111 ttge titan oan Ropubl] ponds i brazi li• Do. fin 5 per Of n 4. 4i per (Dent o. 1)o do. do. 1)o do., Do. por Cent. b 130 Account ;tt os Ayres 613' ti D 4 per Cont. itha,, 6 per Cen 0 .41;a4 6 per Ct.elli 00.0. 44 i.er Cent . D 1-- i~s per Cent.. G per eeD t - N. 7 por Cent., 0 lezbtan, 6 per Danih, 3 per Con bani,bian Princ;P leo 8 per Cont., qnstdor New Co 'r•glrtirn, 7per C( A O. 43 0 C Itted 1 881 Bondi .1);) £lOO Bonk. De. Do.