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Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs. Henry Neville. J. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, Miss Lillie Lee, and Mrs Alfred Mellon. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER WELL : Mr. G. Belmure, Mrs. L. Murray. ItOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: Shylock. Herr Formes; Portia. Miss Frances Bon verie ; Messrs Rignold, B. Ellis, G. F. Neville, Robins, Fenton, Moreland, Gresham and Cathcart; Miss Kemp and Miss Emma Barnett. N.B.—During the Summer Season the doors will be opened at half-past 7, and the performance commence at 8 precisely TPIIEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Legitimate Success!—Fifth Week of " MONEY." THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's" Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY. Tar Sullivan, J. 0. Cowper, George Roney, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan. Lin Bayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, a GENE RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Lifo 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 soon precisely, to elect an Auditor in the room of Philip Longmore, Esq., who has resigned; to elect six Directors and one other Auditor ; and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditor, who zo out of office by ro tation, will be proposed for re-election. By order of the Directors, GRIFFITH. DAVIES, Actuary. O!I GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY " TOOTLE PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and impans a pleasant fragrance to he breath. rriee ls. 041.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street. London. B ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Court of Directors Hereby Give Notice, That a HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Six per Cent. per annum, on the Capital of the Bank, will be Paid on the sth day of JULY next to the Proprietors of Shares registered in this Country; and that a further sum of 106. per Share, taken from the profits of the year 1868, will be paid to the Proprietors at the same timo, both payments being free of Income-tax. No Transfers can be made between 2.5 th instant and the sth proximo, as the Books must be Closed during that period. By order of the Court. R. W. BRADFORD, pro Secretary. Na. 124, Bishopsgate-street within, London, E.C., June 1, 1869. A SCOT RACES.—CALLAGHAN'S RACE. GLASSES will be found the best and cheapest.) 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce comroodi ies valuable to every householder high and low: This offers a highly remunerative Commission to Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich. TO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES. —HART, 79, New Bond-street, has introduced some of the lightest, handsomest, and roomiest CARRIAGES that ever were seen. S. H. is still progressing with others on the light scale, the style of carriage which has so long been wanting in this country, as thousands of horses get bent over will] their fore legs and knuckled over behind, and sore shoulders, through having a carriage 3 cwt. too heavy. Persons wanting a carriage have only to describe the size of the horse, and one will be made suitable: the horse will go with ease and the riders with com fort, as he has introduced a sprint only one inch wide, made of patent steel, not half the weight of the ordina►y springs. A visit is solicited. Testimonials to be seen. See opinions of the Press —The Sun, Morning Post, Observer, Bell's Life, Globe, New York Hkrald, and Anglo-American Times. 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The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Ex change Assurance do hereby give Notice, that their Transfer Books will be shut from THURSDAY, the 10th of June next, to THURSDAY. the st of July following; and that a Ge neral Court of the said Corpotation will be holden at their Office at the Royal Exchange. on WEDNESDAY, the 23d of June at Twelve o'clock at Noon to considee of a Dividend ROBERT P. STEELS, Secretary. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. N ON-FORF EITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. B RITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, E.C. NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies In Weeks. issued. leoB ... 3 86 —Z14,250 1869 ... 3 108 1e,481 EXCORq .. .. .. .. 22 £4,211 In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1,9C9 ..3,105 —X539,442 CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, £220,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, £1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who effect Policies on the Participating Scale before June 30th, 1869, will be entitled at the NEXT Bosts to one year's additional Share of Profits over later Entrant'. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. ATTRACTIVE SPECULATION S. UNRIVALLED SUCCESS. You could never meet with a more advisable opportunity to try the favours of Dame Fortune. With a Single Stake of .C 1 you can realise £20,090!! with £2 £2:,(00!! with £8 ! with !'lO £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. T EATR E-noyA L, HA YMARK ET. .r no EVENING, AN ALARM' x G SACRIFICE: Buckstone, jim. ; Mis 4 F. Wright. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill. &c. Followed by A REG ITLA N. FIX: t r. r othern. Concluding with HIS FIRST CHAMP AGS E : Messrs. Compton. Kendal, Gordon; Mrs. E. Fitz ,yilliara, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL. Tars EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Weir to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: Miss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirline , ' Mr ster, Mr H. Nev He, Miss Furtado , Mrs Alfred Mellon. fir. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL:. Mr. G. Belmore. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Man3.ger, Mr. Vininb. THT3 EVENING, at 8, SHYLOC K: Shylock, Herr Formes Portia, Miss Frances Bonverie. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. MS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Burton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Buf ton. To coilalude with RUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. VHS EVENING, at 7, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At 8.30, the new burlesque TH s. CORSICAN tiOT HERS. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Huristone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVEvING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Veziu, Mr. U. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. This EVENING. at 7.f10, I i FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COMmISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DI7VAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Biehop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EvENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Monta,gne, AddiFion, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE BLUE. The Only Leon! CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and :iaturdaya, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL TIAIfB itA PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-park, OPEN daily (ex on Mondays, 6d. Child ren cept Sundays). Admission, ls. ; under twelve, Cd %-/ 9iv 'VMS LONDON, B.I7'UItDAY, JUNE 5, 1869. Mr. SUMNER'S notorious harangue was twice detig nated last evening in the House of Lords, by Vis count STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, "a most extravagant and absurd speech "—a title which it certainly most richly deserved. It was an address worthy of having been delivered by BOBADIL, and will long be remem • tiered ar. a specimen of "high fidatin." Reference, of course, was made to it yesterday by the noble lord, whom Mr. KINGLAKE loves to call the Great Eltchi, quite incidentally. Otherwise than incidentally and contemptuously, indeed, an escapade so preposterous ought no longer to be named within the walls of Par li.tment. It marks an incident which has, happily, now, no serious ap t l:c.ttion. It was a speech de livered, we must believe, in a motuent of hallucina tion. It has long since come to be regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as an outburst of malig nity that ought never to have been indulged in. The United States and the United Kingdom under stand each other 1. etter than to allow themselves to be.dram n, into antagonism by the raving of a poll- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ETE.NING, JUNE 5, 1869. tical mountebank. Whether the American Ambat sador, at the Court of St. James's, be Mr. REVEMY JOHNSON, the eminently jocose and complimentary diner-out, or Mr. MOTLEY, the Historian of the Dutch Republic—whether the seals of the Foreign office be entrusted to the safe keeping of Lord STANLEY or of Lord CLARENDON—we may vety confidently rely upon this, that outrageously extravagant claims like those set forth by Mr. SUMNER will never be seriously debated between the British Government and the Govern ment at Washington. That England prizes very dearly the maintenance of peace with the United States is undeniable. But there is one thing she prizes immeasurably more, and that is her honour. It was in no braggart spirit, but quite calm] y, and quite resolutely, that the Earl of CLARENDON re marked last evening, amidst the cheers of the House of Lords, that however much we desire 1 peace, and however much we valued our relations with the United States, we valued still more our national honour, which was a sacrifice we would not submit to. And, what is more, the conservation of our honour was as safe in the hands of Lord STANLEY as it is now in those of his successor, Lord CLARENDON. About that there never has been for a single moment any doubt whatever. And the keen-witted people of the United States know this quite as well as we know it ourselves. Bunkum—tall-talking—high falutin may be all very well iu their place, that is, outside the walls of a legislative chamber, as specimens of low comedy or broad humour among the professional or amateur buffoons indulging in the absurdities of burlesque or extravaganza. But among rational adults, among politicians and statesmen either, ground or lofty tumbling might just as reasonably be indulged in. It would be quite as dignified a pro ceeding for a Minister of State or for a Republican Senator to dance a break-down, or, employing a happy phrase of BoN GAULTIER, to turn " Clouds of summersaults," as to mouth such braggart words as those articulated by Mr. SUMNER. The speech delivered by him" extravagant and absurd," as it was justly described to have been by no 1E53 a person age than the Great Eltchi, Lord STATFORD DE RED CLIFF, has long since come to be regarded with dis dain by England, while it has long since, we are equally certain, come to be repudiated at heart alike by the American people and the American Govern ment. The official papers relating to the Alabama Claims had already been some time in our hands before Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE formally moved last evening for their production. It was well, how ever, that the matter referred to in them was brought thus distinctly under the consideration of the House of Peers by that noble Viscount, if only because of its haN iog elicited from her MAJESTY'S principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs assurances so full on the one hand of conciliation to the United States, while upon the other so befitting in their dignity and firmness the character of the British Government. The subject under discussion, namely, that mattr of the Alabama Claims, has yet, of course, to ba arranged, but of the certainty of its satisfactory settlement, eventually, we are perfectly well assured. THE Reform of the House of Lords which is now on hand reminds us forcibly of the reform of another body which was on hand a few months ago. When it was first proposed to popularise the House of Commons the ideas of those who originated the pro posal were very modest. The question was then simply between £6 and £7, between rental and rating. At first public attention was not aroused, and the interest felt in the matter was so languid, that nothing was done. But after several abortive measures and repeated Ministerial crises, the nation got angry, determined to get rid of this troublesome matter, and then instead of considering the safety of the Constitution dependent upon the sovereign (the coin, not the person), instead of haggling any longer about twenty shillings, a revolutionary measure was passed under the auspices of a " Constitutional " Ministry. The result of that revolution is that the House of Commons has become the chief power in the State, and that the House of Lords is so alarmed at the ever-increasing and overshadow ing authority of the other Assembly that it is seriously thinking of reforming itself, in the hope of regaining a portion of its influence. But as yet the movement has not become national. It is ab intra only, not a 5 extra. The consequence is that the proposed change is so small as to be absolutely ludicrous. At the same time it involves the certainty of the most sweeping changes. The Lord JOHN RUSSELL of 1852, in propounding the necessity of a reduction of the franchise, surrendered the "finality" principle, which had been an article of the Whig creed for twenty years, and prepared the way for the household suffrage of 1867. So the Earl RUSSELL of 1869, in proposing to admit four life peers a year, abandons the main principle upon which the House of Lords is founded, that it is an hereditary Chamber, and admits the counter prin cipls (which p reva il s everywhere but in England) of a nominated Chamber. The difference between these two principles is immense. The introduction of the second is simply the greatest revolution that has been brought about even in this age of household suffrage and disesta blished Churches. It means that henceforth the Upper House is to be made more or less an assembly of statesmen, instead of an assembly of landowners. Of course there are statesmen in the House of Lords now ; but they are there, not in their capacity of statesmen, but in their capacity of hereditary peers. Henceforth this qualification is to cease, so far as its exclusiveness is concerned. Men are to be admitted into that body who do not hold an acre, whose yearly income is equal to only one day's revenues of the Marquis of WESTMINSTER or Lord OVERSTONE. They are to be admitted, because of their abilities, into an assembly for which ability hitherto has been no test. It is impossible to overrate the importance of this fundamental change. At the same time it is impossible not to laugh at the restricted way in which it is proposed to carry it out. Lord RUSSELL would have confined the number of life peers to four a year. But the Con se: Tvative peers, having swallowed the great camel of a life peerage, have strained at the little gnat of an arithmetical factor. Four was revolutionary, two is constitutional ; and so, in order to save his bill, Lord RUSSELL had to be content with knocking off half his proposed number. It is exactly the old story of the franchise over again—Mr. GLADSTONE'S £7, condemned by the Conservatives in accents of horror and alarm, Lord STANLEY'S £B, proposed as an ark of deliverance against . the flood of demo cracy. Was it really worth while to move lionadnsthheeip, matter at all for such a miserable result ? Is it poss ibl e to open the door to so vast a ch r g ships and at p I f yet to keep they really ajar ? eWhatau to s o it p t o h p a u t theirars popularise their body, to bring it more into harmony with the admission seirtim of Mr. MILKER sentiments o f the ri nat n io u G n,d i o n stohNeyandMr. think that MILL in 1869, and of Mr. GROTE and Mr. LECKY in 1870, will effect their object ? At the same time it is quite possible that the Commons will not care to alter the bill. They may pass it with something very like contempt, but not without secret satisfaction. The bulk of the Liberal party do not care to increase the influence of the Lords. The Commons will not therefore quarrel with these for throwing away the present oppor tunity of strengthening themselves. Those of us who really wish to see the Upper House continue a legislative body, not merely in name but in fact, will feel sincere regret, and will be glad if hereafter the parallel, which we mentioned at the outset, is com pleted by the substitution of a far more sweeping measure than .that ridiculously inadequate " bill which has just been sanctioned by the Peers as a " compromise." It is only by a sweeping measure that the Peers can maintain their position in the State. IT is not only the Peers who wish to be brought more into sympathy with the spirit of she age. The Bishops have the same desire. The influential depu tation of clerics and laymen which wated upon the PREMIER on Thursday, urged very strongly that the English Church needed more overseen than she had at present. All the old arguments vere used with great force. In addition to an inzease in the Episcopate by the appointment of suffragan bishops, a prayer was made for an increase in the sees by a subdivision of certain unwieldy ones, notably Exeter and Lincoln. Mr. GLADSTONE was able to congratulate the deputation upon the fact that the two Houses of Parliament are now in accordance upon the principle that there should be an increase of bishops, granting that the means for providing this increase could be found. But beyond that he had only what was discouraging to say. In the first place, there was the powerful adverse argument offered by certain bishops themselves—that as they retain their posts when they are unable to discharge their dutie3, it is impos sible to convince the public riind that epis copal work is of such a severe character as to need an augmentation of episcopal officers. The Bishop of ELY declared that Cornwall was "in a state of ecclesiastical anarchy." To this the obvious reply was, though Mr. GLADSTONE was too polite to make it, " Why, then, does not the bishop who five years ago found his infirmities so great that he asked for the appointment of a suffragan, but who, while the Cabinet were considering that application, withdrew it—why does not this, the most aged and infirm bishop, who at the same time has charge of the most over grown diocese, in England, retire from the post, whose duties even the most energetic man would find impossible to fulfil satisfactorily ? There is the more reason for putting the question because resigna tion in this case would not involve a serious sacri fice of revenue. The present income from the bishopric of Exeter is small, while the income from the golden canonry in Durham Cathedral is large, and the Bishop might continue to hold the latter emolument because it is connected with no duties. There was another objection raised by Mr. GLAD STONE, whose force we scarcely see. He pointed to the daily increasing scandal of Colonial Bishops coming home in the prime of life and full of vigour, settling down in some comfortable English living, and undertaking episcopal duties in behalf of their diocesan ; and he expressed his repugnance against doing anything to aggravate this evil. But the appointment of suffragans would hardly do this ; rather it would tend to diminish the evil because it would diminish one of the chief attractions which draws colonial bishops back from their sees. However, the question is likely to be brought to a practical issue very shortly. The last appointed of the bishops has made a demand similar to that made by the Bishop of EXETER in 1864. Bishop WORDSWORTH has for mally requested the Government to put in force the provisions of the Act 26 of ITENny VIII., cap. 9, and provide him with a suffragan out of two priests, whom he will nominate for selection. It will be interesting to watch the result of this resuscitation of an Act 330 years old. roytt st* th h 2 HER MAJESTY. BALSIORAL CASTLE ) June 3. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High nes3 Princess Beatrice, walked out yesterday morn ing. Her Majesty drove out in the aftenoon with the Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Christian, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Liun of Dee. LATE 3T INTELL WINCE (REU . "ER'S TELEGRA3IS.) ANIERICA. NEW YORK, June 4. The North German Lloyd steamship Ohio ar rived out at 13a1timore at 9 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 138 i; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1388 ; the lowest, 137; 4 - 3 , Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 44 " 1885 llBl. i‘ <<lB G 7 119:1. 10-40 it 1091. Illinois Erie Cotton —Mid. upland 3olc. Petroleum—Standard White 3lic. Flour, extra state, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, $9.6c. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 4. Daoud Paella has left for Paris with the ratifica tion by the Porte of the Roumelian railway con tract; which have been slightly modified. A GHOST IN 3.I2IACIIESTEI?, For several nights past (sal,' Cie Manchester Examiner) immense crowds have been collected in and about the Feathers Hotel, attracted by the report that a ghost has chosen one of the busiest centres in Manchester, imme diately opposite the London-road Station, for its nocturnal appearances. The story is that for five weeks past the inmates of the hotel have been disturbed at all hours of the night by strange and unaccountable noises. When the weary waiters have gone to sleep their dreams have been dis turbed by the unwelcome tinkle of first one, then of two or more, and sometimes of all the bells in the house —fourteen in number—clanging together. A strict watch haso n several occasions been kept, and when this has been done, the watchers have seen and heard nothing unusual, but so surely as the lights in the inn have been extin• guished and quiet has been maintained the strange noises have commenced. About a week ago bellhangers were got in the house, who rearranged the wires and muffled the bells, and by this means it was supposed that the perturbed spirit had been laid at last to rest, an idea which was confirmed by the fact that for six nights thereafter the "ghost" made no manifestation. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, however, the sound of bells again broke forth with undiminished violence, and in defiance of bellhangers and special de tectives. Au indescribable presence is said to have made itself manifest on the stairs of the hotel, dressed in most unghostly habiliments of black, to a couple of boys and a policeman, who were so much frightened by the sight that they are unable to give any account of the spirit's appearance. Of all the inmates of the house the cook has been most affected by the spiritual influence, and on Wednesday resigned her comfortable situation, with all its perquisites, and, we believe, has taken to bed seriously ill. Meanwhile the house is nightly crowded by hundreds of visitors, who, excited by curiosity, thirst of knowledge, or other desire, have been exorbitant in their demand for spirits, to the no small profit of the landlord. GREECE. ATHENS, June 4. The King is expected here next week to open the Chamber of Deputies. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 5. The Official Vienna Gazette of this morning pub lishes the law sanctioned by the Emperor intro ducing reforms in the levy of the land tax. The Tagblatt publishes the War Budget for 1870, which amounted t 07,496,600 of florins, or five mil lions more than in 1869. The same paper asserts that the Minister of IVar will have to move for an extraordinary. credit of five to six millions of florins. The war budget for 1870 is calculated on the basis of a strangth of 800,000 men. The Note Freindenblatt announces that the Em peror accepted under certain reservations the invi tation of the Viceroy of Egypt to be present at the inauguration of the Suez Canal next autumn• FRANCE. BOURSE, June 4.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41-, per Cent. lO2 50 End of month_ 3 per Cent End of month_ 71 471 Credit Mobilier End of mouth_ 255 Credit Foncier End of month... RAILWA' Bank Shares 2875 ItaFan Fives 57 30 End of month — Mexican Loan 25 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred ...... Cash __... ... 917} Orleans _ . Northern Lyons and Ale.literranean ... ...... Ir l l 617,- Southern__ Western Eastera Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Roman THE REPRESENTATIO N OF STAFFORD.—At a great meeting of Liberal electors held last night, Professor Fawcett, M.P., advocated the claims of Mr. Odger as a candidate for Stafford. Ho said that no one could repre sent the working classes in Parliament with greater ability and faithfulness. Ho added that if Mr. Odger were not returned he had no hope of seeing the day when a working roan would go to Parliament. AFFAIRS IN NEW ZEALAND. At the opening of the Wellington Provincial Council, on March 18, the Superintendent, Dr. Featherston, made a speech on the native rebellion. He expressed the opinion that never before had the colony been placed in such a critical position. " Without discussing the wisdom of the policy of confiscation adopted in 1863, or whether it would not have been infinitely more prudent to have substituted for it the principle of cession, it will be admitted that confiscation necessarily implied the power to hold and occupy the lands. !Has the colony ever had, or has it now, this power ? No sooner had it adopted a policy which could only be carried out and maintained by force, and long before the confiscated lands were fully occupied and settled, than it insists upon the Imperial Government withdrawing all its troops by whom these lands had been conquered without making any provision to supply their place, or rather in the full knowledge that the troops could not and would not be replaced by any adequate local force. The colony challenges a large portion of the native race, almost invites them into rebellion, and at the same time disarms itself— strips itself of all means of defence—places itself at the mercy of a half civilised people, keenly smarting under the loss of their lands. The course thus pursued appears still more unin telligible when it is remembered that the colony might have retained for an indefinite period three or four thousand troops, whose very presence would in all probability have pre vented any fresh outbreak, at an infinitely less expense than the present colonial force costs. My own opinion is, that if this island is to be rescued from almost utter destruction, there must be an almost entire reversal of the past policy, and an immediate application for the Imperial troops on the terms offered by the Imperial authorities. The retention by them of the 18th Regiment in the colony is a sufficient proof that such an appeal would not be made in vain." Mr. J. Cowen, M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, -writes , - to say that the statement of a local journal that he intends to resign his seat is incorrect. Mr. Cowen says, "I have no intention whatever of resigning my seat." Pending the discussion on the new Bankruptcy Bill, and in compliance with the request of the Liverpool Law Society, the Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Registrar Thring to succeed the late Mr. Commissioner Perry. THE CLOSE OF THE HORSE SHOW.—The Horse Show at the Agricultural. Hall, Islington, has been brought to a close. The success of the exhibition has been of a very marked character, about 80,000 persons having been admitted to the show THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. —Le Nord states that, in order to make known most widely the benefits of the Suez Canal, the Viceroy of Egypt intends to address invitations, to be present at the inauguration, to the principal French, English, German, Belgian, Ttalian. Spanish, &c., journals, and to provide for the conveyance, lodging, and all the expenses of their repre sentatives. After the Ltes they will make a journey into Upper Egypt ; and Le .N . ord estimates the expenses of two hundred journalists thus exployed at more than £40,000, the sum which his Highness destines to this purpose. STATE PURCHASE OF THE TELEGRAPHS. The uncertainty concerning the intentions of the Govern ment as to the carrying out of the arrangement effected by the bill of last session for the acquisition by the State of the telegraphs of this country, is likely soon to be set at rest, as Mr. Ward Hunt intends on Monday next to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer "what progress has been made in settling with the various telegraph and railway companies for the purchase of their interests in telegraphic lines, and whether he intends to introduce a bill this Session to provide ways and means for carrying out the measure of last session upon the subject." THE AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON. - The directors of this spacious hall have let the whole of the area for the summer season, for the purpose of velocipe dian practice. The hall will be newly floored, expressly for the occasion. The promoters have fixed the entrance fee at a low rate, and velocipedes can be hired at a reason= able charge. Among the advantages to persons who are limited as to spare time will be that, whatever the weather, they will always be under cover, and that the Hall will be open as early as seven o'clock in the morning. The promoters intend to devote certain days during the summer to athletic contests and feats of physical endurance. SIIOEBURYNESS EXPERIMENTS.--Various experi ments were made on Friday at Shoeburyness. The first series upon an iron and asphalte concrete backing for iron shields, proposed by Colonel Inglis, the results obtained not being adequate to an accurate determination of its value. A new Firth's steel shell, of the same exter nal form as the service 9-inch Palliser chilled shell, but carrying a very much larger bursting charge, and hardened only in the head, for penetration of armour, the body of the shell being of more tenacious metal, so as to permit of its passing unbroken completely through the target before bursting. The hit took place near the joint of the armour face-plates ; but the result, so far as can be stated under this circumstance, appeared to be highly satisfactory. The effect of the burst was exceedingly severe ; it took place as designed, completely in the rear. The large armour - plate, 12ft. by Bft., designed to cover entire the face of an iron shield—the rolling of which t Sir J. Brown and Co.'s works at Sheffield we recorded some months ago—was fired at with the 7-inch rifled gun for proof. The plate was perforated with a 91b. charge ; the passage of the projectile, according to this ordinary test for 5-inch thick plates, should have been restrained by the plate. The shot-hole was perfectly round, and there was no starring or cracks of any kind. CAPTURING WHALES BY ELECTRICITY. —A good deal used to be talked about applying explosive bombs in the whale fishery, but actual trials have shewn the plan to be a failure. The explosion of a bomb, if attached to the harpoon, simply destroys the flesh in its neighbourhood, and hence also the hold on the fish, which is often thus lost and uselessly killed. From various causes, amongst which are, no doubt, the general use of gas for lighting and the discovery of petroleum, the whale fishery has rather languished of late Years, and it probably requires a stimulus such as would be afforded by diminishing its well-known dangers. Whether this object would be obtained by a curious pro posal submitted to the Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, by Mr. H. J. Rogers, only actual trial could show ; but we understand that the project is partly brought forward by Practical whale fishers. A gal vanic battery is placed in the whaling boat with a powerful induction coil in communication. From the terminals of the battery two insulated wires pass as conductors, through a line of the size ordinarily used to the harpoon, which is made with two heads, separated from each other, each insulated wire passing through the harpoon to the points where they terminate. Ihe handle of the harpoon is of course insulated. In this harpoon the circuit would be complete when it struck the whale. According to another plan, one insulated wire passes from one terminal through the rope to the end of a harpoon having one point only, the other insulated wire hanging in the water, and acting as a mean s f or t h e return current. The experiments have be e n t r i e d on eels and other small fish without perforating th e s ki n. The two wires from the poles of the battery being simply directed in close proximity to each other towards the fish, or one wire at the head and the other at the tail, and the effect has been to produce rigidity and complete temporary paralysis, the eel and other fish appearing perfectly life less during, and even after, the period of contact, —The Zkyintcr. 4 THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY ON THE ROUSE OF LORDS. At the recent dinner of the North Staffordshire Consti tutional Association, the Earl of Shrewsbury, in responding to the toast of "The House of Lords," said that House ought to be recognised more by the Liberal papers as a part of the Constitution. The Queen was recognised as one part, the House of Commons as another, but as to the House of Lords, the Times coolly advised that that assembly should sit down, and do as they were bid by the House of Commons. It would be wrong for the House of Lords to put itself in strong, determined, and repeated opposition to the opinion of the country; but he maintained that on the question of the Irish Church the opinion of the country had not been sufficiently expressed. The divisions on the ques tion in the House of Commons had not shewn that a majority of English members were in favour of the bill, but they had shewn that the Irish and Welsh members were opposed to that Church. He held that the bill was a different article to what it was represented to the country that it would be. He thought that it was the duty of members of the Upper house to deal carefully with the bill. PATHETI IGNATIUS" ON LIBERTY. " Father Ignatius " delivered a lecture on Friday eve ning, in Barnsbury Hall, Upper-street, Islington, on the subject of " Liberty." The charge for admittance was ls. ; reserved seats, 2s. The Hall, capable of seating about 200 persons, was not more than half full. There were scarcely half-a-dozen men present. The proceedings opened with a somewhatlengthy extem pore prayer, offered up by Mr. Lyne, with his back to the audience. There was a crucifix on the table. The lecturer chose for the foundation of his lecture the words of St. John—" The truth shall make you free; if the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Mr. LYNE, in his opening remarks, said that Europe had been in convulsion for the last century, all for liberty; but for the most part, amongst the mob, the cry was, not for true liberty,but for robbery, license, and desecration. The speaker took France for example. Whilst the loudest cry was being made in France for liberty, there was blood flowing in torrents round the guillotine. The cry for liberty in Spain and Italy ought to be a warning to Eng land. For 200 years England had been spared this, and he (Mr. Lyne) hoped God would prevent this cry being raised in this country. There was one sad cry being raised, " Down with the rich ! " " Down with the aristo cracy !" which only meant " Down with parents ! " and "Down with masters ! " as though riches in themselves was sin. The Sunday League placarded the walls with bills respecting the desecration of the Sabbath. This was one kind of liberty, shewing that this liberty meant nothing but going against God. But of all places, Isling ton—the most Protestant place --needed liberty to be preached to it. Referring to the sparseness of the audience, the speaker said one would have thought people would have come either out of curiosity or otherwise, for in all other places there were full audiences; but had prejudice kept people away in Islington ? This reign of Protestant tyranny was on its last legs. Still, keeping in his eye France as an example, the lecturer said of liberty what the French had said, that Chris tianity was a thing of the past, and the Church must be bundled out of the country. This was the liberty of the mob—this was their fraternity and equality. But when they had carried out all they wished---when they had sent off the King—then the president of their own making changed his presidential chair into that of a despotic throne ; the dead old Church, as they called it, sprang forth into fresh life. And (continued the speaker) let them try their game in Italy and Spain—let them kill their monks and nuns—then, after a few years, back must come the monks and nuns, and back will come the Catholic Church. The Church of France never knew better times than during the last century, when persecution did its worst. "Liberty and the Monks!" was the cry of one of the best writers in France. Let things be as they would— yet as it , in the beginning so it would be again. 1 PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE. `The Parliamentary and Municipal Elections Committee, under the presidency of the Marquis of Hartington, pro ceeded to take evidence on Friday in reference to the mariner in which elections were conducted in Wales in the years 1857, 1865, and 1868. The Rev. Mr. Jones, a Dissenting minister, and President of the Theological College at Bala, Merionethshire, did not hesitate to say that the agricultural labourers in the district were compelled to vote against their convictions as their landlords wished. The majority of the labouring classes in Wales were Dissenters and Liberals, and it had happened that in one instance a con gregation in Montgomeryshire had notice to quit their chapel, and in another instance with which he was familar the chapel had been sold. So great was the Tory influence that a year ago a meeting of Dissenting ministers and deacons had been held, and a petition praying for the adoption of the Ballot prepared for presentation to Par liament. Pressed closely by the Conservative members on the committee, the witness admitted that it was not an uncommon thing in Wales for chapels to be used for poll tical purposes, but he did not know that Dissenting ministers were in the habit of making political allusions in their sermons. It had been told to tenants who had been evicted that it was because they had voted against their Tory landlords. The report that a minister had said in one of his sermons that the Tory candidate for Denbighshire ought to be crucified, was not precisely correct. The speaker was a " raw " student, and the occasion was an address. From Wales the committee passed on to Ireland, Mr. Spate, a magistrate, of Limerick, detailing that in the years 1852 and 1858 great violence prevailed at the elections. In 1859 and 1865 the witness was himself a par liamentary candidate in the Conservative interest, but was defeated, owing to priestly influence and to intimida tion. At the last election in Limerick the landlords did not actively interfere. At every election at which he had assisted it was the opinion of the wit. ness that the Conservative voters went to the poll in bodily fear, and returned in a condition even worse. The windows of his own house had always to be closed during elections, and his family had to live entirely in the back rooms. The priests not only organised mobs, but made a practice of distributing orders for drink. Several of these orders, signed by a priest, put in circula tion at the election in 1865, were produced by witness. They authorised certain publicans to supply to the per sons named in them drink to the amount of £5, which drink was eventually received by the mobs of idle persons who were got together. The Roman Catholic Bishop was very active at the last election. The description given by the witness of Limerick elections was exceedingly lively On some occasions houses were entered and the furniture thrown into the streets pell-mell. Once a doctor's surgery was entirely emptied of its drugs, which were pitched into the Shannon—a fact which Mr. Bright thought might be taken as accounting for the unhealthy condition of the fish in that stream. When the witness was a candidate, his friends, who had secured a gallery of the Court-house to themselves were pelted with bottles, stones, and pieces of furniture by the Liberal party below, the missiles being returned with interest by the Conservatives above. Voters from the country districts had to be brought into the city under large armed escorts. A thousand pounds were sometimes spent in whisky, and the elections generally were simply a "mischievous farce." A woman, named Mary Oldfield, 79 years of age, has just died at Lower Hall, near Huddersfield. A sum of 2105 is. 11d. in silver and copper has been found in her house; yet the old woman had for several years been in receipt of 4s. per week parish relief. There is no other spoken language so cheap and expressive by telegraph as the English. The same amount of information can be transmitted in fewer English words than French, German, Italian, or any other European language. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. - Among the wills and bequests in the Illustrated News this week are those of Lord Strangford, Sir Edward Cunard, and Mr. Samuel Scott, the banker. Lord Strang ford's personalty in England was sworn under £3,000, Sir Edward Cunard's personalty was sworn under £300,000. He has made a liberal provision for his daughters, and leaves the residue of his property between his three sons, leaving to his eldest son, now Sir Bache Cunard, Bart., a moiety, and to his other sons, Edward and Gordon, the remainder equally between them. Mr. Scutt's personalty was sworn under £1,400,000. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF A. 'CONVICT AT CHATHAM.. —The other evening, shortly before the time for the convicts employed on the extension works at Chatham Dockyard leaving their work, one of the number, a convict named Peter Crane, under sentence of seven years' penal servitude, succeeded in effecting his escape. The convict was employed in a gang with several other convicts, and seizing his opportunity he succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the keepers, and making his escape. On the circumstance being reported at the prison a number of convict warders and others were clespatclied to search the neighbourhood, in order to effect his cap ture. After a minute search over the extension works, the prisoner was ultimately discovered concealed in a disused sawpit by police-constable Collins, and conveyed back to the convict prison, St. Mary's, where he will re ceive the punishment awarded to convicts attempting their escaue. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIII JOURNALS. The Saturday Review thinks that Mr. Disraeli enlivene d ' or at least marked, the debate of last Monday by finding something new to say on the Irish Church. He must be r_ tired, and he may well b e di sgus t e d, w ith a di scu ssion P which he knows he can win no credit, and which he must feel he is taking the wrong side. sought, therefore, to escape from the twinges of his 0° intellectual judgment or conscience, and from tb° fanaticism and platitudes of his supporters, by tell, refuge in a new set of paradoxes on Irish history. last theory is that the Irish Church has been wantow sacrificed to the ignorance of a Ministry who did 12( 4 understand the true character of the Fenian rebellion' The rebellion, he thinks, was of purely American origin' and failed because no Irishman would have anything t ° do with it. Unfortunately, the Ministry, in their blin d. ness, chose to treat it as a symptom ofreallrish discontent, and, not knowing what other bone to throw to the dos' flung the persecuted Irish Church in its way. The dog will of course eat its bone, and tic Irish Catholicof although thoroughly happy before, will permit theta' selves to be represented as likely to be made still hap P ier by having the Protestant Church humiliated and r obbed. This is the startling paradox on which Mr. Disraeli 1)5 5 chosen to rely in order to conceal, if possible, from hil n. self and others the position in which he really steal' Ireland not only has no grievance, but does not think i t has any. It is only a foolish Liberal Ministry Oast whispers to Eve in Erin that there is something she rnigh o properly long for. The theory worked out by Mr. Dial° only such a short time ago has been discarded, and he no longer admits the melancholy of the Irish, and account for it by that proximity to the ocean on all sides which they share with so many inhabit an t s o f sma ll i s l an ds. -u' e would not now allow they are melancholy. On the Oi l ' trary, they are well off, and they know it. Not a sine! person of either party could have failed to remember OP Mr. Disraeli's Premiership was us h ere d i n by U rci Stanley's declaration that the Irish question was the quei . tion of the day, and that the first thing Mr. Disraeli did On! to:announce that the Cabinet had an Irish policy which La u Mayo was commissioned to reveal. Mr. Disraeli did not 01. 11 the risk, but faced the certainty that his paradox would WI away, like a ghost at cock-crowing, directly Mr Gladstone dwelt on a few facts of indisputable notorietP But he nevertheless thought the paradox worth starting, It enabled him to thro w a vas t amoun t o f vague gen eral blame on the Ministry, and to assume an attitude of con' scions superiority towards them, while it saved him fro' all necessity of explaining to his party whether be wi l l really prepared to ask the House o f L or d s t o ra lly roll"' the Altar and the Throne and the Orange flag. The Spectator says that Lord Derby's letter to a le . Joseph Hawley, which was read at the meeting of Old Jockey Club last Saturday, and was printed in the Ts of Monday, may be looked at in two lights. It is at once a plea for young horses and for young peers. Und er the present system, we are told that two-year-olds are " crippled " and "stumped," while the great race weep is generally followed by a widely-spread report that 00 young lord has gone to the devil. As we write, th e . entire racing studs of two youn g d u k es ar e abet" to be sold at Tattersall's, and we may fai rlt ascribe such a crash to the influence of some of those speculators mentioned by Lord Der* In our judgment, public opinion id still unformed uPel; this subject. There is, no doubt, some feeling excite' whenever a great scandal arises, and the ruin of each 0 1 : victim leads men t o as k w h e th er our l ib erty is 11°,; degenerating into license. But after all, people sag' this marquis or that earl had not beggared himself o n the Turf, he would have found some other way of parting wi th his money. If the public is called upon to reprobate sa le sharp practice on the Turf, it regards it as nothing we re than a competition between those who steer close to th e wind and those who don't care where the wind come / from. Lord Derby will say that such a view is inconsiste nt with the resp ec t w hi c h oug ht t o b e pa id t o t h e T ur f, an d which was paid to it in its palmy days. We wish W e could see somethi ng more d e fi n it e th an th e mere w ant t respect for an institution which, whether it be aristocra t s° popular, d oes an d mus t d o an i nca l cu l a bl e amo unt e , mischief. A n y race may b e ma d e i nto an instrument of gambling, and it has been said that of late years the manly and healthy exc it emen t pro d uce d b y t h e U n i vers ity 1 3 ° e " . race has been prostituted in this way. But the gr e y horse-races notoriously exist for the sole purpose gambling. Every thought, every interest, ev e " speculation is cent re d no t i n th e race, b u t in th e winner ; not in the horses, but in the odds upon then' People think there is nothing wrong in thisbecause ever le body does it, and the same reason w hi c h t a k es the who of London to the Derby finds a public for the sporting papers and for the tips of their prophets. There may b e nothing objectionable here, just as the lottery and t he rouge-et-noir tables may be right and proper. But if so why does the law prohibit wagers, why are there heavy fines on games of hazard, why are lotteries declared t° be public nuisances, and why does playing or betting with any instrument of wagering in any place to which the public have access m a k e a man li a bl e to b e i mpr i so ned as a rogue and vagabond? There must be some difference here between our theory and our practice, and it is i lly portant to know which of them is right. Otherwise, we shall be driven to the conclusion that though chuck' farthing is not only a s i n , b u t a m i s d emeanour w hen it P 7 played by a ragged boy in the streets, there is no her m whatever in chuck-thousand, so long as it is played hi marquis, under the auspices of the Jockey Clubs an within the Ring at Epsom. • The John Bull thinks that the House of Lords sig glia bear in mind two premises, and arrive at two conclusions' The first premise is that the extension of the franchil . renders it more th an ever requ i s it e th a t th e Secell Chamber should e xerc i se a rea l ve t o ; f or , ev en in - Republic, there is some security in the provision that t. ! majority of two-thi r d s i s necessary . Secondly—and this is a most important consideration—that a bill affecting the Church is one on which the House of Lords is specia l s fit to judge. If it b e a d m itt e d th a t on ma tt ers o f line n and commerce the. Lower House is the better authority' it surely may be admitted that, with a Church questiee' an assembly composed of Churchmen is more fitted t° deal than one in which Roman Catholics and Nen .„ e°ll Q : formists form so large a proporti o n. Th e H ouse , weiginl well these circumstances in connec ti on w ith the sPec i r bill before them, should resolve to exercise its own ill °. pendent judgment without the least regard to con' sequences. If, as we contend, the most import anv principles are at stake, the House of Lords is morally bound, be the consequences what they may, to al ert them. But this is not all their duty. It is imperativ ely binding on their lordships to educate the coup' It is useless to amend the bill in committ ee ' The Times and other Liberal papers are quite right declaring that it is impossible. The principle of the 1 3. admitted, it is, in our opinion, childish quarrelling o' 4 details, agreeing as we do with the Marquis of Lothie ll ' that disestablishment is far worse than disendownlen t y We rejoice to know that such is Mr. Disraeli's opinion e g well as of the Earl of Derby's, and the disavowal of the treacherous article in the Standard will have the be st effect on the party. Throwing aside, then, as a vi er : ignis fatuus the attempt to conceal the policy of rulln 113 : away under grandilo quen t p h rases as to amending w.„- bill in committee, th e H ouse of Lords may either abdiee_; their functions, as suggested b y the Standard, or else, e' we have always recommended, assert calmly and judicialli their own authority, and remit to the people the fat . f il .h ° consideration of a que s ti on th e m i g ht y i ssues o f win they have not fully realised. Justice to themselves, i' to England, justice to the Church, demands this eon' and we have little doubt that it is, the one which, afterft til deliberation, will commend itself to their lordships. The Economist observes that Lord Stanley touched uPe ll the true reason for the abolition of the Patent Laws wil es he referred to the injury of third parties which the P re ; sent law occasions, by reason of patents being granted he only one out of half-a-dozen persons who come upon i. P O same inventions, or to one of a series of inventors w t % improve upon each other's work, and by reason also oft 7.3 general interference with manufacturing. What we 0 11 °1 8 have liked to see fully stated was the peculiarity a present circumstances of the country in which these thlbst are true. The statements, in fact, amount to this —t o there is a large number of inventions which patents 2/ . . 4 not required to encourage ; that these are made as ordin incidents of business ; that invention, improvement "si mechanical and chemical processes, is itself a part find manufacturing business - ; and that in this wa y the gran; of patents only impedes manufacturers to whom invent iel3 4 wo uld naturally come. The full f orce o f th ese f a cts canli be felt unless we recognise that a change in the chara cteg of invention has taken place. The Patent Laws w ere intended to apply to different manufacturing circuev stances from those which now exist, and were based o °o different notions about invention ; the objection to thet a is that they either are or are becoming out of date i We come, then, to th e conc l us i on t h at i t i s f or th e Ol e n interest that pat en t l aws s h ould b e a b olishe d , and thatof their abolitio n w ill d o no great harm to anyone—less" - hePe all to the grea t mass of inventors or improvers. per as we may point out that if the circumstances are described, this country has a special interest in a bolish ing such laws. A s th e l ea di ng manu f actur i ng cou ntry i" world, a patent here is likely to be worth more t° itg holder than anywhere else. Consequently, our manu f4 _, turers are more exposed than any others to the interrnve tion and wor r y o f p a t en t s . It ma y we ll be that oi ll countries which are less tempting to patentees will fin the balance of competition weighted in their fave ll j o f consequence. Looked at another way, the more invention falls into the hands of great capitalists the nou'- ountry likely is it to strengthen the manufacturing a Condit on of which is already most powerful. The normal condll things is all in our favour, and we should do nothleb: thwart it, m 6-141 COMMEI Couso's are c ditto, for Ac; duced, 921 ; chequer Bills 2 and £5OO, Cent., 2441 ; India Stock, ditto 5 per Cen Cent., Oct., V per Cent., ; Little busine general tone of is 1- lower, at worse, at 664 ; to 84 ; anl It unaltered, at 8; at 793 to 794 New Three per Cent., 671 to 6f English Rai heavy. Metro] to ,95 ; Metrop Northern (A) lower, being 751 respectiveli Great Eastern, Lancashire and Chatham, and North-Western 1151. Bank Shares Without movem In Mime Eat Telegraph sharE Telegraph Eig 3 i to 3fr. 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