The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-12 00:00:00

JOHN 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 pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE AGUA. 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. lt is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at n lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. includin, brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C.- rrHE BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT, I 1865.—NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That JOSEPH EDWARDS, of 10, Carnaby-street, Golden-square, in the County of Middlesex, Boot and Boot Top Maker, has left in the Office of the Chief Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy. Quality Court, Chancery lane, London, a list of his Debts and Liabilities and a state ment of his prorerty and credits as required by the Bankruptcy Amendment Act, 180. Dated this 6th day of March, 1869. ISAAC ABLETT, C!, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, W., Solicitor for the person registering the Deed VICTORIAN (AUSTRALIAN) RAILWAY LOAN for £2.107,000, in Five per Cent. Debentures.— Authorised by the Victorian Parliament under the Act 32 Vic toria, No. 331, assented to 29th September, 1863, called " The Railway Loan Act, 1868." for the extension of ailways, and secured upon the Consolidated Revenues of the Colony. The Committee of the Six Associated Australian Banks. as agents for the Government of Victoria, Hereby Give Notice, that TENDERS at or above the declared minimum of per (in cluding accruing interest), for the II t A CLOTTED PORTIt IN of the ab ve Loan, amounting to about Z 1.463,0 will be I'E cEIVED and Op ned at the London and Westminster Bank on FRIDAY next, the 1 2th inst., at 2 o'clock p.m., and that pay ment will be received in terms of the advertisement of the Ist inst Preference will be given to new tenders from parties whose tenders have already been accepted, provided the prices offered be equal. Forms of tender may be obtained at the London and West minster Bank, the London Joint-Stock Bank, and the six Associ ated Australian Banks. For the Bank of New South Wales D. Larnach, Chair- man of Committee. For the Bank of Australasia For the Union Bank of Australia H. W. D. Saunders, For the Bank of Victoria . • For the London Charterea Rank of Australia James Fr scr. For the Colonial Bank of Australasia James A. Douglas. London, March 9, 1369. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, TEIE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, HENRY IV. (First Par'): Falstaff, Mr. Dillon; Hotspur. Mr. Phelps; Messrs Ryder, Sinclair, Wil son, M'lntyre, &c.; Miss Stuart and Mrs. Vandcnhoff. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled BP DA. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee,. Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING TUE WIND: Messrs. Ken. dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstcne, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal. ton. &c. After which, HOME: Messrs. Swhern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Bill, fic. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY: essrs. Buckstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, Weathersby, White, fie. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Gwynn, Wright, &e. Box-office open daily. - Commence at Seven, THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS F VENING, a new farce, entitled A. DAY'S PIS RING. Mr. G. delmore, Mr. C H. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. &t 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Nf ss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining T GIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama. in four acts, entitled Al ARIE AN TOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen. Mr. J. G. Shore; The Dauphin (five years ohl), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mille. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. D.Leesoa. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. Fo conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA Beatrice. )oors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5, Box-office open D OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs , wanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7.20, THE TIDONV HUNT. Messrs f.lhrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bui ra and Malt/and. After which. THE FIELD OP CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robsou Mesdames M Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, &c. To conclude 'nth HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS. HOLBORN The world-renowned ON RA, whose extraordinary feats on the FLYING TRAP ZE perfectly elee , ritied the Metr polls last Autumn, will appear EVERY EVE \ ING. Onra's performance is now, more than ever, unquestionably superior to that of Leo tard, or any other performer on the trapeze. His double somer saults from the flying bar are incr , dib!e, and, to use a hackneyed phrase, must be seen to he believed. Onra challenges the world. The matchless Sc'EN ES in the ARENA, as usual, Including Herr OSCAR C A BRE and his magnificent tud of Performing Horses, and the Star Company of Equestrians, Acrobats. Gymnasts, and Clowns. "Such a varied entertainment., so replete with excite ment, amusement, and evidence of refined skill, has never before been introduced to the metropolis."—Daily Telegraph, Oct. Bo. Doors , open at Seven, commence at half pest. Morning Per f9rtnances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATR E-11 () YA L. Sole Proprietor awl Manager, Mr. Sefton Perry. 0 7 • • • At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.20, CYRIL'S SUCCESS, 9.'0, BROWN ND THE BRAHMI S: Messrs. Marshall. Warner, David iisher. Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke : Vesdnmes Thorne. L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arno1:1, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stepheus. T. GEORGE'S H A LL, Regent-street. K. 7 Fir:ST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided hit. New and beautiful Songs, Dances, Burlesque Sketches, &c., and the highly successfnl burlesque THE VERY . GRAND DUTCH—S OF LONDON, EVERY EVENING. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Christy's who have had the honour to appear, by special command. before THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur lay night at eight. Admission, One Shilling. Private boxes and places may be secured at Air. Mit chell's Royal Library, at the musicsellers, and at the ball. Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. THE SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. GLEN lE. Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road. Seliyers the LAT E DMOS of "THAI SUN' "at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROTAL. TIIIB EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner. David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Honmde, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, 3lr. W. H. Liston. TIM EVENING, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Lionel Brough , H. Irving, S. Fmery, Miss Hodson, &c. After which, TUE STEEPLECHASE: Mr Toole. With OUR CLERKS. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tuts EVENING, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Cowper. fce vile, Parselle, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, &c. After which, LUCRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, and George Honey. To conclude with AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAI O. Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tins EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud f 50 Horses; also Onm., Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, fie THEATIIE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. MIS EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. IT. Wigan , H. Ne file, E. Atkins, 11. Vaughan. H. Cooper, and Smithson : mesdames. Furtado, Sehavev, N. Harris. and 't. Henry. __ After which. TIT YELLOWPASSPGRT. Mossr; Neville, H. Neville. Atkins. Taylor, Taughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss It Oliver. Tuts Erstmul, at 7.n0, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by (LAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL TJIEATRE. Under the Management of Alias Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. Iluckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss V arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING. at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and ~ a turdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ROYAL AL TIAMB7: A PALACE. THR EE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at S. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on 3lrndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, ed. 't! , M:0 4 t•3.V s LOA' DOAV , FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1869. The War Secretary last evening duly brought for ward the Army Estimates. Mr. CHILDErts has been emulated by Mr. CARDWELL. The two Right Hon. Gentlemen have been aboutequallysuccessful, within a few nights of each other, in demonstrating to the satisfaction of the House of Commons in Committee thedeterniination of her MAJESTY'S Government to eco nomise as much as possible the general amount of the national expenditure in their - respctive departments, without, however, in any way sacrificing the effi ciency of either of the two great services. The ex planation given yesterday by Mr. CAP.DWELL had this superiority over the explanation afforded to the House a few nights previously by Mr CHILDERS that the former was much more terse, more pointed, and more condensed than the latter, without at the same time evidencing, in any one particular, any appreciable deficiency in detail. However this may be, the delivery of tLe War Secretary's Speech on the Army Estimates occupied but a little more than half the time occupied by the delivery of the First Lor lof the Admiralty's speech on the Navy Estimates. The report of the two presents to view a contrast like that between ten and twenty. To put the gist of the whole explana tion at once under view, it may be said that these new military estimates show a total reduction upon the year in money of about ten R:r cent. en the entire amount, or, in other words, upon the active services, of £1,196,659. The actual airriuni proposed to be granted being £14,230,400 This economy, he clearly showed, had been effecte by two means. First, by means of a recall of troops from the colonies to the number of 15,1 men, reducing the forces in our colonial possessions to a toLl of 31,852, but raising the number of our troops at home from 87,505 to 92,015. The economy thereby enured amounts in Money to a re duction upon the yeir of £573,059. The rest of the econ om y, to th e t une o f some £623,59 1 , being secured mainly through the success of the newly -arranged control system adopted by the late Government_a proceeding on the part of that Go vernment of which Mr. CARDWELL intimated at once that he and his colleagues highly approved. It is a system theoperation of which is now extended to many of our fereign stations : and the effects of it, coupled with the reduction already arrived at in the way just now explained by means of the recall of a little over fifteen thousand men from our colonies, brings up the total reduction in the Army Estimates for the new year, as before announced, to one million and very nearly two hundred thou sand pounds sterling, or in precise terms to £1,196,650 altogether. The regular army here at home, as we have seen, will in consequence of these arrangements for the recall of 15,173 men from colonial service, amount to a little less than 100,000, to exactly 92,015 in all. Coupling the Royal army, however, or, in other words, the Regulars, as they are termed, with the reserve forces, the Militia, the Yeomanry and the Rifle Volunteers, the total force in this country, as Mr. CARDWELL observed, will, in the ensuing year, amounts to 381,828. An increase of nearly 49,000 on last year—of 3901, to be precise—the total force in this country last year having amounted to just 341,997. So that we increase our force at florin by 39,831 at the same time that we are economizing to the extent of £1,196,650. And while these doubly satisfactory facts stand thus, we have the consolatory assurance brought home to our convictions at the same moment by the right hon. gentleman the Secre tary for War, that both in great guns and in small arms we are already at this present time in possession of better weapons than any other army in the woad. Not, of course, that Mr. CARDWELL would have us infer, front that, anything so absurd as that we have, according to actual arrangements, arrived, so to speak, at perfection in the shape of what have come to be cllled arms of precision. On the con trary, he follows up the gratifying assurance we have just mentioned, namely, that our soldiers are better armed than any other soldiers who could be named, by intimating - that it is proposed to manufacture for trial a few Henry -Martigny Rifles, which said rifles have been recommended for adoption as the future weapon for the British Army. Altogether the speech of the War Secretary)ast evening was in the highest degree satisfactory, an 1 no won der that it WAS So —showing as it has done, beyond all' possibility of disproof, that while there has been elTeeted a considerable reduction in our military expenditure, that economy has been ef- lccted shnoltaneously, with an appreciable advance- went in the general efficiency of the service. We Lave more troops, those troops are better armed, they are being better cared for—and yet while this has been accomplished, or is being accomplished, we have saved upon the year considerably more than a 'Billion sterling. THESE are not the palmy days of despotic govern ment. An old-established dynasty may, by cautious abstention from tyranny, manage to steer clear of the whirlpool in which OTIIO, IsALELLA, and others have met with shipwreciq but the arbi- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1869. trary pOwer which has not the support of antiquity is often driven to strange expedients to preserve its place. The recent debate in the Corps Legislatif on the City of Paris Loan is an instructive lesson in the science of despotic government. Never before has the secret policy, the strength and the weakness of the second French Empire, been so fully revealed. Ostensibly this turbu lent discussion possesses but a local interest, and is important only in a municipal sense. Some eighty millions have been spent in beautifying the French capital. Part of this immense sum had been furnished in the shape of a loan by the Paris Credit Foncier, and the Corps Legislatif, according to law, were asked to sanction this contract. Certainly, the money had been spent before permission to spend it had been asked, but this is only a trifle under the Empire. In reality, however, the importance of this memorable debate goes far beyond this. It has revealed the entire system of internal policy pursued under the Empire, its disclosures have brought discredit upon the Imperial Administration, the position of which in a moral sense is seriously impaired. Although it has been one of the duties of the EMPEROR'S Government to demolish everything that was unsightly in Paris, and erect a city of palaces on the ruins, yet this is by no means the primary pur pose for which 80 millions sterling have been spent. When President Louis NAPOLEON became Emperor he was fully convinced of the necessity 9f keeping out of mischief the army of democratic workmen who had overthrown so many Administrations since Louis XVI. If this lean and revolutionary multi tude could be kept quiet, the Second Empire might stand ; but if the mob were not fed, there was no reason to hope that it would not repeat its former achievements. This was the first great cause of the pulling down and rebuilding of Paris. The EMPEROR, like a prudent ruler, knew the danger by experience, and had taken measures to provide for it. When the new Constitution, which followed the downfall of Louis PHILIPPE, .was drawn up, NAPOLEON 111., then President, took care to insert a proviso that the Executive could commence public works at will, provided all loans were submitted to the Legislature. ' By virtue of this stipulation the Paris workmen were employed in rebuilding Paris. They received good wages, had constant employment, and instead of overturning the Empire, became rather friendly to it. Troops of artisans from the country came to the capital to share in the spoil. The work when once begun could not be stopped. The city was burdened with local imposts, and yet the taxes would not pay for the splendid buildings which everywhere sprung up ; but the Government could not dream of throwing the army of workmen out of employment. The city has vastly improved under this Imperial treatment, but whether such improvement is desi rable or not, the danger of ceasing it is too great to be contemplated. The city became greatly in debt, and at length Baron HAussmANN was obliged to have recourse to illegal expedients. He borrowed money without the authorisation of the Corps Legislatif. The Credit Foncier secretly lent the City of Paris nearly nineteen millions sterling on very hard terms. A better bargain might have been obtained by a loan, ,but a loan must necessarily be public, and publicity would not do for Baron HAussmANN. The money has been lent and spent, and the evil day has come. The Government has been obliged to come before the Corps Legislatif and ask the sanction of this contract. It will thus be seen that the recent debate is but one episode in the history of the regeneration of Paris. The Government has simply been compelled to confess its arbitrary deeds, and unveil to the Parisians and to the nation the intolerable and yet ever-increasing burden which the reckless destruc tion and rebuilding of a city entails. But the satis faction which the people of France can derive from this exposure lies simply in the circumstance that the Government has been disgraced. It does not appear that under the present system there is any hope of amendment. The Ministry promised that for the future the Corps Legislatif should not be asked to sanction what had already been done. Then M. TITTERS, after a preliminary skirmish, commenced the attack, and in a very elaborate speech pointed out where the recent altera- t ions were useful, and where in too many instances they were merely a waste of money. The Government is no doubt perfectly aware of this. It must be patent even to Imperial Ministers that the demolitions cost too much, and entail an overwhelm ing burden. The difficulty is, that the Government cmnot persuade itself to the venturesome experi ment of stopping them. It is not a question of beautifying Paris, but of feeding a dangerous multitude at the expense of the community. To avoid telling this truth the Imperial Ministry has been driven to the most humiliating shifts. The condemnation of the illegal expenditure was defended by the supporters of the Empire ; but M. HOUIIER the next day, contradicted every word his colleagues had uttered, declared that Baron lIAussmANN had done wrong, and that, too, upon his own responsibility. It is a not uncommon,but in this case it was a very daring, act to sacrifice a Minister for the good of Imperialism ; there was, perhaps, no help for it. If the EMPEROR would stop the rebuilding of Paris there would be an end to this degradation. Or if he would consent to a responsible Ministry and true parliamentary government, the support of all the orderly classes would extinguish the danger of the mob. It has -- been affirmed that this and similar occurrences have driven the EMPEROR to contemplate free institutions. It is the hope of ultimately attaining this end that may console the French nation for revelations which are humiliating alike to both the EMPEROR and the people. PARLIAMENTARY COMPANIONS.* The Reformed Parliament has already caused a host of works to be published on the constitution of its assembly, but the majority of these are not of that standard character which has for many years particularised " Dod's Parliamentary Companion." This handy book has now reached its thirty-seventh year of existence, and is com monly looked upon as the right-hand friend of politicians of all classes and opinions. It boasts—not unnaturally— that during every Ministerial vicissitude since thepassing of the Reform Act of 1832 it has aimed at avoiding party ten dencies. During that time thirteen Administrations have been summoned to the councils of the sovereign, ten Par liaments have been elected, and nine have been dissolved. Yet the volume still holds its sway against all comers, many of whom have failed through becoming the partisan instead of being the faithful chronicler. To shew the vast amount of labour necessary in the "get up" of "Dod," it may be mentioned that 227 new members, of whom 193 never were previously in Parliament, were returned to the House of Commons at the general election. This is the largest number of new members since 1832. In that year these figures stood at 280, whilst in 1837 there were only 121. In order that there should be no errors as to the opinions held by the respective parliamentary representa tives, their exact words relating to the Irish Church, national education, vote by ballot, and the abolition of the malt tax are recorded. In spite, however, of every precaution, several errors have crept in, which we will take the liberty of pointing out. Mr. O'Beirne, who, since the general election, has been unseated for Cashel, was not returned for that borough without opposition, but was opposed by Mr. Munster, who polled 84 votes against Mr. O'Beirne's 100. In Westminster Mr. John Stuart Mill is reported as having polled 6,884 votes, instead of 6,284, he being exactly 300 behind Captain Grosvenor. At South Shields Mr. Stevenson is stated to have polled only 2,277 against Mr. Palmer's 2,582. It is needless to say that the figures ought to be reversed. Mr. Lopes, the member for Launceston, was first returned for that borough in April, not December 1868, on the resignation of Mr. Campbell. Concerning the same little pocket borough, "Dod" states that " the Duke of Northumberland's interest here is very considerable." We have already alluded to this error, but it is still repeated. It may be necessary, therefore, to explain that as far back as the spring of 1865 the Duke of Northumberland sold Werrington Park—including his " interest "in the borough —to Mr. Campbell, a merchant, of Liverpool. This gentleman, who bought the seat for himself, sat in the House of Commons from July 1865 to April 1868, when he in turn sold it to Mr. Fitzwilliam Dick, M.P. for Wicklow. As the latter was not in want of the seat, he kindly handed it over to Mr. Lopes, a barrister on the 'Western Circuit, who, of course, was elected without opposition. The senior member for Bel fast—Mr. William Johnston, of Ballykilbeg—is erro neously mentioned as a Liberal, although we expect it would be difficult to find a more bigoted Orangeman throughout Ireland. Perhaps the mistake has occurred through Mr. Johnston allying himself with Mr. M'Clure, a Liberal, in order to defeat two "thick-and-thin " sup porters of the late Government. In spite of this fact, the hon. gentleman sits on the Conservative side of the House, and votes with the Opposition. In the memoir of Mr. Thomas Brassey, who sits for Hastings, the most impor tant facts of his life are altogether omitted. Mr. Brassey first tried for senatorial honours . in December 1861, when he fought Mr. John Laird for the new seat given to Birkenhead, but was defeated by 1,643 to 1,296. His next fight was at Devonport in June 1865, on the resignation of Sir Arthur Buller, when he won over Mr. John Fleming by a majority of 56. This, however, was reversed at the general election a fortnight afterwards, Mr. Brassey finding himself in a minority of 11. He fought another losing battle, viz., at Sandwich, in May 1866, on the occasion of Lord Clarence Paget's retirement. At the close of the pull Mr. Capper was declared to be the winner by the narrow majority of six votes. These inci dents should certainly be added to Mr. Brassey's life. Mr. Fowler, th e new member for F a l mout h , is also not credited with fi g hti ng an unsuccessful battle in the borough which he now represents. It is correctly stated that he lost the fight in the city of London in July 1865 ; and it may be well to inform "Dod" that he was beaten at Fal mouth in October 1866 by Mr. Jervoise Smith, by a majority of 63. Looking to the high character to which the "Companion " has deservedly attained, it is only due to the public that these important alterations should be made, and the omissions we have pointed out be supplied. " Vacher's Parliamentary Companion" is a more modest, but exceedingly useful little publication. It comes out monthly during the session, at a moderate price, and contains a mass of useful political information. It not only gives the names of the members of the House of Lords, but the date of their creation, and the titles borne by their eldest sons. The representatives in the Lower House are also inserted, with their respective con, stituencies and their town residences. Besides this, contains the polls at the recent election, the members of the Government, the Privy Council, the judges of the various law courts at Westminster, the chief officers of State in Scotland and Ireland, and the British and foreign ambassadors. From this it will be seen that, although small, it is extremely serviceable to those who take an interest in the great governing and judicial bodies of the State. Companion:" Whitt a k er an d C o., A ve " Vacher's Parliamentary Companion :" Vacher and Sons, Parlia, m : rl D lane. Parliamentary ment-etreet. At Cork on Wednesday, in an action for breach 0: promise of !ll:tillage by Miss Studdert, eaughter of the deputy lieutenant, against a gentleman of property named Hewsor, the jury awarded £2,500 damages, It is stated on authority " that the wife of a high'y - placed official at the Treasury has eloped with an Irish marquis. It is stated that the official arrived in Paris in pursuit, had an interview, and has returned alone." A requisition has been forwarded to Mr. Milner Gibson from a portion of the more advanced Liberal party at Scarborough, asking him to allow hims&f to bo put in nomination as a candidate for the seat in Parliament for that borough rendered vacant by the d ea th o f Si r J. V. B. Johnston,Burt., but he has declin e d t o l e p u t i n nomination. land Belgian Govern nl s e; tet t s i haveng sated h e g railway thato dt o re f er e f o trench e acommission.e theeh dispute which has arisen e c ommission. The statement, rt agreed law t F e though coming from a good source, must be accepted with caution. On Wednesday an explosion took place at the Springfield Chemical Worlis, Sedbury, Worcestershire. The accident occurred to a still containing tar. One man was burnt to death, and several others were seriously injured. A considerable amount of damage was done. This (Friday) evening the Attorney -General will move for the copy of the short-hand writers' notes of the judgments delivered by the judges selected in pursuance of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the trial of elec tion petitions. The nomination for Drogheda has been fixed for Monday. No second candidate has, up to the present, ad dressed the electors, and the prevailing opinion appears to be .hat Mr. Thomas 'Whitworth, son of the late member, will be returned without opposition. It is stated by a Bristol paper that Mr. Richard Bright, M.P. for East Somerset, has met with a severe accident. Ills horse fell with Lim during a fast gallop and rolled over him ; and although it is hoped that ho has nus tained no permanent injury, yet it must I. ? p, we understand, some time before he can leave his bed. On Wednesday a butcher was brought before the stipendiary magistrate at Liverpool charged with offer ing or exposing a piece of diseased meat for sale, such meat b,ing unfit for human food. It was proved that the piece of meat in question was part of the carcase of a dropsical animal. The def e nd ant was sent to gao l fora month, with out the option of Payi ng a fine. COBDEN CLUB.—The subject for the Prize Essay of the Cobden Club for the year 1869 is the following : " Free Trade in its Relation to the Colonies and Depend encies of Great Britain." The essays are are to be sent in to the honorary Secretary, Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter , M.P., Reform Club, London, before the Ist of January, 1870, and are not to exceed in length 50 pages of the Quarterly or North American Renews. The committee re serves to itself the privilege of publishing the succesefu essay UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGIL—At a meeting of the curators of the University of Edinburgh, held on Wed nesday, a lettcr was read from Professor Lyon Playfair, M.P., intimating his intention to resign the chair of chemistry at the close of the present session. Those are already a number of candidates for the professorship. AYMA RK ET THEATRE. Mr. George Turpin, box-doorkeeper, whose claims upon the frequenters of this theatre are of themselves considerable, announces his annual benefit for WenneAlay next. The programme includes Mr. Robertson's highly successful comedy of " Home," and the farco of "B ,x and Cox." Other en tertainments are also promised ; and there is very little doubt that Mr. Turpin will have on this occasion, as he has had on many others, a crowded house. THE ;MANUFACTUR E OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS. A most iuterc:•tin,g and instructive little work, describing briefly but with great clearness, t h e r i se and progr ess of watch a n d lo , has just been publi s h e d by Mr J. W. Benson, of 25, c Oldk mraokni Bond-street, 99 Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam Factory, 55 and 69, Ludgate-hill . Th e b o ok, which is profusely c , illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the United Kingdom. India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent to them with perfect safety. Mr.Bensou, who holds the appoint ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address on receipt of two postage stamps, and we ca,unot too strongly recommend 11 to the . noticeof thetenclutser puriiugnd EXTRAORDINARY LIBEL CASE. Some strange proceedings in a libel case, brought by Mr. Charles Reade against the proprietors of the New York Round Table, are reported in the American papers. It appears that on three several occasions the Round Table criticised Mr. Reade's novel "Griffith Gaunt" most severely, declaring it to be "replete with impurity," " essent l ially bad and indecent," and at length affirming that the work was so immoral and obscene that Mr. Charles Read could not have written it. Mr. Reade claims damages to the tune of 25,000 dollars; and that his complaint might be made out, his advocate called Mr. George Vandenhoff to the witness-box, placed a copy of " Griffith Gaunt" in the hands of that famous elocutionist, and desired him to begin at the beginning, and read it all through. No objection was made to the proposal, and the judge and jury adjusted themselves for the entertainment. The performance is thus described :—" The jury looked bored and pleased by turns ; though they often frowned and drowsed, he quite as often brought a smile to their lips. But one old ` gentleman of the jury' looked out of an eye peculiarly hollow at what he evidently considered the hollowness of the whole proceeding, and seemed not half so well pleased as if he had paid for an orchestra chair to the entertainment. When Mr. Vandenhoff said, ` Mr. Leicester favoured her with a knowing wink,' he looked at the jury and the court, and the jury and the court looked sorrowfully back again, but the ` wink' was with with the reader. On he went, but when he read `because you ha'n't got no stomach,' said the boy contemptuously, a laugh went round, which shewed plainly enough that other people had this indispensable machinery, and that it was long after lunch time. Getting disgusted with his work, the reader began to utter the words very rapidly, and the chop-chop• chop of the exercise shewed that Mr. Vandenhoff can read badly if he tries. At twenty-five minutes to two o'clock he had read eight chapters, and rested for a short time, but, after resuming, even the pathetic capitals `I love Kate' made no impression upon the jury, nor could they be roused when he read in a dramatic manner how `their lips met, in spite of all the difficulties, and grew together in a long and tender embrace,' and se at twenty minutes past two, having got through with ten out of the thirty-seven chapters, Mr. Vandenhoff asked that, as it was the longest reading he ever had occasion to make, the rest of his task might be deferred until another day. This was granted. For the defence it was urged that the authorship of the novel must be proved before it could be admitted in evidence. According to one report, the defence `emphatically denied that Charles Reade wrote "Griffith Gaunt ";' another report has it that `as a matter of fact they intended to shew such plagiarism in the book as was injurious to his reputation.' The court reserved the real point for decision : it is that the original com plaint had a double aspect, one treating the plaintiff as having suffered by the libels personally, and the other as an author. The court had put him to his election as to which of the two he would sue on, and he had chosen to sue for the injuries to him professionally. In this view it was essential to prove that he was the author of the book. TERRIBLE N.APIITITA EXPLOSION. Telegrams from Birmingham state that a fearful explosion •`.ecurred on Wednesday afternoon at the naphtha works of e,srs. Demath and Co., Oldbury. It appears that the re tort in which the extracting process was going on exploded, and sot fire to a large nurnter of barrels, all of which were filled with naphtha. The fire thus caused could not be extinguished. All efforts made to put it out proved utterly vain. Two of the men who were employed at ;he works, and whose names were Elletrent and Picke rill, were burnt to cinders, and four other men, named Forrester, Bastible, Rollason, and Tomlinson, were se verely injured. So serious are the it:juries sustained by Forrester that he is reported to be dying. The Birmingham papers give the following additional details of the disaster On examination it was discoverod that ono of the boilers or retorts used in the distilling process, situated at the lower end of the yard, near the canal, had burst, from its contents having, in some way or other, at present inexplicable, become ignited. About three o'clock the charred remains of the man Element were found amongst the delnis. The fire, while awful in its nature, was magnificent to Lehold. Streams of tar, hissing and blazing, were running about the place, and one of the streams found its way to the canal, and set two or three boats on fire The sides of the boats were much damaged. When the fire was got under, the remains of the unfortunate mar Pickerill were discovered near the remnant of the exploded retort. lie was employed to wheel slack from the boats into the works. A young man named Forrester (son of the mana ger) was seriously burned by the tar. Ile jumped into the ;anal, and managed to reach a public-house near to the place, from whence he was shortly afterwards removed to his house. A man named Rollason, a fitter employed at the works, way also severely injured. The bones and other remains of Ele ment were removed in a hamper to the Oldbury po:ice station, and Pickerell's remains were allowed to remain at the works. Drs. Brown, liawa; d, Sainsbury, and Cooper were promp!ly cu the cone of the disaster, and rendered all the aid in their power to the sufferers. Several of the people living rn ar the premises removed their furniture into an ad joining field when the fire was at its highest pitch, as they considered their houses in danger. The cause of this sad oc currence is at present unknown, but there is reason to believe that the boiler or retort which exploded leaked in sonic way and the contents, on being exposed to the heat of the fire ignited. The man Element was married. Late last night the young man Forrester died. The fire was quite extin guished by five o'clock, but the whole place is reduced to a state of complete ruin, and it was estimated that about £2,000 worth of finished material was destroyed. The place was not insured. The Sheffield Town Council on Wednesday adopted e petition to Parliament in favour of a national compulsory system of education. The London correspondent of the Leeds illereur3 states that there is ono circumstance in connection with the return of Mr.Jamcsfor Taunton which deserves to be noticed Ho will, it is rumoured, be a loser to the amount of nearl3 £lO,OOO by his success in the petition against Mr. Sergeant Cox's return. At the time of the general election he Ivag retained in an extraoidinary number of election petitiot cases, and received, in accordance with the practice which has been established in the petition courts, very high briefs. It was in the first instance understood that counsel who were also members of Parliament were not deterred by that fact from appearing in election cases ; but the Attorney-General, to whom an appeal was made upon the subject, has decided against this view, and Mr. James must, therefore, return all his election petition briefs which have not been tried. Madame Rachel's effects, at her house in Mad dox-street, were submitted to general inspection on Thurs day morning, and aro to be sold by public auction in the course of a few days. The drawing-rooms and principal apaitments aro said to "present splendour and magnificence difficult to describe." There is a pair of massive candelabra, formerly belonging to the Emperor of the French, and a magnificent pair of incense burners, formerly tho property of the King of Delhi. Dis persed throughout the house are numerous works of art, and the extensive collection of articles of vertu, many of them being presentations from Madame Rachel's " dis• tinguished patronesses." Admission by catalogues was strictly enforced, and a shilling each was charged for them. Mr. Justice Smith had before him at Exeter on Wed nesdAy a charge of arson. Thomas Martin was the accused and he pleaded guilty to setting fire to a corn stack. Ot acing called on to receive judgment the prisoner said : " All I have to say is this-1 am a man under curse, the worst curse that can happen to a man. I am possessed of the devil, and that is the cause of my committing the crime for which I stand here. I know I should have to do it three years helot . ° it happened. I know Also that I have to commit a murder, and I call ou avery person present to witness, when at a future day I am 3r0u61,t up for murder, that I gave all the warning that I could. I have only done this now to put off committing murder for a while." He was sentenced to penal servitnde for seven years. WORKHOUSE MASTERS.—The workhouse mas ters in Kent have just had a gathering to form an asso ciation of their members. The meeting was held at Nlaidstone, and was numerously attended, a deputation being also present from London. Mr. William Lance, of Cranbrook, having been voted to the chair, the deputa tion explained the object of the Workhouse Masters' Asso ciation of London—namely, the discussion of poor-law legislation and other matters affecting poor-law officers, for the protection and mutual aid of its members by the appointment of a solicitor to the association, and to obtain more uniformity of discipline and arrangements in work houses, now so diversified. In the course of the discussion that ensued it was stated that the deputation had an inter view with the Poor•law inspectors of the metropolitan dis trict, and that they strongly approved the association; that they would be pleased to receive any suggestions from the masters' association; that it would have been beneficial to workhouse management had it been established sooner; and that if at any time the association expressed a wish for an inspector to attend any of their meetings for discussion, one of them would do so. The formation of a benevolent funl, the simplification of the book-keeping, and the improvement of the system of superannuation were also mentioned as objects of the association. With respect to poor-law legislation, it was considered that the interest of the ratepayers ought not to be entirely lost sight of, a large proportion of whom when sick could not afford to have the comforts provided for inmates of workhouses. All the masters present signified their intention of joining the association, and it was decided to hold a meeting at (an. terbury in the first week in June, JUDGE PAYNE AGAIN. Yesterday a youth, named Price, was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing a gold chain worth .£3, the property of Emma Cook, from her person, and he was further charged with attempting to steal a gold chain, the property of Lydia Bunker, from her person. The jury found a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Payne : Not guilty, gentlemen ! Well, after that verdict there will be no protection for the public. If you believe the prosecutrix, why, the prisoner is guilty. She swears posi tively to hind,, and swears she had seen him before. The Foreman : We were not satisfied with the identity, my lord. Mr. Payne : Then the verdict must be recorded, and the police will still go on watching for those persons who commit these street robberies. Let the pro secutrix stand up again. Mrs. Emma Cook again swore positively to the prisoner. A Juryman : Ladies always are, my lord. (Laughter.) Mr. Payne . (to the prosecu trix) : I must say you have endeavoured to do your duty to the public ; and I order you to receive a reward of 30s. THREATENING A MASTER BUILDER. The 'Western Daily Press of Bristol says a threatening letter was a f•-w days ago forwarded by post to Mr. W. Banner, builder, of Cathay, The envelope bears the Red cliff postmark, and the letter was evidently written by a man whose education is not of the highest order. The following is an exact copy of the letter :—" Bristol, Feb. 2.5, 1869. Mr. Banner Sir lam given to understand that your men is making over time that I Consider Shameful and so maney out of employ You as a Christian man ought to know and feel for a Felow work man Mr. Danner Dont he surprised if you Should find yer place Lighted one of those nights I hope god will do by you as you are doing keeping the Bread out of mens month you have known and have been out of a job do by another as you Should like to be done unto that is not lit yur men make over time put on more men.—humanity." At a meeting of eight :masters and eight operative carpenters, which was held SOIL e few days since in connection with the formation of the. proposed Court of Arbitration, the letter above cino . :ed Ix as read to the delegates representing the various lodges of carpenters and joiners in Bristol, all of whom express !d their disap probation and disgust at such a letter havi cg, been sent to Mr. Banner, and promised to bring the matter before the various lodges. On Wcdnesday, after a long discussion, lhe Bolton Town Council decided by 17 to 14, to allow ref red hments to be sold on Sundays, except from 10.30 to 12.30 a..m. in the pavilion in the park. Last year tie Mayor game tb 3 casting vote against this course, and the result has been that the pavilion has hitherto been unoccupied. THE HAUNTS OF CI?IME IN LONDOY. " N. A. W.," whose recent contributions to the raratS on the thieves haunts' in the metropolis we have already noticed, gives a second contribution oh the subject to the leading journal. It is very long and very interesting, dealing with "leaving shops," the beershops of ticket-of leave men, cheap lodging-houses, and private houses dwelt in by thieves. The "leaving shops" "N. A. W." especially denounces. Any errand boy or servant girl may go to one of these places and sell any stolen goods ; and when they are sold, they are lost for ever. He had the greatest difficulty in getting into one. Several were visited without success ; but perseverance had its reward at last. He and his friends watching one of the bosses, at last saw a woman enter, give 2d., and getback from the " missus "of the place a parcel. Even then the " missus " would not admit that she was carrying on any business. At last, however, a child came in to redeem her father's jacket. "The old woman could make no further denials now, and, as our detective friend insisted, she, with great trepidation, at last let us go over the house. It would be impossible to describe what we saw in the interior. The upper rooms were quite filled with rows of wooden racks, on which were stacked articles of wear ing apparel of every kind, and ' left' for sums of every denomination from three-halfpence up to fifteen shillings. About two-thirds had evidently been worn before, but the remaining third were entirely new, such as new shoes and boots, new sailors' clothes, new com forters, crinolines, and pieces of calico prints, such as in that poor neighbourhood competing tradesmen hang out side their shops with which to tempt customers, and which certainly succeed in tempting the young thieves who filch them away and take them at once to the leaving-shops.' As I have said, at least one-third of the house we examined was openly and almost confessedly filled with stolen goods. How much of what remained was stolen I, of course, cannot say, but my Sergeant assured me that very few were, as far as his experienced eye could judge, honestly come by. He further added that if he had power to get a cart and take away the suspected property, he would undertake, on risk of losing his place, to find all the rightful owners within a week. Bat he had no power, and if we, he said, came with a search-warrant the day after our visit, we should not find a single question able article on the premises, from top to bottom. The rapidity with which the office, i. e. the alarm, is given from 'leaving-shop' to leaving-shop' when the police are suspected to be coming down was, even to his experience, astonishing. On our descent to the shop, after rummaging the house, we found, as we expected, that ' the missus' had gone out. Her deputy was a cheerful, healthy-looking young woman, whom we saw in that nondescript place of business, some times called the 'Thieves' Exchange,' sometimes Rag Fair,' where she sat in front of a great pile of leavings.' After this on this night all other attempts to enter 'leaving -shops' were useless, and it was evident from what we heard that our first acquaintance, whose house we had been over, had been round and warned them all." N.A.W." goes on to describe the beershop frequented by ticket-of-leave me n , which was much like the other, already described. When they entered the landlady ex pressed a hope that the sergeant had brought an English man this time ; alluding to an article on the notorious house published in the Scotsman. The lodging-houses were next visited. These the writer divides into three clsases first, there are those where the occupants pay fourpence night, where none but respectable artisans are admitted, and where a thief or a bad woman would have as much chance of being received as at the Clarendon or Alivart's. These are literally the In Is of honest working men, and the correspondent calls attention to the rules of one of these places in proof of what he asserts. " Only a few yards further from it we came upon one which is a notorious resort for the most notorious thieves of the East-end. The price of a night's lodging here is only a penny less than that for which really comfortable beds can be got a few hundred yards or so further on. But the class is quite different — as distinct as black and white—and before descending into the cellar, in which the occupants cook and live, our Detective assures us that we shall meet nothing but con victed thieves or their constant associates and companions." Describing this cellar, he says : " They were of the sort of begging thieves, male and female, about as numerous a class of depredators as any that exist in London. There was no trace of the water pirate, the swell mobsman, the card sharper, or the burglar here. They were all what I may call well-dressed mendicants—that is to say, well dressed mendicants for the parts they had to play. Osten sibly they gained their livings by begging. In reality they were, as the occasion offered, either prostitutes or thieves. They were all assembled in a low cavernous- , looking cellar under ground, seated round a huge fire cooking their food, talking and laughing. There were flower girls, cigar-light girls, street tumblers, professidiiat blind men, roughs of the lowest description, and ragged girls—children, I should have said, who lived infamous lives among the bargemen cn the river side. One thing that struck me more than anything else was the utter absence of concealment among either the men or women as to who or what they were. Of course neither men nor women confessed to robberies or petty thefts, but virtually the men made very little secret ; nor even the little girls, almost children, shrunk from saying, in Shakespeare's words, how stinkingly dependent were their lives.' Igo upstairs to the dormitory, which is i foul and ve r y ill smelling, not because the ventilation s in itself defective —the police who have charge of these lodging-houses look to that—but because the vagrants and thieves who use these houses choke up the ventilators with their clothes before they go to bed. There are an ill-looking set o. roughs of the worst and most forbidding kind in the room Some in bed smoking, some going to bed, some lounging about in little groups of two or three, talking together almost silently, if I may use such an expression, but very earnestly." "N. A. W : " tried to get a confession out of one of the men in this place, but found it impossible ; the man, it would appearfrom the conversation recorded, not answering some questions, and telling lies to others. He said very plainly, however, that be had no work, and did not want to get any. The third class of lodging-house is that to which profes tional beggars and occasional thieves resort. A visit to these places convinced the writer of these letters of the evil of giving money to beggars in the streets. He gives an instance or two. In the cellar of one of the houses "we found a young, .melancholy-looking girl, carrying a fine child of about ten months old, which was what is called `dead asleep' in her arms. We asked her some questions, and she told us a piteous tale of how she sold matches, how she owed money for her lodging, and how she did not know where to get a breakfast next day. In the temporary absence of our invaluable guide, the sergeant of detectives, we each gave her some small donations towards paying her lodgings. On our Sergeant's return he at once told us that we were little better than fools to part with our money to one among the worst of the street beggars in London. We of course were for a short time incredulous, and thought we had done a charit able act, till, on the very next night of our explorations, we saw the same girl sitting by the fire, in one of the most dangerous and most notorious of all the thieves' haunts in London, in a low lodging-house on the south side of the water, frequented only by convicted thieves. She was then without the child, and to our utter amazement, when we spoke to her, she actually, with the utmost coolness, brazened out to our faces that she had never seen us before, and had never carried a child in her life. A South London Detective, however, soon explained the matter, and told us that he had known her for some years past as borrowing children by the day—at the rate of id. or sd.—and with them going begging, and earning a a very good living. She was, in plain terms, a beggar with borrowed children by day, and during the night the temporary consort of the lowest thieves." In another case the correspondent goes on to say:— "We met with an old man with a long red beard, very like Garibaldi—so like, indeed, that but for his strong Irish accent one might really have mistaken him for the great Italian patriot. Ile told us a piteous tale about his hunger and his wanderings in search of food. Of course, again, we were weak enough to give him something. Five minutes after this most foolish act we turned into another thieves' lodging-house, and found our Garibaldian prototype quietly seated by the fire, with his pot of tea on the hob, his bread and butter ready, and his rasher of bacon going to he cooked. This was the starving beggar's supper, for the landlord told me he had dined there as late as five o'cloock that afternoon. In the long explorations which our party made we came across many terrible scenes of real misery and poverty, but then in no one single case did we ever see any that be. longed, or even appeared to belong, to the professional class of mendicants that beg in the streets." THE APPROACHING VISIT OF LORD STANLEY TO GLASGOW.—Lord Stanley will arrive in Glasgow ou Wednesday, the 31st instant, and during his visit lie will be the guest, we understand, at Pollolc House, of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. On the forenoon of Thursday, the Ist April, his lordship Nvill he installed as Lord Rector in the Common Hall of the university, and thereafter, in the City Hail, he Ns . ill deliver his inaugural address. In the evening the Lord Rector will be entertained at a dinner by the college authorities in the old Fore Hall of the University, when the Very Rev. Principal Barclay will preside. It is also proposed, we learn, by a number of influential citizens, to invite Lord Stanley to a public banquet ; and in order that it may be attended by gentlemen of all shades of poli tics, it is intended that the demonstration shall not be political, but an occasion of testifying respect for his lord attainments and s lsigh personal character.—Worgow QOM . _ , , Cllll - rt n r . /pier t.er HER MAJESTY. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, March 11. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove to Argyll Lodge t his afternoon, and paid a visit to the Duchess of Ar' gYII. Princess Beatrice went to the British Museum• LATEST INTELL MENG% (ItEr"Elt'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March 11. Mr. Washburne, Secretary of State, and General Schofield, Secretary of 'War, have resigned office. Ex-Governor Hamilton Fisk, of New York, ba s been appointed to succeed Mr. Washburne, an d General Rawlins to succeed General Schofield. Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, M e mber ° I Congress, has been nominated Secretary of th e Treasury, in the room of Mr. Stewart. Mr. Washburne has been appointed by the Presi dent as Minister to France, in the room of Genera' Dix. All these nominations have been confirmed by the Senate. NEW YORK, March 11• The extra Cunard steamship Tripoli arrived at Boston on Wednesday, and the Cunard 80151 Mail steamship Russia arrived at New York at 2 p.m. to day. The Hamburg and American Company's steame r Cimbria arrived out at 3 p.m. to-day. Gold closed at 131 f. The highest quotation dur ing the day was 131 i, the lowest 1311. Sterling Exchange on London, 1081 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1191 ; ditto, 1885, 117 ; ditto, 18 65 ' 113 ; 10-40 United States Bonds, 105 f ; 1401; Erie, 37g. Cotton--Middling upland, 28P Petroleum —Standard White, 33. Flour—Ex tra State, $6 45c. to $7 50. Corn—Old mixed, sl2e. THE MAURITIUS. MAURITIUS, Feb. 18. The number of cases o f f ever i s increas i ng , but t has not assumed a virulent type. Plentiful rains have fallen. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 11.—Three o'clock.—The mar ket closed as follows : 11 per Cent. 101 75 Bank Sh ares End of month... ItAl'an Fives 54 65 .1 per Cent - ...... End of mo n th 7l Mexican Loan ... --- Crcdit, Mobili er End of mouth 285 Sp an i s h Threes ... 34 Credit Foncier 1482 50 Home Debt End of month... Deferred ...... RAILwAYs. • Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6 l Bi Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4781 ~• North of Spain Saragossa Roman ..... .... -- 711 E ATTACK ON KOILIT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In answer to inquiries made at Bomb a l; respecting the British loss in the attack 1 1 1 )° ,i Kohat, I have received a telegram from n i , correspondent, stating that he telegraphed 13r n a tish loss th ree kill e d an d th i rty woun d e d, not British loss 300, as stated in the telegram r ", ceived by me. It will thus be seen that the erro r ; in the fi gures were made in the t ransm i ss ion °f the massage from Indi a t o L on d on.—l am, s ir, r" obedient servant, JuLtus REUT En. lieuter's Telegram Company (Limited), 5, Lothbury, London, E.C., March 11. A PECK OF 1187. Some few months ago Dr. Letheby made kn °" a the results of various analyses of London mu d ' told us that it contained 57 per cent. o f horse fuse, 30 per cent. of abraded stone, and 13 per ce" eo, of abraded iron—from horses' hoofs and whe el tir of This delectable compoun d , r i s i ng i n the fc lai mer s dust in dry weat h er, i s i nhaled b y passe n bo o through the str ee t s o f th e metropo li s . A 131:e ort re' chemist, at ab ou t th e same t i me, made simil ar - s lations concerning the d e t r it us of his city we have the results of a microscopical 0- a ir nation of the solid particles that float in the t a of Manchester. Mr. Dancer has been these from ;various localities and at d iff ai er to heights from the ground, and subjecting t he— rio os close scrutiny. As might be expected , /s e ill places and altitudes gives atoms di ffe t. ri , l3 , c iocil magnitude, appearance, and quantity per e tiu.- t are of atmosphere. Strangely enough the larg es t t he found at about 5 feet from the ground , P l3 h . e di height of pedestrians' mouths: and the matte r ' hcp-Ifoo vegetable, is that which has passed through ra machs of animals, or which has suffered partialcl7ol.. position in some way or other. Sometimes This Yell culm are present in good proportion. T... g dw ell disagreeable ; it is to be feared that they NO° ~rei n dusty towns eat considerably more than the bey ot scribed peck of dirt before they die. Wiletherved; are the worse for the excess remains to be pro if they think th a t th ey are, l et t h em g o in " B P jo. tors, and sift their oxygen.—Once a Week. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This -P4l. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. vAisrel NIGGERS IN TROUBLE.—Charles Lucas and Davey niger charged before Knox, , the two former g with singers, begging were and the latter Nirit il be 113% drunk and co disordeily. ifats Police-nstable Daniel Palmer, 54 C, said that be on duty last night i n th e H aymar k e t, when he s aw : 11 ,,j e c ask a gentl eman f or money, an d h e t oo k him into ell s y B . " The magistrate di sc har ge d L uc as and fined Davey -- pimIico IVESTMINSTER. bore' -place, MISSIONARY.--Mr. Holden, of 8 ' 13 .f °5° : Selfe, with assaulting Mr. James Harris on , ssistanf°t::;-. tart' at the Free PubliwcaLsibchraarryg,GdroenataSviirtrha-usttrbe:t, Wes:: minster. '° Prosecutor stated that prisoner signed the bo ok 1 orethaclerinogir-r e o n o c i e n s, as a Christian Missionary, and having halla complained of several times for audible conversation I'l'o again, and when he put his hand on him to rernove - .1 0 was put out. Presecutor found hill' there struck him in the face. This was on January 28, 11° " summons was taken out, to which he failed to aPP°III,%OO Mr. Selfe rem an ded hi m to ascertain whet her be r sane or not. THAMES. WO Edward Solomon, a German Jew, age d 22 year-',,,1d brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing loovoi watch and a; vulcanite chlin, th 3 prop3rty of gr. of No. 19, Mansell-street, AlThitechapel. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. MARKE7 S-7 IBS DAY• LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET - . tlf I.arch 12.—Sales probably 167,,7 b•des. Market si •-, firmer. Sales of the week, 50 speculation, 912° export, 10,500; import, 36,125; stock,' 233,T,00 ; 3 , c r s 3 . export, 6,500; Mid. uplind, 12 • Orleans, 5-1 b i t ':;. Mobile, 121; Egyptain, 10 ; Fair ' (11 , 11 • Pdr na3l ' - 11 : Bahia, 11i; Meceio, 12; Maranli ; 1 41 ; 'Smyrna, IThollerah, 101; Oumra, Madras, 91 ; Bengal, ; Rio, ' l2. 101 .‘ 1311.0nel'eab."610 • elude, MARK LANE. ad' At Matk-lane this morning there was a poor atte w ance, but the general tone of the trade as not I than last Wednesday. Wheat sold slowly off th ° sttilt d tkout any further reduction. Flour was uticdh'lmoarg°i,; ‘ In oats there was a trifle more doing. M aize and wore dull. were .5 cipate the to 'tent but di count, New ' £1,00( land Ind ditto Cent., 1873, AC Prenc In t of ne to 31; tionall per boi 5 Greek 77 77/ The at i 1 In Great Sheffie IVeste Weste Calecb Great 8i; di 123 Q -1 Sheltie tish, Easter ham a the FII 8 3 831 the 1 73g. Illinois Atla Eight Ameri( The Bank The brougL The March 5..15,7';! 6th, 4 Tuesda £8,989 The traffic compar year ; 1 increase The flounce' the Atl 15th i❑ The Associa eharehc reduce( arrears Accord dators assets t Of June further of Jun( The I Eastern Lisbon. this affi reliance lu Ortu id g e P t length r "The I Eastern ing to t A pet Coffee Vice-Cl The E Glasgov Co., of coed £1 The Bank of be held The ( Delhi at the 25t1 Bali; 4 for 200, tender E Col onies, rupee, a rate. The tern Rai 44 incre Precedin Subjoi Of th e and Fret 14E4 Year tinllion Reserve Notes it 'tate of Consols drench uo v , a Per c„, ditto fo: Nepr cow 3 ' Pe 1) , Ir O. A P 41111ities, UO. for Zoi3O i 3 llO • 0 -..„ o f n atiad . a " c -a 4 4ter-Colo I • iN bIl 411 a o„ o p el D°•s pu 0 „ 4 pe Do. Cent bo • . Lof t D°. 0. 61 Pe 1) - P 0 pc Do Do, Cor Unit DI Bus