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It must have been an enviable moment in the life of Lord SHAFTESBURY, well earned by years of un wearying labour and self-devotion, when on Saturday last he inaugurated the Bradford Memorial to his fellow-labourer, RICHARD OASTLER, and received the hearty and heart-felt acknowledgments of grateful thousands of that factory population with whom his own came 11 ill be for ever associated. It is not given to every labourer in a good cause to wit ness tire triumphant issue of his ambition. That a cause, being good, must ultimately prosper is a matter of f tab which upholds the supporters of many an apparently foriorn hope ; but the cause may prosper when its advocates have passed away. Hap pily. it has not been so in this instance ; and we are confident that one unanimous sentiment of congratu latory sympathy will be felt by all who read the ac count of the proceedings at Bradford on Saturday, the loth of May, 1869, commemorative of the triumph of that Ten Hours' Bill, which some five and twenty years before had been peremptorily rejected by a large majority of the House, obedient to the autocratic dictates of the Minister. That defeat in no wise abated the confi dence of the Operatives' Friends, and a few years afterwards the short-time measure became law. It has now been in operation for more than 20 years, and experience bas more than justified the expectations of its supporters, as the improved physical condition of the factory operatives can testify. Representatives from all the factory districts of Yorkshire and Lan cashire crowded the streets of Bradford on Saturday. A procession of 30,000 persons marched to Peel Park, where the statue of RICHARD OASTLER was uncovered by Lord SHAFTESBURY amid earnest and heart-felt acclamations. In his speech at the Public Meeting held in the evening, at Sc. George's Hall, the noble lord paid a fitting tribute to the memory of RICHARD OASTLER :—" They could remember that man, and his rough, his masterly, and his racy elo quence, and knew how he brought it to bear upon the woes, the wants, and the miseries of the human race, and with what self-denial, with what total disregard of his own interest, and animated cnly by principles of humanity, and thinking he was performing the work assigned to him by his LORD and MASTER, he man fully achieved the work." Lord SHAFTESBURY also took occasion to pass in review " the names of the excel lent and distinguished men who bore the brunt and heat of the day, who were the first to commence that great operation, and without whom, he did not hesi tate to say, it wou'd have been impossible for him not only to achieve what bad been achieved, but even to sustain the conflict against the mighty mass of opposition that was b raised against them." On concluding the very able address, in which he exhorted his hearers to be true and worthy sup porters of the cause which they bad gained' the noble lord, amid cries of " GOD bless you" and " Long may you live," said that " that might be, and probably was, the last time he should ever be able to address thein from a platform such as that. Time was creeping ou, and years were accumulating, on his head, and if his life were spared his powers might have fallen into decay. His ambition was very simple ; he had already in his ancestral mansion a magnificent bust, the gift from the operatives of the counties of Lancaster and York to his wife, as a memorial of their esteem and approbation. This was his desire he prayed, and be should labour, .that he - might be able by GoD's blessing to retain so long as he lived the affection and gratitude which they had shown him. lie trusted that he should be able to retain that, awl that his name might be associated not only in history with the gratitude of the operatics for the small work he had been able to achieve, but also that it might be associated with the honour and hlppiness of the industrial classes of the British empire"— a prayer and a desire that must inevitably be realised. For ourselves, as basing at the time: been foremost among the few to sympathise with and support Lord AsareEv in his ddys of anxiety and exertion, we can now the more readily and the more heartily unite with the rejoicing multitude to congratulate Lord SHAFTESBURY in this his hour of triumph. THERE are signs that before long the question of the taxation of charitable funds will become pro minent. It is six years since Mr. GLADSTONE pro posed, as a part of his financial scheme for the year, to extend the income tax to those funds. One of the ablest speeches which he ever made was spoken in defence of that proposal. But so great was the pressure brought to bear upon him, so influential as well as numerous was the deputation which waited upon him at the Treasury, that he abandoned the proposal with reluctance. Mr. LOWE has said that he would be willing to tax the. charities if the House would give him the necessary power. There is reason to think that if he were to ask for the power he would no longer find the same reluc tance to grant it which Mr. GLADSTONE experienced. This alteration in the tone of public sentiment is due in no small measure to the exposures which have been made of the mode in which charitable funds are administered. There is no doubt that a large num ber of them are shamefully abused, and diverted from their original purpose. But this is not the sole, nor the chief, accusation against them. Far more important is the objection that the funds, even when rightly applied, are most mischievous. An instance has been lately mentioned in which £3O a year was spent in education, and £BOO a year was given away in doles, the yearly distribution. being accompanied by the debauchery and demoralisation of the greater part of the village. It is clear that in such a case the people would be benefited by the absolute suppression of the dole, or its appro- 1 priation to the relief of the national debt. Certainly there was no good claim for immunity from taxation. In fact it was a downright injustice that the indus trious, hard working man who got no portion of this dole should be taxed, while those who spent •it in rioting and wantonness should go untaxed. Un happily such cases are not exceptional. Mr. GLADSTONE mentioned many nearly as bad. Of course there . are some charities well administered and doing a vast amount of good, such as the hospitals and infirmaries in all parts of the country. Yet, even taking these into consideration, we can see no good reason why charities should not be taxed. When a man bequeaths a legacy to a charitable institution he is withdrawing from the total of tax able property. He hands over to the poor—to that portion of the community which already pays no income tax —say, £20,000, and thereby imposes upon the hard-working ,clerk, who has a salary of £l5O, the duty of paying so much more income tax. Doubtless the additional burden is not felt directly, and being borne by so large a number of persons is not felt sensibly. But it is not the less real, and not the less does the multiplication of such bequests involve a diminution of the tax paying fund, and a heavier charge upon the residue. Thus the persons who benefit - bythe charity not only enjoy the amount actually given to them, bu im fpionsled a f e whichrom po n the the e r s e t e o e f i v t e h l e v ecroeml tiable t y o . t a I x f a t t i o h n e they v ea would eh still t e bn t n ac not at the e this eos is t of any one so obvious that such funds are already taxed to a certain amount. The bequests to charitable institutions are liable to legacy duty ;it is only the yearly income 'arising out of those bequests which are not liable to income tax, The principle of taxa , ; - ion is already . sclititied - ;-,ll:te sole question at ibgle - - Commence at Seven. 111HEATR - E ROYAL, ADELPHI. A- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. ' THIS F.VENINC4. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mis. Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART. Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Delmore, Stuart, R. Philips, Ashley, Romer; Mrs Alfred Miss Nelly Harris, &c. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A. GIIA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair LA. fo its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. 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Tun EvENTNG at 7.30, IN FOR A ID )LID Y. Followed by A ROVING COM UISSION. And TILE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conelutle w ith CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. tinder the Management of Miss Marie Wilton This EVEN I NO, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hate, IL J. Montague, Addivon, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss 0. Addison, and Miss arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING lIA2.Art;!. And A LAME EX,..17`.1.111 T. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE 110 YAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S miNSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertaltnaunt. InunenSe SlleCeNS of IiLLIE. The Only Leon! CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and :_ , aturda,ys, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL. AL IiAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-oflicf open from 11 to 4. I • .• Bagemf?.:Talt. .oFEN daily fe z - Adraiteiot, le.; 04 Wndityp, chgd ze u aver twelye. • • THL LONDON, is one of degree, is, how far they shall be taxed ? We trust that before long a Chancellor of the Exchequer will be found bold enough to renew the attempt to perform that which is only an act of bare justice— the depriving the minority of a privilege which they enjoy at the expense of the majority. TEE Peace Society has just celebrated its fifty third anniversary by lamenting the enormous size of the standing armies of Europe, and by deprecating with anxious earnestness a war between two nations of the same race. The Peace Society was estab lished in the year after Waterloo, and this is the state of things after entering the second half-cen tury of existence. The result is certainly not encouraging, and the only satisfactory feature is that two members of this association have succeeded in obtaining admission into Par liament. And yet there has been some progress since Waterloo. That enormous butcher's bill has not been forgotten, and there is at least a keen appreciation of the horrors of war which must have frequently helped to prevent war. In fact, the very embroilment against which the speakers so vehe mently protested is all but impossible by reason of the strong repugnance that there is on both sides of the Atlantic to this kind of appeal. It can hardly be doubted but that fifty years ago such a controversy as that in which the United States and ourselves are now engaged would have led to hostilities. That it has not done so now—that nations generally are more reluctant to fight than they were formerly, is, we believe, due chiefly to two causes. The most powerful is the increase of commerce. The repeal of the corn laws was the severest blow ever dealt against the warlike spirit. The relations between Great Britain and America became thereby immensely strengthened and in creased. The loss that would arise to both sides through a rupture is so enormous that both sides hesi tate to incur it. Similarly it is to the French Commer cial Treaty, not to our fortifications, that we owe that peace between England and France which has been continued in spite of panics and misrepresentations, and which seems impossible to be broken. The second cause of the greater rarity of wars is the increase of democracy, It was said many years ago that war was a game which, if their subjects were wise, kings would not be suffered to play at. But the subjects at that time had no power to prevent. They were without political privileges ; they could do nothing. All is changed. The people are now vir tually self-governed ; it is they who decide if there shall be peace or war ; and as it is they who have to bear all the burden of the latter alternative, their voices are generally for the former. Of old, "the kings played the madman, " and the people were punished." The people now keep their kings under restraint if necessary. And thus it comes to pass that just as in proportion as a country becomes democratic does it become peaceful. The Working Men's International Congress at Geneva, was so democratic that NAPOLEON was alarmed by it. . Europe, at all events, had no reason to be alarmed, for while NAPOLEON was forcing his Conscription Bill through the French Legislature, the Congress were raising the cry of " War against War." T here is no reason, then, why the Peace Society should be cast down. They may not have much influence as teachers, but, at least, the education of the race is going on. It may be of small use to tell the nations that war is horrible and sinful, but, at least, the nations are determined that they will not lightly have war. Let us then promote commerce, increase political freedom among all people, and they will at last, even though the Peace Society should be dissolved, come to see that war is not only shocking, but illogical; that, in fact, it proves nothing. Ift L ,01). HER MAJESTY. BAL4ORAL, May 18. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High nerses Princess Louise, went out yesterday morn- ing. Her nijesty drove out in the afternoon, The Prince and Princess of Wales went to the Flower Show at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent's-park, yesterday. LATEST INTELL iGEN OE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 19. COM3IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1431 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1441 ; the lowest, 141 i. Sterling Exchange on London io n . 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1 291 it 6, 1885 .. 16 46 1867.......... l2O. 10-40 66 Illinois Erie ..................... ......................... 291. Cotton —Mid. upland 2Blc. Petroleum—Standard White 3lic. Flour, extra state, $5.95e. to $6.55c. Corn, old mixed, 89c. A riot between the police and the people oc curred at New Orleans to-day. Several persons were more or less severely wounded, The troop 3 restored order. AUSTRIA, VIENNA, May 20. The Official Vienna Gazette of to-day announces that the Emperor has given hia 84notioa to the Public Schools Bill, FRANCE. BoURSE, May 19. —Th ree o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... Italian Fives 57 65 3 per Cent End of month 72 20 Mexican Loan 25 25 Credit. Mobilier End of month... 268 Spanish Threes 3O Credit Fonder ...1617 50 Home. Debt — End of month... Deferred — - RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans Northern M ..,... ... 1070 ... Lyons and Mediterr anean Southern-- 613 Western Eastern •• Sardinian Austrian 73li Lombard 467* North of Spain bB Saragossa Roman 62 The 3d Royal Surrey Militia,.froni Kingston-on- Thames, will proceed to Aldcrshott Camp to-mor row for the usual period of training. LAD YERTISEMENT.I—Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome,.lnly 21, 1366. - The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirel to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Food, of which h e consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmore than 63.000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant 'sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.77 1 : Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and parilal deafness. Im portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is lid; I lb 2s 9d; 2lhs 4s 6d; 5 lbs lls; 12 lbs 225: 24 ibs 40s. - Alsa Du. BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at xs, for • cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, fur 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of earriAge-in England •on receipt of Post-Office Order,— BAlr7 DtrAiliy and Co.; Ito. 77, Epgent-strect, London; an 4 ilketroWo $44 lamb% - • - TH URSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1869. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, May 19. The election riots have not, it appears, beet confined to Paris. Disturbances have taken place at several places in the departments, though it does not appear that any of them have been of great moment, or that they have assumed the proportions 3f the Paris riots. As might have been expected, Nimes is one of the offending places. On Sunday evening, on the termination of a public meeting, some two or three hundred individuals promenaded the town, singing the obnoxious " Marseillaise." They betook themselves to the place of the Prefecture, but they did not remain there more than a few minutes. The Patrie states that the authorities did not at first intervene. But about mid- night, reinforced by libations, the mob returned, and then the guard was called out. No collision, however, took place, Ind the mob shortly after dispersed, promisingafresh thani. festation next day. This promise was not fulfilled, at least the last account avers that" tranquillity had been restored." Disturbances have also taken place in the Aude depart. ment, and at Bourges, and a sanguinary conflict is reported from the Aude; but we are as yet without details of these occurrences. As I have before said, the capital returned none Lut Opposition deputies at the late election, and therefore the Left can gain only in the sense of electing more extreme antagonists to Imperial rule. The great question of what the departments will do must be left to the decision of next Sunday and Monday. I hear conflicting retorts as to the doings and prospects of the several par ties. One account, which comes from a. very good source, is particularly remarkable. The designation of " official candidate "—the proud title which was so sure a pass to the Corps L6gislatif in IS63—is now, I am told, rejected everywhere. M. Calley Saint-Paul came for ward, it was both expected and represented, as a Govern- menu candidate. But he has been found too Liberal, and the Prefect has put up M. Bardinet against him. The latter is receiving the most strenuous Imperial support. In the Haute-Vienne M. No,lathier offered himself, and was received with open arms by the Administration. The authorities were so enthusiastic about this candidate that they induced M. Marc de Lagu6rronnare to withdraw in his favour. But how ungratefully the perfidious Noualhier has repaid this affectionate zeal! He has repu diated the patronage of the Administration. Being called upon to explain why he voted against the Press Law in 1867, he replied that it was not liberal enough ! The Opposition cannot do better than vote for Government candidates of this stamp. In other departments the Independents are prospering. In the Basses-Pyren6es M. Gustave Fould, a strong Independent, is making headway against M. Lavielle, the deputy who represented this circumscrip tion in the defunct Chamber. Still too much reliance ought not to be placed on these reports. As Captain Bunsby would say, the meaning of them "lies in the application." Too much significance may readily be attached to a few isolated facts. The pigheaded country voters may, in spite of all the efforts to enlighten them, send a rigidly Imperialist majority to the Corps L6gislatif ; or, without imitating the "sanguinary radicalism" of Paris, they may elect a powerful force of :Moderate Indepen dents, whose hostility to personal government could hardly fail to be productive of the greatest results. Above one hundred unfortunate prisoners have good cause to remember the Paris riots of last Wednesday and Thursday. The total number of arrests was 149, of whom only 17 have been set at liberty. Of the 132 culprits yet in custody, 23 have previously made their appearance in a court of justice, and 62 are under 20 years of age ; 93 exercise mechanical occupations. The remainder are clerks, students, &c. The period of public meetings has terminated, but the Opposition is not the less active. The oratorical cam paign is at an end; but the journalists are having their turn, and they are making the most of it. They are as iiligent in tilling- their colums as the public is in reading them. The sale of newspapers is immense 6 Although the evening journals print an additional num ber, copies are scarcely to be procured in certain quarters, end are snatched up from the kiosks the moment they appear. Nearly every man you meet is reading a news paper, and the omnibuses are transferred into reading rooms of two storeys. Besides the journals, the war is sustained by means of an unlimited supply of placards. Your dead walls, and walls which could not be accounted • g d e ad," were pretty well ornamented in London and other olaces last year ; but the placarding here far outdoes you. great ingenuity of device is shewn. Provision is made for ell tastes, both literary and political: And it is appre ';iated. All the walls containing these placards, addresses; invocations, and professions of faith, are surrounded by ?alter crowds of readers. There can be no doubt of the interest taken in this election ; equally little doubt that 't causes more excitement than any previous contest of the Many of the leading statesmen of Europe—Napoleon [II., Lord Derby, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and King Tohn of Saxony—have become citizens of the Republic of Letters. Count Bismarck thinks it time to enrol himself. He is about to publish a German verse 'translation of the lEneid," Books I. to VI. This is not a new work by any means. It is a pt'elte de jeuncese, and was written twenty six years ago. HISSIONAAY DIFFICULTIES IN CIII.N.A. It is satisfactory to learn, from the correspondence just 'aid before Parliament, that the state of affairs in China is pacific and encouraging. We may congratulate our ' elves on having escaped aseriousdifficultyby the prudence nd decision of Sir Rutherford Alcock who acting on the vrinciples now adopted by our authorities, refused to countenance any reckless employment of force. Sir R. Alcock, in opening the correspondence with Lord Stanley 'expecting the affairs at Hankow, expresses some uncasi ess as to the consequences of these frequent outbr4alts, snd doubts whether the missionaries are justified in provoking the dangers resulting from their attempts to establish missions in the interior ; away from the treaty ports. It becomes (says Sir B. Alcock) matter for serious consideration how far the Government will be disposed to protect the missionaries should they persevere in their present nurse. The affair at Hankow may be briefly told. The port itself is situated about 600 miles up the Yang-tze, and is one of our consular ations. The missionaries extended their labours beyond he treaty limits to Wuchang, where the people became irritated against them, and made angry demonstrations. The missionaries appealed to the Hankow Consul, Mr. Caine, who forthwith invoked the aid of a war vessel from Nanking. As this request was not at once responded to, Mr. Caine wrote in some indignation to Sir Rutherford Alcock, urging that " a vessel of war of some sort " should be always kept on the station. Sir Rutherford . eery sensibly answ ere d that it was neither n ecessary nor possible to st a ti on a gu nboat at every port, anl business that if the consu l s cou ld not conduct the advantage aid,vathnetairgeeoinnsublaaNt,einsawaithtoruetatythoefiramity ailh there c w om as m l e i r t e t e le . Sir os a ß a . ndy Alcock ag. c evidently ho IF votohfoaurght moreth the disturbances .oust d an th a e t i l l ' a o n r ru t kow dispute was likely to prove, b one er two vessels might be stationu h e suggested that e c i l n ,o t t h h e is. Y pr a o n p g o - s t a z l e to protect the three ports in that river. , ahcoleser,andtheas the home Governmentintelligence a r e announces un wi l that n g tolatet "peace and order had been rest ored " at all the ports, and that "there was no more cause f or anxiety at any point, , d Clarendo t the Sir telegram conveying th is we may hope the demand for war vessels will for the present diminish. The answer welcomeof Ler n res e news assures B. Alcock that "it is the intention and desire of this country that the intercourse with' China should be maintained by friendly means, and should not be subject to interruption by injudicious and rash proceedings on the part of British subjects." account of the Foremia difficulty, now happily at an end, is given very fully in No. 3 of the papers. The dis turbance arose from a report which was current among the Chinese that the missionaries were admini4pring; and the mission ar i es app li ed to Jamieson for assistance. He endeavoured to allay poisonous drug to the pe o p le. A native Pro testant preacher i‘ w i a r s . seized and imprisoned , the excitement, and advised them to remain quiet. Further disturbances occurred in connection with the missions, upon which Lieutenant Gurdon, of the A'gerine, acting on the requisition of , Mr. Gib son , Acting-Consul at Formosa, seized and held Fort Zelandia, and the town of Amping. This conduct was strongly censured by the Foreign Office. Lord Clarendon at first threatened to remove Mr. Gibson from his post, but . finally left him in char'e till further orders. Ten thousand dollars, exacted by Lieutenant Gordon from the people for his expenses. were refunded by the Admiral. The English Government appear to be fully sensible that by the con stant employment of force in these dispu' es they weaken their ground of appeal to the Chinese authorities to fulfil their treaty obligations. The account of the Yang-Clicw. Foo difficulty is somewhat different in its character. In this case the local authorities at Yang-Chow-Foo are held responsible for the damages, and after a correspondence with Prince Kong, this payment is insisted on by Sir B. Alcock. At the close of the lengthy correspondence arising from an attack made by some Chinese villagers on the boats of H.M.S. Cockchafer, Lord Clarendon desires the consul.; generally to discourage imprudent excursions into the interior on the part of British subjects, who must not expect redress for injuries so wantonly incurred. • The Princess Charlotte, of Mexico, is to be con. Med to 8a5 21 4 1 :3014p .) tauLths. s ; THE .24ORFOLK ELECTION PETITION. In the matter of the Norfolk petition, the court , pro ceeded, yesterday, to hear further evidence as to treating. The case of the petitioner, as regards the Wells district, was completed, and witnesses were then called to prove similar treating in Stalham district. It was proved that adinner was given, after the election, at the Crown Inn, at Catfield, to about twenty persons. Some of those present were, however, not voters. The dinner was given by Mr. Lubbock, of Catfield Hall,who canvassed the landlord of the Crown on behalf of Lama and Walpole. The landlord said his principles were Conservative, and Mr. Lubbock afterwards ordered the dinner. It was ordered about three weeks after the election. Mr. Lubbock stated that the dinner was given for the parishioners of Catfield, but he only invited such of them as bad voted for Lacon and Walpole. He had paid about eight pounds for the dinner, and had not been repaid. Mr. Hammond, the landlord of the Crown, said this house had always been " Red," and he had accordingly at once promised his vote to the Conser- Valves. An unwilling witness, named Clarke, was called to prove that a s:milar dinner had taken place at Happis burgb. This witness chewed such hesitation that Mr. Justice Blackburn threatened to commit him. THE LVTERNATIONAL BOAT. RACE, The international boat race is being prepared for both at Oxford and Harvard. The" Oxford University Boat Club have already made a selection, and practice has com menced. Mr. W. C. Crofts, of Brasenose College, the champion Oxford University sculler, steered the following crew :—Bow--R. D. Benson, Balliol College; No. 2—A. C. Yarborough, Lincoln College ; No. 3—J. C. Timid, University College ; Stroke—S. D. Darbishire, Balliol College. • The crew is made up from the victorious Oxford eight of this year, Mr. Darbishire still occupying the im portant position of stroke oar ; while Messrs. Tinn6, Yar borough, and Benson were respectively 5,6, and 7, in the recent victory of the Dark Blue. The " Four" rowed steadily down to Iffley and back, but their uniformity at this early stage created a very favourable impression. and there is every reason to think the Dark Blue will have four excellent representatives in the above-named 'gentlemen. The selection of coxswain has not yet been made, but it is probable Mr. Neilson, of St. John's, who steered Oxford against Cambridge this year, will again be entrusted with the rudder lines. The preliminaries of the race have not yet been settled, but it is understood it will take place in August, when the Cantabs, and pkobably the London Rowing Club, will encounter the Americans. The London Rowing Club, although not challenged by America, have thrown down the gauntlet to our American cousins, on the ground that Oxford and Cambridge do not represent the amateur talent of England, and have instanced their success at Henley-on-Thames against the two universities, but this is hardly fair to the Light and Dark Blues, as their strength has hardly ever been put forth at that pleasant annual gathering. The New York Times thus describes the American men —" William Hammond Simmons, of Concord, Mass., is a member of the Senior Class. He has rowed almost daily during good weather ever since he entered college, pulling number threein the Freshinen Crew, which beat all the other class • boats in 1866 that were willing to try them ; number two in the University six in 1867, winning both the Boston City Regatta, on July 4th of that year, and the college race at Worcester; and number three in the University six in 1868, which was defeated twice by the champion profes sionals of the country, the Ward brothers, but easily beat a strong St. John party, all the best New England crews, and the Yale men of that year. This year he was appointed stroke and captain of the club, but he freely resigned the former position in favour of Mr. Loring, when he consented to row in the four to go to Eng land. Alden Porter Loring, of Boston, has a name familiar to rowing men. Of finer mould than Mr. Simmons, he stands exactly as tall, weighs, trained, about 155 pounds, and is nearly 25 years old. He is the only man who ever rowed in a Harvard University crew while a freshman or a first-year man, and he is now a senior, and has rowed stroke in every race mentioned above where Mr. Simmons took part. He can at once with his practised eye detect the slightest irregularity in the rowing of any man, and all may feel, when they learn that this post has been entrusted to him, that the chances of turning out a team whose action shall be most polished and harmonious could not have been better than now. The English captain, in order to ' coach ' his crew, deemed it necessary to leave the boat and view and correct their motions while on horseback on the bank. The advantages of Mr. Loring's plan are sufficiently obvious to anyone experienced in rowing. Though the men for the two waist oars are not yet fully settled upon, of the bur or five standing a good chance for the places, it is safe to say that Messrs. Rice and Bass are as likely as any to prove themselves Worthy of them. George Bass, of Chicago, 111., is a member of the Sophomore Class, '7l, is 23 years old, stands nearly five feet ten, and will weigh, trained at the time of the race, about 163 pounds. He rowed starboard waist in his class six lalt year, his crew winning with ease. Mr. Bass is freely acknowledged to be a man of unusual staying power. Sylvester Warren Rice, of Oregon Tenitory, will likely have the honour of a place in this important tour. He, like Mr. Bass, is a Sophomore, and with , him has rowed four races. He is next to the heaviest man iu the boat, weighing nearly 180, and will not train below 105, pounds. He stands the tallest of the four, hieing six feet and half an inch in height, and is now 26 years of age, He is a lithe, quick fellow at his work for one of his Weight, and chewed himself a man for a tight place when the stroke oarsman of his crew last year having been sunstruck in the middle of a race, he did the work of almost two men for quite a distance, and' suc ceeded in placing- his crew a good second. A man con siderably acquainted with steering has already been found for the post of coxswain, and he will underweigh with Mr. Wilson, of Oxford, or Mr. Gordon, of Cambridge, England." On Saturday morning the wife of a chemist at Leicester gave birth.to twin children (girls) which partook of the nature of the " Siamese twins," having four arms and four legs, and being joined together from the breast to the umbilical cord. They did not survive above a quartet of an hour, and their death was quickly followed by that of their mother. iMPORTANT TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. Having received several communications from correspon dents who wished to know if it was necessary for a traveller who supplied a 'shopkeeper from his stockto take out a hawker's license in England, the editor of the Goldemith communicated with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and received the following reply :—" Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, W.C.—Sir,—The Chancellor of the Exchequer having transmitted to this board yoUr letter to him of the 4th inst., I am instructed to refer you to the 9th sec. of the 24th and 25th Vic. cap. 21, under which you will perceive that commercial travellers selling to persons who are dealers in the goods, or buying to sell again, are not liable to the hawker's license.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Was. CORBETT, Secretary." SHAMMING A Tumoult.—The Indian Medical Gazette reports an extraordinary case of "shamming." The Indian pretender was a girl of 15 years of age, who was brought by her parents to Dr. Cameron, the civil assistant-surgeon of Mongbyr. A tumour of the size of a teacup disfigured her left cheek, and gave her great pain, . she said. It had begun a year ago in the shape of a small growth at the- angle of the jaw, and was now so painful and irksome that the parents were most desirous to have an operation per formed on it. 'The doctor looked into the girl's month, separating her teeth a little way, with difficulty, as she was continually starting back, and com plaining of pain. He s%w something like ends of pieces of cloth, and eventually managed to pull out one piece of cloth after another until the tumour had wholly disap peared. The girl then, says the narrator, looked foolish and sulky, and her parents on whom she had imposed were stupefied with astonishment. Next day they brought her again, and there was no difficulty now in examining her mouth, whichiyas sound every way, and without a trace of swelling. 'the left cheek, which had for so long a time been strained over the ball of cloth, was flacid and thin, the centre of it being like the skin of a withered apple. The ball of cloth weighed four ounces when the pieces of which it was composed were washed and dried. TLIE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AT SCHOOL. —The following " certificate" of the progress made by the present Emperor Louis Napoleon in 1821-2, when he was a boy at the College of St. Anne, at Augsburg, will be read with interest. "No. 21. Prince Charles Louis Napoleon, son of the Dud de St.-Leu, of Rome ; born at Paris ; belonging to the Catholic religion ; aged 14 years and 5 months. He is gifted with many good qualities, in the development of which he has laboured with much zeal. He has made good progress in the German language, in Latin, and in arithmetic ; pretty good in Greek and in history; in general, therefore, co nsiderable progress. ogress. His quiet manner towards his fellow-pupils of all praise, as also is the respect and gratefulness with which lie has accepted even disagreeable tasks. He has the 24th place ; the difficulties of the German language, of which he is not yet master, have prevented him from obtaining higher rank. Besides, he is publicly com mended, and he can pass into .a superior class." The cer tificate for the previous six months is much the same ; but to it is added a remark to the effect that " this pupil pos sesses an ardent feeling for all that is elevated, good, and beautiful ; and he would have made great progress illness Vaj,zlot several 4EO premtlailiatuadt — " AtidlikelitOrttl4; PARLIAMENTARY. A circular has been addressed by Mr. Noel to the Con• servative members of the House of Commons, headed " most important," particularly and urgently requesting the attendance of members after the holidays. "The House will meet (the circular states) on Thursday, the 27th of May. The Customs and Inland Revenue (Committee) will be the first Order of the Day ; upon this a most important discussion will take place, which may lead to 0. division. Your attendance is particularly requested. On Friday, the 28th, Supply will be the first Order, after which the Metropolitan Poor Act will be taken• On Monday, the 31st, the Irish Church Bill (third reading) will come on. Its rejection will be moved hi Mr. Holt. It is understood that the debate will not 104 4 more than one night. Your attendance, therefore, in the House of Commons, without fail, is urgently requested. On Thursday, the 3rd of June, the Bankruptcy Bill will be the first order of the day." A HUSBAND IN SEARCH . OF HIS TVIFS. Mr. James Permewan, lately residing in London.l l3l been committed for trial by the St. Columb (Cornwall) magistrates for a fncgt extraordinary outrage. Ma Permewan recently left her husband, it seems, because he had used threats towards her, and went to reside with her brother-in-law near St. Columb Major- Her husband, armed with a life-preserver and other weapons, and accompanied by fifteen ruffians wheal he had hired for the occasion, went to her brother•in' law's house and demanded his wife. The men sir' rounded the house, but their approach having been noticed the doors were locked. One of Mr. Rowes's (the brother-in-law) servants asked Mr. Permewan business, and was immediately knocked down by a lif°' preserver. Mr. Rowse armed himself with a double • barrelled gun, and refused the defendant admission, but he forced an entrance by breaking open the door with sledge-hammer. In the meantime the police had been sent for, but before their arrival Mr. Permewan an d his men had succeeded in carrying off one of Air' Permewan's sons. The police tben got a warrant, and just as he was starting for St. Austell he wa g arrested. YOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE. -4211.- The Daily Yews contains a long description of the French Atlantic Cable. This—the third cable—between Europe and America will, if all goes well, be open to the publi e • about the middle of July. The Anglo-French Company stands just now in a position similar to that occupied by the new Atlantic Company in 1565, and the Anglo' American Company in 1866. It has ordered the best O P sible cable from the best makers ; but it will not t a ke por session of it until after it has been laid, and when the electricians certify the communication between the tiv° continents to be perfect. The French cable 1 135 been made, and will be laid from English ships, 11 Englishmen, the Telegraph Construction and Mainte• nance Company having undertaken the contract, Si t Samuel Canning being the engineer-in -chief of the expo' 3ition, and the Great Eastern having been chartered for :he work. The present cable is some twelve hundred miles _onger than either of its predecessOrs ; it is divided into several sections, and has been manufactured at th e rate of 150 miles a week ever since the contract was accepted. is within 100 miles of completion, and has nearly all been shipped on board the vessels appointed to carry it out. TO ( the Great Eastern carries 2,752 miles, or about 400 more than when it left with the Anglo-American Cable, its vas t receptacles being made still vaster, and its main tan ig considerably enlarged. With this cargo the great ship will leave her present rest:ng-place in the Medway abou t the 10th of June, and will proceed to Portland. Here a few days will be spent in taking in coal, after which she will go to an appointed spot some five and a half mil e/ from Brest. One of the vessels of the expedition (the Chiltern) will in the meantime have laid the heavy shar e end, and this will be buoyed out at sea at the distance named. The Great Eastern will, somewhere about the 20th June, pick it up, and after splicing and testing will set about her regular work of cable-laying , under Sir Samuel Canning and his staff. She will 12° accompanied by the Scanderia, a fine vessel of 1,800 ton, and 370 feet long, now lying alongside her in theMedwal' and by the Chiltern, both ships being fitted up with grappling irons, buoys, and picking-up machinery. Solv e eighteen days will be occupied by the Great Eastern in the voyage from Brest to St. Pierre ; and the line being lain between these two places, the other cable-laying_ vessels will carry on the remainder. The Scanderia, th e Chiltern, and the William Cory will each he at • portions of the cable across the Atlantic. The latter proceeds to St. Pierre early in June, and having laid a shore-end there, will buoy the course and wait 0° arrival of the Great E as t ern . Thi s over , Si r Samue l Canning will leave the latter ship, which will return t ° England, and will take his place on board the William Cory. Another shore-end, of course in direct c.omtna ui ' cation with the line to Brest, and onehundred and seventy' four miles of cable will be laid. Then Sir Samuel Canning changes ships again, and splicing this portion with that oe board the Scanderia proceeds on board the latter vessel to lay 450 miles more on the way to Boston. The Chiltern an d her cargo are called into requisition next, and another splic e made, The 152 miles added now carry the cable direct into Boston, and the line will be thus made caw plete between the latter place and the French P° lt j All who know anything of the last cable-laying exPe u? tions will rejoice to learn that the then chief officer o f the Great Eastern has been appointed her captain since th e resignation of Sir James Anderson. Captain Halp/ 01° known and honoured among our mercantile marine ir brave officer and an accomplished seaman. S i :, Daniel Gooch, Bart., M.P., will go out in t u ,." Great Eastern as chairman of the company wilt makes and lays the cable ; and several of 1 ."" French directors, and a selection of English electrici an° , including Sir William Thompson, will be also on bo ard ' There will be no ladies, however, and, so far as is no one without a distinct task to perform. Mr. I Y ll i loughby Smith will, as formerly, act as the electrician a the company. It should be mentioned that the electri. tests of the cable have been and are continuous, and 00 not a single fault has been discovered in it from the cony mencement of its manufacture until now. In addition t ° the task before her, the Great Eastern leaves for Bombay with the British Indian cable, together with Sir Sa muel Canning and his staff, early in November next. The statement that her Royal Highness t il ! Princess Christian has been suffering from milk fever3l: contradicted. Her Royal highness has not, it is had any kind of fever, but only a nervous attack, wh ic has not given rise to serious apprehensions. THE NEW PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARY I°ll inELAND.—It is understood that Mr. Burke, priv ate i . o secretary to Mr. C. Fortescue, has b een appo inted succeed Sir E. Wetherall in the office of Under-Secrets & The appointment is regarded with general satisfaction . THE LATE BRECKNOCK ELECTION. —A petition against the return of Lord Hyde has been presented lit the Common Plea s R u l e Office. Lord Hyde was ele cts(' after the unseating of Mr. Gwyn by Mr. Baron Martin ° I/ the 9th ult. The oldest living ex-member of the Souse Commons is Mr. James Duprde, of Wilton Park, inghamshire. He was born in 1778, and, according to ths; "County Families," he entered Parliament in 180 2 member for Gatton, a " rotten " borough in the patronar of his relatives, the Alexanders. THE DISPUTED PEER MIE.—Mr. Charles °' 'Howard, of the 9th Lancers, in spite of the letterf addressed to the papers by " Ellen Howard" on behalf ° e her baby boy, has assumed his uncle's title, and his n°ig appears as " th 4 Earl of Wicklow " in the lists of coniP°l present at various aristocratic parties at the W est -e° during the last week. • tli Harviestoun, the seat of the Taits, and Iv' which the name of the father of the present Archbisnr of Canterbury was so long and so honourably conneetev together with the adjoining property of Castle Canioe; has lately become by purchase the property of Sir . 11 ; Orr, of Glaigow, and the only plot of ground .14 Clackmannanshire at present owned by the Tait far° is their burial-place, a small semi-circular enclosure' which is washed by the Devon, and is known as Tombs." A STRANGE OCCIIRRENCE.—ScarceIy a month 115 elapsed since the younger d aug ht er o f the late 'r.: Littlebales, banker, of Winchester, was found dea d in he bedroom, l\ruei she having committed suicide by strangulatioo• sympathy was felt at the time for the fainibre! the deceased. Great consternation was again cause d 0.- Wednesday afternoon on it becoming known that a oi Btf (Ann Littlehales) had also committed suicide. Sh e vilji found , in her bedroom between twelve and one 0'9 1 ° 6;. ' with her head nearly severed from her body bi s om sharp instrument. A REM RID ABLE TALE. —A remarkable .tale related as having taken place in Preston. A 9 P iuner became - possessed of bank notes more than t wo Year ° s 9g to the amount of .ClOO. It appears that a little time : a gypsy and his child solicited charity at the sPinneery is house, and amongst other things received a pair of h pressibles. He presently returned with a £2O note, vv".'e he said he had found in the linings of the unmentionab ti.lef l .: u n The honesty of the man was much com mended was found that he had kept back four other notes, and 0° being able to pass them had returned on e to see if they were genuine. He naturally wen t on the sp ree, but 11_13 joy was of snort duration, for he was taken into di tustoc79., antant9n pleading gulguiltyente i'As sica6 ieven r •-_,....._ X 0 N COMME At the usi directors mac discount. T per cent. To-day ill( of the Provii premises of tl intended to years, an ex £lOO share, capital stock nary divide❑ Consols at count, 921-, New Tree £l,OOO, ...._; Bank of Etq India Stoe ditto 5 per Cent., Oct.., In the roi in New Sp; in Turkisi Italian Five 55i 554. Argentine Nine per Ce Cents., 186 1 865, 644 tc 1864, 20 to The Hon In railwa Improved. Western, at stock is 1 have recede Great East follows :—( 47i. 8 ; GI 105 6 ; di Metropolit a field, pi ; ri 1031 44;C Dover, 161 America]. Bonds, at 7 altered, at ri 19; and 11l The disc) but not el 11,000,000 to the guar gation and terms by undertakin been tempc There wc terday. the last reti The IV £26.000. The hick held yestei amounts al Madras £2 ls. 104 d. bi duetion of invited. ri per cent. ; results sbc mand for r New Yo the Erie R trived to it Which virt it has pa; eignn tare efforts, he table peop Governor. It is um of the Ott a dividend aides au a , fund, and £B,OOO. At an Company per cent.] ending Fc A speci Company certain bi submitted meeting. The dir Comp any of 17s. pe of Juno. interim d paid, will for the y The fo: " Sir,- made bet Suez Can peared ii enclose +; of E gyp Been tha now cow a'3lf, who in divest. ter, h as ( forward) more tL Egyptial toes of I your vei At an Charles an offer instaline in six m, two inst An al between the Gre, mitted t the 25t1 enable trains t, station tors rei for app The the firn Londot not exc in Glas A pe Rent to be b the 29t Go' 8 per G Ditto 8 per U New 3 New 2 Do. S Annuit Do. f , Do Exehoq Do Do. Baak o D.?. 4 India Do. Do. ! Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. anadfi ter-(