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ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 7, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London, S.W. January, 1869. FRANK EASII3f, Secret& THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.D. Chatt.rton. Special Morning Performances of the Grand Pantomime on every Wednesnay and Saturday duringthe Christmas Holidays. THIS EVENING, will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; on, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS, IND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magniffcent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING, A HERO OF ROMANt E. Messrs. Buckstone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendale, Burke, Fitzwilliam, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. M essrs. Comp ton. Kendal, Weaihersby, Bnckstone, jun., ; Mesdames Wright. Burke, Gwynn, &c. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. 'Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq,Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Nelly Harris. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining, THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which (at 8 o'clock) Dion Boncicault's new drama, in fmr acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, J.G . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Hr. F. Lloyds and assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daliy from 10 till 5. ROYAL STRAND THEATR E. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7,0. THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs, f.l trice. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Buf An and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TI. E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James. and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. To conclude orith HUE AND DYE. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S HALL).—Great Success of SARDANAPALLTS.—The new Drama. SAVED, and the original Ninevitish Burlesque of SAR DANAPALITS (received with roars of laughter and applause). Evety Evening, at half-past 7. The best Shilling Pit in London. Morning Performances on Saturday, Jan. 16, and Tuesday, Jan 19. at Two u.m. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. -At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, Mr. T. 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Pole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7. MY WIFE'S OUT. Followed by the Grand Pantomime, PUSS IN BOOTS. Commence at 7. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution coat ributed to the saving of 853 lives from various ship vita cks and 25 vessels from destructien. The - Institution alio expended £20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat E sta blisbments, in addition to granting £2.432 for re wards. The Committee of the - Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on theiral94 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 11, John-street, Adelphi, London. Estahl 1838. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the Half-yearly DIVI DEND to the 81st ult. is in course of PAYMENT to the Share holders. EULOGY. -KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.- XI PROFESSOR TENNANT will commence a COURSE OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY on FRIDAY, January 22, at 9 a.m. They will be cr.ntinued on each succeeding Wednesday and Fri day at the same hour. A shorter Course will be given on Thurs day Evenings, from Bto 9. First Lecture Jan. 21. Text Book, Lyell's " Elements of Geology." Professor Tennant accompanies his Students to the public Museums and to places of Geological interest in the country. He gives PRIVATE INSTRI7uTION in Mineralogy and Geology at his residence, 149, Strand, W.C. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY3IAREET. - - THIS EVENING, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Messrs. Buck stone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendale, Burke. Fitzwilliam, &c Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Compton, Kendal, Buckstone, jun., Weathcrsby, &c. ; Mesdames Wright, Burke, Gwynn, &a Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBIeRW ELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MON'IE CRISTO. Messrs. Fechter. B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, W H. burne, R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclereq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Maniger, Mr. Vining. Tuts EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. W. Lacy, Mr. Dominick illurrby: Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston: Miss Emma Barnet and Miss HoseLeclercq Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. • THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING . A t a quarter to S. CYRIL'S SU CCESS. Messrs. Warner, Vernon. David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Huristone, J. Clarke: Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lest ee and Manageress Mrs. Swanhoronah• THIS Ii,VENINn at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. 3Tessrs. Bel ford, Clarke Miss 13nft, n. TI .E FIELD OF THE Cs OTH OF GOLD : 3lesers. Thorne. James. Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall. I ydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager. Mr. W IL Liston THIS EVENTNO, DOT. 3lessrs. J. L. Toole, S. Emcry, W. 11 Stephens. C. Wyndham. and L. Erough ; I‘'esdarnes Montague, J. Rignold, Mgxe, and Everard. And THE GNOME KING Mr. Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, SLA SHER &CRASHER:Messrs Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs H Ne ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. Wigan; ,31esdatneu Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mist It Oliver. TIPS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVINt; CUP. Mr. Dewar. Mist M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF ZICFIA RD III.; or, A New Front to ca Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar \lr. Danvers: 3lits Collinson. and I.Mla M. Oliver. To con :ludo with EVERYBODY'S HUSBAND. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SOCIETY: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Banrroft: Mrs. lincking'i m White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. Preceded by A WINNING HAZARD. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRF. AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, Id. Clifton, and THE M.AHVR I -S OF ELECTRICITY. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET?, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-pallc, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. Jl3 Trgg t LONDON, TVEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, 1869 We are glad to find that the Ballot is not to be omitted from the voluminous programme unfolding before the new Parliament. Among the many still unaccomplished reforms awaiting the labours of the yet untried M.P.'s, we may surely place the Ballot in the very first rank. Whether we regard its import ance as a matter of principle in securing the inde pendence of the voter, or its practical utility in solving the problem with which no other method has satisfactorily dealt, we must acknowledge that the Ballot has very pressing claims on the attention of all earnest and single-minded Liberals. We have yet to see the effect produced by the transfer of authority in disputed election cases from the Parlia mentary Committee to a more rigid tribunal, but unfortunately there is not much room to doubt that however the court of appeal may be constituted its members will not be left idle. There is no chance of a maiden session, so far as elections are concerned, and the potent, grave, and reverend seigniors, whose fiat is to open or close the doors of St. Stephen's to adventurous ambition, will have to see many a Par liament begin and end before they are entitled to white gloves. The experience of the last general election has not been encouraging in this respect. Making every allowance for the warmth of party feeling, and for the excitement produced by closely run numbers at the poll, there has been an ample list of disputed elections. The increase in the constituen cies, however useful in other respects, has not answered the purposes of checking bribery, preventing intimidation, and removing corruption. We cannot dispense with the Ballot. So long as there are ambitious men, with more money than principle, on the one hand, and unscrupulous men, with more greed than integrity, on the other, so long, in short, as we live in a motley community of men and women,and not i❑ a Utopia of political abstractions, we need not expect to find all corrupt influences eliminated from Parliamentary elections. We may, indeed, hope to see a great improvement in the moral tone of the people, as we have seen marked progress in other re spects, but the conscientious few can only raise the careless and unreflecting many to their standard by either removing temptation as far as possible from them, or else by enforcing punishment with deter. rent severity. The latter alternative in a case like bribery or intimidation would be simply impossible. Legislators who are implicated in the offence con demned would not sentence their fellows and asso- ciates to criminal punishment for a fault they regard as venial. Even supposing that they did so, we have 7 n America a notable instance of the futility of such There both briber and bribed are re- an attempt. garded as law breakers, not as mere conventional offenders; and the consequence is that neither will give evidence against the other, and as such transac tions seldom admit the presence of a third party, conviction is hopeless. The Ballot may not in some respects fulfil all the expectations formed of it ; but it can hardly fail to diminish very considerably the temptation to political dishonesty, while it will inevitably remove mucl'. of the disorder consequent on elections, by doi❑g away ith the system of treating, the meetings in public houses, &c., which are all fruitful of evil. Its oppo- - - nents are never at a loss for denunciation and rii tole, but they have nothing to urge against the facts that all their own specifics have failed to remove a great disgrace from our English electoral system - that the Ballot has never been tried in Parliamentary elections, and has therefore been condemned un heard ; and last, but not least, that it i 3 found an efficient protector against embarrassing relations and undue influence in clubs, associations, and societies, It is impossible for a man in our complicated society to be wholly independeut of his fellows, and even if be have no personal or cowardly motive he may shrink from causing disappointment or giving pain by his vote. The Ballot covers all secrets, and enables a voter to give his vote as he conscien tiously thinks best, without having to pass through an ordeal which very few men are inclined to undergo. It is therefore highly satisfactory to find that a great Ballot meeting is to be held at the Arundel Hall on Friday evening, when Mr. MILNER GIBBON is to preside, and when we hope the plan of operations for the ensuing campaign will be definitely settled. What are we to do with our criminals ? This is the question that is now being eagerly asked in all direc tions, and the more closely we study the details of the subject the more fully must we be impressed with its importance. It is of no use to mince the matter and to put off the evil day of recognition, the crisis is at hand, and we must prepare for it. Those wbo may not fully appreciate the significance of the affair will do well to peruse the comprehensive state ment recently furnished by Mr. FENWICK, the Chief Constable of Chester, on the subject of " Crime and Criminals." In this startling revelation they may find much to awaken reflection and give rise to regret. There is certainly no reason to doubt the truth of the first observation that we meet with, " The profession of crime is thoroughly established." Further on we come to the unpleasant fact that there are at prPsent in England and Wales 22,889 " known thieves," and these, with the receivers of stolen goods, and the large number that comes under the head of " suspected persons," make a total of 112,406 per sons of criminal tendencies at large among us. Well may Mr. FEIMICK exclaim, "If this army cannot be cured, are they to be endured as at present ?" The best way to arrive at a correct understanding of this seeming mystery is to consider that very few of those who are once convicted ever return to honest em ployment again, and the number of times that each criminal is re-convicted and sentenced again is amazing to the uninitiated. " Direct aggressive action must be taken," is said in this letter, and the force of the observation must come Lome to all. When we realise the truth, that the number of criminals is increasing, it seems time to act in self-defence for the preservation of society, and fur the maintenance of order and peace. Scale punishments seem to present advantages, and at any rate it is worth while to try them. Thieves calculate the chances for or against their con viction with great nicety, and never " give up" until they are actually sentenced. They know that it is not decisive for them if they are committed for trial, because every fourth prisoner or thereabouts is acquitted when subjected to that ordeal. Even when the worst has happened, the " ticket of leave" may be looked forward to. Mr. FENWICK thinks that it would be advisable to drop the ticket-of-leave sys tem, and remove„, that temptation to think lightly of penal servitude. The supervision system might be employed with advantage, after the full period of the imprisonment has expired and the ends of justice would be more fully met if a public prosecutor were instituted. The writer of this letter speaks with authority, and believes that many cases are " hushed up" or " squared" from indifference or sentiment on the part of the prosecutor, and the ingenuity of the friends of the guilty party. If these and other suggestions should awaken pub lic attention a great end will have been gained, and it is for the interests of the nation that it should be so. We have happily passed the time when cruelty and oppression stained the records of our prisons, but it is a mistake to go to the other extreme, and virtu ally to hold out a premium to crime through the in sufficiency of our restrictive laws and the inadequate character of our punishments. When we read the details of the proceedings at some of our cri minal courts, we are led to believe that the learned authorities have forgotten that time honoured adage Judex danznatur cum nocens absoleitu-. It has never happened that the public mind has been roused on any subject without some decisive result follow ing from it, and these handed arrays " who like reapers descend to the harvest of crime," may be pre pared for the worst in earnest, for we can no longer tolerate their unchecked :course, and must set to work with might and main to stem the tide of an evil, which is as the arrow that flieth by day, and the pestilence that walketh in darkness. WE mentioned some days ago that Mr. DUDLEY BAXTER had written a pamphlet in order to shew that the general election proved the wisdom of the Conservative policy in giving household suffrage. Since then Mr. BAXTER has written a letter to the Times, enforcing this conclusion of his. Mr. BAXTER is an able statist. It required a very able one to convince the public that the Con servative party have profited by the Reform Bill. During the late Parliament the organs of that party were never weary of taunting Mr. GLADSTONE with having converted a majority of 70 into a minority of 40—a difference of 110 ; but now we hear nothing of this feat; it is quietly assumed that this majority was maintained until the end, and that all which Mr. GLADSTONE has done has been to increase it to 111. We might, if we chose, insist upon the first mentioned figures, and declare that the Liberal leader, having lost 110 votes in the old Parliament, has in the new not only regained them, but added another 110 to them. However, we are content to take Mr. BAXTER'S own figures, though they over-estimate the Liberal majority in the late and underrate that in the present Parliament. One hundred and eleven majority is a tolerably substantial fact. There has been nothing like it since the Reform Bill of 183 was carried ; and if Mr. BAXTER finds comfort and satisfaction in it we can only congratulate him on the perfect way in which he has learnt the first half of HORACE'S lesson— 2Equam memento rebus in arduis, Servare mentem. Perhaps we may some day have to congratulAe him on fulfilling the latter half of the injunction. It must be admitted that in this respect he and his friends have had little opportunity of shewing their proficiency. Mr. BAXTER analyses the electors as well as the elected, and here he finds an unfailing source of com fort. True, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have gone against the Conservative party, but then the party has gained in England ; that is to say, more persons have supported Conservative candidates on this occa sion than on former occasions. Mr. BAXTER appears to have arrived at this conclusion by assuming that where a county like Kent or Lancashire has returned a perfect phalanx of Conservative county members, the whole of the electors are to be reckoned as Con servative, even though each seat mayhave been gained by the narrowest majority. How untenable such a supposition is we may easily see by supposing that in each case the Conservative candidate was returned bya majority of one. In such a county the constituency would be divided equally, except for an unappreciable fraction, and yet this fraction would be sufficient to exclude every Liberal candidate. Mr. BAXTER draws two principal lessons from the elections : the first, that the Conservatives were justified by the result in passing a household suffrage bill ; the second, that the Liberal party must be careful how they venture to set the rest of the kingdom against England. As to the first lesson, we can only say that if the Conservatives had foreseen that household suffrage would place them in a minority of 111, they would either have swallowed the " bitter pill " with even more wry faces than they manifested, or not at all. If the retreat of a Conservative Cabinet without waiting to meet the Parliament which it had elected be a proof of the wisdom of household suffrage from the Conservative point of view, we can only wonder what Conservative folly must be. The antagonism between England and the rest of the kingdom, presuming it to be a fact—which, moreover, we do not admit—would only shew that in England the love for ecclesiastical establishments had for a time induced a section of the Liberal party to leave their ranks. They will not be able to prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Mr. BAXTER himself admits that ; and when this measure has been accomplished we may expect to see the Liberal party strengthened by the return of those men who are Liberals in all other matters save this. FIRE IN CHEAPSIDE-THIS DAY. This (Wednesday) morning, at a few minutes before four o'clock, great excitement was caused amongst the warehousemen in Cheapside, owing to the outbreak of a fire in the large premises num bered 135 in that neighbourhood. The building was occupied by Mr. T. N. Mapleson, a cotton agent, Mr. Hurwitz, and Mr. D. Reed, a merchant tailor. The discovery was made by the police constable on duty, who, on passing along the back of Cheapside, had his attention directed by a strong smell of wood burning. Feeling convinced that a fire was burning in one of the buildings, he made a search, and in the course of a few minutes he found flames rolling out of the back warehorse on the first floor, which was tenanted by Mr. Mapleson. The officer at once sounded the alarm, and went off to Watling-street for the engines. Captain Shaw and numerous officers of the Metro politan Brigade, with a full complement of firemen, engines, and escapes, as well as the London Salvage Corps, with Mr. Superintendent Swanston, arrived at the seat of danger. The flames by that time bad reached the yard, although several of the intJerme diate stores had not been attacked by the fire_ The stairs, however, were in a general blaze. The mains of the water company having been drawn a splendid supply of water was obtained, from which a couple of Shand, Mason, and Co.'s land steamers were set to work, and the hose of each machine havkag been conveyed up the stairs, the firemen were er,abled to combat with the flames at each point, and 'they were soon extinguished. The damage done, however, is considerable, and is thus officially rep arted by Captain Shaw :—" Back rooms on first -.floor and front rooms on second floor and contents • were se verely damaged by fire, the stairs nearly del ;troyed, the upper part of house and contents by hez..t and smoke, and part of roof off. The stock in shop slightly damaged by water and fire. insurances at present unknown." Mr. Whitmore, M.P. for Bridgnorth, has re signed the office of Conservative " Whip," to which he was appointed by Mr. Disraeli in 1855 as successc , r to Lord Mandeville, now Duke of Manchester. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whh :ky is re commended by the medical profession in preference J French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville aa.'d Co., Belfast; or 4, Blaufort-buil , lings, Strand,;,Lo: vim -[Ad vertisement. T ffl SUN, LONDON, WCDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1869. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTEP.'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 12. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. !FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.' PARIS, TUMODAY, January 12. It is difficult for Englishmen with their political journals, meetings, addresses by leading men, and other means of political instruction—to form a just idea of the utter lack of knowledge on political matters which pre vails throughout France. The French people, as a body, know nothing of politics, and take a proportionately small interest in such matters, simply because they have no instruction. In Paris there are abundance of newspapers, though of no very excellent descrip tion, and these publish restricted comments on home affairs and the debates in the Corps L6gislatif, as represented by the compte rendu analytique—the official report which alone can be published. But in the country the means of political instruction are so meagre that the most deplorable ignorance prevails everywhere. The journals are smaller and, in point of quality, below the not very high standard of the Paris papers. Very many of them are so small, and appear at such long intervals, that they are unable to publish the comptes rendus of the parliamentary debates. The law is inflexible; either the the long dreary report which is drawn up by the autho rities must be inserted, or none at all. It cannot be abridged or altered in any way. Hence the inhabitants of country districts remain from week to week and month to month without the slightest conception of what is going on at the Corps Legislatif and the Senate. The gleams of light which occasionally reach them are few, unconnected, and useless. For all practical purposes they might as well be ignorant of the existence of the Legislative Assemblies. Surely this is not a satisfactory state of things, even in the eyes of those who hold that the multi tude is better off without meddling with politics. Some notion of what is going on in the council of the nation ought to be open to all who choose to seek it. Now that the opening of the session draws near an agitation is being got up on behalf of a second and shorter report of the debate. Those now supplied are much too long, so much so, that if a shorter were fur nished even the Paris journals would publish it in pre ference to the other. But it is demanded, and not unjustly; that the Government would not lose much by furnishing two reports, so as to give the people of the capital a choice, and to afford provincial journals an opportunity of publishing the shorter one. The demand is reasonable, but I have, nevertheless, very little hope that the Government will accord. it. I need hardly say that the Budget report has not met with a favourable reception. No Budget under the Emperor ever did ; and it is scarcely too much to affirm that the time when the financial statement may meet with approbation from any but the supporters of the Govern ment is yet far distant. As I said in my last, the report is favourable in details, but the main principle of all the Imperial statements of finance is left untouched. The surplus is not a real surplus. It is applied to " extraor dinary" purposes, which are really very ordinary and common indeed. From the ordinary Budget are left out many items of expenditure which are put in the extraor dinary Budget, but which ought never to have got there. They are regular charges, which should be included in the ordinary Budget. Th;s expedient, of course, greatly lightened the ordinary Budget, so as to leave a surplus. But this is by no means applied to the reduction of taxation. It goes towards the extraordinary Budget, which invariably converts the surplus into a deficit ; instead of having so much to spare, the Government is always obliged to borrow so much. In spite of the unquestionable ability and care with which this report is drawn up, the absence of affectation, and even the candour of M. Magnes confession that the finances were not al they should be, the reception of the Further particulars have been published of the capture of the Cretan Insurrectionary Government, after a fight resulting in the death of four of their members. Their archives fell into the hands of the military, and are said to contain a highly compro mising correspondence. new financial statement was very cold. It is, in fact, simply the old story, and it excites neither admiration nor surprise. It is now feared that the Marquis de Moustier will not quit the Foreign Alinistry alive. He is said to have recovered a little, but the rally, I am informed, is both slight and temporary. The medical men have abandoned hope, though , happily, they sometimes do this too soon. Of course there is no thought of removing the invalid. Your readers will remember the case about the Exhi bition chairs. It has again made its'appearance in a court of justice. At the former trial the Imperial Corn mission which had granted M. Bernard a monopoly of chair•letting at the Exhibition, but which after• wards allowed the proprietors of cafes to place seats outside their establishments, was condemned in damages of £9,160 and costs. The Imperial. Court reduced this sum to £4,800 and costs. Another suit tried in the Imperial Court also dates back to the time of the Exhi- bition. This was brought by Blondin, who was then performing at the Park of Asnieres, against M. Arnault, director of the Hippodrome, who had brought out a rival tight-rope dancer under the same de nomination. Iu fact, the name does not belong to either of the men, that of the hero of the Niagara Falls being Gravelet, and of the pretender, Corelly. The tribunal first applied to, however, considering that the former had acquired a certain notoriety in different countries under the appellation in question, and that Arnault, in an nouncing the appearance of Cerelly as Blondin, was com- mating an act of unfair competition, had condemned him by default to pay Gravelet £4OO as damages. On a fresh trial the sum was reduced to £2O. Arnault again appealed, but the Imperial Court now confirmed that decision, and condemned the director of the Hippodrome in the payment of all costs. The real Blondin has therefore come off vic- torious at the third trial. He does not get much in damages, but the costs will doubtless give him a poor sort of satisfaction. M. Rouher's daughter is to be married to M. Edouard Andre, Deputy Von Gard. It vill be a pompous affair, I understand. MORE WAR SYMPTOMS. On Monday the French Moniteur de 1 'Armee declared that France was so well prepared she did not fear war, though she desired peace. The statement in the organ of the French army derives confirmation from the Independant of the strongly fortified town of Metz. It says : " Are we at war? For the lust week the military aspect of our streets has been extraordinary. We see continual movements of troops and long processrons o f waggons_laden with munitions and barrels of powder." We read in the Courrier de Bourges :—" Orders have arrived at the pyrotechnic establishment here to complete with all speed a number of rifles to be sent to Marseilles. Upwards of 4,000,000 cartridges for the new Chassepots are already packed up, and ready to be sent by rail on the first signal, and still the manufacture of cart ridges goes on with unremitting activity." A letter from Bucharest, in the I)(bats, says :—" The eagerness of the Roumain Government to manufacture war material allows the supposition that it is preparing for speedy action. At this moment at least 50,000 cartridges are being made per day. The purchase of arms is also being continued, and on a very large scale. Besides the needle guns from the Prussian factories and the Belgian percussion muskets, a large number of Peabody rifles have been ordered in America. Two arri vals of them are expected ; the first of 10,000 and the second of 12,000. Moreover, the old muskets have been transformed into breech-loaders ; the Government, there fore, can dispose of a very considerable number of weapons. If these armaments are continued at the - same rate, Roumania will soon become the arsenal for the whole East." A melancholy accident has just occurred at Ade laide Colliery, near Sheldon, by which two brotherd were killed Whilst standing side by side, a large stone, some tons weight, fell upon them, killing both on the Tot. The eldest, Thos. Pratt, aged about 30, leaves a wife and three children ; the younger, George, has been recently married. It may be mentioned that the father of the deceased and a man named White were killed in a similar manner at Eldon Colliery, 28 years ago. Another brother was killed at Inkerman, the whole of the family having thus met their deaths by ac cident. It is stated by the Western Daily Press that the behaviour of Bisgrove since his respite has tended to • ... justify the discretion exercised by the Home Secretary in intervening between the convict and the hangman. There has been a renewal of the epileptic fits which he has for some time past suffered from. As has been the case in other instances, each attack seems to weaken the control which his not over-strong mental powers have over his passions and impulses. It has even leaked out that but for the unremitting watchfulness of the gaol authorities he would havo himself terminated his own miserable existence. It will probably be some question with the authorities whether he can continue to be treated as a sane prisoner The trials arising out of the Bristol election riots :lave commenced before the Bristol Recorder. Yesterday William Theodore Pitt WatkinFt, a solicitor, and John Cunningham and George Lawrence, were indicted for having been engaged in a riot, and also for damag ing property. The defendants all pleaded not guilty. Mr. Ribton, in stating the case, said that the lith Novem ber being the polling day at Bristol thorn was great anxiety manifested to induce voters to poll early. In the course of the day, at somewhere between eleven and twelve o'clock, a riotous mob collected in the neighbourhood of Col lege-green, and afterwards did considerable damage, attacking among other places the Conservative committee room. Mr. Watkins was, it was said, present on horseback, and incited the rioters. Several witnesses were caUed lu support of the prosecution, some of whom spoke to Idr. Watkins' presence at the attack on the commbtee-roem, but some important discrepancies in tlio_ ovldonce wcrolttl(l lay Py MF,§ergtztpt pajlant*.. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 12. The Epoca mentions a rumour, according to which General Cialdini will remain at Madrid in the quality of Italian Envoy Extraordinary. The same journal publishes a notification assert ing that the candidature of Prince Amadeus, of Italy, had been agreed upon between one of the members of the Provisional Government, General Cialdini, and the French Minister; that the scheme had also the support of Senor Olzozaga, at Paris, and was approved by the Emperor Napoleon. The Epoca is of opinion that this candidature will be energetically opposed by the press and by public opinion. In the Basque provinces the example of Cata lonia has been followEd in offering large sums of money and numerous volunteers for the pacification of Cuba. 10,000 soldiers have also volunteered to be employed on the same service. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Jan. 12 . The Independence Beige of this evening states that M. Delyanni has further instructions stating that Greece could not consent that her representa tive should occupy at the Conference a position so humiliating as that proposed by the Powers. AUS FRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 13 The Presse of to-day asserts that Russia counsels "Greece to adopt a policy of moderation. The same paper states that the resistance of the Ministry of M. Boulgaris is threatened, and that M. Rhangave will be entrusted with the formation of a new Cabinet. The official Mener Zeitung of to-day publishes an Imperial Decree raising Count Mensdorff Pouilly to the rank of a Prince of the Empire. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 13 The Prince and Princess of \Vales take their de parture on Friday next, and will embark on board the steamer Freya at Horsoer for Lubeck. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 13 The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived here from Liverpool at 11 a.m. to-day, embarked pas sengers, and proceeded for New York at twelve o'clock. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 13 The Constitutionn e l of to-day considers it a mat ter of regret that Greece, having known since the 2d instant the position which would be accorded to her at the Conference, and having subsequently agreed to take part, chose nevertheless to raise a formal difficulty at the last moment. The Constitutionnel hopes that notwithstanding this incident the Conference will lead to the results which the Powers have in view. Contrary to the assertions of some journals, Rangab6 has not yet received a reply from Athens as to whether he should take part is the Conference with only a consultative voice. BOURSE, Jan. 12.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of mouth— Itr,l'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 271- Mexican Loan .... 24 25 Credit Mobilier ....281 25 Do. Bonds End of mouth— 282 50 Spanish Threes Credit Foncior ...1552 50 Rome Debt 27 50 End of month... Deferred — RAILWA' Cash Orleans ................................ 925 Northern ........ ......... ......... Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5814 Western Eastern Sardinian .......................... 49 Austrian ....................................... 64 Lombard ....................................... 440 North of Spain .............................. 61 Saragossa .................................... 75 Roman .......................................... 50 BRITISH SUBJECIS IN PARAGUAY. The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Buenos Ayres, under date of the 21st of November, reporting that, as far as can be ascertained, there are two British subjects in prison in Paraguay, named Alonso Taylor and F. G. Masterman, who, it is believed, are suspected of complicity in an extensive conspi racy. Mr. Stuart had also been informed that four he rnamed W. Eden, G. Miles, and Gs Higginbotham, who were in Government o t ggin lV employ, have been dismissed from it, and that the three former of them are now at San Lorenzo and the latter at Paraguari. Mr. Stuart further re ports that the Commander of her Majesty's ship Beacon has received from President Lopez him self a positive assurance that every British sub ject in Paraguay shall receive the best possible treatment. Mr. Disraeli has presented the Rev. Henry Blag den, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, curate of St. Nicholas, Newbury, to the rectory of Hughenden. The right hou. gentleman offered it to the Rev. R. H. Barnes M.A., vicar of St. lfary's Church, but that rev. gentleman is understood to have accepted the rectory of Heavitree, to which he was nominated by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. DEPTFORD AND WOOLIVICII—It is understood that Mr. Childers intends to effect the vast economy which will ensue by closing the Royal dockyards of Woolwich and Deptford with as little delay as will be compatible with the exigencies of the service. Two very important pieces of patronage which have hitherto been vested in the hands of the First Lord of the Ad miralty will thus be abolished—we allude to the post of Captain-Superintendent at each yard.—Army and Navy tiazette. THE BASTARDY LAWS.—At the meeting of the Marylebone V es t ry yesterday, Mr. S up r id ge move d : "That the v es t r i es and district boar d s o f th e me t ropo li s be invited to j o i n thi s vestry in petitioning the Govern ment to introd u c e a bi ll in the ensu i ng sess i on o f Par liament to amend the bastardy law, with a view of check ing the fearful and growing crime of infanticide." Mr. Islael Abrahams seconded the motion, and after some dis cussion the whole subject was referred to a committee. On© of the latest patents taken out is that for an improvement in the mode of fastening shirt studs, buttons, and solitairs. The plan of Mr. Jeffery's of Vrttonham court-road, the patentee, is the adoption of a crescent at the back of each stud instead of the circular piece now in use. The effect of such an arrangement is that one point of the crescent is no sooner inserted in the buttonhole than by a single turn the remainder of the back passes through, and the stud or button becomes in proper posi tion without the slightest fear of coming out. The re moval of the stud is effected as easily as the insertion. From the facility and security of the fastening its adop tion will no doubt become universal, as it entirely super sedes all the inconveniences attending the plan now in use. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAlR.—lkins. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers, Depot, 266, High Holborn SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that the inauguration of the new procedure for the trial of election petitions is an epoch in constitutional history ; a change in the place of trial is in itself significant, and will tend to produce a salutary effect. The new court has not, it is true, in the course of a single afternoon thoroughly emancipated inquiries into charges of bribery from their traditional character of something exceedingly humorous and comic in the eyes of bystanders. The removal of the investigation from Westminster to the very scene of the subject of trial has in some measure even aggravated the evils of this tendency by increasing the number of im mediately interested spectators. The laughter which welcomed a telling question or answer, together with the reception accorded by the crowd outside the Town Hall to particular persons, might seriously embarrass the course of justice if repeated on the scale of Bristol or Nottingham. Further on, in alluding to the increased confidence which the country will repose in the exposition of legal principles of the judges, instead of by Parliamentary Committees, the Times declares that the end to be desired in this new pro cedure for the trial of election petitions is that it should be assimilated, so far as is practicable, to ordinary trials conducted by the judges of assize. One great difference there is, and must remain. There is no jury, and there could not well be one, since a jury chosen from the locality would be obviously too partial, and it would be invidious to allow a jury chosen elsewhere to decide on the exercise of the franchise in another community. But the want of a jury will not in all our judgments be a defect in the con stitution of the tribunal. Courts of equity succeeded to their own satisfaction formerly, and still, in the majority of cases, succeed, in arriving at conclusions of fact without such external auxiliaries. The spectacle of common law judges, with the assistance of members of their own common law bar, dispensing with juries in election petitions, and no failure of justice ensuing, may prove a formidable argument in favour of the heresy that juries, even in the common trials of fact at common law, are not indispensable for the extraction of truth. The Post thinks that the change which has now Peen effected will probably conduce as much to secure purity and freedom of election as did the first assumption of juris diction by the House of Commons in similar matters three centuries ago. It is, however, remarkable that the pro posal to transfer this jurisdiction to the common law judges should have been mainly opposed by thein and that, notwithstanding a strong protest addressed in their name by the Lord Chief Justice of England to her Majesty's Government, the House should have insisted on their accepting these new functions. It was perhaps reasonable that the judges, jealous of their character and desirous to keep aloof from political strife, should be unwilling to adjudicate in matters in which rival factions muster all their strength against each other; but, on the other hand, every one must feel that the appre hensions expressed by the judges, that their decisions should be questioned on the ground of partiality, were and will be utterly unfounded. A judge, and least of all an English judge, should not fear to act in a matter judicially in which he is personally uninterested ; and we may say with confidence that whatever dissatisfac tion the decisions which within the next few months will be pronounced by the learned judges who have under taken the trial of election petitions during the present year may give to the partisans of disappointed petitioners, or unseated members, it will not be due to any suspicion of those decisions having been prompted by political bias. If dissatisfaction is occasioned, it may be owing to the time that will be exhausted in trying so many petitions, and the consequent delay in pronouncing on the claims of several who have been returned to the House of Commons. It is at present quite uncertain how long an election petition will take to be tried, but it is supposed that the Windsor trial will exhaust a week, if not more, and others will probably occupy the judge two or three weeks. If this should be so, months may elapse before all the present petitions are tried. Power is, however, reserved by the Act enabling the election judges to seek the assistance of their col leagues in the different courts if necessary. On one point- the House of Commons and the public may rest satisfied. With such able and experienced judges as those who have been appointed there will be no lack of efficiency or promptitude. The experiment which is now being made is in every respect novel, but we have every confi dence that the results will be such as to induce a regret that it was not adopted long ago. The Herald, in examining the arguments respecting Mr. Baxter's pamphlet, observes that it is not a question of seats gained or lost. The Radicals have more votes than before, but they represent a smaller number of the popu lation. In the new Parliament the Radicals represent 16,811,000, and the Conservatives 12,106,000. In other words, the reduced Conservative minority represents a population nearly half a million in excess of that which it represented in the old Parliament, and that excess means a loss to the Radicals to that extent. This is a fact which cannot be diluted or obscured, and to honest and thoughtful Radicals it should suggest materials for serious reflection. We are told that the Conservatives are "nowhere," and that they have no policy. The Herald thinks that they will be found in tolerably imposing strength when the House of Commons resumes, and that if their ranks are thinner, their cohesive power will be conspicuous. As to their policy, it is for the Ministry, and not for the Opposition, to supply occasions for declaring it and enforcing it, and when the time comes it will be found that there is no lack of unanimity in asserting it. Let Mr. Gladstone make known his intentions, and the judgment of the Conservative party will be prompt and decisive. If it is his policy to sweep away the Irish Establishment and appropriate its revenues regardless of justice or decency, it will be their policy to offer him that " uncompromising resistance " long since announced by the Conservative Premier. If it is his policy to create a surplus by starving the defensive services, cutting down the strength of the army, and abolishing dockyards and arsenals, it will be their policy to restrain him by every means of opposition within their power. He has but to say what he means to do, and he will find that the Conservative party are strong enough and united enough to make their principles heard and respected. The Daily News remarks upon the meeting of the ritualistic clergy, and says that it contrasted in its calm and orderly tone with the one held a month ago to discuss the Natal grant. Differences of opinion were great, how ever, for some of the clergy desired to conform to the judgment of the Privy Council, while others were for ignoring its effect. The situation, indeed, was very simple. • Resistance to the law is co n t umacy, and con tumacy on the part of a clergyman involves a forfeiture of position and privileges. To " await the Providence of God" in Mr. Bennett's sense, is to await the arrival of the officer of the law who will inevitably turn you out of your church. Much wiser were the counsels which prevailed, although of course no clergyman is bound by anything that was said or done at the meeting. If the Vicar of Frome is really "unable to reconcile submission" to the decree of the Privy Council with "his paramount an d primary duty of obedience to the Church," his fate ma y be predicted, and we can only feel sorry for him. The whole meeting agreed with Mr. Bennett that the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is wrong, and that the court is incompetent to declare the mind of the Church of England upon any subject whatever. The Telegraph believes, from the meeting at the Free- masons Tavern, that the " Anglo-Catholic Party" does not mean to leave the Church of England, or to propose an open defiance of the law. In commenting upon the future that lies before this extreme section, the Telegraph observes that the best course for the ritualists to pursue was that suggested by one of their cleverest advccates, the Rev. Mr. Littledale. In effect, he advised them to accept the recent judgment, to accept it readily, and to strive for such an alteration of the Prayer Book as would give the Anglo-Catholic party more room for action. By the help of their position as members of the Esta blishment, they had, he said, done much to change the features of the Church ; why then, he asked, give up that advantage at the very hour when it was most needed ? Precisely the same question is asked even by those who stand farthest apart from the ritualists in doctrine. With ritualism the bulk of the English people have but little sympathy—on that point it were fatal to use ambiguous words ; but the English people have no objection to give the most extreme High Church party fair play and plenty of room for honest discussion. Least of all do the Liberals wish to see the Church split up into two parts on account of a difference of opinion respecting the value of altar lights and genuflexions. If, indeed, the Anglo• Catholic doctrine should some day be found to conflict with that of the English Establishment on a vital point, such as the Real Presence, and if no common term should be attainable, then, indeed, many might deem themselves bound to leave the Church. But that day has not yet arrived, and the meeting of yesterday wi se l y rejected the proposal that for the love of altar lights the extreme High Churchmen should resist the law —or, in other words, banish themselves from the Establishment, and forfeit the possession of its magnificent appliances for the spread of Christian truth. The installation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon as P.G.M. of Somerset, has just taken place at the Masonic Hall, Bath. The ceremony drew together a very large number of the fraternity, not only from the immediate, but from other provinces. The following gentlemen were on Monday called within the bar in the Court of Queen's Bench, and took their seats accordingly :—Mr. W. G. Lumley, Mr. Edmund F. goore, Mr, B. A, Ore,Ryllll JSeracreet.*r, Parker 134!incl . Volt% LUOkintvii. GAROTTING. At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinnurgh, a young man named William Favkett, has been found gu ilty of an assault with intent to rob in Dundee, in May last, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. In the course of the evidence the following letter, written by the prisoner while in Dundee gaol, was read :—"Dundee Prison, July 18, 1868.—Dear Brother, the only thing am afraid of is that moll : if you can manage to square her I fear nothing ; but if she swears she saw me have him by the throat it will not go well with me, for they are most d— down on garotting. Then, again, if she Bar; she saw him with that amount of money, by heavens they might put me in for the robbery too, and there ig 7 years dead certain. You don't know what a like that will say. It can surely to God be squared between so many of you, and only the moll to come against me ; if the block is in town he could be:easily squared, I think, you could get him sweet, put the gloves on him and thing; like that, and get him to say that he cannot swear to me in court, that would be all that was wanted. Or it is very easy giving that moll a dose. Put Ginger up to it, who the h— would take notice of a w— kicking the bucket? I would do it for you. If any of them is squared tell Ginger to just sign M. H. at the bottom of her letter, so as I may know. I think it would be a good idea for my mother to get the block privately and make an a ppeal to him, he would have a little feeling for her, I think ; if you was getting him into the Garrick the wifey could talk to him so fine. If you only had one of them squared that's all that is wanted, for I am certain there is no more against me but them two. Set your brains to work and stick at nothing, tell them not to be afraid of perjury in this case, they can't be brought in for it no how; swear black is white ; I must get off if they do the r ight thing ; swear to anything, swear the b— wigs off their heads, there is no danger of being brought in for perjury. in this case, not a d— bit.—BILL." At the head of the letter the following was written across the page " Poison the moll if she will not do what's right ; by I would think d— little of doing it to save my brother. Ginger will fix her if you tell her to." The following was written inside the envelope of the letter :—" They must not forget about me having a sore hand—that might help me to, as it would not be very likely I could seize him 11 the throat and compress the same, as it is stated in m 9 commitment ; that will be a good point, I think, he being a stout man. Tell them to be sure & stick to not seeing the block, and that I slept in the house that night; not likely that I could hold him with one hand ; they can swear that my right hand was very sore, and not fit to be used anyhow, as it was and no mistake." It came out in the course of the evidence that the meaning of the word "block" was "a man whom a woman might pick up in the street," that "moll" was the name for a woman, and that "Ginger" was a nickname for one of the female witnesses. A "CASUAL" PRISONER. A reporter of the Toronto Daily Globe newspaper, in' fluenced, no doubt, by Mr. Greenwood's doings as an " amateur casual," managed to get into Toronto gaol dig' guised as a criminal, and to spend twenty-four hours there in the character, for the purpose of knowing something of gaol life from the prisoner's point of view. Holt he managed to get in is thus aludecl to in an article in a recent number of the Globe, entitled " Twenty-four Hours within the Walls of Toronto Gaol.' " By the aid of a little dust-throwing, and of a warrant of 8 mmitment obtained from an obliging alderman, who we ° quite innocent of the scheme, I on Saturday afternoon found myself pretty well disguised, and as villanous * looking customer as need be, at the entrance of the gaol, in charge of an official, in the character of `remand." After describing his first sensations on entering , his first rencontre, and the horrible stench in the corridor , he followed the crowd of prisoners to a large bare room, in which there were some forms, with basins and s poong about two feet apart on the forms. " The prisoners lifted the basins and spoons, and sat down to eat supper on oatmeal porridge, without milk, sugar, or molasses.' `Can't you eat it? whispered my companion. N o ,' said L whereon he changed basins, and soon emptied the second. Supper's over,' shouted a turnkey before rn anyhad finished , and instantly all had to leave." The experience of that night explained the stench of the corridor where our casual and two others passed the night in cold and 'nisei' The breakfast was a lump of badly-cooked bread, a little salt, and a pint of water. Sunday school is next described , and the hypocrisy of some of the vilest prisoner° in the presence of the teachers, who were of both se xes. The women teachers appeared more anxious to induce the prisoners to promise to plead guilty when tried than for anything else. The dinner of barley soup and bread Iv° unpalatable to the writer, and long before na nny had finished the o r d er was g i ven , " D own dishes.'' Most of the prisoners who spoke about themselves blamed drink for their sufferings, and nearly all of them said they could not help it, that they wanted moral power. One said, " Look at me, the husband of a decent wife, th e father of seven children, the son of as well-living a mall e l ever lived, whose heart would break were he to see te e here; and yet lam heie, and all through drink. l‘fl God ! My God ! My wife !" And lie went away wringing his hands. Sunday night came without th e arrival of the reporter's bail bonds, and he had tried to confess to the governor his real character, so thorough'y. tired was he of gaol life. The g overnor sa id h e wo uld hear what he had to say to-morrow morning, and, write: this amateur prisoner, " I was herded down stake. h once more got hold of a pail, entered the corridor, and passed into a cell, which was kindly vouch" safed to me without my taking a bath. I asked fe l a little water, but even this small luxury was refused in ge surly manner, and I shook up my straw as best I could ill the dark. I lay down with rather a feeling of irritatio n at the delay of my bail bonds, but in a few minutes I heard my 220772 de guerre shouted in the corridor ; my cell was unlocked, and in a few minutes more I stood in the pure, fresh air of.heaven, a free man. And if ever I enter' the precincts of a gaol again, either as a casual or iri any other capacity, depend upon it it shall be because can't help it." LAW AND POLICE. A LIBEL CASE.—A trial which excites great interest °, commercial and financial circl es h as b een comme nce" at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Commission er Kerr. The ac cuse d i s M r . Elli sen, a gentleman of go o d standing and position, who, as chairman of a committal of shareholders in the Ottoman Railway Comps i 1 addressed a letter to Lord Stanley, reflecting upon 14 1 directors in respect to their m anagemen t o f t h e a ff a irs the company, for which he is now indicted as a falg es scandalous, and malicious libel. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.-At the Central Criraixifei Court, on Tuesday, Morris, who is charged with fraud s ' lently attempting to obtain a large sum of money frorp gas company upon claims arising out o f th e fi re at S a vil4 House, Leicester-square, surrender e d t o t a k e hi s tr i a l. It may be remembered that on the previous day, being )0 on bail, he did not appear when called on, and his reed' nisances were entreated ; as well as a warrant issued for apprehension. His counsel explained that his 0114 surrender arose out of a mistake as to the day, but the Recorder said that the warran t must take its course, he was at once handed over to the gaoler. THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—An important decision was that in the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday , respect to the petition against Mr. W. H. Smith, t he sitting member for Westminster, who claimed that the petition should be taken off the file because it did 11° furnish the particulars requi re d by th e s t atute an d by the rules framed under it. It was contended that this V' T i very insufficient time for the d e f ence , b ut the Lord Chi ef Justice refused a rule, and the cour t a dh ered to the or de" , laid down.. A similar decision was given at Edinburgh ° the case of Mr. Grieve, the member for Greenock. A STRIKING CONTRAST.—It has often been said thi 4 the law has more regard for property than for persons, two recent decisions confirm this assertion. A let te ' j sorter, charged at the Central Criminal Court with st eibi c i ing a letter and f org i ng an or d er for £1 55., was sentenc e to five years' pe na l serv i tu d e. At the Worship-stree t Police-court, a woman crossing the road at Mile-end O i ci l knocked down by a furiously - galloping horseman f' ll ,, much injured. Th e o ff en d er escaped ith a pena l " of 40s. MR. BEWICKE AGAIN.—Mr. Bewicke, of Threepvl 6 l Hall, North um b er l and, who has already made bliss° I conspicuous in th e l aw courts, made two applications °II an unusual character on Tuesday in the Court of Qu eell o Bench. The first was for a rule calling upon Mr. Jus ti- t Keating to sh e w cause w h y a cr i m i nal information shou ldn°, be filed agai ns t hi m f or lib e l . Thi s application was re fuse: on the ground that such a motion could only b e m ade 1/ J . counsel. Mr. Bewicke then mo ve d f or a ru l e to sta y P ceedings in the Divorce Court till an act i on w hi c h he DP:,I brought against Sir James Wilde for malversation justice had been tried. The judges held that they had 13 0 power over the Divorce Court, and this motion also vc refused. fuu SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. — A fo r tragedy has just taken place in the Rue d'Angounnie dd Temple, Paris. A land measurer appears to have li ve d on bad terms with his wife. More than once they 11 % parted. Less than a w ee k b ac k t h e w i fe returne d to b e ri husband after a fresh se p ara ti on . Th e peace was of 013°4 duration. A few night s s i nce two pistol shots were h eal in the apartment, and on an entry being forced husband was found t o h ave fi re d a b ullet i nto hi s WP ag e head, and then blown out his own brains. The vr 0133 was still alive.