The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1869 • ~....... _ ROYALTY THEATRE. - among the list of annual entertainments. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. r IFE BOAT SERVICES. -During the Storms LATEST INTELL IGENCE. .x. 4 of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. • The late election has convinced the Liberal party . • THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Sir. Dewar, Miss (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) contributed to the saving of 853 lives from variou s shi p - M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF generally, and not a few o f the Conservative p art y , (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) wracks and 25 vessels from destruction. The Institution RICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar 41.- pression PARIS, THURSDAY, January 7. also expended £20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat Mr. Danvers: Miss Collinson. and Miss M. Oliver. To con- that there can be no honest and accurate ex - Establishments, in addition to granting £ 2 , 432 for re- tlude with EVERYBODY ' S HUSBAND. of the national will until protection has been afforded THE CONFERENCE. -The Gaudin affair has passed into a new and most wards. VIENNA, Jan. 8. . ' to the individual voter. The tyranny of Conserve- exciting phase of its history. The monotony of fine and The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. public for assistance to enable them to meet t he continued Under the Management of Miss M ar ie Wilton] tive landowners and the clergy has been extreme; and The P resse of to-day says :-" We learn that the imprisonment for "exciting to contempt " has been heavy demands on their 194 Lifeboat Establishments. THIS EVENING, SOCIETY: Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montague, Yaried by a most unexpected incident. Baron Contributions will be thankfully received by the London Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft ; Mrs. Buckingham - White, Liberal manufacturers have,intoo many instences, fol- question of the admission of the representative of S6guier, the Procureur-Imperial of Toulouse, has resigned and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Miss C. Addison. and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO lowed their bad example. In Lancashire, especially Greece to the Conference has been definitively because les will not submit to the pressure which the Keeper of the Seals wished to exercise upon Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. SPEAKS FIRST ! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C. Addison. in Blackburn, the strange spectacle has been seen of settled. He will be admitted in order to give in- T UXUR I A N T WHISKERS AND ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. working men coercing their colleagues-of Orange formation, and to be enabled to defend the conduct him in the matter of the recent press trials. M. 11-4 MOUS TAC H E S.-Hundreds testify to the success of men driving Liberal fellow-workers THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud and Tory factory Seguier puts the case briefly and pointedly. FOX'S NOTED FORMULA, which forces whiskers and moo- of the Greek Government, but he will not be of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, 11 1 Clifton, and THE stashes to grow heavily in six weeks on the smoothest face,out of the factory by main force. In such a He has given offence at headquarters because he MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY. H. allowed to bring forward any proposition. The deemed it incompatible with his conscience as a magistrate without injuring the skin. A sure remedy for baldness. Thi r t een stamps -fir. Fox, Chemist, Macclesfield, Cheshire. matter as this the resort to the tu quoque argument CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 demand of Russia that the representative of Greece and with the dignity of justice to press in a court is useless. If the Tory landowner, when accused of Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY should be admitted to the Conference as a member of law for a judgment which had been previously intimidation, says that the Liberal millowner is TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth arranged at Paris. This resignation has caused great ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. -THREE BA LLETS,entitled to vote has been rejected, and M. Delyanni, powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects thoequally guilty, he does not extenuate his own fault, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office enamel from decey, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to therefore, will not go to Paris." open from 11 to 4. but only gives additional force to the assertion that . papers have jubilantly republished Baron Sguier's letter. the breath. Price ls. 6d.-Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Th a mes street. London. the Ballot is necessary to protect the electors. If It is said that the Directors and the Council of T he official j ournals have p rinted it also, though for the ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerrs-perk, OPEN daily (ex NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. eept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mcndays, 6(1.; Children the recrimination be well founded, the evil is proved Management of the Credit Anstalt have adopted a most part without comment. The Journal de Paris A GUA. A MARELLA restores the Human Hair under twelve, od. --..... to be universal, and therefore the remedy is no plan for reducing the capital of the company, no longer a party measure, but is equally for the whereby every holder of five shares will receive says . this letter deserves to rank as one of the most curious and instructive documents that the histo f to Its pristine hue, no matter at what age. ~., 1. , 'e. 9-7 4a 1„ , - teens of the Second Empire could consult. It JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid 'gel y ee - benefit of all, if, indeed, it be a benefit. of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect- r tr.. 0 ' 'ILO-F'-:.' four new shares and 200 florins. is a reassuring symptom for the friends of ins this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public '• 1 11; ey , eloe-ei Ilat Is it a benefit ? That is to be ascertained only by rams, Jan. 8. liberty and justice. M. St'euier's resignation is an in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. 4....a - .4, _1•• - 4,a , , _ seeing what we lose and what we gain through the honour to the body to which he belongs. He has Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., is. 6d~ and 15s. each. Ballot, and by comparing the gain with the loss. There saerif cod his career to his sense of duty. The Etendard , including brush. the Powers invited to take part in the Conference on the other hand, is very savage at the baron, and Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Tham es- LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1869. can be no doubt that, ceteris paribus, open voting is street London. E.C. • better than secret voting. The vote is merely the which the elector expresses his convic- have accepted the proposal to fix the first sitting publishes a long sophistical argument to prove that To-morrow is the day fixed ifir the first meeting fi na l ac t b y he ought to have acted differently. If cut and TIIEA T R E ROYAL, DRURY-LANE for the 9th inst. - dried judgments in public trials are just, then M. S4guier Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. of the Paris Conference, There was an endeavour tion. It has no effect upon his fellow-electors. If PORTUGAL. was wrong ; but if it be right in a magistrate to refuse to Special Morning Performances of the Grand Pantomime on apparently at the last moment, by the Turkish he would influence them, he must reason with distort justice by seeking in his official capacity for a pre every Wednesuay and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays. made, LISBON, Jan. 7. THISZVENING, will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. Ambassador to delay its assemblage, on the pretext them, privately or publicly ; he must discuss at the dinner-table, harangue from. the platform. arranged verdict, then the resignation of the Procureur- Te be7ollowed by the Great Christmas pantomime, entitled The President of the Council has informed the Imperial must meet with 'approval from all except the GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; 012, HARLEQUIN Puss IN Boors, of his not having as yet received sufficiently clear and eND THE MILLER'S Sees, with new and magnificent Scenery But acts like these are, ex hypothesi, out of the by Mr. Wm. Beverle 3 r. Characters in the Opening by the entire detailed instructions from his Government. But question on the part of a man who wishes to vote Chamber of Deputies that the Ministers had ten- Government. strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupedered their resignation, which the King had ac- Baron Seguier will now practise at the Paris bar. of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of that effort at the bringing about of another vexatious • The Etendard supports the Constitutionnel in its state auy Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at secretly. It is easy to imagine how great a loss cepted. half-past 3, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. postponement has, by general assent among the other meat that the elections will be held in May. would sometimes occur through this absence of The Emperor's shooting party-of which the Chevalier 11 HEATRE ROYAL, II AYMAR KE T. p arties to the notion of a Conference, been overruled; arguments. There are times when the many POLICE IiVTELLIGENCE-This Day. Nigra was one-made an enormous bag. The Emperor, Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. and, according to allprobability, the plenipotentiaries -41- go wrong, and the few alone see clearly and see THIS EVENING, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Messrs. will to-morrow be in solemn conclave brought MARLBOROUGH- STREET. ofcourse, took the " leger," the Italian Ambassador coming 1 , Buckstone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdamesrightly. Such a time was the general election of 1857, next. What is more important, lam credibly informed Ada Cavendish, Chippendale. Burke. Fitzwilliam, Ac. together for the first time. At the last Paris Con- AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.-- SINGULAR CASE.- that his Majesty, who seemed in good health and spirits, Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. al e ssrs. Comp- when the great majority of the nation supported that ton, Kendal. Weaihersby, Buckstone, jun., &e. ; Mesdames ference we all still remember only too painfully one policy in China which has within the present week Przenystan Jonza Tetrozawski, an interpreter, wiz ' expressed to his companions the greatest confidence in the 1 Wright. Burke, Gwynn. &e. brought before Mr. Knox on a warrant charged maintenance of peace. C o mmence at Seven. of the incidents which occurred. Quite unexpectedly received an official, though indirect, condemnation. with using threatening language towards his wife. 1 , ...... The ex Queen Isabella had flattered herself that she the matters there discussed among the plenipoten- Men like Mr. COBDEN, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. GIBSON Mr. Parkes appeared for the complainant, a lady - would receive an invitation to the great ball at the I THEATRE ROYAL , ADELPIII. . . lost their seats because the S o l e Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER . tunes of the great powers, wandered off at a tangent y denounced the high- like female, about 20 years of age, the defendant Tuileries ; but if the invitation w as received it was not Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, to a question threatening to implicate Englandmade use of. Her Majesty was not there. It was doubt ! THIS EVENING. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE handed proceedings of Sir JOHN BOWRING and Lord being about 45. in the way of complicity in the gagging, or, at any resided at No. 16, less the fear of an awkward rencontre between Olozaga • TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. aelmore, Mrs. L. Murray. . ?..t a quarter to S. MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Feebler. Mr. Benin- PALMER.STO.N'S endorsement of them. Those else- The complainant said she min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, rate, in a connivance in the gagging, of the tom who censured these proceedings and this endorse- i I , lemming's-row and was married to the defendant and his late sovereign which suggested to the Emperor the prudent course of inviting only one of the two. The • Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart. Mr. C 11. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Belgian press. With that incident the noble 'We at the Lincoln's-inn chapel on the 16th April last. Smith, Mr. Bonier. Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. Miss meat were immensely unpopular, and ran no 11 , Queen was particularly anxious, I hear, to learn how the Carlotta Leclereq,Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Nelly Harris. lord now at the head of the Foreign-office is only too 1 Two or three months ago the defendant commenced Spanish Ambassador would deport himself in her presence. imagine, also risk of insult and loss. If these persons had had the a course of ill-treatment towards her. On one Would he salute her? One of her friends suggested that occasion he brought ho m e t w o gentlemen and left as the Queen and Olozaga had already met in the streets ROYAL PRINCESS'S Ballot, the majority of them would probably have i Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. [ THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. availed themselves of it, and thus the country would too painfully, because remorsefully associated, for it have failed to hear even the few faint voices them with her, and when he returned and she spoke of Madrid, and the latter not saluted her, though Queen After which tats o'clock) Dion Boncienult's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life. to h t ' Lave as ye in any of its particulars slipped from I to him respecting it he struck her. A few weeks of Spain at that time, so it was less likely that he would Messrs. Vining-, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt, which were raised against the national verdict. ago he told her that he would make her do are . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. his remembrance. The recurrence of a scandal of As it was, they were heard, they had. some influence- - things she never thought of. A month ago take any notice of the fallen sovereign at the Tuileries. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds an assistants. not much, perhaps, at the time, but afterwards, when Olozaga was at the ball, and sat at the Imperial table at slipper. Of course it would have been awkward had To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. this kind must, under present circumstances, be the defendant came home and told me that she Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open sedulously and resolutely guarded against. The mat- Isabella been one of the select party. The Empress was dally from 10 till 5. passions were subdued and the mind was once more .could go, and he then took two razors out of a case capable of weighing arguments. This advantage we very gracious to the Ambassador, and sent her warm ter to be discussed at the Conference must be kept - and wanted to take her wedding ring from her, but thanks to the wife of General Prim who forwarded a ' DI OYAL STRAND THEATRE. shall lose by the Ballot. We may lose, too, the force ' ! she would not let him have it, as he h ad before , Christmas present to the Prince Imperial. Such are the S o le Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. within proper limits, must not be perm i tt e d t o stra y _l_l, THIS EVENING, at 7.30. THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. of a strong expression of public feeling, at a time taken other rings from her, and he then took out a ways o f roya lt y . Clarke. Belford, Joyce: Mesdames But an and Maitland, away into forbidden topics, least of all to stray into ! knife and threatened to disfigure her. She then The Gambia very pointedly complains that despatches After which, THE FIELD Os' TE.E CLOTH OF GOLD.when such expression is valuable, when a great topics that would hazard the compromising of the Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long- w . &c. di g nity and consistency of the policy of the Bri- wrong has to be redressed, such as the Irish Church I M left home and went direct to her father's, a builder from Constantinople have been stopp ed at the Ministrymore, more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland T o conclude Kith A COMICAL COUNTESS. Establishment. Possibly-probably - the votes would in Marble-lane, and had r emained there ever since, tish Government. If before the closing of a have been even more decisively in favo ur of Mr. I being in fear of the defendant. of the Interior. The editor knows the intelligence was sent; he does not believe they were lost on the way; ergo T. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S Conference of this kind, it were in any way pos - CraeasToa - E's policy if they had been taken In answer to the defendant, they have been suppressed. The law permits the stoppage `I k ) HALL).—Great Success of SARDANAPALUS.-The new and alteration of despatches, and it is notorious that Drama, SAVED, and the original Ni ne yi t i s h Burlesque of BAR- Bible for the diplomatic representatives of the by Ballot than they are now ; but though ; The Complainant sa id h e struck her in the pre- . . . this privilege is frequently made use of. But why DANAPALUS (received with roars of laughter and applause). + ' Evei y Evening, at half-past 7.—The best Shilling Pit in Lon- Great Powers of Christendom, then and there assem- the parliamentary majority might have been Bence of the two gentlemen she had spoken of. should this information be held back ? Did it contain : • don.- -Morning Performances, preceded by ICI ON PARLE irger, the individual members would not be so I Miss Ellen Phillips, sister of the complainant, bled toeether in peaceful deliberation, to agree to a 1 anything unfavourable to the issue of the Conference, FRANCAIS, on Saturday, Jan. 9, and on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at together Two p.m disarmament or to a very considerable resolute in their parliamentary action if they were spoke of the defendant's violence of conduct, he which, as it sits at Paris, the Emperor would like to be generalhaving broken a looking glass and a number of successful? reduction of the standing armies now weighing not acquainted with the opinions of their const i- GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. -At 7, GOOD ! chimney ornaments in a fit of anger, and also of All your readers will have heard of, and may have seen, FOR NOTHING. so heavily upon the vital energies of France, of Au: tuents. Of course it does not follow that because I his general ill-treatment of the complainant. the Morgue, that ghastly institution where bodies of the At a quarter to 8, Mr. J. Byron's original Comedy, in five acts, entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David trig, of Prussia, of Italy, of Russia-well and good. electors . are not able to vote secretly they will keep unknown dead are exposed for recognition. A great event In answer to the defendant, their opinions secret. The Ballot does possess the Fiche , Newbound, Andrews, Tisdale, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; We are not living, however, in Utopia, in Ar- Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hu figs, and If . f great advantage of offering secresyto those who need The Witness said that she had never seen him in connection with this dismal place is announced in the Moniteur. For two days the Morgue has been empty-an Stephens. cadia, in Arnaorica. The age is hard, material, and strike the complainant, as he had told her (witness) • that he knew the law too well to do so. occurrence unprecedented within the memory of man. The very matter of fact. We have to look not only to ROI AL AMPHITHEA TRE AND CIRCUS, it, without enforcing it upon those who do not. number of bodies exposed averages rather more HOLBORN. what ought Nevertheless, there will be always a tendency on the to be done by ourselves, but part of timid persons to resort to this mode of voting, Arthur Herring, one of the warrant officers, said The most charming entertainment in London. Two Thousand Five Hundred a eats. No crowding. No confusion. The that the defendant admitted breaking some of the remarkabl e regu l ar ity. Sometimes a day passes without than one a day, and this instalment is kept up with SCENES in the ARENA unparalleled and matchless. The to what is being done all around us. and thus weaken the force of public opinion; for this . things, but denied using any threat towards his any corpse being brought in, but this interval of forty beautiful Horses alone worth seeing. Great success of the Anything in the way of a disarmament is to be ascertained not so much in a polling-booth as Holiday Programme. The Great Carre Troupe every evening, 1 wife. eight hours is the first on record. be effected as the result of a introducing Herr Oscar Carre and his magnificent stud of Fifty must Performing Horses. The laughter provoking Clowns, Burgess gene- in the committee-room. The defendant said that from the time of his and Loyal, in a series of whimsicalities, novel and new. In ad- ral compromise and of a common and simultaneous There is a further disadvantage in secret voting : officer has invented a new arm which will fire 200 times a marriage lie had been unhappy-his wife con- The People's Gazette, of Berlin, announces that a Russian dition, a spectacular bit of Pantomimic Extravagance, entitled THE MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY, in which the whole agreement. Is such an arrangement as that in the minute and will easily cover with a shower of balls a space nute, tinually making a pantomime at home. He was strength of the establishment will take part, besides 250 troops it permits crotcheteers to carry out their crotchets of thirty yards square. All friends of peace must hope without remonstrance. There are some persons who excited through his wife's conduct. She was proud and beautiful ponies. Doors open at Seven, commence at half smallest degree probable-at this moment-now, inn- • that this statement is correct. 'When war becomes a past. Morning Performances Monday, Wednesday, and Satur day, commencing at Bait-past Two. mediately ? Let those answer who have watched the ' • are ever taking up some petty question and making ; and thought him a rich man, but he was not, . . ... that the test of their political orthodoxy. They hold :' though he was a member of a respectable family. practical Impossibility we may see the standing armies disbanded. most closely and searchingly the evidences of public LICENSED VICTUALIZIL.T Guam:axle up a sixpence close to their eyes, and the sixpence I • He would be glad if she would leave him, and if _ - fl. R. GLENIE, of the Sporting Library, o p inion, of p o p ular feelin g , of national ardour, on s h uts ou t th e w h o l e un i verse . Th e y t a k e u p such she never saw him again. He was very unhappy I THE WEATHER TABLE.-TIIIS DAY. cji • 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, VT., begs to either side of the frontier line between France and topics afact beings the inspection of nunneries and the i-the , inform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general. lat he has been appointed Agent for the above-named paper in Prussia during these last two or three years. As regulation of clerical vestments, and determine his wife in her opinion. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. ddition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Time SUN," nd can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town well expect to witness the advent, the day after to- that they will vote for no man who does Mr• Knox said he should call on the defendant to Extreme Sea Sr country. G. R. G. begs to inform the Trade that ae is Agent fur the morrow, of the millenial time, when- not promise to do what they wish. If they I enter into his recognisances in the sum of £5O to Friday. le. F ' 0 LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlie. 1 Jan. 8, B. I'. a .,- W. Ito Ir. D. WR. to i,san any other man in London or Country the e veui eg of i saa• The tender infant in its hand shall take vote secretly, the other electors have no control over • keep the peace for three months, and he would ad- 8 a.m. i''' 12 9 :mien. No connection with any other persons. Daily's, Ran- I _—____ -- ____._ J -- —. _ lrrig , ,t's, and ]1 Call's Guides. All the Daily rapers, Mai.g, The crested basilisk and speckled snake. them, no control of the proper kin d-that moral control vise that a friend of the defendant should arrange Nairn - 2 Periodicals as soon as pub;ished. Agent fur Cue Joie: A. Conference 'lad always to exercise has been effectual, before now, in which a sound mind ought ~ upon a with • _ Mr Parkes on the part of the complainant for Aberdeen 1 9 W b 3014 f. 50 47 W. 5 '• ' ' - 1 tuL8 1, , ,... r o c , l ,lc; irap,....7. Orders by post attended to. A 3 W. o, - _ stopping bloodshed, or in it. But it is mind which has a tendency to monomania. Another l between a separation to take p ace the parties, and Shields .... 30'24f. 47 45 S.W. 2 2 SIY. am - 2 Scarborough 30•30 f. 45 44 S,.W. 2 4 SW. 2 preventingYarmouth.. 30.39 f. 46 le S.W. 3 3 N.N.W.I.m. - 3 T HE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "to as powerless as anything else that could be named, disadvantage of the Ballot is that it violates the e if thong proper a divorce could be applied for by Helder .... - - - - _ _ _ _ 1L- be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S, principle of the franchise being a trust to be If the defendant the complainant. was guilty of Oemeaven.. - - - - asudeantes • - - - - _ .__ - - - -itannia, Kendal New-town. as a means for putting an end to all war, as a prac exercised for the good of others. This principle is any further violence, &c., complainant could come Ardrossan .. 3017 f. 49 47 S.W. 4 4 • - j; ...7„, Green castle 30'18f. 46 46 W.SW. 2 3 •,,,.7,-,_ ~." - 5 tical method for establishing, at last, for once and for sin and he would assist her. Holyhead .. 30'295. 48 47 SOW. 5 2 i 3 ,..04v. o.c. - _ HE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN," T - SPORTING NEWS of the day, be giving all the , , o may seen 7 all of a reign of Universal Brotherhood. It is undoubtedly not so important as it was before the to•him ag Liver pool .. 30'355. 46 45 S. 1 2 s E • 0 0. ,18.21 - Valeta tia .... 38'31r. 49 47 S.W. 4 5 B F i N ir ~,*f • , 0 . i 1 at TEM viY M A NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," nothing less than idle and fantastic to the last degree Reform Bill. There are more voters, therefore the . WESTMIN STER, Cape Clear.. 30 30r. 48 45 W.S.W. 4 4 i ..__ • 0, .04 3 Roche 's Pt. 30•285. 48 48 W.S.W. 2 6 ;-, in ii, o l o 05 3 Little Britain, City, E.C. elector is trustee for fewer non-electors ; yet, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. - CARELESSNESS OF A Penzance .. 30' . 455. 51 51 S.W. 4 A . S•lir im .1 0 7 10 g to indulge e in these floating day-dreams. One of theelymouth .. 3048 r.. 52 51 W.S.W. 5 w ' s * ' •' O . O so long as the suffrage is not universal, the Collins, a fireman, was charged Wll O'S GRAIN G E R ? LICENSED only i S.W. o.h. - 2 VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST. SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. glimmerings of hope really anywhere to be elector must always be to a certain extent with attempting to commit suicide by taking De rt ren ° „ ut . h . 30: 4 4 9 4 r 5: gii 5 43 w.Tw. i 2 W. o . 1 0. 0 1 1 T SPORTING EDITION of "THE SUN " can be seen at found that theapeGrisri ez 30•41 r. 48 48 W. 4 1 5 N. f.r.c o'ol Hit A INGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight horrors of war may be diminished, at responsible to the non-el t ec or. Finally, the laudanum. . Brest /o'clock. any rate in the frequency of their recurrence, comes Ballot is a remedy, not a preve n ti ve . w James Hill, 212 T, said he was called last night V e ° , r i M e t ;i•.: 38:2g: : 17 V 1 3 4 w.s.w. co ° _ 3 e 3 3 S.E. ip.' - 1 LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "to us from the consideration that science has of late would rather abolish intimidation than frustrate at halfepast seven to Dr. Keen's, in Oakley-street! laa r r u r n it n z a:::: 3018 f. 41 41 E. 3 ___ ._... c.f. - 6 T HE supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. years been rendering it, and is still for that matter it. We would educate the landowners and the clergy Chelsea, where he found the prisoner, who had taken ITru ss ele - - - - 17 -_-: - - - ALEXA N D ER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, IN o. 4, Old street, Oxford-street. even now rendering it more and more appal- and the manufacturers, to see that they are as a dose of laudanum. He was then' quite out of meg ours L e_ 7._ - _ _ _ ___ : 1: - Cavendish, but admitted having taken laudanum from T y oulon .::: 30'26f. 48 - EN - 1E - 1 --- - - -- much guilty of wrong-doing in robbing a man of his • i W.S.IV. b. - -' - tingly destructive. Time was when Captain ' Con- - PIIIIE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" re , a bottle, which was found on him almost drained H eart's a.m. , vote and doing violence to his conscience they ... . , .• • ...II 4.1..... T A TI7CI , IN A PNTFP Txritl, 1,:,. 1-- —— —.. a1.........v• Trrnet CiMllll7 as ey are local time) - - _ a_ r. t. _ A 1-„,,,, hrwight at Mr. Carios R. 1.9 Nina's- -- - - - - - THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied as 503 n as published. containing all the LATEST SEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENC 147, by H W HARRIS, v:ewspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. /111 HE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. 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SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent -garden. WARNER with his long-range theory was simply laughed at as a visionary. It was like talking THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tun EVENING, at 7, MY WIFE'S OUT. Followed by the Grand Pantomime, PUSS IN BOOTS. Commence at 7. of the Irishman's gun warranted to shoot round the corner. The mention of his name provoked a laugh and a shrug of the shoulders. It was almost the same in regard to LieutenantlVAGnoßN when that THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 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, jnn., Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Wright, Burke, tlwPm, &u Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBXRWELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MONIE CRISTO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephensou, C. J. Smith, W H. ' , hurtle, R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. enterprising innovator first broached his notion in respect to an overland journey to llindostan. While it is a matter of history that Dr. LARDNER pro nounced the idea of any steam-ship ever crossing the Atlantic ocean, to be one simply ridiculous. Never theless, in spite of all this, the Road to India is overland—the screw-propeller is perpetually boring its way across the Atlantic to and fro between the Old World and the New—WARNER has been sur passed by WiirrwoPmi —floating batteries have ren dered land fortifications as obsolete as chain-armour or the catapult, as the cross-bow or thebattle- axe --bullets have been made explosive, and rifles breech-loaders, while gunpowder has been eclipsed altogether as a destructive agency by such infernal compounds as that of nitro-glycerine. Missiles and projectiles are becoming so appalling, in fact, that the time may come even yet when nations will think more than twice before they rush to arms. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At S, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. W. Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston: Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Hose Leelercq Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. There is a further disadvantage in secret voting : it permits crotcheteers to carry out their crotchets without remonstrance. There are some persons who are ever taking up some petty question and making that the test of their political orthodoxy. They hold up a sixpence close to their eyes, and the sixpence shuts out the whole universe. They take up such topics as the inspection of nunneries and the regulation of clerical vestments, and determine that they will vote for no man who does not promise to do what they wish. If they vote secretly, the other electors have no control over them, no control of the proper kind—that moral control which a sound mind ought always to exercise upon a mind which has a tendency to monomania. Another disadvantage of the Ballot is that it violates the principle of the franchise being a trust to be exercised for the good of others. This principle is undoubtedly not so important as it was before the Reform Bill. There are more voters, therefore the elector is trustee for fewer non-electors ; yet, so long as the suffrage is not universal, the elector must always be to a certain extent responsible to the non-elector. Finally, the Ballot is a remedy, not a preventive. We would rather abolish intimidation than frustrate it. We would educate the landowners and the clergy and the manufacturers, to see that they are as much guilty of wrong-doing in robbing a man of his vote and doing violence to his conscience as they are in taking his purse or doing violence to his person. About a century ago it was proposed that M.P.'s should have the Ballot in order to protect them against the wrath of the Court. But the Court has been educated into a better state of things. The Sovereign no longer rewards the QUEEN'S " friends," nor sends messages of royal displeasure to those who have not voted according to the royal will. We would rather see this mode of treatment adopted with the intimidators of electors. We frankly confess, however, that the prospect of doing so is not hopeful, and that with the increase in the number of poor electors we can the less afford to wait for a change which seems as remote as it is desirable. ONE of the earliest motions made by private members on the reassembling of the House of Commons will be that moved by Mr. HENRY BERKELEY, and supported by Sir HENRY BULWER, in behalf of the Ballot. This question was for some years under the charge of the philosophical Mr. GROTE. Of late it has been entrusted to the keeping of the jocose Mr. BERKELEY. Under his management the subject cannot be said to have made much progress. It is one thing to amuse the House, another to convince it ; it is one thing to raise cheers and laughter in the debate, another to win a majority in the division. Mr. BERKELEY was better fitted for the former object than for the latter. Ile used to make his annual motion entertaining enough, but he never succeeded in getting it out of the region of joke. With all his earnestness, therefore, it may be doubted if he has not rather retarded than advanced the Ballot: It is dangerous for any question to be associated in the minds of M.P.'s with laughter, even though the laughter be with, not at the advocate. Let the jester be ever so sincere he will not get rid of the idea that his reform is a harmless crotchet, to be laughed at and joked over, but never to be realised. The supporters of the Ballot have, therefore, cause to regret that Sir HENRY BULWER, who had given notice of his intention to take the lead in this subject, has felt himself compelled to yield to Mr. BERKELEY'S claim of precedence; for there are signs and tokens enough that the country is too much in earnest about this question to leave it any longer On the other hand, the undeniable advantages of the Ballot are not few. The protection of the dependent voter, which (rather than the preven tion of bribery) is the main object of the Ballot, would be undoubtedly secured, and the painful con flicts between conscience and interest, between the duty to the State and the duty to the family, would be spared. Then, too, bribery would certainly be diminished, though not, we think, be wholly pre vented. So long as small constituencies continue to exist it would be quite possible for a candidate to adopt Mr. LOWE'S payment for results, and promise that if he were elected there would be so much money forthcoming ; if not elected, there would not be a farthing. But the great temp tation to bribery would cease with the abo lition of published statements of the poll. It is about two o'clock in the afternoon, when the candi dates are neck and neck, when men's blood is hot and their passions are roused, that the agents, if not the principals, attempt to win by purchasing the votes of the venal who have been waiting for this opportunity. And if the election were conducted secretly it would probably be conducted orderly. For lack of information there would be no excited mobs hustling electors and hooting candi dates. On the whole, there are but very few now, we should conceive, but what must admit that the balance is in favour of the Ballot. Certainly, its undeniable advantages are too great for any inde pendent journalist to oppose it. James Hill, 212 T, said he was called last night at half past seven to Dr. Keen's, in Oakley-streets Chelsea, where he found the prisoner, who had taken a dose of laudanum. He was then quite out of danger, but admitted having taken laudanum from a bottle, which was found on him almost drained dry. It had been bought at Mr. Carr's, 342, King's road, and was marked poison, and had contained six drachms, value 6d. Prisoner admitted taking the laudanum, which he said he bought when under the influence of liquor at Mr. Carea. He had been dri n ki n g since Christmas, and was in that state of despondency that he did not know what he was doing, otherwise he had nothing on his mind that would induce him to take his life. Mr. Selfe remanded him to Saturday week, and directed a summons to issue against the druggist. IRISH ELECTION PETITIONS. —Judge Keogh has made an order that Mr. M'Clure, M.P., should be sup plied on or before the 221 inst. with a bill of particulars, specifying the alleged acts of bribery charged in the peti tion against his return for the borough of Belfast. Mr. M'Clure, in his affidavit, denied the charges. A similar order was made in the matter of the Carrickfergus peti tion. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLsN's WORLDS 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, pep; 266, High Liolbign GLOBE THEATRE-ROTAT. Tars EVENTNG. at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to S. CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner. Vernon. David Fisher, Newbounil, .i'srldrmslnle, Hurlstflne, J. Clarke: Mesdames Hcnrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Eerend, Hughes, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND TDEATRE: Sole 'Lessee and Mantweress. Mrs. Swanborouzh. Tirm IiVENIN G. at 7.30, THE WID ,, W HUNT. Messrs. 'Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Mitten. TilE FIELD OF THE CI OTII OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; NI esdaines Maria Lonamore. B. Gcoilall. I ydia Maitlsnd. Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. THIS EVENING, DOT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, S. Emery, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham. and L. Brough ; ePdames Montague. J. Bignold, Maze, and Everard. And THE GNOME KING, Mr. Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. Tars EVENING, at 7, SL ASHER iCRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, a Vincent, &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H Neville, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. Wigan; Mesdameo rurtaciv, Lennox grey, and Caulfield; THAMES. CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND FELONY.--WHITE CHAPEL RouGus.--Martin Duggan, a loafer, and Catherine Cunningham, a most notorious and abandoned thief and prostitute, were brought be fore Mr. Paget, the first charged with assaulting a police-constable and attempting to rescue a pri soner from his custody, and the other with assault ing and robbing a woman named Mary Barry, of Evans'-walk, Whitechapel. The prosecutrix is an old offender, and has been five years in penal servitude for felony. She is re formed, is married, and has been well conducted of late. The female prisoner was stated by Roche, the gaoler, to have been in custody often, and she had been convicted of felonies, assaults, drunkeness, and everything that was bad. Other officers spoke of her in the same manner, and said she was a dangerous character. The prosecutrix said that she was met last night by the woman Cunningham, who demanded gin of her, and on her refusal to give her any, made :in attack upon her and stole ss. from her hands. 'there were marks of violence on the prosecutrix, who said Cunningham used a key and struck her with it several times. A police-constable, Alfred Burgoyne, 115 H, was taking Cunningham to the station-house when the male prisoner interfered. He was told to go about his business, and he struck the constable, and tried to rescue the woman. Both were taken into custody. Mr. Paget doubted whether a robbery had been committed, and sentenced Cunningham to be im pri2oned for two months and hard labour, and Duggan to one month's imprisonment and hard labour. " Good bye, Kate ; good luck to you," exclaimed many voices at the back of the court. A meeting of the Trades' Unions Commissioners was held yesterday at No. 1, Park-prospect, Great Queen st, eet, Westminster. Present— Sir W. Erle (chairman), Loid Elcho, M.P., Sir D. Gooch, M.P., Mr. Herman Mori vale, C. 8., Mr. Jas. Booth, C. 8., Mr. J. A. Roebuck, Q.C., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Mr. Frederic Harrison, and Mr. W. Mathews. Mr. J. C. Trail], secretary to the Commission, was also present. I)JNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand,:London vertisonent. IXPLANA Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f, falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.- fog; h.—hail ; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o. —overcast, dull ; r. — rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (meltedl during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. xlarometrical pressures are about one-tenth of an inch greater than they were yesterday morning in the S.W., but on the N. coasts a slight diminution has occurred. High readings are now reported from the south : at Rochefort the reading is nearly o'6in. above that at Nairn. Temperature has risen on our N. and E. coasts: in the S. little difference is perceptible. Moderate south-westerly winds pre vailed yesterday, and continues this morning. Much fog and mist prevailed over our islands during yesterday, and mist is still reported at places—chiefly in the W. A. small amount of rain has fallen in the south. The sky is generally overcast. Mr. Tyrwhitt, when imposing a penalty a few days ago on a theatrical dressmaker, for employing women after half-past four on Saturday, stated that after the Ist January, 1869, employment must cease at two o'clock on Saturday. The magistrate, if correctly reported, has over looked one of the prominent exceptions under the Workshops Regulation Act, which legalises the employment of milliners and dressmakers till four (P.:lock on Saturdays provided they do not begin work before eight o'clock in the morning. If w or k i s b egun at s i x on S a turday morning, then it must cease at two ; if at seven, then at three ; if at eight, then at four. No work is permitted after four o'clock on Saturdays. The Bishop of Rochester took tea with about 900 of his old parishioners at Kidderminster on Tuesday last, on ; the occasion of the annual soiree of the Church of England Mutual Improvement Society. In his speech the Bishop said it was still an enigma to him why the society did not succeed more. Working men as a body did not seem ready to avail themselves with pleasure and delight of an educational society. There bad been a great deal of talk about edueatjon for many years, but., owing to one cause or another, be did not think much had been done, or as much as they might now reasonably ex pect, he did not say from the present Parliament, but from the present and those that were to come after it. Some of the operative stone masons of Bradford have renewed the old struggle against the introduction of machinery in their trade. The men in the employ of Messrs. Bean - land, of that town, a short time sinco, protested against the use of machinery in dressing stone to a greater extent than suited the men them selves. The employers terminated the dispute by agreeing that some stones dressed by machinery should be redressed by hand. A difficulty having again arisen as to the extent to V. - Lich the machinery has been employed, the masters resolved that the men should dress the stones entirely by Land. It appears, however, that the work would not be remunerative to the men unles machinery is partially ased, and another strike has taken place. At a meeting of the directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday a resolution wee adopted declaring that the comme:cial treaty between England and France " has proved highly beneficial to ho commerce and the general prosperity of the two na tions." At the same time, it was urged that an effort should he mode to obtain a reduction of "the very high duties en certain classes of English manufactures," and a sub-cora mittee was appointed to prepare a list of the articles belong ing to the trade of this district which mtsy be regarded as unduly weighted iu tiapAgejpg tariff. THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND THE MACZONOCHIE CAS4 The Record declares that the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in re Mr. Mackonochie was unanimous. " The report was drawn up by Lord Cairns, who had been deputed to discharge that office, after the arguments in the case had been considered and the judgment had been agreed on by the Committee. The report when drawn up was then submitted in print for the approval, suggestions, and criticisms of each sepa rate member, and, after having been finally approved by Lord Westbury, and, as we are informed, by every member of the Judicial Committee, the judgment, so manipulated and agreed on, was delivered by Lord Cairns, in the presence of four of the members, all five publicly acting in concert. Lord Westbury, in conformity with the tcnour of his pointed and sagacious remarks during the arguments, gave his important sanction to the final report." THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE CLERGY The BA•v. J. 11. Wallk'yn, of Bournemouth, sends to the papers a eorrespenlence between himself and Mr. Gladstone. In a letter to the Prime Minis ter, the rev, gentleman wished to know whether in his speech to Lis Greenwich constituents Mr. Gladstone meant to accuse the clergy of improperly using their influence at the last election, and whether, to support that accusation, he had " examined the conduct of the 20,000 men who form the body of the clergy, or that of the majority of that number." Mr. Wanklyn wished for an answer "in order to give the same publicity to -his (Mr. Gladstone's) explanation as his accusation had received." But the Prime Minister simply acknowledges the receipt of the letter through his private secretary, as follows : " 10, Downing-street, Whitehall, Dec. 28, 1868. Sir, I am directed by Mr. Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, relating to his address to his constituents at Greenwich.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, ALGERNON WEST. Rev. J. H. Wanklyn." EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. A conference of teachers and other persons interested in middle-class education, for the purpose of discussing the recommendations made by the Schools Inquiry Commis sioners in their recent report, was held yesterday after noon, in London, under the presidency of the Rev. W. Haig-Brown, head-master of the Charterhouse School, and President of the Council of the College of Preceptors, under whose auspices the meeting was convened. The subjects set down for discussion were six, viz.: 1. "Qualifications of schoolmasters ;" 2. "Grades of schools ;" 3. " Privileges to be granted to registered private schools ; what can be done to improve private schools and make the profession attractive to men of ability ;" 4. " Inspection and examination of schools by a central authority, and the relative advantages of inspection and examination ;" 5. " Constitution of the proposed council of examinations :" 6. "Education of girls." Dr. HAIGH BROWN, in opening the proceedings, briefly referred to the importance of the subject which the con ference had met to discuss. It was impossible, he said, to overrate the extent of the bearing of the report of the commissioners upon individuals and the country at large, and it was the duty of all freely to canvas the issues they had raised. The resolutions sub mitted were only for the purpose of guiding the discussion of the meeting without waste of time to the pith of the matters they were called upon to consider. Having laid down the rule that all the speakers should con fine themselves to ten minutes for their speeches, and stated that letters had been received from a number of gentlemen who had intended to be present, but were prevented, the chairman called upon Mr. Rule to read an analysis of the suggestions of the Royal Commissioners on the first sub ject. This being done, Mr. RULE moved the first resolu tion, requiring each teacher —whether of public or private schools—granted privileges by Parliament to give evidence of fitness. He referred largely to Mr. Lowe's speeches on education, arguing that the Legisla ture should not recognise any school which had not a head-master, at all events, duly qualified ; while at the same time it sh( uld not prevent any one from esta blishing a school, even if not qualified. The resolution was seconded by Mr. DYER, who pointed out that at present no machinery existed by which a middle-class schoolmaster could become properly qualified. The CHAIRMAN here intimated that at a meeting of the College of Preceptors held the previous evening, a resolu tion had been passed to the effect that a professorship of the theory and practice of education should be esta blished. Mr. WILES thought that the present school, if brought up to the standard the meeting hoped they would eventually possess,would furnish ample means for training schoolmasters, and that no normal schools for that purpose were needed. Dr. HODGSON regretted that on the Royal Commission, admirably constituted as it was, there was no one actually engaged in the duties of the scholastic profession. An amendment to the resolution was moved and seconded freeing private schools from the requirements of the resolution for two years. Mr. Payne, Mr. Shapcott, Dr. Klein (who createu much amusement by the emphatic assertion that it was a well-known fact that the schools of Prussia were much superior to those of England), Mr. Gawtrop, Dr. Oppler, Mr. Behrens, Mr. Dyason, Mr. Lupin, and a e Rev. Mr. Dorsay, having spoke on the subject, The Rev. A. CONDER moved as an amendment " That this Conference deprecates any legal enactment which should entitle any teacher to privileges derived from State recognition, except in cases where the State supplies the funds, and the recognition is in consequence of the results of teaching." This was seconded by Mr. NEWCOME, and supported by the Rev. Mr. HODGSON, who, amidst much laughter, con tended that the private schoolmaster in this country had just the social position he deserved. After some further discussion, the first resolution was carried, the amendments proposed by Mr. Conder and Mr. Angel respectively being lost by large majorities. The second resolution on the first subject, approving of a university examination for schoolmasters in "the theory and practice of teaching," was introduced by Mr. Payne. The resolution was seconded by Mr. RICTILEY, and to it an amendment was moved by Mr. WELLS, endorsing the suggestion of the Royal Commissioners, that there should be a central examining body to test the qualifications of schoolmasters. The resolution and amendment provoked much discus sion. It was denied that the universities were bodies at all adapted to the task of testing men in the " theory and practice of education." A very energetic discussion ensued. The result was that a resolution was passed simply calling for " an ex amining body" having the confidence of the Public to test the fitness of schoolmasters. The Mount of Olives is now the property of the Crown of France. Baron Hock, one of the most enthusiastic sup porters of free trade in Austria, has just died at Vienna. Alme. Patti has met with great success in the three representations she has given in Brussels. With the various sums she has realised a total of 68,000 francs. Before leaving Stockholm the Prince of Wales was made a Knight of the Freemasons of Charles Xll., after having successively received the six inferior orders. At a meeting of the Cooke Memorial Committee, held on Monday in the Town-hall, Belfast, it was decided that £20,000 should be raised—Xls,ooo for an assembly hall and £5,000 tor a statue. We understand that General the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, G.C.8., K.H., colonel of the 6th Foot, will succeed to .the post of lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, vacant by the death of the lat 3 Field -Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, Mr. Drew, of Havre, has suggested to Mr. Bright that a small Royal bounty should be offered to those who undertake to clear the seas of bottle-nose whales and por poises, but Mr. Bright does not think that Parliament is likely to approve of the idea. James Drummond, a calico printer at Kilmarnock, endeavoured to destroy his wife on New Year's-day by throwing some gunpowder into the fire. The unfortunate woman was seriously burned, but is now recovering. H e r husband has been taken into custody, and is supposed to be out of his mind. The Echo hears on good authority, thit the liege ciations between Mr. Studd and the Epsom:Grand Stand shareholders, with reference to what is now known as " Derby difficulty," have come to an abrupt termination, and, unless the stewards of_the meeting interfere, there will be no Derby this year. The correspondence between the parties will be published on Saturday. The Manchester City Council unanimously re solved, on Wednesday, to petition Parliament in favour of the abolition of public nominations at Parliamen tary elections, and also of public declarations of the poll. It is urged against the present system that it involves " considerable expense," is " useless and in jurious," "tends to produce strife and ill-feeling," and "re sults frequently in most serious consequences." It is pro posed that nominations in writing, as at municipal elections, should be substituted, "such guarantees and securities being required as to expenses to be _incurred tits may be deemed neccpfwy." GOVERNMENT IN FRANCE: The Paris papers are republishing a remarkable letter Mt to the Message). de Toulouse by Baron S4gnier, the Procureur-Imperial at Toulouse. Baron S6gnier, has resigned his office, because he has acted with too much moderation in the press trial, and has been bullied for it. In a letter he informs the Procureur. General of his resignation. He makes the following comments upon it :—" The Garde des Sceaux thinks he cannot tolerate any longer my tepid speeches in press matters. Now, to address the court under the surveillance of a secret police, and to press for judgments dictated beforehand in Paris by the Minister of Justice, are two things which do not suit me,:a.nd I must beg you to transmit my resignation to the Garde des Sceaux. There is nothing wilful in this resignation, it is imposed upon me by the unjust and bitter reproaches which have been heaped upon me for some time past on account of my conduct in press affairs. I am disgraced for having desired to serve the Emperor with that moderation and dignity which was recommended by the Garde des Sceaux himself in his circular of June 4, 1868." This epistle, forming part of a letter to the editor of the Message). de Toulouse, has been published, and has created great sensation in France. Baron SJgnier was not suffi ciently energetic in the recent press trials. He was urged by the Minister of Justice to shew more zeal, and, disapproving of these Baudin prosecutions altogether, he ultimately resigned. He thus abandons his professional career, and his hope of advancement. As the Paris journals remark, his conscience must have been sorely tried before he took such a step. The Temps considers this matter of the greatest importance. There is no doubt that it will act unfavourably against the Government. When officials desire to be mild, and are compelled to resign because they are asked to be severe, the public can draw but one conclusion—that France is governed by police, and that it is likely to remain so under the Empire. THE EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION OF MURDER, At the Lambeth Police-court, on Thursday arcernoon, William Sheward, aged 57, giving his address as the Key and Castle Tavern, St. Martin's-at-Oak, Norwich, was conveyed in a cab by Oakes, the gaoler, from Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and placed in the dock, before Mr. Woolrych, charged, on his own confession, with wilfully murdering his first wife, Martha, at Norwich, on the 15th of June, 1851. The prisoner appeared to be more calm than on the lass occasion, and exhibited not the slightest emotion during the proceedings. The evidence given by Inspector Davis, of the division, on the last occasion was read over. Mr. Woolrych : What further evidence is there? Enspector Davis : I have received a communication froth Mr. Hickman, chief constable of Norwich, with reference to the discovery of human remains about the time men tioned by the prisoner, in 1851, when the murder was per petrated. I have received particulars from Mr. Hick man of the discovery of human remains around the dis trict of Norwich in June and July, 1851. On the 21st June a portion of a human body was picked up in the outskirtef and afterwards some forty pieces of flesh and bone, includ ing two feet and one hand—the left—from which the ring finger was missing. The central parts are still preserved in spirits at Norwich. The remains when collected were proved to be those of a female. The head was never dig. covered, but a portion of a skull was found in a Mr. Woolrych : Was an inquest held ?—Witness : Mr. Woolrych : That seems very unaccountable.—Wit' ness : There seemed to be a want of evidence then.—gr. Woolrych : Is there anything known of the prisoners' wife! —Witness : Yes, your worship ; she disappeared about the time mentioned by prisoner, and was not afterwards heard of. A waistcoat and shirt all covered with blood were found in a field. Every effort appears to have been m ade by the magistrates and police with regard to the remains , but without success. The magistrates have this week issued a warrant against the prisoner, and in consequence of the confession made Mr. Hickman was afraid personal violence would be offered to the prisoner on hiO, appearance at Norwich, as immense excitement now pre' vailed. Preparations, however, had been made to have A. body of police in waiting at the Norwich station to receive the prisoner and protect him. Mr. Woolrych : The best mode, then, will be to convey,. him to Norwich at once ; but it does seem extraordil nary that no steps were taken beyond certain inqui ries when the remains were found, and the coincidence, also of the disappearance of prisoner's wife about the same time. However, there is sufficient before 10 to bind over Mr. Davis, and give him a warrant to take , Prisoner to Norwich. The whole of the depositions were then read over and signed. Mr. Woolrych (to prisoner) : Lo vJa wish to put ail question? Prisoner (calmly) : Yes, sir. I wish to ask 'OA witneS 4 if he is sure I made use of the word " wilful." Witness : Yes, you did. lam quite sure. Prisoner : That is all I have to 28k. The rest is Per' fectly correct. • Mr. Davis was then bound over, and the prison° yolked calmly and quietly from the dock. LAW AND POLICE ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—Three men have Peen 0 6 at the Middlesex Sessions for an assault on the police at Clerkenwell. They were attempting to enter a house , when the police attempted to take them. A desperat° fight ensued, and serious injuries were inflicted. Mani previous convictions were proved against the prisoner*, who were sentenced respectively to five and two yePA penal servitude. OMNIBUS ACCIDENT. —At Clerkenwell Police.eou rtt James Duval, a carman, was charged with furiou ° driving. He was driving a van in Gray's-inn-road, sod 6 time since, when he came in collision with a Higho l ; omnibus. Two gentlemen were seriously injured. bed magistrate refused bail, one of the gentlemen not be l " expected so survive. ELECTION RIOTS.—At the quarter sessions at Usk, mouthshire, several election rioters have been tried. Tho all pleaded guilty, and the prosecution expressed a dal that a light punishment should be imposed . The coor fully sympathised in this wish, and only demanded I ' guarantee for future good behaviour. CURIOUS CASE.—A few days ago two young persoill were brought before the magistrates at Wandswortill charged with stealing a goose. They were remand e t when it was found that one of them was a girl, who 0: she had worn male attire since she was nine years olv, They were both sentenced to six months' hard labour. At the Stafford Quarter Sessions an applicatil has been made by the Corporation of Wolverhampton agai rf e the Wolverhampton Gas Company, on the ground that tlioi state of their accounts warranted a reduction in the price 0 Nas. The Court appointed an accountant and received 13 4 report, and the case was argued by counsel. Finally t P Court awarded 500 guineas to tho accountant to be paid 111 0 the company, but did not grant tho application. The 0° were ordered to be paid by the respective parties. The case of Lord Brougham v. Dr. Cauvin. COA: vg before Mr. Church at the Rolls Ch a mbers yesterday an application by the defendant for time to reply to tt e plaintiff's evidence on the question of remuneration to ei made to Dr. Cauvin for his literary assistance to the late 1 ,° 14 Brougham in arranging his correspondence. The Chief Gi c i o gave a week to reply, and the case to proceed on the / ii i instant. This matter will, it is anticipated, be she'' settled. The notice in the Dublin Gazette of the elevatjl to the Irish peerage of Mr. John Al`Clintock, of Drum, county Louth, her Majesty's li eu t en ant of that ee gives the new peer the nam e , s tyl e , an d titl e o f BA j t Rathdonnell, of Rathdonn e ll, i n th e coun ty of Donetr and in default of issue grants the dignity to the heirs 0 1 of his deceased brother, Mr. William Bunbury M'Clint.Ao', Bunbury, of Lisnevagh, in the county of Carlow, eaP 9 ' in the Royal Navy, and M.P. for that county. i NEW PARTY NAMES.---Advertisements for c ura te , tP' are now furnishing ample food for those who scan t o newspapers with an eye to th e cur i ous . I n a rec ent it/ of a contemporary, for in s t ance , we fi n d a " lib era l , ' reo c ; i r asking for a fellow-labo urer , w h o among o ther qualifieati must be " an extreme Rockite," or a "Disraelitish Il ec i l e dite." If we were not tolerably well acquainted with foibles which even grave and reserved men someti ljj e t manifest, we should be inclined to regard such an a nnoul l 0 ment as a hoax, but we have reason to believe that It really bon4 fide.— English Churchman. d I MR, GLADSTONE AND TIIE IRISH RAILWAYP' O , The Wexford Constitution publishes the following 10 munication, which has been received by the mayor of i .0 town, in reference to the suggested purchase of the I rl i, railways by the State :—" 10, Downing-street, Janugl i pl 1869. Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the r ece ,d of your letter, dated the 28th December, transmitthi°,l copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting he ° d Wexford for the purpose of promoting the purchasero, the Irish railways by the State. 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