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Cowper, George Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Co4lan, E. Dvas, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur W. H.. - land, A. Stuart, L Sargent, C. Valentine, F. Roines, J. Blythe, H. 131 anseorne, and H. Nelson: Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Arnold, Miss Amy Fawsitt, Miss Ros'ne Power, Miss Thorne, MAR Malhorough, and Mrs. Charles Horsman. Principal Scenic Artists —Mr. William Caleott and Mr. Albert Ca lcott. A cting Manager—Mr. Barry Sulii- an. 'll - 3 OYAL STRAND THEATRE. IL Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING. at 7, A WIDOW RUNT . Messrs. !IlLrke. Belford, Joyce ; Mesdames Button and Maitland. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James, Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Buf ton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Rith IRTE AND DYE. 14 OYAL AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN L Positively t' a Last Six Nights and Farewell appearance of the CARRE TROUPE and the Wonderful PERFORMING HORSES. During the week a number of novelties will be pro du,!ed. 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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-patk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on licndays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. , :irg p . J•te +. 411 T • SA7URDAI 7 ; APRIL 24, 1869. Majorities, in monotonous succession, of 112, 102, 100, marked out last night again, in sequence, the pro.. • gressof the Irish Church bill through Committee. The modifications actually introduced are simply infinitis simal. No substantial gain of any kind is secured to the con cientious antagonists of the measure by the laborious pertinacity with which they are vainly en deavouring to obstruct its advance through the House of Comarions in defiance of the overwhelming preponderance of numbers on the side of the Govern ment. Clause 23 was the last dealt with yesterday in Committee, before the adjournment of further progress in the Bill nail Monday evening. The number of that clause will serve, to a considerable exteilt, to mark the advance made in the steady working of the Committee through the Bill. What though that advance is delayed at every turn by a chevaitx de frise of Amendments. Nevertheless, there arc—it should be remembered at the same time—several intermediate clauses, appa rently passed over, which have been simply post poned. So that it must not be supposed for an in stant, because the twenty-third clause was consi dered and satisfactorily dealt with last night in CJll mittee, that titerekre it may be considered (which certainly may not) that twenty-three clauses have THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1869 already passed the ordeal of Committee in the Com , ons. Even if the House could say, what unhappily it cannot, that "much Las been done" in the matter of this Bill, it would have to complete the quotation with all possible emphasis, by adding, " but, more remains t0 . ,d0." As yet, however, " much" has not been done : and therefore the " MORE" would have to be given in Brobingnagian capitals to express the emphasis of it in any way adequately. There is little doubt of it that, let the Opposition in their conduct towards the Irish Bill but persist in their present course of proceeding, namely, in the obstruction of its progress as hitherto at every conceivable turn, and the energy, and the patience, and the industry of the Commons first of all, and of the Lord 3 after wards, will he taxA to the very uttermost to enable them to get this Bill transformed into an Enactment before the customary sign ti for the breaking up for the Legislature, the commencement of the grouse shooting. Cousid,rable excuse is afforded by the unnecessary aul really idle, because utterly hopeless delays, pLee,l in the path of this one great measure of the present session by the Opposition—considerable excuse, we say, is thereby afforded to her MAJESTY'S Government for what would be otherwise only flagrantly reprehen sible, namely, their setting aside altogether, as in no way to be touched upon this year, the imminent, and formidable, and vitally important question in regard to the laud of Ireland. Ministers may now argue with some show of reason that it is as much as Par. liament can do to grapple with the work actu ally before- it - without complicating its already herculean toils by opening up in the Irish Land Question another of those grand radical innovations in not only existing but long-existing constitutional arrangements. Ministers now so argue with some show of reason, while the legislative labours already taken in hand are being lengthened out to no conceiveable purpose by every species of ob struction in the way of printed amendment and spoken argumentation that can possibly be hit up , " in the exercise of the utmost ingenuityon the part of her MA JESTY'S Opposition. The right hon. gentleman, the ex- Premier, as the resoot.sible Leader of the Conserva tives, is constrained, of course, by considerations of party, to marshal the ranks of his followers at every reasonable opportunity, and to bring all his forces into the fitfd at those times against the serried ranks of the well-disciplined and overwhelming numbers of the followers of the Government. The right hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford, and with him the hon. and learned gen tleman the member for Richmond, are fired with zeal in their resointe oppos;tion to a measure which they regard in their conscience as subversive of so muc they holl dear in the Constitution. It still remains for than to show, nevertheless, that by doing precisely as they are doing now all this while in the Coturnittee, they are furthering in any, the smallest possible degree, the objects they have a t this moment the most nearly at heart, as opponents of the very Bill now under the consideration of Parliament. FOR a body quick to discover lions in the path, commend us to the House of Lords. There is no body which will compare with it except the Houses of Convocation. Lord LYTTELT 0N on Thursday night brought in a bill to increase the Episcopate of the English Church by the voluntary action of Church men. It was not denied that such an increase was urgently required ; that the bishops cannot properly fulfil their functions even when in vigorous health, that far more is expected of bishops than used to be expected a generation back, that if the Episcopate is to be a living reality it ought to be greatly extended, and that it would have been a good thing if Lord ItussEr.r, had constituted three new bishoprics instead of the one which he erected twenty years ago. While all this was admitted, no one ventured to affirm that either of the two great political parties liis prepared to deal with the matter collectively. Since the Manchester bishopric was formed we have had four Ministrations of the party which claims to be the special friends of the Church. Vet Conservatives have done as little as Liberals in supplying an acknowledged want. The truth is, that neither party will venture in the present state of the relations between the Church and the State to ask Parliament to sanction the erection of new bishoprics, each of which, if the Archbishop of YORK be correct, will cost at least £70,000. The inference seems natural that Churchmen should be allowed to establish these bishoprics voluntarily out of their own contri butions. But such a proposition meets with the strenuous opposition of those devoted friends of the Church, the Duke of SOMERSET and Lord PORTMAN. The second of these peers is sure that a bishop cannot properly fulfil his duties on £2,600 a year; albeit, men of the SELWYN stamp have fulfilled theirs in the colonies on a fifth of that amount. The Duke of SOMERSET opposed the bill for exactly the opposite reason. He thought that the Commons would urge that the episcopal revenues were already sufficient for supporting a good many more bishops, and he seemed to think that there was a good deal to be said for the proposition that these revenues should be divided into incomes of £2,500 a year, and applied to the support of as many prelates as the quotient produced. Moreover, a happy thought struck this eminent Churchman. Lord LYTTELTON'S scheme would in volve the creation of " subscription" bishops ; still worse, of " subscription" peers. "S. G. 0." never said a wittier thing ; and it was not only witty, but effectual, for their lordships were horrified at the prospect which the heir of all the SEYMOUR s set before them. It was bad enough that they should have life peers sitting among them—the thought of sub scription peers was intolerable. The Lords must be protected, even though the Church should suffer. In vain did the Earl of CARNARVON point out that there was not a single colonial prelate who was not a sub scription bishop. Arguments and facts were alik e unavailing against the fearful thought of the Upper House being contaminated by the presence of peers supported by voluntary contributions. But while we have small sympathy with these objections to Lord LYTTELTON'S bill which were prompted by the arrogance of the temporal peers, we are by no means certain that the bill was a wise measure. There can be no doubt that the present deplorable state of the southern dioceses has greatly diminished the respect felt by the laity for the episcopal order. Laymen, when they see diocese after diocese without responsible epis copal government, argue either that the Church can get on very well without bishops, or that bishops are very selfish men ; either that they are costly luxuries, whereof we have more than enough, or that they care so little for the good of the Church that they retain their positions when they are unable to per form the duties attaching thereto. Let the most sanguine of us ask what chance there is that a sum at all approaching £70,000 would be raised in any one of those dioceses, or, indeed, throughout the whole of England. It is quite true that we have abundance of " subscription " incumbents ; that the • endowment of an incumbency by private liberality is such an every-day occurrence that it attracts no attention. But then Churchmen believe in the incumbent, because they know that he earns his £3OO a year, and a good deal more. They strongly suspect that a bishop does not earn his £5,000 a year, even at the best of times, certainly not when lie is an octogena rian and paralysed. In a word, the friends of the Church believe that they can lay out their money to much better advantage for the Church than in found ing bishoprics. What is to be done ? We must find out a class of dignitaries who earn their money even less than the bishops. Archbishop TnomsoN has dis covered them—the deans. These are simply orna mental functionaries, who hold sinemres as the reward of past services either ecclesiastical or political—mostly the latter. With them are asso ciated the canons, who are in much the same position. Dean and canons together enjoy an income which would be a . very handsome endowment for a new bishopric. There is the Chapter of Exeter, for instance, whose functions consist, for the most part, in appointing their friends to chapter livings, and whose income would form an admirable endowment for a bishopric of Corn wall. There is Westminster again, a wholly abnormal institution, which might be converted into a bishopric that should have jurisdiction south of the Thames, to the relief of overgrown Winchester. And at the same time that we get rid of deans and canons we might make some changes in the arrange ment of the episcopal duties. The archdeacons might be empowered to consecrate churches, the parochial clergy might administer the rite of confirmation, and would be much better fitted to do so by their acquaintance with the candidates than the bishop, who is an entire stranger to them, and cannot possibly take any interest in them. The bishops would, even when relieved of these duties, have plenty of work to do, if they desired to be really what they are in name, overseers—if they resolved to be the father, friend, and counsellor of their clergy, and the chief source of Church life through out the diocese. THE Peers are closing their ranks ; the great houses are sinking their ancient differences, in order to be prepared to withstand the assault of democracy, which they believe to be imminent. VENUS is called in to aid BELLONA ; MARS has entered into an affiance with HymEN. One after another the rival ruling families are intermarrying. A STANLEY has wedded a VlLLlEns—the brother of a Conservative with the daughter of a Liberal Foreign Minister. A Tory PERCY has married a Liberal ! CAMPBELL, and has thus united the ducal houses of NORTHLTMBERLAND and ARGYLL ; and now within this present week the heir of the Whig Lord lIALIFAx has taken to wife the daughter of the Tory Ear lof DEVON. Unions of this kind would have been impossible fifty years ago. As well migLt the Roundhead and the Cavalier of the Commonwealth intermarry as the Tory and the Whig of the Georgian era. But the Peers are grown more sensible since then, and also more pru dent. Of old the spoils of office used to be divided between the rival houses ; but in these de , generate days new claimants have sprung up, and the rivalry is now between the commoners and the Peers. What can be wi ser th an for t h e secon d to mak e com mon cause agai ns t th e "h ungr y people drawing nigher," just as Men who had fought as foes on the high seas would join hands and fight together as friends against the pirate or the savage ? By unions of the kind we have mentioned the ruling families can be sure, at least for so long as they con tinue ruling families, that some of their members will be in office. If it is not the Tory father, then it is the Radical son-in-law; if it is not the - Whig brother, then it is the Conservative brother-in-law. Thus " we," of the " upper ten thousand," are always " in," no matter who is " out." In all the great departments of State " we " are represented, if not by our kith, then by our kin; if not by our relatives of consanguinity, then by our relatives of affinity. This is one result of these matri monial alliances. Another is that, so far as the Peers are concerned, party spirit must become less vehement. They cannot find it in their hearts to be very bitter against the Ministry which contains their daughter's or their sister's husband. Thus it is not only their lordships who will profit by these unions, but the whole nation. May they increase and ery , eriffi/ Tit I,v) . 111 , ...R iILIJESTY. OsBor.NE, April 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, ALij: sty, accompanied by Prince Leoro drove out this morning,. Princess Louise, Prince Beatrice, an,] Piiuce and Princes Christian walked in th.! grounds. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (RE UTE R'S TELEGRAMS) AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 23. Gold closed at 133 1. The high es t quo t a ti on during the thy was 1334 ; the lo wes t 133 j. Ster ling on o London, 1081 ; Fi ve- T wenty uuid Exchangends, 1882, 121 ; d i tto, 1885, 1 15 i ;,Ten -Forty B on d s , 106 f ; eStates B I l l l ii B n i o ; is, di l t 4 to 4: ,l67, ie, 33 ;18Eri. Cotton—middliug land, 2Ble. Petroleum--standard white, 33c. Flour—extra State, $5 70c. to $6 30c. Corn—old mixed, 32c. CI OOKIIAVEN, April 24. The Cunard steamship Saxonia, from New York ou the 14th inst., is now passing Browhead signal station, en route for Queenstown. COIIIIESITIIDEVCE FROM PARIS. (knot OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAr, April 23. " The Progress of France under the Imperial Govern ment " is chiefly a collection of statistics sliming the advance of the French nation in every department of social and commercial life since the Emperor ascended the throne. Some of this information is interesting enough. We learn that since 1851 the surface of the country under cultivation has been extended by above one million acres ; that the corn crops and wheat crops have increased by some DO millions of busliele, that the wine of 1868 far exceeded the produce of 1851 by many millions of gal lons; that several thousand miles of railway, imperial roads, telegraphs, and a few miles of canals and minor' works have been made. Commerce has grown beyond precedent. The tonnage of the ships entering and leaving the ports of France is greater by more than 6 millions and a half than in 1851. The tonnage of French steamships has been augmented by 115,3:39 tons. The State receipts have risen to the tune of 30 millions sterling—l find very little about the expenditure in this delightful "progress." The number of scholars attending the primary schools, the number of s...tholarsgratuitously edu cated, the sums expended in support of rel igiun, and chari table institutions have all risen very greatly. Lastly, we are favoured with a comparative review of the state of the capital in 1851 and in 1869. Its population is greater by 772,000 souls. Eleven bridges, 21 squares, 5 theatres, 34 religious edifices, &c., have been made. In the hospitals the number of beds has been augmented by 1,077, and so of an immense variety of other details. These statistics of Paris are something to the purpose; forthough it is diffi cult to imagine what the Imperial Government has done tel increase some of the items which are so triumphantly enrolled, yet no one will doubt that the Emperor has done much for Paris. The unfortunate denizens of the capital have had to pay very dearly for all they have got; but still the improvements have been effectual, and it is merely a question whether the value received is equivalent to the price paid. But surely the publication of all these figures relative to France, and the use of them as an electioneering argument, is very foolish. What has the Emperor done to increase the production of wine and corn? EWhat has the tonnage of merchant ships to do with the policy of the Imperial Government ? Would not the commerce of France have prospered under another form of Government than that of an irresponsible Ministry and a Chamber of Deputies without power? Above all, what has been the Emperor's share in the increase a the population? To compile such a collection, and then say of it, as the semi-official organs do, that "it defies criticism," is sheer nonsense. But no doubt the country voters will swallow it all. The good people of Roumania have made Mr. Glad stone, M. St. Marc Girardin—he of the &bats —and M. Erbicini citizens of their State. The reason of this pro ceeding is not quite clear, but the English Premier at all events will have a ready-made asylum when he becomes the victim of the revolution which his opponents declare him to be preparing. RATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 5G,692 tons, and that for Australia and New Zealand to 45,962 tons. The ships on the berth for the Fast are loadirg with better despatch, but most of the berths are fully supplied with tonnage. East India and China coal freights are dull, more espe• daily from the North ; £23 per keel is offered from the North to Madras, under the contract just taken for that port. From Wales 2.55. is offered for a ship to Singapore. 445. Shanghae, 335. to 345. Hong Kong, 255. Galle. From the Rice Ports for next season's account C2s. Cd. is offered ; and whilst Java freights arc unchanged, those ruling from Manila are somewhat weaker. Some slight improvement is observable in coal freights to the West Coast, a slight advance having taken place in those for Callao and Valparaiso. There has been during the last few days a good deal doing in guano chartering, and ships are taken up freely for the Continent at M. From the Nitrate Forts there is but very limited inquil y for tonnage. A vessel has, however, been taken up during the week at GOs. for United Kingdom, and 655. for Conti. nent, and there is room for another at the same rate. For the United States vessels are in good request. West Indian coal freights remain firm at the last adyarce. A ship is required from the Tyne for Bermuda at 168. per ton. - Brazil coal freight 3 generally continue firm. Bahia and Mar:wham are the p its for which ships 'are in most request. The rates for c: a's to the liver Plate are well maintained. In 'Mediterranean business, the most noticeable feature is the inquiry fur Alexandria for coals and coke at £1.7 and £l5. There is less inquiry for all coals, several vessels having been taken up this week at £lO 10s. to x 20 per keel. Grain chartering is, if anything, quieter than last week. Lord CLi.f Juitice Bolin has been preventeg I,y indisposition from presiding iu the Court of Common Pleas during the pre,:ent week, and the business of the Court has been thereby much impeded. The London and North-Western Railway Com pany have made compensation to the extent of £52,000 to the family of Major EdwardF, of Ifixby Park, Yorkshire, who, with his son, was killed in the lamentable catastronho at Abergele. - - Isaac Chamberlain, the herbalist, of Hertford, with Caroline Judd and Anne Hutchinson, who aro charged with forgery on the Bank of Eng:and under the circumstances reported a day or two since, were on Friday committed for trial. The Weekly Register, referring to the inhibition of Mr. Mackonochie by the Bishop Of Ripon, remarks that iu the Roman Catholic Church " a bishop would not forbid a priest to preach in the diocese unless he had been guilty of some immoral act, and certainly not if he Lad faculties from his own bishop." The London correspondent of the Western Daily Press says that should the House of Lords refuse, as it is expected they will, to concur in the proposal to issua a Royal Commission to inquire into the alleged prevalence of corrupt practices at the last election for Dublin, the Government have determined to move that the writ be suspended, and to bring in a bill to disfranchise freemen.. The inquiry into the validity of Mr. Birley's elec tion for Manchester will be opened on the L'd of May. There is no allegation in this case of corruption or undue influence of any kind; the sole question is whether, at the time of Lis election, Mr. Birley was interested in a Government con tract. Sir Sydney Waterlow's case, which turned upon a similar point, was tried before a committee of the rouse of Commons. Yr. Birley's w ill go befk re ono or mere of the judges. A requisition will in a few days be presented to Mr. Daniel Grant, who unsuccessfully contested Marylebone in the Liberal interest at the last election, requesting him to put himself in nomination in the event of Mr. Harvey Lewis resigning his seat. There is no doubt Mr. Grant will stand for the borough if Mr. Milner Gibson declines to come for ward. It is thought that Mr. Roebuck will not respond to the overtures which aro understood to have been made to him. The following telegram, dated Brussels, Friday, and referring to the Belgian railway difficulty, is published by the Standard :—A council of Ministers is now being held, under the presidency of tho King, to deliberate upon the report addressed by M. Frere-Orban, and to which aro appended the counter proposals of tho French Govern ment. The latter maintain the piinciplo of the couveations with the Eastern Belgian and French lines, while stipu lating reductions of tariff very advantageous to both coun tries. Those reductions are said to afford bases to a sort of commercial alliance I.ctw. , en Fiance and Belgium. it id considered probable that t o Be:giau Government will per gist in disapproving of the railway treaties. The will of Sir William Clay, Bart., formerly ALP. for s ; the Tower Hamlets, of Fulwell Lodge, Twickenham, has' been proved under £120,000 . personally. He has left issue three sons and five daughters, to all of whom he has made a liberal provision.—Tho will of Sir Chas. Sling:,by, Bart., of Striven Park, Yorkshire, was proved at "Wakefield under £lB,OOO personally. In default of any lawful issue of his sister Emma Louisa Catherine Slingsby, the testator devises his estates, after her decease, to the Rev. Thomas Atkinson, vicar of Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire, and to his heirs. —Tho will of Sir Joseph Francis 011iffe, M.D., physician to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, was proved under £16,000 per oonaliy.— The will of Mr. John Horrocks, Esq., was proved, at Lancaster, under £OO,OOO personalty.— Illustrated Lcndon News. A _n entirely new and original version of a famous romantic drama, entitled "The Corsican Brothers; or the Troublesome Twins," by Henry J. Byron, is in active preparation at the New Globe Theatre. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS arc decidedly the best remedy for all disorders of the stomach and bowe7s, the liver and kidneys They act with so deAled an effect, and yet so gently. that p - ople of the mo.t delicate constitutions may take them with the most perfect confidence. They do not contain a single grain of mer cury or other noxious substance, being composed exclusivly of rare balsams. 1 hey aro tht reforo equally safe and efficacious, and as a family medicine nothing yet invented or discovered can be compared with them for a moment. With these inestimable pills at hand, together with the printed directions affixed to each box, no other medical advice or assistance can be needed in any ordinary case of sickness rFALY. FLORENCE, April 24. In yesterday's Bitting of the Chamber of Depu ties Signor Ferrara asked the Government when the general debate on the financial statement would Commence. Count Cambray-Digny replied that the general debate could not commence until th e convent i ons or P to the House, 10th of May. w fo h r i fi ch na w n o ci v a l l d op b e e ra o t n io t n h s e w , e t r h e resented INDIA, BOMBAY, April 23. Tha Ameer of Badakshan, and all the Sirdars of Turkistan have given in their allegiance to Shere Ali. The son of ex-Ameer Azini Khan has fled across ,he Oxus. The Ameer, having expressed his warm thanks to Lord Mayo, left th e B r i tish terr i tory grea tl y elated which at this news, he attributes to the Umballa Conference. All the heads of the Khyber tribes accompanied the Ameer from Jamrood. closed as foll ows : FRANCE. BOURSE, Ap r il 23. Three o'clock—The market 41 per Cent. ...... 101 -- B a nk Shares 2950 End of month_ --. ltsPan Fives is 90 ' , I. Cent ......... 71 15 End of month — x:nd o f month_ 71 15 goxican Loan CrAdit llobili er ... 9:i3 75 Po. Bonds Euil of month... 253 75 Spanish Threes Credit Poucior ...1500 Home Debt — End of month... _ Defiwred ...... RAILWAYS. 3 i)el Ei Cash. Orleans ... ......... ........ lO7 . 910 11 Northern ......................... —. - 3 a r , . ............ Lyons and ALeuiterrauean Southern.... (110 Western Eastern '• •................ Sardinian ... • • Austrian Lombard Spain 4 .......... 59 North of . .... I S t a o r in a , g tn os . ... Montg Ntw MATcn.—Co un t F . d e L ag range's ch c Eole, by Gladiziteur out of Fill e d e l ' A i r, B s t 10Ib, a g ainst M. do Tone lu ome ryes, 's eh f Toucques, by Monarquo out of La Bst 71b, bath then two years old ; three-quar ters of a tni!e ; 500 sovs, 100 ft. To run a t the Newmarket Itoughton Meeting, 1870. V I LLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profe ision in preference to Frr.nch Brandy. Supplied in casks and eases fur home use or expt rta lion. Quotations on application (to , 3lessrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-building,s, strand, London, -[Ad vatisement. THE GRAND SWINDLE. The case of the Central Gas Company was before a select committee of the House of Commons on Friday and Mr. Denison applied for powers to raise an additional capital of £lOO,OOO for new works. The requirements of the company since its formation had necessitated the erection of additional works, and at the present date £30,000 was owing under that head, The company would have been enabled to have discharged the debt of £36,000, to which he had alluded had it not been for the frauds of Mr. Higgs, the late secretary of the company, which were a matter of common notoriety, his defalcations having amounted to twice that sum, or something over .C 70,000. Higgs had carried on this sy2tem of fraud since the year 1862, and the result had been the astounding deficiency named. It would be asked where was the system of audit under which such operations could have taken place. Higgs had been in the service of the company for seventeen years, and the directors had considered that they could place great confi dence in him ; and, with reference the auditing of the accounts, there was an act of Parliament of 1851 which empowered the Corporation to appoint auditors on their own behalf, sech officials to be paid by the company. Directly the Act came into operation they appointed two gentlemen, namely, Mr. Chatteris and Mr. Begbie, who were both members of eminent City firms, for the purpose, and those gentlemen had continued in that °ince ever since, so that the Corporation were as much to blame in that matter as the directors. These frauds went on under a system of running audit, and under the super vision of auditors appointed, tot by the company, but by the Corporation. He did not know how his learned friend would deal with this matter in opposing the bill, as he declined to chew him (Mr. Denison) his cards ; but at present, at any rate, he thought that the Corpora tion of London did not come forward to oppose the bill with cleaner hands than did the directors who were pro moting it. Mr. Henry Chatteris was examined. He said :I am a member of the firm of Chatteris, Nicholls, and Chatteris, public accountants, and I was appointed an auditor of the Great Central Gas Company in 1851, in which office I con tinued till the end of 1860, being annually reappointed by the Common Council. At the end of 18601 became an auditor of the company, appointed by the directors, and have continued so up till the present time. Mr. Begbie, of the firm of Begbie, Robinson, and Hockley, was my colleague. He was appointed in the same manner as myself, and has continued so up till the present time. The Corporation never appointed us aft er th e year 1860 . I knew Mr. Higgs, who was a clerk in the accountant's office of the gas company. There were six or seven clerics in the office. Ido not know whether he held a leading position. I believe he had been in the company's employ for sixteen or seventeen years. It was one of the rules of the office that the accountant should receive from the company's collectors their lists. The collector was to take the money he received direct to the bankers, and then take the list and receipt to be passed into the company's books. I have ascertained since Higgs has absconded that that course was not pursued since 1862, but that Higgs persuaded the collectors to take the lists and money to him, and he would pay them into the bank. The accountant has told me he did not know of this pro ceeding. The late investigations spew that Higgs was in the habit on some occasions of keeping the whole of the money, and in other cases making out smaller lists, and then paying in the smaller sums. After some further important evidence had been taken the committee adjourned. THE ACCIDENT AT THE DELABOLE SL ATE QUARRY. The fearful accident to the Delabole slate quarry which took place on Wednesday, and which we have already mentioned, is described by the Western. Morning Ems. The Old Delabole Quarries, which have been famous for centuries for the slate which they produce, are situated in the parish of St. Tenth, about two miles and a half from Camelford, and give employment to between 300 and 400 men and boys. The quarries form one huge pit, which has an area of fifteen or sixteen acres, and is in parts 350 feet in depth. From the surface of the ground to the top of the immense slate rubble heaps which surround the quarries, is over another 100 feet, so that the workings extend nearly five hundred feet perpendicularly. The elate and refuse is raised from the bottom by draw ing engines, each of which is in connection with a wooden framework overhanging the pit. These frameworks are called poppet-heads, and have pulleys in their upper por tions, over which the drawing chains work. Beneath these pulleys are tables communicating with tramways, which are moved backward and forward by means of windlasses. On these tables truck carriages, or "cradles," are run, and they are then pushed out to the extent of the framework, in order to receive the material drawn up. On Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock. the L.:rgest poppet-head on the works gave, way, with scarcely a minute's warning, the tremendoas crash being heard at a very great distance. In its fall the lead carried with it all who were at work upon it, and buried several men who were in the pit beneath, about 330 feet below. Several persons had very narrow escapes. One of the men who fell from the top had ouly a broken arm and a few other slight injuries, and was able to walk home with the assist ance of two of his fellow-workmen. Another escaped with his life, but is seriously injured. A little girl who had come with her father's tea also fell into the pit with the debris, but was very slightly hurt. A Mrs. Wallis, who had brought her husband his tea, was likewise on the poppet-head when it gave way, but, fortunately, was standing just where the ground opened, and saved her life literally by climbing up the falling rubbish. There were sixteen men working just under the head on a level in the side of the cliff. One of them heard something above, which he describes as a " crack," and called out to his comrades, "For God's sake ram, the cliff is coming.'' They accordingly ran to a projecting rock or shed, and were all saved. A minute later and they must have all been buried alive. Up to a late hour on Wednesday evening the following had been dug out of the r u bbi s h, dead :—Thomas C our ti s, Thomas and William Henry Langdon, two brothers aged respectively six and nine years, who were on the poppet-head, having come there with tea to their brother. Their father was killed some years ago in the same works. 'William Langdon grandfather to the boys—this old man some time since was discharged from the pit, and had only begged himself on again last week— William Toms, Joseph Hosken, and Thomas Avery. 'William Prout was taken out alive, but died while his comrades were taking him to his home. James Penfound was also very seriously injured, and there were many others who were more or less hurt. The con tinual falling of the rubbish Ereatly delayed the operations of the men who were working to rescue their fellows, and they had to desist from operations for the night. Meantime every assistance was rendered to the injured by Dr. Pearce, the medical man of the company, and his assistant, who were quickly on the spot, and were kindly aided by Messrs. King and Newsom, of Camelford, and Mr. Wade, of Boscast le. At the time of the cessation of operations on Wednesday night very wild rumours pre vailed as to the number killed. It was known that there were several more to be accounted for, but amidst the con sternation which prevailed it could not be certainly ascer tained who who were missing. Among those thought to be killed were a young woman named Fanny Wallis, who, having come to the pit with tea to her father, fell in with the poppet-head, and was supposed to have had a child in her arms ; a young matt named John Henry Bone, a shoemaker by trade, who was performing his first day's work in the quarry; and Matthew Mitchell, of Camelfcrd. The scene at the pit was most heartrenei ig—parents weeping over their children, and children over their parents. Too much cannot be said in praise of some of the men, who risked their own lives to save those of their fellow sufferers, especially of a workman by the name of James Kellow, and two companions, who worked with a will amid the falling of large stones and rubbish, and thus succeeded in saving at least one life. Two of the men killed belonged to Wadebridge, and had only begun to work in the quarries the same day. A large number of men were again at work by daybreak on Thursday, and had not laboured long before they heard some one groaning beneath their feet. They went to work more heartily than ever in the direction from which the sound proceeded, and in the course of an hour they cam€ near enough to hear the man speak, and to recognise him as William love. A message was at once sent to his almost broken-hearted wife, informing her that her bus band was still alive, and it was hoped not much injured. It should be stated that the system of working the quarry by poppet-heals has for some time past been under going a change; some that were formerly worked have been abandoned, and in a short time the whole quarry wil. be worked by means of inclines and tramways, whicl have been constructed, and found to be safe, efficient, ane economical. Late accounts say that no less than sixteen person. have lost their lives through the accident. These include thirteen men, two boys, and one woman. One man it reported to be dying through the effects of the injuries which 'lle received. Tour bodies have not as yet beer recovered. HARD NAMES.—For some time there has been a reaction in America against the early custom of tin English settlers in superseding the Indian names of places The process of restoration, however, does not promise tc be an umnixed good. A newspaper published in tin region of Lakes Memphremagog and Winnepesauke. remarks that " the fish in Lake Holleyhunkemunk Maine, are superior to those ( f either Lake WeeleyoLaco o or Moosetockmegantm. Toes of Ci auhung( gungamaun were very fine, but they a'l got evized to death in tryin, to tell where they lived." of bill." SPIRIT or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review r egre t s th a t w h en the reason 9 for the remission of any capital sentence are made kne vi n ! they will remain, as they must do, open matters for ecser meat, criticism, and possible objection, or even PreP.,.. condemnation. Neither the Home Secretary nor ti; public ought to occupy this sort of relative position;aii_ is unfair both ways. The carrying out of the ext ' ta ; sentence of the law ought not to be left in this accidental and unknown state. As it is, after every solemn t ri ` , of justice, accompanied by the most impressive dets_altiso we are all pretty much where we started. I ,, nt accused to be sure is condemned to death ; u ife, whether he will be hanged, imprisoned for l ife, or pardoned, depends upon a whole train of matters, con ducted by nobody kn ows w h o , an d se ttl e d for seas° ri. 3 ; nobody knows what. Sh ewar d i s con d emne d an d execute d Wiltshire is condemned and imprisoned for lif e ‘ ; Smethurst is cond emne d an d par d one d ; C ons t an ce five years after ccnunittieg murder, gives herself nl l justic e , is convicted, condemned, and not executed' Sheward, eighte e n y ears a ft & r comm i tt i ng mur der, git, es himself up to justi ce , i s conv i c t e d , con d em ned, a nd . executed. In each and all of th ese cases a fi e rce and n i ! ° _ chievous controversy ar i ses . If P ar li ament h ap pens top:: sitting, we g e t, as we h ave j ust got i n Sh ewar d s cu e ' satisfactory expla na ti on f rom th e H ome S ecre t a ry ; that explanation is, of course, open to exception and c ri s i s cism. If Parliament i s no t s itti ng, th e newspa pers tar their sides, and the public follows suit, and we hear: great deal of the cap r i ce o f th e H ome Offi ce, the unc lil f severity or the und ue l en i ency o f t h e S ecre t ar y, all °f which may or may no t b e j us tifi a bl e. B ut w h a t rest: lB2ll i ? is a reasonable objection to the uncertainty of c rinaie; justice. It m a y b e a ll r i g h t, b ut we have no ground! upon which to be satisfied ; it may be all wrong, bet We can never prove it. The Spectator says that, according to his own account of the matter, M r . L owe on T ues d ay night sprang a mine s upon a new To wer o f B a b e l , w hi ch the lawyers have beeP conspiring to build on the rather prosaic site of C are/ ; street, Lincoln' s -i nn . Th e proceeding, however, resernbie- more closely a n ew a tt empt to found a Cave—an d this ; time, it would seem , i n t h e h eart of the Governmen t, a° merely in the Liberal party. Government after Goverin‘ meat has submitt e d th e po li cy o f which Mr. Lowe mad e such fun on Monday night—the policy of concentrating Law Courts so as to introduce the highest degree of unit , ' and efficiency into our distracted modes of procedure-'to select committees and commissions, and notably to the i commission called Sir George Lewis's Consinissiony which the present Lord Chancellor, Lord Hatherley, a most active and important member, and every report s made has insi s t e d on th e vas t i mportance of the policy of which Mr. Lowe makes so light. The report of the Judicature C omm i ss i on j ust i ssued, the importanc e of which, supp or t e d, as it i s lik ely to be, by the legal authorities on both sides of the Houses of Parliament, cannot be exaggerated, insists on this policy of concent r a; tion as th e centra l po i nt of all our legal reform; an d it cannot, indeed, be carried out without such concentrati on The "frenzy for concentration," over which Mr. Le s° makes so merry, has been shared by persons not lesg prudent and cool than the late Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord Hatherley, Sir J. Coleridge, and an almost indefinite number of other Ministers and lawyers, who are not usual l Y, supposed to be g i ven t o w ild and extravagant frea ks 0' humour or caprice. No doubt it is contrary to all t rue principles of economy to leave the execution of sad' a scheme as this to irresponsible commissioners, who lis ve no motive for economy and efficiency, because they have nothing to lose by extravagance and inefficiency. So PI we go with Mr. Lowe. But we do earnestly protest against the penny-wise and pound-foolish counsel proposes an irretrievable policy of insufficient accomma a• tion on the most inconvenient sites, in the hope of savieg for the moment a sum far short of what we shall certainly have to spend in repairing our error in future years. it is all very well for a responsible Minister to say, "I a r, responsible for thi s ; if I am i n error you will have me blame, and I can pay the penalty." But by the time w e are feeling the consequences of such an error as this seem s likely to prove, Mr. Lowe will probably no longer D e Minister ; before we can feel the worst consequences of his blunder, it is scarcely possible that he can any longer 1)e Minister ; lie will have the satisfaction of saving a mil li° or two sterling now, and the next generation will ils ce the satisfaction of paying many more millions as a fine fOl. his error and a penal tribute to his memory. The Examine). and London Review, in discussing t he professional beggar, remarks that it is very hard to indu ce people to abandon the cruel kindness of promiscuous alia s , giving. They will not look to the fact that the profession s ' beggar absorbs the money which ought to go to the really destitute. The ordinary complaint is, "We have n° means of telling whether a beggar is an impostor or not; and under the circumstances it is better that we should he cheated n i ne ti mes i f on the tenth we gain the chance a` , relieving some abject creature's misery." 'That is to saY' for want of information we are compelled to spend ni iie shillings in fostering deceit, that the tenth shilling Inal d° a walk of charity. What we should like to see dons would be the spending of the nine shillings, or part of i : in obtaining the required information, and the conseV eii : extermination of th e p ro f ess i onal b eggar. Now tn" Society for Preventing Pauperism, Mendicity, and Griine offers an admirably simple method of achieving this de s '' rable end. Th e means are not expensive ; they involve but little trouble ; and they have been found thoroughly enu i P e tent in an experiment which has just been made, we lea°, at Blackheath. It is proposed to apply the same principle to the metropolis, but there will obviously hei great difficill tics in the way of working the system satisfactorily iII London, for without general and concerted action it woul d be comparatively valueless. But that such a systeo would multiply the chances of real destitution being r e• lievecl and greatly reduce the chances of successful in3Pc s ' ture, is apparent at the first glance. Among the deserving poor there is frequently a great disinclination to mak e public their poverty by seeking workhouse aid. A socie t y which could prudently and efficiently investigate su ch cases of genuine distress as are not relieved by our presen t methods of affording charity, would do a most human e and deserving work. The system, if applied to London , would have to be wholly decentralised, and there must 11° offices in various districts, within easy reach of the Inaj a c i rity of the inh a bit an t s ' h ouses. 'C ases of hardsh i p injustice must, unquestionably, occur; for officialis re ' when it comes in as the protector of philanthropy halve ° the charitable and the applicant for charity, invariably assumes an attitude of suspicion, and is apt to become too zealous and too literally exact in its demands. But these cases would bear no proportion whatever to the alarmi ng injustice at present inflicted by the method in which sv ° dole out our private charities. It is the really deservi" poor who have no chance. It is the bold and obstinate beggar who invariably carries the day. The John Bull thinks that the debate in the House °I Lords on the increase of the Episcopate will, at first sigh t ' be very disappointing to Churchmen, and loud murmur s will no doubt be heard against the conduct of the bishe a No one can f a il to sympathise with Lord Lyttelton. has devoted himself with such earnestness to bringing about some practical measure for the increase of the EP ie : copate, and he has been so frequently unsuccessful, the every peer and Churchman reg e's to oppose him. Nev er theless, it do es seem unfortunate that he should not 101:- communicated with the Episcopal Bench. The 11 ° I) ' 6 lord may well complain that in whatever shape he bring ° forward his bill, their lordships cavil at its details. B ut the real lesson to be learnt from this debate I° ' that Parliament, while admitting the necessity for an incre ase i n the number of our dioceses, "Wl' not give its consent to anything but a definit e tangible scheme. 'Their lordships were only on e: roused to en th us i asm d ur i ng t h e debate, and that was when reference was made to the probability of an; „ endowment b e i ng se i ze d on b y a G overnment wh i c h, a' Lord Westbury said the other night, talks of not brealci" the law as if it was a virtue. But we think the endosr' ment might be secured from the most sacrilegious ;P° ll3 ; tors, and, the re f ore , if wea lth y Ch urchmen will find the means, a mod era t e i ncrease i n t h e number of our chie f pastors may at once be attained. But th e House °f Lords will not encourage subscription or cheap bishol certainly op en t o t h e abuse pointed out by the Bishop ° Gloucester and Bristol, and the rota system is universalbr condemned. The Archbishop of York hinted at a schem e for making deans coadjutor bishops ; but we warn those Pro Poling this s c h eme t h at, whatever its merits, it W ll/ undoubtedly have very different and more extended results than they imagine. Let us hope that the delay, taritl y lising and disappointing as it is, may result in some defi• nite and practical scheme being adopted. The qtleA i°° cannot remain in its present position. The Emperor of Austria is likely to visit Cori" stantinople during the summer. The C'a tt.; announces the appointment of Si r , Michael Shaw Stewart to the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ib frewshire, in the room of the late Earl of Glasgow. MR, NEWDEG ATE AND DR. MANNING. — 1111 ? Tablet says: "For ourselves, we are bound to say Ow' Mr. Newdegate always edifies us, and we have taken pains on t occasion to gather from authentic s ourer : the parti cu l ars w hi ch his mode Sty declined to give. appears that th e A rc hbi s h op of Westminster really be' been i n th e t ea - room with a friend, who, being insp i r ed with mischief, said, There's Newdegate; shall I intr °. . duce you t o hi m ?" 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