The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-01 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAT.E.Y.ENING, APRIt) 1, 18(9 CORRESPONDENCE FRI ap- therefore, have, been a forei . gner. The relatives of • rH.EATRE It 0 Y I A lA, A 1) E , I , PH I. 'the Year anything but - satisfactory. During had been murdered, and the . ill-rated woman must, L'l MOSES and SON. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTEIL Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. SHEWARD'S wife accepted his vague, and certainly .11_14 • this last Quarter the Revenue of the-Country has .t (FROM OUR OWN comes] Tn IS EVENING, at 7. P, DAY'S FiS FIING :Mr G. Belmore. preciably improved. There is a net increase upon i not satisfactory, replies as to her disappearance; the UN.CELLENCE WITH CHEA.PNESS. , et 13 to 8, 4th time, BLAC K AND . WHITE. Mr . Fechter, PARIS, WEDN _U 4 Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart, Mrs. L. Murray, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. the head Mis- . police never searched his house ; he appears to have miraculously escaped suspicion altogether. The There is an abundance of rumours To conclude with WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Mr of £731,000. But-exclusive of an increase upon the Property Tax of £204,000, and under EVERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING, Atkins and Mrs Leigh 3lurray. cellaneous of £179,000 -the actual net increase may to-day-in fact, there always is-but tragedy naturally excited more than usual attention, Coning. Perhaps lam in error. I _____ - - - --- -- but, like all other events of the kind, it ceased to be mention the extraordinary statemen to MEASURE, - 1) OYALS T R A N D THEATRE. thought of. READY-MADE or MADE f t Sole T.essce and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. Bismarck, which has just got into THIS EVENING. at 7, A WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. reported that the Prussian Chancellc Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bufton and Maitland. amounts to £472,000, or not far s Justice slept from 1851 to January 2, 1869, 1 4 1 OR ALL CLASSES. After which, JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen- net increase upon the Quarter. h T o h r e t ogfrobsaslifnacrmeasile incorporation of the Southern States i: ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. lion sterling. And that gross increase has been ob- when SHEWARD supplied a clue to the mss- Confederation, but the abrogation of To conclude "nth HUE AND DYE. READY -MONEY pRICES BASED ON the receipts from Crown Lands, of £17,00 0 from the of his wife, and that he had murdered her. He very carefully, we are told, and he h SYSTEM ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, £lOO,OOO f rom gave himself up to the police of Walworth, London, son that the help of the Southern S HOLBORNmade his statement, had it read over to him the next would be more than counterbalan( N UNEQ UALLED STOCK EASTER HOLIDAYS -Entire change of performance.- Taxes, of £44,000 from Stamps, of morning, and adhered to it. In Richmond-street, in EVERY DEPARTMENT. New Acts, fresh novelties, and additional attractions.-The best extended frontier which would then and only entertainment of the kind in the metropolis. Town and the Post Office, and of £248,000 from Excise alworth, was the house in which he and his The whole frontier of North and So A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S country holiday-makers will find no other Theatre in London altogether, as we have said, £472,000 as the gross w murdered wife first met, and the sight of this place be much more difficult to defend than CLOTHING. offering a programme so replete with variety, amusement, and .I - 3- _----- excitement - THIS EVENING, 3rd appearance of the greatest increase on the Quarter. Deducting, however, from had aroused the voice of conscience beyond the power South. I mention this extravagant co: Hence the astute Prussian has rest - STYLE AND OVERCOATS IN EVERY renowned, in his unapproachable and extraordinary.dou a re _ _ this total of £472,000, as the gross increase upon the of control. But when brought before the Norwich there is the slightest trace of probabil MATERIAL. mersaults and pirouettes from the FLYING a RAP d M quarter, under the heads just mentioned, a falling off S aN it denied the truth of his as a curiosity. The magnificent stud of Filly Performing Horses, an , ,scer -----magistrates HE 'A D OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. matchless SCENES in the ARENA, by MM. Bradbury, aldlles upon the Customs to the extent of £62,000, we arrive There are likewise some war repbrt Carre, Salamonsky, Adolphe Carre, Maitrej"The " m d ot coin-. a t the net improvement upon this last Quarter of confession, pleaded not guilty, and on that Salamonsky, Montero, Amelia, and Firembser, ro. B OOTS and SHOES. Positively t e Last Four Weeks of the Equestrian . . £410,000 as already mentioned. Upon the Year, plea has been tried for his life. Did he you with none of them. The Parisi plete combination of equestrian talent ever b . ght s t e l s e e th e e_r. ably afraid of war and there can affirming that the vas , t majority of 1 Those who have not yet seen the wonclerful and beautifulhorsesfor the and not simply upon the quarter, the result apps- commit the murder ? The arguments are certainly should lose no time in doing so, as they leave London or not wholly on one side, and in part the mystery peace. This may appear a strange e H OSIERY and DRAPERY. Doors Continent e r o e % e thet Seven, n o , f t Morning Per- rent is in no way so gratifying. Ostensibly, no doubt, there is a gross increase upon the whole year seems incapable of solution. It is remark- the most accurate. I have already mention( bellicose nation in Europe, ' able that SHEWARD'S confession disclosed no commenceAril' at half pas .. Two. Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past the election addresses on the subject iiND HATS and CAPS, of £3,555,000, and an actual net increase of new facts. His voluntary acknowledgment .t G LOBE Proprietor 2,991,000. But-how attained ? By an in- and writers, except M. Emile de G ---_-_- .11aEnagAer,T.mr.R. se tUP ( a.V. A L. after eighteen years' concealment is, indeed, weighty IN GREAT VARIETY. THIS EVENING. at 7, TIIE HAPPYI Drama, • or, crease upon the Property Tax to the extent of • evidence, but he withdrew and denied his confession latter category, are equally in at a Paris take public meeting, u p th a e nd t i h i e e t i n s e s u o E prietor T an i' d a £2,411..000 and by the additional sum of , 7 and it is notorious that false self-accusations are ; orator but Leonard's n3alreraSreaiae' Marshall,' kis A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS, At 8, at I=r ll.Ljohyleelsrsrr°3lsni.lesasanlYie3wddiala'nisilh°°°erFVernon, and J. £769,000 obtained through the higher rate and the by no means uncommon. Then the medical if he be the vilest elocutionist that eve French audience. _elle unusually Low Prices.left from the previous twelvemonth. The evidence unhesitatingly held that the body " h h Marshall, David Risher, Andrews, Hurlston : and Clarke; Te conclude with BROWN aND THE BRAHMINS: Alessrs arrears was that e wor peace touc es a c ore S. Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. Morgan, Brennan, 1 ountain. Hughes, lamentable fact being only too apparent, when we of a very young woman, whereas SHEWARD'S wife posted to be at all doubtful. The cl C OMP LETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATE and Stephens. was 54. No blood had been noticed on the prisoner's The phenomenon , i tbhu but inexhaustible return teon taleer g y s . o b j rf e i come to examine the regular and ordinary sources of GREAT ST. GEORGE'S HALL, REGENT-STREET, ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ROTA L C H R I S T Y ' S. revenue, that there has been a falling off upon the clothes, or about his house; nor had any incrimina tory circumstances directed attention to him at the the only rational explanation is p na ea tu ee ra w l Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain. whole year to the extent of £15,000 in Taxes, of explanation ARTICLES NOT APPR OVI4M OF EX- EAS TER 'NOVELTIES. £226,000 in Customs, and of £323,000 in Stamps. time the fragments were picked up around Norwich. which pacific sermons are greeted. not merely pacific, but directly and CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. Fresh Engagements, in addition to the most powerful Against this diminution there has to be balanced, It has not been shewn that he and his wife of the leading Parisian divines hav war. Truly, if the French people - Ethiopian Troupe in the world. First Appearance of the ever did meet at the huusein Walworth. But, on the other hand,the pieces of fleshwere so small that it unable to detect any indication of st A N e" and accurate System of Self-measure, celebrated American Comedian, Mr.. Harry Leslie. Pro- of course, an increase upon the whole year to introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend nounced by the Press to ho the genuine sensation, and the was difficult, if not impossible, to determine the age their connection to all parts of the kingdom, only Company of Christy Minstrels who have performed the extent of £15,000 on the Crown Lands, of -- , by express command before her Majesty the Queen and £30,000 on the Post Office, and of £300,000 of the woman of whom they had formed part. Mrs. A rather neat career of swindli GIRDERS by POST promptly and carefully the Court at Balmoral. Arrangements for the Easter week : Rollet has just been terminated on the Excise. Altogether upon the financial SHEWARD disappeared, was never heard of again,and ten years' imprisonment and £2O fi attended to. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. year just expired there is a total loss of £564,000- a woman ' s body was found in the neighbourhood of s ot e of em pa bas parish, about th h , sai callingxy e e ee practised nw ith years, aa varied lineßravo (1 oe nm o i to prison. His system was to tra: ‘-'_______ Ts'ST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, New Songs, Comic Sketches, and continued success of the Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH-S. deducting from which the total increase upon the her residence. If it be impossible to prove that the GRAND ExTRA. PERFORMANCES. three items last-mentioned, amounting to £315,000.- body was that of Mrs. SHEWARD, it is equally diffi cult to prove the contrary. Identity must always iii MOSES and SON'S. ESTABLFHMENTS at sunset till Wednesday (this day) . at 3 and 8 ; Thursday at 8 ; Fri- shows a net falling off upon the year of £219,000. . b f e e s s e i o s ta u bwlaisshe heldd into supply cases of the pla place murder, of bthuet necessarythe con - he had broken his leg by fall and expressing a desire to con . -4* are CLOSED every Friday Evening Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 day at 8 ; Saturday, Arril 3, at 3 and 8. 41 ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. The fact is, that the result of the monetary panic of himself as a fresco painter, and un o'clock. hear the avowal of his sins evidence on this point. The whole testimony is and was unable to kneeh a he ii Private Boxes, .£2 25.; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 35.; which places he found more MOSES and SON. Ready-made and Bespoke ialcony, 2s. . 1866, beginning upon the ever-memorable Black Fri slight, and had it not been for the avowal, must have ultimate . purpose. His dress of a F.,. Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers. Hatters, Acting-manager, Mr. ANDREW NIMMO. day, has . been bitterly felt during this last past his ap h pa e r e e x n p t re p s e s n ed ite h n i c m e, self, and ra t r h el e y Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters ,been held insufficient ; but the confession could not twelvemonth. Besides which the deplorably un- for all Classes. '3ll - IF, " SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE, got over. The evidence points on the whole t o the The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and I Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, iSON • - lelivere the LAT E EDITION of "THE SUN "at the earliest favourable returns of the first two quarters are very be CITY ESTABLISHMENT. possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver far from having been as yet tided over. Comparing justice of the verdict ; but the enigma in many which followed. In most cases his r Jopies iu Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country the year just gone with its immediate predecessor- respects is still insoluble. We know nothing as to pression on his hearer ; and then a 135, MINORIES at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by the motiveswhichactuatedthe crime or the manner in distress and his want of a to in vain. At length, however, 156, MINORIES 9.45 o'clock Orders by 'post punctually attended to' 157, MINORIES which it was committed, and equal doubt exists on whereas upon this last year we have had, as just advanced successful the wi t h u usual another oearnpripriest. suspected l 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDG AT E THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." £200,000 -upon the previous year we had had a net other points which, without the confession, must 83, ALDGATE J. lIJLMES begs to inform his friends and the public have been deemed material. sympathy of priests came to an of 86, ALDGATE generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE 7, ALDGATE SON "as soon as published.-No. 10, Hampsteaei-road N.W. gain of somewhere about £BOO,OOO. Happily, the _. - _ ebb has-slowly, it may be, but perceptibly-tom- posed upon, and Rollet was arrest 83, ALDGATE S 9, ALDGATE 911IIE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " menced. So that we may hope : and what is more, THE REVENUE, OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 0 supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST that he had rarely failed, but his ge NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE., by II W HARRIS, hope reasonably. However unsatisfactory the year has 1.-Tho following is an abstract of the gross produce for the next decade. NEW OXFORD-STREET ,I.owspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. of ET ____________-__----- been financially as a whole, the two first quarters of the Revenue of the United Kingdom in the undenuen - The p o p ulation of Paris is rapid •sO7, NEW OXFORD - STRE ' , OS., NEW OXFORD-STREET „It PORTING.-J OIIN ROBERTS supplies the it were bad quarters-- the two last quarters of it tioned periods, ending March 31, 1869, compared with risen to 1,830,000 in 1866, and mu 1, HART-STREET l e J LAMS r EDITION of " THE SUN" as soon as pub have distinctlyand obviously evidenced improvement. the corresponding periods of the preceding year:- very near two millions by this tilt contains nearly two-thirds as m an} 2, HART-STREET fished. -4, Bath - street, City-road, E.G.- 3, HART-STREET The worst of the matter, at the same time, is this, Quarters ended observable that it barely covers one TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANC 11. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to , that looking at the annual income upon the year, The area of London is about 79,01 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD I only 19,500. This gives a pupal 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT - ROAD L be seen Every Evening by slO at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK S, Britannia, Kensal New-town. and comparing it with the income anticipated by June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, . 1868 136 i 1868 1869 in London, but of not less than 2: 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Mr. WARD HuNT in his Budget Speech, delivered ,_- Country Branch: The number of inhabitants to each £ £ £ £ 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. rrIIE LATE EDITION of " • THE SUN 'at I JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, a year ago, the result is really lamentable. In Customs • . 5,45:3,600 5,485,000 5.998,000 5,485,000 to eight in the English capital, bu YORKS. Strand. Excise 4857,000 4,1 , 1, 000 5,431,000 5,4;90,000 Paris. In spite of its vast open that speech the late Chancellor of the Exchequer stamps 00, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD , SPECIAL NOTICE.-In consequence of frequent misrepre- 1,476 000 ece,ooo 1,287,000 431,000 fore, the most thickly populated c sentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that " SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE estimated that the receipts upon the ensuing twelve- Taxes they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their THE Property Tax delis ors the L eTE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, Post -otli e ll2 ,000 i, 90,. 00 1,1: 1 0,000 1,200,000 nlv Establishments are the above-mentioned. 8 • Starch-Lroen, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, month would be as nearly as possible £73,150,000. Crown Lands . _ - 9.43. They have, in point of fact, been £72,591,000. The miscei,aneous ,,888 661,003 740, 003 "itt es leB - - decrease in the offences against TROUVILLE SUR MER (NORMANDY) Wll O'S GRAIN G E R ? LICENSED actual deficiency happens to be £559,000. But it would Totat4 18,284 003 15,1.9,0,1= 119.0 . 9,' 95 20,' 09 885 assaults, &c., which fell from LOAN of E 400.000, SECURED by MORTGAGE D ‘• BEN- VICTUALLERS ' TOBACCONIST, SHEPIIERD'S-BUSK, - other hand, there was an increase TURES of the T IiOUVILLE ASSOCIATION (Limited).- The SPORTING EDITION of "THE SUN" can be seen at have been as much as £784,000 only for a wholly un - Quarters e nded of the graver accusations ; i Issue of 40,000 Mortgage Debentures to Bearer of £ lO each. OR k INGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight Annual interest 7 per cent., payable half-yearly, in London and :i clock. looked for improvement, under the head Miscellaneous, , poisoning, 23 to 27 ; parricide, 6 t Paris. The First Half-Year's Interest will be payable the Ist September, 1869. rHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN "at to the extent of some £225,000. The late Chan- June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, slaughter, infanticide, and abortic 1867 1367 1867 1868 These Debentures will he redeemable by annual drawings to J. SMITH'S, 39. Bow-street, Covent-garden. cellor of the Exchequer, to descend to par- - ---- begin after the third year at £l2, thus giving a bonus of 20 per X X £ £ the whole number of accused 36 cent. titulars-calculated upon having £22,800,000 Customs 5,499,0. 0 5,502,000 e,102,000 5,547,000 read nor write, 45 per cent. coulc Applications for Debentures. accompanied by a deposit of £2 T TIE LA TE EDITION of " TITE SUN" at Excise 5,028,000 4,e0 eOOO 5,02,000 5,742,000 peer Debenture, will be received in Lodon by Messrs. ITerries, from the Customs ; whereas there have been, Stamps Farquhar, and Co.. Bankers. St. James's-street, London; Messrs. W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden Taxes Roberts, Lubbock, and Co., Bankers, Lornbardeareet, London. town. from that source of Revenue, £376,00 0 less than Pilsen) , Tax - Post-ofh e nal Fesele LICENSED VICTUALLF.I3S' GUARDIAN. , that anti :ipation of Mr. Hiss's's, the return being Crown Lands The affairs of the Association are under the direction of the educated of 1 per Cent., and ~ The Rieht Hon. Viscount Bury. 31. P.. Director of the London ri R. GLENIE, of the SPORTING LIBRARY, no more than V 2,424,000. From Stamps he expected aliscel.alicOUS i of 7 per cent., among the int and South-Western Railway, 66, Prince's-gate, London, Presi- kX• 4. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to ; dent. inform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general, we should have £9,650,00. We have had £-132,000 less Totals was an augmentation among 0 - The [lon, William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's Palace, Lon- that h , has been appointed Agent to the above-named paper is a‘m. addition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of "Tilts Sue," or £9,218,000. Ile looked for £3,510,000 from T.ixes. a little of about 2.!; per cent., and Monsieur Jacques Adolphe rortlier. Ancien Dapnte, 124, Boule- and can supply the same on Friday evening, if reviled, in town Year ended cart Heussinan, Paris, and Chalet Cordier, Trouville, Nor- or country. The receipts from 'Taxes have been £46,000 less, or alarch %USW. March 31,18(9. more than 5i per cent. Neve mandy. G. R. te twee to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the - - educated persons accused of trim Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., 43, Sussex-gardens, London a LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier £3,494,000 altogether. From the Property Tax ' Custmi .s £ aa,424,003 22,65(1,000 For the entire total of murders, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles H. Lindsay, M.P., Winch then any other men in London or Country the evening of puhli field. Hants. cation. No connection with any other Tenons. Bally's, Ruff's, he thought the country would have derived IS%uise 2O, , 62,000 2 ,162,000 persons were sentenced to death, Monsieur Dumond de 3lonteelz, Administrateur des Mines de Wright's, anti h as C's Guides. All the Daily Papers. Magazines, atame. reprieved. Zinc tie la eilesie, 44, Rue de Luxembourg. Paris. and Periodicals soon as published. Agent for the Joint-Stock £8,700,000. It has obtained, in point of fact, Taxes Sampson Lucas Sanville, Esq. (Messrs. S. Oppenheim and Sons), Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. 6,177,00 - ______ 18, Old Broad-street, London. Proper £82,000 less or a total from Property Tax of I . os -Office 4,66 sow 4,630,0 00 TWO CONSERVATIV ___ Debentures, £lO each. The Subscription is payable, £2 on ap- 160,0eu y Tax •.................. 8,e18,e 0 Crowe Lands .................. 3, 5,000 £8,618,000. The entire deficiencies, when we come !sweet .neous .................. 3, plication, .£2 on allotment, £2 on the Ist of May, £2 on the 15th THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN '' 19 _ e _ June, and £2 on the Ist August. Two meetings of Conservativ Or the whole £lO may be paid up at once. in which case dis- A 1 1 . E XsAinE l :l as soon Evening, by W. to look back upon Mr. HuNfs anticipations, Total .................. I 72,591,991 I 9,600,219 se Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old 3 , 5 ,9e1 2,5 b 6,2 Tuesday, had members of the Hot count at the rate of 7 per cent. will be allowed. Cavendish street, Oxford-street amount to the chief part of a million them. Ono of them a banquet, hel BANKERS. 11.-Increase and Decrease in the p erio ds ended March 31, Messrs. Henries, Farquhar, and Co., St, James's-street, Loudon. BROKERS. 'I I IIE TH IRD EDITION OF " 'HIE SUN," -at any rate to £936,000 sterling. Taking 1869, as compared with corresponding periods of the rate the victory of Captain Arkwi Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn, 38. Throgrnorton-street, London. shire election, was presided over I I giving all the grown G NEWS of the day, may be seen into account, however, the advance upon his con preceding year :- A BRIDGED ST.XTEMF.NT. o.t .T EM It Y 31 e NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," In his speech after dinner, Li ADVANTAGES OF THE DEBENTURES. Little Britain, City, E.C. tared receipts on the three items previously named, Mortgage taken in the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Quarter ended March ingly of the crisis which the natio Debenture-holders. Each 110 Debenture: - Will he secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypothe- TH THEATRE- ROYAL DRURY- L ANE. Lauds, amounting, upon the year, all them together, to Increase. Decrease. leading from the glorious past t cation. .tole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Will be redeemable at .£l2 per bond (thus giving a bonus of Tars EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr. C £152,000, the gross deficiency just now mentioned of .e - £ England, to an equally glorious 20 per cent.). hy annual drawings, after the third year. Dillon. Cu , 'ems Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate 'lO conclude with PUSS IN BOOTS. £936,000, is so far diminished to a net deficiency E xc i se ... - , , .... .. ...... 793 31T ----- 248, , 00 - government, in which the State i of 7 per cent. per annum attached, and- Stamps - Will he accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the of £781,000. Remembering that Mr. Hum' in the Taxes - gion, and liberty to be lost in lit holder (in addition to the above bonus) to a distributive share in THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. - meet of the late general electio half of the surplus profit arising from the ultimate realisation of TittS EvENING, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers. midst of all bis favourable anticipations, calculated Prop• rty Tax Post-Office .. - - .... 100,00) that are now promulgated in hi the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Buckstone, jun., Miss Fanny Wright, &c. After which, HOME: Croe n Lands - ' mise the issue, to localise at the same time upon having to encounter at the ••.. . - Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled to Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale. &c. • Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, Miscellaneous ...... • - attempts have signally failed. priority of allotment. &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. IL r. end of the year a comparatively small deficit of If no allotment he made the whole of the deposit will he re- Sothern. Concluding with MARE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck- Totals turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be stone. Commence at. 7. some £278,000 - one recognises the some - Net Increase.... £73 ,314 day in Ireland, must, and w not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future , payments due upon such number as may be allotted, but interest empire at large. The boroi at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be allowed and paid as PRINCESS S THEATRE. what startling fact that he was actually Tear ended March won by tho Liberals ere this fact above thereon. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. out in his calculations, as a whole, by somewhere An opinion of the soundness of this security, and of the value Tim F:vENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, 31, 1 863 ' but when that series of p o liti ca l ---- of the distributive share of surplus profit offered to the Dehen- AFTER DARK: Mr Vining, 31r Walter Lacy, Miss Rose Le- about a round million, as the humorists have lure holders, may be formed from reports annexed to the printed clercq, ac. And 31 ASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Increase. Decrease. Gladstone in a neighbouring cow particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is one of the it, a " cool million" sterling! speeches with which the hustini The Revenue Re- _ _ choicest marine resorts in France. where the noblesse spend their X X Customs 226,000 teemed, became as it were the p 1 summer. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, THEATRE-ROYAL, ADFLPITI. turns are such, in point of fact, that we cannot Excise - directly south of the Isle of Wight, and 'possesses one of the THIS EVENING, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, 3C 0,000 Stamps largest and most comfortable hotels in France, public rooms, Mr. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 1.5 but look forward with more than ordinary solicitude - Taxes gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands to 8, BL At K AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, - superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. R. Phillips. Stuart: Carlotta Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grey, &e, to the Budget about to be unfolded, upon this day C'o ro g e t r e t tCa rAx - nence of the issue, and the mom From London Trouville may be reached via Dover and Calais, Anti WHITEBAIT AT GRE • NWIC IT : Jig Atkins, • 0,000 - For lkestone and Boulogne, or via Southampton and Havre. se'nnight, by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor t town Lands - Congratulating the meeting on Miscellaneous - From Paris it is only five hours and a half distent by railway. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE been won, he counseled the Con of the Exchequer. _. _ -A 11, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, 1868 180 i 181;8 1860 -- £ £ 5,45:3,600 5,48r,000 5,998,000 5,485,000 4 857,000 4,1,4,000 5,431,000 5,990,000 2,372,000 2,081,00 0 2,'20,000 2,542,000 1,470,000 30(.,000 1,287,000 431,000 2,269,000 1,. 6 ~000 2,0 8,000 3,27 , ,000 1,12 ,000 I, 90, , 00 1,11'0,000 1,200,000 3,600 73,000 12,000 1, 2,00 ) 661,003 740,003 8.14,k 95 1,C8<,888 284. 003 1c 1 10_00 , 119,0' 9, , 95 20,'09 88S Mortgage taken in the joint names of Trustees on behalf of the Debenture-holders. Each t le Debenture: Will be secured upon Freehold Land, by mortgage or hypothe cation. Will he redeemable at £l2 per bond (thus giving a bonus of 20 per cent.), by annual drawings, after the third year. Will have coupons for interest, payable half-yearly, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum attached, and— Will be accompanied by a warrant certificate, entitling the holder (in addition to the above bonus) to a distributive share in half of the surplus profit arising from the ultimate realisation of the entire property comprised in the mortgage. Applications for fully paid-up Debentures will be entitled to priority of allotment. If no allotment be made the whole of the deposit will be re turned without deduction. If the whole amount applied for be not allotted the excess of deposit will be applied to the future payments due upon such number as may be allotted, but interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be allowed and paid as above thereon. An opinion of the soundness of this security, and of the value of the distributive share of surplus profit offered to the Deben ture-holders, may be formed from reports annexed to the printe , particulars, and the consideration that Trouville is one of tl, choicest marine resorts in France. where the noblesse spend their summer. It lies on the coast of Normandy, opposite to Havre, directly south of the Isle of Wight, and possesses one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in France, public rooms, gardens, walks, slopes green to the water's edge, and sands superior to those of Scarborough or Ramsgate. From London Trouville may be reached via Dover and Calai For lkestone and Boulogne, or via Southampton and Havre. From Paris it is only five hours and a half distant by railway. Plans of the properties and reports of architects and sur veyors may be obtained at the Offices, or will be forwarded by post. Full printed particulars of the Loan and forms of subscription may be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and at the Offices of the Association, namely :-26, Old Broad-street, E.C.; 6, Whitehall. Westminster, London; and Paris, 51, Rue de Car dinal Pesch. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Baton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; '4 l esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with .HUE AND DYE Totals . 55,772 :2,991 772 561,000 Net Increase IT was hardly possible, under the circumstances, that any jury's verdict could set the public mind at rest respecting the Norwich murder. It would be, perhaps, too much to conclude that the evidence given was sufficient to admit of anything more than a Scotch verdict of " Not proven." But it is clear that the evidence has not been able to dissipate the whole mystery in which this extraordinary case is involved. Many of the circumstances remain unexplained ; and in all probability will so remain to the end. The story is almost un paralleled. Remarkable criminal trials have been curiously abundant of late, but the Norwich murder is the strangest mystery of all. In lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Re ceipts in the [Quarter ended March 31, 1869, the issues out of the same, and the Charges on the Consolidated Fund at that date, and the Surplus or Deficiency of the Balance in the Exchequer on March 31, 1869, in respect of such Charge : Income received, as shown in Account I. .. 20,109,8.8 Amount receivee as advances in aid of Ways and Means ..• „, „ ••• „ „, I,r 00,000 Amount raised by Exchequer Bonds, issued per Act 31st Vietoria, cap.;,37 . 600,000 Amount raised on Account of Fortifications, per A c 3 )th and 31st Victoria, cap. 145 Amount received in repayment of Advances for Public Works, dm. •• •• •• .. 28 - ,6C8 DltLo, ditto, for New Courts of Justice • • • • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattorton. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, a new Drama, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES: Mr Charles Dillon; Messrs Ryder, J. Rouse, F. Moreland, Barrett. F. Wilson, Barrett; Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Hudspeth, and Mrs Vandenhoff. To eonclude with the grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, Doors open at half-past 0, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. 200,000 THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Great Combination of Attractions for th., Faster Holidays. A New Romantic Drama and the Grand Pantomime of "Puss £22,255,696 Excess of the Sums charged on the Consolidated Fund on March 3 , 1 69, payable in June Quar ter, 1.69, above the Balance in th Exchequer at that date, viz : Excess of Charge in Great Britain .. 1,210,673 Surplus over Charge in Ireland • - 364,7 )5 Net deficiency .. *1,845,918 *Charge on March 31, 18 4 , ~. 7 331 181 • • £ Paid out of Growing Produce in March Quarter, 1869 . in Boots." THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 4th time) a new romantic Drama. in three acts and a prolog ie, entitled THE MAN OF TWO LIVES, founded on Victor Flngo's celebrated novel, "Les Miserables," adapted by Bayle Bernard, adapter of " Faust." Principal character by Mr. Charles Dillon, supported by the entire strength of the company To conclude with the Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. Stage 'p en Manager Edward Stirling. Musical Director, Mr W. a. Levy. Doors at half-past 6, commence at 7 0 clock. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. the year 1851 a series of suspiciously concurrent circumstances occurred at Norwich. The wife of WILLIAM SHEWARD, a woman considerably older than her husband, suddenly disappeared, and was never seen again. The pair had not lived on good terms, Mrs. SHEWARD had paid the too common penalty of marrying a young husband, but their relations were not obtrusively bad. SHEWARD gave it out that his wife had gone on a journey ; he after wards asserted that she had left him and would not return. When one of her relatives died, SIIEWARD refused to have the share of the property which f ell to him. His statements were believed, or at least not questioned, and the missing woman gradually ceased to excite attention. But about the time when she first disappeared a fearful discovery was made in the neighbourhood of Norwich. A human hand was found in the suburbs, then other pieces of flesh were discovered, and at length diligent search enabled the police to gather up a human body, which had been sawn and cut into fragments, and scattered in every direction—in ditches, meadows, and plantations—around Norwich. The hideous work of dissection had been performed by an unskilful hand, and this, as well as other indications, pointed to the conclusion that the person had been murdered. But all efforts to identify the mangled fragments utterly failed. Nobody seems even to have thought of accusing SHEWARD. The evidence, such as it was, was in his favour. The doctors decided that the body was that of a woman, and they agreed that she could not have been more than 2(i years of age. The police firmly maintained that no girl belonging toile town or neighbourhood •• 781,r05 Portion of the Charge paTable in June Quarter, 1869 .. 6 553 176 •• , , To meet which there was in the Exche quer on March 31,186) . 4,707,253 Net deficiency as abovo .. £',846,918 THEATRE - ROYAL. DRURY - LANE.- SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE ON SATUR I )AY, April 3.--k t Two o'clock, the Royal Original Chrysty's Minstrels (from the St. George's I I all) will give Selec tions from their celebrated Entertainment. At Three o'clock, the Grand Pantomime of PUSS IN BOOTS, terminating with the Grand Transformation Scene. At half-past Four, a Musical Folly, entitled THE GIRLS OF THE PERIO r: At Five. the Deck of a Man-of War in Miniature—Three Hundr , d lafant Sailors and Marines. Carriages to be ordered at a planer-past Five. Doors open at half-past One, commence at Two o'cl. ck. Children and r3chools at reduced prices to the following parts of the house, viz.. First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. £24,101,614 Deficiency brought forward as per last Account, viz.:— Excess of Charge on the Consolidated Fund above the Balance in the Ex chequer in Great Britain .. £1,562,375 Surplus over Charge on ditto in Ire land.. .. 935,888 Net deficiency brought forward --- £3,025,487 Amount applied out of the Income to Supply her vices (including £2.00 , ,0 on account of the expedition to Abyssinia, and £3O , ,000 for Exchequer Bonds paid off ) Amount Advanced for New k ourts of Justice .. Ditto for Greenwich I lospi tal .. Charge of the Consolidated Fund on March 31, le6J, viz. : Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,225,707 'terminable Annuities 1, ' 13 , 76 Interest of Exchequer Bonds 417..0 Interest of Exchequer bills 21,51 i Interest of Advances on A , count of Deficiency 2,603 Principal of Exchequer Bills 15, 03 The Ctvil List Other Charges on Consoli dated Fund 594,'t94 Advances forPublieWorksAc. 283,501 Paid out of Growing Produce in it arch Quarter, 186 .. £781,003 Payable in June Quarter, 1853 6,55i4,173 .. 13,033,943 8.000 10u,000 THEATRE ROYAL, )(MARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Ruckstone. THIS F;VENING, FLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers, Buckstonc. jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chipnendale, Comp ton. A stley, etc.; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, Arc. Followed Ly TUE CAPTAIN OF T H 14: VAT -'H : Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames CaTendish, Hill &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. 7,234,18 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Revival of "After Dark." £1:4,101,614 Messrs. Churchill have announced the speedy publication of a series of photographs illustrating the various diseases of the human hair. The work will be edited by Mr. Balmanno Squire, one of the surgeons to the Hospital for Skin Diseases In Great Marlborough- street. Each of tho plietographs.willle coloured from We. THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama. entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Vining, Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr J. G. Shore, C. Harcourt, Edmcnds, Holston, and Gresham; Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rose Eeclereq. Concluding with MASI ER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Ooors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open claly from 10 till 5. - E IN LONDON. 4, „, P- AZ 0' I HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, ntreh 31. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins Evzwrzia, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.45, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. And BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M.Oliver. Tuts EvENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with TIIE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TRISEvENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss N' arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZ AR D. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Onm, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, ai Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLF.TS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Box-offlc4 open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, RegerVa-Falk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mcndays, 64. Children under twelve. 641. , 0\) 4+4 4is LONDON, THURSDAY, A.PRII, 1, 1869. To-day we have the Revenue Upturns, and upon this day week we shall have the :Budget Speech of the C luilcellor of the Exchequt-r. To the former, therefore, the national regard will be turned with eagerness, as to a set of figures reaFoltably foreshadow ing, to a certain extent, the financial scheme about to be set forth in the latter by the idght hon. member for the University of London. Glancing rapidly down the official Abstract of the 'Gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, it becomes obvious at once that the res ults arrived at tzory, but upon upon the quarter are satisfac FARTS, T.11.E. (FROM OUR OWN COFdtEsPoNDENr.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, March 31 There is an abundance of rumours in circulation here to-day—in fact, there always is—but nothing worth men tioning. Perhaps lam in error. I ought probably to mention the extraordinary statement respecting Count Bismarck, which has just got into circulation. It is reported that the Prussian Chancellor projected, not the incorporation of the Southern States in the North-German Confederation, but the abrogation of the treaties already existing ! Count Bismarck has considered the matter very carefully, we are told, and he has come to the deci sion that the help of the Southern States in case of war would be more than counterbalanced by the greatly extended frontier which would then be open to attack. The whole frontier of North and South Germany would be much more difficult to defend than the line of the Main. Hence the astute Prussian has resolved to " cut " the South. I mention this extravagant conception, not because there is the slightest trace of probability in it, but simply as a curiosity. There are likewise some war repbrts, but I shall trouble you with none of them. The Parisians appear to be ter ribly afraid of war, and there can be no hesitation in affirming that the vast majority of them sincerely desire peace. This may appear a strange statement to make of the most bellicose nation in Europe, but it is undoubtedly accurate. I have already mentioned the unanimity of the election addresses on the subject of peace. Speakers and writers, except M. Emile de Girardin amongst the latter category, are equally in accord. Let an orator but take up the theme of universal peace at a Paris public meeting, and he is sure of a hearing, even if he be the vilest elocutionist that ever mistook his calling. The word " peace " touches a chord of sympathy in any French audience. The phenomenon has been too often re ' peated to be at all doubtful. The clergymen, too, preach peace with inexhaustible energy. This is, perhaps, only natural, but they return to the subject so persistently that the only rational explanation is the sympathy with which pacific sermons are greeted. During this week two of the leading Parisian divines have delivered sermons, not merely pacific, but directly and specially hostile to war. Truly, if the French people want war, I have been unable to detect any indication of such predilection. A rather neat career of swindling by a man named Rollet has just been terminated by a sentence of ten years' imprisonment and £2O fine. This individual seems to have practised a new line of business for a period of about sixeeen years, varied only by occasional visits to prison. His system was to travel about from parish to parish, calling with a grave demeanour on the clergy, and expressing a desire to confess. He presented himself as a fresco painter, and under the pretence that he had broken his leg by a fall from a scaffolding' and was unable to kneel s he induced the priests to hear the avowal of his sins at their residences, which places he found more convenient for his ultimate purpose. His dress of a decayed gentleman, his apparent penitence, and the superior language in which he expressed himself, rarely failed to make an im pression on his hearer ; and then a plausible story of his distress and his want of a temporary loan of £1 followed. In most cases his appeal was not made in vain. At length, however, this traffic on the sympathy of priests came to an end. One curd who had advanced the usual loan suspected that he had been im ?osed upon, and Rollet was arrested just as he had been successful with another priest. His hypocrisy was such that he had rarely failed, but his genius must be suspended for the next decade. The population of Paris is rapidly increasing. It had risen to 1,830,000 in 1.86.0, and must doubtless be getting very near two millions by this time. But though Paris contains nearly two-thirds as many people as London, it is observable that it barely covers one-fourth as much ground. The area of London is about 79,000 acres, that of Paris only 19,500. This gives a population of 100 to the acre in London, but of not less than 233 to the acre in Paris. The number of inhabitants to each dwelling is from seven to eight in the English capital, but it is from 40 t 0.50 in Paris. In spite of its vast open spaces, Paris is, there fore, the most thickly populated city in the world. The annual report on crime in France shews an increase of offences. During the year 1867 there was a marked decrease in the offences against public morals, indecent assaults, &c., which fell from 1,064 to 954 ; on the other hand, there was an increase in nearly every species of the graver accusations ; murder, 191 to 226 ; poisoning, 23 to 27 ; parricide, 6to 10. The cases of man slaughter, infanticide, and abortion were almost unvaried. The educational statistics are the most interesting. Of the whole number of accused 36 per cent. could neither read nor write, 45 per cent. could do so imperfectly, 14 per cent. well, and 5 per cent, had received a superior education. A singular fact is, that while there was in the last ten years a decrease in crime in the two extremes, in the educated of 1 per cent., and in the entirely ignorant of 7 per cent., among the intermediary classes there was an augmentation among those who read and write a little of about 2L; per cent., and of those who write well of more than 5i per cent. Nevertheless, the um..ber of educated persons accused of crime still remains very small, For the entire total of murders, parricides, &c., only 25 persons were sentenced to death, and of these eight were reprieved. TWO CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS. Two meetings of Conservatives, which were held on Tuesday, had members of the House of Commons to address thorn. Ono of them a banquet, held at Buxton, to eommemo- _ . rate the victory of Captain Arkwright at the North Derby shire election, was presided over by Lord John Manners. In his speech after dinner, Lord John spoke most feel ingly of the crisis which the nation had now reached. We had come, he said, to the point where two roads meet, one leading from the glorious past of monarchical, religious England, to an equally glorious future; the other branch ing off, to some unknown form of purely secular Democratic government, in which the State is to be dissolved from reli gion, and liberty to be lost in licence. At the commence ment of the late general election attempts were made to minimise the issue, to localise it to Ireland ; but these attempts have signally failed. Principles such as those that are now promulgated in high places, dominant to day in Ireland, must, and will, to-morrow rule the empire at large. The borough elections had been won by the Liberals ere this fact had been fully recognised; but when that series of political orations delivered by Mr. Gladstone in a neighbouring county, and the replies to those speeches with which the hustings and the press fortunately teemed, became as it were the property of the public, then indeed those great and weighty political bodies, the county constituencies of England, appeared to recognise the immi nence of the issue, and the momentous nature of the crisis. Congratulating the meeting on the local victory which had been won, he counseled the Conservatives to unite all con stitutionalists, Whigs and Tories, Liberals and Conserva tives—and they might yet prevent the overthrow of the in stitution they loved. "I may be asked—Who aro you, to come among us and give advice of this nature? You who come fresh from a crushing defeat in the House of Commons— how is it that you make use of language which cannot be called tho language of submission and acquiescence ? No, gentlemen, I preach no counsels of despair. My voice is not for surrender. Nothing, gentlemen, in my humble opinion, is yet lost but the character of those public men who, on the hustings, and before the election, promised that the Church of Ireland and the College of Maynooth should alike be disestablished and disendowed, and who now are proposing to establish and endow the latter on the ruins and out of the spoils of the Church of England is Ireland. In my of 'mien the campaign is only beginning. Our enemies have called up all their forces. Our reserves have yet to come into play. The country now, for the first time, begins to see what is the real meaning of those bastard English words disestablisment and discndowment. They now know that disestablishment means the separation of Church and State ; and that disendowment means the endowment direct and indirect, of the Church of Rome out of the funds of the Protestant Establishment. That being the case, I believe the country will steadily and perseveringly re-assort its opinion is favour of the ancient institutions of the country." Lord John went on to complain that the private endowments aro now to be declared by law to be only those which were given to the Irish Church since the year 1662 ; and the plainest facts of history-have to be falsified in Order to pillage her of bet undoubted rightful property. These being, I won't say the only, or the most important, facts of the great case as it is now submitted to the country, I can not, and will not doubt, what the ultimate result will be. Another Conservative me3ting was held on the same evening at Ardwick, the lion. A. Egerton and Mr. Birley being the speakers. Mr. Eger ton spoke out the old cry of "No surrender." if the Iri.h. Church went, so must the English. Ile did net believe that that disestablishment of the English Church 1 , 7,11 . d Ano soon, but he would say that the disestablishment of tho Irish Church was a step towards it. Mr. Birley reminded the meeting that Sir Roundel' Palmer, the greatest English jutist. was op posed to disendownieut, he b,li,ved that almost every n an well qualified to judgo—that was to say, our great jurists, our greatest judges— would be, speaking dispassionately, of the same opinion. They would say that it was a great injustice. They had the best lawyer on the other side taking a view opposed to disendowment ; and even Sir J. Coleridge, th e Solicitor-General, had been, according to the admission of his own party, unable to answer him. A CHURCH DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.— A telegram from Havannah, dated March 16, and re ceived via New York, states that the cathedral church in Zacatecas was struck by lightning on the sth instant and destroyed; burying hundreds of persons in its ruins. "N. A. W." writes another letter, apparently the last of the series, on the haunts of criminals in London. He calls attention to the queen of the Bluegate-fields in the East-end. " She is known in the neighbourhood by the soubriquet of ` Cast-iron Poll.' She is a celebrity, having been convicted, as was proved at her last trial, no less than fifty-three times. Of course nearly all these convictions were light ones, varying in duration from 14 days to 3 months ; yet, from the time that this infamous woman was 15—and she is now near 50— she has seldom been much more than a month at a time out of prison. We were not gatified at the sight of this strange heroine of the place, as one of her companions (who, our detective assured us, had herself been convicted nearly twenty times) said that Poll, who at her last sentence got three years' penal servitude for a daring robbery from the person, would not be i,` out on the spree' for nearly another month. The police of the district almost dread the release of this woman, so much trouble does she give them. She has got so accustomed to, and apparently enamoured of, the gaol life that she will literally do anything after a short ` spree' to get back to it. She will go to a police-station and insist on being locked up ; but, of course, as there is no charge against her, her unusual request cannot be gratified. `No charge,' she says, `well, I'll soon make one,' and out she goes and attacks with teeth and nails the first man or woman she meets, or breaks the windows of a public-house, or, as she has done over and over again, the windows of the station-house itself. Then when she is brought back she cooly asks the inspector why he did not lock her up when he knew she was going to commit her offence, and the same question_ is likely to occur to many of your readers." But though the East-end is bad enough, "N. A. W." considers the South of London worse, especially those parts around the Mint and Kent-street in the Borough. Murderers are not tolerated in the haunts, as they create too much stir ; but every criminal short of these has a refuge in the houses of the neighbourhood. "There is hardly a grade in crime the chief representatives of which may not be met among the purlieus of the Borough. It is the greatest error to suppose that all, or even a majority, of the criminal classes are continually passing through the hands of justice. Griffith, the bank-note forger, who was tried, I think, in 1862, stated in prison that he had car ried on the printing of counterfeit notes for more than fifteen years. Of course this man was sedulous in conceal ing his occupation from the police, but there are hundreds of others who almost openly follow equally criminal and far more dangerous pursuits with whom the police cannot interfere. Our present business should be to look up these vagabonds, and our future vocation to destroy their re cognised haunts. It is no good killing one wasp when we leave the nest untouched. Thieves, it must be remem bered, are a complete fraternity, and have a perfect organisation among themselves. The aspect of the quarters is low, foul, and dingy. Obscenity of language and conduct is, of course, common to all parts of it, but it is not, as a rule, a riotous neighbourhood. Thieves do not rob each other, and they have a wholesome fear of making rows, lest it should bring the police into their notorious territory. These haunts are not 1 ' only the refuges and abiding-places of criminals, I but they are the training colleges for young thieves." It is on this latter score more particularly that "N. A. VT" would suppress these haunts. "If the police were only some night to make a cordon round Kent-street and the Mint, in the Borough, and take all they found withintheir lines —man, woman, or child—l can't help thinking from what I saw that they would do great good to the metro polis and its ratepayers." The position of the public-houses in the neighbourhood also demands attention. Here are houses of ill-fame, notorious for coining, card-sharping, skittle-sharpiug, and hocussing—but the police can do nothing. They might search the house, but would find nothing. "The Excise is to all intents and purposes the landlord of these places, and a landlord knowingly re ceiving for his rent stolen property would be answerable to the law. Is it not, then, a delicate refinement to say that he shall not be equally liable for receiving money which is by public repute derived from the open en couragement of fraud and theft. In this matter I am afraid the Excise cannot be said to be not guilty." "N. A. W." goes on to describe one of these South Lon don haunts. They were much the same as those of the East-end, only the writer seems to have thought them to he viler. "The first house we entered was at the end of a narrow, villainous-looking alley off Kent-street, and at the door of the house were some half-dozen ` roughs.' Before we entered my conductor told use that I should see nothing but the most notorious and convicted thieves. Had he sworn to me that I should see nothing but honest men, I could not have believed him. We passed down into a sort of cellar, or underground basement floor, which had been turned into a kind of kitchen, and here were assembled, to the number of about thirty or forty, some of the worst types of the most criminal classes in London. There was not one of all those present whom a respectable person would not instinctively hci,ve shrunk from meeting in the day or night. They were mostly young men and young women —or, I had better say, young girls. Not one single one, from first to last, could give any account of himself as to saying where he worked, what he worked at, or who bad ever employed him. Some said they lived `By odd jobs,' some said they worked `Down the river.' The girls said they sold matches, some said they sang in public-houses, some that they ` begged ;' but not one man or woman. could name an employer, not one could name a single piece of honest work he had been engaged in, and there was not one who did not deny that be had got a penny that week. And this was Friday night, and the men were all smoking and drinking beer, and the women, I was told (it was then past 1 o'clock), had had their suppers more than two hours ago. I spoke to many with a view of ascertaining if they had ever been in casual wards or refuges. Of the scores that I questioned, I only met with one who had ever been in a refuge, and this was the conversation that passed in the presence of my friends and my conductor. My witness was a young man of about 25, a convicted thief, a known rough, and an associate of regular thieves. I asked him had he ever been in a casual ward. He said, as all the rest said, ' No,' and I believe quite truly, ` that he liked getting his own living, and not going to a work'us.'—` Have you ever been to a refuge, then? Yes ; I tried to go once.—Did you stay there ? No, I didn't ; they asks too many questions, and they asks them over and over agin, and when you forgets what you've said first, out you goes. —But if you tell the truth first, you surely can't forget that? Oh, yes, you can, though, when you are asked over and over again. —What questions did they ask you I (A very long pause). They asked me if I had a father os a mother alive.—Well, have you ? No ; they're both dead.—Well, if you were asked that a dozen times you would not forget it, would you? Yes, I did, and they turned me out. The truth is you cannot get your beer and pipe at the refuge ? Yes, that's it (a great laugh at this ; and they makes you say prayers, and this was said with a spit of intense disgust) they makes you wash.' This was the only case where I met any who had among these criminals been at either a refuge or a casual ward. The house in which this thieves' jubilee is held makes up some 120 beds, and the lessee, if I may so call him, pays £lO a week rent for the place. In this place men are charged 4d. a night for their beds, and men and w omen is In most other houses married couples are only charged 6d. I was so much struck with this discrepancy that I asked the reason plain and pointedly, and the reply was equally plain and pointed. 'Bless you, sir, I should no snore think of asking if the people who come here are married than I should think of asking if the men who come here are thieves. So long as they pay their money and are quiet I asks no questions.' After this I need not further explain what the house is, nor need I dwell upon the class of female children whom I saw there, and who, though living on their infamy, were more fit for a nursery than a notorious thieves' house of ill fame." In conclusion, " N. A. W." says : " I do not pretend to offer suggestions as to the prevention of all crime, but this I do say, that unless the low beershops, the low pawn brokers, and the low leaving shops are put under the entire control of the police, it is idle to talk of diminishing crime in the metropolis or bringing in bills for its better suppression." The infant child of Prince and Princess Christian was christianed at Windsor Castle on Wednesday afternoon. The Dorset Chronicle states that the Solicitor- General has returned his fees in the Saurin case, believing that the plaintiff's friends cannot afford to pay them. The Guardian is glad to learn that there is an im provement iu the health of the Bishop of Salisbury. His lordship's condition is still very precarious, but there is much greater groIAILI for hopes of his recovery than there was a week ago. 'Fire New Fork Tribune says that Miss Van Lew, who rendered the State some service as a Union spy for I I General Grant, in the Potomac 'army, is to ro eivo the appointment of Postmistress at Richmond, Virginia. This is looked upon as a big thing for the women's rights people. From a return published on Wednesday it appears that the total number of sick poor attended by the medical officers of the metropolis clueing the year ending 29th of September, 1868, was—indoor, 79,375; ohtdoor, 268,135. The amount of remuneration paid to the medical °Meer; inclusive of salary fees, &c., was £28,669 7s. 9d. The Prince of Wales is expected to arrive at Con stantinople to-day. Mr. Elliott will go to meet him in the Dardanelles on board the Caradoc. The King of Italy has placed the Palace Capo-di-Monte, at Naples, at the disposal of the Prince of Wales, who is expected to wiye shortly in South Italy. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove to Twickenham yesterday afternoon, and visited the Countess of Paris. Prince Arthur accompanied her Majesty on horseback. Her Majesty returned to Windsor by a special ,rain on the South-Western Railway. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE BRAZILS. PLYMOUTH, April 1. The London, Belgium, Brazil, and River Plate Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamship City of Limerick, from the Brazils, has arrived at Fal mouth this morning with 20 passengers, the mtils, £15,000 in specie, and a general cargo. Her dates are :—Buenos Ayres, February 18th ; Montevideo 23d ; Rio, March 3d ; and St. Vincent 18th. According to Brazilian advices brought by the City of Limerick Lopez still continues to repel the advance of the allied army into the interior of Paraguay. The appointment of General Asorio as Comman der-in-Chief had met with general approval. LISBON, March 31. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steam ship Oneida from Brazil, &c., arrived here to-day at 9 a.m., and left for Southampton at one p.m. with 70 passengers, specie, £8,475, 2,862 bags of coffee, 1,147 rolls of tobacco, 854 packages (cocoa), and 370 packages of sundries. The La Plata, with the oatward mail of the 9th March, was at St. Vincent (Cape Verds) on the 20th of March. ITALY. BRINDISI, April 1. The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer Principe Tomasso has arrived here from Alexandria, after a passage of 82 hours. She brings 40 passen gers, 27 of whom are English. FLORENCE, Alril 1. The King arrived from Turin this morning to give audience to General Moering, who has been specially charged by the Emperor of Austria to thank his Majesty for the cotnplimentary visit of General Della Rocca at Trieste. General Moering has bee❑ received since his arrival here with great official distinction. The administrative delegates have been charged to arrange an understanding between the different railway companies for the establishment of a direct accelerated service between England and Italy, via Ostend and the Brenner Pass. The delegates are to meet on the 11th of April at Stuttgard. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31. A telegram from the Dardanelles was received here this morning, announcing the arrival there of the Prince of \Vales. His Royal Highness is ex pected here to-night or to-morrow morning. The English Ambassador left here yesterday in the steamer Caradoc to meet his Royal Highness at the Dardanelles. Raouf Pacha and Kiamil Bey, from the Sultan, Leave also this afternoon for the same purpose. The English colony have prepared an address to be presented to the Prince upon his arrival, and it is proposed that they should go outside the port is an express steamer to welcome him. An official banquet, balls, and reviews are being prepared. Ou the first day of Bairam the Sultan made the Grand Vizier a present of a magnificent diamond. FRANCE. 130 USE, March 31.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : ti per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 37i Credit Mobilier 278 75 End of month 2BO Credit Foncier l4Bl 2Z End of month RAILWA Orleans Bank Shares 9 860 --- Ithl 4 an Fives 55 95 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds - Spanish Threes 32 50 Rome Debt Deferred — 's. Cash 960 ... Northern ... JI7O Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 6171 Westorn Eastern . 5974 Sardinian Austrian Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman 55 6711 473 k TVESTMINS7 ER ABBEY AND ST. PAUL'S CATREDRAL. If the Cathedral has uot, like the Abbey, been the growth of centuries, the site and adjacent ground has seen and testified to the growth of the nation. True, the Cathedral has few of the augeet associations which crowd around the Abbey ; true, that while the Abbey has witnessed the coronation of all our Sovereigns save one, the Cathedral bus not witnessed even that one ; true, that while most of our Kings, from the last of the Saxons to the second of the Brunswicks, were buried in the first building, only one Royal head has rested in the second, and he, " old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster," never wore crown ; true, most of our statesmen, from John of Waltham to Palmerston , most of our poets, most of our warriors, most of our philosophers and men of science, repose in the Abbey, not in the Cathedral ; yet while the Abbey has seen more of the solemn and of the gorgeouS pageants of history, the Cathedral has seen more of the every-day life of the nation, with all its stir and deep emotion. St. Paul's has been, shame to say, the exchange of London's merchants, the resort of its profligate men and women, the haunt cf the gossip by day, and of the thief plotting robbery for the night. But it has been the court in which con tending factions of Church and State have pleaded their cause before the people of England. At time when journalism was not, when meetings meant popular riots, St. Paul's was at once the pulpit, the press, and the platform of the nation. If history consisted only of the coronations of kings and the funerals of conquerors, the Cathe' dral Church of St. Paul would bear no comparison with the Abbey Church of St. Peter. But it is the thoughts, and words, and deeds of the people which constitute the true life of the nation, and in these the Cathedral will hold its own against the Abbey'. Nor is the fancy strained which would make the one structure symbolical of the Constitution of England, and the other of the character of Eng' lishmen. The Abbey, standing opposite the two Houses of the Legislature, flanked by the depart" ments of Government, and itself the work of col" turies, fitly represents the slow and gradual growth of our institutions in Church and State. p i° Cathedral, standing in the heart of the wealthiest and most populous city in the world, and, thoug h so vast a work, built in a little over twenty years; conceived, begun, and completed by the sam e architect ; with equal fitness represents the con' :u c , trate.l purpose, the uufl egging energy, the vas t schemes of the English merchant. The first eul' bodies the traditions of ages ; the see„ud is the achievement of a single generation.—Art. on "Mi l ; roan's Annals of St. Paul's" in the new number 0 ' the Loi«lon Quarterly Let iew just pablished. DEATH OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ROTIISCHILD B . — ' On the 1G :h instant Baroness i'ahbette Beyf us Von V ° Rothschild died at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, aged 85. S b : was the only surviving sister of Baron Ansehu Rothschi ld ' the founder of the celebretod banking house of Di. A. 17 :° ° Rothschild and Son.