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Concludincr with PRESUMPTIVF. EVI DE\ CE: Madame Celeste, Louisa Moore, &c.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murt ay, THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tills EVENING, at 7, rOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo. Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8. Tme. 'MART Mr t e t a go " r l e l :S ' igTlfr i e x c. fe r i i io u n r . u a n , g, Mt Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr 110YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborou g h : t its EVENING. nt 7.30. FOX V. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel rord, Clarke; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,' Tames. Fenton: 4 esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, B utton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENING, at 7, N AVAL ENC;AGEMENTS. At p.no, the new burlesque T II 4 . CORSICAN HOT II Ens. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Messrs. Marshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin dale, Hurlstnne, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVE' LNG, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After wh;ch MONEY: 3! r. 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MOSES and SON Fthl it neee,sary to state that they do not employ any travellers cr agents, and that thelr my I , .to.Llishments are the above-mentioned. MACNIVEN CAMERON'S ENOWNED WAVFRLEY. OWL. PECK WICK, and WAYERLEY BARREL PEN, OS A NEW PRINCIPLE, The ' Owl' pen is suitable for fine writing, and glides over the paper in the most easy and graceful manner- This is par excellence the lady's pen. The ' Pickwick,' from its flexibility, is well adapted for business purposes. The Waverley 'is sure to become a favourite ; its fiexi bay is so great that it will entirely supersede the use of quills, and to professional men will be invaluable. The Waverley Barrel Pen' po , f;-..,3s the sant- qualities as the foregoing."—Court Journal. T HEATRE ROYA L, TI A Y 111 AR KET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN A LAR MING SACRIFICE: Buekstone, jun.. and 31 Fanny Wright. Aft,r which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley. &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. With A REGULAR FIX. Mr. Sothern. And HIGH LIFE BELOW► STAIRS. Messrs.. Buekstone. Howe, Kendal, Clark, Gordon, &c.; Meadames Laws, Fright Uwynn, I oleman, &e. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rHEA'FRE ROYAL, AI)ELPIII. .2- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon_ THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART. Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Belmore, Stuart, R. Philips, Ashley, Romer; Mrs Alfred Miss Welly Harris, &c. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Week of the Season. • THIS EVENING, a New Drama, by Dion lioucicault. entitled PRE -U M PTIVE EVIDENCE, in which Madame re'este, :Hiss Louisa Moore, Miss Emma Barnett. Mr. W. Itignold. Mr. J. a Shore. Mr. G. F. Nevil'e, Mr. Moreland, 31r. Parselle, and Mr Dominick Murray will appear. To be preceded by THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE, in which Madame Celeste will give her celebrated Impersonations of Ernest de 13 Garde and Zambaro. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. THEATRE -ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and 3fanager, BARRY SULLIVAN Legitimate Success!—Fonrth Week of " MONEY. ' THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (In five acts) of MONEY. Parry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, Ceorge Flonev, W. H. Stephens. Charles roglan, Lin Payne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E. Dvan; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mist Louisa Thorne, and Mrs varies Horsman Dover. CI T 12 A XT TIDA - rn, Di Sole Lessee and 'Manageress, Airs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX Q. GOOSE. Messrs. 11Arke and Belford; Mesdames Bofton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. Tames. Fon ton, Turner, Chamberlaine: Mesdarne.sEutton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude pith HUE AND DYE 1 I, 0 I E THEATTIE_!!()YAL. (.3 - "ole Proprietor and Manager, \Tr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7. NAVAL ENGAGEMENT-I. At c. , to H. j . ryron's new Brand Burlesque, entitled THE CORSICAN BoTHERS;" or, The Troublesome Tw:hs. 10 conclude with T. W. Robertson's Comic Drama. A BREACH OF P ROM I'= : Mesdames Lydia Foote.l3rennan. Thiel! es, S'epheus. Perend, C. Th orne . messrs Vernon, ' , avid Fisher, Marshall, Andrews, ITurlston, and J. Clarke. TITE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1869 „0 . 7 ?”: 42 - : 11 1 (.2j T - It LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1869. The difference between the habitual and the pro fessional criminal, it may seem, at a superficial glance, is rather difficult to define. The defini tion of that difference may, to put it in other words, appear to involve a very nice distinction. It will be recognized, however, after a moment's con sideration, that there is a readily traceable line of demarcation between those two offenders against the law. The habitual criminal so called may after all— supposing him to have been already twice or thrice convicted —a criminal quite casually, as one may say, or by accident— a criminal, to put it otherwise, s i m ply by yielding to temptation. His antecedents, apart from the offences brought home to him, may admit of the keenest examination. Destitution or evil company may have led him to his first offence, may lead him to the repetition of it once, or twice, or even more frequently. The professional criminal is alto gether different. Spawned in the midst of crime and squalor—" dragged up," rather than " brought up," to apply to them with peculiar force the pathetic remark made by CHARLES LAMB in regard to the children of the very poor—nurtured on the fruits of felony—tutored, in the use of language, from their earliest years by thieves' slang, intermingled with perpetual oaths and blasphemies—these professional criminals, the roughs of our towns, the tramps on our highways, prey upon the rest of the community, not intermittently, not accidentally, but sytetuatictlly and by rule. They are known here in Lon don every man of them, every woman, boy, and girl—to the police of the metro polis—known by name, or rather by names, for they are prolific in the alias—known by form and face—known in all their haunts and hab:ts. The difference, to speak familiarly, is not that be tween six and half-a-dozen, but that between chalk and cheese. It is a distinction, moreover, that it is now most incum bent upon the Legislature we should have as clearly and as rapidly defined as possible. .And for this simple reason, that, within a very few days, the Habitual Criminals Bill will be formally brought under discussio❑ in Parliament. The very title of that measure is its principal flaw —it is the " head and front of its offending." The suppression of syste matic crime by more stringent penalties—that is the main object of the intended enactment. It is a pur pose, in the reasonableness of which we can all of us very heartily sympathise. But the designation of the bill is—after what has here been just now remarked — quite clearly and obviously a misnomer. What is meant by that title is i❑ reality far rather the Profes sional Criminals Bill than the Habitual Criminals Bill. In any case, the distit:c►ion ought to be more clearly defined than it is, both in the heading and iu the body of the Lill itself. Otherwise, there will be immi nent ri,k through it of a miscarriage of justice. What we are here insisting upon has been very clearly and emphatically set forth by the learned Recorder of Portsmouth in his recent charge to the Grand Jnry. " The promoters of the bill," said Mr. Sergeant Cox--,--" made a great mistake, because, contrary to the experience of those whose duty it was to administer the law, it assumed that the habitual was necessarily a professional Speaking as a Middlesex Magistrate, he said that his experience, when presiding over the Session of that county, had demonstrated to him that out of all those tried before him, there, only one-fifth could be classed as professional criminals. How preju dicially the proposed Bill would be likely to act in regard to the non-professional class of criminals the learned Sergeant thus signifiointly shadowed forth—'` If," said be to the grand jury of Porte utli, speaking in his judicial c.ipacity as Recorder, "a person was brought before them—whether man, woman, or child--who could not be regarded as a professional thief, but who, it turned out-, had been thrice previously convicted, lie was quite sure that when it was known that a less punish ment than seven ye.trs' penal servitude could not be awarded, there would be a great objection to prosecute, there would be a greater reluctance on the part of juries to convict, and there would be a still greater reluctance on the part of a judge to pass a sentence which was altogether uncalled for by the nature and circumstances of the case." It is really, after all, a question as to a minim•.im of seven years or a minimum of three—of penal servitude. Judges ought to be allowed discretionary power as to the amount of punishment they are authorised to im pose on the prisoners brought before them and con victed by the verdict of the jury. In the midst of the very noticeable silence maintained by our judicial authorities in regard to the Habitual Utiminals Bill, we are thankful to the learned Recorder of Ports mouth for directing attention betimes to the unques tionable anomalies of the bill prior to its coming for mally, as it is arranged to do, within a very few days from the present moment, under the scrutiny of the Imperial Legislature. FIFTY years ago this week there was born an infant who, though " only a girl," was destined to sit on one of the most illustrious thrones in the world. Two years before that the nation had been plunged into the most profound grief by the sudden death of the Princess who was looked upon as the future Queen of England. That death led to three royal marriages. The fruit of one of them was the child who first saw light in Kensington Palace, May 24,1819. There was trouble in store for the babe. Before she was a year old she lost her father, after a few days' illness. The death of EDWARD Duke of Kent was followed within a week by that of his father, King GEORGE 111. Thus there remained but one generation between this unweaned child and the Crown. Yet it all but came to pass that she never wore that crown. While at Woymoutb, during her first year, a care less boy fired off a gun, and the shot breaking through the nursery window, passed" close to the little Princess. Two kings succeeded that child's grandfather. Both of them were advanced in years; both of them it was known could not reign long ; and so the keenest interest was felt in the maiden who was growing up from childhood into womanhood. She led a simple life ; and, while well-educated, was not bound by the stunting swathes of excessive etiquette. Often she would take an early meal in the garden in front of Kensington Palace, and the morning stroller through the Gardens would see the royal child sitting with book on lap, or work in hand. Petwecn her and her uncle, King WILLIAM, there was not, as we have learnt from herself, any great amount of cordiality. She was early attached to the cousin whom she afterwards married ; but the KING, for reasons not assigned, impeded the development of that attachment. Cne morning in the height of summer there lvere early callers at Kensington Palace. It was but five o'clock when the Archbishop of CANTIBBVIiY, the Earl of ALEEMIARI.E, and Sir lIENnY lIALFonn, the physician. arrived. The PRII`:CFS.S was fast asleep, but their business would admit of no delay. They came with important nem , . They came to salute Queen VICTORIA. " The King is dead. Long live the Queen ! " _ _ It must have been a solemn moment for the young girl. Had this news come but six months sooner she would have had the help of a regent to introduce her into her new duties. Not a month had passed since she attained her majority, and all the burden of royalty must now be borne by those young shoulders. A few hours later there gathered together in that quaint, ugly palace which had been' her childhood's home the Prime Minister (Lord MELBOURNE) and more than a hundred peers, who came to swear allegiance. The first to sign it was the Duke of CUMBERLAND. He came to do homage to the crown won, and yet in him the QUEEN saw a crown lost. For more than a hundred years the Crowns of Eng land and Hanover had been worn by the same persons. But Hanover would not be ruled by a woman, and so for the first time since the accession of the House of BRUNSWICK the Crowns were to be separated, and the Duke of CUMBERLAND was tc take the lesser one. We cannot help speculating as to what would have been the result if this hcd not happened. Would BISMARCK have cast his covetous eyes upon the Electorate if the Queen of lI:NOLAND had also been Electress of HANOVER ? Would he have won the battle of Langensalza if he had had to encounter not only British troops but a British navy ? Would he have fought it ? However that may be, great were the rejoicings at the termination of the old union. It had never been popular in England from the time that the English courtiers, who knew no German, were compelled to translate into Latin for the benefit of the first GEORGE, who knew no English, the directions for the coronation in the Abbey nearly a century and a quarter before. As for the new made Queen, she may well have felt that her duties as Sovereign over the British islands, over half of India, and over the colonial empire, which was vast even then, were sufficient for her, and that to be spared the exposure to continental collisions which her govern ment of the German State might have involved was a real relief. " The awful responsibility" she said, at her first council, "is imposed upon me so suddenly, and at so early a period of my life, that I should feel myself utterly oppressed by the burden, were I not sustained by the hope that the Divine Providence which has called me to this work will give me strength for the performance of it, and that I shall find in the purity of my intentions, and zeal for the public welfare that support and those resources which usually belong to a more mature age and long ex perience." The next day there was a formal procla mation of the QUEEN'S accession at St. James's Palace, and among the most vigorous to cheer her, conspicuous even in that enthusiastic crowd, was a man destined afterwards to give her no little trouble—DANlEL O'CONNELL, the "Liberator." Then came the dissolution which always follows the demise of the Crown; a useless arrangement now, since the Sovereign no longer chooses her advisers, but has them chosen for her by the popular voice. Mr. DISRAELI has described in his cleverest novel how TAPER and TADPOLE, in want of a " cry " for the hustings, hit upon " Our young Queen and our old institutions." In spite of their cry, TAPER and TALPOLE did not prosper. The young QUEEN had a strong partiality for the Whigs. Their leader, Lord 11IELBOURNE, had been her guide, philosopher, and friend. A little later, when the great bed-chamber controversy arose, and Sir ROBERT PEEL could not form a Ministry because he could not reorganise the QuEEN's Ladies in Waiting, it became the fashion of the Conservative party to denounce the QUEEN with as much vehemence as the former denouncers of O'CONNELL, are now demanding the repeal of the Union. A little later a conciliator appeared in the person of a youth, strikingly handsome, and very accomplished, though not a bit of a T o ry. This youth became, while still under age, the husband of the QUEEN ) and it was he who, in great measure , taught her to suppress all political partialities, and to shew equal graciousness to both the two great parties in the State. In 1817 it really seemed as if heirs to the throne would die out. GEORGE 111. had had a numerous family ; yet he had seen but one grandchild grow up to adolescence, and she was then lying dead, with her dead baby by her side. Twenty three years later all fear on that score was set at rest by the news that the QUEEN expected to give birth to an heir. In nine months from the time of her marriage she saw her firstborn, and within a year of the daughter's birth she gave birth to the son who has now grown up to s four children of his own, besides nephews and nieces past counting. That England will want an heir of the House of Brunswick seems humanly impossible, at all events within any such period as monarchical government is likely to continue. But though the QUEEN has this consolation, it cannot make up to her for the loss which has darkened the last seven years of her life. She has not lost one of her children—only one of her children's children has died ; but death has taken him who was not only husband, but guide and counsellor, him whom she might address in terms as touching as those with which ANDROMACHE, bade farewell to HECTOR. It is under these circumstances that the QUEEN has withdrawn in great part from public life. She still performs the duties which none but the Sovereign can perform ; but those which any member of the Royal house can fulfil, and which can, perhaps, be better performed by one who is young in years, she has transferred to her son. It is under these circumstances that the QUEEN spends her fiftieth birthday in seclusion among the Highlands. It is under these circumstances that the Royal jubilee year will pass unmarked by fitting fes tivities, and probably forgotten by the great bulk of the QUEEN'S subjects. A court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington yesterday morning for the trial of Mr. Benjamin Freeman, engineer of the Warrior, on a charge of being drunk on board the slip on the 30th of April. The Court was composed of Captains Courtenay, Lord Lilford, Wilinshurst, Lacey, Godenough, and Lethbridge, with the assistance of Mr. G. Hoskins, the officiating Judge-Advocate. Captain B )ya prosecuted, and Mr. Harvey, of Portsea, appeared as the prisoner's " friend." The prisoner, in his defence, denied the charge, and alleged that his excitable appearance was attribu table to the fact that he had just found some money orders for a considerable amount which he thought he had lost. The Court, however, considered the charge proved, and adjudged him to lose three years' seniori`y, to be dismissed the ship, and severely reprimanded. AFitICAN EXPLORATION.—Miss Alexandre Tinne the Dutch lady who became so well known a few years ago as an African explorer, bas, according to letters re ceived at Malta Tripoli, reached 11.ourzouk in safety, and was awaiting tho chief of the Tarouks to escort her and her numerous retinue to the starting post of the annual caravan for Soudan. Mist, Tinne recently imputed into Barbary a velociF , de of the latest Parisian manufacture; but finding it not adapted for the sands of the Great Desert, she presented it to the Pasha of Tripoli. AN IMMENSE FISH.—On Saturday last, -while some fishermen were crossing that portion of land in Lin colnshire known as the " Wash," which has very recently been flooded from the very heavy rains that have fallen, they noticed a very large fish opposite the vicarage atCow bit, a village on the border of this huge lake. They at once set to work and succeeded in capturing an immense stur geon, over eight feet and a half in length, and weighing more than 14 stones. They wore unable to manage it, and it had consequently to be shot. It was carted to Sp tiding and there exhibited—the owners, who are only poor fisher men, clearing a very handsome amount by the exhibition. It is many years since so large a fish has been discovered in that direction. SHIELDS, Monday Evening.--The weather has undergone a pleasant change on the north coast to-clay. The wind is well round from the west, and there is a con siderable rise of temperature. The wintry chills and no7th- east winds which have lingered so long into the month of \ray seem to be gone. Menielssobn's " Elijah" will he given for the list t'ine this season, at Exeter-hall, by the National Choral Society, on Wednesdiy„Tutie 2. Miss Arabella, Smyth, Miss Palmer, Mr. G. Perron, and Mr. Lauder will to the principal vocalists ; conductor, Mr G. W. Martin. August Siegrist, a young rope-walker, rode on a velocipede over a 1-in. rope, 220 ft. long, at an elevation of 20ft. above the lake, in the City Gardens of San Ft an cisco. A high wind was blowing at the time, and endea vours were made to persuade him todefer the experiment, but without succ , ss. The wheels of the machine were grooved, but at the first trial he fell into the water, but the second time he rode across. On the 29th ult., at Boston, Master John Reardon is reported to have driven a velo cipede over a rope, the wheels being grooved. lie went back and forwards several times. TR - E neLsli - c_uu.nca, The Globe takes up the question, "What will the Lords lo with the Irish Church Bill ? " Our contemporary raises it " not for the purpose of definitely anticipating the course which the Upper House of Legislature will take, but in the conviction that the circumstances under which the measure comes before the Peers, and the relation in which they stand to the actual Government of this great empire, have not received precisely the right sort of con sideration." The Lords, we are told, " have to cast a balance between the arguments which may be urged against the bill, and the incidental pheno mena from which its upholders mainly derive their strength. That balance they will cast in a spirit of conscientious solicitude for the abid ing welfare of the country. They are most critically Vaced, and should be protected from the insolence of dictation and the terror of irrelevant con sequences. They will decide this case, we may be quite sure, in no narrow party interest, and under the bias of no short-sighted excitement. They will raise themselves to a lofty height, where, free from the petur bations of current controversy, always too much em bittered by class prejudice or political passion, they may be able to exercise the noblest of all attributes—that of a perfectly judicial statesmanship." The Echo says It is quite certain that the .1-Teuse of Lords has not yet made up its mind what to do with the Irish Church Bill- Not the most extreme section hopes to save the Irish Establishment, but they would, if they could, talk the measure into next year." THE CONFLICT AT BALLY HEIGUE. Our Cork correspondent writes that the latest intelli gence from the scene of the late collision between the police and the mob is that of the two men O'Hara and Dunne, who were severely wounded ; the former still lives, but is in suck a weak state that the doctors in attendance on him at the County Infirmary can give no hope of his recovery. Dunne's injuries were of such a character from the first that no serious fears arose as to his ultimate recovery. Captain Ball, R.M., has been to the infirmary and taken the depo sitions of Dunne and O'Hara. The excitement which was caused in Ballybeigue, Tralee, and the country around by the unfortunate conflict still continues. THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT FUND. There is a difficulty, says the Birmingham Gazette, about the disposal of the portion of the balance of the Hartley Accident Fund which came to South Staffordshire. From the first it was doubtful whether the trustees would apply it to wards improving hospital accommodation in any town in the district ; and now it is generally allowed that such an appropriation of the funds would not be entirely in keeping with the terms on which they were given to the district. The question is one of very considerable diffi culty. The amount of money is not very large, and its investment would not produce such an income as would be of much service in a district where the accidents are so numerous; and to distribute the principal would simply be to waste it. At a meeting of miners held at Dudley on the subject last week, the control of the money was asked for the men themselves. A resolu tion was passed at the sr.me meeting affirming that the men wore willing to subscribe something to t dd to the fund, so that tho revenue derivable from the whole would go fat thee in the way of relieving injured miners. THE RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA. Tile recent collision in the Irish Channel Las given rise to an animated discussion respecting the rule of the toad at sca, and the frequency of these, maritime disasters shows that some definite understanding is needed. Admiral Sir John Hay, 31. P., one of tne naval Lords of the late Government, discusses the 13th article of the international steering and sailing rules, and states that it compels ships approaching nearly end on even, when to starboard of each other, to turn their bows at full speed to each other, so as to pass on each other's left hand. Mr. Thomas G: ay, of the Board of Trade, declares this interpretation of the article in questson to be altogether incorrect, and says that the Board of Trade are anxious to prevent misapprehension by making the exact wording of the article known. It runs as follows: "If two steamships under steam are meeting end on, of nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the other." The regulations, of which this ar ticle forms a part, are contained in an Order in Council or Jan. 9, 1863, promulgated iu conse pence of an elaborate dis cussion between the Governments of France and England, the Admiralty, the Trinity-Louse, and the Board of Trade. Owing to misapprehension s on the point the discussion was afterwards renewed, and all lathes came to the conclusion that the mean kg of Article 13 was clear, and that the wording should nut be altered. To prevent any future mistakes, however, an Order in Council was passed use 30;11July, 1868, giving some fuller (' plans tions of its meaning, and showing that it could not apply to cases in IN li:ch the two ships must pass clear of each other if Loth keep on their redo etive courses. So far from the rule requiring ships " when to the starboard of each other to turn their bows at full speed to each other," as Sir John Lay states, Mr. Gray points out that the order, iu express terms, provides that Article 13 does not apply where the green light of one ship is opposed to the gi etu light of the other. Rear-Admiral Sullivan also alludes that Sir J. Hay has misinterpreted the rule of port value in the new regulations. The old rules would, he thinks, have been sufficient if the Admiralty Court and Privy Council decisions had not sometimes been mistaken. However clear rules are, unless decisions of our courts of law are in ac cordance with them, they will never prevent collisions. The Admiral thinks that the explanations issued in the order to which we have just referred make the whole question so clear that we may hope such errors will be avoided in future, but he is of opinion that in all such cases the views of nautical assessors should be taken in preference to those of civilians. On Saturday last about 22,000 excursionists from the manufacturing districts of Lancashire visited Liverpool. The Countess of Derwentwater is still at Cor bridge. The Quesn Las been petitioned in her behalf. 'The ship Bolingbroke, bound from Calcutta to London with a valuable cargo, was totally wrecked off Hooghly Point on the 27th Apt il. The ship Sarah Sands, 1,150 tons, bound from Liverpool to Bombay with coals, has been wrecked at the Laccadives— crew saved. An accident to a somnambulist is reported. At Framore, Mr. Mandeville, a young Tipperary gentleman, walked through a third-story window while in a etate of somnambulism, and was killed. The fiftieth anniversary of her Majesty's birthday was celebrated on Monday at Windsor with all the usual demonstrations of loyalty. The mayor and corporation of the Royal borough honoured the occasion by a great banquet at the White Hart Tavern on Monday evening. Corporal Peake, of the Ist Manchester Volunteers, whose disappointment in the contest for the Queen's prize at Wimbledon will be recollected, carried off the Grand Chal lenge Cup of the County Association at Altcar on Saturday. As at Wimbledon, the victor bad to meet a protest, but on this occasion with more success than last year. The objec tion on Saturday was on the ground that Corporal Peaks had cut his cartridges, but it was overruled. An extraordinary case of poisoning by misadven ture occurred on Monday in Liverpool. A man named Flan nery, a collector of herbs, rresclibed a certain herb of his collection to a woman as a remedy for rheumatism. She took the medicine, and the man himself also partook of it. The result was death to Flannery himself, and the jeeptudis ing the life of the woman, who at a late hour on Sunday was not out of danger. It is supposed that the herb partaken of was of the hemlock family. Air. R. 11. Knox, captain of the " Irish Twenty," writes from the War-oflice to several papers stating that ho has received so few applications from volunteers as candi dates to represent Ireland in the International En field Match at Wimbh do n, ho fears it cannot be gene rally known that the nationality of the competitors is fixed, according to the rule s, by paternal descent, that is, by the toh a o n o y t birthplace of their fathers. Mr. Knox hopes therefore that volunteers, m e were Ltohreni their in qualificationslre la nd, wi will not shoot longer hesitate with the Enfield rifle, and also of what • • competitions they have already been engaged in. BETTING. —The Pall Mall Gazette gives some advice to young men who are prone to betting :—" Like the distemper, betting on what you know next to nothing of is a disorder of puppyhood, which you may live through or succumb to, as the case may be. Look at the hosts of gentlemen, elderly or middle•aged, whose business, as it chances, takes them to town or detains them there in the end of May. They enjoy the racing and even the con comitant humours of the course and read nearly as much as ever they did. But they never hazard a shilling in a bet, and are rigidly parsimonious even as to half-crowns in a sweep. stakes. London was not so accts:ible in their younger days as now, but very likely those of them wl'.o came up to it then used in their vanity to bore Paeir friends and burn their fingers just as their son 3 do now. But although they know and care much more about horse-flesh than they used to do —perhaps because they do so—now they do not think it worth while to affect more knowledge than they possess. We suppose it is in human nature to prefer buying exLerience df ar to borrowing it of some one else for nothing; but for our sakes as well as Cleirp, we wish our young fri-mds would economise their owa twiny and cur p die; c' by leaving racing matters to these who understand them. 1, I et - Fl'?* ~ * r, , , :p, ffv4, „if '7 * 7 .1 . :- ' /( ‘ Lii) j i il , 7-',. ' -.-I'---'''' Jai pm i tz ft 11 ER MAJES7T. BALMOItAL, May 23. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princes 3 Louise, went out yesterday morn- Her Majesty drove out in the afternoon, ac companied by Princess Beatrice and the Dowager Duchess of Athole. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday fore noon, attended by Major Grey. LATEST INTELL MEN OE (IZEU''ER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. THE PARIS ELECTIONS. PARIS, May 25. The official returns of the Department de la Seine (Paris) as yet known are— FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Gambetta M. Carnot 21,734 9,142 SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Thiers M. Denvinck (official) 10,404 M. Dalton 8,721 A ballot is therefore necessary. FIFTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Raspail M. Gamier Pages 14,639 14,133 SIXTH CIR`I7IISCRIPTION. M. Jules Ferry . 12,916 M. Augustin Cochin 12,470 M. Adolphe Gueroult SEVENTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Jules Favre.. 12,02 S M. Henri Rochefort. 10,033 M. Cantagrel. . M. Savant 7,437 4,583 EIGHTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Jules Simon M. Lachaud 30,305 8,742 NINTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Eugene Pellet - an 23,410 M Bouley 0,816 The other official figures are not greatly at va riance with those already published. The greater part of the elections in the provinceF, as far as they are known, are in favour of the Government. M. Tbiers was beaten at Lille and Poitiers, and M. Glds-Bizunin at Saint BrieuK. The chief results are : DEPAItTEMENT DL' NORD. FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPION. M. Plichon (official) elected. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. N. Kolb-Bernard elected. THIRD CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Des itotours (official) elected. FOURTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Jules Brame elected. FIFTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. A ballot will be necessary between the Marquis d'Havrincourt, the official candidate, and M. Bodouin, the non-official candidate. BOUCIIES-D U-RIIONE. FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Gambetta 8,600 M. de Les3eps M. Thiers Ballot necessary. FOURTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Bournal (official) elected M. Jules Favre 9,800 M. Esquiros M. Marie: Ballot necessary. PAS DE CALAIS. FIP,ST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Sens (official) elected. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. Delebecque (official) elected. THIRD CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Pinart (official) elected. EHIN (BAS). FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. Baron Renouard de Bussiere (official) elected. THIRD CIRCUMSCRIPTION. Baron de Bulach (official elected. LOIRE INFERIEURE. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Gaudin (official) . M. G uepin ............. M. de Larcinty ..... M. Prevost Paradol . Ballot necessary. 12,000 11,600 5,200 1,950 AUBE. FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Argence (official) elected Cassimir Perier , ............ 20,800 15,100 COTES DU NORD. General de la Motte Rouge(official) elected 18,800 M. Glais Bizoin VAR. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Pons Peyruc (official) elected 11,400 M. Emman ue l Arago GARD. THIRD CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Ernest Dumas (official) elected 16,500 RHONE. FIRST CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Bancel elected. SECOND CIRCUMSCRIPTION. M. Raspail elected. M. Jules Favre rejected by a large majority. BOURSE, May 24.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 4,1 per Cent. lOl 80 End of month -- 3 per Cent End of month 7l 82} Credit Mobilier no End of month._ 260 Credit Fonder 1621 25 End of month., Bank Shares 2990 It&Pan _Fives 57 70 End of month — Mexican Loan 25 25 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 30 Home Debt — Deferred ...... Ys. ItAILWA' Orleans Northern ... 076 918/ ... Lyons and Medit erranean • 1940y Southern..... 620 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian 747/ Lombard 477i North of Spain Saragossa 60 Roman QUEENSTOWN, May 25. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of London, from New York, arrived here at 2.20 a.m. to-day, and having landed mails and passengers, proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. Specie on freight, nil. TRADE DISPUTE AT LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday the differences between the Liverpool builders and the operative masons concerning the introduction of the sys tem of payment by the Lour, insisted upon by the former, culminated in the retirement of between 400 and 500 ope rative masons from their work. They refuse on various grounds to Accept the plan of payment by the hour, and also object to a proposal of the masters for arbitration in all disputes, at least so far as to meet it with the proposal of a court of conciliation, composed half of mat.tors and half of men. There are some 200 non -unionist mason.s still at work, and the mastery will of course attempt to increase the number. A similar dispute in Manchestor was, it will be remembered, settled in tlie space of a few hours by arbitration. ing. THE REV. NEWMAN HALL ON 7'. ATHANASIAN CREED. The Rev. Newman Hall preached on Sunday last at James's Hall, and his sermon bore special reference to the festival of the day. In the course of his remarks he said : The doctrine of the Trinity is a mystery, but not a , contradiction, though the explanations given of it some times make it appear to be so. A cloud may be great and grand and beautiful, while it defies all attempts to measure and define it. There are truths which are injured by logical precision in explaining them. The Athanasian Creed had its controversial use at the time when it was written ; but is it wise to perpetuate it in Divine worship 9.3 a Scriptural account of the great mystery of the Trinity ? We may agree with its general scope so far as it is possible to understand a statement so difficult. But should we determine the salvation of others by their agree ment with this particular method of stating the doctrine? Yet in thousands of pulpits this day it is being asserted that all who do not hold the Catholic faith as therein defined will, without doubt, perish everlastingly ! They who respect the Creed to-day may honestly believe it for themselves so far as they understand it; but can they honestly believe that all their fellow-men who do not thus understand the mystery of the Divine existence will be eternally damned? Are they not obliged to resort to evasions or explanations which are painful to them ? Do the laity believe in the damnatory clause they hear from the desk? And if not, is their respect for truth lessened when in sacred places, and in solemn worship, they hear words which are not held as true in the sense which is grammatical and which was intended by the com pilers ? Multitudes of godly clergyman find their devout enjoyment of Trinity Sunday lessened by the necessity of pronouncing so sweeping an anathema. The laity escape this in great degree, as they are only listeners and may refuse to respond. But is it not time for the laity of England to demand release for their clergy from such a bondage? Let us hope that the Episcopal branch of the Church Catholic in this country, a Church so venerable, so learned, so useful, may be delivered from whatever is a blemish to it; and that a Liturgy so grand in its sim• plicity, so comprehensive, and so devotional, may not continue to have its beauty marred by a wholesale con demnation so opposed to its pervading and large-hearted charity. 7HE EAGLISH JOINT-STOCK BANK PROSECUTION. The case of the English Joint-Stock Bank was again be fore the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House ou Monday. Mr. George Lewis, solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and the defendants were represented, as before, by Mr. Poland, Mr. Ormond, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Montagu Williams, and Mr. Straight, barristers. Mr. IIowELL, accountant, was recall, d by Mr. Poland, and Laid the gross amount received by the directors as fees was £1,889 lls. Bd., during a year and ten months, of which Captain Mangles received £21.0 ls. ; Mr. Abbiss, £197 and Mr. Bradshaw, £238115. in answer to questions put by Mr. Straight, he stated that the directors were entitled to a remuneration of £3,000 Por annum. Mr. KEmP, the accountant who audited the accounts of the bank in 1865 and prepared the balance-sheet for that year, said that he compared the figures with the entries in the Looks of the Lank, and he allowed the sum of £4,000 that was paid to Mr. Walker without asking for any specific ill" formation relating to the sun unt. He did not ask to be shown the authority for the payment of the money, but treated the entry i❑ the bank hocks as a correct entry. He did Lot ask for vouchers cc demand to see that the mom: e entered in the book were ordered by the directors to be paid. Ho took for granted that the amount in question had bee° properly paid. He made no inquiries of the manager or the &rectors, and did not ask for any vouchers. Mr. LEWIS esked whether this was the ordinary way ill which he audited the accounts of a bank? gr. KEMP replied that it was, and it was all that he IS' expected to do. It would have talc, n some months to in' vestigato the particulars of all the various items relat'ng to the London and the country branches. He gave a certifi cate that be had compared the items iu the balance' sheet with the books and found they were correct. He considered that the shareholders would be fully aware by the terms of his certircate that he had not seen the vouchers for the payment of the various sums. The boola did not contain any entry relative to the sum of £lO,OOO c% - pended by Messrs. Thorns and Co. for the purchase of share s in the bank. Ho was aware that sums of money had bee n advanced to Captain Mangles, Mr. Abbiss, and other direc tors, but the transactions did not appear on the books to that form. He asked for an explanation, and Mr. FinncY l the manager, informed Lien of the fact. He then said that ib e account ought to appear in the books in the names of the direc tors. The account was entered in the name of Tones and Cc. He took no steps to ascertain how the profit stated to hav e been made by the bank was made up. He accepted the Reels on the books as being correct. lle believed the cost of liquidating the Lank and its thirty-three branches would be £35,000. Two calls of £1 had been made upon the shareholders, which would produce about £14,000. Th e amount of capital 1 a'd up was £200,000, and the total lois to the shareholders would in about ;40,000. There W , r`' losses incurred by nearly all the country branches tl ft were purchased. £lB,OOO were lost by the Bideford balA and £22,200 by the Nottingham bank. The losses by ba d debts at Mr. Mangles' bank at Aldershot were over £25,000. The business of the whole of the branches resulted 01 the losses incurred by the directors of .£160,8..7. Kemp went to say that the creditors had all been paid 2 0 e' in the pound, and the defendant, Mr. Bradshaw, was t ' n debtor to the amount of £l,lOO, £BOO for a loan, and £. 300 upon his call account. The inquiry was adjourned to Saturday. Another strike is now proposed by some of fD e members of the weavers' union and their leaders. Ten of twelve of the Preston manufacturers refuse to run their looms at the reduction of five per cent. and "the Blackburn wheel" only, and now demand one of ten per cent. Sin ce the strike was given up a fortnight ago, very few of to turn-outs have succeeded in obtaining employment—ab out 300 only - and there still remain out of work about 1,300. THE SONS OF COUNT BlSMARCK.—Currency h a% been given to the report that Count Bismarck had sent his two sons to Oxford. The news now seems to b e untrue, as a Ministerial journal at Berlin states that the two young Counts study at Bonn, on the Rhine ; and th at they have only made a trip to England during tide holidays in company with a marine officer. They at e now actually at Oxford. ANOTHER FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. --- accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred I" the Upper Gethin Colliery, South Wales, at four o'clocic on Saturday morning. Three men were filling rubbis h in the pit, and while doing so about twenty tons of eart h and atones fell on them. Two of them, William Dala i ' labourer, Riverside, Merthyr, 31 years of age, and Thon o . , Randall, collier, Abercanard, 20 years of age, were on the spot, and another man named David Davies, collier' had his leg broken. THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION.—The petitioo against the return of Lord Hyde, the Liberal member fat Brecon, charges the noble lord and his agents with bribed' treating, intimidation, paying for conveyance of voter s ' and undue influence ; and also charges the member O il having knowingly employed as canvassers or agents P e i sons who had within seven years been found or reptite:# guilty of corrupt practices. The petition is signed by f ° ' electors—a draper, builder, printer, and licensed victual ler. Lord Claude John Hamilton, the Conservative candidate' is, it appears, no party to the petition. A CATHOLIC BISHOP ON STRIKES.-011 Sunclai the Roman Catholic Bishop Goss availed himself of ° h i o opportunity afforded at a church visitation, at Preston' advert to the strike which had recently taken P la t amongst the operatives of that town. He told the NOrp,, ing men that, by resorting to a strike, they set "0 a tyrant more exacting than their masters, and to, cautioned them against putting too much • confide rs ' in their leaders, whose interest it was to foster disO te between them and their masters. By resorting to stril‘es the operatives were driving the trade from the country' and it behoved them to accept what their masters w ere a position to pay ; for whilst they were losing a the masters were losing a pound. By the course 03 o p era tives were adopting they were preventing Prest°,ll: from becoming the large manufacturing centre wh ich 4 ought to be, and he advised them to work harmonio u " with their emi 1 Ters. DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT A FUNERAL.—A seril disturbance took place on Sunday i n the neighbourhood of St. Augustine's Church, Hackney-road. A girl connect vith the church had died a t h er h ome i n M ar garet-sq' e f; And her body was to be co nve y e d t o th e school-roonl w ertain ceremonies to be p er f orme d p rev i ous to interwe il o t ; A procession started from the house, consisting ch ie , er of young girls, dressed in white, with white veils their heads, and carrying flowers forming emblem:l6r designs. Thi s p rocess i on was soon j o i n ed by a" (Alic i .: composed of a number of clergymen and cho riste habited in \ hite surplices, several Sisters Mercy, and about 100 school-children, also dress :n in white. The latter procession was headed by a hearing aloft a gilt cross about ten feet high. Time cr r s i,ll which was very great, had hitherto contented itself in's "chaffing," but the members of the p r ocession, 011 see o l this, became very indignant, and by the time the se? 0 was reached there were some very violent nianifestst,l:lo of disapproval. The incumbent of St. Augustines' ete d remained at the door to receive the corpse , was greery.' with loud yells and hisses, and cries of " 1 1,1 in It was only after a struggle that the police succe eds the closing the large iron gates, and thus keeP ill° infuriated meb cut of the building. lONL COMMERC Consols have r 93 a rfor mi Three per Cent. Cents, 917 2 ; ditto £lOO, Stock, 4 per Cent India Stock, ] ditto 5 per Cent., Cent., Oct., 188. per Cent., 1011 Bonds £l,OOO. In the Foreign Bonds of 1865 ht 4:3; Italian Five Mexican Bonds Spanish Three pe Bonds at 10 11 ; at 83 S. In the Itailwi have improved 1, North British politan are 1, Mi lower. The V douian, 771 7; Great E isteru, 106 ; ditto A, 1 Metropolitan, 97 511 5 ; Brighton North Western, South Eastern, 16a American Fivt LOW is 78i 781, Bonds are uncha spectively. Illin risen I, to 95 Atlantic Telegi Eight per Cent. Anglo-American The amount of ter.lay was £.170. kince the date of The Tanjore, £106,000 i n gol With £72,000, hi Mexican dolls China at 4s. 111 , on Saturday. 13 Telegrams frc suspension sump other side of the were only tempt diately autwouni The sports at general operatiot hers of the Stocl kets have left fi the Derty, will 1 the Oaks, will di 'fhe tradiz r e ti of Canada, for t Ell3ws an tucreas, A general nhc Canal Company Some confusion . 1 as well t o menu the List which has had it Go tern went. T believe, to £1,05' count of the Inc Pany on Wed.nes. shareholders bag An extraordin the London ani held ou the 31 ( will be proposed wound up vol" busi ness t o a I, proceeding is to ou the shares. An extraordin holders of the Ai "Vienna, on M o n At the meetin Bank of Rio de was declared. A dividend is A nglo-Mexican The discount the Bank and couvnerzial req might gradually Point. But the no t b2ea and is natured of these simply whether ancy in the pric daily- system of they, together parel to absorb the expected stt constitutes the r rn i.utaining the • witnessed on tIL The Brighton Whitenn week, last year and £4,Gi It bag been iticoun t Comp volunt try liqui( that\lr.Andr inn., shall be th S. Richardso Was accepted. The half-yeai London and Pr( hell at the Cg street, on Mor architect, repor the building, a time at which of the old bu With expedition 4 new lease of ration, and wil out delay whe' pleted, which i cours e of a few eompiny will b profitable ba_ 1 an the directors .1) Per cut. per ai agr,:ed to. iatITI 3 pe n E rc co ni c t i t o o v efot i r t . NLlE :O N , NePw 3 er Cent. lied ' , 4e per ent New 2 i per u Celli - "O. 0 per Cer Alnuities, 30 yr Do. for 30 yrs ,Y 0 (Red Sett 1 Do Bill s 134/i k g of En 1 I), A Pen nga:u t r Le tor-Celenial C lxr n Jot Gol stock lU# 101 . Openiug ,- )0 . 5 per Ct ' n i ) je '• 4 poi' Cen _ 0. Certifienti DO. 0. Enlaced 5 per o er Ds Bo 1 per ( . 1. 4 : 11 11 ; ejO ; t1.:2:1: : ::: : ::1 • .1: • °‘3 i Lr: ; ‘4 .1: e14E11 4 .11 r (3.),:iriliaarn, Bondss nob., 5 Per Do 3 per C r Uo do do . Do. do . E.. 5 per ~€ , ileco uut" vov Ay, e• C I,cr OFi 1 , 111 4 ,, 2 ) er ( no. 6 per C (. 1 1: , 49 per 0 ( u • 0 per o e G per co p% 7 per Ce