The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

ONION, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND .-111 RA ILWAY.—Whi; suutide Holidays.—SOUTA EN ri and BACK for 2s. 6d., from FENCHUBCH-STREET and STEP NEY STATIONS, on WHIT-SUNDAY, at 8.0, 10.:0, and 10.40 a.m.; on WHIT-)MONDAY, at 8.10, 10.20 and 10 50 a.m.; return ing from Southend each day at 6.20 and 6.40p.m. The Tickets are not available to or from any other Station, and only on the day of issue. J. LOUTH, Manager. LONDON. TILBURY, AND SOUTIIEND RAlLWAY.—Whitsuntide Holidays.—GßAVESE - P and BACK for Is. 4d.. from FENCIICRCH-STREET and STEPNEY STATIONS, on WHIT-'Y, a NDAt 9.7 aLcl and 3.7 p.m ; on WHIT-MONDAY, at 9.7 and 11 22 a.m., and 12.7 and 3.7 p.m. The Tickets are available to return frcm the Town Pier brany Train after 4 p.m., and only on the day of lEsne. J. LOUTH, Manager. TRUST AND AGENCY COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (Limited). At the Morin{ ANNUAL GENI•RAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS, held this day, at the Offices of the Company, 10.91, St. Swithin's-lane, in the City of London, ANDREW BONAR, ESQ., in the Chair, The advertisement convening the meeting having been read. it was moved, seconded, and unanimously resolved—That the Re port now presented, together with the Balance-sheet and Re venue Account, be approved and adopted; that a Dividend. free of Income-tax, for the Half year e nded 310 t December, 1868, '•f One Shilling per Share, he now declared, together with a Bonus, free of Income-tax. of Two Shillings per Share, making, with the "interim" Dividend declared in November last, a total dis tribution for the year 1883 of 20 per Centkin the Capital called up. (Extracted from the Minutes.) JAMES HORA, General Manager. 31. St. S London, E.C., May 10, 1860. TRUST AND AGENCY COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (Limited). IT 13 TTERERY NOTIFIED, That the WARRANTS for the DIVIDEND and BONUS of Three Shillings per Share (equal. with the interim Dividend, to 20 per Cent. on the Capital called. up), declarad on 10th inst., were this day forwarded through the post to the registered Proprietors. - JAMES HORA, General Manager. ' 31, St. Swithin's-land, London, E.C., May 11, 1861 rriio UNITED LAND COMPA NY ( Limited) - Co-operating with the CONSERVATIVE BENEFIT BUILDING S, , ClETY.—Offices, 33, Ncrfolk-straet, Strand. Lon don, W.C.—Prospectuses. contai ing particulars of the Freehold Plots on the Company's Estates in various Counties, together with details cc to the system of purchasing Land on payment of monthly or other instalments, will be forwarded free of charge. The mode of investment in the Company's Shares is also ex plained in thfi prospectus. CHARLES LEWIS GIIUNEISEN, Secretary. The Dividend Warrants issued last month are Payable at the Offices daily, between ten and four o'clock. COMPENSATION IN C kSE OF INJURY AND A FIXED SIMI IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF y ANY KIN may be secured by a Polic of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of £3 to IC ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCII ENTS ALONE may be provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, CORNUILL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary. 31IITTTAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. ON-FORF I' run POLICIES by a LI3IITED NUMB ER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so cs to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETI ASSURANCE BRIT LSH EQUITABLE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.C. NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies issued. 1 , 64 180 In Weeks. 3 3 86 -114,250 108 - 14,481 EX(11. In 52 weeks endh April ith, IG9 22 £4,2:a 3,105 —.£539,442 B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand. London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, in antic'pation of et. above, beg to intimate that on all new I surances now effected there will only b, payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES: Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool, and Lombard-street, London. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING. Important Announcement. Increased Share of Life Profits. ALL NEW INSURANC 7.5, with Participation, EFFECTED AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. JOHN H. McLAREN. Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. A.D. 1720. T i t 0Y AT, EXCIIAI•.MF , ASSURANCE CORPORATION: (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Class—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Oflice-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. JAMES STEWART II1DG801k; Esq Sub-Governor, CHARLES JOIIN MANNING. Esq Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. • William Tetlow Hibbert, John Garret Cattlev, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Wilmot Maind, Esq. Ed ward James Daniel!, &q. Egerton Hubbard. A Esq. Willia-n Davidson, Esq. Nevile Lubbock. Esq. Lancelot William Dent, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson. Alexander Drug, Esq. Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Lord Josceline Wm. Percy. Charles Hermann Goschen, Charles Robinson, Esq. Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Req. William Wallace, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. 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With a S'nf.de Stake of £1 3 - on e•.n reatz,,e £2n.noo!! with £'27,(00. !! with .£8 £i:,^oo! ! For Prc) ,, peettve , : apply without delay to EIiGENE TI LOT, General 'Merchant, Guernsey. 'IIIEATY,L-IRU YA I, II OLII 0 It _N. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS EVENT` , (}, at 7.20, THE M I STI:E:,S OF THE MILL. At 3 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY, airy Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, Ceorge Honey, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, Lin Bayne, A. Bernard, w. Arthur, and E Dyes; Mrs. Hermann Veen), Mis:. Louisa Thcrne, and Mrs. Charles Boriltnan. D OYAL STRAND THEATRE. iv Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FoX v. GOOSE. Messrs. `ltrke and llelford ; Mesdames Bufton and llughes. Aries which. JUAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne, James, Fen ton, Turner, Chaaiberlaine; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude 'nth HUE AND DYE_ T HEATRE ROYAL, HA Y MARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buekstone. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVLNG: Messrs. Gordon,Rogers, Clark, SThite, &c. ; Mesdames Fanny Wright, Glynn, kc. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke. Hill, &c. Followed by THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH: Messrs Sothern, Chippendale, Vincent, &c.; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS: Joseph Brag, Mr Buckstone. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. TFIIS EVENING, at 7. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Belmore. At 15 to 8, LIFE FOR LIFE: Miss Neilson, Mr Arthur Stir ling, Mr Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mrs. Leigu Murray, Miss Minnie Sidney, &c. To conclude with WHITE.B IT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Ihree Weeks of the Season THIS EVENING. will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Boucle=it. entitled PREhUMPTIVE EVIDENCE, in which Madame Celeste, Mica Louisa Moore, Miss Emma Barnett, Mr. W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore. Mr. G. P. Neville, Mr. Moreland, Mr. 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 la Garde and Zambaro. _ - c)oors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. LOBE THEATRE-11()YAL \-A Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. H. J. I'yron's new and original Drama. MINNIE ; or, Leonard's Love: Miss I 3 clia Foote, Mrs Stephens. and Miss Brennan; Messrs David Fisher, Vernon, Marshall, and J. Clarke. A t 9. A BRFACIT OF P ROMISP. To conclude with BROWN ND THE BRAH3IIVS: Messrs Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, L. 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THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wehiugton," Wellington-street, Strand. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET 'Nis EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Gordon, Rogers, Clark; Mis- es Fanny Wright, Glynn, &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sotheru. Chippendale. &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Hill, &c. Followed b; THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. N• r others. Concluding with MARE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commenef , tt 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. So!e Lessee awl Mantger, Mr. Vining. _ . This EVENING, at 7, THE DOD -E t N THE BRIDGE: N' adame Celeste.. tone:l:din! with Ptt F.SI; b 1 PTIV E EVI DE CE : M adame Celeste. Louisa Moore, &c.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murray, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHI. Tats EVENING. at 7, DID YOU EVER '-END YOUR WIFE TO C + MBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murmv At 15 to 8, LIFE FOR LI leE: Miss Neilson. Mr. A. Stirling, Mr Stuart , Mr Ashley. Mrs Leigh Murray, Miss Minnie - ydney, 4.nd WHITEBAIT AT GUM NWICH : Mr Atki ns . - ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swa.nborour4h. EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; 1; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bolton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS F,VENINS, at 7. MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A. BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain and Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tnzs EVE%ING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: hlr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, Mrs. C. Horsman, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Oliver. Tins EVENING, at 7.50, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COM iIISSION. And THE MILIT'ARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss U. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Ting EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 8 sad 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tins EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL AL TT AMB R A PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-of:act open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 641 _ • 1111. LONDON, WEDNESDA3', MAY 12, 1869. The breaking, if not precisely of a butterfly, of a very contemptible little poisonous reptile, on a wheel was the spectacle to which the House of Commons was yesterday invited by the Government. Every thing was prepared for the political extinction o f an isolated official by the bringing to bear upon him summarily of the whole accumulated force of the Im perial Legislature. All was in readiness for his—obli teration. He was, as a functionary, to be—swept out of existence. 1-Its fate, however, was so inevitable that he " caved in." Surround a scorpion with fire, it has been said, and the creature will anticipate a more dreadful doom by stinging itself to death. DANIEL O'SuT uvaN has just now emulated the scorpion. He has resigned his Mayoralty —prefer ring a n ostensibly voluntary withdrawal from his pest, to the pain and ignominy of being kicked out of it. To all intents and purposes the result, no matter which . way it is arrived at, is all one to the powers that be. The incendiary Mayor of Cork, the fraterni.er with Fenianism, the eulogist of assassins, is Mayor of Cork now no longer. And—as Mr. M'CARTRY DOWNING put it— having resigned, in the way in which DANIEL O'SULLIVAN has, there need be small a pp re h e ralon that ha will ever be elected Mayor of Cork again. The whole incident, from first to last, is the wild ei..t of escapade?. It has about it, at every turn, an irresistible touch of the, ludicrous. One can hardly discuss it seriously. Even in the utterance of the " wild and whirling words" attributed to hitn, THE SUN, LONDON, WEMESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1869. the late Mayor of Cork, excited among all rational observers, simultaneously, horror and risibility—dis gust and laughter. The notion was r;o preposterous, in itself, that the very functionary entrusted with the preservation of order in the municipality, the very magistrate especially deputed, by right of his office, to see to the maintenance of the law, should, I of all men there in the city of Cork, be the one to in cite to insubordination, to outrage, to disloyalty, even —as the vast majority of those who first of all heard and afterwards, in more considerable numbers, read the words to which he had given utterance, firmly believed—to assassination ! That the Government, that the Legislature, that the responsible Ministers of the Crown, should permit words like those to be arti culated with impunity, was a thing impossible. The delinquent, however, could only be dealt with excep tionally. If he was to be silenced at all—and about that there could not be two opinions--he must be silenced immediately. 'Fo'do that, necessitated an especial interposition on the part of the Legisla ture. From that, neither the Administration nor the Parliament shrank, even for one passing moment. Each was prepared to act promptly and vigorously with this flagrant violator of public decency. His pro ceedingswereso disgraceful that therisk of their repe tition was not for an instant to be tolerated. Hence, the bill prepared on the spur of the moment by the Irish Attorney-General. Hence, the unusually large gathering of members and spectators yesterday in the House of Commois, in anticipation of that same rapidly prepared bill's introduction. The doomed racoon descended from his - branch, however, be fore a shot could be fired. Conscious that his fate was sealed he gave in his resignation! True to the prevailing absurdity of his course hi the mayoralty, he yields up his post in a manner the most ridiculous. He announces it to the world through a letter to the hon. gentleman the member for Cork, beginning "My dearest MAGUIRE," on the perusal of which tender apos trophe by the latter the crowded House gave way to prolonged and reiterated peals of laughter. Through "my dearest MAGUIRE," the now tabooed ex-Mayor of Cork, intimates to the L gishturc, to the Govern- Incur, to the whole country, his withdrawal from the post from which, by the authority of Parliament, he was about to be expelled. Through the O'DONOGHUE, he, at the same time, announced his intention of transmitting his resignation to the Town Council of Cork : and, as the 0 - 1)oNooHuE, of the Glens, as sured the House yesterday, amidst another burst of laughter, " from his own personal knowledge of Mr. O'SULLIVAN'S character, whatever that gentleman said he woulddo might be relied upon !" Consistently all through, the whole thing has been utterly farsical. But, while it was farsical, it was also, at the same time, utterly disgraceful. Any one who, in the position of Mayor of an ancient city like that of Cork, could so far outrage public decency as to eulogise the memory of the intending assivsin of the Duke of EDINBURGH, at the very time when Prince ARTIIUR was traversing Ireland, must, quite obviously, be unfitted to discharge the duties of that office, and disqualified ipso facto from occupy ing in any way the position of a magistrate. To assert, as the Ex-Mayor of Cork has had the hardihood to assert in his letter to Mr. MAGUIRE, that—(these are his very words) —" having regard to my personal honour and consistency, I declare, in the most solemn and emphatic manner that the lan guage attributed to me did not in any way express or represent my real meaning," to make so an astounding assertion as that is simply an addi tional outrage perpetrated by the arch-offender— though, this time, it happens to be nothing worse than a simple outrage to common sense. THE House of Commons was called upon on Monday night to discuss one of the gravest and most difficult questions which the nation has to solve. A solution, and that a speedy one, is absolutely necessary to the existence of the nation. Year by year the army of paupers is increasing ; year by year, that is, the proportion of those who have not, and who if they had the power, would not scruple to help themselves at the expense of those who have, is augmenting ; and if we would not let our sel•es or our children be overtaken by such a deluge as that which overwhelmed France eighty years ago we must stop this formidable growth, we must pre vent this wholesale recruiting of the revolutionary army from the ranks of those who ought to be upon the side of order and settled government. Mr. CORRANCE certainly needed no excuse for intro ducing this subject even during such a busy session as this. Mr. GLADSTONE did well in giving up a Government night to its discussion. Our legis lators have only begun to pay attention to it. They will require a good many more debates before they will master the facts, much more suggest an effectual remedy. The most startling fact is that during the eight years since 1860 the amount expended in the relief of the poor has increased one-fifth. For the ten years ending 1860 the amount was ss. 91d. per head of the population ; for the year 1860 it was 6s. 111 d. This increase may be to some extent only temporary, but we rather hope it than expect it. True, trade is depressed; true, capital lying idle labour cannot find full employment, and wages are low; but unfor tunately the tendency of pauperism is always to perpetuate itself. The man whose independence has been once broken down by the acceptance of parish relief gets soon reconciled to this source of livelihood. The householder who has broken up his home, and whose children are exposed to the pauper atmos phere, is not likely to give them habits of industry. The descent into the Avernus of pauperism is fearfully facile. The ascent out of it is deplorably difficult. Children brought up among paupers will, it is only too probable, remain paupers. A like result follows the distribu tion of those doles and charities which, however pure the motive that proMpted their foundation, do effect an immensity of harm. Mr. MUNDELLA, for instance, stated on Monday night that in one village where £3O a year was spent in education £BOO a year was spent in doles, and the week following the distribution of the fund was given up to debauchery. Indiscriminate almsgiving is a kindred source of pauperism. The per son who gives a " stray copper " to the first beggar he meets, is really doing his utmost to manu facture paupers. But when all these causes are mentioned, and that they are powerful causes we do not doubt, the most powerful of all still has to be stated. Drunkenness is known to be the chief source of pauperism, for it will counteract and neu tralise all measures that we may take to diminish pauperism. We may make the labour test as severe as Mr. GOSCHEN likes, we may separate pauper children from pauper adults, and use the ancient doles in education, as Mr. MUNDELLA. recommended. we may obtain a bankruptcy law, as good as Mr. SAIIUDA could desire, we may promote emigration until we have actually diminished the population of England to the extent that the population of Ireland has been diminished ; but we shall never get at the root of pauperism, we shall only cut off its leaves, until we render drunkenness as difficult as it is now easy. Mr. GOSCIIEN promises certain changes in his department, but these are merely questions of detail, not of principle. He may effect a certain saving in the amount of poor relief ; but he will do little to diminish poverty. It is not so much to the PRESI DENT of the POOR-LAW BOARD as to the Holm SECRETARY that we look for the legislation which is to relieve us from the terrible incubus of poverty weighing upon us more heavily every year. R eform your workhouses if you will ;- but reform your public-houses you must if you mean to check the downward progress of the nation. LAI'i3T INTELL MEN GE (REU"ER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, May 11. The negotiations of General Menabrea, for the formation of a new Cabinet, are still pending. This morning Count Canabray llegny had a long interview with the King, who summoned General Menabrea to the palace in the afternoon. The Marquis Rendini and Gen. Cialdini have arrived. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, May 11. The general impression produced by the Emperor's speech at Chartres is one of embarrassment. Of course, the official journals praise and the Opposition papers con demn it in the ordinary way of party business ; but every body expected an important political statement, whereas the address is one of the most enigmatical efforts of the most enigmatical of speechmakers. For some time past it has been confidently rumoured that the Emperor had determined upon altering the form of Government and the Constitution. He had made up his mind, people said, that the Empire, though it might last his time, would not be likely - to endure long after his death. The clamour of the French people for liberty was not to be resisted. The Emperor had, therefore, resolved to adopt the programme of the Tiers-Parti, and was, in fact, about to change the Empire into a constitutional monarchy, with a parliamentary government and a re sponsible Ministry. One very well-informed writer posi tively asserted that this was Napoleon's design. M. Rouher was under a cloud. Soon he would cease to guide the Councils of the State, and a mocierately Liberal Cabinet would reign in his stead. Perhaps the Emperor may entertain this design ; but unquestionably no signs of it are to be found in the speech delivered at Chartres. Two observa tion on the subject of liberty occur in the course of this address. Firstly, the Emperor says that in the path of pro gress and liberty, no one should attempt to go faster than the Government or endeavour to urgeit forward ; and secondly, that subversive passions still exist which should be kept firmly under, and which can only be resisted by a powerful concentration of all the social forces of France. There is nothing here to hold out any hope of a great constitu tional change. Quite the contrary. So far as the Emperor's words are intelligible—and on this, as on other occasions, they are not remarkable for perspicuity—they distinctly give the impression that the French Govern ment retains its old policy of keeping down " subversive passions," and of restraining too rapid progress. This is about the net significance of the Emperor's speech, if it has any, and I will not therefore trDuble you with the detailed comments of the Paris press. The Debats thinks that the principal object of the speech is to assure the French Radicals that the edifice which they assail is unshakeable ; the Temps, with keener vision than the rest of the world, thinks there is something in the speech ; the Siecle laughs at his Majesty for ex horting people to conciliation, whilst at the same time assuring them that all the opponents of his Government are actuated by " subversive passions ;" the Avenir Nationale plainly hopes that the Em peror may be astonished by a more extensive display of subversive passions than he anticipated; and, most amusing of all, the Constitutionnel finds in the speech a complete justification of its own conduct in breaking away from official restraint, and becoming an independent Imperialist organ. At the last moment four new candidates have presented themselves for the City of Paris. They are General Perrot, MM. Fouch4-Lepelletier, lAvy, and Constant Say. All four were Government candidatesin 1863, and each, I need hardly say, got soundlybeaten, and in all probability will again. The Liberals will rejoice at this step on the part of the authorities. By beating the Government candi dates they will damage the Government much more than if they carried the eight circumscriptions without opposition. And that Paris will once more be faithful to the Left is as certain as an election can be. The only circumscription in which an official candidate seems to have any chance is that in which M• Thiers is opposed by M. Devinck. But the chocolate -maker comes on very badly. He addressed a meeting of 800 persons the other day, but his remarks were received with such uproar that he had to sit down. It is said that the library of the Corps L4gislatif is now filled with officials engaged upon a work of questionable honesty, but which has before been known at French elections. The period for holding public political meet ings according to law terminates five days before the elections. Well, these officials are said to be getting up, from Records of the Corps Legislatif, all manner of charges against the Opposition deputies. These will be freely circulated during the five days when public meetings cannot be held, and when it will be exceedingly difficult for the Left to reply to the accusations brought against them. This is one of the expedients adopted by the Government. The bishops of France have taken to issuing election addresses. One prelate openly exhorts his flock to vote against the official candidates, and in favour of two cleri cals and a Moderate Independent. Other letters deal in exhortations to moderation andpeace,and similarly useful generalities. Thunderstorms continue to prevail in several districts of France. During Friday night the camp at Chalons was severely visited. Several tents were blown down, rifles scattered in all directions, and much damage done. The next morning a Captain Lacroix was found lifeless in his bed, having been struck dead by the electric fluid whilst asleep. The Seine-Infjrieure Court of Assize has made an example of one of the numerous cashiers who have fallen victims to the prevailing epidemic. A man, named Soleure, employed at the Rouen Western Railway, had been imitating Higgs in a small way—abstracting sums and falsifying his books. But he was foolish enough to steal no more than about £4O, and so got two years' im prisonment. Had he purloined several thousands, he would, judging by other examples, have got clear. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 11. The Allan (Glasgow) steamer St. Andrew ar rived out to-day. The Cunard steamship Cuba arrived out at 7 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1381; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1381; the lowest, 1374. Sterling Exchange on London lo9f. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188' ) 66 " 1885 ll4. " 1865 ll7l. 10-40 16 Illinois 1451. Erie 3oi. Cotton —Mid. upland 2Bic. Petroleum—Standard White 32ic. Flour, extra state, $5.95e. to $6.55c. Corn, old mixed, sBsc. QUEENSTOWN, May 12. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Paris, from New York, arrived here at 3.15 a.m. to-day, and baying landed mails and passengers proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. She brings no specie. SOUTHAMPTON, May 12. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate steamer Copernicus has arrived with 21 bags of mails, £6,550 in species for Loudon, and ten passengers. Her dates are Buenos Ayres 9th, Montevideo 10th, and Rio the 17th April. On th e Ist inst. she spoke the steamer Pascal for Rio, on the 3d the ship Star of India for Madras, and on the 6th the schooner Harvest Moon. Advic.s from Paraguay to the 3d ult. state that the expeditionary forces had left Ascunsion for the purpose of attacking Lopez and cutting off his com munication. Lopez was supposed to have 9,000 men and upwards of 40 pieces of artillery in what was considered a strong position. Count d'Eu left Buenos .Ayres on the Bth ult. for the seat of war. The elections at Buenos Ayres passed off quietly, and resulted in favour of Don Emilio Casho. Considerable damage was done to the gas works of the Custom-house 3 at Rosario, through the risiog of the River Paraguay. Business at Buenos Ayres was dull. Salted ox hides 37 to 37i reals. The transactions in beef on Italian, French, German ; and English account were large. Exchange, 49g. At Rio the sales of coffee since the 7th were 89,500 bags ; prices 200 rein higher. Freights to the Channel, 40s. to 455. Exchange—Bank bills, 18f, and Trade bills, 18k for Copernicus and French Mail. Considerable transactions have been done in sovereigns at 13,550 cash, and national gold 50 per cent, premium. AUSTRIA . VIENNA, May 11. The New Free Press of this morning announces that Count Beust has forwarded a circular to the Austrian f-reign representatives stating positively that the Foreigu-office had no connection what ever with the recent publicatio❑ of the Prussian dispatch sent by Count Bisrnark in 1866, to Count Cole, the Prussian Ambassador in Paris. ............,„.. PORTUGAL. LISBON, May 11. The British steamer Borneo, with the troops for the Zambesi expedition ou board, left to-day for the coast of ;Mozambique. All well. FRANCE. BREST, May 12. The Transatlantic Company's steamship reriore, from New York, arrived here last night at half past 10 o'clock. Sic brings 169 passengers and $73,000 in specie. BoußsE, May 11.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 1 Cent. End of month... Ital'an Fives 57 20 i per Cent End of month 7l 85 Mexican Loan ... Credit 9.48 75 Do. Bonds End of mouth... '255 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —.158 0 Home Debt End of month... Deferred 2B 75 IA I LIVA.I7B. Cash. Orleans ................................ 9ll} Northern .............................. ....... 1068 f, Lyons and Mediterraao an Southern.... • €lli Western Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain 55 Saragossa Roman NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The review season at Aldershot will soon corn- incnce, and is likely to be opened with considerable animation. The battalions which will be moved to the Camp during the drill season are the Ist Bat talion Grenadier Guards, from Dublin; the 2d Battalion 3d Buffs, from Bristol; 2d Battalion 13th Light Infantry, from Gosport ; 2d Battalion 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, from Brecon and Newport; 4th Battalion 60th Rifles, from New Brunswich ; 67th Regiment, from Portsmouth ; 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, from Devonport ; and the 4th Bat talion of the brigade, from Chester. Au encamp ment will be formed for the soldiers' families of some of these battalions. The Royal Horse Guards will arrive from Windsor in July, and will be relieved in the North Camp in August by the Ist Life Guards. C and G batteries, 11th brigade Royal Artillery, will arrive shortly, when two bat teries, to be selected by Colonel Smyth, C. 8., will be encamped to the east of the Royal Artillery bar racks. Towards the end of the present month the undermentioned regiments of Militia will arrive at the Camp and be accommodated as follows :-2d Middlesex, to relieve the Ist hittalion 20th Reg On Monday, by order of the Secretary of State for War and the Field Marshal Commanding-in- Chief, a combined insr.,ection of Regulars, Militi t, uid Volunteers was held on the Abbey-farm-field, Colcheiiter. The total number of men inspected sas about. 2,500, made up as follows :—The two depot battalions stationed at Colchester, 600 ; the Vest Essex Militia, 660 ; the East Essex Rifles Militia, 700 ; and the Volunteers (comprisicg the Chelmsford, Colchester, Witham, Braintree, Tend ring Hundred, Maldon, &c., companies), about 500. Col. Farren, C. 8., comtnanding the garrison of Colchester, was the inspecting officer. The West Essex Militia was commanded by Col. Ruggles- Brise, the East Essex Rifles Militia by Col. Kelly, and the Volunteers by . Lieut.-Col. Tuffuell. The faowing appointments were made yesterday it the Admiralty :—Lieut. James A. T. Bruce, to the Duncan, as Fl ig-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Eiornby ; Lieut. E. A. Bolitho, to the Penelope ; Sub.-Lieut. Charles G. Crawford, to the Liverpool ; Thomas F. Abbott, midshipman, to the Scylla, as supernumerary; and Arthur Golfrey .-G miner, nominated a naval cadet. THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. A curious incident, says the Pall 11fall Gazette, has come to light in connection with the insurrection in Cuba. It has always been suspected that tha rebellion was fed from Washington. We are now told that in December 1867 several Cubans met Generals Garfield and Butler, Senators Morton and Nye, and other Congressmen, by appointment. The Cubans explained that a revolutionary society existed in the island, and that with proper support from the leading public men in America a blow would be struck for freedom at the first favourable opportunity. General Butler promised his assistance in Congress to any project designed for the furtherance of the rebellion. " Nearly all the other gentlemen made like declarations, in a strain of fervid eloquence." A little earlier in the day one or other of these legislators had doubtless been declaiming against England in Con gress for " eympathing " with the South. The Evening Standard affirms that in the opinion of eminent counsel, Mr. Guest, who has just been returned for Youghal, is disqualified. Another cotton mill has been burnt down. On Sunday morning a fire was discovered at the mill of Messrs. Smith and Son, Heywood, and the result was the destruc tion of property to the atnouut of £15,000. The Archdeaconry of Canterbury, which has be come vacant by the death of the Venerable J. Croft, M.A., is the first valuable piece of preferment which has fallen to the gift of the present Archbishop. Annexed to it is a Canonry, worth £l,OOO a year. Archdeacon Croft was one of the oldest clergyn.en in England. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his 13. A. degree in 1807. The North German Correspondent says that the property of the ea-King of Hanover is not absolutely con fiscated. " Lot him give guarantees for his future good be haviour; let him frankly acknowledge a state of things which ho is powerless to change, and the law decreeing the seques tration of his property will be immediately repealed. Itis even stipulated in the financial convention that the capital shall be placed entirely under his own control so socn as he shall have formally renounced his fruitless pretensions to the throne of Hanover." Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, loft Windsor Castle on Tues. day, and proceeded by train to Paddington, where they were received by a guard of honour, and escorted to Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty held the second Drawing-room of this season atßuckinghain Palace on Tuesday. Their royal high. nesses the Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Princes, Beatrice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Prince ani Princess Teck, the Duke of Cambridge, and other member, of the Royal family, were present. In attendance on her Ma. iesty were the Duchess of Argyll, Mistress of the Robes ; th, Marchioness of Ely, Lord Camoys, Lord Frederick Kerr the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the lion. Florence Seymour, and the great officers of state of the Royal Household The foreign Ambassadors and Ministers having been in troduced, upwards of a hundred presentations were mad, A large concourse of persons assembled to view the arrive of the company. Great activity has been exhibited at Devonport in forwarding Coastguard ships for the intended cruise. The Trafalgar and the Mersey left the Sound yesterday evening for Portland. The Black Prince and Valiant, which were placed in dock at Keyham on Monday, were removed last evening and placed in Plymouth Sound. The Royal George, which arrived in the Sound at 6 on Monday even ing, was placed in No. 1 dock, Devonport. At 5 a.m. yesterday morning she had her copper repaired, was coaled, stored, and removed at 5.30 p.m. into the Sound. The Donegal, from Ireland, arrived in Plymouth Sound last eveuing. ANOTHER ARCHDEACOX ON THE RELIGIOUS POSITION: ine Ven. Archdeacon Atusgrave commencer} his annual visitation of the Archdeaconry of Craven on Monday. Addressing the clergy of the district at Skipton, he spoke of the Act for the compulsory abolition of Church•rates as a measure which, under the specious pretext of a compromise, swept well nigh everything away without any appreciable compensation in return. He, however, recommended that wherever circumstances were favourable the new law should be brought into full and practical opera tion. The aggressive sacerdotalism of the Ritualists he designated as the most daring and defiant of all the disturbing elements within the Church. Much as they might see in the composition of Parliament to cause them to doubt its fitness to deal with questions of theological dogma or ritual, it might become a necessity to invoke its interposition if the Church were to be saved from internal convulsion and disruption. It was, perhaps, too late, he observed, to repeat to any advantage the ominous warning in a former charge with reference to the then impending onslaught on the Irish Church, or to analyse the influences under which public men were confederated in a common sacrilegious ►evolution and an unhallowed sacrifice to the exigencies of political expe diency. Still, all was not lost when man had done his worst to humble the Church, and sever its connection with the State, and despoil it of half its possessions. The Church would not be left without resources for its spiritual work, or without authority to form its future con stitution and government, without the security of law to enforce its rules within its own communion. Holding still to the same pure faith embodied in its formularies, free from the suspicions which hung around it in the days of its ascendancy, carrying on with unimpaired fervency the duties of its sacred mission, there was encourage ment to believe that it would rise to more than former blessing. PLAYING AT TILE GAME OF "TAKING UP." A propos of the Disabilities Bill against the Mayor of Cork, it may not be uninteresting to learn how a Lord Mayor of Dublin treated an order to appear at the bar of the Irish House of Commons. Alderman Green, then Lord Mayor, had presided at a public meet ing held to obtain various political objects, amongst which Parliamentary Reform was prominently de manded. The resolutions imputed corruption to the House of Commons, and declared that it did not represent the feeling or possess the confidence of the country. These resolutions were brought under the notice of the House, they were voted to be false and calumnious, and to constitute a breach of privilege. The Lord Mayor's name being subscribed to the proceedings of the meeting, he was ordered to attend at the bar .of the House. This order he disregarded, and the Sergeant at-Arms was directed to arrest him. Green avoided the Sergeant until the day arrived for holding his weekly court in the Tholsel. He arrived privately at the Tholsel, and was holding his court when the functionary of the House of Commons entered, and proceeded to arrest him. Green immediately ordered his staffmen to seize the Sergeant for contempt of court, and having signed a warrant, he sent him direct to Newgate. The House were rather surprised when it was announced that their Sergeant-at-Arms was in durance vile, and still more astonished when it was intimated that the Lord Mayor would lock up every person whom they sent on a similar errand. The sheriffs and city magistrates sided with the Lord Mayor, and the volunteer corps of Dublin expressed a determination to support his authority. Even tually the Sergeant was released, but the Lord Mayor was not arrested. By telegram from Belfast we learn that, at a meet'ng of the committee on Tuesday it was resolved that her llajesty 17e invited to be present at the inauguration of the Albert memorial in June. If unaccepted then, an invitation will be forwarded to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The building is one which does credit to the town and is its greatest ornament. It will cost £5,000. REVIEW AT READING.—On Tuesday one of the largest military gatherings ever known in the neigh bourhood of Reading took place in Bulmershe Park, the seat of Mr. J. J. Wheble, where a great concourse of civilians assembled to witness the manoeuvres. The corps taking part in the review were the Royal Berks Militia; commanded by Colonel Lord Norreys ; the Bucks Militia, under the command of Colonel Lord Carington ; the Ist Berks Administrative Battalion of Rifle Volunteers, com manded by Lieut Colonel Loyd Lindsay, V.C., M.P., and Major Sir Paul Hunter ; and the Eton Corps: THE GREAT CONV ENT CASE.—The committee organised to raise funds for the purpose of indemnifying and protecting the community of the Convent of Mercy, in Hull, from the effects of the late trial —" Saurin v. Starr"—have postponed for the present the collection of subscriptions, stating as their reason that it is impossible to arrive at any correct estimate of the amount of loss the community may sustain until the whole of the pro ceedings shall have terminated. The committee, however, have by resolution recorded their opinion that it is the duty of the Catholic body to indemnify the Sisters from any loss that may ultimately fall upon them, and the committee intend to resume their duties whenever the amount of damages shall have been ascertained. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—The rate of mortality in London last week was 23 per 1,000, as compared with' 25 in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The rate in Birmingham was as low as 16, and in Glasgow as high as 36. In the metropolis 2,025 births and 1,421 deaths were registered. The latter approximated closely to the estimated mortality, and exceeded by 133 the number recorded in the previous week. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 293, the corrected average number being 321. Three deaths from smallpox, 21 from measles, 53 from scarlet fever, 7 from diphtheria, 91 from whooping-cough, 9 from typhus fever, 21 from enteric fever, 13 from simple continued fever, and 19 from diarrhoea, were registered. The expected number of deaths by horses or vehicles in the streets is 70 inlB weeks; the actual numbers registered in the 18 weeks of this year amount to 66. Seven persons were killed by horses, 2by carriages, 4 by omnibuses, 8 by cabs, 20 by vans or waggons, and 25 by carts. The mean temperature during the week was 50'5, or 07 below the average. Between the highest day and the lowest night temperature there was a range of more than 34 degrees. NETHERLAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. —An international exhibition of articles of domestic economy, &c., is to be held in Amsterdam from July to October, under the superintendence of the Society for the Encour agement of Manufactures and Mechanical Industry in the Netherlands. Its main object is to bring to the know ledge of the working classes such articles of daily use as combine usefulness and durability. Articles of luxury, art, and ornament will not be admitted. Among the classes of goods for exhibition are tools and imple ments, household necessaries, plans of workmen's dwellings, lodging and boarding-houses, &c., pre served meat, and clothing of various kinds. The Lord Mayor is the chairman of the London Com mittee, and several well-known names are in the list. The Dutch railway companies have agreed to convey goods in Holland free, and some of the steamboat com panies will also carry articles free to the exhibition, charging only return freight. Goods from British exhi bitors, if forwarded carriage paid to Hull, to Mr. Ringrose, the Netherland Consul, will be sent and returned free from Amsterdam, so that every arrangement has been made for the convenience of intending exhibitors. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE LATE EDITOR OF THE " MORNING CHRONICLE."— On Tuesday an inquest was held at King's College (London) Hospital on the body of Mr. Thomas Joyce, aged 55, late editor of the M orning Chronicle, and more recently the editor of the Levant Herald. A constable of the F Reserve said he was on duty in the Strand about ten o'clock last Friday night, when his attention was called to a gentleman lying insensible on the pavement, near the corner of Helmet -court. Thought he was labouring under the effects of drink. Ile tried to rouse him up, but could not succeed. He then sent for the stretcher, and with the aid of other constables conveyed the deceased to Bow-street station. On arriving there, a medical man was at once sent for, who, finding deceased still insensible, ordered his immediate removal to the hospital. John Farrell, a porter, said about ten o'clock last Friday night he was passing along the Strand, and when near Helmet-court he saw the deceased, who was carrying a large black bag, reel off the pavement and fall heaVily into the road. He ran and lifted the deceased up, and found him to be in a it. With assistance he placed him against the wall, and then got some cold water and sprinkled over his face, but he could not bring him round. A police-constable, the last witness, then came up, and he said to him, " Here is a gentleman in a fit ; lie had better be taken off to the hospital at once." The constable said he believed he was drunk, and would send for a stretcher and take him to the station-house, which was accordingly d me. He himself was convinced the deceased was not drunk, nor did the vomit smell of drink. The coroner said it was much to be regretted that when policemen found a person lying insensible in the street they at once jumped to the conclusion that the person must be drunk. They should use more judgment. Mr. John Lennox, house physician, said a post mortem examination showed an immense effusion of blood on the right lido of the brain, which had produced an attack of apoplexy, from which cause the deceased had died. His life could not have been saved had medical aid been at hand when he fell in the stree t . A v_erdict . of "Death from nionlexe imar4tubla - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The flames observes that the Mayor of Cork hal relieved Parliament from the discharge of a very unwel come duty, and has disappointed many curious persons, who had expected the pleasure of fed lowing a proceeding unexampled in recent times, if not absolutely unprecedented. Mr. O'Sullivan has resigned his office. This solution of the difficulty he had created came at last in a very dramatic fashion. There can be no reason for concealing the fact that the whole subject was beset with difficulties. It is a minor point, though it is worth remark as a preliminary objection that the oppor tunities of delaying the progress of a Disability Bill are SO numerous that it was impossible tolook forward to a speedy deprivation of Mr, O'Sullivan. But even supposing the procedure could have been as swift as it must have been slow, Parliament would still have prosecuted the measure with extreme relutance. We must not be supposed to hint the slightest doubt of the prudence, or indeed, of the necessity, of the course the Government adopted. It may be possible, and even advisable, to provide an improved form of procedure against the chance of 3 similar case recurring, but substantially the character of the process cannot be altered. We cannot suppose that mayors will ever be subjected to a more direct control of the courts of law. Moreover, it is impossible to believe that the public mind would approve such a limita tion of municipal freedom as would be involved in subject ing mayors to the control of the judges, but there seems no sufficient reason why the suggestion thrown out by Mr. O'Reilly on Tuesday afternoon should not be considered. All of us must, indeed, hope that the necessity of taking steps to remove another mayor may not soon arise, and there will doubtless be a great disposition to let the laW and practice remain unchanged, but the experience of the past week ought not to be allowed to pass unregarded, and its proper fruit would be an amendment of procedure in case a similar difficulty should hereafter arise. The Standard declares that the process of vindicating law and order in the city of Cork, as devised by the Government, has had a ludicrous termination, very much to the-relief of Mr. Gladstone, even more than to that of Mr. O'Sullivan. In fact, we are not sure that the ot' Mayor of Cork will not gain new courage and confidence by the result of the extraordinary proceedings of which he was made the subject, and from which he emerges not as the victim, but the hero. Everybody, we are told, ought t° be satisfied with this mode of getting rid of an unpleasant business. As to the lesson which the O'Sullivan Disability Bill was intended to teach, that is as much needed now as ever it was. If it was ever necessary that the m ayors should be brought under some sort of control at the hands of the Executive, that necessity certainly becomes no less, but greater, by the result of this O'Sullivan affair. V are not even safe against the renewal of O'Sullivan' S pranks, for though Mr. Maguire gave the House a pledge on O'Sullivan's part that his friend would not again seek reelection as Mayor of Cork, we cannot admit this to be a sufficient warrant that such a thing will not happen' It would be absurd, even if Mr. O'Sullivan himself had given such a pledge, to make that a ground for suspending the action of the Government against mayors who tall: treason and advocate murder ; but when, upon the pledg e at second hand, without any apology, or retraction, or even consciousness of offence, the only measure which the Government is able to take in vindication of law and order is forthwith suspended, it is difficult to believe that the authors of the O'Sullivan Disability Bill were at anY time sincere in their affectation of resentment at the Cork Liberals. The Ministry which did not scruple to empty the gaols of Fenian convicts as a preliminary to thei r Irish policy may fairly be suspected of not wishing to injure their popularity in Ireland by excess of zeal agaiu 3 t such patriots as the Mayor of Cork. The Daily Eays rejoices that the Mayor of Cork hs e shewn himself merciful. When Mr. Maguire on Monday afternoon read the letter in which his worship announced his retirement from office, the feeling of relief was strong , and almost overcame the disappointment of the crowds who filled the Ministerial and Opposition benches, and of the strangers who had assembled in the various galleries of the House in anticipation of a scene. It would, be disrespectful to compare her Majesty's Ministers an d the burgesses and knights of the shire who form th e eighth Parliament of Queen Victoria to the drunken and disorderly persons whom it was the habit e i the Mayor of Cork to release in the early morning front the consequences of their indiscretions. Practically, hors' ever, the letter which Mr. Maguire read did discharg e the Government and the House of Commons from a situ!!' tion scarcely more enviable than that of the prisoners 111 the Bridewell at Cork. It is something to have got rid at once of Mr. O'Sullivan and the O'Sullivan Disability Bill ; and this double deliverance is due to Mr. O'Sullis sn . himself. If he had been obstinate he might have r ef/ seriously embarrassed Ministers and Parliament. Nothing in his tenure of office has so much become him as his retirement from it. The Telegraph says that on Tuesday afternoon the Mayor of Cork went out of existence like a damp squ ib : At a quarter to three o'clock h e was th e mos t promine nt man in the kingdom ; ten minutes later, ha was an el). scurely successful Irish butter merchant, "and none s e poor to do him reverence." When the House met a t t's ° o'clock for the special purpose of abolishing his civic 3 0J seditious highness, everybody was asking everybody else what the renowned potentate would do—just as, during a great continental crisis, we ask each other what `sill be done by the Emperor Napoleon or Count I 'l Bismarck. But precisely as a, theatrical manager mig ht advance to the footlights and announce that h° l „, necessity forced him to delay the appearance of an exc iting drama which an eager crowd had come to witness, so g r ' a Maguire killed the feverish anxiety of the asserabi lgislators by reading a letter from the culprit. Eva.' , 0 no further legislation should be attempted, the inde lib' record of the present transactions in the journals a tlls House of Commons, and the effect of the subraiss ie . f i l i announced in the words of the lawbreaker himself, 'ie ° read a much-needed lesson to Ireland—will, in fact, he more instructive and more directly available than anY i 0 the precedents that have recently been hunted up. the fullest shape, the objects of the bill have b ee n attained ; while from a grave and most difficult duty Government has been relieved by Mr. O'SulliOns prompt and abject performance of the "happy despate li rci . The Star thinks that, looking back at the a.svkW e affair which is now most happily concluded, there are tW o reasons for satisfaction at the course of events. One that the amicable and satisfactory settlement has beef arrived at by a real submission on the part of the AlO ci °f ~ of Cork, advised by his own and his country's best frien 1370 Irishmen are nothing if not gentlemen, and the idea of. t. chief magistrate of an Irish community flouting the B ri . is e Government, and, however unintentionally, encouragir7 the assassination of British princes, at a moment when' that is great and potent in England is straining e ve . so nerve for the accomplishment of Ireland's regener atw t o according to her own ideas, ought to be as repugnal lt o the people of that country as it would be to insul t a he hospitable host or to reject an amende honorable. other topic for congratulation is the general unread ie t o which has displayed itself amongst English people to r , O l into arbitrary measures. Th e O'S u llivan Bill was a J 0,4 and necessary one, but there is no doubt that it le brought in by the Government mainly because they ceived it due to the feeling which had been excited England by Mr. O'Sulli van ' s o ff ences . B u t w hat wa s the bs result ? No sooner had it been announced than those °' l , o had-been fiercest in their denunciation of Mr. O'Sni lj , l o began to pause. They asked themselves whether th is " t s exactly the sort of thing an English Parliament 0 03 0 0 be doing. If the bill bad continued necessary it w ° d o l have been passed, but it would have been a re i ., l oo g the reluctance and regrets of all parties. ; - 'd, may these hesitations be characteristic of Elig' S ' o co Long may we be able to say, as we can in this ins t iiio s with truth, that when it comes to a question of pun s ' 0 11 a man for his politics Tories are as unwilling as L lbe l for to inflict even such pains and penalties as are essen tia ' the maintenance of public peace and decorum. v ed The Herald remarks that after the interval of a * tie long " week" Mr. Layard redeemed his pledge, ' Ol O after midnight in the sitting of Monday, to make kn t i s t to the members the famous projection of Governm ent placing the new courts on the six acres of terra ific °Y e pt , standing between Howard-street and the Embank i lli ro' The conjuror who faced an audience to whom be h° u ,, p et' mised to enter a pint pot had scarc e ly a more dittien' t formance before him. But th en M r . L a y ar d is no e° ll/- i o ll prestidigitateur. What he wants in skill he most cet ta a makes up in assurance, and he must be encourage if the feeling of having at least as much contidence4a, his own acuteness as lie has little in that of ; jo ie body that hears him. Never, we should t rae si on any subject n on -p o liti ca l, did a Gore rn ,. o S et make a great e r m i s t a k e . Th e sc h e m e which was L ti je tio everything right proves to be the culmination of 0 e oe' and financial absurdity ; it is impossible they can I) best Vera with it ; and, as with some other blunders, T . 1.1 i 1 o 1100 expectations for them must be that time, wh ic d i crushed them under so many misfortunes, may be i . gently to drop the curtain over this. When Mr. a sses tells us that he will give up all that ten year s of other work and great expense have produced, and risk an t i pg ii Iliad of architectural woes on the chance e re %a of fine structure cn a site which has no recomm end°l 4( scg the side of the Strand, and permits of no better r 119 e than one built upon a street separated from the ,rst! dead wall, we are obliged to tell him the Iminiliatre‘,l:ccip that lie deliberately presents us with a project l%psi fiscates every possible advantage, and afflicts. : etto iti , every possible disadvantage which the P utmost I)iinffpoats U can connect with the erection of a great ment. ,Atieo A telegram from Philadelphia, *rough the te a Cable, states that the Pacific Hallway was co o & Moucliky aim - now:4 at half-past O'Clgek. 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