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BENSON'S WATC H E S. " Perfection of meohanism."---31orning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descfp five of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 83 and 84, Ludgate-hill, London, B.C. Established 1749. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed VICTIMS. Messrs, Bucketone, Farren. Cullenford, ; Mrs. B. White, Miss M. Ternan, Mrs. Griffiths, &c. And BOX AND COX. After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S our. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss L. Keeley. Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertnccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with the extravazanza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. ADELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. En of the celebrated American Actress, Miss JULIA DALY, and Mr. LEIGH MURRAY. THIS EVENING, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Mr. Leigh Murray, J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Romer ; Miss H. Simms, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. and Mrs. Chatterley After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J.,smith ; Graceful, Miss Woolgar ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ' • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery , 6d. Acting Manaszer—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL LY CEUM THEATRE.- Under the management of Mr. Wm Brough. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, Scc. ; Mesdames E. Travers and K. Saxon. After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss Lydia Thompson, Atlas Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers, Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ; and a numerous Corps de Ballet. Followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Sir W. Don. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. despised! If such has been the response of the country in a time of peace—if 100,000 volunteer riflemen have answered thus cheerily to the first summons when no invasion whatever is being at- tempted or even threatened—what would not be the reply given with an electric flash from one end of the land to the other, at the news that war had been declared against us by any European Power—at the filings, that an invading army had actually landed, or had attempted to land, upon any part of our shores ? It wouli certainly not be ex travagant to assert with confidence beforehand that the force already obtained, of 100,000 volun teers, would at the least be doubled; that a very brief interval would then have to elapse before the QUEEN'S army would be strengthened by the co operation of a quarter of a million of riflemen ! It is not, however, what might be done in that lamentable contingency that we have to consider ; it is rather what has actually been accomplished in this way in a time of peace by the enrolling thus rapidly of 100,000 volunteers. That at any rate it is a great fact—and one that there is no gainsaying. The deed is done—the men are enrolled—and the vast majority of them are already pretty well disciplined, they are fast becoming week by week more and more skilled in the use of that good daughter of old Brown Bess—the rifle ! As we have inti mated, however, at the outset of these remarks, a new impetus has been given to this patriotic move ment in the very nick of time, by the Olympic games of competition in rifle shooting, instituted for the 2d July, upon Wimbledon Common—in the form of a grand prize meeting, then and there convened by the National Rifle Association, A noble emulation will thus be excited oppor tunely two months hence upon that bloodless field of competition. During the interval of these two months, let the crack shots of our various rifle corps improve their aim, their keenness of eye, and steadiness of hand to the uttermost. For the prizes are worth winning—to say nothing of the glory of winning them. For example, the prize set apart by Her MAJESTY as the reward of the very best shot of all—A, number 1 among the Riflemen—will be £250 over and above the gold medal of the As sociation. This paragon-prize will be contended for by candidates who shall have already been successful in the other trials of skilful shooting, the ranges in this last " bout" gradually lengthening out in yards from 800 at first to 900, and at last to 1,000 ! Again, among the prizes to be set apart for all candidates without distinction, at ranges varying from 200 yards to 1,000, the PRINCE CONSORT has promised the prize of £lOO to the best shot in this particular department. And so on—the ranges altogether being six in number, from 300 to 1,000 yards—the shooting at the first range, (that of 300 yards) being from the shoulder, and the other five ranges from the knee. It is a happy thought—the institution of this Rifle Derby for the 2d of July on Wimbledon Common by the National Rifle Association. Let it be henceforth regarded in a generous sense as the Annual Philippi of our Rifle Volunteers. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to Carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. r Ris EVENING the performances will commence with a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED. F. Robinson, C. Young, &c. After which, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PE CULIAR PERPLEXING PREDIC &MENT. Mr. Charles Young and Miss Wyndham. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. Reduced Priees—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-otfloe open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY. Manager, Mr. EnwrN HUGHES. First Appearance of Little MONONI and the celebrated Delevant' Troupe, who are engaged at a great expense. Great and unprecedented success of the NEW GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE, universally pronounced to be the most perfect and magnificent production ever witnessed in this Theatre. The enthusiastic approbation bestowed upon the novel and varied Scenes in the Cirque is the best assurance of the unequalled talent of the eminent Equestrian Artistes who nightly appear. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four Acts, called "TAE HISTORY or A FLAG,' succeeded by an incomparable programme of Scenes in the krena, supported by the most renowned and talented Equestrian and Gymnas tic Artistes in Europe. The magnificent Chan ieliers are manufactured expressly by Messrs. Defries and Son, of Floundsditeh. Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS, THIS EVENING. C. H. GOITNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. 'Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorab, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls, Hall, 6d. comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Flodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critehfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till ii on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-.SUN OFFICE, APRIL 29, 1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 54—highest since noon yesterday. 38 —lowest this morning and during the night. 59—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.43 WIND, South-Westerly; light, with very fine warm weather, being the first warm day this year. APRIL 30. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.49. WIND, Easterly to South-Easterly, light ; with very fine weather. The wind has veered round to W., N., and N. E. during the night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnti DAY.—Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 35m, To-mowtow.-Morning, 10h. 12m.—Afternoon, 10h. 48m. yet* i›: Vita 1 -.V *l.r?C'' 4 ..---,..--",,,.. w •41 0, ,4 .5- ~..:,-,-,:,,, , ~„. •7 , ~, , `": 5 ! 7- c: -.a. _ ~ i i „ m 0 ,•, 1.011 E.. „......_ ,bir• tr , --, 126'1.-..-:.-se4l,--- -- " * " , 'P , Lii6e, , ....---____„,, • t. - ',4,' ~,,orld , , ' , ,-.. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1860 Of all the arguments yet offered for Parliamen tary Reform the House of Commons itself, by its division on Thursday night, presented the strongest. Last year the most favourable division on Church rate Abolition gave a majority of more than seventy in its favour. An election takes place. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY brings forward his bill again, his majority on the second reading is diminished more than one half ! The third reading is post poned for several weeks, when the time for it arrives it is factiously resisted, and on Friday morning was saved from rejection by merely a majority of nine ! We admit that Opposition tactics had something to do with this. For half a year petitions► had been secretly getting up in favour of Church-rates; every obscure parish was made to do duty in this way, and every member was plied with letters by his clerical constituents ; the abolitionists, on the other hand, had supposed petitions to be unnecessary. Hence, though their numbers at the division were undiminished, those of the Church-rate party were increased, and the latter obtained a partial victory. The battle of the petitions then commenced, ending in each party sending up about five thousand, but the signatures obtained by the abolitionists were more than three to one; more than 600,000 against 180,000. Again the abolitionists felt too secure. It was not unnatural. They went into committee with little difficulty on the strength of the over whelming superiority of their petitions, and they seem to have thought that the third reading, al though previously kept off, would be easy work also. Again, therefore, Opposition tactics were too clever for them. At the eleventh hour Mr. WHITESIDE placed on the paper a notice to read the bill a third time that day six months, too late for the Aboli tionists to " whip" up their forces, while the Church-rate party had secretly summoned theirs to the last round in the Commons. It WAS adroitly done, and came near to an absolute triumph. We must admit then, that good generalship had much to do with both divisions. In the last one the re sult was that while the Tories had but 10 votes less, the Abolitionist party had 30 less. Sixty-one who usually vote against Church-rates were absent without pairs ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The National Rifle Association comes not only most opportunely, but very nobly in aid of the Rifle Volunteers, Within a comparatively brief interval there has sprung into existence with a view to the better defence of the mother country a splendid and already disciplined army of 100,000 of these volunteers. In spite of the sneers of mem bers of Parliament like Sir ROBERT PEEL. In spite of the derision of professional soldiers like Lord MELVILLE late Commander-in-Chief of her MAJESTY'S Forces in Scotland. Out of the dragon's teeth of old dead and buried ani mosities there has started forth, fully armed, and (after the manner of the NAP lERS) " Ready aye Ready"-100,000 volunteer riflemen, the National Guard of England, the British Tirailleurs ! It is the result—remember that — merely of the first summons. European tranquil lity, so far as we are concerned, is still wholly and absolutely undisturbed. There is not yet appa rent anywhere even the vaguest threat of an inva sion. So far from this—France is yet our ally. France that in 1798, under the regime of the Direc tory, was mustering her forces at the instigation of the young Conqueror of Italy, bent then upon crossing the Channel at the head of what was pub licly designated the armee d'Angleterre ! France that, five or six years later on, under the same mighty chieftain—then upon the eve of transforming his Consular fasces into an Imperial sceptre—was mustering a yet more formidable army of invasion upon th e h e i g ht s o f B ou l ogne - sur - mer ! Y e t, with France —in contrast to all this—still amicably our ally —at the very first call to arms for the National Defence of England, upon the contingency of a yet unthreatened invasion, there have assembled spon taneously in clusters, scattered far ar, d wide over this island of ours, 100,000 rifle volunteers. Nation of shopkeepers though we are —we rose yet at the first summons, and that, to), in a time of profound peace, capable of furnishing 100,000 male adults. Ready upon the instant to leave the desk, and the workshop, and the warehouse, to throw aside pen and yard-measure, and all the multiform implements of art and of industry, to be drilled into a skilful handling of the deadliest of modern firearms, so as to improve, as far as may be practica ble, at once those national defences, which, though dictated by common sense, are yet notoriously known to have been hitherto wholly neglected and Be the good and bad leadership, however, what it might, the country will look at the broad facts only. On the second reading, Tory alarmists had frightened up some forty members who had kept away from such divisions before, to record their votes in favour of Church-rates. On the third reading they gathered together, proportionably more—yet in the interim the petitions had demon strated that the country was as three to one in favour of abolition. A few weeks had sufficed to bring forth the enormous number of more than 600,000 names, demanding that the obnoxious im post should be done away with. The inference is clear. The house of the people's representatives does not represent the people. It must be made to do so. It must be reformed. It has even gone farther from, rather than nearer to the people ; and it must be brought back and nearer to public opinion than ever. We are much mistaken if this will not be the conviction of numberless Reformers and numerous constituencies all over the Kingdom. The Church rate battle has ceased to be one about a penny or twopence in the pound; it has become a struggle to get rid of a sore and nuisance in half the parishes of the kingdom. Reasonable men thought the country had made up their minds that the question was settled so far as one thing could he regarded as settled, which awaited only the caprice of the House of Lords. But, when they see the House of Commons—their own house—mimicking the house of Irresponsibles, they will feel it to be high time to make their own representatives sensible that they at least must be made to feel their own accountability. Friday night has given even the " poor little Bill " a lift with the country, though doubtless one mo tive for the zealous opposition was to damage a cause which Ministers had now joined. The debate itself called forth three speakers of note, Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. DIS RAELI ; and the speaking was not unworthy of them. Mr. BRIGHT was not only forcible, indeed conclusive, in his reply to Mr. WHITESIDE, but there was a kindliness in his adYertences to the Church whom he wisbed, so far as rates aro concerned, to throw her on her own resources, and a conciliatory tone towards opponents, which, if always adopted by him,would render his brilliant orations far more effective. The other two speakers certainly made the best of a bad cause ; but though we have considered their representations care fully we find it very difficult to extract from them any relevant argument. They could not pretend that the wealth of Churchmen, as compared with Dissenters, was not abundant to meet the require ments of the case. The friendliness of Methodists to Church-rates vanished under the fact that 800 petitions had been presented from them in favour of abolition, and that there would have been more, were not the eld body subject to an ecclesiastical despotism called a Conference, whose rule is more absolute than that of the POPE himself, while, like all despots, they are almost to a man relentless Tories, and try to make every little class-leader Tories also. while the directions of the Board of Works change with every administration, and each party in succession ignores the proceedings of its prede cessors ; while weak officials give credence to each new fangled idea which is brought forward by crotchety doctors and engineers with the alphabet after their names, and a monomania about their own particular theories, what advance can be expected towards a sanatory reform. Dr. LETHEBY, to his credit, has thrown over chemical prejudice and de clared his opinion that the lately entertained pro• ject of deodorising the Thames by the infusion of perchloride of iron into the sewers of London, in the proportion of six grains to the gallon of liquid sewerage, is impracticable ; that the decompos'Aion of animal matter would be retarded, but not pre ♦ented ; and that in the end, after vast out lay, the public would be as far from the desidera-• turn sought as ever. It is far cheaper in the long run to incur the expense neces sary to complete an undertaking satisfactorily and to know that there can be no farther call upon your purse, than to go on peddling year after year with no result, and in the end, after large sums of money have been frittered away, to be obliged to do that which if done at first would have conduced to the public comfort and to the general health of the metropolis. The directors of the Board of Works and of all other public institutions should be chosen from amongst men of talent, irrespective of party bias, and they should be accountable to Parliament and the public for the due performance of their duty. But while favouritism and private interest direct the appointments of Government officials, the credit of Great Britain for skill and engineering talent will rest on private enterprise, while the abortive efforts of Government will be the jest of the civilised world. The grand pleas, however, were the antiquity of Church-rates; and the hostility of Dissenters to Church establishments. As to the first we cannot comprehend it as an argument. In a sentimental appeal to antiquaries, or to the fair sex it might be of service ; but Church-rates is a matter of parish business, and of parish strife. The mass, transubstantiation, purgatory, indulgences, and so forth, we would remind Mr.WHITEsiDE, lay claim to a far higher antiquity. Shall they be re stored to the creeds and worship of the Churches for which less antique Church-rates are now claimed ? As to the ultimate wishes of Dissenters we cannot comprehend what it has to do with the practical question. It is surpassingly ludicrous to hear them descanted on, as if the Lords' Committee had found out a THISTLEWOOD conspiracy against the Church. Public men must have been unpardonably ignorant, if they have not always known that the great mass of intelligent Dissenters (for the priest-ridden Methodists must be of course excepted) were thorough voluntaries; their practice backing their theory. In fact all free churches must wish that one church, not exceeding them in the number of its worshippers, but exceeding them not only in the wealth of its members, but in enjoying the patron age of the State, should be placed on a fair footing of equality with them. The Statesman, however, has to consider not what persons believe theoreti cally, but what they practically demand—and tt e demand in this case is now practical, vigorous action. Anti-State Churchmen have no cause to regret that our Legislators will yet leave them a platform in every parish, and Parliamentary Re formers none, that the House of Commons has proved its own need of Representative Reform. Any work that is remarkably clever or intensely ridiculous will be sure to awaken public curiosity. " Adam Bede" was a success of the former kind, and Mr. Warren's " Lily and the Bee," of the latter. Who can wonder, then, that a pamphlet which demonstrates the plan of paving the bed of the Thames should reach a third edition. The vexed question of how to purify this noble river, which, owing to the incapacity, indifference, and factiousness of those whose duty it is to care for the public health, is gradually and surely being converted into an intolerable nuisance, replete with malaria and disease, has occupied the attention of many, and plans of all kinds have been proposed, engineers vieing with each other which could bring forward the most complicated, improbable, and expensive scheme. But the palm of extravagance must unquestionably be awarded to Mr. W. WHITE, nor do we think that the most enthusi astic reformer, transformer, or perverter, could wish for a more complete disorganisation of exist ing things than his " Plqns for the Purification of the River Thames" would effect. Nor could the circumlocution committee wish for more money and time to be expended to less purpose than the extravagant chimera before us. This grand absur dity, together with the fame of its promoter, will doubtless descend to oblivion, in company with that of Mr. HAWKSLEY and the filtering of the Serpentine, which the Board of Public Works had the egregious simplicity for a time to coun tenance. Although Mr. WHITE'S plan would, if carried out, entail an enormous outlay, we cannot see what the result would be, except endangering the safety of the bridges from the slope given to his artificial banks and greatly obstructing the moor ing of barges at the wharves. He proposes to deepen the bed of the river from 'Millbank to Blackfriars bridge, commencing operations on both sides at an even low water mark, at a gradual decline of seven feet to the centre throughout, and he states, as a - passing remark further on, that—" To enable the centre of the river to be deepened as proposed it may be necessary to strengthen the founda tions of the piers of Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges; and this, it is presumed, might be easily accomplished by paving the bed of the river under the arches with huge blocks of granite, causing the sides to form smooth curved abutments, by additionally strengthening the fronts in like manner." It is again presumed that new Westminster and Hengerford bridges would not require these precautions. The gravel taken from the centre of the river is to be placed on either side, commencing at low-water mark and ascending to the fronts of the wharfs in easy slopes ; and the whole of these newly-made shores are to be paved with granite. According to this, barges will only be able to come alongside of the wharfs on the top of high water. But apart from these considerations, we should like to know what deepening and paving the river from Mill bank to Blackfriars will effect towards purifying the Thames, or remedying the existing evil of making a common sewer of the river in the midst of the City. We admit Mr. WHITE'S scheme for keeping the sewers of the metropolis clean by the introduction of water from the river, and form ing a belt of water round London, to be sensible and practicable enough ; and had he stopped here it would be all very well ; but to endeavour to per suade the public that deepening and paving the river for a couple of miles will cure the existing evil is simply rediculous. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, APRIL 30. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, which touched at Queenstown yesterday morning, has arrived here. The specie in the New York banks had increased over 1,000,000 dols. during the week. Loans had diminished 700,000 dols. THE BRAZILIAN MAILS. LISBON, APRIL 30. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Magdalena has arrived here with the Brazil and Rivor Plate mails. She will leave this evening for Southampton with 154 passengers and £27,100 in specie. Prince Alfred will, it is expected, take leave of her Majesty next week, and rejoin his ship for another cruise.—Court Journal. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Alfred Hudson Shadwell tote taxing master of the Court of Chan cery, in the room of Mr. Martineau, deceased. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF MANSFIELD. — We regret to announce the death of the above venerable and much-respected lady, who expired yesterday at her re sidence, Langham House, in her 87th year. Her ladyship, who was the fifth daughter of the late Dr. William Mark ham, Archbishop of York, married in 1797, the third Earl of Mansfield, who died in 1840. ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—On Friday night the Duke of Hamilton, after having dined with a few friends, left his residence in Arlington-street, to take a walk before retiring to rest. In crossing Piccadilly, between Dover-street and Berkeley-street, in stepping on the pavement his foot slipped, and his grace fell, and in the fall sustained a fracture of the right leg, just above the ancle. The noble duke was immediately conveyed to his mansion, and Dr. Ferguson and Mr. Wm. Fergusson, the eminent surgeon, were soon in attendance, and the extent of the in jury ascertaitied. His grace, we are happy to hear, is going on favourably. Lord Clyde has been relieved of the command in India, and may be .mpected in England earlier than was anticipated by those who were aware, some time ago, that his Excellency intended to remain for another year in India. It is probable his lordship will arrive in England next July. —Army and Navy Gazette. THE STAFF —Brevet-Major H. Holford Steven son, of the 79th Highlanders, has been appointed Aide-de- Camp to Major. General Cameron, commanding the troops in Scotland. Capt. C. Pemberton, Scots Fusilier Guards, has been appointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General B. Taylor, commanding a brigade at Aldershot. —Army and Navy Gazette. The railway from Southall to Brentford, in con nection with the Great Western Railway, is to be opened for passenger traffic on:Tuesday next. TIIE LIVERPOOL GR ,CERS AND THE PEPPER ADULTERATIONC—A. number of Liverpool grocers were on Saturday fined each in £25 and costs for selling pepper adulterated with husks of mustard and capsicum seeds. Mr. Mason Jones, who excited much attention last season by his lectures on Swift, Burke, Milton, &c., at Willis's-rooms, is announced for a short series of orations, to be given in the same locality. The first, on the late Lord Macaulay, as essayist, historian, orator, and poet, will be delivered on Monday evening, May 7. THE NEW MEDICIL RELIEF BILL.—The Boards of Guardians of the township of Manchester, of the Charl ton Union, and of various other unions in the neighbour hood, have unanimously agreed to petition against the Me dical Relief Bill now before Parliament, on the ground that the bill is one that is calculated improperly to increase the fees of medical officers, and extend the power of getting orders in a way that would prevent anything like cheek or control over the cost by the guardians, although the guar dians would have to pay all the expenses. It was said that the bill might possibly be of some use in thinly-populated districts, but was entirely inapplicable to large towns and populous unions. . . A BOY KILLED BY A LIONESS.—The other day, when Manders's menagerie was at Great Grimsby, a boy, named Redman, was swinging on the ropes placed in front of the dens, and, although previously caution.d, he ap proached close to the den in which the lions were kept. A lioness immediately seized his head with her paw, and would have crushed it to atoms, had not a lion, anxious to have a share, pushed heavily against her, and the keeper rushing up, caused the animal to liberate the poor lad. His head and neck, however, were so fearfully lacerated that he has since died from the effect of his wounds . THE WESTMINSTER BELL.—At a recent meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. S. A. Varley ex hibited a cracked bell, the metallic contiguity of which had been restored by soldering the crack with tin, so that the bell rang as perfectly as before it was injured. It was ex plained that tin had the property, when heated above its melting point, to nearly a red-heat, of rapidly dissolving copper. If, therefore, the cracked bell, after being soldered, was kept at a dull red heat, or nearly so, for a little time, it was suggested that the crack would become filled up with an alloy of tin and copper, of nearly the same kind of compo sition as the bell itself, and in absolute metallic union with it, and quite as sonorous as the other portions of the bell.— Journal of the Society of Ai ts. ANOTHER MORTARA CAsE.—There is quite a sen sation existing at the present time in Dublin in consequence of the kidnapping of seven Protestant children named Sher wood, by some persons named O'Connor, connected with a Roman Catholic Dormitory Institution in that city. The mother and her friends have placed the matter before the magistrates, but as yet the children have not been given up. An attachment has also been issued against a Miss Aylward, the matroness of another religious establishment in Dublin, for an insufficient answer made to a writ of habeas corpus to deliver up the body of a child named Mary Mathews. The latter child was taken from its nurse in June last. Tho lady attended the Court on Friday last, but said she would not give up the child, and was prepared to abide the conse quences. Miss Aylward had entered into sureties to attend when the interrogatories are to be administered. SUPPOSED FATAL Loss OF FOUR SHIPS, WITH ALL HANDS.—Among the many casualties that have been reported during the last two or three days at Lloyd's were four ships missing, and there appeal s, we regret to say, very little doubt but thy have foundered, and all hands belong ing to them lost. The facts are briefly told. The barque Isabella Kerr, Captain Hugh Murray master, left Demerara for Liverpool on the 23d of last December, and nothing has since been heard of her. The underwriters have paid the insurance effected on the ship and cargo, having no doubt in their minds that she is gone. She was 443 tons register, and classed A 1 for nine years. Her crew numbered 13 haids, most of whom belonged to the north of England. The se cond ship was the Lord Delaval, of North Shields. She sailed from Constantinople for Glasgow on the 10th of last November, and nothing has been heard of her since. She was commanded by Captain John Hedley, whose family are residents of London. The crew numbered 10 in all. The third case is that of the Whim, Captain Johnstoz, which sailed for Dublin on the 9th of March with a cargo of 2,460 cases of brandy; and the fourth missing ship is the Robert Kelly, a liner, trading ly:tween Liverpool and New York, neither of which has been heard of since they sailed. London is situated at a most inconvenient part of the river for the purposes of drainage—in fact, at a sort of turning point, the same water travel ling up and down its bed with the flow and ebb of the tide; what purification it receives from the river water coming down is more than counter balanced by the sewerage of the town. Were it situated higher up, as at Richmond, the excess of the ebb over the flood tide would effectually re move the noxious matter ; or, were it situated lower down, as at Gravesend, the large body of water in the river would prevent any ill effect being felt. Situated as we are there is but one resource, which would entirely remove this in.. creasing evil, viz. (as London cannot, until the science of engineering ha's been more developed, be moved), to carry the sewerage down the banks of the river below Gravesend, or further if necessary, where, if any company think fit, they can establish a depot for manure, or the refuse of London. may be emptied into the salt water for the benefit of the fishes. But FRENCH NAVY LisT.—Let any one with ordinary reasoning faculties glance over the French navy list, re marking particularly the recent dates of the construction of most of them, no less than their formidable dimensions and armaments—keeping in view, meanwhile, the mere require ments of the country, the limited extent of her colonies and of her commerce—and then ask himself for what purpose such a gigantic marine has been called into being. The spate revenue of France is not so vast that millions upon millions need be voted with such ready alacrity either for ttih o e n m_a i l ‘ n ,a te v n ie a s n o c f e tohfenoizstLyytonyasnosr Busk. OFFICIAL of d estruc- OFFICIAL PREJUDICE.—SO it is, and so it has ever been, " not once or twice" only, in our old " island story." The highest interests of the country have been sacrificed over and over again to the prejudice, fatuity, or imbecility of those in whom the public confidence has been so lament ably misplaced. So far from any injury having accrued from external interference, it has happened in numerous instances that the introduction of great improvements has been sug gested by civilians, and, however unquestionable the merit of the proposal, its rejection has been over and again occa sioned by_ official indolence, i gno rance, or petty professional jealousy."—lbicl. TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING! APRIL 30, 1860. LATEST Tranquillity prevails. NEWS. The following telegrams were received at Mr Reuter's office : NAPLES, APRIL 24. The Royal troops attacked the insurgents en trenched in the town of Carini, on the 18th inst. The fighting was most desperate, and continued during the 19th, 20th, and 21st. Reinforcements having then reached the Royal troops, they com pelled the insurgents to retire to Parsenico, leaving 250 killed behind them. The Royal troops had 300 killed ; the number of wounded on both sides was considerable. The town of Carini, after having been pillaged, was set on fire. Several other per sons have been shot at Palermo. PALERMO, APRIL 21. Great misery prevails in Palermo. Since the execution of the 13 insurgents, 26 Neapolitan soldiers have been surprised and hanged by a band of insurgents at Carini,which town, it is said, has been taken and destroyed. Letters assert that within the last twelve months successive levies have raised the Neapolitan army to 160,000 men. MARSEILLES, SATURDAY. Letters from Rome to the 24th inst. state : The bishops of the Romagna have received a pro hibition against taking any part in the reception of King Victor Emmanuel. The correspondent of the Journal des Debats, whose expulsion from Rome had been commanded by his Holiness, has obtained a delay of 20 days. It is asserted that the French Minister has pro nounced sentence of disciplinary punishment against two officers who were dressed in private clothes during the popular movement of the 19th March. NAPLES, SUNDAY. BERNE, SATURDAY. The Bund contains a statement to the effect that a proposal has been made by France to Switzerland for the latter Power to relinquish her rights in reference to the neutralised districts of Savoy, in consideration of an indemnity of 50,000,000 francs. The same journal also states that the Federal Council had received no official notification of the assembling of a Conference at Paris after the ratifi. cation of the treaty of Turin by the Sardinian Par liament. VIENNA, SUNDAY. The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day publishes an Imperial decree, annulling paragraph 29 of the civil code, according to which it was necessary for foreigners who were the proprietors of any business requiring a regular domicile in the country to be come Austrian subjects. MADRID, SATURDAY. The Official Gazette confirms the statement that the treaty of peace between Spain and Morocco was signed on the 26th inst. The Basque division re mains at Tetuan. Marshal O'Donnell will arrive in Madrid to-morrow. VIENNA, SATURDAY. The Austrian Gazette states, on reliable autho rity, that the report of the destitution of Prince Milosch is unfounded. FRANCE. Experiments were made on the 26th, in the Polygon of Vincennes, with a new and improved rifled cannon, said to be of extraordinary power, and of precision beyond what is now attained in French artillery. It is right that whatever con cerns the progress of humanity, as such philan thropic inventions, canons rages, unquestionably are, should receive every improvement of which they are capable. Who the people are to be next liberated from despotism or won over to civilization by these agents time only can tell. The Commercial Reform Association have ad• dressed the following circular letter to the Chain. hers of Commerce and Consulting Chambers 01 Arts and Manufactures : " Paris, April 26. " To the President of the Chamber of -. " M. le President—The Commercial Reform As sociation, though founded only a few days, have already received numerous adhesions. The in formation addressed to it from all parts gives it the assurance that it may, with the co-operation of its members, usefully serve the various interests of commerce, industry, and the consumers. " We believe we cannot better inaugurate our labours than by calling the attention of the Cham bers of Commerce and the Consulting Chambers of Arts and Manufactures to the consequences pro duced by the delays fixed in the commercial treaty with England. " Contrary to the generous intentions of the Go vernment, these delays, which, with the view to a paternal protection, have been stipulated in favour of the general interest, by rendering the transition easier, have everywhere the effect of restricting commercial operations, and consequently paralyzing consumption and labour. " We are justified in thinking that the terms fixed—the 31st of December, 1860, for manufac tured metals; the Ist of June, 1861, for threads and linen tissues; the Ist of October, 1831, for a great number of articles—delay or restrain every where the purchase of materials until after those periods. The stagnation and diminution of opera tions injure navigation and the carrying trade. " It would seem that all who are interested ought to desire that the period at which the appli cation of the new tariffs commence should be abridged as much as possible. " If the inconvenience which we point out to you, M. le President, affects the branches of in dustry which you represent you will doubtless deem it proper to unite your efforts to ours to de mand of the Government to abridge these delays, in the double interest of the producer and consumer." On the other hand, the Moniteur Induatriel, the organ of the Protectionists, addresses a leading article to the Chambers of Commerce and the Con sulting Chambers of Manufactures, warning them against what it terms " the mancouvres" of the Chambers of Commerce in England. It says : " We deem it our duty to call the attention of the representatives of our national industry to a manoeuvre which the English Chambers of Com merce are carrying on with perfect unanimity, and which, if it succeed, would do nothing less than annul, in a fashion the most disastrous for us, one of the most important clauses of the treaty. " The Imperial Government wished to secure a guarantee for our manufacures by stipulating that the ad valorem duties established in the maximum limit by the first article should be converted into specific duties by a supplementary convention, and that the average prices for the six months which preceded the date of the treaty should be taken as the basis of that conversion. The motives which occa sioned this clause are easy to understand, and we have already more than once expressed them:" The Monitcur Industriel concludes by exhorting the French Chambers of Commerce to resist these attempts on the part of the English : " We do not tell them to move heaven and earth (as the Chambers of Commerce of Leeds and Hud dersfield are said by the Alaneleester Guardian to be doing), but we strenuously recommend them to address themselves to the Imperial Government to make it understand all the dangers of the establish ment of ad valorem duties, and to demand its sup port against pretensions which are in opposition to the treaty, and which would destroy one of the most essential guarantees stipulated in favour of national industry. The past week was one of lassitude in the com mercial world. It is certain that, in whatever point of view we look at it, trade in France is undergoing a crisis which will not cease till the determina tion of the Clovernment with respect to the Cue.- toms' tariff shall be fully understood. The fact cannot by disguised that nobody will enter into any fresh engagement until he sees his way in this respect clearly before him. The Paris markets are extremely dull, and sales are difficult. The cold ' weather which until this day has prevailed exercises considerable influence on mercantile transactions. Accounts from Mulhouse, Rouen, and Roubaix state that sales are becoming every day more limited in those manufacturing towns. A com munication from Lyons informs us that the silk manufacturers are in anything but a flourishing condition—that a number of looms are idle. and that sales are nearly impossible, except at a reduction of 2f. and 3f. u. yard on current prices. Letters have been received at Lyons from New York, announcing that the American market is overstocked with French silks. The cold wet weather has caused a further rise in the Paris flour market. Flour for bakers' use is quoted at from 54f. to 60f. the sack of 157 kilogrammes. Thursday was a fine day, and the bakers resisted, but the last two days have given the advantage to the millers. BOURSE, April 28.—The market was heavy at the opening ; after some little time, however, prices rallied, but with restrieted business. Threes have been done at 70f. 35c. and 70f. 50c., and are now at 70f. 50c. ; Mobilier varied from 740 f. to 752 f. 50c. Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,360 f.; Lyons, 938 f, 75c. to 941 f. 25c.; Northern, 980 f. to 982 f. 50c.; East ern, 632 f. 50c. to 630 f. 41 per Cents. 96 Credit Foncier.... 597 50 Do. end month 96 15 Belgian 41 . — 3 per Cents 7O 65 Piedmonteso (5) .. 84 5) Do. end month 7O 55 Roman B5 50 Bank Shares...... 2825 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 752 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 748 75 Home Debt 46 50 ItA.ILWITS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 9BO .. 985 New ditto B9O .. 890 Lyons and Maiiterranean 940 .. 940 Geneva 442 25 .. 445 Southern Western 572 50 .. 575 Eastern Sardinia* Austrian Lombard .. .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18c. ; money, 25f. 170. ; three months, paper, 24f. 87ic. ; money, 24f 86c. LITERATURE. The Poetical Works of ,Tohn Edmund Reade. New edition. Two vols. Longman. The poems of Mr. Reade have been frequently before the public, and, though not showing any high degree of poetical genius, or originality, they are not without their admirers. They have been published at intervals extending over a space of thirty years, and have frequently made their appearance in a collected form. This new edition has several features to recommend it. A great part of the poetry has been reraoulded and even re written, new poems have been added, some old ones omitted, and all much condensed. In addition to these manifest advantages, the volumes are of handsome size, the paper is good, the type clear and excellent, and the whole appearance of the new edition altogether more attractive than its prede cessors. Some of the verses evidence an unconscious imitation of other authors, but many of the less pretentious ones show taste and feeling. The chief poems are on so large a scale, and on such ambitious subjects, that it would need a poet of the highest order to do them justice, and to avoid invidious comparison with the masters of song who have already treated these lofty themes. A poem in the Spenserian stanza on Italy inevitably provokes the recollection of the fourth canto of " Childe Harold." Cain the Wanderer has been before now the subjeot of a drama. " Man in Paradise" has been sketched by a mightier hand ; while " The Deluge " of Mr. Reade is but another version of the same story told in " The loves of the Angels " of Moore and the " Heaven and Earth "of Byron. Even treated by such writers such an attempt must always be little better than a splendid failure. It is impossible to invest the angels with angelic attributes, to make them totally distinct from the race of men. Still in this new edition many less ambitious and happier efforts are introduced, and glowing descriptions and a good command of language are manifest throughout. The following verses afford a favour- able sample of Mr. Reade 's lyric powers. They are taken from a poem entitled " The Poet of Art, " and aptly delineate a cold xnd artificial writer : " He watched the flowing tears, and weighed The salt within them as they fell ; He heard the sobbings that forbade The heart its agonies to tell : Each look and gesture conned, with eyes Considerate, the pen he took, And noted down the outward guise Of passions in his lifeless book. " And thus age withered, but he-kept Unruffled the crystalline flame The spirit that nor felt nor wept, That knew the feelings but by name ; Imagination hid her ray, And left the alien uncrowned, To coin from images of clay, With a false stamp, the god unfound I " He told the truths that in him dwelt, The song of art, staid, calm, and pure ; The quickening flame within unfelt, That gives the throbbings which endure ; Life passed, her secrets unconfessed, Her grandest chords by him untried, He wore a star upon his breast, And painted shadows till he died I " There is a Spirit watching here O'er mightiest poets ; they depart, But their song s shed like blossoms sear, Ara gathere by the reverent heart. Their prophecies all vainly spoken, Are heard at last, and truth atones, The ruins of false Idols broken Become the footsteps to their thrones." Expository Lectures on St. Paul's _Epistles to the Corinthians. By the late R e v. F. W. Robertson, _ _ M.A Smith, Elder, and Co. The name and writings of the late Mr. Robert son are well known to a very large circle. The regret felt at his premature death by the members of his own congregation was shared by numbers who were beyond it. It was felt that the Church had lost one who was fitted, as few indeed am qualified, for the office of a Christian minister. Pod sessing brilliant talents and cultivated taste, his chief strength lay in his heartfelt earnestness and sincerity, his unfailing toleration for others, and in his constant maintenance of the great principles of his faith above all minor points of difference in form or dogma. His influence among the working classes and those who would not rank themselves within the pale of the Church, is described as some thing wonderful ; and this is scarcely surprising, when we reflect upon the total absence of that bit terness and intolerance unfortunately so common among fervent believers of all denominations. The lectures before us are on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, and were delivered during the last two years of Mr. Robertson's life and ministry. It had been his custom to substitute for the sermon at the afternoon service an expository lecture on one of the Books of Scripture. This plan, he thought, gave him greater freedom, and enabled him to dis cuss some subjects which would not find place in a sermon. Thus, in expounding the Books of Samuel, and treating of Hebrew national life, " he discerned lessons for the English people, and for the men and women who sat before him. Thus it occurred that topics of national policy, so far as bearing on individuals—questions of social life—of morals, as they are connected with everyday life, arose naturally, and were treated with unshrinking faithfulness. The period (1848) was one of great political excitement, and these lectures may em phatically be said to have been preached to the times." After expounding several other books of Scripture, he selected St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, because they afforded the largest scope for considering a variety of general questions. For he was not content with a mere historical com mentary or doctrinal investigation of his subj(st. He strove to reduce the lessons to practice, to bring home to the daily life of the men and women of a fashionable wateringplace in the nineteenth cen tury those truths which St. Paul had spoken to the early Grecian Church in the first. The sub stance of these admirable lectures is contained in this volume, partly gathered from his own notes, partly from those of his hearers, and occasionally from a transcript of the lecture written out by himself at the request of friends. It is not surprising to learn that these lectures were the result of much thought and study, but Lncortunately much of them is lost, since it was Mr. Robertson's custom to preach from notes which were, of course, fragmentary and un equal in their character. The volume before us shows what they were, though bearing evidence of the difficulties with which the collection has been attended in the occasional abruptness of style; the repetition on some topics and incompleteness with which others are treated. It is neverthe less," notwithstanding any such deficiencies, im possible to misunderstand the spirit of the author ; impossible not to realise the truths he so forcibly impresses, or to question the earnestness and vigour with which he brings them forward. The promi nent idea throughout the whole work is one which has lately become more generally recognised,and of which Mr. Caird's celebratedsermonntr a wesattshriinacntgioenxnsf cellent exponent—that religion is n forms and ceremonies, felt on l y by the it imposes, but the moving sp i r it whose sphe re o f action is in the busy world r athe w r i t t h n an the the tn h i e l r s m a i n t' d s do cell, who has as much to struggles of the man of business, or the mother a a family as with the meditations of the recluse ; and whom, if it is carefully excluded from six days of the week, it is little use to honour on the seventh. But the stern asceticism which would check the innocent laugh of childhood, and teach us that it Is part of a Christian's duty to be gloomy and un social, found little favour in the sight of the preacher. In his lecture on the passage in which St. Paul charges the Corinthians to " use the world as not abusing it," he writes as follows It is therefore a distinct duty to use life, while we are here. We are citizens of the world, we may not shrink from it. We must share its duties, dangers, sorrows, and joys. Time is short; therefore opportunities are so much the more valuable. There is an infinite value stamped upon them. Therefore, use the world. But then it is a duty equally distinct, to live above the world. Unworldli ness is the spirit of holding all things as not our own, in the perpetual conviction that they will not last. It is not to put life and God's lovely world aside with self-torturing hand. It is to have the world, and not to let the world have you ; to be its master and not its slave. To have Christ hidden in the heart, calming all, and making all else seem by comparison poor and small. " This is a N ery important principle for consideration in the present day. There is a growing tendency to look on a life of contemplation and retirement, of separation from all earthly ties,—in a word, asceticism—as the higher life. Let us understand that God has so made man, that ordi narily he who lives alone leaves part of his heart unculti vated ; for Ged made man for domestic life. He who would be wiser than his Maker is only wise in appearance. He who cultivates one part of his nature at the expense of the rest has not produced a perfect man, but ,an exaggeration. It is easy, in silence and solitude, for the hermit to be ab stracted from all human interests and hopes, to be dead to honour, dead to pleasure. But, then, the sympathies which make him a man with men—how shall they grow ? He is not the highest Christian who lives alone and single, but he who, whether single or married, lives superio r t o this earth ;'he who, in the midst of domestic cares, petty an noyances, or daily vexations, can still be calm, and serene, and sweet. That is real unworldliness ; and, in comparison with this, the mere hermit's life is easy indeed. " They that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not.' Christ's religion is no grim, ghastly system of gloom. God's world is not like the fabled place of punishment where waters of refreshment rise brimming to the lips, while a stern prohibition sounds forth, Touch not, taste not, handle not.' You will observe, the joy spoken of here is not spiri tual, but earthly joy; for, if it had been spiritual joy, the Apostle could not have put any limitation to it. Therefore, Christians may have earthly joy. And they that rejoice are emphatically the young. Let the young be happy. Health, spirit, youth, society, accomplishments—let them enjoy these, and thank God with no misgiving. Let there be no half. remorseful sensations, as though they were stolen joys. Christ had no sympathy with that tone of mind which scowls on human happiness : His first manifestation of power was at a marriage feast. Who would check the swallow's flight, or silence the gush of happy melody which the thrush pours forth in spring ? Look round this beauti ful world of God's : ocean dimpled into myriad smiles : the sky a trembling, quivering mass of blue, thrilling hearts with ecstacy ; every tint, every form replete with beauty. You cannot, except wilfully, misread its meaning. God says, Be glad l' Do not force young, happy hearts to an unnatural solemnity, as if to be happy were a crime. Let us hear their loud, merry, ringing laugh, even if sterner hearts can be glad no longer ; to see innocent mirth and joy does the heart good. " But now, observe, everlasting considerations are to come in, not to sadden joy, but to calm it, to moderate its transports, and make even worldly joy a sublime thing. We are to be calm, cheerful, self-possessed; to sit loose to all these sources of enjoyment, masters of ourselves. " The Apostle lays down no rule respecting worldly amusements. He does not say, You must avoid this or that, but he lays down broad principles. People often come to ministers, and ask them to draw a boundary line, within which they may safely walk. There is none. It is at our peril that we attempt to define where God has not defined. We cannot say, ' This amusement is right, and that is wrong.' And herein is the greater responsibility laid upon all, for we have to live out principles rather than maxims; and the principle here is, Re unworldly." The depreciation of intellectual acquirements and powers he also censured, showing that all such were gifts, and that it was little honour to the Giver to undervalue or despise them, though they should not be ranked above the moral qualities. This mis take, into which many well-meaning but narrow minded persons are apt to fall, is thus rectified : " There is a mistake into which religious people are apt to fall, but which the Apostle avoids : and this is one of the negative marks of his inspiration. The Apostles were never fanatical; but ordinary men, when strongly influenced, exaggerate. Now the world makes very little of charity; and religious men, perceiving the transcendent excellence of this grace, make very little of talents : nay, some depre ciate them as almost worthless. They talk contemptuously of the mere moral man.' They speak of cleverness and gifts of intellect, as in themselves bad and dangerous. They weed the finest works of human genius from their libraries. And hence the religious character has a tendency to become feeble, to lose all breadth of view, and all manly grasp of realities. Now, on the contrary, St. Paul prays that the whole soul, Ikoxi, the natural man as well as the spirit, may ' be preserved blameless till the coming of Christ.' " And again he allows a distinction—' the best gifts.' " The same Apostle who so earnestly urged contentment with the gifts we have, and forbade contemptuous scorn of others with feeble gifts, bids us yet to aspire. And just as St. Peter said, Add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; and to knowledge, temperance ;' so would St. Paul have said, Add to your nobility of rank, nobleness of mind ; to your naturally-strong constitution, health by exercise; to your memory, judgment; to your power of imitating, invention.' He permits no dream of fantastic equality, no pretence that all gifts are equal, or all alike precious. He never would have said that the builder who executed was equal to the architect who planned." The spirit of sectarianism and bitterness which in trudes itself more or less into all religious societies is constantly referred to and deprecated. lie takes the occasion of St. Paul's censure of the Corinthians for their partisanship and following of rival teachers, to speak forcibly upon this point. The wide range of subjects which are brought under discussion, and the straight forwardness and singleness of purpose with which they are treated, will render this collection of lec tures most valuable and interesting to a very large sphere of readers. We cordially recommend it to all who seek for clear and practical instruction, for careful and thoughtful exposition of the principles laid down in these epistles, assisted moreover by . historical and geographical reference which will better enable the reader to comprehend the full. bearing of many obscure passages. We conclude with the following extract, which, as maybe gussed, is taken from the lecture on the 15th chapter : " And again, if the soul be not immortal, Christian life, not merely apostolic devotedness, is ' a grand impertinense.' Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die,' was the motto and epitaph of Sardanapalus : and if this life be all, we defy you to disprove the wisdom of such reasoning. How many of the myriads of the human race would do right, for the sake of right, if they were only to live fifty years, and then die for evermore ? Go to the sensualist, and tell him that a noble life is better than a base one, even for that time, and he will answer, I like pleasure better than virtue : you can do as you please ; for me, I will wisely enjoy my time. It is merely a matter of taste. By taking away my hope of resurrection you have dwarfed good and evil, and shortened their consequences. If lam only to live sixty or seventy years, there is no eternal right or wrong. By destroying the thought of immortality, I have lost the sense of the in finitude of evil, and the eternal nature of good.' " Besides, with our hopes of immortality gone, the value of Humanity ceases, and people becom e no t worth living for. We have not got a motive strong enough to keep us from sin. Christianity is to redeem from evil : it loses its power if ale idea of immortal life be taken away. Go, then, to the sensualist, and tell him that though the theory of a Life to come be a dream, yet that here the pleasure of doing right is a sublimer existence than that of self-indulgence. He will answer you, ' Yes, but my appetites are strong, and it will cost me much to master them. Tke struggle will be with pain ; and, at last, only a few years will be left. The victory is uncertain, and the present enjoyment is sure, an there is the banquet of life before me, and th e w i ne sparkling in the cup, and passion rising in its mi g ht ; w h y s h ou ld refrain ?' 4, D o y ou think you can arrest that with some fine send -. m ent about nobler and baser being ? Why, you have made him out base already. He dies, you tell him, like a dog.; why should h e li ve lik e an angel ? You have the angelic tendency, and prefer the higher life. Well, live according to your nature; but he has the baser craving, and prefers the brute life. Why should he not live it ? Ye, who den"' the resurrection to immortality, answer me that " No, my brethren, the instincts of the animal will be, more than a match for all the transcendental r eas onings 19 ' the philosopher. If there be in us only that which is boil of the flesh, only the mortal Adam, and not the immortal Christ, if to-marrow we die, then the conclusion cann° be put aside—' Let us eat and drink, for the Present is our All."' Bradshaw's handbook to the Bombay Presideno and the North-Western Provinces of India. There is no more striking illustration of the mighty advance which railway enterprise has rea', ° than the gradual increase in size of " Bradshaw 6 Railway Guide for the United Kingdom" and th e numerous offshoots from the parent stem to „, facili tate the tourist in his continental travels. I" - complication of the great lines of railway with their various branches renders it difficult for til uninitated to understand the time table of a sing t° : company, the bulk of which at present often ego" that of Bradshaw's entire volume in olden time' Ever on the move, and striving to keep pace Wit', the advance of the age, the proprietors of this Nor.* have entered upon a new field, now that India 1 ! , likely to be more traversed by Europeans, and F all . way communications are being opened in all three tions. The present handbook will be found 05 useful to travellers in the Bombay Presidency. will shortly be followed by two . others descriptive to Madras and Bengal. The object of this work 1 9 , t supersede the four large quarto volumes issued.% the local Government of each presidency, and whi ch merely contains the mileage and a - partial acco unt of the country. While Bradshaw's handbook s,fur nishes in a condensed form all necessary infortnit tion relating . to roads, railways, and stations,,th contains 280 routes across the country, with 9 descriptions .r of the country, tables of distanc e s ' mileage, &c., a vocabulary of the native languag e li i a glossary of Indian words, and a chronologle a table . from the year B.C. 2188. With such a i f u ip n e of information, it is not surprising that the vc l t ed extends to 564 pages. It contains a well-ex ec- l e d m:,p of the Bombay Presidency, and is con l P l with care and regularity. Mr. Rarey has returned to England er g absence of some thirteen weeks in Italy and the East' do ort among the Arabs, whose horse time was principally occupied by his travels in the . 0 to specially went to observe. It is, we (Illustrated i°tract, News) believe, his wish to complete his cavalr tiedllpg and give fifty more public exhibitions in the Un :400, doru, and then leave for America in the autumn. '7 . where ho goes next week, is the first town on his list , handling peculiarittend,o M( hosie rated In th ment busin place Nc with pani( and t coma quiet pecta only large to acc favou the d Rai mark firm. rail wl and q The 187,2 Austr with at Lis with ThE buoys busi n I favour RU 883 E Spanil to 211 per CI pm. ; 1 toria I Mess as the United Do. 5 p Maryla: Massacl Bond Pennsy: Alabam Kentuc: Ohio 6 I Pennsy: Tenses: Virginii Virgins Boston Illinois Illinois The have I stance, in mos ully Weate] South- Great shire, 1 The been a Veneti improN 99 i ; Grand Join firmne; London don 24 In Orient and th BRITI 3 per Ci 3 per C( Isilw 3 I ,dia 8 Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto D Ditto, COTlntilb Exch,q, Dittc FORE] Ecazilis Ditto Ditto Ditto Chilian folexiaai Ditto Portur Russia] Ditto Sardini Ditto spanist Ditto Turkic] Ditto Dittu D atch The rate al 'ion : Mr, house The state film been acted molt anirr parti buye marl At L